Project Wingman

TL:DR - The missions can last for well over 30 mins, don't reward failure (not even like 10% or something), and have no checkpoints. People claim this game is a labour of love but the game design itself is so cruel it makes me wonder where the 'love' part is. Don't believe the hype. ======================================== This is one of the most time-disrespecful games I have ever have the misfortune of engaging with. The first four mission briefings told me NOTHING about what kind of combat to expect. No orders. Just a lore dump. 4 times in a row. So, naturally, I skipped the 5th one. At the end of the VERY long 5th mission - it was easily 30 mins long - I am asked to attack a certain target. I am not told that this target is under a structure and you need to fly low to the ground in order to attack it under the roof. Perhaps that was covered in the Mission Briefing - the one I skipped because the previous four were just a waste of time - but I doubt it. This game doesn't have a story. There is no effort at all to create a story. There is a plot that keeps getting repeated. This game feels like it was written by Netflix writers. This is not the place to discuss the difference between plot and story, but the short version is this: The plot is the events that happen. The story is how people react to the events that happen. At the end of the first mission, (spoiler), and your fellow squadron members says 'holy crap what the hell was that?', or something along those lines. Then, after (spoiler) one of them says a line that sounds like it was lifted from a Marvel film, and not one of the good ones. I can't say what the line is without giving away possible spoilers, so here's something similiar: 'Okay, I guess that just happened'. Some people will say 'these guys are indie, give them a break'. Okay. Cool. Let me finish the story from before. I do the Star Wars trench run like the game wants me to and take out the three remaining buildings. I am immediately swamped/ganked by high-level enemy fighters. 'No worries, I'm playing a game called Project Wingman, me and the rest of the squadron can handle this' Perhaps we could've, but I'll never know because they all ran away like scared little pissbabies. By the time I reliase I have literally no support from my squadron and are fighting *ridiculous* odds, the radio voice FINALLY decides to tell me that these guys are too powerful and that I should try to escape. LONG after it was actually possible. Even now some people will try to defend the devs. Wait. I'm not done yet. I played that mission for over 45 minutes and all I got for my efforts was a 'retry/quit' screen. Not, say, 10% of my earnings. Nothing. I hadn't failed any missions before so I didn't realise how anti-gamer the design was, and I've played too long to get a refund. ANOTHER ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ flight sim ruined by ♥♥♥♥♥♥ anti-gamer design. I don't know why I even bother at this point. - People will also rave on about the crew and how likeable they are, especially Prez. They must've gotten a different copy of the game, because the drivel I heard in this game didn't even have any personality beyond 'who cares as long as we get paid'. The voice acting itself is fine, but the devs literally-as-is-written spam the voice lines. The characters comment on every single thing you do, every time you lock on to an enemy or fire a missile they let you know that yes, you have actually just done the thing you wanted to do. OVER. AND OVER. AND OVER. AND OVER. wow if only there were some other way to give feedback to the player without nagging them They talk so much that it's amazing that they don't ACCIDENTALLY have a personality just from the fact that pareidolia exists. And they rarely say anything useful or meaningful, so it's all just noise ANYWAY. The flight itself is smooth and all that, but the game doesn't respect your time at all. They did well to make the game and all of that, but not having checkpoints in such long missions is just a ♥♥♥♥ move, it's that simple. Having said all of that: It's still a better game than Ace Combat 7.

Anniversary update broke VR menus for me every time I wanna exit a map and the hanger still has random lags, unplayable in VR now for me and that was my fav way to play.

Current Version has completly broken VR performance even on the Lowest settings. So its only playable on the Legacy Branch

An endearing love letter to the Ace Combat series in every meaningful way. From the title screen alone you know you're in for a treat, with heart worn proudly on their sleeve.

玩了好长时间了现在才想起评价，赶在AC8出来之前就把评价都写完吧。 首先游戏相当不错，老早之前版本的光污染情况降低了不少（老早之前玩的时候眼睛是真晃得受不了）。 后面补了59号前线的DLC，只能说这个dlc更是锦上添花。 提供两个比较影响游戏bug，希望官方看到的话能修复一下。 首先中文切换问题，打自定义模式的话就自动跳英语，但是不太影响主线和DLC，反正每次进游戏都得切换语言才行。 第二个就是DLC最终关你挂着KH38（空对地和反空母的导弹）炸死空母之后游戏就卡关了，你只能看着空母一直在飞，但是剧情就没继续下去，也没任何敌机和其他目标让你摧毁，然后看着boss机重创状态下一直爬升，你只能重开一场。

If you wanna get the game for the gameplay, GET IT!! ITS VERY GOOD. if you wanna get the game for the story, its okay at best. and it gets the point across well enough. If you're coming here from ace combat 7, i can WHOLEHEARTEDLY say that Project Wingman's gameplay is 10 times better by a loooooong shot. You can equip multiple special weapons (the amount depends on the aircraft) meaning you can actually perform multirole stuff. AND the enemy difficulty is MECHANICS, not numbers (ace combat 7 is numbers). Pushing the mission difficulty up means that the enemies you face actually get "smarter" and you can face a bigger variety of enemies different from normal difficulty (this is for mercenary difficulty, this game's version of "ace" difficulty) AAAAAND the boss fights/encounters in this game DONT FEEL LIKE COMPLETE ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ (ace combat 7 is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥). the boss fights are actually REPLAYABLE and >>FUN<<, and not just some enemy AI that can just turn better than you and pull sudden ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ 20G turns that only serve to be annoying. If you're considering between ace combat 7 and project wingman, and mostly prefer gameplay, get this instead.

优化一般，有中文设置bug，场景做的比较粗糙，空中云的呈现效果不好，但是话又说回来了，空战手感做的巨爽无比，可以开AOA爽爽的做机动，把街机空战做到极致也是一种本事，剧情出色不强制包汉堡，有隔壁zero的感觉，非常推荐游玩！

The game has a lot of positive marks, I don't want to undermine those. But NOT having the option to disable controller vibrations is NOT okay, not even for an indie game. People have requested this since launch judging by forum posts. Besides that, some of the voice acting is not up the same standard as the others, which kills the immersion. There's also some annoyances with regards to menu navigation with a controller. Like, some buttons you just can't select or navigate to (sell aircraft, for example) without a mouse. The controls/key bindings menu is a huge mess. Further negatives: - Enemies will just spawn directly on top of/below you during missions instead of joining near the map borders - No checkpoints during missions