I think I would rather see recon pods or even recon variants of existing aircraft (like the Tornado GR1A) that could still be used conventionally, but with an added functionality rather than aircraft even more useless that Strat bombers already are.
There are also ECM aircraft like the F-18G which would be of a similar kind of role, but a lot more useful.
But first things first, would be to see Gaijin fully add more Strat bombers and then add new mechanics like sensor fusion which would be needed to at least make AWAC style aircraft half useful.
Maybe in the future, but for now, just seems like its better suited for AI
Yeah even if solely AI if it did something to help your team and had an incentive to protect at least a little would make the game more immersive. Just like nuclear thunder somewhat tried to do, but ruined itself with cheating spaa
Maybe have it so you can track one aircraft at a time, which provides a marker for your team (like blind hunt would) but also information like speed, rate of climb, and a heading relative to the other players position?
If the player you’re tracking dies, you get an assist. If you’re tracking the aircraft and it crashes you get a kill or something idk
I feel like sometimes people make the most random suggestions.
AWACS planes beside AI controlled wont bring any engaging gameplay loop. They will be wholy passive. Spading them would take years through assist only. Highly team dependent.
Theres million and one problems about their playable implementation, and it seems they didnt occur to some people, at all.
Warthunders enviroment and gameflow would need to change drastically before playable AWACS would become viable suggestion.
The most important thing is that the maps should be 400 km by 400 km :) , Datalink for the whole team, sensor fusion among players on the same team, There’s still a lot missing
Im not saying im opposed, im saying there would first need to be multiple different game related suggestions before AWACS plane can be suggested themselves.
