Hi, I really think this game is very promising and truly has a lot of potential. However I've tested the game for myself and ran into some problems. On my laptop i3-4030U, HD 4400, 8GB RAM, 500GB HDD, the game runs on the lowest settings but everything outside the cockpit is pitch black, HUD lights up and I can see the missiles firing and enemy aircraft exploding. On my desktop i5-3470, RX 460, 8GB RAM, 120GB SSD, 500 GB HDD, the game is all black and I can't see what's going on the screen unless I press Alt-Tab and try to move my mouse cursor frame by frame. I think it might be because I just copied the extracted game on my laptop to my PC and I'm currently playing it on an external HDD. I know this game is in Alpha but I really hope you could have the time to figure out why this happens in the future. Based on the videos this could really get combat flight sims another chance in today's gaming. For a one-man project this has got to be the most impressive sim I found out about. Cheers!
Hey, this is a common error. Could you please disable or whitelist Project Wingman folder from your antivirus and re-extract the game again? Thank you! :)
There's a common error where truesky files are detected as false positives by some anti-virus which is the reason you see a black sky.
Hello, I disabled Avast! real-time protection on both computers but it's still black on the laptop. I forgot to mention than on the desktop I could see the Su-27 in the Main Menu, Hangar and the multiple view cycle pressing "C" as well, wingman, clouds, terrain and enemy aircraft , just that I have to press Alt+Tab just for the frames to move. I could hear in-game music as well as radio chatter smoothly playing and engine sounds as well but the scene WILL get stuck on whatever is last shown on the screen unless I press Alt-Tab again and again making me do a mandatory slideshow which is quite hilarious as the desktop has way better specs than the laptop but the laptop runs the game fine aside from the surroundings except the cockpit and HUD and UI elements being black. The Main Menu on the laptop is also black. I only get to see the full Su-27 only in the hangar. Cheers for the progress on the game so far!
Man this game just got funner the more I messed around. Did a few hours of studying dog fighting and missle avoidance and how and when to best fire missles and even memorized angels and rolls I would need to do depending on how far the missle was away and what angle it's coming from.
Gets super fun once you start messing around with thrust (shift and ctrl) and the flaps (q and e).
I't would be nice tho if on the map you got an origin for incomming missles and a line in red where it's been and a white line for where it plans to go to best be able to time it.
And for when it's coming get a distance or countdown. I do like the yellow and red hit indicator to know where it is tho. Makes dodging a bit easier. Took me forever to figure out how to not rely on flares. But after only an hour of playing I'm still not 100% good at evading.
Also I find that the Multi-lock missle is pretty useless for what it does and that amount you can carry. Just best to go with 2 standard and 1 long-range. Then again the long range doesn't have a bunch of missles either...
I tried one run where I stayed with my co-pilot but I died very easily. I find charging the head on when they spawn and firing some long-range missles then switching to standard and going 1200 mph under them is the best way to do it. Then just ctrl and turn around and start taking them from behind. But then you just get into a loop in which case going faster than 400 makes you're turning too slow and if you go below 300 you stall so it's a balance between lining them up to fire the bullets or shells from really close up, think 200 ft?
These speeds and distances might be off this is mainly off of 1 hour of playing and memory. And I'm sure to anyone that knows what they're doing this sounds ridiculous but it worked for me.
Think I read the best way to attack someone is from the side at an elavaded angle to the missle doesn't run out of fuel and can coast down more, so my head-on missles and guns thing is probably a good way to die in real life.
Hi, I don´t have much experience with these kind of games but I´m a sucker for flying sims (arcade ones) and just want to say that I´m lonving this game, can´t wait to play more!!
I don't think I can properly judge or give feedback on these kind of games where I'm complete garbage at, sorry. The Ace Combat fans seem to be loving it for sure, maybe stop by /v/idya and ask them what they think of your game. They might be looking forward to 2018's Ace Combat, but I'm sure your game won't disappoint either. Good luck.
