Anyone played nuclear option?

KWAB

Does it have a single player mode

>>713824101
Ye

>>713824574
Neat
I'm very bad at planes so I imagine I would just annoy everyone if I went online

Always observe proper airport procedure

>>713825539
True
https://files.catbox.moe/vdunf0.webm

>>713825539
here's your realistic flight model bro

>>713827703
Prove that a vortex can't fly like that. Pro tip: you can't.

>>713823295 (OP)
Kek based

>>713827703
In thrust we trust

>>713823295 (OP)
The British really did this in WW2

>>713823295 (OP)
why wouldnt this work?

>>713823295 (OP)
no im still waiting for release

>>713823295 (OP)
Would this work in real life?

>>713828457
>>713828524
spitfires did this to buzz bombs during the blitz

>>713828610
no the missile would have corrected itself

>>713825539
>>713823295 (OP)
These are the only two webms I always see of this game

Is this the thread?

>>713828725
What about this one?

>>713828641
no it wouldn't shut up nerd

>>713828641
A modern missile might, but the V1 had a mechanical autopilot that couldn't really be fucked with or else it would just fail.

>>713828992
This is why they should have gone with the pigeons

>>713828919
No I must admit I have not seen this one before.
also kek

>>713828919
>Cricket abuse
wtf

>>713829996
Crickets are bullybait

>>713828741
no billy bob thorton?

>>713825539
>it's not taking off that's the problem, it's landing
Not with fucking VTOL. Why did this never become the fucking standard? I could become a top ACE fighter jet pilot in five seconds if I never had to land the standard ever again.

>>713832420
VTOL is just as difficult if not harder. you have to control thrust on the wingtips to make sure you don't roll all over the place. i can't imagine anything thinking hovering is easy to maneuver than landing a plane. you at least have speed on your side with a plane to ensure stability. with vtol, you're praying you either have autopilot or godlike skills that make helo pilots jealous.

>>713833460
Just have autopilot guide you

This game is one of the few I've broken my “no early access” rule for, it’s super fun. What they don't want you to know is that its a MOBA in disguise…

>>713823295 (OP)
The game is a lot of fun. The gag liveries are something else, just pulled this one off the workshop. People routinely make liveries to commemorate their dead cats.

>>713837870
You weren't kidding

>>713823295 (OP)
DAMN, SCARFACE!

>>713828919
What is this, the G.I Joe cartoon?

>>713840601
More ridiculous
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAIT74_eSHU

>>713828919
How has Hollywood NEVER thought of this?

>>713827703
IRL has shit flight models as well, to be fair

>>713841719

>>713841719
I mean, you'd think this is impossible, but an F-15 has literally landed with one wing before. Who knows what's possible with enough thrust.

>>713841719
God it must be terrifying in that cockpit

>>713841880
>an F-15 has literally landed with one wing before

>>713828919
Top Gun 3 looks like fun.

>>713841719
Insanely fucked up how that thing is the same size as a strategic heavy bomber in WW2.

>>713841719
THRUST VECTORING OWNS THE SKIES.

THIS THING CAN TURN ON A DIME MACROSS ZERO STYLE.

whats the difference between Scythes and Scimitars?

>>713827605
What video is this from?

What is the best way to take out corvettes and destroyers without nukes? Is there a way to do it that isn't suicidal?

>>713843258
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqWioTm9ZAs
My favorite nuclear option channel, despite the ai voice

>>713843210
well one is a tool for cutting grass and the other is a type of sword

>>713843210
Scymitars accelerate a good bit slower but their top speed is like mach 4.

>>713823295 (OP)
FUCK that little island on that many-island map
>>713843425
there are torpedoes or how they're called, but you need more than one
just hug the water and get as close as possible

>>713842749
Back to 2003 with you

I hope they add bigger planes at some point.

>>713828919
>pull this off and raise gear
>MISSILE [SARH]
>MISSILE [SARH]
>MISSILE [SARH]
>MISSILE [IR]

>>713844181
I feel like the warzone created in this game is far too hectic and the maps too small for big slow planes to play an interesting role. No way you'd get even halfway through a submarine hunting mission (I assume that plane is a jewish sub hunter?) before a SAM took you out.

>>713841719
God military technology is so fucking cool bros

>>713843210
Scimitar's faster but less agile and takes a bit to get up to speed, so harder to dodge at long range but easier to dodge at medium and pretty much unusable at close.

>>713844842
Okay what about tiny planes?

>>713844842
The tarantula exists

>>713845716
Yeah, but what does he have to do with planes?

>>713845474
>don't talk to me or my son ever again

>>713823295 (OP)
Heard about it recently. Sweet webm.

>>713828919
Take off every ZIG.
You know what you doing.
For great justice.

>>713845716
It's big but not HUGE. It's a C-130 crossed with a V-22. Fuck, I bet this is a maintenance nightmare.

