thinking about a possible new co-op mode where players in the same squad could share control of a single vehicle. It could work for different types of vehicles:
• Bombers: One player flies while others control turrets, navigation, or bombing systems.
• Multicrew jets: In aircraft like the Tornado, one player pilots, and another manages radar, weapons, or assists with navigation.
• Tanks: One player drives while others operate the turret, machine guns, or even help with repairs.
• Ships: One player commands the ship, while others control secondary guns, anti-air defenses, or manage damage control.
I know this might sound a bit unusual for War Thunder, but it could add a new level of teamwork and immersion, especially for players who like co-op experiences.
It won’t be added to WT officially sadly, seeing as it would be a bit hard for them to implement and it’s not an insanely necessary addition
Actually there would be multiple excuses. “Try out this new feature! Purchase XYZ to get access to it on the Dev!” And there would be a large influx of twin seater premiums, plus they would definitely require both players to own that premium for them to be able to use the coop feature
I will try to write a suggestion about it. Should be simple would need to cook up some graphics for it. Multi turreted tanks would allow you to bring more friends. This would be ideal for casual players or for bringing low tier players to top tier as they can play an T-90 in a way. Sort of a party mode.
It would have to be seperate from the regular mm. Im also not sure how that mm would do. You would need at least 2x players for a standard sized match. And these players would all need to be queued up in squads.
Look up the old “Planetside” (make sure its the 1st Planetside, not Planetside 2) and how their vehicles worked for some ideas. Every crew position required an actual player to operate, for example a TR Prowler needed a driver, main gunner and turret gunner, A VS Magrider used hull aiming so could be used by 1 player, but needed a second to operate the turret with it’s secondary gun, a liberator required a pilot, bombardier and tail gunner etc. and each position had a specific point to enter and exit from so you could not just switch positions in flight or while driving, no pilot teleporting into the tail gun or bomber position mid flight to operate a 3 person vehicle solo.
ya this is more of a dumb down version. You simply get 90% of the time a gunner player and a driver player in this idea. or on multi turreted tanks 2 gunner players and 1 driver player. You enter normal matches and if you suck as a team you suck if you don’t well that’s bad for the enemy team.
yeah, you wouldn’t need a lot of the Planetside features as it was fully combined arms, War Thunder doesn’t need to worry about different infantry armour classes fitting into the drivers seat or the gunner climbing into the backseat of a Harasser to repair it on the move with a nanite gun… or throwing AT mines out the back to blow up the tank that’s chasing it.
That’s why I bought up Planetside, it was on a FAR larger scale than WT, but even not including all the other aspects of the game, it was really fun operating the vehicles with your friends and squamates.
I figure if you are making a suggestion it might be something to point to show people do enjoy that kind of thing.
I understand, Planetside was one interesting game. Had lots of hardcore players. Not for me though.
Warthunder does not have that kind of player base. I just want to see warthunder YouTubers try to work together running one tank. That would make me happy.
