First post, by Yasashii
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Recently I've been trying out various air combat simulators. So far the one that I like the most, primarily for the flight model, is Microsoft Combat Flight Flight Simulator 2: Pacific Theater. The problem is that I find the campaign ridiculously difficult even on the easy difficulty level.
Unimportant, frustrated rant, feel free to skip this paragraph:
Basically the game makes me feel like I'm on a really bad team in an online fps game, for the lack of better comparison. In a dogfight, I can usually shoot down 2-3 enemy planes before I run out of ammo. The rest of my squadron shoots down 2-3 enemy planes total, and then they all get shot down by the enemies. By that time I'm all out of ammo and I have a swarm of Zero's on my back in a plane incapable of outrunning the Japanese aircraft so I inevitably get shot down and either my parachute doesn't open (which happens ridiculously often) or it does open, the Japanese capture my pilot and it's game over anyway. It's frustrating and I can't beat the mission simply because my team performs poorly. I can't be expected to shoot down 90% of the enemy squadron all by myself!
So, I thought that maybe I should try something else. Since I've already tried the most popular WWII sims, perhaps someone could recommend a good WWI sim? Although if there's a good WWII sim that I haven't tried yet but you think I should, feel free to recommend it as well.
My requirements:
- It has to be a sim, not an arcade game.
- There has to be a way to make it run on Windows 7 x64. I don't care if I have to use a wrapper or something as long as it works.
- There has to be a way to set a resolution of 1280x960, be it by editing the game settings or by editing a .cfg file or something.
- No DoS simulators, please.
Already tried:
- Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator: WWII Europe Series (for some reason the joystick isn't compatible with that one on Win7)
- Microsoft Combat Flight Flight Simulator 2: Pacific Theater (ridiculous difficulty)
- Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator 3: Battle for Europe (the flight model feels too arcade-y)
- Jane's WWII Fighters (The campaign makes the player destroy ground targets rather than enemy planes way too often. I don't like that.)
- Wings of Prey (too arcade-y. You can make the flight model feel realistic enough by enabling the simulator mode but even then you have unlimited ammo and the damage model is still quite poor. Damage to your plane barely makes any changes in the way the plane feels and behaves. Instead, it's more like losing health in a shooter.)
