Southern Cross EditionThread Theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27QbwlnMfzAPrevious Mission: >>552064070>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/Xbb41nvVhttps://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.
First time baking a thread, hopefully I didn't fuck anything up.
TWO southern crosses on /vg/
>>552992682Late and should've been posted before the thread died
LAMOYou posted your thread as I was making mine>We both used the same protag image>We both picked a track from the new release of the X OST
>>552993490My bad, I was asleep when the thread died and saw that there was no /aceg/ in the catalog for a solid hour or so after I woke up.>>552993518I fucking knew this would happen, god damn it lmao.I checked your thread and noticed that I forgot PA's English twitter since it isn't in the template.>PA Twitter (ENG)twitter.com/AceCombatGamesReally sorry about this.
>>552993936I just copied the last thread this time while remembering to remove the embed so I wouldn't embed the embed>templateOhh I need to update mine as well thanks for the reminder.
>nobody in LRSSG cared that Trigger repainted the three strikes into a clawwould have pissed me off desu
>>552997024>nobody in LRSSG except Count even knew what those 3 lines mean.
>>552997024>nobody in Spare or any Penal Units showed up to fight the second Arsenal Bird, so nobody even got to recognize what the claw was referencigThe Razgriz parallels would've been through the woof. Also I'm only now recognizing that Trigger's story is a deliberate parallel to Wardog squadron, but maybe that's because I only went back and played 5 recently.
>>553001424There really should've been a fight against enemy Spare defectors. I get they didn't want to add that wrench into Tyler Island when there was already a dozen things happening at the same time, but they should've popped up elsewhere.
>>553001424>nobody in Spare or any Penal Units showed up to fight the second Arsenal BirdCoughsHe was the only named member left the rest were nameless mooks and we have no idea if any survived to that point or they just stayed on the island or vanished to the seas to join up with Air Pirate groups.
>>553002056>stuck in the space elevator the whole time, same as AvrilPoints for sticking to the prompt as written I guess. And we know other Penal Units apparently existed, probably copied the concept from Spare after seeing Bandog, Trigger, Count, and Avril work miracles, so even a simple background line would've been cool to further the idea that everyone was unified in telling the warmongers to fuck off. Maybe something like> << Three Sin Lines?! No, that's a claw? >>
>>553002895>And we know other Penal Units apparently existed,No we don't we only heard rumors other units existed but zero proof any more existed beyond Spare.
>>553001628>mission where ex-Spares show up>they recognize the sin line claw and recognize Trigger>some of them go straight after you for clout, some of them try to retreat, some of them try to switch sides again>the ones that don't go after you become yellow targets and you can choose freedom or justice>taking down yellow targets makes it easier to S-rank the mission, but each defector that stays alive joins you for Lighthouse
I'm glad the cover plane in 8 is not the fucking F-22
I wish the cover plane in 8 was the fucking F-22
I wish the cover plane in 8 was fucking the F-22
I wish all planes had the same stats in 8 so I'm not stuck playing the F-22
>>553001628Still baffles me that not only Spare, but Mage never showed up again. Not even some subtle allusion to them later on. Hell, when you get to the part with ID systems being downed, it seems obvious you'd have some of the guys from before show up. Or given the finale is the big coalition, you'd think they'd shove Clown and Sky Keeper in.Mostly, I'd have loved to have a late reappearance by Bandog.
Zeros premise/theme of just a bunch of ace squadrons all over the place is very cooli know it wont fit into ac8 but i wish they wouldevery other enemy squadron is an ace squad, with their own history and style
>>553011879I hope 8 lets us do more cool environmental destruction shit like this
>>553008334In the Farbabti battle there's a line of a Mage 1 asking for support/thanking you for support, but it's not Clown's VA in English at least. As far as Spare goes, I feel like every pilot except for Count and Trigger got forced aboard the plane Tabloid and Avril did.
>>553008334My headcanon was that Mage 1 shot down Labarthe. Not out of malice, but just due to the sheer fuckery of everything going on at that time.
>>553033429Really hoping the YR and XR planes from ACX come back in 8. I need the YR-99 again!
>>553033429It would be rad to see these come back for AC8, especially the Apalis.
>>553034137I really liked the Apalis, it has an appeal similar to that of the XFA-27.
>play 7, my first ace combat>go back to play 3 4 5 0>go back to playing 7>now 7 doesn't feel rightI don't know how to describe it... the steering is so "soft" in 7, you know?
>>553034101I fully expect them to be back. In universe Its been long enough for them to be common, COFFIN planes being the standard is just a few years awayIn the real world Kono did mention he knows one of the big things fans wants are lots of planes and skins. They are original to the game so zero license cost to use them.If they don't add them in I say we annoy the fuck out of Kono & PA's twitter until they do add them in.
>>553034921They made concessions to allow PSM, and kinda went too far.
You know of all the questionable lines in 7, 'How penal is this penal unit, you ask?' may genuinely be one of the worst lines of dialogue in the entire franchise.
>>553035218I’m wondering if we’re going to see any prototypes of stuff from Electrosphere. Would be cool to see a proto-Delphinus with a glass cockpit or something similar.
>>553024070>Mage 2 (allegedly) shot Harling>Mage 1 shot down LabartheIf that's the case, the entire squadron is going to be branded as cursed or some shit kek. I don't see them escorting a VIP anytime soon
>>553036327>proto-DelphinusYou mean the YR-99 don't you?If anything we'll see a lot of GR real world planes being high end stuff. I also expect to see this guy as a mid-high end attacker.
>>553036841Pretty on brand for every Osean squadron named after some kind of magician to have some kind of problem (especially since 2 of them defected to an anarcho-terrorist group)
>>553038483X-32 always smiles because the only alternative is too cry.
>>553037137Wouldn't it be a Multirole though?But yeah, really weird how 23 is so often around but they just ignore the 32.
You know I really do like that Erusea went from monarchy to a republic then right back go monarchy, and it stayed as a monarchy afterwards prrsumably. Don't see that to often in real life or fiction. Then again they are literally France so I guess it makes sense.
>>553038913That what the game classes it as but personally I never found it much use as anything but an attacker.You gotta remember er the 23 has been in the original the 32 didn't even exist at that pointOn another funny note Boeing has been pushing the X-32 for a long time behold Lockheed, Boeing, and General Dynamics entries in the ATF competition. We should be very worried about what the NGAD will look like.
ok so count gets huxiantabloid gets avrilwho the fuck does trigger geti dont wanna be a plane incel
>>553041113A plane is fine too.
>>553041113>tabloid gets avrilYou are aware you're talking about someone who's dead, right?
>>553041494up until the point he died he had avril
>>553041113Cossette. Why do you think she's only seen from the back
After finishing Electrosphere, are the other Ace Combat games worth a try? Electrosphere has that really cool y2k cyberpunk flare to it , with a spice of PSX Wipeout, especially the logo corporations and cutscene transitions that's gonna live rent free in my head for a while. I figured its downhill from here.
>>553042630The rest of the games won't have the exact same atmosphere, but the series as a whole regularly includes "near future sci-fi" concepts.
>>553039046Just three wings?
>>553043040just 4 wings? how are you even gonna generate lift?
>>553042630>I figured its downhill from here.You figure wrong they are all fun except AHRemember 4, 5 then Zero and X is also a must play. Have you played 1 or 2 yet?
>>553035386Wrong.Every word out of this dude's mouth is the most retarded "I have a Japanese understanding of the military and geopolitics, please understand" garbage I've ever heard in my life.And it's great.
>>553043249I had fun with AH in spite of how DFM botched the AI and replayability.
>>553042630Yeah, the mainline games are more good than bad. They also do semi-regularly tie back to 3, either by reusing locales, direct reference to corps and even characters.
>>553035386that's a line with real godfrey ho energy
>>553042630I doubt you'd enjoy them as the rest of the games aren't bargain bin worthy trash. You should stick to playing other bad games.
>>553042630if those are the specific things you're looking for maybe not, but you should still try em and see what you think.
>>553044915we (all of us) will be praying for a qt brown sotoan lolihebe in 8...
ac8 set in 2029its gotta have some wonky near-future stuff, this shits gonna be great
>>553039046
>>553045431that missile hanging off the bottom wing is fucking hilarious to me
>>553045395tbf all of the games have wacky SF elements, it would be shocking if an AC game just played it straight and boring.
>>553045550When Avril gets serious she makes Belkans green with envy.Its even funnier when you see it in actionhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fY_y6yES7ZI
>>553043015>>553043593>>553044656Fair enough>>5530432491 and 2 look a little, little, dated, but I might check out 2 though for curiosity sake. I think I'll just continue on with 4 and see how I feel for the rest of the series.
>>5530466082 may look old, but it's peak Top Gun mood. If you liked the movies you will get the feel for it despite the looks.
>>5530466082 also got a remake on the 3DS/New 3DS called Assault Horizon Legacy+, with all the regular Ace Combat controls.
>>553046608tbf 1 was more a tech demo launch title, it is simple but just a home version of the arcade version when it was called Air Combat 22. But 2 is a huge jump from 1 in everything its the most arcade style game in the series and an amazing 90's OST even more so than 5's arcade mode.
>>5530466082 is good, i think 1 is skipable2 was one of the first games i remember playing on the ps1, rented it from blockbuster
If no one else wants to, I'll host the Shootout this Saturday, last Saturday was really fun. Same time same place. If anyone else wants to host feel free to take over.
>>553047740if im around i'll comeits funny how you can go from stomping on random lobbies to getting absolutely destroyed in the aceg shootout saturdayyou guys are sick, and its very fun to dodge your missiles
Huh didn't know an SR-71 plane add mod existedhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVnVV3eu8nw
>>553038604since the 5th gen roster in ac8 will be the same, he has a chance to get in to at least add some flavour into the mix
>>553054576Kono jumped straight to 7th gen with the Raven. an entire generation is free for him
>a whole week (7 days, basically a month at this point)>release date hasn't even been revealedIt's so fucking over, dev hell again, game was delayed by years just like 7, they shut down the studio and sold off the rights while we weren't looking.
>>553054789since chinese planes are no go and neither europe/russia or usa has anything to show for in regards to 6th gens, we're going to have to rely on more fictional planessince the raven is 7th, whats a delphinus 1 or a xfa-36, su-43 or delphinus 3 meant to be?
>>553055914What ever Kono feels like them being as we add more super planes. But to be fair 6th gen in Strangereal was the originals seen in X as each is listed as a next gen plane.
>>553055914more canceled/prototype/concept planes would be cool too
>>553056964<< It's time! >>
>>553056964ST-21 Please
>>553056964thunderscreech my beloved and rocket interceptors would be cool as well
The Memorial video for X was released.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YR9mQFXp-IA
>>553058619https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lil-W54nl5Y
Project Nemo or Load Word Team?
