Flying Mission as a Wingman

[AirWolves=CutCut]

In a single player mission, Is there a way to make the player a wingman? Or would you just do this as two separate groups and instruct the player to follow the lead of an AI group?

[Johnny Dioxin]

I don't know how it is currently but if we wanted to do this back in Flaming Cliffs 1 days we would start a mission in a flight as leader then switch to another aircraft in the flight. I think you can still do that in FC3, but don't know if you can do it in DCS aircraft.

[sirrah]

15 hours ago, Johnny Dioxin (Brixmis) said:

I don't know how it is currently but if we wanted to do this back in Flaming Cliffs 1 days we would start a mission in a flight as leader then switch to another aircraft in the flight. I think you can still do that in FC3, but don't know if you can do it in DCS aircraft.

Yes, that also works for other modules, but I'm pretty sure once you hop out of the lead, AI will take over and straightly goes RTB. It will stop following any flightplan.

 

You could also just place/create a separate player/client aircraft, just follow the AI aircraft and pretend it's your lead. Either way, AI flight behaviour is erratic and unrealistic, so the experience is probably not what you'd expect/hope.

[dark_wood]

Set a group of two aircrafts, first plane AI, second plane as "Client" not "Player"

Edited February 8, 2021 by dark_wood

[AirWolves=CutCut]

On 2/7/2021 at 11:03 PM, dark_wood said:

Set a group of two aircrafts, first plane AI, second plane as "Client" not "Player"

 

I tried this but it does not work for a single player mission. Maybe for multiplayer?? What I did do was create a separate flight for the player with the same waypoints and instruct the player he/she is a wingman. 

Thanks for the idea though!!

[dark_wood]

You set both planes, AI and Client in the same group?

[AirWolves=CutCut]

38 minutes ago, dark_wood said:

You set both planes, AI and Client in the same group?

Yep. I think "Client" is only for a multi-player mission. I am going a single player. However I guess it really doesn't matter. I could set it as multi but then just have 1 "client." I'll give that a shot.

 

Edited February 12, 2021 by AirWolves=CutCut
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[cfrag]

On 2/7/2021 at 2:59 PM, sirrah said:

Yes, that also works for other modules, but I'm pretty sure once you hop out of the lead, AI will take over and straightly goes RTB. It will stop following any flightplan.

 

 

Wait - doesn't the first plane you occupied as client despawn when you enter another one? Need to try this myself.

 

[dark_wood]

You can use "Client" for single player - the only difference is that at mission start you will have an extra step, to choose the slot

[sirrah]

1 hour ago, cfrag said:

 

Wait - doesn't the first plane you occupied as client despawn when you enter another one? Need to try this myself.

 

"Client" aircraft will probably despawn, yes.

 

"Player" aircraft will continue (at least last time I tried)