Rise of Flight: Channel Battles Edition

Welcome to Rise of Flight! Take to the skies of war torn Europe and experience daring air combat at the dawn of aviation in a realistic World War I flight simulation. Re-enact famous air battles fought by legendary aces such as Manfred von Richtofen, James McCudden, Georges Guynemer, and Eddie Rickenbacker. Rise of Flight transports you to a time when courageous pilots fought each other for control of the sky high above the bloody trenches. In aircraft made of canvas and wood they battled to the death. While some survived to become legends, most met a fiery fate. Do you have the skills and the courage to become an Ace? Features Choose a Pilot Career and join one of dozens of different squadrons from Great Britain, France, Germany, USA or Belgium and fly realistic missions and advance in rank over time and encounter famous enemy aces in deadly aerial combat. “Channel Battles” mission-set is included featuring the gigantic Felixstowe F.2a flying boat. Use the Quick Mission Builder to quickly create custom combat scenarios in seconds. Three scripted Campaigns are included. Fly the Training Campaign to learn basic flying and practice your dogfighting skills. Choose a Pilot Career and join one of dozens of different squadrons from Great Britain, France, Germany, USA or Belgium and fly realistic missions and advance in rank over time and encounter famous enemy aces in deadly aerial combat. Fly in Online Multiplayer servers. MP modes include Dogfight and CO-OP. Search for multiplayer servers with a built-in server browser. Practice teamwork with by manning additional Gunner Positions. You get unlimited access to multi-crew airplanes in Multiplayer matches. Protect your plane’s six o’clock! Statistics tracking and online Leaderboards lists the best ROF pilots; and displays interesting statistics about your deadliest enemies. Seasonal terrain textures including spring, autumn and winter for the famous Western Front in France. With complex atmospheric conditions such as turbulence, variable wind, moving clouds and shadows, rain and snow. Realistic gunnery and ballistics with a progressive and detailed damage model. No two crashes or kills are the same. G-effects with blackout, red out and wounded pilot effects featuring blood splatter, ringing ears and control difficulty. Support for user made Mods and custom skins with Mods On/Off modes including a custom skin viewer tool. ROF website also has thousands of historically accurate paintjobs available for download. Advanced graphics featuring High Dynamic Range (HDR) lighting, blinding sun glare, beautiful sunrises and sunsets, dark moonlit nights with stars and realistic looking raindrops and oil splatter on pilot goggles. Fully adjustable and customizable controller options including custom joystick curves and Force Feedback support. Gameplay Missions – These are custom stand-alone single missions you can fly to hone your combat skills. You can choose from Free Flight and Scenarios. The available missions are connected to the planes available for you to fly. Missions for the SPAD 13, Nieuport 17, Nieuport 28, Albatros D. Va, Fokker D. VII, Fokker DR. 1, Pfalz D. XII, Sopwith Camel, S. E.5a and Felixstowe F. 2a.are included. Pilot Career – A pilot career allows you to choose from many different squadrons and fly historically based mission types throughout the war. You can choose what squadron you fly for and the date you start. You can also choose a biography for the pilot and starting rank. As you progress through the career, you will earn promotions in rank and earn medals for your bravery and skill. The career mode includes dynamic elements and no two missions are exactly the same. You’ll face historically accurate enemy squadrons and occasionally encounter deadly enemy aces in combat. If you survive long enough, you can become the squadron leader and take charge of daily pilot assignments and mission planning. Multiplayer Multiplayer – ROF has a robust MP environment with a built in server browser. You can join MP matches easily or you can join simply to be a spectator. There are several types of multiplayer matches including Cooperative (CO-OP), Dogfight (TDM) and Objective Based (CTF). Each type of server has different goals and rules. The server locator screen can help you determine which match is best for you. It lists the server’s description, mission rotation, players, ping, location and difficulty settings. Once you join a match you can fly a single seat fighter or bomber. You can also fly as a machine gunner on a multi-crew aircraft such a bomber or recon plane. The choice is yours. Leaderboards - Every Rise of Flight user has a unique user account and our system can track your multiplayer combat statistics if you choose to fly on special servers. On the Rise of Flight website there is a Leaderboard that lists the best ROF pilots throughout the world. The leaderboard displays statistics about your deadliest enemies, and how you performed in your matches.