>>713847228
Imagine how many hookers you can pack into that thing

>>713847228
>how do we maximize the number of dead marines per airplane

>you can direct friendly NPCs on the map
Nobody told me

>>713847585
To minimize time within range of the enemy, we perform a high altitude vehicle insertion. It's perfectly safe.

>>713847715
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zgn_IFQj2aY

>>713847715

How is the online? Are people fairly welcoming or will you be kicked if you're not good

>>713848135
Seconding this

>>713847715
>>713847880

>>713847228
It's amusing how autotilt is essentially trying to kill you at all times on that thing. Personally one of my favourite aircraft. I'm hoping for ground attack or tactical bomber soon.

>>713848135
I have 150 hours ingame and have only ever been kicked like once. Most people play PvE where being co-op curbs the sweatiness and people are chill but there's also PvP and fuck around in free flight servers here and there

>>713848135
>>713849746
It's the opposite, you'll be kicked if you're too good. Or at least it used to be that way when pvp was still popular. Right now it's 80% pvp 20% pve. The only popular pvp server is reaching battlefield server levels of over moderation as well, the admin/owner likes to go through the chat logs to ban people for no-no topics, there's now a leaderboard plugin that occasionally spams chat, things like that. No worries about getting shit on for being bad, just don't nuke your own airbase or something retarded like that

>>713841880
IN THRUST WE TRUST

>>713851595
>>713851707
Oh there's a PVE multiplayer? Oh shit yeah that changes things, that's way more what I'm into. Thanks anons

>>713851707
Fuck, typo
>Right now it's 80% pvp 20% pve
I meant 80% pve 20% pvp, the dev also apparently enjoys pve more.

seems intredasting... might pick it up if it can basically be a coop flight sim. doubt it's arcade-y like ace combat or project wingman, but i can live with that

medusa my beloved
nothing better than duct-taping down the fire button with 4 pods loaded, locking up an enemy carrier group and watching the assists roll in

>>713853532
Did you miss the plane flying backwards and ascending in VTOL?

>>713841719
What a beaut.

>>713853690
The Medusa is such a weird plane. Everything else in the game is a racemixed child of two other planes (Tarantula=C130+V22) or a failed military bid (Chicane=Comanche), but then there is the Medusa and it's not like anything that exists. AV8 Harrier + E2 Hawkeye + Su34 Fullback + EA18 Growler + F117 Nighthawk???

>>713853532
For me I find it has just the right mix of sim and arcade. Enough realism for offensive and defensive stuff to be engaging, but not so realistic that its a ball ache. I especially enjoyed that RCS is modelled now.

>>713855451
it's definitely got a lot of Tacit Blue in it, sort of a futuristic kitbash of that + Su34 nose with Harrier nozzles
just bolting EW pods to one of the existing fighters probably would have been more realistic but it's way cooler to have this incredibly oddball airframe with zero real-world analogues

>>713841880
>wings optional

>>713828919
https://youtu.be/lzXbTfgoMac?list=RDlzXbTfgoMac

>>713823295 (OP)
I want to learn to 3d modeling just to have my designs modded in to this game.

So, is this game more arcadey? Sim? How does it play?

noh

>>713863198
It's in between, maybe leaning a bit more simmy. I'd compare it to playing an old school '90s sim like Strike Eagle or Falcon on easy mode.

>>713864184
I'll keep an eye on it.

>>713825539
I don't know how to initiate VTOL, what's the command?

>>713828919
99% of pubs are retards sinking their own carrier by crashing on the deck and that's why I hate online play

>>713847589
Nobody told me either what the fuck

>>713851469
>It's amusing how autotilt is essentially trying to kill you at all times on that thing.
Just like the real V22

>>713842193
for a russian stunt pilot? bet he's having the time of his life between drinking radar coolant and doing that

>>713843425
That ship looks kinda big so I will assume that's a destroyer.
Can you destroy a carrier with a single frigate or destroyer? Or they would just bomb your ship to dust with jet fighters?

Plens are cool. Drones a shit.

Would this game be fun for a two player co-op or is the pve designed around a lot of players

>>713869203
;_;7

>>713869419
umm bro this is /v/ nobody actually plays videogames so nobody can answer your question

>>713870398
N

>>713869203
Can you remind what game that song is from? I know it, but can't peg it.

>>713870574
https://youtu.be/U3hXzOiPcTM

>>713869419
I think it would still be fun, and there's definitely PVE missions available on the workshop designed around 1-4 players.
Even singleplayer can be fun, though I prefer PVP.

>>713871110
What about the actual song, not a cover with 70 views?

>>713871449
I have no idea what the actual song is.

