I liked DD
>>749662419I liked Kate more.
>>749662419oseans look like that???
>>749662419would have been funny if someone in the chat said>come to leasath
did they give a timeframe on when exactly zero is getting a separate steam app?
>>749662419he looks like a nortubel character
By Allah S*t*a is even worse than Leasath.
Why do Russian planes all have that sensor dildo to wreck the aesthetics?
>>749662419:DD
>>749662717it's a counterweight for better balance.
>>749662714
>Say "All yurtherders should be shephered into a blender" around some filthy sotoans.>They all step back shocked and mad and give me a plane for my bravery speaking truth to filthy nomads.Yeah. That's how it happened Tasha.
>>749662875Surprised Baxter ended up being my favourite squad member. Would be my favourite character in the game if not for my absolute lads the Immortals.
Debating on whether to get to doing all my S ranks on Ace difficulty or if I should wait until we get some DLC cause if they do DLC and I've already cleared the game, not sure if I'd have the motivation to do more.
>AC8 DLC comes out set post game>First chunk of it is one big cutscene where you go on furlough with the squad>Kate gives Tasha and Coster money to go to the movies and wants to spend time alone with Rex by going on a dinner date>Interrupted by an Enso drone strike>Scramble to find aircraft, only stuff immediately ready to fly are some outdated F-5's>Beat drones back and track them to an underground facility>Tunnel run mission happens>Destroy what was left of Enso>Cutscene picks up with them finishing previous date>Ends with prompt "press X to kiss Kate"
>no one even mourns Cope except for Kate after she loses her entire squad
Cope should had been recovered and turned into a cyborg plane by enso. and in the end he would had crashed into tewy.
>>749663281Do we know how much time passed between the prologue and the first mission? There's no way they cleared you to fly on the same day that you got downed twice, right? Maybe they were all already done mourning by the time you step up to be the new wings.
>Give every reason for DD to be the traitor >it isnt him>he's one of the real ones who has your back the entire game>is appalled by what HE'S actually goal is>learns that once he drops the tricks and shows the truth, people give a damn and wings finally goes viral and unites people like he always wantedMy big question is, will he or his family's company play a big role in the next AC?
I'm curious about that submarine in the last missionThe AI/encrypted voices it makes especially, like wtf is that
>>749663365>DD: "may I present you: robo cope."
>>749662419As much as I like DD, I think I've had enough of the social media trope when it comes to the Ace Combat story.
>>749663419I guess they wanted to frame Doniphan as the "good guy" rich people for the corpo war shit later on.
>>749663648>hello, I am robo cope. I like grasslands and fucking sheep.
>>749663821Where else was it done? I don't remember social media stuff in 7.
>>749663414I guess you could figure it out by checking for operation dates during briefing, but I haven't paid attention to it. That being said, it's probably a couple of days later. The XO was desperate to put you in a plane, but the medic wouldn't allow it before checking for brain damage. If it was a quick check-up you wouldn't have been Cope's WSO. D.D. also had some things prepared like painting Cope's emblem on your plane, so it couldn't possibly be on the same day.
Helo :D
>>749664437need fox 2 correction
>>749664437SLOW THE FUCJK DOWN
>>749663513"I REALLY LIKE LAGER" -cute sub probably
>>749664437>Answer me like that again and I will fucking rape youWhat the fuck was his commander's problem
>>749662419https://youtu.be/SkNQ1HDKAzs
The final mission with the submarine was dogshit
>>749664437Fuck you nigga
>>749664494Does the german language exist in Strangereal? Do any of our languages exist, or is it a middle earth kinda deal?
>>749664616>Does the german language exist in Strangereal?Kind of. It's Belkan.
i love kate
>>749664437This somehow takes a dozen of ADFX02's MPBM to shoot down.Meanwhile only one is enough for a podarge or a land aegis.Why didn't the sotoans mass produce ladons?
>watch Vtuber do the stealth mission>her head tilts along with the plane when dodging the 3D radarI do this too.
>>749664437Honestly I don't get the seething. I S-ranked the mission first try even if it was somewhat annoying.Just use your machine gun.
>>749664790MPBM after Zero isn't great, but it's worse against fast movers because MPBM's explosion causes lingering damage, so Ladons and other things will take minimal damage since they just leaveThe initial explosion is pretty good but you'd want to use SASM for more impact, and save MPBM for ground targets, slow movers or furballs
>>749664616>Do any of our languages exist, or is it a middle earth kinda deal?It's inconsistent. Yuktobanian in AC5 sounds like an off-beat mix of Slavic languages. Erusean seems like it's straight up just French. Belkan *sounds* German but I'm confident it's not actually 1:1.
>>749664846I heard someone say it's a sign of autism. I do it too.
>>749664846Same. If you don't do this you unironically don't have a soul.
>>749664528kek
>>749664962>>749664661I like the idea, I also enjoyed the neo languages in Nier Automata's music hnnng Keiichi Okabe x Ace Combat when
>>749665165I meann Drakengard 1 was created by the producer of Ace Combat 3 and the series shares composers. And there is no Nier without Drakengard, so thers is in fact a connection there.
>>749664790Sheepfuckers steal all of their technology, so it's probably some Belkan stuff they found in a junkyard (not impractical enough) and can't figure out how to mass produce.
>>749664846Do they make model planes as well?
>>749665282All their weapons were most likely from Enso Order. As for how Enso got THEIR tech, it wouldn't at all surprise me if they had Ex-Gründer guys.
>>749665371Zone of Endless shenanigans maybe.
>>749665416I'd say it's unlikely, 'cause the only information those AIs had were on how to make more drones of their own types, but shit like the Ladons and Tonitrus Spears are more reminiscent of Gründer. Heck the Spears even have a laser defense system like the Excalibur.
>>749662419Sotoan engineer here. Is 210 Celsius a normal working temperature, or is it a little too hot?>asking for a friend
You got the magic, Ray!
>>749664437Has to be the most powerful plane to ever appear in Ace Combat right? Makes any final boss fight I can think of look like a fucking joke
>>749665639As long as its only the rank and file grunts you want to boil alive and as long as your ship has an automatic mode, any temperature is fine!
>>749665751You have never fought the Arkbird before especially a glitched version?
>>749664437I didn't know why the fuck the targets were blinking in and out so rapidly, even though I was going fast and had great visibility on it the whole time.I didn't realize you had to be right up it's fucking ass the whole time, then machine gun pods just shred it. This wasn't clearly communicated. It also feels like the machine gun doesn't do damage unless you're in lock-on range for missiles. The radar jamming was too strong compared to the mission to take out the Podarges.Honestly it's a fucking stupid mission and should be revised a little in a future patch. The flow of it is just all wrong.
>>749664437nothing personnel, kid
I liked Tasha
>>749666019Never had either of the Ladons do this to me, even on Ace.Must've been lucky.
>>749665751The Ladons are just stupidly sturdy, that's it. And the time limit to shoot em down makes them harder than they actually are.
>>749666086They should have gone with that hairstyle. It would have made it way more cute.
>>749662419Diamond Dogs???
I love the LAAMs, probably my favorite special weapon in the game
>>749667230The Rafale is almost too good, and this is kind of a complaint since I want to use the superplanes more but I end missing either the LAAM or the LACM
>>749664790The melted down Mihaly and coated him on the Ladons, and there was only so much of him to go around. If it's any help I had a speed-rigged Foxbat basically filling their assholes with lead for good 5-10 second bursts so it's clearly literal cheat plot armour and they'll only actually go down by a certain point, either by time, times hit with a buffer, or some other bullshit.
