Suggestions for AI Improvements in Future Updates

[IceFire]

Originally Posted by major.kudo

I point out another one.
http://gachopin.no-ip.info/kudo/Unreal_gunshooting.jpg
At least, I think that impossible to the pilot of rookie and average.

Even a rookie pilot will make a guess and fire a bunch of rounds to see if they can score a hit in those kinds of situations.

Prior to the AI upgrades the AI could see 360 degrees and would make these shots regardless. With the upgrade the AI could no longer see through their aircraft but that meant adding some routines to change how the AI did aiming. With the upgrade they will now estimate the target angle and make a deflection shot guess not unlike how human pilots behave.

You are probably on to something that the Rookie pilots are perhaps too successful in this area. The effect can be toned down surely. But its not unrealistic for an average to veteran to ace pilot to be able to make this shot.

With the FW190 in particular I got to a point where I was firing blind a lot of the time and destroying my target. I'd follow the target for a while and then once I was into firing position I'd pull the stick back and although I couldn't actually see the target I'd have the whole trajectory worked out in my head and I'd score a killing shot say 7 or 8 times out of 10. No reason the AI at perhaps the veteran level to be able to do that kind of shot semi-reliably. The rookie AI... maybe not as much as it does.