DLC for Bomber Crew
The Bomber Crew USAAF DLC features an iconic American Bomber which holds more Crew than ever, over a brand new campaign set in a never before seen Theatre of War! Dig on for victory while fighting it out with all new enemy fighters and Aces while ensuring that you check on the enemy below, as danger also now comes from the seas as much as it comes from the skies. Get cracking, remain cool as a cucumber and make sure your crew returns once more!
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Bomber Crew in Africa!
So, I thought the original Bomber Crew was quite fun but repetitive, a year or so later I decide to play its expansion campaign, the USAAF, and it's just more of the same, thus I dropped it halfway through the campaign.
Switching from Europe to Africa, it's a decent pallet swap, but nothing more. The real game changer is this new plane. It's layout is different and it is far larger, so it is accompanied by a larger crew. There also seems to be a much larger focus on bombing naval targets than in the base game, which is a negative in my opinion.
The new plane is pretty sick, I made it all shiny metal and put "BADASS" on the side in bright red, but it simply doesn't change up gameplay from the base game enough. It just feels like I'm playing the exact same thing again, just a slightly alternative version, and the base game already takes a very long time to complete!
You must also grind upgrades for your ship and crew again, which would be fine but fucking hell it is such a nasty grind. This grind is especially amplified by having more crew members, it's the EXACT same grind from the base game, but slightly longer. I'd reckon a good expansion would've either shrunken the grind considerably or change up the upgrades.
The missions is what really kicked me off this. There's a lot of missions where you must bomb moving boats, which is a major pain in the ass because your pilot doesn't line up with the boats in the way that you'd need to actually land your shot, so the resulting effect is just swarming around a boat forever and just hoping your pilot will actually line you up. It is simply frustrating, they should have focused on other aspects of the base game more.
All in all, this is just a disappointing alternative version of the base game. You get a nice color swap, a larger plane, a longer grind, and more frustrating missions. Not worth checking out unless you absolutely loved the base game.
So, I thought the original Bomber Crew was quite fun but repetitive, a year or so later I decide to play its expansion campaign, the USAAF, and it's just more of the same, thus I dropped it halfway through the campaign.
Switching from Europe to Africa, it's a decent pallet swap, but nothing more. The real game changer is this new plane. It's layout is different and it is far larger, so it is accompanied by a larger crew. There also seems to be a much larger focus on bombing naval targets than in the base game, which is a negative in my opinion.
The new plane is pretty sick, I made it all shiny metal and put "BADASS" on the side in bright red, but it simply doesn't change up gameplay from the base game enough. It just feels like I'm playing the exact same thing again, just a slightly alternative version, and the base game already takes a very long time to complete!
You must also grind upgrades for your ship and crew again, which would be fine but fucking hell it is such a nasty grind. This grind is especially amplified by having more crew members, it's the EXACT same grind from the base game, but slightly longer. I'd reckon a good expansion would've either shrunken the grind considerably or change up the upgrades.
The missions is what really kicked me off this. There's a lot of missions where you must bomb moving boats, which is a major pain in the ass because your pilot doesn't line up with the boats in the way that you'd need to actually land your shot, so the resulting effect is just swarming around a boat forever and just hoping your pilot will actually line you up. It is simply frustrating, they should have focused on other aspects of the base game more.
All in all, this is just a disappointing alternative version of the base game. You get a nice color swap, a larger plane, a longer grind, and more frustrating missions. Not worth checking out unless you absolutely loved the base game.