Mission 11 wingman AI smacked into me

[Aisxos]

First of all, awesome campaign. Simply the best.

Just ran into this hitch where my wingman decided to fly into me on this 2 hour long mission. I have a full tacview but i'd rather avoid spoling people. Not sure if anything can be done to fix this from a designer standpoint, but I guess i'll try to have him fly trail next time.

[Reflected]

Sorry, us mission designers have much less control over the DCS AI than what people give us credit for. We tell them what to do, but how they perform it and what anomalies and glitches they'll  present, that's in the hands of the AI programmer. FWIW it never happened to me, was it during level flight? If you record a track it may be worth opening a thread in the AI bugs section where the devs see it.

[Panny]

On 1/19/2022 at 1:25 PM, Aisxos said:

First of all, awesome campaign. Simply the best.

Just ran into this hitch where my wingman decided to fly into me on this 2 hour long mission. I have a full tacview but i'd rather avoid spoling people. Not sure if anything can be done to fix this from a designer standpoint, but I guess i'll try to have him fly trail next time.

Should probably just fly better next time

[Reflected]

3 hours ago, Panny said:

Should probably just fly better next time

Oh, the AI can surprise you, no matter how good you fly

[Jayhawk1971]

It's pretty obvious that the AI spent either too much - or too little - time at Anderson AFB's  "Disney Land".  

[Aisxos]

On 1/20/2022 at 2:37 AM, Reflected said:

Sorry, us mission designers have much less control over the DCS AI than what people give us credit for. We tell them what to do, but how they perform it and what anomalies and glitches they'll  present, that's in the hands of the AI programmer. FWIW it never happened to me, was it during level flight? If you record a track it may be worth opening a thread in the AI bugs section where the devs see it.

It's the first time it's happened to me, but I'm pretty notoriously unlucky. Put him on trail and had no issues. AI wingmen are always kind of a liability anyway. It was extra suspicious that he slammed into me seconds after saying that line about how 'nice and quiet' it is out here


Yeah, autopilot straight and level flight, just chilling to music and looking at radar when suddenly GAME OVER and jingle made me jump outa my chair lol. I do have a tacview but I doubt it's anything  that can't be displayed from this couple of screenshots:

 

On 1/22/2022 at 1:05 AM, Panny said:

Should probably just fly better next time

Uh huh, I'll remember that, next time I fly off your wing :3

Edited January 22, 2022 by Aisxos

[Reflected]

I just noticed in another campaign that AI wingmen sometimes warp back a hundred feet, then catch up, then warp back again. These anomalies change from update to update. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that the new AI update that they announce will solve all these issues.