Why Early Access?

“Planned for Early Access:

B-17F Multiplayer co-op bomber gunner operation

A variety of missions and difficulties

Full damage model including crew, cockpit, fuselage, wings, engines, and tail health

Authentic flight model with a variety of enemy aircraft and tactics

Crew stats and character progression

The Vision:

Authentic World War II campaign based on real events and major operations

The ability to pilot, gun, bomb, drive, or sail each of the vehicles, ships, anti-air, and aircraft that experienced combat during World War II

Multiplayer co-op and PvP missions grounded against realistically based opponents

Class progression system (Pilot, Navigator, Gunner, Medic, Mechanic)

Cinematic sequences to repair, heal, and maintain critical systems

A variety of vehicle, character, and weapon upgrades

Arcade and realistic modes that include different objectives for aircraft, land, and naval vessels in combined warfare

Sandbox mode to create and play your own missions

No pay-to-win, insane grind, battle-pass, pre-order, ads
”

Approximately how long will this game be in Early Access?

“
~1 year”

How is the full version planned to differ from the Early Access version?

“Authentic World War II campaign based on real events and major operations

The ability to pilot, gun, bomb, drive, or sail each of the vehicles, ships, anti-air, and aircraft that experienced combat during World War II

Multiplayer co-op and PvP missions grounded against realistically based opponents

A variety of vehicle, character, and weapon upgrades

Arcade and realistic modes that include different objectives for aircraft, land, and naval vessels in combined warfare

Cinematic campaign

New aircraft, ships, ground vehicles, game modes, and missions”

What is the current state of the Early Access version?

“B-17F Flying Fortress, crewed. Eight gun stations plus the pilot's seat: two cheek guns and a
third nose gun, top turret, ball turret, both waist guns, the radio-room gun and the tail guns.
Switch stations mid-mission. AI crewmen hold every seat a player isn't in.
Four engines modelled individually — per-engine thrust, propellers, fires and failure.
P-51D Mustang, flyable as escort.

A bomber that comes apart properly
Damage per component: engines, wings, tail, fuselage, cockpit, landing gear, turrets.
Engine fires, severed wings and departure from controlled flight, deadstick glide, crash tumble.
Hitting the ground kills you.
Battle damage appears on the airframe.
Crewmen can be hit, downed, treated, or lost.

Jobs you choose, at a cost
Put out a fire, repair a zone, patch a wound. You leave your gun to do it, and the gun goes
quiet while you are away.
Full-bodied crewmen, a walkable fuselage, and physical objects to reach — the fuse box, the med kit.
Bail out. The crew bail with you, and who got out is what the record shows.
The opposition
Bf 109E, Bf 110C and F-2, Fw 190A and A-8, Me 410B-2, Ju 87B.
21 cm Wfr.Gr.21 rockets on the bomber-destroyer marks — fired into the formation to break it up.
Flak, with the concussion you feel in the airframe.
Friendly P-51 escort and a B-17 formation that flies, with a key to rejoin it.

Missions and how you set them up
Flown solo with an AI crew, or online with friends in the same bomber.
Four difficulties — Easy, Normal, Hard, Veteran.
A custom difficulty panel: fighter count 1–200, ace count 1–50, fighter skill, unlimited crew
health, unlimited aircraft health, unlimited ammunition, and crew job sequences off.
Four times of day — Morning, Noon, Dusk, Night. Each is a complete lighting rig, picked before
you launch.
Briefing, objectives, a mission clock and a debrief.
Real terrain, streamed.

Multiplayer
Online co-op over Steam. A crew room where you claim a station, pick your role and ready up.
Crew browser, Quick Match, and Public or Private crews.
Official dedicated servers, claimed nearest-first, falling back to the host's own machine.
Drop-in joining. Steam invites follow the crew to wherever it is flying.
Voice chat — push-to-talk or voice activation, with a radio filter.
Local two-player splitscreen on one machine.

Your crew, and your character
Seven crew roles, each with two specialisations: Pilot (Bomber or Fighter), Gunner, Navigator,
Flight Engineer, Medic, Bombardier, Radio Operator.
Both your character and the role you fly earn XP every mission, in co-op and single player.
Levelling makes a crewman measurably better — tighter bursts, faster reactions, cooler guns, and
longer to reach him when he is hit.
In single player your crew is persistent. Named men with service records, kills, wounds and
nicknames they earn. A man is lost only if he is downed during the bail-out; a replacement arrives
at level one.
Pilot rank 0–9 and a separate rank 0–4 for each aircraft.
One purchase. No premium currency, no battle pass, no paid unlocks, no ads.

Controls and options
Mouse and keyboard, gamepad with full controller support
Full key rebinding in game.
Graphics presets and scalability, six audio sliders, sensitivity, invert and mouse-aim options.

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Flight
A custom flight model with per-aircraft aerodynamics.
Arcade and Realistic modes, switchable at any time.
Bombsight and bomb run.”

Will the game be priced differently during and after Early Access?

“Yes. We plan to raise the price as we ship new content and features. (E.g. VR, HOTAS support, campaigns, ect)”

How are you planning on involving the Community in your development process?

“We have a large community on Discord that we respond and receive feedback in regularly. Will also respond in the community hub. ”