>>553047740I'm free on the weekend so I can host it for you.>>552992114>ACX OST is now officially available on streaming servicesbest news I've ever got and on that topic, what is/are your favorite song(s) from ACX buddies? mine's https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HO68oLbr1Ac
>>553064512https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chiOmlD9q2wEasy pick.
>>553064512>DariusDon't post fish fighter game here, you'll make me pine for whale hunting in infinity. Stick to R-Type.
I'm kind of a big deal
>>553061389load word team is a more recent and better translation
>>553064512Di(ver)sionhttps://music.youtube.com/watch?v=MbSZMSBBS64&si=Q-exPC7dLHp2-T6C
Finished 7 again, was watching the credits and saw Studio Khara did the directing and storyboarding for the cinematics. Neat. Also Paramount's right at the end for some reason.
>>553070061>Also Paramount's right at the end for some reason.Because of the Top Gun Maverick DLC, probably.
>>553070403Oh right yeah.
God I love the YF-23.
>>553070963i always thought it looked ugly from the rear
>>553067585Then how about fish fighter game in plane game?
Will A-6 just be the bonus old plane in the game like F-104 was? Or just be one of the starter planes?
>>553074321I'm hoping it's a starter, and I hope they have that stupid Nugget skin for it.
>>553074321AC7 doesn't have a carrier-capable attacker from what I remember. I could definitely see PA including it to give players a starter attacker that can also take off from carriers because of the whole naval theme AC8 has going on.
>>553076864f35 is an attacker
>>553077071It's a multirole.
>>553077195no it isnt
>>553079008its a plane__
F-35 is fun_________
>>553055914GCAP, FCAS/SCAF, and NGAD are all on the table. We have been shown enough detailed mockups to have something worth putting in a game.
>>553093016Wonder if their generation will finally be the one to retire machinegun off a fighter jet
>>553076839time to pull out c4-621
>>553095987Well of course it will, you can't have both an MG and lasers.
starting up acx for the first time, just got to the first route split. is there anything i should keep in mind regarding that or am i good to just wing it?
>>553101326just wing it and see the consequences of your actions
>>553101326Throw a coin. Heads route A, tails route B
>>553075806Nugget skins complete with Nugget pilot are a MUST no matter what.>>553101326Just pick something but look and listen carefully to Eugene as he lays down the pros and cons of each route. Then make your choice as it will effect the game.Once you beat it free mode offers even more options for some missions you can't access in story mode.
I want his skin back in as well just have to update the year
>>553047985I should be able to host it this time but the Saturday after that will have to be someone else, I won't be around.
>>553067585>whale huntingGrab my Legend skin and go hunt the Alicorn or the Arsenal Bird.>>553112925Kinda sad we never got this back, atleast we got all the nugget emblems I guess.
>>553118336Its why I hope Kono really did pay attention to people like these kind of extras. I might be asking for too much but I wouldn't mind seeing all the nuggets get a plane with them in the cockpit and a skin fitting that nugget.
Is 8 the first one to have a subtitle that refers (most) directly to player character? It's a line from the script or something else usually.Like 5 is not called Demon of Razgriz in any release; 04 is called Shattered Skies or Distant Thunder and IIRC these both are from the script.
>>553121349Yes it is
>>553064512https://youtu.be/Ld2-JyAsYAg?list=OLAK5uy_mhG0anzKQc8EYC_dm2TCWgLJfSgCDhF-U
>>553121349eu 5 is squadron leader which is what blaze is, so if you really want to stretch it it could count
>>553122471Sometimes I really miss the days when this was the more common type of game music.
is AC7 PvP fun? I'm getting sick of war thunder propslop
>>553106759Don't forget the female Nugget picture taped to the cockpit.
>>553126376Much like Bore Thunder, 7's multiplayer is most fun when there's not metwhoring assholes in the lobby. That's why the shootouts this general does usually have points and weapon restrictions.
>>553128581aw man
>>553132246You should just try it and see. It's still easier to get into than the cancer tha is grinding WT.
what is this bar and why does it fill up i'm scared
>>553136569Kill gauge. When it fills up it unlocks the next aircraft in that 'line'. For the F-5E, there's the F-20, then the X-29. Not every aircraft has a successor model so the gauges for those will be filled by default.
>>553136569Also the rate it fills depends on what difficultly you play on.
>>553137825> F-5E > F-20 > X-29slightly insane line of progression but quite rewarding >>553138956As in, lower difficulty = faster completion, so weaker pilots can access better aircraft sooner?or the inverse? Can one realistically unlock all/most aircraft in a single campaign on hard difficulty? If not, how do you manage?
>>553139646Higher difficulty gives faster completion. The old recommendation back in the day was to repeat Mission 26 on Ace difficulty; most planes will max out their gauge in one playthrough of that mission.You won't unlock everything on your first playthrough, but the game does give you regular plane unlocks every couple of missions. You'll have a F-22 after Mission 17 (of 27) for example.
>>553121349I wish modern game development cycles weren't this long
>>553141949Idk, they've been on a roll since 5.And the bloat could have explained AHs poor ideas, but AHL was absolutely stellar so that kinda falls through.
>>553139646>Can one realistically unlock all/most aircraft in a single campaignNo some planes can only be gotten on the A or B mission you can't play both in one run. This include the Falken & X-02 along with normal planes in that. Its also impossible to max out every gauge in a single run.Remember don't even get the last Falken part until you have the X-02's 3rd skin as its possible to trigger the skin bug then you can't get it on that save file any longer.>how do you manageYou play till its done
>>553141949I wish modern games were better optimized. My only fear for 8 is that it gets hit with the Unreal Engine poor performance curse causing it to run like garbage. Hopefully PA has everything functioning smoothly, since PC and console hardware isn't looking like it'll get cheaper any time soon.>>553139646>how do you manageYou just pick your favorite plane(s) to beat the campaign with and unlock the rest in Free Mission or SP New Game. The PS2 games can be S-Ranked with pretty much any plane, so doing a "canon plane" challenge of F-5s then F-14s is pretty doable. Hell, the Hawk trainer plane is also fun because of its low stall speed, low purchase cost, and a full squadron of them means 24 QAAMs which WILL melt through Grabacr/8492nd.
>>553153361I mean they managed to have a solidly looking and performing port of Ace Combat 7 to the Switch 1 so maybe they do have Belkans programing their games
>>553154009I still don't know how they managed to do that.
>>553154009Still amazed at how well it runs on my Lite.
>>5531533617 ran on Unreal and it was very smooth with not very high specs for what they did. I expect 8 to be the same.I still think that 8 is 100% done right now and they are spending the time in 26 before release making the code do Belkan magic stuff while adding more skins to the game.
>>553153361>8492ndJust met them helping me out though.. SURELY this isn't a spoiler of their betrayal is it
>>553155115I mean all of Osea turns against you because Wardog becomes the demons, so is it really betrayal?
Is there any way to find 3D models from R-series planes? I want to print an R-103 so much
>>553157638Didn't someone upload all the R-Series to Cults3d a while ago?
>>553156954https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QXseMAePlg
>>553158940Belkan Dreamers...
>>553158940Its so beautiful have no words to express it with
>>553158940The planes converting to hide the dmg is kinda peak imagination.
>>553056964Does anyone actually like the FB-22 though? There's so many that never made it but they insist on that ugly thing every time.
>>553166439It's Raptor but Dorito, what's not to like about it? Then again I also like the F-16XL, so my taste might be a little corn chip tainted.
>>553166439Out of the FB-22 chart it hit that sweet spot 3 & 4 were just silly, yeah I like it. Would have been far more fun if you could have dropped more bombs at once with it. Same problem F-16XL has.
>>553167742>Would have been far more fun if you could have dropped more bombs at once with it. Same problem F-16XL has.perhaps they should experiment with class specific perks, like attacker categorized planes should be able to drop all weapons visible on pylons at once instead of being locked to two per reload
>>553166439Blowing people out of the sky from kilometers away in a shiny dorito that vanishes from radar almost instantly is funny
>>553166439I hate how the DSIs look like tumorous outgrowths.
>>553168623Think of it like a hamster with a full mouth
>>553128581The shootouts are chill, while randos are a mixed bag. Do NOT enter rooms with only one person and hotjoin off, because those are made by people who only duel with PSM planes, which is the opposite of fun. Check the multiplayer guide in the OP, and have fun, buddy.What's your planefu?
>>553158249Yeah just found it, it's ten yuro but i can afford thathttps://cults3d.com/es/modelo-3d/juegos/ace-combat-r-103-delphinus-3/comentariosTy m8
>>553158940Same guy made this absolute fucking peakhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vkb1kHLlFH4
>>553180416I remember when the MPBM didn't do much to higher difficulty Agaion and SOLG but people still used it anyways for the pretty explosions and to fuck with the screens and framerates of the other players, good times.
What's the deal with AC7 modders? Why are they jerks?
>>553184104the kind of autism that makes people get way into modding also makes them go completely insane whenever they get a tiny crumb of social power
>>553184104modding in general has become so much fucking worse in the past few years to the point zoomers are actually defending paywalled shit
>>553180416Kind of wonder what's in USEA mind when they painted the Aigaions>So grey is for normal, red is for better and black is for the scariest. What did you say about the color scheme for one in-between red and black Aigaions?>GOLD
>>553184104Kid you not, the only reason why AC7 modding managed to get democratized in the first place is because one of the people in the cabal had some type of falling out/drama and dropped all the tools and docs in the meltdown.Wouldn't be surprised if those people are now desperately clinging onto whatever they think still makes them special and different from the unwashed masses.Few sane men expend time and energy into a solo project distributed entirely for free out of good will, so a good chunk of modding communities - especially ones that are particularly niche and small - end up being packed with the insane.
>SchwarzeHoly FUCK these guys and their bullshit "dodge missiles fired on while jousting" and "dodge missiles while 2000 ft away from their tail" maneuverability. Although they're probably way less annoying when I'm not trying to murder like seven named aces.
>>553186501What makes them even more annoying is that MiG-31s take 3 missiles to kill and there are 8 of them
>>553185996Wasn't there additional drama when it was supposed to be a breakaway group within the cabal that wanted to release the modding tools, but then that one guy jumped the gun and ended up taking all the credit (but also ended up taking all the heat when the cabal tried to sic Bamco lawyers on him)?
>>553184104In my experience they're just weird.
>>553188363'Champ gets chased by X' videos are one of those things that are funny the first few times, but then people ran the joke into the ground.
