>play ac 7>Enjoy it but think it has a generic military story with some sci fi elements sprinkled in>Same with ac 8>Watch a video about ac 3 and the botched international version>It finally clicks inOh, so THAT is what these games are building up to
>>749029582grace.. who?
It's a fucking crime that the pressure sensitive radar button from the PS2 era is gone now. An absolute fucking travesty.
>>749029582why do you guys like girls like this when japan does them but if she was in a western game you'd be complaining about woke
>ac5>go on mission 15 or 16 at this point>get my jets>Hey boss are you sure? What if we run into any fighters?>play anyway>failHow much of a difference the jet selection is apart from weapons and speed? Why does my team thinks that going in with F18s and F16s we will have trouble with air to air??
>>749031551In Japanese games they are cute, curious and ignorant about the world so they seek to learnIn Western games, all those girls are gay, mouthy, and opinionated about things they have no place carrying opinions on because they have no experience to draw from meaning their opinions are not theirs, they are inherited. From who? The game writer. So now the 4th wall is broken.Massive difference but they could look exactly the same
>>749029582Woke Slopbat
>>749029582Is there already any mod for her? if you know what I mean
>>749032049You could probably find one
>>749031895*trans/gay
>>749031551Show me a western female character who looks like that.
>>749031551Because they're cute while the western ones are always ugly and with disgusting personalities? it's not that hard to understand.
>>749031551japanese girl more demurewest girl more whore
>think to myself "I'll play Russian planes this time for once">play nothing but Eagles and Hornets until I get muh Raptorwhoops
>>749032552holy shit I love ai now
ace combat games always have pretty silly premises but this game might have the most silly and retarded premise of them all
>>749032049a mod to remove this foyim from the game? not that I know of but we need one ASAP. Not sure how we can eliminate her from cutscenes though
Is AC8 a good game if I never touched any other Ace Combat?
>>749033395Just say you're gay
>>749033497yes, and? My point stands, remove all foyim from my games now
>>749033491It’s woke slop
>>749033491Yes, but there's no reason for you not to start with 7.
>>749033537Go ask AI unc
>>749033330It's really incoherent and poorly executed. I think the premise of being invaded and losing the war, and then trying to take back your country with a small guerilla force based on a lone aircraft carrier is very cool. But the game is retarded and poorly written so it mishandles it, just like 7 did with the penal squadron which was a cool idea as well.
>>749029582>post this bitch in the op>thread always ends up shitShame I couldn't make the next one too before going to sleep
>>749033897I really think ace combat would benefit from going back to an older era of jet combat or even propeller combat WWII style where the guns actually matter. Using the same strangereal universe there's a lot of potential to create a WWII game and you have such a massive variety of aircraft too to pull from the real world as well as create your ace combat "wunderwaffe" style early jet engine aircraft. I've always wanted the series to go in that direction just once.
>>749033491Woke trash, horrible. If you want a good plane game give Nuclear Option a go. That's your only choice for a good plane game which happens to not be woke too
>>749033491none of them are
>>749034069deal with it, she's hot and attracts high-T males to the game
>>749034478I'm making a new one so the tourists stay away.
>>749033547>>749034284Whats woke in piloting a fucking airplane?
>>749034284>nuclear option>not wokehave you seen the community? it's full of troons and fags
>>749033547>>749034284Lmao at these retards.
>>749034608tumblr hair
>>749034608It has *gasp* a women in it, despite AC5 also having a women in it, and AC3. >>749034702>Tumblr hair>Highlight of some sort of colour = tumblr/wokeZoom-zooms are so buck broken by modern culture war that highlights now make them shit and piss.
>>749033491Ive been playing the multiplayer for days straight, saving the campaign for later. It's an awesome fun game. Pure gaming
>>749034478>high t>attracted to pink haired foyimlol
>tfw no AC AH on Steam>mfw a key costs $35I will pirate it and have fun.
>>749031551Tasha is a plucky, energetic person who does nothing but backup the team and to continually provide a positive attitude and outlook even when the team is at their lowest.She helps Coster out of his rut, she gives Baxter shit for complaining and gets him back in the game again. She does whatever she can to support Kate. She jokes around with the team when they're in a good mood and they give as good as they get from her, and she takes it with laughterTasha is the flight's most hopeful memberIn a western game she'd have none of these character traits. She'd be a bitchy girlboss who's serious all the time and would do nothing but berate people even at their worst
>>749034478i spent every cutscene zooming on tasha
not being able to get your guns on an enemy when they're RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU drives me insane stop MOVING
>>749029582porn when
>>749035469Strong male can resist toxic plants and even rub it's poison over his dick without a harm
>>749036067why does japan hate tits so much?
>>749029582>>749031895>>749032665>>749034478>>749032637>>749032685Colored hair, America =|Colored hair, Japan =O
>>749036409It's more nuanced, but it be lost on a frog poster anyhow.
>>749031551No western character looks cute like that.
>>749035816It's not a fun game tho.
>>749033491Overall pretty meh. Never soars to the heights of 7 and I wouldn't say the average quality of the missions matches favorably either. As any AC games there's plenty of highlights here and there but I'm pretty disapppointed.
>>749033491Doesn't have the furry insignia of 7 so I already like it
>>749031551Because the one in the OP is cute.
>>749036110yaw more. getting rudderpilled a long time ago unlocked latent machine gun powers i never knew i had.
>>749036312Most of their women have A cups.
>>749036312Those are the perfect handfull size
>>749031551Cause the west makes them ugly>>749036409Surely you can tell the difference between picrel and the Ace 8 waifu
>>749036580glad i'm not going insane. people have been glazing the game far too much. there's definitely some standout missions but there's also some real drags (like mission 15). also the dfm in mission 29 was a total fucking cockblock.
>>749036409>baitfaggots don't even argue anymore, they just like at you like this
>>749035816>no AH on steamWhat? I could've sworn I played it ages ago. They remove it?
>>749036753>there's definitely some standout missions but there's also some real drags (like mission 15). What? Mission 15 was pure fucking kino, mission 14 is the one that's shit.
>>749036753>15Fucking what?15 was great
>>749036805>>749036864i, too, love chasing down an enemy that disappears if you get too far away while i have 40 fucking degree fov
><<Don't call me pinky!>>
>>749035816It's honestly nowhere near as bad as it was made out to be. Keep in mind, this game was made after the golden age of Ace Combat and during the peak of the Xbox360/PS3. They tried to do the COD audience thing, the game has a lot of good things going for it but the negatives are big, the forced DFM mode being the main complaint.However, I loved the bomber and helicopter missions. It was my first and only ever game preorder, learned my lesson for good back then.Still, if it were an ace combat spinoff or didnt carry the ace combat name it wouldn't have been as hated as it was.Overall it's a 6/10 entry in the series if you want to be harsh, a 7.5/10 if you can get over the forced DFM. The music is phenomenal, the aesthetic is good, the graphics are good, the plane variety is actually quite nice with some planes we never got again like the Harrier, Mig-24 and the bombers and helicopters.
>>749036893Hey buddy, there's this useful thing in the bottom left corner of your screen that lets you know exactly where the enemy is even when you can't see them.I believe the game calls is a "Ra-dar". Very useful.
>>749036893Literal skill issue.Listen to Tasha, follow the contrails. Or listen to Dealer and open your radar and go to the giant fucking bubble of "THEY'RE RIGHT HERE DUMBASS" radar jamming they sent out. Then listen to the game say 'HEY BRING AIR TO AIR HERE" that was in the briefing.Even the starter F-18 can keep up with them at full throttle when they slow for turns and by that point you should have something faster or else what the fuck are you doing
>>749036893Have you tried actually engaging the throttle?
>>749036565>>749036940I still have a long way to go on my AC marathon.>currently on AC5 mission 17>will play AC0>try to emulate AC6 then play AHAll I see from the gameplay videos are a plane that covers half the bottom screen, a big blur all around, an engine oil vignette and a focused enemy in the middle.It looks like drugs in a bad way.
