New AI maneuver under SF SP3.1 & WoV P2

[Fubar512]

I was recently flying a "silver swallow" (Mig-17A) for the VPAF, when I encountered an inbound strike package of F-105s escorted by F-4Cs. As I started my attack on the Thuds, an F-4 came up behind me, forcing me to break off . The next thing I know, I'm involved in a really hairy battle with this Phantom and one of his wingmen.

 

During the course of said battle, the nearest F-4 engaged me in a rolling scissors maneuver. The long and short of it is....that was absolutely the best dogfight I've had in any flight sim in a dog's age!

 

This is the first time I've observed the AI fighting this way in either SF or WoV, and I attribute this to changes Incorporated into the latest patch. I'm also running the "Insane Edition" of the Uber AI

Edited June 8, 2005 by Fubar512

[+MK2]

Very cool

 

Is the insane edition uploaded?

[Chaser617]

I spend most my time as a 'test pilot' wringing out new releases (I really have to start posting my thoughts) but I have gotten into a couple rather nasty dogfights one, I was in an F-5A and got jumped by a flight of Eagles, I got behind one, and he just goes vertical and I can't keep up, my first thought was 'oh crud, they've never done THAT before....' I didn't get the second thought out before the Sidewinder turned me into a greasy fireball.

[Fubar512]

Very cool 

 

Is the insane edition uploaded?

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Not yet, I'm still playing with it and awaiting "further" developments from Third Wire.

[Fubar512]

Here's a series of images from WoV. It's a dogfight between myself in an F-8D, vs an AI MiG-17F, it lasted almost ten minutes, and went from the initial encounter at 14,000 feet on down to tree top level. You can see both the MiG and the Crusader engaged in a scissors. I finally got the MiG at low altitude, and fed him some 20 mike mike

 

[+Dave]

Another case of the Mig being beaten by the Mig Master