Fighters pull to the side when flying at their target

[GoogleFrog]

This is fine for Swift and Raptor, but for Magpie (technically not a bomber) it causes it to have a cleaner escape when approaching from one side over the other. This feels like ancient engine behaviour to me, but it may be a gadget or something configurable. In any case, a way to disable it for Magpie would be ideal.

[QrowZK]

Looking at a potential root cause being the fighter pull-up gadget, but more investigation is needed.

[QrowZK]

So, this issue is actually a little less obvious than I thought it was.

Ordinarily I would expect this behaviour due to opting into the gadget via

customParams.fighter_pullup_dist

(apparently only swift and raptor are currently using this, as far as I checked)

However, since Magpie doesn't opt into the pullaround gadget, I'm actually more likely thinking that it results as some sort of combination between the engine's inherent fixed wing attack behavior and also the large Magpie turn radius.

Examining strafeAirMoveType.cpp, I would assume that this is the thing causing the behaviour on first glance:

if (goalDist < attackSafetyDistance) { UpdateFlying(wantedHeight, 1.0f); return;

So, if this is just intended engine behaviour, we will just need to specifically tweak Magpie behaviour rather than turning something "off" or opting out in the general sense.

edit: does github code block not preserve line formatting? thats annoying.