[V10 & V12] Air Combat Alien's go for 1st Aircraft

Have reproduced this reliably. During Air Combat, which ever aircraft you selected first from the Intercept screen is the aircraft the alien UFO(s) will target. Strategy becomes 1st selected aircraft becomes bait, 2nd (and 3rd if needed) become hunters.

I can confirm this. I didn't even think of it as a bug, just a point of strategy like you said.

Thanks for the reproduction steps - I'll try it this evening. If they work I'll mark the bug as repeatable.

this is likely part of "AI is missing/basic"

have you tried against multiple hostiles?

v10 has single ufo's going for slot 1 interceptor

3 ufo v 2 interceptor - 2 go for slot1, 1 goes for slot2

3 ufo v 3 interceptor - 1 ufo for each interceptor

Yeah, it may just be the simple AI, but we'll still list it because it's something that shouldn't be in the game at release..

Against single UFO's, the UFO always engages the 'top' aircraft in your list, which is the one you selected first, thus enabling you to know exactly which aircraft to use as bait when a combat starts.

I was able to successfully replicate, so I'm marking it as such.

The AI is in development. It will be improved during the development.

I could be wrong, but it appears that the AI learned this strategy from me. Suddenly it was not targeting just the first aircraft, it targeted each individual aircraft partway through the combat.

Edit: This was apparently a fluke, as repeated tests involve the enemy aircraft following only the first aircraft again.

Edit: I think I figured out what makes the difference. When I engage the combat (evidenced by the box popping up and giving the option to tail, engage, etc.) The enemy aircraft do not seem to all target one of mine. If I let the enemy initiate the combat, they all target my first aircraft.