>Ace Combat 7>13k all time peak>Ace Combat 8>48k all time peakBut.../v/ and twitter antiwoke warriors said that this game will flop massively? What's going on here??
the AC7 story was a bit too corny, leaning towards sad melodrama. it's better when the characters and plot are anime as fuck like in AC8.any moment the game isn't building towards every ally cheering you on like you're goku and every enemy going NANI!?!? is a failure.
>1000-bandit invasion>melt every single enemy a shade redder than white>B rankJesus Christ man am I supposed to do tricks on the joystick or something?
I'm asking genuinely. How is this game NOT woke?
>>748942987>twitter antiwoke warriorsStop forcing your fake outrage that never happened
0>4>6>7>5>8>X>3>AH>2>1
>>748942987https://deidetective.com/games/ace-combat-8-wings-of-theve/?????Shame about the unoptimized Port and DRM.
>>748943423go faster, dont die
>>748943423also kill all the whites and yellows too, you should know this
>>748942987Bro this shit either looks awful or runs awful with my RTX 3070. It’s over for me
>>748942987>48k all time peakthat's shit lmao
Mark my words, The next games protagonist is going to be a woman.I've finished the story and seen the psyop they laid out to prepare the fanbase for it or at least to set precedent to preemtively deflect criticism.I've seen this psyop multiple times over and over already with different IPs.Ace Combat is dead.
>>748951167kill yourself from ten years ago
>>748951167the next protagonist will be you, the player
>>748942987What woke? Autists here insisted this shit was woke because of the bitch with hair dye because this shithole is full of low IQ neurotic, male BPD retards.The good thing is /v/ has zero influence on videogames.
>>748942987Can I run it on a 2070 super? I have no money for a new GPU.Or should I just overpay for the PS5 version?
>>748951167You fags can't predict even what will happen when someone takes off his pants and sits on a toilet.You saw a game that got hyped, it delivered and this triggered your teenage contrarianism.You shitskins don't have the capacity to judge anything.
>>748951167It's Ace Combat retard, (you) are the protagonist.Larping fake fanSo tiresome you have come to infest AC
>>748942987AC7 was released in January, the month right after everyone had already spent their money and very picky at purchasing.Not sure if related but in cinema, this is the month where they dumped movies to die
>>748952314>Autists here insisted this shit was woke because of the bitch with hair dye because this shithole is full of low IQ neuroticnah that was you leftists false flagging anti-woke sentimentif you /vg/ fags want to play on /v/ you should've uped your gamecuz while you were in your echo chamber /v/ has been fighting leftists for yearsyour tricks won't work hereeven normies are catching on that non-White girlbosses is a key part of the formula with the new gears of war game and Ace Combat ubnfortunately came out at the same time illustrating how woke it isI don't even have to point it out at this point
>>748951167Such is the fate of woke slop. Series is dead
>>748952895they even shoved in a last mission that was so out of place just to give the black woman XO a chance to save the day kek
>>748953000they probably got a message from their ESG backers to shove it in last minute cuz it felt so scuffed for a last mission
>>748943282this story is a different kind of cornylike what is even going on
AC's stories should be a bit corny. Not too corny like 6, but some fun camp here and there in the story and cool for the sake of cool stuff that's arguably shallow but it doesn't matter because it's fun. Like Resident Evil.
>>748952210>>748952565he's right then, by next game he'll be a woman
>>748952895>15 year old Pablo thinks if he screeches hard enough, loud enough, and for long enough, he'll convince anons he's a white adultMany such cases!
>>748953408kek
>mission briefing>air targets: under 10>mission prep>picrelhmmmmmmmmmmmmm
>>748953446I accept your concession.Now go run back to /vg/ troon.
>>748953540DCS will never be popularOrban lost btw
I want to change Tewy's diapers
what a meh campaignAce Combat stories doesn't have to make sense it just has to be cool and make the protagonist feel like Maverick from Top Gun.and this failed that miserably for the 1st time in the series' history
>>748952357I'm on a base 2070, I get ~45 fps average in 1080p medium settings, you should be able to get 60fps in low settings, but probably not with better ones, also forget about 1440p
>>748954380Her chair probably does that automatically
>>748953528Is there much "200 ground targets SIKE it's actually a huge dogfight enjoy your A10 tho lmao" in 8?
>>748942987God do you ever get fucking bored of this?>Spam threads saying the game is woke and it's going to bomb>Then spam threads claiming it selling well is a victory against the anti-wokes>Do this for weeks on endHonestly, fucking kill yourself. I have never witnessed a bigger waste of sperm on this board.
>>748954910There's missions that take your plane from one mission to the next with no chance to refit but they're nothing you wouldn't be able to handle with the old planeMost of the missions that benefit the most from flying an attacker don't even pull that, IIRC
>>748951167I wouldn't mind playing as that female ace mentioned in the Yuktobanian-Sotoa war since I'll get to see loli Tasha
>>748952895>while you were actually discussing videogames I was engaged in /pol/ culture war bullshitThat's nice.
>>748954910no, even if briefing is empty the bars kinda hint on what you'll encounterhere actually air was a little too high IMO, but QAAM+SOD can fuck up any regular enemy as long as I don't run out
Was the sound at the last mission AI shit? Weird no one addressed it, maybe it was one of Rex schizo moments.
>>748954910Basically only one of those that I remember.Game balance feels kind of wacky with most planes on the tree having at least one A2G SP weapons, and since the SP Weapons basically fall into >worse than your regular missiles (90% of the A2A SP weapons)>skull fucks the enemy into oblivion with no mercy (60% of the A2G SP Weapons)So the distinction between Fighter, Attacker, and Multi-roles feels kind of defunct.
>>748955674The one when you fire a missile?
>>748955746I think it was when you downed a target.
>>748955674They do mention that the submarine is unmanned and AI controlled, but the voices are a new thing compared to something like Hugin and Munin
Tips on mission 8-9 or whatever where you land on a base that gets attacked? I keep getting filtered when they start launching missiles.
so do you set the clouds to medium and cope with the blurfest or set them high and enjoy 30% performance drop
>Mission 16Fucking pozzed garbage.
>this is the megafloat
>shadow chant when 11KINOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Why did they let princess occupy space elevator
Does it have any mission as infuriating as the desert one in 7 where you had to bomb trucks in the sand storm?
Woke slop
>>748956276>royalty>pretty>white>woman>stupidbecause she assembled the fucking exodia of "never having to face any consequences ever"
>>748942987It's retards like this who think games like wind waker are bad just because the Wii sold more units than the gamecube. goyim brain, no other way to say it. There are so many more gaymers in 2026 than in 2019, many of which only got into AC through 7, meaning the player base is significantly higher for AC8. Maybe hold the thinly veiled advertisement for a couple weeks, and when no one is talking about it, you'll see how goy brained this pleb really is.
>>748956369I don't think so, score missions were way too easy this time.
>>748956369>>748956452Also there was barely any drone dogfighting which made it automatically better than ac7
XSDB or 8AGM?
>>748956276>libshit white woman turns humanities greatest achievement into a refugee camp full of brownsI was glad when Sotoa trashed itI wish it fell on top of them
in another game this could have been the main wunderwaffe
>>748956369>>748956515The drones and the sand mission really diminish that game
>>748942987Is 48k at release a big number now?
>>748942987
I think halfway through the game they gave up on the "carrier only planes" gimmick
>>748945421Performance is fine, even great in gameplay. Cutscenes are completely fucked for some reason.
>>748956831oh they heard the criticisms and doubled down instead like proper retardsthey made the 2 out of the only 3 superplanes you get the same carrier planeliterally the same plane with slightly different loadouts and stats
>>748956831There's some missions that are carrier only laterThank god I had Rafales
>>748956708For Ace Combat it's huge
>>748951167They almost sort of did that with the international version of AC3.
