Vantis

Persistent online air combat strategy

Command the skies. Build your legacy.

Train your pilot, equip your aircraft, and take on air and ground targets. Join a wing, build its defenses, and rise through the ranks in a persistent browser strategy game.

Build your pilot

Develop your skills, climb the ranks, and earn medals through combat.

Prepare for combat

Choose your aircraft, fit equipment, and balance weapons, fuel, and weight before each sortie.

Strengthen your wing

Coordinate with other pilots, develop your base, and defend it against enemy attacks.

Latest updates

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  1. Your Missile Is on Hold

    Latest
    • Missile jammers are online: aircraft can now disrupt incoming missiles and turn a clean hit into a near miss.
    • Aircraft and wings use radar bands, adding a new layer of electronic warfare to air combat.
    • Wing officers can tune their shared defense radar band to coordinate protection across the roster.
    • Su-35 fighters have joined the AI fleet, bringing more variety to the skies.
    • Mobile pilots can navigate faster with the new View menu and quick links.
    • Computer planes now give more EXP for shooting them down!

  2. Update — Su-35, New Armament Artwork & Combat Fixes

    • Su-35 added to McCoy’s Planes: Includes its compatible equipment, 11 weapon stations, and new shop and status artwork.
    • New armament artwork: Added individual weapon and store images throughout the armament catalog.
    • Paid fatigue recovery: While at base, recover up to 5 fatigue points per purchase for 100,000 credits per point. Smaller remaining amounts are charged proportionally.
    • Equipment details and selection: Inspect installed parts to view condition, weight, value, and performance effects. Improved card layouts and click selection make equipment easier to manage.
    • Surface damage corrected: Surface strikes now use listed weapon attack as their damage base before armor and other applicable modifiers.
    • Cluster bomb behavior corrected: Cluster bombs deal half damage against point targets and double damage against spread targets.
    • GPS satellite support corrected: GPS weapons deal 65% damage without wing satellite support. Satellite support restores full damage and improves accuracy.
    • Cockpit improvements: The surface-target hotkey now includes defense structures, and rapid-fire warnings no longer replace the news banner.
    • Performance and interface fixes: Reduced AI sortie query overhead

  3. Hotkey Updates

    • Numpad keys 1–9 move to the matching position on the sector map.
    • Tilde (~) switches between Air and Surface search modes.
    • 1 switches to Surface mode and selects the first building target.
    • 2 fires at the selected target.
    • 3 fires all available weapons.
    • 4 lands.
    • 5 repeats the current action.
    • Previously, 1 fired, while 2 cycled through targets and Shift+2 cycled backward. Those shortcuts have changed.

  4. This week’s updates

    • Added daily missions and reward notifications.
    • Added the SR-71 Blackbird and updated aircraft listings.
    • Introduced Donor and Guardian support options.
    • Improved satellite travel and finance screens.
    • Added a fighter ace leaderboard and updated pilot rankings.
    • Updated wing and scout rosters. Players can now have up to three allied wings.
    • Improved AI settings, air defense, and aircraft behavior.
    • Added cockpit keyboard shortcuts for map navigation, targeting, search mode, firing, landing, and repeat.eat.

  5. Game Updates

    • Flight School has a refreshed look and cleaner layout.
    • Skill mastery progress now displays accurately.
    • Moving between sectors is faster and more reliable.
    • Scout and Repeat cockpit controls now work as expected and are available only under valid flight conditions.
    • Flight School icons now face the correct direction, with several layout details polished.
    • Fixed issues with wing radar alerts, repairs, and building destruction rollbacks.
    • Bounty earnings now contribute to hourly pilot pay.
    • Takeoff fatigue has been added and tuned.
    • AI wings now rebuild more effectively and recover after assaults.
    • AI wing tax now defaults to 50%.
    • AI wings have updated names and refreshed patches.
    • AI pilots have corrected names and a wider variety of call signs.
    • Admins can now view and edit AI pilot credit balances.
    • Player and wing credit caps added.

  6. Updates

    • Added in two hotkeys for bombing.
    • Pressing 1 on the keyboard will now select fire. Pressing 2 will rotate between buildings.
    • We are working to customize this more in the pilot lounge where you can set your prefred buildings to be seleteced first.
    • We also have added a password reset to the main page.