Now it's time to think about Tailgunners

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We are getting ever closer to these, I am sure… how do you want them to work?

Options:

  • AI controlled no input from players, they just shoot and don’t do alot unless upgraded(?)
    Or
  • People can spawn in on your plane if in party, swap gun positions on bombers (one person only or we would need to increase players)
    Or
  • Player can chose positions, AI flies plane somehow

Last one is complicated. Be interested to know how WT does it.

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i think the best way to do it would be to have ai controll them. but you yourself can switch to one of the gunners (you only controll one at a time). and if you are controlling one of your gunners you would aim/shoot the gun with your mouse and steer the plane with WASD

i think that makes sense based of the squad system the game is based around.

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i honestly think this should be a feature for all squads in game. so that you can have multiple people in the same tank/squad/plane. would be sick

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This. Aka war thunder mechanic. Have it AI but let me switch to it sometimes

Same with tank machine gunners. Control them by AI but let me sometimes switch to them.

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ON PAPER. But then, everyone would want to be the gunner, except maybe when you’re playing with friends, and even then, once you find a good covering position with your tank the gunner would have fun, while the driver would sit and wait for minutes. Not to mention what would any additional crew member be even supposed to do.

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fully agree enlisted is not the game genre for it, as we are forced to get xp every battle, just imagine having to pilot a tank and play a 40 minute game without dying you and the commander do at the maximum 7000xp while the gunner gets 20000xp Yee fun :upside_down_face:

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You could give people the option, one person spawn into vehicles with you cap, so not to affect game and make it less boring…