>heavy propaganda and false hero themes>enemies are nomadic people that talk about going to the promised land and raid other nationsAre you fighting against Israel in the new Ace Combat, anon?
>>748950678Israel has a right to defend itself.
Israel has the right get droned to death by a $200 toy drone
>*saves you're dying franchise*
>>748950752So true, all these civilians and children pose a grave threat to the weak tiny nation of Israel. Don't forget that every Palestinian school and hospital is actually housing a secret Holocaust project and all humanitarian aid convoys are carrying materials required for construction of nuclear missiles!
>>748950839>ace combat>dyinglol
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.
>>748950752It doesn’t actually, it’s a satanic Indian-coded country
>>748951216Shut the fuck up, tendiejeet
>>748951216it's more likely it'll just let you select your gender since it doesn't matter outside of having to record a female version of dialoguethey'll never show your protagonist
>>748950839>bait gamers into buying you game with hot teen girl>of course she's not the MC's love interst you pedo groomer chud!!!>you get the old hag with the forehead instead>old hag becomes MCs wingman>1st thing she says is how much you remind her of her ex>*saves you're dying franchise* ?
>>748950678>ExpectedValvrave + Victory Gundam>GotValvrave + Zeta Gundam
>>748951286>they're not going fully woke>only half woke>relax and let leftist destroy your gamekys
>>748951357This again? Shouldn't you be crying that Ace Combat "went woke" because there's a black pilot and woman pilot?
>>748951216but will it be a nigger?
>>748951356>valverapeDoes Tasha force herself onto the MC?Buying the game ASAP
>>748951319>bait gamers into buyingthis is all bamco needs to dono refunds
>>748951437No but Cope puts himself in the MC.
>>748950839you are dying, franchise
>>748950752he thinks israel is real
>>748951468:(
>>748950752Israel has a right to be razed to the ground and depopulated
Woke trash
>>748951509you're*
>We Won Easily >We Won >It Was Tougher Than Expected But We Won >We Definitely Won >In The End, We Won >Many Say We Won >You Could Say We Won >I Think We Won >Did We Win? It's Hard To Say >Winning Isn't The Only Thing That's Important >We Have Other Things To Do >Is Erusael Safe? That's What Matters >It Could Have Been Worse >We'll See If The Sotoans Accept It
>>748950678Sotoa is Iran, /pol/tard
>>748950678Why dont these games have a skirmish mode or something where you fight endless waves of enemies?
>>748952827Project wingman has conquest mode
Came back to have a look at this place after over a decade away>clanker training captcha>people unironically using the word 'Woke' like it's still 2016>thinking it matters if a video game has a black or female characterTake it from someone who was knee deep in this fucking cesspool before you even had internet access. Leave. It'll do you good.Closing this tab and not checking any (You)'sGoodbye forever you miserable stupid faggots
>>748953398kek keep seething
>>748950678god i lovew omen so much
>>748951216The last game from this franchise I played was on PS1 lol, crazy to see how it's turned into a vehicle for propaganda slop
>>748950839BUILT FOR COSTER
>>748953750some retard on /v/ making shit up means the game's threads became a vehicle for propaganda, not the actual game
>>748950678>>enemies are nomadic people that talk about going to the promised land and raid other nationsOh shit, they doing Manifest Destiny and the American Empire?
>>748954156That usea
>>748954138coster is built for purple magic though
i always thought sotoa was turkey
>>748954473purple who? :^)
>>748951216>current game has a faceless protagonist possessed by a man voiced by the manliest voice on the planet>>YEP it's going to be a foid in the next game
>>748950839Her voice in the hangar makes her sound like a hick
Sotoa is Mongolia and land battleship is horse archery
>>748954823First thing I thought when I saw pics of her being posted was "I wonder what kind of 4Kids cartoon ass voice she'll have that'll instakill my boner"
>>748951216I don't see what the problem is, there's been plenty of women aces in the series. Yellow 4 and Nagase spring to mind.
>>748954960>choose the shitty dub>surprised it's shit
Ghost of Kyiv was killed a couple of days ago
>>748954679>your boss is THE sheboon debra wilson the poster diversity hire that every woke AAA western game company uses>main ACE antagonist is a disabled old hag who got that way by being shot down by another strong independent female pilot>uses literal waifu bate with a hot teen girl and then gives it to the submissive white male wingman instead of the MC>obviously shoed in anticlimactic last mission to make debra wilson save the day cuz bossing the protagonist around the entire game wasn't good enough >devs probably got a call from their jewish investors to add in that last mission to fulfill their quotayeah the next games protagonist is gonna be a foid.and every tranny from /vg/ will be defending it with this game.
>>748955062>the best ukrainian pilots can't even kill a fucking MiGSomebody nuke this sorry excuse of a country already
>>748955094>literal waifu bate/pol/'s smartest soldier
>>748956605>no counterargument>attacks a spelling mistake insteadgo back to /vg/ newbieyou're gonna keep getting raped here
Not only she has a pink fringe and shaved sides but also she cut her own fringe intentionally crooked.Guys just don't. Run away as far as you can. At the absolute most have a drunk one night stand and cut communications.
Is there any sort of strategy to getting upgrade materials/parts in Online or is it just praying on lootboxes?I have a couple of planes I like in singleplayer that I'm planning on getting but I also need to decide on a PSM jet to get and upgrade.
>>748957357just grind zoll to buy them basically
>>748957490Where can I buy upgrade BPs for specific planes?
>>748957534It's in the store, 1k zoll each. I think it's the last tab but I can't tell you off the top of my head.
>>748955062Lol redditors are such faggots its crazy.
Is the multiplayer alone worth it, or is it just repetitive slop and the only way to play is full thrust all the time?
>>748958160Absolutely not worth it alone, Ace Combat is a single player game first and foremost, any multiplayer is just a bonus at best and more often an afterthought
>>748958160I've only stuck my toes into the multiplayer and while fun it's all fucked up.The matches don't even last ten minutes long, they feel really unsatisfying.
>>748958160Repetitive but they also put a lot of effort into it at the same time, I think it could be expanded to include more missions desu
>>748957534Go to the plane's page in the hangar, there's a button for upgrades, then a button for a store page where you get blueprints for zollars
Give me a quick rundown on AC8
>>748950678This series has been gay, anime adjacent retard stuff carried by fun gameplay but man, I just couldn't ignore it this time. The horrendous writing, the "cutesy" battle banter, the overall message of, "when good guys do propaganda, it's good. When bad guys do propaganda, it's bad."It just felt like a nail in the coffin for me.
>>748959229(((Anaheim Electronics))) at it again.>>748959945>I hate animeYeah ok bro feel free to leave this anime & manga website at any time
>>748959229WOAAAHH WOOH WHOAA WHOO WHOOOAOOH
>>748959981HEY
>>748959229>Israel attacks USA after they fuck up their own country>individual states declare independence>ghost of kyiv gets shot down. You get his nametag and impersonate him for propaganda reasons>propaganda is being pushed handled by a shady crypto bro working at Amazon which is now a DAO>BOOM BOOM ZOOOM BOOOM>turns out war is being orchestrated behind the scenes by Amazon>A faction inside Amazon wants to destroy USA so they can build NWO and abolish national countries>goyim fight back. With the help from Ghost of Kyiv they push out Israel[/spoilerI didn't finish the game yet but more or less that's the story
I don't really know what to feel about this game. I'm only halfway through the game so far and if I remember all the stuff they were saying to hype the game up, I feel like it's only just a bit better than AC7.I enjoyed AC7 and I'm also enjoying AC8, but I was expecting the best thing since sliced bread with all of their shilling, and eh this aint it. it just feels like AC7 again with some less incoherent storytelling
>>748950752Israel also has a right to rape american children
>>748960353>Want to meet up? I'm 15This is not rape and that is not a child, tard
How the fuck are you supposed to unlock scrambles and emergency sorties.
>>748960738RNG
The English voice acting is so badHow come niggas picked up off the streets by Namco ADR directors 26 years ago sounded better?
>>748960935see >>748955038
>>748961154That doesn't answer my question
I'm already to mission 20 and the perfidious Belkans haven't revealed themselves. I'm starting to get worried the franchise has lost its way.
