My personal favorite is the Nuke: a posthumous middle finger to my enemies that detonates during my inevitable death. The Gungine (gun engine) fires bullets from some aft torpedo bay while an armored body trades speed for protection. Different engines and fuselage types round out Luftrausers’ customization options, each with their own deficiencies and strategies. Maybe it’s all physics engines and audio-visual feedback, but that knowledge doesn’t make gloriously swandiving through a hail of bullets less satisfying.Ĭontrolling a rauser is straightforward: pressing “up” engages the thrusters while “x” fires whichever of the half-dozen guns (think lasers and homing missiles) at your disposal you’ve chosen. The fighter jets in Luftrausers have weight and tension. Vlambeer has made a name for itself through an uncanny ability make games feel good. “PRESS UP TO RAUS!” exhorts the tutorial. Within the dyspeptic, Strangelovian alt-history world of Luftrausers, however, raus is a verb: to glide, swoop, and pirouette with balletic grace, to cleave through enemy bombers and aircraft carriers, to play Vlambeer’s new aerial combat game. A cursory Google leads to a Dutch-language wikitionary page which suggests that raus is a Nyonorsk noun, meaning “rage.” “Airbeserker” makes for a roughhewn calque, dubious etymological integrity notwithstanding. Luft seems obvious enough, but raus is unclear. “ Luftrausers” is most likely a nonsense word, evocative of the jackbooted Air Forces of World War II without directly evoking them or their baggage.
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