Carrier Kino™ EditionThread Theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9qcyR549cgPrevious Mission: >>549851927 >AC7/8 on Steamhttps://store.steampowered.com/app/502500 (AC7)https://store.steampowered.com/app/2288340 (AC8)>/aceg/ Emulation Guidehttps://rentry.org/ybyx6>Official /aceg/ multiplayer guidehttps://rentry.org/acegMPguide>/aceg/ livery and emblem packhttps://rentry.org/3tokr>Ace Combat 3: A New Translationhttps://pastebin.com/i6sfa9aK>Encyclopedia Strangerealhttp://www.encycstra.net/>New /aceg/ MEGAhttps://pastebin.com/aYYx2UKm>PA Twitter (JP)https://twitter.com/PROJECT_ACES >AC7Shootout Saturday is back! /aceg/ rooms are open every Sat at 1930 CET/1330 EST, with three rules:>Put /aceg/ in your tag before game for IFF purposes>No EML/QAAM/SASM>In Roca Roja, use ONLY air-to-ground special weapons in the tunnel >Resourceshttps://pastebin.com/CZWp7rzqhttps://rentry.org/ho8mm>OP Templatehttps://pastebin.com/e9PNHDcD >Project Wingmanhttps://store.steampowered.com/app/895870>Skin/Texture Modding Guide for PWhttps://pastebin.com/ykPhc6hn Misc Stuff>/aceg/ Collagehttps://i.imgur.com/wP9NNDv.png>/aceg/ Story Archive 2.0https://pastebin.com/1FLC4YyV>Razgriz Patch Guyhttps://www.strangerealpatches.com/>Ostrich's Modshttps://superostrich.xyz/>/aceg/ Assault Recordshttps://pastebin.com/CjuB314d>ACX / ACJA Online Netplay Guidehttps://pastebin.com/Pk1aJsTx >SPECIAL MESSAGE TO /aceg/ FROM PIXYhttps://www.cameo.com/v/qSL5bOosg>What happened to Sean Ryan (Pixy's actor) after ACZhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qat5kEtrrpk >/aceg/ Permalinkhttp://orph.link/aceg BECAUSE IT BEARS REPEATING:>Skill and guts are required here>Be a buddy, not a border>All planes are beautiful dreams>DELAY THE FINAL ATTACK FAQ>Has the Project Wingman update dropped yet?Haha...>Is there any AC8 news yet?YES! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQYx_867ua0>Has a PS2 trilogy remake been announced yet?No.
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ayo peep the badge
I wonder what sort of conversation kickstarted the effort to remaster Electrosphere's soundtrack.Surely it wasn't "yo boss, we could get a shitload of music streaming money whenever they play this in the clubs".The fact that some of the tracks have actually been remastered tells me that someone felt strongly about it.
>Let's keep at it Rex! - Professor>Rey, heads up! - Tasha>On your orders Rex. - Noise
>>549918660amazing
>>549918678>The fact that some of the tracks have actually been remastered tells me that someone felt strongly about it.unlike pigslop goycattle western AAA studios, project aces actually has staff retention and devs who care about the franchise
>>549918698Why Rey though?
>>549918698>>549918996>"Rex?! But that rhymes with s-s-se-se-NO! I can't call you that!"
>>549918996King in Latin vs King in Sapinese
I think carrier planes suck
>>549918593made for
>>549919157I think YOU suck.
After sleeping on it, and rewatching the trailer, I don't think it's as bad as my first impression made it out to be, but I still don't like it, I absolutely cannot stand the first person cutscenes and I have 0 interest in whatever hub area they'll add where you can mingle with your fellow squadron members, and speaking of squadron members, we may have seen less than 5 seconds of them but for some reason I cannot stand them already, I don't know what it is but just looking at them is enough to have made me not like them. Having said all that I think the game will overall be good, especially if they improve on thigs like multiple SPWs and also add in new PvE modes for multiplayer.
>>549919150>SapineseAin't she a Yuke?
I wonder what Sotoa's dumb shit plan will be.
>>549919476Rood
>>549919542>I absolutely cannot stand the first person cutscenes and I have 0 interest in whatever hub area they'll add where you can mingle with your fellow squadron members,Read the Famitsu interview. There's no intermission hub area or extraneous "walking" gameplay, they're just cutscenes that you can control the camera for.
You think we're getting one of these in 8?
>>549919695That's good to hear, I still don't like them but not having some dumb hub area seems like an improvement, I'll go read it.
why dont they just build aircraft carriers as big as regular runways>expensiveyea but that way they can save money by using the same planes as on land and dont need to have a separate specialized airfleet and all the industry necessary to produce those
Flanker.
Proposal: since our threads are moving at Mach 3 now, we should probably wait to make the next one. Let it hit 750, then let it hit page 9, and then make the new thread.>>549905620PTSD. Seeing the unthinkable happen would shake everything and everyone, and trauma makes you easier to manipulate - be it by a cult, a political party, or a scammer.
>>549919893you're making literal free kills?
>>549919893You now have megafloat
>>549919660Considering it’s MENA? Jihad.
>>549919893Because you'd need something to move their fat asses with? There's a reason why supercarriers are all nuclear-powered.
>>549919660My bet is on>the Lighthouse war has knocked the World Police (Osea) out of any major interventions for the foreseeable future>the entire Usean continent is still completely, utterly fucked up>Usea is also very rich, and full of natural resources>the window to do shit undisturbed by anyone who matters is rapidly closing>>549920306No.
>>549919801It sounds like they're just refining and iterating on 7 but this time with a more stable development cycle and no PSVR2 timesink
>>549920298yea>>549920339make a bigger reactorput in two of them
>>549920298>You now have megafloatWho knows? We might see a prototype of Megafloat in AC8. The game is only 10 years away timeline wise.
Sotoa is not literally Iran, Yuktobania is not literally RuZZia. There are inspirations, but be for real chrissakes.
>>549920306>Stonehenge was built on Sotoan sacred land!>by repeatedly ignoring our requests for pilgrimage or purchase, you have left us with no choice!>we have sharpened our fangs for this moment, and strike in the name of holy war!
>>549919893A town-sized ship needs a whole-ass town to crew it. There's also the problem of putting too many eggs in a single basket, and if you make three regular supercarriers instead of a single gigantic one, you can cover way more planet and project power way more.>>549920675This. PA may make some parallels, but Strangereal is its own setting.
>>549919542i always hated the wingmen in 5 or 7 so these new guys literally doesnt bother me, just happy we arent osean again
>>549920675what about the italian bistro
>>549920773>This. PA may make some parallels, but Strangereal is its own setting.I'm so glad Strangereal is its own thing, these fags trying to push their obnoxious boomer politics into my japanese videogames would be 10x more annoying if AC was about real countries.
>>549918229I hope we see tons of fictionals in this game and some 6th gen bullshit.We're pretty close to 3 in the timeline.
>>549920876Just a popular TV show inspired restaurant
>>549919695Am I the only one who finds that disappointing? I wanted the game structure to be more like MGS V and have sub missions in-between the main ones. There's not enough meat to chew on, I need more than 12 missions every 6 years.
>>549920876It's a type of cuisine made by me, Peppe Italia. Gaze upon my creations!
>>549920985I wanna see more fictional non-combat aviation designs. >>549921070They're developing a coop campaign too.
>>549921160That's gross I don't want friendslop in AC, that's even more of a wasted time sink than VR.
>>549921160>coop campaign>PvE with buddies is actually on the menu
>>549921160Joint Assault? I hope they don't make Co-op exclusive rewards again.
If we get another Excalibur Onslaught IV, I'll die happy
>>549920974Countries in Strangereal are amalgamations with some original flavor baked in. People saying that 'x country is based vaguely off of y group of irl countries' are fine because that's usually the correct assessment. Separate them from the retards claiming whichever country in Strangereal is based off of one particular IRL country.
>>549921526I still crave revenge against Duck360.
where are the chinks and nips from anyway?
So the Squadron is apparently named "Joker". Lame.
>>549921901we're literally the streamer squad, we go on easy promotional missions that uplift moral.It's super clear that they're going to go get dragged into something more, I think when they take on the transport birds, they'll encounter an actual Enemy Ace squad testing out some new tech, Shadow probably.
>>549922028>our ordnance will be funded through sub donations
>>549922028why are we fighting the cool edgelord hedgehog?
>>549922147Tasha is gonna be doing some heavy lifting to afford my SPW.Man I'm so glad we get to finally have MPBMs and TLS on the Morgan.
>>549922028CHAT SHOULD I DO GUNS ONLY FOR THIS SORTIE?1s IN CHAT FOR GUNS ONLY
>>549922172He is the stream sniper of course
>>549921901It’s a card subtheme. The Joker replaces a card in a standard 52 deck. You’re the joker replacing the ‘king’ (rex).
>>549922028AYO CHAT SOMEBODY CLIP THAT
>>549922259Trying to fly but your HUD is filled with WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW scrolling through
>>549920119Sure we're fast but not that fast and we're already losing steam. I think we're doing fine.
>>549922028>ayo chat, I think that's an actual ACE>We're so fucking cooked, Chat!
>>549922028I hope we get some funny or uplifting chat donos in game when we perform exceptionally well
CLOUDS.
>>549922326Clever.
Biggest dono gets to choose where Chopper crashes!
Very pretty clouds!
>>549922028>This air raid is sponsored by RAID: Shadow Legends
>>549922537lore reasoning for not using the huge ass river?
Will he be able to surpass Daredevil and Sol Squadron?
>>549922028No chat, I won't bomb a random house! Th- that's a war crime. What, why are you all spamming question marks? Hold on, hold on. "Your flightsuit is blue?" What are you talking about, my sleeves are green.
>>549922772Piranhas would've eaten him.
>>549922684Imagine if the narrator is actually the media guy's podcast, and we listen to him recount our feats from making things up to actual real kill counts
>>549922772Chopper never learned to swim
>>549922909He's not even the main composer anymore, I think he may have burnt out already
>>549922909Give me more vibin' rock like Magic Spear and Dual Wielder and i'm set.
>>549922909the better question is whether we'll ever get something that surpasses Homeward
>>549922028>ok chat, five subs and I cover noise's pitot tubes><<WATCH YOUR SPEED>> *pffft*
Subathon: 1 Belkan village carpet bombed per sub!
>>549922028>So I have my plane right, and I bring it up into the clouds right, and when I look at it my cockpit it's full of fucking water, dude. Look at that. Dude it's fucking dripping. Why?>Condensation? Ok, what about it. What is that?
>>549909831and that was what we were gonna see in the cancelled Ace Combat Rising Revengence
>>549922909He's not the only guy who worked on 7's OST. He's great, but there are other skilled composers on PA's payroll.
5ch is saying Tasha is Count and Huxian's daughter.
>>549923338
>>549923529Count has a time machine and knocks Huxian up a decade before the events of 7?
>>549922909I think it's about time we get a vocal track that's not latin chanting.
We should get FreQuency for a couple of songs.
>>549923683>Rex flies down to bomb some refugee camps>This starts playinghttps://youtu.be/r7qovpFAGrQ
>>549923658>a decade beforewhere is the time period stated?
>>549922028ooooh, you think Tasha will get Brownie'd?
>>549923683I think it's about time you stopped being a homosexual
>>549922909Daredevil is kinda meh. Kobayashi's tracks from the last DLC mission were way better.
>>5499238068 is set in 2029.7 occured in 2019.Tasha is a fully commisioned officer flying a fighter jet. Do the math.
>>549923829i'm not a Nagase fanboy though.
>>549923683I loved 7's americana theme, the one used in the non-ebin moments.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMBtvzuk8ggHopefully 8 will have something just as interesting.>>549923806The game is set in 2029.
>>549923935belkan experimental growth hormones
AI Chatbot WSO.
imagine if the twist is you being a GR plant
Apparently Tasha is a Yuke? Her pendant looks to have the yuke flag on it.
