RB-D2 has been working on a flight action game that is inspired by Ace Combat, and released its current alpha build to the public. This game is called Project Wingman and is powered by Unreal Engine 4, and looks quite amazing for a game developed by a single person.
For a future release, RB-D2 aims to include a fully featured Campaign with story driven elements, add a wave based survival mode, add more aircrafts and weapons, and include HD cockpits.
Those interested can download the latest alpha build for Project Wingman from its official website.
Enjoy some screenshots from older builds and stay tuned for more!
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I really like the developer’s clever use of scale. The trees in the first screenshot are actually using the grass system and he made each of the instances of grass use textures that look like trees from afar. The terrain it self isn’t very big, but they made it seem so.
If so, you should notice that the trees are very small should you fly low or are landing.
that could be easily fixed by setting a restriction on how low you can fly. Also, I doubt you can stand in this game.
But low f(l)ights are exciting because of how close you are to the terrain and because you may crash if you aren’t fast enough. Taking this away would be detrimental to the game.
Hell yeah! This brings memories of playing F-22 Lightning in late 90s.
Was that causual or a sim?
I’d say casual. You had to manually turn on landing gears and that’s about it. But it was a fun game back then.
I wonder if he will stand a chance against the Ace Combat’s devs who are making their new game right now.
Make a good story mode like the Ace games and I am sold.
I was playing this for a week or so and it is quite fun to play and sometimes even challenging with some really cool dogfights. It feels a lot like the good old days of Ace combat 4/5 but without the talking and interruptions, just fly and kill/destroy the objectives.
If he keeps improving and adding more planes and environments with more and varied missions it can be a great game.
It plays great with an XBox controller (for PC). Press every button and both sticks and you’ll find some things that most people has no idea the game has. (like countermeasures and such)
PS: Now that I think, I have to try it with my T.Flight Hotas.
Should be noted that the latest build is not the latest and many features shown in this guy’s facebook are not in the game yet.
I was thinking about downloading this the last 3 days but i dont know if it has mouse support, no i wont play it with a controller, i can do that on consoles, there are tons of games like that on them. It pisses me off that pc has plenty of ww2 singleplayer games with planes even free to play ones but none with jets. Why cant they release ace combat infinity on pc?