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https://x.com/PROJECT_ACES/status/2026129971245441052Repostan from previous thread. Do we know for sure if the FCU existed at the time of AC2/AHL? Even in AHL it's never namedropped, hell I think the only countries that are explicitly named are Yuktobania and Osea.
>>558405386I wonder what the upside-down FCU flag in the trailer means. Is it like a Philippines scenario where the upside down flag is the wartime flag?
Also interesting that the FCU shares the 7 star motif with Erusea.
>>558405386ace combat but with kojimbo's levels of autistic detail
>>558405605Yes, it's just called USEA in AHL. You fight for the side who wanted to ally with the Oseans, though.
Basically Cross Rumble's explanation of AC2 plot is:>Erusea and North Point want a continent-wide federation to resist Osea and Yuktobania's new dominance after the Belkan War>FCU core states in the south prefer an alliance with Osea and sabotage the treaty negotiation >North Point orchestrates a series of military coups in the southern states to force them to sign the treaty>FCU government and Osean-allied forces work with Scarface squadron to suppress the coup
Well, how about a missile that shoots planes, huh? How about that?
>>558407546mobius 1 country is...le bad?
>>558407546>North PointPerfidious Albion working together with Crazy France to fight the EU and America? Man, I love Strangereal.
>>558407662>Names their massive fuckoff ICBM base Fortress IntoleranceSplendid isolation, I believe
>>558407546Is this before or after Erusea transitioned from a monarchy to a republic?
>>558407686North Point kind of fucks itself over, the fascist coup blows up the military of every state that isn't Erusea and then the asteroid fucks them up even harder.
>>558408415The implication is that Erusea became a republic some time in the 70s-80s, within Mihaly's lifetime or just before his early career.
Ace Combat spinoff written by Yoko Taro send post
>>558408415One of the briefings in AHL refers to Albireo Squadron being from the Erusean Republic, which means the monarchy got ditched prior to AC2/AHL. The exact point of the change is not mentioned anywhere iirc, but Mihaly joined the Erusean Air Force while it was still a monarchy.Albireo is also mentioned as being 'the strongest of the Allied Forces', the games starts with the Allies holed up in Erusean territory, and Mission 3 states that Anchorhead (an Erusean city) was a crucial Allied port before being occupied, which means Erusea was/is on the side on the Allies during AHL.
Looking at the timeline in Aces at War 2019, they did a pretty good job retconning everything to fit in place all things considered. 1 and 2 are a little kludged into place but integrating events that occured before Strangereal as a concept truly existed isn't the easiest thing.>>558406764Which I find very strange. Supposedly at one point Usea was an acronym for United States of EuroAsia, maybe just a reference to that?>>558411791I guess Mihaly taught Albireo their bullshit maneuvers. Also Anchorhead cannot catch a fucking break can it? I wonder if we'll sink a fleet in their harbor for the third time.
<< ALL AIRCRAFT CLIMB ABOVE 5,000 FEET! >>
>>558418369<<CLIMB, NUGGETS, GO GO GO!>>For some reason I've been using videos about airplane crashes recently as background noise and honestly it helped explain why that was such a big deal for the rookie pilots to do. Sudden changes in altitude does weird things to your mind and can make you lose track of your surroundings, even in clear skies.
What is your guys headcanon for each player characters intermediary plane(s)? Like after the starter but before the final "canon" plane. I like to imagine Mobius 1 flies the Eurofighter
>>558424454Isn't the F-18 a "canon" plane for Mobius One thanks to some official art? With how easy the S-Rank requirements are in the PS2 games I don't think intermediate planes are necessary. In my heart of hearts Mobius flies anything and everything like in Nassault's animations, but Wardog styles on the Yukes solely in F-5s up until they had to be reborn into F-14s, and Cipher either hangs out in his Draken until the second B7R mission or he just had the F-15 the entire time.That said I fully think Trigger switched planes every time he changed squadrons, so F-16 -> weird junk Avril got running -> F-15 -> F-22. And then he and Avril pilot their privately owned his and her F-104s because Osea is a beautiful country where civilians own anti-tank rifles and milsurp scrapyard warplanes.
