Which wingman did (You) like the most?
>>748999858Tasha and Costar for morale support.
>>748999858the troon in the middle
I liked them all except for Coster. I had nothing against Coster but he was just kind of there most of the time. Tasha and Kate are smoking hot and Baxter was a bro
Or will this be the new thread?
>>748999858Baxter.Would escape the jungle in an old junk heap with again.
I wasn't actually expecting to like Baxter. They actually made a good black man character, much better than Wiseman.
Probably my favorite song of the gamehttps://youtu.be/SiWcMkTjMLo?t=120
>>749000343I was more sad than I was expecting seeing him die slowly after he takes the hit for you
>>748999674>>748999674>>748999674>>748999674This is the thread.
>>748999858
>>749000882mah nigga
<< Joker Flight I'm a blimy bastaed >>
>>749000581I hit me but I would have hit me harder if they didn't just down Kate last mission
>>749000976Who are the brits of strangereal and why is dealer britsh
>>748999858tasha redpilling of course! shut it down she is making too many questions!!! that's why you dont have to let goyim peasants without army brainwashing to join the army!
>>749001012Emmeria, probably.
Kill all Satoans. That is all
Would I like this vidya if I've never played an AC game?
>>749001026What are those 2 Belkan gentlemen doing?
>>749001012Emmeria>democracy replacing a monarch but the monarch is kept for show
<< Fuck >>
>>749001121Maybe? Flight games aren't for everyone.
>>749001173I like how Rex comes across as somewhat of a spaz out of the plane.
>>749001026>T-Tasha, that's a civilian hospital, STAND DOWN!>Hahaha, this UGB was promised to them 3000 years ago! Wooohooooo!Bit on the nose, wasn't it?
>>749001173wow i didnt' know rockstar fans made a cameo in the game
>>749001173Is the only time Rex ever got canonically hit after he became the new Rex?
>>749001173kek
>>749001173To be fair, it snuck up on him.
> Sotoans shoot down a parachuting pilot Jesas. They really want you to hate these guys. They already nuked like a dozen cities too.
I was expecting way more Tasha in this game. I still really like it.
>>749001471why would they even do that actually. and why spear rio bajo
>>749001471No, that's the Zoro looking asshole
>>749001471Yeah, that legit made me hate Shadow 22. I'm surprised we haven't seen that in AC before. It was refreshing to have the enemy ace be an actual rat bastard instead of a worthy opponent for once.
>>749001556>why spear rio bajoThey were losing control of the city to insurgents
>>749001471The longer the game went on the more joy I had in killing Sotoans.
>>749001639The Butterfly Master in Infinity did it too.
>>749001806It is funny how Baxter started calling them Satoan dogs. It is also insane that Strangereal is just so used to conflict that several cities getting essentially annihilated in a first strike situation apparently led to zero blowback from the international community.
>>749001806>>749001471The Eurseans in both games aren't nearly as bad as the Sotoans
The Japanese love coming home from their wageslave jobs and playing grinding bullshit video games. Is every plane a trashcan when it's unlocked and at level 1?
>>749001694>We Sotoans are the good guys! >Nuke because we are losingThey HAVE to be an off shoot of Belkans
after all the intense hairball dogfighting and soloing literally all missions I'm just pissed there are no cutscenes where we get to steal glances at Tasha's or Kate's bare feet
>>748999858they straight up made cope into miles teller from top gun 2
So, what was the deal with Terminus Fingers?
>>749001639She did it. This 15 year old girl TLS'd Ridgeback 1 Flash in Infinity.
>>749001980that was weird. it reminded me of Elden Ring. like okay you guys are cultists worshipping some alien god, but hey the player character is a demigod unaffected by physics
>>749001471A captain dies with his ship.
>>749001471in an age of everything being 'morally grey' to justify shitty actions, it was actually very refreshing to see a caustic group of people and their culture portrayed that way without redemption. live by the sword, die by the sword type of thing. and cope being a pacifistic sotoan is the exception that proves the rule. pretty ballsy writing in 2026.
I can take a lot of shit. But I can't with this kek https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBMvRzd2eeU. The only song I don't like. I think its because it doesn't fit well with the overall soundtrack.
>>749001980you're demonized to the sotoans as they liken you to some ominous thing in their culture/beliefs, contrasting how the FCU views you as a beacon of hope. propaganda that goes both ways
Do you guys think the ghost of kyiv bit inspired the Wings of Theve being a phony to boost morale subplot or was it too late in development?
