Nuclear Option

I'd love to recommend this software, I really would. My plane keeps snapping back to a point where the nose was three seconds ago. It's annoying as hell. Apparently this is normal. This is par for the course. This is how flying works. This is called 'fly-by-wire'. I want you to look at every single gif here on the store page, and ask yourself why this is never shown in the gifs. Then I want you Ctrl-F the store page and do a search for the word 'wire', and ask yourself why you can't find it. Something about that just don't sit right with me. This is a legit flight sim. This is not a game. This is a way for actual pilots to wind down. There is no good reason to hide this information. I feel like I got scammed. And just to top it all off, the gamepad support is a joke. You can rebind all the stuff you want, that's good. But the tutorials are for mouse and keyboard and they interrupt the flow of the game. I wanted to learn how to play the game, so I loaded a tutorial mission and picked up my gamepad. The 'take off' tutorial told me to drive around a corner, which I did. The tutorial stopped me in the middle of that corner - paused the gameplay - and put a wall of text on the screen. I pressed my gamepad buttons but nothing helped. I had to use my mouse to close that text. How am I supposed to close that text with a mouse while still turning a corner with my gamepad at the exact same time? Naturally, I drive completely off the runway because I wasn't able to turn hard enough, because I was interrupted by the tutorial text. This was my first experience with the game. Then the screen starts spamming me with a bunch of irrevelant crap, while I'm just trying to get my damn plane back on the runway, but I can't, because one of the wings is now completely broken. I don't know how to fix that, or if that's even possible. I don't know if I'm just supposed to respawn or carry on or what. Look at my playtime. I spent over an hour setting up this ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ thing, and the tutorial was so useless that I ended up just flying on a random map - which is how I found out about the fly-by-wire thing. The community say turning off the wind helps. It doesn't. Imagine you're eating a hotdog and it falls in a pile of ♥♥♥♥, so you pick up the hotdog and wipe as much ♥♥♥♥ as you can off it. It's still got ♥♥♥♥ on it. Turning off the wind is like wiping the ♥♥♥♥ off that hotdog - it's less ♥♥♥♥♥♥ than it was before, sure, but it's still pretty ♥♥♥♥♥♥. The devs literally stated themselves that the fly-by-wire won't be leaving the game any time soon, if at all. The idea for this game is amazing, but my entire experience with it was just one annoyance after another. I didn't get a refund purely because I was impressed by the amount of effort that's gone into the game apart from the tutorials. I'd say avoid this completely unless you know someone who already plays it. Total waste of money for me and it might be for you as well.

So far not bad, somewhere between DCS and Ace Combat, with that nuclear flare that makes the planes unique while seeing their inspirations. I have a few gripes with some of the lock on/ Radar mechanics but otherwise its a fun game to play after the initial learning curve

If you ever feel tempted to spend $80 on a warthunder jet pack, please reconsider your life choices and get this awesome game instead

Damn, that is pretty good!

ABSOLUTE NUCLEAR

It's a fun gam!

Amazing value, my friends and I have loved getting to grips with this game. It's a fantastic combination of depth and accessibility and I'd recommend it to anyone with even a passing interest in combat flight games.

War Thunder is litterally dreaming of being this good