A few updates ago, the vehicle stat cards have been improved, which among other things made the stat card display the current secondary loadout of the aircraft. (See Image below)
This mechanic however is rather lacking when it comes to other players’ vehicles in air battles.
Instead of showing their currently selected loadout, it does one of two cases:
A) The player is using a vehicle that I own:
In this case the preview shows the loadout that I currently have selected for the plane, which the player is flying. (See image below)
B) The player is using a vehicle that I do not own:
The preview shows the standard/stock loadout of the plane. (See image below)
Therefore my suggestion is:
When in an air battle, the secondary loadout preview should show the actual current loadout of the teammate instead of my loadout or the stock loadout. This would bring useful quality of life to the game and make things like communication about bombing bases easier. (Especially since the little orange bomb/missile/gun-pod icon to the right of the plane icon in the leader board has been buggy for years, yet all the bug reports that I’ve seen have either been ignored or closed by a moderator with no explanation, but that’s a topic for another post…)
Finally one question remains:
Should the preview just show the teammates selected loadout like stated or should it show the actual currently available secondary weapons, meaning that if a teammate uses one of their missiles for example, this missile should now be greyed/crossed out from the preview?
The latter option would be even more useful, as it would give you live updates of your teammates situation regarding what ordonnance they have left, though it may also be a bit unrealistic, since that functionality probably does not exist in real life, apart from some very modern jets maybe.
- Yes
- No
- selected loadout regardless of used up ordonnance.
- selected loadout where used up ordonnance is greyed out/crossed out.
- I voted no!