I'm having a blast
>Beat Moonhey it's kind of like the end of PW>Next Mission
>>748954910You can rearm and change loadouts on most missions where that can happen. But if you manage squad targets and special weapons use you can get easy ground kills even if you don't take weapons meant for them.
>>748954910Just dogfight with the A10
This game is woke trash.
>>748957305define woke
will he return?
>>748957392The boss should have a cool ghost behind him for AC8's panel. Both are wearing pink wigs.
>>748957242Why wouldn't I, she's so graceful.
>try online>it's the fuel depot bombing mission from 7>bgm is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIEPdGx0fPQok we love AC online now
So I was hearing that this game is harder than 7 was but I'm on what I'm assuming is on the second highest difficulty and S ranking every mission. I'm literally wiping the map clean on some of these missions, currently on mission 11.Does it actually get harder?Also, does it bother anyone else that we have a civi who's only job in the wing is to be live bait? Seems kind of fucked.
>>748942987If you want an AC8 thread just make one you don't need to have muh playercount and muh culture war faggotry in your OP. Nigger.
>>748957745slap her in the EA-6B and call it a day
>>748951167>The next games protagonist is going to be a woman.I want Prez to get isekai'd into Ace Combat.
>>7489565188AGM are terrible.Way too much ground clutter, and you get barely any and they lock onto half the screen so you get blow your load 2-3 times and they’re gone.
>>748957745I reckon it's easier overall.Checkpoints are pretty frequent, there's very few surprise A2A encounters and score attack missions are much easier. Some of the named squads and bosses are harder though.
>>748957745Some people find the difficulty spike with mission 15 pure bullshit because of how fast the planes are and how you basically can't fire any rockets at them until you're in gun range, but if you're decent with machine gun fire you should be fine.
>>748958249I'm starting to think the "difficulty increase" from 7 people are referring to is the slightly more realistic flight model because I blew all but one of the shadows out the sky before their dick sucking was finished and made soup out of the sharks by mistake.>>748958287Oh, that explains it. I do Ace gun only runs pretty often.>>748958070>Way too much ground clutterIf you're not on a collision course with the Earth until the last minute when using them, you're using them wrong. Dive bomb, anon, we have high G turns.
>>748958354The shadows get harder. The final encounter is borderline guns mandatory.
So Trigger couldn't save the princess ...
>>748958249My experience was I’d get hit a lot more frequently here due to the sheer number of fighters and SAMs, but by mid-late game each hit does maybe 10-15% on Veteran, but enemies were generally easier to hit and had less “you have to flail around trying to hit them while they talk at you” bits.
>>748942987If only the multiplayer wasn't so ass. I rather have random TDM with a Tech Tree and point limits decided by hosts, then this shit.
>>748958478>My experience was I’d get hit a lot more frequently here due to the sheer number of fighters and SAMsYour allies are vastly more competent, especially if you tell them to provide you with cover. They'll usually take down a bunch of targets by themselves if you tell them to disperse attack and they'll pretty much rape anything if you tell them to forward attack a specific target wit special weapons allowed.
>absolutely decimate megafloat>literally everything gone>get to tunnel run>it's god fucking awful and I drop to 20 fucking frames at the crucial momentTHANK YOU UE5
>>748958550That's how Infinity did it. planes were divided off by points but parts were free to let you customize your boy fighters or gen 5 stealth doritos
>>748958434Eh, the ones after Coaster's melty weren't all that much better. Hopefully, 22 makes me feel something.
Rough relentless bed breaking sex with Tasha and Kate
>>748958354I have to kill fast and dive bombing is too slow when I can just used bombs or cruise missiles to annihilate the entire cluster while zooming. If my finger comes off the throttle for even a second, I have suffered a spiritual defeat at the hands of the Soto*ns.
>>748957745I'm at like Mission 19 and absolutely nothing has come remotely close to Long Day or the Lightning Duel with Mihaly difficulty or kinowise.
>>748942987>Number gets bigger every yearWait until retard op hears about concepts like inflation and population growth
For me it's Jackpot 9
>>748958621>blow the thing up>can’t see SHIT due to the smoke>crash on the little fence on the ledgeI am bad at video games.
>>748956554>WunderwaffeAnon, that's a real bomber
Mission 9 was certified gigakino
Did allies with EW plane buffed your radar in the other games too?
>see a bunch of twitter posts absolutely hating on mission 15>get to mission 15, expect some shitty story reveal or something>it was a fun mission chasing around 2 prototype futuristic planes....?? that's it?? the fuck?
>>748958835IIRC it first appeared in the first mission of 7's DLC
>>748958845It's the missile spammers that probably don't even know they have a gun
>>748958825
>>748958825>Constant earrape>Like ten minutes of idle flying shooting a borderline stationary target while nothing really threatens you>Almost impossible not to take some stray damage here and there>Completely unmemorable enemy commander portraits, fucker looks like some random hispanic janitorFuck no, the mission was utter dogshit.
>>748958845Anon those people are incapable of using "expert" controls. They probably couldn't keep up with the planes, and threw a tantrum when their missiles don't work against them and have no idea they have a machine gun to use. A bunch of casuals got filtered
>>748958845Maybe they don't know that you have to get behind them before shooting?
>>748958845>Futuristic planes
>>748958845I guess it's ass if you had a plane with shitty speed and no upgrades to it.
Not gonna lie, I basedjacked like hell during the mission when we go back to Ace Combat 7's Space Elevator. holy FUCKING kino
Why didn’t Rex just tell everyone that ghosts are real and he’s being haunted by Cope’s ghost whispering in his ear at all hours of the day and that’s why we need to enact total Corpojew death?
>>748958845>noobs using probably the slow ass starter F-18>no idea how machine guns work>can't use missiles until you get in range so they're probably chasing the planes and can't keep up fast enough to get in range>Mission FailedAs expected from scrubs
Post planes you'd fuck
>>748942987>claims game as a victory for woke>Everyone playing the game is criticizing the story and characters and just enjoying the flying.Pathetic.
>>748942987>Japanese girl with a hot girl>wokeI see the game was a huge success so now you’re trying to claim it lmao
>>748959224Everyone? Even here opinions on the story and characters seem pretty positive outside of a couple spammers.
>>748959169
>>748959301But the front has that cheese grater...
Is she okay? Is /our girl/ still alive?
>>748959278were you not here last week when schizos were spamming about how the game is woke? You don't get takesie-backsies now that it's a success.
I really miss this board pre-steam charts.
>>748959294The only real issue I have with the story is that there is zero explanation in regards to what was going on between Rex and Cope, so I just go with Ace Combat equivalent of Newtypes. I was happy that AC8 pretty much locked in that AC3's setting is unavoidable.
>>748959340She's still in space I think
>>748959340Even got a voiced role and a new portrait.
>>748959340She appears briefly.
>>748959340nyes
>>748959340Old hag
>>748959340she's running the comona space base nowshe also has a line that kind of subtly refers to Blaze
>>748959340Buddy, you're not going to believe this
>>748959340Project Aces will never kill her. She's the company's mascot
>>748959340B R I D G E T O P E A C E
>>748959480How much of the old Ace Combat team is still with project aces?
>>748959169I remember when this came as a mission objective skin for AC:I. Had to PVP for a week in my MiG-21 bis with MG pods to get it. First mission in the PVEVP was the defend the space luanch using the Comona remix track. One of the rival planes flies wing with me, wiggle a roll as a little salute then keep steady. Get a message later on PSN in japanese with a picture of my plane. "Thanks for flying steady!"
>>748958718Cute
>>748959340>hagYikes. Get with the times, gramps. We have a new hotness now.
