Career mode. AI despawning

[justin_z3r0]

Had a strange career mission. 

Normandy - Aug 2 1944. 412 sqn. difficulty = hard

tasked with intercepting incoming attackers.

we find the FW190s easily and attack. before you know it - BF109 enter too. But.. P38s as well. So I'm thinking - OK we can handle this. intense dogfight all over at 1000-2500 ft.

I get hit but still flyable so try to help squadmates anyways. I get hit some more.

skies still seem full of aircraft so continue to try to fight. but then I dont see any p38s anymore... strange. mustve all been shot down.

then I am hit again. this time having to bail.

as I float down I SHIFT + f2 and CTRL + f2 around to see what going on. only 3 very damged spitfires left on the friendly side, and MANY 109s and 190 left. some damaged, some not.

I make it to ground and view after action report. No downed P38s though... strange.

 

Are aircraft being despawned more frequently / at shorter distances than before?

I cant believe we went form fairly even terms to completely outnumbered so quickly - without any American aircraft registered as going down. and none left in the air.

 

The entire mission was ~ 9 min from takeoff to bailing out

[SIA_Mal]

My sorties after BON goes like that. Take off and move AOE. Check enemy numbers, 9 vs 9. Good numbers. 10 seconds later, 7 vs me, running like hell to base.

And that's a good sortie, usually its a 7 vs someone not me.

Most of the time my plane is uncontrollable after first hit.

 

I see the despawning but only after they are really far away form the AOE.