>>713841468
The US military has pretty strict rules if you want to use their hardware in a movie, one of them is probably not being allowed to show a sinking carrier

>>713871590
Found it. It's from Kingdom Hearts 2, which I've never played. I know I've heard it before though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sihC5l_gIak

>>713842431
what the fuck

>>713863198
It's set in the near future, all the planes in the game are extremely capable and have extreme thrust, except for the bomber. You can take off in like 100m, half the players online just take off straight from the hanger and don't bother with the runway.
Weapon damage is fairly realistic, bombs generally won't destroy more than the single vehicle that they hit. All weapons except for your main cannon are guided though.
You are limited to carrying a fairly realistic amount of weapons on your plane, you have to land to rearm.
Missiles can't be dodged by just pulling back on your stick and flying in a loop. You need to flare, notch and jam, or run the missile out of energy. Your missile warning system very helpfully tells you what kind of missiles are heading towards you so that you know what you need to do to defeat them. Oh, and you can also just shoot down incoming missiles with your own, that's always an option.
Damage to different parts of the aircraft are simulated, as opposed to the planes just exploding after being damaged to 0hp. Also limited damage modeling on ships, at the very least you can knock out their radar without sinking the whole ship.
Weapon ranges are pretty far. The smaller map is like 50km across, the shorter range radar missiles can basically reach across the whole map if launched from high altitude. The air launched ballistic missiles in the game have a max range of over 500km, the larger island map is only like 150km across or something.
You black out for a few seconds if you turn too hard.

Anyway, it's somewhere between arcade and sim, but the planes it "simulates" are fictional future planes, and the future tech makes it feel more arcadey.

>>713828919
KINO

Is there a rule that every near future military sci-fi has to assume that the RAH-66 Comanche was brought back to serve? Will this thing live rent free in the minds of military otaku millenials forever?

>>713866501
In the controls menu there should be an slot for manual vectoring up and down.
>>713851469
I think I crashed it like 20 times in the tutorial mission before I turned off autotilt and managed to land it first try. Genuinely have no idea what the flight computer expects me to do.

>>713873550
>In the controls menu there should be an slot for manual vectoring up and down.
It's "Custom Axis 1". What the fuck no wonder I never noticed.

>>713841880
With enough thrust anything can fly.
But particularly for fighters, maneuverability is prioritized over lift efficiency.

>>713873398
Fuck you. It was cool.

>>713872454
modern* fighters are xbox huge, gotta fit all that fuel and avionics somewhere
but the Flanker platform is notably big even by air superiority fighter standards
*modern = 60 years old or so

I want to become a plane autist but I don't really know where to start. Are there forums I can look at? 4chan threads? Even, god forbid, subleddits?

>>713869203
Is this real? The way it flounders at the end kind of looks like AI.

Does it have VR?

Is this game more like DCS or war thunder?
I like the massive size of DCS but it lacks proper "game" modes.

Would really love to see this happen to Brampton

>>713874482
Not yet, I think it's pretty far down the list on the devs roadmap

>>713823295 (OP)
I'm told it's pretty CPU heavy which is very much my PCs weakest link so I haven't bothered, I'll stick to VTOL VR for now

>>713874467
>Is this real?
Nope. Western powers made up the articles that match the date and vehicle in the filename.

>>713874816
When the FUCK are we getting a sequel or remake to Ace Combat 3?

>>713874803
Closer to war thunder, without the f2p bullshit that comes with it.
The basic PVP mode has two sides trying to support the advance of their ground and naval units.

>>713874467
Used books. They're dirt cheap and made by plane autists, for plane autists. Look up your favorite airframe on abebooks or similar and you'll probably be able to find something in good condition for a few dollars shipped. The Super Blue series is also worth looking into if you just want to ogle photos of various NATO fighters without getting bogged down in technical autism.

>>713828919
<<AND THAT WILL GIVE THE FLIGHT DECK THE ELEVATION IT NEEDS>>

>>713841853
Jesus christ is that real

>>713876171
PICTURE IT

>>713828450
Exactly.

>>713828919
>A FUCKING RAMP

>>713874864
It's not very demanding

>>713869203
What am I looking at?

>>713828641
THE MISSILE KNOWS WHERE IT IS AT ALL TIME

>>713828919
Ace combat 5 moment

Meant to do that

How the fuck do I fly the helicopter?

Good morning plane nerds why has nobody mentioned each aircraft having a WWE entrance theme when you take off in one for the first time during a match?

>>713871632
Wasn't the entire Battleship move built around warships failing to get shit done until the end of the movie?

do you need hotas to play this or is gamepad fine

>>713882041
Even mouse and keyboard is fine, due to the virtual joystick thing it does

>>713882041
Mouse and keyboard is fine, in fact it's preferable since it's easier to click targets on the map and quickly change target filters

>>713881873
Just fly it? What are you having trouble with exactly?

>>713828919
The journey begins...
Starts from within...
THINGS THAT I NEED
TO KNOW

>>713882468
I can't do any precise maneuvering with it
>yeah bro just land on this moving ship to continue the mission

>>713823295 (OP)
Modern times non arcade flight games have this gay "shoot at barely visible pixels with missiles from 40 km away" bullshit so I'm not interested.

