Wingman kills me on approach

[trevoC]

This happens every mission although up until now it has only been near misses.

After completion I'm on an ILS approach to Nellis 21R and my wingman is right beside me.

At some point he decides to break left (towards me) and usually up enough to miss me.

Mission 6 (M-2000's) I'm on approach and in a split second I'm dead as he breaks left right into me.

I can provide a track file if you like, but I'm guessing this is known as it happens every mission. 

 

So now, I have committed fratricide and have lost all my combat score.

Would it not be easy enough to have him either break right or break off before the approach?

[draconus]

This is AI bug and this behavior is not in hands of mission creators. Either let him RTB before you or put him on hold before your final.

[trevoC]

9 hours ago, draconus said:

This is AI bug and this behavior is not in hands of mission creators. Either let him RTB before you or put him on hold before your final.

I'll have to check again, but I don't think he is "officially" my wingman in the comms menu. I usually do this on other campaigns but remember looking for this the first time he almost dinged me and couldn't see the wingman or flight menu. Will look again.

[draconus]

2 hours ago, trevoC said:

but I don't think he is "officially" my wingman in the comms menu

That would certainly make things harder.

[Sabre-TLA]

The AI behavior seems to change with each update.  Normally this a good thing as we want the AI to improve but not when the change causes a collision. 

We will investigate and see if we can have him hold at a waypoint until you have landed.

[trevoC]

Just an FYI, I just flew another mission. I have no options to tell him to RTB or hold. There is no wingman or flight menu. Only ATC/Tanker/Other>Copy.

On approach I am eagle eyeing him for his break left at which point I dive hard which is not the nicest thing to do on a 3 degree approach on the numbers giving me very little time to react and land. Not a big deal as landing the F-15 is pretty easy, but its not nice being constantly on edge about racking up another death on your profile. More importantly it breaks immersion in a pretty decently immersive campaign.

Not that your campaign is to blame for all my profile deaths, but the AI in general is to blame for around 50% of the 45 deaths I've racked up over the years. I've accumulated 2 on this campaign so far, both on approach.