>>749665639Have you tried switching to automatic mode?
>>749667230You'll love Online then
>>749667404D.D no the ADVERTISERS.
>>749667404Dude she's like 16!
>>749666019out fucking skilled
>>749662634I swear, ace combat X doesn't get enough love. I would prefer having a porting/remake of that instead of 3
Fucking molemen at it again with the agitprop. At least they've stopped posting "WING'S COCK IS TINY WE HAVE PROOF" on Belkchan.
>>749667397the online is unbelievably meh, but yeah using the LAAMs on the mig-31 is a stupidly easy way of racking up air kills. I do like that you can use emblems unlocked in multiplayer for single player>>749667279The rafale is my most used plane in the game desu. was using it from pretty much the mid to late game
>>749666019«I want to understand the enemy.»
https://youtu.be/INRfyju1dQk?t=202I can't get it out of my head
>>749667557>>749667279It is good, but my heart will always be in going fucking FAST (and the MiG-31 is actually pretty good this time around if you slap enough flap parts on it to cope with being a brick) until you get the funny planes.
Is Trigger the Giga chuuni among AC aces? It took me seeing his car to realize that he got the LRSSG crew to paint his markings just cause he liked his nickname so much.
>>749667669How fast do you go in that mig? The FA-36 I use goes at something like 3k km/h, it was almost enough to keep up with the Ladons at the start
>>749667647Hangar II is going to stay with me for a while. I can't even fully explain why, but it rattles my emotional bones. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBh9-T4CGRk&list=RDsBh9-T4CGRk&start_radio=1
>>7496677242930ish full tilt with uuuh, just the blisk part I think for extra FAST (probably a waste given it's such a tiny fractional improvement) I was on the Ladon's ass the entire time but I'm pretty sure they had magical mario kart bullshit powers to stay "just" ahead of target range, kept clipping them with gunfire the whole fucking way. Very fun but definitely under 3k.
>>749664616Yeah, to an extent. The 'Zvezda' skin for the F18 has 'Yuktobanian' writing on it in Russian Cyrllic. That and other names being taken from certain cultures and languages. Its somewhat strange insofar as every plane has its warning decals and whatnot in its own language, so who makes the Russian planes? Yukes? But everyone has Russian planes, same goes for the Japanese planes like the F-2. I guess its just not something you're meant to overthink, since they want the planes to look as realistic as possible even if it doesn't make a lot of sense in universe.
>>749667718I mean his TAC was always trigger, but I get what you mean with the strikes. Clearly a "Yeah I had a prison arc I'm cool" choice to change the strikes to claw marks. Or they just had a based artist in the hangar.
>>749664616What the others said, but as a basic matter of fact if not defacto practice: I mean the planes are all fucking covered in cyrillic/English/French. So unless they're like magic flying runes in the strangereal universe they exist in -some- form.
>>749667279Yup, Rafale is the best plane in the base tree for its special weapons. When I can't S-rank a mission with my Raptor, I go for the Rafale. Plane performance generally doesn't matter too much in AC8, it's the weapon and parts loadout that makes the difference. I'd say it's really only between the starter and endgame planes do you see a palpable difference, especially in maneuvering and defense.
Post the brats
does Tasha own a Yuktobanian air frier
>>749667949Parts are, at least by my personal experience/fact definitely much more influential than in 7. They weren't nothing in 7, but flap parts really help turn lunks into serviceable and non PSM planes into still being able to turn on a dime. I like how there's specific weapon parts now. I didn't fucking use them usually because it's all for stuff I don't generally use (except the SFFS one) but I like the idea.
>>749667885
>>749668012I doubt she's allowed any kind of heating coil in her room, and I don't mean the naval barracks.
>>749668012You mean an enso order air fryer.
>>749668012she does, but dd keeps insisting it isnt a yuktobanian air fryer and that she simply bought an enso product in yuktobania
>>749668102fuck.>>749668012I like giving her a fucking falcon, it feels like the right kind of plane for flippy shit and not racking up a bodycount.
>>749667775That's one of those songs where I stopped what I was doing as soon as the bass appeared and just started listening to it
>>749668127>Okay, ordering you an Enso order air fryer from Ensozon.ensocom
>>749668213Nemo, please add F-22 Raptor fighter jet to cart.
>>749668171Fuck, yeah exactly, as soon as the bass and trumpet kicks in I just sat around and watched them dick around in their planes for a bit. It just feels right, like it's literally "Plane game" music.Forgive me, I'm a retard and don't know what music theory is. But that.
>cool plane livery>cool uniforms>cool emblems>catchy theme songMan, if S*toans weren't such huge pieces of shit the Shadows would have been amazingly popular.
>>749668056You know they did parts right in AC8 when I go out of my way to change the loadout every single mission. And they make a big difference too. My favorite parts are both gun upgrades, extra durability plating thingy, and the maneuverability and top speed parts. Then I fill the slots with the weapon-specific parts like you said.
>>749668238>I'm sorry, my suspiciously informed node of nerds says I'm not allowed to order that for you. Ordering 5 Tonitrus twizzlers straight to your house. Courtesy of Moon_Over_June11 message attached: Munition this *BRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-
>>749668269I don't like Shadows, if only because after the first Shadow squad you know what to expect. Asides from all having the same plane colours they're all pretty much the same personality wise. Compare that with Zero which had each squad have more personality based on their squad emblem, dialogue, livery and live action interview segments. The bones is there to make enemy ace squads as good as Zero, at least.
>>749668106She is made to share a room with Kate. She isn't trusted to be on her own.
>>749668281Me too. It's pretty much as important a factor as plane choice now, even little stuff like whether you want to focus on making your standard missiles compensate for focusing on ground specials by sticking the air-combat guidance part on. Very much an improvement from the simpler basic options for 7. Hell even the de-icer feels like it actually is worth it for a couple of missions. I like specific type allocation over just having a total parts limit from 7 too (with the whole "some parts cost more in total thing too") This way I generally always have space to bring some must-haves but experiment elsewhere.
>>749668371100% Unsurprised. Dad's probably watching her with her one allowed and non-toxic Yukotbanian pen(Provided by Enso), eats like three a week otherwise.
>>749662419They still haven't explained how Strangereal has Italian food
>>749668269I mostly agree, but I wouldn't be surprised if I see various "Haha AC8 summary" videos/greentext of someone putting in their little chant every five seconds as it has that "team rocket must do the team rocket theme tune every time they appear" thing going on. But this is all incredibly anal nitpicking. I like the overall effect. Maybe if there was few variations instead of, unless I'm deaf: Exact same .wav each time. Maybe get some toddlers to chant it for Gemma squad.
>>749668559Just localizers being funny. Actually the series in general has pretty bad localization, to this day.
>>749668834Baxter's "ur mom" and "are they even humans" comments made me realize that perhaps the localization wasn't as faithful as I thought it might have been initially
>>749668971>Localizers: Listen we know culturally the western audience wouldn't have been able to accept the racist Japanese depiction of Baxter as competent and able to not call sotoans fucking goatfuckers to their face.
>>749667848My headcanon is that the export market for planes is a lot more relaxed in Strangereal, so Yuktobania makes tens of thousands of Sukhois for export and Osea has no issues selling the F-22 to whoever will pay for it.
