Stukas Still Frustrating Me

[BlitzPig_EL]

I wish that some of the tactics in that old training movie would actually work in the sim, but at the distances discussed for initial attack turn ins, the AI gunners will already be engaging you with accurate fire, and the aircraft being attacked will break formation and start taking violent evasive maneuvers.

[I./JG52_Woutwocampe]

To be honest, I tend to avoid engaging Stukas when flying my Yak 1 career. I go after the escort if I can. I also think it is weird that the game generates Stukas missions where they go deep into enemy territory to bomb strategic targets such as railway junctions. These should be given to He111s or Ju88s in my opinion. Happens often in BOS and BOK.

[MattS]

1 hour ago, BlitzPig_EL said:

I wish that some of the tactics in that old training movie would actually work in the sim, but at the distances discussed for initial attack turn ins, the AI gunners will already be engaging you with accurate fire, and the aircraft being attacked will break formation and start taking violent evasive maneuvers.

 

Man I could not sleep last night so jumped on for a quick QMB or three...against Ju-88s.

 

I think the think I hate the most about bombers is the ventral gun turret, and the way that the omniscient AI pilot tilts it toward the player all the time. Even when you make a good diving attack you've still got a good chance of being clanked by a stream of fire as you fly away by a guy who could not possibly react as fast and accurately as they do. 

 

Then the 8mm nose gunner of a Ju-88 set my P-47's engine ablaze with a short burst, from behind, while I was hosing down his buddy to limited effect, so I went back to bed.

 

I'm not looking to shoot clay pigeons necessarily, I just want to get rewarded with a little death and destruction (other than my own) when I make a good clean firing pass and hose down the bad guys with 6-8 heavy machine guns. There's no law that says the AI has to get his two cents in every damned time like they do.

 

I wonder sometimes what the AI programmers were thinking when they added these behaviors which serve not to make things feel more realistic but just to piss players off. "Now THAT is really annoying...add it!"

[Stoopy]

On 6/15/2020 at 8:56 AM, MattS said:

I wonder sometimes what the AI programmers were thinking when they added these behaviors which serve not to make things feel more realistic but just to piss players off. "Now THAT is really annoying...add it!"

 

Well, maybe this will help you get your revenge on those diabolical devs.   If you decide to download, you'll have 21 different ways to seek retribution.  ? 

 

 

Edited June 20, 2020 by =[TIA]=Stoopy

[MattS]

7 minutes ago, =[TIA]=Stoopy said:

 

Well, maybe this will help you get your revenge on those diabolical devs.   If you decide to download, you'll have 21 different ways to seek retribution.  ? 

 

 

 

YOU MADMAN. You put so much thought into whether you could, you never considered if you should. ?

 

J/k, thanks!