>>>/v/730386954
>SorcerorHoly shit that XLAA spam was no joke. It doesn't help that they're also capable of pulling bullshit high-AoA maneuvers to dodge as well when you close in (although they use it far less than other squadrons), and PJ is fucking dogwater at dogfighting
>>553197926Pj should have stayed on the ground, he isn't made for The Belkan War
>>553197926>>553198691I do like how PJ has the same tepid AI as the wingmen in 5, meanwhile Pixy actually tries to keep up with Cipher.
>>553192918Sure but Stonehenge mihaly is topkek
>>553198813Pixy ai in zero is genuinely impressive, I hope 8 will give is wingmen like him
>>553198831nta but its the only one that made me laugh
>>553198813I think he's supposed to or at lease have the same skill level as Cipher, he's just not a try-hard so he doesn't get the nickname slapped on. Every few missions or so at the start of the game, allied AI jokingly say Pixy is gonna take all the kills away. Jumping even further ahead he says during Zero "Now we find out who's number 1"
>>552958701I disagreed with this initially, but I was listening to the OST again, and with the Gleipnir track specifically the intro section feels straight out of AC3.Little bit of Gordian Knot in the electronics mixing with discordant classical instruments, little bit of Morceaux with the background vocals. Some others also fit in with AC3 surprisingly well too, like Kingshill or Kalana.Diversion on the other hand sounds like a song ripped straight out of classic Wipeout. Like I swear I can hear some of the same sounds you'd hear in an EDM sample library.
>>553204752>IEWS tacked onto the drop tank functionalityI never like it when addons do this.
>>553201128Part of it is also PJ always talking big without it feeling earned. He's a good enough pilot; he managed to not die at the Round Table twice and he's able to follow Galm around well enough. But he also runs his mouth the first time he enters the Round Table (oblivious to all the heavy lifting Cipher and Pixy are doing) and he's constantly spouting lines that make him sound like a bigshit hero. And it's probably a programming limitation but hearing him talk about stopping V2 then never showing up inside the dam really reinforces all of that to me.
>>553207145>those who survive long enough on the battlefield start to think they're invincible, i bet you (PJ) do too, buddyLiterally a cautinary tale.
>>553185996>Wouldn't be surprised if those people are now desperately clinging onto whatever they think still makes them special and different from the unwashed masses.Their main discord is dead, they had a final shitstorm that completely killed it. It's only small, isolated communities now.
>>553210129It's insane to me how c&c, warcraft or coh went so open about all the content creation with their mods.And then AC finally gets its' chance to shine and it's all seekrit club e-celeb bs
>>553184104Well, there goes my vague desire to make add ons for AC7. What strain of narcissism must someone be infected by to act like this
>>553185712Allow me to go off topic here; fuck Blackrack for keeping the KSP volumetric clouds mod paywalled. 3 years of "early access testing" for a mod that's completely functional.
>>553207145I wonder if the pilots throwing themselves as the target were all elite as well or were they just whoever remains in the air force after everyone else demobs
“Mobius One, another Page 10, sighted on radar. That’s strange, this hasn’t been the only one recently, keep your distance!”
Here's a plen, go intercept it!
swingwing planes like the tomcat should keep their wings locked unswept during takeoff and landing sequences #desu
does this general accept Nuclear Option chuds?
>>553242165Strongly depends on your favourite plane.
>>553243564the chicane
>>553243617Now that's a PHAT Comanche.Not a plane Are you looking for some recs or just lack of thraead?
>>553244170lack of thread mainly
>>553245656Have fun? Though this thread isn't super alive at all times either.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvbhhItAqHw yeah, we like totally ethical WMDs.
>>553246508Can't tell which Orange is from the Nukes and which is from PW being ORANGE
>>553242165It seems like a cool ass game and the planes are neat. I like the Revoker and the Ifrit. Somwthing I'd look into getting if I ever get a better computer, at this rate I might be running my craptop until the day I die.>>553244170Helicopters are our autistic cousins we sometimes meet up with to watch anime and play vidya with, they're cool. I actually really like the helicopter levels in AH, barring the Blackhawk minigun segments.
>>553250546>RevokerMy brain refuses to accept the Revoker.The Ifrit is very cool, the Vortex is a good-looking take on the X-32, but the Revoker just looks wrong. And I tend to like doritos a lot.
>>553207145Pixy and Cipher (even though Cipher never talks) just come off as grounded, PJ's self-bragging is something he has the entire game and it ends up getting him killed in the end. I think Pixy ended up resenting PJ over time which ended up with the cheap snipeshot shot at him during endgame instead of Cipher.
>>553257863Needs two engines
>>553257863The ass is sticking out too much. Also the hull looks like it got flattened, so it both looks thicker than it is and the dimensions make the wings look silly small.It looks like some alpha concept of a Grippen, and that hits you in the face with all the uncannyness that most early concepts have.
what's Eugene up to these days
>>553259217On his vacation in the Puna plains.
>>553257863Looks alright.
>>553259146>>553260946The duality of /aceg/.
>>553219848I would say give it a try, most of the stuff you need to know/use like templates, filepaths and datatables are already public, not like you need to interact with that side of the community to enjoy the game and whatever you modify>>553257863Poor Gripen put on some weight...
>>553184104Most modders are like that. There's decades worth of drama caused by modder narcissism syndrome and sekrit clubs in the Elder Scrolls community
>>553246508<< When he's done, there won't even be a country left to defend! >>>>553258052>cheap snipeshotIronically I think PJ could've survived it if he'd banked right instead of banking left. I'm not sure how intentional the action composition in that scene is but it feels like the blast could have easily been a miss since the Morgan's beyond detection range at that point and even the tiniest misalignment at that distance means a shot is trashed. With him banking left he pretty much dives into it, and it's not even like he was trying to protect Cipher because it wouldn't have hit Cipher anyway.PJ just choked so hard that he died.
>>553262450Is this skin a reference to something or just OC donut livery?
>Bunker BusterAhh my favorite hamburger
>>553014081>As far as Spare goes, I feel like every pilot except for Count and Trigger got forced aboard the plane Tabloid and Avril did.Yeah they did, only reason Count was spared was because McKinsey wanted the best as his escort (and didn't want the guy who was in there for shooting down his last escortee kek)
Remember we're having Shootout Saturday tomorrow at 1330 EST! Standard rules apply, point and weapons limit. I think I may do a couple of shitpost match or two and turn off the point limiter just for laughs, but no more than 2 or 3 rounds. Majority is standard limits battle royale.
>damn it they're making us do something, but just...what?!I guess tabloid doesn't pay much attention during briefings
>>553277862The concept of doing his job completely evades his mind, in that moment he's thinking about what can he do to make it look like he's doing something while not actually doing anything of note.
>>553278749Wow he's just like me
>>553266868It's based on a character from another game, same with the emblem.>>553274564Just a heads-up, you can't change the point limit of an active room from unlim to 2500 or lower.
>>553277862They don't actually tell you that the whole point of these missions is to intentionally draw the attention of drone units so that the LRSSG can get in and out.
wow that bossfight in transfer orders is exceptionally not fun
>>553281720I barely remember that there's even a boss fight in that mission because it dies so quickly to MGP or PLSL. The enemy AI (both actual AI and meatbags like Mihaly) don't know how to respond to weapons that don't require a lock on.
>>553281720Funny, I love that fight.
How many people do you think die in Fleet DestructionAll those huge boats and the sea platforms, it must be several tens of thousands
>>553284902The platforms could be a solid couple hundred; oil rigs tend to have about a hundred personnel on them max but in this case the platforms are for military use and not oil drilling so ehhh?The frigates and destroyers in the drydocks probably aren't crewed to full, the active destroyers are probably a couple hundred crewmen each, so on and so forth.The Kuznetsov alone is at the very least a thousand or so.
>>553112925>2015there's no way it's actually been that long ago, right buddies...??
>>553284902Five thousands max, imo
2014 actually. And it's been nearly ten years since the game went offline, almost wish I'd kept installed on my PS3. I think I stayed up as long as I could to get a few more sorties in.
>>553290780Meant for >>553289364 obviously.
I hate that I completely missed out on Infinity
>>553291626It's been long enough that we're nostalgic about it now, but there was a lot of bullshit with it I will not miss. Like the P2W tournaments.
>>553112925I miss my Grun-skin hornet. That thing was fucking fun to fly around in, I had it so tuned up for maneuverability.And the thing is - I don't even remember anymore if I was just placeboing myself into believing that was true or if it was just kinda mid. I tuned it for Ring Battle but I also kinda sucked so it could've been good and I just sucked but either way it was fun. It was maneuverable in the zone where it was in my comfort zone, I guess.
How come ACX is getting so much attention on the internet in the past week?
>>553294195Project Aces uploaded the uncompressed OST to streaming, complete with labelled track titles.
>>553292080Is the online still active? I have my PS3 hooked up with ACI installed right now.
>>553294564Nah all you can get now is to the login screen I bet. Can't even play the single player missions anymore which is a shame.
>>553294897I can't even play the DLC missions??
>>553295130Unfortunately not. The game's entirely lost.
>>553295223Wait you're fucking with me, Ace Combat Infinity is literally lost media now?I've had that game in my backlog for years thinking I'd get to it when I had time and now that I finally do I find out it's quite literally unplayable??There isn't a way to play it on the high seas either??
>>553295790It was a live service game, anon. You wanna know what's shittier? There was a campaign mode you could buy, despite the game itself being "free" (you had to pay for "fuel" to play for more than a few matches a day) and there was a free flight mode you could just use to fly your planes around in a sandbox, and when EoS hit I lost access to all of it. Single player content, content I paid for, never accessible again.They're damn lucky 7 was good because that was some bullshit.
>>553296059Oh and the campaign story was never finished either, not that it mattered since it wasn't canon to anything else anyway. I don't think it was even really Strangereal.
>>553294338Man I'd never heard the ost before, this has such a different feel to it than any of the other games.Although, they're doing that Smash Brawl thing where they love their own theme song way too fucking much and made it their leitmotif.
>>553295790I was gonna ask if YOU'RE fucking with ME, lol. No fan servers of any kind, in fact I'm not sure that's possible even if the willpower to do it was there. Gundam Battle Operation 1 and the weird F2P Soul Calibur game are similarly gone forever, I imagine all three of those games had their energy mechanics tied to the base functionality of the game too so no way to get rid of it without bricking the game. It is what it is.>>553296059Honestly imagine Infinity was THE last game in the franchise, I'd be livid about that. Fun set of missions too and a lot of weird ass planes that didn't come to 7.>>553296197Honestly I don't think they ever intended there to be an actual followup given how quickly it stopped getting updates. Basically just an excuse plot to establish the setting and establish Reaper the game's Singularity.