>>558424454Trigger's obvious with the Eagle, but I like to think he flies a Hornet during mission 3 and 4 so the Harling things makes a little more sense to me. During his time in Spare, I like to think he gets whatever they have ready to fly and gets an A-10 for Long Day and Pipeline Destruction. When I replayed recently, I did a couple missions where Wardog flew F-20s and X-29s depending on mission so that's what I imagine before they get their F-14s. Zero I just imagine Cipher going straight from his Draken to an Eagle about halfway through the game. Plane Jesus flying a Euorfighter makes a lot of sense honestly since some Mobius pilots in the final mission have them. I'll have to try that when I replay 4. X I'm thinking Gryphus One uses the Apalis before getting his Raptor, because it's pretty middle of the road as far as the superplanes go.I don't have any thoughts for the rest of AC, but for Project Wingman I think of Monarch going Phantom/Tomcat/two seater Chimera, with the Frogfoot used for A2G missions.
>>558425882>because Osea is a beautiful country where civilians own anti-tank rifles and milsurp scrapyard warplanes.God bless Japanamerica
>>558425882I've seen theories that Trigger had a MiG-21 or F-104 in Spare because you unlock them in that point of the game, but I've also seen a theory I'm personally partial to that Trigger kept his F-16 from Mage somehow since the Spare Skin retains his emblem and Fort Grays markings.
>>558409279So the continuation of Ending E?
>>558424454I dunno because the my player character's canon plane in every game is either the Eurofighter, a Flanker or the F-18I'm not interested in F-22s
>>558433438I'm bummed that AHL doesn't have a Flanker-E, or that the Terminator in game doesn't have the Ace Combat 2 camo scheme. But the Terminator is so much fun in that game with the cartoon physics flight model.
Naval planes are so cool, I'm glad we're getting a whole game about them.
>>558448540They sure are.
>>558003904>>558004797Late but what if she is the ranking officer on the E-2 so she is the voice you hear across the game
So which Erusean insurrection is Mobius 1 going to put down this time?
>>5584244540: Draken, F-15C1: Whatever he wanted2: Su-353:The simulation doesn't give Nemo a choice very often4: F-4, F-18, Tornado, F-225 F-5, F-14A6: F-15, F-22X: F-4, Apalis, F-227: F-16, F-15C, F-22, F-104 as a post war hobby plane.8: F-18C, F-18F, F-18B3, F-18ADV
>>558448801imagine if the wright brothers saw this
>>558453836>They look up in the sky with smiles from ear to ear>They walk over to all the doubters they know>They say one simple phrase>Suck it bitches, ok whatever the 1903 equivalent to that phrase is
>Watching Solo camping for two>The short hair tomboy girl is wearing a shirt with 3 claw marksHmmmm
>>558449226I think the AWACS is the British-sounding guy from the trailer who says:<<Radar contact, we think it's the Shadows!>>]Though I suppose we could get more than one AWACS.
>>558464835It could happen again in JA the game gave you 3 choices for your AWACS voice. You could do the same here the game lets you pick which one of the crew you want to hear during missions.
They sure are taking their time with those news.
Pixy you WHORE
>>558473124Got'em in my pipper
A thoughtWith Zero being the preorder bonus do you think they'll do a bit more and all the skins from zero are in 8's base game.If the plane doesn't appear then something close would get those skins. Like say Draken's skins are given to Gripen for instance.
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>>558484880At the very least I would expect that we's get all the squadron skins for their respective planes, which means things like the F-15S and the F-16XL are probably base game planes, in addition to the skins for Cipher, Pixy, and PJ. Them doing all the Ace Style skins would be cool though.
>>558473124>>558474128>t. femCiphers
>>558493064>F-15SYou mean MTDI would love to have the F-15S back in the game she hasn't been in since 2. Remember that F-15 only appeared in 2.
You know you're about to be up against a huge faggot when they have the F18 with the Top Kek shit on it. Double if they're post stalling and using EML.
>>558498169The S was in Infinity. I didn't know it was in 2.
>>558498169I totally forgot about that.
>>558498275the top gun hornet doesnt have the EML
>>558498275Haven't played multiplayer since I finished grinding achievements, but playing meme builds against tryhards is fun. Mirage (and a lot of other 120 HP planes) with Bulletproof Fuel Tanks has the bulk and maneuverability to eat a few tryhard hits while also maneuvering for good hits on the enemy. Or drop down even further jnto Mig-21 territory and be an old bumblebee in the superplane world.
Give me your favorite aviation documentaries. I used to watch a bunch of old ones about 1950s american jet fighters
>>558498417No it wasn't it only ever appeared in 2 the MTD & SE was in infinity but not the S
>>558500839I like watching videos from this channelhttps://www.youtube.com/@AirSafetyInstitute/videos
>>558499071I'm talking about a skin, emblem, w/e. When they win the Top Gun music plays so I know it's Top Kek shit.
>>558500260I use the MiG-29A against the and bumfuckem with 4aams. These guys love to just stop and stall into oblivion just to get a snipe on a new player
>>558464835Sure would like to have actual accents be a thing for once.
