Uhhh, Useans? Is THIS your savior?
>>750558478I can't believe Master Miller was a nazi
>Usea>Osea>EruseaWhy are there so many Europes?
Usea + Osea = Uohsea
>>750558756Osea is US though?
>>750558478Nah this guy is.
I finished the game and I am very pleasantly surprised they're not retconning 3 and actually setting up for it. If 9 turns out to be the actual war that was depicted in 3's simulations it'll be the most kino build up in gaming.
>>750558478that's a sotoan
Is Emmeria the only country in Ace Combat that doesn't have a superweapon? Even 3rd world shitholes like Leasath have multiple ones.
>>750564731They wasted their budget on universal healthcare.
>>750564731>Emmeria doesn't have a superweaponExcuse me?
>>750563828>AC9 is this but Nemo when released into the world got wiped out by basic anti-virus in like .3 seconds because Simon is a fucking moron.
>>750565523AC9 is going to be about Nemo seeking to become a real girl. Mark my words.
>>750558478It's just a habit, don't mind it.
>>750565601AC9 will be a prequel to 8 and in the end the main character looks into a mirror and it's dision.
>>750558478>22, that's not a number I want to get close to, you feel the same, right?><Yes.>>You get it, this is why we need a final solution.What did he mean by this?
>>750565745Nothing, Sotoa doesn't have enough land battleships to burn that many sotoans in the timespan. It's impossible.
>>750565803>Hey General Resource formerly ensneed chuckster?>Yeah can we get uuuuuuuuuuuuh 200 unarmed landbattleships from surplus>Yeah send them to the Sotoan deathcamps please.
>ran out of GUN trying to gun only Ladons on ace>didnt even kill a single oneyou're telling me i need to do this with MGP on a fucking f-4? jesus
>>750565882fishbed is better. multirole has 100% damage multiplier against aerial targets while fighters have 137.5%
>>750565929>multirole has 100% damage multiplier against aerial targets while fighters have 137.5%There's hidden damage multipliers in the game? Has this always been a thing?
>>750565929yeah but im doing multirole medal at the same time. might have to give up on it though>>750565961no its new with ac8 and total bullshit desu. also applies to multiplayer which makes 2/3 of all planes pointless to use if you want to win. wish they got rid of it
>>750565961well you can notice it pretty easily with strike eagle when normal missile oneshots tank (150% against ground targets for attackers) but it takes 3 missiles to kill planes (87.5%)
>>750564731Most countries banded together to build giant cannons and shit in order to stop Ulysses from decimating the planetEmmeria went "Well if anyone else gets close to succeeding there's still probably going to be fallout" so they made underground shelters insteadAfter that they just economy-maxed, and instead of having a wasteful weapons program they wasted a lot of GDP on trying to solve Estovakia's problems for them
yeah theres no way to do mission 15 gun only on ace without the mig21. you get 2 passes and the mission is over. it takes 1,5 to just kill 1 bird with constant MGP on the f-4, this is horseshit lmao
>>750564731Emmeria spent their money on something completely unthinkable to other Strangereal militaries: pilot training.Everyone else just throws disposable mooks into planes with 5 minutes of simulator time, and hopes a one-in-a-million mute psychopath psychic pilot appears. In Emmeria, your wingmen kill targets when you tell them to.
>>750566641You know what Emmerian armed forces as a whole give off a sense of absolute professional well beyond that of any other nation. Everyone else struggles to wipe their ass on their own.
>>750566707the FCU ground units being made of paper mache in this game really made me yearn for the days of Warlock Battalion
>>750558478>Oh, this? Just an old habit...
>>750564731Emmeria has the most powerful superweapon in Strangereal. All of their millitary branches being competent.
>>750564731The Emmerian superweapon is their ridiculously powerful explosives that they put in all their weapons.
Emmeria if they wanted to could easily fuck Osea and Yuktobania if they wanted to. They are the true world superpower.
>>750558478elliot rogers
>>750558478
>>750572618Hungry are we?
>>750572618finally, my airdash nuggies
>>750572618
>>750558478he's a rocket man.rocketmanburning out his fuseout therealone
>>750558478What were they thinking with this entry? Why would they give catchiest song to the enemy? It gets stuck in your head the moment you think of it and you have to get it out of your system like a fucking Sote.