>>748959731Older woman young woman threesome with me
>>748958845You have to remember that most people rely way too much on missiles
>>748959562Enough that it hasn't gone to shit
>>748959731Kate is also the better hag option in my opinion.
>>748959731>picking Coster's sloppy secondsI wanted to like Tasha but I'm not into NTR
>>748959340
>>748959938she's so pretty, but yjk she's taking Blaze's demon of razgriz
>>748959991Blaze is (Me) so that's fine.
>>748960017CUM HISTORIA
I just finished it brosYep I'm thinking it's kinoJust... was the last mission really needed
>>748957392>devs brag about their new cloud tech for 8>runs like shit>need to drop settings to mid so it doesn’t eat all your frames>looks like shit in all settings besides high and ultra>7 clouds still look better
>>748959938Amazing what hiring an actual character designer does. I had a moment when I was going through Aces of War wondering almost none of the 7 cast had art of their designs, and then I remembered most of the 7 cast had nothing more than their radio portrait.
>>748960084Mechanically it sucked narratively it was very necessary to set up for Electrosphere.
>>748960084no, no it was not.also i had to reset the final bit like 5 times
>>748959938She's so cute, I disregarded the other's portraits when they talk but not her. I roll around so I can see her portrait
>>748960084For the story, yes. For gameplay, fuck no. Can't come up with any way to make it more interesting either.
>>748960121>7 clouds still look betteryou are blind
>>748959343You mean you? It doesn't take a genius to see the people saying it was going to bomb because it's le woke are now the same people saying its success is le victory against chuds. Kill yourself.
>>748960158I feel like it was already set though? Like that sub came out of nowhere, the phone that DD had was it I mean>>748960171The only mission I had problems was 25 lol
>>748960084The final mission was really to just put a bow around the story. I see 28/29/30 as the final arc in general.
>>748960218I was here saying Debra Wilson wasn't a big deal because she wasn't face-scanned despite the schizos saying her presence guaranteed a flop
>>748960309The sub was a loose thread I had been wondering about since the 4th mission so that didn't bother me
>>748959062Were valkyries really that big?
>>748960331Apart from the final mission, I don't see her phoned in or anything too
>trying out the multiplayer mode, still new so not sure wtf I'm doing>lobby up and play anyway>my team is a bunch of F-14s and the starter F-18>other team is straight up 4 ADFX-02sWho the fuck okay'd this shit.
>>748943423In virtually all Japanese games "rank" just means "speed". Training the workforce up to be efficient drones from childhood, I suppose.
>>748960426I have never played multiplayer in AC before but genuinely how the fuck can it make for meaningful gameplay? It's basically a loop around in circles and wait to see whoever stalls first.
>>748943423I'm thinking there might be a time bonus incentive. The Shadows took fucking ages for me to sort out, the cheating bastards.
>>748955927just be fast. an air to air plane with good special weapons helps. I had semi active radar missiles kill the pallets and some longer range missiles take out the C130s
>>748960478the PVEVP where you're competing for objectives is fun
>deploys flares
>>748960481I expected mopping up the shadows to be its own mission so I engaged them with 6 missiles left and found out the game will slowly regen you 2 missiles at a time at least in Veteran if you 0 out.
>>748960523>cobras
>>748960426just play co-op like I do. I have zero interest in PVP, but the co-op destruction mode is pretty fun.
>>748955927Long ranged missiles and the upgrades to make the range even longe-rer.
>>748960426I started playing online tooI just immediately go for ground units because there's no way I'm outgunning everybody else with a slow ass F-4
>>748951167Literally every single AC game has had a male protagonist (or a fucking robot), why would you feel so threatened by one mute woman?
>>748960523>does a full kulbit when I am right behind him>blast two missiles straight to his facekek. Also don't be mean and kill all the trainee shadows in that one mission so the female pilot gets a happier ending.
>>748960217Search your feelings anonThe only graphical upgrade from 8 is the HDR support Everything else looks the same or marginally better than 7 and runs like ass compared to 7
>>748960478>anon describes dogfightsNow remember there are autists in WT and DCS who do that shit for 1000s of hours. play the infinity 2 mode.
>>748960523>stops midflight but retain all inertia somehow>keeps aurafarming while doing so
>>748960626Did anything change? She's the one that went first
>>748960626>kill all the trainee shadows in that one missionTOTAL SOTOAN DEATH
>>748960620Because I don't want to play as a woman in my wish fulfillment game. Project Aces obviously agrees because the protagonists only grow more defined with each entry.
Should AC9 be yet another set-up installment for Electrosphere or should the timeline jump past that? Personally, I want to see Electrosphere plane designs in STUNNING SUPER ULTRA LIFELIKE GRAPHICS!11!!!!11 already.
>>748955782That sucker's speaking Belkan by the way.
>>748960626But... they were literally free points...
>>748960548i have Nuclear Option for that sort of gameplay
>>748958815>He doesn't know
>>748960626Nah. Fuck those nuggets. They shoot down Kate the next mission and then the one who does it has the fucking gall to say they're turning off the aim assist because they can aim better with it. I have no mercy for Sotoans. I smirked when they flight lead killed herself and when the Sotoan's cooked alive in their battleship.
>>748960718I don't think war would start that soon again, so it probably would end up being electrosphere time.
>>748960718I need the electro OST back tooBut I mean honestly, there's no more time to setup no? Everything is already setup with 7 and 8
>>748960685If one more is alive then she wont shoot herself.
>>748960614>f-4>slowYou are a straightaway king. A lancer in the sky. Loudest Sonic Boom record holder.
>>748960718I think they should just deal with Electrosphere by doing a Not-Remake. Project Aces got it easy to do a handwave about things presented in AC3 because it was all a simulation. Nemo is also an evil fucker, so I'm looking forward to seeing them possibly be the enemy ace or someone who pesters you throughout the campaign.
>>748960848I thought the condition is that you had to leave the veteran guy alive?
>fucked up 22 with gun as I was chasing down 26 with regular-ass missiles to conserve QAAMs for 22rip bozo, good job retard on protecting the #44 as #1
>>748960814IMO doing something completely like 3 wouldn't jive with the seriew identity nowadays but I could picture a mostly electronic soundtrack at least.
>>748960386They sure as shit didn't have variable geometry, cluster missiles, and laser interception batteries.
>>748959562Pretty much all of the ones that matter, actually. This is a Japanese company we're dealing with, these guys are in it for life.
>>748960979Yeah but what's all these setup for then you know?I can see like an uprising from the corporations being a thing in an AC game too
>>748958815uh-huh, right, next you'll tell me B-52 isn't alien tech
>t-that's a warcrime
I do kinda miss the fixed missions where you fly a bomber desu.
>>748961147Sotoan scum typed this post
>>748942987>Play online>Do that 4v4 PVPVE thing>Dogfighting players ge tthem low, kill gets stolen get no reward>Go after the next player, got them low health, other player comes yoinks it>Rinse and repeat.>Get only 10k score while the two cunts who've been joinking kills from afar get 40k.Fun game.
>>748961147no such thing if you win
>>748960712Okay well that's a (you) problem.
>>748960871>I'm looking forward to seeing them possibly be the enemy ace or someone who pesters you throughout the campaignImagine running into Nemo for the first time in AC9 and it just fucking kills you for real because it is THAT good from running sims, then you have to play as a rotating cast of nameless fucks who keep dying to an AI.
>>748960979The only thing that would change is the protagonist being tied to a country and instead being tied to a company, or we finally get another entry where they are a merc again and the player can bounce between contracts for different companies before settling on a route. It's also possible that the protagonist could just be a pilot for NUNs/UPEO.
>>748961112Make it literally the plot of MGR>hired as a mercenary to protect guy>guy gets killed by other company working with idk osea or something>honor dictates we take the fight to them or something>unfolds huge conspiracy
>enso tonitrus spear's their own facilitywait a second, that strategy...
