Skies above the Great War

Picked this up on sale a few days ago and have not been able to put it down. While the game is not perfect, I found it to be very addictive. There does not appear to be a tutorial and there is not a lot of explanation in game (a civopedia type drop down might be a nice addition if the dev has time), but the steam discussion board has had fairly quick responses to questions that i have asked. I have also seen some bugs that were mentioned in the past that were fixed. I did not expect to like the arcade flight sim as I bought it simply for the strategy portion of the game. The mouse controls are a bit yippy, but it was fun to track down a zepplin and shoot it down. The strategy portion of the game has room for improvement, but I have had plenty of fun with the strategy portion of the game. There appear to be some oddities that hopefully the dev will address in the future: while you are able to make new bases while playing the campaign, it does not appear that the cpu opponent takes the opportunity to make new airbases in this version of the game (v2.1). Also, some of the variable mission assignments have not worked well (not sure if that is due to a mistake on my part or if its a bug - the dev has responded that he is looking into it). There are plenty of AI options to offload your workload in the game - the most frustrating part of the game for me personally is to not accidentally hit the airbase ai button while trying to select my planes that are over the base. It would be nice if we could check a box to turn those ai buttons off. I had such a blast with the game that i made a mini-mod called "First Base Start" that has one base on each side. This small mod lets you focus on one base until you get the hang of the controls in the game. I have seen some mentions in the discussion page of people that have problems with the game running. I have not had that experience. I have played the game on two computers - one is 14yo highend (at the time - at least i hope it was highend since I blew so much money on it) gaming laptop, the other is a mid quality (at the time) gaming desktop from about 6yo. The laptop has a little stutter now and then (but keep in mind its on its last legs) and it appears to run fine on the desktop.

Oui - ce jeu est sympa pas parfait mais petit budget (et petit prix aussi) on peut changer le nom de nos escadrilles, repeindre les avions, prendre le controle de ceux ci (pas le meilleur point le controle des avions est 6/10, mais reste sympa) le tout ensemble ça donne un petit coté RP / bac à sable au fan de vieux coucous de la WW1 ----------- yes - the game is fun not perfct low budget (but low price to) you manage you squadront (change paint, name of the squad) creat airfield and take control of the plane (that part is not top 6/10) but the all pack is nice and i don't know any other game like this. ------------------

Concept is good. The way the game executes it is just bad.

Игра с большим потенциалом.

Jeu très bien avec une super mécanique je le recommande c'est vraiment super d'avoir mixé stratégie et simulation avec différents types d'avions j'attend juste une petite mise à jour pour des vols plus fluides en simulation ;) en tout cas félicitations !

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Two games in one! A very (very, very) basic flight sim that is still a lot of fun, and a management game that is catnip for Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome junkies that lets you manage aerodrome, squadrons, planes, pilots, missions, etc. If you know who Werner Voss and Mick Mannock were, you are going to eat this game up!