This is awesome and it is free! The only problem is I hade to play with the controls a lot because the default controls are different from Battlefield XD
Been playing this one available mission over and over again for like 4 hours today and will probably play it even more tomorrow. Considering it's a one man effort this game is outstanding. Had loads of fun. My rig is i5 3850k, gtx980ti, 8RAM, SSD and game never dipped below 60fps maxed out on HD screen. Coming from War Thunder, I felt discomfort with default control settings, when steering with keyboard and view with mouse in 3rd person view. It went a lot better when I have switched to cockpit view, but I still think 100% mouse steering alike WT would be more intuitive. (tried to change it in settings but that was quite tedious, couldn't get it right, so I gave up). Cockpit and hangar look very lo-res and bland, but this is to be expected during such an early stage. Waiting for more content. 10/10 would buy again.
HELP! I tried to play the latest version of this game and after I press launch, I get a 'Fatal error'. How can I solve this so I will be able to play the game? I played earlier versions of this game and everything worked out fine, so please can someone help me, so I can play this awesome game again?!
This error may be associated with Anti-virus and/or outdated graphics drivers. Try updating your graphics drivers and disabling anti-virus and let me know if that solves the issue.
First of all - congrats on your Unreal dev grant! Obviously, you deserve that, you project shines. I am excited for things than may come now! :) Small thing I am wondering, with kickstarter campaign coming, but I did pay something already here, what would be my options? Thank You.
Latest update is amazing wish you could have modeled the planes from the previous version in but the music is a nice touch and the difficulty is just right
It plays wonderful man, you're one amazing indie dev, keep up the good work. There's however one idea i'd like to share with you. I prefer playing in first person for the immersion, the rendered cockpit HUD color will not change in accordance to the color you've selected in options. It would be sick if the rendered cockpit has huds that corresponds to the changes.
Simply amazing! As an avid fan of Ace Combat (since 2004) this brings back such beautiful memories, and I'm getting chills from just how beautiful this game goes. Sound design is well done (the BRRRRT from the cannon is just awesome, though the engine sound could use some work), graphics are beautiful (don't forget to add shock diamonds in the afterburners for better visuals), and runs pretty well, getting 70+fps average on maxed settings, though I wasn't paying attention to the counter that much :P (i7-6700HQ and GTX 1060). And that's all while it's in Alpha, astonishing! The Su-27 alone is already pretty awesome to fly, can't wait for your next update!
P.S. would be awesome if you bring an Ace Combat plane like the ADFX-02 :D
This game, looks, sounds and plays better than a lot of flight simulators out there, and it's in alpha! There are a few things which i'm sure you know need to be addressed, more than 1 aircraft, more than 1 scenario, infinite survival mode sounds cool too. but other than that I had no issues with it, performance was solid and completely playable at high settings, graphics were great, and had a lot of fun even with only 1 scenario - would recommend
That sounds like a current known bug. There is a known anti-virus false positive where it will delete the atmospheric files so I suggest you disable your Anti Virus software temporarily or whitelist the game files, and re-extract the game from the zip file.
Not bad! Impressive! Now if only we could get ground attack missions, that would be amazing! This is much better than that Ace Combat Assault Horizon game that Bandi Namco produced. Any plans for helicopter missions or no? (Throwback to the Strike series anyone?)
outstanding, fun to play can not wait for more planes and different modes. I would love if there was a night cycle because flying in the dark is awesome.
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Hi, I really think this game is very promising and truly has a lot of potential. However I've tested the game for myself and ran into some problems. On my laptop i3-4030U, HD 4400, 8GB RAM, 500GB HDD, the game runs on the lowest settings but everything outside the cockpit is pitch black, HUD lights up and I can see the missiles firing and enemy aircraft exploding. On my desktop i5-3470, RX 460, 8GB RAM, 120GB SSD, 500 GB HDD, the game is all black and I can't see what's going on the screen unless I press Alt-Tab and try to move my mouse cursor frame by frame. I think it might be because I just copied the extracted game on my laptop to my PC and I'm currently playing it on an external HDD. I know this game is in Alpha but I really hope you could have the time to figure out why this happens in the future. Based on the videos this could really get combat flight sims another chance in today's gaming. For a one-man project this has got to be the most impressive sim I found out about. Cheers!
Hey, this is a common error. Could you please disable or whitelist Project Wingman folder from your antivirus and re-extract the game again? Thank you! :)
There's a common error where truesky files are detected as false positives by some anti-virus which is the reason you see a black sky.
