4.13 development update discussion and feedback

[sniperton]

No problem, mate. The funny thing is that I have some programming experience, and I frequently work together with programmers, so the difficulty algorithm you mentioned is well known to me. Unfortunately, when I use a software, I involuntarily try to guess 'what's behind the curtain' / 'what's in the black box', and my badly formulated questions can be easily misunderstood as overpretentiousness...

[Pugo3]

Swept away again by high work load, but have noted the responses to my questions and agree. Upon further review, watching playbacks of test combats I record, the AI Ace is not performing miracle, magic bullet shots, but as several pointed out, convergence, spread, various factors effecting bullet trajectory, etc., and I have see the obvious factor I overlooked - these guys take the shot, they're dead serious skilled fliers, so the number of shells in the air is notably higher than the previous AI, which is as it should be. When flying in invulnerable mode, hits on ones' aircraft are accompanied by a high pitched sound indicating the hit. The number of hits is significantly less than shots fired, which is keeping with the difficulty of hitting a heavily maneuvering opponent with a relatively decent level of skill doing so [in this case, me] Apologies to TD, thanks to all who provided the correctives and explanations.