>>748961147The Geneva suggestions only apply to men, Sotoan dog.
>>748961349Enso was ran by AI trained on Belkans.
i'm actually pretty annoyed at Joker 3. here i am barely keeping alive with trying to fight while evading and this manic pixie dream girl just gets to do nothing but evading and then people will say yeah sure she is pulling her weightI really like Queen 1 better
>>748961147And?
The sky lighting up in Mission 8 as Purple Magic fights the Land Battleship is such a great touch
>>748961432I like to think pilots don't have access to the HUD, only the player has it.
>>748961432she does it on purpose to rile you up to fuck her rougher in-between missions
>>748961349They also dropped one on Belka itself, for old times' sake.
>>748961349don't know what you're trying to say
>>748952565Has any AC game had a protagonist of ambitious gender (in the en pronoun/jp wording?) they're all men usually
>>748960626prairieniggers should diescrotoans aren't human
>>748961432Every missile she draws is one less going after you. She pops her cherry and starts killing motherfuckers soon
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-x_iyF-0vU starts blasting on an open channel
How the fuck did the FCU get away with forcibly conscripting foreign nationals? Baxter and Coster were FCU nationals who both have military experience while Tasha is explicitly a civilian aerial acrobatics pilot with no real combat experience and a foreign national.
>>748961842when Debrah tells you to do something you listen and learn
>>748961842Dad said that it was ok.
>>748961842Tasha has no rights
>>748960718Since 3 was all a simulation9 should either be a set up to the time it is taking place or take place after it and be about dealing with Nemo wiping out every plane out of the sky since he got released into the wild at the end of 3Or have 9 just be a remake of 3
>>748961762>Is it time to run?>NO
Does the pilot dude from the live-action prologue make an appearance
why didn't DD just use his fundie powers in the first place
>Sotoan-Yuktobanian war happened in 2010>Ace Combat 5 takes place in 2010 in the timelineIt's been a while since I played the original trilogy but has that war been ever mentioned in previous media?
>>748961762Ending song being a full version of it was nice. Shame it was not used over a cinematic of showing what different characters were doing after the war.
>>748960426Don't sweat too much over who is using what. What matters more is how leveled up your plane of choice is because you can get higher stats than what you can get in the campaign mode. If you go to your online hanger and enter the level up menu where you raise a plane's level cap you can even preview what you get at any plane level and what your stats will look like.Someone in like, a level 14 F-14D is likely going to outperform someone in an level 1 ADFX-02, which both levels up slower and requires more resources to raise it's level cap. The online mode is where you go when you want to play your favorite planes with your favorite combo of special weapons with overtuned stats regardless of where they sat in the campaign tech tree. I played like 5hrs of the co-op last night and ended up grinding my F-14D to max level where it eventually flew like any of the endgame planes and usually taking 1st or 2nd on the scoreboard with SAAMs and LAAMs if the mission had enough air units to dogfight. My biggest grievance with the online is that there is seemingly no control over the difficulty level of the missions you get matched into. I would have more fun if I could consistently get difficulty 3 or whatever tuning they have for the 8 player boss battle missions.
>>748961237A Nemo fight would have to be virtually unbeatable How about you fight him mid game, he downs you but you survive and that sets up the second leg of the game because you got sublimated in a prior cutscene without knowing and you keep fighting clueless that you have already died
>>748962118He wants to strike on his own.
>*Does war crimes*><<It's just a matter of perspective>>kek, love that guy already
>>748962118Because mercs only participate if their side is winning.
>>748962192This. I just played a match where the other team full of preorder scifi planes lost with 60% less points and the MVP was a fucking ecm A-6
>>748959328Business's in the back.
>>748962158Don't think so, but I assume it immediately preceded the one with Osea because Greymen or something
>>748961237>>748962195>think your fighting nemo>right before the end it's revealed (You) where nemo the whole time >final boss is Dision this time for real>come to stop the killing machine that has butchered it's way across the continent >but this can end only one way>secret dialogue and ending if you just let him shoot you down
>>748962531Dision for real can’t happened. He got chucked to death. Twice.
>>748942987I'm considering buying this game, but I looked at a gameplay video and it seems like there's ALWAYS some npc talking on the backgroundI mean, it's actually really annoying, I've never played an ace combat game before, is that how it really is? There's always gonna be someone yapping while I shoot at other planes?
>>748962316Funny enough, I hit a point last night where I had my F-14D maxed out to level 20 but still had 7 missions worth of XP away from getting the rank where I can buy the Gripen so I actually went back and used the ADFX-02 for those matches in order to complete the weekly order for bringing a multi-role plane 5 times and my average performance basically cut itself in half when I had to give up bringing like 24 SAAMs and LAAMs. I guess with the intent to sell plane skins over time they have to have a meta progression system that let any plane be good, but I like being able to play my favorites without compromise.
Living in Usea must be a fucking painEvery big war since Ulysses dropped happened in the continent even though most of the time one of the sides of the war wasn’t even in the continent Yes I am still mad about the lighthouse war. That shit was stupid Erusea
>>748962675That's how a lot of the story is communicated in these games and it also is part of creating the atmosphere of a chaotic battlefield. Personally I love it but if it's not your thing you probably aren't going to like these games.
>>748962606Dision is still alive somewhere in the Electrosphere. The only reason you exist is so that Simon trains you on all possible ways Dision dies so you're prepared to kill Dision for real when Simon unleashes you.
>>748962675How else would you hear enemies or your allies masturbating you and talk about how great your skills are?
>>7489626758 is yappier tuan usual because of the squad gimmick The biggest problem with the game is being a stupid heavy UE5 release with mandatory RT so anything weaker than a 3070 struggles to run above 1080p
>>748962675Managing to stay cool underneath all the discordant radio chatter MISSILE MISSILE MISSILE sonic booms going off explosions and machine gun fire is part of the experience, skipper.
>>748962814The real dision is dead anonHe can’t kill Nemo irl because he is deeeeaaaad
>>748962773Keep in mind most of the shit happened on Usea happened because of useans themselves. The eruseans take the cake because of how batshit insane they were using Megalith to bombard Usea with more meteorites when they lost. They could even have bombarded Strangereal with meteorites should they choose to. Usean bullshittery is miles more insane than anything the Belkans did.
>>748962896Wish I could change the fov would help under all that sensory overload
>>748962984Belkan hands wrote this post
>>748960478>>748960426Ace Combat doesn't lean anywhere near enough into its nature as an arcade title, nor its modern inspirations like it should be doing.Clouds and flying low should fuck up missile tracking and lock just like the end of Top Gun Maverick. There needs to be tangible zones where people can't just mash LAAMs from a distance and win.Aircraft specialized in attacking ground forces should have massive boosts related to that role, same with Fighters and aerial targets, compared to e.g. Multiroles which are dominating online because Multiroles receive no damage penalties for either type of target.
>>748963172Next you'll say the FCU-Sotoan war is a Belkan conspiracy sponsored by Enso.
>>748958845biggest issue I had with mission 15 is the multiple targets on the aircrafts.after a few tries I understood targets that actually dealt damage to the aircraft when damaged were main enginesIn hindsight its obvious because only main engines were marked red as priority but I'm still annoyed that destroying non priority targets did no collateral damage to the aircrafts hp and only disabled them for a short whileI have the same complaint for land battlecruisers and battleships that no collateral damage can be dealt to them
What the fuck is your regular gun for?
I'm glad they made the guns good again after AC7. Seriously what the fuck was up with AC7's machine gun?
>>748963235>be a mostly rural nomadic shithole>only beef is with the not-Russians up north>somehow pulls a Japan industrialization out of the ass>go poke the nation most used to fight wars on another fucking continent>somehow takes all their landAnd you are telling me that the Jews, I mean the Balkan’s, didn’t have anything to do with it?
