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FA-11 Multirole Fighter

5,586 JonTKocz  4.9 years ago

Aggressor for OP Challenge

Yes it's a Hornet with fancy guns

Thoughts (To be added to)

-This plane would not have won the challenge, and nor was it intended to. It was built entirely for the AI to use. Simple, all weapons available to the AI and super agile. That was it. It's hard to control manually and nearly impossible to aim the guns by the player.

-I used some modified gun pods that were already in use on my SF-38 (Voltron Livery) fighter. The guns are supposed to be plasma cannons with high accuracy and concentrated damage. I made some missile pods and focused my efforts on that.

-This challenge relied on guns so much more than I thought! The most kick butt planes had fantastic guns, creating impenetrable walls of death that when pointed at this plane just obliterated it every single time. To play around with the idea at one point I added a pair of wing guns on the wings, and scaled up the bullets and increased the firing rate and the battle then turned into a turnfight most of the time.

-Almost every fight you guys won was a gun run in the sub 2 mile range except for one guy, who's Mig-like fighter had some pretty whack missiles that were able to defeat me every time in close range at all angles (https://www.simpleplanes.com/a/Ef8HEq/Op-plane). Every time a close quarters fight was won by you guys this plane flew in to the AI's gun range and beaned itself

-The spammy ness and the intesity and crazyness of the gun systems was super fun to watch.

-I really appreciate the participation, and I'm sorry I can't spotlight! I didn't know I needed more followers than the spotlightee...

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General Characteristics

  • Created On Windows
  • Wingspan 38.1ft (11.6m)
  • Length 48.1ft (14.7m)
  • Height 10.3ft (3.2m)
  • Empty Weight N/A
  • Loaded Weight 8,007lbs (3,632kg)

Performance

  • Power/Weight Ratio 8.419
  • Wing Loading 5.1lbs/ft2 (24.9kg/m2)
  • Wing Area 1,572.8ft2 (146.1m2)
  • Drag Points 4026

Parts

  • Number of Parts 221
  • Control Surfaces 8
  • Performance Cost 3,848
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    5,586 JonTKocz

    @SnoWFLakE0s that's really neat!

    4.9 years ago
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    66.6k SnoWFLakE0s

    @AWESOMENESS360 like this

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    @JonTKocz oh yeah, there's tons of creations I've seen that are immune to missiles by using XML Modded guns that create a shield of bullets around the aircraft, it's pretty cool, almost like a plasma shield or something, lol.

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    Simple planes: plane made for player control: AI can't fly it. Plane made for AI control: player can't fly it. Simple planes: I SEE THIS AS AN ABSOLUTE WIN!

    +2 4.9 years ago
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    5,586 JonTKocz

    @AWESOMENESS360 also using a scaled bullet as a shield was never something that occured to me

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    5,586 JonTKocz

    @AWESOMENESS360 you'll see XD. but i agree it's not that good, but it was designed for AI use

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    5,586 JonTKocz

    @AWESOMENESS360 fly it

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    @JonTKocz this is a pretty good fighter, but not that good. Further proof that the AI in this game is stupid, I hopped into my XF-360 HellRaiser IV, and went up against this myself. While the XF-360 HellRaiser IV played by an AI was defeated at times, when played by a player, I completely obliterated this thing, every. Single. Time. Yeah, AI is weird. Also one question, why are there 108 Cleavers on this thing?

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