>>549924319It'd fit with the "it's Belka again lmao" trend
>>549924427>NATASHA is a Yukeastute
>>549924496Disregard this, I mixed GR up with Gründer
i didn't like the trailer that much but then i had a nap and now i feel better about itthat's been happening a lot lately
>>549923935I thought at first that you meant that AC8 was taking place a decade before AC7 in Strangereal's timelinebut I understand now that you mean that any character born around AC7 would need an extra decade if they were to show up as an adult in AC8>8 is set in 2029.this is the part that I'm still confused about I'm wondering where people are getting this info from
>>549922028Sub-goals are reached for different warcimes to commit.
>>549924667The bandai namco website page for Ace Combat 8.
>>549924667>>8 is set in 2029.>this is the part that I'm still confused about>I'm wondering where people are getting this info fromThe official websitehttps://enso-order.acecombat.jp/
>>549924319Guessing we'd see a younger Dision arrive as support later as General Resource wants to ensure their efforts don't go to waste.
>>549924427why ae there Yukes on an Usean ship?
>>549924667Also the new steam announcement and page.
GR needs Usea in shambles so it can step in.Sotoan invasion went too quickly, the war needs to drag on, until both sides are exhausted.That weird propaganda thing FCU has going on? What if we put one of our Ace pilots in there and make it a real thing? Not only would it work by itself, it would be a much bigger morale boost for surviving FCU forces than the fake thing is. Once both sides suffer enough losses and region goes to shit, we step in as a savior, establishing a corporate rule over central Usea.
>players enter the cockpit as the “Wings of Theve” – a legendary ace, a name tied to Theve, the capital of the FCU,oh my god it's the fucking "ghost of keev"
can't wait for the varied options in aircraft
>>549925119>ghost of keev is a psyop canonicallybased project aces
>>549925068So I guess we're gonna get GR supporting with their COFFIN equipped versions of Early Tier AC3 planes?
>>549924427She'll probably betray as as an evil yuke or belkan plant. the yukes will neve play fair.
>>549925312desu it would make for a good lore reason to have something else than super hornets to fly in campaignlike at some point, GR starts offering support to the underdogs to balance them out, but without deploying their own forces officially, just yetif they're COFFIN, they could also be recovered/hijacked once it's time to take over
>>549925759>if they're COFFIN, they could also be recovered/hijacked once it's time to take overor just disabled so they don't have their own weapons used against them
>>549922028>instead of MRP its follows, shares and likes we spend for upgrades and certain actions will generate more or even subtract from your total.
>>549925759And COFFIN equipped planes with no markings could easily early on be mistaken for advanced versions of the Copro conversions of manned planes during the Lighthouse WarUnless you recover a body you can't tell if a downed COFFIN equipped plane is manned or a Drone
>>549925923Suddenly your HUD goes dead and you're forced to flee blindly across a return line as the Sotoans are still trying to kill you. or GRDF planes disguised as Sotoans are trying to clean up a loose end.After all they NEED this war to drag on and do as much damage to the region as possible.
>>549926003It's The Crew 2 calling XP "Followers" all over again
><<Hello Rex , I am the Reinforcement sent by GR>>
What do we reckon then. Buy and sell aircraft like the old games or AC7 style unlock tree?After replaying Zero this week, I want the classic shop system back. Unlock tree feels too linear.
>>549922909personally I want to know what we're getting for our "the situation has somehow gotten worse" musichttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqI_p47XCK4https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ope4MldMf4
>>549926448That'd trigger a very major "Those Who Know vs Those Who Don't Know" momentBut he did have to earn his reputation somewhere...
yes hello can I interest any of you in a wonderful carrier-based COFFIN fighter?
>>549926787I love the subtle "castanets of Belkan fuckery" in Last Hope.
But where are the good guys?
>>549926448Hard to imagine that this guy was so famous in Strangereal that he got an entire type of mustard named after him.
>>549926335I could definitely see the player character being double crossed at some point.Apart from tying up loose ends, having entire federation hailing him as a hero is too much power, a liability as soon as the goal is achieved. It would also break morale at just the right point.>imagine if it's the player character that somehow sabotaged the original Rex so he could take his place
>>549927103Still rebuilding their military after the Lighthouse War. Losing all those carriers and warships got Osea's force projection capabilities utterly fucked.
>>549926689Buy and sell, an aircraft tree not only is too linear but you already get some expectation and Locks you on what you will be using until the game's end, which cheapens a first playthrough.
>>549922028><<REX! NO STOP! YOU'RE BOMBING A REFUGEE CAMP!>>>the chat is spaming BASED REX
>>549927103hopefully stuck in a war with a revanchist and re-armed Belka coming to take back the south
>>549926787god I love the desperation in lost kingdom and the chaos in last hope. Hope we get a longer "shits fucked" segment like PW had.
>Nemo being a clanker knockoff of an actual thing pulled by GR in this war
>>549927103>hear civilian news radio when wandering ship :><<In international news Osea is fighting its 9th War against the 5th Kingdom of Erusea>>
Hello there, my dear neucummer.
>>549925119'Theve' as a place hasn't been mentioned in any Ace Combat lore previously as far as I'm aware, they're seemingly creating it solely for the title of the game and the name of the ace. They could've chose anything else (somebody mentioned the subtitle of the game cover in Japanese translates to 'False Wings' which is WAY better), but they went with this. Kind of dumb to be honest. There's a difference between taking inspiration from reality and blatantly ripping from it. I don't doubt that it'll have solid gameplay and soundtrack as the games usually do, but in terms of naming shit they dropped the ball hard on this one.
>>549927795><<you may call me Glowie>>
>>549927552Supercircus is still my favorite bad shit is going down trackhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eofwy3bwcfM
>unreal engine 5yeah I am not to sure captain
>>549927103Hopefully they have collapsed due to getting their shit pushed in by Erusea and all the territory they stole and swindled over the years has broken away from the decaying corpse of the great satan. However I expect they have elected an isolationist.
>>549927321Or with the Wings being a title killing the player ensures a non-singularity gets the title next which results in a reversal or drastic slowing of the FCU's liberationAll in the favor of General Resources.
>>549928021Found the Belkan
>>549923683>gotta stay fly
>>549923683Journey Home, retard?
>walk around the ship>suddently a 51 year old genette approach for an interview of the infamous Rex
>>549927427KEK
>>549927873>I'm gonna make you a star kid, yer gonna be the greatest pilot this world has ever known.
>>549926787https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJ1Npb1y4ZEIt's not a "shit's fucked" mission but the music sure sounds like it. More like this for AC8 please.
>>549928272
>>549927427><<REX , THAT WAS A SOTOAN ORPHANAGE!>>>FCUPATRIOT2010 : <<REMOVE KEBAB>>
So now that Osea and Erusia are best fiends will we see shit about the fucking space elevator?Will Cossette still be in power with all of Erusia beneath her bloody, iron fist?
>>549928874best friends*my R key is not working well
>>549928874Probably building a coalition to help throw back the Sotoans problem is well it's taking too long and the FCU falls and they're pretty much going from "Save the FCU" to "WE HOLD THE LINE" until the Oseans finally get enough bodies (and send Trigger over) to switch from a Desert Shield to Desert Storm mode
>wake up>thread dead >typical>1000 POSTS BUDDIES
I wonder how they'll differentiate 8 from 7, looks-wise this could be a DLC. Didn't see any new planes either
>>549927815>blatantly ripping from itAnon the Ghost was always fake and gay. Wings is what if Ghost was actually real.>videogame faggot inspired by ace combat makes up a fake ace for a real war whose fiction inspires Project Aces to come up with a story about it actually being trueI hope FAN is seething over his dumb waifu WSO concept being more boring of a story than some shitpost made by a literal who Warthunder streamer.
>>549929387>Anon the Ghost was always fake and gayyou know what i mean
>>549929335>Didn't see any new planes eitherLegacy Hornet, buddy
>>549919660>some sort of incident over shipping/fishing like piracy maybe throw in issue about long range missles Done or they will make it about oil under the ocean
>>549929335Probably KAAN, Tejas, su75, and maybe Chinese jets
>>549919660>Kono insert into the plot the Rise of AI tech>The War is declared cause some guy made with Strangereal Sora , Footage of the President of the FCU wipe his ass with the Sotoan Qoran
So who will be the bad guy?Belka or Erusea?
>>549925759So we'd see the F/A-18I Hornet ADV at least in this?
>>549930538I'm willing to bet none of these will be in the game at all
>>549930684It's always Belka, even when Erusea started shit it was Belka
>>549930684Yukes or Belka this time. Screencap this post.
>>549930684Belkan-backed Yukes using a shell company that ends up getting absorbed by GR or Neucom.
>>549930717I want this if nothing else but maybe there will be COFFIN variants of a bunch of the normal jets.
>>549931316Well we see the AC3 roster of "Modernized" fighters show up and that may mean we'll see the A/F-117X NAV Hawk show up
>>549930684Osea
>>549930684its sotoa, unless you mean whos funding them
I hope we get a silent pilot so the first person cutscenes are super awkward at first but then everyone comes to appreciate Simple Jack and we bond over the smoldering rubble of our enemies former homes.
I think she's cute.
>>549932103What's a yuke doing on an Erusian ship?
>>549931743I hope there is an option to fail all the interactions with your teammates to fully roleplay as the autist ace
>>549932196Might have been a Yuke civvie who was in the FCU when shit hit the fan and couldn't get out. Turns out she actually could pilot
>>549932196She could be Estovakian
>>549931558Where did we see that? I only recall seeing Hornets in the reveal.
>>549933213I missed a "We COULD see that"
>>549933249Oh. Even if I will not use that one the more 3 stuff the better, for me.
>>549932803nah she's got a yuke pendant on with the yuke flag. she's a yuke
NUKE THE YUKE
>>549933450why does she use spanish then
>>549922028
>ac8 >be carrier based squadron>sweeping up a CAP> << hahahaha..ahahahaha.. >>
>>549934980><<10 years ago an Osean singularity sunk the Alicorn and his captain...thats the official story>>><<The FCU got back the wreck and his corpse...we named the following secret project...NAUTILUS>>
>>549921901>glasses I thought pilots had to have 20/20 vision
>>549928874Yes, and the prince consort will be offhandedly mentioned as a former war hero
>>549922468>Ƶ10.000: Yo can you bomb another highway but this time while upside down?
>SU-57s are the evil ones againgod damn it
The year after AC8 is set, Martha dies.Abyssal Dision is a General Resources fighter pilot during the events of 8.We're inching ever closer to 3.
>>549930684I'd say the best-case scenario is General Resource.
>>549934246it is possible to know two languages, senpaiwhy do you say desu?
>>549930538I wonder which one is more likely, a chink jet or a gook one (KF21)
>>549936347Can we relegate Electrosphere to some failed alt timeline?
>>549930538>jeet trying to sneak his glorified trainer jet in with the actual big boyslol
Which 3 project is best? What's the difference between them?
>>549936610AC3 is canonical in the timeline. Anyways, this is a good thing, it separates AC from boring westoid Tom Clancy faggotry.
I still DESPERATELY hope that we don't actually reach AC3 because that setting with giant evil corporations and wacky space planes is so fucking boring.Include some of the same elements, sure, whatever. Please just let let the actual events of AC3 turn out to be a simulation as opposed to an actual future that the series is marching toward.
>>549936347This is pretty close to what I was thinking too.I was seeing someone expressing doubt about the world moving toward the corpo-run dystopia of 3 but I think the pieces are there so far. With so much infrastructure and communication network damage sustained globally at this point in the timeline, the world is ripe for a handful of companies to make bold plays to dominate the markets. We're already seeing a lot of that in the real world as anti-trust goes out the window and companies just keep katamari-ing together. And that's to say nothing of the fucking AI push we're having so that's another unpleasant parallel.
>>549936154Cossette is unable to make an appearance since she's on maternity leaveTrust me bro this is inner circle intel
Megacorps are boring because real life doesn't turn out that way. Nobody's going to give their life to some tech company, it's always going to be done through a million layers of governments and nationalism.