>This is actually a prequel to AC3 and the megacorps taking over Interesting.
>>749002151Especially since the game is all about propaganda and misinformation. The bad guys really are just that bad.
>>749002018Why does she look old and young at the same time?
>>749002328It's sound like this.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehCT9UO9Je8I hate these kinds of songs. Anime dub sounding shit.
>>749002335>People thought this was going to be the game that disproved AC3 because Enso didn't exist in AC3Enso is dissolved and absorbed in GE which is what pushes GE to global prominenceYup. No escaping AC3 now.
>>748999858sex with kate
>>749002395meant for >>749002231fuck it, we'll roll with that post
>>749002313It lines up. The message of the Iran war in the next game is that missile war is cheap and easy.
>>749001471The game flip flops a lot on it. Every Satoan plan and strategy is basically "Kill as many civilians as possible then enslave the survivors" but then the game turns around and does shit like try to make you feel bad about shooting down a bunch of half trained pilots book ending with one of the scared female ones blowing her brains out before getting captured like we're supposed to feel anything from that. They also pull it again with Selene trying to bait sympathy with her prayer to Wings to gide her men to the promise land despite her sending thousands of them to death in a zerg rush just to try and fail to kill one dude
>>749002313im not sure how popular the ghost of kyiv idea was when the war started, did normies latch on to it? the propaganda part seemed like a nice change.
>>749002335It's slowly been building in the background in most mainline games. Even the AC2 remake on the 3DS added more Zone of the Endless stuff to make it more pronounced.
>>749001173Do they have their own fanmade theme yet?
>>749002395>>749002439yea if I want to be more fair about it, I like the beginning but it turned shitty at the "WE WILL RISE ABOVE" parts. Just doesn't fit or flow with it well enough.
>>749002335I can't believe the princess is leading the charge to usher in AC3. This one feels like a prequel to 3 even.
>>749001556>and why spear rio bajoMake an example out of them so others wouldn't rebel, the Satoans goal for the civilians seems to be enslaving them. During the Megafloat mission when the turnaround happens they tell you that anyone who surrenders will be "sent to the homeland to till the plains" or some shit. Man this game is making me actively genocidal
>>749001639I just wish the zesty fuck would break character and sperg out at the instead of sephiroth posting to the end
>>749001639He needed a better VA. Sounded too normal.
I like how the princess from 7 got more characterization in this game than the one where she's supposed to be an important part of.
>>749002395Naw fuck that the anime songs were fucking kino. Ace Combat is spiritually anime as fuck
>>748999858>Guy named Co-star>Doesnt seem to be the lead guitarist in his bandKojimbo..
>>749002712That just showcases what a mess AC7 was in regards to story.
>>749002018<<I saw it happen...>><<What?! What did you see?!>><<Flash.... in midair... They're shooting at bailed out pilots!?>><<Keep it together Omega!>>
>>749002463It's actually kinda funny that AC 7 was virulently anti drone as fuck but Ukraine and Iran showed that drones are THE weapon of the future
>>749002231I like that song the more I listen to it. You just have to embrace the cheese. Plus, the instrumental part at the end is immaculate.
>>749002572Not the first time she's been a fucking rube
>be in club with gf>suddenly dj plays that whooo hoo hoo music>this dude comes grabbing your gf ass from behind>'my war bride'What do?
>>749002856>>this dude comes grabbing your gf ass from behindLook at that motherfucker he's not grabbing your GF's ass he's grabbing your's
>>749002849>>749002572It's all Tabloid's fault, she spent three days with that guy at Tyler island. Tabloid ruined the world.
>Purple magic dies>shadow squad theme starts playing later when they show up>it's a combination of their band music and the sotoan chanting as you start fighting themHoly Kino
Is the game a financial success?
>listening to some of the tracks on youtube>get to hortus regis alti>I felt so bad shooting her down :(((((FUCK THAT THESE SOTOIAN DOGS DESERVE WORSE
>>749002856Shout out he's a S*t*an and help the crowd rip him to pieces with our bare hands.
>Ray was a helicopter pilot before getting picked upSo the random dude with Ace potential genuinely chose the wrong career path before the war.
>>749002959It has like 3 or 4 times the players AC7 had on Steam.
A Belkan and a Satoan walk into a bar...
B*lkans were completely justified with everything they tried to do with Osea after the shit those jews pulled.
