Heliborne Enhanced Edition

Heliborne is a helicopter combat game covering five decades of rotary-wing aviation, from 1955 through the 2000s. You fly helicopters in historical conflict settings, with load-outs based on weapons systems used in the actual combat operations. The game includes single-player, co-op and competitive multiplayer for up to 16 players.

Helicopters and flight

Choose from over 40 helicopters across three classes: Attack, Air-Assault and Reconnaissance. Some helicopters can carry ground units. Scout helicopters are small and fast, and may carry a small number of soldiers. Attack helicopters handle air-to-air or air-to-ground operations and carry no troops, while Air-Assault helicopters typically combine troops and weapons to serve multiple combat roles.

Each helicopter has over 100 possible payload variants across the available machines. The flight system models over 70 aspects of flight per helicopter, including momentum and inertia. The game also includes additional prototype machines and updated in-game physics.

Maps and missions

The maps draw on major military conflicts and locations through the 2000s: Operation Nguyen Hue and the Gulf of Tonkin in Vietnam, Badakhshan Province and the Khost Region in Afghanistan, Kosovo, and the Binomo Islands. A training-ground map lets you take test flights before entering battles. Maps also have night versions.

In solo and co-op Sandbox missions, you take on procedurally generated tasks based on Frontline mode.

Game modes

Competitive multiplayer has two principal modes. Domination uses capture-the-flag gameplay and is available on Badakhshan and the Gulf of Tonkin maps. In Frontline, players capture bases while ground vehicles spawn in convoys and move across the map to fortify bases and positions; this mode is available on Operation Nguyen Hue, Khost Region and Kosovo.

Ground forces

Helicopters can deploy Airborne Troops, MANPADS (Man-Portable Air Defense systems), RPG soldiers and mortar troops anywhere on any map. Ground vehicles include tanks, troop carriers and anti-aircraft artillery.