Play Ace Combat 8
Who is this shadow 22 faggotnigger and how many missions before I add him to my tally
>no HOTAS supportlol no thanks
>>748862078It's literally some mongolian retardLike 29 missions to go
>>748862152Lame. He's midboss material at best. Faggot ass f22 BITCHI will enjoy reaming his asshole with my QAAMs
>>748862012But I just finished it.
kate > tasha
Planes?
>>748862012>AC8 is AC6Kek those silly Japs
WHERE THE FULL NIGGER??? WHERE IS IT???
so we beat ace combat 7 and everything is nice and hopeful and it looks like a good end and all and then we get to ace combat 8 and suddenly the world is fucking over or something? what did I miss?
>>748862756Electrosphere is inevitable.
>>748862218lol, wait until you see how ineffective even QAAM's are against this bullshit OP boss. You'll have to machine gun him, only reliable way to take him down.and you have his 3 friends to take down at the same time that are as OP as himAnd you have 15 minutes to down all four.
>>748862380Someone finally said it. This game is not 0 or 5's successor, it's 6's.
>>748862857I meant Armored Core because of the dude in your head.What the FUCK is this
>>748862802That shit were easy if you hadn't been a bitch and weren't slacking on learning to gun.Dude constantly throws out post stalls to ditch missiles, acting all fancy and flamboyant.Sometimes the best solution really is 'shoot them with a gun'.
>>748862969Shit wrong picture I meant THIS
>>748862857its ac5 but gooder
>>748863015This shit is egregiously invasive. Even worse, they'll still bombard you with tutorial pop ups when you replay on Ace, you know, which you can only get after beating the original hard difficulty previous.
>>748862012Don't wanna.
>>748863023It'll age like milk. 8's story is so mid it's actually kind of shocking. You can see in the last ten missions how much they were struggling to stretch this shit out to 30 when they were completely out of material.
>>748862012As soon as voices38 works his magic, I will.
>>748863083I selected Expert.What the fuck was this mission. What the fuck. It's good presentation. BUT WANT TO FLY AND SHOOT DAMNNITGOD DAMN JAPS FUCKIN SHIT
>>748862802Oh yeah fuck that.>kill Bitch 22 using guns with 19s left of the mission>clock doesn't stop ticking down >mission failedI was a so turbomad, I spent the next hour gunning his crew 3 times before I managed to kill him with 2min to spareThe mission was kino however, I loved the music.
>>748863173Did you know you can do a high G turn by pressing down both triggers anon?It'll keep going for like 3-4 missions, interrupting your fun.
>>748862012>forced RT>UE5>poor performance>130gb>denuvoNOPE
>>748862756we've known where the timeline ends up for 25 years and it's not pretty
>>748862756this game takes place about a decade later
>>748863206Same happened to me, though I killed 22 first. On my 4th try I finally killed the 4th bird with 5 seconds to spare, cheered out loud, then saw the timer still counting down because his death speech wasn't over. I swear if I was 15 years younger I would have smashed my controller in the wall. Then I finally cleared it on the fifth try and the game crashed during the cutscene, forcing me to re-do the entire thing.
>>748862756belkans fuck everything up. seven werent enough.
>>748862756With 7's ending losing the entire satellite grid, 8 should have started with Usea already without borders, to properly set up 3's storyline that's just around the corner. But no, it's still the same status quo as before, are we're still slowly setting things up without committing to it, even though 7's ending literally gave them the perfect playground to pull it off.
>>748863213set it to type B so you high-g with only the brakeits betterinfact set everything to "type b" that you can
IFF I SEEONE MORE GOD DAMNTUTORIAL BOXIM COMMISSIONING 200$ WORTH OF TASHA AND KATE RAPE
>>748863374the ending of 8 sets up all the dominoes for the eventual state of the world in 3, it's the most important leap they've done with the story so far
>>748863374The intercorporate war only started in the 2040s and the true ending strongly implied that the real one hadn't even started yet, they obviously did this so they could make a game between 8 and 3 and maybe even decanonize the awful GBA game that takes place a year after 8
>>748863479You can use the D pad to command your teammates, anon. Did you know?
