CFS3 ai

[rkk01]

Interested to see the comments on the AI preference for a turn n burn fight, and the tweaks put into cfs3 for this purpose....

....Has this been overdone???, orr do the ai use "real" or the same flight physics as the flyable aircraft.

Every bomber in the MS box can out turn any fighter I fly, seemingly without loosing energy.  Meanwhile my own aircraft / pilot will stall or blackout......now I know my flying is not "by the numbers", but it seems very odd when the ai doesn't seem to suffer the same limitations on tight turns.

Agree with the gunner ai - ridiculous, not just accuracy, but also heavy damage way before I am close enough to consider taking a good shot.

[Mathias]

It's said the AI use the same flight dydnamics as the player aircraft minus fuel and ammo weight & they always fly the perfect pattern.

[IndioBlack]

Agree with the gunner ai - ridiculous, not just accuracy, but also heavy damage way before I am close enough to consider taking a good shot.

It really depends from which side of the battle you're viewing things. As a Bomber pilot, I think the AI German Fighters are ridiculously good, and our AI gunners are terrible.  I once had a flight of five Lancasters shot to pieces behind me, and only got home by diving for the deck and flying 50 ft altitude all the way home. I got a bollocking when I got back too.
However, the AI gunners in the Firepower B-29 seem to be much more skilful, or maybe we just have more and bigger guns.

[4_Series_Scania]

Sorry about that.....What is the max size?


No I am still running an old Nividia FX-5600/128mb. The game is running at 1600X1200X32.

Thing I liked about the picture was the way the camo on the upper wing blends into the terrain.  WildBat did most of the jet skins for us.

Bloody hell AV!, I could'nt get CFS3 to behave at any setting with my old 128MB FX5600, I've only really enjoyed the sim since getting a GeForce 6 series, whatever your doing mate, it looks great!  8)


FWIW, I find the CFS3 AI bloody good, either that , or, I'm crap.....  :-[

[AvHistory]

Actually the AI in CFS3 is quite good overall

[rkk01]

.... the bomber gunners can be Davie Crockett good if you don't tone them down.

Getting good (realistic) bomber gunners has been proven to be a very fine balancing act because of the underlying software but it can be done....

Does the forum have any exisitng posts / links on how to do this??

Cheers

PS - Re GFX cards - my CFS 3 runs pretty well on a 128mb GF4 Ti4600 card.................although a 256mb 6600 GT is on order

[rkk01]

OK I've just tried a few experiments in quick combat mode...

Set the enemy fighter as a single B17F, then choose a decent single seat fighter - I tried the 1% Bf106-G6 and Just Flight Spitfire Vc.

In both cases the B17 would out turn me, both in a horizontal and vertical fight!!!!!

The ai must be flying a skin, not a flight model with the same physics engine as the palyer aircraft!!

[AvHistory]

>>>Set the enemy fighter as a single B17F, then choose a decent single seat fighter - I tried the 1% Bf106-G6........The ai must be flying a skin, not a flight model with the same physics engine as the palyer aircraft!! <<<

This is an invalid test unless both planes flight models are from the same source and built to the same specs.

Just did your test & can run all over the 1% B-17G (we dont do a B-17F yet and can't speak to its flight dynamics) with the 1% Bf-109G6.

[Mathias]

Apart from that, you may want to choose "bomber intercept" as your mission type and not force the poor b-17 to perform fighter tactics by choosing "dogfight" in quick combat.

[rkk01]

Apart from that, you may want to choose "bomber intercept" as your mission type and not force the poor b-17 to perform fighter tactics by choosing "dogfight" in quick combat.

Dogfight was chosen deliberatley - to see how cfs3 asked each flight model to perform.

Cheers for the advice....I suspect I need to revisit my main cfs 3 settings page.

[AvHistory]

Dogfight was chosen deliberatley - to see how cfs3 asked each flight model to perform.

Point is it does not demonstrate anything other then the individual design of the planes flight models.