OS Neutral Flight Sim Talk 2025

[Huntn]

Ok I may have found the forth worthy iOS game, actually multi-platform, because I’m playing it currently on iOS.
Metal Storm: 5v5 PVP, “free to play” 🤔, different battle modes, all fairly quick matches.

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As someone who has been playing flight sims since Chuck Yeager’s Air Combat, I’ve been vested flight sticks. In MS and virtual controls, it’s relatively difficult with a virtual flight sticks, cursor control which is practically the same thing, or tilt control, tilt the iPhone or the iPad to make turns. For me, tilt control is the easiest, because I basically hate virtual controls, and it frees up a swipe on the screen to use other virtual controls. Even with this, knock on wood, I have a 75% win rate online.

I’m kind of concerned that when this makes it to the PC/Mac cross platform (listed on Steam as a future release), if there is such a thing, it will not be competitive for anyone not using a flight stick. 🤔

That said, I wonder how a blue tooth iOS controller might work with this, and ordered one to check it out. 🤔 Anyone have any experience with this?

 

[Huntn]

Ok I’m properly indoctrinated in Metalstorm. Never thought I’d be playing a flight sim again. Fast matches of different types, deathmatches, control points. Big thumbs up!

Metalstorm

In Metalstorm, dominate the skies in our action packed multiplayer air-combat experience on Mobile!

www.playmetalstorm.com

I started out with iOS on iPad and virtual controls, which I’ve basically always hated, but of the 3 virtual schemes, virtual joystick (swipe on scream), tilt screen, cursor control (swipe of screen), tilt screen is the easiest, cause it frees up a finger to do other things. I felt I was pretty good, got several MVPs, but your maneuvers are somewhat limited. You might find yourself yelling at your screen “TURN DAMN you!!!” as you’ve got youe iPad tilted 90 degrees, shaking it. 😉

Then in quick succession, I discovered you can use a Bluetooth iOS Controller, there is the PC version planned for Steam (PC), and it’s already available on Epic Games Store (PC)! So I downloaded (free game, with in-game reduce grind purchases), model similar to Wargaming, and War Thunder, hooked up my Windows controller and off to the races on my PC.

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Then I read up on this game, and discovered you must invert the verticle mode, so your joystick acts like on the airplane, forward is down, backward is up. Then go “advanced turn” not “standard. This really sets you free to execute flight maneuvers like barrel roles and loops. If you are not used to it, it’s more work to fly, I use my left stick for up, down, roll left and right, and although I removed left and right look off the right joystick, which is nice, I prefer to have yaw in the right stick. This lets me push the nose left or right when gunning an enemy Aircraft. There’s an obvious learning curve and rules to live by, of which I’ll post my notes later. 😁

 

[Huntn]

 

[diamond.g]

This could be fun. Though I guess it may not quite count as a sim...

 

[Huntn]

This could be fun. Though I guess it may not quite count as a sim...

I assume this would be played keyboard mouse, wonder how much actually demanding flying is required? Still it looks like it could be fun.

 

[Plutonius]

Ok I may have found the forth worthy iOS game, actually multi-platform, because I’m playing it currently on iOS.
Metal Storm: 5v5 PVP, “free to play” 🤔, different battle modes, all fairly quick matches.

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As someone who has been playing flight sims since Chuck Yeager’s Air Combat, I’ve been vested flight sticks. In MS and virtual controls, it’s relatively difficult with a virtual flight sticks, cursor control which is practically the same thing, or tilt control, tilt the iPhone or the iPad to make turns. For me, tilt control is the easiest, because I basically hate virtual controls, and it frees up a swipe on the screen to use other virtual controls. Even with this, knock on wood, I have a 75% win rate online.

I’m kind of concerned that when this makes it to the PC/Mac cross platform (listed on Steam as a future release), if there is such a thing, it will not be competitive for anyone not using a flight stick. 🤔

That said, I wonder how a blue tooth iOS controller might work with this, and ordered one to check it out. 🤔 Anyone have any experience with this?

It seems like a game you would want to play when you are physically alone.

All the tilting, lifting, and yelling at your iPad might get you strange looks from people observing you .

 

[Huntn]

It seems like a game you would want to play when you are physically alone.

All the tilting, lifting, and yelling at your iPad might get you strange looks from people observing you .

I’m now playing MetalStorm on my PC, no yells except for dodging 2 missiles and the third one gets me. I’m trying to figure out what the leveling system here is, if it’s by pilot level, or by aircraft chosen, because some aircraft are killers that Korea era aircraft have a hard time competing with. Some planes should be here. One example is the A6 a Vietnamese era attack aircraft that has zero business in a dog fighting sim, I don’t like it, but am saving up for an A4 which seems to be effective in control point matches. The F5 is a trooper. Also have a MiG21, MiG23, Mirage 3, and recently picked up an F4.there is a ton of grind in this game, which can be mitigated a little with $. 🤔 I’m so used to spending $ to buy ships in World of Warships, I will spend $10 on a level package per aircraft that is offered and probsbly the season pass which accelerates earnings.

 

[Plutonius]

I’m now playing MetalStorm on my PC, no yells except for dodging 2 missiles and the third one gets me. I’m trying to figure out what the leveling system here is, if it’s by pilot level, or by aircraft chosen, because some aircraft are killers that Korea era aircraft have a hard time competing with. Some planes should be here. One example is the A6 a Vietnamese era attack aircraft that has zero business in a dog fighting sim, I don’t like it, but am saving up for an A4 which seems to be effective in control point matches. The F5 is a trooper. Also have a MiG21, MiG23, Mirage 3, and recently picked up an F4.there is a ton of grind in this game, which can be mitigated a little with $. 🤔 I’m so used to spending $ to buy ships in World of Warships, I will spend $10 on a level package per aircraft that is offered and probsbly the season pass which accelerates earnings.

It sounds like the Witcher 3 was shot down by this new game .