Basher11

Interesting. This is my next thing to explore after the AA missiles.

I have finnaly get everything sorted with the F-22 Vs F-22. It's all about eh AIM-120C missile. I can lock on to a F-22 at a range up to some 39nm no problem with that. Whether the missile hits or misses I don't care at this stage. In order to let the AI F-22 get a bigger signature, I replaced my F-22 with a MiG-29 at least the fulcrum is not stealth. The F-22 still fires upon me with AIM-120C but at a range of some 8nm! How does the AI aircraft decide when to fire using a BVR missile?

Alright, let me try to get this right. So you were not alone you have your wingies. And which theatre or WoE or WoI are we talking about? So all bogies fired at you at max range? Now the offensive max range of any missile after such tweaking can go a little bit beyond its designated value in the Weapon.ini file. For instance, AIM-120C has a max range of 78km and it does fire at like 80 or 82km but not an exagerrated 120km you know what I mean. So which theatre I want to know, thanks in advance.

I am going to write a long one, so please get yourself prepared! Firstly, thanks to TK for giving us such a great simulator. The game has been around for 5 years and excuse me I just joined the party recently. Having that said, I have a few new ideas which might serve as suggestions to make the game even better. All these times, I have never seen a simulation be it hard core or soft core or like this series a mid-core one, a real seriously taken recon mission infrastructure. The once famous Falcon 4 does provide players with recon mission but have you ever seen the pictures you have taken? I have never seen them. It is great fun to fly low across enemy frontline to take some photos, either in broad daylight or in the dark. I wish we could have this feature in the series. This series perhaps has the most flexible expandibility of all flight simulations I have ever seen. You can tweak everything possible provided you have the name of the parameter you are after. The fantastic thing is that you can add a modern aircraft like the Typhoons EF2000 to the desert theatre which was originally supposed to be used in the cold war era. You can also make use of the WoE terrain and add some of the add-on WWII aircrafts to recreate say EAW? You may also use the same theatre and the MiG-15, 17 and 19 and the F-86 Sabre to recreate a Korean War Campaign. That's why I express my gratitude to TK and all the modders who have made all these possible. However, some deficiencies are indeed there. We need an AWACS. Red Crown should be approprietly dealt with. Besides, it would be great to have a blindness once we fly out of the cover zone of AWACS. Some additional features on the avionic side of things would be great. For example, I missed the MFD in the F/A-18 and EF2000 very very much. When you use LGB the MFD provides a way for you to slew the aiming to the target and lock it up. That's really cool and add a little bit (just a little) of hardcoreness to the game for modern times. I really like to see some destructable structures. I know this has nothing to do with flight simulation because we are only concerned about matters happening in the air. But for eye-candy and immersion sake, it would be better to have this implemented. A man like me who always want to see the destroying power of nuclear weapons... Ground wars. This is something I learnt from Falcon 4. F4 has perhaps the most impressive ground warfare simulation amongst all the flight simulation in the last 13 to 14 years. They have their own AI. They know when to regroup and they have their own formation. I staill recall those days when I used to tweak here and there to get TOW appearing on the screen, they used to be ABSTRACT and are not supposed to be displayed out. Ground war will give us an excuse to conduct more realistic CAS missions. I want to have F-117A. The last time I played this aircraft was 12 years ago. It was Jane's Advanced Tactical Fighters. i'll add more later, in office can't type too much!

What do you get again? Please tell me in more details. I need to know if the AI attacks you or just your wingies, also I need to know if the AI fire at you all at once or they bracket you first then fire one after the other.

Think about it: diffrent missiles have diffrent max range. In order not to restrict the AI to launch upon other aircrafts, set visibility to infinity solves everything once and for all! Don't you ever think so? Okay, I know why the AIM-120C missed. In Gameplay setting, I took the default values for Enemy Skill and Simulation Difficulty. If you take Hard for both, the AIM-120C is deadly accurate!

To get the AI to "engage" is the maxviewdistance. To triiger the launch, azimuth must be provided with the cheated value.

I have the findings. I made the AIM-120C to have Azimuth=360 degree and Gimble limit=360 degree. This will unlock the missile maximum launch range. In the case of AIM-120C, AI will engage target at 78km roughly 35nm provided the following setup has been done: For the target aircraft, chnage its Data ini file parameter MaxVisibleDistance to any values as large as you can. This tweak is not rendering the real avionics but enable AI aircrafts to engage at a realistic distance. Basically for BVR combat not dogfighting.

Fubar: I've found out something: I changed the Azimuth limit to 360 degree and the AI engage right away even we were 60nm apart. I think there are a few parameters which control the AI firing behaviour. Let me go and investigae I 'll report back later.

Changed MaxVisibleDistance=64820.0 (=35nm) for the F-15 in WoE. My F-15 head-on against AI F-15. This parameter controls the AI engage action seemingly because I noticed that the AI aircraft jinked as teh separation touches onto 35nm. But the AI didn't fire until both of us were 25nm apart. I checked the AIM-120C data from the weapon editor. Apparently the AI fires accoridng to the Seeker Range parameter rather than the Maximum Launch Range. Anyway, good to have this one sorted.

Thanks both of you! I thought the same too, I mean the visual range though it doesn't make much sense to me specially when weather is seup as Broken Clouds where visibility is definitely an issue. Fubar, just you mentioned AIM-54, the C model does the job admirably. Watching it drop off from the rail before its booster fires. Doesn't look natural when F-22 fires one of its AIM-120C from its internal weapon bay wehn the missile lights up the moment it is released. Gonna to use the same data to tweak the AIM-120C for the F-22! Go to check out the BVR now. Report back later!

How big is the deal to put aircrafts from SFP1 and WoV into WoE and will that work after the merging?

Does anyone run into trouble integrating the pits witht he aircrafts?

There might be an error of the mirrors. They duplicate the ssame reflection of the rear. Can that be fixed?

The Jaguar has 2 pylons on the upper sides of its wings is that the true in the real jet? Where can I find a cockpit of U-2?

I can keep SFP1 separate, but I can't fly the aircrafts in WoE in the desert theatre.

I was playing around witht he Raptor last night. AI MiG-21 got very close to the Raptor and gunned its tail. It as found that the Raptor does take partial damage. Some shrepnetls fell off from the aircraft's tail when it was hit by the guns.

Any add-on?

See if you can interpret these screenshots:

Don't get me wrongly, it is brilliant. But I wonder if we can reduce the darkness of the sky and further intensify the sun glare? Is it possible?

Jesus Christ! That sounds really impressive. The aircraft is truly amazing. So that means even the Flanker can't fire upon it!

The darker blue sky is magnificent for VERY high altittude like say 600,000 ft. Lexx, I saw somewhere, don't recall exactly the location, it was a mod aircraft download page in which there is a thumb image and when I clicked to enlarge it, it shows a really bright sun shinning upon the aircraft and the sky colour is ordinary blue. But the contrast does come out and the sun is very bright. Can the same be done possible?

Get me North Atlantic on the line, NOW!

Right away pls!!