>>713882613
You can do this, but it really only works against the AI, or to annoy people while they're trying to bomb something. All the real combat takes place within visual range.

>>713882745
Still it's just slinging missiles at each other and not actual dogfights

>>713840914

>>713882879
Autocannons and machine guns are quite effective

>>713842431

>>713841719
I am erect

>>713841719
The Flanker dancing gracefully while choking its pilots and before crashing into a residential commie block

>>713843425
Jam them and shoot anti-radiation missiles at them.

>>713867109
They recently made a Gripen fly and fight BVR completely autopiloted. The future is now old man. Soon we will be fetishising our robot guardians.

>>713885430
>Guardians
A Belkan wrote this post

>>713823295 (OP)
>Approximately how long will this game be in Early Access?
>“Nuclear Option will be in Early Access well into 2024, and perhaps beyond. To us, Early Access is not an excuse to ship a sub-par game, but a commitment to continue improving the game for as long as we're able.”
Yeah that's a no from me.

>>713882571
Get behind the ship and line up your velocity vector with it. As you approach you'll need to pitch up to drop speed, make sure to drop your collective when pitching up to avoid gaining altitude. Once you've matched speeds you just need very fine movements to position yourself, and then land. The main things usually with whatever you're doing is small cyclic movements and keeping an eye on the velocity vector.

>>713885478
>belkans are behind THIS
Conflict with Belka ended, now drones are my best friends

>First officer Anon, that beeping is bothering me. I'm going to pull the circuit breaker.
How do you respond without sounding mad?

>>713828610
Try that with a V2, limey cocksuckers

>>713840914
TWRs > 1.0 are something else

>>713840914
disappointed at the ending.

>>713885928
Drop to 20m

yeah, great game.
i suggest getting liveries and custom missions in the workshop.
nothing quite like doing a 3 hour sortie.

>>713843425
>heli lunging forward due to momentum
kek

>>713888572
I'll do that when I actually buy it

Flight sims without VR is pointless.

>>713885928
>but saar the autopilo-
15 seconds later everyone is dead

tanks will ALWAYS be cooler suck on it planefags

>>713889969
Shut the fuck up
I'm so fucking tired of you vrcucks with your dumb screen taped to your head
Blowing a fucking fan in my face while playing is more immersive than anything your gay head gear can produce

After going down the rabbit hole of plane incidents, I'm convinced that the aircraft is sentient and actively wants to kill you.
I will never ride a plane ever again, safest form of travel my ass.

>>713890026
tank games are dead as fuck. When was the last time steel beasts had an update?

>>713890087
>t. 2d peasant
VR has more impact than going from flat screen to headtracker.
>inb4 peasant never even used head trackers

>>713823295 (OP)
only tried Atomic Settings. Is it as good as Uran Considerations?

>>713889969
Only flight sim I like playing in VR is VTOL

>>713889969
I think they plan to add it eventually.
I'd like it, but currently performance on heavily populated servers goes to shit pretty quickly, I can't imagine it being great in VR.

>>713841719
>weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
That's my feeling

>>713884242
The chocking is f35 meme.

>>713890395
VTOL is neat. Feels like KSP with first person mods.

>>713876517
>chat getting flooded makes it look like a French flag
It's the little things.

so dead

Just pirated it. Let's see what it's like.

>>713892771
Did you get stratolanced?

>>713823295 (OP)
I played it. Can't say I'm very good at it or very invested.
I'm just waiting it get more stuff for the moment.
And the dev is actually very productive.
I'm expecting a submarine and anti-submarine helicopter gameplay at this point.

>>713832420
>>713833460
>>713834823
AI-piloted fighters are inevitable, even with humans on-board, it is an obvious addition in case the pilot loose consciousness from being too awesome and high G-force.
Top-level airfighter are already too complex to be flown without computers doing most of the job. The only limitation is the inability of computer to recognize its surrounding and now AI is reaching that level.

So the pilot would only be in to give orders. Such as "take off" "kill this" "land here".

>>713871632
Transformers 2 has a very famous carrier sinking scene, and that whole movie is basically a giant US military ad.

>>713842431
wtf

>>713890875
Kek

>>713841880
There's also the story of a A-10 that landed with one wing.

Apparently, landing gear and canopy are also optional.
https://www.jetsprops.com/news/the-a-10-that-landed-without-landing-gear-or-canopy.html
And one of the engine is also superfluous
https://theaviationgeekclub.com/the-story-of-kim-campbell-the-heroic-female-a-10-pilot-who-landed-her-damaged-warthog-using-only-cranks-and-cables/

I wouldn't mind a A-10 in this game but there would not be enough tanks to shoot.