>>748951216Oh nooo, my faceless bloodthirsty genocidal psycho might have tits! Literally unplayable
>>748962576honestly I would've been fine if they had kept the gender of all the protagonists up until now ambiguous, it wouldn't really have changed anything
I miss her
>>748962726What difference does it make
>>748963073imagine the sexual tension with Pixy in Zero if Cipher was a girl
>>748951319Thanks for the warning, I almost fell for the scam.
>>748962860She's on her way
>>748962860She joined General Resource in 2030 when she was nine years old. She's probably already a pilot, but she doesn't start piloting the Night Raven until 2032
>mission 15What the fuck is this bullshit, who the fuck designed this?Aside from the obvious of aiming ahead of them how do you deal with the fact they have retarded levels of health and spam excessive amounts of missiles at you?
>>748958160Absolutely not. The MP is extremely barebones with barely any interesting game modes. You have classic team deathmatch, a pve mode where 2 teams compete for higher scores and another pve mode where 2 teams compete for higher scores but you can also attack the opposing team. On top of that you have 2 special modes that are entirely RNG gated so you can go 10 matches without them triggering. It's kinda ass to be honest.Also they really need to rework the entire menu navigation because doing anything is complete fucking aids with how long everything takes. No idea who thought that this shit was good and shipped it like that.
>>748960738There's a chance to trigger one of them after every completed match basically so you just keep grinding and hope they trigger. It's retarded, especially when they put objectives like "do x scrambles" in the weekly quests.
>>7489647184AAM and dodge
>>748964718I just got up real close behind them spamming missiles (STD+the high impact ones) along with the component that fires the MG when the target is in the reticle. I used a SU-47 btw.
>>748966458Guess I gotta grind
>>748965804lmao, that aged well
>>748950678>>748950839i look like this
i feel like really early in the game's development, (you) were able to freely walk around parts of the endurance in between certain missions
just finished AC8 a few hours ago and the 28th mission had me all hyped up. last time i felt this feeling was when chopper died in AC5 and the enemies getting scared after you and your entire squad started going ape shit on them
>>748967473Definitely feels like it. They laserscanned the interior of the Hornet(the Essex class one) only to actually use anything other than the hangar in like 3 cutscenes.
This is my first Ace Combat game but the F-2A is carrying me so far. I like that plane.
>>748968136get the fa-18 with the SOD as soon as you can. lots of air to ground annihilation missions during the tail end of the game.
>>748950678>Everything is Israel/Palestinei am so tired of everything being this issue
>>748951216the next game will be the electrosphere remake DUMBASS, and yes, the main story character is a woman while (you) just follow her around.
>>748950839>*saves gaming*ftfy
>>748965804>russia literally doesnt have any t90's left because they all got blown up by drones or ukranian missileslmao
>>748968732>Choose a craft :)
I'm getting filtered by the land battleship mission.... the machine gun spam is too much..
>>748970206BombsF-14D with guided bombs in particular saved my ass more than once against landships
>>748968982Sexcraft?
>>748955062>using army formation name (brigade) for air force formationsCringe. Call it a Wing
>>748970206Just fly between the tracks nigga
>>748950678No. You play as Ukraine fighting against Russia. Was the "ghost of Theve" stuff not obvious enough?
>>748957357>playing Online
>>748955153They were the ones flying MiG's.>>748958051Off yourself Russian tranny
>>748970206>drop bombs once>AA gets taken downIt's just that shrimple.
>>748964718Multilockers and a fast plane with speed upgradesGet on their ass, fire everything you can when they slow down for the turn
>>748955062The Ghost himself is still alive. That was just one of the wingmen in his squadron. A true hero nonetheless
>>748964718Use your machine gun and a fast-ass plane, bro.
>>748972662>>748966458>>748965717Managed to do it by swapping to 6AAM + QAAM instead of just 6AAM only, being able to chain 3 volleys at once is better than more ammo.Oh and the autofire part for the gun.The mission right after is bullshit too but that only took a couple tries
>>748965804Do you know that Russia has T-I-G-E-R-S?
M30 was such a fucking asspull and the fight wasn't even goodWhat the fuck were they thinking
Why can't AC8 play like this?
>>748973404You can. Cockpit view with the FOV 0 mod.
>>748973404being a wso pilot is the equivalent to being in the cuck chair
>>748967473I guess there was nothing to do in there and it got super boring so they cut it
>>748973404Because it's a good game, unlike trannyfield
https://youtu.be/ErQsQbtz03gac8 doesn't have it, the music of ac7 mogs this game sadly
>>748965804russia is the only developed (if you can call it that) country in the world whose people openly celebrate military conquest as something great, to be desired, and to be proud of. It's not putin. It's in their blood. And as long as this cancer will be allowed to exist, they will do just that, they will work 12 hour shifts in factory making more munitions in a month than the west cucks can make in a year. And they will be proud and happy that they are helping their "country" murder, rape and destroy other nations.
>Read the enemy names>Kareem, Ishaq, and other Arabian namesIs the enemy nation supposed to represent Saudi Arabia or what?
>OUUHOOOO LOOK IM HEER GIVE ME ATTENTION INSTEAD
>>748973404BF6 jets feel too slow
the misssion where you were supposed to defend the island against what was supposed to be a thousand bogeys was cool but imagine if PA reintroduced the same morality system from AC0 and we had the option of killing/sparing the aces we met throughout the campaigndo a run where you just kill everyone then the 28th mission comes and you really have to kill a thousand bogies
>>748973985but if you read the shadows names in the assault records theres also a lot of russian sounding namesits like notTurkeyRussMongolia or something
>>748973404I think BF is generally shit and love AC but I think the air combat in BF has often been better than the raw mechanics in AC, the control scheme for it is also better in the BF games. AC still doesn't feel like it has real physics.
>>748970332>>748972646I did it. Just did strafing bombing runs got the job done.>>748972202You can't do that. Don't lie to me
>>748974656>the only allies you get are the old schizo geezers>after 100 kills they're the first to die>after 300 kills, tanya dies>after 500 kills, coster dies>after 700 kills, the base is destroyed>you inevitably run out of ammo and die>roll credits
I have money, love the series but I am still on the fence regarding buying it. I found 7 to be kinda mid and as time went on I genuinely hated it for being ace combat for zoomers. Now I honestly have no idea what 8 is.
>>748951216>>748951401>The next games protagonist is going to be a woman.>but will it be a nigger?So it is her. What is gonna be her callsign?
Ugh, this game doesn't have Trump literally building a wall around the FCU and deporting Sotoans, this game is so woke. Woke woke woke. There are even female characters. Us based chuds reject all females. It's woke.
>>748975051>>748974656Go all in with Rex being an unbelievable propaganda piece made real.Even if everyone else dies and the FCU falls, the ending should imply that Rex is still somewhere up there, killing Sotoans while having schizo delusions.
>>748975335Bigeyes.
>>748975335she already has a callsign and it's gambler
>>748951216There's actually dozens of female pilots over the series. This isn't an issue.
>>748975335>did you know... there are three kinds of aces?>those who seek strength>those who live for pride>and those who are easy to work with
>>748953398>unironically using the word 'Woke'If anything 2016 was the time you could bring this up. 2026 is when everything is actually disgustingly woke and it is not even funny anymore.
Do people really crash that often or are they that sweaty that they alt+f4 PvE matches? It wouldn't be that bad if you at the very least got into matches more often
xdd
>>748975825I wasn't prepared for how brick shit slow these unleveled multiple and attackers were. Haven't quit a match though.
>>748975918>no 4k support>no achievements
>>748950678Today I learned this game is in the same continuity as shit like Galaga and Dig Dug and I dont know how to feel about that
>>748953398You're so full of shit lmao
>>748964718I have beaten that mission with the F/A-18C hornet, the first fucking plane in the game. You need go-fast parts and to be gud at aiming machine guns. The planes basically move in straight lines and wide curves, you cannot miss.
>>748976001>4k supportIt's a ps2 game
>>748964718Best fucking plane in the game, shame its an enemy-only.
