For the money, this game is worth twice as much. I came from a Flight Simulator world flying precision and meticulous. This game opens all that up.
I found fun in this game and also learned how those flight techniques incorporate with this.
The trick is to learn yaw / roll / pitch and that will give you the advantage in the fights. I use a Saitek X52 flight controller.
It has a thrust controller and joystick. When you download and start the game, go into the settings and switch everything
to joystick control Then you will have to program the buttons.
When you’re in settings, double click the control, then click or move the joystick or thrust controller to set the command.
It took me awhile to figure out how to program. But set it, do a free flight to test left right, up down. Then run back to settings
to adjust accordingly. Then do a free flight, fly around, test flying between ships, under bridges, over mountains, climb to the
sun, then dive with the fishes.
Take off and Landing is simple. Keep your speed higher than stall speed and touchdown. You come to an abrupt stop.
No extra drivers are needed for running on Mac OS X 10.11.1 El Capitan on my iMac with the joystick controller.
Great game, fantastic challenges and once your joystick is programmed, you will enjoy it so much more.