>>749031551Its ok when Japan does it>>749031895retard
>>749036484>>749036740>>749036765There's barely any difference. But since the it's >le hecking wholesome japanese kekerinoit gets a free pass
>>749029582I'm going to be honest with you I don't like the amount of pointless character cutscenes they put 8They even have press to handshake shit
>>749033491I don't know what all these reviewers are smoking. So far it feels worse than AC7 which is worse than the ps2 trilogy. I'm only a little over a third in so maybe it gets better but by this point I was already liking AC7 a lot.I don't think its a bad game to start with but the music is pretty whatever, AC is alot like hotline miami or furi where the music does all the heavy lifting and without it you have a pretty mediocre game.
>>749031890Unless you pick meme planes, such as the A-10, anything you pick should be fine for mission 15 and either version of mission 16. It would really then just come down to your skill and the difficulty you picked.
>>749029582kate > tasha
>>749036312But anon, her figure is peak.
>>749037253Nah, also you write like a fag, do your self a favour, and stop posting on this board.
>>749037096Emulate AC6 if you can, it's genuinely a great game. Underrated because it was on Xbox. Has one of the coolest superplanes and in my opinion the best track in the series, with the accompanying mission. Those videos you are seeing are the DFM mode, it's an on-rails dogfight mode. It's optional while playing, btw, you are only forced to trigger it for a few mission specific moments, the rest of the time you can play without it as if it was a regular ace combat game.
>>749037069you can even nearly (probably can even) kill one the very first time they slow down with the starter F-18 with just gun/missile damage up parts and missile reload. source: i was using exclusively the starter F-18 up til that point, assumed it was the designated Mig-31 mission, got lightly filtered, got into Mig-31s, and killed them both in like 2 minutes. felt unsatisfied, swapped to simple gun, missile, top speed, and accel parts, went back with the F-18, and just shot guns better while holding R2.
>>749037253>>749035818
>>749036765Everything got worse after 2012
>>749037592>dislikes western women>calls others fagsyou're trying too hard weaboo, you'll never be honorary nipponese.
>>749037617Pretty sure it's easily doable to play AC6 nowadays.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcB1pnFgc0khttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcB1pnFgc0k
>>749037758>Implying>Calls other fags.Yeah, because you write like one.
I honestly thought that Baxter would survive, people were saying that he would die before game released because Queen had replaced him in some footage, so when him going to space happened I thought he was safe.
>>749037915Baxter is was a chill nigga.
>>749037915I thought the same especially once Kate "died".
>>749037316I picked meme planes to emulate Top Gun Maverick, all F-18s.I did my best, nothing. Then I got an F16 and my guys got some pigfat Mig 31. Nothing.Then I loaded all of us with F-15C Chads and read a reddit guide because getting Nagase was impossible. Turns out you need to do literally nothing but target the 3 Apache helicopters.
>>749037858At least I'm not one, unlike you ;)
>>749037970in retrospect her "death" was very weird for a major character
>>749037998>N-no u. Nice bro.
>>749037848>>749037617>we can play AC6 NATIVELY on PC nowBuddy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vr9m2XHpWYYhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vr9m2XHpWYY
>>749029582The waifufags raging that they can't have her is hilarious. Excellent bait and switch by the devs
>>749032832This but I beelined the F-35 for LACMs and HCAAs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xR5Ln5qucQhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xR5Ln5qucQ>>749038305
>>749037915Can we officially put Baxter in as one of the "cool niggas" list?
>>749032832Did the exact opposite. Told myself I'd go for the "canon" Hornet lineup only to end up back with Flanker my beloved.
>the era of mentally disturbed Japanese waifus is upon us>tfw they took away our wholesome waifus
>>749029582I never played any of these games. OP can you explain what you are talking about
>>749038351Kate is better anywaysLook at that posture
Standoff Dispensers my beloved.
>PoV: You're about to hear some of the cringiest LARPing ever known to man
https://youtu.be/gBU-BV-g-fA<<You're holding your own against all those Shadows>><<You might even be better than them!>>
>Ace Valhalla is realThat uh... was some ending...
>>749038850Cope calling out her on her bullshit was very good
>>749038850>No single aircraft can take out Lux Lunae>says this as I'm beating 2 squadrons soloKek
>>749038870>"This is a terrible plan right?"<< NO >>
>>749036110Switch reticule to type b. For what little it helps when the AI decides to infinitely spiral with no regard for stalling.
>>749039050AWACS <<Tasha, Coster, pull back, Rex has this>><<YES>>
>>749038871Imagine how mad sublimated pilots must be.
>>749038871>Chopper and Pixy are drinking beers shooting the shit and talking about nations without borders
So did any animators get around to ripping Kate's model and making content?
After AC8, maybe borders are a good thing.
>>749038810>Ac 3 is set in cyberpunk world where corporations have nore power than governments>They wage wars against one another and one of them came up with the idea of copying human consciousness (sublimation) into the web (electrosphere)>The big bad of the game is one of those copies. He wants to copy all humans into the electrosphere and kill off the original flesh and blood humans>At the end it is revealed you are an AI (there are minor hints thoughout the game about that) created by one of the researchers on sublimation >He created you to kill the big bad because he was simping for the main researcher. The big bad original human mogged him and was in a relationship with her (sic) (your creator wasnt evven in the relationship with her btw)>>Multiple endings, branching paths based on your choices in the game New games are prequels that on the surface are generic military stories. Underneath it all there are small hints about how ac3 world came to be. Like enso order becoming more influential than nation states or planes being piloted via a neural interface - in ac3 called COFFIN
>>749038850>Wants to go samson option on everyoneUmmm... Thats antisemitic
>>749037096Assault Horizon and it's dogfight mode is really prone to causing motion sickness. And to promote that dogfight mode, they made planes a little more resistant in AH than in other AC games, so fighting them normally is tedious.
>throw everything at Wings>leave your ace squad for the very lastSortie shadow 22 from the beginning and mission 28 would have had a way different ending.
>>749039774No it wouldn't, get fucked Sotoans
Go dance with the angels, mister!
>>749039774He's busy chauffeuring a cripple and drinking tea
>>749029582I'm about 17 missions in, and I have no idea how this game hasn't been seen as an overt declaration of war from Japan against Russia. It's literally spent multiple missions offloading Ukrainian warcrimes and their own backfiring propaganda onto the russians (but arab??) If I were japanese i'd be terrified of a russian nuke wiping out my fucking city.
>>749040068a suspiciously russian post
>>749036792They delist it because of licensing. They're going to delist AC7 & 8 at some point too for the same reason.
:(
>Fly into turntable >Enemies AND allies are all calling me fucking crazy>Do it againGod the reactive chatter is fun as hell
>>749029582Tasha getting shot down and captured by Sotoans!
>>749037992Yeah it's not that easy finding Nagase but once that's done it's just a case of rushing over to and defending Sea Goblin
>>749040236I only did it twice, was there another reaction if you do it a 3rd time?
so is the game good?i havent played any ace combat games
>>749040215all I see are easy points
>>749038850>Tewy
>finished mission 25>still multiple missions leftJesus is this the biggest AC game yet or is AC3 still bigger? Haven't played AC3 but apparently it had 30+ missions?>>749040236Oh so you do get radio chatter for that, I also flew into it but got no unique dialogue.
>>749040314Yes>>749040283I didn't hear a third reaction but when I did it there was a bunch of chatter going on already
>>749040314every ace combat game is good, except Assault Horizon (console)
>>749038305>>749038480Weren't there still some graphical and audio bugs with the PC port?
>>749040215<<Points? What points are you even talking about Rex?! There's no such thing as points!! Stop shooting them down, jesus christ!>>
>>749040236They should have added more tunnels like that, something that's not a must to complete the mission.
>>749040364>Haven't played AC3 but apparently it had 30+ missions?It had multiple routes too, so you weren't playing 30 missions in a row for one ending.
>>749040215
>>749040468KILL EM ALL, EVEN THE TRAINEES
>>749040314It's amazing. I can never recommend newest entries for starting, so should you start the series, finish it with 8
>>749040364AC3 has 52 missions while this one has 30, but a lot of those missions feel copy pasted and the average length is way shorter. Some missions I remember being over in just a couple minutes and you can beat the game in 5-10 hours while AC8 is closer to 15-20 hours
>>749040484The long highway tunnel on Newfield is my favorite. All your wingman have heart attacks and Cope is all "you're treating this like a game..."
>>749040364There's a queue for the chatter so if they still have too much stuff to say they won't acknowledge it.
>>749040610What do you mean, going into a tunnel with a jet is not normal?
