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Originally Posted by Pugo3
I thought it best to avoid directly answering the one respondant who demonstrates the unfortunate tendancy of too many forum perons these days to reply with rather condenscending, dismissive, and demeaning remarks after first misrepresenting and attaching all sorts of malice to my comments. Such persons are best left to themselves, a fitting punishment in itself.
It is an historical fact that 51's and 47's did dogfight with German fighters on occasion, the accounts are plentiful and you've all read them, no need to make this string a mulitpage tangle of combat accounts quotes to make the point. In QMB, a 51 and 47 will not dogfight, only fly away and joust. Mock, dispute, slander, misrepresent all you wish if you are so inclined, this stands.
Fly a Bf 109E7 against a Spitfire V 1941 one on one.
Fly a Bf 109E7 against a squadron of Spitfire V 1941. Nevermind what our dismissive associate states, see for yourself. Not rocket powered, of course this was overstated, but definitely all Spits are demonstably faster, with higher climbs rates, etc. Try it with other enemy AI aircraft your familiar with.
I inquired only if these failings had been addressed. No honest person of worth would consider this a request for making the game unrealistic. Rather, both of these shortcomings detract from the game and if anything render it unrealistic by not allowing one to experience this aspect of combat flying.
thanks to all who replied with constructive comments while maintaining personal integrity and good faith.
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Excuse me for incredulousness at your post when you expect the developers to pander to your desire for dogfight entertainment and reverse years of attempting to make this game as realistic as the limitations of the engine & platform allow.
The AI as in it's current 4.12 form are the most realistic I have seen; in co-ops I find it difficult at times to tell the breathers from the bots. That in and of itself speaks volumes to me about the excellent work FC has done in manipulating the AI dogfight routines.
If my critique of your flying style came across as condescending then it was as a direct result of your ill-informed, presumptuous and mildly insulting post; not to me but to FC, who I suspect has devoted hundreds of - no doubt frustrating - man hours of investigating, experimenting and tweaking the code to get it to the frankly best level I've seen in any sim of late.
I stand by my opinion of why I think you are running into difficulties and why the AI *appear* to you to be turbo boosted. True an element is down to the AI knowing to the second how long they can risk overheating in WEP and are perfectly trimmed in all flight regimes, however if you fight smart you can negate these attributes with your ability to abstract and read the overall fight picture in a way no AI can hope to.
I don't deny more than one-turn dogfights did happen; but their frequency was so low as to be a tiny fraction of the overall percentage. 9 times out of 10 the victim did not even see their attacker.
On top of this your reference to P-51/P-47 combat reports is crucially flawed. The vast majority of the Jagdwaffe pilots by the 1944 era were inexperienced, rushed through training and could just about handle the skills to takeoff land and fly formation; they did not have the tactical nous to be able to understand the dogfight environment and pulled all the wrong moves when defensive; as such because they had such little experience in handling their aircraft at or beyond the limits of it's performance or crucially where their advantages lay against their opponents they bleed their E and just make the job easier for the teamworking USAAF fighter jocks.
Oh, hang on, that scenario sounds familiar... like someone whining that they keep getting gang-banged by teamworking AI that keeps up it's E. Hmmmm. Funny that.