>>749669096That's fair, it's uh, pretty clear as well it's not just the planes but the funny special weapons, and a tank just seems to be a tank-brand tank most of the time. With cute exceptions.
>the traitor has the same sharp facial details as the second-in-command of Sand Island and Dr. SchroederBelkan confirmed.
>>749669182It would have been funny if it wasn't even his phone and someone had slipped it into his pocket like 20 seconds ago because they have to exposit the scene in front of literally everyone so the real spy had a like a solid minute of time to realise they were about to get made.
>>749669172What MP mission or those in?
>>749668971Funny though
>>749669395It's not my picture but I think it's the mission after drinfield, the assault mission where you go wreck their power/airfield/hard erection bunkers/land aegis one. I keep meaning to locate them for a funny but I keep getting distracted.
>>749669467SP, Drinwich, not field. Fuck and the one AFTER Drinwich. Not sure about MP my internet is garbage until the 22nd so no multiplay disappointment.
>>749662419
>>749669516>You will never have a naval pilot mommy give you the thousand-yard starejob. What have borders given us?
is the afterlife some sort of proto/naturally occuring electrosphere?
>>749669594Is kate even able to give a decent handy with ther busted up arm?
>>749669680It would be funny to make a joke but to be fair she literally flies planes so I refuse to believe she can't grip a flightstick on the ground.
>>749662875
>>749669395I've seen them on Artiglio and Shilage, possibly Schofield as well.
>>749669595I don't know. My vague and unsubstantiated theory is that Aces made it so they had options later depending on reception/direction. It really could be supernatural. It really could be early personality what's it called from AC3, it could if they wanted to be cowards be never addressed and leave room for people to just go "Maybe rex had brain problems" But that's just me. Right now I don't personally see anything that provides a solid answer though my gut is "It's genuine supernatural ghooost oooOOoooo numbers remember the numbers 420 blaze it rex"
>Baxter gets a fuckass sweater and beanie as a "disguise">Rex opts to cosplay as Sasha from Behind Enemy LinesWhat did Project Aces mean by this?
>>749669780>The Rio Bajo incident
>>749669780Would Shadow 22 spared him if Baxter didn't said the N-word?
>>749669986It's a matter of perspective, he'd say.
>>749666127Yeah but they also fly at 7000mph and have infinite drones come out of them and also fire missiles behind them and have built in jamming and don't ice up. While being bombers.
>>749664861I think it's genuinely glitched like half the time. My first attempt I timed out on it, despite slamming it with MG and 50+ missiles, restarted from the checkpoint and it went down in 3 missiles
>>749669916>You will never have a cute shepherd girl and her tiny pathetic dwarf sheep (so tiny) worship you at her actually kind of shit shrine with one drawing of a wing. I get this is the whole premise of the story but it is pretty silly. Then again the entire universe runs on semi-sociopathic pilots who are immune to g-force saving the world so you know what fuck it why not beatify pilots.
>>749670119I'd prefer this at this point. I really struggle to understand what the problem is so it being the fault of the devs would be a relief. I suspect it'll get tweaked anyway.
>>749662875>sup, can a usean come at yo hut?>man, fuck you. I'll see you at the skies.
>>749670294>WHERE THE WOMAN IN WHITE AT?Baxta please.
>>749662714Sotoa is pretty stereotypically Muslim
>hey, do you have any pen and paper? I've written twenty books on the sotoan solution by now. Not enough stuff on this ship for the rest.Man...didn't expect that when I first met Baxter...
>>749669986They have the N-word in that universe? Shit do they even have rap?!
>>749670505the word is nugget
>>749664437Why don't they just create many more of this instead of land battleship or anything else ? imagine a army of that plane .... too fast, you can't see them unless you have a visual, can't lock unless you hug it.
>>749670505They do but it's at the end of the word not at the start. You can say it without the hard N if you're being friendly. Like "Hello my Belka" *Do wunderwaffe sign* but you need a pass to say "Belkan"
>>749670601I'm sure sotoaN is the new one
>>749670412>Comes back from space>What did you do up there?>Wrote a book about this war man, how difficult it is for the FCU to throw off these oppressors.>Oh cool what did you call it?>Mein struggle to not say slurs to shadow 22.
>>749670668slurs are crass generalisation of a sterotype. That's just accurate.
>>749670690I'd read Mein Kampf (mit den Hirten.) sounds like a thrilling read.
>>749670690>After the war, Baxter's book becomes a global bestseller that is banned in Sotoa>D.D. runs a channel where he uses AI to generate recreations of scenes from the book>Rex reads the book in bed with Kate>Cope, now able to freely travel between the Promised Land and the mortal realm, chimes in sometimes to confirm that, yes, all those horrifically racist anti-Sotoan quotes attributed to him in the book are real
>>749662714Leasath is pretty cool, it just hapoened that their leader wanted to make the coolest, most advanced fighter jet ever and so started a war to justify it's funding.
>>749670690>Mein Bax
>>749670690If only Baxter had pulled off the Endurance chow hall putsch, we could be living in a tent-free world right now.
>>749671226Baxter had plans to form his own organization called A World Without Yurts.
>>749670505Didn't you hear? He called them nomads.
>>749670412>Now when you finally finish your homework young lady we can move onto more complicated problems like how to deal with the Sotoan menace.
fucking al-gore rhythm spying on me now, just saw this. So what new belkan missile project or what.
>>749671325>Mission 31>Operation Crystal Night BombingThis one's for you Baxter.
>>749671364>Tasha, you really think the “nomads” that were thrown out of other countries 16 times was for no reason?>Things don’t just happen for no reason Tasha
>>749671389They basically made the missile better at killing civilians, in the typical Russian fashion.
>>749671732Useless, there aren't even civilian targets in ace combat. NopeNone at all.
What's the Republic of Wellow's deal? What have they been up to all these years? Is there anything in Antarctia? So many questions...
>>749671956Probably living like it's the year 3000 after not being ulysses'd or fighting fifty billion wars.
>>749671956The language of that AI sub was awfully Scandinavian...
1000 hours in paint.
/r/ again that sheep squadron if anyone of you has that image
>>749672186Good work anon, yoink. If you're the guy who keeps making mspaint level OC too for these threads: double based.
>>749664739breedable
>>749671956Belkan secret base.
>>749672240Nah not the one but thanks. It was a quick lazy edit been meaning to get around to. No doubt someone else can easily improve on it.
>>749672360Nah, it's perfect. >>749671956Honestly probably fuck all given it's almost certainly just strangereal greenland.
>>749671956>AntarctiaSecret Naz- Belka base.
>>749668559By "Italian" it is meant food by the famous chef Italio.
What do you like to do when you finish a mission but it doesn't immediately end?I like to get really close to buildings before doing a sonic boom so I lower the house prices in enemy territory.
>>749671732didn't the united states blow up 200 schoolgirls recently? and then resort to terror bombing iranian cities?
>>749671956If Snider's Top and North Point are that cold, wtf is it like in Wellow and Nordennavic
>>749673092It's like Lost Planet up there
>>749673017Fuck off with the whataboutisms, Ivan.
>>749673092They actually use de-icers. It's that cold.
>>749673197
>>749664973>being immersed is a sign of autismbelieving everything is a sign of autism is actually a sign of retardation
>>749673184>everyone who disagrees with me is russianthat sure does explain a lot
What's the best aircraft for ground mission
>Then everyone down there is your brother.
