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Originally Posted by X-Raptor
m8, whatever you say you have to admit what the reality of il2 1946 is now with A.I. : IT CHEAT. and it cheat more and more patch after patch. It is UBER A.I. EVEN IN AVERAGE LEVEL. They shoot at you at incredible distance with no challenge to survive. I know what you are tell about "my mistakes" but you have to discern Your mistakes to UBER-& CHEATING A.I. coded by DT that is a FACT. Is simple to verify. try to make a clean copy of your game patched just to 4.7 (still is a possible and easy downgrade of the game..) try to load a quick combat 8-8 spit/me109 (whatever version just same year of production..43, 44, 45 eg.) -and that is however a Historical dogfight  set all to -average- level (just to notice that I want to give chance even to a medium level player..) Now try to challenge this quick mission and you will notice how more "real" is the balance between you and your team vs A.I. - Now try same mission in 4.12.1 game version and tell me how many SECONDS you survive (....) sun or not sun help.. clouds or not clouds help....altitude advantage help.... energy management strategy.... speed management ... m8, you can argue and try whatever tactic you want but the sad and frustrate result is always the same: you not survive more than about 30-60 sec after engaging the dogfight. this is not possible. .. and isn't historic... is this a SIMULATOR? Then I would like to SIMULATE WWII aereal combats! ..not to challege with a UBER-CHEATING A.I. for just 60 sec every mission ending with a prompt bullets salvo into my tail or in front of my engine just every time. |
Tried 8 vs. 8 Bf109(regular) vs veteran SpitIXeLF25lbs, co alt, 5000m. In the merge I tried to shoot at one of them, no hits. Went right trough the whole pack, on full blast, course no more than 20 degrees of the original, now followed by them Spits. Went on on a shallow climb until Spits about behind me 3-4 km. Turned, tried to set up a shot, missed. Out again, and this time there were some Spits ahead (~30 degrees) and below, so I gradually turned and descended towards them. Tried to get a gunnery solution, but the rapidly banking and turning made shooting impossible without risking to get caught from these Spits behind me. Went out again and could have stopped there and flown home and as a real life pilot probably would have.
But as an online pilot I want KILLS. So I went back in, and spotted some Spits far below me, and though I knew there had to be Spits at near my alt, went for them down there(Bad move#1). Then I tried to get a gunnery solution and turned with the Spit (Bad move #2) -I want KILLS. Shot, missed, and discovered that Spit had some mates, and they were behind me. Went for rolling scissors guns defense, that worked surprisingly well (They AI not beeing able to make the split second high angle shots you present them helps-better since 4.11), and really got one of them in front of me, and damaged that one. Now I was down to about 3k (Spits now can match or exceed my speed), slow and alone with three veteran Spits. Next to no way getting out there alive. Someone really good at scissoring the enemy may have been able to do it -but I didn't.
Only thing I find a bit troublesome with the AI in that particular fight is that they do not use their planes strenghts very well, and do TnB in an 109 vs Spit. And they do not cooperate with you against the enemy.