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| Wings Over Flanders Fields Between Heaven and Hell II | |
|---|---|
| Developer(s) | OBD Software |
| Publisher(s) | OBD Software [1] |
| Engine | Custom Combat Flight Simulator 3 |
| Platform(s) | Microsoft Windows |
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| Genre(s) | Flight simulator, Combat flight simulator |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
Wings Over Flanders Fields Between Heaven and Hell II (WOFF BH&H II) is a World War I combat flight simulation video game by SA and UK development team OBD Software. The first iteration was released on December 11, 2013 and has since been heavily updated.
Gameplay[edit]
The player enlists as a pilot of one of the four main nations in the war: Germany, Britain, France, and the USA. The player then flies realistic combat flight missions over one of the four main areas of conflict on the Western Front in World War I, namely Flanders, Marne, Verdun, Alsace. WOFF covers the dates the aircraft were more actively used between 1915 and 1918. The player can start a career in any of the 500+ historically researched squadrons available as a fighter pilot or a 2-seater pilot.
Once a pilot is created, the player can choose to fly Quick Missions, Quick Scenarios, or in a Dynamic Campaign, the main focus of WOFF. The campaign missions are freshly generated so do not repeat, and the custom campaign engine generates friendly and enemy flights, all attempting their own missions. As such, aircraft are not spawned into the air near the player but have their own orders, thus creating a more realistic arena for the player.
If the player joins in a campaign, they see their squadron and fellow pilots' details in the main interface. Then the player flies missions in the 3D-rendered combat flight simulator. The player views from the virtual cockpit of the current aircraft, or the player can switch to external views of the aircraft. Mission end results are processed on return from the mission. The mission ends when the player quits or the player's pilot lands or dies in the mission.
This is purely a single player game, so the other pilots have many unique features developed by OBD Software over several years with the aim of producing a more immersive single player world with realistic AI enemy and AI friendly pilots. The AI are programmed to cope with morale, vision qualities, fatigue, skills, and a strong sense of self-preservation to aid the single player experience.
Development[edit]
WOFF was originally released in December 2013 and was a major development based on previous original freeware and payware versions of OBD Software's "Over Flanders Fields" WW1 simulator, which first appeared around 2006.
Since then, there have been several upgrades, including notable releases such as Wings Over Flanders Fields Ultimate Edition, which combined many of these past upgrades and added more features. The latest major release Wings Over Flanders Fields Between Heaven and Hell II (WOFF BH&HII) was released in April 2021. This has had many free updates released since, including more recently the "Recon Wars" 2-seater operations Add-on for WOFF BH&H II, available from the official website only.
Reception[edit]
Wings Over Flanders Fields, and the latest version Wings Over Flanders Fields Between Heaven and Hell II ('WOFF BH&H II') has been generally very well received over the years.
A more recent in depth video review by SmartWargames was released on YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewEEL3gKkCs Some quotes from that review
"...if you need it short, it is likely the best WW1 sim you can get..."
"...one of the best campaign modes ever done in a military sim..."
WOFF also appeared at No.13 in Rock Paper Shotgun's "The 25 best simulation games on PC" article;
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/best-simulation-games
and PC Gamer magazine's "The 20 best wargames of all time" in 2015;
https://www.pcgamer.com/the-best-wargames-of-all-time/
Tim Stone, of Rock Paper Shotgun (a well respected PC and Console game review website) did a favourable review of a very early version of WOFF in 2013
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/wot-i-think-wings-over-flanders-fields
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