Balloon missions

[HagarTheHorrible]

How high can balloons be set ?

 

Is it possible to have attack/defend the balloon missions, with airstarts, with the balloons set at several thousand meters so that all fighting is not just furball based and fought at 500 ft ?

 

As with my "Bomber drone" thread in suggestions for developers I think we could do with mission goals that force players to fly at higher altitudes in order to achieve mission goals.  Human players are to unreliable to consistantly fly realistic missions (act as bait) around which other players fight and the A.I tends to be a bit lack luster as well and dificult to manage for good goal based play.  A static, capture the base-ish, type scenerio might work, but set at several thousand feet.

[J37_Daedallus]

Hi

 

Balloons are set at 1k only, they can't be destroyed, you can even fly thru the wire undamaged!

 

I agree we need a different type of mission with objectives, such as recon or things to bomb, there are missions with the U2 as a placeholder, but I find it rare to see anyone fly it.

 

I think when we get the 2 seaters they should be more popular and mission designers will take that into account.