FLiX, first of all, I'd highly suggest you play the campaign mode first, it will help you get a feel and general idea of the game.

If you really feel he urge to start with shooting down planes though heres a guide on how to do so:

Go to the workshop page, and subscribe to a few creations you like (E.g. Planes, and missile launchers) there are tags that help you search. When downloading, always keep an eye on the required items, sometimes creations need mods/skinpacks to work.

As for the maps you have two options. You have custom scene, which BigMathis uses a lot (I assume you come from his channel, considering what you ask). And normal level save files. Since customscene is rather complicated, I will only cover vanilla maps. You can download these from the workshop, just like machines by subscribing to them on the workshop. keep In mind an airstrip would be nice.

Then, once yo uhave everything downloaded, you can boot up the game, preferably with a friend. Press on the little universe in the menu. Click "host" and host you own lobby. Keep level editor on.

Then press the add a friend icon (next to the chat icon) ingame. Invite your friend.

Next you got to load the machines and maps. Let your friend load in a plane (or the missile launcher). Press the load Icon in the top bar (not the level editor menu) You load in downloaded creation by pressing the workshop button next to the bar where you can type in file names.

Finally you can load in the map you downloaded. It works the same as with machines, but you gotta press the load button in the level editor menu.

Now enjoy some shooting down!


As I said before, its highly suggest you get a feel for the game before you do this. It took me quite a while to get into besiege and get familiar with it, but once I did so it became like a second nature.