History VideoGame / VectorThrust

* ArtisticLicencePhysics: Usually every aircraft starts off with an Angle-Of-Attack Limiter engaged to limit airframe stress, but the player can manually disengage this to perform some crazy moves in aircraft that couldn't usually even begin to think of pulling them off. We're talking things like ''A-10s pulling Cobras''.

* WretchedHive: The [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Mushroom Kingdom]] is rapidly turning out like this, after nearly half a century of neglect by the victors of the Grand War.

* ArtisticLiscencePhysics: Usually every aircraft starts off with an Angle-Of-Attack Limiter engaged to limit airframe stress, but the player can manually disengage this to perform some crazy moves in aircraft that couldn't usually even begin to think of pulling them off. We're talking things like ''A-10s pulling Cobras''.

* BeyondTheImpossible: Usually every aircraft starts off with an Angle-Of-Attack Limiter engaged to limit airframe stress, but the player can manually disengage this to perform some crazy moves in aircraft that couldn't usually even begin to think of pulling them off. We're talking things like ''A-10s pulling Cobras''.

* GameMod: Half the reason for the game is the ability to modify the appearances.

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* GameMod: Half the reason for the game.

* MightyGlacier: The A-10 Warthog family and its less common counterpart the Su-25 Frogfoot make an appearance. Their Glacierness is slightly reduced given the GlassCannon nature of every plane, but they generally are able to tank one missile more than less-armoured aircraft.

** The KillSat features in the game is called the EOS-02 MRSA. It may not seem very deliberate, but if one reads its description it is revealed that the satellite uses a [[VideoGame/Touhou MSTR-SPRK reactor]].

** The KillSat features in the game is called the EOS-02 MRSA. It may not seem very deliberate, but if one reads its description it is revealed that the satellite uses a [[Touhou MSTR-SPRK reactor]].

** The KillSat features in the game is called the EOS-02 MRSA. It may not seem very deliberate, but if one reads its description it is revealed that the satellite uses a [[VideoGame/Touhou MSTR-SPRK reactor]].

* {{Spinventory}}: The Hangar does this in lieu of having an actual view.

* GlassCannon: Most aircraft go down in two or three missile hits.

* BattleshipRaid: Mission 4 of the Alpha Campaign has you going up against a random enemy fleet from somewhere. There's also rumors about a new EOS naval superweapon...

* BeyondTheImpossible:
** Usually every aircraft starts off with an Angle-Of-Attack Limiter engaged to limit airframe stress, but the player can manually disengage this to perform some crazy moves in aircraft that couldn't usually even begin to think of pulling them off. We're talking things like ''A-10s pulling Cobras''.
** One of the (former) challenge missions, thanks to a haphazard procedural generation system, ended up requiring the player to shoot airliners out of the sky. Highly aggressive airliners. ''With bombs only.''

** In some cases, it can take a single hit with attacks from the front, so watch out.

** An achievement for using napalm bombs is [[Macross7 Fire Bomber]].

** An achievement for using napalm bombs is [[SuperDimensionalFortressMacross Fire Bomber]].
** The [[SuperMode Overdrive]] Mutator bears a heavy resemblance to [[MobleSuitGundam00 TRANS-AM]].

* ShoutOut: The MPBM and SWBM from ''VideoGame/AceCombat'' are hidden in the game files. There's tons of shoutouts in the Mutators for Skirmish as well.
* ShownTheirWork: Time Symmetry has a thing for pulling up the most obscure variants of aircraft from the deepest, most heavily censored parts of the internet to put into his game.
* {{Spinventory}}: The Hangar does this.

''Vector Thrust'' is a [[CelShading cel-shaded]] [[AceCombat action-arcade]] [[SimulationGame flight]] [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot simulator]]. Made by one-man studio Time Symmetry along with a motely band of assistants from around the world who contribute in varying amounts, it aims to be an "airborne adventure that offers something for everyone." Notable is its rather [[ArtificialBrilliance brutal AI]] as well as an increasingly ridiculous [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters amount of playable aircraft]]. ''Vector Thrust'' was designed from the ground up with the intent for moddability, and since its (now-closed) release as an Alpha, many fans have already taken it upon themselves to offer a variety of mods and add-ons with varying complexity, ranging from additional aircraft paint schemes and HUD redesigns to even completely new aircraft. Also worth keeping in mind is the game's striking similarity to the classic AceCombat and AirForceDelta video games- indeed, both Time Symmetry and the fans see it as a SpiritualSuccessor to those two franchises.

