Fission Mailed EditionThread Theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIGkEzkaKOwPrevious Mission:>>555356720https://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/ykPhc6hnMisc 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 [Open]>/aceg/ Permalinkhttp://orph.link/acegBECAUSE IT BEARS REPEATING:>Skill and guts are required here>Be a buddy, not a border>All planes are beautiful dreams>DELAY THE FINAL ATTACKFAQ>Has the Project Wingman update dropped yet?Haha...??>Is there any AC8 news yet?YES! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQYx_867ua0 [Open]>Has a PS2 trilogy remake been announced yet?No.
post invisible jets
>>556638578Amazing one of these ever got shot down when you can't even see the damn thing.
>>556638578
So I just tried the Aurora mod in AC7. Holy shit.
>>556634351Can’t wait for AC8’s release. Surely it will release in the first half of the year, because the casual audience that wants to fly planes would just wait for GTA 6 otherwise
>>556646293<<DELAY THE FINAL RELEASE!>>
Realistically how long do I have left until AC8 releases to bleed my finances dry and buy some DDR5?
>>55664733115 years
I hope AC8 includes the toilet bomb special weapon.
The chances of getting dropkilled by a Hawker Hurricane are low, but not zero.
>>556638578<<It's glowing and translucent like some kind of jellyfish.>>
>>556647331They said “soon”, this was a couple weeks ago. I’m gonna say another 2 to 3 months. Have faith in the plen gods.
>>556647331My best guess is not before June at the earliest.
>>556666257I wanted to like that series so bad. I just can’t get into it. I’ve played and completed 2 and 3 but it just doesn’t click. I’m a nugget on very easy and still.
>>556675683Because of the gameplay or the story?
>>556647331probably inbtween may-july
>>556648349It most likely wont but it is available in the popular MMO War Thunder.
>>556648349you want the drone missiles back? why?
All I'm missing for my AC7 trophies now is the one for flying in campaign a bunch and playing 50 matches of each multiplayer mode. Might renew my PS Plus sub just to get those done and fuck around with boomer planes, I never realized it till I was replaying 7 but the F-104 is really fun. The rockets fucking, I wish I they were individually fired instead of in one salvo on target, but the other two missiled are fun. Running it with SAAM's is essentially using it the exact way it was intended as a high altitude inteeceptor. I hope it's back for 8 alongside some other planes from its time period.Also I fucking hate Faceless Soldier and honestly I think I might hate Bunker Buster too. The latter isn't bad unless you're trying for an S rank but Faceless Soldier is just unfun no matter what.
>>556690352*fucking suckI supposs they have a niche use against thingd like ships and other high health ground targets, but I prefer the dumb rockets so I can vaporize a big bunch of targets.
>>556690352>Faceless SoldierI bitched about it a lot a thread or two ago but I do like it as a story mission. It's classic Spare Squadron working above their paygrade doing some important and difficult shit, escalating into needing to punch above their weight as they become the first to encounter Erusean IFF-spoofing drones AND Helios Burst Missiles. No matter how many times I see Spare stick with Trigger it puts a smile on my face, and Bandog making on the spot decisions like giving Spare weapons/authorizing repair lines/eliminating Full Band's loose lipped ass really makes me appreciate him. Gameplay wise it's not too difficult to zoom and boom the radar sites to get through the mission.On the flipside, FUCK doing Faceless Soldier for the S-Rank or the ace scheme. Genuinely infuriating.
We begin work on another! I think this one would come across very familiar to those who've played a certain blockbuster videogame franchise.
>>556680606I’m generally bad at the gameplay, but MGS3 was infuriating and embarrassing for both. I really liked 2s story and it’s correct length. But meeting Emma was… also really embarrassing.
>>556692173Don't get me wrong I love it as a narrative piece but God I cannot stand the level design. I find it's particular gimmick annoying and I'm really bad at flying so I bump into the mountains a lot lol>>556695662Honestly I just kinda assumed that since take AC and MGS take the pic related approach to writing that they'd appeal to people in the same way. Gotta say though with 2 I still don't know how I feel about, I absolutely love Raiden's character arc and the message of the game, but I find the actual story is not that appealing to me. Plus there's some fuckass early 2000's localization bullshit going on with the story too, the head localizer admitted she essentially rewrote much of the dialogue because Kojima can't write for shit. While that is true to an extent, that's not your fucking job you absolute bitch. So now it makes me wonder if the story I played was as intended, same with MGS1. Admittedly some of it is hipsterism though because 2's story is jerked off endlessly and I don't think it's entirely deserved, but gameplay wise I still think 2 is my favorite. It's so tightly wound and the Big Shell is just a fantastic location for a stealth action game.
>>556693584Well shit that's unexpected. Games that aren't focused on planes but still include have such weird depictions of them, you could get a lot of ideas from COD or Battlefield planes. There's also a desert camo livery for it and in some shots this livery has kill tallies and an emblem on the nose.
>>556697623We're planning to release the skin as a pack of three Bad Guy Fulcrums!
Should I play Armored Core 6 while I wait for AC8? Does it scratch the same itch?
>>556697623I'll never forget how the GDI campaign on the original CnC for some reason had a NOD YF-22 with kill tallies and a desert camo get shot down during a cutscene.
>>556698125Based beyond all comprehension. >>556698437Guess Nod set their radars to W for Wumbo.
>>556698437>>556698769https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDYuGgF7uBs Found the cutscene, to this day I still don't understand GDI's fighter, it's not an Orca, an A-10 or an F/A-18C as those appear on different cutscenes.
>>556698335If you like big robots go for it, if you don't, don't
>>556640442HOW DOES THIS WORK!?
>>556697235NTA but I love Ace Combat. But utterly hate MGS from both a narrative and gameplay perspective. I've never gotten why the internet seemingly sucks of Kojima's rather shit writing so hard. Maybe it's Evangelion all over again.
>>556698335It's the closest thing that could feel like Ace Combat without planes honestlyI recently played it and enjoyed it very much
>>556695662Different anon but the problem I had was making the dumb decision of playing MGS3 before MGS2.MGS3 genuinely clicked for me and I found about 90% of it fun to play (that last-second Eva escort section was ass and made me lose both my patience and my tranq-only run) and I eventually replayed and beat it on European Extreme.I played MGS2 some time after my first run of MGS3 and quickly realized what a shitter I am at stealth games and how much I relied on the camo index to tell whether or not enemies could actually see me.In regards to the story, a lot of people try and waffle on about how 5deep6me Video Game Auteur™ Kojima's writing is, but fact of the matter is that MGS is ultimately the product of a nerd from Japan who grew up on schlocky Hollywood action movies wanting to distill decades of schlock into a video game. Once I squared that away, I ended up enjoying the ride for at least the first 3 games and Peace Walker.I think 4 and 5 is where it goes off the rails considering every successive game since 3 was intended to be the last in the series.
I don't know how you people are so optimistic about the release date. To me, given the fact that they haven't even uploaded a single gameplay trailer, makes me think the release is coming in late 2026, if it even releases this year at all, I wouldn't be surprised if it got delayed honestly.
>>556718138theres gameplay footage in the announcement trailer, the brand director is constantly tweeting about bugfix checks which implies to me that the game is basically content complete, bamco sent out a survey to fans about what they'd like to see in the next info drop, there's no way in hell they're going to release it near GTAVI, they've been working on it full send since 2021, the game engine they're working on is an iteration on the game engine they used for 7 and is also basically industry standard by now, the dev team is no longer sweating bullets on whether their game will be cancelled by their publisher on a day by day basis, they're no longer split on working on a VR segment that sucks up precious resources and time.
New At Skies' Edge demo soon, buddies, Comic Anon is cooking some awesome shit.https://x.com/mackerelskydev/status/2020451210772230619
>>556697623the tail emblem kinda looks like the one al-assad's army usedits probably the same reused mig model from cod4
Wonder if the "I'll target his wings" line from the trailer is another hint at more granular damage system.
>>556727823The line is "Our lone target is Wings" as in The Wings of Theve. He's telling his squadron to gank Rex, It's presumably how he dies.
China is trying to build an arsenal birdhttps://x.com/Currentreport1/status/2020016182682874215
>>556697235I thought mgs2 had a good story and it was entertaining at the very end. But I do think it’s overhyped kind of like ac4s story. That being said I did truly enjoy mgs2 despite being terrible at it. Then when I played 3 after that, I just lost it. It was only through sheer anger disappointment and reluctance that I was able to get through Kojimas-then magnum opus of a Japanese nerd kids wet dream. But I can appreciate how well it was designed and how it pushed the hardware to the absolute limit. I should try to actually complete mgs1 one day.>>556713381You are absolutely right brother. But good on you for doing a Euro Extreme run. That takes guts skill and patience.
>>556718138Absolutely not buddy. The game is basically done, Project Aces is just doing their fine tooth comb level of autism to get it just right for us. I’m thinking another trailer in 1 to 2 months from now. And that trailer will have the release date this summer and CERTAINLY before Rockstar in the holiday season.
>>556718138for all intents and purposes the game is done, it's in the polishing states right now, its gonna come out during april or may, june at the latestthey wouldn't go out of their way to remaster 0 for all systems if 8 had issues
>>556733943>bottom hog gets targeted immediately and all countermeasures (chaff, flares, evasive maneuvers) fail hard>other three basically have no time to react as the hornet lobs three missiles at them on the merge>hornet's flight path makes it look like the hogs didn't even count as a sideshow for it as it moves towards its main objectiveHoly shit.
>>556733943>Retard 1-1 SpreyKek
Most of my deaths in Ace Combat come from me slamming into the terrain.
>>556728591It sounds ike he said "Our LOW target is Wings" but I agree he's talking about ganking Rex
>>556721726Holy mother of Kino.
You guys ever try out RetroAchievements
>>556763797I just wish they'd incorporate an offline mode, Making an account and having a constant internet connection is just a bit of a turn-off for me.
>>556695662MGS3 having the M-21 and D-21 to drop off Snake is awesome, ngl
>>556763797cheevohunting always struck me as one of the more cattlebrained aspects of gayming ngl desu desu
terrain
>>556786061I need a GPWS alarm to go off whenever im about to post some stupid shit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1NNYTzAIpU>second B-1 flies over the stadium with afterburners onThis is the only part of the Super Bowl that I ever care about. Fucking glorious flyover.
>X2 ost official release in HQ>they didn't put the short orchestral rearrange of In The Zone in itBig sad
>>556791830Such a cursed life that the music of X2 has had, being drip-fed to us in bits and pieces across multiple albums and reused in another gameyet we still don't have the full picture.My personal white whale is the cutscene music in 5 for the Arkbird while Mr. Journalist is remarking "it was too late by then".
>>556698769Your kill marks, sire!
>>556768476I assume those are helicopters? I know in 3 they had the whole human delivery (lol death stranding) system for inserting agents.
>>556807110Nope, M-21 is referring to a Blackbird that served as a mothership for the D-21 drone. In 3 the D-21 is instead essentially a drop pod that Snake rides in to begin Operation Snake Eater.
>>556786610is there any sport in america that's still about the actual sport rather than half time shows and pregame shows and off-court drama and memes and hollow spectacle?
>>556809291Baseball. Or at least that other crap is far easier to ignore compared to handegg. Then again baseball is the only sport I actively like.
>>556809291Usually the meme is that plenty of non-sportsball normalfags watch the bowl for the ads/halftime show, but this year's halftime was pretty forgettable (I guess the camerawork at the beginning with the sugarcane was neat) and most of the ads were for AI services and had soulless writing. The game itself was also a bit of a drag since defense isn't exciting to watch, but the Pats getting shut down so incredibly hard was funny. Seahawk kicker got fucking robbed out of MVP title though, he scored more points by himself than the Patriots did in total.
>>556809291Golf comes to mind, but I'm not 100% sure.
>>556810935>normalfags watch the bowl for the adsthis will never stop boggling my mindpeople watching something specifically for the ads, it's so fucking dystopian, how fucking brainwashed into a bootlicker of corporate evil can a person be
>>556721726>>556732478>>556733943I'll believe it when I see it, at this point I'm too used to games being announced and then having to wait years before the actual release. If it does end up releasing in a few months I'll genuinely be surprised.
>>556812504Part of it was hipster-y jokes by non sport watchers who were unable to appreciate watching two teams of athletes perform at the highest level, part of it was that ads in the past tried to be interesting. It costs millions to get a spot during the ol' superb owl, so it a way it was the ad agencies' championship night as they tried to leave the strongest impression on viewers. Apparently the Big Brother Mac commercial was first on the superbowl. So I guess I kinda get it, it's kinda like people watching CES/E3 (rip) coverage or tuning in to TGA for the trailers.Literally fucking no ads were even remotely interesting in this one. It felt like another place where AI fags were wasting money and intruding in for no good reason. Really terrible when all I wanted was to watch people play a fucking sport.
