I honestly feel like a videogame about two pilots flying complete shitbox aircraft from 1910 and trying to shoot each other down with handheld guns could be really fun. Make it so that the planes are barely powerful enough to stay aloft, never quite trimmed right, and constantly get rotated by the propeller torque. You should have to constantly deal with the plane being shit to keep it in the air, so that any time you spend aiming or reloading your gun is time the plane is risking stalling or losing altitude that will be difficult to regain. Maybe you can choose between a pistol that leaves you with one hand to keep the stick on course and a shotgun that does not. Play up the knightly jousting vibes by letting everyone paint their planes bright colours and having a soundtrack like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56gPx67GVXE
Even just an “early aviation” flight sim would be great. I recently went down a rabbit hole researching how US air mail worked in the 20s and 30s, before cockpit radios were really a thing. They constructed thousands of giant lighted beacon towers and concrete arrows on the ground to help pilots navigate.
I’ve seen things you Kerbals wouldn’t believe. Kraken ships break down off the islands of Laythe. I watched MechJeb sail in the dark through the Tannhauser Strait. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.
Huh, it’s weird looking at that category of “World War I flight simulation video games” at the bottom and seeing that they basically just stopped being made after the 90s ended
It’s not an exact match, but that is reminiscent of the first Guns of Icarus. Sadly, it seems to have been delisted, but maybe this is a modernized version?
If you do look into it, don’t go for Online. That one was no fun.
That looks fun! I do love airships regardless of how terrible they are at most things in real life.
Oddly enough I think the idea might have been on my mind because I’ve been playing Mechwarrior 5 recently. While the setting is, obviously, completely different, the controls actually work out somewhat similarly to what I’m imagining
I haven’t played this version of the game, but in the original, you don’t really directly control the ship. Instead, the ship has a destination and you (or a friend) run around operating stations of the ship, some defensive, some offensive, some just requiring maintenance.
Hope it fits your interests and that, if so, you have fun.
I bet this is doable in DCS. The game already has all the physics necessary, you just need to make a mod that makes you fire a pistol where you’re aiming.
I honestly feel like a videogame about two pilots flying complete shitbox aircraft from 1910 and trying to shoot each other down with handheld guns could be really fun. Make it so that the planes are barely powerful enough to stay aloft, never quite trimmed right, and constantly get rotated by the propeller torque. You should have to constantly deal with the plane being shit to keep it in the air, so that any time you spend aiming or reloading your gun is time the plane is risking stalling or losing altitude that will be difficult to regain. Maybe you can choose between a pistol that leaves you with one hand to keep the stick on course and a shotgun that does not. Play up the knightly jousting vibes by letting everyone paint their planes bright colours and having a soundtrack like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56gPx67GVXE
Even just an “early aviation” flight sim would be great. I recently went down a rabbit hole researching how US air mail worked in the 20s and 30s, before cockpit radios were really a thing. They constructed thousands of giant lighted beacon towers and concrete arrows on the ground to help pilots navigate.
something in between Kerbal space program and return to castle Wolfenstein.
a dude pedaling some kind of whirly gig bicycle aircraft chasing proto fascists floating uncontrollably in a balloon of their own design.
There were plans for a whole series of Kerbal games for boats and trains and planes.
All gone, like tears in rain.
I’ve seen things you Kerbals wouldn’t believe. Kraken ships break down off the islands of Laythe. I watched MechJeb sail in the dark through the Tannhauser Strait. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.
This is obviously WW2 but if you want something of similar vintage and fairly realistic there is https://il2sturmovik.com/
Not quite early, but man am I feeling nostalgic now for “Jane’s WW2 Fighters” on PC back in the late 90’s. That game was awesome.
https://riseofflight.com/
That sounds like hell on earth.
Doesn’t sound too bad to me.
loved this game when i was a kid https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Baron_(1990_video_game)
Not quite the same but we’ve got red Baron: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Baron_II
Huh, it’s weird looking at that category of “World War I flight simulation video games” at the bottom and seeing that they basically just stopped being made after the 90s ended
The decline of simulationist-oriented games after the 1990s has been a disaster for the human race
It’s not an exact match, but that is reminiscent of the first Guns of Icarus. Sadly, it seems to have been delisted, but maybe this is a modernized version?
If you do look into it, don’t go for Online. That one was no fun.
That looks fun! I do love airships regardless of how terrible they are at most things in real life.
Oddly enough I think the idea might have been on my mind because I’ve been playing Mechwarrior 5 recently. While the setting is, obviously, completely different, the controls actually work out somewhat similarly to what I’m imagining
I haven’t played this version of the game, but in the original, you don’t really directly control the ship. Instead, the ship has a destination and you (or a friend) run around operating stations of the ship, some defensive, some offensive, some just requiring maintenance.
Hope it fits your interests and that, if so, you have fun.
Now I want this too.
I bet this is doable in DCS. The game already has all the physics necessary, you just need to make a mod that makes you fire a pistol where you’re aiming.