[XabaRus-1]

Me and my friends fly IL-2 online campaigns a lot and we fly with locked cockpits, no map icons and the AAA UI 1.1

We also have the mod that lets you look around at different planes after you have died or bailed out.

The other night one of us who had died was looking for the enemy planes and by looking at the map and matching it with the surroundings was able to match it with a grid reference and guide us onto the enemy.

It was quite cool, we had our on GCI. Given that he could still access the map and that there were NO ICONs there as a little bit of uncertainty but the result seemed quite realistic.

I wouldn't call this cheating as he could only get us to the general area not right on top of them.

The downside is for this someone has to die. I was wondering if a new playable slot could be created say control tower which someone could choose at the beginning and that person would be still able to have external views even though for active pilots teh cockpit is locked?

[Potenz]

+1 very usefull

Potenz

[Balker]

+ 1

[KG64_Cnopicilin]

+2

[RAF_Sharkzz]

Umm what mod that lets you look around when ya bailed or crashed ??
it sounds to me its only just the externals allowed, you have full real set you shouldnt be able to see anything, (which sux as its a real pain in the 6 when trying to taxi on lots of servers) as well as when ya get snotted in a coop set on full, you cant watch the show)
what mod ????? what modd ???? gimme gimmme gimmeeeee :lol:
Thanks

[XabaRus-1]

I got the externals after crash mod from a friend.

Anyway a GCI mod would be cool but I think having locked cockpits for players in aircraft and external views for control tower in the same online match would be very difficult. I just wanted to know if it would be possible.

[Kohler]

Very nice idea! +1

This would make online games more realistic.

[caldrail]

So a new 'aircraft' shaped like a control tower and a cockpit with 360 deg views that looks like a 40's control tower? Or a special camera view? Either might work with pro's and con's.

[XabaRus-1]

I'd say both. It would have to be something selectable in the aircraft list at the beginning of a mission and a special camera view so even with locked cockpits on the control tower could do a shift-F2 and ctrl-F2 and figure out roughly where stuff should be on the map and guide friendlies in to attack.

[Redwulf__32]

Was going to post a request for something similar to this but then I remembered to use the search function :wink:

In JV44, The Redwulf Squadron we regularly do this sort of thing using the possibility in Eagles Lair to have a dedicated Tower/Control frequency.

A tower type "plane" in a new slot (with a somewhat stunted FM ) with the "pilot" placed 3-4 meters above the ground would be great. Player/gamemaster would be able to select the tower before launching the mission (prob. best in coops). Enemy could of course strafe the base and take out the tower (and kill the controller) since it would also have a DM and a "pilot".

IMHO no need for the "Externals on" type of view, just simply a new slot = Control tower.

[patton521]

There is a mod called "Death only externals" which allows the player to view enemy and frendly aircraft once the player has bailed out or has died. I can't think of flying online without it. Heres the link to it on my filefront page http://www.filefront.com/14479407/DeadOnlyExternals.rar get quick before filefront deletes it for no good reason!