>>549936928Yeah, the whole buildup to Electrosphere-world is very smoothly interconnected and thought out even though I have no doubt a lot of it was done post-hoc.
>>549936890The problem is that the games tend to reflect real world issues to some extent and increasingly those giant evil corporations are more and more plausible. Like, the AI companies have literally infiltrated the Department of War for fuck's sake.But whatever I don't fucking care I want us to have our own airborne superweapon carrier for a base some day.
>>549937264And Microsoft infiltrated the Pentagon during the 90's and didn't get broken up as a monopoly due to government contracts. So what? It doesn't mean Microsoft has an army.
>>549937395Pepsi had a navy
we need to bully the troons out of the new official discord
>>549937395YET
>>549937179>Megacorps are boring because real life doesn't turn out that way. Nobody's going to give their life to some tech company99 percent of people signing up for the armed forces right now are doing so for the benefits, disability support, and paycheque, dont be some naive goober who buys into the flag waving.
>>549937490My disagreement isn't that people do not serve in the military for monetary compensation, my argument is that having non-military corporations spin off into PMCs because hurr durr is retarded. Governments always have a monopoly on violence.
>>549937642if the government is unable or unwilling to enforce the monopoly on violence corpos may develop their own private security which might include a military division
>>549937490>benefits, disability supportMoney that's paid by the government to pharma corps, notably.I never actually got around to playing 3 though I really need to. Were the corps specialized in anything? Like a pharma one, a tech one, etc, idk?
>>549936610Agreed. AC3 is incredibly overrated to the point where I seriously doubt most people online who constantly praise it as some sort of generational masterpiece have even played it. Smells of regurgitated youtuber opinions.It is impressive for a PS1 game in terms of flight model, in-flight gameplay and visuals, but the story is just lengthy and nonsensical exposition dumps from overly melodramatic cartoons.
that belkanyl got my ass clenched so hard that it took a chunk outta the ejection seat
>>549937872Enforcing that monopoly is a government's number one concern, that's why they punish companies that step out of line and reward companies that fall in line. Like Microsoft, like the AI tech bros. You see 'infiltration' and 'buying the government', when in reality the government is putting a leash on those companies and making them dependent on government contracts. When Microsoft does anything the government doesn't like, like not spy on Windows uses for the government, the government sighs, rolls its eyes, and shakes its head. "Oh, such a shame, I wonder if Google would be interested in selling me some servers." And then Microsoft immediately falls in line.Governments and corporations are mirrors of one another, but the difference is governments are a mafia that was there first and corporations come and go. Where is IBM now? Where's Standard Oil? Where is the East India Trading Company? Gone.
>Italian bistro is a dub only mistranslation>Chopper says Dutch rolls in both JP and ENWhy is it that the Netherlands canonically exists in Ace Combat but not Italy?
>>549937448There's an official discord now?
So what's that line in the trailer when they crash into the water? I can't make it out.Start swimming soldier, a man can only live (?)
>>549938286It's just a result of ethnic food being difficult to describe without making up a neologism.>"Hey want some french toast this morning?"vs>"Hey want some Osean toast this morning?"Which one makes the most sense to you?
>>549937875Neucom, as something that pops out after EASA is sold by Eruseans is specialized in tech
>>549938210Governments come and go too though.>East India Trading CompanyWhere is the Gurkani Empire? Where is the Marathas Confederation? Where is the Sikh Empire? Where is the Sultante of Delhi?
>>549937875Neucom used to, yeah. Communications used to be their main thing if I remember right but by the time of the game they were fully in on progressive science. Most of the unique, not based on anything planes designs are from them.
>>549938210UNABLE or UNWILLING either due to revolt or manufacturing consent
>>549937875>I never actually got around to playing 3 though I really need to.do it naowit's not even long unless you go for all the endings
>>549938390yeahhttps://bnent.eu/AceCombat-Discord
>>549938401>a man can only live (?)"Make it home alive"
>>549938401I spot an anon who needs to get his ears checked.
>>549937264>increasingly those giant evil corporations are more and more plausible.I despair for people's ability to extrapolate.
>>549937448>we need to bully the troons out of the new official discordbut that's what discords exist forit's like digging a pond in your backyard and being mad that frogs and mosquitos live in it
>>549938473>Gurkani EmpireTurkey>Marathas ConfederationIndia.>Sikh EmpirePakistan and India>Sultante of DelhiPakistanWhile there has been conquest and consolidation, all of these historical nation states have infinitely more influence than any company because there are trails of political legitimacy, ethnic migration, and cultural heritage. In 200 years nobody will give a shit about Microsoft or any of the current AI bro companies. Belgium, however, is still going to be around - even if it is just an EU member state.The world isn't just "I have money, I win". This is an angsty teen's worldview.
>Out of 4 carriers, only Kestrel survived until the final days of 2010s war>Somehow reformed their carrier fleet within a decade>Lost it all again, except one empty and one groundedYeah I can see why Osea decide to stay away this time
>>549939128I would die for Cygames before I would ever consider dying for my country.
>>549937448I don't really care though
>>549925119Life imitates art.Art imitates life.
>>549939208Remember most of those carriers were still being rebuilt before the MQ-99s blew them up. It looks like they had Kestral II and the still having Sea Trials Admiral Anderson fully available. And yea Osea's still too way beat up to really step in seriously. Especially with the shitshow that happened to their south with Ace Combat X
there are troons in my male autism pattern interest videogame franchise fanbase
>>549938670>massive wall of rules>check general>none of them enforced>endless shitposting over fucking belkanyl or whatever the fuckhonestly probably better than this place
>>549939208Wasn't the Kestrel the grounded one? Or am I mixed up?
>>549939638Admiral Anderson was grounded. Kestral II was sunk
>>549939638>Kestrel II was sunk in mission 3>Andersen is grounded>Vulture (II) is emptyThat's all there is>>549939481Yea, with two wars within ten years and very heavy losses, entering yet another war will be catastrophic
>>549939128>Belgium, however, is still going to be aroundI get your point and I agree, but almost any other country would make for a better example. At any given moment, Belgium has a decent chance of splitting between the Netherlands, France, and Germany.
>>549938286Maybe it just originated from that region of the Belkan countryside with all the windmills
THOSE DAMN BELKANS GOT MY WIFE HOOKED ON BELKANYL
>>549938685That makes a lot of sense, thank you.>>549938806I clean my ears regularly ever since one of my friends had to go to the doctor for an apparently very unpleasant procedure where they put long metal straws into his ear to get the wax out.
>>549939481>Osea's still too way beat up to really step in seriously.>>549939813>with two wars within ten years and very heavy losses, entering yet another war will be catastrophica weakened military?widespread blackouts of global surveillance and communications?this is the PERFECT chance to reunite with south belka
>>549940156>belkanyl what?
>>549940315
>>549938629Makes no sense to leave it at one ending onlu though, there are so manh unique missions before each of them though
>>549940213I wonder how Abbanon's doing and if he heard the news.
>>549939348>winning air superiority Ukros are actually delulu or something ?
>>549939313Yes but the issue is can Cygames even afford to equip you
>>549941774Considering the Ruskies are doing chuck and duck with their jets it looks like it may be true. Of course Le Drones are just cruise missiles with new name
>>549939313>>549941976The highest eanrings in a single year is ARAMCO at 173 billion and they are a glorified state company overall companies are a meme the other issue is they would lack the logistical know-how to be effective
>they made the Super Hornet the hero plane and the Su-57 the villain plane and a generic US carrier the hero boat to ape Top Gun Maverick's popularity, with no hints towards bridging the gap between AC7 and AC3Anti-kino signal
>>549942020The Russians aren't threatened by ukro fighters though because they have better radars an longer range BVRM missles the Russian jets main issuw is SAM sites
>>549942278>with no hintsThe game isn't even out and you're already wrong.
>>549942278>with no hints towards bridging the gap between AC7 and AC3because they've been damn near screaming AC3 is connected to the wider strangereal-verse on the official company website and multiple interviews and Ace Combat 7 itself
>>549942278>generic US carrier>the HornetAre you even for real? Nimitz class is practically a stock image for a carrier. you need to have an interest in WW2 or be an american to know the Essexes
>>549942230would be relevant if ace combat was set in the real world
>>549936890i want to bone scream so much its unreal, she probably fucks like a fighter jet
>>549942947Tbf I'm just saying it would be weird to make companies more dominant instead of just being proxies of states you can easily showcase GR being a Osean proxy being supported convertly by Osea hell make half the corps being puppets of Belka
>>549940514the belkanyl got me wiping entire bloodlines out with a single FAEB
we're gonna build a space elevatorand osea is gonna pay for it
>>549943390woah.....belka being the bad guy, oseans being the good guy, for the 8492nd time in the franchise.... breaking new ground there buddy
>>549943390>would be weird to make companies more dominant instead of just being proxies of statesnigger have you literally seen any piece of cybepunk media ever?
>>549943450if dubs she dies within the first 4 missions
>>549943450But for good measure, let's nuke Sudentor
female mihaly wow bravo project ACES can't believe i waited twelve fucking years for you to rehash THE SAME FUCKING VILLAIN
What am I in for?
>>549944234but seriously, 8 is already off to a great start by having the main antagonists not being eruseans/belkans for the trillionth time in the franchise. seeing a new country with new cultural references is so refreshing.
What's he in for?
>>549944234Gonna replace her morning pills with this
>>549944341>>549944448It get's really retarded but that's good sometimes.
>>549944341A real fun time (remember to turn assisted mode off you'll be flying a car)
>>549944341You're gonna get wild, wet and do dirty, dirty things.
>>549944234Complete retardkino
The Endurance is a really boring name for a carrier
>>549944341great gameplayincredible soundtracksubpar story on account of being partially rewritten several times overgood plane selectionamazing dlc missions
>>549944341a fun timeremember to select expert(?) controls, not noviceexpert is normal
>>549944620off or you'll be flying a car*
Is there any solowing pilot in the games aside from Pixy?
We are so back... so happy..>>549939016Lmao, perfect analogy.
>>549944341The color of the sky is a deep dark blue and rings of missile alerts
>>549944091banging Tasha on the crisp. white. sheets.
>>549944341SOMETHING TO TELL YOUR SON ABOUT>I don't--YOU WILL TELL HIM
Grok Draw me a picture in crayon of Pixy eating ice cream
>>549944341Funny plane gameFUCK drones
>>549944341
>>549945809
>>549946173You cannot refuse Bandog.Refusal to volunteer your location will result in Solitary
We better get a phantom with thrust vectoring, some absolute out of left field custom job considering they were throwing em up along with the kitchen sink during 7 with the losses of newer planes.
I almost thought the sub was named Dragonite2, I need new glasses
>>549944341fun time, be sure to play the previous AC once you're done, they aged decently well.
>>549947138Silly sub, you can't just send a relatively slow moving missile by itself just as you die and not expect a jet to shoot it down!
>>549947138It's interesting how Yukes get accused of being a copycat because of this subI think this Dragonet have a name in the remake, Fensalir
>>549946173Avril tummy
>>549944341missiles
>>549949795
>>549944341CRISPWHITE SHEETSDIRTY BOOTSDIRTY BOOTSDIRTY BOOTS
Bros I only found out about AC8 ago cause I was at my buddy's place and he was showing me a bunch of game awards videos (I never pay attention to those events) and I thought>yo what if ace combatOf course the trailer doesn't really tell me anything but just the fact that the game was announced makes me happy
>>549948005Pretty kino for a 90's game sequel, the story was about the same as 1, nothing really to note, but the atmosphere/music was chill, and the recurring ZOE fighter was a neat little rival to have.
>>549939520>troons in my male autism pattern interest videogame franchise fanbaseim noticing a patern here, really makes you think...o algo
>>549953512*patterndidn't proofread award
Ace Combat 3 is an Anime plane game... I should go look for Macross games while I'm at it... if they had any haha...
>Valerie | She/Her | Transbian loser There is already AGP freaks in the fandom TM being annoying as hell, fuck reddit and fuck discord biggest mistakes of the internet.
