Actually the G-50 is not that hard to catch. I fly the Hurricane very often and G-50 is the only opponent that can makes fun. German aircrafts are just too fast. Problem is: Hurricane has miserable acceleration and takes forever to get to top speed. Lower the RPM to about 2800 and flat dive should be useful. In term of speed, CloD is not as bad as IL-2, where AI just laughs at you and flies away.
Sadly the same cannot be said for AI maneuver. They can do insanely fast roll, and use it for effect. There is nothing which ruins the gameplay more than an AI rolling literally around your gunsight. You just give up all of your hard-built speed to place the pipper over this SOB for just a bit longer than an eyeblink. The new alpha patch makes it worse. My inner conspiracy Keanu Reeves told me that Luthier used old IL-2 code to update his AI.
Enough complaining. Good news is: with the AI scales, you can dumb down AI practically to the level of grandma-driven car: They are slow, unresponsive and useless. Perhaps with enough testing, one will find out the optimal setting. I just do not have enough time.
AI does not need to be realistic. It just has to be believable.
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05-13-2012, 08:44 PM
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