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Title. Looking to take my HOTAS somewhere I can play against other players in real-world planes.
Virtually, of course.
Virtually, of course.
Elite Dangerous?
Okay I'm out.
Okay I'm out.
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I don't like how PvP works in Elite owing to Engineers. Too... Well I don't know, it just puts me off.
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Now that looks interesting...
DCS World is one of the best flight sim on the market today. Although the free version of DCS comes with Su-25 (air to ground attack aircraft) and unarmed TF-51 (post war version of Mustang) so if you want to play it for PvP I suggest getting Flaming Cliffs 3 add-on for it.
https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/products/planes/flaming_cliffs/
For fun, more arcade experience you can always jump in F2P War Thunder that is PvP competitive game only.
https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/products/planes/flaming_cliffs/
For fun, more arcade experience you can always jump in F2P War Thunder that is PvP competitive game only.
Just be ready, DCS is a simulator. Like...real one 
You might not be able to take off in your first playsession)
You might not be able to take off in your first playsession)
War Thunder is a pretty good call, sim battles are fairly challenging and are better with a stick and throttle, the only problem with War Thunder is it takes years to level up, but overall a great flight game
Falcon BMS 4.33 is a pretty intense F16 sim (other aircraft are also available), takes a while to get into though - much more detailed and realistic than DCS (the avionics and flight model have been updated and tweaked by real F16 drivers to be as real as possible sans Top Secret functionality - and even some of that stuff has got in there). BMS (Benchmark Sims) update to the original Falcon is free, but you need to have the original game which you can get from GOG Games for about £10. THe single player Korea campaign is pretty good, it's one of the best Dynamic Campaign engines that there has ever been.
WWIIOL is one of the oldest MMO's out there, again a steep learning curve but plenty of PvP if you like your WWII stuff, it is subscription based but there is a free 2 play account available with limited equipment (Hurricane mk 1 versus veterans flying FW190s!) of course you can also pilot boats and tanks and run around with a rifle if you feel the need. A single server (no instancing) and half sized terrain of northern europe and specific Attack/defense points can make for some pretty cool battles, personally one of the greatest things about this game is tootling around in the skies behind the front line and spotting a player driven truck pulling a player controlled anti-tank gun who have been driving for half an hour and strafing the snot out of them, or dropping a bomb on a building full of players and going home with a 12 kill mission.
Somewhere between the two drops IL2 - Cliffs of Dover. The original game was pretty buggy, but a group of modders called Team Fusion have taken the base game and made a pretty solid PvP WWII flight sim out of it, again its very realistic and some of the dogfights I've been in have been pretty intense. there are several servers available, one of which I think is a semi-persistant world, where the Jerries are bombing the airfields and radar stations and the plucky Brits are defending them.
Lastly, if you like your aircraft made out of string and paper, there is Rise of Flight. If I recall correctly, it's free but you pay for extra flyable aircraft, again plenty of online servers and again some pretty realistic air to air combat - to the point where you can fly up next to an enemy aircraft, take out your Webley pistol and shoot the pilot (or indeed turn around and shoot your gunner!)
These four flight sims are my go-to games for online pvp - realistic flight models and real world tactics can have you either sweating buckets in a turn fight on the deck, or hanging lazily from your chute wondering what just happened when you have been jumped (beware the Hun in the Sun!) and you weren't checking your six!
https://www.bmsforum.org/forum/forum.php
http://www.battlegroundeurope.net/
http://theairtacticalassaultgroup.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=91
http://riseofflight.com/
(other, less realistic flight sims are also available)
WWIIOL is one of the oldest MMO's out there, again a steep learning curve but plenty of PvP if you like your WWII stuff, it is subscription based but there is a free 2 play account available with limited equipment (Hurricane mk 1 versus veterans flying FW190s!) of course you can also pilot boats and tanks and run around with a rifle if you feel the need. A single server (no instancing) and half sized terrain of northern europe and specific Attack/defense points can make for some pretty cool battles, personally one of the greatest things about this game is tootling around in the skies behind the front line and spotting a player driven truck pulling a player controlled anti-tank gun who have been driving for half an hour and strafing the snot out of them, or dropping a bomb on a building full of players and going home with a 12 kill mission.
Somewhere between the two drops IL2 - Cliffs of Dover. The original game was pretty buggy, but a group of modders called Team Fusion have taken the base game and made a pretty solid PvP WWII flight sim out of it, again its very realistic and some of the dogfights I've been in have been pretty intense. there are several servers available, one of which I think is a semi-persistant world, where the Jerries are bombing the airfields and radar stations and the plucky Brits are defending them.
Lastly, if you like your aircraft made out of string and paper, there is Rise of Flight. If I recall correctly, it's free but you pay for extra flyable aircraft, again plenty of online servers and again some pretty realistic air to air combat - to the point where you can fly up next to an enemy aircraft, take out your Webley pistol and shoot the pilot (or indeed turn around and shoot your gunner!)
These four flight sims are my go-to games for online pvp - realistic flight models and real world tactics can have you either sweating buckets in a turn fight on the deck, or hanging lazily from your chute wondering what just happened when you have been jumped (beware the Hun in the Sun!) and you weren't checking your six!
https://www.bmsforum.org/forum/forum.php
http://www.battlegroundeurope.net/
http://theairtacticalassaultgroup.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=91
http://riseofflight.com/
(other, less realistic flight sims are also available
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Just be ready, DCS is a simulator. Like...real one
This. It's hugely rewarding if you stick to it and it has a very nice online community. But the learning curve is really steep. And FC3 planes such as the F15C are considered easy. Other modules such as the A-10C are definitely demanding. But don't worry, the learning process is fun too, and full of real life infos that will make you shine in parties.
Just be ready, DCS is a simulator. Like...real one
DCS World (the core free to play game), is a quite a light simulator though...relatively speaking of course.
To clarify for OP or anyone else:
With the exception of DCS: Flaming Cliffs 3, it's the paid full modules like "DCS: A-10c" or "DCS: M-2000c" that are the ones where players aren't likely to even start the engines in the first half an hour.
My DCS recommendations are
• DCS World - try it out at no cost
• DCS: Flaming Cliffs 3 - buy it if you really liked DCS World
• Any DCS: <insert specific aircraftname> - buy if you want to go full crazy on everything-in-the-cockpit-is-clickable simulation