>>553296197Honestly I think the story was pretty cool, I wish I got to actually play it. Strangereal is neat and all, but it's getting to the point where its being restricted by its own lore and its pre-established canon, and I don't really like that.I like that ACI was fucking about in the real world with classic AC elements. The story being left on a loose thread was interesting to me cus they could take it anywhere at that point. In the end it didn't matter to me that it was set in the real world because it was so fucked up from the events of the story that it made it interesting.I genuinely want ACI to get a sequel, or for the story missions to at least become available to play on modern consoles. I think they did something interesting.
>>553295790It was a live service pseudo-gacha game. EoS is never a merciful thing, god knows the gaming community had to raise a giant shitstorm just to get a shot at having the EU think about looking at it.>>553296197>I don't think it was even really Strangereal.It was a "greatest hits" compilation of many different beats of the Strangereal games congealed into a real-world setting.So that's how you get Ulysses hitting the real-world Earth, the Aigaion fucking everywhere, Stonehenge in Turkey, Avalon Dam on the Russian-Mongolian border, Operation Bunker Shot on the Croatian coast, so on and so forth.I enjoyed it for what it was, but it being unfinished left a bad taste in my mouth. They even teased the big new orbital superweapon and whatever the fuck the evil spooky red Mobius 1 emblem at the end was supposed to mean.
>>553296853Oh we definitely aren't getting a continuation of the story anytime soon, but coop being confirmed for 8 makes me hopeful the main gameplay can come back. With how popular coop games have been lately it could be a good way for PA to rake in money while they work on Ace Combat 9. Just as long as that fuckass fuel system stays in the past and they don't have a battle pass lol.
>>553297135>>553297426It really was weird how Infinity was supposedly successful enough that in convinced Bamco to greenlight 7, yet simultaneously not successful enough to get an actual story ending.
>>553296853>I genuinely want ACI to get a sequel, or for the story missions to at least become available to play on modern consoles. I think they did something interesting.For all the parts I liked about the game, it should never come back because the live service aspect was absolute fucking cancer. It's financial crack cocaine and companies need to resist it, especially if they aren't going to keep a game chugging along forever.The star of the show was the ability to fly team PvE missions where two teams compete for points finishing a mission together. Pure team deathmatch staled WAY too quickly. This also opened it up for big boss battle missions which was an awesome feeling, that all-hands-on-deck scramble to hunt a big flying carrier whale, issuing commands to delay the final attack while people are still trying to rack points and some asshole snipes it anyway, delightful miscreants.
>>553297426I still wonder how coop is gonna work in AC8. Is it gonna be actual like WSO stuff, like one player flies the plane while the other is in charge of weapons? Cus that'd be fun imo
>>553297569>It really was weird how Infinity was supposedly successful enough that in convinced Bamco to greenlight 7, yet simultaneously not successful enough to get an actual story ending.PA is a bamco substudio with like 20 actual lead guys, logistically they could not have been able to work on 7 and a sequel to Infinity at the same time. this employee bottleneck is why PA had to merge with ILCA for 8 iirc
>>553297569Part of me thinks it was a priority thing more than a funding thing.I don't remember the exact timeline of Infinity's lifespan and 7's development so I could be talking a load of horseradish, but I could easily see that perhaps 7 got greenlit, and PA didn't have enough staff to both maintain Infinity's MP, finish Infinity's SP and get started on a make-or-break project for the franchise.If MP brings in cash and 7 determines the fate of the franchise, then yeah the SP was gonna get shafted in terms of resources.
>>553297658Maybe for couch co-op but nobody really does that. I think it'd be a real hard sell for normies otherwise. And even then, what, would it just be like a nintendo game where one person's in the driver's seat and you pass the controller to your nephew so he thinks he's helping? idk.More likely it's team flight/squadron type stuff, or a separate online mode like Infinity used to have, PVE team matches.
>>553297658>Is it gonna be actual like WSO stuff, like one player flies the plane while the other is in charge of weapons? >Cus that'd be fun imoone guy gets to actually play the game while the other guy gets to press a button occasionallyhmm, no thanks!
>>553297616>This also opened it up for big boss battle missions which was an awesome feeling, that all-hands-on-deck scramble to hunt a big flying carrier whale, issuing commands to delay the final attack while people are still trying to rack points and some asshole snipes it anyway, delightful miscreants.God all those old Charlie Fraggers are gonna come out of retirement to kill the XF-666 Skullfucker too early again.>>553297658Laziest option would be essentially using Infinity as a base and just modernizing it with better netcode(lol) and more interesting mission design.>>553298148It might be kinda fun as a VR mode.
>>553297951>employee bottleneckChrist, this shit is only going to get worse with AI. As soon as they can get a toaster to produce something that only has a few extra toes or wonky wordings here and there they'll kick most of their fleshbound employees to the curb and quality will plummet. What obligation to make a good product will they have if they're barely investing anything into making it and can just turn those resources to something else with equal effort?Only humans can imbue this franchise with the hammy overbaked soul it requires to be fun.
>>553298413>It might be kinda fun as a VR mode.Idk, AC is not deep enough in the nitty gritty systems mechanics dept to really give a hypothetical WSO only player anything fun to do.Also VR is already confirmed to be off the table for 8.
>https://x.com/kazutoki/status/2009619085420798118Today marks my first Friday back at work, and I'm on my way home from Ace Combat. This afternoon and evening, I recorded a dialogue interview with Director Katabuchi about Ace Combat 8. Ultimately, having worked together for 25 years, our conversation covered a wide range of topics: the inspiration for this project, how the Ace Combat story was crafted, the expansion and history of Strange Real, and even the work of directing itself. During that time, I started talking about it myself, and with the director's affirmation, I finally managed to articulate my thoughts on AC04 after 25 years and truly understand it. It was an incredibly meaningful time. Thank you. I am truly grateful.
>>553298605Well it seems AI slop is the ONE dumb technology meme that old Japanese businessmen haven't totally fallen for, at least for the moment.
>>553298129I'm a family man now, I'd love to have a couch co-op F-14 game or something along those lines, fuck yeah
>>553299989Like I said, I'm not opposed to it - to an extent. But I don't think our meager niche meets the level required to sink the necessary amount of effort and resources into it. Multiplayer online framework ostensibly already exists, and they've presumably been working to reframe that for a co-op mode, that's the more likely case.If they're not going for VR despite happily displaying how much work and effort they've put into the cockpits, then they're probably not doing something like that either.
>>553300253>Multiplayer online framework ostensibly already exists, and they've presumably been working to reframe that for a co-op mode, that's the more likely case.It'll probably just be a short side campaign set up specifically for co-op play. AC5's Op Katina but with internet 2p.
is Infinity salvageable to be a single player game by itself, or was the campaign too cookie cutter to stand out?
>>553297135>whatever the fuck the evil spooky red Mobius 1 emblem at the end was supposed to mean.I really like that Plane Satan was apocryphad basically immediately. Mobius One has such a mythical presence in the franchise that an "evil ribbon fighter" feels even more hacky than that trope usually is. Hell, he's so legendary that Wings of Theve is basically the FCU trying to gaslight its own people that a once again a heroic ace has arrived in their darkest hour against an enemy invasion.
>>553302302When I was a stupid edgelord high schooler I loved that kind of shit, I was genuinely hyped to fight Mobius One if he evil.
>>553301435the biggest problem is that it's only 8 missions. if you could somehow keep in all the bosses and their higher tier versions it would be fun
He's in a flat spin, oh no
>>553315169Yeah but Joint Assault was a spin-off released late in the PSP's lifecycle and mostly sucked all-around and Assault Horizon was unapologetically "we want the call of duty audience" and also mostly sucked all-around.
>>553301435it has no ending, so that kind of automatically writes it off. though "replayability" wise, the game does have a fuckload of planes, so if you're some kind of demented fuck that enjoys playing the same 8 missions over and over again to unlock a single branch of a tech tree, then maybe.
Would you guys be interested in some DATE World skins?
>>553299330We ball.
>>553320020got a link buddy?
>35°17'49.2"N 116°21'07.3"Ehmm
>>553335232Someone edited an F-22xJ-20 child onto a random airfield?
>>553320020Here you go, anon!https://www.nexusmods.com/acecombat7skiesunknown/mods/3418https://www.nexusmods.com/acecombat7skiesunknown/mods/3424https://www.nexusmods.com/acecombat7skiesunknown/mods/3426
>>553336829Why was this gemmy post deleted?
>>553290074The USS Nimitz crews like 5k people and you blow up several similarly sized boats in the mission
>>553343134They're close to shore in that mission, aren't they? Surely anybody not below deck would stand a good chance of rescue. I hope when you sink ships in AC8 you see lifeboats pop up around them, then you get to strafe them for warcrime fun.
>>553343286You should get to strafe every ejecting pilot.
>>553348169>you can use UAVs as escort fighters in AC8>you can adjust their targeting behaviour>yellow targets are (mistakenly) free game for auto-hunt targetsButterfly master to the rescue!
>>553348621Let me hear the desperate radio calls of the survivors as I make pass after pass at them, please.
>>553047740Shootout lobby is up! Put /aceg/ in your IFF, remember restrictions. Will probably do the unlimited point matches at the very end.
>>553335232>the airport closed in late 2023>that's just been sitting there since late 2024If you asked me, probably a one-off model or mock-up. Wouldn't be the first time the Chinese just put together a mock-up for people to stare at and two-bit "news" mills to churn out fifty articles about China's new tenth-generation superjet.The planform appeals to me, though.
I wonder if strangereal has #Hindlife Influencers, like vanlife but they convert surplus military helicopters into flying campers.
>>553364483There's probably some lunatic in not-Siberia deep within Yuktobania that lives out of an SU-34. Also I wonder if after the Lighthouse War, the Admiral Andersen housed a refugee community for a time before Osea reclaims the carrier.
>>553335232VX-23 if she real?
I was clinging on for dear life at the end there, I saw 89% on the indicator.R.'s chase game is still insane.
>>553367012I mean the Su-34 should have the room in it to use as a sleeping room right?
>>553358080Guess I gave it my all on that final match, anyway thanks for hosting buddy.
>>553364483>Not picking an Mi-6I've lived in apartments smaller than this
>>553374905My apartment IS smaller than this.And the helo is probably cheaper too, with how apartment prices are these days.
I wonder if the richest influencers are suggesting people buy Tu-96s or B-52s, or if civillian Strangerealers just use them as air trucks.
>>553374596For one person at least. I imagine two people living in one would get cramped fast but for one person you have a toilet and a little stove to maake ramen noodles on or something
>>553379764I mean that boneyard near Sand Island probably got a ton of B-52s fuselages (sans wings and smashed up that they never could fly again) in good shape you could make into an exotic home if you were crazy
I hope 8 doesn't have stupid weather gimmicks
>finally beat the GauntletWell I think I'm done with Zero for now. After three different playthroughs for all ace styles I don't have the stomach to hunt down all the aces I missed, nor to S-rank all the missions I did on lower difficulties. But god damn, I think it might be my favorite of the trinity.