>>549953783>I should go look for Macross games while I'm at itThere's a couple Robotech games. Closest you might get.>>549953982Honestly I don't know why you guys go to these places if they make you so mad. You're just feeding the rage engines of these algorithms.
>>549953982>goes on twitter>finds the types of people that post on twitter>feels the carnal urge to post about it on 4chanSAY IT AIN'T SO
>>549954071I don't want my favorite franchise to end up like countless other ones, it's pretty simple really.>>549954126YWNBAW nigger.
>>549954126It's like if I came to 4chan and was aghast that people say racist shit.>>549954214Yeah like that.
>>549954071I don't know if I want Robotech, isn't that a completely different series that's stitched from Macross scenes? There's gotta be some old 90's era games or something from the Original Macross series, even if it's JP only or something
>>549953783>>549954502theres a macross schmup for the nes but its pretty barebones
>>549954502If you want a neat Macross game in the vein of the PS2 AC games, there's a JP-only game called The Super Dimension Fortress Macross for the PS2 from 2003
>>549954631>>549954982I'll look into it after I finish catching up on Ace Combat then, thanks>>549953783There's more words in this intro than there is in all of Air Combat and Ace Combat 2!
>Felt like shit last night called it an early night>Net connection troubles today>Check thread>Huh Well hot damn it never felt this good to be so wrong and so very glad that bamco didn't do full retard lets wait till all the video's are done or some announcement of announcement shit Was not expecting Hornet to be the cover plane
Is the game going to be mostly sea combat? It's not like there's anything between Sotoa and Usea, flat blue terrain for 80% of the mission is going to get old I think.
>>549957180really doubt it will mostly be naval combat BUT i wouldnt be surprised if there wasnt any of it. i do hope we get some missions where we defend our fleet against an enemy fleet
>>549957180>sotoa apparently occupied all of central usea>trailer shows our planes taking off from land airfields as wellNah we're definitely getting land missions as well
>>549957319*there will be a coupleim retarded
>>549957478I hope we're not mostly in Usea either, we've explored the continent for multiple games now. I want to see what Sotoa is like.
>>549957180I guess that's why the cloud thing will spice things up a bit. Various weather phenomena will happen at some ocean levels I bet.
>>549920876Famous restaurant chain located in Ridge State.
>>549957849Well I think we'll definitely get to see some of Sotoa.The wheelchair chick and her bodyguard strike me very much as Sotoans (le Strangereal middle-east) and we apparently get a cutscene with them in some type of shanty mudhut town - unless there's perspective changes (maybe we get to see the enemy aces' perspectives?) that means that our character somehow ends up in Sotoa at some point.
>>549958337im like 90 percent sure that one of them is Shadow 22
>>549958476I don't know why but I find Shadow 22 to be such a funny callsign.Reminds me of that semi-astroturfed meme about TheLegend27
>>549958884Played too much Sonic?
>>549958884unironically made me think of the goofy sonic OC names people would use on deviantart, very corny but it is a japanese game after all
>>549957868Rogue wave during an unskippable carrier landing when
>>549959208><<First, anime is a highly respected form of art, it was not a mistake.>>><<Second, I like the one with the edgy girl and the scissor blade.>>
Do you guys think we might revisit any location from the previous games?
>>549925119Welcome to what everybody sussed out the attosecond the trailer dropped.>Wings of Theve>Theve rhymes with Kyiv>"He's a mass delusion created by the rumor mill of social media"
>>549959334
Oh also now that I rewatched the Shadow 22 part of the trailer>Radar contact, we think it's the ShadowsIs our AWACS gonna be a propa' English geezer?
>>5499597514, Zero, and 7 did so maybe>>549959928the difference is that Galm 2 sounds cool as hell and it also helps that its actually Garm so it gives it more originality other than...Shadow 22
was this the concert venue?
The fact that it's specifically "22" is more interesting to me than the "Shadow" part.
>>549959751I think it's time we see where the actual fuck Delarus is
7's story kept jumping around all over the place with the different squadrons but narrowing the focus to slice-of-life anime aboard a very detailed aircraft carrier would be cozy
We need to be prepared for the possibility that the overarching story of 8 (and maybe 9) will not connect into Electrosphere, and it will be considered a separate timeline or something. Or alternatively it will lead into 3 but Katabichi will botch it. >>549959751We will absolutely be going into Usea for a counter offensive.
>>549927103>Good guysHe fell for the psyop from the biggest glowies on strangereal and their money grubbing, tech stealing, land grabbing, resource stealing, hand rubbing actions hidden behind 'peace' and fake smiles and then play the victim after instigating it behind closed doors, even Belkans are in awe of Osean manipulation and control. I hope Osea are in economic freefall in 8 and stay the fuck away. Total Osean and Yuke collapse.
>>549961028Good morning, HamiltonHow is the weather in the Sudentor tunnels?
>>549961008We're going to reuse Fortress Intolerance bwo, trust me.
>>549961028TRVTHNVKE, i absolutely hate the notion that "osea r da good guiz!!" so much; honestly a big reason why i didnt like 5 or 7 that much
Chances of the wingmen being semi competent? It would be nice if we could get the AC6 whole army bombardment again but I wouldn't get my hopes up that much, but I want the wingmen to at least carry some weight.
>>549961232And a good morning to you, Bristow. They let you use the internet now?
The (sun)crippled pilot anime gf is suspicious of me...
>>549953783Despite it being called Robotech, Battlecry was a very enjoyable fun Macross game.
>>549961028Are we going to have to deal with Belka's grey men rejects again??
>thanks to AC8 announcement I can just host MP lobbies and get people easily againIts not much but it makes me happy
>>549962739>thanks to AC8 announcement I don't have keep trying to keep this thread alive along with the 3 other anons who hung around to keep it going.I am happy
>>549961547Sorry bro but unless you are some weird cyberpunk biplane thing armed with a big fucking laser you got no chance with her
>>549963116so you're saying there's a chance as long as I get more of these Neucom planes
>>549963543so fvarking cool...
>>549963116I think she definitely wants me, I don't think anything could go wrong by listening to her request
At least now we know the reason Kono visited the Hornet. They needed real life example to build the ship fromAlso buddies I have a problemI've watched the trailer a few times I looked over at steam I look here. I'm just not feeling anything maybe it just still doesn't feel real after this long. I don't know its strange I've been wanting this and now nothing. Maybe it'll kick in later after my mind can process the fact that 8 is really here.
>>549963543how the fuck do you even pilot this?
>>549965031Clearly with some neural WIFI mumbo jumbo, it tells you in the game!
>>549964414honestly the trailer mostly shows us interacting with the crews and not much of the war, aside from the big cargo model arsenal, nothing much to say on the gameplay side aside from 2 SPW weapons for now
>>549965159That thing has 2 cockpits so what about the other pilot? Nemo is ChatGPT so he's fine but 2 pilots having 2 different thinking process is going to be messy.
>>549965031Its a COFFIN plane but you don't wear a VR headset like the with the Raven instead you do what you see in the pic. Your set projects a HUD in front of you.
>>549965373Pacific Rim Jaegers has two pilots and they work just fine
>>549965373I don't think it's using any real pilots inside of it, just our connection through that coffin, most likely under the hood of each of those is some tech/computer/engine related parts?
>>549961008>We need to be prepared for the possibility that the overarching story of 8 (and maybe 9) will not connect into Electrosphere, and it will be considered a separate timeline or something. Or alternatively it will lead into 3 but Katabichi will botch it.if it was an alternate timeline they would not have it as part of the official strangereal timeline continuity on the official fucking lore website, stop the cope buddy its embarassing
Neat energy weaponry
What was worse? The wait for AC7 or the wait for AC8?
Remember back in 21 when they did an interview with PA? And we saw this image of the AB and a 2nd oneIts nice to know they finally have gotten a use out of that 2nd AB model they made years ago
>>5499671107 because we kept getting years of trailers and delays that made people question whether it was going to be released at all. Going radio silence until dropping the first trailer (which unlike 7 has some gameplay footage in it) was the right call. It only seems worse because 7 got a lot of newcomers into the franchise, so there's more people to complain about the wait.
>>549967567>7 because we kept getting years of trailers and delays that made people question whether it was going to be released at all.the 7 wait was also way more tense and nerveracking because the game prior to 7 was a f2p PS3 exclusive and fucking assault horizon, so 7 was a genuine "make or break" situation for the franchise. if 7 flopped, the series would be dead, legitimately.
>>549967110AC7 was a wait wondering if the franchise was going to be dead or not. AC8 was inevitable but it was just a manner of when due to the success of AC7.
Are the Yukes just not worried about the neighbor going on a tour in Usea? Or do they see Usea as a place where countries go to die and think it'll sort itself out?
>>5499671107 by a longshot, the existence of that game was entirely dependent on the success of Infinity. I'll be forever grateful to that kusoge for literally willing this series back into existence.
If this game's theme is how social media can turn lies into being truth, how much do you want to bet that this war wasn't even real to start with but the person making money from the war started the war and used social media to make money from lies that he started
>>549968223Usea is the land of Mobius 1 they know if anyone pushes to hard they will wake the dragon and he shall devour all, In a single day. Yeah they don't care they know that USEA has a panic button
>>549968867I kinda hope we get some real psyop mindfucks from this story because of the theme. Like fake units and shit.
so anybody want guess the extra game mode that project aces is going to add? my guess is the gauntlet from zero
>>549968867I don't want a repeat of JA plot
>>549969058Conquest from Project Wingman but actually good.
>>549969012The main crew looked like the PR team and not anything real before being thrown into the real war with their rust bucket ship and planes after the Ace died
>>549969058Arcade mode but bigger than 5's
>>549969380Maybe they're like stunt pilots? For all we know Joker Squadron was the FCU's Blur Angels equivalent.
>>549969981DEEPESTLORE
>>549968994as long as they dont invade north point or come back like free erusia they should be fine
Rex's character model is animated and moves around during post-mission replay mode?
>>549970404That'd be sick.
It would be hard to not touch North point considering it's probably the 'Sand Island' of the war
Howdy fellasLast time I was here was when AC7 launched
>>549971224hell even erusea didnt dare go near north point due to ptsd from mobius 1 kicking their ass
>>549971607in 2019
>>549969981I remember that, was suspicious that Sotoa was gonna be in a following Ace Combat title after he mentioned this. But we could only speculate back then. Does this also confirm that Sotoa is an arid kind of country?
>Jan "Rex" Cope>Fake Ace>HIS LAST NAME IS LITERALLY COPE
>>549972571That one snapshot of the Sotoan officer lady, the background seemed pretty dry and arid looking.Echapperture also sounds very french, I wonder if there's a bit of North African (Tunisian, Algerian, etc) influence in there..
>>549944750It's a VERY Navy name at least. Endurance is one of those buzzwords that gets tossed around all the time during an underway, along with Fighting the Ship/Fighting Hurt, Mission Ready/Critical, Ready for Tasking, etc. It's also a really shitty thing to hear, because an order to Report Endurance/an Endurance Report is a signal that you're getting extended and the higher ups want to know how precisely how long they can keep you there.
>>549936610Seriously this half-baked cyberpunk shit just doesn't gel with the rest of Strangereal's specific worldbuilding and vibes. Like, what, we're going to be forced to stay behind a particular dateline because after that every plane is some kind of fuck-ugly alien spaceship piloted by a comatose autist?
>>549972815>because an order to Report Endurance/an Endurance Report is a signal that you're getting extended and the higher ups want to know how precisely how long they can keep you there.Seems like it fits with the situation on board, they're undermanned, overloaded with civilian refugees, and abandoned.>>549972852Mate, if you just want generic western tacticool bullshit Ace Combat is NOT FOR YOU.
>>549919542I still feel this way.I need some convincing to feel positive about the first person shit and the character-centric story.Watching the trailer felt like pic rel lotta fucking yes plz and no plzWhen do I stop seeing the fucking captcha
>>549972937>Noooo! This one game that didn't even get a proper international release HAS to define the entire series!
