Aces of Thunder PS5 footage on PSVR2... affordable VR fun.

[Mysticpuma]

One of the guys was given early access to it and has posted this video.

Being the owner of a PS5 Pro and VR2 headset, I have to say, it looks like a great entry point to combat flight gaming (note I didn't say Sims), and may encourage some to venture out into PC land and go much deeper into the hobby.

Really like the hand controls in the cockpit and the landscape looks pretty good too.

 

 

[peterk1]

Coming out in a few days. Anyone know anything about it?

Non VR is confirmed but I'm not sure if TrackIR is going to be there out of the box.

Also no zooming in and no plane labels unless very close range. Not sure if I'd be able to handle that.

Edited January 30 by peterk1

[kraut1]

4 hours ago, peterk1 said:

Coming out in a few days. Anyone know anything about it?

Non VR is confirmed but I'm not sure if TrackIR is going to be there out of the box.

Also no zooming in and no plane labels unless very close range. Not sure if I'd be able to handle that.

It is based on War Thunder, optimized for VR and for Single Player.
And because I have some experience in flying War Thunder with realistic joystick configuration and with realistic settings in single player missions,
I hope that it will be a great VR WW2 Flight sim with the focus on immersion, beautyful maps and planes with an at least acceptable degree of realism.

 

For me are 2 open questions:

-Will it run well on my old PC? (War Thunder with VR no problems in respect of FPS)
-Quality and variety of SP Missions / Campaigns? (War Thunder has since the beginning some very interesting SP Advanced Quick Mission functions, but these functions were never optimized and contain many unnecessary bugs)

[Drewm3i-VR]

Anyone tried it?

[Mysticpuma]

Bought it but won't have a chance to play it until Wednesday 😢

[kraut1]

Same with me, bought but not tested.

[Sparviero]

20 hours ago, Mysticpuma said:

Bought it but won't have a chance to play it until Wednesday 😢

 

19 hours ago, kraut1 said:

Same with me, bought but not tested.

I'm really interested in opinions by IL2 users, I'll wait for that! Thanks!

Edited February 9 by Sparviero

[AndreiTomescu]

On 1/1/2026 at 8:49 PM, Mysticpuma said:

really like the hand controls in the cockpit

so, let me get this straight and true: if you have a VR on the PS5, you can pilot the aircraft WITHOUT controller (bleah!) and JOYSTICK (doesn't work on ps5), but just using your hands on the virtual stick and buttons from the cockpit ? 

I mean on the PS5, not on the computer

or you still have to use the 2 controllers that come with the head set ?

Edited February 9 by AndreiTomescu

[Mysticpuma]

You can use the two VR controllers, no PS4 controller (standard 2 stick controller) required.

or use the normal controller.

[AndreiTomescu]

i'd like to say i understood.....but i didn't.....sorry.....because i don't have vr, just a ps5 and regular controllers. but i've watched how the VR2 looks like.  so, i can move the plane's stick without the controller's knob? just by moving my hand? or it's still bound by that little stick from the controller? i mean, it's like i have my hand on a imaginary flight stick, or i have to use the finger for controlling the stick? Thank you!

[Mysticpuma]

4 hours ago, AndreiTomescu said:

i'd like to say i understood.....but i didn't.....sorry.....because i don't have vr, just a ps5 and regular controllers. but i've watched how the VR2 looks like.  so, i can move the plane's stick without the controller's knob? just by moving my hand? or it's still bound by that little stick from the controller? i mean, it's like i have my hand on a imaginary flight stick, or i have to use the finger for controlling the stick? Thank you!

Maybe this will help?

 

 

[AndreiTomescu]

oh, yes! thank you very much! i've got now all my questions explained. Thank you!

[kraut1]

Okay, this post is for PSV5 / PSVR2 so my post is a bit Off Topic because I have purchased Aces of Thunder for PC/Steam.

But today I found some minutes for a first test with VR (6 years old Rift-S, 6 years old average gaming PC).
Of course I tried to fly with the hands on flight stick / throttle because this is from my point of view the main feature of Aces of Thunder.
Because I normally never use the VR Touch Controllers the whole thing was totally new for me and the whole configuration wrong I suppose.

But at the end I was able to grip the virtual flightstick in the cockpit and the throttle level and to take off the FW190A4, flew one cirlcle and landed without crash (it was a "Testflight"). FPS was okay. Sound settings to be optimized. In comparison with War Thunder, which works well in VR too, the quality of the cockpit is superior (of the FW190-A4).

So I suppose with optimized settings and some more practice with the VR touch Controllers I suppose it's a total new way to fly...

Edited February 10 by kraut1

[Mysticpuma]

Manual controls and online dogfights 

 

[sevenless]

Even without VR, seems like absolutely worth to be checked out. Price is 29,99 EUR at Steam.

 

[Sparviero]

Unfortunatly I didn't read yet a review by an hardcore simmer/PCVR... and I really didn't understand if you can chose aircrafts in campaigns/which aircraft are playable in campaigns.

[Lusekofte]

So far I encountered one that have at least tested IL 2 Sturmovik Great Battles. 
And he put it between wt and gb. 
but he found it difficult to do with normal controllers. 
Rest is wt pilots with a perspective I can’t relate to. 
I am still confused about planes. I did see Avengers and Kate’s in promotion videos. But not on tests. They only flew circles and dogfighted. I can’t say that make me interested 

[sevenless]

3 hours ago, Lusekofte said:

So far I encountered one that have at least tested IL 2 Sturmovik Great Battles. 
And he put it between wt and gb. 
but he found it difficult to do with normal controllers. 
Rest is wt pilots with a perspective I can’t relate to. 
I am still confused about planes. I did see Avengers and Kate’s in promotion videos. But not on tests. They only flew circles and dogfighted. I can’t say that make me interested 

SBD-3, SB2C-4, D4Y3-Ko and Fairey Firefly are all flyable. 29 flyable planes in total. 25 in WW2 and 4 in WW1 setting. Just bought it on Steam and am having a lookaround. Had a flight above Dover, Berlin and Prokhorovka so far. Impressive map terrain grafix and the cockpits are gorgeous. I´m at 4K res using a 43-inch Sony TV and my 4070 GTX is constantly at 120ish FPS. Though the primary aim of the game seems to be multiplayer Air-Quake, there is a substantial amount of singleplayer content present which will keep me entertained for the next months. I like it so far and the price is very modest, IMHO.

Pretty detailed review for flatscreen HOTAS play here:

And from a YT IL2-GB content creator (DunkzGam1ng) here:

 

Edited February 17 by sevenless

[Catch]

Only 4 WW1 crates! Surely they can't be serious. 

Besides, us true PC snobs would never consider lowering ourselves to an arcadey console game. But it does look like fun. For the record, I never said that. Freudian slip.