Formation Movement

[IceFire]

Originally Posted by Igo kyu

I always see the AI planes randomly moving a bit relative to each other. Not a huge distance perhaps, but there's always some on my machine.

I concur. On my machine the aircraft flown by the AI in a formation always bob and weave back and forth largely like those flown by real pilots with formation training. So I'm not sure what more could be done to make it a more realistic experience aside from more direct control in the FMB over what type of formation was being used and what the distances involved are.

[MadCat242]

Something which would add to immersion would be that "cross-over turn" in schwarms (finger-four) when the schwarm is turning into a new direction. But I guess that won't happen, since the ai can't read the player's thoughts. (30 degree turn? 90 degree turn?)

[K_Freddie]

Originally Posted by MadCat242

..since the ai can't read the player's thoughts..

It's bad enough trying to read the AIs 'thoughts'.. the damn thing is always yoyo'ing and fiddling with the throttle incessantly..