Squad System for MP

[marsh hull]

As title says! Adding a squad system that will change the color of squad members (Green perhaps? Bring back the good ole days of battlefield vibes please 🙂 ) would be great to see to better differentiate your buddies vs other players / especially AI. A cool bonus as well would be a always diplayed list with maybe an arrow pointing towards said squad member, along with distance, altitude, and aircraft name.

[marsh hemlock]

Would be helpful for squadrons

[cerulean laurel]

setting my HUD to W for Wumbo

[normal cairn]

green is already reserved for locked targets
it'd either need to be cyan (ugly) or yellow/orange (still present in the game but quite uncommon)

[remote hawk]

I think this is very urgently needed. Specifically with some sort of system to tell when someone near you in your squad is being locked on. Vehicles like the Medusa seem to be built partially to help with escorting other aircraft, but it is hard to do this when your not really alerted too much to a missile being fired at the craft you are escorting.

[normal cairn]

would be nice if there was a way to form squads mid match
or perhaps even automatic squad formation,though i doubt people would care about their squad that way

[fresh harbor]

A nice to have squad feature would be some kind of utility to synchronize attacks, i.e. something that tells you when to fire so that your salvo arrives at the same time as your squadmate's, even if you are far away

[cedar flume]

Squads should have shared rewards, so theres more incentive to cooperate. Lets say squad members get 25% (or maybe less) of the base reward whenever one of their squad mates scores a hit or lands (basically whenever gets points for anything).

[normal cairn]

and a way to give money to teamates
once I have my first darkreach I don't really need 500m in my bank account

[cedar flume]

Eh, I dont know about that. In theory you could hide your money in somebody else's pocket and perform suicide nuking until they send you your money back. Feel like your squad mate flying in a safe zone and doing nothing while you ground pound units would be enough to help them out. However, I do think you should be able to donate money to your teams bank and then vote to call in a new carrier, for example.

[vagrant flax]

IRL bomb systems, such as those in the F18 Hornet have timed release countdowns for things like GBU's. Given that this game takes place in the future, could be a way to synchronize bomb drops between squadmates.

Also, could use Purple for squadmate UI

[terse ingot]

What about something like this for starters? Just some way to change their color on the map and maybe add a symbol behind their aircraft / under their HUD icon?

[restive birch]

Not sure about startes. But absolutely sure need make that system only for friendly squads. And yep. That make sense. Or maybe have sense make smth symbol(like numbers or liters abcd) near their icon

[strange pier]

Yessss this would actually be so good

[marsh hemlock]

Need

[vagrant flax]

Yuuuuupppppp perfect. Tbh I'd just allow ranges of color customization for accessibility reasons. If theres anyone who wants to cry about "muh immursiun". I'd rather have a squad UI and allow partially/colorblind people to comfortably play than have neither.

But as a premade example, heres a mod for Ace Combat 7 that features HUD changes for the primary colorblinds (and some alternate schemes):https://www.nexusmods.com/acecombat7skiesunknown/mods/1420/

[cedar flume]

Ok, I think this could work in theory. Just not by directly sending money to others.

Basically, introduce a shared rewards slider with percentage of how much goes into your own pocket and how much you share with your team. Lets say the highest you can go is 90% for you and 10% for your squad mates. Now, you could adjust it so you get 0% for every kill and that 100% gets split between however many squad mates there are in your squad. That way you actively take part in the fight risking your own assets while also helping out the poorer folk in your team.

[cedar flume]

Just want to leave an idea from another unrelated thread:

Maybe a quick and easy way to inform people about the goals of your squad would be to have a note which the squad leader can edit whenever (even in flight) and is displayed whenever you hover over the squad/squad leader or in map view if youre already in the squad.