Ready to Fly: B17 The Mighty Eighth VR Gameplay Teaser
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 มิ.ย. 2024
- Experience the thrill of flying in The Mighty Eighth VR game! Watch this gameplay teaser featuring the B17G Bomber, driving a Willys Jeep, and taking flight in this immersive VR experience. Get a first look at the exciting gameplay in this teaser video!
We finally get to see gameplay of the B17 and see how it looks from the inside. How the interactions work, the basic gameplay as well as an idea on scale. We do not see combat, campaign, multiplayer or actual mission gameplay in this video.
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In my youth, playing WW2 flight sims, was 'B-17 Bomber' for the old Mattel Electronics console, 'Spitfire 40' on the Speccy and 'Ace of Aces' on the C64. The evolution of WW2 air combat based games is amazing in terms of what we used to have.
I know. I remember playing the b17 the mighty eighth when it was new and thought it was the best flight game ever. Then Il2 Sturmovik dropped and the difference then is as night and day as the new stuff coming out now.
It reminds me of that star trek vr game. That died because of lack of players. It's not easy to organise 10 people to play a cooperative flight sim in vr. Not easy at all. Ai better be good.
From what I have heard, you can have Ai. How good they are is yet to be seen.
Just like the mini series, my pet peeve is the asinine slow rate of fire the M2 machine guns have. The AN/M2 aircraft variant M2’s had a rate of fire between 750-850 rounds per minute, but in the show and what I saw in this demo they seem to be shooting around 300. When defending against enemy aircraft, volume of fire is critical for higher hit probability. Other than that, for VR, it looks amazing!
I hope it’s just because they are showing off the game so nothing was final, maybe just placeholder firing.
I’m hoping we get options to go from realistic and arcade like their older B17 games and that might allow us to adjust things like rate of fire and total ammo carried. (I’d go realistic personally. )
It might just be that your only seeing the tracers. Not every round was a tracer.
@@obamatraore2339 if you watch the show Masters of the Air you can hear each shot and see the guns recoil way slower than they should be. In this video, while we can’t hear the guns, there are other tell tale signs, such as again, the guns recoil movement from every shot, the rate at which shells are ejected, as well as the timing of muzzle flashes.
VERY excited about this. I played the original B-17 to death back in the day......
Same here. I still have the original disks somewhere.
Thanks for posting !
Multi crew is going to be key for this game.
I’m looking forward to telling my friends they are terrible bomber crew 😂
for me i would want to be able to walk through the whole aircraft myself, real .50cal fire rate and sounds, and better and more realistic tracers.
I'd like to walk through the whole aircraft in one go to. There might be a limitation or a reason for it that we might hear later on in development. As for the rest, my guess is due to how early in development this video came from and it no near completion.
TY 🙏🙏
I remember with the original B17 game, my favourite part was the office and the paperwork, I would often lose myself as it depicted an actual wartime base. I lived near to Bovingdon airfield and always wondered what it might of been like, I hope this managed to replicate the briefing, office and crew records etc. I'm so looking forward to this.
I know the older B17 game got a redux and is on steam. It’s just like the original but made to run on newer PCs. Still bit early with some bugs but good and very nostalgic.
I did my basic training at Bassingborne, so the B17 has been a huge interest of mine since then.
An interesting movement mechanic that would work well could be "grabbing" at the ceiling or other internal structures and pulling yourself forward in game, similar to how you might grab onto things while trying to walk around a moving aircraft in flight
Could be cool to have when the plane is in a dive or spiralling out of control and you have to get to an exit to bail out.
Walking into the bomb bay… there is a skinny plank you must walk on… or fall out the bomb bay.
must have been scary for those who flew for real in wartime when they had to go through with the doors open. I wonder if we can bail out this way ingame by jumping out of it.
@@ItIsntJack my father was with the 457th BG 750th Squadron out of Glotton England. He was shot down on his 5th mission made it back to England to fly 25 more missions.
I got to drop some of his ashes out the bomb bay of Sentimental Journey a B17 with the Commemorative Air Force painted in the 457th BG colors.
@thatguy7085 that is truly a wonderful sendoff. Sounds like a wonderful man and must have had some amazing stories.
Still looks pretty early access. I hope they don't release it until it's complete. Only things I'm noticing from the video that look terrible are the green glowing things and that the gunfire looks terrible.
I agree. The green glow to indicate an interaction point is very bad and breaks the immersion. Gunfire could just be because it’s early.
Really hope we can use joystick/HOTAS and xbox controller rather than VR touch controllers. I sit at my desk when playing flight sims and can't use touch controllers as it will bump against desk and monitor etc.
it looks SO GOOD! I cant wait. Def gonna be a waist gunner. I do wonder how long the missions will be. Most VR headsets cant run 8+ hours. Must be short missions.
It does look good. I'm hoping we get options for the length of flight with the ability to save and the host to pause. This could mean players who just want instant action can just get in plane, skip and be in the thick of it while others can go through the whole lot, saving to continue another day and pausing for snack breaks etc.
quest 3 is great machine
It’s better than the quest 2. Been liking my Q3.
It wasn't "actual gameplay" it was actual in game footage that shows the game is not even close to done.
