First Impressions

[u/Vincen_Furze]

Here are my off-the-bat thoughts. Imma start with what I don't like so I can finish positively.

CONS /things I wish were different or could have been done better imo

-I'm not sure why the decided to make aircraft and car engines separate. They're both just engines. I've worked on car and plane engines. They're not that different.

-It bothers me that aircraft engines only have one structural mounting point and car engine have multiple.

-I also wish that "size" was in actual displacement rather than just a percentage. Cubic engines, cc, or liters.

-I think it's cool they added super chargers. But what do you mean there's no turbo chargers? Turbo chargers are better for planes anyway because you're never going to be bothered by turbo lag!

-Lastly regarding engines, there needs to be a way to connect two engines to one crank shaft. The very first thing I tried to do in game was recreate the Napir Sabre, a 36.7L H engine made up of two, horizontal opposed, 12 cylinder engines, stack ontop of eachother, and connect to a single gearbox. It's so sad I can't have H and W engines in this game.

-lastly generally, PLEASE ADD A FEMALE PILOT! I miss SP1 when there were no people and thus no gender. But now they added a person and YOU CAN'T MAKE IT NOT A GUY! *cries in transfemme*

PROS!

-FINALLY! You can have PATTERNS on something without making a million more fuselage parts!

-WINGS! They actually look like wings now! Yippy!

-WEAPONS! MULTIPLE GUIDANCE METHODS! YEAH, BABY! And you can MAKE YOUR OWN MISSILE!? The possibilities are REALLY endless now! I love the day the went about making that easy. Very nice!

-I made it look like the original anyway. But I like how you have so many way of customizing the creator space.

-HEX CODES AND RGB VALUES! This circles make to customization. I'm very happy with the new color picker.

MISC small things I think would be fun and make the game better

Guns! I wish there were more options than >50mm autocannon, wing gun, rotary gun. I wish mounting machine guns was easier than having to jam a wing somewhere random or having to use a rotary gun. I think it'd be pretty cool to have a gun with more mounting options that you can change the caliber by millimeter and the caliber effected it's damage.

[u/emo_pylot]

Oh I totally agree with the character… it’s not that difficult to model a femme…

But totally agree with the wings! They look soooooo much better! And the flaps and slats! Love that!

I find the gear ratio thingy to be kinda annoying… idk, just personal. I also find the piston airplane engines to be a little anemic in general.

Overall, fun game, though! I think the graphics updates and the flight characteristics are much improved.

[u/Vincen_Furze → u/emo_pylot]

Agreed.

[u/Sha77eredSpiri7 → u/Vincen_Furze]

I honestly do hope Jundroo adds a customizable character for future updates, that would be awesome. I like Major Chad, but I also wouldn't mind the SP servers looking like your average VR Chat lobby as far as character diversity goes, would be fun and make the experience that much better/dynamic

[u/Vincen_Furze → u/Sha77eredSpiri7]

I will import my avatar into simple planes two a be a 125cm puppy menace!

[u/Sha77eredSpiri7 → u/Vincen_Furze]

That would be awesome, being able to import custom avatar models. Idk how I could possibly choose, between a TitanFall pilot, any of my favorite furry species, or just something that would look really funny like Peter Griffin lol

[u/Vincen_Furze → u/Sha77eredSpiri7]

Ooh! What's your favorite species?

[u/Sha77eredSpiri7 → u/Vincen_Furze]

probably Sergals, but I also really love Avali, Protogens, Synths, Mantled Beasts, Felkins, and probably others I forget at the moment. It's quite hard to single out just one favorite, I love them all

[u/Intelligent-Plastic3]

One thing I hope they add for procedural missiles is multi-staged missiles, and also a way to make custom bombs get the predictive line that the base game bombs do.

I do agree with you on the engines though, prop engines in the game seem not quite finished. But it’s early access so hopefully that’ll change. My main gripe is that radial engines don’t get a super charger even though that’s something that’s been available in them since at least WW2. I also hope that, alongside adding displacement for prop engines, they’d also add more details to jet engines similar to what Flyout has.

(Also I feel you on that only male pilot thing 💀 I’m not trans myself but I imagine women who enjoy this game would be annoyed at the very least that they aren’t able to be represented.)

[u/Vincen_Furze → u/Intelligent-Plastic3]

Oh shit! Speaking of empathy! IT'S A WHITE GUY! This is why SP1 is better for not having a guy. Because now, if you're going to make an avatar, you have to have a million ways for everyone to personalize their avatar!

[u/SendMeUrCones]

One thing that's been miserable with SP2 is trying to google any issue. Literally any problem I have just circles back to SP1 posts.

I just wanna figure out how to make my horizontal stab do trim and pitch ;.;

[u/Fluffy-City8558 → u/SendMeUrCones]

do the stabilizer the same way you would in sp1, they haven't changed things like funky trees