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.

如果最后一个成就不是佣兵等级30的化就算满分游戏了，佣兵等级太难刷了，空战容易和大型飞机撞在一起

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.

Mi madre me dio la vida, Project Wingman las ganas de vivirla <3 Juegazo con todas las letras, no tiene absolutamente nada que envidiarle a Ace Combat. La historia es genial, muy atrapante; la música es un deleite para los oídos, aunque la haya hecho un francés (probablemente el único que se ha ganado mi respeto); el manejo de los aviones está muy bien logrado, se siente en cada tonel, en cada maniobra, todo el peso del fuselaje. Quizás lo único que le habría faltado serían algunas cinemáticas. En especial para el final que, aunque te eriza los pelos de los huevos, siento que es excesivamente ambiguo; sí, ya sé que terminar la campaña en dificultad mercenario desbloquea unos diálogos extra en los créditos, pero a mí no eso no me sirve. El DLC Frontline 59 también es genial, cortito y al grano. Son seis misiones bastante intensas que suceden al mismo tiempo que la trama principal pero desde el punto de vista de la Federación. A decir verdad, me gustó mucho más que el juego base.

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！

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

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.