I often find myself quite glad that the average internet user has absolutely zero pull in terms of how games are designed or storyboarded.
>>549973183Agreed. This is why I always roll my eyes at people picking random posts from some nobody from Twitter to scream about games being ruined forever.
>>549921160>>549921313>>549921408I will sacrifice >>549921306 so us 30 somethings married ex-virgins can have Ace Combat couch-coop with other real local humans
>>549973164>>Noooo! This one game that didn't even get a proper international release HAS to define the entire series!This is cope. If PA was intent on avoiding AC3, they'd have buried any mention of 3 and organizations, persons, and events related to said title.
>>549922495Opinions on the characters aside, this is the most gorgeous sky I've seen in a videogame
>>549973709Yeah, Cloudly is apparently an all in-house effort spearheaded by Masato Kanno. If you ever read his presentation on cloud tech for 7, you know he's a real geek for weather systems.
>>549972937>ancient Yorktown class carrier is still being used as a frontline combatant and spearheading the FCU's entire PR effortIt's going to be heartbreaking when the ship gets sunk. That poor girl belongs in port as a museum, not cosplaying as North Point in hopes that one of the Rex's is a mew Mobius One.
>>549974003You think we're gonna get a sinking carrier launch like 5?
So is the /aceg/ joke that the characters are streamers?Cus the only fucking way you can make me give a single shit about a streamer is if it's Jerma. Just him, fuck anyone else, just put Jerma985 in ace combat. I don't care what what any of you zoomer bitches say about all these other loud twitch whores like binny pizzasauce or whatever.
>>549974195I want a touch and go where as we go in for a routine landing the Endurance gets hit by something out of nowhere, maybe a hypersonic if they want. So as soon as you hit the deck you have to scramble off of her and vector to intercept the incoming missiles and enemy squadron.
>>549925119This is what I thought too. The moment I heard "fabrication of social media" I thought Ghost of Kiev. I saw a lot of you fuckers on twitter crawling out of the woodwork lmao
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKIE3ClcDyAsubbed trailer
Bro this thread is too long fuck man I got laundry when does this fuckass captcha go away it's supposed to go away
>>549932103Shut the FUCK UP don't TOUCH herFind your own ukranian wife
>>549974740This really is just gonna be a uke russo war parallel story isn't it.
>>549974392They left the old OG deck guns on the Endurance too, I hope that means there's some epic final stand that includes firing off WW2 era guns at the enemy while you prep for takeoff under fire.
>>549974740Tasha is Yuktobanian doe
What will the plot be based on everything that is known
>>549974947>one of the background sailors we can see during cutscenes uses a Bofors to earn an AA kill on one of the Shadows SU-57sDO IT KONO
――シネマパートを開発するうえで、とくに苦労したことは?下元 いろいろありましたが、いちばんたいへんだったのは広大なスケールの中で、細部まで緻密に再現していることです。ドッグファイトのマップを1万平方キロメートルにわたる広大な空間で自由に飛べるように設計しながら、シネマシーンではPVにも登場したハンバーガーのような小さなものまで作り込んでいます。河野 これまでのタイトルではインゲームはUnreal Engine上で10分の1のサイズで縮尺して作っていましたが、本作ではリアルスケールですべて作っています。インゲームのマップもハンバーガーも同じ世界に存在するんです。This is the part that gets me thinking about mission design changes. When you've got maps that actually approximate IRL distances, does that mean how enemies spawn, unit variety, game mechanics like radar, stealth, weather interference start making larger impacts?
>>549975123>In the era of this work "ACE8," a central government was established through ISAF, and the Usean countries became member states of the FCU. However, the FCU government, unable to address years of postwar reconstruction and accumulated economic issues, faced invasion from Sotoa amid rising discontent from its member states.Basically the Lighthouse War fucked Usea up severely, ISAF got most of these countries to join some type of federation a la European Union. Still politically divided, resentment with economic collapse from reconstruction, Sotoa decides to exploit this to invade.
>>549936610>>549972852I don't appreciate the term "failed" timeline. All because it's got 3 in the title it can't be treated as a spin-off? I'm sure they had a reason to include the game's story in the canonical timeline, but there's no reason they can't retcon that as a gaiden story in the future. Like why not?The earlier the better too I don't wanna wait until I'm 80 so I can enjoy AC3 with planes that look like drones.
>>549975907>some type of federation a la European UnionSo they do nothing while allow all the death and shit to still take place
>>549974003I assume Endurance is literally the bottom of the barrel, like if Pearl Harbor decided to reactivate Mighty Mo out of desperation. While Arquette and Albatross were sunk, there's still Fort Grace iirc
>>549973496You can retcon something from a canon timeline respectfully without memory holing it. They're not bastards.
>>549976090>>549936610>>549936347>>549936886>>549937989>>549972852>>549936928>>549937254Isn't the Pilot just an AI version of someone else made to see if they would be killed in war meaning they could just hand wave stuff in it by saying it was just made up for the simulation like how the Intercorporate War was
>>549973496>>549976268The game is just an AI simulation meaning they can just pick what was real, what wasn't real and what was real but played up for the simulation to make it flow better with the rest of the things
>>549975395>Kono:>In previous titles, the in-game map was created on Unreal Engine at a scale of 1/10, but in this game, everything was created at real scale. The in-game map and the hamburger exist in the same world.>my computer
>>549970192
Dude where's my reply box
>>549977079>inland seaPerfect place to make up stories like>Wings of Theve destroying submerged ballistic missile submarines!or something
>>549975395Honestly >>549977054 has me more worried about my specs than anything else now, what's this game gonna require?
>>549977415>>549977054Its got to be able to hit 60fps on a base PS5, so if your rig is worse than that, better start saving up lol
>>549977529Gabecube?
>>549977415>>549977529Just use LOD models and just not load anything if it's not on screen
>>549977641ya, oughtta tell Kono that then brochacho
Why are so many replies to that Ace Combat Twitter account asking for PSVR support? Surely it wasn’t that good or even that popular?
I am tech illiterate and have no idea about specs, but my machine can run BF6 on medium settings fine, should I be worried about it not being able to run AC8?
>>549977976I think a fighter jet game is the one title that really does fit VR like a glove. Unfortunately, consumer level VR never really got the critical mass going to make actual gamedev financially viable. From what I know, AC7's PSVR module was a huge technical headache that ended up drawing far too much resources for very little return.I dont think 8 will be getting a dedicated VR module for the PSVR2.
>>549921901Bets on Noise dying in a heroic sacrifice.
>>549978067Pretty sure any PC that can run new AAA titles well is safe for AC8. Some people in this thread apparently havent upgraded since 2015 though, so those guys are up shit creek.
I have been celebrating the announcement with drinks for a few hours, what's the fuckin story in this game?? Who are we attacking??
>>549978392I actually don't know shit about anything I just watched the trailer and got here
>>549978392We're fighting disinformation campaigns on the internet by turning memes from dreams into real themes.
>>549978392>>549978550FCU forms in aftermath of AC7's Lighthouse War as a way for Usean nations to pool resources. Unfortunately, being forced by the ISAF to glom together in some globohomo initiative isnt enough to blunt the pain from economic collapse and political division resulting from the Lighthouse War. For some reason, Sotoa invades the FCU exploiting these issues to push the FCU apart. Protagonist is an FCU WSO who gets shot down with his pilot, whose some kind of propoganda figurehead. Protag is then tasked with taking over the mantle and leading the remnant FCU forces to take back the homeland.
>>549977976Bro my broke ass was so ready to buy a PS4 when they announced VR support for AC7 back then. I'd be surprised if it wasn't popular. I've wanted to play AC in VR for twenty years and I can imagine most people who are into fighter jets and aviation would be too.
>>549978550>>549978739>>549978939>>549978392In short using disinformation campaigns and the meaning of the word "Meme" with help of social media to beat the war that was very likely started by someone doing the same
>>549978739For a second there I was ready to call you a fag until I realized you were talking about the plot of the game
I haven't browsed /aceg/ since 2019 who the fuck are the FCU and explain it to me like I'm a normie
>>549979429Federation of Central Usea.
>>549978939>Lighthouse Wargod AC7 was gaycould've been worsecould've been dancing with the angels right now
>>549953982lol people think lesbians are real
>>549953982>>549979770Look more like Onlyfans model
>>549979730Filtered.
>>549979336It's a weird world we live in, where art (AC8) is imitating life (Ghost of Kyiv story blowing up) which was imitating art (AC series protagonists) which was imitating life (real life fighter pilots).
So if this is supposed to be like a parallel to the Ukranian war are we gonna see the other Euro-parallel countries pitch into the story like Sapin?What's the norwegian equivalent in Strangereal?
is it out yet
>>549980606I predict its going to release fairly soonish. Feeling like a Summer release (May/June/July). At any rate, they're gonna want to avoid being within a few months of GTAVI in November '26.
>>549943450>we aren't fighting the Belkans this timehaha yea right
>>549943450I know an AC pilot when I see one
>>549980242probably nordennavic, if the 2011 mobile game is to be believed they play neutral but have had a special squadron that's pushed and pulled along the timeline including aiding ISAF in AC4, helping build (then kill) the arkbird, tipping the scales in the estovakian civil war before helping the emmerians in AC6
>>549981130>EmmeriaI miss my Emmerian bash bros...
>>549981130Why is Norway up there when it is clearly that tumor on north west Yuktobania?
>>549981130That feels more like an urban legend that got way overblown. Or a drunken rant found in bars>Yea you know the Arkbird role in sinking Scinfaxi? I piloted that spacecraft>Mobius One? Pfft, without our squadron he's more like Mobius None>The Estovakian? Sadly we helped the Generals, then we helped Emmerians!>Chandelier? Without my heroic role in destroying their AA, no Emmerian angel can pierce that thing's defense. Btw I designed that in a napkin
https://acecombat.fandom.com/wiki/Ace_Combat:_Northern_Wings/MissionsWhy did Estovakia make a Giant Antlion anyway
Contrails affected by wake turbulence?
>>549981130Man, I feel like a fake AC fan sometimes, I still gotta play the portable games. I have ACAH+ on 3DS, but my little brother was the one who got hooked on that one. This fuckin brat, NG plussed the game thrice in one summer. It's not even that good, the 3DS is not built for ace combat, it feels a little bit better on the upgraded 3DS but... I just can't play it, I need full control of my plane and there's just not enough buttons. I can't imagine the other handheld games being any more fun. If they just made a handheld game about managing an airbase in strangereal and eventually taking control of your country's entire airforce in a global war I'd fucking play that on my phone for free.
How do you think Belka will get involved
>>549982442you can emulate the PSP on a PC with a proper gamepad
>>549982489pixy makes a surprise appearance as the main villainhe big bossed himself into believing in borders againand now he wants yours
>>549943450>want some coral?hahaha I sure do buddy give it to me
>>549979429Background fluff mentioned in AC04 like once and in supporting media a handful of times, mostly in reference to them leading the Stonehenge project and later ISAF.
>>549982716How does a fucking ever-multiplying flammable substance envelop an entire planet and spread to other planets and systems without igniting even once? How?What's the ignition point of that fucking shit? If it's really like a dude blowing his whole house up with a stove that was accidentally turned on then how does that happen on a habited planet?Even if everyone instantly died from overexposure to it, there would still be enough things in the environment to ignite it without human interaction or shit that was just left on after they died.
>>549983213because its sentient gasoline-methamphetamine, you annoying dork
>>549983213the ibis series was specifically designed to contain and ignite coral (hence the fires of ibis) before one of the units got taken over by the coral hivemindbased on that and the fires of raven ending it requires a massive artificially-induced convergence and also a commensurate amount of firepower to actually cause a fires-level ignition, otherwise it's just gasoline+crack
>>549983213>>549982716Fuck Coral, burn all that shit away
>>549983213Because the gasoline meth is self aware and will keep itself alive
Son of a fucking bitch, 3 coup's in a row, when will the coup's stop in this series...
getting rudely reminded a large chunk of the english speaking ace combat fanbase are 30-something epic bacon redditors who post like its stil 2013
>>549983896what's wrong with the year 2013
>>549983646I guess that makes sense
I wonder when the next info drop or trailer will release.
