Wings of Prey?

[Tavingon]

Wondering whether to buy it.. Whats it like compared to CLOD? As long as theres more planes and a custom battle settup I'll try it

[SEE]

Is it better than CloD?

The answer depends on what you want or expect but for me CloD is better. There are more ac and it runs very well performance wise. It's good fun, terrain graphics good and FM not too bad (though I haven't fired it up in a long time). MP is instant air start action but the player is the server and it is difficult to join many of the MP sesssions (a lot of which are arcade difficulty level).

Custom battles in SP are limited to selecting the difficulty level, a map, weather, Time and a particular ac to fly against - e.g, Select an LA7 to fly agaianst X number of BF109 -F as the opponent.

[Tavingon]

Just noticed theres a 'spiritual successor' due to be released within the next couple of months, some interesting screens.

[MACADEMIC]

Originally Posted by Tavingon

Just noticed theres a 'spiritual successor' due to be released within the next couple of months, some interesting screens.

Nice screenshots - where did you get them?

About Wings of Prey, I think it first depends very much on what experience you're after, and second what you make it.

It has beautiful smooth graphics, very decent flight models (originally licensed from IL2 but since then much improved), and a much improved MP (stability) since the latest update. Engine and systems management is very light, the flying experience can be very good nevertheless if you do not rely on the game's rather limited MP modes (e.g. respawn points are too close). If you decide to get it, perhaps you'd like to check out our Club which flies the game at it's highest difficulty and with special setups: http://forum.gaijinent.com/index.php...the-aces-club/

Below an original recording of a Club game 1 vs 1 in these settings from pilot's perspective.

MAC

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3-zkXAuftY&hd=1

[TomcatViP]

From my experience there was nothing to play in the game apart for the quick mission offline.

MP was a burden or a plea to play with strange individuals gaming the play with strange FM, UFO moves or simply ground scratching flight. As an admin it was not even possible to ban them as an hosting server.

But moreover the fact that we had to pay for the patch that could cure all the basics bugs the game have encountered was simply a shame (pls remind that the game was sold at 60$ with map the size of a napkin). It's also the first time that I see a simulator where your plane is repositioned on a reciprocical heading each time your stepping out of your fishbowl .

WoP has certainly the best terrains graphics... but tht's all. Add the fact that their devs give earing to all the SPit whiner that kept complaining after the good SPit FM the game had on its release (much like the one of Janes WWII) and you 'd get a good picture of where this game is going : it's AAA and alikes happy world...

[Flanker35M]

S!

I bought it along with Wings Of Luftwaffe. Only map I disliked was England due the green tint. But if looking past it the terrain was OK. In some places could be seen that they had used modern terrain data as some British airfields had a modern layout with modern plane bunkers But if getting past that, the game was quite fun for a change.

For me I liked the Mustang most, even I am not a great fan of Allied Iron..It just looks nice in this game and you could actually fly it so that temps were tihin operating range...and it took a while to cool the engine down after a fight + you could overheat and damage it if pushing too hard..just noticed power was mising and gradually it gave in..

But what struck most that is WAY ahead of CoD: solid no stuttring FPS everywhere, the LOD changes and dot changing to a plane, visibility against ground etc. The planes did not turn to clunky low res LOD blobs at any phase, a Bf109 looked like one up close out to medium/far ranges. No missing / flickering wings etc. Also the contrast, or how it should be said, made the planes a bit better visible against ground as you could spot them from the glint of canopy/wings etc.

Anyways..WoP is it's own genre and not comparing it any deeper to CoD which is in a league of it's own. Just another WW2 era flying game to my collection

[philip.ed]

Originally Posted by TomcatViP

But moreover the fact that we had to pay for the patch that could cure all the basics bugs the game have encountered was simply a shame

Now that sounds awfully familiar... (jk)

[Tavingon]

Originally Posted by MACADEMIC

Nice screenshots - where did you get them?

http://www.konami.com/games/birdsofsteel

[ACE-OF-ACES]

Originally Posted by Tavingon

http://www.konami.com/games/birdsofsteel

interesting... Konami was the company that make Air Warrior one of the first and best flight sims of the early 1990s.. Problem with this title is it is only for XBOX and PS3

[MAYAman]

I purchased a D-box and so far I love it! It works great for Driving and flying games. But there is no support for Wings of Prey or CoD which I desperately want. I asked D-box and they said that this has to come from the developer.

Is there any chance of 1C adding D-box code? Who should we petition?