How to Unlock Skins in GROUND OF ACES
Skins You Can Unlock by Playing
Most liveries will be unlocked simply by playing the game and completing specific achievement-style assignments.
At launch, the system will include:
16 Temperate Land Skins
16 Night Skins
6 Temperate Sea Skins / 10 Day Fighter Skins
We’ll continue expanding the collection over time. For a few aircraft, not every skin is finished yet, but more will be added in future updates
Unlock Night Skins
Available for all planes except the North American Mustang. For two planes, it’s already set as the default skin: Westland Lysander and Boulton Paul Defiant.
Unlock the Night skin for a bomber:
Safely fly away in 10 real scrambles (must count as “flown away to safety” in the scramble summary)
AND
Return home 5 times with under 25% health
Unlock the Night skin for a multi-role plane:
Fly 1 unsuccessful mission at >90% success
AND
Fly 5 successful missions that have gone wrong
Unlock the Night skin for a fighter:
Take part in 20 real scramble defenses - plane must have taken off in time to take part in the fight
AND
Shoot down 3 planes in scrambles
Unlock the Night skin for a special plane:
Fly 5 successful missions that have gone wrong
AND
Return home 5 times from a mission with under 25% health
Unlcok Temperate Land Skins
Unlock the Temperate Land skin for a bomber:
Fly 20 successful Bombing missions
AND
Fly 20 successful Cargo missions
Unlock the Temperate Land skin for a multi-roll plane:
Fly 20 successful Fight missions
AND
Fly 20 successful Bombing missions
Unlock the Temperate Land skin for a fighter:
Fly 40 successful Fight missions
AND
Fly 10 successful Manoeuver missions
Unlock the Temperate Land skin for a special plane:
Fly 20 successful Stealth missions
AND
Fly 20 successful Recon missions
Unlock Temperate Sea Skins
Unlock any Temperate Sea skin:
Fly 10 missions with sea or coast destinations (using the plane model you want the skin for)
AND
Travel 10,000 km total (again, using that same plane model)
For the following planes, you can have the Temperate Sea skins:
Short Stirling Mk.I (RAF) |
Bristol Blenheim Mk.IV (RAF) |
Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress F (USAAF, RAF) |
Bristol Beaufighter MK.IF (RAF) |
Avro Lancaster MK I (RAF) |
Handley Page Hampden Mk.I (RAF) |
Unlock Day Fighter Skins
Unlock any Day Fighter skin:
10 successful mission on enemy territory
AND
5 returns with 25% or lower health
For the following planes, you can have the Day Fighter skins:
Gloster Gladiator Mk.I (RAF) |
Gloster Meteor Mk.III (RAF) |
De Havilland Flamingo (RAF) |
North American Mustang Mk. I (RAF) |
Hawker Typhoon Mk.Ib (RAF) |
Hawker Tempest Mk.V (RAF) |
Supermarine Spitfire Mk.IX (RAF) |
Hawker Hurricane Mk.II (RAF) |
Westland Lysander Mk.III (SD) (RAF) |
Boulton Paul Defiant MK.I (RAF) |
The Rules
A few important things to know about how liveries work:
Skins are unlocked per airplane model. A Lancaster skin only works on the Lancaster, not on other bombers.
You must complete challenges using the aircraft type you want the skin for. Want a Spitfire livery? You’ll need to fly Spitfires to earn it.
Multiple planes of the same model can contribute in one mission. All qualifying aircraft of that type will count toward progress.
Progress carries over across missions. You don’t need to complete everything in a single run.
Example: Flying 5 Spitfires in two missions counts as 10 total Spitfire uses.
Unlocks are stored globally, i.e. can be used on any save. Unlock progress of individual assignments is only stored per save.
Skins Unlockable via Promo Codes
In addition to gameplay unlocks, we’ll also offer a set of special liveries that can be redeemed with promo codes. Like the Pre-War Gloster Gladiator which you can unlock by signing up for our newsletter.
At launch, it’s possible to unlock Natural Metal Finish Skins and certain unique Special Skins with promo-codes.
These codes will be distributed through:
Our own livestreams
Content creator collaborations
Special events and community moments
Our first promo code was already given out during our latest dev livestream:
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2693952090
And more will come later. We’ll keep creating new skins, and their codes may appear in future streams or events. To stay updated, keep an eye on our community spaces like the Discord and newsletter.
We’re also working on an in-game news system to make sure you won’t miss any upcoming codes.