AI is on top of my list

[nearmiss]

LOL

The sim world is not the real world. You don't die in the game, and players want to enjoy all the air combat.

Even online you play different than you do offline. When you fly against good flyers in the air online you can get your head handed to you very quickly.

I would say online is closer to actual combat, but the element of gambling your life on a possible bad move doesn't mean anything. The most capable online players are careful not to waste their E and expose themselves anymore than possible. They want to get kills, and staying in the game is important.

Real world pilots flew and fought to stay alive, and reckless abandonment of caution wouldn't keep them alive for very long.

The AI performance makes the most difference to Offline players, and can make it or break it for a good air combat experience. So you want as competent AI as possible offline, especially since your wingman is a package of binary coding.

A competent AI is important with the COD, because there is no way to put large numbers of aircraft into the air in combat with human players. You could sit for hours waiting for enough players to join the server. AI performance is going to be very important to Online and Offline players in the COD, no way around it.

It's nothing like the IL2 with a small number of Online players pitted against each other. AI performance was ignored in the IL2, because there just was no capacity to put a large number of players into the fray at one time. Many of the players in those air combat situations will have to be AI players. AI performance cannot be ignored, it will have to be competently dealt with or all enthusiasm for the COD will be dead very shortly.

[He111]

Well my fun factor as a SIMER, not a gamer, is for my sims to act real life .. the reason why I bought COD and not many other flight sim games. I love the detailed models, and especially the destruction models etc

If I'm closing in on a enemy’s 6, and he see me all the time ?? hmmm (when did single-seater fighters get an observer? defiant excluded) and starts barrel rolling continuous .. as if that doesn't affect the pilot then that's a detraction from the gam .. SIM! I expect to see my enemy spit / hurri do nothing (novice), banking hard left or right (average / veteran) or something new and surprising (ace)

As to games making money, there's nothing more certain to lose money than if you don't give gam ..simers what they want. The most successful games/sims are the ones that r bug free, easy to understand to operate, and have rich addictive tactical / strategic game play .. with the emphasis on addictive, players want to come back again and again .. for me, addictive means, quality - real-life sims - empire building (growth) - wargaming etc. Others would be different

[Trooper117]

You are still playing a 'flight sim game'.. don't kid yourself.
There will never be any game that can be called 'full real', it's a catch phrase grown up men give to the genre to convince themselves they are not gaming, but are now 'simming'..
Get over it mate,
Being 'immersed' in your game is another matter, as for some, me included, you can suspend belief for a brief moment and get lost in it. (highly enjoyable)..
Lots of faults still to be put right, but as a grown up I can except what the devs are trying to do to rectify them, until then its a matter of playing the game as it stands, which is still pretty enjoyable regardless of the problems.

[He111]

Originally Posted by Trooper117

You are still playing a 'flight sim game'.. don't kid yourself.
There will never be any game that can be called 'full real', it's a catch phrase grown up men give to the genre to convince themselves they are not gaming, but are now 'simming'..
Get over it mate,
Being 'immersed' in your game is another matter, as for some, me included, you can suspend belief for a brief moment and get lost in it. (highly enjoyable)..
Lots of faults still to be put right, but as a grown up I can except what the devs are trying to do to rectify them, until then its a matter of playing the game as it stands, which is still pretty enjoyable regardless of the problems.

Alot of people are gripping that Merlins don't sound like Merlins .. and Daimlers don't sound like Daimlers etc .. people want reality.

On a unrelated issue, here's a determined guy trying to takeoff! so determined .. and he nearly made it!


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[Trooper117]

Good pic!.. That is one aircraft many will want to see flyable.. hopefully in the future eh?
As to the sounds, well, don't think they will please everyone, but what we have is a vast improvement over the original ones.
Plus, as stated by the devs, the sound is still a work in progress and has a ways to go yet.
Don't get me wrong mate, there is a shed load of stuff to improve for sure.

[smink1701]

Played a few SM's last night and I am so glad that FMs/AI is on the dev To Do list. At the present time it really makes the game unplayable in SP. Great to look at, fly around, take in the fly-by sounds, but engaging enemy planes and watching them flounder around like the pilot just had a seizure is a JOKE.

[He111]

few more AI bugs ;

(1) When a plane is being attacked while landing, will try to barrel roll .. not advisable with flaps & gear down .. BOOM!

(2) Planes don't lower flaps when taking off, meaning they fly through trees etc to gain height.


Plus, why is the lights all on in this town (see picture) ?

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