Plans about flares? Thread - Vector Thrust

Are there any plans on flares? Ace Combat doesn't seem to include them but e.g. HAWX gives the player an extremely limited number of flares (like 3-6 per mission) as an emergency measure for when you can't/don't want to dodge a missile. On the other hand HAWX 2 made flares fairly common on enemies in order to force you to use the gun but I can't say I liked that change. I guess flares are more sane than the "lol I dodge your missile" stunt of AC Assault Horizon Legacy that both the player and some boss enemies can pull.

Yes, there are plans to add flares.

The whole design of the mechanic it isn’t yet completed, but there are already some solid ideas:

-the use of flares does not mean a guaranteed success.
-Each missile will have different resistance against counter-measures, meaning to some missiles one flare may be enough but to others you may have to deploy several to evade them.
-using evasive maneuvers along with flares will increase the success rate.
-in addition to flares it will be possible to deploy chaff and smoke (used by ground units), each will only be effective against a specific type of seeker. Knowing your enemy and what type of weapon it may be using may prevent you from wasting the wrong countermeasures.
-there will be non-consumable counter-measures like IRCM and ECM jammers.

And these are the basic ideas.

The whole mechanic will be fully configurable, so if you prefer you can always set it as using only flares and one flare = one evasion.

But the flare are modifedable so it can shoot multiple amount of flares and chaff at same time right?
Realism..

And how about missile jamming?
Or radar jamming?
And SEAD missions?

Edited by: dhannemon13

Yes, it will be possible to deploy both at the same time.
Jamming will be also part of the counter measures system, so it will be available at the same time.

SEAD missions it is already possible to make. You can find a radar dome in the game files.