please fix the AI

dmatsch · August 27, 2018

there are a ton of posts scattered around the forums on the current state of the AI, which seems to be miserably broken on a great many fronts, with a few of the issues being carried over from core 1.5 and into 2.x and having nothing to do with the modules.

However, I'm not seeing a great number of posts in this forum for all these. What's ED take on all these AI issues people seem to be having?

This really is making the simulation unplayable for anything but free flight. I understand they need to make a buck on the early access items, but they also need to fix them once they go into official release.

Nealius · August 28, 2018

I'm a bit irked by this as well. It's a bit of an immersion killer and reduces playability.

Single player has so many AI problems you really can't play single player. Enemy AI fly like UFOs and basically cheat. Friendly AI are too stupid to be of any use, so it ends up being you, alone, against a whole section of enemy fighters. That cheat. The alternative for combat missions is multiplayer, which has its own issues with load times, stability, etc. Outside of that, some of us live in countries where DCS just isn't a thing, making time zones and internet connections to overseas servers a major hindrance to even trying multiplayer.

Like you said, free flight is about all you can do, and that's what I've been doing with "training" missions for weapons employment.