Remove markers on invisible planes

[haltux]

In real life, spotting a plane from another plane in the air is a surprisingly easy task. It has to do with sharpness of planes vs. blurryness of the background, parallax effect, and the amazing resolution of our eyes. In a glimpse, you can immediatly locate another airliner kilometers away when the vosibility is good.

In the game, with markers deactivated (expert mode), it is much harder, and a glimpse is often not enough to locate a visible plane, even if it is very close to you. This is very frustrating.

 

But I hate switching markers on, as they are way too powerfull. I like how you need to get close to know whether a plane is a good guy or a bad guy, but then why the hell can you locate enemy through the opaque part of your plane ? It gives the felling that you have a magical augmented reality glass connected to a perfectly accurate all-direction radar. It makes no sense.

 

My suggestion:

- Display markers only when planes are actually visible.

- Optionally remove triangles that gives the direction of a visible enemy which is currently not on the screen.