yes Are AI abilities affected by night vs day?

[Stearmandriver]

Basically, I'm curious about whether night (or daytime low vis) conditions affect the ability of AI enemy fighters to locate me.  I enjoy doing low-level, radar-silenced ingress to a strike target, and those tactics do seem to make it a little tougher for the AI to find me... I'm wondering if adding darkness to the mix affords me any additional protection?  Or is the AI detection algorithm pretty much the same in all weather and lighting conditions? 

 

Thanks...

[pete_auau]

doubt  it   think it  doesnt  matter  if  they  have  blind folds  on  they  still will find  you  and  shoot  you  down

[Shadow KT]

Yes, AI are affected by night and day and a bunch of other things.

 

Russian/Soviet rlunits really suffer during low light conditions, as the developers have given them some ridicilously low spotting range at night. In some instanced you can even land right next to something like a zu-23 and it won't shoot at you.

 

There is also another bug where units won't transition day/night cycles, unless you switch to external view.

 

Line of sight also affects them. Trees block LOS. Can create some absurd situations, where you will pass behind a tree and the AI will reset their "aiming" as your center passed behind an object and they forgot about you

 

@Stearmandriver

 

 

Edited February 6, 2021 by Shadow KT

[Andrew u.k.]

There definitely is a difference between night and day.
I fly with a huey squadron and when we are doing vietnam style ops it's very frustrating. No flying at dusk or Dawn as there's no return fire unless you turn your lights on.
However, I've just been testing a Misson set with a full moon in the snow at night. And they did fire back.

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[Stearmandriver]

Interesting responses and I'm glad to hear it.  Thanks! 

[FalcoGer]

Fog doesn't affect them at all though. They can be sitting in a cloud on a mountain where you can't see the nosecone of your aircraft, but the AI will happily shoot you even without radar. Same goes for smoke, be it WP or an oil fire.