Flight leader AI commands

[Campus]

I have been playing mostly singleplayer so i depend on my AI mates to aid me in a fight. But most of the time the just circle in the air and follow me while i dogfight 5 enemy planes at the same time. I have tried to not to command them anything and decide on their own, i have tried to command them to attack the nearest air target, i have tried to order them to patrol for air enemies. But often none of these work at all and i cant get them help me in a fight. Not even cover me command or return to mission works.

They attack enemy aircraft when i am not a squad leader and when i am only in scenarios where they get targeted by the enemy aircraft.

I am really having a hard time playing it recently. If anyone know what the hell is going on with my mates.

[Gambit21]

Single Player is at it's best IMHO when the AI flight leader get's it's instructions from well-planned and implemented mission logic, and the player follows his commands.

 

[I./JG52_Woutwocampe]

Wow I wanted to start a similar topic yesterday. The AI really struggles when a fight happens away from the main objective.

 

Yesterday I was performing a ground troops cover in a Yak 9T. The 109's arrived when the mission was done and we were on our way back to land. As a flight leader I ordered my men to engage the enemy, and they did but only for a few seconds then they got back into formation trying to follow me and totally disregarded the 109's. Its like to order to fight was immediately replaced by a formation flight order. 

 

So something needs to be done about the behavior of the AI after the main objective is completed because they just cant fight, they immediately hard reset and wait for death. 

 

 

[grcurmudgeon]

1 hour ago, I./JG52_Woutwocampe said:

Yesterday I was performing a ground troops cover in a Yak 9T. The 109's arrived when the mission was done and we were on our way back to land.

This is one of the frustrating mission types in career mode - so many times you just circle for 5 or 10 minutes, then the action shows up after you leave and head home. Maybe realistic, but not fun.