War Thunder

http://warthunder.com/

Anyone tried this?
Right now its just flying, looks like they will add tanks and ships later.

The flight mechanics change drastically from the beginner arcade mode to the adv real battles.

Started off with the newb planes you do get creamed by better planes a good bit but I've had some good battles also so its probably 60/40 plane/skill but you want to get into something better fast as possible.

 

After playing some and reading forums a little I don't recommend the US planes. Russian planes are by far the best, the mid to later level British and Japanese planes are supposedly pretty good. Definitely been nailed by quite a few spitfires. There are only a few decent US planes hopefully they get overhauled soon.

The flying and combat are pretty fun. Definitely has a WoTs feel. More depth than I expected. Don't try and jump up to one high rank plane to fast. It groups ppl based on their highest ranked plane. I had one high ranked and a bunch of base level models and was getting creamed.

 

Got a couple a bombers, they are some serious fun. Carpet bombing bases is great.

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Pretty cool trailer.

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NPC's. You have flight crews. You start with 3 and add more for each country you fly for. Each crew has skill bars you can increase with points you gain and eventually higher levels. You assign a plane to one of your crews. So I am guessing you level up bomber crews and fighter crews and keep those kinds of planes on those crews. Don't need gunner crew skills on fighters, etc.

You can also manually take control of a turret. NPCs once leveled up can be pretty good.

This is all in what they call arcade mode, which is fairly easy mouse flight mode for quick battles. Will be a while before I can take on the Historical battles.

I am very impressed with the performance of the game itself. Graphics are very very good. ZERO lag, haven't seen a lag spike once. Seen over 40k ppl online with thousands of battle matches going, though arcades are fairly small not sure how many ppl you get on historical battles.

If you want to see some in game action check with one of the twitch streams.

 

No one wants to try this? Its a pretty small download. F2P, if you do any of the micro-transactions the steam packs are prolly best unless you want to get the historical battle maps.

Trying out the British planes now, they pack some serious firepower in their early fighters. Puts a smile on my face everytime I blow someone out of the sky. Would love to get a CDL Squad in the air.

 

Pilot name is Dracowolf75.

 

Definitely have to look at it as a simulation. Takes some patience, have to get out of the early planes. Yesterday I was shooting everything down, today I can put 5 hits into a guy and not put him down and get blown out by one.

 

Much more polished. More in depth with the planes. Much better flight mechanics and controls. Environment graphics much better. WoWPs is really pretty crappy.