Playing through the older games. God damn do I miss the high-G turn they put in AC6 and forward. Still, both 4 and 5 are really fun.God damn I love Ace Combat.
I haven't played 8 yet but are the laser weapons from 7 really gone?
>>749040697Playing Zero, Jets feel like they move on a dime. It's strange to get used to. Very arcadey.
I'm really happy they removed most the the drone dogfighting.
>>749040215Kill the chicks and rape the mother hen last. Delicious.
>>749040756Didn't finish the game yet but haven't seen any Plane with lasers or Railguns in the upgrade tree. Maybe the obligatory Superplane will have one.
>>749040215I didn't even get to fight them onesI spent the whole mission blowing up ground targets and flew back over after I had enough points only to realize they all wiped to the other Jokers and some no name FCU pilots. Then I shot down the lead of the other squad that shows up and the mission ran out of time
>>749040697Weird, I find the lack of that feature in the older games changes up my playstyle in a completely different way that I find more fun somehow. Making tight turns in the old games meant slowing the fuck down, which in turn made you vulnerable to missiles. It encouraged a little more boom and zoom on some levels. Newer games are just TURN TURN TURN TURN (not that this isn't fun in its own way). I think the flight model in AC8 added an interesting twist too.
>>749039416>Sublimated Dision is constantly seething and shitting his robo pants>Real Dision is still plapping his waifu in Ace ValhallaSucks to suck, clanker.
>>749029582this is just fucking trixie!!
>>749040925Pretty much the same experience for me.
>>749036940what would you give it if it didn't have the dfm?
>>749040215took down one on my first go, blasted every last one of them second time around. still felt kinda bad
>>749041256I would have felt bad more if they didn't come on a fancy planes.
after playing nuclear option, ace combat's modern flight model kinda irks me now despite being an arcade game, it feels SLOWER than an actual jet should be
>Mission 30>Finally raise enough money to get the F-22>spend literally all my credits unlocking it>beat the game>"special" tier with the sci-fi planes unlocks>1,000,000 credits requiredoh fuck you
>>749029582Where the original games' cast as insufferable as this? Why don't they shut the fuck up on missions?
I dunno I just put the dub on JP and pretend I'm playing jet fighter gundam and it all fits perfectly
>>749031895annihilated those degenerates, based
>>749041529 I had F22, f35 and 800k credits by the end of mission 30
>>749039774They had very important business to attend to like going to some random village girl that gave them milk to gift her a generator. Than staying until sundown drinking team at her house.
>>749041529nigga every ace combat game has those experimental planes saved for the very end
The online mode is extremely bare bones holy shit. Every mission is the exact same
>>749040461It says v1.0 is fixed now.
>>749042020It feels like they brought over the team from Gundam Battle Operations 2 to make it (INSULT)
>>749040875>>749040756One of the possible enemy squadrons in multiplayer have lasers.
>>749042020I dont mind that, but menus inside of menus are driving me insane and the worst part everything has a short loading.
>>749040215i actually missed a few of them and they managed to retreat.
>>749042020Yeah the only actual fun missions online are the emergency missions
>>749042020its worse because the menus fucking SUCK to navigate with how slow they are
>>749042020If you've ever played Ace Combat Infinity on the PS3, its exactly that. Just without the retarded fuel supply limits and now it has a pointless hub for some reason
>>749038741Anytime I see a woman like this, I just think of the lead singer from Unlucky Morpheus.
>>749042140oh god it IS the fucking base from battle operations 2 it even has the fucking gacha supply drop system
F35 my wife
>try to be fancy and fly into a tunnel>crash 5 timeswell this is embarrassing.
>>749042540Your wife is fat and ugly
>>749042379Why the hell are those locked to random events anyway?I want to play coopNot PvP, not competitive PvE, I just want me and a handful of dudes blasting away at shit
>>749042448Infinite had absolutely zero Mission variety?Every mission was just attack some ground targets, attack some air targets, and then more ground targets?
>>749037253Bait
>>749042546I tried flying into the space elevator and managed to last like 5 seconds on it before the air drag pulled me into a wall
>>749042581You take that back
>>749031895This. A cute looking girl that is simply cute is great. A cute looking girl that is a can-do-nothing-wrong girlboss is obnoxious.
Ohhhhohhhhhohhhh ohhhaooo ohhaooo
>>749029582I just finished the game and the dude i remember the most is the nigga shadow 99 from the space shuttle escort fight, goddamn motherfucked dodged like an animal.
>does absolutely nothing but talk dramatically>dies like a total bitch????????
>>749029582yeah i just realised this toobut they're sprinkling in too much for it to continue to the botched international releasebut realistically, they WILL retcon some shit
>>749042361you didn't play the missionrestart, NOW.
>>749043085Didn't AC3 bombed bigly in Japan on it's release or at least Namco went way over budget which is why we got a scuffed international release since they had to completely cut the translation teams?
scramble and emergency sortie should just copy the ur-dragon from dragon's dogma>onlineboss has massive healthpoolneeds multiple waves of squadrons to beatobjective is being able to deal massive amounts of damage in as little time as possiblesuperboss changes once it is defeatedrepeatable infinitely >"""offline"""same as the current but only every 10 minutes of play time instead of the random event shiti swear they only did that to artificially inflate player count
>>749042994A matter of Interpretation I'd say
>>749042994A matter of interpretation I'd say
>>749042994Satoans are all talk. I don't think they're very skilled, they just have insane tech.
>>749040236Still my favorite by far.
>>749043497It's really fucking funny when you crash during the after mission landing
>>749042994Getting gaped and raped is a actually quite achievement out on the steppes
>>749035816https://archive.org/details/ace-combat-assault-horizon_202512
>>749040215https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R16S-byT1Io
>>749042994a toast to parachutes
>>749043732Yeah but when I do it I get a mission failed
>>749043694
>>749043224I mean, they say it did
>>749043813y-youre welcome...?
>Our land is desertifying>Do we use our insane tech to fix it?>Nah, let's just nuke a ton of countries and try and take over the world>Also we have floating cities, but we want your land tooWhat the fuck Satoans
>>749043813>Youjustknow.jpg
>>749043916This was the funniest thing you can see on the Megafloat, stupid ass larping steppe niggers
>>749043903despite it being one of the best selling games, it's strange how 4 has the least amount of references
>>749040215They deserve to die for making the fa-36 look bad.
>>749043916>get jewed into starting a holy war by Enso who had a hand in their rapid industrialization
What is the point of the hub if everything can be accessed in the menu?
I love them but I have no idea wtf is going on.I thought AC6 was a one shot like AH. AC8 is not an AC7 sequel?4-5-0-6-7 are in the same lore?I am currently playing AC5 after AC4.
>>749044247ENTER
>>749042994I killed this nigga and I genuinely thought it was one of his wingmen because it took me less than a minute to snipe him. Meanwhile the brother (56 I think) kept me locked in a dogfight for a good 3 minutes.
>>749030163I miss it too... the time clicking to switch to the most appropriate size for the moment...Too bad dualshock shape sucks donkey dick. I tried one mission in AC8 with it and went back to the 360.
>>749044076Isn't Stonehenge and Ulysses always getting mentioned except in like Zero?
>>749044334lmao same. Shadow 22 went down so fast, meanwhile I spent 5 fucking minutes trying to hit Shadow-46. goddamn cheating bastard
>>749031551Wait, Western games have women other than Debra Wilson?
>>749044286They take in the same world, but the stories are more or less standalone.
>Mihaly watching as ANOTHER war starts, and he can't join this one because he's bedridden for life and also old as fuck now probably
>>749044286>numbered title>I thought it was a one shot
>>749044286No AC8 is definitely a sequel to 7. Half of the game is basically revisiting areas from 7
>>749044329Just yoinks all your assets.
>>749044496Shame because he would have been hailed as a hero of Usea if he fought in this one aftrr what the Sotoans were doing through the continent
>>749044497
>>749044496AC8 takes place 10 years after the events of AC7 so not sure if he'd live that long being bedridden but yeah he'd be OLD as fuck at that point. Trigger is probably retired by AC8 too.
>>749030163oof, I am so happy I'll be playing these games using my PS3 then. Its PS2 Emu has pressure sensitivity support.
