New Player - Interested in career mode and have questions

[vladtaltos]

Hey guys/gals, new player here.  Remembering fondly the days of Dynamix Red Baron, I have a few questions:

1.) I'm curious how the career mode plays out in RoF compared to Red Baron.  Is it similar, better, worse and in what ways? Do you get invites to join other squadrons for example?

2.) What planes should I have installed/available/purchased to really take advantage of the career and get the most out of it?

 

[Sabrefly]

Taking the opportunity, I wanted to ask - how well does PWCG work with the use of all necessary mods in RoF, how complete is the gaming experience with it? Regarding the Career mode, I recall there were lots of nonsense and bugs. Correct me if I'm wrong. Thank you.

Edited February 29, 2024 by Sabrefly

[J2_Steve]

I recommend PWCG for SP campaigning. Version 16 being the most stable version. There is a whole thread on ver 16 in this forum. I have a few mods installed but mainly they are graphic related . Fubars landscape mod, engine skins, VonS DM mod with "improved gunnery" selected in the game options. Improved gunnery is not a simplification, it just gives you a tighter dispertion, much closer to what we have in FC at the moment. That is it. That gives me all I need ?

I enjoy that much more than I do FC. RoF is still king for SP IMO. FC is nice to look at and the planes fly better. But the AI is woeful. In FC I get 5 or 6 kills every mission and if I'm ever killed it is down to a collision!! RoF is not perfect and the AI has it's faults, but it is a far better SP experience than FC.

[Sabrefly]

1 hour ago, J2_Steve said:

I recommend PWCG for SP campaigning. Version 16 being the most stable version. There is a whole thread on ver 16 in this forum. I have a few mods installed but mainly they are graphic related . Fubars landscape mod, engine skins, VonS DM mod with "improved gunnery" selected in the game options. Improved gunnery is not a simplification, it just gives you a tighter dispertion, much closer to what we have in FC at the moment. That is it. That gives me all I need ?

I enjoy that much more than I do FC. RoF is still king for SP IMO. FC is nice to look at and the planes fly better. But the AI is woeful. In FC I get 5 or 6 kills every mission and if I'm ever killed it is down to a collision!! RoF is not perfect and the AI has it's faults, but it is a far better SP experience than FC.

 

 

I hate those 5 to 6 kills in FC every fligth too. Just as I thought, remembering RoF. I don't know why, but overall even graphically FC doesn't seem as appealing to me as I remember RoF, although I have all of FC1, FC2, and FC3. Btw what do you think about the career mode in RoF? Is it incurable? Thank you for the detailed description of RoF, I'm definitely going to install it.

 

PS: I know where FC excels: VR and MP, I played both.

Edited March 1, 2024 by Sabrefly

[J2_Steve]

The RoF career mode is not bad. There are pro's and con's to both PWCG and the RoF career. They pretty much balance out each other. The career seems more balanced for enemy vs friendly. Has some nice touches, (flares at the base on take off and landing etc), but is weak when it comes to skins and history. PWCG has simpler missions but is much richer in skins and historical aces and more unpredictable and challenging I think. You never know what is coming. You can go up and meet nothing. Then in another flight your 4 ship flight meets up with 2 flight of enemy, 6 French spads and a flight of 6 British N17s. You're in a real battle to survive, when you notice a flight of Tripes has turned up too and you think "f**k I'm going to die!"  Career mode rarely gives you that.