Heliborne [Steam], a surprisingly good Helicopter combat game has recently had a big revamp involving the flight and combat models.
The developers claim the Helicopters now feel more realistic and different to each other, with their improved flight model. So you now need to learn how to handle each of them, instead of them all being the same.
Fans of helicopter action games have plenty of reasons to celebrate. Softraid 5 6 – high quality raid management. After a year and a half of work, numerous improvements based on players’ feedback, and 27,000 copies sold, Heliborne leaves Early Access and lands on Steam! Publishing the game is only just the beginning.
On top of that, the new damage model sounds pretty interesting. You no longer have a plain damage counter. Instead, there's now five critical modules that have various effects when damaged. A tail boom being critically damaged can make you spin out of control, for example.
To prevent you getting lost, pressing TAB will now bring up a tactical map with much more information than the small mini-map.
- Heliborne seeks to introduce players to rotary-wing aviation and combat. Players will have the ability to fly a number of helicopters from the 60's forward in to the year 2000 across a wide range of maps and in a wide range of mission scenarios.
- Klabater have released the Enhanced Edition of their helicopter-based combat game, Heliborne. The Enhanced Edition both bundles the base game with all of its DLC packs, and introduces a variety of.
- Helicopter combat game by JetCat Games studio. This wiki is devoted to Heliborne by JetCat Games and the history of helicopters. Get behind the cockpits of the best helicopters in the world – from the classic machines of the 1950s to the modern gunships of the 21st century. Play missions with your friends and compete with.
There's a lot of smaller changes too, like landing being simpler and easier, but a rough landing can result in damage. You can read the full changelog here.
I like the game, but I think they badly need to overhaul their UI. It's messy, confusing and not very inviting for new players to the game. I imagine that's part of the reason why not too many people actually play it.