Hi all,
I'm relatively new to DCS, I've been a regular user for maybe.. 4 months. I did learn a lot reading through this forum and steam forum, yet this is still my first post here.
I've been trying my hands on creating my own missions. I'm limiting myself, for now, to basic things, and all in all it works quite well. However, there are minor things that bug me. The most important one, is enemy AI being very passive...
I have a mission where on the blue side, we have 1 group of 2 A10s attacking some vehicules, with a group escort of 2 F5s. I have created two trigger zones, each one activating a group of 2 Migs (Red team). The first being 2 Mig23s, the second being 2 Mig21s. I assigned them an "Intercept" type of mission, with their waypoints going towards the blue team route.
Now, the vehicles were not doing much, until I read here that SAMs must be in the same group as the radar, which wasn't the case. So that's one thing solved.
But, the Migs are very passive, not engaging us at all. Whenever I see them pop on my RWR, I turn to go "meet" them. They don't even shoot at us. They just continue their way, letting us easily come behing them. And at that point, they don't even try to evade us. They just stay leveled, letting us easily shoot them down...
Is there anything I am doing wrong? They do have missiles equipped. I have also tried raising their "difficulty" to the maximum. Still nothing. I read here that with "Intercept" type mission, I don't have, and can't anyway... give them En Route Task. They will just intercept whoever they cross.
One last funny detail: at first the Migs were Mig29s. But they completely destroyed me. Realizing a F5 wasn't a great match for a Mig29, I decided to switch for older Migs. And now... they basically ignore us!
Thanks for any help.