Tip of the Day: Flights

You will have noticed already, that every battle is carried out by two teams consisting of 15 players each. When you hit the ‘Battle’-button, the matchmaker automatically pairs you up with matching players in the waiting queue to form even teams. Within these teams you can connect with up to two other friends in ‘Flights’ to form a unit of players that always enters matches together.

To do this, you simply have to click on ‘Create Flight Battle’ next to the big orange ‘Battle!’ button in the hangar. This will open a menu with a search field, in which you’ll be able to enter the name of the player or friend that you want to connect to. Press the button with the magnifying glass to launch the search and pick the players you were looking for from the list that shows up. A click on ‘OK’ confirms your selection and sends those players an invite to team up in a flight.

On the receiving end, an invited player will see a notification pop up in the right hand corner of his screen. At the same time a list with all already invited players to the flight shows up on the left in the Flight-menu with a button saying ‘Accept invitation’. Hitting it will make the invited player join the flight and add him to a flight-internal chat which opens at the bottom of the hangar menu.

When all the players you’ve invited (you can add up to two friends) have joined, the flight leader, that is the person who gave out the invitations to the others, will be able to launch the fight by hitting the big ‘Battle!’ button from the hangar. The team mates in your flight will be shown with a little shield and the flight’s corresponding number in the players table during the loading screen and later on in the game itself.

When you want to disband the group to go flying on your own, you can click on ‘Dismiss Flight’ from the Flight menu on the top left corner in the hangar. Only the flight leader can dismiss a flight. However, if you’re member of a flight and want to leave it individually, you’re able to do so as well by clicking ‘Leave flight’ from the same flight menu in the hangar.

Get Airborne!