>>556829925AHHH PULL UP I FORGOT TO BUMP
>>556835378I guess it's not due to them clearly doing it but isn't it dangerous to drive in police chase distances behind a jet aircraft?
>>556836737it's the chase car for the landing procedure because the U-2's bicycle landing gear is comically small relative to the plane's fuck-huge aspect ratiobasically the car's there to tell the pilot if his landing approach is solid, this one just happened to have a cameraman inside of it
Fuckin sick
Should I buy AC7 now that it's on sale? I've never played an Ace Combat game, and the only other flying game I've played is War Thunder.
>>556846862It's like 5bux.You probably spend more on Premiums in WarThunder or for Gold Lions to unlock things now
>>556846862Yeah, it was made to be a good entry point to the series for new players.Make sure to use expert controls.
>>556841924I like that the proliferation of drones cheapo suicide drones has made guns relevant again, if only because a 20mm burst is cheaper than a Sidewinder.
>>556776945I'm acquainted with 3 different guys who are into achievements and each one is his own flavor of retarded.
>>556846862If you're human then sure, if you're a swedetranny stay away.
Do you people think the AC0 remake is real
>>556852790Yea Gun-based SHORAD's getting more life beyond point defense for Missiles and maybe mortars now.Although the question becomes what gun to use as well you got big drones where regular 20-35mm AA Guns are fine but then the small fucks where .50 cal or even 7.62 might be sufficient as a flyswatter.Although with a lot of these large Shahed drone what's the difference between them and say a Cruise Missile at this point.Beyond the fact that no one's considered them as a nuclear strike platform
>>556860125>AC0 remakeNo>AC0 portpossibly
>>556860145I believe something like AHEAD is still ideal for a Shahed type loitering munition. Making each round smart may seem more expensive at first, but you're probably saving money in the long run by having a better hit and kill probability across the front, even with compared to something cheap like dumb .50 rounds. 30mm AHEAD is ~1000 USD a round, that's pretty good for a smart round. Keep in mind these loitering munitions are only going to get faster, smarter, and fly higher as time goes on. That's gonna severely reduce the effectiveness of dumb rounds.As for FPV's, a 7.62 on a RWS should be sufficient. Those Ratshot rounds that are coming out of the Slavic Slapfight, combined with optical tracking, should be pretty effective.
>>556862043Still funny how TV guided missile+Wire Guidance has come back into fashion with how Fiber Optic drones are getting so much mileage due to ECM no-go zones where other drones go stupid once they enter.But the current appeal of loitering munitions right now is relatively low costs. Making them more survivable or faster and smarter tends to have the issue of their costs starting to rapidly increase. The McShahed's already a good deal more expensive even if it's more capable of being retargeted and data-linking. Not up to full size Tomahawk costs yet but a full sized cruise missile got that advantage of being launched from HolyFuckFarAway still at least.
>>556822176The game has been "announced" as a project in development since 2021 broski.
>>556868823You know I wonder if the Chinese or Americans have considered that pursuing options such as these just makes container vessels arguably valid targets for engagement.
>>556868823>>556870074Also I know the American effort is primarily focused on giving the new frigates more weapon options, but China's very openly displaying these fucking things on normal cargo vessels and we're absolutely taking notes from that.
>>556870074they were sinking merchant marine vessels in ww2 for funsies
>>556870074>>556870456Supposedly these containerized systems are for compatibility with industry standard logistics equipment. Whether or not you believe that to be true is up to you, there's every reason to believe that's a cover.
>>556871008Obviously, in a case of actual open war merchant vessels are just free targets, but in the context of this gayass Cold War 2(arguably not even a sequel but the same Cold War in a new phase), it seems like a really bad idea and pushing the envelope of what it takes for a country to actually declare war. >>556871381I don't think it's a coverup so much as both statements can be true. Militaries always keep an eye on things like this, laws of war be damned because no one actually cares about that shit when bullets and bombs start flying.
>>556821046latest Su-57 update gives it IR based missile approach warning system
>>556872664Neat
>>556808860Oh yeah those. It didn’t register to me when you mentioned their aircraft designations. I just figured it was a fictional aircraft. Yes it was cool.
>>556840831Is U-2 the plane that required stalling to land since its wings is too glider like
>>556883703pretty muchonce the plane's two feet off the ground the pilot initiates a stall to hit the ground (anything over than two feet and the landing gear's toast)the wingtips are also reinforced with titanium because they 100% expect the thing to keel over onto one of its sides once it hits the ground.
>>556885724>once the plane's two feet off the ground the pilot initiates a stall to hit the ground (anything over than two feet and the landing gear's toast)>the wingtips are also reinforced with titanium because they 100% expect the thing to keel over onto one of its sides once it hits the ground.what compels a someone to design a plane like this?
>>556884997I can't decide if I like the Felon's camo livery or not. On the one hand it's better that Air Superiority Gray, but it's not as cool to me as the camos Flankers usually have.
>>556886614Mission design specifications that require strict adherence. Landing and taking off is an annoyance and not a priority for the U2.
>>556886614well cocaine and the fact it was made in the cold war would explain it
>>556886614Coffin Corner aerodynamics. You don't fly at extreme altitudes without maximizing lift and minimizing every last bit of unnecessary weight out of the design.
>>556860125Remake? No. Emulated port? Absolutely, they already did AC5 years ago.
>>556884997>>556872664More differences spotted.
Plane
>>556914652In this economy?????
>>556886614if you want your plane to cruise at twice the altitude everything else cruises at you have to make some sacrifices
>>556841924>Mission 2 Charge the Enemy.webm
>>556868369I guess but I meant more like, the first trailer drops, then it takes years before the actual release.
I do wonder why they haven't revealed the specs yet though, I assume it's because they're still polishing/optimizing stuff, so current performance doesn't reflect the end product.
>>556822176>>556939359The post says that you're getting soon is a demo showcasing the latest features added by the dev, not the full game
>>556941039If you mean the at skies edge thing, that was me replying to the wrong post, ignore it.
>>556688269The logistic company that dabbles in war as a hobby has gone to work.>When other nations see this they shit themselves in fear
>>556721726Damn, this is shaping up goodA nice large scale beach landing very good Comic
>>556841924When the war is over I am looking forward to see how huge F-16's drone kill count is
>>556946449I doubt there are statistics but I really want to know how many drones have been eliminated by dudes with shotguns. It's wild living in a world where birdshot may have genuinely practical military applications.
>>556949350They exist even ground units are getting in on paining kills on your vehicle. No one has tallied up the grand total but most units are keeping score cards. Just from the pictures we've seen of AD units where half the vehicle is covered in drone kill marks.>birdshot may have genuinely practical military applicationsBeen a thing since WWI. Shotguns exist, messenger birds were in use
X-59 must really be onto something when she gets her own personal F-15 chase plane.https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/nasa-adds-two-f-15-aircraft-to-support-supersonic-flight-research/
>>556906745I thought it was in serial production or is what we're seeing Su-57-1 as the -1 designation means it's a pre-mass production thing.>>556944353Sadly the US is neglecting those as they're not "WARFIGHTER" type things. And the US has been really living on Cold War stocks of missiles for too long and really needs to do a huge order of missiles to resupply considering how many they're throwing at random shit in the Middle East and South America.
>>556967213It is in serial production they build like 1 or 2 a year. This year might be none as several of the factories that make parts for it have had spontaneous combustion by drone during 25Yeah don't get me started on what that drunk in the pentagon has been doing for the past year
>>556949350I think the most batshit thing to come out of the anti-drone arms race is this fucking Tier 1 RTS unit ass missile buggy. They're shooting down drones with Hellfires over there, shit's nutty.
>>556968760>WE HAVE AP ROCKETS NOW
>>556969221I couldn't remember which CnC game had a unit like this but it's what I was thinking of lol
>>556968760Is that not an anti-tank solution? I thought VAMPIRE was the GBAD truck.
>>556963490>low boom flight demonstratorCould we see her make a comeback?
>>556970023Ukraine's air force released a sort of year in review video that features this Tempest buggy and an interview with the crew of one. They explicitly say they're mostly using them to down drones. Not to mention the company making them markets them equipped with Hellfire Longbows which are fire and forget radar guided variants.
I respect the autism at least
>>556971007If it works out it might get a chance to come back.
>>556971007That is the plan if you can remove the noise supersonic passenger jets can go anywhere in the world. BOOM the company has a concept for what they want to make when the X-59 proves this idea can and does work.Which is just a Concorde with a future look to it
>>556968760>>556971641I suspect Kono has some fun surprises in store for us in 8 We might want to pay closer attention to the ground units we blow up across the game.
Belkans....
>>556971007>>556975839>>556977390concorde wasn't killed only because sonic booms annoyed people, it was also monstrously expensive to keep in servicethe new mach 2 airliner needs to be efficient too, not just quiet
>>556981950They didn't nuke those 7 cities to stop the Allies from invading, they did it to cover up their horrendous civic planning mistakes.
>>556981950You can't fool meThis is Erusea
>>556983374This is the Belkan witchcraft that General Labarthe was rambling about.
>>556982195I mean with modern engines it should be able to run better especially with how X-59 looks to be rigging up for that augmented reality to look through some of the plane it might not need that goofy droop the snoot mode
>>556982195Yes but she was the product of late 60's early 70's tech a lot has changed since then cost should be much smaller
Calling aircraft she is extremely gay
>>556989885it is anglo tradition to refer to machinery in the feminine.
>>556990215OkayIt being tradition doesn't make it less lame
>>556989885>>556990759>wanting to be inside a big, hulking, masculine-pronouned aircraftI think mayhaps you're the gay one here. But if you ever want something to blame for x thing being gay, you can always blame the Greeks.>airforce craft stealing culture/tradition from the navy (among many others)>modern navies inspired by the britbong navy>britbongs inspired by the romans >romans inspired by ancient greeks>ancient greeks heavily influenced by the athenians for their naval customs>athenians seemingly thought of their ships as female it probably goes back further but who knows>greeks were also just the gayest
whats the elden ring of ace combat games
I wonder if the hover truck will return again?
patiently awaiting navalludokino in 8
I want to take off from a ski-ramp in 8
>>557001084you get taking off a Essex-class carrier instead of the poverty ramp
>>557005379Being such a small carrier I just wonder how easy its going to be to over shoot your landing with a Hornet and fall into the ocean.
>>557008003imagine if the arrestor hook wires are actually depicted ingame
>>556982980Letting those yellow target houses remain standing was the real warcrime.
>>557008003#Landingfail#TakingaswimThe social media tag, I assume
>>557013292It ends with a picture of your team in swimsuits sitting on the plane that was refloated by balloons
>>557018243back when I'm still a little innocent, I thought the Prowler actually carried nuclear material on its nose
>>557018243I miss when Navy plens were blue and Army plens were green.
Say it.
>>557026332alright: eurodoritos are ugly and gay shit for retards
>>557026332would
>>557026332Buy Gripen!
>>557010624>>557013292>>557015510Something tells me you buddies will get close to what you bargained for.
I really love Zero's plane roster, lots of fun low tier planes and the mid/high tier planes are really well balanced.
>>557032874I enjoy how the presence of the fun low tiers enables the F-16 to be the solid performer that it should be, unlike in 7. I will always be mad.
>>557032874F-1, Draken and what else for starter? Was it F-5E?
>>557037519In my playthrough the plane that really surprised me is the F/A-18C, I usually ignore it because I find it's loadputs boring or because the Super Hornets are objectively better, but it's got a great Sp.W selection and flies great. I should try the F-16 as well, haven't gotten a chance to. I feel like the Viper really suffers from the presence of the parts system oddly enough, it seems like the other shitplanes get more benefits than it does.>>557039262Yeah it was the F-5. It's definitely the weakest of the 3 power wise but it's still a maneuverable little shit.
Bump.
>>557029338
>>557018379Now what?
RIP FCAShttps://www.politico.eu/article/france-germany-next-generation-fighter-jet-project-collapse/
>>557058439>an official familiar with macron's thinking says it's dead>macron says it's not deadAah... the French...
>>557058439>germany finds out the french are annoying cunts you don't want to work withyou'd think the eurofighter program would have been enough of an eye opener
>>557058439These petty squabbles annoy me. A true united European fighter program has always had the potential to be fantastic. Several European countries excel in one aspect of fighter design but we're so obsessed with getting in each others way that we can't realise that potential. This is why those schizos shouldn't worry about a Federated Europe. We can't agree on fucking anything to save our lives, it wouldn't last a day.
>>557058439What? Your telling me the French did a France moment and no one is shocked that they pulled this shit a 2nd time in a row. France gets a successor to Rafale while the Germans and Spanish can either beg the Brits to let them in or just keep buying F-35 and help fund LM plan to to make a Super F-35
>>557060921>France gets a successor to RafaleWhich also gets shat on by chink dollar store jets lol
>>557059709I am Macron...I am president of a country that has a high-performance next-generation fighter jet project...
