Top Gun AI - The Official Tournament Thread

[Alphasus]

yes they do.

[dangerouspeople1]

That means I still have a chance! A slight chance. Yay for that

[Alphasus]

The chance isn't that small. You were dropped into a losers bracket halfway through.

[Slam_Jones]

A sad day for SlamTek as both jets lose their battles.

On the bright side, I added two mini-badges (one for running out of fuel, one for winning a battle) thanks to Kerdinand They're terribly difficult to read, but decorative nonetheless.

Also, I would not oppose giving guns a small gimbal range, as suggested before. Missing 100% of machine gun fire is a bit steep.

Edited August 18, 2015 by Slam_Jones

[Alphasus]

Machine guns have a trick to them. Super stable planes(FA-33,FA-27,F-9, Little Buster) that are great at turning can deploy guns very well against larger planes as the Heatwave discovered.

[dangerouspeople1]

Feellimg good that my heat wave discovered something😛

Just realized that if I want to win the tourney, I must a beat your GoldenHawk again...and a few other plane that are probably going to murder my plane like the GoldenHawk did. Now I hope the GoldenHawk wins the next match so that I have a better chance of getting into the final stage and can get the lieutenant badge. That's good enough for me

[Alphasus]

Well, discovered as in was destroyed, but yeah. If you want to win, you have to beat the goldenhawk first time.

[dangerouspeople1]

Hope that BD will fix the problem we have if we encounter again

[colmo]

I rather enjoyed the bout between my two planes - the 107 would have won if starting positions were more distant. It's not a true air superiority fighter, the 141 is, so no complaints!

[Alphasus]

Hope that BD will fix the problem we have if we encounter again

Which problem?

[Guest]

I've run some tests with vulcan turrets set to limited range (1 to 2 degrees in each axis). Cannon fire has become noticeably more effective; dogfights tend to last about 4 minutes or so until a wing or engine is shot off.

That's exactly how I was running my own tests, by giving the .50cal Turrets the absolute minimum of traverse to correct the fact the AI is incapable of leading it's shots properly.

Except for my Bomber of course, he actually uses the turrets as intended, to cover a defensive cone to the rear of the aircraft.

[Alphasus]

Will start recording the next batch of videos now.

[dangerouspeople1]

By problems I mean things like flares and chaffs are not effective, guns not aiming properly. Now that I think of it, it might even lower my chance of wining. Meh, who cares.

[Alphasus]

I will repeatedly insist that RNG and vector changes are needed for dodging missiles. Guns will aim properly when we use turrets with a gimbal limit.

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Also, GDJ, you have a 75% chance of making it into the finals!

[dangerouspeople1]

Oh, sorry, forgot about that.

[Alphasus]

Also, I just uploaded your losers bracket fight with the Typhoeus. Good news(for you or GDJ!)

EDIT: Wait 10 minutes for youtube to process it.

Edited August 19, 2015 by Alphasus

[dangerouspeople1]

Now I hope your GoldenHawk does win. But you did said that it won every 1 v 1, I guess it will win this time too. Now I should go and watch the video

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Probably not going to win the tourney, but pretty high chance of getting into the final stage.

[TokiTech]

Round 16 - Realized missile timing problem after the tourny started but amazingly didn't expect 3 rounds of same pattern would happen. That CF-86 is a miracle.

Round 19 - Looks like leaving max alt on default is a karma on first round. Lesson for everyone.

Congrats to the winners, i can't wait to watch the finales

[Alphasus]

I predict the final to be the F-9 and the GoldenHawk,with aa win for the GoldenHawk because it hasn't lost any matchups in the ongoing tournament. F-9 lost one against the little buster but won the other 2.

[dangerouspeople1]

Maybe we should do 2 v 2 in the next tourney, cause this time is 1 v 1. Also, I think next time we should change the set up of the match, just to see what will happen.

Also, am I in he final yet?

[Alphasus]

I only did 5 fights today. I may do more, so if you beat the ck232 you have a 50/50 chance of being in.

[Noname117]

I'm curious; on average, how long does the set up take, and how long does each fight usually take?

[Alphasus]

Setup is 2-5 minutes. Most fights I've seen are under 5 minutes.

[dangerouspeople1]

Now I should do some test with ck232 and heatwave, just to see what to expect.

[Alphasus]

Uploaded up to round 22. Now, it is in the playlist. By round 26 the group stage will be done.

Round 23 in the playlist.

Edited August 19, 2015 by Alphasus