SP content, Tarawa and the nightmare of AI wingmen

[itarrow]

Hey there.

 

I love the Harrier.

 

It is my favorite module, especially when taking off and landing from Tarawa.

 

But I play in SP, and unfortunately this complicates a lot things.

 

After having done most of the usual SP campaigns, I have started using dynamic content such as DCE or Liberation. Those can and should be fun, the problem is that the status of the whole DCS AI make things worst for the Harrier than any other module, at least in my experience.

 

AI wingmen can’t take off from Tarawa unless they don’t have weapons loaded. They can’t land. And they often end up burning fuel much faster than myself.

 

Before stopping again using the Harrier for some months out of frustration, going back to some other module and then trying back the Harrier after a while to see if anything changes... I need to know...

 

Is there anything I am missing that I should do so to have my wingmen suddenly able to takeoff and land on the Tarawa with my same payload ? Any trick or advice you can offer to be able to enjoy the Harrier in SP ?

[ruxtmp]

In my opinion this module is still very buggy and remains in early alpha/release or whatever they want to call it. Others say its perfect and works exactly as its supposed to minus the incomplete items, so your results may vary. There have been some minor fixes but a lot is still undone or not functioning well, again in my opinion. I only use it as AI to avoid the frustration in SP. You need to script a lot of things to get the AI to work well but this is the case for most AI and not specifically module related.

[itarrow]

In my opinion this module is still very buggy and remains in early alpha/release or whatever they want to call it. Others say its perfect and works exactly as its supposed to minus the incomplete items, so your results may vary. There have been some minor fixes but a lot is still undone or not functioning well, again in my opinion. I only use it as AI to avoid the frustration in SP. You need to script a lot of things to get the AI to work well but this is the case for most AI and not specifically module related.

 

My personal opinion is that the Harrier has still some issues, but it is not that much worst than, say, the F18.

 

What makes the experience horrible in SP is mixing Harrier peculiarities (VTOL, Tarawa) with long standing DCS problems (AI) which should be addressed by ED, who probably doesn’t care because Harrier it's not their product and anyway they have much more issues to address impacting more modules before focusing on a single Razbam aircraft.

 

This alone makes the Harrier experience worst than the one with other modules, because the F18 AI is anyway able to take off and land on SuperCarrier.

 

Anyway I was just trying to understand if anyone has some advice about how to have AI taking off/land on Tarawa using payloads similar to mine (player) in SP missions... so that maybe I can go back to DCE and Liberation and fly the module I prefer.

[Wakeshift]

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