>>748953398reddit spacing troon melty
>>748976091Ridge Racer too.
>>748968493Kid, before that it was everything was Russia/Ukraine. Hell it wasn't even that long ago
>>748976001It does have 4K support. Change this from right clicking acz.exe and going into properties.
>748953398
I crashed way too many times into that damn space elevator, dodging railguns is a pain.
>newfag that started with 7>play 0>high g turns are gone>shot down mission oneI'M A FUCKING FRAUD
>>748951319And let me guess, the ex was a nigger?
wake me up when they do a WW2 setting
>>748976382Going back to 0 the first mission I failed was the score attack in the mountains, those AA ramparts feel like they don't really indicate when they are actually blasting you. Its noticeable in newer games with the black smoke clouds to not fly into but genuinely felt like I was just taking damage from being near them in 0
>>748976208Those aren't XB-70s
>Strangereal tech has created Stonehenge, Arsenal Birds, and now motherfucking Land Battleships>Planes are still the same tech as our world'sAlways kind of funny.
>>748976505Its why jets are given to fresh 18 year olds as birthday presents, comes off the factory line in the thousands
>>748976398No, the guy you're replacing on the squad is not!Tom Cruise and the black guy on the squad dies, again
>go to the space elevator>they explain that it's now some kind of "autonomous zone" for refugees>ui insists on calling rosa "rosie">the enemies in the mission call you a globalist when you shoot them downdid that bit feel kinda weird to anyone else
>>748950678Im only fighting buddy
>>748976505who needs planes when a land battleship can 3d print drones that rape you
>>748976001Does it not have achievements? That's weird the PS5 version has trophies.
>>748976381Barrel roll hard counters rail guns.
Rough relentless bed breaking sex with Tasha and Kate
>makes retarded nanoraaa noises>S ranks every mission on the first attempt
>>748976719>Story mode/rookie
>>748976778just like me fr fr
>>748976778I see you aren't familiar with the power of japanese autism.
>>748975242sadly it's more of the same. i'll still have fun, but i really wanted something groundbreaking.
>>748950839Why do people constantly do this sort of thing? No attractive woman will ever be talented at anything because they don't have to be. Even pop stars mostly sell themselves on their looks
>>748950839>Came for Tasha>stayed for Kate
>>748976660I know, I just miss the timing. Got better at it by the end of last game.
>hope we’ll finally get to be SpAce Combat again when they say the Sotiggers are launching shit into space>blueballed>nepobaby man gets to shoot lasers in space at enemy satellites tooIt literally isn’t fair. 1000 more Sotigger pilots need to die for this offense.
>>748976505Rockets are too, launching falcon heavy clone to rearm spears or a shuttle.
>>748976589>they explain that it's now some kind of "autonomous zone" for refugeesThat was a thing at the end of 7, bozo.
>>748976589Space elevator was globalist thing from the start. Bringing nations together and ending wars.
>>748976880>No attractive woman will ever be talented at anything because they don't have to bePlenty of top-level female athletes are also good looking.And yes, they aren't as good as the men but that's because women are obviously inherently worse at sports, they still have to work pretty damn hard to reach the elite female level.
>>748976880I don't know about you but I'd rather have an attractive jailbait cutesy bimbo wingman who can hold her own and constantly talks about how great I am than some "realistic" ugly woman.
>>748976880honestly it might be important to put things into perspective. are the best males better than females at this thing? probably, sure.the thing is despite being female she is still something that i, a male, am not, so that should count for something
>>748976869She plays on pilot, I thought the game was too easy on veteran already.
>emergency sortie>Alicorn raid with 2 bar of ping
>>748973985It's some kind of weird mishmash of fantasy Mongolia/Native America from what I've seen.
Cope really didn't down a single plane in his entire career? Literally how.
>>748973404Assault Horizon was kinda like this
>>748976382lol, lmao even
>>748977558He didn't want to.
>>748977558not everyone is cut out for war. im surprised he was even willing to fly at all.honestly the player character was written strangely as well. you dont usually walk away from helicopter crashes at all. and that guy survives like two of them
>>748977558He was busy coping
Feels good having a 5090 to play this
>>748973985mongolia. them being nomads and the yurts were a dead give away won't be surprised if they were supposed to do mongolian throat singing instead of the humming whenever lun lunae was going to appear
>>748977558He played the role as bait. Everyone wanted to shoot him down, not just to deboonk the wings of theve meme but also because he's so fucking slippery that the best pilot in the squad couldn't nail him after several tries. Since everyone was after him, Queen squad and the rest of Joker could do the objectives.
>>748977558He didn't want to, the reason he lasted as long as he did is because he was good at getting away.>>748977714Mute psychos have special powers in Strangereal.
>Tally 1000 banditsHoly shit this is going to be awes->BOMBERS EVERYWHEREGODDAMN FUCKING SHIT WHYjust let me dogfight with 6 gorillion planes in peace
>>748977813HDR is fucking amazing in this game too
In all seriousness, what the FUCK was his problem???
>>748977862You get Shadow 22 and his squad with infinite flares and you WILL like it
>>748977558He just aurafarmed the entire time
>>748977714Rex is like genuinely a psychopath built for violence.
ok so i guess the next question is when does Tasha take off her shoes and socks. or maybe Kate.
I WANT TO FLY THE PLANE BUT I DONT WANT TO SPENT 70 BUCKS
>bexter changes his clothes >still look as suspicious as before
>outnumber a mentally ill man 1000:1>still loseSotoa is quite possibly the most pathetic “”””nation””” in all of Strangereal.
>>748978074Orban lost
>>748976505B*lk* made planes so cheap oseans give one to their kids when they're 16
>>748978074You're a troon obsessed with being a woman and projecting your mental illness.
>>748978074<< yikes! >>
>>748977813>tfw my 9070xt can only do 60 on high settings at 4k
>>748975928Could've fooled me, I have to sortie like 3-4 times before I actually get to play a full match
>>748978086That shit had me dying. Worst scene in the entire AC franchise, felt like 4 hours when it was actually only like 6 minutes or something.
>>748978074You posted this already, schizo
>>748950839I'm on like Mission 22 so far and unfortunately she just still hasn't grown on to me. Like, I have no idea WHO she is really because the game never lets us spend time with her. We got the black dude's bailout and sneaking through the forest with him, we got Coster and his music obsession but the game just does not do anything with Tasha which SUCKS man. Like for fucks sake, stop hovering around Coster and interact with REX (ME) GODDAMMIT
>>748978086>"Act natural">said 7 feet away from enemy
>>748977918>super ace rex almost taken out by a fucking sheep
>>748978158Fucking how? I had to drop to medium at 1440p on my 9070xt and the game still dips to 50fps frequently.
>>748950678>/v/ likes woke pink hairs nowall axewound trannies
>>748978297He's good in the skies
>>748976589>ui insists on calling rosa "rosie"that's from the Aces at War 2019 book, she goes by Rosie Fellucini (might've got the spelling wrong) in that.during her school years, since her family was a commoner family before the previous king died and her father as the king's cousin ascended to the throne. She severs her royal ties after 7 and goes back to her old name.
CAN SOMEONE JUST TELL ME IF THE STORY AND CHARACTERS ARE GOOD
>>748978158Game is fucking brutal desu. My 5090 on 4K Ultra balanced dlss is getting 70-100 fps
>>748978301i have FSR turned on to quality mode maybe? yesterday i had FSR turned on to balanced and it doubled my average fps
>>748978389Story is alright, characters were somehow not expanded enough upon despite having 30 missions worth of cutscenes to use. Coster and Baxter are decent folk, Tasha is just there to do a loop.Sounds like they want to sell a DLC in future to maybe flesh them out more.
>>748978389I dont know bro, you tell me
>>748978389The story sits right on the threshold between good and bad. The wingmen have that really jank "Japanese writer trying to mimic westerners" vibe that some can't stand, but it's the first time in an AC game where I've felt bad for them when shit happens so it has that going for it.
>>748977906oh shitthats whats needed for my ace playthrough, to turn HDR on
>>748978484Because they expect you to run DLSS. Devs don't optimize shit anymore.
