Wings of Prey, PC beta release!

[james]

This game is still in beta despite the problems correct?

[lengro]

WoP is ermmmm... interesting.

cc - it's no AH, but it sure is fun, and the models are gorgeous:

[jdbecks]

It worked great

WoP is ermmmm... interesting.

How do you find it bubi? Ive not played it, Im going home today and it should have downloaded by now..Im looking forward to flying that german iron, they look fantastic! nothing will replace AH for me, but something that has some good single player campaign is what I like to play in between AH

Edit -

Well got it working, it looks quite good and great graphics...however it has damn engine over heats which I dont think we can switch off and so far it feels like the AI deos not use the same FM, spits were out zoom climbing me in a 109k4..so much so in the pure vertical they were shooting past me, even tho I had more E 

and no single player campaign for Luftwaffe

other than that its a gorgeous game thats quite fun, but AH is still better to fly, I just will wait for the Luftwaffe campaign to be released 

[jdbecks]

can edit my above post,

just done a mission against 12 B17S to see them try and dog fight me in a me262 

[TwinBoom]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaK7j58tnCA&feature=player_embedded#


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oB-0ImSpQhw&feature=player_embedded

[Motherland]

cc - it's no AH, but it sure is fun, and the models are gorgeous:

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I'd like to find the graphic settings, because the plane graphics I'm seeing would not be any better than Waffle's recent work if not for the games magnificent lighting.
The textures seem very low resolution.

How do you find it bubi? Ive not played it, Im going home today and it should have downloaded by now..Im looking forward to flying that german iron, they look fantastic! nothing will replace AH for me, but something that has some good single player campaign is what I like to play in between AH

Edit -

Well got it working, it looks quite good and great graphics...however it has damn engine over heats which I dont think we can switch off and so far it feels like the AI deos not use the same FM, spits were out zoom climbing me in a 109k4..so much so in the pure vertical they were shooting past me, even tho I had more E 

I can't seem to get my controls to a point where it doesn't feel like my control linkages are rubber bands....
In fact, both for TrackIR and my controls there's a ton of lag between my inputs and what the game does, even if I turn smoothing all of the way down, seemingly...
I don't have any kind of scaling going but my controls are very insensitive out to about 75% and then they just kind of spike... it's very annoying.

[DrDea]

 Yea gotta say after taking a LOT of time setting up the controls,they feel horrid.

[lengro]

I'd like to find the graphic settings, because the plane graphics I'm seeing would not be any better than Waffle's recent work if not for the games magnificent lighting.
The textures seem very low resolution.

Indeed - there is nothing wrong with the newer AH models. Put them into the 3D engine of some recent games, and they will look astonishing.

WoP strikes a good balance between environmental effects, mesh detail, texturing and FPS. However, the fidelity of the flight and ballistic modelling is nowhere near AH standards (all IMHO)

[Motherland]

The one thing I can't STAND about the game is that it looked like someone took it and put it through an 'old' filter in like WMM or Photoshop or something... the black border and colors are very annoying IMO.
Other than that it looks great. I wish there was some way to turn that off.

[jdbecks]

Hitech and the rest of the Aces High team, have single handily ruined every other flight sim I play now  , as no other sim I have played gives me a real sense of input and feedback, a 109G6 feels completely different than with a 109 G6 with gondolas, flying spits is a completely different feel to flying 109s etc. The very first difference I felt the first minute of playing the game was not feeling the huge amount of torque from the 109 K4. Rise of flight is the only other game where different planes felt different also, but still not to the extent AH pulls off, it really geos to show the good work that has gone into this game

although dispite the less complex FM, it is still very enjoyable to play for a few sorties...it will be good once the Luftwaffe campaign comes  ,  

[DrDea]

 I will trade off the eye candy for the flight model in the blink of an eye. HT has fine tuned this into an excellent addiction.

[jdbecks]

just played it online, I was the king of the skies!  its a very simple sim

[DrDea]

Seems it has a profile for every stick out there but CH. Go Figgure

[Hajo]

Doc it has CH not as a selection rather when you click on a function and move your stick it reads Ch Combat Stick etc.

[DrDea]

 Yea Hajo I know.I got it working,but the flight model to me is sloppy. Views with the hat nonexistant.