>>749044286>4-5-0-6-7 are in the same lore?PS4 version of 7 came with a copy of 5 as a pre-order bonus to catch you up on the game lore.it's all been the Strangereal setting since 4, AH excluded.
why did they make the online such a grindfest? zoll payouts are fucking ass for how much it costs to unlock the level cap on a single plane, only 2 modes which are pretty much the same thing except the other 4 players are either allies or enemies, and you're at the mercy of RNG to get 1 (one) chance to play the fun superweapon/supersquadron coop fightsi never played AC infinity but i heard 8's multiplayer is very similar except for no fuel system, was it also this grindy?
Kate is the best girl by far.
>>749044802They need to give us 5 on PC, package it with AC8 preorder DLC or something
Why does Project Aces hate this plane so fucking much? It's never appeared in an AC game before as far as I know, and yet they always include the MiG-21 which is even more antiquated. The Flogger is cool as fuck, let me fly it.
In which missions are there optional tunnel runs?
Is ACX canon or nah
>>749044891it's a ps2 game anon just emulate it.
>mission 28 is just a straight up a "all the friends we made along the way" coming to help Joker while a anime OP blasts in background it's so cringe it wraps being pure kino
>>749044286>>749044736Interesting. So with AC8, we're only about 10 years away from the events of Electrosphere. Goddamn, so close.
>>749044736it would be really funny if Mobius One was still doing some solo bullshit missions
>>749044949I kept getting bugs and shit when emulating like weird textures and planes being the wrong color
>>749045093>keptuse the latest release of PCSX2
>>749044981Thats why I say, whenever AC9 comes out its either going to be a sequel or remake of AC3 Electrosphere, or a prequel to AC0. Nowhere else to go. We're either getting Cyberpunk kino or post-WW2/early Cold War kino
>>749044329The ending was somewhat ambiguous or perhaps I dont get the full picture:Is GR supposed to be just another front for Enso or is it a completely different wealthy conglomerate that had interest in buying Enso's assets?And how does exactly Neucom fits in all this? Someone with a lot of dough still needs to acquire EASA
>>749044939dunno, i don't think there's a mention of it, despite the events from that game happening a year after AC7
>>749045146Yuke / Sotoan conflict.
>>749040756Well, you'll see some lasers, let's just say. But sadly the Su-57 lost them, yeah
Is this one of those games that show the final boss at the start?
>>749045149It's ultra heavily implied to be the anonymous core members of Enso that architected the conflict.
>>749045285no
>>749045146i really want project aces to make a space combat game. i want a spiritual successor to freespace 2 and they're the devs to pull it off
>>749032832I went straight for the Su-35, my jetfu
>>749045149that's what it seems like, considering GR was already a big corporation at the time. Enso probably just took over control of GR (despite being absorbed INTO GR).Neucom is a different entity, but I didn't see any references on 8 for them, because they would've already existed.>>749045293I don't think it's implied, it's quite literally what the plot is. that's why it's kinda perfect for 3.
>>749045293>Set up a war where millions die>Completely get away with it since they're anonymous>Achieve their goal of replacing nations with megacorpsThey won
>>749045494>>749045534This. The future is Megacorps. AC8 leads straight to AC3. Its over.
>>749045146>Nowhere else to go.Where else but to commit war crimes for money.
>>749045534Is it even being ran by real people.
>Baxter goes "grr fucking sotoan subhuman kill yourself" while 22 is well within earshot and then backs down instantlyWas he just retarded?
>>749045624No, (((they))) can't even be considered human despite being flesh and blood.
>>749045662Baxter instinctively know S*t*ans have an average IQ of 25.
>shoot down bonus aces>29's ace >Assault Records state that relatives went to his house to seek his personal effects >house contained 12 year old skeletal remains that has perfect match with the Ace you supposedly shot down>Entry is listed as Shot Down, not KIA>It's still out thereI-I d-don't like this bros...
>>749045662it was funny when it happened though
>>749045402I'm fucking SHOCKED after Top Gun Maverick's intro with Tom Cruise almost shooting into orbit they didn't go for some insanely crazy Satellite shootdown mission.Game's just too fucking safe man, they should've gone way crazier, basically just an expac to 7.
>>749032832>I'll play the Eagle and F22 this time>end up with Gripen-chan, Rafale and TyphoonDamn
>>749031551because the western ones are bland dykes who just know how to virtual signal and be annoying
>>749029582You can see how each game in the series reflects its cultural zeitgeist:Ace Combat 3 (1999)>cyberpunk, Matrix, Ghost In The ShellAce Combat 4 (2001)>UN/Desert Storm political thriller parallel and apocalypse movie themes because why notAce Combat 5 (2004)>weeb bullshit, 9/11 and takes place on a goddamn sunny beachAce Combat Assault Horizon (2011)>Michael Bay movieAce Combat 7>generic sci fi anime nonsense
>>749031551It's funny that you still don't get it.
>>749045534>AWWNB won in thr worst wayPixy rolling in his grave
>>749045887Delta shapes are more sexy after all.
>>749033491play armored core insteadrobots>planesstory themes are very similar. your classic japanese autism
Did they explicitly say they were inspired by cope of kiev?
>>749045285>CV-15Fucking insane there's no nuclear carriers in Strangereal when there's already nuclear bombs.
<< You are the finest warrior I've ever faced. >>*flips**flares*Absolute kino boss that requires gun SKILL
>>749046093miss me with that cryptic fromsoftware zanzibart brand of storytelling, lil bro
>guy called cope>he's really coping for the whole gameDamn it kono
>>749046149Ghost of Kyiv is in and of itself an ace combat reference to begin with.
>>749045093how fucking long ago was that?
>>749046093He should play both
>>749045534Need more AnCap games like Ace Combat, sadly this is the only one where megacorps run everything.
>>749045494neucom is a new company when ac3 starts
>>749045534Corpos were for the greater good and it was the only way they could hae set up the SPACE FORCE without icky concepts like countries holding them back.https://ugsf-series.com/en/
>>749045093Newest PCSX2 release shouldn't have that issue anymore.
>w-what if everybody just runs away and we let Rex handle the entire shadow squadron?>mfw
>>749046161I mean the Land Battleships and Alicorn were nuclear powered, I just don't think they specifically say a carrier is nuclear unless it's a superweapon.
>General Resource has a complete monopoly for years>a bunch of their shit wasn't even actually theirs, they took it from Enso's corpse>even the XFA 36>the second 1 (one) (uno) actual competitor shows up, they get rapedIs there a more pathetic "mega"corporation out there?
>>749040215>listening to Mavisimen blow her own brains out on the radio instead of surrenderingONE LESS SOTOAN DOG
>>749036409It's normal hair color in Russia. Many trad women use it.
>>749046437I love how they bunker buster the hell out of a Nuclear Battlership without considering the possibility of turning the Space Elevator into Chernobyl.
>>749046298>megacorps run everything>AnCap>sadlyThat's literally what an anarcho-capitalist state would look like, retard.
>>749044247>>749043916Yeah they swapped to industrialization because their land went to shit, and Enso spurred them to go to war with FCU by dangling giga tech. Its not like they could terraform their land reasonably, and swapping to fix their land while having no military able to defend probably means they get invaded by Yuktobania
>>749046460the power of contrarianism
>>749046437>I just don't think they specifically say a carrier is nuclear unless it's a superweapon.I mean, I guess they wouldn't in Strangereal since nuclear power seems relegated to powering fuck-huge superweapons, but you'd think they'd have CVNs and regular, non-super-sized nuclear subs (and nuclear battleships fuck you).
I'm so happy this game is based, bros.
>>749041802Not Ace Combat X, the GOAT.
>>749046325huh
>>749046578The "sadly" was about it being the only game that does it, not about the megacorps. You sliced three clauses apart, glued them into a contradiction that isn't there, and then explained anarcho-capitalism by inventing a state. Reading the sentence was the whole assignment. We do indeed have a retard in our mist.
>>749046937>EASA>there is a non-zero chance Nagase joins Neucom in AC9
>>749029582ngl I wish they'd add the ability to scale the hud downshit is fucking HUGEthat mission where you had to look at the emblems on the ship was fucking rough because the UI was blocking the emblem most of the timealso an FOV slider would be nice
But the S*t*ans have Megafloats...
>>749046958>in our mist.
>pictured:>Me and my best friend Cope>(He's a genie now. He lives in my head)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhU7mewqei4
>>749047038IIRC there's a Nagase in Ouroboros so there's that. She seems autistic enough to fall for the sublimation meme
>>749032552JAV code?
