Hello everyone!
This is my first post.
I noticed there are coming AI changes in the 4.11 patch. This is very interesting. I have one suggestion for a possible AI problem.
When playing Ngen online campaigns with a friend we have noticed problems when an AI flight returns to base early.
For example an AI flight is performing CAP over an airfield or an area and then returns to base with no enemy contact. Then enemy AI flight attacks this group that is landing / circling. The AI planes do not seem to care about being attacked much, but continue circling their home airfield and perform landings. They eventualy get slaughtered on the runways and in the air one by one.
Now the AI planes try to evade when attacked, but do not start a dogfight with the enemy. They act wery passively. That is if 1 AI plane gets attacked while landing the other friendly AI planes just continue waiting for landing clearance and circle the airfield.
Would be much better if the AI flight that is trying to land would cancel their landing and engage as a group against the enemy. And only after the enemy has been driven away / or destroyed would they continue their landing attempts.
Maybe some kind of AI code that tells the AI not to land if there are enemies in the vicinity of the airfield. So they would try to shoot these enemies down before trying to land. Maybe the AI could even take off again if the home airfield was attacked...
Even if they run out of fuel or ammo it would be more realistic, I think, if they would rather bail out or crash-land than try to calmly land on their home airfields with enemies in the air.
P.S. I have also tested this by creating a Full mission builder scenario where an AI flight of 4 planes with full ammo and fuel has a waypoint to land. Then another AI flight with 4 planes has a waypoint over that airfield where the other AI lands. The AI that lands seems wery passive about the fact that it is attacked.
And thank you for making these great updates to this old game! Exelent work!
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