>>748863307The more sluggish feel of the planes in AC8 made the aimimg the gun quite tricky. I honestly haven't had a fight this hard since the first time I fought Yellow 13 back in 2002
>didn't enable Linux support in EACpass
>>748863598Fuck forgot to post /ourguy/
>>748863535Except we're in 2030, the year Dision canonically died. We should already be seeing actual nationless borders ruled by corporations, not still setting them up slowly (it still doesn't happen at the end of the game). >>748863545The war sure, but the state of the world being borderless and ruled by corporations (GR specifically, with Nucom appearing out of nowhere) didn't happen in 2040. At the very least Usea should have already been in that state when the game starts, or at the very least when the game ends. We get neither. Unless you find it believable that we go from "normal world with borders" to "completely borderless world ruled by corpos also corpo war" in the span of less than a decade.
Oh my cute little dangerhair hapa.If only you knew how violent it's about to get.>>748863567That was right before that post.
>>748863717>We should already be seeing actual nationless borders Shit, I meant bordeless nations.
about to start the first mission finally. most unrealistic thing is they let a guy with glasses fly a fighter jet
>w10 ltsc>secure boot disabled>game actually launches normally without eac throwing a shitfitPleasantly surprised
>>748863760If that is your biggest worry then boy do I've got some news for you.
>>748863213I will include the artists commissioned in my review.>>748863598Yeah I noticed that immediately off the bat.
>>748863213>Did you know you can do a high G turn by pressing down both triggers anon?Please tell me this was a new feature in 8. I played all the other Ace Combat games and this is the first I am hearing of this
>>748863758>nationless borders
>>748863830To be fair the hornet is intentionally sluggish as hell. You'll feel more at home when you get your hands on better planes. Even unlocking the super hornet is day and night.
>>748863864Buddy... It was introduced back in 6...
>>748863864It was in 6 and 7, anon.
>>748863864it was in 7...
>>748863883>To be fair the hornet is intentionallybad? That's bad.
not done with the campaign yet but I'm already thinking about the no damage and guns only runs.
>>748864007The guns fucking shred in this game so it should be doable. No damage though, I have no idea how to clear certain missions without damage.
>>748862012i need this
>>748863864it was in 6 and 7
>>748864080mission 22. only got an A rank in it, and took 99% damage. got to do it again...
>>748864407Yeah. There's a lot of bullshit "that part" missions in this game. Out of the thirty missions, there's probably only about 15 I want to replay.
This game fucking sucks Nothing but escort missions
>>748862012>can't mute all the chattering niggers on the radiojust SHUT THE FUCK UP and let me play the game you faggots
>>748864513>only two (2) pure annihilation missions without bullshit dogfights at the end, and neither of them beats Long DayAC6 remains the goat in terms of mission quality.
>>748864518t. Diplomat
>dude is named DiddyUmmm????....
>>748864080You get a part on NG+ that gives you protection against damage
>>748864765How many hits we talking? I saw the part but didn't buy it yet, since it's so vague about what it actually does. I liked the AC7 part that gave regen down to 50%, sad to see it's not here this time.
>check out training>you can deploy flares for missiles>mfw i've been doing rolls and stalls and shit to evade this whole timewait i think i'm lowkirkenuinely kinda cracked frfr
>preorder for the AC0 port on Steam.>advertized as its own Steam title>game comes out>it's DLC that requires the 130 Gb AC8 installed to play>no achievements>didn't even bother giving it resolutions above 1600x900>they changed the preorder description to say it was actually ingame dlc so fuck youI feel ripped off. What's even the point of playing this version of the game when I can run it buttery smooth in 4K on PCSX2?
>>748864897You get like 4 flares per mission, you still need to know how to dodge.
so far the cutscenes are pretty long but it's played pretty straight. I was praying it wasn't going to be god awful corny anime tier shit but they're just setting up the world and factions like you'd expect. no walking either really just some qtes which I'm not a fan of but still better than I feared. the cutscenes are pretty cinematic as well, a lot of POV changes and ambient chatter they don't draw attention to while also developing the characters.
Anyone else playing strictly in cockpit view to keep the immersion?
>>748865319I love naval shit so being able to look around/zoom in at the flight crews working and stuff during those cutscenes is cool
>>748865386yeah obv what kind of fag does anything else
>>748863883Trying to play on m+kb was infuriating that first missionHad to swap to controller to get any pitch or roll authority, even when my dpi was cranked to counterstrike awp levels
>>748865016They said in a recent post that they would look into the issue of it being a standalone, whatever that means.I hope they do change it because that last statement is clearly false advertising. I don't want AC8 installed at all times just to be able to play ACZ, especially if it's going to be 140GB.