>>749673702Would you prefer zigger?
>>749673749>clustered tanksMPBM, morgan>clustered targetsanything with a LACM>lots of aegisesRKT/UGB so SU34/SU33>geenrally speaking/playing blindBarricader because balanced A2G and A2A stats so it has higher base damage in both air and ground which is a thing for some reason, so pair it with guns and upgraded missile damage and you require less GUN time on target and have more missiles to spare
>>749671059>"200." Remember that number, Rex. It's how many Sotoan military officers amount to one Sotoan sheep herder.
>We were taught to not waste any part of the sheep. The meat, bone, sinew, and skin. >And other parts as well...>What went between on between me and those sheep on those lonely nights is a story only the sky and the vast plains can tell.
>>749662419CERTE PER CAEULM VOLAESTO LIBERESTO LIBER
>>749672186Add Rex in the background
>>749668106Most servicemembers have difficulties with heating elements inside enclosed spaces.
>>749674617You can't exactly play blind if you're able to use a Barricader, unless you're playing at a friend's house or something
>>749674847>I called her Ewy, because... Well, you know.
>>749668309>Moon_Over_June11Fuck why did you have to remind me of that shit .
>>749671732haha based
>>749675269i know but the idea is therea plane with ample weapons slots, balanced A2A and A2G stats, and frankly meh SPW options can afford to slot in a bunch of parts to amp up the vanilla missiles and still have room for gunsThe fact that higher tier planes get so many slots pisses me off that "lower" planes with more interesting weapon types will just be shit>go up to ace>typhoon now takes 3 missiles to pop a MIG31 in M08>or a single LAAMthose stupid stat bars arbitrarily make planes feel shit
>>749675687sorry meant rafalerafale has the LAAMalso looks better than the typhoon
>>749673749>>749674617>clustered tanksUnguided >clustered targetsUnguided >lots of aegisesUnguided x2>geenrally speaking/playing blindStill unguided
>>749675956Everytime I see the typhoon I think it's one of the ugliest jets ever designed for some reasonthose stubby canards and the sharp blocky engine intakes, it repulses me (it does wear the german cross really well though)The Rafale on the other hand... beautiful, smooth, cock proudly on displayLove it
>>749664437
>HILDUR VALDI LAGER
>>749676434you can't post that here it's classified.
>>749676504>we got his birth certificate from a trusted source>who was the source?>uh don't worry about it lol
>>749676348>Answer me like that again and you're on the first bus back to the farm.
>>749676504Get those lies OUTTA HERE.
>>749676434>GR marine and ships >Enso OrderEnso IS GR then. Meet the new boss; same as the old boss.
>>749676504>well over 30understatement of the year when the game has achievements of killing fucking 3000 bandits
>>749676751They really could have just said "Yeah we lied actually the new guy is a fucking machine" and have been fine. Rex/Jokers have done some fairly ludicrous shit before this drops but I get it.
Does your squad have canon planes? Feels like Tasha is made for a Growler. What did Kate fly early on?
>>749676985f-18 same as you
>>749676985we all fly f-18si'm not sure what kate flies earlier in the campaign but by m28 she uses a rafale like the savian mercs
>>749676629kek
>>749675172?
>>749677351kek
>>749677119She flies an F-18C before joining Joker flight. She then upgrades to an F/A-18F as the family plane.
>>749677351>sensible chuckle
Is this nigga the storyblard artist of AC8?https://x.com/KMBK_ARKADIA/status/2109559183767179433
>>749677986What makes you think that?
>>749678042Because he posted what looks like storyboards
>>749678081Well, that's interesting then. I guess they are our semi-official plane girls.
>>749678161Yeah that was a Shadow. Picrel is the Ladons.
>>749678081those are just random sketches. All his tweets sound very much like a fan making random observations. Nothing I'm seeing here suggests that he was involved with the game
>>7496781926AAAM correction needed.
>>749678519Might as well ask the guy. You got a xitter on you?
>when the *stomp clap hey* mongoloids appearhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUCSV3Xz2Mcmusic mods when
>Lost the land battleships>Lost the spears of bullshit>Lost the megafloat>Instead of regrouping on the mainland with whatever forces they have left they decide to zerg rush one whole base and failedWhat the fuck was that? Not even Belka was this retarded and those fuckers nuked themselves 7 times.
>>749662419I dont play chudslop
>>749678713warrior culture shit, you wouldn't get it. you dont even own a horse
>>749678713Sotoan nobles who lead the war are a bunch of LARPers, of course they're retarded.
>>749678897also their entire general staff fucking died in an osprey leaving tewy in charge, who then immediately ordered 5 billion pilots be sent, not even to kill you, but solely to slow you down so she could drop a spear on theve
>>749678713Since the ending confirmed that Sotoans quite literally go to their version of Heaven when they die in battle why wouldn't they? Imagine if you knew for a fact that jihad would get you in Heaven, you'd do what they did.
>>749678809>warrior cultureThe Sotoan cuñtural anthem is about losing and moving on to better pastures.As far as we know the only warlike thing about them pre-Yuke-Sotoa war is that their sheep are basically living trucks.
>>749678979>cope only confirms that pilots go to the promised land>the prairie we see from the plane is desertedimagine being Tivali and boiling your crew alive in land battleship 2 just to learn that you took the wrong career path to get to the promised land
>>749679069land battleship crewmen go to the heaven thats above that heaven though, its the double promised land. the only difference is it is always at a constant comfortable room temperature and there's no chance of flipping over onto your back
>>749679052>tfw the Shadows pervert a song about peace and loss and turn it into one about war and victory
>>749679069I'm pretty sure Torres gets to claim any souls that died on a ship. I asked my priest and he shrugged and said "What the heaven is ace combat" so that sounds like a yes.
>>749679436Dude's a psycho but I kind of wish he survived. Mostly so I can see what it would be like to set him loose on the sotoans.
first ac game where I just started skipping cutsceneseasiest 6/10 game recommendationalso wtf was that final mission? did the devs have a laugh or something
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSGwLtwEdWQ
>>749679540>We're resource starved, can we make some savings?>What about the hangar ba->No>Not even the trumpet?>Especially the trumpet.
>>749679436>Cope, Chopper, Champ, Full Band, Wiseman, Baxter, and PJ vs Torres and three land battleships worth of insane Sotoans
>>749664528>IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIITTTTTTTTSSSSSSSSSS D.D AND THE NOOOIIISE ON ENDURANCE ACTUAL FMWord is to this day Coster won't talk about what Odin Actual did to him.
>>749677119>they start calling you Ray out of nowhereA little too on the nose
>>749679235To be fair that's pretty much propaganda 101, right up to (probably apocryphal) Yankee doodle dandy. Twisting insult songs and wearing them like a badge. Hell fucking Skyrim has a trash version with the uh...like the one song it has for bards but has a rebel version and a imp version. Flipping your own songs to fit the narrative is the same playbook.
>>749679637At least they don't have to deal with High Roller who definitely went to Ace Combat Hell (Gambling is a sin)
Wait so the neural plane is actually precursor to AC3's shit?
>>749677119>>749677835I give her an F16, Growler does make plenty of sense to start as a pacifist but I feel bad giving the acrobat pilot the lump plane. F16 feels like a compromise for being pretty nimble but also not a bruiser, enough to bait enemies to actually chase it but quick enough -for- the chase. But I won't pretend it's the "Right" choice either, you could argue it a ton of different ways.
