Anyone flying Wings of Prey?

**jdoon5261** · 01-17-2010, 05:53 PM

I downloaded the demo and messed around with it for about an hour last night. Is there any here that has some serious stick time with it? If so what are your thoughts.
John

**Paxx** · 01-17-2010, 08:17 PM

Not finished, amateur UI, more arcade than sim. Not happy with it at all, but willing to wait for patches and promises.

**Jun aka Pekto** · 01-17-2010, 08:24 PM

Originally Posted by Paxx

Not finished, amateur UI, more arcade than sim. Not happy with it at all, but willing to wait for patches and promises.

So it's nothing like IL-2 (yet)? Let it bake some more then.

**hypercide** · 01-17-2010, 08:26 PM

I downloaded it this afternoon. After having seen some videos on youtube, I thought this was not going to fly on my Dimension 521 (Gforce 8600GTS). But it is extremely smooth and "pretty" with everything at medium.

Still messing around in the first "tutorial," but like some of the effects (water on windscreen going through clouds, oil on windscreen when following too closely on a kill--those sitting duck Blenheims I'm supposed to escort) and the world on the ground is richly detailed. The trim, though, seems really really twitchy, and I see this issue is showing up in the game forums. I'll dive all the way in once a patch for this is released.

(controller profiles not saving on the demo is a cheap-shot bit of work, though; I want the keymap to mimic my fsx map on my Saitek x52, and I don't have much patience with remapping every start-up--particularly with the trim and pan-view functions)

Tim

**Lamberghini** · 01-22-2010, 02:48 PM

I was surprised to find this to be more or less a port of Sturmovik: Birds of Prey for the consoles. I'm not complaining - have been wanting this for my PS3 for a long time. Getting to play it with my PC hardware instead of the Dualshock is more than I ever hoped for. Now that it's here, I wish I could crank up the realism a bit, though.

**ThePlainsman** · 02-03-2010, 08:53 PM

Originally Posted by jdoon5261

I downloaded the demo and messed around with it for about an hour last night. Is there any here that has some serious stick time with it? If so what are your thoughts.
John

Wings of Prey for me is an updated Janes WWII Fighters. It is that kind of cinematic experience. Good music. Good explosions and fire. Better gun weapons sounds, and vastly superior graphics. There is an arcade mode, but there is also a sim mode. It is not a hardcore sim even on sim mode. It is to WWII sims what the Third Wire games are to jet fighter sims: it's "sim-lite."

That said, I find it to be enormously enjoyable and fun, as I find Third Wire's Strikefighter 2 titles to be fun. I don't regret my purchase at all. And, yes, I also have some more serious sims on my PC and play them regularly, including IL2 1946, BOB II, LOMAC, Janes F/A 18, and DCS: Black Shark. Back in the day, I had Falcon 4.0 installed but I also had Janes WWII Fighters and enjoyed both.

I'll always have fun with a sim-lite title like Wings of Prey. The learning curve is short and it's too much fun to avoid.

**Mak** · 03-05-2010, 02:05 AM

I tried out this demo and I was very impressed. However, I'm hearing many comments about Wings of Prey not being as realistic as IL2. I have my hours in on IL2 and the Simulation mode for Wings of Prey seems more realistic. Is it just me imagining this due to the special enhancements, or is the flight model for Wings of Prey really that inferior to IL2?

When people are saying that it's not as realistic as IL2, why is this?

**ThePlainsman** · 03-06-2010, 10:22 AM

Originally Posted by Mak

I tried out this demo and I was very impressed. However, I'm hearing many comments about Wings of Prey not being as realistic as IL2. I have my hours in on IL2 and the Simulation mode for Wings of Prey seems more realistic. Is it just me imagining this due to the special enhancements, or is the flight model for Wings of Prey really that inferior to IL2?

When people are saying that it's not as realistic as IL2, why is this?

Perhaps because it has an arcade mode? Because it's actually immersive and IL2 isn't? Don't get me wrong. I own every IL2 game since the very first one and currently have IL2 1946 installed. But the series is coldly technical. The flourishes that give a sim immersion are unfortunately absent.

I stand by my earlier post that WOP is Janes WWII Fighters, using the most modern current technology. In other words, it's great!