>>750582424Rise Above is for the good guys tho
Speaking of the best tracks in the gamehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6gVNCtNEr8
>>750572618They're so bad I forget and have to stop spinning around like I have plane aspergers and just shoot them instead of spinning around like a drunk gyroscope
>>750583390https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBh9-T4CGRk
>>750583390Blockade... you got a glowup
>>750582424the coolest songs are always related to the main rivals or the superweapons, bruthis game is no differenthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6jYsJlHXiY
>>750583390Use this onehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fb5a6KZmYi0it's the actual in-game version rather than the soundtrack version. Soundtracks have to be shorter and project Aces likes having 7-8 minute versions there, but the entirety of Mission 21 is synced to the 15 minute timer before the shuttle launches, so the in-game version of Star-Bound Bird is synced to what happens in the mission
>>750584362Hell yeah
>>750583390its a bit sad how people always go for the big songs like daredevil and magnus dei when talking about ace combat songsmy favorite songs are all lacking in vocals and the overly bombastic orchestra. songs like these are the bestac7 for example had eastern wind. i loved the tubas coming in in the 2nd half, signifying a part of mihaly in the dronesyinshi valley was also awesome
SO WE WILL RISE ABOVE
>CALL ME UUUPhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIhfpSIZeTY
How would Maverick fare against the average Ace Combat protagonist?
>>750585626he's not bloodless so unfortunately he losesthe canyon run in the movie and the high G turn they pull at the end is just another day at work for an AC protagonist
>>750585626I could picture him being a wingman but he's definitely not protagonist level.
>>750565523>>750565601>>750565674I'm convinced AC9 is just going to be a straight remake of Electrosphere for modern audiences since those are all the rage nowadays. That, or they're going to do another contemporaneous game that inches towards its setting. Maybe depicting the origins of UPEO or Neucomm since AC8 did it for General Resources. Either way, I hope it doesn't take seven years to come out.
>>750585572SET ME FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
>>750585626maverick has a head, which implies the possibility of a blackout. not ideal
>>750586009They should get Yoko Taro signed on to be part of the writing team so they can get away title nonsense like Ace Combat Root 9 / 3 Square in addition to the usual preorder remaster for 3.
>>750586009>AC8 did it for General ResourcesThey were around in AC7's DLC.
>>750586009Considering the IUN gets absolutely fucked by Sotoa in AC8's beginning, NUN and UPEO are basically the natural next step.
>>750585572ReminderPurple Magic fought the land battleship so (you) would have a shadow of a chance against it the next day
>>750586647>IUN gets clowned on by Erusea in AC7>IUN gets gaped and raped by Sotoa in AC8It's no wonder everyone gives up on the organization after that. It does not guarantee security or keep peace.
how much cheating does this game do with enemies. The mission where there are two bombers that jam your radar it appears when you get too close they will just warp the fuck out of there.
>>750586920>The mission where there are two bombers that jam your radar it appears when you get too close they will just warp the fuck out of there.They're just faster than you in a straight lineFly better and cut their corners and (you) will be able to shoot them downAnd use your gun
>ruins your immersion Either don’t have this guy show up early or give me a chance to take him down early. Making him bulletproof and forcing me to wait down an invisible timer isn’t fun.
>>750586907I mean, that's kind of what happened with the League of Nations except instead they just appeared weak and ineffectual whilst the IUN got bombed from orbit at the start of the war.
>>750587043>I totally could've wrecked all the previous game protags but I was busy uhhhhhh doing something else but you better believe me youngster you ain't special at all
>>750587043Congrats, you now know one of the main critiques of AC7He does have cool music at least
>>750585243I really liked "Rescue" in AC7. It gave this immense sense of stress and urgency, even more so than "Magic Spear" where you were blowing up missile silos and intercepting MRBM's.
>>750587361Dual Wielder is probably one of my favorite stage tracks in AC7
>>750587043>Making him bulletproof and forcing me to wait down an invisible timer isn’t fun.legitimate complaintwe all hated that shittoo bad namco overcorrected and made the shadows dodge everything and have infinite flares
>>750587009I was right on it's tail and instead of going straight and getting away it just zoomed upwards at a warp speed.
>>750587485That one's so good it returned in Online. Kind of a shame Online's a mess.
>>750583390https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCOd8IexY1Mthere's story to this shit man
>>750587632Well, I still hope they can fix online somehow. Worst case I guess mods will have to take over at some point.
Where's my SU-30?
>>750587859Kind of redundant since there's less SP. W's than in AC7.>WhyFCU doesn't have Osea-money to buy exotic weapons like lasers and plane-mounted railguns.
When a friendly Sotaon squad shows up in 9 chanting is gonna be KINO
I really liked how this game somehow salvaged AC7's clusterfuck story and made it great.
>>750588079>FCU doesn't have Osea-money to buy exotic weapons like lasers and plane-mounted railguns.fuck that shiti want my PLSL back
>>750587361for me it is Homeward
>>750588723The princess is far more enjoyable as a character in 8, than 7. By trying to be obscure and secret by hiding the story in 7 they made all characters boring. In 8 she’s out and obvious as a character and far more interesting.
