Any tips dealing with Warbird AI (friendly)?

[Jayhawk1971]

Hi,

this campaign is only my second foray into DSC WW2, first having been BNBoB. But there I was flight lead, so friendly AI was more predictable.

The reason I ask is because it seems to me that Warbird-AI is even dumber than Jet-AI, and I would like to ask for some "best practices" dealing with it.

The trigger for this post: I was blotted out of the sky by White 3 (I strongly assume) during mission 4, after striking the marshalling yard and while being in the process of forming up on White 1 and 2. I was not even close to them yet, over a mile at least behind and to the right, way outside of what would be 3's position in the formation. I didn't see 3, so I assumed he had been shot down by ground fire. Anyway, I was just flying along, when - bam - 3 crashes into me from behind. Just like that. I was flying straight and level, and not at all in "his spot".*

[I double-checked that is was the correct flight by temporarily switching labels from dots to text]

In the past I was occasionally rammed by jet ai as well, but at least I could see why (it was always in rather close formation, while refueling, and once during a battle damage check). But never out of the blue, in the middle of nowhere, not even close to being in formation with anyone.

So, could anyone please give me some advice where to fly, or what "zones" to avoid? I could of course write to ED and ask them to fix their AI, but at this point that is like telling the rain to stop being wet; better to learn the quirks of the AI and work around them.

 

* Obviously, I somehow must have been in the way of  the AI's "rejoin flight path", but how am I supposed to know what that path is? Was it just a really unfortunate coincidence, because you probably couldn't do that deliberately, if you tried: guessing the exact same intersection of flight paths, both horizontally and vertically?

 

Edited Thursday at 02:27 PM by Jayhawk1971

[Reflected]

You’ll get used to the ai and learn to anticipate. My only advice is when you know they’re gonna do something, turn attack break orbit, throttle back and get a 100 feet below them to give them room. I haven’t collided with an ai in over a year and I do fly a lot on their wing

[Jayhawk1971]

On mission 7 now, no more collisions (that I was involved in  ). I am hanging back a little, letting the AI do their thing from a safe distance. Pre-emptive combat spread, if you will.  

I also started to watch Wolfpack's videos, and they also taught me a lot about the ww2 AI.

Really like the campaign so far, especially the reality of it all, just the missions as they happened in real life. Great concept!

Also reading Len Deighton's "Goodbye Mickey Mouse" (again), to get me in the mood.  (just skipping the more "melodramatic" chapters).

I'm even getting the hang of landing the P-51 properly (slowly, but getting there). Three-point, that is. Wheel landings, not so much.

[BTW, AI still doesn't seem to drop their bombs, post recent patch. Thankfully, I'm pretty accurate with my bombs, and make the whole group look good ]

Edited Saturday at 08:07 PM by Jayhawk1971

[Reflected]

2 hours ago, Jayhawk1971 said:

On mission 7 now, no more collisions (that I was involved in  ). I am hanging back a little, letting the AI do their thing from a safe distance. Pre-emptive combat spread, if you will.  

I also started to watch Wolfpack's videos, and they also taught me a lot about the ww2 AI.

Really like the campaign so far, especially the reality of it all, just the missions as they happened in real life. Great concept!

Also reading Len Deighton's "Goodbye Mickey Mouse" (again), to get me in the mood.  (just skipping the more "melodramatic" chapters).

I'm even getting the hang of landing the P-51 properly (slowly, but getting there). Three-point, that is. Wheel landings, not so much.

[BTW, AI still doesn't seem to drop their bombs, post recent patch. Thankfully, I'm pretty accurate with my bombs, and make the whole group look good ]

ED updated the way the AI drops bombs a few patches ago to be more realistic. It resulted in countless dry runs. I sent dozens of tracks to @[ED]Ben, please send one too, if you can. My hands are completely tied here.

[Jayhawk1971]

vor 4 Stunden schrieb Reflected:

ED updated the way the AI drops bombs a few patches ago to be more realistic. It resulted in countless dry runs. I sent dozens of tracks to @[ED]Ben, please send one too, if you can. My hands are completely tied here.

Yeah, I was determined to save the track file from mission 6 when I checked lead for holes and found two pristine bombs hanging from his wings, but after landing I just forgot (I clicked "end mission" out of habit). Next mission where I have to bomb something I'll pay attention, and save a track file!

Edited Sunday at 03:34 AM by Jayhawk1971