>>5533874908 will have smart weather gimmicks
>>553388694wacky stuff with cloud seeding and electrostatic charge
>>552992114wasnt there a link for wallpapers from all games on the op? I cant find it
>>553388694>>553389754>Belkan super science creates Shattered SkiesOVER THE LINE
what am i looking at heremoral point system? any bearing on narrative/gameplay? if yes which is most fun?
>>553392114they're a little like VN routes and affect mission difficulty (or so I remember), dialog and some of the enemy aces who turn up.knight: you're mister honourable; only shooting down hostilessoldier: you're a bit more indiscriminatemercenary: kill em all, you heartless bastard!
>>553392114A lot of people call it a morality system but I think that’s oversimplifying it.I think what it really is, is ‘how would you fight a war’? What are you priorities, what’s important to you? How do you fight; what characteristics and aspects do you show? That’s generally what the story focuses on in whichever style you play. Hence why it’s called the ‘ace style’ system, not ‘ace morality’; you’re still an ace, the same people who trash talk you or praise you will still think the same. But you’ll see how it changes.
>>553392114if you like money than go Mercenary
>>553392114Killing yellow targets skews you towards Mercenary, leaving them alone skews you towards Knight. Soldier is a balancing act.It changes what squadron you fight at specific points in the story, what planes you unlock as a result, and some Assault Record aces are also locked behind ace style requirements.Also changes a small handful of in-game voice lines here and there and the two FMV interviews for the two squadrons that are the same across all ace styles.
>>553392114>moral point systemYep, it's based on how many Yellow targets you blow up. Sparing them makes you a Knight, killing them a Mercenary, and keeping equal amounts dead/alive brings you to Soldier.>narrativeSome slight dialogue changes.>gameplayIt changes which enemy aces you'll see, and some missions have different S-Rank criteria depending on what Ace Style you have going into them. There's also medals for going full murderhobo, full moralfag, and being perfectly balanced Mission 14 is the last Mission where you can meaningfully affect your Ace Style, after that there's like only one possible Yellow target.>most funSubjective. I like going full Merc for entering Mission 10 because of who shows up, but Schwarze is a pain in the ass for me. And Merc on Mission 16 is definitely the most challenging, but I think going Soldier on the same is the most fulfilling narratively.
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>>553392114>Most funDepends on what do you define as fun. Being a moralfag like knights of old? Bomb everything and see the fire rises? Or playing the arbiter and pick which target you set free and which one you kill
bros, i wanna play all ace combatsi've played 1 through 3 before, but apparently i played the USA version of 3.should i replay them all or skip 1 and 2?is there a translated JP version of 3?
>>553400974>is there a translated JP version of 3?There's two fan translations, both are in the OP MEGA.LoadWordTeam is the newer and better of the two.
>>553400974Do 4, 5, and Zero first.
>>553392114kill every yellow is canonhe isnt the demon lord of the round table for no reason
>>553405465But Cipher canonically used the Draken with a Soldier skin.
>>553407607before he is known as the demonlord, yes
>doing a second run of acx>decide to hit the gleipnir first at the first split>at the end of the chapter the captain tries to upside-down 360 no-scope you with the shock cannonwhat a gigachad
>>553416386It would have been insanely badass if it had worked.
>>553417000I mean, it can kill you if you fly over it
PA had a concept for a space combat game using the AH engine back in the early 10s
>>553423892I'd love SpAce Combat honestly. Most of the space fighter games out there are Elite Dangerous type things are too 'sim' heavy or games where your starfighter is just a plane in space like Star Wars. I mean Rogue Squadron is my shit but I'd love more space fighter games that take into account how you can move in the vaccum of space while still being arcadey.
>>553423892Damn that would have fucked.
>>553425252how can space sing latin if theres no sound in space
>>553425349Simple, every pilot in the year 2XXX in the Strangereal universe has a radio strapped to the inside of their cockpit alongside an automatic soundboard that plays laser noises when you get shot at.
>>553425349Just pull a Macross and display a giant hologram of your singer in order to demoralize the enemy, it'll work.
>>553423892they really should go all the way with it>>553425349space sings jpophttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lg2fk96mYEE
wait a minutedidn't ac7's mission 2 used to be called charge assault? now it's charge the enemywhen did i shift timelines
>>553392114Tip: One run ignore all yellow runs until meter is fully on Knight. Or kill EVERY yellow target until full Mercenary.The system is set that if you max out the bar completely to one side or the other and then do the complete opposite the next run you'll land perfectly in the middle of Soldier for the Perfect Soldier Achievement
>>553436954Charge Assault is mission 1.
Should I start from 4 or 3?
>>553439009Definitely 4. 3 is amazing, but best played after the PS2 games.
>>553428375>put up a giant hologram of pilots singing the journey homeLike that?
I'M SO FUCKING SICK OF STEVE BLUM IN EVERYTHINGHE WAS PRETTY GOOD AS SPIKE COWBOY BEBOP BUT HE DOES THE SAME VOICE EVERY TIME
>patch guy has been sold out for 6 morbillion yearsit's over
>>553443141I thought his take on Starscream was pretty good
>>553443519That don't clear things up because there are many Patch guys
>>553451551/ourguy/https://www.strangerealpatches.com/
so is the name of the planet not strangereal?I just assumed that the name of the planet in the strangereal universe was called strangereal but in ac6 they refer to the planet as "earth"
>>553455528It's the "Strange, real world"There must a be a Japanese pun in there or something but idgi
>>553455528Strangereal is the non-diagetic nickname of the setting. In universe, the planet is our Earth, just with different continents and countries. That's why it's Strange, but Real. The rest of the solar system is unchanged too. The sun is Sol, the same 8 planets orbit it etc.
>>553456176Strangereal could very easily have a Planet 9 in their solar system, or Mercury could be just a remnant asteroid belt and we wouldn't know unless it becomes relevant.
Seems like development is currently on the polishing and refining phase.
>>553469156I guess it'll be coming sooner than we figured. Can we get another trailer?
>>553470357It's a given we'll get another trailer, it'll be a gameplay trailer that'll reveal the release date at the end that will soon be renamed to Launch trailer because it's a shadow drop as was foretold.
ac8 september
>>553374754Seeing this make me wonder, do you guys have any original squadrons/emblems/liveries you want to share? I remember the group used to have a ton when it was more active.
>>553470357We'll get the Trailer probably at the end of the Anniversary videos with Nuggets letters forming either a URL or something related to the new game then bam we get the trailer dropping
we'll probably get more interviews and screenshot drops before the next trailer
>>553473245All I have is /our/ emblem for the 404th.
>>553481059Shame, there used to be tons of them.
>>553473245
Man, going back to 7 after the PS2 games feels different. I miss the boresight, working gun reticles, and not having to use two Missiles per tank.
>>553473245Same buddy you are quoting here, I have two more, a standard emblem and it's lowvis version. They were made to go along the F-35C skin but It took me a long time to understand how to mod emblems into the game so I instead added them to the skin as tailart and on the sides of the air intakes.Squadron name was taken straight from Dariusburst CS' protagonist squad.
>>553481059The Nighthawk feels out of place
>>553456176>8 planetsDon't you mean 9
>>553499812No
There are only 8 planetsCease your inquiries
>>553500528Nibiru isn't a real planet?!
>>553500752Judge he used Nibiru before 5 special summons, judge get his ass
What's so special about Ace Combat that western games haven't been able to replicate? Are the japanese somehow better at embracing the silliness and the cheese and being absolutely unapologetic about it?
I hope 8 doesn't have enemy bosses that can pull impossible turns, loke Mihaly and the drones.
>>553504563Same. Seeing the target pull 140G any time you fire and tank 10 missiles is not fun, it's stupid. Previous games managed to have challening ace fights without resorting to that bullshit.
>>553504523Californians are too irony poisonedNow I'm more generous than most and realize it's not Americans, it's CaliforniansA Californian developed AC would have shit like>uhh why does my plane have so many missiles, what is this, a videogame?>yikes well that just happened>ukraine and palestine liveries
>>553504523Generation Y was made fun of a lot back in the 00s for being themselves, Japanese culture doesn't make fun of passionate people.
>>553505880Right? It feels like in the west, being really into something is a bad thing for some reason. Like genuinely loving something is a weakness. I don't get it.
>>553505083>ukraine [...] liveriesyeah 'cause PA would never do that
>>553423892Project Sylpheed Arc of Deception was the closest thing to an Ace Combat in space back in the 2000s. I played that game a lot, very good scifi stuff. I would kill to see Project Aces make a legit interstellar starfighter game.
>conflating irony poisoned andy kaufman loving californians with "the west" Stop that
>>553506480Not the liveries that the Ukraianinainanisninsinainsins use, but the flags of the countries as a shallow display of solidarity It's especially bad with Palestine, I feel like the people supporting them literally don't know what goes on in that country>inb4 you spell ukrnaine wrongNo I didn't
>>553505880Yeah it made people just not want to show anything real retreat into a shell of irony which is why millennials are the biggest perpetrators now. If the millennial makes anything real he's scared he'll be bullied for it
I just started 5 and really do not comprehend how nuking your own country is a good strategy
>>553507418Nobody invaded any further into Belka, did they?>Strategic Tang victory
>>553507418It's notBelka are retardedAce Combat is retardedJust roll with it
>plebs can't handle the genius of belkan military strategy
>>553473245I've thought about getting back into making liveries for AC7, but it has been a while and I get put off by thinking about restarting the entire workflow. Maybe things got streamlined since then though, I dunno.
>>553506601It's spelled Ukryayna, witlet
>>553507418well play zero then
So the game plays flawless but how do I fix these HUD problems? I'm tired of seeing these eyesores.
Man every time I get back into ace ranking all of ac7, faceless soldier just kills my desire to continue
>>553488238Holy shit I thought I was the only other guy that had a copy of that collage. That's pretty old. It's nice to see some of those again.>>553504523You mean in terms of the storytelling or the gameplay?>>553507418When your entire country's history is rolling max on warrior knight honor, and you get humiliated by failing economics and politics, then launch a world war and start losing that even harder. The guy in Zero once references North Belka as the 'Holy Land' to them so they're just lost at that point.>>553508958I wouldn't mind seeing some new ones. It's been so long and it's a good time for it.
For me, it's the Falken.
>>553511912I thought they fixed that like a few years ago, are you running a recent version of PCSX2?
>>553515913it looks like shit
>>553515913For me? The cooler Falken.
