Please fix career mode

[fogpipe]

Not all of us play online. The AI in career mode is either dumb as a post or ignores every other ai aircraft on the map to exclusively focus on the  human guided plane.

This is not the only problem career mode has, but its the one that is currently preventing me from buying more 1c products.

[Rudini]

True. AI is dump, shows no agressiveness and willing to survive.

 

Jasta 15 had in reallive some 7 KIA for 150 victories.

In career mode i get 7 KIA squadron mates in 3 missions....

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Second: please il2 team, use the existing skins for Flying Circus german planes already existing in Pat Wilsons Career Generator.

 

Flying in a mixed formation with Pfalz (grey), Albatros (wood), Fokker dr1 (yellowsomething) looks ugly as ?.

 

Jasta 7 in their cool all black airplanes, or Jasta 5? with green Tails looks more realistic and you get an idea of beeing in a unit.

They do not need to have fancy special aces insigmas, but at least stick to some kind of squadron color.

But remember, Pat Wilson got the aces in their special skin, too.

 

So just use them. He got it, so can you.

 

Thanks and best regards.

 

 

Edited April 4, 2023 by LukeFF
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[JG27_Steini]

1 hour ago, Rudini said:

True. AI is dump, shows no agressiveness and willing to survive.

 

Jasta 15 had in reallive some 7 KIA for 150 victories.

In career mode i get 7 KIA squadron mates in 3 missions....

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Second: please il2 team, use the existing skins for Flying Circus german planes already existing in Pat Wilsons Career Generator.

 

Flying in a mixed formation with Pfalz (grey), Albatros (wood), Fokker dr1 (yellowsomething) looks ugly as shit.

 

Jasta 7 in their cool all black airplanes, or Jasta 5? with green Tails looks more realistic and you get an idea of beeing in a unit.

They do not need to have fancy special aces insigmas, but at least stick to some kind of squadron color.

But remember, Pat Wilson got the aces in their special skin, too.

 

So just use them. He got it, so can you.

 

Thanks and best regards.

 

 

 

Makes me think of my first BoK experience with ace squadron JG52. Before release i bought several book in preperation for the new exceting career mode. 

 

What i got was complete random anonymus squadron with rookies, being totally annihilated every 3rd mission. 

 

Can tell how disapponted i was back then.

12 hours ago, fogpipe said:

Not all of us play online. The AI in career mode is either dumb as a post or ignores every other ai aircraft on the map to exclusively focus on the  human guided plane.

This is not the only problem career mode has, but its the one that is currently preventing me from buying more 1c products.

 

It is topic since a decade now. It has improved in small steps, but dont expect any major improvement here. The community had dealt with it and the team is heading for new project we dont know yet.

Edited April 4, 2023 by JG27_Steini

[RedeyeStorm]

Personally I would also like some improvements to the missions. In every mission there seems to be a enemy flight that is dedicated to hunt you down. Not necessary the player per se. But your flight. It often seems that AI flight targets you but that is not the case. If you AI wingmen are closer or higher the AI goes for them first. They seem to focus on the most dangerous plane first (don't know what determines that though).

 

That is not so bad when on a fighter mission but on ground attack it is terrible because it verry often results in not bombing anything.

 

I am especially disapointed in the missions for the mossie. Flying solo al the time, mostly at night simply is not fun for me. I don't know who thought it is fun to fly Free hunt missions in a Mossie solo and then meeting eight FW190's almost all the time. I have flown so many of them the missions have become repeatative and boring.

 

Had two terrible flights tonight so ranting a bit.

[MAJORgoonMADLOU]

7 minutes ago, RedeyeStorm said:

I am especially disapointed in the missions for the mossie. Flying solo al the time, mostly at night simply is not fun for me. I don't know who thought it is fun to fly Free hunt missions in a Mossie solo and then meeting eight FW190's almost all the time. I have flown so many of them the missions have become repeatative and boring.

 

+1.  The Mossie is a nice plane but Il2 needs to do something with the career missions.  Maybe someone will issue a nice scripted campaign soon?

[jeanba]

I am also disappointed by mossi careers

[RyanR]

Pat Wilson Campaign Generator is the way to go.

 

-Ryan

[TG-55Panthercules]

On 4/4/2023 at 5:03 AM, Rudini said:

Second: please il2 team, use the existing skins for Flying Circus german planes already existing in Pat Wilsons Career Generator.

 

Flying in a mixed formation with Pfalz (grey), Albatros (wood), Fokker dr1 (yellowsomething) looks ugly as ?.

 

Jasta 7 in their cool all black airplanes, or Jasta 5? with green Tails looks more realistic and you get an idea of beeing in a unit.

They do not need to have fancy special aces insigmas, but at least stick to some kind of squadron color.

But remember, Pat Wilson got the aces in their special skin, too.

 

I have started a project to incorporate appropriately marked squadron default skins into the new FC career mode.  So far, I have all the flyable French units done and tested, and several of the flyable American and German units as well.  I'll be plowing through the other flyable units and then the AI squadrons as well, over the next few weeks.  I hope to have a beta/WIP version ready to release within the next couple of weeks, before I leave on a trip, so people can be testing it while I'm away to make sure it's working as well as it seems to be in my testing so far.

 

Of course, it won't be nearly as elegant as what Pat has been able to do with skin assignments in his PWCG, but I think we'll be able to get the FC career mode at least up to par with the work I did on the RoF career mode years ago in terms of squadron default skins, with the added bonus of the tactical codes/decals for a little individual variation within the units.  So, stay tuned ...