If only they added VR support!
You have unveiled my cunning plan.
If you have a flight stick and the disposable income to pick this up youâd be doing yourself a disservice to miss the chance. Especially when the ultimate edition is 25% off.
I have both (yay!) but prefer a controller. You reckon it would play OK with a XBOX or Steam controller?
If you put the simplified flight model on you might be OK. Trying to fly with the complex model and weather effects on, wind pushing you about, might be beyond challenging.
I suspect you can make it so flying around will be fine, but itâll depend on if you can make aileron and rudder adjustments fine enough to get your guns on target.
How can I resist THAT that of awesomeness? :)
Thanks! I will buy it, probably tomorrow as I am working on my 10min game thingy today.
Heh - thatâs a big deal because the rudder is very important in these planes, (much more so than by the time we get to WWII), and youâll be using it to try to line up sometimes a solitary rifle-calibre machine gun, to fire it at a mostly empty bag of canvas.
Being able to get your sight in just the right place to hit the pilot or the engine makes a very big difference.
The game puts the list of key commands in a place inaccessible when flying? Good grief :)
Yeah, I printed that out. I donât use too many and have most mapped to one of the thousand buttons on my HOTAS, but every now and then I need to pause to remember how to lock the target that just shot at me.
Yeah I tossed a screenshot on tshe mac next to me.
I am in Training. Lost my instructor at night.
This game is glorious. Loving it!
I died. In training.
Engine caught fire as I was cruising along following the instructor. Even though I managed to get the crate down the flames finished me off.
Wow! :)
Welcome to WOFF, the flight sim that ran out of fucks to give a long while back.
No kidding!
My new career as a bomber/scout pilot is going much better. Fly over Jerry drop some bombs on him. I have of course hit nothing, but that is less important than the fact that I have survived :)
I love how basic the tech feels. No fancy aiming. Just an engine with some wings bolted on, throw a machine gun on it and you are done.
Got my second kill tonight, although I also got stiffed out of yet another victory due to lack of witnesses.
We had a mission to patrol behind the enemy lines near one of their airfields and most of the way there my engine suddenly started to cough and splutter and sound rough and I lost some power. We were a long way behind enemy lines, so I decided to turn west and head home, so Iâd have a chance of gliding back to our territory if the engine gave out.
Right at this moment the Squadron Leader winged over and led everyone in a dive onto a flight of Albatros DIII which made me feel sick, as I wouldnât get to be part of it. So I decided to risk the engine, banked over and dived into the fight.
I hooked onto an enemy DIII who was in a very gentle turn across me which allowed me to put a very long burst into him. I donât know if it seriously wounded the pilot or if he just froze from inexperience, but he leveled out and started flying straight, so I lined up just on his five oâclock and began to angle shots into the cockpit and engine until he winged over and spiraled down to smash into the ground near his home base.
I then decided to really turn for home and ran into another DIII fighting one of our Pups. The Pup put a decent burst into him, but then the DIII pulled a tight turn to escape, except it put him right in my gunsights and a long burst sent him down too.
I then turned due west and put my Pup into a shallow dive to make sure I made it to friendly lines. As I crossed the front lines my engine gave a mighty cough and belched a big patch of oil onto the windscreen glass so I decided to not push my luck any further and just put her down in the first flat field I could find.
The second claim was rejected, but it also wasnât given to the other Pup who was fighting the DIII, so I donât know what happened there. But! The first claim was accepted, doubling the confirmed kills in my career, AND I got a nice box from the King with a Miliatry Cross inside!
Tradition has it that I always die on the first mission after I become an ace, or on the first mission after I get a medal, so I look forward to whatever suicide mission awaits me tomorrow.
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Been playing it the whole weekend. This is a great game. Possibly the best air sim campaign I have ever played and thats up there with Tornado & Gunship .
Amazing. Thanks for the heads up. I will also mention unlike most modern flight sims this thing is playable without needing to memorize stupid numbers of key commands or buttons. Also it does indeed play fine with a controller , just remap the rudder to the second stick and you are good to go.
If you like flight sims at all then you would be very foolish to pass this up on sale in January.
Fantastic.
Yaayyyy! So glad youâre enjoying it! I finally installed the UE today and lo and behold it didnât ask for CFS3 during installation.
Took a quick test flight and it reminded me how terrible and rusty I am. To training!
Awesome! Oh and thanks to everyone (Bismarks AAR in particular) for getting me into this. So good!