>>749002959It has almost 4 times the peak playercount on Steam compared to what AC7 ever had. Even if we assume that AC8 had cost 4 times the amount of money to develop (which is probably overestimated), it's still a success.
Kino song desu. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3JfHrEV78o
>>749001907At least Belkans nuked themselves, Sotoans just start nuking everybody else. I felt absolute catharsis when the Land Battleship crew was getting burned alive
>>749002335I literally said "Holy Shit." Out loud when I saw the F/A-36s. It does not look right seeing those fly side by side with my F-14A. Yet it was me who was out of date...
>>749002947>A Belkan ruined everything
>>74900295948k is bad numbers, PS5 likely has much higher player count.
>>748999858My man Cope, of course. He counts, right?
Why can't we fuck Tasha
>>748999858Blackman. Even coster turned into a blubbering poet at the end of the game. At least blaxter had the decency to die.
>>749003180>release everflow as "the song" for AC8 to mild disappointment >people worried Kono has lost his touch>hide this fucking gem up their sleeves >everflow isn't in the credits while this is, so they knew that this is the better song>one of themes of the game is disinformation KinoDare I sayLudo
Kill SotoansMurder SotoansRoundhouse Splash a Sotoan in the cockpitKick Sotoan pilots out their flight seats
I'm getting really tired of the incessant player glazingit genuinely feels like its actually hurting the writing specially since its a mute protagonist. You're writing this entire dialogue for a character who won't even respond.
>>749003303>48k is bad numbers?
I wish my voice was like Cope's.
>>749003186And the captain does it for no good reason. They can't even send the spears up by that point. And the battleship is fucked. Should have just surrendered.
>>749003303ThisACtroons are delusional, DCS won
>>749003303That's decent for a flight arcade game. It's not a live service multiplayer game.........primarily.
I kneel DCSchads.
>>749003347If the entire goddamn military force is reliant on me and only me you better believe I'm getting glazed.
>>749002856Challenge him to a dogfight.>>749003358You'll get maybe 2k once everyone is done with the story.
>>749002912>"T-That's gay shadow22"> <<A matter of interpretation, I'd say>>
>>749002231It's just AC embracing the Macross spirit
Am (I) playing this game in JP (sounds like Madoka Magica) or EN (Cowboy Bebop)
>>749003521kek
>>749003464how about you write a story where the other fucking characters also do things instead of constantly being fucking useless or ignored
>>749002912>Let go of my ass, you sheep fucker. >Ah, something a sheep would say.
>>749003530Imagine being an infantryman and you still use humvees while there are Arsenal Birds in the sky, Land Battleships on land, and fucking orbital bombardment satellites sending shit crashing down on you.
>>749003583But the wingmen are not useless?
>>7490035307 version
>>749003583hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...no
>>749003530Hot Wheels!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiWcMkTjMLoI am so sorry Costar. I like to think Wings was already taking it personal, but then he had to keep hearing his wingmen cry over comms. Kate getting shot down and Tasha crying probably made him want to nuke everything Sotoan.
>>749002947>>749003232>finally free from belka shenanigans after almost 40 years of war>it somehow loops back to belka again
this but with Rex vs Shadow 22https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esY2zdIsKaI
>>749003604Imagine being in one of those superweapons and one single guy absolutely destroys you in a single F-4 Phantom or something
Mating press Gemma 1
>>749003552Tsudaken being injected directly into your brain > whatever the other option is.
>>749003595>like a lamb overdue for the slaughter
>>749003347The player glazing is half the reason people play these games. You're treated as a literal Messiah in 4
>>748999858Duh... the dog of course.
>>749003583>dude i don't wanna play the game and kill things i want NPCs to kill things for me and for them to ignore mehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGpFEv1-mAo
>>749003347What is with Zoomers and them thinking the protagonist should be treated like dirt the entire game?
>>749002794good lord, source?
>>749003687>made him want to nuke everything SotoanYou should have already been there when 22 was shooting down bailed out pilots, that was my "All of you people need to die" moment
>>749003692It'd loop back to Belka anyways. Grunder > EO > General Resources.
>>749003865They get jealous of video game characters
>>749003905Ya know...I've seen a Sotoan do that before, Cope...
>>749003868madruga3d
K-kino!?
>>749003865Its what they grew up with
>>749003901Well I figured that was just 22 being a fucking dick. He was dead the moment he downed us and Cope.
>>749003947The hand is close enough to grab the knife, indicates distrust.
>>749003865Equal opportunities have ruined the schooling system.
