Rise of Flight - To buy or not to buy?

JG53Frankyboy · #1 01-13-2011, 03:13 PM

you liked the demo, you like furballs between fighters, your PC is good enough:
buy it....................

just dont expect the deepth of gameplay that are possible with IL2. Its 95% a fighterpilots game verus other fighters.
even the announced offline career mode will not change much in this.

Flanker35M · #2 01-13-2011, 03:24 PM

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Buy it. Development team is adding new careers etc. so the game will cater offliners better too. I like it very much.

mazex · #3 01-13-2011, 03:35 PM

Adding to the chorus... Buy it. I bought it day one after waiting for years but in the first versions I did not like the flight model that was too "twitchy" and felt rough, but now after a number of patches it's really the only other sim that gives me a believable feeling of flying accept IL2 or course (and I have been flying IRL for 25 years). The new dogfight mode with airfields that can be captured is a lot of fun - but an accessory that you really need for full appreciation is TrackIR (a lot of wings covering you view

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#4 01-13-2011, 03:49 PM

Buy it. Is a stunning well made Sim. I fly in RoF's servers like Syndicate almost all night.

Avimimus · #5 01-13-2011, 04:47 PM

Read here:
http://simhq.com/forum/ubbthreads.ph...ml#Post3168395

Here for the DRM scheme:
http://simhq.com/forum/ubbthreads.ph...ml#Post3118866

zauii · #6 01-13-2011, 04:50 PM

Indeed buy it, its an excellent ww1 combat simulator, and defiantly on par with the other hardcore simulators out there such as IL2 even if the depth doesn't go as far.

Bricks · #7 01-13-2011, 04:55 PM

Very nice simulator - I can only recommend it.

It's receiving frequent updates and upgrades and already has grown a lot compared to the initial release.

Graphics are nice on lowest setting as well. With these, you can play it on almost any PC. If you want all the details and the shadows, I recommend a multi-core PC and Vista/Win 7, as well as a strong graphics card.

Fearfactor · #8 02-08-2011, 11:03 PM

ROF doesn't even have a static campaign, let alone a dynamic one. At least COD will have a static campaign set up. I'll buy COD but I have yet to even consider ROF. One main reason combat sims are dying is because devs are too lazy to create much offline content.
It's well known that most sim players like offline. I play 99% offline, only go online to do something different for a change.

Bryan21cag · #9 02-10-2011, 02:59 PM

Im sure this has already been covered but i have been really getting into this game waiting for IL2 COD to realease.

1. Make sure you have a pretty high performance computer. I had a diecent one but because of the level of detail and large battle areas that need to be loaded. even if the game is playable you could incur 20 min load times per mission (that was me) which is not fun if you get killed rite off the bat and need to re fly the mission.

2. The offline game play is limited but not bad. The career mode i think randomly generates missions to fly and allows you to rack up your kills.

3. the online is really fun if you either normally fly with full switches (full realistic difficulty) or log on when one of the 2 beginner rooms have people in them. Most all of the multiplayer rooms are full switches only. but again pretty fun.

I would definitely recommend this game after allowing for a few days of learning curve. the menu navigation is just a little clunky but for the most part i would say very well put together.