>>749047141you know, as much as I love Kobayashi and the current sound team, there's just no way in hell they can match AC3's original soundtrack. I don't think it's in their skillset.I mean, can you imagine any of them composing THIS?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDx5jlzkhMk
>>749044490Debra is also in Ace Combat 8 and she gets five times the voicelines of the girl in the OP.
>>749029582Isn't she a pacifist or some gay shit?
>>749047260Debra is the VA, not face scanned, if you play in Japanese, the VA is someone else too, and not Debra Wilson. Are you a retard or something?
In hindsight. going from glorified Arcade games like 1 and 2 to the ludonarrative kino that is AC3 is kind of insane.
>>749047185No joke though, is there a jav girl with these vibes?
For me it's Kate.
>>749047305She's a civvie acrobatics pilot so she's reticent to kill.
>>749047373This bitch's crush on Cope is annoying as fuck.
>>749047465Remins me of Jaeger. But at least it was cute since it was jis son.
>>749047354I guess in the 90s everyone was inspired (even though it is a mish-mash of everything that's going on in anime at the time, it was still very interesting).
>>749044981>>749044286Do i play on release order or chronologically?Ive heard a lot of good things about Zero
>>749047373>>749047465>>749047556So, is it NTR or not?
The female MC is the cutest foid in Ace Combat 8
>>749047371Aika like 6 years ago
How can anyone like Cope? He's a depressing retard who's only strat was running away from everything.
>>749035816This had a couple of great ideas>genuine sense of speed where AC games had barely any before it; maybe only in the re-runs>oil splatters while you pump an enemy full of lead in a close quarters chase = 'plane blood'good shit
>>749047684>So, is it NTR or not?It's one-sided workplace admiration, don't read too much into it.
>>749047816Yeah but he's a really cool depressing retard
>>749047739You're just saying that because she had blonde hair. That's not specific enough.
>>749047868the best one was the pilot's body flies outta the plane when you do thisthe assault mode didnt really make sense to me because no one can keep the plane nose that glued to another fighter's tail that closely and it was just the game playing itself
>>749047816Also obsessed with numbers. Or maybe that's just a ghost thing.
>>749047868The basic multiplayer gameplay was also the best iteration PA has put out and I will die on this hill.
>there are currently no plans for the city's reconstructionhmmmmmmmmmmmmm
What SP weapons are best to stick on wingmen? I assume QAAM is the only thing worth a shit for them?
>>749047371Saisai Itsuki Nagisa Mitsuki had that playful confidence later in her career but she's a shrimp
>Diddy editing planes with AI to make it seem like we have 20 pilots instead of 8It's a small scene but holy shit it's comedy gold.
Does AC online get better in terms of COOP missions? The missions currently feel too quick and pretty shit when everything dies from everyone else before you get to do anything.
>>749029582i still do not know if the threads for this game here are made by bots or real people.
>>749047682release order starting at 4 is the safest bet if you want to get hooked on the series, then 3 when you do. 3 is superb but it's hard to recommend starting with it if you don't either have a deep appreciation for mid-late 90s cyberpunk schizokino anime aesthetic, or are already an ace combat fan; some people just bounce off ps1 games, and if you stall there you're potentially fucking yourself out of great games.
>>749048284Throw somebody in an ECM plane.ECM is stupidly busted.
Tasha mating press
Holy crap guys, I inserted (well, I told Claude to do it) AC into AC (It doesn't play all that different).I can't upload gameplay because I'm on my dad's work computer.
SO IS THE STORY GOOD OR NOT??? I only played 3 International and I reee'd so hard when "lol acktually the matrix"
>>749048284ECM. They turn it on the moment you order them to use their SPW's. It's like having three SPW's at that point. You want to switch off the command instantly though because they do have an ammo count like you.
>>749048284they're actually fairly decent with LAAMs too. they wreck ass with the Mig-31's loadout
Damn the F35 feels like I'm cheating in ground missionsLACM is nuts
>>749048604probably the worst story out of the mainline games
>>749048604It's alright but it leads directly into 3 so you might not like it.
7 was shit in mihaly is the worst ace rival in the series
>>749048659no way because i played 7 a little bit and drowned out so fucking bad. didn't even bother continuing
>>749048638>play ace combat infinity >meta is just racing other f-35s to farm ground targets with 8AGM>look at aircraft tree in AC8>you can use LACM AND 8AGMyous funny guys, PA.
I'm thinking all the heavy 7 and 3 wanking is one guy. It wasn't this bad in previous threads.
>>749048604Not very. The characters you'll be interacting with the most aren't very interesting and fleshed out, and tons of cool grunts with unique portraits are just done and discarded in a single mission. Your "rival" is also lame as fuck as is the big bad, and the cool enemy squadrons are reused over and over again.
>>749048659No when 5 exists and is a character driven story about the Razgriz squad but the squad is made up entirely of cardboard non-characters or annoyingly preachy cunts that won't shut up about muh peace.
>>749048332It really comes full circle when later on it becomes true [\spoiler]It's also funny to find out DD is some actual Bruce wayne type billionaire kid.
>>74904886222 isn't the big bad.
MoleGODs are the best characters in the game and I will not be convinced otherwise.
>>749047260>dubfagkill yourself
7 and 5 are the worst numbered games. AH is the worst spinoff.
>>749048918I am perfectly aware, but if you think Larp Larp Sahur Hot Wheels is intimidating or anything more than comedically incompetent I question your taste.
I am on mission 3 and weirdly I already like it much much better than AC7.
>>749047816No wonder why video game writers don't even try anymore, and why all modern games are so one dimensional, with obvious they vs us, good/bad, because people like you can only understand a story as deep as it is spelled out for you with obvious letters. If all you got from cope is, he is depressed, retarded and only runs away because lmao why don't he just shoot, then fuck me, I wouldn't want to have your takes on any other medium with a narrative to it..
>>749048937those jackasses did manage to redeem themselves... a little.
>>749048993for me there's a jump in quality between AC7 and its DLC missions. AC8 feels like more of that DLC quality which is very welcome
>>749048986>Your "rival" is also lame as fuck as is the big bad>as is the big bad>I am well aware
>>7490488825's cast and story is still infinity better than the nobody-cares group in 8. They somewhat good characters were double D and the one and done grunts
did they get the same VA from 5 for Nagase or is she just trying to do a similar voice?
>>749048282and in waltzes General Resources, suspiciously rich now and graciously offering to pick up the check to rebuild the city.
>>749036580They made basically all the minor changes that I wanted from 7 (guns being better, multiple special weapons, having actual wingmen) and the SFX and graphics are much better. The music felt like a step down, but still good. The missions though were much worse imo, yeah there's a couple shit ones in 7 but they were overall good and had variety. 8 feels kinda uninspired in that regard, will have to see how I feel after replaying on ace
>>749049105What are you even trying to say? Seems to me like you're incapable of discerning that implies I'm attributing the label of "lame" to two different characters. Are you ESL or something?
>>749048962The JP releases of several AC games default to the English dub. Project Aces are westaboos, and therefore, to play with the Japanese dub is to play as a Japanese normalfag and not a cool westaboo Japanese.
>>749036312most popular jav actress right now has big tits and it's full of japanese videogame characters with big tits, what are you smoking
>>749048993the mission quality in 8 is very good across the board. enjoy, anon. shit's just fun.
>>749044496Grundr as extenside brain data, or at least flight data to train drones, but it's practically the same for what it would be used for.The thing is, it's not far fatched to think he could come back digitalized.
>>749049209Who is the most popular jav actress right now? Sounds like important information for everyone in the thread to know.
>>749049109Nostalgia is heavy on you. I love 5, but I don't even remember the other's names besides Chopper.
>>749049209Who is the most popular jav actress right now?Is she hot or does she JUST have big tits?
While Toprak isn't an interesting character in the slightest. His boss fight actually requires skill of the gun, whereas Mihaly was a scripted mess who would fly in set patterns around downtown Farbanti with windowed infinite health.
>>749048604I liked it more than 7. Could have definitely been better though, especially with how cool the opening sequence was. I was really hyped to see how the story would play out from that but it didn't really do much interesting with it outside of some kino moments sprinkled throughout, which were more mission specific things rather than ones involving the overall plot
>>749029582i wanna do some ass combat with her if you catch my drifts
>>749049260don't be silly, you remember Nagase. But you don't remember Snow or Grimm and that's fair.
