Reviews

• gamedeal user

  Jan 3, 2022

  Tips for USAAF DLC: 1-try to conserve fund money buy saving and also not spending money on upgrades and gear that much during the beginning so your prepped for the mid and end game (i heard its really hard). 2-train your radio man for pilot so really helps out if your pilot is injured or dead and engineer for gunner so you willl have a gunner on the top. 3-always go on the medium altitude. i've barely been hit by flak during the beginning. so try to stick to alt. during that time period.
• gamedeal user

  May 10, 2022

  I loved the original, but the DLC is more difficult in ways which are not fun. I love hard games, Dark Souls was great, but what makes the levels of USAAF hard is incredibly unsatisfying. I've had to repeat missions as many as 4 times because of catastrophic damage or total crew deaths. Exactly ZERO TIMES, was this due to some climactic dogfight or harrowing bombing run. 90% of times it's my dipshit landing gear getting shot off, which for some reason murders the entire crew when the plane lands. In a game full of upgrades, there is no stated way to prevent this or increase the health of the landing gear. The final 10% came from the wonkiness of the controls, wherein the pilot gets up and walks away from her seat just in time to crash, killing everyone. Utterly disappointing.
• maritime02

  Nov 30, 2022

  I want to make clear that the main campaign is absolutely worth getting along with the Secret Missions pack. This however I can not recommend. As many have said the balance is so off. For one the amount of money you get for missions compared to what the upgrades cost is way off compared to the main campaign. Don't bother doing the optional Recon Objectives since now for whatever reason they don't give you bonus money, just research. I'm not joking, I literally farmed the first 3 missions for 3 hours just to get enough money for decent equipment. After that the mission difficulty ramps real hard. The first time I played the DLC I made it halfway through the campaign when I got shot down. I literally could not continue the game as I could not get enough money to get my upgrades back to a decent state, since you get too little and the upgrades cost too much. The highest RADAR upgrade is $15,000, the highest in the entire game. You cannot get that much without killing the aces, and there's only 3-4. It's such a shame as I was really excited for this DLC and the B-17 itself is really cool and plays different enough from the Lancaster to not just be a reskin. But the difficulty makes it such a grind that it's not worth it. I've sworn to never play this DLC again until it's patched. But given it's been over 4 years now, it's looking like never. Hope we can get a sequel to this game someday.
• gamedeal user

  Oct 24, 2018

  Solid DLC. This campaign (north africa / mediterranean) seems a little harder than the original but offers enough differences to stay interesting. You dont have to play the first to play this, its starts as a fresh story. The B-17 is nice. its not just a reskin; it has additional crew, layout and other little touches (All guns have ammo feeds, more guns etc) The additional crew and intial bombardment of unlocked gear can get a little messy, but it adds to the chaos that already is Bomber crew. Hope theres more to come.
• gamedeal user

  Oct 24, 2018

  ITS A BLOODY B17 WHAT MORE DO YOU NEED TO KNOW FLYING FORTRESS JOINED THE BATTLE 10/10 FREEDOM
• gamedeal user

  Oct 24, 2018

  Issue addressed, great game devs
• gamedeal user

  Oct 24, 2018

  I've put MANY hours into the DLC, and let me tell you that I enjoyed every second of it. I''ve completed the campaign, and it has been worth every penny. First off, this DLC manages to capture the perfect amount of challenge and balance. More crew members means more firepower, but it also means you have to pay so much more attention to them to make sure they're alive, and that the gunners are on the guns that are facing the enemy. There are also many more enemy aircraft and ships in each mission, so you have to stay on your toes. Secondly, the DLC makes progress at a fairly good rate. You'll still have some grinding to do, if you want to be on OP levels, but overall it feels very nice. Thirdly, Aviators. So many beautiful Aviators. (You can even equip them on the base-game Brits!) Fourthly, it requires skill. It has about the same learning curve as the base game, but anyone who has been playing it for a good amount of time shouldn't have many issues. Fifthly, it feels very polished and well done. The controls are great. The responce time is great. Everything is great. And lastly, it is EXTREMELY fun! Seriously, I see myself burning so many days away because of this. Especially since I'm challenging myself so much. Honestly, I HIGHLY recommend that you pick this up. It's cheap. It's fun. And you'll have a hell of a good time!
• gamedeal user

  Oct 24, 2018

  10/10 B-17 i can lose more crew members without very much affect to the mission unless its the mechanic i just playe a mission and i did the corkscrew and he flew off the engine couse i forgot to bring him back him RIP Mechanic man 2018-2018
• gamedeal user

  Oct 25, 2018

  B-17, .50cal machine guns, bombs, explosions and... AVIATORS! 10/10, might even be better than the base game. Thumbs up for a great realization of a highly requested DLC. Worth every ration card you own. In short, a great DLC for an already great little game!
• gamedeal user

  Oct 25, 2018

  So. After 15 missions flown and three enemy aces shot down and half an hour spent in painting my own pin up on the plane I think I've seen enough to write a review. This DLC is rock solid. Massive additions. Small princing. Lot of fun. But what's in the box. - A Gosh Darn new plane. A B-17F variant coming whit 9 crew members and 7 gun turrets. In all it feel like a different craft compared to the Lancaster of the base game. Larger crew and more guns means you need to be more aware of whats going on. The Gun layout is also different and so are your blindspots. Like the lack of a frontal turret makes you less dynamic in combat. - A New Theatre of operations. The Campaign takes place in Africa and southern Italy, the mediterranean in general. At the beginning, wiht the Axis still in africa, you'll have enemies jump on you in a very short notice. While the map is not that different from the base game it still is a very good and positive addition. - New Enemy ships. In the base game you had to deal only whit a few U-Boats. Here there is a whole navy. From Battlehips, to AA barges. The enemy ships will create flak barrages almost everywhere so the Sea is no longer safe from ground fire. Given the map we are in its surely a nice addition. They are also given as target creation some new types of mission. - New Enemy planes. One of my favourite new additions. Fighting in italy we just could not le the italians out of this. Out of the 4 new enemy planes you'll also face italian Cr.42 Falco biplanes and SM.79 Sparviero bombers. The Germans will come at you whit Stukas and what I think is basically a Bf-109 Zwilling. Two bf-109 fused by the wings turining it into a heavy fighters. They are not so special in themselves but they are welcome non the less. There are some cons? I personally found just two. - The difficulty spikes rapidly. While this could be just my perception at a certain point the enemy started coming at me whit Jet fighters and rocket planes. It was very sudden. Up to that point I never had one of my crew being injured and having to be healed. Then even 2/3 ended up down. I dont think that I had made only perfect decisions up to a certain point for things to change that much. - The enemy aces. While there is nothing bad about them what I dont like is that despite two out of the four planes being introduced are italian all the enemy aces are german. Even the ones flying the two italian planes. I would've loved to see some italian Aces, just for the sake of it. But in the end neither of theese two issues, one of wich is strictly personal, the other may be just bad luck, are very problematic. In the end I think its worth more than a shot. And given the price you wont regret it anyway. This DLC really opens up what the possibilies of bomber crew are. Maybe in the future we could see a campaign set in the pacific flying a B-24 or a B-29. Maybe well'end up flying a Pe-8 on the Eastern Front whit a Soviet Crew. Or maybe even a German campaign on a small He-111 or an unrealiable He-177. Anyway this is a great addition to the base game so as I said if it inspire you buy it. Probably wont regret it.