>>748963420Finishing off stuff that did not die to two regular missiles.
>>748942987i just ate 2 kebap and took a HUGE shit, nshallah
>>748963539 Based sotoan anon
>>748962892People who think 8 has more talking and cutscenes never played 5.
>>748963723This is one of the most common criticisms of 5.
>>748963475>>somehow pulls a Japan industrialization out of the assJapan didn't suffer an ecological disaster after they rapidly industrialised. Sotoa must've done something fucked up while building the Megafloat and the Terminus satellite that most of their country is desert. They could have easily just invaded their smaller neighbors if all they wanted is land.
>>748958845My first time on the mission I got stuck on the second plane going through for the final pass with a SU-47 with SAAMs. After a restart with a different loadout I managed to down both planes within the second pass. I would say it's definitely difficult if you don't have the right plane/loadout.
>>748963420Finishing stuff off, getting extra damage on easy to hit targets while your missiles reload, tagging kills on more slippery pilots that are harder to hit with missiles. If you haven't already set your targeting reticle in the gameplay settings to Type B, it will make machine gun kills much much easier to line up.
only played ace combat 3 and a bit of 7 (didn't care too much for it). kinda wanna play 8 because toronto represent but how is the story/characters? I have a feeling it's not cybercool like 3 is but any cute scenes with tasha
>>748963723I did. The main problem with 8 is that you need to pay more attention to the yapping than 5 Also the annoying qtes
>>748961147Reminded me of infinity when Butterfly master laser'd Not-Nagase's parachuting friend.
Ray bagged a cutie at the end.
>>748963843Yeah. It is like North Korea did a Japan and wanted more land so they invaded the continental USA. And actually did all right. Makes no fucking sense. Because of the title I thought that 8 would be like the Ukraine war where a massive washed military supper power tried to take a small country and the underdog storyInstead is about a small nation going against the big one and managing to fold them for most of the warThe fuck project aces meant about that?
This place still gives me the chills, and low poly/textures only add to that feeling.I dont think AC3 can ever be remade without the loss of that eerie and bleak retrofuturistic Y2K aesthetic.
>>748964298Have you ever played X, Anon? Both Aurelia and Leasath, compared to everyone else in Strangereal, are much smaller in land but have very advanced industries (Atmos Ring, the Gleipnir and the XFA-33). If those two can fit superweapons on the calibre of larger countries, Sotoa invading and steamrolling Usea looks somewhat believable.
>>748956718meme doesn't apply as it's not really a woke-win game. These numbers aren't that impressive in the first place, maybe for ace combat, but not as some woke-win game.007 got higher (still didn't break even), veilguard too. The reviews aren't too hot either.
>>748964298>>748963843It seems like they've stuck most of the context for the war in the Aces at War 2029 book. Basically, Sotoa managed to pull a debt trap and get the majority of the FCU on the hook for a ton of loans and contracts like a contract for Comona Space Base (which they launched the first Tonitrus Spear from) because the eastern side of Usea was falling behind economically compared to the western side of Usea where the space elevator is. Meanwhile, broke and with no bitches, the FCU outsourced all their cargo transport to private companies which is where Enso Order snapped it all up and started making deals with Sotoa where they used the Rocky Island shipbuilding base (which they locked down in 2028 after a nuclear meltdown and refused to let any inspectors visit) to build the land battleshipit is a small nation punching above their weight, but they did almost 10 years of prep work weakening the FCU beforehand.
>>748963420MurderIt's pretty good, not just for picking off weak targets but knocking out targets while your missiles are reloading, or taking down slow targets like bombers or ground unitsI got MVP recently on Online with a Frogfoot and it was mostly due to machineguns
>>748964637>but they did almost 10 years of prep work weakening the FCU beforehand.If this is the case then I'm not even surprised that Erusea in 2019 was able to capture most of Usea despite it only being 14 years after the First Continential War - even before the formation of the FCU most nations there were falling apart. Does Aces at War 2029 talk about what happened to Erusea and San Salvacion after the Lighthouse War?
>>748964298The entire conflict was orchestrated by globalists in the upper echelons of Enso, they supplied all the superweapons to Sotoa and ran a brutal psyops campaign ahead of the war that lead to most of the FCU defecting immediately.
>>748964134she has good posture
only? then we good I bet nothing bad will happen in the meantime
>>748963420Aside from the other practical answers it just feels good shooting stuff down with guns. It's like KOing a slippery bitch with a knuckleduster in a gunfight.
>>748965123I think the electrosphere thing is gonna be rewritten desuEither way I don't think there will be a continuation of the storyline to that for a long time. Hell they just set up a game for sotoans and yukes shooting at each other.
>DAMMIT CMON YOU GUYS!
>>748965061NTA but since Enso's plan was to eliminate borders for better profits, didn't their plan technically work out in the end since by the 2040s, GR and Neucom basically control Usea?
>>748964134She really is cute isn't she
>>748963420they buffed the shit out of gun and you have tracer rounds now. gunning down fags has never been easier (pw doesnt count)
>This one company had enough power to fund a war between nations, build super weapons, and nearly kill everyone>The rest of the world doesnt immediately take a fucking minute to think about making anti-trust lawsNo wonder Strangereal is so fucked.
Wings really was a Cope afterall
what are the biggest gameplay differences from ac7? Does it still have mid mission checkpoints? That's lame. How many flares do we have?Any of the ac7 cast coming back? Is Count in? (very important)
>>748965547Only The Princess and Scrap Queen make a cameo and they are just voices
>>748965474CARLOS YOU FUCK
>>748965430it's a le epic DAO, so you don't even know what's enso and what's not
>>748965608Wait where was Avril? I must have missed it
>>748965212there's a passage in Aces at War 2029 from one of the interviews specifically talking about how they established a single continuity that connected the timelines of AC3 all the way through to AC8. I doubt they're planning to rewrite it since they went through the trouble of redesigning the website to cover the timeline and specifically say that AC3 happened.
>>748965547Biggest change is wingmen commands and wingmen actually doing reliable damage. Plus you can choose their loadouts. You have 5 flares.>Any of the ac7 cast coming back? Is Count in? (very important)Princess and Mihaly's granddaughters. Also Nagase.
>>748965641She's the hacker lady
>>748965675No she isn't.
>>748942987AC7 was a PS4 game bru
did they take anything from project wingman?
>>748965675Completely different VA
>>748963843I can only assume the yukts would get mad if they struck close>>748965730Diplomat's english voice, apparently
>Cope has never shot down anyone from Sotoa!Are they not noticing the fact that I've suddenly gotten like 500 kills including all the Shadows I've downed and have had several missions by now that have been exclusively me and Baxter
>>748965639ENSO is literally known as a megacorp even in universe. Letting any company get that big is not a good idea and shouldn't have happened no matter what. >>748965756Nagasae had a different VA in 7.
>>748965474>here's Wings of Thieve, our legendary ace, the Cope of the FCU
>>748965639you can really tell the game was made during the crypto/NFT craze
>>748965665Wait who was the erusean lolis grown up?
cries in 1080timan i really need to get a job
>>748965430Decentralised implies it's more than one company.
>>748965834But it's how a company could actually get away with that kind of shit. Plus, it's a set up to the setting of 3, where mega corpos run everything. Just not 3 itself, because that game was just a simulation that a mad nerd made. Nothing technically happened.
>>748942987You were the only one who kept saying woke and antiwoke though, you little rat.
you are playing in first person with cockpit view right /v/?
>>748965882The leader of the Shilage volunteers and the hacker girl are the two granddaughters
>>748965776And then they brought her back for 8
>>748965730>>748965764AWACS Dealer is voices by Diplomat which is surprising since Dealer sounds like a completely different person.
