The game was released in a completely unfinished state and few if any PCs were strong enough at the time to get more than 10 frames per second, rendering the game unplayable to most folk. However, with much thanks and gratitude to the community this game has gotten a whole new lease of life. A recent patch made CLOD Windows 10 compatible and the guys over at ATAG the air tactical assault group have released no less than four community patches that completely and utterly re-invigorated the game and made it a firm favorite of mine.
It's cheap enough, available on Steam. With the free community patches and even re-written campaigns, this combat simulator finally deserves a place in every armchair pilots library!
In terms of the plans you can fly, there are the usual suspects, and some slightly more unusual ones as well. The campaign takes you from the White Cliffs of Dover to the Mediterranean, into Russia, and then through the invasion of Germany. This means that you get the pick of the best planes the Allies had throughout the war.
It has an "Arcade" mode, which gives you unlimited ammo, which makes it easier to shoot stuff. It also doesn't punish you with blackouts or redouts. There are a couple of other settings, so you can tinker with it and get the set up just right for your experience.
You also get a number of planes to crash and burn with and get shot down in. So, it's not a case of "Oh, bugger. I got shot down 25 minutes into a mission and now I have to start again. Talk about value for money. Falcon BMS is a free add on to the existing Falcon 4 combat flight simulator.
Graphically, this one is amazing, it has a great illusion of speed, and is it chock full of complicated flight systems to learn! Remember, the people making free add-ons are the heroes of the community, doing so much and asking nothing in return!
Thanks for reading! There is a lot of hopefully useful information here, and I try my best to keep it regularly updated. Please remember to support the people who make the magic. Flight simulators are not as popular as they used to be. I accept that. However, if those of us who like to fly support the right people, then flight simulator production can continue. What I have done in this article is to give my opinion on who to support, who not to support, and why they do or don't deserve it.
Please make sure your money goes to the people intent on keeping our hobby alive. Regardless, I hope you enjoyed my opinion on the best combat flight simulators! Paul you should buy Clod on Steam it works well on 10 and now with DX Team Fusion has put together a good sim with much more on the horizon.
Many squads from old 46 and other sime shave found a home in the era simulation. It is not easy to learn but very rewarding once you get the hang of everything and Every squad out there will be glad to help you along. Great community and Strong support. Our squad TWC has a site you can visit with a forum and videos of actual game play www. This this Simulation is in its second infancy with much more to come.
Best 24 bucks you could spend for what you get! Salute: Fatal. I have Windows Windows 95, 98 and NT 4. Can't get it to function and would LOVE to fly again. Thanks, Michael. I really enjoyed the read through your review. Need to get back to having some fun.
I now have Win10 and can't find any decent flight sim that has a relatively modern jet fighter in it. I particularly loved flying the A against ground targets. Win10 compatibility is key.
I know that Lock-On will not even boot up for me on Win Any advice to offer? David, I have found Youtube to be a great help when learning flight simulators. That being said, most of the games listed here have an "arcade" style mode to practise. Sure, it's unrealistic but we all have to dip our feet in somewhere and they can give you an understanding of flight, although you might pick up some bad habits along the way : For non combat general flight learning then Dovetail Games Flight School, available on Steam is great.
It teaches the absolute basics like take off and landing. Get the fundamentals right first and then progress to dog-fighting is a sure fire way to get the groundwork right!! Craig O, I am limited by Hubpages insofar as links go. There is some great news for CLOD as well, as there looks to be some collaboration between mod makers and the new owners of the IP.
This means an update to direct x 11, and more content to be added in the future. Exciting times! Would it be possible to put links to these games? I'm finally getting a powerful enough computer where I think these will run and I want to make sure I get the one that has the patches or patches available.
This would really be appreciated! How is Warbirds doing these days? My favorite sim by far years ago, with an amazing community.
DCS products are very buggy and inaccurate with the only exception of Ka Every update causes more bugs than those that tries to solve. Rise of Flight got biased and the crew nerfed a whole bunch of rotary engined planes to please the inline engines crowd.
Some planes were ludicrous nerfed to the point of not being flying worthy. Don't waste your time with this game it unless you are not serious about competition, history and honesty. And they nailed the last nail to their coffin with it. The servers just emptied after. They did not take it seriously and not only disrespected the players who favored rotary engined planes, but they disrespected the legend those planes carried with them over the war. DCS, best feel of flying with detailed physics, but the game is unfinished in terms of damage model and visibility for WWII planes.
