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Cows moo - Geese honk - Added Lewis gun - Improved rudder
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Sopwith VR
Also known as Sopwith VR, sopwith vr, sopwith-vr
Shoot down triplanes and attack tanks with your Sopwith biplane. Simple World War One flight combat simulator with touch controls, airfoil physics, computer-controlled opponents, and destructible environments, inspired by David L. Clark's classic DOS game from 1984.
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9 Jun 2026
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Browse past updates and patch notes for this game.
15 updates
March 2019
- Update 0.5.0: New maps and friendly aircraftOpponents now respawn until their hangar is destroyed - Added friendly biplanes and tanks - Added level and map selection with best-time tracking - Added pause menu with world map - Decreased control sensitivity - Eleva…
February 2019
- Update 0.4.2: Scorekeeping and experimental yoke control optionAdded cockpit readouts for current score and number of targets remaining. - Added a new yoke control option: press the Y key to toggle between the old position-based system and a new experimental angle-based system.
- Update 0.4.0: BirdsAdded birds. - If your home runway is destroyed, a small piece will regenerate so you can take off again. - Minor changes to explosions and controls.
January 2019
- Update 0.3.15: Improved tanks and UIImproved tank behavior and added muzzle flash. - Simplified difficulty selection. - Tweaked landscape and controls.
- Update 0.3.11: Added tanks, improved menu, better graphics and hapticsAdded shell-firing tanks based on the A7V, vulnerable from all sides except the front. - Added yoke vibration indicating control surface forces. - Tweaked world colors and fixed fog effect. - Cleaned up menu.
- Update 0.3.8: Instant repair, bigger initial world, difficulty menuAdded difficulty menu (affects enemy perception distance). * Pulling the yellow handle now repairs instantly instead of restarting the level. (Restarting is now available from the difficulty menu.) * Player now starts i…
- Update 0.3.7: Oculus Touch fixes, control and level progression improvementsFixed Oculus Touch button bindings. * Fixed bug where in-game instructions wouldn't clear. * Allow grabbing with trigger (release yoke lock with grip). * Provide specific centering instructions based on detected hardwar…
- Update 0.3.4Added some in-game instructions. - Simplified touch controls so you don't have to grab the yoke to fire or blip. - Simplified win condition so you only have to destroy enemy airplanes, not ground targets. (Still need to…
- January 15 update: difficulty level progressionAdded difficulty level progression. Destroy all the enemy planes and structures in the level to advance to a larger or more difficult one. Press N to skip the the next level immediately. - Added an initial map overview…
- January 14 update: improved rudder and water, possible Oculus fixZeroed wing dihedral angle and increased rudder deflection. - Water is no longer concrete. - Removed Oculus SDK from project to avoid interfering with SteamVR's Rift support. Let me know if there are still problems.
- January 13 update: new ground targets, new instruments, control fixesFixed Oculus and WMR controller configurations. - Upgraded to Unity 2018.3.1 and SteamVR v2.2b4. - Disabled grip lock on throttle. - Air thins out at higher altitudes. - Added fuel depot ground targets. - New rudder bar…
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