Hello, I disabled Avast! real-time protection on both computers but it's still black on the laptop. I forgot to mention than on the desktop I could see the Su-27 in the Main Menu, Hangar and the multiple view cycle pressing "C" as well, wingman, clouds, terrain and enemy aircraft , just that I have to press Alt+Tab just for the frames to move. I could hear in-game music as well as radio chatter smoothly playing and engine sounds as well but the scene WILL get stuck on whatever is last shown on the screen unless I press Alt-Tab again and again making me do a mandatory slideshow which is quite hilarious as the desktop has way better specs than the laptop but the laptop runs the game fine aside from the surroundings except the cockpit and HUD and UI elements being black. The Main Menu on the laptop is also black. I only get to see the full Su-27 only in the hangar. Cheers for the progress on the game so far!
That's fairly new to me.
Mind showing me some screenshots on your laptop version? thanks.
For your desktop, try running the game in admin mode and or compatibility mode.
Appreciate your patience, Thanks!
This game is pretty good, battlefield 3 jets but its own game. Don't stop working on it!
Man this game just got funner the more I messed around. Did a few hours of studying dog fighting and missle avoidance and how and when to best fire missles and even memorized angels and rolls I would need to do depending on how far the missle was away and what angle it's coming from.
Gets super fun once you start messing around with thrust (shift and ctrl) and the flaps (q and e).
I't would be nice tho if on the map you got an origin for incomming missles and a line in red where it's been and a white line for where it plans to go to best be able to time it.
And for when it's coming get a distance or countdown. I do like the yellow and red hit indicator to know where it is tho. Makes dodging a bit easier. Took me forever to figure out how to not rely on flares. But after only an hour of playing I'm still not 100% good at evading.
Also I find that the Multi-lock missle is pretty useless for what it does and that amount you can carry. Just best to go with 2 standard and 1 long-range. Then again the long range doesn't have a bunch of missles either...
I tried one run where I stayed with my co-pilot but I died very easily. I find charging the head on when they spawn and firing some long-range missles then switching to standard and going 1200 mph under them is the best way to do it. Then just ctrl and turn around and start taking them from behind. But then you just get into a loop in which case going faster than 400 makes you're turning too slow and if you go below 300 you stall so it's a balance between lining them up to fire the bullets or shells from really close up, think 200 ft?
These speeds and distances might be off this is mainly off of 1 hour of playing and memory. And I'm sure to anyone that knows what they're doing this sounds ridiculous but it worked for me.
Think I read the best way to attack someone is from the side at an elavaded angle to the missle doesn't run out of fuel and can coast down more, so my head-on missles and guns thing is probably a good way to die in real life.
When in cockpit view u can see where the missile is coming from.
can i use an xbox one controller
I recommend to put some hotkeys to the menus (Like Esc to return to the last menu) for a faster move between menus.
Minor issue: Controller and HOTAS custom controls do not save properly when game is closed, a rebind is required every time when I launch the game
Will investigate. Thanks for letting me know :)
Hi, I don´t have much experience with these kind of games but I´m a sucker for flying sims (arcade ones) and just want to say that I´m lonving this game, can´t wait to play more!!
I don't think I can properly judge or give feedback on these kind of games where I'm complete garbage at, sorry. The Ace Combat fans seem to be loving it for sure, maybe stop by /v/idya and ask them what they think of your game. They might be looking forward to 2018's Ace Combat, but I'm sure your game won't disappoint either. Good luck.
i love the game but when is there going to be morer jets.
I saw the Video and wow It looks good. I was wondering if you plan to make a VR Version
Made an itch.io account just to comment on this amazing game! This is all I ever wanted, a Ace Combat ish game on PC with UE4.
Works like a charm with X52 HOTAS, gameplay is fun and graphics are amazing.
