4.13 development update discussion and feedback

[Pursuivant]

Originally Posted by sniperton

If the AI is fighting his war alone, then the AI is very much handicapped...

Yep.

To be fair to IL2 and DT, I don't think that there's a combat flight sim out there where AI uses intelligent section, flight or squadron tactics.

There's absolutely nothing like one flight going high to cover another flight going low to attack a foe, or two sections in a flight splitting up to "box" a single opponent.

Originally Posted by sniperton

Perhaps the easiest way to improve AI performance would be to teach them to communicate.

Easier said than done. Without radio, signals can only be transmitted if you can see and understand gestures. That might be 50 meters, and only if you're at 2-4 o'clock or 8-10 o'clock level with respect to the signaling plane, and only if you're in clear visibility and are both traveling basically straight and level.