>>549984182Yeah I guess that was pretty much it wasn't it. See you guys next year.
Is Xenia non-ass yet? I wanna play some Ace Combat 6 and I don't want to dust off my shitbox.
>>549984257where the fuck do you think you're going?
>>549983896Would you rather be back on /v/
>>549984385It wasn't two years ago but i have no idea it's still that way
>VR and HOTASfags are already shitting up the AC8 steam discussions
>>549983887Coup is a time honored Strangereal tradition, you know? Yukes, Erusea...
Reminder that AC3 is not canon because it was made to be a spin-off and they could make AC3 bit canon using canon stuff from AC7
>>549985875Reminder, take your meds
Does anyone remember that one wallpaper the PA released that had the f18 in the background with the uav45 on its wings is it possible that it could be a sp weapon in 8
Geez I should've stuck with my (sun)crippled pilot GF, these sisters are wack. I'll have to go through the rest of the choices I didn't make in a couple of save files to see how the story goes, but overall Ace Combat 3 - Electrosphere was really enjoyable, I liked the Neucom R# planes a lot, and the setting was really cool, loved the neural aspect to it, reminded me a lot of Macross Plus.
>Complaining that the main villain squadron uses Su-57'sas opposed to what? Gripens?
>>549988145F35? To this day, no ace bosses nor MC piloted this thing, why the hell does PA hate it?
>>549976256It was probably being used as a training ship both for carrier crews and pilots so at the start of the war it's full of ensigns, old guys training them and rookie pilots. It probably escaped because it was far lower priority than far more modern ships.Also her base model is an Essex as PA was on Hornet filming things for research. So Endurance's a modified SCB-125 Essex-class
>>549988571Can't do PSM abuse
I tire of Russian and American planes. Not because I dislike them, but because I want to learn about something new and interesting.
>>549989134Wish granted. AC8 will have no Flankers. Instead, the J-11s and their derivatives will replace them
Its boring
>>549989474>Testflyging_av_første_norske_F-35
Why does the FCU have a navy anyway? Aren't they landlocked?
>>549989746They literally own(ed) the Skully Islands
>>549989746FCU owns the Fort grays Island base and the carrier that was docked there, The Albatross
>>549989746FCU appears to have had the Skully Islands under their control so they must have had ocean access. Might be relatively narrow sea access but going deeper inland overall, Kinda a Germany situation when it comes to ocean access
>Sotoa invades Usea>Yuktobania doesnt do anythingFucking Yukes are in on it
>>549990194Why would they care
>>549990462>Stopping them for political clout>Invading them for landI mean, How can you call yourself a superpower if you dont do any superpower soft power shit?
>>549990462Osea is their friend, the space elevator is Osea's property and Sotoa ravaging the entire continent would also include the damn elevator?
>>549988571No F-35 bosses are probably because of some retarded license contract with the manufacturer, where the bad guys cant't use their product. Russian/chinese plane companies probably just do not care or don't have legal means to do anything about it.
I think F-35's are intended as the player's upgrade plane, and so making it a boss would mean an F-35 vs F-35 scenario.It might make for a good "your mentor betrays you" plane, but otherwise it is protagonist coded.
>>549991104>>549990950Is this why none of the American planes like F-22 are ever depicted as bad?
>>549991381Yes. If you want to use the heavier military equipment (say, plen or Abrams), the Pentagon can and will change your movie's script to be more....supportive of their PoV.It's also why iPhone and iPads were always the good guy's device
American planes DO show up regularly as enemy aircraft, to the point that Yuktobania actually used more American stuff than the Eruseans by a significant margin.
I still wonder who sold the Yukes vulcans and nimrods.
We are forgotten
>>549992232how did AC0 even bypass all of this crap? They gave the BTR bosses F18s, F14s, F16s, all american made planes.
>>549992458these aren't bosses just collectible unlocks
>>549992841Because the fact that all these aircraft are usable by the player is considered vastly better for their image than as a brief appearance by some mooks.
F-35 for AC9 mascot, trust.
>>549922028CHAT IS THIS REAL?
>>549937989> Agreed. AC3 is incredibly overrated...> ...Smells of regurgitated youtuber opinions.I enjoyed AC3, even if it's the last AC game I've played. I actually played it after 7. Though my order is bonkers anyway. It's 5-Zero-6-4-7-3.>>549936890>I still DESPERATELY hope that we don't actually reach AC3 because that setting with giant evil corporations and wacky space planes is so fucking boring.Half agree. Strangereal is an incredibly fun setting. Making it more about cyberpunk corporations than world politics somehow devalues it.
>>549993049to be fair, what else can they even use at this point other than defaulting to F22? F16? that thing is a starter - early mid game plane, so not him.
>Belka used F-22s and F-35s>Yukes used F-35s>Erusea used F-22s in both AC04 and AC7 and F-35s in AC7>Estovakia used F-22s (hey they even got an ace!)>Leasath used F-35s>The bad guys from Joint Assault also used F-35s apparently (and that one is set in the real world!)They aren't keeping them completely away from being used by the bad guys.The whole idea that licensing is keeping them shackled is plausible - just read the figurative fellatio that Eurofighter made them put in the splash screen, but the idea that the Pentagon has any hand in it is a whole load of horseradish, unless the DoD demanded narrative kickbacks in return for letting PA near a late cold-war plane and old-as-fuck aircraft carrier.
>>549972852a good chunk of strangereal worldbuilding is half-baked cyberpunk shit. grunder industries instigating the osea-yuktobania conflict, Z.O.E. AI fighter planes in 1998, Ace Combat X's entire conflict just being an advert for Fenrir...
>>549994070what if Usea is the only continent that is full or scifi bullshit due to its frequency of wars and the rest of the world is still using basic jets? We could go beyond 2030-2040 without sci fi fuckery as long as it doesn't involve Usea
>>549978939Pedantry but: The FCU existed in the background of 4, it was one of the founding members of ISAF. It's also the nation that built the Dragonet submarines in 2/AHL
>>549978939So does Osea just pull out because of taxpayer complaints or something?
2 special weapons, more hornets, a cargo arsenal bird... that's really all that the trailer showed huh
Any chances that boeing gave some napkin drawings of F-47 to Kono?
So, what was your theory on what Ace Combat 8 story would have been? Mine was:>The Kessler syndrome that happened after Osea and Erusean nuked each other satellites lead to global crisis that national governments are struggling to handle, leading to insurrections, hostilities and other war shenanigans>You play as mercenary pilot travelling the world, fighting in the rising conflicts, eventually forming your very own merc company.>Your actions pave the way for Megacorps to rise up and usurp national governments.>You dont care though, all you want to do is fly high and fight
>>549988571In 0 the F-35s in Hoffnung introduced the stealth plane mechanic, counts like half a boss in my book.The stealth plane ace bosses fly YF-23s though
>>549978939>FCU forms in aftermath of AC7's Lighthouse War as a way for Usean nations to pool resources. Unfortunately, being forced by the ISAF to glom together in some globohomo initiative isnt enough to blunt the pain from economic collapse and political division resulting from the Lighthouse War.The FCU existed before, they built Stonehenge (not on FCU soil however) and they led ISAF.They're not the entire Usean continent, they aren't something new, they're just a country that existed in the background and is now being fleshed out and pushed into the foreground.
>>549995054I was hoping to play as a Yuke for once, for a Superpower, it barely does anything
>>549995054It'll be straightforward "fake hero turns into real hero" schtick in the first half before the story veers into Electrosphere stuff proper in the second half.
A reminder that the FCU was the one who built Stonehenge in the Neutral country of San Salvacion
Looking at the map, how Sotoa is positioned near the landmass that looks like a distorted Europe, how the Native Sotoans shown are all brown and how they are invading Usea for no reasonI believe Sotoa is just Strangereal Algeria
>>549995693Lore reasoning as to why nobody bothered to fix Stonehenge? Even after Arsenal Bird? Surely something this useful is worth preserving.
>>549996556would topple what remains of the world power balance
>>549996556Been 20 years and even a superpower can only fix the single intact one for their use. Just make a new one
>>549995831>how they are invading Usea for no reasonIn my opinion, given that the major powers are busy rebuilding the satellite network and, above all, managing the humanitarian refugee crisis, this is the ideal opportunity to increase their power and prestige by invading an already weakened Usea.
>>549996740That was because they were in a hurry to get anything operational
>>549993723I guess you are right, maybe I've blown the MIC restricions a bit out of proportion. On the other hand most AC games were made back when companies probably did not care too much about how some niche jap game portrays their aircraft.We'll see what happens when the game is out, I personally wish that the TotallyNotIran has an F-14 ace squadron.
>>549996556After 7 the whole continent is in a mess so I don't think anybody can afford to.
>>549990816There's actually a news blurb in the introduction of 7's DLC that says Yuktobania is critical of Osea acting in Usea or something among the line.
>>549997250It's Osea, if they have the time and money they'll most likely just build a new stonehenge. It's still years since anyone look into that abandoned ruin, who knows what kind of damages has accumulated inside the structure.
the final boss fight music will be a kpop song, kinda like mgs peace walker
>>549998675Tasha will die in mission 6
ngl the trailer gave me a weird vibe, it didnt really feel like ace combat
>>549998927It's just a cinematic made in AC7... what about it doesn't feel Ace Combat
>>549977054My PC will be able to play it if I run it at 720p, at the lowest settings and with FSR turned on, this is my ultimate cope.
>>549999013i don't know, it's not a rational thought
>>549986442FOXDIE...
>>549975092Barrack bunny Osea propaganda. I am not dying for oseans
>>549999737I can fix her, my poor (sun)crippled pilot GFAt least this path seems to be better than the two dumb sisters' ending
>>549998927>>549999530Cinematics in 6 and 7 were also pretty disconnected from the actual missions.To me, most of the AC "feel" comes from the briefings and mid-mission dialogue. Cutscenes are usually just whatever backround story
>>549999737This is why you shouldn't have a pacemaker connected to the internet on your heart.
cum
>>549999898>Please upgrade from Windows 16 before End of Life support, or your pacemaker will stop receiving critical firmware updateskek
>>549986442>Geez I should've stuck with my (sun)crippled pilot GF, these sisters are wack.Could you also not bring yourself to shoot down Fiona during that escort mission?
>>550000019That's the plot path I'm going through right now, I initially opted to not shoot it down, and I had to deal with the two sisters and their respective endings regarding the whole sublimation/brain copy shit
>>549975092i wonder if she's the kid Tabloid saved, and that's what inspired her to join the Air Force
This is still like a year or two away tho right
>>549999869She will never love you
>>550000243I mean they did say coming 2026, but if it releases at the end of december next year then yeah it's technically a year away still.
>>549977054>The in-game map and the hamburger exist in the same world.I can't believe they let longcaster develop their next game
>>550000359I have to believe anon, I have to believe
>>550000243Xbox has an event coming up in January trust the plan
>>550000393Hamburger that was in the trailer was way too pathetic for longcaster
>OG Rex's last name is fucking Cope
>>549923005Maybe, but I hope he still nabs the "finsl boss" theme at least
>>549996556Because it's unbelievably fucking expensive and the last thing this world needs is another superweapon ready to go.
>>550001306Hey, not everyone can just shit out mute murderpilots on demand
>>549996556It's not like there's another Ulysses event happening again anytime soon and I'd reckon people are tired from all the warring after the Lighthouse War.
time to replay AC7 I guess
>>549962827It was miserable and I doubt I'll miss it but I'll at least remember somewhat fondly the time 5 guys who didn't even know each other's names kept at it for 2 very slow years. I'd say it was worth the effort.
>>549965373One "cockpit" could be false, like the BF-109Z
>>549999869I did it... she's safe... and Park is dead as well, much more satisfying of an ending
>>549999869>>550002191buddy, she's a vampire...