>>749680360Yes, it's from the same program and GR inherited it and its scientists
>>749679995It's supposed to be Rey. Spanish for king!
>>749680390Also, who are the scientists? The Belkan dudes behind ADFX & ZoE, so technically the line is Morgan > Falken > Raven > Nightmare > Night Raven > then into Neucom stuff because they absorbed the development team after GR abandoned DoE
>>749680360In retrospect it was a bit on the nose that they were called Enso
jets must cost like a cheap car in our world for the logistics of this game to work
>>749680625They have magic 3D printers that can build planes and drones like candies.
>>749680625>>749680687They have the power of anime on their side and that's not even a meme.
>>749680610>the mere act of Belkans joining Neucom allowed them to rival General Resourcehow are they so powerful?
>>749680978Spite and autism
>>749680978the power of seethe
AC8 wingmen rated by their in game AI I have observed from best to worst.1) KateActually can engage Shadows on her own and win. She even does this when part of Queen flight in the few missions you both engage Shadows together. She also does a good job covering you and again does this even when still part of Queen flight.2) CosterSurprised me a few times when I was swarmed by missiles by flying straight through them and popping flares to break missile lock for me. He's also very quick on the trigger meaning he's about the only other wingman that you can count on in a fight to shoot down Sotoans.3) BaxterTries to do the same as Coster but not as good at shooting down Sotoans, probably because he spends too much time cursing them before opening fire.4) TashaExhibits really annoying behaviors that seem neat on paper but are counterproductive in practice like herding enemies towards you so you can get an easy shot on them which isn't good if you are already surrounded.
>>749680978Belkans are tech savants that got rolled over by nothing more than sheer numbers and one plot armored motherfucker. When it came to weapons, they were completely unmatched.
>>749680372We were talking about Kate?Kate flies an F-18C pre-Joker flight and King flight she has an F/A-18F
>>749681212They can all herd enemies towards you and they can all take down Shadows (eventually, they all have unique lines for M28)Really the worst sin any of them have is that they waste EC/SM like nobody's business, you have to be careful to either switch on/off special weapons or be out of the EC/SM range (they won't activate it if you're not around, at least)
>>749671139Leasath is really fucking hot, actually. Fuck that place.
>>749662419Everyone's in love with Kate but I still haven't gotten over the Scrap Queen
>rex doesn't have a callsign of his own>wings and rex are lifted off of copeweakest MC right from the start
>>749681585Yeah I was talking about Tasha, I'd say my fault for not taking into account that you meant Kate given the other pilot mentioned in the original comment but it's a matter of perspective, I'd say.
>>749670505This implies that black people in Strangereal are a diaspora caused by slavery. In which case I am obligated to ask, who enslaved whom?
>>749681891I like how her and Trigger are canonically still together
>>749682027You cheeky Sotoan fuck!
>>749682014Isnt rex his callsign
>>749682081hehe hoho >Dies to 2 seconds of gun fire.
>>749682078What I'm wondering is, where do non-white people even come from? Black people and Asians exist in the Strangereal universe, but it seems like every featured country except for Sotoa is majority white and either based on a European culture or a country founded by Europeans (For example Osea being the USA and the FCU being a sort of Canada EU type thing)Hell even some Sotoans could be confused for white or I'm a dumbass because I thought Jan Cope was white until the reveal he was Sotoan
>>749676656It's explicitly stated at the end that all of Enso's assets were seized and sold off to GR, including all of the advanced planes they were developing.
>>749682269Where do asians come from?
>>749665524WAKE UP SHEEPLEADF is a SBMF program. Every faction that uses it planes from it is either supplied or outright controlled by Grey Men, who are the overarching antagonists of the series. They also possibly know about (you) the player / razgriz
>>749682303I hope they kept the Bass Enso Pyramid going.
I hope there's a mission in the Geofront in the next game. It seems the underground mole people was sort of setting up for this
>>749682434God, AC3 had the craziest variety of maps by far, one of many reasons it's my fave.
>>749682308Huxian in Ace Combat 7 and Kei Nagase in Ace Combat 5Unless you mean in real life, then they come from Asia
>>749682157that was copes callsignJan "Rex" Cope
>>749682269>Jan CopeYou were fooled by his name.Jan Cope seems to be an anglicization of "Can Kopf" which is Turkish aka Sotoan.
>>749682705>You were fooled by his name.To be honest I was also fooled by the fact he looks like Tom Cruise in Top GunI thought he was Czech because the only guy I've met named "Jan" was Czech
>>749682370
>>749682014Ray is essentially his personal call sign.
>>749682814>czechShit, could be too, there's some muslim names in Sotoa as well, Can Kopf is just the one that makes him fit with Shadow 22.
Yea Soats are Turks, Yukes are Slavs, Oseans are North Americans, Useans are Euros, Leasathians are Latin Americans, Aurelians are Australians, Belkans are Germans, Nordennavics are Nords (duh), and Asians are somewhere East on the same continent as Osea. We've yet to see Arab, Polynesian, African (all Black people we've seen so far are from Osea and Usea), and South Asian analogues.
>>749682864kek>>749682930Rex is CopeRay is Hope
>>749682998>Nordennavics are NordsNorway has a cloning program?
>>749682998You can't really say any nation in strangereal are direct one to ones with real countries. Except Osea which is almost exactly just the US
>>749683060it had eugenics for quite a while irl
>>749683060Yeah called NIBIO.
>>749682269What I'm wondering is, where do non-white people even come from?Given how a large swath of osea covers the equator i think that black people are native of osea, which raises all manners of questions.
>>749683038And Little Sheep Ram Piiiiillloooooooooootsss
>>749682998>Useans are EurosThey're more like an extremely mixed version of Europe, Latin America, and the US. The whole continent is all over the place
>>749683074Also Sapin is just Spain, they didn't even try with that one lmao.
>>749683264Right next to Starboardtugal.
>>749662419me when I spread misinformation and goes viral
It honestly feels really good for mainstream audiences to finally get their hands on a proper Ace Combat game (no offense, 7), and they really like it.
>>749683352That's the one time he didn't spread misinformation tho
>>749670128That tiny sheep was so microscopic, you couldn't even see it! Not like our HUGE sheep, amirite??
>>749682975The Turk theory makes a lot of sense honestly >>749683158>Osea is America if the Europeans went to Africa instead
Just started playing today and enjoying it a lot, Baxter is my favourite wingman, feels like we're two old men stuck dealing with this shit.I haven't been able to see any of the briefings past that of mission 5 or so with the game just straight up skipping them. Has anybody else on Linux had this issue?
The last two missions are underwhelming Mission 30 is ok, but not final mission material Moon 11 should have thrown a spear satellite to theve from orbit or something more bombastic. It's just whatever as it is.
Belka is more interesting when they're treated as a weird fusion of Prussia and Yugoslavia in 0 as opposed to all the other game sthat just make them an allegory for Nazi Germans.
>mission 30wow, it's ass. So much fun flying in circles waiting for a submarine to launch missiles that I immediately destroy for 15 minutes and then bombing the shit out of it afterworst final mission in an ace combat game
>>749682814Yeah, Jan is the czech version of John, however Cope doesn't sound like a particularly czech surname.
>>749683158Now that I think about it, an AC game on African nations would be so dumb its hilarious. Wakaliwood and Ghanaian powersuits
>>749683560Try some other Proton
>>749683608>be African-parallel MC squad>"Thief Squadron"
>>749682814>>749683605It's also the Dutch version of John, but that still doesn't fit his surname.
