Hi all,
As other members of this forum, I'm an old fan of the WoF(original) and this remake too. I love the works you made, but beside of that, I have some suggestions:
1. The engine sound is boring, I replaced it with 'Round engine running slow' sound from http://avanimation.avsupport.com/Sound.htm and it works great, especially when you are flying.
2. In the above URL, they got different sounds for different situations, like sound of other plane passing by, approaching, dive down and so on ... if these type of sounds can be intergrated into WoF2 ... wow it can simulate sounds of a real dogfight, like in old movie :)
3. If the japanese pilot can say something, we can get more fun, and it make more sense that we are fighting with human, not a piece of graphics:
-in case he's being shot or some of his bullets catch the player
-in case jap plane is down, or our plane going down
-a japanese plane appears and the pilot say something, e.g: Banzai DaiNippon!!!
4. I think the smoke trails is great, it recalls world war2 dogfight scenes in high altitudes. Why you don't add some theater like fog, in the fog mode every planes leave trails behind, this should be an interesting feature(but I know this issue requires lot of works).
5. I understand that you want to keep the game rules simple and classic, but the levels are too simple in these days. Some expandable features can keep the game live long, like a level editor and some briefing content.
6. A new play mode like the following can bring more fun for kids: In this mode, if the pilot can bail out in a parachute right into the carrier then he can save life and get a new airplane with a considerable amount of points, or for free(only in case his airplane is damaged badly, or out of gas ... a parachute icon appears and he can bail out - this simulate real situation when the control station gives bail out order for the pilot)
7. In dogfighting, we can roll over and over and fire the gun as will. This makes dog fighting easy, and in reallife you can't do it because the gun may jam. So if the user fire while flying up or down in a too narrow angle, the gun and the rocket will jam. He must return to carrier to fix this.
8. The downed plane can going down in 3D direction, I mean that the plane can fly down and "deep" into the screen(could it be?).

Bug:
I found a bug, when you move too high, going fast or change direction, the plane will be stucked on the "ceiling" and cannot get down.

Thanks alot for the great works and for reading my post

Hi codo, it's nice to see the WoF development progress is so active,
This time I want to compare something between Triplane Turmoil 2 (3D) and WoF remake, please noted that these ideas is only my personal opinions:
Since I am also a fan of Triplane Turmoil 2(a commercial 3D remake of Triplane turmoil: Sopwith Camel DOS freeware), naturally I have some comparations between the two games.
Things in Triplane Turmoil 2 which are better than WoF remake:
1. Better 3D scenes: good landscape, better graphics(tree, house etc...)
2. More environment effects: cloudy, fog, semi ...
3. Networked game and a universal point ladder, helps building community.
4. Land battle makes player busy and bring some more fun. (Little soldiers run accross screen to your/enemy base, firing gun and throw grenades, they even deploy charge to your infrastructures, a doctor travels around bring "death" soldiers to his house to cure).
5. One airbase can host multiple(up to 3) aircrafts(1 human, 2 computer), this mean we can have some cooperation.
6. The local play mode is great, in that mode you have unlimited aircrafts to play against computer, limited by time or untill you get tired.
7. Firing machine gun in TT2 is different, you have some rounds, and must wait to load them(can't do it when fly upside down). This also requires you to fire a near empty round out before diving into another target(but the gun never jam, just like in WoF).
8. Bullets and flak may make the plane burst into pieces, or just drop some fragments. A pleasure to see.

In WOF:
1. Area for dog fighting: in TT2 the sky ceilling is too low, even with a sea level map, WoF remake has potential to become a better 2D dogfighting game.
2. For bombing in TT2, since the screen is narrow, in many case we must drop bomb early into the target(not scroll in yet).
3. In TT2 we must do vertical loops to turn direction, look sooo silly, we can't turn direction in low speed, in mountain etc... I hate this feature! WoF is better!
4. In TT2, land battles are exciting at first, but they become REALLY annoying after a while. I can imagine the amount of work for this feature. In WoF we can get the same fun with only some small additions.
5. TT2 based on a nonhistoric theater. WoF(remake) has better historical background than that, definitively. This can draw more player to WoF if you do it right.
6. WoF has radar feature, in TT2 you only see a dot on the edge of the screen(change from lighter to thicker one) and you can open fire early before the enemy airplane appears!
7. WoF has rocket, another great feature! In TT2 AI can drop bomb on you! Shame! Lol!
8. In TT2 you can rarely strafe infantry, because "the low rate of fire at the time"(less fun).
9. Landing in TT2 is extremely easy and look clumsy. For take off, you just hit the 'E' button and the machine flies(silly).
10. In TT2 6 countries can participate in a battle, this can host multiple players, but brings chaos to the game play.
11. Flak in TT2 has extreme power, you have little chance when flying high. TT2 has machine gun and flak cannon, more complicate but not better than WoF in any meaning.
12. House in TT2 can get hit and burn, then the soldiers use water to put the fire off ... etc. etc. So much features require lot of work. WoF offer the same feeling without such twistles and bells. And who care for such little animations when you are fighting on the air???? -> may be that's the reason why they keep you flying so low lol

That's pretty insightful stuff , thanks for posting your ideas. I just had a glance at Triplane Tumoil 2 , pretty fun game , hadn't heard of it before. My first impression is that's it's even more arcade then Wof , I like the lively scene - infantry firing their guns etc. On the other hand (and it's not a matter of selfishness) I don't like the plane behaviour in TT2, I had trouble predicting how the plane will act. It's REALLY simplistic in wof2 but I think we are on the right trail. Well since you spend quite a lot of time flying a plane in wof(:D) we could still improve it [don't ask when]. We had a few discussions on future improvements. We generally agree(as a team) that we would like to make naval units to occupy empty water areas which currently cover most of the levels' area[that would also include torpedoes for the plane]. We have a lot of other ideas but currently lack the time and resources to address them. Please remember that we still have university stuff and most of us full-time jobs. Since the game remains freeware we would really appreciate any donations you[as a community] make.

Some ideas should be incorporated - no doubt about that, but like you said we have very limited resources.
We consider two things:
1. making a level editor,
2. expanding the dev team by new volunteers.
The perfect candidate should:
- be open-minded, ambitious
- perseverant and trustworthy
- have at least some experience in: C# or Ogre or computer graphics 2D/3D.

The code however, for the time being, will remain closed.