>>748965967Cockpit view is too restrictive, it's like not-cope has a fucked neck and can't see behind him.
>>748965921>EO was about to mediate terms of a ceasefire because it holds the power of a nation>Then other nations found out what EO was doing and dropped their assesIt doesnt matter if it's not centralized, everyone KNOWS its a fuck huge company. They just couldnt go after the actual big wigs because no one knew who they were.
>>748965949The story didn't happen, because it technically was a "simulation" but all the locations, cities and tech were real. I'm not sure if we're keeping most of it.
>>748965776They're known because they operate in the open. You wouldn't know what's enso and what's not. DD doesn't know either.That's the whole strategy. Even Enso itself is just a piece in a larger puzzle. If they fall another shadow hand will salvage what's useful like GR did at the end. Same people, different face
>>748965949>This one company had enough power to fund a war between nations, build super weapons, and nearly kill everyonebut enough about grunder industries
>>748966086Well, with Ace Combat having a time limit thanks to the UGSF timeline thing, not like it matters. >>748966129>SpoilerI know that, but realistically the EO thing should have made the people of Strangereal not let something like that happen again. But in only 10 years, you have megacorps going to actual war and the world government can't do shit.
>>748963185>Clouds and flying low should fuck up missile tracking and lockThey do. In fact, the game beats you over the head with it every time. The only way someone doesn't know this is if they haven't played the game at all.
>>748960386>Were Valkyries that bigYes, they are fucking massive.
>>748966304my LAAMs work through clouds in online at least. must be built in chinese hacks.
Does Trigger appear in this Game?
>>748966304They don't, anon. Low ground does nothing to locking on, and for clouds, they fuddle the lock time for a brief second and then you can lock on anyway. They do not stop LAAM spam.
>>748965730>Faust VA is MISSILE/RAILGUN WARNING>second spw slot>some link F59 Descendants and Shadow 22 themes at a timestamp I don't have right now>Five wings looks a bit line Monarch, and Rex has that meaning too
>>748966082I'm guessing they also have lawyers making sure none of what they do can be considered a crime.
>>748966304>Implying low ground does shit>Implying clouds stop lock-onYou do not play the game.
>>748966395He really should have during the space elevator stuff or mission 28 but Project Aces seems to really hate protagonists ever appearing again in the main story (always some side mode or bonus mode instead.)
Did you guys do a barrel roll at the beginning of mission 5
>>748960992>It didn't have variable geometryIt does, it's not swept back wings like the Tomcat or the Aardvark
>>748966354Those things in mission 15 were Valkyries? I could swear when I played it they did not look anything like the Valkyrie but something among the lines of X-40 prototypes like the Morgan.
>>748966382>>748966410>>748963185>long range spam and multirole supremacyAnd they say AC is not a sim
>>748966008Her? She's not one of Mihaly's granddaughters. His granddaughters are named Ionela and Alma and both have the last name of Shilage.Also, just to muddy the waters a little more, Aces at War 2019 had a short story about Rosa and some girls she knew during her school years, and I'm reasonably sure that either La Chanteuse or M.Stan are the girls from that story.
>>748942987>tfw preordered deluxe version just to scam PA of the Ace-pass voucher, activate it on my account and then refunded the game.Fuck your gay ass BPs Bamcos. I'll buy it again on deep discount.
>>748963902bump anyone
>>748966354except they are no Valkyries
>>748962963Dision, the man, is dead. Dision's dead-copy still exists in the electrosphere. Whether you want to call it alive isn't really relevant, it can control aircraft and has a will of its own.
>>748963902>any cute scenes with tashaNo. I'm clearly not the target demo for her, but even still, she doesn't do much of anything besides argue and cry.
>>748958845for "people" like them project aces made the dogfight mode of assault horizon
>>748966354>>748966958
>>748942987Indeed sister its a massive success
>>748967015Assault mode comes back three times in 8, so everyone wins.
>>748966958>>748967057Damn this thing is even cooler than I thought
I've been with these cunts for 20 missions already and I barely feel any attachement to anyone but Baxter and Jenkins and their characters aren't anything special. Fucking AC7 had like 5 missions with Spare Squadron and Bandog and they still live in my head rent free like a decade after. I fucking hate it man, also the Shadows are lame as fuck and I'm tired of their vocals getting the way of the music.I'm incredibly unimpressed with this game so far, barely any mission has felt "epic" minus the very first Shadows showdown and mission 18. It's basically AC7's second half, painfully stretched out.
>>748964134>>748965108>>748965403Im a Kate enjoyer myself, but there's a dealbreaker, at least for Japan.Tattoo.
>>748967309Excatly this. The nigger squadron playing music (sorry I didnt play ac games before) have more charisma than these faggots.
So when is So when is Dick Drinker getting a bullet? I'm mission 17 and saw that fucking twitter post.
>>748966958>>748967057Damn
Why is Rex a Newtype?
>>748967309the game was missing based retard characters like champ, high roller and full band.
>>748966354B2 chonky.
>>748951167If you're a foid then the protagonist has always been a woman.
>>748967309AC7's LRSSG deciding to attack a city and steal food from them was funny. The AWACS being a fat pig who can only think of his next meal as well.
>>748967834>deciding to attack a city and steal food from them was funnyAnd that, basically, filler mission becomes the final fight against your "nemesis", just cause. AC7 pacing was retarded at its best.
>>748967309People liked ac7 characters lmao? I finished that game and thought nothing about the characters because the whole thing was all over the place, your squadron might as well not existed.
>>748967309ive grown attached to dealer.
>>748967937Just like real life.
>>748967309>Fucking AC7 had like 5 missions with Spare SquadronAnd that's the only characters you had in that game.
>But this chorus is for you, Anon>Can't you hear them calling out from around the Board?
>>748967834>oh yeah we sent prisoners to tyler island like 10 missions ago I wonder how they're doing>the island has been turned into a free for all fortnite map7's shit pacing had its moments
>>748966685eagle bros i dont feel so airspace dominant
>>748966534they were somewhat modified, in game they have sweep wings that go out when they're turning
>>748961842Tasha was already on the ship and she volunteered for the gig because Jesus Christ fuck the Sotoans
Said I unlocked "Aircraft Sets" or something after completing the game and unlocking all the skins too what is that
I know why I dislike online, way too many menus and everything has to have a loading screen.
>>748968368You get an option before missions to set up a plane that's ready to go with all its parts and skins on it alreadyYou get a new tab in the hangar to see themI don't really get it either but whatever
>>748952357Overpay for ps5.
>>748968362>fuck the SotoansYou wouldn't, right...? Rex...?
>>748961842yuktobania and sotoa are rival nations on the same continent.
>>748961496>international law is subjective
>>748968497Does she have any sensation in her legs?
>>748968497If she's good enough for Cope, she's good enough for Cock
OLD
>>748968497>her whole character is just eternally seething cope didnt make her his wife because he was from a hick tribe wheras she was the daughter of genghis khan if he had berkuts
>mission 15 when you don't have a suitable plane unlocked
>>748942987How long until its not broken on linux?
>>748967957>People liked ac7 characters lmao?He's lying, he's part of the shitpost brigade.
>>748968635she's probably like 40-50 years old by 2030 this is also her 4th appearance in an ace combat game. PA must really like her
>>7489429876 or 7 missions in so far. Its ok but the music sucks, all the reviewers saying it was just as good as ever were lying, either kono is washed up or he wasn't present for most of the tracks ive heard so far. story is ok but the cutscenes are borderline too long, graphics are nice and i dont know how i feel about the weighty plane physics yet.I should have been more suspicious of all these secondary game journalists who hopped on the performative hype train after only playing AC7.
>>748967937Well if you were fucking paying attention to the plot you'd know that place was his damn home. Of course he'd show up.