>>557062063I don't blame the plane I blame the pilots. Much like Saudi pilots they are equally incompetent and useless in the air.
>>557058439>franco-german project shits the bedI am shocked!Now we'll just need to wait for the MGCS to be cancelled tooActually, why won't anyone team up with swedes to produce the next great SAAB plane?
>>557070563>MGCSProject launched 2017Earliest date for completion is 2045HAHA snails move faster than this yeah it'll go nowhere.As for SAAB have they even mentioned or thought about a new plane?
>>557070563SAAB is supposedly sharing test data with the Tempest project. Nothing on an actual Gripen successor though.
>>557073298There were basic scale model tests under the Generic Future Fighter moniker that resembles concepts laid out as part of Flygsystem 2020, but last I checked that whole thing was still firmly in the 'concept art and Powerpoint presentations' phase.Plus it seems right now they're more interested in UCAVs and Gripen integration.
>>557058439>Dassault and Airbus fighting each other over who should lead the projectLol. Well hopefully GCAP works out better. >>557060628Nah BRO you don't get it BRO, Europe's gonna get off America's tit anyday and make their own 6th-gen fighter BRO, EUROPE STRONK.>>557074329Aww it's kinda adorable. Honestly them focusing on Gripen shilling and UCAVs makes a lot of sense for now, pretty much all of these 6th-gen fighters aren't even ready for proper 1:1 flight testing yet. Plus if they can have some tech for drone wingmen ready they could add them onto existing 6th-gen projects.
>>556860125I'm actually hopeful. I still believe that its a port or a remaster most probably. BUT, Project Aces did already remade the classic game missions for infinity, so it wouldnt surprise me that they decided to remade Zero for Ace Combat Online and then added the original cutscenes in 720p/1080i or maybe even 1080p which is quite probable for 2006 japan along with a singleplayer mode and called it a day.
>>557076348I wouldn't mind having Avalon Dam back for coop, for some reason I never got to play it much during Infinity's time.
>>557077909Man, if they give us infinity without the fuel system I'm going to be so fucking happy.
>>557078348I think infinity's monetization was very backwards even back then, I can't wait for Project Aces to showcase the future of shitty monetization.
>>557078997That was more of a Bamco decision rather than Project Aces, around the same time several Bamco franchises launched F2P games with similar systems to the Fuel one from Infinity like the Stamina from Tekken Revolution and the idea behind it was the same as with the old arcade machines, which was awful
>>557079785I can't wait for Project Aces to showcase the future of Bamco mandated shitty monetization.
never played infinity, tell me about this infamous fuel thing
>>557081201more or less an energy system like in some gachasvery penny pinchingyou could play maybe a match or two daily
PS State of play on 12th. New trailer chance?
>>557081468i don't play gachas so i don't know what that means buddy
>>557075038>Lol. Well hopefully GCAP works out better. I have faith. You have two autistic imperial islands who are really into trains, love their boats, are really into tea, want to resurrect domestic plane production, and have deep national pride/drive for excellence while also somehow being really into America. Honestly Italy's just there to cater/supervise their study date and to make sure they finish the project before just FUCKING.
>>557081507ok imagine you get an amount of energy that recharges every 12 hoursand you need the energy to participate in any activities beyond just looking at your airplaneand the amount of energy you get daily only allows you to play very few matches unless you paypig for more
>>557078348I don't want to get my hopes up too much until they show us coop gameplay.>>557081201Every multiplayer match you played required at least one unit of fuel, and you could use multiple units for extra rewards. You got three fuels a day in addition to login bonuses and random drops. This wouldn't have been that bad if it wasn't for the fact you could buy fuel so all the tournaments were whalebait.
>>557081820>>557081907wow that sounds like extreme cancerbetween that and making ass horizon it seems the people in charge of this franchise were real fucking cunts in the early 2010s
>>557083171most jap devs are still stuck in this retarded mindsetsee: gundam evolution
>>557081804Also wouldn't be the first time the two countries did some super autistic project together. This time it's a plane instead of a battle-cruiser/fast battleship
>>557083249Kinda fucked up that GBO2 for all it's jank bullshit and gacha manages to still stumble along like a drunk after all these years without imploding.
>>557086638Funny how Gundam has THREE separate gacha games all running concurrently with varying degrees of success. Guess that happens when your franchise prints money simply by existing. If GBO2 still had the fuel system I imagine it wouldn't have lasted as long as it has, but I personally just got bored of the gameplay after a certain point.
>>557083171They clearly course corrected with AC7, but now with the leak I'd in-game randomized purchases for AC8, they seem to wanna jump start the fuckery again.
>>557081804Most accurate description of the UK & Japan
>>557097492Unless we have AC8 and a standalone AC online aka Infinity 2.0 then it makes sense
I get the feeling Kono enjoys teasing the fans.
>>557098547I know its just clouds and sky but it look like a long slender plane body ohhh unknown perception sexo
>>556906745every su-57 is personalizedthe "one of these is not like the others" captcha is a massive pain
>>557093362I mean GBO2 was the only non-mobile platform.It also probably got them the 3D models to last another decade + and pretty much evolved into a "Every single UC Mobile Suit and weirdo variant from a random manga is here now"Also the entire fact that each Gacha is aggressively in it's own lane helps too so the market's not actively eating itself. Although GBO2 itself wants you to play 3 matches a day with the gacha currency drops (unless you have "Get a Win" objective which means you'll get pilots are either drunk or have walleye vision.)
>>557081505I don't want a trailer I want a plane showcase I wanna see what's all in except for the games new superplane that I want to be a surprise.Speaking of do you think it'll be another in the ADF line or like Fenrir be an original home grown design?
>>557101694I hope its entirely separate from the ADF family.
>>557111845These yours or find them on twitter?
>>557107054Girls Frontline jumpscare.
>>557112085twitterhttps://x.com/He10012
>>557112318ThanksNever realized how awesome the 27 looks in Jolly Rogers livery. While X-02 really pulls off that Flanker look
I have never tried this as I didn't think it was possible to do.https://x.com/He10012/status/1799200947421454526
>>557113057I wonder if the other planes you can fly in free mission would work. The F-5 is pretty smol but damn I figured the vertical stab would clip the boat
>>557113740Only one way to find out, also it could one of those odd things that only work in HUD mode as your plane isn't rendered.
>you can't shoot down or dink the Yellows in Lifeline to drive them awayMan...For some reason I misremembered that you could, though I might be conflating it with some other game.
>>557118559Its been a long time since I tried but I think you can. Did you try lobbing a bunch of QAAM's at the same yellow? I know it won't do anything as they are invincible but I'm sure its possible to hit them.
>>557119941I tail-chased the lead yellow in an X-02, they dodge QAAMs pretty well and I think guns just phase through them since even dead-on shots don't prompt the 'hit' graphic to show up.(Also between writing the text above and this part, I looked up a video and found that some guy managed to shoot down a Yellow with infinite ammo and time limit cheats, after dumping a Macross-tier amount of QAAMs at one Yellow for over 8 minutes (part of which was sped up). So it seems they just have an absurdly high healthpool to the point that you can't feasibly down them in normal gameplay.)
>>557120883Looks like I remembered right you can hit them but can't kill them with out cheats.>Last time I tried it was on my PS2 thus not possible to use any cheats all I could do was hit one.
>>557018379Now the air force planes are blue.
>>557114020Tested it with F-2SuccessJust like the video make sure your alt. is 3ft or 1m and you'll make it. But I'm unsure about something as large as Mig-31
Planes
What do you suspect might be the trade of for having to SP weapons equipped in AC8? Decrease in aircraft performance? Limited ammo? Might be something we get from the beginning, or as special unlockable skill or part?
>>557131394>Limited ammo?definitely leaning towards this, just makes sense that the negative for being able to counter air and ground is that you just get less of each
>>557131823That's what I was figuring too, I don't see them doing it like PW does where it's dependent on what hardpoints are available. So if you want a full A2A or A2G loadout you get the most ammo.
>>557131823I hope 8 doesn't have Mihaly-bullshit enemies that dodge fucking everything, it'd be trash to run out of ammo because the AI broke physics a billion times in a row.
>>557133759I hope that fancy new collision detection system also means enemy planes no longer phase through level geometry
the 4chan people....
>>557140516Oh hey it's us, I'm probably in one of the Phantoms. Probably the first one to get shot down too
I really hope the Draken is in 8, it's so fucking fun to use in Zero.
>>557071924>30 years to develop a tankthe modern arms industry is such a memewho even needs tanks in this day and age anyway
>>557150643>not scrap every buff, bones, doritos, bears and blackjacks in existence?yeah, why not?
>>557032874*MPBM's you*
>>557118559Project Wingman Mission 6, Machine of the Mantle? It's basically the same setup as Lifeline, but you can drive off Crimson squadron when they show up.
>>557150410Anyone with two working braincells knows you still need tanks. Just stop trying to perpetuate that dumb ass tanks are dead meme. Its just pathetic at this point to see people still trying. Especially as we watch the Ukrainians make good use of the various tanks they have.
>>557166171ukrainians are defending against an invading forcewho's going to launch a land invasion of the US?all this new gen military shit that's so cool and so fancy is literally pointless in current year and its only purpose is to keep an industry afloat and make a few people rich>all countries scrambling to either buy or develop 5th or 6th gen jet fighters>literally not one of them will ever see combat while old workhorses like f-16s and su-27s see all the action, cause we can't allow a single rivet to fall into enemy hands
>>557169515>who's going to launch a land invasion of the US?The US
>>556634351Yo buddies Dariusbuddy here, I managed to swap fonts in AC7 by myself and as I couldn't find a guide on how to do it I decided to make one, it's pretty easy but as I'm doing this blind you may encounter errors that I have not, so feel free to report anything so I can try to replicate it.https://pastebin.com/BQ1vrVgA made a pastebin for quick access, if it ever goes down let me know and I'll make another.
>>557169515This is the same tankie spew that was common before 22 even in this general. Now 4 years later its rearing its head again its barely worked then beyond something to reply to in the form of shitposting. Today its just sad people are still trying to post the same old tired boring shit once again thinking it'll work now.
>>557174118Thats cool but I do have a question what fonts where you thinking about replacing them with?
>>557180864FOT-筑紫明朝 Pr6N B
>No trailer todayIt's fucking joever, delay to 2027
>>557180864Ace Combat but in Wingdings.
Last thread we were discussing how oddly low the death toll for the Belkan nukes was and I found out about this.https://acecombat.fandom.com/wiki/Confession_of_a_SoldierIt was a series of short stories released as a promotion for Zero's release, written as the journal of a Belkan soldier. I'm sure some of you already knew this existed but I want to draw attention to something from the final entry.>They say that there were several nuclear explosions at the same time. I'd heard the rumors that the military had been developing a small type of nuclear weapon called the "radioactive detonator" over the years. The radioactive detonator is extremely powerful yet quite small, outwardly seeming to resemble an ordinary hand grenade. Its blast radius can be adjusted in increments of 100 yards, and it can be detonated by simply moving a slide-type trigger on the upper part of the detonator. I bet the wicked are in love with this kind of weapon. Obviously things like this should be taken with a grain of salt as far as canonicity, but I think this does point to the idea the devs were thinking of the Belkans using a sort of micronuke. Also in 5, Alyosha mentions that the V1 nuke they got their hands on is pretty small. The numbers are still off and the mushroom clouds we see that represent the explosions are pretty standard ones but I think they underestimated what kind of effect this would have. Or it could be a translation error, but it's one that's persisted for over 20 years so I'm leaning towards it being a simple mistake on the writers' part.
>>557196045In other words, the point of the nukes wasn't to destroy the enemy, but to intentionally poison their land with nuclear fallout to block land invasion.
>>557196045Didn't know about those actually>resemble an ordinary hand grenadeWe made those in the 50's and we learned they were worthless as weapons being subkiloton weapons and other issues.Two more reason do exist one has a IRL example right now for why the death toll was so small as war approaches the city many people flee leaving only those who refuse to leave for various reasons and the cities population is but a fraction of what it was just a few weeks prior.2nd reason is these are more like small "cities" who populations is just a few thousand each max. As in they weren't cities at all they were just towns. Nuking 7 towns doesn't sound no where as horrible as nuking 7 cities does.
>>557197547Basically. At one I thought that the towns they nuked were the ones who surrendered to the allies but really it was a batshit desperation move by the the military to try and stop the allies from setting foot into Belka proper.>>557197648Yeah there's a lot of ways to make the numbers make sense but at the end of the day it's all headcanon. At the end of the day the bodycount is irrelevant when the point was the shock of a country nuking itself. Still fun to discuss stuff like this though.
