Community help needed with AI and Radio Comms

[5./JG27.Farber]

Think you already have the German brevity codes as I hear them in game.

Heres a link anyway:

http://www.gyges.dk/Operatonal%20bre...Ver%2010_1.pdf

[Bloblast]

AI findings

AI takes off without warming it's engine, as player you are too late to follow.

AI keeps flying in formation when being attacked. As player it's easy to down these aircrafts.

AI crashes when player lands instead of landing at home base.

AI congratulates player for a kill too early not visible yet that the aircraft goes down. As player you have an advantage not wasting ammo.

AI bailing out too early out of small damaged aircraft.

AI continues flying in a burning aircraft.

AI not dropping their bombs on target, they fly home with their bombs.

[Bullit]

Error description: Launcher.exe Crash
Details: Playing online after 5 to 60 mins the whole game crashes to desktop. This happens even faster when more aircraft are in one place.
Can it be consistently reproduced?: Yes, have 12 pilots take off from 1 airfield and the whole game slows down and then crash. Same with large formation flying...

Win 7 64 bit

Asus Mobo
8 Gig of Ram
CPU I5 @3.0Ghz
5770 ATI Radeon

[Frequent_Flyer]

Dead is Dead !!!!- When an aircraft AI/Player becomes a flamming comet- kill the pilot or have him bail. In either option the aircraft , should roll over and do the proverbial " lawn dart " to final destruction. It should not continue on as the eternal flame or do the 45 min. flamming death spiral.

[DarthElvis]

Originally Posted by katdogfizzow

IL2 1946 had awesome AI

You know the CLoD AI is bad when you start thinking the '46 AI was good.

[buddye]

Originally Posted by Continu0

If Plane X is firing at plane Y and plane X does not score any hits within 2 seconds, Plane X should stop firing for a certain time (may be at least 1 second).

As far as I can imagine, in the programming language:

After Plane X has stopped firing (because of no hits), the programm should go back to decide again (may be after 1 second) if Plane X should fire.

Right at the moment, Hurricanes are wasting their whole ammo whithout scoring any hit...

The AI running out of ammo should be very rare, IMHO. For anyone that is interested in how the AI shoot and kill, I will offer a short discription of how BOBII implements the AI shooting.

If you do not care how the AI targets and shoots bullets, then just skip this the data below..

I think the shooting/targeting attention to detail must be very high priority with respect to how the AI achieves a bullet hit.

A player can shoot any time he wants. He can be very accurate or he can just shoot, spray, and pray. The player either hits or misses his target. What does the AI do to hit a target?

To hit something in BOBII the AI A/C must fly and maneuver until its pitch and roll are within a box that can be placed around the target. This means that the AI must fly and maneuver until the target (enemy A/C) meets the error box criteria before a single AI bullet is ever fired. To calculate where to place the error box the software must determine the “lead” (not the A/C “current position” but where the A/C “future position” will be when the bullets arrive). The lead calculation is rather complex and difficult in a real time fight simulation game and sometimes BOBII does a poor job. The player will usually say, “wow, he is right there why doesn’t the AI just shoot”. Actually, it is very human for the AI pilot to have a difficult time with the “lead” calculation (deflection shooting).

The AI skill level controls the "size" of the error box (biger for Novice and smaller for Hero) and the range (Novice shoot too fast too early but Heros shoot upclose and on target). This design results in the Novice using more ammo than the higher skilled Hero.

Even a human WWII pilot had a hard time calculating lead in his head (deflection shooting). In his book “The Most Dangerous Enemy” by Stephen Bungay (one of my favorite BOB history books), Mr Bungay is talking about deflection shooting and states, “It will come as no surprise to learn that not many pilots ever mastered this, and that the vast majority of kills were made from within 15 degrees of dead astern.”

[Continu0]

As everyone can see, your the expert! Just go on please... Such (and much more) knowledge is needed....

[jf1981]

Originally Posted by BlackSix

Hi everyone,

1. AI (Artificial Intelligence)

I have seen AI going straight while attacked, or diving into the water simply because they did'nt pull up on time.

Joystiock lag, I've opened up a thread to explain my case.
Regards
JF

[smink1701]

AI suggestion...

When you get on plane X's six and fire, plane X turns into a Sukhoi Su-29 and does a series of dives, rolls and spins that would be improssible for the plane, pilot and situation. Worse...is that while doing these manuvers plane X will waggle its wings in a bizarre, unrealistic way suggesting a programming bug. These moments take me right out of the game and that's why I'm playing ROF until this thing gets fixed. I appreciate the opportunity to provide constructive criticism but it sounds like you are just getting to this stuff and that the next Beta is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay off.

[addman]

I'm not sure if it's in the game already or not but you should give the A.I the same engine overheating limits as the human player, like team daidalos now have done for "old" IL-2 1946.