[MikkOwl]

I hope that the rear gunners in aircraft will be able to speak in multiplayer in a useful way, as if a human player had been there (IL-2 MP rear gunners are just bad automatic turrets). Their gunnery could be more useful too.

A request for using such AI crew in a useful way, involving voice actors:

A button that queries the rear gunner to tell you what he sees. Pressing it will make it say if there's any friendly he can see from his position. If there's a fight going on, he will update you on where the closest enemy fighter is (o'clock, high, low etc).

We don't have to make it so limited. Without making it complicated or resource intensive, he can also estimate the range, and if the closest enemy fighter is GAINING or LOSING distance compared to us. This is an important part since combat often involves trying to run away or gain separation from someone, or trying to time a maneuver right.

In reality he would feed information about the enemy to the pilot to help the pilot gain more awareness and fly in a more effective way, without even having to turn around so much.

What is needed is design document outlining how it should function, outlining logic for the code (what he will report in what situations) and add a couple more lines for the voice actors to record.

EDIT: The button-to-query-rear-gunner is a good solution to the problem of not making the guy talk all the time, or not to talk enough (designing a good system is difficult). Then we can time it when we need it, not listening to unwanted stuff, getting our other radio communications interrupted, and getting an update when we really need it (such as when being chased, trying to extend bla blah).