I'm so happy this didn't turn into another early access game that died out the gate, the updates have been awesome. I've been revisiting this week too and love it, it even has a small online playerbase, unheard of for an indy flight game in early access

This game DESERVES more attention. It's on it's way to being astonishing if THIS is basically 25% of the planned game total.

check the workshop i spent hours working on adding to escalation "Total War Escalation" i made it a tad more difficult to just punch any old hole in the defenses by air and set up defence points on the ground for both sides to stem the spawnslaught

Wakes up from black-out. "That's not good." smashing straight into the hill side 😂

Been playing this game so much in the last week when I decided to just dive in. Such a good game for being to EA. Glad to see another video on it.

In case you haven't figured out, this game supports HOTAS and Track IR, definitely recommend

I think it's funny that he crashed after a black out. Many modern planes have terrain avoidance that take over after high G maneuvers and no pilot input.

Happy 4th of July Devildog! Thank you for the awesome content, been watching since the ARMA 2 MSO days :D loving your work! Stay Awesome!

3:50 "I survived!" smacks into earth going mach damn

Fun fact! You can move the ground forces by clicking on them on the map, then clicking where you want to send them

Great video. Keep featuring this game imo, it deserves a large player base and people supporting the small dev team!

I remember when it came out looks like they added cool stuff

Really happy you posted this because i forgot about this game and now i've been binge playing it lol

about time! This game is absolutely needing more attention

Love that SDI spot!

You can enable TRACKir in the settings if you have it. I thought I remember you using one for DCS, the planes all have HMD which is awesome

can you use track ir?

Hey Devildog, I just want you to know about a few of the games mechanics. You can switch to a jammer when flying jets to help lose radar guided missles (SARH, and ARH) but that requires you to either hug the terrain or "notch" the missles (fly perpendicular to the radar emitter). If the missile warning says "SARH", that is a Semi-active Radar Homing missile. so flares do nothing and you need to hide from the emitter (the launcher), hug the ground (jammer helps this) or notch it (jammer helps this too but it's very hard to do). If the missile warning says "ARH", that's an Active Radar Homing missile, so it has it's own radar emitter and is hard as hell to evade, hide or notch but also know that it was a plane launched missile (the same ones you were using) so that tells you the threat is close-ish. Oh and for when you are attacked by an IR missile, Throttle down is very important less so for crickets and for the ifrit and revoker (the planes with afterburners) they have to be throttled down for a while for the IR to lose em making close to mid-range IR missiles a death sentence for em.

love the aircraft damage effects

Bought it, thank you DevilDog

You can switch to the radar jammer countermeasure (default is v to switch I believe) and it just increases the height of the radar floor and can shake off most SARH missiles and help notch ARHs

Nuclear option is so much fun man

When I bought this thinking it wouldn't be any good I ended up playing for a solid 10 hours in one sitting

Does the F-35 have a tracking camera like that? I just did a quick search and it has a second frikin mini-cockpit underneath, idk if it does the same thing as the camera in this video though.

wow looks good. maybe ill reinstall. i wish there were a little more variance in the smoke columns.

I enjoy this game a lot. It’s really good with an Xbox controller as well

I saw a Air force veteran play this game but with flying controls I forgot what's it called

Happy Independence Day SEMPER FI

You play with a controller? MKB? Or A joystick/flightstick??

does it have flight stick compatibility?

hmm this is cool

Asuh dudes

more pls

All this SDI sponsorships... inb4 garandthumb or micah mayfield collab. I'd love to see Mike play GZW.

Tommy Tough-Knuckles here, i smoked your ass in that lobby and you edited it out :(

This game is just stupid, stupid good... If anyone watching this is on the fence.. just get it.

I love this game, ive been playing since it was released. So happy theyve added building destruction so i can "accidentally" drop a 20kt on the main city😅

I thought i saw you in a server the other night and went "nawww can't be him" lol