>>750589018>gets on the radio>has her childhood friend call D.D>hits him with the https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ROjh6Tcjdo>causes D.D's soul to resurface from under his corpo stooge persona/our/ princess
>>750558478First person cutscenes always look terrible and make everything happening feel small
Explain to me as you would a child the point of the "Press A to do something" during a cutscene.
>>750589262To test if you’re paying attention
>>750586009I will personally be mocking aces by implying dision's paradox: That you can never actually re-release AC3 just we get half-as-close timewise until it's like AC19: Two minutes, three seconds and 45 milliseconds before AC3.
>>750585243I really liked the music in the final briefing for 7, especially when it kicks in during it when you see the drones do a helix. I also liked siren's song because it effectively signifies trigger isn't regarded as being the lee harvey oswald of osean pilots.
Ace Combat looked NUTS on the PS2.
>>750588830when eventually the DLC planes come out more you'll get one PLSL plane
>have to wait at least 4 months for a full psm sukhoi without dogshit special weapons (SU37) and it will cost 10 bucksfuck you PA
>>750583390I still like "Literally just a Top Gun Track" from AC7 https://youtu.be/QIIIHmEAdEI?si=ifNdQW9ydYO5SHO6
>>750590083the venn diagram of people who play ace combat and people who enjoy top gun is pretty much a perfect circle after all
>>750590083>>750583546>>750583390>>750584362>>750587695>Add a load of AC8 tracks to my hype playlist>Now I fucking get Aaaaaaaooooooo Oooo oooo aaoo aooo'd in my playlist every now and then. Fuck's sake.
>>750590234Oh for fucking sure. They're so related they can't marry and if they had a relationship /v/ would post about them 3000 times a day (not about the games though)
>mute retarded dialog>skip every gookslop cutscene>no idea why i'm doing what i'm doing in missionThe only way a non weeb faggot can enjoy this game.
>>750572618sorry mavisimen chan but I need that FA-36 skin
>>750587574shadows are very weak to machine gun
>>750589262So that you can go to the bathroom mid cutscene
>>750587574>>750590664It's pretty funny in those first few days of people going "wow I killed him in 2 seconds because he banked into my gun" and on the other side "Fucking hell fuck why does he have 600 flares"
>>750590526>>750572618is it even possible to save them? I've seen even Tasha down multiple of them
I just beat Ace Combat zero. I had it on ps2 as a kid but got filtered and only finished AC5. After 8 this was a LOT easier, short game too everyone should take two nights and play it. OST was a bit more understated, the dogfighting was fun. The story was all over the place, I definitely prefer 8. Probably going to replay 7 before I do an 8 difficulty ace playthrualso can I "Yo, Buddy" post now since I have beaten the game. am I better at playing the Sitar?
>>750590856you can, but they'll turn up again in Rocky Island 2 to shoot down Kate
>>750590856Apparently if you spare one of the veterans but wipe everyone else Mavismen will be talked out of shooting herself.I wouldn't know. It wasn't a matter of perspective.
SOME PEOPLE MAY SPEAK DOWN TO YOU
>>750564731they don't need a superweapon, they have angels
GUN only on ace difficulty really shows the effort they put into enemy behavior in thisin 7, everything was basically braindead. they dodged maybe 1 missile and then flew straight. except for scripted mihaly and drones of coursein 8, the moment you get a missile lock, even the mig21 grunts go crazy on ace. barrel roll, ascend, back down, jinking, all without a break. im actually having trouble. mission 20 was nuts, i had to resort to jousting to hit these motherfuckers
>>750565601>nemo will become your WSO waifu>maybe also starts to infect your cyberware and speaks in your head like ayre in armored core 6
I want her back. I NEED HER BACKhttps://acecombat.fandom.com/wiki/S-32
>>750591295You can semi-bluff the game by offsetting your target. Aces clearly worked out I'd be an asshole and do this though because the AI wakes up pretty quick that you're gunning a different target but it's good for a double kill on initial encounter: target a guy, align and gun down another and either shoot as early as you can or do the funny kulbit and drop a pair down their neck. It also should be the standard approach for all ground targets when you're using standard missiles.
>>750591640nah brotermie needs to returnwith her FAEBshttps://acecombat.fandom.com/wiki/Su-37_Terminator
>>750591584I am NOT having a relationship with a fucking clanker son of Huggy and Muggy. I wouldn't touch nemo with a 20,000 league pole.
>>750586009my money is on 9 being a prequel to 8 covering the Sotoa-Yuktobanian, just like how AC0 was a prequal to 5
>>750591584I do not eant to listen to this shit or huginmunin SCREEENHKDKGCNGNGNhttps://youtu.be/Sr_607pOH8c
>IMAGINE
>>750591936What part of lager beer makes your hull bullshit I don't drink beer.
>>750592026I love Torres but it's pretty clear all it basically takes to etch yourself into the consciousness of players is to just let the VA go full fucking ham on a character written as "He's fucking lost it bro just go nuts"maybe a small part is the portrait, the portrait really does fucking convey he's fucky.