>>713896013
I love A-10s so much bros

>>713896013
You can get some decent value from the cricket with cannons if you make sure not to underestimate the ground AI

>>713896013
There's also a story of a woman falling out of a plane 6 miles in the air without a parachute and surviving. The plane is optional.

>>713825539

>>713896279
>Kowalski stop fucking around 5 million civilians have just been bombed

>>713851595
>>713852690
>PVE multiplayer
I no longer buy a game that don't offer this.
It's not that I hate other because I'm loosing all the time (true tho)
It's that if a developer is too lazy or incompetent to code AIs, the game is certainly shit and he is hoping players fix his shit mechanic.

>>713896374

>>713896374
>…no.

>>713896013
>Apparently, landing gear and canopy are also optional.
Not that crazy. Most planes should be able to land without gear. I've done it countless times in nuclear option and DCS in various planes, sometimes even on purpose!
>I wouldn't mind a A-10 in this game but there would not be enough tanks to shoot.
Not true, destroying tanks is already basically the main purpose of the helicopter.

>>713827703
>>713828363
yea this is why they require math degrees to fly fighters

>>713825539
There's VTOL jets?

>>713841853
>>713876175
What am I looking at
What's the big tic tac thing

When will games add drone swarms that fire a2a missiles over the horizon for 1/10000th the cost of a next gen jet fighter

>not on sale
why

>>713873398
>to assume that the RAH-66 Comanche was brought back to serve?
You can't say that when when we almost get a new try at the concept.
https://breakingdefense.com/2024/02/army-cancels-fara-helicopter-program-makes-other-cuts-in-major-aviation-shakeup/

Guess we just decided to just go all drones and only keep helicopter that carry stuff.
I can understand obviously.

>>713896918
Its only twenty bucks cmon now

>>713823579
I don't know what this means and I am really tired of seeing it.

Say that out loud.
Do you realize how fucking retarded you sound?

reminder that there are now ballistics in the game

>>713896685
A classified, fully automated cargo delivery device. It's used to transfer goods between land or ships and underwater bases.

>>713896229
>You can get some decent value from the cricket with cannons if you make sure not to underestimate the ground AI
It's nice to see a game had less "cool" unit like this.
I can understand jumping straight to the Tarentula for the need to deploys units, but I kinda want something like a Hind. It is a shame the developer can't afford to have two armies with different design clue.

>>713896603
>Not true, destroying tanks is already basically the main purpose of the helicopter.
Oh, I meant it in that it would be too effective, soloing the entire map.

>>713898085
I believe the current plans is to separate the forces actually, in carrier deployments they already have unique carriers that can only deploy certain aircraft

>>713897773
I wanna believe you because that's so much cooler than the UFO explanation.

As it stands I think the BDF has the Vortex, Revoker and Tarantula locked into their side and PALA has the Ifrit and Compass on theirs, next aircraft (I think) is gonna be a cargo helicopter to be a PALA equivalent of the Tarantula.

>>713898085
>Oh, I meant it in that it would be too effective, soloing the entire map.
doubtful. It would be missile bait, and lining up gunshots is slow. But if you can clear out enemy fighters and air defenses, you deserve a cheap way to clear out everything else.
And it still probably wouldn't be as effective as a darkreach or a tarantula in gunship configuration.

>>713897157
50% off and I'll buy it

>>713890658
Why does the F35 make ESL seethe so much?

Where does this game fall on the Ace Combat to DCS spectrum?

>>713898345
I remember hearing different from the dev.
Saying he set up a Civil war context especially to do that.
It doesn't mean aircraft can't be from different manufacturer but it's still the problem of the devs making more aircraft for the same role and needing to balance them.

>>713899342
I'd say in the middle, but that's pretty subjective. I covered some different points here >>713873026
Any specific questions?

>>713898823
what do you mean? That's literally was the meme, because of the piping issue or something that could cause pilots to suffocate.

>>713899397
Yeah I was slightly misremembering, you’re not gonna be locked out but they wanna promote using mainly your faction’s stuff.

>>713842431
>>713874236
Exactly. Switching to VR completely blown me away when I joined the formation of F15E's and saw how fucking HUEG and fat they actually are. It completely inverts your expectations. The cockpit you used to see up close in 2d becomes absolutely fucking tiny, but the plane itself is humongous.

>>713900892
Maybe they could just increase the prices of the other faction's vehicles

>>713899342
War Thunder flight model with Ace Combat vehicles

>>713901569
They could also make it so that you don't get them free when ranking up and you can only fly them by purchasing them.

>>713901770
Maybe you can get them if they crash land in your territory but don't get completely destroyed during landing. Although you'd have to impose some kind of penalty to totaling your aircraft because otherwise the opposing faction would just make sure to always destroy their planes when they crash

>>713896637
Ye

>>713901916
That seems overly restrictive. I crash land helicopters sometimes for shits and giggles even though they have an ejection seat, but I'm pretty sure planes aren't surviving anything after the pilot ejects under basically any circumstances. It's hard enough to land a heavily damaged plane on your own runway, you can't really do it outside of a runway and trying to do it on an enemy runway will get you torn to shreds.

