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How to disable enemy from focusing on attacking only me?

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Why is AI, even multiple of them, attacking only me, and why does it feel like everyone is a red baron? I admit I have numerous setting set to realistic, but others are on normal, for balances gameplay. What bothers me, though, is that pretty much every single engagement with the enemy, ends up with all of them ending on my tail, regardless of what I do. Did I miss any setting in the workshop, so AI doesn't prioritize me, and treats me like some low value target that I am? Quite a bad experience when everyone is after me all the time. 

 

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Sometimes it seems that way. Other times they will ignore you. I of course have no idea how AI prioritize targets, but the devs have said, if I remember correctly, that the AI doesn't know who the player is. Try to stay high when possible and they will usually go for lower targets, so much so that I often find myself going "Where'd everybody go?" Hang in there!

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AI usually are programmed with a limited field of view, so the trick is to have them look in the "wrong" direction while you are trying to sneak away to set yourself up for an attack on a preferably lonely enemy.

To shake an enemy off it requires constant turns until you face an opposite direction to your opponent, usually by trying to turn into him and not getting into his line of fire, and with your enemy behind you you make your move. The enemy will need considerable time to turn back onto your 6 and loose energy and may opt to attack an easier target as you've been gaining speed and made distance.

AI view distance is limited and as in real dogfights they will loose contact while you have a chance to single out some sucker AI. Use similar tactics to draw an enemy away from your squadron and sideline them before heading back to help.

Of course these tactics will not always work as the situation can get very complicated with many enemies around you but it's about all you can do besides killing them or screaming for help.

Good hunting,

VonBeerhofen

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