>>749683576The drone chase in AC7 is piss short too
Is the OST at least as good as AC7 ?Is it worth 40 bucks ?
>>749681212Look she's trying her best ok.
>>749683665>Approaching superweapon is a Mega-Plywood Helicopter>"WAT DA FUQ"
>>749683709ost is better than 7 in imo, its worth the 40
>>749680610>ZoEZ-Zone of the Enders!?
>>749683760>The entire plot revolves around learning who killed the former squad lead, one 'Captain Alex'
>>749664616>>749664494I imagine it's like the AIs learning to talk or create its own more efficient language (kind of like what happens with real life AI). The 7 drones spoke in a weird voice-like binary, the sub from 8 has a voice, so maybe if we se Nemo again it will talk like that TikTok AI voice.
You now realize they made the world too small and have run out of countries to fight each other in another warthere's not even a china equivalent in strangereal lol
>>749683605>>749683676I thought "Cope" was just Japanese people's ideas of what a white guy's surname is
>>749680360Well, if you ignore ACX that is....
Sheepbros where are we at
>>749683851couldn't they just plop countries down in land where there are none, like south of yuktobania has nothing going on, so does the north of osea. they can essentially make as many countries as they need or want with enough timeskips and explaining, the end of 8 showed some nations wanted independence from a larger federation so its not out there to suggest new countries are getting made every decade
>>749683763is there at least one track which surpass this ?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6VM89nwztg
>>749683832>can only fly old aircraft because the nation is busted up>enemy leader is a cannibal turned "reformed" priest>Wagner-esque mercs and future megacorps like General Resource fighting over some shitty minesngl it does sound fun
>>749683873That's also a possibility. It's Strangereal after all, not exactly a 1:1 to real life.
>>749683851I mean, we've had how many main game wars on just Usea? AC1-3 are all on pre-Strangereal Usea, and then there's AC4 and 8, so even if you discount the PS1 trilogy that's still two mainline games in Usea. They can always reuse countries is what I'm saying. Plus, who knows, if they're crazy we might eventually truly realize the post-Electrosphere timeline that's supposed to take us to space.
>>749683965they should just redesign the entire map desu. Add some more continents. Like where is africa? Where is asia / china?OSEA = north america w/ Europe on the east part and yet EUSEA is also kind of like Europe and then FCU is like America too but also not really and then Yuktobania = Russia obviously and Sotoa = Mongolia, then weirdly Anea is like Scandanavia, the entire map is just confusing and taped together.
>>749683974theres like 5 that surpass anchorhead. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZbg0j_LHkw&list=RDbZbg0j_LHkw
>>749683851Didn't stop Shilage, Voslage and SaviaHell Anea used to be just AneaWe've still got a shitton of Osea (North and South) and Verusa (not just Yuktobania) to go explore, too
>>749683974https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fb5a6KZmYi0
>>749683576>worst final mission in an ace combat gameThat's still ACAHBut yeah it either should have been merged with 29 or it should have happened in Spaaaaace
>>749683851What instead of AC9 the plot being a world without borders it became a world of nothing but borders as every nation Balkanizes?
>>749683821It's not dead to me damnit!
>>749684268i feel like they kind of went "lets round it up to 30" and so they did
>>749684275>Every nation Belkanizes
>>749683763slightly below AC7 w/o DLC, moderately below AC7 w/ DLC IMO, but it's significantly better implemented in game so it's on par in actuel experience
>>7496841127 was also just Usea.
>>749683873I tought so too until i found out Girish Toprak is actually coherent Turkish words meaning "Lord Of The Mountain Soil" so the idea of Cope having a turkish name makes sense.
>>749684396how i live knowing 8's dlc cant possibly top torres.....unless?
>>749684356>>749684275>Belka immediately declares war on itself>16 times.
>>749684456DLC lets you play as a bomber over Sotoa.
>>749684445I think the only character with a fully made up name is Miss Banjo "Carmille" Tewy.
>>749684456Wdym? They have the opportunity to do the craziest shit ever by having it be an AC3 prequel DLC where we dogfight Dision. Holy fuck the kinoism would make me cum.
>>749684570>NOOO MY FAMILY LIVES IN IBIRSH!!!>And mine lived in Expo City! Bombs away!
>>749684607Wow Dealer is huge I never knew.
>>749684607>20 years after ulysses struck, recovery can begin>*gets caught in another war*
>>749684605it probably wouldn't be that exciting since they make a point of saying that Dision was well past his physical prime
>>749684605>We play -as- Dision>Mandatory NTR cutscene with Cohen in the CUKKFIN chair. Finally, a /v/ critic 100/100 score.
>>749684546nah, bro>Belka immediately unifies into greater belka + the territories it conquered in the belkan war before the allied counteroffensive
>>749684607Despite all the wars, Strangereal seems like a cool world to live in.
>>749684719Where'd you get that? Dision died young, I'm not even sure if he was 30 when he and Yoko got boomed.
>>749684456They could go bigger and give us Sotoa-Yuke war DLC
>>749684897theres a war every 5 months and galaga aliens are real. also by the 2040s the whole world will be run by corporations and you'll have no country
>>749684740>switch over to Simon POV>he's watching Dision make out with Yoko>Press X to seethe
>>74968495432, apparently.
>>749684996So a cool world to live in
>>749684954Pretty sure one of the first cutscenes in AC3 is about how pilots hit their physical prime well before their mental prime and they say that Dision is currently in his mental prime, meaning he's past his physical prime
>>749681212I like how excited Baxter gets when he's keeping someone occupied and you blow them upReal bloodlust there
>>749662419Prayers from Osea
>>749685080yeah but imagine the housing prices
>>749682558don't forget huxian is chinese and nagase is japanesefucking osea
>>749685110I mean, does physical conditioning probably isn't the highest priority when you have the COFFIN neural link system
>>749684974Post game DLC where you play as Tasha and have to reject her pacifism due to Yuktobania being attacked with all her friends and family getting killed in the process. With nobody to fall back on and comfort her she grows more bloodthirsty and insane. She leads the Yukes to victory and gains the nickname of the Pink Butcher after slaughtering everyone she comes across.
>>749685381>final boss is unwinnable fight against the ghost of baxter who forces you do learn basic mathkino
Huh, the japanese pronounce Jan as Zyan, that's weird.
I am tired of farming Mission 16.
>>749685463>Baxter is in her head like Cope was for Rex asking her maths problems in the middle of fights
>>749685598Chinese and Japanese like using zh for J
>>749685381>Post game DLC where you play as Tasha and have to reject her pacifism due to Yuktobania being attackedWho are the Yukes even fighting against in this scenario, Verusa?
>>749685947Grey men again?
>>749686156Can't be, Doctor Baseder was the last.
>>749686375Sure about that?
>>749686883Has to be. Plus, there's no point to the Grey Men existing anymore, thematically speaking. Neucom and General Resource will take over ad the main villains of the series, and all Gründer and Enso Order assets were split between them (first acquired by GR, then NEU split off from the former).
>>749683851Like 90% of these countries have had no development so far. We know nothing about any of the countries on Belka's continent other than OSEA and Belka itself. For reasons to fight you can just make shit up with how much leeway there is with all this suspicious politicking and the evil corporations and whatnot.
