Modern Air Combat: Beyond Visual Range

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Modern Air Combat: Beyond Visual Range is a single player and multiplayer arcade simulation game. It was developed by Broomhill Games and was released on October 6, 2023. It received neutral reviews from players.

Modern Air Combat: Beyond Visual Range is a solo developed 400 km x 400 km multiplayer game in which you can play as two of the most legendary aircraft of the 20th century. Fire long range missiles and fly through mountains in close aerial combat to fight in PvP with friends or against bots. MAC: BVR aims to be a middle ground between realist simulators and easy to learn arcade flying games. Fight…

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Audience ScoreBased on 20 reviews

graphics2 negative mentions

The game offers large-scale battles including up to 100 vs 100 AI fights, providing chaotic and impressive combat scenarios.
It has a relatively accessible approach to modern dogfighting by focusing on combat strategy over complex aircraft controls.
The game is free to play and visually appealing with decent graphics such as volumetric clouds and a massive map.

The game suffers from a very small and inactive player base, making multiplayer experience essentially dead.
Controls, flight simulation, and overall gameplay mechanics are poorly implemented and clunky, leading to frustrating combat.
Lacks meaningful single player content, cockpit view, multiplayer population, customization options, and suffers from technical issues and bad optimization.

graphics
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The graphics are decent with some impressive volumetric effects and a large map, but they appear to rely heavily on asset store content and lack polish, contributing to poor optimization and limited visual customization options.
- “The visuals are decent, with nice volumetric clouds, though the land looks a little barren up close; even so, the map itself is impressively massive.”
- “The game graphics look better than you might expect, but that's just because it looks like some or all of them are "borrowed" from asset stores or wherever.”
- “The gameplay is stale, there is no playerbase, and it is very badly optimised, using 100% of my GPU on my native settings, with, mind you, no graphical setting options outside of resolution.”
gameplay
4 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The gameplay is initially hindered by stale mechanics, poor optimization, and limited graphical settings, but becomes enjoyable as players master the controls and develop new combat tactics.
- “That said, once you understand the controls and combat mechanics then battles become quite enjoyable, especially as you learn and develop new tactics.”
- “The gameplay is stale, there is no playerbase, and it is very badly optimized, using 100% of my GPU on my native settings, with no graphical setting options outside of resolution.”
- “It's just gameplay.”
story
3 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The game lacks a traditional story, relying instead on multiplayer interactions to engage players rather than providing narrative or level design elements.
- “The developer gambled that other players would be an acceptable substitute for adding storytelling, level design, etc.”
- “No story.”
grinding
1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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Grinding is described as particularly demanding and time-consuming, often requiring extensive effort or "a second life" to progress effectively.