>>748968706I'm pretty sure it's scripted before you can actually shoot them down proper. The chase is mostly about not losing them in the clouds because it's obnoxious trying to find them again.As long as you have a fighter you should be good.
>>748965730rechargeable flares
Shadow 22 was dreadful. Just non stop evasion on top of an endurance mission that had gone on for half an hour at that point. Could never get my guns on fast enough only got a lucky missile when he looped back towards me and was point blank. Moon 11 felt more like an Ace Combat boss with obvious openings whole thing was done in <10 minutes.
>>748963472nevermind, I take it back, the gun reticle still seems bugged like in 7.
>>748968764Some report latest proton hotfix has done away with cloud rendering and mission briefing problems. Ain't the case for me tho, my clouds still choose to not exist below horizon on NVIDIA. And if you're talking about online, who the fuck knows, probably never.
>>748967309I wish our squad was made up by Queen and Vaquero instead of Noise and Tasha. Nothing against Noise but he does FUCK ALL and Tasha's shtick gets old insanely quickly.
>>748969048Damn. I can live without online but I really want to have the game look right.
>>748968787how many children
>>748969126You should (continue) experiment with proton versions, doesn't mean you are as unlucky as I've been. I've seen GE, hotfix, bleeding edge, what the fuck not work for some.
>actually hot women have always been woke codedI welcome our woke overlords.
About fucking time.
>>748968836I know that, but it was extremely underwhelmingly just like the duel and generally the character that was supposed to be your rival top ace. And the point that that was his home and he was a noble was pratically chatter in the mission before so basically not really this big character development.
>>748969390>gets carrier mission
>>748969268Dozens
>>748969390>he bought?>make the next 3 missions carrier only
>>748969390>not carrier-based
>They brought back the retarded Princess from 7>In the same mission where you have to spend 15 minutes fighting the uberAIDS land BattleshipI'm getting real fucking tired of this game lads.
f22 would have been pretty shit at bombing megafloat anyways
>>748969071Not my problem
>>748969640Yeah I like Noise and the rest, everyone has a flavor of autism that I can respectExcept Kate but her being the only adult in the room is a nice bonus (and sex)
>>748969640He starts off so strong putting on music and fangirling over Purple Magic but then the devs forget he's there for 15 missions, I don't fucking get it.
AC7 story>don't heckin fight wars for your country because that's chud coded or some shit>13k max playersAC8 story: sink refugee boats and kill the traitors who help them, some cultures are unapologetically evil and deserve to be treated as such>48k max playershuh i sure wonder why that happened
>>748969731I don't think him moping for the rest of the game after his favourite band gets ACK'D would make for a good time.
>>748969640>exists to have a melty over purple magic dying thus prompting tasha to save him by killing someone>despite having just killed a person tasha doesnt freak out or do literally anything she does not care that she killed someone>still try to make you feel like she does when baxter tells jenkins not to paint a kill count on her planethey were missing like 1 cutscene where she's crying in her room and you go talk to her or some shit
>>748969390not gonna lie, first ace combat game where the f-22 just felt underwhelming. the PAK-FA is just better. haven't gotten the experimental planes yet so i cant say if they fare better
>>748969576Yes, but she's ripping someone I don't like more a new asshole.
>>748969704>only adult in the roomBaxter's the only other adult. He's a real one.
>>748969390This is why you buy F-35
>>748969740>(((They))) are financing the war on both sides so (((they))) can rebuild the wartorn continent in their own imagejesus christ PA calm down bro
>>748969852I dunno, he lays on the whole "I gotta teach them kids" thing a little too thick, sort of has the opposite effect for meI just know he wants to sperg out about plants and physics but the kids won't let him
>>748969805Su57 has always been better, since ac7. It's faster, has the lasers, etc.
>>748969869I will never EVER buy that ugly fuck
Next Ace Combat will have a harem squadron (maybe)
>>748969963He only ever lets loose when its just him and Rex though>Rex when we land on that island lets crack open some cold ones on the beach and look at womenHe's a bro
>>748970058>You play as the new Sotoan ace>You're basically Genghis Khan but with plane>While you do cool ace stuff you also have to raise Strangereal's birth rates singlehandedly
>>748942987You tranny freaks will never succeed in gaslighting anyone into believing AC8 is woke. YWNBAW.
>>748970079I'm not holding it against him, I'm just saying he's more like the rest of the squad with his brand of autismKate just doesn't really have that, though they don't really give her as much to work with
What's the grind like online? How important is the pass for unlocking planes?
>>748970346getting money to unlock planes is easy, pass doesnt matter unless you want morgan
>>748951167The portagonist is a true blank slate. You never see their face and they never talk. Bamco makes it where you can interpret whatever.
>>748969805>first ace combat game where the f-22 just felt underwhelmingYou mean Ace Combat Zero? It's outclassed by the terminator, which you can unlock 15 missions earlier if you play soldier style.
>>748970390grinding level caps for planes isnt easy doe
>>748942987>But.../v/ and twitter antiwoke warriors said that this game will flop massively?Flying jets is awesome and woke. Anyone against aviation is an anti-woke luddite.
I don't care whether you think the game's better or worse than AC7 but can we agree that nothing in this game warranted a dev cycle that long? It's just the same game with a new coat of paint.
>>748952137>only one hit in the archivegrudgeGOD...
>>748970590style doesnt matter for terminator. you get it always after completing diapason.
>>748970624>basically the same roster as 7 with no real standout additions>can only use planes like the morgan in campaign if you unlocked them onlinei got a bad feeling about what scamco is gonna try do, especially with the numbers 8 got
>>748970624>It's just the same game with a new coat of paint.Which is precisely what AC fans want.
>>748970720i want more planes
>>748970624like 80% of the dev time went into the call of duty cutscenes
>nomad>spending hours of his life in a metal coffinLol
>>748970720Yeah, but not once every 7 years.
>>748970817that would be $4.99 per plane
>>748970624I thought they were completely overhauling the fundamental game structure but its the same shit with expensive cutscenes. The OST is also worse which is a pretty big deal for AC if they are just going to rehash the same formula that relies on stellar music to hit.
>>748970058But the planes are right there.
>>748961341>game ends with a cataclysmic attack on the Electrosphere killing everyone connected to it at the time of the attack, plunging Strangereal into a second dark age
>>748970848That's how space nomads workAnd boat nomads like Torres
Just bought this game, why is it so anime?Why is takeoff so easy, why don't I have to fly back and land in a mission
>>748970984It's not a simulator
>>748970912>Everyone who gets uploaded to Electrosphere is denied access to Ace ValhallaThis will be an actual plot point later, screencap this
>>748968706Mirage 2000 with 4AAM does it easily and that's a pretty cheap earlygame plane.
>>748966958>has cute little wings and tail feathersCute birb
>>748942987>antiwoke warriorsDumbest psyop I have seen in this site. Trannies can’t do anything right.
What annoys me the most about this game is how they literally never shut the fuck up on the comms.I can't fathom how nobody playtesting the game didn't bring this up as an issue. They must have played the game on Rookie mode. I'm trying to focus on Ace mode and I have to listen to some fucking bullshit about blue magic band and that annoying little girl Tasha never fucking shuts up. I literally just want to blow shit up and get into intense dogfights. Why do i have listen to this endless bullshit of chatter?
>>748969731He develops severe autism after Purple Magic an heros and starts protecting Tasha like a massive autistic hover-handing simp.
>>748971456Its Ace CombatThe war melodrama and chatter is an essential feature. Not a bug.Go play DCS or something.
>>748971456Welcome to Ace Combat bitch
I love this guy, I wish we could trade him for Tasha.
>>748943282Anime is corny as hell dude, there is barely any difference.
>>748956708For ace combat? Definitely.