>>713823295 (OP)

>>713828919
Kinooooo

>>713899342
It's on the F22 Lightning 3 level

>>713900752
And had zero pilot deaths vs a Su 35 literally choking the pilots and crashing into a residential block

>>713904646
>being that butthurt over memes
Literally google "f35 suffocation"

>>713903125
Rude

>>713897305
kion

>>713841719
It's always weird seeing this and then realizing that thing is 40 feet long and weighs as much as a house. Looks like a toy without any perspective.

>>713823295 (OP)
Is this an accurate representation how they intercept missiles IRL?

>>713842431
i can't believe someone privately bought an su-27 for 5mil.

>>713896013
I'd love to get inside that
the woman, not the plane

>>713909995
gay

>>713909314
It was in WWII, before bongs had V-T fuses from the USA the safest way to take down a V-1 was to have a spitfire fly up to it and flip it over by its wing so it goes off target and lands in some random field instead of downtown London. Shooting with ground artillery flak was hard since it was small and fast, and shooting it in a fighter required you to be dangerously close to a live bomb going off. Easier just to bully it into crashing.

>>713896276
Everyone else in the plane died though.

>>713910113
Sorry, I don't make the rules

Annettes before jets

>>713910215
>stay in plane
>die
>leave plane
>live
Simple as

for me it's the catalina. flying boats are kino

>>713910197
How were they able to detect them and scramble a spitfire and perform the maneuver before it hit it's target*

>>713910591
>leave
The plane broke apart in the air and she got lucky with the section she was in taking the fall for her.

>>713910830
We call that involuntary leaving

>>713910641
For me it's the flying banana, I love the propeller setup

>>713910669
Chain home, and signal flares shot by spotters

>>713823295 (OP)
ah so this is how interceptors work

>>713910669
>detect them
radar
>scramble a spitfire and perform the maneuver before it hit it's target
Standing patrols, a lot of them. It's one of the reasons the V1 was actually a pretty cost-effective weapon — it took the enemy a significant amount of resources to intercept and they still couldn't do so reliably.
And the V1 was cheap.

>>713896013
Maybe she should've stayed home and raised 2-3 future fighter pilots instead of becoming one herself.

>>713903125
BUZZ, THE WING! THE WING!!

What are ya, ON A BREAK!?

>>713912969
She needed to learn the skills to pass them down to her children

>>713913598
She could've just read about it online instead of wasting all of her best years struggling to learn how to fly. The bitch looks like she's in her 30s in this photo.

Her eggs were all dropped like the bombs dropped during Desert Storm and now her cargo bay and armory are both old and empty.

>>713897269
KWAB

>>713897269
>doesn't know what it means
>seethes anyway
KWAB

>>713913848
How do you know she wasn't flying while pregnant to introduce flight to her children while they're in the womb?

>>713897269
"Kek, What A Bitch"

>>713846286

>>713914160
Like most women here age, she watched Sex and the City and thought she should date a warthog instead.

Unfortunately, all that does is shoot a fat load of lead, not spunk.

>>713914236
That doesn't even make any sense.
It's like saying that LWAF now suddenly means "Lol, what a faggot".

>>713914574
I don't know, I think it's an /sp/ meme
It doesn't have to make sense

>>713914092
>>713914143
>reddit safe swear
KWAN

>>713914574
>>713914690
lurk moar

I've been trying to do the fucking infiltration mission for 3 fucking hours at this point

>>713828741
Which one was the one where the guys fucking fought while the plane was falling and managed to subdue the guy that was trying to crash it?

>>713828741
FedEx 705
The hijacker was Arburn Calloway, he's down in D tier.

Does the game allow to rescue pilot? Is it done with the big one?

>>713916482
>>713917013
forget the video link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzOxwopUn7Y&t=2m30s

>>713917098
I think a pilot is considered rescued if he lands on friendly soil and captured otherwise. But I'm not sure there's anything more to it than fluff text

>>713917098
Yeah you can pick them up in the tarantula

>>713897269
YWNKWKM

>>713915691
>too afraid to say NIGGER
>pretends to be an oldfag

>>713917743
Because Kevin Nash isn't a nigger you retard, although he did meet some dark strangers in an alley in the sweltering summer of '92.

>>713828741
Why is it all in Spanish?

>>713918286
Parody of dbz power ranking charts (spics love dragonball)

>>713918090
ok, NIGGER

>>713916162
I'M GOING TO LOSE MY FUCKING MIND OVER THIS SHIT WHICH FUCKING NIGGER DESIGNED HELICOPTERS I'M GOING TO DEFILE HIS FUCKING GRAVE

>>713841719
>rocket league music starts playing

>>713896961
Luv me cricket

Where is the Compass love?
>>713916162
>>713919685
I think that was the only SP mission I completed first try lol. I had no idea what do with the Medusa tutorial mission so I just don't touch it.

