Co-op mode?

[corszo]

i think this game needs it! :) it whould be awesome ! xD

[BritishRabbit]

I would /love/ to play this with a friend but I can imagine it'd be hard as hell to implement so I doubt we'd see it.

[Brygun]

How would that even work?

Question: Are you suggesting each player is controlling the same crew of a shared plane or that someone they would be near enough to each other to be bombers in formaton?

Consider that each can set its own navigator steering they would become scattered which is a huge issue on data management for a multi-player game.

[Kyo21943]

No it doesn't need it.

[Zalzany]

Wouldn't even work... Makes no sense, check the Co-op tag then look for games child, there is thousands of them.

[corszo]

Originally posted by Zalzany:

Wouldn't even work... Makes no sense, check the Co-op tag then look for games child, there is thousands of them.

im not a child (23yrs)... but anyway... i mean that there might be two planes and each controlled by one player.. :)

[Kilo_60]

Wouldn't work I'd be so frustrated trying to coordinate w someone else during the heat of battle in this game!!!

No THANKS!!!

[BritishRabbit]

Originally posted by Zalzany:

Wouldn't even work... Makes no sense, check the Co-op tag then look for games child, there is thousands of them.

I'm not sure there's a co-op game that's comparible to Bomber Command tho'

[Vamandrac]

I don't think co-op would work or is needed in a game like this.

[oh no]

I think it could work.

A coop mode with each player controlling their own bomber.

Then you coordinate and help each other out with doing objectives, protecting each other from enemy fighters, etc.

[Brygun]

Originally posted by Allan:

Then you coordinate and help each other out with doing objectives, protecting each other from enemy fighters, etc.

Easy to say, insane to implement.

How would you even steer near each other?
Many times you would be out of close view of each other?

Even if you had like an auto-formation as one plane takes damage it should become slower and thus lose position with the others.

Each plane now needs its own zone of data to manage what is going on.

Like I said, easy to say, insane to implement. Firm -1.

[Felinewolfie]

Originally posted by Artemis10:

i think this game needs it! :) it whould be awesome ! xD

YES! This game NEEDS Co-op mode. It screams for it :)
I'd gladly pay for it :)

[Razzr]

Coop mode for this game would have to let us fly our own bombers. We could do bigger bombing raids together. After all that's how it looked during the war. Lots of bombers surrouded by guarding them figters. If You adjust this to the games possibilities I think a max 4 player coop is a sensible idea. I'm not a dev so I might be wrong but still I like that idea. It would definetly be fun to play like that.

[Brygun]

Not really seeing anyone address the technical problems. Well fans lets see if you can come up with a way to handle this coding:

Player #1: wants to bomb a radar site to reduce the fighters
P2: Has lost three of four engines so is aborting home
P3: Is on fire and on an emergency dive but not in the same direction
P4: lost his navigator and didnt make the last turn so is in a different area of the map

While it sounds like fun the challenge is how to you manage the data and coding for that possible situation?

For instance: If fighters are spawned based on 4 bombers and one of the bombers is alone they are sooooo dead.

So no, I don't see Bomber Crew #1, "screaming" for multiplayer. Maybe Bomber Crew #2 can have the data structures put in place to manage the complex situations.

[Blueberries]

Sure it'll be fun too see two lancasters flying side by side but the must be changes the mission to compensate for the teamwork

[Blueberries]

Or it doesn't need two be two different planes, it's just enough one plane but the crew in it consist of CO-OP players not ourself