>>557197648>2nd reason is these are more like small "cities" who populations is just a few thousand each max. As in they weren't cities at all they were just towns.There are settlements in the UK that are called cities because they have a Cathedral, which leads to places like St Davids, Pembrokeshire (population: 1600) and St Aseth, Denbighshire (Pop: 3600) being called cities. I don't know if Germany - therefore Belka - had a similar thing but it shows there's a historical basis.Still, the most likely answer is the writers of Zero massively underestimating the scale of the death. It's a common error in war fiction.
<<Confirmed activation of Playstation State of Play! T minus 19 minutes to impact! >>Here's hoping for AC8 news
>>557204607We do have a good chance of seeing something new.>Doesn't want have to endue an hour of crap I don't care about to get to the one thing I do care aboutKeep us informed buddy
>>557204607Hoping for AC8 news (possible) or a proper new Wipeout game (never fucking ever, outside of a likely-nothingburger teaser on Sony's Instagram)Don't think State of Play will really have anything else that I care about, but I've gotten used to sitting through hours of waffling for 2 minutes of gold Geoff
>>557196045So a dirty bomb?
>>557204607<< DELAY THE FINAL ATTACK! >>
That chicken kratos grew on me even if I'm not really a fan of the game.
>>557205589>WipeoutBetter it stay dead given the last time they gave Wiprout real attention it got a fucking mobile game.
Holy shit, MGS 4 is finally out of PS3 prison shame about it being so shit
Holy fuck, MGS4 is finally out of PS3 jail
Kind of odd not including Ground Zeroes or V, it's not like I'd consider them recent games.
>>557210453>>557210458I'm seeing double.It's neat, but reheating older games again isn't really something I care about.
>>557210882If those were ever out, I expect Konami to bundle them as one game.
Quick question, do anime games still sell as well as they used to? It sounds odd but back then anything with anime people in it sold but I feel like there are enough of those that even those kind of people need to chose what they buy.
>>557212085yes but theyre all freemium games these daysumamusume...
Shit's grim when they even run out of remasters to show and must resort to PS Plus emulation.
>game with indian protagonist>literally named SARosKinda funny
Close enough, welcome back Marvel vs Capcom. I guess.Also viking dad is getting his angry early adulthood years revisited.
>>557212606Only becuase Sony is dumb plenty of good PS1/2 games that could be remastered.
Welp
That's a lot of L's in youtube chat.
>>556728591>>556727823> LOOK HERE LOOK LISTEN! PULLING A NOTCH DOES NOT FUCKING DUMP THE BANDIT SO STOP GIVING FUCKING ADVICE YOU KNOW NOTHING ABOUT
>>556989885t. faggot
i though we were going to get some info on 8 and maybe a confirmation of 0
>i will have every single mgs game on my pconly one series left
>>557205714Nah more like a very tiny nuke, like a straight up nuclear hand grenade.
>>557222791If I was a soldier I'd only use that thing against whichever retard decided it was a good idea to hand me a fucking nuclear hand grenade.
>>557223379That is about all you would get out of nuclear hand grenade they were complete failures
>>557226006I wonder if we can program them to circle the plane like options?
drones are gayI'm not usually a luddite but planes should have a dude in the cockpitsimple as
>>557227650appreciate the partnership between man and machine
>>557227650The ghost are here to stay we're all good as long as we can keep yandere musical AI away from them.
>>557227650The way forward is going to be slave-linked drones to one pilot, like what Erusea did
>>557229000It's hard to believe that the same guy who made the Oculus Rift is also co-founder of this AI drone defense company.I guess it makes sense, the MIC and tech-bro sphere have been sharing the same bed a lot recently,
>in Fleet Destruction the enemy AI guns can shoot you through the core floors of floating platformsThis is really fucking up me trying to do this guns only no damage run.
>>557233273Most people don't do both at once because its so annoying just do one at a time. You think that is bad just wait till you try no damage on mission 20.
>>557233016>It's hard to believe that the same guy who made the Oculus Rift is also co-founder of this AI drone defense company.I'M SORRY FUCKING WHAT
>>557236891>Palmer Freeman Luckey is an American entrepreneur best known as the founder of Oculus VR and designer of the Oculus Rift, a virtual reality headset that is widely credited with reviving the virtual reality industry. >In June 2017, Luckey founded the autonomy-focused military technology company Anduril Industries, along with former Palantir Technologies executives Matt Grimm, Trae Stephens, and Brian Schimpf, and early Oculus VR Hardware Lead Joseph Chen.
>>557236891Not him but yeah man it’s REALLY bad. CEOs of many tech companies have been working (conspiring) with defense companies and the US government. They are all in on the scam.
>>557236891Yeah, Palmer Luckey's lived a hell of a life so far. His real passion is vidya nerd shit, hence the Oculus and his Mod Retro GameBoy stuff.>https://modretro.com/blogs/blog/the-future-is-retro>This reveal might seem out of nowhere given that most people know me for my work on virtual reality technology and lethal autonomous weapons systems, but my background in this space is even longer-lived.
>>557237791>Still doing the game stuff well after his military-industrial complex took offHeh
Fighter jets
>>557243025Not just game stuff, but EXTREMELY NERDY game stuff. It's an expensive bitch (especially considering a second hand GameBoy goes for half the price), but his remade GameBoy literally uses a custom display because nobody makes a backlit 160x144 panel, housed in a magnesium body, with a gorilla glass or sapphire screen, and built in usb-c for video capture/streaming. It's super pricey but I have to admit it's a fine piece of kit, and the man's teasing a remade N64.In a just world Luckey never takes sells out Oculus to Zuckerberg so all the early developers don't lose interest in the platform, and that combined with his autism push VR ten years ahead of where we are now. He then uses his Oculus money to fund these mod retro things as well as any other gamer nerd shit he wants to do, and he never joins the tech bro cabal that's either frauding or colluding with the feds.
ace combat 8: Wings of ______
>>557260398Sneed
>>557175240It's not completely wrong though. The fact that no modern jet has seen real combat is, in fact, extremely gay.
>>557253652>the tech bro cabal that's either frauding or colluding with the feds.Whatever you say, Palmer Luckey.
Fellow Submariners.
>>557257114If there's one thing I'm hoping for with AC8, it's allowing us to "upgrade" weapons. Like giving standard missiles a 4 shot volley. Or unguided bombs a 4 shot volley too. That way our planes can have all their weapons stations used. I can't stand when they're empty.
>>557275645>That way our planes can have all their weapons stations used. I can't stand when they're empty.That's gonna be mitigated somewhat by the multiple SPW system 8 seems to have going on. I personally can't wait to take Sparrows and Phoenixes on my Tomcats.
It would be fun to have a survival mode.
plane post also wth are these captcha tests
>>557275645>That way our planes can have all their weapons stations used. I can't stand when they're empty.I hope drop tanks are something you can enable if you arent using two SPW
I like doing Bunker Buster with planes that have a TGP visually modelled.
Cool jacket
TERRAINTERRAINPULL UPPULL UP PULL UP, DUMBASS
RETARDRETARDFUCKING CRETINYOU ABSOLUTE BABOONYOU KILLED US
I wouldn't mind some shitter trainer planes in Ace Combat to show up again.The Hawk was cool.
>>557337913They could fill a role as early game Attackers pretty nicely.
>>557337913surprised the l-39 never made it to the games despite being so commonyak-130 and l-159 could be solid early game starters with simple controls, like the trainer planes in project wingman
>>557343327Subsonic planes in general just don't show up much as playable aircraft in AC for some reason. There's the Warthog, Nighthawk, Skyhawk, the trainer Hawk, the Intruder variants, the B-2, and the Frogfoot.
Is Project Wingman supposed to be more GPU intensive than AC7? I can play maxed out AC7 at 60+ fps but with Project Wingman it is looking like I going to have to drop some settings to avoid FPS stutters.
>>557345918there is always an odd omission>>557346689i played both with an integral gpu and i didn't really had issues except with the last couple of levels of project wingman
>>557346689Back when I had a worse PC I'd say Project Wingman had better performance than 7 except when it came to the detonation of nuclear weapons.
>>557346689last graphical update fucked up some stuff, the damn clouds specifically are more GPU intensive and look like shit dunno if you can still download the legacy version.
>>557346689You can use legacy 1.0 for less intensive clouds. Or if you still want to use the current release you can set clouds somewhere less than 100%. I’ve found that 75/300 percent is lower gpu cost but still looks sufficient. The current release also has the benefit of new spelling errors .
>>557349458>>557350678>>557350904>>557352085>>557352253Thanks, I just was not expecting my PC to have any issues with this game and wanted to know what is normal. I have 7900XTX but I am also playing at 4K. Was surprised when it hit 100% GPU usage in the main menu.>You can use legacy 1.0 for less intensive clouds.I though something was off with them, turning their settings down to medium helps but than they look subpar. I will try messing with volume next.
>>557355984I have a 4080, but I’m on a 4k TV with vsync on at 60fps limit. I used max settings for everything including cloud quality, except I set the volume or percentage of clouds at 200%. It only stutters when I launch nukes or when Faust is falling out of the sky. I think the mission consequence of power I had some minor drops too. 150% still looks great. Another thing, using Anti Aliasing is subjective and I had it turned off because I thought it looked worse. Resolution scale set to 100% the default. And I’m using a farther away FOV which hurts performance.During conquest mode Alert level 33 i had to start turning the clouds down. The lowest I had them was 100% for level 40.
>Can shoot down MobiusCipher really is the best AC pilot
>>557359380>not fighting using an F-15This is not a lore accurate demon lord.
>>557359871you are right
>>557369670we are talking about a series that has a-10s that can take off from carriers
>>557369670Don't worry about it.
>>557378868YR-302 Fregata, one of several ACX-exclusive original planes.
>>557359380>>557359871>>557360207My best buddy did it in a J35 like the madman he is
>>557412294>My best buddy did it in a J35 like the madman he isApocrypha accurate Demon Lord.Also based. J35 is fun and I really hope it, the F-5, etc. show up in 8. Endgame planes are pretty much stagnant so only by expanding the early game roster can we get a better sense of progression.
>>557421673You will get 13 Flankers instead and you will be happy.
8 better have a legacy F-18
>>557424064It's already confirmed to be in the roster
>>557423120This is also cool.
I don't know if anyone maintains our emulation guide but the section on PPSSPP seems out of date, it mentions some settings I cannot find at all. Maybe they're redundant settings that wete removed in a update or something.
>Ace Combat X has a better gunsight than 7Lmao
>>557412294I don't have it but theres a picture of someone doing it with the ea-6 prowler
I feel like PJ was put into ACZ as the embodiment of what everything AC5 stands for only to mock him and though him AC5.
>>557440338That's kinda Shamrock's deal, PJ's barely even a presence outside of like 3 missions
>>557440338I don't think that's true entirely considering on a Mercenary run all PJ can think about is all the money he's making. Soldier PJ though I absolutely get why you'd think that, he's horrendously naive.
>>557429326The only parts of the emulation guide still up to date are the ones for the first 2 games (by virtue of reaching a works well enough state somewhat early on) and 6 (because almost no meaningful progress has been made in years).
>>557424239>Tasha's plane is 412Idolm@ster Shiny Colors reference???
>>557449421I still managed to get X running fine so it's not that big of a deal, PPSSPP is pretty easy to get running and all I really needed to do was remap my yaw controls. 2 emulates perfectly except for some random crackly audio, which I haven't noticed on any other games I run on Duckstation.
>>557449852hopefully 8 brings back idolmaster skins
>>557429326>I don't know if anyone maintains our emulation guide but the section on PPSSPP seems out of date, it mentions some settings I cannot find at all.Many parts of the guide were written when Dornievich took a deep-ass dive into emulation back in 2018, so it's no wonder that many parts are outdated. Some buddies have updated it over the years, at least, but Dornie did the bulk of the work.
>>557433337It doesn't, really. ACX's guns just lock on to their target within a certain radius of your plane's nose. The sight itself is just as cosmetic as AC7's.
>>557457267And the radar gunsight part in 7 doesn't actually do anything? I've never really bothered trying it even when I was doing my guns only run, mostly because the pulse laser counts as a gun.
>>557457759No wait never mind forgot that only works with the internal laser the Raven and Darkstar have, the Fishbed's gunpids have their own reticle.
>>557357525I was able to buy enough headroom just by dropping the cloud resolution one step from "extreme" to "very high". Looks almost the same in practice. The game may just not be the best optimized. I noticed a couple of small graphics glitches as well, but nothing game breaking. I am enjoying the game so far (first 8 missions) but it feels far easier than AC7 on hard to me, due to the lack of challenging stage gimmicks and time limits. I think I am going to download a completed save to unlock mercenary difficulty and restart the campaign on it. On one hand I found a lot of the levels on AC7 frustrating and wanted some more straightforward "kill them all" style stages, on the other it was satisfying to beat. I do think having special multiple weapon systems at once in PW is an improvement over AC7 however.