PLEASE have giant aerial bosses in this game.
game graphics amazing good work
Sinan Abi <3
This is awesome and it is free! The only problem is I hade to play with the controls a lot because the default controls are different from Battlefield XD
Been playing this one available mission over and over again for like 4 hours today and will probably play it even more tomorrow. Considering it's a one man effort this game is outstanding. Had loads of fun. My rig is i5 3850k, gtx980ti, 8RAM, SSD and game never dipped below 60fps maxed out on HD screen. Coming from War Thunder, I felt discomfort with default control settings, when steering with keyboard and view with mouse in 3rd person view. It went a lot better when I have switched to cockpit view, but I still think 100% mouse steering alike WT would be more intuitive. (tried to change it in settings but that was quite tedious, couldn't get it right, so I gave up). Cockpit and hangar look very lo-res and bland, but this is to be expected during such an early stage. Waiting for more content. 10/10 would buy again.
Super epic gameplay loved playing this can't wait for more.
Any plans for VR?
HELP! I tried to play the latest version of this game and after I press
launch, I get a 'Fatal error'. How can I solve this so I will be able to
play the game? I played earlier versions of this game and everything
worked out fine, so please can someone help me, so I can play this
awesome game again?!
This error may be associated with Anti-virus and/or outdated graphics drivers. Try updating your graphics drivers and disabling anti-virus and let me know if that solves the issue.
Thanks.
First of all - congrats on your Unreal dev grant! Obviously, you deserve that, you project shines. I am excited for things than may come now! :)
Small thing I am wondering, with kickstarter campaign coming, but I did pay something already here, what would be my options? Thank You.
Hey there! Thank you!
We're still figuring out the options for donators at the moment. I'll keep you updated.
Okay, got it! :) Will follow the news.
Latest update is amazing wish you could have modeled the planes from the previous version in but the music is a nice touch and the difficulty is just right
Thank you! In due time they will all eventually be back in game again.
Adding aircraft takes a while and we'd like to focus on the core gameplay at this moment. Stay tuned!
It plays wonderful man, you're one amazing indie dev, keep up the good work. There's however one idea i'd like to share with you. I prefer playing in first person for the immersion, the rendered cockpit HUD color will not change in accordance to the color you've selected in options. It would be sick if the rendered cockpit has huds that corresponds to the changes.
Added to my to do list!
i downloaded project wingman but then no app was installed so how do i actually open and play it
please help
did you download the game from itch.io or from their application?
Search for the executable in ProjectWingman\Binaries\Win64
This. is. AWESOME! :D
Simply amazing! As an avid fan of Ace Combat (since 2004) this brings back such beautiful memories, and I'm getting chills from just how beautiful this game goes. Sound design is well done (the BRRRRT from the cannon is just awesome, though the engine sound could use some work), graphics are beautiful (don't forget to add shock diamonds in the afterburners for better visuals), and runs pretty well, getting 70+fps average on maxed settings, though I wasn't paying attention to the counter that much :P (i7-6700HQ and GTX 1060). And that's all while it's in Alpha, astonishing! The Su-27 alone is already pretty awesome to fly, can't wait for your next update!
P.S. would be awesome if you bring an Ace Combat plane like the ADFX-02 :D
Just wow! This game blew my mind. The graphics are amazing, the controls are fantastic and realistic! Can't wait to see more from this game!
This game, looks, sounds and plays better than a lot of flight simulators out there, and it's in alpha! There are a few things which i'm sure you know need to be addressed, more than 1 aircraft, more than 1 scenario, infinite survival mode sounds cool too. but other than that I had no issues with it, performance was solid and completely playable at high settings, graphics were great, and had a lot of fun even with only 1 scenario - would recommend
That sounds like a current known bug. There is a known anti-virus false positive where it will delete the atmospheric files so I suggest you disable your Anti Virus software temporarily or whitelist the game files, and re-extract the game from the zip file.
Please let me know how it goes.
Thanks!
It feels and looks amazing! Keep it up!
Looks promising, I love it.
Not bad! Impressive! Now if only we could get ground attack missions, that would be amazing! This is much better than that Ace Combat Assault Horizon game that Bandi Namco produced. Any plans for helicopter missions or no? (Throwback to the Strike series anyone?)
There are no plans for helicopters at the moment.
outstanding, fun to play can not wait for more planes and different modes. I would love if there was a night cycle because flying in the dark is awesome.
I''m asking this, but my game only have 1 plane, it is the SU-27. Help me pls. I have seen many Youtubers like PhlyDaily have 4 planes
He removed the others for some reason, I dont know why