AI ME-262 does not fire at bombers

[fjacobsen]

Both with the QMB and custom made missions, I cannot get the ME-262 to attack Bomber formations.

Only once in a while they do shoot, but most of the time they simply buzz close past the Bombers, but do not shoot.

 

Also they never fire the R4M Rockets.

[Thad]

What do you have as their AI route settings?

 

Try setting it on LOW. 

[fjacobsen]

41 minutes ago, Thad said:

What do you have as their AI route settings?

 

Try setting it on LOW. 

 

Do You mean the priority setting ?

 

Problem is not that they don´t attack, they just don´t shoot.

Edited October 10, 2019 by fjacobsen

[Thad]

In your mission routing... one can assign a priority to the current route. If you set it to HIGH the craft will fly to the next waypoint and ignore anything else in the route. If it is set to Medium the craft may or may not engage enemy craft while on that part of the route. If set to LOW the will engage any enemy craft encountered in range.

Ensure that the aircraft actually are armed. If they are not firing during a obvious attack and are armed then that may be a bug.

 

Is this the case with all types of bomber craft?

Edited October 10, 2019 by Thad

[LukeFF]

1 hour ago, fjacobsen said:

Also they never fire the R4M Rockets.

 

The AI isn't programmed to fire rockets at planes yet.

[fjacobsen]

In my custom mission I have tried with various AI skill level and waypoint priority, but the AI Me-262 is still doing a lousy job attacking.

In 5 tries I have only seen it shoot once, but without hitting. Otherwise it just set's up an attack but simply buzz past the bomber without shooting

[Lusekofte]

15 hours ago, LukeFF said:

 

The AI isn't programmed to fire rockets at planes yet.

This is not sarcasm. 

I appreciate your knowledge and willingness to share it. I find your posts very informative. 

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[[RBRI]Khaela]

I think it has to do with the relative speed to their targets. 
I did a flight in the U2 a while back and had several 109s on my tail. But most of the time they just did attack runs against me without firing a single shot.

Which can be seen here in a few places towards the end of the video (17:17 is a good example)

Spoiler

 

 

[Jason_Williams]

Guys,

 

We're aware of this issue and we'll solve it as soon as we can. It is an issue with AI logic and closing speeds. Maybe speed up your bombers so the closing differentials are smaller. ? 

 

Jason

[Sybreed]

9 minutes ago, Jason_Williams said:

Guys,

 

We're aware of this issue and we'll solve it as soon as we can. It is an issue with AI logic and closing speeds. Maybe speed up your bombers so the closing differentials are smaller. ? 

 

Jason

 

But isn't the AI programmed to go super slow so they keep formations better? There's already a thread about this in the "complaints" section. Flights don't respect their expected speeds. Formations supposed to go at 450km/h when you look at the flightpath will go at 300km/h.

[fjacobsen]

1 hour ago, Jason_Williams said:

Guys,

 

We're aware of this issue and we'll solve it as soon as we can. It is an issue with AI logic and closing speeds. Maybe speed up your bombers so the closing differentials are smaller. ? 

 

Jason

 

Thx Jason for the heads up.

 

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