Could Torres w/ the Alicorn defeat one of the Sotoan Land Battleships 1v1?
>>7490039051940s Ace Combat you meet Jan Cope aboard your carrier and he throws up a roman salute>Oh this don't worry about it just a habit
>>749003905>>749003947
I get that Ace Combat doesn't want to do analogues of real cultures, but I still am trying to place what Satoa is inspired by. I guess they're modern day Mongols, if they stayed nomadic cultural sociopaths?
>>749004146More Iranian and Turkish themes. Both of those were big on nomadic sheep herding before industrialization.
>>748999858Little Bee :)
>>749004087Depends on the battlefield, I'd say
>>749004146Off the top of my head, mongols, russians, iran, turkey and maybe a bit of maori(?) with the chanting
>>749003865>>749003854>>749003796>>749003635>>749003625>>749003464stop using hyperbolesI just want the glazing to feel like actual merit that isn't immersion breaking while not making the player literal fucking jesusgundam figured this shit out in the fucking 70s
>>749004087Torres only has a single nuke and a few planes. The land battleships have an endless swarm of drones, better range, and armor needing bunker busters to break. The Alicorn got taken down by bog standard missiles.
>>749004146Mongols mixed with Parthia.
>>749004146Eastern Steppe tribes in general. Mongols, Huns, Scythians, even some Turkish groups.
>>748999858no one will say the nigger
>>749004087The land battleship had a range of 700km. Torres, if he's not bullshitting, could hit targets up to 5000km. But he very well could be since his next best was 27km away in a storm.
>>749004258Torres had two nukesThough he still has the fuckoff huge railgun, which by the way has a way longer range than the land battleship (500km vs upwards of 5000km)He can also fire some pretty powerful shots without the nuclear shells, probably enough to bust up the armor on the land battleship
>>749003865Institutional demoralization to keep them underfoot Always remember anons:https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=you%27re+the+best+around
>>749004146I honestly believe they were not directly inspired by anything from the real world for them, but they accidentally made the most Israeli faction imaginable.
>>749004256>while not making the player literal fucking jesus>gundam figured this shit out in the fucking 70sAnon...
>>749004318https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p44G0U4sLCE&list=RDp44G0U4sLCE&start_radio=1weird, url didnt change in time.
>>749004313Plus, IF things got heated, the LB could call in a spear. If it fucked up a robo sub. It will turn the crew of the Alicorn to paste because of how shockwaves work in water.
>>748999858>diversity>denuvo>no longer boobathe literally state of japanese games. even anime are less appealing these days
>>749004350Yeah enso were pretty Israeli
>>749004313Wait, no, they had 700km, but that's still small time compared to the Alicorn's main gun (and Torres' ability to extend its range) which was, corrected, 3000km+ but could go further.>>749004408Depends on how deep the Alicorn goes. And as anon said it's a 1v1 so no spears. May as well say that Torres could call the Arsenal Bird with the space elevator shields
>>749004469Torres was going solo. The LBs were part of an integrated force. But anyway, if the Alicorn was engaging at maximum range, It only has two real chances to hit the target. You gotta remember that a city doesnt move, and 3000km+ is a long distance to hit a moving target at with a non course correcting projectile, railgun speeds or not.
>>749004256You're literally an impossibility in human form in the game, nobody on their lonesome can win a war but here we are. What are they supposed to say? Just say you're pretty good 1000x?Stuff like Zero straight up plays with the meta idea that you come and go from the world just to defeat the hilariously evil revanchist Belkans and disappear afterward with no trace. It's what one should be expecting.
Having a superweapon vs superweapon brawl happen once in this series would be cool
>>749004615Anon...it happens every game. What do you think (you) and the enemy ace are?
>>749004606Did it not have course correcting projectiles? In the Anchorhead Raid mission I'm fairly sure he keeps firing at you out of visual range with guidance every time. Doing it without guidance is pretty much just what he was forced to do.The Alicorn also probably has better range with its fighters/recon drones than the Land Battleship's interceptor drones do, which is what it needs to spot and find the target.
>>749004615The Stonehenge shot taking out the Arsenal Bird was pretty dope.
>>749004615Arkbird vs Scrinfaxi and Stonehenge (one gun) vs Arsenal Bird already happened, though granted they were kind of lopsided instead of being a real clash of the titans
>>749004087Torres had a powerful boat, a powerful gun, powerful ammunition, add to that lots of people and a precise aim.