>>557455681Mig-31B -GAKUEN IDOLM@STER Ume Hanami-
motherfUCKER
you ever think about how pretty gripen-chan is?
also fond of her big sister
>>557473229>>557473901I do like the smol doritoes, but the Draken's grown on me a lot lately.
eurofighter>mirage 2000>gripen>poop>rafale
How do we convince the french that "buy european'" does not mean "buy exclusively french"?Oh and if someone could figure out a way to stop the frogs from kneecapping all relevant joint-european projects, that would be nice
>>557511548To be fair, buying other European stuff would have more weight if France weren't the only ones that refuses to put ITAR restricted components in their stuff. Like all those people shilling the Gripen for Canada to "get away from american military exports" while conveniently ignoring the fact the most maintenance and supply chain intensive part - the engine - is American and Saab has no plans to change that.
>>557511548>How do we convince the french that "buy european'" does not mean "buy exclusively french"?not the fault of the french that the rest of the EU decided to subject their native industries to euthanasia
>>557511548>put fewer american components in our kit>diversify european products>begin building really high-end systems that would otherwise be bought from the americans>make a nice european overseeing body to standardise kit union-wideand finally>manufacture kit from other european firms locally under license, involving local companies, to both keep jobs and give the supply chain higher resilienceThis way, if Leonardo wins a contract, people working for Rheinmetall will be able to work.
>>557513373Maybe they could, you know, co-operate with other eu countries to build that industry back up?
>>557515123>begin building really high-end systems that would otherwise be bought from the americansIn fairness, there's not a lot Europe lacks in that department, aside from Stealth Aircraft. Most stuff can go toe-to-toe with their American equivalents, or are close enough to where operational factors are more likely to determine success. The issue is scale, there just isn't enough of any individual piece of equipment.
>>557516919why dont those EU countries elect politicians that dont institute intentionally crippling industrial policies cough germany cough instead of whining about the french not being eager to create export rivals
>>557516919I like it, maybe they could start by integrating basic industries like coal and steel into a sort of common market. So long as no member in this community elects a party who thinks the union is satanic, Europe could have the potential to really stand on its own as a superpower in its own right.
>>557513159That's because Gripen thing has been horrendously misrepresented by the Canadian government and newsrags. They're still buying F-35s, but the way it's talked about the average normalfag would think they're replacing them all with Gripens. And I think supplementing their airfleet with cheaper Gripens in addition to F-35s is a pretty smart call, plus Saab's supposedly going to open up manufacturing in Canada if that deal goes through.
>>557537460My point is more if sole reliance on the US is the primary concern, which it is for most of the people advocating for a mixed - or non US uniform - fleet, why choose Gripen? Rafale is objectively the better choice by that metric.
>>557542308Because cost is also a major concern and Rafale is stupid expensive. $200 million per aircraft for something roughly equivalent in capability to a Super Hornet (~$80 million flyaway cost). Gripen is less capable but far cheaper to operate.
GCAP's body parts have taken flight...https://x.com/TheAviationist/status/2023101641864708512
What countries does the FCU and Sotoa represent AC8?I thought Sotoa was Japan and I have never heard of the FCU.
>>557560462>FCUISAF 2.0 with added sprinkling of America, most probably. They were background lore fluff for AC04.>SotoaThe theory being thrown around is that they're not!Iran mixed with Arabian and North African influences.
>>557561079>not!Iran mixed with Arabian and North AfricanWait a minute, wouldn't they be the first non European enemies?
Why is the Lancer still in active service when B-52 and B-2 exist
>>557561823Nah, Leasath from ACX is an amalgam of a few South American dictatorships
>>557561876It's fast, I guess.
What am I doing buddies?
>>557566874Not rotating your phone properly, apparently.
>>557566874Shit. Forgot to spoiler. Guess I’m banned. Sorry buddies.
Man, after medal/cheevo hunting nearly everything else playing a Photon Blitz speedrun is so relaxing. Not needing to deal with any silly restrictions and just going for mission targets instead of score goals or ace spawn requirements is a breath of fresh air. Still need to play more TDM and fly a whole lot in campaign maps, but it'll be nice to get this 100%'d before 8 releases.
Multiplayer buddies, what's the most fun anti-tryhard build? Something meant for hunting down and shutting down the EML losers and QAAM spammers in public lobbies, them and only them. A EML plane as well? A Darkstar? The 2500 limit?
>>557566874Damn now thats an oldie
>>557583061You are damn right brother. Been a tourist since the beginning of /aceg/. Been posting since 2020 I think.
I kind of want to start namefagging. But I’m not sure if I can slip under the radar. Might as well keep trolling like Count.
>>557584929You know… I’m really shy, you see… - Captain Bartlett
>>557570621>check campaign data to see how far off from the Frequent Flyer achievement I am>after my old save got corrupted I've done six different full campaigns on Hard/Expert/Ace and for the Machine Gun, No Damage, and Speedrun medals; >also replayed all the missions on all difficulties in Free Mission to get S-Ranks on everything>and hunted down all the enemy aces, of course>still only at a little over 41k km out of the 76.5k needed for the achievementGod, now I remember why I've never cheevo hunted anything before. This is just retarded. It is kind of funny that the best advice people give on the Steam/Reddit discussion pages is to pick the Foxhound or Darkstar and rubberband the accelerate/yaw triggers to farm flight miles.
>>557585550Yeah it sucks doing it a second time around man. Especially since the PS servers have been dead until recently. Don’t know what steam is like.
>>557585550Oh wait yeah campaign, it’s gonna be the rubber band. Or fly Last Hope and keep turning while you wait. Get to listen to all the exposition.
Latest Kono-post, prob no new info but you never know.
>>557585883>Don't know what steam is like.Also the same, cool knowing that 8's reveal trailer also woke up the PS servers just like it did Steam's. If you play regularly enough these days you'll notice player IDs pop up again and again, which is always a comfy feeling with smaller online games. I figure people are trying to get a good dose of multiplayer/also trying to get the sortie achievements before 8 rolls out. Also the game is so "mature" that a lot of the players still around are oldheads open to just playing for fun and in silly builds vice top-tier max kill builds.
>>557582343HVAA YF-23s are pretty good for that, as long as it's not a 1v1.
>>557582343"most fun"? usually it would just be your standard builds, since sniping people out with cheesy builds eventually gets boring as shit, and you wind up speedrunning the room to finish quickly, which isn't all that fun either. it's not really fun to be in a room with faggots like those in general.
>>557605690Not the trip to the beach that Mouse was really hoping for.
>>557582343I guess you can LAAM them out with an FB-22 (if you have it) or Foxhound, but that's more of a "no one gets to have fun anymore" nuclear option if anything.The F-2 hybrid build in the OP is really good against Darkstar spammers, but even with max range upgrades HVAAs don't keep you out of the EML sniper zone so you still need to be careful of those and it's not really agile enough to deal with QAAM spam.
>>557582343I usually stick to my hybrid Su-33 for those cases as they like to sit in the middle of the furball but I tend to swap to my TGM Su-57 if the QAAM/EML guy is a CiC, it handles really well at high speeds and has HCAAs so I can kill them during the smallest window the only problem is getting used to it's optimal turning speed (1800-2200) and how fast it bleeds energy.>2500 limitIt works pretty much the same, but with lower acceleration.To be honest, against EML it's pure luck because you either get sniped or manage to evade hard enough that the X-02 fucks up in one turn and it opens an opportunity to kill it. Against QAAM it handles pretty well, it has a lot of energy most of the time so you can evade it all day and getting the kill is pretty easy with HCAAs with how lazy the standard QAAM-22 is.
>>557560462>FCUEuropean Union with a little USA culture thrown in as a treat.>SotoaPersia or Shah-era Iran seems to be the primary inspiration but I'm willing to bet the biggest inspiration is the North Korea-esque "Hostile Nation" from Top Gun/Top Gun Maverick since AC8 seems to wear its heart on its sleeve regarding what its biggest influence is.
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God I hate Ace Combat 6's writing. I don't give a fucking shit about the mom that sounds like she's hopped on Valium and that stupid smug med school retard who jumped into a warzone so she can fuck her boyfriend. They do nothing interesting except dick around for half the game. I want to hear the story of the kids' resistance in Gracemeria, and more about Voycheck and Pasternak.>"go dance with the angels"Holy fuck that's sounds so fucking cringe, only Japan can come up with something as retarded as that. If AC6's writing was good the main catchphrase would be:>"May the Golden King smile upon you."FUCKING BADASS AND AWE INSPIRINGanyway 8/10 game, needs more unique encounters instead of shooting galleries and a 60fps patch
>>557605690where's this from?
Man, Bulletproof Fuel Tanks are super comfy. 220 HP guarantees it'll take 4 Damage++ MSLs to bring down, which is insane in a Special Weapons off room. It's enough to tank an EML++ hit, two QAAMs, or a single HPAA strike (unless the QAAM/HPAA is packing SPW Damage++). I'm not good enough in a furball to get the most use out of another flight upgrade part, but I'm definitely trash enough to appreciately being able to keep flying after getting hit.
If I'm trying to trim a build to be under 2500 what's the best order of parts in general to downgrade to try and sneak under the limit
Is it just me or is the Chimera model in PW kinda low detail? The only control surfaces I've noticed moving on it are the ailerons, the vertical stabs don't move at all and the engines aren't thrust vectoring either.>>557651049The squadron this F-35 is from has a neat emblem.>>557659135Given this plane is an export model, I wonder if PA could sneak it into the game under the A-5 name without inciting chink butthurt. Fuck the J-20 man, I want this stupid thing in game because AC8 desperately needs more than 2 fucking Attackers on launch. This and the Frogfoot would great to have.
>>557660882secondary missile upgrades (see speed, lock on and reload), aircraft armor if you still are over the limit, then ECU/Brakes/Cycle Engine, lastly Blisk and SpW dmg depending of your SpW or Datalink if you think you are capable of gunning down someone consistently. Those are in my opinion what you can remove or downgrade.>>557661610wrong one buddy, that's a VX-23 F-35B
>>557661610>I want this stupid thing in game because AC8 desperately needs more than 2 fucking Attackers on launch. This and the Frogfoot would great to have.Su-24 would be epic too, it was in Infinite.
Hmmm, apparently PA does indeed get permission from the Russians for aircraft, its just for whatever reason UAC and their subsidiaries dont require PA to credit them ingame.
>>557663914Fucking Google linked me the wrong thing on a reverse search. That emblem's sick though.>>557664672The Fencer was one of my favorite planes in Infinity, especially the EW variant. Surprisingly good dogfighter for a flying brick.>>557666682Interesting.
And done. That's all medals and all Steam achievements obtained for 7, now to put the game down and play some other things. I guess technically I don't have all the nicknames or emblems unlocked, but my autism has limits.
>>557666927>The Fencer was one of my favorite planes in Infinity, especially the EW variant.If we're getting a full fledged coop mode I hope we get EW aircraft as well. Growlers, Prowlers, Su-24MPs, etc.
>>557667553Same here. I’m missing the Erusea skin for the SU-47 and one other plane. I can’t be bothered.
The SU-25 is always conspicuously absent pretty much everywhere but Assault Horizon of all places.
>>557684821Why did that image upload, I did not select it
>>557680520>Same here. I’m missing the Erusea skin for the SU-47 and one other plane. I can’t be bothered.Honestly kind of amazing since the Erusea skin unlocks after destroying 2000 enemies. Being able to unlock the rest of the medals/achievements without killing that is pretty impressive.
>>557560462Sotoa is Islamists/Mid East. FCU is the 195th attempt by Usea to unify into some shambling confederacy of some sort.
KAAN.
i want air to sea combat to be harder, sinking a fleet should be a legendary feat not some side dishthat final boss fight with female torres and her airship should be the golden standard for anti ship missions, even if it was a flying one, the literal wall of flak + the ac7 CIWS would be perfect
>>557688932all they gotta do is add a rudimentary radar mechanic and tighten up CIWS on ace difficulty so you actually have to skim the ocean to get close
Shout out to my main man the Gelipnir captain, what a fucking lunatic flipping the airship upside down. I've found X to be surprisingly hard even emulated on an Xbawks controller.
>>557672139including Raven?
TERRAIN
>>557688932>sinking a fleet should be a legendary featin real life where your plane can't carry forty tons worth of air to ship missiles and do mach 3 at sea level while pulling 25G endlessly, suredoesn't apply to ace combat
Grok isn't super good at imagining plens or I'm bad at prompting
>>557715225Is Grok good at anything except porn and making racist memes, to be fair?
>>557715593Apparently it really loves the P-51
>>557715882I kinda like this one tho
They're officially starting the PR campaign now.
>>557719313Official Strangereal TM continuity titles.
>>557719497Where is 1 & 2? is Scarface to awesome for them to handle or something?
>>557686564What am I supposed to see? Something on the tail fin?
>>557686564nice butt
>>557686564Is this serial production or another prototype?
>>557729965Has to be the prototype she took her first flight in 24. Way to soon for production models
>>557725392Not officially set in Strangereal because Strangereal didn't exist yet. I guess AHL was too obscure.
