"We like the offline AI. It's realistically dumb."

[SlipBall]

Originally Posted by kendo65

Thanks Addman and JG27.Farber, I fired up the fmb last night and I can confirm that these tweaks work.

Had a lot of fun actually with 2 reworked quick missions with extra aircraft and tweaked AI. There really is a lot of variation available in AI pilot behaviour - I can see why Luthier could make that statement about them liking what is there already. (In the long-term they do need to address the issue of higher settings on the Advanced Flying slider causing the wild F16 rolls, but for now this works, and allows some of the quality underneath to come through)

It's a little infuriating though to wait for more than a year before finding a very simple answer to one of the things that was really putting me off the game. Highlights the poor (appalling?) state of documentation atm.

I would encourage anyone who is interested to check out the links and info in this thread and get familiar with the fmb. I had done a lot of my own missions in old il-2 so it was fairly easy.

Thanks again.

It's proving a good week for the game - the new nVidia beta has helped, this tweak sorts another issue and soon the patch...oh yes!

I strongly agree...thanks for the tips guys on the AI settings, its like a whole new game now for off-line.

[5./JG27.Farber]

Originally Posted by kendo65

Thanks Addman and 5./JG27.Farber, I fired up the fmb last night and I can confirm that these tweaks work.

It's a little infuriating though to wait for more than a year before finding a very simple answer to one of the things that was really putting me off the game. Highlights the poor (appalling?) state of documentation atm.

Yes there are allot of things we deem "broken" or wrong with the game but are actually not but seem so due to the poor explination of even simple things in this sim.

Glad I could help.

S!

[addman]

Agree, documentation would've gone a long way preventing long and often fruitless discussions, still there'd be some people asking you to turn the pages of the manual for them and read loud to them in a David Attenborough voice how to do things.

[chris455]

Originally Posted by addman

Yup, that's the case. You gotta tweak the a.i the way you want it, don't use the presets. I'm gonna go ahead and refer you guys to the following very informative thread: http://simhq.com/forum/ubbthreads.ph...ml#Post3543201
READ IT ALL

These settings have no effect whatsoever. I would love it if they did, but even in FMB I can tweak these values all day long and the AI remain as dumb as a bag of hammers.
They will practically let you fly in formation with them if you say "pretty please".
Am I missing something? And could I ask to see a track of some truly aggressive enemy AI after such tweaks?
Thank you!
Chris

[smink1701]

Ok...just about there. I built a mission and it shows up in the FMB Load Mission area. Once I select the mission and load it I get a map with red and blue lines, numbers, etc...the usual stuff. I'm just having some issues with right clicking on the aircraft flight. When I do so it just says "Paste from File." I'm obviously doing something wrong or I'm in the wrong place.

[5./JG27.Farber]

Left click...

[planespotter]

Originally Posted by chris455

These settings have no effect whatsoever. I would love it if they did, but even in FMB I can tweak these values all day long and the AI remain as dumb as a bag of hammers.
They will practically let you fly in formation with them if you say "pretty please".
Am I missing something? And could I ask to see a track of some truly aggressive enemy AI after such tweaks?
Thank you!
Chris

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmuDi2F60-8

Watch the AI 109 which is 'leading' the flight in this HK video. Very very aggressive and no ridiculous maneouvres. Good use of the vertical, in fact. Only AI fail was at the end where he hit the beach, but that looks like he took some AAA fire.

These fixes working for me. Like it says they csn't completely fix, but is ten times better anyway. Can't explain why it isn't working for you.