When comparing Savage 2 vs FlightGear, the Slant community recommends FlightGear for most people. In the question“What are the best free (No F2P!) games for PC?” FlightGear is ranked 17th while Savage 2 is ranked 60th. The most important reason people chose FlightGear is:
FlightGear has scenery that contains environments to fly in from the whole globe.
Specs
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Pros
Pro As a soldier, perform more advanced attacks with the help of a commander
From the soldier's point of view, you can get a more cohesive team gameplay experience, as the commander player can do reconnaissance and provide better instructions to the troop, allowing for more interesting team based gameplay that's more advanced than everyone going off on their own and attacking randomly.
Pro RTS gameplay relies on teamwork
Savage adds a very interesting mechanic in that the grunts and soldiers need to work together with the commander to succeed. Instead of having to micromanage every unit, the commander can take a higher level leadership role, and focus more on strategy over tactics.
Pro Worldwide scenery
FlightGear has scenery that contains environments to fly in from the whole globe.
Pro Free and Open Source
All code written for FlightGear is opensource and available for anyone to use.
Pro Crash animations in some aircrafts
Pro It has world-wide multiplayer
Pro Live cockpit
Pro A lot of aircrafts to add
Pro It has amazing graphics
Pro You can almost recreate real incidents
Pro No bugs
Cons
Con Block as default middle mouse button
Depending on the mouse being used block as the middle mouse button can result in a lot of mis clicks in the heat of battle. For such an important move it can result in problems often for the user.
Con Not as graphically advanced as commercial competition
Con Getting stuck upside down
After a crash a pilot may be stuck in an upside down position with no way to recover.
