WINGS OF PREY Videos in HD

[Houndstone Hawk]

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[phlux]

Originally Posted by Houndstone Hawk

I know some of you are less than happy with these vids on a site dedicated to Birds of Prey & so I will just stick to this one thread for any future WoP HD videos.

If anyone is upset about these vids being here just because of the name of the forum being different than the name of the game they came from has got issues. These movies are a treat for anyone who loves sim aviation or military flying in general.

Keep up the great work. HD = WIN!

[stealth finger]

im only not happy about it because it makes me jealous lol i want that game instead of BoP :S

srsly, good stuff though hawk. Brilliant vids

[Houndstone Hawk]

Cheers Phlux. The sooner we see you in the skies of WoP, the better lol.

Very u/standable stealth. It's a crap situation when a team leaves one side project to make another better. I was in a situation whereby I just happened to upgrade the PC around late last year & so moved over to WoP.

Yesterday has seen another massive patch (0.7 GB) & this includes animated gears, very realistic scratched canopies that react when you look at the sun, option for realistic german liveries etc etc etc & yes ... WHY CAN'T THIS BE HAPPENING FOR BoP AT OR NEAR THE SAME TIME?
WoP wouldn't have been anywhere near as popular if it weren't for the loyal flight/game ppl that bought Birds of Prey.

Back to the vids. If anyone has any requests as did that P-51 guy (re: Hurricanes shooting down stuff) then let us know.

Thank you both for your usual & spirited words. Respect!

[mdbuehler]

You may have sold me (I'm a cranky 360 customer ). Can you confirm there is no deadzone / decent number of online games / better graphics then the console version? I love the game to death, but finding a game is impossible the hours I'm on (and even a pain during normal hours), the dead zone makes fine tuning shots impossible, no brakes so CA mode is hard, no take off or landings, and the kill-score tracking is terrible.

I believe they mentioned join a game in progress on the way and co-op as well? Did they use BOPs soundtrack (great score!).

I'll drive straight to Fry's and put together a system if all this is so!

[Houndstone Hawk]

Originally Posted by mdbuehler

You may have sold me (I'm a cranky 360 customer ). Can you confirm there is no deadzone / decent number of online games / better graphics then the console version? I love the game to death, but finding a game is impossible the hours I'm on (and even a pain during normal hours), the dead zone makes fine tuning shots impossible, no brakes so CA mode is hard, no take off or landings, and the kill-score tracking is terrible.

I believe they mentioned join a game in progress on the way and co-op as well? Did they use BOPs soundtrack (great score!).

I'll drive straight to Fry's and put together a system if all this is so!

I can't help you with the online questions because I'm primarily a single player & as yet, have not even felt the need to even try out the online play because the single player gameplay is so good. With the right PC, Wings of Prey is a stunning experience & is far, far superior than Birds of Prey in every aspect. The gameplay is very much improved with fantastic handling with all fighters including the P-51D; the graphics are incredible & are being added to & bettered with each patch. The recent patch this week (over 700MB) fixed a ton of online issues aswell as (mentioned above), graphical improvements like fully animated & reactional wheels, realistic scratches that appear within the cockpit glass when exposed to sunlight, swashtikas on liveries, the list is endless.
Every aircraft is unlocked & available from the start, including the P-47, the new LaGG 3-35 & Yak-7B & the beautifully fun-to-fly P-40E-1 (latter is a dlc that costs under 3 GBP).
There is now a third person view option for SIM players & an option to save entire mission replays. The playback views are ok but still basic (no flyby as yet but that is coming in a future patch, along with a possible addon that enables users to create & make their own liveries).

A mission builder has been announced for the months ahead & this will help to make WoP a long-staying game with endless amounts of replayability.
The deadzone issue, as you would expect is null & void & if there was an issue with your stick, there are so many control settings that you would soon have it rectified.
There is support for all PC joysticks & perepherals. I use a cockpit combination of pedals, standalone throttle & flightstick aswell as track ir & no setup was involved with any of it, other than to assign custom assignments to buttons.

Compared to IL-2 (1946 etc), it's still inferior at the moment but with each patch improvement, the gap is closing. There's talk of take off & landing being made an option but even now, many of the single missions aswell as all the Battle of Britain campaign missions give the players the option to start on the ground.

Still no bomber cockpits or gunner, bombadier stations but hey!! Hope this goes a little way in answering some of your questions.

There is a demo available over at yuplay.com & the limitation is not being able to run the demo at full graphics settings.

[Hero]

Great videos! Keep em coming!

[P-51]

Nice hurricane vid, thanks!