Top 2025 Combat Flight Simulators

[CptTrips]

No one who posts here works for Eagle Dynamics or profits from DCS sales, period. That's just stupid and irrational to imagine anyone here is trying to steal AH customers. I for one am a long time flight and flight sim enthusiast with a few long time friends that still visit here. Someone trying to run me off just makes me want to stick around.

Crabs in a bucket.

[Brooke]

I actually like that model.  I like how players have to freedom to setup their own servers

Good point.  I guess for me, it seemed too haphazard, not knowing which servers would be open, which would operate OK, etc.

Dang dude.  I was still occasionally getting on full BF4 servers not too long ago and that was released what 2015?
How long do you think you should be able to play a single MMO release?  You ought to get out more.

I hear you.  I would still play BF 1942 if it weren't basically abandonware.  It was so much fun (except for the planes, which I felt ruined the game play).  But there were bugs, exploits (I had some 3rd party anti-cheating thing that cooperated with the game -- forget what it was called -- but that sort of thing should have been part of the game).  Bugs never got fixed, as the company just moved on to the next thing, and eventually the game dies out.

I'd prefer BF 1942 v1, v2, . . .instead of BF 1942, then they abandon it and move on to a series of (from my perspective) inferior pieces of crap in comparison.

For example, if Aces High were shinkwrap, and HTC had WWII for a while, then abandoned it for Korea, then some years later abandon it for Vietnam, then Tomcats, then F-35's, then space madness or whatever crap -- when WWII is the golden age of air combat -- I wouldn't prefer that.

[CptTrips]

Good point.  I guess for me, it seemed too haphazard, not knowing which servers would be open, which would operate OK, etc.

I hear you.  I would still play BF 1942 if it weren't basically abandonware.  It was so much fun (except for the planes, which I felt ruined the game play).  But there were bugs, exploits (I had some 3rd party anti-cheating thing that cooperated with the game -- forget what it was called -- but that sort of thing should have been part of the game).  Bugs never got fixed, as the company just moved on to the next thing, and eventually the game dies out.

I'd prefer BF 1942 v1, v2, . . .instead of BF 1942, then they abandon it and move on to a series of (from my perspective) inferior pieces of crap in comparison.

For example, if Aces High were shinkwrap, and HTC had WWII for a while, then abandoned it for Korea, then some years later abandon it for Vietnam, then Tomcats, then F-35's, then space madness or whatever crap -- when WWII is the golden age of air combat -- I wouldn't prefer that.

You think BF3 and 4 were inferior to 1942?  Hmm different strokes.

IMHO, BF4 (eventually.  Had a really rough launch) was probable one of the best gameplay balanced well designed dopamine generators I have ever plugged my brain into.

It was the perfect mix of complexity and simplicity and action with strategy I had played. The game cycles where just right length.  Each match had a discernible beginning middle and end that I could satisfyingly accomplish within my gaming time so I could see the fruits of my labor lead to victory and defeat before my eye. 

I could start and finish 2-3 full games in an evening and I saw the results of my efforts in a win or a loss.  I got to be there for the end.

Instead a day of grinding only to have a handful of Euros wipe the map of everything I did in the middle of the night when I'm sleeping.  Even if my side wins the map at 3am I didn't get to be there for that final thrill.  For me it makes it harder to care.

Those cycles are too short for a flight sim, but I could see like 2 hours mini-wars working. 

But only BF4 had "The Colenel Lvl 100"



And then they conned me into pre-purchasing 2042.  Lost me forever.

[Brooke]

I like ww2 the most.  For game play, they could have kept improving bf1942. I dont get interested as much in modern stuff.

Not everyone shares my prefences, though. 

[CptTrips]

I like ww2 the most.  For game play, they could have kept improving bf1942. I dont get interested as much in modern stuff.

Not everyone shares my prefences, though.

Me too.  I was hoping the BF 5 was just going to be a retooled 1942.  That would have been awesome.  I guess they added mods later to replay upgraded maps of those, but they had already lost me.

[AKIron]

Sometimes it's fun to be the bully.