>>550000860>jon cope, hero of usea
>>550002565wait a minute you're right, no wonder I like her so much
>>549978939FCU is basically the EU then
>>550002565She can suck me alright
>>549978939>The FCU forms after AC7how can someone be so confidently wrong?
>>550000860>Rex Cope>King Cope
>>550002191Based Rena enjoyer
AC8 MC actually gets nrw full name to go with the callsignHis full name will be Rex MajestatisMiddle name Tremendae
>Sotoan Roundel
do we know anything at all about the campaign structure and designplease don't have many gimmick missionsplease have real replay valueplease have at least a little story branching and choices
>>550004936Do you think Noise plays the classics?https://youtu.be/xJJsoquu70o?si=XWJu6s4gGF8cis5V
>>550005351why even ask, you annoying niggers are going to hate it anyway because it's not AC4
>>550005596ac4 is my least favorite ac though you dumb cunt
what's Theve
I'm gonna fly with the angels in January!
At first, I thought it was Wings of the Eve,and that I was having a stroke misreading it over and over again in the official title logo
>>550005112My money is they're secret belkans
>>550005768not much what's Theve with you
>>550005768Old ass english word either meaning "A copse; a group of shrubs" or "A ewe lamb of the first year"Or a phonetic synonym to Kyiv if we are going with the theory that Kono wrote the story after being inspired by the "Ghost of Kyiv" shitposts
>>550005871It was the wings of steve
>>550005768The capital of the FCU, it's in the lore blurb for the game.
Wait I get itWings of TheveThey hired Myke Tyson as one of the new characters. His name is Steve but because of the way Tyson talks, they call him TheveWings of Steve, it all makes sense now
WaitAC7 was set in 2019AC8 is set in 2029AC3 is set in 2040
>>550006057I could have sworn it was Los Canas
>>550006120Whole franchise is gonna get rebooted at this rate just to not deal with AC3's implications. I don't think Project Aces expected the series to carry on this long.
>>550006163Los Canas was just one of the HQs of ISAF during the war.
>>550006256>if I keep saying my retarded headcanon is gonna come true
>>550006256>AC 7 was about a lone pilot with useless allies single handedly destroying Erusea, Like AC4>AC 8 is about a squad of pilots against an enemy that crossed an ocean to attack your nation and your base of operations is a carrier, like AC5The series is already rebooted, you just havent noticed it
>>550006620Real nooticer hours.
>>549995831did yuktobania and osea just let sotoa cross them in order to attack the fcu?
>>550006620But when do we destroy the borders?
>>550006847The world is round, retard
>>550006960belkan lies
Watched the game awards with a friend and she started spazzing out when your next game was revealed. To get that reaction out of her, it has to good. Can I just jump in to the most recent entry or is it a sequential story?
>>550007559All games are set in the same setting and are connected to the overall lore, but each entry is self containedyou can just start with AC7, its on sale on steam right now for likepennies
>>550007559every game is just its own storyAC7 is the only one actually playable for a normal person who doesn't want the hassle of emulating 20 year old PS 2 games
>>549997919Do people always just leave military equipments in ruins like that after a war? Doesn't that thing usually attracts tourists or curious locals? They could just steal something valuable or dangerous in there.
>>550007559I haven't tried 7 yet like the others suggest, but the old ones do have a bit of charm and good music to them for their time, would probably be worth to at least look at a video or a few images of what the old games are like and decide whether to play them or not. And also what >>550007786 said Ace Combat 7 is like $4 or $5 right now on steam
>>550007913>Do people always just leave military equipments in ruins like that after a war?Absolutely. Logistics is a fucked up world of numbers, by and large it's cheaper to abandon everything and produce new equipment than it is to handle everything necessary to ship it somewhere else. Abandoned equipment is fuel for the black market.
what are AC 3's implications and why is everyone freaking out about it
>>550009126just afraid that we will no longer use actual planes, and everything is going to be shit like Fenrirs, Wyverns, Falkens, Coffin Nosferatus, etc
>>550009126Usea devolves into cyberpuck corporate wars. It's also the point where all the aircraft become really sci-fi, even the real life aircraft analogies. There's a really big difference between AC3 and the other AC games and we're only 11 years away on the timeline between AC8 (2029) and AC3 (2040).
>>550009126It takes place in a Cyberpunk future where megacorporations have replaced governments. It's a massive upheaval in strangereal's global order, and we're only 11 years removed from it as of AC8.Also the technology is way more advanced. Brain uploading, neural links etc
>>550004936>One lone carrier where half the crew are refugees has to take the fight to the enemy that has damn near won alreadyShit it's the White Base again
>>550009465>oh no we might only get to use the coolest planes in the series aieeeeeeeeee save me kono-san
>>550009997IT LOOKS GAY
>>550010023I thought it was neat...
>>550010051my n-word, it's name is literally dolphin porn
>>550010023go get your electrosphere penetrated
>>550010120I do not give a fuck what it's called it looks cool as fuck
I wish AC3 was in the year 2100+...
Because ac3 was a simulation, when we get there in 10 years strangereal does not have to be 100% ecactly same as it was in electrosphere
>>550006163>Los Canas>dude it sounds spanish that's cool rightnobody tell them what the word canas means in spanish
General Resource is siding with the FCU, confirmed.
.>>550012293A much more clearer image here
>>550008779Yeah a lot of times people just don’t care, though it depends on the people and culture where it happened. Reference the first scene of Generation Kill.>Can you believe these people? They still haven’t picked up their shit from the last war.
>>550000449>xbox>relevantIronic that with all the studios Microsoft bought out the most exciting news for their events comes from third party studios.
Woah when the fuck did I learn to hack these planes, that was unexpected
>>550009997rather use a legacy f-18 or a mig-23 than thatsci-fi fictional planes are cool for extra special unlocks, but they shouldn't be the entire roster
>>550013087And the music is so fucking eerieAnd I can see my plane beneath me as well, what the hell
>>549944341It’s just Ace Combat 4 with smoother gameplay and a worse story. 8/10. Also has a nice dog in it
>>550009629>Trailers for AC7 heavily emphasise muh PENAL UNIT>end up spending only 6 missions as part of the 444 SquadronYou'll probably spend like 4 missions in a futile defence of FCU, end up crashing into the water (like in the trailer) by Mission 4, spend 6 missions tops building your rep before you get inducted into a proper coalition and spending the remain 10 missions in it once they realise you're the real deal.
>>550012641WHAT THE FUCK. ITS REAL
>>550001606>>550001762Was there really only that few at one point? I never paid attention to the unique poster counts, mostly lurked and posted pictures I took when I went to plane museums.
>>550012641So that guy in the suit is basically recruiting nu-Rex for GR, isn't he? He's just building up your legend as a way to curry favors with you.
even if they make AC3 canon i don't really see the problem, it just means you have to set the year in the past rather than in the future. they already did that with AC0 anyway.
>>550013760No, we have to keep going forward. I want Ace Combat 12: Galaga and Ace Combat 15: Dig Dug
>>550013760the thing is that I want to see the slow buildup to ac3, 10-20 years doesn't really allow for that
>>550013446I could tell a buddy from another buddy by their writing styles, specific plane related quirks or which images were usually posted together as bumps. There were some days where you could tell it was just me and another guy bumping the thread with either plane pics gathered throughout the year and whatever dumb post we could think of in the hopes of garnering a (you) from any occasional passerby.
Something I've been thinking about for the last couple of years. Filthy fingernails and oil stained body but no hairy armpits. Why did Kono fuck it up specifically to piss me off.
He's got a bit more than a hole on his left wing
>>549995054Two main theories in my head were>Sotoa and neighboring country go to war, most of the game takes place in Sotoa. Late 2020s closer to Electrosphere, though part of me hoped for muh 70s>Playing as/against Erusea during 'the age of expansion' mentioned during AC7 cutscenes (and maybe even meeting younger Mihaly), given how old Mihaly is in AC7 this probably would've been 60s-70sNot entirely wrong on the first one I guess.
>>550000218that'd be a cool reference
>>550004936whos the hot brunette on the left?
Now this is fucking trippy
I can't fucking believe I was Grok all along what the fuckOverall great story if I'm honest, I wasn't expecting that twist, but I think it surprised me more because of the ending I went through. If I had done that General > Ouroboros path first, I would've assumed something along those lines much earlier, but doing it last really hit me as a surprise desu
>>550016087I might be retarded but maybe the people that seems to be hanging out with the pilots in the trailer might be WSOs
>>549922028><<Please Rex I need this>>><<My AWACS is kinda plane-less>>
how does it take them this long to make a new gameback in the day you got several releases in a franchise in a single console's lifespan, now you're lucky to get one per decade
I'll try host the weekly sortie if anyone wanna come. Should start in about 2 hours from now
>>550016946><<REX I'M WATCHING YO STREAM WHY ARE YOU TRYNA NOT TO LAUGH BRO THAT'S DISRESPECTFUL AS SHII>>
With 1-3 done, it's time for the PS2 era games
>>549922028>ULTIMATE Wings of Theve VS Streamsnipers Compilation! #6
give e-girl fighter pilot gf
>>550018070Needs realistic eyes
Guys give me theories for what our AWACS’ callsign will be.
>>550018070subscribe to her OF and you can get the experience for yourselffeet pics, too
>>550018127
https://x.com/J1_SOUND/status/1999324654260093057I hope Junichi Nakatsuru is back, his work on AC7 was limited but flawless
Hey there, buddies! /aceg/'s last group stage match of VGL 25 is today, where we'll face /smbg/ in around an hour or so. https://cytube.implying.fun/c/vgleagueA draw will advance us from the group, but a decent-scoring win would be much better, as topping the group will put us straight to the round of 16. https://implyingrigged.info/wiki//vg/_League_25#Group_B
>>550018765Good luck, buddy
>>550018765we are going to fuck smbg into the dirt with no lube until their ass bleeds
>>549918803>>devs who care about the franchise>AC:I gets shuttered for the launch of AC7>AC7 multiplayer only has deathmatch>single player is a glorified tech demo to show off the clouds and weatherI find it hard to believe they really care that much.
>>550019419Great as that multiplayer was, AC didn’t become what it was over the multiplayer. It’s a very single-player story focused series. I am hoping 8’s will be better though.
if AC8 doesn't have an F-5 or F-20 I will nuke japanand please for the love of god don't make me start the game in an F-4
>>550020140coffin tigershark would be absolute cinema
>>550020140what if all we have is F-18 and all of its variations (OC donutsteel superplane hornet variant included) and nothing else?
>>550019718That was my second point. The story mode in AC7 was mediocre at best compared to the rest of the franchise. The weather stuff was real cool, but that's no excuse to make everything else sucky. For example, allied units, even your squad members, do literally nothing. They're just there as set pieces. During the arsenal bird fight over stonehenge I eliminated everything else and all they did was slowly follow behind it in a big swarm, firing maybe one (1) missile from the whole swarm every minute and it didn't even do any damage. You can say allies in prior games did less damage and were less aggressive than the player, but they still at least did actually fight and get kills.
>>550020737>For example, allied units, even your squad members, do literally nothing.Amazing, I just experienced this in Ace Combat 3, you're telling me they STILL just fly around and jerk off, doing nothing?
>>550020737>you can say allies in prior games did less damage and were less aggressive than the playerplay ac6
>your country is fighting a losing battle against giga-Algeria>your typical "singularity ace protagonist" who shows up in these stories to try to single-handedly lead the country's defense is one of the NPCs this time>you go on a mission in a two-seater with him as his navigator>your plane gets shot down, crashes into the ocean, he dies, you alone come out of the wreckage>command decides that you have to take his place, put on his conveniently-polarized helmet, and pretend that he never died in order to keep hope alive for the whole country because of what that pilot representedat least, that's what the trailer makes it seem likeI think it could be an interesting premise
I wish there'll be alternative ways to earn new planes and parts. The aircraft tree is boring and lame, and I hope bring back the unlock method for the Falken in 5, or add new ways to unlock aircraft, e.g.>complete bonus objective like destroy a blockade before allied forces die to find a hangar with an experimental plane>branching campaign a la ACX, which path you take determines which planes you unlock by capturing enemy hangars or stealing blueprints before the enemy can safely retrieve them>lick your superiors' boots so hard in the dating sim that they grant you a promotion and permission to try out a new untested aircraft
>>550020995OG Rex is a fake too
Scinfaxi class and another more generic tube submarine for AC8?