* AcePilot: Well, what did you expect from a SpiritualSuccessor to AceCombat to have?

* AKA47: Thoroughly averted- unlike AceCombat, every aircraft and weapon variant has its correct name and generally a correct description, save for the ones which are so obscure that the team couldn't find any information on them.

* BeyondTheImpossible: Usually every aircraft starts off with an Angle-Of-Attack Limiter engaged to limit airframe stress, but the player can manually disengage this to perform some crazy moves in aircraft that couldn't usually even begin to think of pulling them off. We're talking things like ''A-10s pulling Cobras''

* CoolPlane: With the amount of aircraft to choose from, there are too many to count. Examples can include the Su-47, Su-27, F-14, MiG-29, F-15 and F-22. There are variants of each plane that are even cooler though, like the F-22X Alvaraptor, which is a F-22 with ''forward swept wings'', the F-15J Kai+ from {{Patlabor}}, and the Su-37 "Terminator".

* EasyLogistics: As per AceCombat standard, you have unlimited fuel. Subverted with the Fuel mutator for Skirmish.

* KillSat: The Ion Rain Mutator involves several dozen of them raining L1WAC beams onto the battlefield.
* LethalJokeCharacter: The antique MiG-21 and its family can carry all-aspect missiles. Bonus points if you've modded the game to give them some scary weapons.A more strange variant of this is the Su-74 Tukreb, a variant of the Su-47 with its wings slapped on backwards. Its performance is pretty similar to its predecessor and some may argue its conventional control surfaces are also pretty cool as well.

* ShoutOut: The MPBM and SWBM from AceCombat are hidden in the game files. There's tons of shoutouts in the Mutators for Skirmish as well.

* AcePilot: Well, what did you expect from a SpiritualSuccessor to AceCombat to have?

* GeoEffects: Electronic Warfare is ludicrously complex.

* SquadControls: Almost ridiculously elaborate.
* SuperMode: A mutator for Skirmish mode allows the player and AI to toggle "Overdrive Mode". It looks like TRANS-AM.

* AdventureFriendlyWorld: From what we've seen, the universe of ''Vector Thrust'' is a another variant of Strangereal.

* LethalJokeCharacter: The antique MiG-21 and its family can carry all-aspect missiles. Bonus points if you've modded the game to give them some scary weapons.

* MacrossMissileMassacre: Another secret weapon, the Micro-Missile Munition , or MMM-1C. It packs a 14 round salvo and carries ''hundreds'' in reserve. Even its Skirmish mutator is called [[Shoutout Itano Circus]].

* SuperMode: A mutator for Skirmish mode allows the player and AI to toggle "Overdrive Mode". It looks like [[Gundam00 TRANS-AM]].

* AdventureFriendlyWorld: From what we've seen, the universe of ''Vector Thrust'' is a another variant of StrangeReal.

* BeyondTheImpossible: Usually every aircraft starts off with an Angle-Of-Attack Limiter engaged to limit airframe stress, but the player can manually disengage this to perform some crazy moves in aircraft that couldn't usually even begin to think of pulling them off. We're talking thing's like ''A-10s pulling Cobras''

''Vector Thrust'' is a [[CelShading cel-shaded]] [[AceCombat action-arcade]] [[SimulationGame flight]][[NinjaPirateZombieRobot simulator]]. Made by one-man studio Time Symmetry along with a motely band of assistants from around the world who contribute in varying amounts, it aims to be an "airborne adventure that offers something for everyone." Notable is its rather [[ArtificialBrilliance brutal AI]] as well as an increasingly ridiculous [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters amount of playable aircraft]]. ''Vector Thrust'' was designed from the ground up with the intent for moddability, and since its (now-closed) release as an Alpha, many fans have already taken it upon themselves to offer a variety of mods and add-ons with varying complexity, ranging from additional aircraft paint schemes and HUD redesigns to even completely new aircraft. Also worth keeping in mind is the game's striking similarity to the classic AceCombat and AirForceDelta video games- indeed, both Time Symmetry and the fans see it as a SpiritualSuccessor to those two franchises.

* CoolPlane: With the amount of aircraft to choose from, there are too many to count. Examples can include the Su-47, Su-27, F-14, MiG-29, F-15 and F-22. There are variants of each plane that are even cooler though, like the F-22X Alvaraptor, which is a F-22 with ''forward swept wings'', the F-15J Kai+ from {{/Patlabor}}, and the Su-37 "Terminator".

* Spinventory: The Hangar does this.
* SquadCommands: Almost ridiculously elaborate.