>>749681829Yeah I tried giving Tasha the EA18 and she used up both SPW ammo in damn near 20 seconds. I'm assuming since it's like a gauge or something (haven't used EW yet) and they just let it run.
>Nordlands>Nordennavicwhy are there two scandanavian countries on the opposite sides of the worldwtf is emmeria's equivalent supposed to be anyways, and estovakia too, and how is the climate warm and normal up there for the most part when it's further north than all the other continents which also have a lot of ice and shit like the FCU has a bunch of it in its canada hudson bay area
>>749687395you pop it then its active for a while then it automatically turns off, then you keep popping it til you run out
>>749673017>didn't the united states blow up 200 schoolgirls recently?Human shields don't count.
>>749684897Bamco should nake a "horizon" style ridge racer spinoff where you can just explore a small country or other part of Strangereal. They would have to bring RR back first...
What about a DLC where you play as a GRDF pilot doing anti-piracy missions which explains how they and Neucom went from business rivalry to actual fighting?
>>749687569the climate up there actually makes sense, it's Usea that makes zero sense and should have been placed a LOT more to the north Same thing with Sotoa, there's just no way there's a grassland turned desert on the equator
>>749688464That's Realstrange, ain't it?
>>749688767Woah that kinda sounds like a cool name we could use that.
>perpetrate 2 major wars>capture and weaponize peacetime defensive technologies>hardly get mentioned in the same breath as other repeat offenders and aggressorsHow do they manage it?
>>749689457because despite doing that they didn't go as far as nuking themselves seven times or even half the shit the S*t*ans did
>>749689457having a charismatic princess as your spokesperson also they went out of their way during the last war to use drones for pin-point strikes against purely military targets which helps a lot
>>749685737You can farm Mission 27 instead
>>749689457Despite being aggressors they actively try to avoid warcrimes and go for military targets.
>>749671956>What's the Republic of Wellow's deal?Judging by the shape, they're a standing for greenland, so they're irrelevant. I'm more curious about what's going on with the mystery nigga countries next to Osea or CHYNA.
>>749689457I guess Usea at this point treats their invasions as part of life and something you can't really complain about, kinda like a natural disasters.>>749689628Didn't they disappear the narrator uncle and attempt to erase San Salvacion's culture by teaching f*ench at school instead of whatever language the spoke there?
>>749689457Compared to S*t*ans and Belkans, Eruseans are fucking upstanding citizens of the world. Plus, their motivations in both wars are a little more relatable. After the Ulysses meteorfall, Erusea was flooded with refugees from all over Usea. Unable to support any more, they tried to close their borders, but the FCU, being the fantastic neighbor that they are, convinced other Usean countries to impose sanctions on Erusea so it may take on more refugees that they literally cannot do anything for. So they fucking snapped ans retaliated by expanding. Wete they justified? Not really, they killed thousands of innocents, occupied a neutral and weak little country, and took Stonehenge. But the FCU were for sure asking for it for being giant shitheels, as were the rest of Usea, most of it anyway. Now in AC7, that's them admittedly being puppets of the last of the Grey Men, which doesn't absolve them of blame, but it as sure as shit isn't as maniacal as "muh grass" or "muh revenge".
>>749677351okay I laughed
>>749690137Osea was fucking on Belka so hard that I'd say their justification for war was pretty strong
>>749689715Belkans are closer to Prussian than Nazi Germany I think
So, is Theve supposed to be Canada?You mean to tell me the Legendary Ace is a fucking leaf?
>>749689715Why is erusea France?
>>749690939Theve is based on Toronto, but the FCU is more of North America in general.
>>749690957Because their culture, architecture, and language is French. Pay attention.
>>749690939Well Baxter's emblem is a leaf?
>>749690321Belka's motivation is pretty solid on paper, but it gets a little muddled as you dig into the details. Simply put, Belka was cheated out of national resources by a forged survey Osea cooked up in a secret deal the latter had with Ustio so the latter may secede from Belka unchallenged. Sounds pretty cut and dry like that, Belka pretty much had their land stolen, war was the only option... but the devil's in the details. See, Belka is a republic with two defacto regions, North Belka which is their "Holy Land", and South Belka which is made up of long-occupied territories like Ustio. Belka, seeing Osea's and Yuktobania's growing power, fearing occupation from its neighbors, kicked industrialization and militarization into high gear so much they literally made decades worth of advancements in just a few years. This came at the cost of the Southern Belkans, who had their lands stripped of all resources and their men sent to work in mines and factories for pennies. When the resources started drying up, the Belkan republic allowed its drained former territories to secede to lessen the burden on its own central government in North Belka. Simultaneously, Belka was desperate for more resources, and that's when they enlisted the services of an Osean natural resources survey company (forgot its name). Said company ample hitherto undiscovered mineral resources in Ustio, but the latter, wanting to secede like its neighbors already had, made a deal with Osea to falsify the survey report in ecchange for a cut of its minerals. And that's when it all began.
>>749689715Emmeria can't be canada, theve is toronto and thus canada is part of the FCU.
How're you guys getting Theve being Toronto?
Wait a second Baxter teaching Tasha maths got me wondering, is there such a course as applied Belkan mathematics in Strangereal and in studying this course can you learn the secrets of Belkan withcraft?
>>749691939The map layout is basically 1:1 Toronto, save for a few landmarks here and there.
>>749689715Belka is PrussiaErusea is a weird version of France if it was Austria-Hungary because it has a bunch of random states (i.e. Shilage which is probably Hungarian)Fato could be FranceWielvakia/Ratio are Eastern EuropeUstio is Czech/PolandRecta and Gebet IDKWellow is probably Iceland/New Zealand
>>749692038Really? Is that from the Strangereal map or the actual stage?
>>749691939
>>749691939The random pond near my house is literally on the map.
>>749690939leaf bros always win
>>749691076Usea is a such a demographically fucked up place I have no idea what any of those countries are
>>749691883Storywise Theve is NYC, but Project Aces loves making all the major cities a patchwork of LA, Toronto, and NYC.
that building you drop on land battleship 1 is based off marina bay sands isn't it
>>749681294>one plot armored motherfuckerskill issue
>>749692286Fuqen ZASED
>>749692105As in the actual in-game city layout is basically taken straight from Google Earth.
>>749691334You mean the princess' name and Jean-Luc?
>>749692376I thought Oured was pretty explicitly NYC
>>749680360It literally mentions the Darkness of Enigma ProjectSo yeah
>>749681212this is how I rated their skill levels without even paying attention to how they actually fly in-game
>>749692682Ho fuck I cannot wait for AC9 I'm gonna cum uuuuuuggggghhhhhhh
>>749682705>Can KopfSo i looked this up out of curiosity because i remembered the first guy that posted this, and he got it wrong.Kopf is fucking German(Belkan) he likely meant either Kafa(head) or more likely, Kopuk(Broken) which would make Jan Cope actually Can Kopuk(Broken Spirit).So yeah, Cope is Turkish, but one anon mixed up german with Turkish and we just went with it instead of checking.
>>749692551FCU was originally a hodgepodge of countries since it was the first continent in the series.USEA stands for US (United states) E(urope) A(sia). Plans changed when the world map expanded and Osea became the designated stand in for America. Now strangereal has two flavors of America, soviet era super power America, and RAPED european flavor America.
>>749692682>Tewy is using the same suit as Renaoooooghhh
>>749693215I'M CUMMINGI FUCKING LOVE ELECTROSPHERE PLEASE PA PLEASE PLEASE AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!
