Ai behavior once hit

[trademe900]

Originally Posted by SQB

What I find totally unrealistic is the tendency for the AI to bail when *any* part of their aircraft is on fire! One elevator on fire? Time to bail. Seconds later the elevator fire goes out and a perfectly fine plane plummits into the water. It's a real hold-up for us offline players! The pilots should, on taking serious damage, attempt to crash land and only if the aircraft is uncontrollable should they bail.

Yes the ai bails out immediately if the plane catches fire but still, catching fire is a rare occurrence on bombers (except the do17z) so this is not much of a problem in comparison. A fighter that is on fire on the other hand probably needs to be bailed out of immediately as it will most likely be burning the pilot!

The worst ai behavior by far however are the f16 barrel rolls when attacked. This can't even be solely put down to behavior, rather cheating ai flight models as well!