>>749049260EDGEARCHERSNOW
Why did Raidou become a bad guy
>finally, after all this time practically salivating waiting to hear it since the release date trailer, hear Hortus Regis Alti ingameI am cum
>>749049149subfag, but i saw karen strassman in the credits for her, so same unless i'm schizo.
Just played the tutorial mission. At 1440p and all details cranked up to the max, performance was underwhelming. My 4070 can't even maintain 60 fps. >NvME>32 GB DDR5 RAMIs it my system or is the game optimized like shit?
>>749049260If you can't remember the cast of 5 after two decades, I highly doubt you'll remember the cast of 8 in the same time as well.
>>749049381you could have let your PC autodetect optimal settings, you know...
>>749049381>UE5Take a guess
>>749048862>Your "rival" is also lame as fuck as is the big bad
>>749049378based assuming you're right.
>>749049184shut the fuck up retard lmao
>>749040215Literally every Sotoan in this game is some seething cuck that tries to commit mass genocide and cobalt bomb cities just for the sake of it. And why? Because the FCU dares to have green grass instead of being a nigger third world desert shit nation like Sotoa.Literally total fucking Sotoan death and murder their babies too.
>>749049381
I HAVE SO FAR TO GO
>>749049429Maybe, but acting like there's a gigantic gap between character writing for 5 and 8 shows a certain bias for sure. No issue with liking 5 characters more, but "infinity better" is a bit much.
>Mission 22>they actually thought I was going to retreat when the railguns fired up
>>749049569>Their grass is greener>Billions must die
I was so hyped for that one mission with the Spears and the giant fucking blimps thinking you'd be having a dogfight amidst orbital Spear strikes, trying to keep your plane steady from all the shockwaves, turns out you can just pitch up and kill all of them in one sweep, while getting to the mission objectives. It's not even funny how underutilized they are throughout the game considering how fucking COOL it is to see the clouds part as the giant boom goes off.
>>749049634it maybe hyperbole but the main cast of 8 is shit and forgettable, moreso than 5
<< Would you like to see my graffed card, 55? >><< FEATHERHEAD!! >>
>>749049381stop using ultra
>>749049564You're brown.
>>749049109>5Go through any pre 8 announcement thread and look for people talking about 5 and you'll find that 5's cast was constantly complained about and called cheesy or bad. You're only posting this because 8 is new
>>749049769let's go 53!
>>749049837>You're only posting this because 8 is newBecause we're talking about the cast of 8 vs 5? Are you retarded? And I didn't say 5's cast was great either.
>>749049602><< Today's My Birthday! >> INTENSIFIES
>>749049769<< That's bone. And the lettering is something called Silian Rail. >>
What the fuck was the point of this? Almost single one of these cutscenes feels so disjoined and out of place that I feel like a lot of them were added after the entire game was already done.Also the way everyone talks is so weird. Did BAMCO hire a bad localization studio? Or are the writers just unable to write human sounding dialog? Compare this to some of the more in-depth conversations you have in some of the Yakuza games and the difference is like day and night.Just put the sortie in the bag and let me fly. I feel like AC0's writing (although still flawed) was kind of a fluke and they have tried to recreate that lightning in a bottle ever since, unsucessfully.
>>749049778nta, but i'm in too deep now anon, i simply live with the pain
>>749050103it unironically feels like they had 3 rough drafts and asked Ai to glue them together.
>>749050103jap pretentious noodle writing + bad localization
>>749050126forgot pic
>>749040813There -seeeems- to be less bullshit anime 0% hit chance preset moves this, or they just got better at hiding it from me. Every AC7 mission with a drone focus was "wait for them to finish doing their bullshit move and they suddenly get le tired and fly straight" I don't mind a little plot power but I don't think the fucking mass drones need it, just throw waves and waves at us so you have to get good at GUN or waste missiles.
>>749049381Here's what I discovered after painstakingly resetting back to the menu>most settings have fuckall visual impact>Shadows ultra>high, anything below doesn't do shit. All of em look the same>GI has minor impact, all of them look the fucking same>Reflections looks the same on every setting and only grants frame boost on low>Effects deletes framerate when missile trails are onscreen. Drop to low because it looks no different>Obviously cloud quality is second most expensive setting, I think they may look different but idk, still dropped it to low.>As usual in modern games, model quality doesn't do shit>Textures actually grants a minor boost when going ultra>highRAM usage is wack and is likely a fucked up memleak cuz it doesn't affect actual framerate. Just make sure you have a big enough paging file to avoid OOM.
>>749049250>>749049275setokan
>>749050103*Almost every single one*disjointedsorry, i was typing angrily
>>749049285Yeah, that's the thing I appreciate most about the Shadows.They're retarded goobers but unlike Mihaly and the drones the don't instantly ruin the fun factor of a mission they appear in.
>>749050186>jap pretentious noodle writingJaps are still extreme pacifists and anti-war. 2 nukes apparently were enough.
>>749050103I can understand not liking the plot point, but he spells it out twice during the avoid detection missions.He feels guilty for the wings lie and the resistance getting spear'd.Like you people are actually trying to not understand things.
>>749050103For me it's the constant babble about muh winds muh wings muh skies, in a game where Cope's waxing nostalgic and morose all fucking game, like shut the fuck up with this vague fucking nonsense, can we go back to the kino that was Purple Magic or Baxter needing to see some big fat fucking titties during downtime? Queen is especially bad about this.
>>749050103those people rose up in revolt because wings was therethat city got nuked because wings was thereit's (not?) your fault
>>749043594I've crashed a few times during the landing minigame this time, not because it's remotely hard but because AC7 was so fucking casual I got used to trying to do weird shit like landing on the first pixel of runway or doing loop-de-loops or landing at 600v. It uh, it doesn't like you doing that any more, just land normally.
>>749050103I understood everything perfectly, maybe it's just you. Baxter is depressed and Tasha is a kid who doesn't get what Baxter just saw and pulling strawmen.
>>749050180It does feel like it. Ace Combat always had somewhat disjointed and robotic writing but I feel like this is one of the worst cases.
Did anyone else cry when they were forced to shoot down the Arkbird?
Hitting a wall on Mission 25. I spend like a half minute blowing up the two bombers, and by the time I finish, one of the two groups basically gets fucked and I fail. I also cannot tell where the railgun battleship is.
>>749044061Huh weird fuel tanksAnyway
>>749050429it's clear what the conversation is trying to convey, i'm not that stupid. it's the way that they talk to each other and how the dialogue is written that drives me up the wall. just extremely uncanny and not human sounding
>>749050440No, but I understand that it was probably emotional for Nagase.
>ghosts literally exist>something beneath the surface drives men insane after long term exposure>world on the brink of corpo and AI dominance
>Wings propaganda is gaining rapidly and actually provide tangible results pushing back the RoS>some literal-whos release statement that basically say "wings fake, wings bad, pls believe">it worksI want to straggle whoever wrote this shit
>>749050484i kept failing that mission until i destroyed the planes on the runway before they took off, otherwise they just chip away at your bros
>>749050514Oh, that's the Nippon language barrier doing the work, like Rosie now instead of Rosa. I wouldn't blame it on the game itself rather than Bamco who hired literal retards for translating. This isn't 2001.
>>749050541Yes, the dialogue explicitly expositing that on the mission entry>The arkbird used to be a symbol of hope and peace for captain Nagase>And now she must shoot it downDid suggest that was the case.
>>749050561You know who it was. The yous are always fucking shit up.
>>749044921to be fair, this boy is extremely iconic. They need to just go in deep and let us fly biplanes with only a mounted gun. The special weapon is me throwing bombs out the cockpit by hand.
>>749050561I'm sorry, but that's extremely realistic writing. I quite like it.
>>749050230>RAM usage is wack and is likely a fucked up memleak cuz it doesn't affect actual framerate. Just make sure you have a big enough paging file to avoid OOM.i did 2 rearms in one of the missions and my game just hung on a black screen forever the moment i crossed the line for the second time. gpu didn't seem to have an issue, and never crashed outside of that, and i never actually checked my ram usage cause i'm used to brute forcing everything with 64gb
>>749045662Fucking Sotggers I don't blame my equal coloured friend and brother for his correct racism.