>>748865319Some of the cutscenes can be daft, like this one. I'm not going to give the context except if you look, you're being eyefucked by the left for most of it.
>>748865016>>didn't even bother giving it resolutions above 1600x900You gotta be shitting me, is this for real? I haven't tried AC0 yet.
>>748862012I am and those faggots disabled multiplayer for linux users
>>748866143You tell me.
post >yfw 900
RAILGUN WARNING RAILGUN WARNING RAILGUN WARNING RAILGUN WARNING RAILGUN WARNING
>>748866335Can you play it windowed at least? Not stretched fullscreen to whatever resolution you have?
>>748866090Baxter was such a fucking dumbass in this one, I thought he was going to get capped when they were leaving and he just started insulting them like they couldn't hear even though he was standing right next to them
>>748863384Rookie mistake.
>>748866518FUCK the land battleship and FUCK Shadow Squadron.
>>748866090Had a real neuron activation moment in this cutscene when I saw they did handshakes the same way Cope did
>>748866335werks on my machine
>>748866881Is it stretched, proper widescreen, or pillarboxed?Ideally there'd be options for all 3 but I don't have enough faith in Bamco.
>>748866881>Borderless
>>748867082It's a weird mix of all three.The actual gameplay is proper widescreen, but the menus and briefing cutscenes are pillarboxed, while the live action cutscenes are stretched.
>final ace duel is straight up just a newtype. Funnels (drones), starts predicting and reading your movements mid flight, explodes trying to import will and understanding to youWhat the fuck is 9 going to be like
>>748867082>>748867328Also, it looks like Bamco ran the cutscenes through a circa 2020 AI upscaler. You can see some artifacting on the briefing UI here.
>>748866586so much this.>be cool! be cool!>just stay calm Rex! We'll get through this!>look down! don't look them in the eye!Fucking Baxter, how about YOU calm the fuck down and act normal. Then he insulted them as they were on their way out.
>>748866586the real daft move was not shooting both of them, baxter had his pistol still right?
>>748862313My wife Kate and her girlfriend Tasha
>>748863479so 1 good one or 2 at best?
So the live action prologue shorts barely add anything except showing us that Sotoans are sandniggers, huh?
>>748862012is it possible to not get a fuckup at the end of mission 6?
>>748867781no, since its the drone crashing down that triggers the explosions
>>748862692 use your imagination .moe
>cutscenes don't play if you click to a different monitor
>>748862012so are people playing this with sticks or not?
>>748863567The way they constantly nag you with shit like>hey should we cover you? there's a lot of shit going on>yo should we split up?>hey man we should totally attack that thing!My god shut the FUCK UP, if I needed you doing something other than what I explicitly told you to, I'd have instructed you to do so.I CAN HANDLE MYSELF, I AM DIRECTLY RESPONSIBLE FOR MOST BELKAN DEATHS (excluding those resulting from nuclear exchanges) SINCE THE 90s, PLEASE GO BACK TO DELETING SAM SITES AND BURNING A-G UNITS UNTIL INSTRUCTED OTHERWISE.
>>748868592I don't really get why people are so set on using sticks for this, it sounds exhausting.
>>748862012>Play Ace Combat 8In a few years when it goes on sale
>>748866428christ that was something wasn't it I didn't even know where I was flying man, if not for the reticle in the middle of the screen telling me where my target is this shit would be impossible
>>748863717>nationless borders
>>748866881>the AC0 PC port has added borderless modeOver 2 decades...
>>748867835pay attention to the game adhd zoomer
>>748862012every day
>>748862119That's like playing assassin's creed with a driving wheel. It can be done, but should it?
>use mouse and keyboard>jet handles like a flying tank
>>748862756what the fuck made you think end of 7 was "everything is nice and hopeful"you prevented the autonomous self-replenishing AI drone swarm from getting a software upgrade which would've made them unstoppable, that's itthe rest of the world is still falling apart because global communications went down and they kessler syndrome'd themselves
>>748868592Why? It's ace combat, made for controllers
I swear the Sotoan war chant is the catchiest thing ever, it's been stuck in my head all week.