>>750592134>>750591936can you befriend submarines by giving them lager beer
>>750592260I will credit that everyone else in the DLC is pretty mediocre: The autism siblings are one-note, black anal list asking gpt how what would a nutter do, general backstab. white sheets definitely makes it.
>>750591295I also noticed (and I'm not sure if it's intentional, accidental or I'm just hallucinating things) that it feels like the Shadows like to pull off "Wiseman" and whenever you target one of them, that guy starts taking you for a ride, focusing on just evading as best as possible while the rest of the squadron goes after your ass from behind.You can also tell Shadow 22 is doing the same commands that you can do, it's really evident when he orders them to cover him and they all flock to him and start shitting flares en masse.
>>750565523I hate the fact that AC3’s whole premise is basically an incel cuck’s revenge fantasy: the game
>>750591726i think they actually offset that from time to time by assigning squads the same behavior. i noticed it during mission 21 when intercepting the A10s. if my lock is on 1, the whole squad starts turning, so that targeting trick doesnt even work consistently, because they all break at the same time>>750592426yeah the saturation attack order is pretty funny. im wondering if they also get the team targeting bonus like your squad does cause their missiles feel more accurate in that moment
>>750592576that's what'll make it funny when nemo's server racks get bonked on the head or something and he starts thinking that everyone is Dision, making what started as an incel's cuck revenge fantasy end up as a schizophrenic AI who doesn't know what route he's on trying to nuke the world
I love the f16c so much
>>750558478he comes from the Hyperborean basehttps://youtu.be/wdU2z4cDJdk?si=IYaB4ww5b3rTBBjz
>>750592576I am genuinely concerned /v/, specifically (nobody else will even know anyway) will get what they wish for and not realise. It's already been happening with people going back to play it, and I like electrosphere a lot and its themes. But I know you fucking tossers will post about cucky simon and get mad and moon11overjune will have to put you down with guided munitions.
Ace Combat is oddly prescient about how humans are needed to train AI.
>>750594097It's actually kind of funny that 3 was made back in 1999, and now the timeline has caught up with it and it's actually super relevant to how the real world is going in regards to AI and corporations running everything.
https://youtu.be/3axYqSmZvHY Does bgm canonically play during debriefings?
so the FCU/Theve just let a destroyed land battleship just sit in the middle of the city for multiple weeks? couldn't even get enso order to scavenge it for battle data?
>>750594370I'd argue yes because the guy forgot to turn the going-into-debriefings-music-machine on for the president harling murder (not out of respect he was just distracted)
>>750594493lmao
>>750592260>all it basically takes to etch yourself into the consciousness of players is to just let the VA go full fucking ham on a character written as "He's fucking lost it bro just go nuts"That's just an universal truth.https://youtu.be/m6qhHPF8IcU?si=G1oTdgLfKQjWIyx5&t=244
>>750594907Oh for fucking sure. We just apparently fucking love ham.
>>750585243Long Day is still one of my favourite tracks from 7, especially the part at 1:48https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLKkap8E1uI
>>750585626>Has bloodHe can't hang.
Oooh oooh oooh oooh ewaaooh ewaaooh HEYI tried to make it so that Moon would be doing a little hand jive and the step routine would be more involved and intricate, but it seems that the models are heavily biased against depicting white people being able to dance.
>>750585243For me it's Winter Storm from Ace Combat 5, i wish the belkan niggers that spawn before the SOLG were harder to kill.
>>750595986Timmies can't dance so there's nothing for the model to be trained on.
>>750594437Didn't they do exactly that, allowing them to learn that the bunker buster bombs worked on it?
>>750582424>Why would they give catchiest song to the enemyBecause they always do....?
>>750596343I need them to be smoov bruh.It was also hell finding that one step routine, folks is getting way too fancy. Put your men in a line and make them stroll. This is why Sotoans can't build no generational wealth.
>>750582424Mindfulness. Listen to the sounds around you instead of what's in your head.
>>750586043This frankly explains a lot.
>>750585626My headcanon is gravity on Strangereal is less than our Earth. Maverick almost blacked out doing a high-G
>>750582424I just consider it my theme song, not theirs.
>>750596972I'd argue a fundamental physical law means the entire universe is just more. More missiles, more gun, more gs, more superweapons, more warcrimes.
>>750585626He's Pixy level
>>750583390>>750584362The His World of it all. Might even call it Sonic Wings.
>>750594437It took a lot of effort to get it stuck there, man. Just let us bask in the glory of our triumph for a bit and don't sweat the possibility of a nuclear fallout.
>>750594437You think "scavenging" is instant?