>>550020862Pixy is really aggresive, even moreso if you let him use his SpWs, everytime I replay Zero he would straight up steal kills from me or bag an Ace all on his own.AC6 teammates are a different breed tho, they WILL kill anything that you request them.
>>550020862I swear, I've seen Keith fire a couple missiles. I may be wrong about that though.>>550020875I have, several times. Even without using the support commands, allied units put up a very good fight.
>>550021160>OG Rex is a fake toolike they were trying to manufacture a symbol to boost morale?
>>550017097because expectations of graphical fidelity and presentation are about 40x higher than in 2004
>>550020737Pretty sure they did buff the allies in the DLC, I has had Count killsteal a bunch in the first mission and the Alicorn hunt phase.
>>550021775The DLC also introduced the allied NPC Growlers that buffed your missile tracking and jammed enemy attacks
>>550018765Fuck, I really didn't want to miss this one. As usual everyone blogpost it so I can feel it vicariously through you.
>>550021746how does it take 7 years to click some buttons in ue5 so it makes everything for you
>>550017097>>550022075PA just use UE as an engine and after 7 that's what they got experience with, also a very small but skilled team of devs and artists, so they do a lot of it themselves instead of relying on unreal engines solutions.also I think like they did UE4, they're building their own engine for the sea and clouds which is a good thing, not noticing any lumen or nanite either thank fuck.
>>550018731Cute eyes.
>time to pull out, 22are they finally adding sex to ace combat?
So the crew is made up of refugees with only four people knowing how to fly while doing so on the ship that should've stayed in the museum that they took it from and all powered by gaslight and memes online
>>550021569That's the premise, yeah. Likely inspired by the ghost of kyiv fiasco.I find it sorta a follow up to 7 DLC's theme of singularities too.
Will AC8 dialogue be millenial slop? I sure hope it isn't
>Debra Wilson worms her way yet into ANOTHER game franchise>but Ace Combat's "anime realism" character style saves us from having to see yet another scan of her bug-eyed facethank god for small miracles
>>550023556I'd argue that she's a good voice actor, especially in this role it sounds like it really works but goddamn thank fuck I don't have to see her face.
>>550021268Yuke super subs are peak so I wouldn't complain. Real fun would be if it was on our sub this time, bought by the Eruseans around the Lighthouse War then donated to the FCU as a show of good faith.
>>550023262The dialogue sounded as Japanese as ever. The real standout was business suit media hype guy being a sleeze. He talks like he’s car salesman which I guess is the point.>Welcome newcommer, you a VERY lucky to be here!>You’ll be riding shotgun with the LEGENDARY ace of aces!I already hate him in a good way.>>550023556>>550024283That was the only real VA work that struck me as weird. Beyond the normal annoyance of her, her readings sounded really stiff and stilted. Like she is trying to do the stern military NCO but it didn’t fly. It was just two lines but it sounded pretty unnatural.
>>550018765Match starting now!
>>550005112VIVA PORTUGAL
Room for weekly sorties will up soon as well in 2 minutes. Don't forget your tags before joining and starting the game
>>550023262it might be awkward translated japanese cringekino, but I don't think that the horrors of millennial writing are really on the tablehonestly, the dialogue all sounded pretty good -- aside from a few lines like the kill count one, which might make sense and sound less awkward in their original context, but they had nothing to do with anything surrounding the point where they were inserted into the trailerthis trailer didn't have any of the obvious writing mistakes that the AC7 trailer did (like misusing "remorsefully"), and most of the lines sounded really natural, so I think that they're getting better over time
C'MON AYCEG SCORE SOM GOOLS
what a sad performance
Aight I'll take it, 0-0 is more than enough
So no goals, but I believe we're in?
>0-0This was just sad.
Man, /smbg/ were a defensive wall there. Could not figure out how to consistently get offense against them before the game today either. But as long as we're still through at least, we take those.>>550028902Yup, we're 2nd in the group no matter the result of the next match, which guarantees us through.
>>549953783Macross 30 emulates pretty well on RPSC3. There's also the old VF-X games that kinda bridge shit between plus and frontier.
plens?
>>550034228on occasion...
>>550034228Perhaps
>>550034228in 2026>what month2026
>>550034534what would this look like?the normal girl but in a yoga outfit and twisting herself into a pretzel?
>>549974740yukes are russian retard
>>550006620>AC9 is going to be like ACZholy FUCK im gonna coom
I hope we get more missions like Fleet Destruction. That's the one mission I replay over and over again. I don't really care about sneaking below radars or listening to characters yammer on, I want to watch buildings fall down.
>mfw just found outI used to come here every few weeks or months and ask, any news about AC8I shall ask that question no moreI'm happy bros
Wasn't there an AC between AC8 and AC3 on the timeline? I could have sworn there was.
>>550039783It was sort of a funny thing that X was some ways ahead of the rest of the pack when it came out (excluding 3, of course).7 took place in 2019. X was in 2020. Now 8 will bring us to 2029.
>>5500387277 had some really fun score attack missions where you got to go hogwild on the enemy and blow everything up. The only one I don't really like all that much was Long Day but it was still fun. I uses to hate score attack missions on the PS2 games but that's becauss of shit like Tango Line and the desert missions in 5.
>>550042767What makes a score mission work is you have high value targets that take at least some amount of skill to blow up quickly, like the oil rig platforms in Fleet Destruction. Feels good to do a quick tunnel run and get everything in one go.A bad score mission is just infinite waves of fodder. There's clearly a path forward here.
I HATE DORITOS I HATE DORITOSI HATE DORITOS
>>550039712Now you can ask if there's further news about AC8.
>PW artbook maybe finally>DMC probably>AC82026 is looking like a damn fine year for funny plane games.
>>550042767Tango Line at least has you dodging Stonehenge fire every so often. The real stinker mission in AC4 is Whiskey Corridor, which is 20 straight minutes of nothing but bombing tanks in a flat featureless desert. It's got less going for it than even Desert Arrow/Lightning.
>>550043352o-oh
>>550043570>>PW artbook maybe finallyI'm fine with them taking forever on it since Arby's just one dude probably doing this in his spare time, but I really wish he'd communicate more. FAN gives updates but he's such an ass that I'd rather he didn't..
>>550043434No, I don't want to spoil anything for myself so I'll ignore discussion until the game is out
>>550042992I feel like they've learned a lot about how to make levels like that over the years. >>550043714Ooh yeah Whiskey Corridor fucking blows, I get jumpscared by that damn level everytime I play 4. The desert missions in 5 have their own problems though because of 5's stingy ammo counts and ficed special weapons, especially if you're doing a canon plane run.
>>550044563*fixedSpeakin of Sp.Ws, I really hope that empty slot in the HUD we saw in the trailer is for a second Sp.W.
>>550043570>>PW artbookoshit, some recent news about that or?
>>550043714>20 straight minutes of nothing but bombing tanks in a flat featureless desert. It's got less going for it than even Desert Arrow/Lightning.>featureless I would routinely run out of time playing that mission because I spent a bunch of time looking at the dry rivers and stranded ships and ghost towns and wondering how the land got like thatI know now that the answer is "fuckin meteors, son," but when I was younger it was a captivating mystery
>>550012045MIHALY CONFIRMED
ac5 is the worst to replay through because of scripted/slow sequences
>>549919409Surely well experienced
>>550047487Also has just some extremely unfun missions and enemies
Calling it now, Sotoa was manipulated into invading Usea by the GR Group just so they can swoop in and save the day with the GRDF, granting then complete control over the FCU. The plot twist at the end is that Faux Rex was Abyssal Dision all along
isnt it kind of odd that the first trailer is shown within a year of the release date?didnt ac7 have like multiple years and trailers?hmmm
>>550045754FAN tweeted "2026 hopefully" about it last month.
>>550047674>Abyssal Disionmaybe if I'd played AC3 when I was younger and had grown up with the name, this name would just sound normal to me, like how "Darth Vader" doesbut I just can't get over itthis is such a silly fucking name
Only reason why Sotoa is able to invade FCU is because Mobius transferred to IUN-PKF
>>550047487I find AC4 worse to replay because most missions are just boring
>>550048423i dont mind em, its fun to fly and destroy every target in a points map
>>550048251Mobius is a frail old man now
>>550047918The first trailer being within a year of the release date is because AC7 had multiple years and trailers. They didn't want to repeat the same mistakes.
>>550048519I like that when it's one or two special missions, but when there's so many of them I get bored of itIt's a shame because in most other aspects AC4 is very cool, but those basic ass missions don't appeal to me much personally
ac4 had the best secretplanes/aces scattered throughout the maps
>>550048859
when's AC9
I just hope my wife isn't a pre-order bonus this time around.>>550048859Was it 4 or 5 that had that sick tie-dye skin for the Phantom?
>>550006120Ten years are enough for Usea to become the corporate piece of shit we all know and love.
>>550051537ac5
>>550051287
>>550051676That's right. I'd love if that skin comes back for the full boomer pilot experience.
>>549950078Yummy
>>550052124drop acid, not bombs: the plane (bombs included)
Those new characters of yours aren't looking so good shit combat bros....
>>550048859>ac4 had the best secretplanes/aces scattered throughout the mapsI'd say ACXthere's an ace to find in every single mission, further encouraging and rewarding multiple playthroughs along the multiple different pathsthe unlock conditions to get the ace to spawn were usually a challenge, but always a reasonable challengethe skins themselves are pretty niceand unlocking a new skin from each ace really compliments the game's underratedly-large plane roster, and emphasizes just how much content the devs managed to squeeze onto that UMD
PULL UPPULL UPPULL UP
>>550053248I still don't know how X proved to be as good as it was for a spinoff handheld game that came out the same year as a major release.
>>550054820ALTITUDEALTITUDEALTITUDE
>>550055471RETARDRETARDRETARD
>>550048423yeah, sitting around for 10 minutes listening to your wingmen fucking complain they kill people in their multimillion dollar murder machines is somehow less boring, GEEG
>Oh and I'll be taking the girls away toowhy did he say it like that though?
>>550056281It's DC Douglas, he can't help it
>>550056281cunny
>>550054820>>550055471>>550055569>we're hitting page 10 regularly not because we're dead, but because we're at the bump limitBlessed be Mobius.
I'll make the new thread if no one else is already on target.
>>550058858Fire away, buddy.
>>550058994>5 minute timerFUCK YOU HIRO
>>550056464He's just like me fr>>550058858If you need an image for it you could use this.
>>550059717I already had an idea for it, but thank you for posting it. It would make for a baller image for next thread.
>>550059892I thought about making a new one myself but I am awful at making OPs for generals.
<</aceg/, cleared for takeoff!>>>>550060082>>550060082>>550060082
>>550009590>>550009496I dunno. I kinda don't mind it. You don't really see a series develop like this anymore. I'll take that over the Assault Horizon any day.And if they feel like it they can always make gaiden stories or just make a game take place "between so and so", or just make something up. It's fiction, at the end of the day it can be whatever the hell you want and it's amazing that they're even being given the liberty of doing this in the first place, like it could be way way way fucking worse and also holy shit thank you
>>550017097Do you have any idea how much effort it took to get AC7 greenlitIt took a lot of convincing
>>550062217I’d love for them to do some flashback games set in the 90s or even 80s, like Zero. Great way to include some lesser-known older planes. They also left a conspicuously large timeline gap between AC7’s 2019 and AC8’s 2029. Plenty of room for new “modern” games in that period without encroaching on the AC3 timeline.
>>550001898Genuinely what the fuck was the point of these conjoined twin plane abominations, I know the Allies also had a few of these
