New guns, like flight performance components, tend to grant a slight improvement to e.g. There are three main types of weapon upgrades: new guns, ammunition unlocks, and pylons. The Weaponry options are less Olympian in their ideals “Improved Air-to-Air Combat Effectiveness” isn’t such a catchy motto, even when translated into Latin (Google Translate suggested “A’ris amplio-ad-caeli certamen efficaciam”, and struggled with some of my alternative ideas like “MOAR DAKKA”).
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The cumulative effects of a full set of upgrades is more noticeable in Historical and Full Real battles. In this example cleaning and tuning the radiator increases maximum speed by 3mph and climb rate by 0.2m/s it’s unlikely you’ll notice a massive difference in a fight, especially in Arcade battles, don’t be too worried about upgraded opponents having an insurmountable advantage, but every little helps. To see precise details, hover the mouse over an upgrade: As the names suggests Flight Performance upgrades to components like the radiator and compressor improve the performance of the aircraft in flight, Survivability options improve your chances of surviving a battle (though really quite marginally, you get a slightly stronger and lighter airframe rather than super-adamantium armour). The first two groups of upgrades allow your plane to fulfil the Olympian ideals of Faster, Higher, Stronger. As with aircraft ranks, you need to purchase a certain number of upgrades in each tier (shown on the left) before you can start researching items in the next tier. Again, I wouldn’t worry about using gold eagles on low rank aircraft.
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Hover your mouse over a locked upgrade and a box will show the RP required to unlock it, a “Buy” icon underneath will show the cost in gold eagles to immediately purchase it. The upgrades can be bought with silver lions (earned in-game) after you unlock them, but if you really can’t wait you can purchase locked upgrades with gold eagles (real money). Similar to researching new aircraft, you select one of these upgrades to research, and then gain RP towards unlocking it each time you fly the aeroplane. Underneath those are the upgrades that need to be researched, four tiers grouped into Flight Performance, Survivability and Weaponry. For a brand new plane, you won’t be able to change any of these. On the second row are the weapons: Offensive Armament (standard guns), Secondary Weapons (bombs, rockets, torpedoes, gun pods), and then the ammunition load of guns (“Offensive 7.62mm” in this instance) the precise options vary from plane to plane, the I-15bis just has one set of machine guns, other fighters can have weapons of two or three different calibres with separate upgrade options, most bombers also have turrets. “Talisman” gives an RP bonus for the aircraft, worth considering in the higher ranks, but not so vital at lower levels when research comes quickly. “Backup plane” allows you to use the aircraft twice in an Arcade battle, potentially handy if you have a particular favourite but by no means essential.
I wouldn’t worry about the two Premium options on the first row, purchased with Golden Eagles. That brings up the available weapon and upgrade options:
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If you’ve completed any modification research, you may have further pop-up windows allowing you to purchase that modification and to pick the next component to start researching if you skip that window, or want to check on upgrades at any time then you can access the modifications screen for a plane by clicking the “Modifications” option (there’s a pop-up menu when you click on a plane, unlike the icons in this old screenshot):
As well as researching new aircraft, you also unlock modifications for your current planes as you fly them, enabling you to knock out the worst of the dents and service the engine for a bit more speed.Īfter a battle, you should have a “Researching progress” section on the results screen showing the planes that you flew, and progress towards upgrades for them: When you buy a new plane you might think you’re getting a shiny factory-fresh model in tip-top condition, but I’m afraid that’s not the case as a rookie you’re assigned a battered old thing that’s had several not-so-careful owners.
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