The game decided that following my medal it would try to bore me to death⌠I went on a very long escort mission on which I failed to see a single enemy, our escorted bombers failed to hit the target and I then I failed to find the âGuestâ airfield on the way home and ended up mistakenly landing in some farmerâs field next to a particularly nonplussed cow.
The next mission was a long patrol through friendly territory, north along the front line and then back again, trying to catch the enemy as they crossed into our airspace. This was as exciting as that mission got:
Those two specks in the sun followed us all the way north, on the cusp of dive-in-and-attack range, meaning I spent the whole run out flying one way and looking the other, craning my neck back to make sure we werenât about to be bounced. They could have been friendlies for all I know, I never found out.
That was my fifteenth mission complete and I was asked if Iâd like to take a short leave to recharge the batteries. I said âyesâ and then had my request deniedâŚ
Brass asking me if I wanted something and then telling me after that I canât have it⌠itâs an uncannily accurate armed forces sim.
Flight number 16 didnât promise much at the start - it was a run southwest, away from the front lines, to patrol above a rail yard and some storage sites. Early on we spotted what looked like a pair of DFW light bombers, but they were thousands of feet above us and so we let them go.
Later, as we made our turn at the eastern end of our patrol route I saw more unidentifieds that I thought were Halberstadtâs, but I couldnât get the leader to bite, so we turned away. Eventually we set off for home having not fired a shot.
As we flew east I could see a big spiraling fight in the distance. Thereâs a French squadron of Nieuportâs to our east and it looked like they were in a real kitchen sink fight, with black dots circling all over the sky.
When our leader took our flight past our airfield I was hopeful, but then he banked and began a descent in to land. So I broke formation and kept going east, hoping to entice the flight to come with me. My wingman followed, bless him, but the rest did not.
As I was craning my neck to work out what was happening in the fight a couple miles away, some motion down to my left caught my eye and there was an Albatros DII right thereâŚ
I banked and dived but he saw me coming and was already turning. He had a slight speed advantage, so I sat in a very shallow dive all the way from the Somme to Bapaume before I finally got within a couple hundred yards and let loose a long burst from the gun.
He reacted violently to the left, but with no altitude all he could do was bank to and fro in a scissors and I caught him as he turned left and sent a long burst into the side of the cockpit. He slumped over out of sight and the plane went out of control and smashed into the ground close to Bapaume airfield.
I was circling and celebrating when suddenly I heard machinegun fire. I thought the men on the ground were getting a little over excited, but then there was a flash of colour as the sun caught the wings of another German! It was another Albatros DII and we got into a long turning fight.
I felt like I was winning, slowly bringing my nose around to get the gunsights on him, when he snapped left and tried to climb. I wrenched the stick and rudder over and we just sort of hung in midair, which allowed me to put a very long burst into his right wing. I saw the canvas come apart exposing the wing structure which broke to pieces from my bullets.
The German let his plane stall and dip and then used that dive to land, expertly angling between trees as he went. He landed right next to a convoy of British Army trucks, meaning I had about 150 witness this time.
Annoyed by how many claims Iâd had denied before I actually just put my Pup down at Bapaume airfield and then listed all of the airmen there as witnesses, along with the passing British infantry column, a nearby observation balloon and several members of the local wildlife in an attempt to drown any doubt with a sea of names.
The next day both kills were confirmed, putting me at four! One more for Ace statusâŚ
In the words of noted World War I fighter ace Jeff Goldblum⌠âWell, there it is.â
We had gone out loaded for bear for a train attack and run into a pair of Halbestradt IIâs just on our side of the trenches. This one had pulled split S after split S to try to escape while I helicoptered down like a Sycamore seed, keeping some altitude on top of him.
Eventually the only escape he had was to just try to run and I lit him up with a very long burst from behind and above. He flipped inverted and I thought it was going to be another try to evade with a manoeuvre that wasnât going to work with no altitude, but instead he just went into a shallow dive until he hit the ground.
That was the 1st of February 1917, after Iâd finally had some leave approved and had enjoyed Paris for 48 hours. It took me 19 missions and about 25 hours of flying time to get the fifth kill and Ace status.
One of the five was an Albatros III, the other four were split evenly between the Albatros II and the Halberstadt II. Thereâs been no recent sign of von Richtofen and Iâd know if he were about as January 1917 was when he first painted his Albatros III bright red.
Rod, I think this would really add to your enjoyment (and while I donât have it yet, I will. ;) ) A good dynamic flight sim like this will grab you for long enough to be worth it:
FWIW
Purchasing! Thank you!