>>748978539I liked what they were going for with Tasha with them wanting to keep her hands clean.
>>748978530>FSROh hell no, I don't play with fake pixels. I have the resolution set to native. Even at native 1440p the game has a shitload of ghosting and shimmering thanks to gaytracing.
>>748978297He’s an autistic fish out of water if he’s not in a pilot’s seat.>needs to focus to shake someone’s hand while the guy stands there staring at him for 30 seconds before he gets his shit together >needs to focus to awkwardly pick up a tablet
>>748978389It's Ace Combat so it's cringekino
Fort Grays Island just broadcasted that Coster had sex with all of Purple Magic except the bassist…
>>748978389It's ace combat, but it's not disjointed mess like ac7. I think that's enough to sell this game for any ac fan.
is there a strategy to actually fighting that bird with the shield UAVs or is it just wait for a opening and snipe it i think I just facetanked the shields and just went in and missiled most of the time
Did the writers just forget Coster exists half the time? From the start I thought he was gonna be the quiet guy who eventually opens up and reveals his feelings but he just becomes even quieter halfway through the game. The only times he talks is if someone brings up music or if Tasha is being retarded and he has to save her.
>>748978389Anime Top Gun with a hint of Metal Gear Solid
there was a cutscene where rex was handed a tablet by another person but when we got it it was upside downi don't know whether it was a bug or what but it was really funny
>>748978724Just fly above them and dive back toward the plane.
>>748978724You can shoot the drones generating the shields with guns but they're hard to hit.
>>748977050>they still have to work pretty damn hardWorking hard is a big lie. When you have talent and get positive feedback it is hard not to work hard.
>>748978724Fly above it and drop a UGB on it
Are you guys also S ranking every mission on Elite? I've first try S ranked the first 11 missions so far
>>748978786Kek that must have been a bug. He picks it up upside down but the image on it is supposed to auto rotate.
>>748978389Story is decent. Not as good as 4, 5, 0. But solid. Pretty much B Tier (AC6, AC7)Characters..... a little lacking. They're fine, but honestly I'll probably forget about them after a while because they're not THAT memorable compared to Zero's Pixy or 5's Razgriz crew. Professor is basically your second-in-command, while the other two can't stop doing shit in the background which sucks because I want to like Tasha but she basically couldn't care less about (You) and just follows Coster everywhere.>HOLY TRINITY TIERAC4AC5AC0>B TIER (but still solid)AC6>>AC8AC7
>>748950678>mission 24>fly into the turntable>everyone on both sides going the fuck was thatKINOOOOOOO
>>748978628It is decent enough even if it's shit gameplay wise for awhile. For an ace playthrough i'm putting her in a E/A-18One thing I never picked up on is they show Shadow 22's fuck you move as a hint before the fight and I still got bodied by that prick doing it for 15 minutes.
>>748978876No because I fly like an impatient retard and crash into things and lose my patience and don’t want to restart from the beginning.
>>748950678I will buy her game ONLY if its soundtrack is as good as Electrosphere, im tired of uncslop rock shit from the previous game
>I'm tiredI was worried Cope "died" there.Also 2 missions almost back to back of Kono baiting me about killing the best girl got me crazy, fucking hell that was stressful. I like Kate a lot bros. That's enough ace combating for today. I fucking hope Kate doesn't die at the end, after everything that happened to her it would be too awful. Can't stay too long in spoiler threads so bye. Game has been fantastic overall, I only think the ost is not exactly on the level of 7's, and maybe some of the missions needed a bit more to them, there's a lot of flying in loops waiting for targets to pop up. Maybe the game could have used some more elite squads that aren't the Shadows. There's been one incredible boss fight but the battleship ones got a bit old by the 3rd time.
>>748978952>do it again>Tasha spergs out and begs you to stop doing it
I can't beat Pixy bros. How do I beat him?
>>748978876yep, S ranked every mission for a while on elite, till eventually I didn't, good luck
>>748978952>see a tunnel>fly through itSimple as that.
>>748979032Keep shooting him until his plane explodes.
>>748979032fly away and bait him to face you head on, shoot missiles at him at the last possible moment when you're about to kiss head-onassuming you're in the last phase, if you're struggling with phase 1 and 2 thats a you problem
>>748979071He's beating me
>>748978732Basically, yeah. The Joker squad fucking sucks balls and is basically Baxter and Ray.
>play coop warfare>insta explode when spawningwelp it was a good run until thirdies ran in
>>748974798>the arcade jap 80s wacky dead stop in mid air flying through tunnels game doesnt feel like it has real physicsno..
>>748979087Which part?With the burst missiles?
>>748978876im on Elite but i dont bother S ranking anything. ill do that on the second playthrough.
>F-22 is considered one of the highest tech planes we have out there>it's only air to air kills IRL is weather balloonsprobably did a ton of bombing runs though
>>748976254>Kid,Everything was Russia/Ukraine for all of maybe a year, if even that, it has been several years of I/P on all sides forever, about EVERYTHING in life, it permeates EVERYTHING.
I just finished mission 5 and so far, I'm completely overwhelmed by what's happening around me, it's all very confusing and I don't know how much of it is translation jank, bad writing or just me not paying enough attention.>Cope was apparently some giga legendary ace (which he himself denies) without shooting down a single enemy? Who is he supposed to be? Why is he important then?>What's the point of introducing this Cope character if the instantly dies?>Why is he now in my head, talking to me like an edgy anime character? Is this just PTSD or is there something supernatural going on? Who the fuck is this guy?>Do people not realize how intimate and personal life on a ship is? Do you expect me to believe that me, the protagonist, can just assume the role of The Wings Of Theve while keeping the death of Cope a secret and nobody would notice? People know him, they've talked to him.>Which nation do I and the people around me belong to? Is this carrier all that is left of our people? Are we all part of the FCU?>What the fuck is Sotoa?>Why is Tasha claming to not have a single kill when I can literally see her shooting down enemies?>Who the fuck is this TikTok-addicted retard and why does he have any say in any of the operations? Who put him in charge? Is he the modern version of a propaganda officer?>Why does the voice in my head keep going on about random numbers? "Look out for 900" like what the fuck are you saying, man? Am I playing as a mentally ill character?>Why is the voice acting so much worse than the previous games? Everyone reminds me of that that one Breaking Bad VA meme.The gameplay is great and just what I expected basically so I'm still having lots of fun but this is the most disjointed and confusing writing I have seen in an AC game in quite some time. It does a terrible job at establishing some sort of baseline that roots me in the story. I don't even know what I'm fighting for because I have no idea who I'm supposed to be.
>>748978389>CharactersExtremely mediocre. Baxter is alright but very safe, Tasha, Coster and Jenkins barely fucking exist. Debra Wilson is boring as fuck and sadly the one you'll be hearing yap the most. D.D. is fine, most noteworthy """main""" character by far. >StoryBoooooooooooring as fuck, starts off strong but quickly flatlines into doing fuckall interesting for like 15 missions in a row, it's an actual drag.
Coster having a breakdown listening to his heroes fucking die over the radio a few hundred miles away on top of the ground forces he's too inept to save kinda hurt.
>>748978952>fly into the turntable asap>everyone is too distracted to notice>fine, I'll do it again>NOW everyone sees me do it and reacts
>>748978952>even Cope berates you for it
>>748978389I don't see anything wrong with characters or story, it's pretty damn good except for the XO, who is you know who and it's really ridiculous.
>>748950839>danger hairYIKES
>>748979379There was literally nothing wrong with her voice acting in 8.
>>748979237F 22 in modern wars is just not needed.
>try scramble>it's the most boring mode you can possibly playcool
>>748979237It is the supreme champion of dogfighting. Dogfighting has not been relevant in a US war in decades. And it's not something we can sell to other countries that have had a few skirmishes since it's so advanced.
>>748979414A black woman can't be XO.
>>748979379>>748979508She's just really easy to work with from what I heard.
