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#3156965 - 12/14/10 06:08 PM My jaw dropped  
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Haven't owned RoF for that long but I've been putting in some time on it...anyway after I forced landed I watched the AI fight it out...I do this quiet abit...anyway a plane (SE5a if I remember) was taking a fair few hits from close up and dropped into a spin...I followed it down and down and down and thought to myself well thats him finished and waited for the pyrotechniques when he hit the floor...then to my absolute shock just at the last moment he pulled out and with wheels barely touching the floor flew back off into the scrap.....I couldn't believe the AI had pulled off an old WW1 trick of spinning out to make the enemy believe they were fatally hit....

I'm not sure if this is something that the AI can do or it was pure coincidence but I don't care as it happened.

This brief episode is something that will stay with me as an all time classic gaming moment...even though I was a spectator....

Roll of RoF...I hope they start to concentrate more on content and leave the graphics as they are more than good enough now....need more AI planes at least...and the career....oh and more battlefield animations\units...

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#3157009 - 12/14/10 07:02 PM Re: My jaw dropped [Re: Wodin]  
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According to the Devs, the AI uses the same FM/DM as human players, and the AI can stall/spin etc. So the AI could have actually stalled and gone into a spin.

+1 on the jaw drop IF the AI is using the self induced stall/spin trick.


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#3157016 - 12/14/10 07:12 PM Re: My jaw dropped [Re: Wodin]  
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I've had the AI turn after and fight me even though I've shot their engine out, so they definitely ARE sneaky!

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#3157039 - 12/14/10 07:38 PM Re: My jaw dropped [Re: Dunkers]  
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Originally Posted By: Dunkers
I've had the AI turn after and fight me even though I've shot their engine out, so they definitely ARE sneaky!


And those rear gunners never give up even when their plane is spiraling down in flames they still want to get that last bullet into your forehead if they can... biggrin


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#3157146 - 12/14/10 09:39 PM Re: My jaw dropped [Re: Wodin]  
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......and I've seen the AI turn and run when damaged rather than stay and fight it out. You don't see that in many sims

#3157153 - 12/14/10 09:48 PM Re: My jaw dropped [Re: Wodin]  
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#3157208 - 12/14/10 11:12 PM Re: My jaw dropped [Re: Brigstock]  
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Originally Posted By: Brigstock
......and I've seen the AI turn and run when damaged rather than stay and fight it out. You don't see that in many sims


Had Manfred turn and run...chicken....

#3157258 - 12/15/10 12:20 AM Re: My jaw dropped [Re: Wodin]  
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One of my 'gee whiz' moments was in (as I recall) a scripted Nieuport 11 mission. I was making passes on a convoy, shooting the trucks up as I could with my popgun, when I saw a truck go up in an explosion. Seemed a flight of SE-5s had decided to join the party! Like avenging angels they dropped out of the sky and bombed the convoy into bits while I watched. I withdrew to check on some pesky Albatri off in the distance, and the SE-5s reformed and headed off elsewhere.

OK, it was a little out of place historical timeline-wise, but it was a nifty surprise thumbsup

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#3157486 - 12/15/10 01:27 PM Re: My jaw dropped [Re: Wodin]  
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Would be nice if the AI turned and fled more often, more historically correct.

In another WWI sim, sometimes when outnumbered a single AI will land in a field, wait a spell, then take off after you've presumably left the area. An old German trick, or so I've read duck

That SE5 you saw spinning in, I bet he was lashing his stick and pedals back and forth cursing the RoF developers for the recovery technique... neaner


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#3157515 - 12/15/10 02:22 PM Re: My jaw dropped [Re: Wodin]  
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Wodin, the event was what you thought it was. I've seen this behavior on the A.I. S.E.5a before and the Camel. It may be possible on other a/c but I have not observed it.


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#3157750 - 12/15/10 06:53 PM Re: My jaw dropped [Re: Wodin]  
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^^excellent...I thought and hoped it was what I thought...he was spinning several thousand feet I reckon and it seemed to much of a coincidence that he pulled out JUST in time if it wasn't controlled.....amazing...it was an SE5a aswell.


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