Reply To: Never been so invested in a Dogfight before.

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Darkest Star Games wrote:

Bro I wouldn’t trust your RIO, he doesn’t seem to know clock faces! Good thing that Mig didn’t have guns, he could have had you twice. I do love how that one hardcore dude at the AA battery fired right after the rockeyes hit, a true badass, Lol. You really were throwing that plane around, good thing all those rivets are tight 😀 Good job going vert!

 

It did fire at me once.  But missed.

Generally the AI only fires when it has a 95% or better chance of hitting. Were a human would fire and probably hit with at least a few random shells. The AI withholds it’s ammo.

Flying these older aircraft really brings out how bad the AI is. People have clocked the MiG21 AI doing continuous 9+ G turns. The MiG15 has been caught red handed doing 12G upwards turn without loosing speed. When human flies them they are generally very good(Except the MiG21 has way too good control at lower speeds.)

ED are working on a new GFM(General flight model) but they have been working on it  for several years now and no news in sight.

I’ve been doing dogfighting in the F4 for 2 days now. Against  MiG19 and 21 and F1 Mirage. And it’s frustrating. Your on paper advantage in thrust has no bearing against AI. The F1 does tight 1 circle fights like its a Su27.

In 2 days I’ve killed 1 F1 with a lucky gun kill when it was set on lowest skill. I’ve not killed any 19 or 21s even on lowest skill.

I have killed a MiG29 on hardest skills though. A bit of a lucky shot. But something is definitely wrong when a MiG29 on hardest difficulty is easier to kill than a MiG21 or F1 Mirage.