Gun effects, smoke and so on so forth is really poor, and this affects how you fly and pull the trigger. These effects are even less detailed than what you got with Combat Flight Simulator. It is a very good simulator for sightseeing and getting to know the plane. I have a few modules and never really got hooked by it because I am into dogfight. They don't seem to care about these issues and the game is already almost a decade old, so it will die with these problems.
Il-2 BOS has so many problems that would not fit in this post. No wonder its servers are always empty besides the Russian ones. It seems it did not impressed the US and Western Europe markets. In fact, besides Cliffs of Dover that I never played due to the bad rep , there is really no good combat flight simulator for piston driven planes out there. Who knows, maybe in the future. Digital Integration's Tornado. But only if you 1 enjoy flat-shaded polygon graphics; 2 relish spending 1 to 2 hours planning a multi-plane coordinated mission, using the best Mission Planner ever, and 20 minutes flying the mission; 3 don't have a super rig PC to fly all those scrumptious flight sim games listed above by MM.
Frankie "TornadoMan" Kam. Been out of the sim world for some time. Just wondering if any of these new games give hard kills when you shoot. The one thing I hated about Il2 was that you could sit behind a Lagg3 pumping 20mm into it and they would just keep on and on. Also unless you flew in auto mode you could NEVER catch up with any other aircraft including the other 's in your squad.
I'm looking to find out what the best flying games are. I noticed there are a lot of games and a lot of opinions. I'm looking more towards arcade style games though, with multi-player LAN or split-screen no online only. The following is a list of what I came up with thus far with a few sims added to make a more rounded collection. What would you consider to be the best arcade style flying games? This will be a contentious denomination for a while, but in the current state of release of both sims, X Plane simply goes into more detail than Flight Simulator ATC, in particular, has a full working model that many professionals have used as a training aid, and particulars like fuel burn and engine behaviour at precise angles of ascent are modelled with greater precision.
This is about as different as it gets from X Plane Ace Combat is bonkers, and yes, you can control its planes with one hand while cooking dinner with the other and holding a phone call on speakerphone.
To even begin to attempt any understanding of its plot is to stare at madness itself. But simplicity and eccentricity are no bad things. These flourishes make every mission memorable and challenging. After a few minutes spent trying to wrestle its opposing forces into something resembling sustained flight, the only natural conclusion to draw is that little pods suspended by whirling blades have been a massive hoax all along.
DCS does much more than rotor-blade flight, providing one of the most detailed combat flight sim experiences out there in spite of its advancing years the original version dates back to But the helis are particularly well done here. Can it train a budding pilot to understand the interior of an airliner cockpit? Not in a million years.
There are plenty of combat flight add-ons available for this older version of Microsoft Flight Simulator see below. If you don't own a power-house computer, you might want to check out Microsoft Flight Simulator to run your combat flight simulator add-ons.
Control more than 40 different World War II combat vehicles, including ships, planes, and tanks, while planning and executing the actual battles. Fly the following aircraft with this instrument : Fairchild Ind.
Corsair, Thunderbolt, P, Mosquito, and Spitfire join forces in a great value pack! Warbird fans are in for a real treat with these classic aircraft that were re-created to the highest levels of detail and accuracy for Flight Simulator X and Lock On combines high fidelity with a broad choice of aircraft. The game is filled with action-packed missions, realistic flight modeling, and flexible game options that provide unlimited gameplay. Enemy Engaged 2 combines modern helicopter combat simulation with realistic flight physics.
There are over Attack on Pearl Harbor lets you quickly jump into the cockpit and take part in electrifying aerial battles as Japanese or American Ace Pilots. Fly some of the most lethal World War II aircraft and experience daring dogfights and bitterly contested air battles of the Pacific Theater.
Experience the same level of realism as the award-winning Microsoft Flight Simulator, with the rush and excitement of World War II air combat over Europe. Works with Microsoft Flight Simulator and For use with Microsoft Flight Simulator and You can choose to fly Japanese or American aircraft. There are over missions to choose from, many of them based upon historic aircraft combat missions.
Battle for Europe: this is Microsoft's upgraded version of its famous Combat Flight Simulator 2, which simulates battles over the Pacific. Microsoft claims it is the most realistic World War II flight simulator ever.
There is a range of multi-player missions and over 36 individual missions. It includes six U.
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