>>750594437Enso was studying it and considering even each of its armour plates are bigger than whole two floor houses in Theve, there wasn't any way for them to move it
>>750589771Man I just started Zero, and as one of the last games produced for the PS2 it looks insaneIt was especially crazy to go from 3 to 4 in only two years
>>750597243Strangereal has more wars because they have a philosophical predisposition for war, easily explained. No physics needed.
Randomly found this, I know some anons have already well and truly picked out the heavy referencing going on with AC8s music but this is a really comprehensive cover of that and it's really, really well done. No I don't know this guy just, fuck look it's good manhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bl5TUw7sUBs
>>750598938FUCK. er, not that one, this one.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1beXOXpziUk
>>750598938>>750598995Has anyone pointed out that Rise Above comes within inches of Defying Gravity yet?
>>750596972That would help explain the construction of the space elevator.
Strangereal to me appears to be ahead in materials science but behind on consumer technology.DD even mentions that the military spending makes touchscreen smartphones like the one he has rare.
>mfw AC9's subtitle is 3lectrosphere
>it's not going to be called "AC9">it'll be AC3x3
>>750599961I wonder if most TVs used in Strangereal are still CRTs since they're still used for instrument panels in aircraft.
>>750600480That would make the dining area having 4 flarscreens even more fucked up.
I'm glad that 8 wasn't just "Belka did it" again.
>>750601130Well wait till you find out who made Enso...
>>750601359>Hey chief, what's the "Larry Foulke Foundation for Retired Aces", and why did it contribute 20% of last year's black ops budget?
>>750599961>canonizing inconsistencies due to obviously lazy worldbuilding
>>750592260>the portrait really does fucking convey he's fuckyWhatever could you mean?
>tfw killing nuggets by lobbing 1x LAAM from max range
>>750591936Was Triumphant part of the same design lineage as the Alicorn and Scinfaxi class subs?
>>750602120this is my mona lisa
>>750601790>Please donate to the A World Without Barriers* SuperPAC
>>750602120
>>750602754I NEED A GIANT MECH LOLI POST-APOCALIPTIC SURVIVAL GAMENOWWWWWWWWWWW
>>750603581Paradise becomes real for those who believe in it.
>>750603581Closest I can think of is Doll's Nest. Sadly not giant in it except for one NPC.
So, does 8 surpasses 5 as the best game of the franchise?
>>750558563I didn't think master could get any more Based and non-goyim.
>>750604126If 5 is your favourite, 8 should be just your thing
>>750603581>>750603856Dolls nest is really good
>>750604459I thought 5 was the weakest of the PS2 titles but I enjoyed 8
>>750604459>>7506046808 is 5 but good, Enso is a weaker belka though.
The landships being airdropped from the transport planes on the island mission is cool as fuck and most players won't even see it.
>>750604845I don't think most people manage to take out the Podarges before they drop their cargo on their first run
>>750604845I think on the first time I played the mission I let the podarges drop the battleships off and didn't get a chance to take them out until afterwards, and by then the battleships had split up so suddenly I had constant RAILGUN WARNING on top of all the MISSILE ALERT messagessecond time I did the mission I dropped UGBs on the podarges in midair and nuked half the propellers on my first go
If only I could run 8 at a stable 20 fps...
I know it's most likely headed that way, but I don't really want AC9 to be Electrosphere Again. I didn't like AC3, and one of the things I like about the series is real-world aircraft mixed with fantastical machines. I don't want the whole thing to be sci-fi, AI nonsense with "muh corporations" running everything, then it's just Cyberpunk with planes.
>>750605232you're already too late, we've been heading to AC3 again since they started doing 7 in earnest. But I don't know why people seem to think they're going to just straight up do AC3 again with all the ghost in the shell references and all that when they've just built up this audience of people interested in the regular world-building. AC9 will likely be some middle ground between the two.
>>750605183Didn't realize this Alicorn shipgirl had more fanart
>>750605232It's the direction Strangereal is heading. Though if I'm honest I'm somewhat expecting severe retcons of 3 assuming AC9 takes place around 2040.
Your arcadeshit didn't even get nominated for best soundtrack lmao.
>>750600013Ace Combat 10 will be Galaga
>>750605232I imagine we'll get the real world, "Countries still exist and pretend governments control things but just try and nuke Google and see what happens," situation.
>>750605232I really doubt it'll be a complete retread of AC3 but they've acknowledged it as a core component of the series. If they continue down the timeline they will not ignore it. Literally D's phone is running a prototype Data Swallow OS.And honestly, almost everything that happens in the game is centered around Usea. We have no idea how the rise of General Resource actually impacts other continents. The Electrosphere basically becomes the internet so it's important, but economically The Yukes and everyone in Anea still have what they had before. I really don't expect a full remake of 3, at most it'd be a parallel plot running alongside Simon's scheme. If two "morally grey at best" world superpowers that are above the law start fighting a hot war, other actors will move as well.Also these guys fucking love real planes. They're not going to throw them all out or just rename them like some people want them to do so they can re-release the PS2 games. The old shit being repurposed into Coffin planes was a way to disguise Nemo in universe pretty much. A mute psycho in this universe can do anything, including rape an R-102 Delphinus with an A-10.
