amazing AI again

[Fliegenhund]

I just started a new pilot flying the Airco in 1916. Flew my first mission and we engaged 5 EIII of Jasta 10 shortly into the flight. We shot them down and continued on. Almost to the patrol objective there were two more EIII of J10 that had a good 2-3k height advantage over me and my two remaining wingmen. We attempted to climb to them but the Airco is not a very good climber so we were struggling and the EIII kept their height and continued to cruise along.

 

We flew into some thick fluffy clouds and my wingmen and I got seperated from the other remaining pilot. As we circled to let him catch up, I got seperated by about 3500ft from both of them after flying into some fluff myself. The EIII were still cruising along upstairs and lo and behold, they saw me seperated and began diving on me. I luckily outturned and shot them both down and reunited with my wings by home field.

 

It really struck me as amazing that the AI knew they were outnumbered and kept their height, then saw a single target and jumped on the opportunity. Another one of those tidbits in this game I though I would share. Carry on!

Edited August 7, 2009 by Fliegenhund

[77Scout]

This also shows what a great improvement the new ability to fly into the clouds is. I don't know how much work it was for Rex-Hannover to make this happen, but I sure want to tell him a big thank-you. This one change has added a whole new dimension to the sim for me.

[Olham]

Right, 77Scout: thank you, RexHannover! Today, I flew through a clean white smaller cloud, and it worked.

In future, I will use that to hide in them and come out elsewhere. I wonder, if that will confuse the AI?

If so, this would have been an immense and amazing step forward!

[Creaghorn]

i also experienced something i didn't see before and what made the AI act much more like a human.

i led a patrol of alb dII along the frontline. As i flew i was scanning the sky as always. i took a look back and suddenly saw behind my mates two specks stalking us and slowly coming nearer. they were too far away for me to recon the type or if friendly or enemy. I watched them for a while and looked for more of them but they were alone. so i swerved around and flew directly in their direction head on, not giving an attack sign yet. as i came nearer i saw they were DH2's. Suddenly both turned around to the opposite direction and tried to run away from me. I slowly came closer and then gave my wing the attack sign. the dh2's still were running away. only when we came close enough they started to defend themselves and fight.

 

that was cool. maybe just a happy accident because i didn't see it before, but that made the whole thing so much more human

[77Scout]

Right, 77Scout: thank you, RexHannover! Today, I flew through a clean white smaller cloud, and it worked.

In future, I will use that to hide in them and come out elsewhere. I wonder, if that will confuse the AI?

If so, this would have been an immense and amazing step forward!

 

Hi Olham: Someone posted recently that setting clouds slider to '5' makes them block the AI's view. Seems to not hurt the speed of the game so I switched clouds to '5' hoping it is true.

[Olham]

Ah - thanks for the tip; I'll try that!