>>557686564cool
>>557736903AHL's also rather weird as a remake because it tries to reintegrate 2 into the proper Strangereal setting but it's a very loose fit. It's very much working backwards and you can really tell this is still a story written back before even the Usean continent existed as a defined entity.
>>557750437Why would you post this in the ace combat general
>>557757697A for Ace CombatA for AlgebraA for An aged lone FCU carrier out there in the wide seas
>>557058439>the chinese put out two 5th gens and soon two 6th gens before euros made anythingfuckin lapped
>>557758164Yeah turns out a singular country's MIC, especially one where all military development is highly controlled by the government, can shit out planes faster than a bunch of smaller countries who get along like hamsters in too small a cage. Frankly I'm just surprised that the J-20 was finished before the SU-57, if you told me that ten years ago and I would never believe you. I didn't know Russia's MIC was such a clusterfuck and underestimated China's ability to learn from all the Western tech they stole.
>>557758576If I have to guess, more budget, less corruption in the MIC/procurement process and no impact of sanctions helped them.
>>557760146Not having to deal with the collapse of the Soviet Union probably helped too.
The random page button on Wikipedia introduced me to this kooky thing
>>557758576>muh stolen techthis cope wont help you when the gerald r ford is on the bottom of the south china sea
>>557765648Its okay we're gonna have battleship flagships again the carriers don't matter as much
Did anyone else playing 4 for the very first time think Stonehenge was LITERALLY Stonehenge? I thought the Eruseans had wizards in their military making the stones shoot lasers when I was a kid, until I actually got to the Stonehenge level of course.
>>557766179>battleshipsApril 7th can't come fast enough
>>557766348>How did the Eruseans manage to invade, occupy and hold nearly the entire continent while also bankrolling and developing one of the most advanced aircraft ever seen in Strangereal?>Why, through the magic of the druids of course!
>>557337913I'd love to see the new T-7 Red Hawk, either as an early-game or starter plane or as a meme-plane.
i just realized radar is basically shining a flashlight at stuff only in a non visible spectrumi am very smart
>>557758576>I didn't know Russia's MIC was such a clusterfuck and underestimated China's ability to learn from all the Western tech they stole.Pretty much the trend since the turn of the millenium. The three day special operation really was a Wizard of Oz man behind the curtain moment for the bears, while seeing J-20s and F-35s in the same airspace is getting the old warhawks hot and bothered about wanting to overmatch everything.>>557765648I'll trade the Ford for the Three Gorges Dam any day. Chinese aviation still has a ways to go before catching up to American aviation, but they are getting closer to finally being able to fight on decent terms in a home game when the away team is literally coming from the other side of the globe. We sure do live in interesting times.
>>556634351I feel like such a retard, I played some AC Zero on Saturday, blitzed through 80% of the campaign, Ace, S rank S rank S rank, come back after a few days and I feel like I'm playing in slow motion, I'm not in that zen anymore.[Also finding out AC7 on Steam has the FALKEN and Morgan unlocked from the get go, I'll cope and say they're my save data reward for the S-rank Ace Save game.
>>557750437her tits are not THAT big
>>557736903Strangereal didn't exist in 3 and wasn't the shape we know in 4 either so by that logic they also don't exist in Strangereal.
>>557346689I have a Ryzen 9800X3D and a 4080, it just runs like (relative) shit desu, on my previous rig with a 3700x and RTX 3070 it ran like shit. ESPECIALLY IN THE VR MODE.Forgot to come in here when I beat the campaign, a few days ago. For those that care Project Wingman gives you all of the Ace Combat gameplay, with only a smattering of the vibes, whilst the game is impressive for a Kickstarter game, you really feel it's crowdsourced origins in places like the voice acting quality ranging massively in general quality and microphone quality, lack of cutscenes.Though you still do get your wow moments, from Mission 7's usage of clouds to hide from rail guns, (especially in first person seeing the rain splatter across the windscreen) to the sheer usage of colour especially in the latter half of the game. I'd recommend it to someone for $5 but I think I'm being a bit too harsh. Just found the end boss to be so underwhelming as to dampen what was otherwise a fairly enjoyable game for the most part.Wish I had Prez on every mission though.
>>557771969I guess PA just feels like 3 counts over 1 and 2 due to it being the first AC to really focus on a complex narrative.
>>557765648Is this some strange chink cope that they can't accept the fact that everything they have today they have stolen or copied from either the Soviets or every western nation over the past 70 some years then started to make their own stuff from it.
>>557772563I'll be honest, I am a straight up respecter of the CCP and their blatant ability to steal and innovate on Western copyrighted and patented tech.The Chinese are rarely inventors, but they are solid refiners.
>>557772718industrial espionage just works, the US basically slingshotted itself past the UK due to the former basically ignoring british patent law for a century
>>557772452>to the sheer usage of colour especially in the latter half of the gameFirst time I've seen anyone praise the art direction in the latter half. Pretty much everyone dunks on the Fanta Orange apocalypse looking too same-y. Everything before that looks pretty though, and Frontline-59 is also easy on the eyes.>Wish I had Prez on every mission though.>he didn't beat PW with the F-14There's the Prez Everywhere/All Planes are Two Seaters mods on Nexus. IIRC Prez Everywhere has better compatibility with other mods that add/change planes.
>>557773235meanwhile in the late 40's the bongs just gave the soviets a rolls royce jet engine to reverse engineer into what would power the Mig-15
>>557774642The only place I didn't like the orange look was on the Nu-UI, but the legacy one wasn't too bad.Otherwise, I actually liked the high saturation they used to amplify the apocalyptic events, from the Nuke in mission 1 to when it was used in Mission 15 where the missiles hit the Corium deposits. I also feel like a smuck for saying I like mission 6 where you feel like you're on a different planet entirely i.e. Revenge of the Sith inspiredI just remember Mission 7 being a massive difficulty cliff, which then disappeared for the rest of the game.
>>557772463Still odd as Scarface squad was invited to that whole big air show Osea did in 2020. I bet its more the intern just forgot to add it in again.
do you think that after megalith they milked mobius 1 like a prized race horse so that they could use his gametes to clone him indefinitely splitting his soul into a thousand undying pieces?
>>557776042More likely they put him to work training North Point's next few classes of student pilots so that whenever Erusea feels like being retarded again, they dare not even cast an eye at North Point.
>Going guns on a BM-335>Shoot one down from the side>Its already in its death animation >Cut in to close>Slams into its body which is still an active wall>Cipher crashedFucking Belkans man even in death the bomber still kills you.
>>557780535the fact they immediately lose all forward momentum and leave you with little margin for error in avoidance. major issue in 5 too. hopefully 8 wont have this issue since destruction seems to be more physics based this time around.
>>557774642I'm also an orange enjoyer which is odd as most people don't like it while on the other hand I fucking despise orange/piss/green/blue filters and most people would rather die before they'd admit MGS 3 would look better without Kojima pissing all over my TV.
>>557781269They solved that issue in 7 bombers become ghost the moment they die. They have a smaller collisions boxes when alive as well. Otherwise I would have crashed when doing this.
>>557781367PW is just obnoxiously oversaturated in a very ugly unreal engine 4 kind of way.
Whomever made this achievement is a cocksucker.
>>557783849someone made custom achievements for 0?
>>557787446On RetroAchievements, yeah. No idea how it works
>>557787692The forbidden Japanese doritoes.
>>557769356>I'll trade the Ford for the Three Gorges Dam any day.You gotta be retarded if you think blowing up that thing wouldnt cause a nuclear war. I dont think there will even be a conventinal war desu
Cockpit FOV slider doko
>>557787982You login to RetroAchievements then it just works tm
>>557789337At this point I wonder if ANYTHING is really bad enough to make someone push the button. Or if MAD theory is actually real. Nukes are a funny thing, they're most useful when used as a threat rather than an actual weapon.
>>557790867>At this point I wonder if ANYTHING is really bad enough to make someone push the button.I would say a devastating attack on civilian infrastructure that kills hundreds of thousands from a peer geopolitical rival would probably count.
>>557790867It's too schizo of a channel for me to remember, but I remember someone going over the game theory of nukes. And in that, especially with modern wars and the current proxy wars, the current mindset is to do anything and everything in the conventional sense, as Nukes may as well not matter or not even exist as once they are used, the entire board is set to zero anyway.
>>557791038Yeah it'd have to be something absolutely catastrophic for it to happen, especially to fire the first shot. And as much as nobody really wants to be the person who starts WW3, I wonder if anybody would want to be the one to end it, knowing the consequences of that action. Rather not find out either way though, I think about it the same way I think about what dying in a plane crash would be like. Just a morbid hypothetical.>>557791178That's more or less how I've always understood it. It's possible using one tactical nuke could end a war without nuclear retaliation, but that's a theory nobody sane wants to test.
Wonder what kind of wildlife easter eggs they'll put into 8.
>>557791178>the entire board is set to zero anyway.[SPANISH GUITAR STING]
>>557792214Hey Buddy...
>>557791868Fun fact Flamingos appear in 4 & 5. They might be in Zero but I've never found them anywhere.
>>557791868Where are these birbs at?
>>557793531mission 3, fly low
>>557793582I'll have to take a look later, I guess that's around the starting area of the mission?
>>557789337You make it sound like that's an undesirable outcome.>>557790867Blowing up the Three Gorges Dam is definitely a good candidate. That immediately eliminates a significant amount of Chinese power generation, infrastructure, and population, and even more as a secondary effect. I'm sure you can imagine how dire things get for the rest of the nation when the main factories are flooded and the ports are underwater, so seaborne food and fuel imports cease completely. And when all the Great Leader and the Party really wanted was their power and lifestyle, it's not like they have much left to lose if any of them survive the flooding.Chinese nukes getting launched also likely ends in all nukes getting launched just as a domino effect. To hit the US targets their flight path would go over Russia, and as little confidence I have in Russian equipment/command I still have to believe they can respond in kind to missile launches. Aa a baseline Cold War scientists calculated it would take roughly ~30 min from launch for a USSR nuke to hit its target in the US, so the Russkies have even less time to analyze Chinese flightpaths and determine if they're threats or not, and I'd be more than willing to believe Russia would launch their own missiles. The British and French also have to wrestle with the same calculus the moment they see Russian missiles in the air, and I'll assume the Norks aren't just going to sit around while China's busy gifting mushroom clouds. The US has a launch-on-warning policy so they're just a guaranteed player in this hypothetical.Nuclear War A Scenario is a pretty good recent book about atomic doomsday, since the writer got to interview a lot of the old guard of nuclear policy/planning who as a generalization are now tired, scared old men who are afraid of their worst fears coming true. And OPpenheimer's posts on /k/ are a good read too if you feel like combing through the archives.
>>557793690Thanks for the reading anon, that book especially sounds really interesting. And horrifying. I take some solace knowing if a total nuclear war kicks off, I'll be atomized because I live close enough to an airbase.
>>557793690>Chinese nukes getting launched also likely ends in all nukes getting launched just as a domino effectI've always seen that as an idea that got hyped up to help get the idea of MAD across the common folk then it showed up in many a movies to remind you everyone dies together but never much actual merit to it. Ok say China sends them up It only take a short while to know where they are going around the same amount of time ish it takes to get a retaliatory strike ready. So why would you dump your load if your not the target? Keeping a full stock of them will be a massive advantage in the weeks that follow and you gain nothing by firing them at targets that will already be nuked by someone else.
>>557795616>Ok say China sends them up It only take a short while to know where they are going around the same amount of time ish it takes to get a retaliatory strike ready. So why would you dump your load if your not the target? Keeping a full stock of them will be a massive advantage in the weeks that follow and you gain nothing by firing them at targets that will already be nuked by someone else.This is where the fuzziness and uncertainty come in. Through decades of gameplanning and exercises it's estimated that the US, even possessing the spookiest glowie assets, has a roughly 6 minute time frame to deliberate on launching nukes in the event of a Russian launch. This delay comes from the human element of different parts of the chain of command detecting, analyzing, and relaying info to the next rung up. Russian early warning systems are FAR less capable than the American ones, and given the past few years it's likely their chain of command is not as well oiled.Then there's the messy human element of it all. If the Chairman calls the Tsar and pinky promises him that all the nukes being launched are meant for the POTUS, will the Tsar believe him? Will the Tsar trust that none of the retaliatory nukes the POTUS is sending are meant for him? If the Tsar panics since his clay is literally in the crossfire, will the Limeys and the Frogs stay calm when they've been dreading the big bad bear escalating things?It's like a Mexican Standoff in a Spaghetti Western. Except infinitely worse and shittier because the fallout from these fuck fuck games could very well kill everyone in the town and not just the yokels waving their guns at each other. Nobody can un-cancel a launch, and once the first shot's fired all hell breaks loose.>>557795509It's a sobering feeling knowing that you're not gonna make it. I was in Hawai'i during that missile scare a decade ago, and while not dramatic it unironically really makes you think.