>>750558478fact checked false by EnsoGPT v4
>>750605483The artist did them back when the DLC came out I think, also a design drawing for the mecha section.
>>750558478is he supposed to be like.. great value tom cruise?
>>750606683ghost tulpa turkic tom cruise
>>750606464If the timeline keeps progressing it won't even be a plane game anymore, Electrosphere aircraft are borderline mecha.
>>75060701390% of AC3s roster are current day planes, they just have COFFIN cockpit replacements
>>750605637nobody sniffs their own farts harder than an ace combat fan
Behold: the most evil looking aircraft ever.
>>750607414I love him all the same
>>750607414Imagine how fucking cozy it is, middle of the night, flying super low or super high, the only light visible is the moon, its reflection, and pinpricks of light of a costal town you're rapidly approaching. Nobody can fucking see you, nobody is on the radio to you. The only company you have is the bomb in your bay.You wheel around to get a proper look, you can see sleepy fishing ships in the harbour, the occasional flicker and dimming of lights of cars going through the main street, you can even imagine the people. Then, with just a big click and then a larger clunk, you drop your B61 thermonuclear bomb.Very cozy. That'll teach those idiots to rebel.The nighthawk itself is a cramped, hot, apparently smelly nightmare to pilot alas
>>750607414sex with evil planes
>>750608141Your people are out there, go find them.
>>750608129>Can't get a photo of a F-117 dropping a bomb.You idiot its RIGHT HERE.
>>750582424Song of Wings is better, Everflow is better, Purple Magic's album is better. Fuck Sotoans.
>>750607414Geometry is pretty evil.
>>750608567Star-bound bird...
Has anyone tried making the x40 nightmare work? Or is it the most shitty superplane?
>>750558563What's his full name again? Kaz something Miller?
>>750611161Kazuhito "Hero" Miller.
>>750610996Its very fast and has ok to good mobility with stacked parts. Its just its special weapons that are underwhelming, the UAVs are absolute garbage and EMLB is decent but has low ammo if you bring two SPW, QAAM is QAAM but ammo is also low and the F-22 or Su-57 both carry more and are more maneuverable.
>>750606683Great Value Goose
>>750602550the netcode is so fucking bad I've had LAAMs magical spawn out of thin air with a split second to react
>>750610996I S-ranked mission 28 with it, so it can do some work, but I had to use QAAM only.
>>750610996it just suffers a lot from the Fa-36 being pretty damn amazing having access to what are functionally the 2 best single player weapons in the SASM and SOD, while also boasting fantastic stats overall and having a large MG ammo count
>>750617362QAAM is better than SASM if you do PSM magic missiles, and X40 excels at that.
>>750617695maybe with the recent updates, but before that SASM was capable of taking out anything a QAAM could take out, but also drastically superior at taking out Shadow-22's squad and the Ladons (a SASM fired at the Ladon while it releases suicide drones blows them all up causing collateral which can take it out even on Ace with ridiculous efficiency) I think, but don't quote me on that, a direct hit from a SASM deals more damage than a QAAMbut even if QAAM is now slightly better than SASM, it is nowhere near enough to offset the fact the Fa-36 actually has a viable secondary weapon, HPAA is also not the best (though in the situations you want it it's adequate) but it sure beats the X40's drones
>>750617880>ladonI went in with barricader and spammed super missiles and destroyed both in the first turn around.
>>750591791But what if she was a cute anime grill who loved you?
>>750617973I think it's possible if you have all the +speed parts to take them out before they do their first pass on the barricader would need a video confirming it but I have been able to get multiple shots on them before the first pass myself
>>750617973You can actually kill one of them in Mission 7 with the barricader, that plane is so fucking stupid
Imagine being an Osean
>"Bravo 1-DAMN IT, CMON GUYS!"wtf is his problem?
>>750618142Ain't 621 a barely living corpse inside a plastic bag?
What happened to all the laser guns that planes had in 7? Did they get banned internationally in a 10 year span?
>>750621230Most of those were being used by Oseans, I guess the FCU was too poor to keep up
Why are surface ships in Strangereal so fucking pathetic? A couple sidewinders to the bridge and it's fucking over
>>750621230Those are Osean weapons, you're in the Zfcu! And in a WW2 carrier at that.
>>750621310>>750621349Imagine not having lasers. Trigger had lasers when he was a fucking inmate. Any nation too poor to have lasers deserves to fall.
