
Experience the thrill of aerial combat with Aces of Thunder, the ultimate flight simulation game with high fidelity graphics that looks perfect both with and without VR HMDs.
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Experience the thrill of aerial combat with Aces of Thunder, the ultimate flight simulation game with high fidelity graphics that looks perfect both with and without VR HMDs.
The game's physically accurate flight and damage models derived from the popular War Thunder military action game ensure a high level of realism. The battles take place exclusively from the cockpit view to provide ultimate immersion and fully supports HOTAS controls. Aces of Thunder features a set of the most legendary WW1 & WW2 aircraft available to hop in and fly right upon purchase.
Perfect selection of WW2 aircraft
Fly 20+ carefully recreated iconic aircraft of World War II, such as the American P-51 Mustang and P-63 Kingcobra, the German Bf 109 and Fw 190, the Soviet Il-2 and Yak-9T, the British Spitfire and the Japanese A6M3 Zero.
A rare chance to fly Great War machines
Iconic fighters like the Fokker Dr.I, famously flown by the Red Baron himself, or the SPAD S.XIII, the favorite aircraft of René Fonck, Allies’ most decorated ace, will have authentically detailed cockpits and historically accurate weaponry.
All key theaters of war
Aces of Thunder battles will see you fighting across the world and getting a better idea of where the fate of war was decided. Visit 15 beautiful maps representing three key theaters of World War II: Western, Eastern and Pacific Fronts, as well as signature World War I frontlines.
Intense dogfighting
Fight online against the best virtual pilots from all over the world in multiplayer mode, or master your aircraft in exciting single player missions.
Full immersion
Jump right into one of the highly detailed interactive cockpits, literally controlling the aircraft with your own hands! Aces of Thunder will also allow you to walk around the hangar between missions to get a closer look at your favorite aircraft.
Made specifically for VR
Thanks to native use of OpenXR, a wide range of VR devices is supported. Put on your HMD, take your VR controllers and grab virtual HOTAS (or use your hardware sim rig or gamepad) and join the fight!
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Languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Russian, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Portuguese - Portugal +1 more
Engagement
Hours played at review time, across 43 reviews with recorded playtime.
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I set it up to use my T1600M with the generic joystick settings and it is great flying this way. I can feel the proper throttle movements I need in combat adding or reducing power gently or greatly unlike using the virtual hands. The few missions I have been on are alright and there is a built in mission editor. The aircraft are nicely modeled for the era and the scenery is beautiful. There aren't that many keys that need to be mapped if setting up a joystick, so it is a simplified sim, something lacking since the dawn of PC gaming. For me VR hands were a horror and I wouldn't recommended flying that way. But if you have a joystick, go for it.
This game is supposed to be playable with a HOTAS. It is NOT ! Whatever I tried (order of plugging and turning on, changing the usb ports, removing USB hub, even using joystick gremlin !), I never had working throttle and rudder. And the joke is that my HOTAS works perfectly in war thunder ! (and also in IL2 and DCS without having to make dozens of attempts). And, if it was not enough, when you try to to map your axes and buttons, the game remains locked on the mapping screen, waiting for an input that it is unable to manage ! And there is no esc button ! You must use alt tab to go out of the game and turn it off from the windows screen. What a nightmare ! What a joke ! Where are the programmers who worked so well on war thunder ?!
we know gaijin can make good games now
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