What does the radar jammer DO exactly?

>>713922753
The medusa mission is easy as shit, target the things, fire your super long range missiles, and then switch to your jamming pods (not the counter measures, the weapons) and jam the radar missile launchers until the missiles wipe them out (so long as you hold down attack the targeted units are jammed, provided you have a pod for each)

>>713923324
Jams radars

>>713923324
Depends on the flavour

>>713917098
You can actually rescue them in the Chicane. I guess this is what that's supposed to look like

>>713924158
That guy has a nice ass.

>>713924158
>retract gear

>>713924417
Its clearly fixed gear

>>713924510
Captain, throw this faggot off of the chopper, he's spoiling my fun

>>713828919
Lady Lex goes down again

>>713924896
Do what you must, i already won.

This game doesn't nearly get enough appreciation for being only 2GB. In the decade of uncompressed slop and jeetcode with 50 to 200 GB installations, this game isn't a kilobyte more than it needs to be.

>>713927309
Same with VTOL VR.

>>713927309
>>713927407
Actual FUN video games made by passionnate people VS corporate slop made by faggots pushing a political agenda and jeets.

>>713923324
increases your notch angle and raises the multipath floor while it's active, the more power it has in the capacitors the better

>>713928286
Noted. Is it just making a bunch of RF noise on the same frequency as enemy radars or something?

>>713928942
It starts blasting rick roll across all channels so everyone shuts down their equipment

>>713928942
It sends a zip bomb full of shitty /gif/ memes

I played ace combat 7 recently and although it has it's problems, I do think it was fun. I want more games with a focus on gameplay and this seems it so I am gonna play it tomorrow after I wake up.
are there any certified 4chan® private lobbies?

>>713930710
If you want something ace combat like try project wingman, literally a spiritual spinoff of ace combat (and made by anons)

>>713930789
I don't think I want ace combat, I want more flying. AC is a bit arcadey (which was fun) and although I don't want pure realism autism, I want a bit more serious gameplay than AC
>the thing that annoyed me the most was that some missions have landing/takeoff sequences and some don't

also thanks for mentioning project wingman, I have heard of it plenty but never gotten into this genre so I will check that out too

This game hits a perfect balance of being something you can just pick up and play for less than an hour without having to open a pdf or plug in a thousand dollars of peripherals, while still having highly cerebral gameplay with a high skill ceiling which requires you to use all your braincells. DCS is just a pain to get into and a pain to play, while stuff like Ace Combat is just braindead easy even on the highest difficulty. I suppose that could describe War Thunder, but that game is too jewish with your money and time.

>>713931110
I'm a simulation nerd with an expensive set of gear and i still love Nuclear Option, you're damn right.

>>713931110
I compare it to VTOL VR a lot but that's also a game that struck that same balance for me of having sim-ish gameplay while also being streamlined to where you can jump into a game and crash like a retard quickly. Nuclear Option is just the flatscreen equivalent, also both are near future sci fi oddly enough, go figure.

In case this thread dies while I sleep, I just wanted to say it was an honor shitposting about planes with you gentlemen

>>713823295 (OP)
This looks retarded and this thread is very autistic. Now I'm convinced to play this.

How does the multiplayer work?
Do the matches go quick or can you actually do some proper sorties?

>>713823295 (OP)
looks like shit

>>713932410
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQ_LHyx2odc

>>713932789
Hell yeah, are there more?

>>713932789
Is that really a nuclear option fanart? Pretty cool.

>>713914574
LWAF

Do you control ground units as well?
Or do you just drop them somewhere and they do whatever?

>>713932875
PLAP PLAP PLAP
START STALLING START STALLING START STALLING!

>>713933090
You can tell them to move I think, but you can't directly control them.

>>713932246
The (PvE at least) matches usually take at least an hour unless it's the smaller missions. The larger ones have plenty of airbases, factories, air defense, and naval groups, and your loadout size is modest. I like to pick a region of the map and do SEAD or antiship sorties.

>>713933090
You fly around taking out targets / rescuing pilots / suppressing air defenses / capturing airfields to make money. You can either spend that money on yourself to buy better aircraft and munitions, buy aircraft requisitions other AI / friendly pilots can use, or purchase AI ground units for the war effort, which will spawn at bases you've captured. You can click on friendly AI units on the map, and set waypoints for them to drive to, or enemies to engage, otherwise they will just act on their own.

OH MY FUCKING GOD THIS GAME IS LITERALLY A MOBA

It's a single-player game ?

