AI combat performance

[FTC_Zero]

Is it just me or was the AI better in dogfight in the past? Or is it because of the damage model changes? I run out of ammo all the time because must kill squadrons after squadron singel-handetly. My memories do tell me that they got things done before.

[PatrickAWlson]

I am getting very mixed results with the FC AI.  See thread about good and bad in this section.  Flying an Albatros I had a fight with some SE5as.  They did a good job of using their performance advantage to keep out of comfortable range.  Fighting SPADs, they circle and sometimes scissor.  The SPAD is not great in a sustained turn and has a poor roll rate, so the AI is doing exactly the wrong things.  I can generally point my guns right into the SPADs cockpit from 20 meters because they have bled all of their energy yet insist on turning and rolling.

 

I think it's the same across the board.  The AI will always fly turn first fighters better.  When it comes to energy fighters there are some that the AI seems to do reasonably well in and others that it flies very badly.  I suspect that a review of AI parameters has not happened recently, and we have this mixed bag of not too bad and outright awful.