Final exam for La-11 is awful

[Ercha]

The final exam for the La-11 is absolutely awful. 

The player and several AI friendlies are tasked with going to a combat area and patrolling it then shooting down 6 enemies. 

There are two primary issues which make this exam dreadful after my 5 attempts. 

1. First of all, most of the time the AI does nothing, if one is lucky they shoot down 1-2 enemy aircraft before running out of ammo. This means that you essentially need to shoot down 4 mustangs with only 75 rounds per gun in the 23mm. I managed to shoot down 4 enemies on my best attempt while the AI only managed 1 before they all ran out of ammo! this is complete RNG rubbish and I would expect better. 

2. The flight back is obnoxiously long. After arriving in the combat area you need to fly through several checkpoints just to get to the fight again. On 8 times speed this is extremely tedious. 

I've attached a screenshot of my latest attempt which failed 

[Adamfp3]

I agree, this feels impossible without the AI being more effective in a dogfight

[Mainstay]

Wait till the AI is getting much needed improvements. 

At this moment they are underperforming in logic on all fronts. 

[Husar]

Unfortunately, friendly AI can't shoot down enemy AI even when they're right on their six.

[Fampat]

Ya, this is realy a pain, iam currently trying to archive that, only way i managed to get the kills is by slowing down time in fight to get at least 5 kills on my own with the ammo i have. But even if you manage that, the are always 2 enemies left which hunt me down because all of my wingmen are already on their way home because after the emptying all their ammo in one rush-fire the head home lol

i would have appriciate it if the dev would have at least tested their own mission to see that its an absolte RNG related rare event to win this!
@devs if you cant make tha ai spare ammo, or keep engaged in the fight even without ammo untill ALL head home, make it so only 3 enemies are required to shoot down until you have capable ai!

[Voxman]

I tried this mission yesterday, as soon as I was out of ammo and my AI guys were either shot down or out of ammo, I ran and elusively orbited around the friendly AAA.  Used to do this trick on GB, but nothing happened. AAA were miserable in their accuracy. 

Edited August 30 by Voxman

[XallZall]

I had to redo this one multiple times too.
I recommend to just keep at it, autopilot, 8x speed, fast travel, try to do your best and just keep trying till it works.
This mission is just pure luck really. Needs optimization. 

[Limboski]

Yeah, it's pretty obvious the developers couldn't be bothered to have someone test the reasonableness of the final exam mission for the LA-11, and the mission exposes a lot of weaknesses with IL-2's AI in general.

As mentioned above, the wingmen blow their ammo loads quickly and you are lucky to get even one or two F-51 shot down before they automatically return to base.  I also adopted the strategy of flying low over the friendly AAA located in the city and it is completely ineffective....in flying over an hour and a half over the course of several missions, only one F-51 was shot down by a lucky shot from a heavy caliber K-51.  I'd have to look at the mission itself but my guess is that the gunner AI skill is probably set to rookie.  I also have a strong hunch that the devs also reduced the effectiveness of AAA in Korea because it was generally much more lethal in GB.

At the very least, please reduce the number of F-51s needed to be shot down from 6 to 3 which is a much more reasonable number--1 from your wingmen and 2 for yourself.

 

 

[LukeFF]

We have previously mentioned elsewhere already that this mission will be updated in the next update. 

[LukeFF]

Alright, let us know how it is now with 1.004. 🙂 

[Elf]

29.09.2026 в 19:29, LukeFF сказал:

Alright, let us know how it is now with 1.004. 🙂 

shooting down 6 Mustangs after 1.004 is still a challenge...

[Cyrul]

Yep, the AI wingmen reliably shoot down one F51, i've seen two at best, leaving you with 4-5 bandits to kill. Did this exam easily 15 times, best i ever managed was 4 air kills and i don't see me doing this again any time soon. Hardest mission in the game by far...

[Elf]

finally I managed to pass the exam of La-11 🤩

[NevA]

47 минут назад, Elf сказал:

finally I managed to pass the exam of La-11 🤩

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[Elf]

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раза с 5го ))