>>748979286>Cope actually isnt really that good or important. but the illusion that he is helps the war effort a lot>you take over instantly because the Wings of Theve is a symbol that makes the war seem winnable>yeah that one is weird, i dont remember any other AC have this ghost talking in my head shit. i'd prefer to do all my self-talking myself>yeah bad writing>honestly not that important>not that important either, they explain in like 30 secs>bad writing>boomer japanese writers trying to write for zoomers>just some hyper sci-fi MKUltra shit. im surprised they didnt have a Mason character that you could ask the numbers about>shrug, the VA is passable i guess
>>748960353that's a subhuman r*ssoid m*skal thougheverbeit
>>748979508Why not? XOs are just glorified HR managers. The CO makes all the important decisions, the XO just handles the day-to-day stuff like assigning shifts(sorties).
>>748979379>>748979414>>748979508>>748979564what if I play in japanese like I always do
>>748979295as an AC veteran it was very cringeworthy.>relax retard this is a war not a fucking walk in the park, we arent gonna be able to save everyone even in a japanese anime war
>>748979508Yeah and cannons from battleships have a range of about 27 miles yet here we are worried about a 400 mile radius.
>>748979625Constantly having to read subtitles while flying in order to understand what's going on can get really tiring.
>>748979438Scramble seems to only exist for the purpose of getting blueprints and nothing else. They could spruce it up by adding a fucking "ace" plane or two as a bonus for the person who shot it down.
>the final push is just 3 plain groundpound missions in a rowWell that was anticlimactic.
>>748979682But what if I understand Japanese, like I do?
>>748979580glad it wasn't just me, i thought i was getting senile
>>748979672>gamer doesn't understand why relative nugget feels bad
>>748979682huh i can easily do that, do you guys just not play with japanese dub often?
>>748979508ummmmmmmits 2026 you BIGOT
>>748979508>he doesn't know about the Nigger Navy
>>748979757i can do it, but i just dont want to, its another layer of stuff to do, i just want to naturally listen to chatter, not read subs
>>748979757Why would I play games in a language that I don't understand? Just adds extra confusion.
I'm gonna say it.AC7 was better.
>Baxter and Rex get super down about the Tonitrus raining destruction down from the sky>Coster and Tasha who were born after Ulysses literally don’t give a fuck
/pol/ and Rapeape have been a disaster for imageboard kind.
>>748979625Why are you asking for our permission, retard.
>>748979672Coster's only personality trait is that he likes music so it's understandable that he'd be upset when he has to listen to his favorite band get slaughtered like sheep over the radio. He technically has the ability to help but that would be defying orders and leaving his own squad to die. It's just basic drama storytelling.
>>748979286Cope was fake ace made by the Tiktok retard to boost morale.>Why is he now in my headDevs thought it was cool. He apparently goes to pilot Valhalla by the end.>Which nation do I and the people around me belong toThe FCU, which is a weird federalised EU. Countries tarted leaving once shit got bad and that's why there are so many separatist forces. >What the fuck is SotoaIsrael with Mongolian theming. Their old religious texts say your entire continent was promised to them 3000 years ago so they invade it. >Who the fuck is this TikTok-addicted retard and why does he have any say in any of the operations? Gigarich cryptobro who's part of some crypto DAO that funds most of what you do(since your country is nearly nonexistent and also broke as fuck)>Why does the voice in my head keep going on about random numbersApparently getting killed and becoming a ghost gives you some kind of limited precog. Don't worry about it.
>>748979861AC7 was like ,3 different stories merged into one clusterfuck so this one is better just because it wasnt that
Isn't Tasha like... 16?No shit, she was never gonna be the MC's "love interest" but it's hilarious watching p*dos cry over it
>>748979861I miss AC7 music
Why does everyone talk like a hick? Tasha is supposed to be from Yuktobania (which is obviously a stand-in for the Soviet Union), you're telling me she doesn't have an accent?
>>748979921it's bad writing to have an important character have only one personality trait
>>748979956when did western/america become so anti anime romance? didn't we have a bunch of high school hijinks movies filled with sex and gore all the fucking time
>>748979956Honestly Tasha and Coster seemed to be really close. I'd be glad if my autistic quiet bro could get some e-girl pussy if I can have Kate to myself.
>>748979948Meanwhile this story is boring as fuck while at the very least AC7 had peak sections like Spare Squadron and knew how to do hype moments and dogfights.
>>748979956>tourist faggot scrambling here for his xitter opinions and virtue signallingnobody cares
>>748950839>dunks 30% of your FPS whenever she is on screen during cutscenssJesus this game is mess of optimizations
>shoot down the cadet captain with the advanced planes>it says she bailed out safely>oh well that's good >she fights soldiers anyway and gets herself killedaw
>>748979956pretty good bait I have to say, the censored "pedos" is a nice touch
>>748979956>16>pedoare you serious right now? Half the countries in the world's AOC is like 16
>>748980113>and gets herself killedanon she commits suicide so she doesn't get captured
>>748980076She's worth every single frame
>>748980014True but even if he had more depth, there's nothing inconsistent about him tearing up over his favorite band getting killed. He's supposed to be young, idealistic, and naive and not a grizzled veteran like Rex and Baxter.
>>748979695honestly the whole multiplayer section of the game is a mess, menus are slow and there's too much of ithow fucking difficult is it to put every section into one place so it's compact and fast to access instead of layering some shit behind 10 menusall the online modes suck too, I'd rather have drop-in sp coop
Is there a mission later on where you're dogfighting amidst Tonitrus Spear strikes. It was cool as fuck to watch them go off during mission 18 but you can easily kill half the fucking things while heading to the objective and they don't do anything else during the mission.
>>748978896Dealer is a good AWACS at least
>>748978876I've been getting S Ranks on that difficulty as well. Seems like the game is pretty generous on how much points you can get. Even dying doesn't really hurt your rank that harsh but that depends on the mission.
>>748979861It runs so much better, I miss getting consistent +400fps. Might reinstall later after finishing Ace mode in 8.
I beat Pixy bros
>>748980194well, sure. if you put it that way, yes i would be very sad about my favorite musicians dying and not being able to help. at that moment though, because i wasnt him, it was annoying.
>>748979029>Do you have a death wish or something?!I'll fuckin do it again
>>748980160oh i could have sworn i heard more gunshots but maybe I was shooting at something
>>748980036bump
>>748951216>9 ace is Fiona or Rena and NEMO is the main badI would play it
>>748979672>younger pilot meets his idols>hinted that once things line up, he can even play with them, maybe even join them after the war is over>Coster is actually happy for like once in his life>have to hear them die one by one over radio>"I don't get it, why is he sad, this is cringe"Some of you dumbasses are really getting under my skin with how stupid you are.
>>748980113The two pilots protecting them survive and even escape capture. One them literally goes "I died for nothing hu-" before getting shot down. Not bad for a Sotoan
>>748980036>>748980360
>>748980260He's really meh and the Poker bit is really played out especially after 7 and Full Band already doing the bit, he's just not allowed to flourish because Debra Wilson will just Not. Shut. The. Fuck. Up., but damn when he gets good he really gets good. When he reluctantly sends you to face the Shadows alone and you're allowed to quell his nerves, and is cheering you up all the while I knew I loved that guy.
>>7489798618 is better in quite literally every single possibly way.
I hate how the camera keeps changing in the plane select menu when I'm trying to cycle between skins. You get like 20 skins that are just minor variations of what emblem is on the side of the plane but the camera hangs on a view where you can't see it.
>>748978484>Game is fucking brutal desu. My 5090 on 4K Ultra balanced dlss is getting 70-100 fpsSomething is wrong then. I'm at 4K max settings HDR with only DLSS Quality. Cutscenes of course will dip to 55 but in-game is 79 low and 89 high for every mission so far. Maybe turn off all the GPU-intensive AI-embedded spyware on your system like Discord/Chrome?
>>748980456yeah if you get rid of worse awacs, worse music, worse XO, bloated missions that should be removed from the game then yeah
>>748979286stop asking so many questions. soldier
>>748980294Good job, buddy.
>>748980050Rex going on to join a new squad with Kate and seeminly become her navigator as well is probably the closest thing the series will have to a romance for the protagonist.
>>748964285>GR has a cute rei clone doing cobras on their simulators while we get a reject circus pilotok
>>748978074Neh they will do the Ghost thing where MC will be in coma and only operate the plane remotely with wifi, and then at the end it will turn out that MC was a dog all along.
