Rise of Flight: WWI flight simulator coming soon

Bottle · 25 Feb 2009 at 16:00

Just making sure people know about this excellent looking WWI combat flight simulator that should be out by about April 2009;

http://riseofflight.com/en/index.html

http://www.youtube.com/user/neoqb

Take a look at some of the videos, especialy in high res.

To those who know a thing or two about flight simulators, this games looks to be an instant classic.

Le_Petit_Lapin · 25 Feb 2009 at 16:13

Based on IL2 engine isn't it?

Definitely going to be keeping an eye on this one.

bloodline76 · 25 Feb 2009 at 16:20

Bottle said:
Just making sure people know about this excellent looking WWI combat flight simulator that should be out by about April 2009;

http://riseofflight.com/en/index.html

http://www.youtube.com/user/neoqb

Take a look at some of the videos, especialy in high res.

To those who know a thing or two about flight simulators, this games looks to be an instant classic.

This has already been reported late last week. Looks good though.

Topper · 25 Feb 2009 at 17:12

I never really loved IL2 the way I thought I would. Its so sterile. Hopefully there will be a big improvement in atmos and immersion etc.

jolie77 · 25 Feb 2009 at 17:32

cool!! thanks for the heads up

Kelt · 25 Feb 2009 at 18:42

Oooh, as a fan of the Red Baron game, looking forward to this!

FreeStream · 25 Feb 2009 at 18:59

Wow, looks immense!

Love the realism in the terrain if it is in fact how they say it is!

If FS-XI could have that level of realism that would be WIN

Dj_Jestar · 25 Feb 2009 at 19:03

Topper said:
I never really loved IL2 the way I thought I would. Its so sterile. Hopefully there will be a big improvement in atmos and immersion etc.

sterile? The immersion is bloody fantastic. Oh, unless you are referring to single player which basically means you're never going to get any immersion at all, in any sim.

Dano · 25 Feb 2009 at 19:04

Le_Petit_Lapin said:
Based on IL2 engine isn't it?

No, not anymore it isn't, they found too many limitations in the IL2 engine and decided to build their own.

p4radox · 25 Feb 2009 at 19:07

Are there any decent WWII flight sims that are more recent (graphically) than IL2?

Nate--IRL-- · 25 Feb 2009 at 21:53

Bottle said:
Just making sure people know about this excellent looking WWI combat flight simulator that should be out by about April 2009;

snip....

This fell under my radar. Thanks for the heads up. Looks superb.

Nate

Dano · 26 Feb 2009 at 02:18

p4radox said:
Are there any decent WWII flight sims that are more recent (graphically) than IL2?

No.

Devlish · 26 Feb 2009 at 06:26

That looks awesome, 6dof on the trackir too by the looks of it. very sweet gonna be getting this for sure, thanks for the heads up.

bloodline76 · 26 Feb 2009 at 06:59

When is it out?

Stonedofmoo · 26 Feb 2009 at 07:04

lol?

Game represents 2 parts of the conflict, namely Germany and the USA. One of the most important parts of this conflict was the war for air domination.

Yeah because the US played a big part in the great war...

Edit: The developers website is not inspiring confidence, check this out.

Recommended technical requirements
Platform: PC
Processor: Core 2 Duo (Intel) 2.8 HGz
RAM : 3Gb
Hard disk: 6 Gb
Videocard: 512 Mb video RAM(GF9800 series or AMD ATI Radeon 4850 series)
Support of 64-bit operating system is not guaranteed by developers

I look into the future and see... bugs and patches...

bloodline76 · 26 Feb 2009 at 10:30

Stonedofmoo said:
lol?

Yeah because the US played a big part in the great war...

I think they did play a big part, I am sure they flew over and took a look every now and then. Shall we join...nah not yet...

Dj_Jestar · 26 Feb 2009 at 12:50

The US were involved in the great war, after a German U-Boat sunk the Lusitania (and some other key factors) they got involved.

The Americans main involvement was to lend us ships though.

Dano · 26 Feb 2009 at 15:08

Stonedofmoo said:
lol?

Yeah because the US played a big part in the great war...

It's badly translated I suspect and is more along the line of being the American squadrons, it also does not state anywhere that it was a big part, just that it is one of the parts.

Edit: The developers website is

not inspiring confidence, check this out.

I look into the future and see... bugs and patches...

And that's differrent from any other game how? oh yes, the honesty.

I look into the future and see a great sim with decent support and communication from the devs, it's the first game in ages I've been getting at all eager for.

Devlish · 26 Feb 2009 at 15:41

Errr has nobody seen that bleeding terrible flyboys movie? In fact that’s probably the inspiration of the game, at least it was the inspiration for something. Anyway, Americans in ww1, last year or so, the famous Lafayette escadrille (or however you spell that) had 40+ squadrons in france and about the same number of aces by wars end. Its actually a really good point to set a game in as the aircraft are fast and able to manoeuvre rather than flop around the sky trying to stay up, bombing etc has developed past the rear gunner chucking grenades and generally theres a lot more acm. They even tangled with the richtofen circus (it was an american gunner on the ground who claimed credit for shooting the baron down). Anyway promising.

Le_Petit_Lapin · 26 Feb 2009 at 15:46

IL2 doesn't have 64bit support either, yet runs perfectly fine.