I really like WO P, beats practice in Offline as Drones at least attack. My question is, after seeing some of these posts(BUSTRS and CPT.T) can the drones and flight characteristics be "Smartened" up a bit, in a custom arena. To make it a bit more challenging and have a plane(player's plane) that will still behave like in MA. That would be great as MP arenas drones are just too OP for me . If its a NO CAN DO, I can live with it, just wondering if its even a possibility
Play around with these arena settings to tweak your AI:
AI will randomly assign difficulty levels between these values when spawned. Wider range, more variability in the AI level between spawns.
// I think of this as adding weight which effects turning/lift. So, 1.0 would be the normal aircrafts weight. 1.25 would be heavier than normal, making it hard to turn or even maintain alt if too heavy for lift.
DroneTurnAbilityMin=0.750000
DroneTurnAbilityMax=1.250000
// Max and Min G-load AI will pull
DroneGAbilityMax=7.000000
DroneGAbilityMin=5.000000
// How close to the edge of a stall can the AI maintain control. How ham-fisted are they.
DroneControlMax=1.000000
DroneControlMin=0.850000
// Fudge-factor for AI gunnery. How far angle-off-nose will it allow to shoot. Max 15 deg cone for :most difficulty. 0.0 the AI has to be lined up perfectly.
DroneGunnerConeDegMax=8.000000
DroneGunnerConeDegMin=0.000000
// For MP mode, how many will spawn at one time?
DroneCnt=1
// Max number of AI that will target an enemy at one time. So not every AI is all chasing one target.
DroneMaxToTarget=2
These are also now exposed in the Staged Mission Editor's Flight properties panel.
[edit] I may not have phrased well how these ranges work. Say G-load for instance:
// Max and Min G-load AI will pull
DroneGAbilityMax=7.000000
DroneGAbilityMin=5.000000
When the AI spawns, it will randomly pick a number between 5.0 and 7.0 and that number (say 6.2g) would be it's max G-load ability.
***Note: Bustr had a post somewhere I think on how to set up a custom arena to work like the MP AI spawn arena. You could then use these settings to tweak difficulty. I've not done that. I've always used staged missions.
https://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,396737.0.htmlLooks like you could create a custom arena with the MP map and ".sgt 3" and twiddle your settings?