>>553515913I hope 8's superfighter isnt another ADFX derivative.
>>553519305>"Pray tell, Rex, how did you think we could mount an invasion across an ocean and completely topple the FCU in record time?">"We could have never done it without the BELKANS">enter ADF-9001 SCHEIßVOGEL from stage left
>>553515913my favorite superplane is still the wyvern
>>553519906AC8 DLC is going to be a home defense squadron getting scrambled to defeat the counter-invasion. I can feel it
>>553498529Nah I think it fits perfectly.>Anon 4, this is an air intercept, why the fuck are you flying a Nighthawk?>Ṱ̴͓͍͛̓h̶̙͝é̸̗̯ ̵̯̊̊͠p̸̩̪̏o̵̟͒̇ẅ̸͈́͑̈́e̶̝̽r̸͚̜̓͜ ̶̯͔̄o̶͔̔̒f̴̪͛͝ ̷̧̩̊͂͛t̶̛̜h̷̝̉ͅë̵͔́́̇ ̴̟̘̯̋Ş̶̖͇͋t̷̠̪͝ē̴̖̄̌a̶͔̭͔͊̇̚l̶̨̀t̶̡̤͚̄̑̒ḣ̸͎̫̌͝ ̵̪̇̆D̵̳̖͂ỉ̵̫m̸̖͕̠̋͝͠e̸͇̓ń̶̗̊s̶̰̞̎i̷̩͊͆o̵̬͓͊͘n̵͇̺͍̑͒͑ ̴̣͖̍͋ͅi̵͕̥̹͂š̸̢͘ ̶͍͆̏w̶͓̯͋̿i̴̡͚̬̍̈́͠t̸͉̀͂̎h̶̤͉̍̆ ̷͍̑̕ṃ̷͂̏̏e̸̳̔͜͠.̸̦͌́>Goddammit who let him summon a Stealth Demon AGAIN?
>>553516736Yes. I got the auto update today when I started up PCSX2.
>>553520798That's just Frontline 59
>>553521956are you using the rom from the aceg mega? i've been playing zero on pcsx2 for the past week with no issues
>>553521956move to the nightly releases if possible buddy, also make sure you are using the de-interlacing patch.
>>553520798>>553522053Honestly I kinda get the feeling that the Rex we play as was the FCU equivalent of an Air National Guard pilot. Or it could be like 5 where we and our squadmates were in the final stages of training when the war kicked off.
>>553512507I wonder how much has been lost, doomed to rest forgotten in the archives.
>>553504523things hopping across a cultural & language gap and then back again gives them a unique tinge, you can see it in AH where they're trying their damndest to make a clancy style cod campaign but it still comes out that way in the presentation.
I had a dream the other day of falling asleep in a forest just outside the area of “Valley of the Kings”. Green grass, grey stone, deer, lots of birds chirping, it was overgrown and peaceful. I somehow pulled the fuselage of a fighter aircraft over me and used it as a blanket. I then fell asleep, and woke up in real life.
>>553519305Good chance it will be Z.O.E was teased right at the beginning of the reveal. But who is to say there will only be one?
>>553534372outside of being a circle, it looks nothing like zoe
>going through old reviews of ac7>every video i find uses novice controlshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnYi24fHtDkhonestly project aces did a major disservice by calling it "standard" and "expert"they should have just kept the old naming convention of "novice" and "normal"
>>553537439It's sad but well you need to have the possibility of people who have no ability to properly comprehend flight concepts and thinking more towards simplified push toward direction.
>>553537439mamma mia
>>553537439>>553544342Ace Combat 7 came out a bit after "gamers" started to complain about being made fun of for being bad at video games. Wolfenstein 2 also replaced "spineless gamers" for "novice gamers" around the same time for it's easy mode. Combine that with 7 being the first multiplat game in the series and they probably wanted to play it safe and not scare away newcomers with an "alien" control scheme as the default.
>>553525941I've saved a ton of thread art and writing since 2017, so at least a good chunk of /ourstuff/ is safe on my devices.
>>553544342>>553551607I don't think the flight controls are particularly "alien" to most gamers considering that GTA has the same flight controls and no one complained about it
I'm sorry, but you're all wrong.
>>553553036And how many gamers actually are good at flying the planes in GTA and BF, let alone ever actually tried to fly one for more than a couple minutes max?Besides you can't really blame 7 for the name change cause Assault Horizon already did that too, even worse in fact because that game just defaulted to the shit controls without even asking if you wanted to change them back.
>>553523368>traineesWell the old carrier could be a training ship on the way for a final exam when the war struck, so it makes sense in a way.
>>553553545>And how many gamers actually are good at flying the planes in GTA and BFYou don't have to be "good", you just have to have the mental capacity to understand roll and pitch; that's the sole barrier of entry for the expert controls.In my span of time playing Battlefield (BC to BF4) I have never heard people get filtered by planes. It was always the helicopters that filtered people from flying.
>running out of missiles>head outside the area to restock>failed the mission>have to protect this fucking boat all over againI thought we could leave the area to restock
>>553554886You can only resupply when there is a resupply line visible on the map (dotted line). The games will always tell you if resupply is available through radio chat at the start of the mission.>protect this fucking boat5 does not have any missions with resupply lines btw, so just forget about that even being an option.
>>553519305Your question makes me wonder if all the superfighter DLC from 7, will be DLC again, or be turned into in-game unlockables.
>failed a mission because enemy plane flew straight into meGOD DDAMN IT
>>553561093I'm betting a good chunk of them will be DLC once more and honestly I'd be pissed about paying full price for it again.
The F-35 was objectively the better choice, but I wish the JASDF had adopted the F-2A SK as well.
>>553552767Would you mind sharing whatever you have with us?>>553537439Oh I do still remember when it came out and the endless bitching on Steam from all the simfags who's flight sticks didn't work. Also remember the infamous 'but ace combat was always designed with flight stick in mind'I think this time around we've thankfully gotten past the point of the 'expert' or simfag online complaining about Ace Combat being Ace Combat rather than another realism game or trying to be realistic. Most of the few times I come across that the comments usually point out 'yeah it's not trying to be that'. Can't ever let your guard up though.
>>553534372Also that's a jet engine. You can see the fan blades and it spins like one.
>>553587440Imagine she makes into 8 as DLC
How does /aceg/ feel about IEWS? Finally started playing 7 multiplayer and it's fun casting debuffs on everyone.
>>553598713Wish we had more Team Deathmatch rooms so IEWS could really maximize the fun you can do with allied SPW just get crazy buffed.
https://youtu.be/jfJmvlEC794
Have we got a list of 3D and 2D planekino?Off the top of my head>3DTop Gun if you skip all the weird bad romance and volleyball Stealth Those Magnificent MenThe Dam Busters >2DYukikazeMacross 801 Airbats
>>553608104Area 88 (OVA) is mandatory viewing
>>553608104wings
>i assure you nagase, filming your feet on the couch is vital to winning the war
>>553608104Flight of the Intruder
>>553614773What's Nagase doing going barefoot in the rec room, anyway? Where'd her shoes go?
>>553614804Potentially more notable with them looking to be back for AC8.The line about Callsigns has lived rent free in my head for years
>Chance-based in-game purchases.
>>553617752Chance-cringe in-game purchases?
>>553617752>Hello everybody Rex here and today we will be opening 200 missile cases, I hope we get that legendary pizza QAAM 'cause I used all of Tasha's tuition.
>>553617752
>>553608104https://youtu.be/u0w0SSn_X0w?si=l4SkoCL_71zYJnSD
>>553617752I reject your reality and substitute my own.
>>553617752Tasha used panty mystery box
>>553617752We were so worried about Belka being behind everything again that we neglected an old enemy we thought had long since died. THIRTY TICKETS
>>553617752Ok, so what are the odds that this isn't a crappy, scamming loot box system? Cause PA doesn't seem like the kind of team to do that to the same disgusting extreme as a lot of western companies do.What if this means they just took Infinity and shoved it in as the multiplayer half of the game?
>>553623662>as a lot of western companiesYeah if only they were honest and not scummy like Konami or Capcom, who never pull that shit everYou fucking retarded Yuke
>>553623662If AC8 somehow pulls a Tekken 8, I'm cutting my losses and going back to my true passion in life: alcohol-powered cynicism.God knows it feels like I'm the last holdout in the world against any sort of microtransaction peddling tacked onto a game that I already paid 60/70 eurobucks for.
>>553623662Near zero unless this is a bizarre way to describe the fuel system coming back. The only Bamco game I've played that has random items is GBO2 which is a gacha system to unlock Mobile Suits.
>>553624191I should say, that I've played recently at all.
>>553623662>What if this means they just took Infinity and shoved it in as the multiplayer half of the game?would be pretty faggy considering infinity was designed around a f2p base where whales are incentivized to drop triple digits on rng based skin drops
>>553624770Don't forget the tournaments literally being P2W
>>553624142dont worry, i'll doubledip to make up for it
>>553625141It's your cash chief, not mine. Knock yourself out.
>>553617752This probably has something to do with the co-op, I hope it doesn't leak to the singleplayer experiance.
ace combatbut as a service
I don't even play online games, let alone put my money on the computers to buy shit in 'em. That's retarded.
>>553617752My money (huehue) is on bonus skins for aeroplanes, or a mistake by the rating agency. I choose to believe.
>>553626598I think the last time I bought DLC was the AC7 missions, just cause they're pretty damn good cash value for what you get.
dropping 15 dollars on lunacy for 000 Tasha: Forma de Yuktobanian Cold War
>>553627283will tasha have an in-universe onlyfans?
>>553627851ARG advertising for the game with a real-world one
>>553588496Sure thing, I'll put it on a MEGA or Drive sometime this month. I'm a bit swamped at the moment.
>>553624191Well, I figure the one thing to point out is that this is Australia's rating system. Their government has always been phenomenally retarded when it comes to video games.>>553631170Thanks, I'll look forward to it.
Where would they go after this game because the next one in the timeline is AC4
>>553632775>the next one in the timeline is AC4The entire series is a Mobius loop all along; the next games are remakes of the PS2 games contextualized as sequels to 8 set in the 2040's.
>>553632775isnt ac4 set in 2004 and ac8 set in 2029? i dont understand the timeline...
>>553633092*Mobius-1 loop
>>553632775>>553633092>>553633156>>553633338I don't know why i thought 3 was 4
9 will be a light retcon of 3 that retains the large scale elements like the corporatocracy of Usea, the role of neuroscience in bridging the mind-body interface between fighter pilots and fighter jets while rejigging some of the extraneous details like the exact form of the electrosphere and the circumstances of the corporate war.
