Vietnam War

The game is promising, but it is far too buggy at the moment. I'll start with the compliments and end with complaints. For the good: This game has a lot of promise, but that's the operative word: "Promise". It is fun to play initially, but the constant bugginess starts to get extremely annoying extremely fast. I love the open world concept, the arcade nature, the multiple expertise area (Infantry, Armor, SpecOps, Armor, Helos, Aircraft), and the objective systems. It is insanely fun to saturate an objective with bombs, rockets, and guns and then capture the point while fighting off the stragglers. The game's difficulty is a good balance, and you cannot just run and gun lone wolf and expect to live. The amount of different aircraft and vehicles in this game is awesome and extremely enjoyable to play. The detail applied to presenting the cockpit/interior of vehicles is impressive for an arcade game and the varying loadouts that can be applied means that each platform can provide varying approaches to attacking objectives. I personally enjoyed loading up 500 lb and rockets onto an OV-10 and saturating NVA strongholds with munitions. The F-4 Phantoms show promise with the old TV guided bombs, and they fly insanely fast. Lastly the scale of the world and the detail of the regions is an awesome touch. THE BAD 1. Bore sight on the vehicles is wildly off. 3rd person crosshairs will be perfectly centered on target and when zoom is applied, the optic is wildly misaligned; I'd estimate nearly 5-15* of traversal. It makes engaging fast moving infantry with a tank coax super annoying, as the misaligned slew is disorienting and reacquiring targets is spatially difficult. 2. Vehicles keep double spawning on top of each other. I have died multiple times due to 2 of the same helicopter spawning atop each other, which will cause the first takeoff to most assuredly flip over and crash; Luckily I wasn't playing hardcore mode (Permadeath aka no respawns), but this bug makes hardcore mode unplayable. 3. Region loading: While it makes sense to chunk the game up into boundaries, this is impractical if you are attacking an objective that borders 2+ regions. It is super annoying and unplayable to be in the middle of a nose down rocket dive and then suddenly the game freezes while the region loads. And for reference, I am running a 4080ti. If I'm having this problem, so is everybody else. And it happens every single time. 4. Air strikes via radio: the air strike drops right on top of your position, not a configurable distance, nor an offset with a bearing from your position. Right on top of you. Order in a B-52? Well, you better be in the middle of the enemy base or else its wasted... and you're running for your life so you don't get fragged. Also, you can't control the attack vector, which is crucial for a good strike. 5. Ammunition effects: A 500 lb bomb and its lethal radius is considerable. While this game is not milsim, it is disappointing to drop dummy 500 lb bombs essentially on the target while moving at mach jesus and then paradropping in to find the area of effect to be comically small. Same for high explosive/frag rounds on the tanks; I was defending a FOB from NVA attack, and there was a group of 5 infantry in the open in a loose formation all within ~5 meters. I placed HE in the middle of the group and it only dropped 2. Beings that ammo is limited (you can RTB to a pad and resupply) this should be fixed. 6. Great for infantry, armor, and helos.... not so great for fixed wing aircraft. While it is playable, the fixed wing aspect is somewhat limited as the land is quickly obscured in a ground haze if you climb too high. This doesn't prevent you from conducting strafing runs, but it does prevent the pop-up, nose down dives that CAS conducted in Vietnam without getting disoriented on where the target is. Once again, fixed wing is playable, but it could be much better. Also, the F-4 phantom flies like a bat out of hell true to form, but it does make the game quite laggy when trying to use free camera slew. Also, the fixed wing physics of flight seem like it's just helicopter physics applied to a fixed wing aircraft; Not a game breaker, but it is odd to essentially do a tail slide drift in an OV-10. I found it difficult to use the L/R mouse movement for aileron control, so I resorted to Yaw (via A& D) and Pitch (up/down on the mouse) and it worked pretty well. 7. Customizable controls: Remapping is a necessity. I don't like having to rapidly flick my mouse just to roll my helo to stay upright, and I would like to remap other items to different hotkeys; I don't use smoke grenades, but I was constantly reaching to hit "0" and then "1" to heal, and also "9" and "1" & "2" for rations and water. 8. Resupply/Repair points: Only complaint is fuel is not automatically applied, and fuel cans are oddly absent from around helipads/airfields/ground vehicle spawn points. This is the least of my complaints and somewhat easily remedied by running around the base like a moron looking for an armory or a random spawn of jerry cans, but it is annoying -especially since the repair point has fuel cans stacked around it that you cannot interact with. Once again, great game if the Dev keeps at it. I will probably keep playing from time to time, but it is far too buggy to pour a ton of my time into at this moment. Best of luck to the Dev and I hope he continues to evolve this awesome idea.