>>557798689>I was in Hawai'i during that missile scare a decade agoImagine having a sister during that...
>>557805069I understand this reference.
>>557805069Funny, that got brought up the last time I mentioned the missile thing.
>>557810060wonder happened to that anon and his sister
>>557805069lmfao i remember this
Did anyone else find the way the planes moved different in 7 compared to the ps2 trilogy? In 7 the camera is completely fixed on the plane and it seems a bit stiff. In the older ones you could see the planes slightly moving up/down when controlling them and it looked more fluid. I hope the bring that back for 8.>>557793690>nuclear war is epic im so intellectual and edgy and cynical. Im just like pixy!!1!!i hope youre just 14 and larping, anon. If youre an adult and seriously think this you should an hero
>>557798689>and while not dramatic it unironically really makes you think.Only if you were born after the Cold War ended otherwise you just go eh, as you always expected it to happen in back of your mind and you were always ready for the sunshine.
>>557826571I just find nuclear game theory/brinkmanship fun, if maybe morbid. The literature's a fascinating mix of DEEBLY CONCERNED scientists, agenda-pushing (both hyping up and downplaying the side effects of atomic war), and countless people spitballing "no, it would look like MY scenario!" with varying degrees of depth/credibility. Go take a look at the discourse on nuclear firestorms and whether or not they'd happen VS them being pinko lies trying to scare people. Almost turns into absurdist humor when taken from the angle that this was official discourse. Or how Reagan literally got so spooked by an ABC program on life after a nuclear war that it no-shit prompted him to work towards deescalating tensions with the soviets.Plus if we're really dumb enough as a species to kill ourselves I'd rather it happen faster in a ball of fire than through decades of biosphere degradation or something equally lame/slow.>>557831058There's a difference between knowing it could happen versus seeing the emergency alert on your phone or scrollng news banner that Hot Missiles in Your Area are Looking for YOU. Makes for good watercooler talk the Monday after, though.
>>557834429>Hot Missiles in Your Area are Looking for YOUTop kek
>>557834429>knowing it could happen versus seeing the emergency alert on your phoneThat just comes down to personal mindset kind of like when you put someone in your family into a rest home. You know they are going to die soon you don't think about but your mind is already preparing for it. When it happens your not hit as hard by it than compared to a sudden death. Same with nuclear war you grow up knowing it could happen most people expected it to happen and if it does happen you don't panic as much simply due to you expected it to happen your whole life.>Hot Missiles in Your Area are Looking for YOU.But are they single or are they into that whole group thing?But anyways enough of that time for a plane or three
>>557767085What happens then?
>>557810060>4.5>average
>>557839614Art imitates life
>>557810060I know it's not my sister, but I couldn't imagine being in that situation and not riding her like Kong rides the bomb in Dr Strangelove.Imagine being such a pathetic freak to cry over it as well.
A guy in /indie/ is not giving ACX the respect it deserves. Buddy, if you are here, you better be in shootout on Saturday so I can shoot you down for this insolence>>557826571Yes, 7 had very "on rails" controls even with stuff like the wind effects. Maybe 8 will go back to the looser feeling controls and camera like 4 had.>>557666682I really hope 8 is enough of a success that the Chinese stop being so stubborn and we get some of their planes as DLC after release. J-10A is a cute dork.
>>557847516>Chinese stop being so stubbornWhat parallel universe are you from? The only way that will happen is China has complete change in management from the lowest levels all the way to the top man.
>>557839614>Notch this you fucking casual.
we gaan in...
>>557863447This image looks odd>Finds originalAh its been enhanced no wonder the ground looks so strange.
>>557847516>A guy in /indie/ is not giving ACX the respect it deservesTell him that Alect Fenrir is literally the hardest fight in the series and that if he doesn't like the techno and the jazz music he's a faggot, a shiteater and a belkan.
>>557864016>Alect FenrirI never found them hard in that fight I find them far more annoying & troublesome when you fight them over the ocean in their S-32's.
>>557865115Not him, but I’m a scrub on X, then again my hands and brain aren’t good enough for PSP anymore. Maybe I should emulate it one day during the hot summer, and actually s rank a mission on normal for a change.
>>557864016I think canonically it would make sense for that fight to be the hardest, which makes Gryphus 1 is the most skilled protagonist. Sure they don't have single super-ace like Yellow 13, but Alect are not random mooks, they are THE elite fighter squadron of the region. And the Fenrir is a top tier superplane even without optical camo. Gryphus 1 shoots down all 5 of them in one engagement. None of the other MCs take on 5 superplanes at once, add in the fact that they are invisible and it's an unmatched feat.
>>557868463yeah well blaze shot down, like, a satellite while listening to grimm and nagase bitch on radio
>>557866169Honestly even with a controller X is a fairly hard game. It has a stiff flight model, enemies are actually really good at notching your missiles, SAMs and AA guns fucking hurt on higher difficulties. It'll humble you real quick if you get cocky.
While reading the stats database there is a question I have. Does the SP Missile Damage Up boost the blast damage from the MPBM/SASM or just the direct hit damage?
>>557868463Close but still not firstUntil you end a rebellion and fly across a continent in a single day you can't be #1
I wonder if the Tanager was a modernised Iowa-class. I'd imagine it would have to be given it was the flagship.
>>557872587Judging by the model used in 4 it seems like the devs referenced a pre-modernization Iowa-class, but then again the Tomahawk and Harpoon launchers were probably too small to be worth modeling on a PS2 launch game.
>>557874220Ships in 4 are very low ploy models they don't have much detail to start with. You could check out the one in 5 it was better detailed.
>>557688932In a similar vein, I want to take on a proper air defense network. Most of the time we only fight SPAAGs and SHORAD missile systems. I want a proper SEAD/DEAD mission against a really dangerous system, picking apart the net by destroying radars and TELS. Radars switch on and off to hide from you, TELs pack up and run away when their radars are destroyed, real anti-SEAD tactics.Faceless soldier kinda does this, but it's ruined for me by gameplay contrivances (hiding in the clouds from satellites), the missiles spawning from nowhere, and the enemies not being reactive to your actions.
>>557879438It could be a fun gimmick mission>Fenrir is in the game her LSWM are at original power>Its no longer a gimmick mission its a standard destruction level now.
>>557878717It looks like it's the exact same model they used for the Tanager, just with slight better texture work. There is also an Iowa-class in 6, but the pictures on the wiki suck and you can barely see the deck.
>>557879438Hunting down hidden radars would be pretty cool.
>>557880352It would be a mix of Magic Spear & Pipeline
>>557826571PS2 flight model is way more stiff than 6/7, not helped by the camera trailing so abruptly after each input.
Anons, I don't know how else to say it... I kneel to the Zero chads, it's grown on me so much it's unbelievable. If not the gameplay, the music, the super weapons, the vibes, the flying model, the live action FMVs and the cheesy writing just does it for me like you wouldn't believe. I wish modern games had nearly as much soul.
>>557886556It truly is excellent. Just the opening leitmotif from Glacial Skies hooked me in. And then when I finally replayed it on emulator I got that exact same feeling. It didn’t last as long granted, but I still felt the soul and kino and got right back into my childhood rhythm with the j35 Draken. They don’t call it the Holy Trinity for nothing.>>557872021Includes blast damage if I remember correctly. Although I’ve only tested it on SASM. I’ve never actually fired the MPBM in 7.
>>557890643>MPBMIts nerfed so bad the FAE might be stronger of the two.
Since its likely that AC8 will have a co-op mode, how do you guys think it will be like?
>>557893020I hope it's a bit like the way Halo 3 did it:>P1 controls Rex>P2 controls Professor>P3 controls Tasha>P4 controls Noise>can play together online or splitscreenMission plays out as normal but with 4x as many enemies, Individual scorekeeping for bragging rights
I'm SUFFERING in the Ace Combat 7 campaign. Just feel like I don't have the right planes for the mission, currently going through the stone henge mission and I feel like I'm just completely cucked, I want to get GBP, but the latter half against arsenal bird I just don't have enough missiles for the job either way.
>>557896589Reset from checkpoint after the big bird spawns, it refills your ammo.
>>557896589GBP is useless in that mission far to many ground targets. Take dumb bomb or SFFS if you take agm missiles you'll run out long before you run out of targets. As for the AB just get in close and hold down the gun while dumping what missiles you have left into its main engines.First time I did that mission was with F-18 railgun made the 2nd half of the mission very easy was also good for removing bombers faster and deleting AD tanks in one shot.
>>557897037I probably should, but it feels so cheesy that I don't really want to.>>557897545Yeah you're right, honestly, I wish I wasn't forcing myself to not use the DLC craft until NG+A TLS would be killer right now.
>>557897946>TLS would be killerThe Falken TLS is only slightly stronger than the base laser pointer version in the base game. Unless you have the restore TLS mod installed it won't help you
BROS... my game crashed literally as I was killing Arsenal bird...
>>557897545Also, I'm sorry I doubted the A10, Dumb bombs have indeed done the trick
>Oooooooouuuuuuhhhhhh fascinating creaturesWhat did he mean by this?
>>557900963Forgot the image
>>557900963Check the Tyler Island flight logs
>>557900963Genuinely don't know if this is a translation cock up or that's 1:1 with what he says in Japanese. It's such an odd line and DC Douglas sounds so sinister when he says, and when he says he's taking the girls with him.
>>557902207its probably one of those jap puns that doesnt translate
This game is absolute cancer on mouse and keyboard how the hell are you even meant to play in multiplayer seriously
>>557905797Good luck buddy. I don’t have any helpful things to say about 7. I’m just a ps4 scrub that used to suffer through multiplayer. Until platinum trophy that is, then I went hard stop and canceled ps plus. It’s been 5 years or so. I will never go back. Hopefully 8 has stronger anti-cheat (good god I can’t believe I’m saying this).
>>557886556Too bad its story is a mess with terrible pace
>>557905797Why are you playing a flight game with mouse and keyboard you irredeemable retard.
>>557905797Why are you playing on KBM? Get a controller or a flight stick bro
>>557900963He's channeling his Wesker energy.
ALL COWARDS, GO HIDE IN THE THUNDERCLOUDS LIKE TRIGGER
>>557938681why is he peeing into a jet exhaust
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>>557945896I like it. Western missiles on Russian still look wrong though. Kinda makes me want to see R-27's on an Eagle now.
The fact that Assault Horizon didn't have you engage a fighter jet in an attack helicopter during one of the helo missions feels like such a missed opportunity.
>>557955392>Western missiles on Russian still look wrong thoughIt may actually come true. India's looking to put ASRAAM and Meteor on their Su-30MKIs. Not to mention the Ukrainians bodging western munitions onto their Flankers.>Kinda makes me want to see R-27's on an Eagle now.I can do you an F-14
>>557955953I didn't know about India but I knew about Ukraine putting them on their Flankers and Fulcrums. It looks cursed but it works somehow, especially given how quickly they had to adapt them for use.Also not surprised the Tomcats of Theseus had Russian missile put on them, that's a nice camo too.
>>557905797Well, for one, youre playing a game designed for dualshock so Idk what to tell you.
>>557955767Maybe it's because dogfighting a jet in a helicopter is retarded even for Ace Combat
>>557961540AA equipped helicopters were certified jet rapist until the AMRAAM.
>>557961540>He doesn't know about Yuke choppers in 5This was a thing long before AH or even the PS3 existed.
Something fun to watch a cockpit view from the planes that did the flyover during the Superbowlhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hr6pxF3CL58A little view music fitting as you constantly see an F-15C the entire timehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvU4QdCZKS0
God, I just finished Ace Combat 7 and I'm not sure if something else is going on that's making me feel this way, but with it being my introduction to the franchise and loving my first playthrough this second one after now having played every game from Ace Combat 3 (and excluding 6) I feel absolutely ROTTEN about it.Graphically, I think it looks incredible, the game has never looked better, the weather affects such as the sandstorms, clouds, thunder and harsh winds and lightning were all extremely cool additions, soundtrack as always is great, the dialogue though for some reason became white static for me this time around, with the campiness and heart I felt the first time around just feeling hollow and going nowhere.It's weird as despite playing all the other games on ACE difficulty without much issue and feeling powerful, on hard alone in AC7, I just felt bitter at basically being in missile lock 90% of the game and having never seen so many standard missiles miss the gameplay loop felt more like>MISSILE MISSILE MISSILE>BEEP BEEP BEEP> <<MISSED SHOT>> <<MISSED SHOT>>>BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP >MISSILE MISSILE MISSILE > <HIT> <MISSED>>BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEPFailing on the final tunnel run 11 times was humiliating as well as I did it first try and felt such adrenaline I don't know how I've managed to fuck myself so badly on that. Overall, I just feel empty, just wondering how I fumbled at the final hurdle after basically flying through the trilogy and PW so handily.