>>749664437Is this the biggest difficulty spike in any AC game? I swear you can softlock yourself if you trigger the checkpoint after killing one without doing any damage to the other and you're not flying the fast brick (MiG-31) to catch up in time.
>>749693605It's not that hard.
>>749693605I am legit not even sure how people have trouble with it? I S ranked it first time with an F/A-18E?
>>749693294>>749693215How's Electrosphere? Kinda wary of anything older than the PS2 since that's the console i grew up with.
>>749693605It's *literally* about knowing their flight path, it's not more complicated than that.
>>749693669>>749693707I held the afterburner the whole time, took shortcuts through their trajectory arc and spammed all the missiles I was carrying as soon as they could reload, all while blasting it with guns and I still couldn't kill the 2nd one before it btfo the fleet. Maybe the checkpoint was fucking me over because it spawned me at the point where the fleet had 1 HP left and the remaining enemy had full health.
>>749693785>How's Electrosphere?Personally, AC3 (JP) is my favorite Ace Combat game, and by a good stretch too. To me, it has the best plane controls, the best music, the best story, the best combat, the best stages, and it has a cool story branching system, snd each branch's missions are almost entirely unique to that branch, with the exception of a handful of key missions. And each branch has its own unique final mission and ending. It's fucking great.
>>749693785I was keeping it on the backburner until recently and it genuinely became one of my favorite entries in the franchise. The presentation is top notch
>>749693785If you enjoy how weighty planes feel in 8 compared to previous games, you'll like how 3 feels. Planes have even more momentum and weight in 3 compared to 8. Aside from that, the missions are super short and arcadey and the story is very Ghost in the Shell. Definitely worth checking out.
>>749693785It's the most simlike game in the series, both in terms of physics and in terms of missile guidance. The story and soundtrack don't have those extremely exciting moments you are used to in ace combat, but they add up to a very satisfying experience.
missions 24 and 25 are kind of retardedThe first day is literally right next to the second day. Like there's a runway literally a few kilometers away from the bunker thing from the first mission and yet there's jets parked on the runway in the second mission lol wtf are the sotoans doingAlso it's annoying as fuck because the game infinite spawns sam sites on the ground
What's everyone's preferred aircraft parts? I used to prioritize pitch speed increases but someone made a video showing they only do like 3% increase, so I switched to adding stealth on non-stealth planes. It gives you a chance to hit SAMs before they can lock onto you, especially if you have increased machine gun or missile range. The stealth part does fuck-all for planes that already have stealth though.
>>749694193>Also it's annoying as fuck because the game infinite spawns sam sites on the groundit took me way too long to notice this
>>749692682Oh shit I just realized the x-40 has quad wings in a similar shape to the night raven with the forward wings over the back wings. It's slowly getting there.
>>749693978Nothing tops Electrosphere's atmosphere, even nearly 3 decades later.
>>749694272I'm too stupid for aircraft parts. I just take manoeuvrability and regular missile upgrades.
AC8 is full of unintentionally(?) hilarious moments. Like everyone being sad that Tasha has to leave because she's a civilian, only for her to pull a $100million fighter jet out of her ass with zero explanation and she gets to continue being a special civilian combatant without getting anyone's permission. Then Kate's plane crashes and she pulls a $100million fighter jet out of her ass too after getting rescued by guys who were trying to kill her 5 minutes ago but their mercenary contract expired just in time so she just hired them to be her mercs lmao
>the corpo wars happened because some dudes with spanish guitars hated borders 50 years ago
>>749694272I've said this before in the thread, but for sure>Guns damage & range upgrade (at the highest level of dogfights at Elite & Ace, guns are more critical than missiles)>Durability/Defense upgrade>the all-maneuverability upgrade>Onboard jammer to weaken enemy lock>that one part that helps missile tracking thru clouds>That part that helps locking on stealth fightersAnd then the rest are just whatever upgrades my special weapons loadout need.
>>749694513The Savians have an infinite supply of 3D printed Rafales, Kate just borrowed one of theirs.
>>749694450Nothing. AC3 is like sex for my media tastes.
>>749694513Tasha stole Kates F-18C. I suspect Kate was not too happy about that.
>>749685737You can farm me.
>>749694787How about we leave this not-general and go back to my place?
>>749693785A bit different from what you usually play on modern ace combats but still funDespite being a PS1 game, I consider it very ambitious for what it was and what it was trying to do, both story and gameplay. The fact that PA is clearly aiming towards AC3 in the timeline makes me happy
>>749694537They finally got what they wanted. Hope they're not disappointed.
>>749693785Not op but i tried emulating ac3 sometime ago and knew you had to use the japanese version but i could not put a translation mod somehow. What is the last step there?
>>749691076>>749690939The FCU is more like the EU, though Theve is literally Toronto so I guess it's EU/Canada.
Shadow 22 is the type of sandnigga who would wear his ceremonial military getup while flying.
>>749694513the fighter jet she pulls out of her ass is because DD funded it personallyand Tasha actually joins up with the military she's no longer a civilian after leaving the ship the first time
>>749695057You need a specific program to patch the translation into the japanese original, or download a patched version through a torrent.
>>749695057https://mega.nz/folder/qd4ymbJZ#8HPGpRnzU3VdAMFVkGw45QHere's both discs patched and ready to go
>>749680978Their strongest schizos got operation paperclipped but it's like 20 different countries who all want their own world-ending superweapons instead of just two looking for rocketry
>>749694513>KateHonestly im more confused that she was recovered by retreating Savians rather than by the FCU despite being shot down right over the island they just captured
>>749695363>>749695356Thanks
>>749695752Don't think too hard about that.
>>749694513this is strangereal, you can get planes at your local zollar store
>>749695363Based anon
>>749695363Nice.>>749695752A lot of the plot falls apart very quickly the moment you glance at it. If you were to make 101 problems with what is going on I don't even think this would make the list with how far down it would be.
I was not aware Ace Combat 0 is a game where this can occur.
>>749696135Most AC games will make you take damage when hitting a bomber or any other big slow thing, if not outright killing you
>>749696219Those were friendlies thoughPretty sure in some games you can clip into them without taking damage
>>749696392No? Only the new AC games are like that?
>>749696135Wow, that thing just tanked that.
>finally about to s rank mission 28 on ace>have over 122k points going into the final battle>kill the first 3 shadows in like 3 minutes luckily>have 90% damage for some reason>get a few hits on 22>he kills me somehow and I have to redo the entire thing>still kill him again in about 7 minutes>checkpoint restart fucks my ranking and I get an A instead of SAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH I'm so tired of doing this shit. It's not that hard, but getting enough points off the bombers and then regular aircraft is just a bitch, it needs way too many points for S rank it's the only mission I had any trouble with this shit
>>749695285I'll have to replay it but I don't think it is stated she does? A somewhat famous Yuke citizen officially signing on with the FCU just doesn't seem like something that would be allowed to fly?
>>749697253does killing the first bomber in a formation reliably cause a collision?
>>749689628>actively try to avoid warcrimesWe will not talk about Tyler Island
>>749697314she's got an official rank after that and well, the FCU is desperate also she's shown herself to be both a capable and loyal pilot, gift horse and what not
>>749691939The CN Tower, for a start.
>>749697395To be fair isn't it implied that its all those loose Osean penal battalions getting in on that action?
>>749697457>>749691939Also, this is literally hudson bay
