Originally Posted by
Kestrel
I see this has been mentioned before, but I have a few words to say as well.
A working radar would make intruder and intercept flights much more immersive in the Bf-110 and Beaufighter. I don't mean like a couple words on the screen telling you directions. I mean an actual radar scope in the radar operator's seat, using 'Lean to gunsight' to view the scope. It doesn't have to be super complicated, just a little radar scope with some controls and whatever other equipment the radar operator would have seen, in the same level of quality we have in the cockpits.
This would allow for another style of gameplay besides the classic dogfights, and I think there are plenty of players who would love to give night intercepts a try in CloD. Honestly, I don't see a whole lot of aircraft flying around online too often on the servers. Even when there are a lot of players online, I rarely see them actually coordinating strikes or using any other tactic than boom and zoom. Radar-equipped nightfighters would fit better historically with the typical lone-wolf sorties I usually see online. The player could either switch between the cockpit and the scope to locate bogeys, or in multiplayer, another player could be the radar operator and guide him to the target. This could encourage a lot more teamwork than the 'every-man-for-himself' style flying we see too often. It doesn't have to stop at bomber intercepts either. We could have multiplayer intruder missions, in which Beaus and 110s stalk each other in the night sky! It wouldn't just change the game for 110s and Beaus; radar-equipped planes could be a valuable resource to their whole teams by directing friendly single-engine fighters to the enemy, while also making themselves a priority target! Even in singleplayer, I can see a lot of potential for new missions and campaigns that could be made. If radar was fully implemented, night fighting would open up a whole new style of gameplay, that all the other sims lack!
The rear seater's position is already modeled in the Beau. Let's give the back seater a purpose!