>>713933090
Yeah you can give orders like >>713933236 said, you can also purchase more units with cash from the map screen, and if you fly the Tarantula you can loadout with a vehicle or two and then land them somewhere (and they'll give you cash for their kills).
Airports can only be captured with ground units that have superiority, so a common thing is to wipe out a base and then land some vehicles there, and then the hangars and such all get repaired and are yours.

>>713890026
jt that can turn into a giant robot > giant robot > jet > funny toyota with a gun bolted on the back > tanks

>>713932789
This artist made me laugh 2 years ago with this joke. Hard to believe its been that long.

>>713933623
Single and multiplayer

>>713934068
Explain

Is there any point to saving your pilot?

I've done the tutorials and I'm going to try the multiplayer. I feel like I'm going to fail horribly. Are there any good guides on how not to be a massive drag on your team

Which missiles should I use? I can never decide which loadout would be best for what occasion

Once more vehicles and planes are in, will they make factions more distinct? It's a bit disappointing that both factions use the same shit

>>713934290
Don't drop a nuke on your own base

>>713934385
Dev has said so yeah, even now the carriers are different between factions and can launch different planes.

>>713934461
Nice. From what I've seen the game is surprisingly well thought out.
I guess I'll give it a go

>>713934257
currently just a small amount of money, and it's kinda fun sometimes
the chicane can actually land in the water to pick up pilots, but you have to be careful not to submerge too much since it'll kill the engine

>>713934252
ERA is Explosive Reactive Armor. It's made to explode on the surface of tanks when they get hit by a shaped charge round or armor piercing sabot to blow the energy in the opposite direction. When Ukraine started getting western armored vehicles that are built to handle those weapon hits without ERA they started covering them in ERA for peace of mind because Russian vehicles use it a lot. The joke is they would use it on the F-16 when they got them too.

>>713935097
Thank you for explaining

>>713934257
I dunno if it's "worth it" but just zooming around the map in a Tarantula doing pick ups is actually fun.

>>713935239
That picture also spawned a short trend of other things getting covered in ERA.

>join PVE server
>there's a big blob of enemy ground units with huge radar
>shoot a tank with a AGM, waste all the rest on a boat (all shot down)
>land
>take off again in an airport closer to the battle
>shot down by IR missiles
>quit
ok

>>713934294
It really depends on your mission and playstyle, and check the encyclopedia if you haven't.
The IR missiles are gonna have shorter ranges and more maneuverability, but they can lose lock easily against flares (fuck chicanes, I always use radars instead)
Radar missiles have longer range and less maneuverability (this is important up-close or when targeting missiles) but can be jammed, notched, or interfered with by flying low. So shooting aircraft on a runway with radar missiles is a waste, you will miss. But you can also smoke a lot of aircraft from across the map.
You can carry a ton of laser-guided rockets compared to AGMs, but you can only lase one target, so you can't fire and forget a salvo on a convoy (a bunch of AGM-48s might be better, except against tanks). But against light vehicles you only need one rocket, so you can potentially kill much more.

I like SEAD, so I usually carry a bunch of lynchpins, and a mix of IR missiles and bombs for any aircraft I might run into, missiles I need to shoot down, and depots that might be along the way. If the air defense is really dense I might try throwing a whole load of glide bombs from afar instead.

>>713936886
Do you expect ships to not have air defenses or something?
>IR missiles
Cut engine power, turn, and dump flares.

This seems like a very cool game but might be too difficult for me.

>>713938780
I believe in you anon.

>>713897773
>teaser of Death Stranding 3

>>713930997
Be warned, PW doesn't try to be realistic in any meassure. But hell is it all the more fun and soulfull because of it.

>>713880517
BECAUSE IT KNOWS WHERE IT ISNT

>>713941709
This mission in VR with a flightstick was ultimate kino

>>713823295 (OP)
Can you control the plane with keyboard only like in AC7?

>>713828919
>GLAEnding_ZH.webm

>>713938453
I mean I did expect it to have air defense sure, I guess my question is how are you meant to defeat it? Just fire enough missiles that some get through?
And I did do those things, but I guess not hard enough or something. I did fail the tutorial on IR countermeasures like a half dozen times before I managed to pass it by cheesing (destroying the SAM site)
>>713939840
Thanks but it has so much stuff to worry about

>>713944507
>Thanks but it has so much stuff to worry about
It seems overwhelming at first but its not that bad. Also the game itself is pretty simple to play compared to an actual sim. Very few binds to remember. Systems are very simplified (and its a good thing)

>>713943835
Mouse control is viable

>>713944507
This video has a few ways to destroy Shards

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVgsCN8ycdo

If you don't have terrain to take cover with, use a low RCS plane and approach from behind at very low altitude before firing. Make sure your radar is off so you don't give away your position. Maybe try opening the map and directing some allies towards the ships so you can overwhelm defenses if nothing else works

>>713910215
Female pilot, they knew they were gonna die before the mission even began

>>713945683
She was a flight attendant.