>>557988452This may be the most appropriate use of that reaction image I have ever seen, goddamn man. I still think 7 is an amazing game but one thing going through the rest of the series is kinda expose the flaws it does have. It's a game that has some of my favorite moments in the series while also having many things I hate immensely. I will say though, playing the older games and PW before 7 does kinda fuck with your muscle memory. PW especially has a much heavier flight model barring AoA shenanigans, so jumping from that to 7's flight model is whiplash. If you ever want to replay 7 again I'd recommend doing it before you play the older games. Storywise for my last playthrough I didn't pay super close attention to some cutscenes because I find them to be the worst part of the storytelling. There is good stuff in them but to me the most interesting storytelling is in the missions themselves.
>>557988452Now go play the DLC
>>557991204I think the heaviness threw me off the entire run, where there were shots were it's like a bit more yaw here or there would have made all the difference in a lot of the dogfights I found myself in, but in certain circumstances I felt like I was actively fighting with the planes rather than becoming one with them. I will say, before I forget, The Chekov's gun of the satellite IFFs in the second mission only for them to be weaponised later against you losing all IFF data I remember being an extremely cool experience when I first played through the game>>557991656Doing a quick runback on ACE difficulty. Getting my S ranks and killing enemy aces, but I'd be more worried if I wasn't considering I'm using the DLC planes
>>557992054DLC was made with the understandning that when it came out everyone had already unlocked all the planes. DLC planes aren't super planes unless you got the Top Gun set they are just very fun additions. Its not that the DLC is hard its just super fun with any plane you take.
>>557992946It does earnestly niggle me though seeing planes like the Morgan and FALKEN get turned into DLC, I was happy to see the Wyvern pop out after the campaign's completion, but knowing what was just free in the PS2 era for playing well become some nickel and dime fest bothers me.I will play the DLC missions though.
new official map dropped
>>557997478Wait so the FCU isn't all of Usea? I get why they wouldn't want to let Erusea in but it's weird San Salvacian isn't part of it; maybe they're a neutral country like Switzerland like 4 kind of implied. And I guess North Point just told them to fuck off which would be appropriately British of them.
>>557997478Selatapura is so funny to meSilly city state
>>557998840I get the impression the FCU is a Federalised EU expy. Just like Europe, there's some Usean nations that aren't part of the FCU.
>>557997478>Erusean Republicprincess doodwat nou?
>>557997478>North Osea the continent>North Osea the former province of South BelkaThat must be pretty funny to the rest of the world.
>>557999605Also here's a higher-res version and some extra lorebore observations:>San Salvacion seems to include the country to its south now? Kind of hard to tell due to the grid lines and country name straddling the border; might be a retcon to accomodate conflicting text and map sources in regards to Stonehenge's location>Few more dashed and dotted lines along the Erusean border, one up against the border with the Gunther Peninsula and one in the north with San Salvacion>None that correspond to where the Shilage Castle mission takes place in 7 (either Shilage/Voslage got turbo-mogged by perfidious, marauding Oseans so hard they lost their bid for independence or the one up against Gunther is meant to be them and they're still disputed)
>>558000310>North Point not a part of the FCUEven in Strangereal Albion is perfidious
>>558000310>None that correspond to where the Shilage Castle mission takes place in 7 (either Shilage/Voslage got turbo-mogged by perfidious, marauding Oseans so hard they lost their bid for independence or the one up against Gunther is meant to be them and they're still disputed)Good. Wit was such an irritating shithead/dickrider that I'm 100% all for Total Voslagian Death at the hands of vengeful Eruseans. I hold no ill will towards old man Mihaly and his annoying physics breaks, but I will forever pray for Erusean success in taking that clay.Also lol Erusea:>monarchy fails so you become a republic>republic fails to address the rising crisis so you become a fascist dictatorship>fascist dictatorship gets fucked up by Jesus so hard that you retvrn to tradition and dig up what's left of the royal bloodline to become a monarchy once again>monarchy gets corrupted by warhawks wanting to be big and stronk like the dictatorship days so you once again get coopted by the military>piss off the neighbors and the good guys™ so hard you become a republic again
>>557997478>>558000310I guess Bulgurdarest wasn't able to make Erusea pay for their border wall. Also I don't see Delarus anymore.
>>558002425Truly the France of Strangereal.
What do we think her role in the story is? Backseater? Replacement pilot? Vendor?
>>558003904Good chance she's just a background character with no actual name.
>>558004005I don't think so, she gets to sit at the main character table
>>558004797Interdasting. Given she's in civvie clothes and not a flight suit or navy uniform, she might someone who works for the same company as Rex's PR guy.
>>558003904If the guy behind her is also a named character, then there are exactly enough of them for there to be 4 backseaters:>Liferaft guy>Black-haired girl>Guy in the back>Hawaiian shirt (pictured)I'm liking WSO theory, now that Ace Combat has suddenly decided number 2s exist. (It's critical for the Top Gun aesthetic.)
>>558005263I think if they're gonna use the in-cockpit camera they're gonna have to acknowledge backseaters. They exist in the models.
>>558003904>>558005263While backseaters would be cool, a part of me really hopes they're not because FAN will just suck his own dick for "inspiring" Project Aces to include WSOs as characters.
>I don't want something cool because an annoying guy might gloat about it on xitterNigger
>>558006479>wanting a second person in the cockpitmy planefu is MINE and mine ALONE
>>558005263>>558005889If backseaters exist as a game mechanic I hope PA doesnt feel the need to make them yap abt nothing for most of the mission. Just put the fries in the bag bro (do call outs for missiles/enemies/etc)
Kono working with US staff this week. Maybe prepping for the next round of promotional material?
The ultimate problem with WSO's as characters is that - unless you just want them to perform callouts - you want them to be meaningful characters so that people care about them, but you can't make them so impactful that players feel compelled to fly two seaters to avoid missing out. This already happened in PW, and it restricted the roster to low tier planes due to a lack of high tier twin seaters.Personally I'd solve that by having the WSO fly their own aircraft when the player selects a single seater or have them aboard a support unit like the AWACS, so they still have a presence in the story even when benched.
Ace Combat 8 within the year. Can you believe it? Just a couple more months.
stoppin by to ask if its ac8 time yet
>>557997478bro I love ace combat and I love that it takes place in a fictional world but so many of these country names sound so god damn stupid to me
>>558011512I wonder if they might be planning some events to happen at air shows this year.>>558011589Both the base game and the DLC for PW do have several missions that are tailor made for the Frogfoot at least. Also I kinda wish the Eagle in F59 was a Strike Eagle. They even acknowledge with Prez that she can fly on her own, but she likes to be Monarch's WSO. Of course mods fix this but if it really trips your tism not having a second seat modeled on your plane it sucks, does lead to the funny issue of Prez sitting in the middle of the Harrier's fuselage though, that's funny. I feel like Project Aces could figure out a good solution if they want to, I liked Prez and Eye-Tee a lot so I feel like a team with more budget could really make WSO characters into something even better. And then whenever Project Wingman Zero: The Oceanian War comes out(lol) whatever WSO that game has could take notes from Ace Combat. The between mission stuff in the carrier has me hopeful too, there's a lot of potential for fleshing out the characters and downtime is something we don't get a whole lot of in war games. >>558017169I don't know what I find funnier, the fact that half the countries have names that end in -ea or the fact that Sapin is Spain with two letters switched. There's also Delarus which might be the funniest one.
>>558019025>Sapin is Spain with two letters switchedyeah and then you get san salvacion which sounds both very spanish AND grammatically incorrect in spanish
>>557955767You can actually shoot down strafing Frogfoots in Moscow if you get the right angle.
>>558022189I'll have to try that when I replay AH then.
>replay AHwhy would anyone do thatAH is not an ace combat game and I dont understand how an ace combat fan could enjoy it
>>557905797Think of the mouse as a flight stick and it'll click. I've been playing on M+KB since release, and I very much prefer it to flying on controller (which genuinely hurts my hands).
>>557999605we hebben een serieus probleem
>>558024046Star Wars Empire at War is not an Ace Combat game either yet I had a lot of fun on a recent modded playthrough.No reason to limit yourself to one genre or series.
>>557905797Play kb only, only use the mouse for menus. It's how people played old school space shooters if they didn't have a stick.
>>558042946I don't care if they're more efficient and stealthy, plane without vertical tail looks fucking cringe
How long until the next event that might have news?
>>556634351Hot
>>558020726What's grammatically incorrect about it?
>>558070059nta but San is a shortening of Santo, meaning saint. Salvacion is salvation. The issue is Santo is masculine while Salvacion is feminine. It should be Santa Salvacion
>>558071641Is there a masucline form of 'slavacion'? I imagine the devs just saw the names of places like San Francisco and just copied it without knowing the finer point of Spanish grammar. Actually kinda funny it stayed the same all this time because original Erusea was spelled Erusia.
>>558075578I meant salvacion, dammit.
>>558075578>Is there a masucline form of 'salvacion'?Not directly for the concept of salvation or act of being saved, it's strictly feminine. There is a masculine form of Savior, Salvador, but San Salvador is taken.
>>558075578there's santa elva too so I guess they went with the old>ends in a? feminine>ends in o? masculineand didn't give it much thought beyond that
>>558076323maybe that's just how it works in sapinish
>>558079427Could be the angle but man, these girls just look weird. Also is it normal for those landing tires to be so flat?
>>558083957>Also is it normal for those landing tires to be so flat?yes
>>558085289its china everything is either made by wish or temu
>>558079427It's just because the vertical stabs are turned outward. I like how silly the J-20 looks sometimes.
>>558093263I've always wondered why Fagins turn their canards down like that. It's probably to add more drag resistance when landing.
>>558071641Huh... Guess I never really thought about it as I assumed san could also shorten santa but looking back I can't think of any example that might be true.
>>558096907>Guess I never really thought about it as I assumed san could also shorten santa but looking back I can't think of any example that might be true.Yeah, only the Masculine form can be shortened, the Feminine form is always Santa
>>558095987They do that when threatened actually
>>558097321>autistic Mandarin screeching
need this as a new ac
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFGJa-razKkOh hey here's another Ace Combat youtuber who rose from the dead.
>>558026881The issue I'm finding is an order to keep my aircraft going at a particular Direction I have to be constantly moving the mouse in that direction I don't know if it's a setting that I have to play around with but it's a little bit annoying when it causes me to not be able to turn constantly in a fight
>>558103593It's kinda funny how much Ace Combat I've seen since 8's announcement. I don't think this series has ever had this much recognition. All the old content creators got reactivated like sleeper agents and I've been recommended people with like 12 subs starting their playthrough of the game.
>F-35 killswitch talk in the news againYou know sometimes I wish I knew less about planes than I do because of the news, videos, and comments I see about them from people who know fuckall about planes make me want to strangle them. Especially when those people SHOULD know more about planes than I do.
>>558106672Beautiful.
>>558106046You literally need to log into an account to fly the damn thing. Every fancy gizmo in the aircraft is handled by software (ALIS) that is restrict-able if the US deems it necessary (say, if they need to invade you as an excuse to cover up the Epstein files). The US Defense Logistics Agency can send over the air updates to your fleet to deregister all of your pilot's accounts, rendering it into a fancy showpiece eventually. It doesn't have a traditional "kill-switch", but it's more like the IT department deciding to lock every computer in the office. Beyond that, you still have the traditional route of rendering the aircraft useless by just restricting parts anyway. https://www.jsf.mil/alis
if Thomas can get his own train sim, why can't Jay Jay the jet plane get his own Ace Combat-like?
>>558104375Yea AC7's mouse control is extremely oldschool. As in it's like early flight sims when Mouse control was this weird new idea. It's a "Chase the cursor" mouse control like you have by default on in War Thunder where you put the mouse to a point on the screen and the game tries to put the plane towards that spot or even a Virtual Joystick where center of screen is neutral and you are effectively moving the mouse in the circle to emulate a joystick input and holding a position until you move the mouse again.No man you're 100% pushing scroll data as inputs which means you better get used to doing pull and place if you're wanting to turn fight.
>>558121234>It's NOT a "Chase the cursor" mouse controlGod I need to wake the fuck up before postingLike of all of the setups I found Chase the Cursor to work the best, although I admit the Virtual Stick idea might have worked better if I gave it more time as the UI for it in War Blunder was kinda ass and looked frankly like shit. At least Chase the Cursor had it being a small translucent ring to call out your aimpoint while Virtual Stick had a ring pretty much being as tall as your UI was and a very distinct white dot being your stick location. Frankly really distracting.
how many months, too many months...
That new girl's got big shoes to fill.
they seem to be dropping background lore bits every two days, we'll probably get something substantial by the end of the month, or early march
>>558140392Do we actually see her working on planes in that outfit?
I want drones on my planes so I can have more plane per plane.
>>558146985No. The planes are for ME to fuck.
>>558166942Cool planes are cool.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrcJY-ugvew
