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Vehicle Commander necessary features to improve Gameplay value and CDR realismuh.
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Description

Currently, all the Vehicle Commander can do is the same as any Commander could do prior to the invention of the printed circuit. Actually, he can often do less than Veh. Commanders could do in Vehicles designed in the 50s and 60s.

Therefore, I suggest adding the following (nowadays common) abilities for the Commander.

Gun pointing override: When switched on, the Turret will automatically rotate to match its point of aim with that of the Commanders sight. It will then stay slaved to the commanders sight until GPO is turned off.

Emergency reflexive point + shoot (Panic Button): Single button press, when activated the Turret will automatically ROTATE to match point of aim with that of Commanders Sight, and remain pointed in that direction for three seconds, before automatically returning to where the gunner had it pointed.
Additionally, when NOT on manual fire, pressing EPS will result in the turret pointing and immiatelly firing the main gun once pointed where the commander wanted.

Laser Rangefinding: has been asked often, this is yet another ticket, because this is one of the most important features for Vehicles.

Defensive Systems: Automatic smoke launchers, threat warning indicators, threat response systems (such as SHTORA) that automatically point the main gun in the direction of a detected missile launch or large muzzle flash.

Details

Legacy ID
130987575
Severity
None
Resolution
Open
Reproducibility
Have Not Tried
Category
Feature Request
Steps To Reproduce

Right now, Commanders often are boring, especially in vehicles that do not have an armament for the Commander, such as the AMV-7.

Additional Information

Documentation should be added here or in the notes. The general information about panic buttons in tanks as well as the soft and hard defensive systems are available online, and I suspect BI know about those already.

This is just a formal request to enhance Vehicle commanders to make them more interesting to play together with AI crews (or even players).

Event Timeline

InstaGoat edited Steps To Reproduce. (Show Details)Jul 8 2013, 6:02 PM
InstaGoat edited Additional Information. (Show Details)
InstaGoat set Category to Feature Request.
InstaGoat set Reproducibility to Have Not Tried.
InstaGoat set Severity to None.
InstaGoat set Resolution to Open.
InstaGoat set Legacy ID to 130987575.May 7 2016, 3:22 PM
Bohemia added a subscriber: ceeeb.Jul 8 2013, 6:02 PM
AD2001 added a subscriber: AD2001.May 7 2016, 3:22 PM
AD2001 added a comment.Jul 8 2013, 6:04 PM

The AMV-7 has a commander seat?

It does not in the game, it had one during development (The first shots of the vehicle show it with a CITV on top of the turret), but that was not put in for some reason.

MadDogX added a subscriber: MadDogX.May 7 2016, 3:22 PM

Mass closing ancient tickets with no activity for > 12 months; assume fixed or too trivial.

If this issue is still relevant in current dev build, please re-post.