Thanks for the demo at least! Can't say I was expecting it, but seeing that is a huge + to me!

But... let me go down a list of issues I've already found, some may be demo related, but others I know will not be.

For starters, it's a bit of a weird experience in 2D. I didn't catch if the demo has VR support but things are a bit wonky on a monitor, including but not limited to a very strange walking simulation to where you can walk around, but only if you hold a key down? I'm not sure I follow how it's supposed to work, I understand WHY it exists, but having to hold a key to then walk around makes for a super strange experience on 2D.... just let me walk... all the time.

Keybinding. This may be a demo issue; I bound a VKB Gladiator to the game, and it saw it just fine; but I had to REBIND EACH FLIGHT! Yeah... it forgot I had it plugged in EVERY SINGLE TIME. I'm assuming this is a demo bug, but this is.... HUGELY SIGNIFICANT.

Building: Snapping parts together is... frustrating to say the least; it basically doesn't work. The demo tutorial wants you to use a cylindrical body, and there's literally no snap point that makes the wings remain horizontal.
A benefit however is anyone familiar with KSP will absolutely feel right at home here, the translation and rotation tools are also there, but will screw things up [snapping other parts to] later on if you aren't careful. But not being able to snap wings horizontally to a cylinder is... incredibly problematic, and will create a HUGE frustration to any players, as it made me incredibly mad trying to learn the controls and realizing some are shared with KSP (not everyone is coming from KSP so it will be annoying not being able to make your wings straight....)

Customizing wing parts is ... super cool... I love it.

But then you realize wings basically don't snap together, so you have these awkward edges everywhere. But I can overlook this in translation and rotation edits.

Modable wings right click.... rotation "sliders"
Who on earth decided to make these rotors instead of sliders??????

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD THESE NEED TO BE SLIDERS!!!!!!
You set it to 100% and it instantly flips between 100% and 0% and they're so close to each other it's just another so.... so.... so frustrating thing that makes literally no sense to me who designed this to be like this.

I finished up my glider, checked CG, comparing to where it should be with other realistic RC gliders.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand..... CG is like in the dead center of the body, and the wings hardly move it.

Well that's wrong...........

Moved wings until CG was where it should be in relation to wings (roughly 1/4 way back from beginning of wings), and moved on.

Let's go for a test flight!

Pick up and toss (awkward in 2D but it's whatever, I get it, it was meant to be a VR game).


Instantly drops like a rock..... erm... ok.

Not sure how to start over, so back to rebuild, and press fly again.

Rinse repeat until I'm utterly mad at the game.

Load up a preset vehicle, toss it, engine off.... glides like a dream.... despite being 5x heavier than what I built.

wtf?

Oh by the way, this whole time I was trying to use my joystick only to realize the game FORGOT it was bound.

Builds another SUPER LIGHTWEIGHT huge wing glider.....
try to put the CG suuuuuuuuuuuuuper far forward with batteries I don't need.... but it won't move.

There's something very wrong about the demo and building I guess?

Toss new glider... joystick still not working because it forgot again.

Still drops like a rock.

Alright, let's try this powered default airplane.
Eventually realize I can use WASD Shift/Ctrl and Tab to power an engine.

Glides better than my glider for whatever reason, but moving on...

Powered flight.

My only complaint here is the physics feel incredibly poor.... not AWFUL, just... poor.

Running an RC airplane, yaw will absolutely allow an aircraft to roll over complete, but this game will not allow this, and this is my biggest complaint.

Rudder authority might as well not exist.....

and with gliders, there's no induced yaw from rolling... also very wrong.

Only other thing I want to complain about is... are thermals a thing?
I couldn't tell if wind was an option, if so I'm not sure where it was.

But I can promise I don't really want to buy this game knowing it won't have thermals for RC Gliding or ridge lift for RC Gliding...


All in all... Building is fun, but snapping is next to not working at times, controllers in demo straight up do not work / function ONCE, aerodynamics are.... weak.... and something is very wrong with my built glider weighing nothing that fell like a stone but the heavier prebuilt models flew just fine.


I'm not sure where I end up on this coin toss.

I'll play with the demo again, but it has me far less convinced now about buying this game.

The flight model is certainly worse than what I was hoping for, the building is frustrating, only default keybinds seem to work, and everything is a bit of an awkward experience, and GUI can be very frustrating at times.

I know this is a long read, but hopefully something can be done, as this game looked fascinating for so many years, up until I tried the demo.