70 bucks for the full game, okay gaijin.
Literally 0 point of getting this game if u have like more than 40 hours in sim already, other than ig mixed teams
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Its only $45 in USD
2021 -ish FMs, accepts mouse but rejects head tracker, sim matches before enduring, not variety, J2M
lmao
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What? You can’t use head tracking?
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Damn, Gaijin really fumbling on all fronts.
Two words: Radial menus.
I expected full vtol vr style controls, at least some degree of interactability, especially when its only around 20 odd planes.
But nope! Just reskined war thunder with the same awful maps and missions.
Not being able to raise the gear with vr is just a punch to the gut.
Classic Gaijin Vr support.
This simply brings into question, when is nuclear option going to get vr support?
good review from liniyka of all the things wrong with aces of Thunder.
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Something else to add is that the most promising feature, the WW1 aircraft, has now since been killed off due to some changes they made to the matchmaking. Now it will always look for other players to fill the lobby no matter how long it takes. I played yesterday and it genuinely took me 30 minutes to find a match and it ended up as me + bots vs 5 real players + bots.
Honestly thinking of refunding it given it’s current state.
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I wanted to try it, but after seeing that track it doesn’t even work in it and youre forced to use VR, whats the point of playing? And the fact that you don’t even face real players… super unappealing
Well you do now but with half an hour queue time with uneven team splits. Atleast with the bots you could get into a game as it is right now unless you’re prepared to wait 30 minutes you just can’t.
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As I always understood VR, was the point of AoT, no?
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I guess there is no doubt now
You intentionally killed SIM
It was a sad thing to do
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Probably kill’t both. Doubt there will be enough of a market for an also ran stand alone sim when you consider switching costs. And yeah it will no doubt cannibalize some WT players.
Well, not necessarily. I have quite a few friends who play in VR and they won’t be switching. After 1, 2, or 3,000 hours of grinding, it’s too much work to change games.
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also no modern jets just ww2
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My big question is WHY?
What exactly is the business case for Aces of Thunder, and who are the targeted customers and competition they are aiming at?
Basically why not take all that development time and just roll it into Warthunder Sim? Which already has the giant name recognition, pedigree, playerbase, and vehicle inventory?
Do they think this is aimed at DCS, or IL-2 players who will flock to it (and would NOT flock to Warthunder-sim)? I can certainly see the appeal of some of it’s VR focused features, but can’t understand the desire to make it a standalone product.
Or is there just someone important in Gaijin who is championing this concept and is being “exiled” to a separate game so the company has an excuse to rid Warthunder of sim elements altogether? Thus allowing WT to 100% focus on casual/arcade gameplay?
Next, why limit the number of planes so much? I would think if they wanted to arrive with a giant splash and try to dominate the “hardcore sim” world, they would want to launch with just a TON of airframes to instantly one-up any other products out there. Not to mention offering existing WT players to ability to move an existing account with all our years of grinded airframes over there. I’m certainly not starting over after years of WT.
The more I look at it Aces of Thunder’s features, the less it makes business sense.
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Until such time they remove VR from WT. From a few i know that use VR in SB. Its barely worked in the past year or so. Typhoon for example. Unusable
Considering it goes from ww1 all the way to the end of ww2 I say they have potential
Yeah . . . and then selling all the war thunder planes as DLCs . . . all the way up to jets?
Well I don’t really care . .good for them
Its just sad that they ruined SIM to do it . . .
They could have done it, with out destroying SIM
Disappointed in you giggles . . . that was just plain mean
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They could have just left it alone and improved the sim mode, damn it.
There’s so much potential, I don’t understand what’s going on at management to make such incomprehensible decisions.
Don’t they want to capitalize on what they already have, which could actually work really well?
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