>>748868974I'm actually a dusty ass millenial. If every cutscene was as kino as the prologue I wouldn't, but I've seen so many walky talky shit at this point that I can't help but let me vision drift on downtime.
>>748869448yeah but like, they played chill music and the elevator survived... we'll come together and overcome this type shit was the vibe I got from it seems like that didn't really work out huh
>>748869469I just finished project wingman and it was incredibly fluid controlling the jets there compared to ac8
>the cargo plane trailing mission level>the level that's just a rip-off of that one part in 7 where you have to avoid the radar or else you're immediately shot down>the level with the shit boss fight against two bomber planes who are invincible 90% of the time>any of the land battleship levelsI give up. This game sucks.
>mfw you fight against GR in the DLC>mfw it ends up being a stealth Ace Combat Advance remake
>couldn't Cope>hunted by Shadows BRAVO
>>748869537Usea is a cursed continent, they end up getting in a huge war every decade.
>>748869620Okay? That has nothing to do with using the intended setup for a console game
>>748862078Colonel Sobrek. He looks like Aspect Raidou.
>>748869645skill issue
Tasha owes me sex
>>748866090Why in the ever living fuck were both of them even there, without an armed garrison, just as the village is about to get nuked after we coincidentally crash there? Seriously the plot contrivances this game goes through just to avoid having to give an actual Sotoan perspective is ridiculous.
>>748869448Yep. Perfect setup for GR to move in and take over Usea. But no, 8 does away with that setup to go back to ISAF/IUN/FCU at war again on Usea.
>>748870826>Seriously the plot contrivances this game goes through just to avoid having to give an actual Sotoan perspective is ridiculous.tbf which Ace Combat game doesn't have plot contrivances? (other than 3 or 4)
>>748869645>>the level that's just a rip-off of that one part in 7 where you have to avoid the radar or else you're immediately shot downYou mean the rip off of AC5's Hawk mission? Tell you've never played an AC game until 7 without telling me.
>>748870932The main issue is never changing Sotoa as the bad guy or playing with it. 5 introduced the grey men halfway, shifting focus away from Yuktobania. 7 got rid of satelite coverage and made you fight alongside Erusia for the last parts of the game. 8 has you fight mission 1 through 9 on Usea against Sotoa, never varies away from that, and mission 30 is you fight one (1) regular ass submarine from Enso. Why couldn't Enso become a recurring big bad for the last 10 missions and show Sotoa as more relatable? Or why not close the Usea campaign around mission 20 and full on attack Sotoa for the last part?As is this is basically AC6 on steroids. Big bad Estovakia/Sotoa invaded Emmeria/Usea and took over Gracemeria/Theve, retake this territory from them. Game over, good job. It's so tame as an AC game.
>>748871114>8 has you fight mission 1 through 29** on Usea against Sotoa
>>748871114The difference is Ace Combat 6 has Gracemeria taken back at Mission 13/15. AC8 has you take Theve back at 8/30, and then you proceed to inflict destruction on the city to stop a land battleship.
>>748871114the game is ac5-2
>>748871358You could feel the pacing start to really drag on after the halfway point of the game, like they were really struggling to take this barebones plot to 30 missions.>>748871393It fucking wishes.
This game is fun but there's so much cutscenes I really wanna just skip them all I watched more cutscenes than I played the game
>>748871559so just skip them then? press and hold start.
>>748868592Yes im playing this with a stick up my butt
>MISSILE ALERT>RAILGUN ALERT>MISSILE ALERT>RAILGUN ALERT>MISSILE ALERT>RAILGUN ALERT>MISSILE ALERT>RAILGUN ALERTSOMEONE PLEASE HELP ME
>>748872001Duck and Weave.
>>748872001PULL UPPULL UPAMMUNITION IS NOW AT ZEROPULL UP
>>748862012>watch Ace Combat 8 threads all day at work>finally get home>wait 40min to install gaym>load gaym>start mission 1>crash>update drivers>crash>mess with settings>crashI dunno what's causing this. Apparently some people have issues with RAM, but I've been running 64GB since forever and it shouldn't be that.I guess this is goodbye, buddy...
>>748872331If you're on nvidia try rolling back your driver update to 610.74, worked for a few people.
So how's performance? Any stutters?
>>748863864six sevennn!!!! hahaha
>>748862756Usea's basically the geopolitical equivalent of the Middle East, it's fucking astonishing that any country there is capable of maintaining first world living standards.