Oh it’s not close to done but this is from their training / free session mission which seems to be just a bomber and nothing else. Perfect for just messing about but no real threats except for poor piloting. This is the most Ingame anything we have had but still looks decent.
@@ItIsntJack But I'm guessing based on what they showed - I don't even think engine management is in yet - From the first teaser to this latest - I feel like it's really really not close to functional. I think if they had some meat to show they would show it.
Definitively one thing that comes to my mind is that the game's on its very early stage od development. VR has some requirements, like both high and stable FPSs are required for pleasent experience. Thus, I can't see the game evolving into MMO, with a whole group of bombers manned by players flying its formation into Ruhre on one MP server. It would be fantastic, but can't see 390 players playing on one server happening, especially due to time of typical bomber missions was taking, back in those days. I can see they accomplished part of visuals and that's it for now. Even simulation of flight instruments is not implemented, maybe because a flight model hasn't been finished yet? Engine samples sound wierd at the moment, no changes in pitch and depth. It was just a demo of working VR mechanics and the first iterration of the terrain/world, I believe. Still, I love what they have currently, especially that you can walk/drive around airbase, tho. Can't wait for further sneak peaks into the dev process of the game.
My guess is it will stay the one bomber and 10 players and maybe, if they are able to, add an additional bomber or two depending on how well the network code is. Time will tell.
@@ItIsntJack I agree. I like your content, honest and to the point, thanks!
Please could you tell us what VR head set your using . Thanks
I wasn't the one who recorded it, it's from the dev blog2 . In the text though it says this;
"The video has been captured on a Steam PCVR build on an Oculus Quest 2 connected via wifi using Virtual Desktop. The game will also work via the Steam app and Oculus Airlink, using motion controllers. We have also been testing with hand tracking on the Quest 2, and that is partially working already. We aim to support as many headsets as possible when the game launches."
I don't see why teleports are needed at all; Why not use a "climb" mechanic, where the player grabs a handle and pulls themself through? If they try to abuse it to clip out the plane, vision can be blocked like how Alyx does. If they let go of the handle while clipping they pop back into the plane
No animation of the belt feeding into the .50
Yeah I noticed that. I think I briefly mentioned it in my video. Could be just because it's early but if it stays static on release it would be a shame.
@@ItIsntJack the muzzle flash looks way to big as well, and I saw someone else point out that the aircraft 50 had a fire rate pushing 800-1000 rpm.
Things that can be fixed hopefully.
Could just be placeholder. I hope so. My guess is most of the video just shows off what they currently have that is at least presentable and still nowhere near final.
I was really hyped for this but the second I saw how we teleport I lost a a lot of interest and then the people already in the seats I hope they can fix that cause right now it seems horrible
It could be just placeholder while it’s in development. I’m sure we will find out soon enough. Maybe you see the positions filled if you have Ai enabled, sort of like the game Wolfpack.
If this game is as good as I hope it would be, i would finally invest in a VR setup. Do you think this would work on the Oculus? I have no idea what im doing with VR lol
I have the quest 3 but run through my Pc so I’ll know myself when they release something. My guess most common headsets will be possible but nothing seems confirmed in stone just yet.
Isnt this the same trailer they put out last time? Is vr only? For the small % of people who have vr, waiting for the bloody 100th, although at this point thats dead i think.
Last one was just them driving round in a jeep and the video of their concept from years ago is very outdated and barebones. This was from there latest dev log from last week.
Looks like the took insperation from masters of the air including the name of the plane except the tower and the way you enter the place are incorrect
And some other small details are off
A lot of things could be missing, shortened or omitted due to being very early preview or for gameplay purposes. Personally I'd want this to be as realistic as possible but time will tell. I'm also sure this game started development before MotA even started filming.
The video does show a B17 model F. To be a model G, the B17 must have a chin turret.
at 01:40 it shows the chin turret and when inside, you can see the right waist gun position is further forward than the left. You can also see the Cheyenne Tail Turret which has the larger view glazing and no canvas cover on the weapons. All the signs of a late 'G' model. At the 09:30 mark, you can see the player firing the chin turret from the bombardiers position.
Why are you not testing and aiming through the sights? This is a major point in VR and it looks like they nailed it. They implemented all the various versions.
This video came from the dev log, not me. If it was me I’d be borderline rivet counting checking everything out. I feel this was just a showcase of what they have so far that they are happy to show the public.
@@ItIsntJack ahh… ok… not you fault… sorry. 😄 I was like: „look through the god damn sights“
Does it let you indiscriminately firebomb civilians?
bullets tracers is very irreal unusable ugly
I think they are placeholder to just show of the B17 Ingame with some of the VR functionality
Way too bright. Looks lit up inside. Takes away from the reality nd atmosphere.
It is quite bright but it's possible that this was just a 'this is what we have got so far' look and lighting isn't finished yet.
Looks like World War Boring.
VR is death. Horrible. Makes me sick.
Bs. Never once been sick in VR
lol poor genetics
Sometimes it can take a little while to get past VR sickness if you're prone to it. They key is short sessions, ending them as soon as you start to feel uncomfortable. Eventually, you'll find that can can spend longer periods in VR until you just don't experience it anymore. It's a brain/inner ear conflicting sensations issue.
I can play for hours but as soon as my headset comes off, my brain thinks I’m upside down haha.