Some bits for AI aircraft Tu-95 and B-52 & damage model.

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These 2 are the ones on top of my wish list for AI aircraft.

 

Someone mentioned B-2, but I'll stick to these 2 which are labeled as "planned" on the unofficial roadmap list.

 

Now there is talk about the update to the damage models for some AI aircraft in the making, I'd like to add some suggestions.

 

First before .... the audio is very important to me, I'm not yet sure what kind of max audio bitrate and quality DCS supports, but it would be good if it's not just some quick youtube sound-bite of the engine. I hope it would be possible to make the "approach-sound" some distance away, so you'd hear the B-52 and Tu-95 roaring above, this is realistic because a lower freqency sound is audible further away, but the far-sound has to be changed and tuned, not the same sound at a lower volume. I never checked this for existing aircraft, i'll do it next time.

 

I also wish that those TU-95 double-props look authentic, and while spinning in the air.

 

I'm saying these obvious things just so to make double-sure.

 

I would be cool of these 2 and the existing ones, had a better damage model when it comes to shooting down, so they break in more pieces and make more physically accurate bounce rather than a slow spin, and maybe some bit of physics would work on them, I'm not sure myself how much physics is used on existing AI aircraft, I guess cargo planes have less than fighters. Imagine those half-damaged engines flapping around and maybe those propellers zapping in random directions, a propeller colliding with something and damaging another aircraft would be so great but I'm suspecting it could be more challenging for the effort AI airfract are alloted to.

 

I'll put some more stuff to this tomorrow, can't think of everything right now.

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Hah I spoke right on time, now I found out that some AWACS in the 2.0 alpha NTTR is using A-10C engine sounds. I was just trying out NTTR for the first time yesterday.

 

Not sure yet if this is the case in 1.5.5, maybe I never noticed it.