Wouldn't it be nice to have a small 'Battle' in SP?
It's kinda boring to fight against AIs all the time.
What if we could have a battle with other players online?
Scale
Well, it would be hard to have massive squadrons for a battle, but a small squadron which consists around 3~5 players for each sides wouldn't be too hard.
Missions
There would be several types of battle, for example, there would be an Aerial Dogfight, Tank battle, and Ship battles.
Mission objectives would be protect, intercepting, Deathmatch, Free for all, Capture point, assault, Dominate etc.
Each teams would have a squadron of vehicles and thier own bases.
AA guns would be controlled by AIs, other main vehicles would be mostly controlled by players.
Maps
There should be a new map for these battles since there aren't alot of land on current SP's default maps which limits the scale of the battle.
AI capabilities
AIs should be able to identify foe and friendly.
AI controlled AA turrets should be placed around places like airfields and attack incoming enemy vehicles with limited range.
Multiplayer
Multiplayer should have an option to turn off/on name tags for more realistic battles.
If the name tag was needed, it would be nice for the name tag to not be resized by distance and also display range too.
Other In game stuff which would be needed
Radar
It would be nice to have it on SP, because it is important for long range missions.
Maps
As mentioned before, we need better maps!!!
Mission type selector
It would be nice to have a option to select mission types such as an Deathmatch, Free for all, Capture point, assault, Dominate etc
Banning System
Banning people who are Trolling, such as exiting a ongoing battle, spamming in the chats, ramming, teamkilling etc
Chatting System
Communication is very important for missions so it would be nice to have a default chatting system and a voice chatting system too.
@rexzion lol, new laptop, soon.
@brians1209 yeah specially since you cant join mp cus you're playing on a fricking nintendo DS
@rexzion oh nice, but what I've been talking about here is still quite ridiculous.
i've also been working on the air combat aspect a bit
@brians1209 u idoit we literally have mp tanks rn
@rexzion yeah I've realised how stupid this was
smh brines
For a battle, what about personal servers/rooms like on discord? Maybe 10 people max per room (5 a side for lag reasons) and that way you could add passwords so you can control who is able to join, minimising risk of trolls?
Plus we definitely need some in game AA flak batteries, for funs sake :)
@TanksWorldwide Radars were also used in WW2
@rexrexThezion the cleaver works because of the blast radius
@brians1209 I tried doing a friendly fly in as a event, completely ruined by trolls or by amount of lag
@POTETOZ Kinda makes me happy I’ve been too busy to be in MP lately, surviving the onslaught of the trolls.
@brians1209 Airshows would be tricky due to the lack of MP coordination, but friendly races are a common and fun way to enjoy MP.
@BagelPlane Well, then maybe (at least) something like an official SP community airshow would be possible. Or just anything else that the community can enjoy together.
Not gonna work, sorry. Weapons other than missiles and bombs don’t work. Bombs are a guaranteed kill when hit, but the old “bomb cannons” are high in complexity and part count. Plus, with the new update, anyone can make a “nuke” and wipe everyone out. Default missiles don’t work, they always detonate early. Air to Air cleavers, however, do have a higher chance of a kill. But too often the “stealth trick” is used, faking critical damage so that your aircraft cannot be targeted. And the deSync of the whole sever also makes it hard to fight properly too, and no one brings anything realistic to a fight.
Ugh
This is currently impossible with the current multiplayer mod. We need.... some official multiplayer thinggy to make this possible
There's already a battle going on.
Normal people vs Nuke assholes
@exosuit yeah if you're going even 200km/h a missile might still miss you, unless you use a cleaver of course
I believe there's a forum post explaining why pvp don't exactly work in multiplayer a while back
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Iirc it's related to the server lag or something
AI's only appear on your side, so if you spawn a big explodey on your end no one else will know that.
also guns, rockets, and cannons don't do crap in MP, you could probably strap a bomb to rockets to make them work but guns and cannons absolutely will not work
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but anyways cool idea, i have no idea when the MP mod is gonna be updated. so this cannot work at this time, pretty sad.