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>>748971456This has been how ace combat has been forever. If you don't like the radio chatter you can fuck right off bud
>Real Name: Dision, Abyssal.
>>748971456Playing without HUD is a different experience.
>>748971689Imagine unironically being named Abyssal.
>Real masterminds are a bunch of accelerationist corpozoomers Sounds about right, that's what we're going tgo have to deal with irl in the next few years now that the boomers are croaking. One thing after another.
>picked veteran difficulty cause it's been a while since I played AC>turns out you need to beat the game on elite to unlock aceguess I just wasted 16 hours
>>748971456>>748971513>>748971526>>748971658Radio chatter is in fact a staple for the series, but in this game it feels overdone and even untested to some extent.The most jarring example being Mission 25:during a supposed emotional moment you're being flooded by comms left and right without any chance to take in the drama, all while missile warnings are blaring and some sad music is playingIt just felt poorly directed or at the very least, untested.
>>748945421what a sad website
>>748971726>all the kids at school call you Abby
>>748971864You need to do multiple runs for all medals anyway
>>748952895i’m ashamed to have my racism associated with the sort of niggerbrained retard you are, anon>>748953000>the mission still fails if (you), A. Wyatt Mann, don’t fulfill the objective to save the Girlboss Blackwomanseriously, you fucking pavement apes need to work on your shitposts
Shadow 22 didn't do much for me. But when the usual chanting started coming over the radio and the female vocals came in was awesome.
You should fly the F-18 because because of its stalwart portrayal on independence day. It's Wills Smiths choice of plane.
>Die near the end of a mission>Have to restart at a checkpoint which will give me all my ammo back>Or restart from the beginning and have to sit through 5 minutes of pre-fight setup where everyone's so surprised that a mission goes sideways and you have to do stuffThe struggle
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>>748971986Everflow gets wasted, legit thought they'd use it during Shadow 22's fight desuInstead no, it's for a jobber instead.
>>748971513>>748971526>>748971658I've played every Ace Combat game and it was NEVER this bad. At least in past games the stuff they talked about was relevant to the mission and they kept their comments brief.
>>748972129>A schizophrenic is talkingBut we're a mute protagonist
>>748971934Unlocking all medals isnt an achievement, just Assault Records.
>>748942987>But.../v/ and twitter antiwoke warriors said that this game will flop massively?If anything this game is doing very well as a response to the woke flops of Wolverine and Queers of War, those are the games that belong to you.
>>748972206That's still something that requires one campaign completion
>>748971456Nobody raised an issue with it in testing because that is literally ALWAYS how Ace Combat is. If you don't like it, fuck outta here.
>>748942987>But.../v/ and twitter antiwoke warriors said that this game will flop massivelyWhat are you on about? This game is chud coded
>>748971726still better name than whatever comes out from south america
>Mission 20FINALLY, some fucking KINO.
>>748972469Aurelia is BEST country
>missed basically every single ace spawn on my first playthrough
Considering the Megafloat, besides also acting as a large military/manufacturing base, was what was basically feeding the whole of Sotoa when most land is desert, will all sotoans starve to death now?
>>748972092Only worth it if you're going for an S rank
>>748972568As far as I can tell, they are only enabled after you complete the game. They also seem to only trigger on Veteran and up.
>>748972568They don't spawn on your first play through.
>>748972571Yes and that's a good thing
>>748972571Thought the megafloat was where 99% of Sotoa was living now that their land became an inhospitable desert.
thread themehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yum1LwXb0EQ
i didn't get an answer last threadare the uav funnel special weapons Fun or do you not get enough ammo for them to fly around raping everything
>>748972571I genuinely hope so. This probably the first "nation" completely without any merit or redeeming qualities. Even more so than Belka.
>>748972571I think there were at least two Megafloats, we only blew up one
>>748972735Literally same vibe as these clowns.
>>748972571If God is real, it shall be soAll fucking Sotoans must fucking hang
>>748971456i get it. the game is extremely silly, but you get used to it.like as the guy who literally is carrying everyone hard i would dearly love to just say can you cut it out with the music im trying to focus on my attack run, and i really wish Joker 3 would have fired missiles sooner, it's a doggy dog world up there and I could die anytime from some stray hit
>>748972593S ranking is not worth the effort while going through the story for the first time anyway, I'll S rank it on a second playthrough with a maxed out F22 with like 3k top speed or something
>>748972571Not my problem they shouldn't have invaded us
>>748971456You need to say this is your first AC bro all of them are like that, 5 is extremely cringe with it.
>>748972739>Belka>redeeming qualitiesAnon, they literally dedicated their top brass and whole existence to feeding conflict globally because of 1995.
>>748972735God it's so fucking goodWhoever came up with the idea to give the Shadows this theme deserves a raise
>>748972739>get fucked over and jewed so hard by ((((Osean businessmen)))) that part of your country secedes due to the economic damage they've inflicted>wtf how dare the Belkans feel slighted as a nation and the people want revenge and elect a government to do just that95% of the problems in Strangereal lead directly back to Osea.
>>748972643>>748972649Damn, I'm not as much of a retard as I thought.
>>748970984>why is it so anime?because is it quite literally an anime series that has a history of using actual anime for cutscenes while constantly hiring anime writers. its weird that it isn't more anime.>Why is takeoff so easyits an arcade game, also you're being catapulted off a ship so its basically automated in the first few missions>why don't I have to fly back and land in a missiondunno about the later missions, sometimes you do in other AC games.
>>748972993I've been first try S-ranking every mission (currently on mission 10) with the started planes on Elite. I'm a fucking AC vet tho
>>748973245>its an arcade game, also you're being catapulted off a ship so its basically automated in the first few missionsEven when you're taking off from land, takeoff is still just literally hold down the throttle, you don't even need to touch the stick.But that's mostly fine since AC isn't trying to be a sim.
>>748970079Quite a few lines in the game make more sense if we assume Rex is also on the older side. Baxter is just happy to have a fellow boomerbro.
>>748970984>Why is it so animeBecause it's an arcade-y action game and not a simulator>Why is takeoff so easyBecause it's an arcade-y action game and not a simulator>Why don't I have to fly back and land in a missionBecause it's an arcade-y action game and not a simulator (many missions do have landing sections)Ace Combat is about as accurate to being a flight simulator as Devil May Cry is to real life fighting. It's all about getting the player into the action as an over the top war hero to tell a story about how war is awful while letting you do cool shit because fighter jets are some of the coolest shit humanity has ever created
post more tasha
>>748968801Bamco is paying literally everyone to play the game. All streamers I've watched to see what thry think say Bamco gace it to them for free. These people don't know what Ace Combat is and they're chasing mainstream appeal slowly unlike Assault Horrizon where it was 0 to 100.
Only thing missing is giving the planes hands so they can punch each other.
>>748958825>objective>LEVEL TORONTO
>>748973484They want to turn AC into their call of duty. That was the aim with AC online at least.
Don't plan on buying 8 but how do you pull this maneuver in 7?https://x.com/ApriliaBelka/status/2105342597195796905?s=20
>>748973606
She has a nice voice.
>>748973705just be urself (belkan)
>>748967373CUM ON THE BEE
Game needed more playable planes and just a couple more futuristic SP Weapons.Thematically I get it, but there's been a bunch of originals that have been around for a decade or more in Strangereal by the time the game takes place.
>>748973867>Oh shit, I left the oven on
>>748969805The $1,000,000 one is a bit of a meme, the drones are nice when you get a good angle but can be easily juked, the railgun is only really useful on VERY hard targets.Handles great tho.
>>748974075I kinda wish I grabbed the Game instead
>>748973867that should have killed the pilot or knocked her unconscious.
>>748974243It's russian the pilot is probably already drunk.
>clouds in front of skyscrapersWtf why...
>>748957605>gifThe English dub made it better.