>>749050561it's supposed to show the power of social media and fake news, it's social commentary, albeit very on-the-nose and retardedthey should have just stuck to writing kino moments during gameplay
>>749050561Wings was fake though, so it was probably easy to prove that. It's just a coincidence that they replaced him with an invincible demon pilot.
>>749050561???It's hard to believe one plane can solo shit. So the foundations are very easy to shake.
Are.... are we the baddies?
>>749050642Speaking of Tasha, in retrospect it seems really obvious that they were just using her to drum up support as a cute e-girl influencer to get guys to sign up.
>>749050554To be fair there's a lot of bloodless, boneless rubber chicken pilots surviving 15g turns on the reg maybe cope just went to the legendary super pilot level of being bodyless.
>>749050752?? no? The Satoans put literal nukes in space and threatened to bomb everyone because of MUH GRASS or some stupid mongol 3rd world shit
>>749050752Sotoans get out of my thread
>>749050554Ace Combat does understated but fucked-up themes very well. Despite the earnestness and victorious endings, everything is rotting and the humanity in all things is being slowly chipped away.
>Coster FINALLY gets his shit together and starts being a character>... during the final three missions in the fucking gameThis dude is MIA during the loooooooooong middle stretch of the game and NOW they remember he exists?
>>749050791Cum for Tasha, stay for Kate. Makes sense.
>>749050827>Meanwhile on the ground...AAAHHEUEUUYYEEAAAHHH
>>749050741Not in fucking Strangereal, where every decade a single pilot singlehandedly turns the war around.
>>749047185AC-8
>>749050827literal nukes? sure, they've got a bit of DU in the tips, but that's just for hardness. it's good old mass and velocity doing all the destructive work.
>>749050904>Cum for Tasha*inside
guyswhat ermwhat is caviar like? How does it feel?
>>749050975Unreliable narrators everywhere.
>>749050896You can either blow shit up or have character development, not both.
>Fly into the megafloats expecting a tunnel where the battleships are>Fly into a wall insteadFuck
>>749050642>>749050669>>749050719>>749050721should have been something like >Cope being the shitty, do nothing WINGs that sprouts all his emo shit but is good friend to (you)>he dies and the world finds out WINGs is fake, FoU coalition starts losing hope>(You) step in and take the callsign, then make the propaganda real>>749050741>It's hard to believe one plane can solo shitthis shit happens every half a decade kek
>>749051019It feels and tastes gross. it's a silly food.
>>749051019tripe of the fish world
>>74905101999% of caviar isn't even real caviar. And before you ask: neither taste very good.
>>749050827>1,000,000 people died in a war because Satoajeets couldn't figure out how to make green grass.Jesus.
>>749050975>>749051024>Ace combat is literally just military industrial propaganda to stroke the cock of the airforce and get them to buy another set of mouldy fucking planes and decals.People still keep buying giant but surprisingly vulnerable wunderwaffe though, maybe there's another propaganda series selling people giant railguns.
Is Mobius 1 a better ace than Rex? He took on Yellow Squadron alone.
The star wars basedboy in me gets happy when he hears megafloat expo city and sees general resource logo in the briefing.
>>749051049>should have been something likenot interested in your fanficCalling Ray (You) is already signs of brain damage, anyway.
>>749051019just don't bother unless you've got scandi blood.
>>749050561they sent it from a military base though
>>749051074>>749051108>>749051131Right. To eat. Haha. That's what I meant.
>>749050896yeah i don't know what the fuck was up with the writing team for this game. did they rewrite the entire thing several times? all they had to do was give all of the characters in your squad ample time to have them fleshed out during all the missions, yet Coster remains a fucking mute autist that "likes music" i guess, for the majority of the game
>>749051019Salty squishy balls of salty flavor.It's okay.
>>749048119 Cope's entire existence as it is in the game is baffling to me.Why is he even there as a ghost? My first guess was that it was going to lead to a prototype electrosphere reveal, experiments with implanting consciousness in machines, sublimation, etc. Ghosts have never been a thing in AC but computer shenanigans? Could work. Would tie in to AC3 nicely. Ghost Cope's obsession with specific numbers in the first act made me think of a computer/Matrix type thing, a code of some sort, so I fully expected a reveal that Rex had been implanted Cope's consciousness (gathered from his time as Wings) as an early test for sublimation, and that the third act would center around that. It felt obvious to me.But then nothing happened. The numbers were irrelevant. Ghost Cope being a thing never actually comes up, Rex never tells anyone, no one learns about it. He serves no purpose other than to give a "Sotoan" (I use that word lightly) point of view to the war. But even then he's unreliable as a narrator as his memory is fuzzy. So why is he there? Narratively it's my biggest issue with the game. Replaying the campaign knowing it goes nowhere makes me just groan shut up every time he talks, I'd rather him not be there at all.Also shocked Dision doesn't make an appearance in some form or another, given he canonically dies in 2030. Yoko got a mention in AC7, but nothing for my boy? When I heard Planning Division 303 I was sure he was going to come up, just because of the cryptic yet similar sounding name, and the story starting to pivot towards Enso Order, and maybe eventually a General Resources big bad reveal. That maybe the Cope/Rex experiment would have been Yoko's work that Dision died to protect. Enso Order's logo also looked suspiciously like Ouroboros'. But nope, nada. Just a coincidence. I'm so fucking disappointed with how little this campaign had to do with AC3.
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>>749050230Thanks for your work, anon.
>>749051131wait seriously? Is it a "It's not from the champagne region of france" kind of thing or "99.9% of wasabi is just green horseradish" kind of thing?
>>749051169I get the feeling that mobius 1 and cipher are the best aces. Rex seems more Blaze tier.
>>749050896They gave Baxter a whole story but then forgot about Coster and Tasha. Like, literally, there is ZERO story about Tasha whatsoever other than she's an acrobatic civvie pilot and doesn't want to shoot people. We learn nothing at all about her
>>749051160Even worse, they did figure it out since there's reforestation efforts mentioned + the plains are starting to get plants back at the end. The entire thing was needless. Ending of the game should have been turning the Tonitrus Spears against them and rodding the remaining Sotoan cities off the map.
>>749050975Not for average people who never hear of these stories, people don't even know who Cipher really is despite a documentary and it's painted as a myth almost.
>>749031551In Japan a girl with blonde and pink dyed hair is a cute genki gyaru type, not a mentally ill twitter activist
>>749051169This game's missions usually end with way higher kill counts than 4, and be honest, the yellow squadron were barely any different than another mob. there was 1/10 of them and they were about as good as a shadow.
So what's the one "KINO" or meme moment of this game that's gonna transcend the usual fanbase and reach normie audiences? You know, like>Yo buddy. Still alive?>Torres screaming at the top of his lungs ("SALVATION!" "ONE MILLIONS LIVES!")>JPEG dog >Belka did nothing wrong>Pixy final duel + the duel song>Megalith + Agnus DeiI'm almost done with the game and so far, nothing has stuck out to me that much.
i am not doing well at all in that tunnel run.
>>749051250I honestly think they chickened out at some point in the development process of linking too hard to AC3 where as you say, cope would have been a good method for it, but they kept it because it is useful to have an internal monologue to take the place of the spunky felon or belkan lunatic or people we shot down and so on. I think it's unfortunate but I can see them being nervous enough to bottle it.
>>749051438ONE THOUSAND POINTS OF LIGHT
>>749051438Hatred for Sotoans.
>>749051309Caviar refers specifically to sturgeon roe.In the US unless you're paying at least $50/oz it's likely some other fish roe like salmon or carp.
>>749051169God, if we're going by aces down, Cipher is the absolute king of aces then. Belkans also invented flight doctrine.
>>749051250>11. Remember that number, Rex. It's really importantWhy? It literally never came up again.
>>749051438Cope and seethe and caviar. Not exactly high hits. Actually, for ace combat the story is grounded. Not sane of course.
>>749051438Rex shooting down basically kids for Points.>>749040215
>>749051438<< It's a terrible plan, isn't it? >><< NO >>
>>749051438<<It's a terrible plan, isn't it?>>
>>749051489Okay so mostly column A a tiny bit of B, I was just checking it wasn't a "it's not even fish eggs" situation. Thanks anon I will not be eating caviar any time soon.