>>748980523If you removed shitty missions from ac7 barely anything would be left.
>>748980563>kate claims you like a pokemonthat was cute
>5 second cinematic>black screen>loads another 5 second cinematic >yet another black screen>3rd cinematic>Press the AWESOME BUTTON to continue cinematicStop doing this shit, for fucks sake. I don't need to be able to move the camera around or """""""interact""""""" by pressing the A button. Just give us one long interrupted cinematic without fucking loading screens in the middle of it. For fucks sake the PS2 could do it fine.
>>748968732How the fuck do you get rid of this shit ass noise on her hair, feels like every other character's hair is fine, but hers is always like that
>>748951216Hey pal, your bait didn't quite work on the previous thread. >>748951167Get better material.
>>748980523Bunch of not true shit and the most absolute non factor shit ever that would not sway anyone's opinion. Yeah clearly not even you genuinely believe your opinion since you have to reach this far for it. Contrarian faggot.
>>748980485NTA but I don't think there is anything wrong with his PC. I have a 5080 and I'm getting 50-120 fps with lots of fluctuation on 1440p, no HDR, HIGH preset and DLSS Quality.It's just another terribly optimized UE5 game. Plus, Denuvo might play a part in this as well.
>>748980050>>748980563>>748980629So protective.
>>748980448High Roller was the gambling addict in 7, Full Band is the guy that gets merk'd for stealing classified intel and not shutting up about it.I think I still enjoyed Bandog's "I decide when you die" to "ONLY I decide when you die" arc more, but yeah, telling Dealer it's in fact not a terrible strategy to have everyone else escort the transport to safety while you 1v10 two entire Shadow squads was what really sold me on him.
>Reach mission 15>Read people say that it's a great filter and a big spike in difficulty>S-rank it on the first tryWhat the fuck, are people this bad? Anyways, cool gimmick. Also, I have a question. Are the green support planes worth buying in single player? They sound great in multiplayer, but what about SP?
I like the interpretation that Cope was a very good pilot, he was just a disillusioned coward who became filled with self hatred and apathy. He was made into a hollow symbol that sacrificed others for his sake, told to not fight, but watch as others died for a lost cause. He didn't want to die, but he didn't care if he got killed.
AC 7 was so good, I loved dogfighting against drones all the time.
>>748980389ok i just dont like or care about Coster enough to put up with that crap. as a flight leader some of this shit wears really thin
>>748980639That one sequence where you sit down in the mission room and then press A to stand at attention when fucking Debra Wilson walks in, only for the screen to go black and transition to the usual mission briefing screen. So fucking stupid. It's like they wanted to do more cinematic mission briefings but ran out of budget.
>>748980684Nothing wrong with his PC. He's just using it wrong. I'm on a 5090 FE and not getting the insanely inferior performance he's seeing. I'm also on a very old CPU, a 5900x.
>>748980617contrarian retard>>748980650I'm tired of you fucking revisionist incels, every time>new game comes out>OLD SO BAD>when old game came out>wow it's so peaklast reply, fuck off
>>748980563Bro your Trigger and Avril drag racing F-104s in the desert?
>>748950752Why have they fought with and get booted out of almost every land they gain a foothold in since Roman times?
>>748980639Its because all the cinematics in AC8 are rendered in-game and in real time. Thats why the game needs to "load" the assets. the PS2 AC games were just pre-rendered movie files. I agree though, I much prefer pre-rendered movie Cinematics vs the janky in-game stuff.
>>748980563Yeah it was very sweet.I was so upset when she supposedly died. Then a few missions later you get a cutscene "confirming" her death and I was like "well this is it, my waifu is gone." And then the 1000 Lights mission happens.
>>748980761You buy it and put Tasha in it.
Getting mad at debra wilson and having "fatigue" of her is legitimately a skill issue. I've never played a game with her in it before and she's not even remotely near offensive enough to warrant this amount of shit. I don't know how she is in other games but there's nothing here to get mad at in this one.Maybe stop playing shit games with shit mocap in them if she upsets you.
>>748978301huh? im on ultra at 1440p and it never drops below 60fps. I think i have FSR on quality, looks native res to me.
>>748980765I do think he was a very good pilot too, but i dont know what he was really looking to accomplish if he was at all
>>748980761ECM buffs turn regular missiles into HVAA+QAAM.
>>748980650lol what, AC7 music is far better than the nonsensical trash in 8I'm glad ac8 mp has music from other games in the series
>>748976642They for some reason made it a different exe under the AC8 folder/instance instead of making it its own steam gameSo no cheevos since they would have to put it along with 8 cheevosfucking weird ass port
>>748980917somehow im inclined to agree. i didnt care for the band music or the music with vocal chants. it motivated me to just shoot down everyone as fast as i can to get it over with. im a senile boomer now. get me out of this tiktok-ridden mission
>>748980842That one two punch had me ready to commit total Sotoan death.
>>748980854I had never played one of her games either, but her character and performance is utterly devoid of personality and is a total fucking bore to listen to. This cunt left more of an impression on me in a single mission than her character did in 30.
>>748980801The irony of you to say this when it's clear your opinion is nothing but "old good, new bad". 7 was mid day 1. 8 is one of the best games in the series. I do hope you realize you jumping to that conclusion is basically a self report of how you judge new games compared to old games. Can't wait for your contrarian faggot ass to say 8 is great and 9 sucks when it comes out. Kill yourself.
>>748950678what the fuck is going on with the audio in this game. I cant even hear the music because there's non stop screaming over the top, then the track changes every 3 minutes to some garbage butt rock or stupid OHHHH OHHHH meme music, when it isn't being drowned out by a million other noises its completely forgettable. Why didn't any AC fans tell me it was so shit, i would have cancelled my pre-order, these games are just visualisers for an album, when the music sucks the game is a 6/10
There is a free simulator on the rise, now voiced.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2xZMSEsDjQ
>>748980797>I'm on a 5090 FE and not getting the insanely inferior performance he's seeingI don't understand. Your performance pretty much lines up with his, though.Him:>5090>ULTRA>4K>DLSS Balanced>70-100fpsYou: >5090>ULTRA>4K>DLSS Quality>79-89fps (sometimes lower)Makes perfect sense to me, no big irregularities here. Just bad optimization across the board.
>>748978484It's the slowest running UE5 game I've personally tried for sure.At least it doesn't stutter. With FG and DLSS I basically get great quality on my 4K Tv, 120 fps basically locked on a 5070tiYeah I use framegen, cry me a river, if it looks like 120fps it's 120fpsI recommend trying the universal UE5 engine.ini.
>>748978158My 3060 12gb cries as it can only muster 58 at 1080pto be fair dropping the cloud setting is what helped the most on gaining some frames
>>748980789Yeah there's a lot of super short and pointless cutscenes that feel like short television bumpers or something. I like the one where the XO tells everyone to sit down and Tasha's still standing at attention for a second then looks back to see everyone already sitting. A lot of newbies in the military do that because they're so focused on being at attention that they ironically aren't paying attention to what's being said.
>>748981047kill yourself immediately you fat inceloid homoyour reading comprehension is below that of an indian shiteater
>>748981098How is this related?
>>748981013Yeah that's because McKinsey is an asshole and as such is funny. Compare Wilson to the complete nothings of XOs while you're in Strider or Mage. Pike meanwhile is funnier when you recontextualize the missions as her being a gambling addict, like trying to retake Theve the second the land battleship is out of range with like 5 planes and 5 landing crafts
>>748980448sameI like his voice and yeah that moment was fantastic, I didn't want to let him down so I was locked in.
>>748981149>last reply>replies again in copeHow to spot someone who feels called out.
Genuinely what the fuck was that last mission? That was really fucking lame
can you do ok online even if you're not a turbo ace combat autist or will I just be getting raped by people who've 100%d every game on the highest difficulty since the ps1?
>>748951401Women already are the niggers of gender
>>748981182That's my point, she's a complete fucking nothing we have to stand for the entire game.
TLS Y/N?
