Beatiful shots!

Even though I'm a huge flightsim fan, I don't know much about ROF. How do you guys feel about it?

Visit Rise of Flight forum and you will have plethora of various opinions. As of latest patch, I like it very much so. Especially after today's free gift.

Hows the immersion? Do you actually feel like a pilot in WWI or is it a bunch of missions stringed together with gorgeous graphics and a good flight model?

Oooooh man those look frickin' sweet. Reeeeeaaally wish I had some money.

Great shots Sim!



IMHO

It's actually kinda' both vonKhan...yes, the missions feel "canned" when looking at the overall bigger picture.

...but while flying one mission, when "in that moment", the immersion is incredibly high (for me at least).

And it's not only ROF's sights, but sounds as well.

Rain effects

That top one in the latest batch is supurb! I like the visible bullet holes in the fabric!

Yes looking at the sights and sounds, its seems very close to 'being there'.

So I take it that its got really good immersion when in flight. But the campaign backdrop leaves something to be desired?

Are there squadron kill boards and rosters? Customizable paint schemes?

Neuport 17 C1

No, No and No.

The single player campaigns are truly terrible. No real feeling of being part of a large scale war. Some smoke and random artillery explosions at the front is about as much as you can expect. You get no feeling of being in a squadron or jasta. You and four other anonymous aircraft in your flight, no squadron specific markings or numbers. No pilot roster, no kill boards. Every mission I have flown so far has been 5v2 in our favour so there is no white knuckle sweaty palm dogfight moments. Every single comabt I have been involved in with the campaign has been fighting for scraps with your 4 anonymous wingmen.

RoF is a great sim of flying WWI era fighters, the 1 v 1 combat is excellent but the single player campaign needs a total overhaul.

It's a case of looks great, flies great but has no substance. I just bought the Nieuport 17 for a great price. It looks great, flies great and is fun to fly. The problem is that with the appalling single player campaign experience just flying around or doing 1v1 quick missions is starting to get very VERY boring and shallow.

It doesn't help that the MP aspect is also very badly implemented. As I type this there are 3 servers with a grand total of 7 people flying.

Neoqb have already demonstrated their desire and commitment for Rise of Flight, I can only hope they can get this very rough diamond polished very quickly. I have no regrets that I bought Rise of Flight... yet! Only future updates will tell if RoF will be a long term success rather than a short term flash in the pan.