I’ve been playing war thunder and I realized that the graphics of the jet are reasonably realistic but its missing a very important thing which is the nav and anti-colission lights that could make the game look much better, especially at nights.
When are the lights going to be added?
because in heavily contested warzone, you don’t want be sighted by those lights, and they would most probably be off.
by reglementations, those are visible from at least 1 Nautical Mile at day and 3 Nautical Miles at night.
1 NM= 1.850km
3 NM = 5.556 km
imagine now that you’ve been pulling at night time, a sneak attack with radar off at low altitude, but the in-game Anti-collision lights makes you visible at 5km from your target
→ i’m sure you’ll be pleased to know that your ennemies starts raining some AIM-9’s at you.
(or in GRB conditions - some SAM)
The low intensity lights , often referred to as ‘Slime Strips’ are an order of magnitude dimmer than navigation lights and anti collison beacons.
Yeah, they would be nice to see in-game however.
To be fair, I want them to add it anyways
If you want to be a “shoot here!” sign, it’s your choice
But any sort of exterior light would be great for screenshots (Nav, anti collision or formation lights)
if you read the rest of it, they would be “on” only when in formation with someone else.
for similar reasons i given ealier.
the problem is not that they exist or not,…
the problem is that WT is considering a combat situation, not a training exercise ^^
Exist yes. But they are turned off in combat. WT is a combat game.
There is SOOOOoooooo many other things they need to fix before minor cosmetic enhancements like formation lights.
You could say same for wingtip smoke
What practical use does wingtip smoke have in combat situation?
None and yet, it is still in game
well, i agree on that one.
but all i fear is that Gaijin adds lights with no options to switch them off.
I would personally treat lights like the wingtip smoke
Basically, enhanced eye candy (IMO)
I feel this would be a nice touch but only if you can toggle them. Otherwise you’d make a target out of yourself. Furthermore I believe aircraft should receive more functional nav tools and instruments, namely VOR/DMEs, ILSs and other landing and navigational tools for SIM mainly to experience real IFR flight elements ingame alongside everything else (it’ll also give people a way to land their aircraft in zero visibility conditions which sometimes can occur, your only reliable queue being the map).
In terms of functionality. They would add little to the game. But I dont think that should matter.
External lights for aircraft, Tanks and maybe even ships would be quite cool. Even purely for a cinematic/aesthetic reasons.
Heck, we can already open and close the cockpit, despite the fact it holds no meaningful functionality and we can already toggle the cockpit light which again. Doesnt really mean all that much given that night battles never happen for air.
So yeah, would be good for them to add some purely cosmetic mechanics on the side at some point
#GiveAutoLandingLightInNight/BadWeather
(a bit more drag, if anything ^^)