>>748872409I had literally zero issues aside from audio during cutscenes sounding echo-y but I've started to experience UE5-related crashes past mission 15 for some reason.Also fuck mission 15, holy shit. I'm glad I bought F-18s so I could keep up but those bombers are way too fucking agile to be bombers.
>>748872409Cutscenes run like shit actual gameplay is pretty smooth, there can be stutters when you switch between cockpit and third person though.
>>748872409no issues
I just installed the game. Mission 2 and the game runs fine on DLSS set to Quality and everything set to high. I haven't run into any issues like crashes and whatnot.>4070 DUAL OC>5700x3D>16gb RAMAlso the prologue was kino. I love Cope's voice actor.Leaving this thread to continue playing before I see any spoilers though! Have fun guys.
>>748863760Hey at least it's got that dorky headband so it stays on no matter what.It also has the ability to project HUD information and identify radar tracking paths for some reason
>>748872331holy shit learn to fly
>>748872487poverty rig commentary
>>748872562I'm not really bitching that much, I was running it on Ultra when I shouldn't have been with my specs but it was just weird that I only had issues in those two specific instances.
>>748872561kek
can you give your morons special weapons other than the planes default?i want em to use ground missiles since they seem like they actually kill shit but i cant find the option
>>748863760Fighter jets flow like water in Strangereal, so even a dude with glasses can become a pilot.
>>748862012How do I make this thread about Ace Combat 4?
>>748872376The installer says it's not compatible with my system. The latest driver for my card (Titan Xp) is 582.78 so I guess the card is just too old unless I'm being retarded and getting confused by Nvidia's numbering scheme again. Doesn't feel like it should be the issue since I've been playing AAA games at decent settings and framerates since I built the fucking PC but I don't fuckin' know. I haven't had any sort of issue like this on big name launch title since No Man's Sky and that was obviously it's own sort of clusterfuck.
The AWACS was so fucking boring in this one.
>>748872754I miss Long Caster and Bandog
>>748862012Finally, a good use for AI
>>748872754he had a couple of moments but we were spoiled by Bandog
*crashes*
>>748872740>Titan XPbroski
>>748872740>Titan Xpcome on man
>>748872754They went too hard on the gambling/card gimmick.
>>748872783Anon 1 just crashed!
I'm trying. After waiting 30 minutes for shaders to cache the campaign wouldn't even start. I moved the game to an SSD and managed to get into the prologue cutscenes but it's crashed twice.I'm going to try and lower graphics settings now but I don't know how bad the gameplay is going to be if just trying to do the walk and talks is this bad.
>>748872783you gotta pull up, nugget
>>748872872The gameplay unironically runs smoother than the walk and talk sections.
>>748872867His shitty accent kept pulling me out of it.His VA is the guy who voiced Diplomat in Project Wingman apparently.
>>748872872I want to do a poll on what you guys use as graphics cards because I refuse to believe people are having issues with cards released in the last 5 years
zero port is nice and all but...WHEN DO WE GET AN AC6 PORT? IM NOT BUYING AN XBOX
>>748863864I would laugh at you but I only noticed all planes had a machine gun around mission 10 in AC7.
>>748872754I love DealerHe's a slightly more competent Crux
>>748872927Already recomped (not AI as far as I'm aware). You can play it on PC right now
>>748872927Just play the Recomp. Bamco finally flat out admitted that their hands are tied on the older games due to licensing which is why Zero was done the way it was.
>>748863864...
>>748872925>>748872897I have a Ryzen 9 5950X with 16 cores, a 4070 Ti SUPER with 16 gigs of vram and I've got 64 gigs of DDR4 system memory. This is the first game I've played in probably a decade I've had crash this many times.
>>748872927Boy do we have good news for you anon.
>>748872970Licencing what exactly?
>>748872995Unironically going to do the meme here and say it werkz on my machine >>748872525. You sure it's using your GPU and not your CPU or whatever?
>>748873059The planes.
>>748873059The flying thingsI forget what they are called
>>748872927It was offered as a pre-order bonus for 7If you have a disc, it works on any xbox.
>>748872865>>748872827I know it's a nine year old PC but the game should RUN on low settings. It doesn't look that fucking different than 7.
>>748873136That wasn't 6, that was 5.