Can anyone tell me if the coop is fun/playable? I will of course buy AC8 fpr the cheesy story and god-like soundtrack, but after I've raped all missions thoroughly, I'm wondering if the multiplayer is worth spending an hour or two on.
>>750621310Isn't the FCU supposed to be canada? They're not that poor.
>>750621545I had fun for a while but it's really too barebones and unbalanced at this point, LAAM and ECM/IEWS makes everything samey and boring, unfortunatelyAC7 has a functional coop mod nowadays, if you can get people to play with you there I'd recommend that instead
>>750621545Co-op is just multiplayer PvE where you try and outscore an enemy team. It's okay. Regular vs multiplayer is cancer just like it was in 7.
>>750621612Canadian armed forces are dogshit due to poor funding so it fits.
>>750621638Thanks fren. I'm going to get AC8 regardless, as I understand most people say that if you liked 7, you like 8.
Kates taters
>>750621612the FCU is involved in a destructive war like every 5 years
>>750621612Canada would be poor if it suffered through 5 wars (7 if we count Katina and the VR missions) and getting bombarded so hard with asteroid fragments they're still feeling it 30 years later AND its entire economic future hinges on two megacorps who have no regard for the countries they're buying up and filling with rogue AIs and nanobot swarmsUsea is a cursed continent
>>750621638>AC7 has a functional coop mod nowadaysit had, before the dev left the internet because he was getting death threats from anti-ai people
>>750621746That pool probably has its own IFF signature like that one Fried Chicken place in Osea
>>750621692>ace combat pvpYeah, lol no. I never liked the pvp in 7. Luckily, I have war thunder if I want to fly fighter jets and not have any fun while doing so.
>>750621739Have fun anon, I really enjoyed 7 and I think 8 manages to be a step up in just about every way (including multiplayer but 7's was pretty abhorrent), I think you're in for a treat>>750621814Check the nexus, he came back thanks to people's supportTurns out most people just want good things and we should ignore the terminally online and insane
>>750621889>Check the nexus, he came back thanks to people's supportoh thank god, seriously I don't like AI slop either but if AI lets people make actual interesting mods like co-op in AC it's a good thing
>>750621889>Turns out most people just want good things and we should ignore the terminally online and insanewell that's all good and well but if insane people put death threats out there it can be bad for your health to ignore themnot to mention there were active campaigns to try and get him fired from his job, which are things you actually have to take serious, even if they're too cowardly to actually try and kill you, setting up fake sexual harassment is exactly the sort of thing cowards like that would do to try and get you fired
Am I tripping, or did the sonic boom effect not exist in AC7?
>>750596972It'd help explain the superstructures but makes the flesh that much more susceptible to Gs. We simply have to accept that we are just rare mutant mute psychopaths operating on a shortage of blood that can apparently see ghosts.>>750597243>>750598513They just have way bigger guns so it only makes sense to have way more planes, landships, tunes and railguns to keep parity.
So we went from railguns to drones to orbital weapons + coffin precursors, aside from coffins what would 9's feature tech be ba-Of course. It'd have to be >>750565601. Cope and Night Raven + Nemo pretty much set this up thematically. I was just thinking it's odd we haven't gotten genuine coordinated aces against you yet but a clanker waifunemy would fit that sort of challenge..
>>750590945They ones in Rocky Island II show up even of you kill all the gemmas in expo
>>750617695>QAAM is better than SASMThat's funny to say. Best joke ITT
Am I retarded or did they not explain shit in this game>why are ghosts real>what did cope even leave unfinished>why did he join the military but not shoot anyone down if he wasn't actually a spy>why did sotoa even invade in the first place, and why an entire continent instead of just one country, and why not the continent they were on instead of on the other side of the globe>why did no one try to use a simple bunker buster on a land ship before>why did DD even do a whole media campaign? what was that even supposed to accomplish?>what did civilians cheering for wings actually do>why did the refueling drone randomly explode and why did no one comment on that ever>if the whole point of enso order is that they're a decentralized collection of unrelated shell companies run by independent operatives who don't communicate with each other, how does exposing 303 affect literally any other part of the company
Oh no...
>fire HVAA at topkek doing kulbit>instead of the typical straight trajectory with sluggish guidance the missile steers 90 degrees into random directioncant use this shit even at intended targets because of the terrible psm scripting.
