Currently, surveillance planes serve no more purpose than just being a free target for the enemy to shoot down.
Why not add surveillance and reconnaissance abilities to them?
At least make them give an approximate location of enemy players like in realistic battles that AI planes highlight enemy players around them but since highlighting wouldn’t be so simulating, an indication of a proximate location of the enemy planes on the map would be cool and actually surveilling.
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Could do it like Finnish Pilots for Il2:GB “Enemy aircraft detected entering Gridsquare XY” for gridsquares where the survey plane is flying + surrounding grids (including corners).
No map markers, just a chat message.
Give it a cooldown of five minutes between spotting if it’s “too OP”.
Yeah that would be awesome.
Never played that mode but reading the title Im gonna say - add the Blackbird
It would have to be implemented in a way so it is still possible to do bombing but in general not a bad idea
Every once in a couple of minutes an AI plane spawns at around 3000 meters altitude in the middle of the map which is usually an early cold war jet like the CL-13 and flies around and the enemy team gets an objective to shoot down the surveillance plane on the grid which is currently flying in.