>>748981229depends on the lobby. you're best time to play online is right now, when all the normies are still trying out the game
>>748979948counterpoint - all 3 of those stories were more interesting
>Crimson 1 appears>oh ok ive heard about this guy, let's kill him>genuinely forgot Crimson Squad was a thing a second after their emblem appeared on screen>mfw 6 healthbars and 12 missiles
>>748980854She's turning into the Steve Blum of mocap
>>748981236That's most XOs though. McKinsey is an outlier, not the norm. At worst it's business as usual. At best it's funny to look at the missions that got approved through a lens of a high roller.
>>748981149Its a bot
>>748981214Introduce AI shit.
>>748981214WHAT THE FUCK WERE THEY THINKING WHEN THEY WROTE THIS SHIT
>>748981214devs got pressured by their (((investors))) to add a mission for their favorite DEI pet to save the day cuz bossing the mc around the entire campaign wasn't enough for the DEI quota
They literally copied that "bail out" scene from Top Gun Maverick where you and Professor sneak through a village. Even ends with you escaping on an "old, ancient" plane kek. Project Aces team REALLY liked Top Gun Maverick I guess.
>>748981229Deluxe edition came with 3 days early access and a "premium battlepass" code that includes a stupid overpowered ADFX-02 Morgan so you're just gonna get stomped by paypigs and nolifesYes, it already is that bad
>>748981214It's lore bullshit for the five AC3 fans in the world.
>>748981013>That moment where they try to give her a character quirk with cakesI fucking criiiiiiinged outloud, jesus christ.
>>748981294wasnt crimson 1 a project wingman thing
>>748981214n-no you see it's le good actually
>>748981229You can do okay, just don't do warfare missions with level 1 planes. You'll get bodied and become a score pinata. You can and will rape someone who hasn't used their Morgans enough.
>>748981335everyone did nigga. it was the most hype release.
>>748981335I mean it was pretty obvious AC8 was heavily inspired by Top Gun Maverick. Cope is literally just Tom Cruise basically.
>>748981330I wish he'd do picrel right after saying that just imagine the confusion from everyone
>>748981330The real "Wings" was the friends we made along the way
>>748981331Surely someone in your tranny raid discord played the game so you can pretend to know what you're talking about. Because this mission makes sense in context of the story.
>>748974798War Thunder mogs both in terms of controls, but it sucks that the game is just one big grindfest.
>>748981151story and gameplay, coombrain.
>>748981389Yes, i'm playing that.
>>748981361I played AC3, liked it, and it still sucked.Making the final villains nameless, faceless, with no dialogue, where you're just shooting down missiles and UAVs was genuinely so stupid. Not even a group of company owned Aces shows up. What a load of horseshit.
>>748980854I felt the same, i dont think I've ever played a game with her in it because its 100% AAA slop, she's not a bad voice actor from what ive seen so far, especially compared to half the hammy shit in this game.
>>748981421>Cope is literally just Tom Cruise basicallyNot at all, starting with the fact that Maverick doesn't die.
>>748981353ADFX-02 Morgan is a noob trap
>>748981335https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbb2FejtBEU&list=RDbbb2FejtBEU
>>748981335They even did the whole "are you sure this is enough room to take off" bit and I clipped the nose wheel on one of the houses for 95% damage
>>748981489>>748981491sir this is an ace combat 8 thread
>>748981543I hate that the ADFX-02 Morgan is something they just handed to people because it still my favorite aircraft in the entire series and now everyone is using it
>>748981543Sure, compared to later planes, but it's also a textbook scrubstomper that's available to anyone who paid up
Game really is a love letter to the series.
>>748980809That was only implied through the sales images which came well after the game. Trigger did likely bang her, but if that was enough for people to think that then Rex and Kate are likely banging
>>748979237I dont think the US can afford to lose one. both technologically and for its status symbol. IIRC Lockheed Martin cant even produce any more.
>>748981335>Top Gun MaverickIt's the only new movie I watched in this decade.
these interactive cutscenes are pretty dull
>>748981481>anti-woke chud post>tranny raid discordyou should go back to your containment board in /vg anon
What's the name of the song that starts playing during the Hangar/Airplane Tree after the halfway mark, that shit's a funky BEAT.
>>748981769you don't understand, it's the peak gameplay in the series
>>748950678So I'm not crazy in thinking enso order are belkans right?
>>748980645>How the fuck do you get rid of this shit ass noise on her hairfirst UE5slop game?pro tip: you can't
>>748978158>stuck with 7900XTX>set GI and shadows to low>run at 1080p>90FPS>use my fucked engine.ini from stalker 2 to gimp the other render settings and disable forced upscaling/raytracing>150FPSFinally, it's playable.
>>748981314What an insultingly blatant display of samefagging. KWAB.
>>748981671>I POINTED AT THE SCREEN AND CLAPPED WHEN I SAW THIS BEER BRAND THAT WAS NAMED AFTER SOME RANDOM FUCK ASS ISLAND FROM SOME OF THE PREVIOUS GAMES. TRULY A LOVE LETTER TO THE SERIES!!!eat it up, goy
>>748981769Yeah. Really disappointed with it. Just go back to pre-rendered cutscenes. I do not need to press A every cinematic just to make my character do something.
>>748981873whats your problem?
>>748981864Then how do pics like >>748950839 exist?There must be a combo of settings that remove that shit
>>748981353The pre-order F-14A is more of a powerhouse compared to the Morgan, LAAM + SAAM is just an insanely potent pair of SP weapons and you'll actually get it leveled up to have 2 SP weapon slots since it's a fraction of the cost to upgrade the Morgan.Even if you didn't preorder, you get access to the F-14D after like, 15 matches, and that's just a better version of the F-14A anyway.
>>748976719>>748976778>>748977270she's a hag, preasu undastando
>>748981997could be AI enhanced picsher hair doesnt look like that for me, even on max settings
Yeah, I get prayed to, nothing big.
>>748981873You go to the island in this game lil bro>mgsv picHoly self own
>>748981997those images still contain film grain, you can see it in the backgroundanyway if you want to get rid of grain and chromatic ass cancer then you gotta add few lines to a config file
>>748982129okay so why is the name on the can supposed to be "a love letter" then? explain
The only thing that actually annoyed me about the dialogue is nobody gets called by their callsign.
>>748981105>sometimes lowerNever lower than 79 FPS in game. Cutscenes do drop to 55, but those are cutscenes not in-game. There is definitely something wrong with the cutscenes in this game. Gameplay is solid. I will go up to 120FPS over the ocean with literally nothing going on. I do have (((motion blur))) off. I also don't have GPU-leaching (((chromium based discord w/ built-in LLM scraping everything on your PC 24/7))) installed or running. Nor do I have the GPU-leaching spyware (((gurgle cum))) browser installed. Game runs extremely well for UE5 and a game made by Japs.
>>748981105>ultra performance>720p upscaled to 4K>quality>144op upscaled to 4K>same performance>pretending to be retarded
>>748982176I don't mind film grainI mind the noisy ass shit on some surfaces that modern UE has>>748982076So I guess if you have a potato or a mustard race rig this game just runs like shit for now? great
>>748980286>PS4 game runs better than PS5 gameshocker.
>Mission 15You're telling me Sotoa can make this fucking insane shit, and most people are still stuck flying fourth and fifth generation planes? What is the budget allocation in these Strangereal countries.
>>748982116That fucking outfit
>>748982295Read again, retard. He said "Ultra balanced" which obviously means the ULTRA preset with DLSS set to Balanced.
>>748982116Uh oh, Mobius 1 believers, our response?
>>748982304her hair is highly dependant on the TAA scaler you use, by default this game uses the CNN old af preset F in the game which is dlss3 kek
>>748982331The answer to that is a spoiler.