>>553623662>BamcoIt can be pretty goddamn bad. Ever heard about Synduality?
what if you gacha for dashboard trinkets for cockpit view
>>5536341939 will be a prequel set during a Verusan conflict that will be established during 8, which will explain how Yuktobania got so messed up to the point that they can't intervene during 8 and how Yutlobanian refugees like Tasha's family ended up in Usea. And 9 will be titled something outside the standard ordinal numbers, like Ace Combat i.
>matchmaking into an AC8 co-op lobby
I WILL join the lobbies and I WILL lag it out with my 350 ping
>>553643503kino
THE FUCK DO I DO HERE
This mission is fun as hell, even the sandstorm part.
>>553644741One of the best things 7 ever introduced was targets like gas tanks causing chain reactions.
>>553644737fly slow and by radar, the coverage isnt as big as it looks, you have plenty of space and time to maneuver
>>553644737You just fly through the gaps anon
>>553632647>Australia's rating systemThis is from the Xbox store
>hotline miami 2 banned here despite having an R rating for games>fallout 3 was censored>other games censored>lots of films bannedThe only saving grace is buying for private viewing is fine, and you can torrent anything here and they don't give a shit
i want a M rated Ace Combat
Damn, is bamco that desperate for funds, they have to monetize Ace combat of all things?Actually, do they have anything going for them except for Ace combat 8 or Code vein 2?
I'm on mission 11 and somehow Chopper has won me over
>>553631170hope it gets pinned in the thread OP
>>553652865Chopper's the best. Just wait 'til you hit November 29th in-game time.
>>553617752God fucking dammit.
I BELIEVE8 IS JUST INFINITY TURNED SIDEWAYS
An 8 is also a mobius strip...
Is any of this necessary to the actual game?
>>553656013the missions unexpected visitor, anchorhead raid, and ten million relief planthat sequence is better than the main game
>>553656013Ten Million Relief Plan, Unexpected Visitor, and Anchorhead Raid are bonus missions and some of the most fun in the series. Everything else is cool plens and new hats for cool plens. Worth it for fun and especially on sale when they go for almost nothing.
>operation supercircus is fun>post deletedTHE YUKES ARE BEHIND THIS
Plen
>>553663318
>>553617752I don't understandHow many more times do people need to sperg out against that cancer for studios and publishers to take the hintI just don't understand
>>553617752i was fully prepared to pay any price they ask for this game. 60 bucks, 70, 80, i was going to pay itnow i am fully prepared to pirate it depending on what this turns out to be. i will NOT reward evil cancerous practices with my moneyfuck off holy shit
>>553671451line must go up
>>553671451The thing about mtx is that despite all the complaints, people still buy the stuff by the shitloads.
>>553617752If this means lootboxes for stuff like skins and emblems I don't care much. If it means lootboxes for planes in the single player campaign the series is dead to me.
Steam page already has "in-game purchases" written in. Don't see what else could be other than micro-transactionsGood chance the co-op multi-player will be like Ace Combat Infinity with a separate single player campaign mode
>>553672058whalingit takes only a couple of loaded retards for mtx to be profitable
>play idolmaster on phone and gacha for idols>play ace combat on pc and gacha for idolplanes
>>553671451Fo every 1 person that bitches about loot boxes, 10 others open up their wallet
You would swipe for idolm@ster lootboxes
>>553677053I might if they put my idol on a plane. But she's very unpopular so they won't. Life's hard.
>>553650960Armored Core 6.5 will be announced at SGF but it seems 6 sold worse than AC 7 despite having From behind them.
>>553677616Comparing lifetime sales between a 2019 game and a 2023 game is silly
>>553677827It also helps that AC 7 has been on heavy sales for quite a while and Bamco gives it a discount every other week while AC 6 operates on the From sale schedule.
>>553671451>people>sperging out about microtransactionsThis hasn't happened since the last decade (quick reminder that we're currently in 2026), everyone just goes with it now.
>>553678571>2016 was 10 years agoMy bones....
So this is the price we pay to get back 5's amount of variants, not too good of a deal.
>>553678571>This hasn't happened since the last decade (quick reminder that we're currently in 2026), everyone just goes with it now.Didn't people bitch about Battlefront II so hard that the EU finally started investigating EA/telling game devs to fuck off?>Battlefront II came out in 2017Holy shit, where the fuck has the time gone
>>553684008>EU>doing anything helpful at all everchoose one
Welcome back, Infinity.
>>553678571Dragon's Dogma 2 got a pretty awful launch because of the mtx. Well it's mostly because of the bad optimization, but the whole mtx thing was one of the talking points thrown into the pile at the time.
>>553617752>Wings of Thieves
>>553684686>The whole mtx thing was one of the talking points thrown into the pile at the time.That mostly because:1. The mtx was about buying items to summon pawns, place fast travel points, items to escape dungeons etc.2. All items that you were able to get in the game with some tiny amount of effortso not only where the mtx's scummy, they were also completely useless and retarded
>>553686629Sounds like a Capcom thing, they also let you buy orbs in DMC5 for some godforsaken reason
>>553677258>my idolWhy are you like this
>>553604205https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbE89DOYLPkdidn't kobayashi make the soundtrack for some dogshit third party DCS campaign?
>>553617752What are the chances that the coop thing is actually an AC Infinity-like with lootboxes? I don't think Project Aces would do any in-game purchases for the singleplayer
>>553693091Guaranteed. Cant monetize a single player game with loot boxes or in-game purchases
>>553677053I only like Ume for her body so yes, being hard makes me game better.
>>553696949it's like being drunkjust enough distraction and mental impairment to allow you to enter ~the zone~
>>553608104My personal list>2D801st TTS AirbatsArea 88 (OVA)Sentou Yusei YukikazeMacross PlusThe Sky CrawlersThe Magnificent KotobukiPorco RossoThe Wind RisesRoyal Space Force: The Wings of HonneamiseThe Princess and the Pilot>3DThe Battle of Britain633 SquadronThose Magnificent Men In Their Flying MachinesThe Blue MaxThe RocketeerTora! Tora! Tora!MidwayMemphis BelleThe DambustersThe Final CountdownThe Right StuffTop Gun (both)Hot ShotsHell's AngelsLes Chevaliers du CielThe Red Scarf (1964)The Bridges at Toko-RiWings (1927)
>>553693091We basically just got confirmation, in the worst way possible, that infinity MP is back. At least /aceg/ teams are back on the menu.
With the social media and propaganda angle the story's taking, this would be a good opportunity for a Journey Home type mission. Could even come to find out your PR guy hired mercs like Rage and Scream to intercept you to force a dogfight over a populated area. Or do the last thing any fan would expect: have the mission literally just be a stunt flight and nothing else, with the score based on how well you keep to formation.
>>553705454>shoot down enemy fighter>it crashes downtown in the middle of a city>enemy media turns it into propaganda>you are restricted from shoot-downs over populated areas afterwards to keep from giving the enemy more media ammoSeveral missions later you just bomb the enemy propagandists directly and it all stops rather quickly.
>>553706000I have always wanted to put a JDAM through the roof of Indians who pretend to be American on Twitter all day, I'll settle for the Strangreal equivalent of that.
>>553705454>with the score based on how well you keep to formation.R I N G B A T T L E
>>553706434Me too anon, me too.
soyou think they'll do the funny in iran next
>>553706465You just know there's some Buddies out there who have been yearning for its return. And I do know because I'm one of them.>>553707284Glad we're on the same page.>>553707893I can't see them yoinking the Ayatollah, though that would be extremely funny. To me it seems like the most obvious actions the US would take if they decide to intervene in Iran would be airstrikes against IRGC riot cop barracks like what the Israelis did last year when they had air superiority over the whole country.
>>553707893Nah the real funny will be>US is blowing shit up in Iran like its Operation Praying Mantis 2.0 Super edition>Mossad sneaks in and yonks him back to Jerusalem
>>553198973Reminder that Shamrocks AI is even more crazy than Pixy>Allow SPW. Player see Shamrock firing the exact moment they are allowed.>Spams SPW as much as the player does>Give him a DLC skin that lacks SPW>Allow SPW>Shamrock summons missiles that don't exist on that plane and fires them anyway.
>>553707893no, they'll black bag the danish over a big frozen rock
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmcxDu90i84
>>553716127I haven't seen this gif in years.
>>553720519Somehow, Infinity returned.
AC7 multiplayer is filled with try hards.
Why does the sheer gall of being good at something make zoomers call you a tryhard sweat?
>>553727803AC7 multiplayer is filled??? I feel like I remember not even being able to find a lobby and that was years ago. But of course the people who stuck around are going to be really good at it, thats always a problem in small multiplayer communities. X wing multiplayer also had that problem, the 12 people still playing know how to that games equivalent of PSM and fucking teleport behind you so they scare away anybody who randomly joins.
>>553727803I was never fond of the A-10 itself but I have a soft-spot for fictional not!A-10s that show up in games sometimes.
>>553730056I rather enjoy looking at this creature because it reminds me of a frog.
>>553725083Well to be fair its kind of what many here have asked for 8's MP. Infinity with new Raid bosses of the Alicorn & the Arsenal Bird added in.
>>553730056How about when Grunder had an idea for a high speed ground attacker.
>>553732842>high speed ground attacker>A-10 engines and Tomcat wingsjej
>>553732014The superweapon raids were cool, easily the best part of Infinity. It seems possible to me we could have those again without fuel and 30 tickets, but Bamco gonna Bamco I suppose.
>>553733363You know at the time I didn't know how traumatic ejection was at the human body, now I just how short this nigga is after all those ejections.
>>553745497The Pixy duel but it's it in a massive underground burrow.
>>553745590Ace Wombat Zero: The Belkan burrows
>It's a 'Journalists and normies can't tell planes apart' episodeFucks sake.
>>553753348Ok now make sense
>>553757491Apparently having decided that the Actual War Crime of blowing up random civilian boats is not enough, some dipshit at the New York Times is trying to claim that an aircraft disguised as a civilian plane was used to do it, citing a supposed eyewitness testimony. The description is shaky at best, going so far as to claim that the weapons were (gasp) hidden inside the fuselage to disguise its purpose until it was too late, because apparently internal weapons bays are illegal now.The context points to only one possible cause: the P-8 Poseidon, the US's premier maritime patrol aircraft, based on a modified version of the Boeing 737's chassis. Some fucking civilian saw a plane that looked kinda like the airliner they took to visit their grandpa once and immediately assumed it was perfidy. There is a claim that the plane was painted to resemble an airliner, but zero evidence for this has ever been provided, which is pretty sus given that every dipshit has a camera in his pocket nowadays. The state-sanctioned murder on the high seas is the problem and trying to muddle it with this easily disproven bullshit is only harmful to the cause.