>why are ghosts realDon't think about it>what did cope even leave unfinishedCope couldn't cope with his fellow Sotoans being larping warmongers and wanted to see them fall>why did he join the military but not shoot anyone down if he wasn't actually a spyHe's a sheep herding pacifist>why did sotoa even invade in the first place, and why an entire continent instead of just one country, and why not the continent they were on instead of on the other side of the globeYuktobania would rape them hard, the FCU was easier since they were fucked up the Lighthouse War and they kept pussyfooting with giving them aid.They really only touch the FCU and San Salvacion in Usea technically, they don't bother Erusea or North Point (lol)>why did no one try to use a simple bunker buster on a land ship beforeBecause it has a shit ton of Anti-Air some of which can be 3D printed on demand. (You) are built differently and take out everything so the bombers can do their thing.>why did DD even do a whole media campaign? what was that even supposed to accomplish?Give the FCU hope/propaganda and he's also really attached to Wings of Theve as his personal pet project and succeeds in the end with Mission 30 when everyone in the world cheers you on live.>what did civilians cheering for wings actually doBring attention to the shady stuff Enso was doing which helped caused their supposed down fall as a company.>why did the refueling drone randomly explode and why did no one comment on that everEnso sabotaged them with the help of the traitor to stop (You) from winning the war>if the whole point of enso order is that they're a decentralized collection of unrelated shell companies run by independent operatives who don't communicate with each other, how does exposing 303 affect literally any other part of the companyThat's the neat part they actually won in the end and exposing them technically did nothing since they just get positions in GR now.
>>750624650Ironically, that's realistic behavior
>>750624186>>why are ghosts realThey just are, it makes sublimation more fucked up as a part of you is now stuck unable to pass on>what did cope even leave unfinishedHe never got to fly with Tewy>why did he join the military but not shoot anyone down if he wasn't actually a spySon of an inmigeant, think of all the US soldiers with mexican surnames.why did sotoa even invade in the first place, and why an entire continent instead of just one country, and why not the continent they were on instead of on the other side of the globeThey tried 20 years ago and lost, now they're working for corporate interests.>why did no one try to use a simple bunker buster on a land ship beforeIdk>why did DD even do a whole media campaign? what was that even supposed to accomplish?Propaganda that would motivate a losing country to continue the war instead of giving up and surrendering.>what did civilians cheering for wings actually doCreate a symbol of hope for Strangereal>>why did the refueling drone randomly explode and why did no one comment on that everIdk>if the whole point of enso order is that they're a decentralized collection of unrelated shell companies run by independent operatives who don't communicate with each other, how does exposing 303 affect literally any other part of the companyIt exposes that Enso Order are a bunch of shady, war-profitting assholes, but as it's just a small part of company it doesn't reach the people actually profitting from the war, just the guys directly involved.
>>750625069Ah fucked up the greentext.
>>750624186>>750624727
>These skies belong to you, Rex. Go take what's yours.
>>750624650PSMs break locks, that's why it flies off. You have to catch him in a very specific window.
>>750624236Why did they do it bros?
>>750622759Unless you've barely touched AC7 its kinda obvious its not in the game. Its in 5, Zero and 8.
>(Partial) OST has dropped>Listen to Times Are Changing on its own for the first timeFuck, this is good. Wish Wings could have been there...
>>750627460Such a cool emblem
>>750627530Might need to get it as a patch
I can't believe people find Kate more attractive
>>750628407Who'd want a zoomer yuke? Eww.
>>750565882each engine has like 600 hp,a normal plane has 60 hpget the mod that shows HP
>>750558478W-w-wuh WHAAAAT?CANCEL HIM CANCEL HIM
How do I stop the sub from killing Endurance?
>>750587043>>750587235>>750587574AC8 does the exact same bullshitmoon 11 and shadow 22 is completely bullet proof the first time you encounter themin m29 when you fight moon 11 you can first down her via dogfight mode after she is done yapping. she is invul until then
>>750564731These guys, nothing comes close to a competent air force in Strangereal.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVW53VdjCAI
>>750628635Shoot it until it dies
>>750628635Get behind it and dump everything into it, missiles, bullets, bombs, wingmen with attack/special weapons enabledApparently there was a bug that caused it to be unkillable in that last phase but apparently they fixed it, I never had that issue so I wouldn't knowUnless you mean earlier in which case kill all the missiles and marker drones, Endurance can take a hit or two but it's easy enough to do it hitless (there's a medal for that, even)
>>750628753Moon 11 is bullet proof in the same way that Pixy in Zero is bullet proof, he has two phases and you kill him "once" he enters the second phase. Mihaly won't even die if you "kill him" until he finishes his routine.
>>750628948exactly the same for moon 11go test it with a modded superjet, and HP indicator mods
>>750628780There was a bug? I did everything, and it wouldn't die. For some reason it died during one attempt even though I did the same thing
>>750627460Mission 8 is way too good for it to be in the first third of the game
>>750629157>Fixed an issue where the TGT “HULL” could not be destroyed even after repeated attacks, preventing the mission from progressing.From the patch notesI'm not sure what else could be the issue, just about every other enemy in the mission takes a single missile so it's not like you could run out of ammo before thenJust dump everything and don't let go until it goes boom
>>750627129I just don't see Kate being embarrassed playing dressup for her husband?
