**What's New in Combat Aces** - **A Special Veterans Day Tribute!** From November 1–11, we're donating 100% of the game's net proceeds to Camp Hope in Houston, Texas, supporting veterans and their families. Every purchase helps make a difference! - **Armistice Day: November 11!** Once a year, we commemorate the day the guns fell silent in 1918. This year, we've created something special for our pilots. Be sure to take to the skies on November 11 for a unique experience you won't want to miss! - **NEW CAMPAIGN MODE!** Command five pilots of No. 65 Squadron through the final 14 months of World War I. Every mission matters, every loss counts, and there are no replacements. Can you lead your squadron to victory? - **Experience the Great War:** Historical briefings, authentic pilot voices, realistic flight audio, and hand-painted watercolour scenes bring the skies of 1917–1918 to life. - **More Cinematic Combat:** Enhanced crash sequences, atmospheric music, and dramatic visual transitions make every mission more immersive. Plus, general bug fixes, performance improvements, and refinements throughout the game.

**What's New in Combat Aces** - **NEW CAMPAIGN MODE!** Lead five pilots of No. 65 Squadron through the final 14 months of World War I. Manage wounded pilots, damaged aircraft, evolving flying skills, and the consequences of every mission. No replacements. Every decision counts. - **Immersive Campaign Experience:** Monthly London Gazette briefings, historical wartime updates, squadron reports, and beautifully painted watercolour scenes bring your campaign to life. - **Enhanced Flight Audio:** Dynamic engine and wind sounds now respond to throttle settings, airspeed, and aerobatic manoeuvres for a more realistic flying experience. - **Expanded Pilot Skills:** Eight distinct abilities influence combat, awareness, and survival, with new spoken callouts that bring each pilot's personality to life. - **New Pilot Voices:** Three additional British and Scottish voices join the American pilot, giving your aviators their own distinctive sound. - **Redesigned Leaderboards:** Five categories now track the greatest aces, weekly performances, fallen heroes, squadron champions, and campaign achievements. - **Ranks, Promotions & Recognition:** New watercolour rank insignia, enhanced promotion announcements, and special recognition as your pilot climbs the Ace of Aces rankings. - **Improved Training:** Solo Training Flights now offer a safe environment to practice without risking your pilot. Plus, general bug fixes, performance improvements, and refinements throughout the game.

What’s New in Version 2.0.2 • Pilot Ranks & Promotions: Earn Ace Points for each pilot and rise through the RFC ranks, from Second Lieutenant to Major. Celebrate promotions with a vintage London Gazette newsreel, complete with personalized headlines and an announcer. • Ace of Aces Leaderboard: Compete with pilots around the world in a new online leaderboard ranking surviving pilots by Ace Points. View their ranks, squadrons, victories, and ace status. Weekly competition is now featured under Squadron Rankings. • Dramatic Returns to Base: Battle-damaged aircraft now feature illustrated sequences, pilot dialogue, and uncertain journeys home. Struggling engines may fail, forcing emergency landings with outcomes ranging from survival to disaster. • Bug Fixes & Improvements: Improved combat announcements, audio timing, navigation, and overall gameplay refinements.

WHAT'S NEW: • Independent Machine Guns: Each gun now has its own ammunition belt, heat, jams, and clearing mechanics, with updated ammunition indicators. • More Realistic Aircraft Movement: Watch opponents bank into turns, pitch during climbs and dives, and maneuver more naturally during combat. • New Aircraft Motion Trails: Subtle wisps reveal an opponent's recent flight path, making turns, loops, climbs, dives, and spins easier to follow. Optional in Settings. • Improved Combat Realism: Refined gun accuracy and lethality make aerial combat more challenging and authentic. • New Escape Decisions: Choose whether to pursue a fleeing opponent or allow him to escape, adding another tactical dimension to combat. • Enhanced Combat Narration: New spoken commentary reacts to hits, misses, incoming fire, and aircraft damage as the action unfolds. • The Red Baron Experience: Face the legendary Manfred von Richthofen, featuring his signature red aircraft, distinctive and formidable dogfighting style, unique dialogue, and custom victory and defeat artwork. • Expanded Flight History: Up to 200 matches are now preserved on your device, with improved aircraft damage reporting. • Miscellaneous Bug Fixes and Improvements.

Combat Aces 2.0 is our biggest update yet, introducing several new systems that change how every fight is flown. • NEW ENERGY & AIRSPEED SYSTEM Manage throttle, build speed, and trade energy for altitude and maneuvering. Entry speed now matters, with stalls, spins, overspeed, and structural failure all part of the fight. • PROGRESSIVE AIRCRAFT DAMAGE Gunfire and collisions can damage the engine, controls, and airframe. A wounded aeroplane loses power, stalls earlier, becomes harder to control, and grows more vulnerable as damage accumulates. • SURVIVE THE FIGHT Not every battle ends with a kill. Engine failures can force you down, damaged aircraft may need to break off, and RETURN TO BASE becomes a real tactical decision. Getting your pilot and aeroplane home matters. • LIVE COCKPIT INSTRUMENTS New airspeed and altitude indicators respond directly to the flight model, while cockpit damage and status controls let you keep an eye on your aeroplane as the fight develops. • FOUR FLIGHT-RULE LEVELS Choose Basic, Intermediate, Advanced, or Expert. Each level changes how much of the energy and flight model you manage, with Advanced and Expert offering bonus Ace Points for taking on the additional challenge. • EXPANDED MANEUVER & FLIGHT MODEL New speed requirements, revised climbs and zooms, improved stalls and recoveries, updated pursuit behavior, and more realistic maneuver performance make position and energy more important than ever. • NEW PILOTS, PROGRESSION & ACE POINTS Replacement pilots now arrive with their own names and callsigns, while Intermediate, Advanced, and Expert energy flights can earn Ace Points and compete on the weekly board. • NEW ENDINGS, VOICES & PRESENTATION Victories, deaths, structural failures, engine failures, and break-offs now have their own outcomes, recorded American pilot voices, and cinematic transitions between the cockpit and ending scenes. • UPDATED FLIGHT SCHOOL & FIELD BOOK Training has been revised for the new flight systems, with clearer flight-rule guidance, redesigned menus and settings, and an improved Solo Training Flight for empty-sky practice. Plus numerous interface refinements, accessibility improvements, performance improvements, and bug fixes.

Pinch any ordinary page to look closer. Large and Extra Large text are easier to follow on the page. Victory speech plays after a kill, and five victories earn a weathered ACE! stamp on the Flying Orders squadron roster. More even fights can post to the weekly leaderboard. Various bug fixes and other improvements.