[V8.5 Air Combat) Disengage Doesn't Disengage

[BlackObsidian]

Not sure how often most people will actually use it but the 'disengage' button that pops up when you close into attack range of a ufo doesn't actually work, it just starts air combat exactly the same as 'engage'.

[iamkyon]

I suspect that it hinges upon on who's the aggressor. For instance, I've never successfully disengaged from a dogfight with a Fighter class alien craft.

Edited December 21, 2011 by iamkyon

[BlackObsidian]

Yep you're right; disengage works with scouts but not fighters. It does makes sense for it to work like that but it would feel more natural if either:

- the button reflected your chances of disengaging, either by being greyed out when you have no hope of disengaging or somehow reflecting your chances, or;

- when air combat starts it reflects what you attempted, so if you try disengage then your fighters are being pursued not the other way around (which seems to be the case now regardless of whether you go for engage or disengage).

[iamkyon]

It seems that challenging the player's air superiority is not the number one priority for all Alien Fighters. A while later in the campaign (from mid-July onwards), more often than not they didn't bother my plane patrols after I withdrew from air combat.

[BlackObsidian]

That's odd as I was trying it in late July when I found the problem. Maybe it depends on what mission the fighter spawns with?