suggestions to improve immersion and squadron management in Career Mode

[hawax270]

Suggestions to improve immersion and squadron management in Career Mode

First of all, I really enjoy the Career Mode in IL-2 Korea. I think it already provides a very good foundation for creating a long-term immersive campaign, especially for players who like to become attached to their squadron and follow its evolution over several weeks or months.

However, I think a few additional features could greatly improve the immersion and the feeling of actually managing a squadron.

1. Ability to rename squadron pilots

It would be great to be able to edit the first and last names of AI pilots directly from the Career interface.

This would allow players to personalize their squadron, recreate historical pilots, or simply develop their own characters over the course of a campaign.

2. Ability to change pilot portraits

In the same spirit, allowing us to import or select custom pilot portraits would add a lot of personality to the squadron.

After flying many missions with the same pilots, you naturally start remembering their names, victories, wounds and losses. Being able to associate them with a customized portrait would make this attachment even stronger.

3. More detailed ammunition and ordnance stock management

The current resource system could potentially be expanded by separating the available ammunition into several categories, for example:

• Aircraft gun ammunition
• Rockets
• Bombs
• Special ammunition or ordnance

This could make logistics and mission planning more interesting.

For example, after several rocket-heavy missions, the squadron could temporarily run low on rockets while still having plenty of bombs available.

4. Ability to adjust starting resources

It would also be interesting to have an option when creating a career to modify the squadron's initial resources.

For example:

• Number of bombs available
• Number of rockets
• Ammunition stocks
• Possibly aircraft or spare aircraft availability

This could also be linked to difficulty settings.

Some players could choose generous supplies, while others could simulate a squadron operating with limited logistical resources.

5. More detailed victory and destruction records

I would love to see a more detailed system for tracking each pilot's combat results.

Instead of only displaying general statistics, the game could keep a detailed record of what each pilot destroyed.

For example:

Air victories

• MiG-15
• Yak-9
• La-9
• Il-10

Ground victories

• Tanks
• Trucks
• Artillery
• AAA positions
• Trains
• Locomotives
• Buildings
• Ships, etc.

Ideally, these could also be associated with the date and mission during which the victory was achieved.

This would make it possible to follow the career of every pilot in the squadron much more closely.

And of course, if anyone has other ideas that could improve immersion or squadron management in Career Mode, feel free to share them here! I'd be very interested to hear what other players would like to see added.

And of course, if anyone has other ideas that could improve immersion or squadron management in Career Mode, feel free to share them here! I'd be very interested to hear what other players would like to see added.

Edited August 13 by hawax270

[Viking1]

See page 3 in the Wishlist thread above..

[hawax270]

Yeah, I see, but I’m not sure what you mean. Is there a problem with my suggestion?