Top Gun AI - The Official Tournament Thread

[colmo]

Yes it does, my fighter has been reoptimized. Faster, with both heat seeking and anti radar countermeasures, along with a radome. State of the art fighter.

I saw a WIP radar nosecone for fighters. Is that in the update? It looked very nice.

The AWACs dish is fascinating, how to use that in full AI scenarios...?

[Alphasus]

Yes, my fighter uses a radar nose instead of REDACTED in the nose before.

[RocketTurtle]

The problem is that the new update doesn't have working AI. We might need to use the old version for this.

[dangerouspeople1]

The problem is that the new update doesn't have working AI. We might need to use the old version for this.

Yeah... My plane don't want to use the gun...and flares and chaff....so it is basically dead.

[Guest]

The satisfaction of a correct analysis and hypothesis

Thanky you! I will use my awesome skillz to keep betting ...

Budgie vs. Hobgoblin -> Hobgoblin

XMF vs. Airframe -> XMF

XMF vs. Hobgoblin -> XMF, very close

The problem is that the new update doesn't have working AI. We might need to use the old version for this.

I guess the current tournament has to be finished with the old version, but until the next one BD should have released an AI fixing update (he said he´ll do so soon).

[RocketTurtle]

Thanky you! I will use my awesome skillz to keep betting ...

Budgie vs. Hobgoblin -> Hobgoblin

XMF vs. Airframe -> XMF

XMF vs. Hobgoblin -> XMF, very close

I guess the current tournament has to be finished with the old version, but until the next one BD should have released an AI fixing update (he said he´ll do so soon).

Hopefully.

Also, if the Hobgoblin wins, it fights my Blizzard.

We have a sort of rivalry. We did some unofficial matches and he won the first, I fixed up my plane, won the second... and this will be the tie breaker

Unfortunately I submitted my older version of the Blizzard, and not the Blizzard II, so lol

[Alphasus]

FIXED: The AI now uses the legacy systems right.

[RocketTurtle]

This tournament is taking a really long time...

The last one took an afternoon...

[PixelStory]

Sorry This is my first time doing something like this.

[dangerouspeople1]

I want to ask if my plane got shot with a missile and my enemy got shot too but we are both flying somehow, then who is the winner/loser? Or will it be a tie?

Also, if my weapon manager is gone, will I be counted as the loser?

[Alphasus]

I think that w/o a weapon manager, you are dead. If you both have a weapons manager but can't shoot, whoever crashes first loses.

[PixelStory]

I will try to do as many rounds as I can today but I might not be able to use music because I don't want to repeat and it takes a while to find music.

[PixelStory]

Round 5 : https://youtu.be/wUmNbUqDd14

[Guest]

Nice tactic from the budgie there (flying so high enemy planes don´t get air anymore ), just sad it didn´t really work. Is the Budgie an SSTO? ´Cause I saw RAPIERs there.

But one question: In the video I saw 2 wins for the Hobgoblin (battle 1 and 3) and one draw (battle 2). So how can the budgie (according to the challonge bracket) have won 5-1?

[PixelStory]

Sorry. It has been fixed.

[Zixor]

Nice tactic from the budgie there (flying so high enemy planes don´t get air anymore )...

I noticed that during some test matches I ran between myAirframe 88-92 vs. Budgie.

During one match, one Budgie zoomed up to 8000m and began circling and leftthe one remaining damaged 88-92 in its dust. The 88-92 went into a verticalchase limping on its one remaining engine and blasting both GAUs straight up.After some sustained fire, Budgie bits came raining down from heaven. It wasbeautiful.

[Guest]

The satisfaction of a correct analysis and hypothesis grows

[Alphasus]

Any predictions on the losing bracket?

[Slam_Jones]

I'm predicting that my Falcon won't do too hot against the Budgie... 4 (Correction: 2) engines vs 1 seems a little one-sided.

But I guess I can make a full prediction...

Round F: XMF vs Air-Fram (XMF moves on to H, Air-Fram goes to N)

Round G: Blizzard vs Hobgoblin (Blizz moves to H, Hobgoblin moves to O)

Round K: Budgie vs Falcon (Budgie move to L, Falcon is ELIMINATED)

Round L: Budgie vs Subat (Budgie moves to N, Subat is ELIMINATED)

Round M: Peregrine vs Fighter Pod (Peregrine moves to O, Fighter Pod is ELIMINATED)

Round N: Budgie vs Air-Fram (Budgie moves to P, Air-Fram is ELIMINATED)

Round O: Hobgoblin vs Peregrine (Hobgoblin move to P, Peregrine is ELIMINATED) [Only about 50% sure on this one]

Round H: XMF vs Blizzard (XMF moves to I, Blizzard moves to Q)

Round P: Hobgoblin vs Budgie (Hobgoblin moves to Q, Budgie is ELIMINATED)

Round Q: Blizzard vs Hobgoblin (Blizzard moves to I, Hobgoblin is ELIMINATED)

Round I: XMF vs Blizzard (XMF WINS TOURNAMENT, Blizzard places SECOND)

Edited August 11, 2015 by Slam_Jones

[colmo]

Round 5 : https://youtu.be/wUmNbUqDd14

I loved this one. I've never seen them collide...from behind. The Hobgoblin must have serious TWR to chase down the Budgie like that (have I got them the right way round? I think videos need a little intro to let people know what plane is what and by whom.)

It was also a useful test of whether high altitude was a cheaty exploit.

It assuredly was not.

[Slam_Jones]

I loved this one. I've never seen them collide...from behind. The Hobgoblin must have serious TWR to chase down the Budgie like that (have I got them the right way round? I think videos need a little intro to let people know what plane is what and by whom.)

It was also a useful test of whether high altitude was a cheaty exploit.

It assuredly was not.

The Budgie is the longer, flatter one, and the Hobgoblin has the thinner wings with 3 missiles at the end of each. I believe the Budgie is shown first.

But I agree, a brief window popping up with the name and creator when showing each jet for the first time would not be uncalled for.

Edited August 10, 2015 by Slam_Jones

[Alphasus]

I think that engine clipping isn't allowed. The budgie should have its other 2 engines removed for fairness sake.

[PixelStory]

The R.AI.P.I.E.R.s' were disabled during the matches.

[colmo]

The R.AI.P.I.E.R.s' were disabled during the matches.

Little wonder it was outpaced. It was lugging 4 tonnes.

[FlipNascar]

Er chaps, should you not have told me before you disabled two of the engines...

I get it, the rules are evolving. But I didn't realise that you were going to kill half of it. No wonder it did so facking badly, it was missing half its power. The point of that airframe was too much power.

Edit: You'll find that if you had just reset the offset off the turbojets, all four engines would have functioned. The RAPIERS have rear attachment nodes, so its only offsetting. RAPIERS still work with stuff on the back.

Edited August 11, 2015 by FlipNascar