>>748982331>What is the budget allocation in these Strangereal countries.Everything goes to superweapons
>YF23 disclaimer/copyright is in the intro the game>enemies use it>(you) can't use itok dude
>>748982328I guess what anon was trying to say is that the graphical jump from 7 to 8 wasn't as big as the load jump to runAlso 7 clouds look great while not tanking FPS like the clouds on 8 that look like shit in any setting below high
>>748982197ask grok
i'm playing AC8 and Silksong rn and just realized both Main Characters are Hornets
>Mongols start launching rods from God satellites>other countries don't make any countermeasures
>>748982331The cost assessment is>old plane still fly>still shoot missile>work good enoughYou don't see the same generational gap in power between planes that you do in real life because everything is at dogfight ranges and mostly based on pilot skill.Keeping old airframes up just means moar planes to send out.
The tunnel run in this one is really lame and tiny. Kinda surprised.
>>748982491future battlepass planeplease look forward to it
>>748982328Yet, barely looks better. Im shocked too, sister.
MY PEOPLE UNDIVIDED
>>748982526I guess? Though that's been true for basically the entire history of videogames. As time goes on performance requirements rise linearly while perceived fidelity does not, thanks to diminishing returns on graphical quality.
>think I was doing shit>never even check scores>check scores>S-ranks across the boardthis game's retarded
>>748981330I mean it was just to bring home the idea that the wings and cope were all fakers, all made up by D.D. And by the end they all became true, i mean it really was D.D.s dream to have the wings of theves be an actual symbol of hope and i like how this shot is just a callback to that one cutscene where it was just a pic of Joker team and he was editing it to have more planes in it, and now it actually became real.
>>748950678I play on expert mode with an unsupported HOTAS
>>748982526The graphical jump between 7 and 8 *really* is about as big as between ACAH and 7, actually compare both games in ultra there's really no comparison.
>>748982526That's every modern game.
>>748982787jets are inherently low test anon, only the shortest of short kings can fly them. women can fly them. this isnt a game about deep infiltration behind enemy lines this is a rule cuck in the sky simulator.
>>748976001I think they're going to be updating it to make it its own standalone steam title so maybe they'll add steam achievements then
>>748979861Only thing that 7 was better was on-disk OST, and AC8 still easily compares in actual in game music thanks to the adaptive soundtrack (arguably AC8's soundtrack was for the most part composed for its in-game moment with less thought put into the on-disk arrangement)
>>748981331what the fuck
Why did they name the rich guy Diddy
>>748981707It's always about money, they could definitely make more if there was money in it. F-35 is basically a plane-as-a-service. It's so bad in terms of readiness and maintenance they'll want it gone the moment someone comes up with a better stealth f-16. Already taking the earliest made aircraft out of service.
>>748981331Forced outrage. They didn't even scan her face
>>748983226no one needs to force me to hate being bossed around by a black woman in a power fantasy game anonkeep trying
>>748983281Our races don't exist in strangereal, she's only aesthetically black, otherwise she's an ethnic usean, there are other conceptions of races and ethnicities
>tfw none of these niggas know how to do Chandelier and I score 1 gorillion points
What the fuck kind of cheating BULLSHIT just happened here?
>>748983281but no one is forcing you, buddy
>>748983452takbir
Sotoa is like comicly evil, every other antagonist nation/group at least had some justifiable reason to be dickheads, these guys are just insane. The shit they planned to do with the Tonitrus Spears should have gotten their entire country nuked and wiped off the face of strangreal by every superpower
>>748983452are you spamming Shamrock specials?
>>748983226>>748983361wait let me get this straightyour defense is >the brown girlboss (literally) could've been uglier so you should be thankful
>>748983486kek. get dabbed on, loser
Call me when they add actual hotas support
>>748983503The FCU were making a move, sotoa had to get it on
>>748983503They are /fa/ as fuck though.
>>748983503Try to justify the Grey Men.
>>748983486>average SukhoiCHAD
>>748983486Get styled on that's a PSM and it's turbocancer in PVP
>>748983503They're nomads, they just looked at Usea and said gibsmedat
I'm at mission 23 with mostly S ranks and I've just realized I haven't been using G-Turns at all, just slowing down and speeding up midturn, holy fuck. Just KBM things I guess.
Gonna start 6 now
>>748983503Actual spoilers: Enso Order was playing both sides and hoped to escalate shit so hard both Osea and Yuktobania would've had to step in, so they could all tire each other out and wipe the slate clean for Total Corpo Takeover™
>>748983824why are we helping the corpo homos again?
>>748983486Problem?
>>748965804this is why Sauron needs to die
>>748983870You don't You just didn't know yet until near the end. Then at the end you fight against them
>>748981834Found it, this shit's so good:https://youtu.be/AEF-R38S2G0?si=fgb9qpBvmxg1GvTj
>>748983626Greymen are also massive asshole but atleast they have the revenge and wounded national pride thing going. Sotoa was planning to fuck over everyone with satellites if unchecked.
>>748979286>Cope was apparently some giga legendary ace (which he himself denies) without shooting down a single enemy? Who is he supposed to be? Why is he important then?He's a veteran pilot. You'll find out later who he is and why he didn't shoot a single person down.>What's the point of introducing this Cope character if the instantly dies?Greek chorus.>Why is he now in my head, talking to me like an edgy anime character? Is this just PTSD or is there something supernatural going on? Who the fuck is this guy?He's a literal ghost haunting you.>Do people not realize how intimate and personal life on a ship is? Do you expect me to believe that me, the protagonist, can just assume the role of The Wings Of Theve while keeping the death of Cope a secret and nobody would notice? People know him, they've talked to him.Everyone on the ship knows Cope's dead. There's no one to spread word otherwise because the local glownigger on board has effective control of all outgoing and incoming communications.>Which nation do I and the people around me belong to? Is this carrier all that is left of our people? Are we all part of the FCU?FCU. No. Yes.>What the fuck is Sotoa?Nation from another continent.>Why is Tasha claming to not have a single kill when I can literally see her shooting down enemies?Likely misremembering events since she doesn't actually do shit until a couple missions later.>Who the fuck is this TikTok-addicted retard and why does he have any say in any of the operations? Who put him in charge? Is he the modern version of a propaganda officer?Turbo glownigger part of a 3rd party megacorporation assisting both sides of the war.>Why does the voice in my head keep going on about random numbers? "Look out for 900" like what the fuck are you saying, man? Am I playing as a mentally ill character?Cope is a ghost.>Why is the voice acting so much worse than the previous games? Everyone reminds me of that that one Breaking Bad VA meme.It's kino.
>>748983486>bugman flying
>>748983486>he got hit with the flippy dippyoutskilled
what the fuck was his problem
>>748979286>Am I playing a mentally ill characterEvery single MC in AC is mentally ill to some degree to do the shit they do in games7 even acknowledges that trigger is batshit insane to shove a massive fighter jet into a tunnel like it was nothing
>>748984398Went schizo from not being in the open air for too long, just not quite as badly as the Alicorn crew because they weren't stuck for almost two whole years
>>748984398MoleGODS totally delivered, the wait was worth it.
>>748983486get Berkut'd nerd
>>748983486>the virgin hornet vs the chad berkut
How do I fix the dam FOV in this game. it is giving me a headache
>>748983486I'm sorry anon but you got dabbed the fuck on
>>748983769huh whats a g turn
>>748984630Type B camera is the best you can get without mods or tweaks
The avg player can spend minutes and minutes taking out 1 or 2 enemy jets because they keep swerving and passively avoiding the 'lock on' missiles and it wouldn't matter if you're in a bad or good plane, can run out of missiles and force a soft fail state.
>>748978389Personally i kinda felt like they missed the point by an inch at every corner, it's good and a perfectly fine ace combat, but the feats you pull off and all are like an inch behind the shit you pulled out before, like ac7 has you dogfighting inside a space elevator and exiting from the top, ac4 has you fighting a megafortress, the chandelier in ac6, in this one you're fighting naval ships with tank threads and a bitch ass submarine at the end, not even alicorn type, just some bitch ass submarine that shits out drones for 30 minutes and it's a fucking drag, they started strong with the tonitrus satellite menace and then shat the bed with 30 missins of absolute padding.
>>748985000short for gangsta turn
>>748985134I wouldn't mind if they went full retard and just made us go satellite hunting in space and turn it into star wars with lasers using experimental corposlop planes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6gVNCtNEr8The AC7 throwback mission didn't do much for me, but this one did, way more fun. And the best trailer song too.
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