no bug WW2 AI still have no idea when to bail out.

[Gunfreak]

I light up a FW190A8 (Kraut-3) He then continues to fly his burning aircraft, for several miinutes, his props is feathered and he is happy sitting getting roasted. He then decided to try and land in the middle of Paris only to futilely attempt to bail out way way too late. 

good old combat-20240730-141822.rar

[PawlaczGMD]

I've also noticed they like to "emergency land" on water. This doesn't credit you a kill. 

[NineLine]

On 7/30/2024 at 12:11 PM, Gunfreak said:

I light up a FW190A8 (Kraut-3) He then continues to fly his burning aircraft, for several miinutes, his props is feathered and he is happy sitting getting roasted. He then decided to try and land in the middle of Paris only to futilely attempt to bail out way way too late. 

good old combat-20240730-141822.rar 21.58 MB · 9 downloads

Reported. Thanks.

[NineLine]

Ok after discussing with the AI guys and doing so more testing I have not been able to reproduce an instance when the pilot would not bail out when the aircraft is on fire. As for the "late bailout" seen in the track included it was not a bailout, but when the AI ditch they will eject their canopy right before landing, the issue here is they ditched in the middle of town, what most likely happened was that the AI lost some control function just before this and could not avoid ditching into a city block as well as it was too late to bail. 

I will leave this open if new tracks show up, but as of right now I do not think there is a big here beyond the fact that we can't possible program the AI to react to every possible scenario at any possible minute.