>>553758365>NYT being retardsno surprise there
>>553758365>New York TimesFound the problem
I'm sorry about dumping this on a thread about Ace Combat specifically, but I've been going down a bizarre plane-related rabbit hole for the past hour or so. More specifically, I've been trying to find out more about Mongolia's apparent use of Su-30SMs in their air force, as according to Wikipedia they started receiving them in March of 2019 with 4 delivered, complete with referencing a 600 billion USD deal with Russia.I thought it'd be cool and interesting to have at least one image of a Mongolian Flanker to share here whenever things slow down.However,>Image search brings up zero photographs on the internet of Mongolian Flankers>The news article that Wikipedia references in regards to Mongolia receiving Su-30SMs uses wallpaper art of a Flanker with Russian markings edited to have Mongolian markings>The news article is only a small handful of lines long and written entirely in broken-to-shit English>The Su-30 article on Wikipedia has a section for Mongolia under Operational History but the text is a blatant copy-paste of the exact same text that is on the news article, complete with utterly incomprehensible sentence structuring.>Flight International's 2025 World Air Forces almanac referenced just under the news article lists them as only having MiG-29s>The Mongolian Armed Forces website's brief history of the Air Force only mentions that they received MiG-29s from Russia in November of 2019: zero mention of receiving any FlankersWHERE DID THESE COME FROMWHERE ARE THE TOP-SECRET MONGOLIAN FLANKERS HIDING?ARE THEY IN FINLAND?
>>553710896I'm playing ac6 right now and I don't see any way to control wingman special weapon usage
>>553760374>ChecksOh thats right its just attack and cover selecting attack allows his SPW use and its normally the first weapon he'll use.Been a while since I played 6
>>553758916Unfortunately that sounds like a good example of why your high school English told you Wikipedia isn't a source: because the fucktards editing these articles make mistakes all the goddamn time. And that's when they aren't being actively malicious like they are with Gamergate articles or current events.
Also I searched 'mongolian air force su-30sm' and one of the links is this.https://www.flickr.com/photos/kurtsmocs/13188083834Look at the dates on the picture. Seems the Mongols got their hands on the sekrit dokuments that unlock Flanker-chan's reality warping abilities.
>>553758916They don't exist, never did never willYour first clue should be a $600 billion deal they don't even have that much money. That is almost 10 times the yearly GDP for them. Add on they are fully on board with China not Russia.
>>553762352>$600 billion dealI misread, Wikipedia states it as 600 million (but only on the Su-30 article, there's no mention of it at all on the Mongolian Air Force article.)Oh well, them not existing makes sense nonetheless. It always irks me when I stumble upon stuff like this on Wikipedia, 'cause I've seen correction edits get reversed constantly on the site for the most banal of reasons sometimes.
THUS IS THE NAIADWE'VE STRUCK A MINE
Interestingly enough, if you look at the Wikipedia pages for the Mongol airforce and the Su-30 on Mongolian Wikipedia there's no mention of this deal nor any Flankers in use. There their only listed fighters being 6 Mig-29s. I'm genuinely convinced it's either some schizo or planted disinfo meant to make BEAR LOOK STRONG by claiming more production/international sales.
I ate the Flankers sorryWas 'ungry
THUS IS FALCON ONEI ALWAYS WANNA'D FLY WITH YEWMUH SONS A BIG FAHN OF YERSWHELL, ME TOO
when's theve huh
>>553769534PA's answer to the mtx allegations in AC8
So what's the purpose of Su-30? Conversion trainer?
Is 6 worth playing? I heard the story was cringe nonsense even for AC standards, but if the game is fun
>>553775520You like large scale battle with multiple advancing objectives, each providing buff to you when they're completed?
>>553775520It's probably the best one in the series mechanically. Operations add replayability to the missions and Allied Squads makes it feel like an actual war.I don't know if you can get the Ace of Aces DLC but that was fun too.
>>553777806Sounds fun to me
>>553775216Two-seat multirole modernization of the Su-27 based on the Su-27UB trainer.
CHOPPER NOOOOOOOOOO
>>553779369So Strike Eagle counterpart in theory?
>>553787654Nah, that's the Su-34 Fullback.
>>553617752Someone explain to me how Infinity worked.
>>553792728.........Trigger is differentEver notice how the glow planes light will reflect off other planes?
>>553795040You fly with fuel as energy. Buy fuel to fly more. Like gacha games or old style game that requires energy to do anything
>>553775520Taking back Gracemeria is always fun, cheesy story or not.
Da Boyz
>>553775520Yes
>>553795040The only relevant part is that it had a real fucked up upgrade system involving loot boxes.
Are there any news on this? I remember waiting for this for a long while and then forgetting about it. Thing should've released over a year ago iirc
>>553825000Has FAN said anything? It's actually HIS thing, I figure the hiccups in production either come from him or whatever company he's using for the "animated" parts.
>>553775216Strictly speaking the first Su-30 (Su-27PU) was actually an interceptor, they functioned as datalink hubs to coordinate other aircraft. The first multirole Su-30 was the Su-30MK. >Conversion trainer?For the original flanker production, that would be the Su-27UB.
>>553825000Just assume its vaporware at this point, hope you didn't put anything down in its kickstarter.
10? How fast we fall back to the old ways
>>553830419So something like the T-72K, it's meant to be a commander type aircraft?
Is there a known fix for these unholy triangles?
Japan should've painted their F-35s in maritime camo.
>>553846924Yes, download an updated version of xenia and use a patch that has a name similar to fix ac6's ground triangle problem.
>>553846947Special RAM paint color wasn't in the budget
>>553825000>project wingman without the game part
>>553846947Why? It's so fucking ugly that it would've been better to leave them unpainted.
>>553853786LEWD
>>553853786r00d and wrongThe JASDF camo is pure sex
>>553855191It's sex alright, but not pure, it's the disgusting one involving scat and big hairy men, that F-4 has been maimed in the process of painting it, transforming it into an ugly monstrosity.
>>553854440
>>553855650>it's the disgusting one involving scat and big hairy menI'm glad I consulted the expert on such topics.
>>553858582I know I would
Plens?
>>553859963Yes? What about them?
Has stealth done anything for the player in any of the games outside PvP?
>>553861617I like them
>>553861947The datasheet in the OP says that it reduces NPC engagement distance in AC7, check the pastebin under "resources".
PROJECT ACESPUT GOTTA STAY FLY IN ACE COMBAT 8 AND MY COCK AND BALLS ARE YOURS
>>553866587I see your Gotta Stay Fly and raise you one Gravity.
Really? A fucking X2 celebration?
>X2Yuck.Well... at least there's finally official OSTs for X and X2 with proper names, now?
Am I missing anything by emulating, therefore missing out on the pressure sensitive throttle, or not really?
>>553866587For me it's Comona
>>553869668Shoulder throttle was the most retarded decision PA ever made and just as a reminder they developed Ace Combat 3.
>>553869668not reallyi use triggers for throttle anyways, remapping them in emulators makes the pressure sensitivity register
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58FWafzspfAFuck I forgot how good some of these are. Shame it's wasted on, you know, X2.
>>553869981shoulder throttle, trigger yawits the only way to play
>>553871938I haven't needed a half yaw in my life.
>>553617752ENTER
>>553873617nugget response
>>553870398>This video is unavailablehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iIcHYfqhhASo what was the difference?
Buddymaxxing
>>553868930We knew it was going to happen just look at the pin set to see whats left.
>>553878716>6 months until Ace Combat 8 releasesCan someone tell Kono to hurry it up? I believe I'm gonna be very busy around that time.
>>553878943we're gonna get actual gameplay videos and more staff interviews soon-ish at least
>>553878716>assault horizonEww.
>>553878943How do you know its 6 months and Kono planetism keeps him doing clean up work to the game and its a November release?
>>553880189theres a certain other videogame releasing in november this year...
>>553880518Elder Scrolls 6?
>>553880518The highly anticipated Deus Ex remaster?
>>553879636Look if this whole affair results in an official release of the AH soundtrack I'm a happy man.
>>553881029Is it really that anticipated?I thought it looked naff when the announcement trailer dropped.
>>553881547Of course it is. Everyone loves Deus Ex and there was nothing but positive reception towards the remaster.
think less of the people who use that hideous giant box lock on HUD mod desu
>>553881505It doesn't already? I swear it does.
>>553889534Streaming release, I should say.
>>553893039Okay, yeah, that'd be based.GOTTA STAY FLYGOTTA STAY STRONG
>Garuda 2, engaging!>Windhover, engaging!>Skykid, engaging!>Avalanche, engaging!>THIS IS CAPTAIN FORD OF THE MARIGOLD, THE FLEET WILL NOW FOCUS ON SUPPORTING YOU.
will AC8 have the new Japanese aircraft carrier as enemy unit?
>>553898293More likely to be a friendly if it does show up, like the P-1s in the last DLC mission in 7.
BRVRVRVRVRVRVRVRVRVRRRRRRRRRRVVVVVVVVVVVVVRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
>>553879636say what you will about the rest of the game, it's a good soundtrack
>>553899175They did put the older Hatakaze-class as enemy in the good old days, but the current government might not see it in a positive way, true
>>553688348Considering Dr Faust is a thing in 5, sounds like a P2W system.
>>553817909It didn't have lootboxes. You got a random item at the end of each game you played but that was it. That's not a lootbox, it's a random drop. The random drops weren't involved with upgrading planes either, aside from having a chance to drop credits sometimes. But the vast majority of your credits would come as mission rewards.The fucked up thing was simply that the game was incredibly grindy. An average game on hard would get you like 30000 credits if you did very well, while getting a mid high tier plane to max level cost around 70 million. There were raids and event mission types (naval/ring dm) which paid out a lot more, and there were 12 hour double credit boosters you could use too, but it was still very grindy even with that. Really really grindy game.Yeah I was a retard who played that game far too much if that wasn't obvious.
>>553906075I guess you could buy a big orb booster pack just to pull a single Faust super move out of your ass if you want to nuke a boss, sure
bros...
>>553898293I'm sure it'll show up might an FCU carrier might be a carrier for another USEA nation.>Still expecting to see a quick appearance from Scarface showing up in a Ford class for a mission
Nicehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpqnAnHlWyEhttps://www.nexusmods.com/acecombat7skiesunknown/mods/3456https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nHdYa0Ev4Qhttps://www.nexusmods.com/acecombat7skiesunknown/mods/3457
Well that was unexpected, Its a bit windy today but still>Windy enough for larger birds to have a bit of trouble staying in normal search patterns while they look for food.>Watches a Hawk PSM as he tries to maintain his search pattern>He PSM a second time before breaking of search and heading to a new location.Birds man, they be doing crazy shit in 26
