Squad formations.

[ty1101]

I was watching a movie about some aircrafts and saw in a squadron that they all had a formation in the way they flew.
I was thinking that we add another tab to the squadron window that allows the leader to choose between various formations for his/her squadron to fly in. They can, of coarse, choose to fly out of the formation by using the arrow keys.

 

[MrDarkman]

So you suggest squad would follow it's leader without player need to control own ship...
What then if squad leader forgots ds route or minefield location and thats why some1 gets killed, if that person is not in controls

or what if you could not break away from formation/ jam on it because of bugs...

Not so good idea. And this belongs to suggestions section, not in feedback.

 

[livingdead1318]

ive seen this done on another game i went to this system works very well
am all for this here it would make things ezyer for noobs it would aslo make a difference in cqs
am all for it ^^

livingdead1318

 

[godman]

I think it should be when you target squad leader u go in to position

 

[ty1101]

I think it should be when you target squad leader u go in to position

Yes, I forgot to mention that. Thank you.

 

[ty1101]

So you suggest squad would follow it's leader without player need to control own ship...
What then if squad leader forgots ds route or minefield location and thats why some1 gets killed, if that person is not in controls

or what if you could not break away from formation/ jam on it because of bugs...

Not so good idea. And this belongs to suggestions section, not in feedback.

Actually, i suggest that squads go into formations, on thier own accord, to protect something or for easier targeting. Do you Have to look so deep for negatives?

P.S. They changed the forum order from when i last visited and i couldn't find suggestions.

 

[FalconWar]

about targetting leader to enter formation, then it's maybe not the best, think about engies when they whant to heal their squard leader, but not join the formation

But a used buttom for formations in a old game i played long time ago was F2 and then just a random buttom to get out again, (in the old game was it the moving bottom or booster bottom)

 

[WRAITH1]

i wonder sometimes if they are intersted in ideas in general and/or this specific idea since was mentioned in after beta idea pool also.
idea then was to fly a sq as one ship to b more eficient in the fights tht existed then in cq.sq leader would fly whole formation (and also b able to use regular equipment besides ab the whole sq .lol) others would concentrate on other tasks like healing tareting etc, and joining/leaving was at control of each player

imo its a good idea (all xtra options are good imo tht dont reduce the game function as was) if its doable or too much work to pay for itself is another matter

nowadays i wouldnt give it such a high priority anyways cause game lacks many other more important elements like minigames,etc.