Recent AI changes cause them to frequently break the hard deck.

[Sabre-TLA]

Hi Everyone,

ED's recent improvements to the AI have changed their low level behavior so now they break the hard-deck more frequently and cause a termination of the engagement.

We have put in a fix which reduces the frequency of this occurrence however it can still occur on occasion as a hard deck violation is a valid kill. 

You can also still break the hard deck so watch your altitude when engaging at low level.

ED have added the files into the repo for inclusion in the next patch update.

Thanks.

[trevoC]

Noticed this a lot recently in campaigns. More specifically the Su-24/25's who would fly into the ground to avoid incoming threats.

[Sabre-TLA]

Fix is in this patch update.  Let me know how your experience goes.

[trevoC]

finished the campaign, but I'll re-fly a few and give you some feedback. I guess I could do the practice missions to save some ingress egress time.

[ataribaby]

Just tried new patch and result is pretty same, AI always ends glued to ground, it just lasts longer with guaranteed AI harddeck violation. I think campaigns are unusable till ED fix that AI  

[Sabre-TLA]

Darn.  We will have to turn off that trigger completely then as we have no idea when ED will fix the AI.  Thanks for reporting your results.

[ataribaby]

Yeah I think that will do the trick. 

[Sabre-TLA]

Fixes should be in the March 1st patch.  Please report any issues after updating.

[Mrchittychad]

doubt anything was fixed by ED since I still have AI stalling or breaking their plane by abruptly turning. every single BFM I tried, AI crash. 

[Sabre-TLA]

That must be something new as we did remove the triggers to stop the hard deck violation. 

I've seen some other user reports indicating the same thing in other campaigns so hopefully ED will make the appropriate AI changes to improve the behavior.

[Leysard]

What is the situation now ?

I'm interested in buying this campaign for training. Is it still worth it (not money wise, but technicaly wise) ?

[Sabre-TLA]

In testing one of our campaigns under development we haven't seen the AI crashing into the ground too often.  ED continues to work on the AI so it really depends on the specific engagement scenario and aircraft involved. 

Not sure what others are still experiencing.