>>749051324I mean, the entire upper class of Sotoa is basically shown to be LARPing as overly devout nomadic warlords, so it probably really didn't take much prodding from Enso to get them to declare a holy war on Usea to take the land promised to them 3000 years ago.
>>749051438I for one, hope it's the utter LARP central Sotoa is as a nation, or that one pilot's smug ass fucking face. You know the one. Yeah the game doesn't have very memorable "epic" moments, honestly.
>>749051045kek i did the same
>>749051547<< lol no >>
>>749051250I think they are deepening the links to ac3 in the dlc, the real chickening out in 8 is the final mission because objectively enso order and the megacorporations won, but they wanted to give the player a happy ending so the real villains only make an half hearted attempt to sink the aircraft carrier.
>>749051513Referring to Moon 11 probably
>>749051513Buddy, Cope was obsessed with Moon-11 and wanted to put her down as his last regret.
>>749051653You're probably right, what a wet fart of a setup.
>>749051169Rex gets automatically disqualified because he gets btfo by a sheep and has a wingman take a killshot for himCipher > Trigger > Mobius > Rex imo.
>>749051453I had a hard time finding out the damned entrance. First two times I flew in where the rubble was.
>>749031551If this was a western game, Tasha would be a better pilot than Rex and constantly berate him for being weak while at the same time she would get to play the victim card and claim to be oppressed by all the weak men like Rex and (you) even though she's also a mary sue who can solo the entire enemy force.
>>749031551If it was a western game she would have a manchin, 5oclock shadow a sideshave and would constantly lecture you to listen to her while moving like an unstoppable spacemarine.
>>749051634What have they actually confirmed about DLC? I see people talk about it but I haven't seen the source yet.
>>749051169mobius 1 would rape the entire 8 cast
>>749051707It's hard to rank Rex too highly specifically because I think this is the first time I've even seen wingmen hit something outside of a cutscene. They're still pretty gormless but at least now I can relegate one of them to the funny EW planes.
>>749051519>because he gets btfo by a sheepOh shit that reminds me.>>749051438Winner right here
>>749051016That was quick
>>749031551because your studio would also stick in a bunch of "representation" into the game and then shit on gamers for being fossils
>>749051787Pixy was definitely a kill stealing motherfucker and he gets better the higher the difficulty you're playing on.
>>749051016Here lies Tasha (She never scored points)
>>749051547I thought Coster would be the Squad's hypeman, turns out it was Dealer. He's even the one to egg Coster to put some fucking music near the end.
>buy the F22>cant reliably run through the tunnelthis is a legit skill issue, oh my god im getting filtered hard. im cockpit view btw
Cipher > Mobius > NEMO > Phoenix = Scarface > Trigger > Gryphus > Rex > Blaze > Talisman > Antares = Bishop > Reaper
>>749051848Pixy doesn't count he's outside the border of allies , in fact to balance it out you get crispy PJ. you're not wrong though so fair point. Generally speaking though this is easily the most active they've been outside of storytime
>>749051953they're literally all me
>>749051787I remember your wingmen in AC5 being pretty good
I don't play Poker at all so Dealer's Poker puns made no sense to me...
>>749051707Why Cipher over Mobius? The latter basically fucked Erusia by himself 3 times in a row without backup, to a point where both Erusia and Sotoa avoided touching North Point when they went to war again.Personally for me it's>Mobius >Cipher> Trigger >Rex > Blaze > Talisman
>>749051953Poor fucking reaper and his equal parts cringy equal parts cool decal.
Ace combat newfag hereHow come Ace Combat 8 is so fucking easy on Elite?And how come Ace Combat 7 was so much better?
>>749052068Post proof you've played both.
>>749052021You only need to know hold, fold and run anon that's all.
>>749052061It looks like they gave him a pink hair bow. Also Reaper is only that low because he only had 6 missions and 3 of them were absolutely nothing.
>>749052121I see what you did there
>>749052174Oh yeah? See this
Blaze is better than Rex, you people are crazy
>>749051881Dealer really manages to grow into his role. Talks up Rex and then manages multiple other squadrons in M28. And casually reveals his mentor in M30
>>749052283Okay post proof, at least 500 word essay right now in this rapidly disappearing thread or you're wrong forever.
>think EW planes are a trap>they actually turn your regular missiles into QAAMshot diggity
>>749052283How? As a team leader maybe, but as a dogfighter I think Rex wins out.
>>749040215So did one of these retards actually shoot down Kate? I couldn't really tell what was going on, she just fucking spaced out and took a missile up her ass for no reason.
>>749052283Blaze cannoncally agreed << YES >> that pops flying was crazy, when pops is a nothing character during Mayhem in Zero who gets shot down easily by Cipher.
>>749052347I give Tasha an EW plane, since she's a pacifist and all. I keep them in cover mode, and whenever I authorize special weapons I become a death machine.
3rd person view? You didn't beat the game.
>Tally 1000 banditsMy fucking dick
>>749052408Wasn't it one of the Savian mercs?
>>749040314No, the gameplay is woke.
>>749029582My wife Kate and her girlfriend Tasha
>>749052119why would I just tell lies on the internet?
>>749052056Cipher had more and higher quality opponents, and Pixy himself was tempered alongside him with all the guys you shot down along the way (and was always a very competent wingman). Mobius is very good but I feel like Cipher proved himself in the age of the most skilled pilots.
>>749052408>took a missile up her ass
>>749052435I wish people treated me that honorably... what a great way to die in a blaze of glory
>>749052427I feel bad giving her a floating brick to do all the stupid flippy shit in I never ever even see anyway because I too, am doing the flippy shit.
>>749052435>What if bomber defence mission but with a thousand bombers?They were really struggling to find material to stretch this shit to 30 missions god damn.
>>749052534>3.5hourskeep playing bro, stop posting and finish ur 1st playthrough, its a long game
>>749052610fuck off faggot you've complained enough it was kino
>Ace combat 7 again with the worst parts of 5 and a whiff of AHI mean I didn't hate it but I was expecting more
>>749050632>Rosie now instead of Rosafuck sake, this is intentional. It's the name she went by before she became the princess, back when she was a commoner. She used to go by Rosie Fellucini.This is the price we pay for them not releasing Aces at War 2019 separately.
>>749052652Yeah the auto dodge 4 aces after downing a thousand planes with an arbitrary 15 minutes timer was peak design.
>>749052534>3.5 hoursSo you played the tutorial bombing mission and a couple of the first levels of a game got it
>>749052708get gud scub
>>749052668i was also expecting more. they really glazed and shilled this to potentially being the best or biggest ace combat ever and im like hmmmmmm some of the writing is still a total headscratcher. Kojima or some of the more autistic japanese writers should write for this
>>749050103Yeah idk what happened with the dialog in 8 because its ass, and its ass by AC standards.
>>749052767>hurr just use machine guns broYeah I would have, if I hadn't spent my ammo fighting a thousand bombers for half an hour before these cheating niggas showed up.
>>749052430cockpit view just completely fucks up the chase camera so i stopped using it. what's the point of playing AC when you can't press Y and follow the target properly?
>>749052668I can never fucking use lasers I'm so fucking bad with lasers and railguns.
>>749052668>the worst parts of 5But there weren't unfun gimmick missions every 3rd mission.
>>749045534How close are we to getting this IRL? I think it will happen in 20-40 years.
>>749052828You know you could land and reload?Or is landing in combat too hard for you?
>>749052828should have landed restocked before the timer ran out bro, you had to have known a <<MISSION UPDATE>> was coming
>>749052876yeah it's not far off. we already have some big megacorporations that are richer than some countries.
Rex and Baxter had their pistols on them when Moon 11 and Shadow 22 pay them a visit on the ground. They probably could have taken them out right there and fled before security arrived.
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>>749031895this is one of the most based posts i've seen on this god awful board
>>749052828get gudS ranked
>>749048585Requiescat en pace, anon!
>>749048937>entire FCU military would have crumpled if some schizophrenic ground person decided to shoot Rex during either of the times he got the drop on himWhy the fuck did the FCU decide to make a base on hostile ground and not bother securing the doorway to the enemy and just let their only competent pilot hang around there?
>>749051250It would've made more sense to have him take the role of a WSO than a ghost
>>749053276Japanese writing.
