Whats unique about this game?

[Ace2643]

Dont take this the wrong way, im still gonna download and try the game out but what does it do better than Warthunder and IL2bos?

[LiftOffz]

Its different from WT in one way the war is continous. There is no set time limit. If a particular map is not won with in 7 days it will automatically reset to another map in the MA main arena. For some maps they are often won by a country with in hours. Some maps go up to 7 days long before a reset.

There is no grinding for planes like in WT. You have access to almost all planes/vehicles from the get go. There are some advance aircraft you spend points for. For bombers this is the B-29, AR234 (german jet bomber) and the very fast late war Mosquito Mk16. You aquire perk points to fly these special aircraft/vehicles by playing the game. The better you play the game the more perk points you get. But remember almost all the aircraft/vehicles are completly accessable by the new player the minute he gets into the main arena. The perk planes I mentioned above are available in other arenas, maps or custom arenas you can setup for yourself and friends without needing points.

The MA (main arena) is something of a soap box in that you can do pretty much whatever you want. Group team combined combat, solo attacks, sight seeing, crashing bombers into mountains for the fun of it, long distance high altitude heavy bomber runs to strategic targets or lettng cybro mess with your mind on why he is living in a hangar with the Knights. :p

I have played WT but IL2bos. Compared to WT the flight envelope is far more realistic for each individual ac in the game. Also there far more communication in real time between team mates using both the built in audio vox and the text works well compared to WT imo. AH is very much a social game in that players make long term friends or you can fly solo and not commuicate with anyone.

I hope this has helped. Ask me any questions here.

[Bruv119]

I guess it does the multiplayer aspect better than those other two games. The melee arena or (MA) can have up to 1000 players in it. No waiting around connecting to battles etc.

AH has a nice balance of realistic physics whilst not being over the top in terms of Icons and engine management. The learning curve is steep but there is plenty of help and informtation online about key mappings and settings etc.

[Traveler]

Everything.

[FLS]

The two outstanding features of Aces High are the dynamic flight modeling and the arena capacitites. This allows the re-creation of historical air battles.

It's fun flying with hundreds of people at the same time in aircraft that fly properly.

[brookeg1]

I love best "scenarios," which are special battles organized several times a year. They are realistic and based on actual WWII air battles. You have 50 or more people per side fighting it out in the aircraft types that were there, working toward historically realistic objectives. Battle of Britain, Coral Sea, US 8th Air Force vs. Luftwaffe in the skies over Germany, Tunisia, Battle of the Dnieper (Eastern Front), etc. As far as I know, events like that, at that scale, exist only in Aces High. These are my main and most-favorite hobby. New folks are very welcome to play in them.

[brookeg1]

Here are some pictures and a video from one of the recent scenarios:

https://youtu.be/JzikYssTWDQ

http://electraforge.com/brooke/flightsims/scenarios/201706_BigWeek/aar_frame4.htm

Here's a video from another scenario, but in this one, I was flying bombers:
https://youtu.be/Xk9V66e88eI

[Volron]

No time limits. You can up a plane and fly it until you are shot down or decide to up a new/different plane. I once decided to up a single B-29, and flew that plane for almost 11 hours (going back and forth to strategic facilities) before my net died, ending my run. I did 9 1/2 hrs in the Mosquito 16 before I was shot down by flak over target.

All the while, there were roughly 200-300 people on during these times.

Here is a more recent video for you to check out:

https://youtu.be/V3d8i7QKSE0

[ꜱᴀᴛᴜʀɴ ~!]

Better pilots Warthunder (as someone who plays it alot) is bad and gamey IL2 is gamey aswell

[LiftOffz]

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Aces High III download is 1.55 GB from what I see on the official HTC page.
On my 3.0 Mb/sec DL it takes me about 1.3 hours to DL if i remember correctly.

The following is my experience from playing AH in the Meelee/main arena.
Each time the war is won, the game will end, then when you jump back into the meelee/main arena you will DL a new map which is about 15 MB and on my computer takes about 2 - 3 minutes. After you have a particular map DLed then you dont have to DL it anymore. The DL for a new map is automatically and I think the only thing you will nee to do is giver you pc permission to DL the new map.

If you have specific questions, I can try to answer here in this thread.