>>558500839https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyjnMKNifUo
<<I want to understand the enemy.>>
overly excitable anti-submarine warfare gf often gets herself into awkward predicaments
>>558509321Sometimes you gotta get in the water and fish the enemy out personally.
>>558509429but she cannot swim!
>>558509548She'll be fine. There's more planes in he ocean than submarines in the sky after all.
>>558509548Subs aren't on the surface she has dive deeper to get them.
the submarines are just under a cover, you have to approach head-on and low to the ground to get a shot
>>558481867XT's are to cool
Just realized we're never seeing the CFT F/A-18 again because while the Navy did buy Block III they opted out of the coolest looking CFTs to date.
>>558516138The Navy already had several B3 in service and wasn't going to use the CFT when the DLC came out and PA didn't remove them then I don't see why they would now. It helps the plane stand out in the game compared to the normal super bug.
>>558516138Boeing is still offering it to export customers of Block III. Most of its problems with the USN was related to carrier operation, so it's not unfeasible the other carrierless operators of Superbug might acquire them. None have opted for it so far, but the option is there.
post fat f-16 NOW
>>558520480feed me more palestinians
>>558520480Does this count?
>>558520480She's a bit heftier than her Gaijin cousins, but she's taller so it proportions out.
>>558520480
whats your favorite aeroplane
Alect Squadron is how you do a boss fight, they don't fuck around.>>558520480Oh lawd she comin'>>558530862Phantom. Luv me flying bricks.
Why does f-35 have curved surfaces if those are bad for stealth?
>>558540079the shape with the lowest radar cross-section is a sphere
>>558540079Everything in aircraft design is a concession. If the F-35 has a curved spot, it's likely the benefits of making it curved outweighed the potential increase in RCS. The DSI's are probably the most notable example. The humps *have* to be rounded, it's just how they work. I also remember reading that some curved parts are actually made wholly of radar absorbing material and underneath them is an angled structure that reflects whatever isn't neutralised, mainly on the belly. Not sure how true that is though.
>>558540079They're not inherently bad for stealth. Rather, the shape is determined through computer simulations, and the more powerful the computer, the more polygons it can handle. The F-117 was devoid of curves (even the airfoil!) simply because the computers of the time weren't powerful enough.
>>558405386Don't worry guys, I think I'll be okay for Mission 16 now!
>>558542534When I replayed 7 recently I thought this was a bug, not a bug that become an official skin later on. Funny stuff.
Do the PS1 and PS2 trilogies benefit much from playing on a CRT, as opposed to a modern display, or are they about the same?
>>558543054For 3 exclusively I'd say there's a benefit, just as the FMVs are 240p and will not look good highly upscaled and would likely benefit from the CRT lines. Otherwise I'll be honest I played AC4 with a CRT filter to make the UI look a bit sharper and didn't bother with AC5 or ACZ.
>>558543054Well the PS2 has deinterlacing hacks for all three games so besides some of the 2D UI elements which maybe could look better on CRT, I don't think there is much benefit to playing it on a CRT. This is assuming you're using emulators of course.
This is a real autismo gripe, but I really wish the plot of AC7 was being a Erusean Ace, fighting with the drones against OSEA.
>>558543857An AC game playing as the aggressor would be weird, it can be done, like in certain routes of AC3, but that's a very specific situation.
>>558543857this post fact checked by TRUE BELKAN PATRIOTS
>>558540831Sphere is also a shape that has a guaranteed radar return from every single angle
so are Belkans supposed to be the germans or the jews?
>>558552121Both
>he thought he would be safe bringing the a-10 on a ground pound mission
>>558551368doesnt matter so long as the return isnt identified as a plane, it may as well not have happened
>>558552486shut up fairy, awacs says you have to listen to me and i say you have to bring and use ugbl at the round table
>>558553520>you have to bring and use ugbl at the round tableIn his defense, he still probably does better than PJ.
>>558553117I would know...
>>558543039Its always nice when a studio pays attention to what the players like and give them more of it. Does make me wonder what other planes will glow in 8.
>>558547498
>>558542534MY FUCKING EYES>>558557893I think the players have SHIT TASTELOOK AT THIS SHIT
MY NAME IS BUCC AND I'M HERE TO FUCK
>>558561223Fat fuck
fucking slut
>>558562252
Ever get the feeling Osean swat teams show up to a scene with Abrams, MRLS & F-35B's?
>>558526724She's still fucking fat, all that extra mass and no new engine to go along with it, she might be taller but she still has the same amount of muscle as her better cousins.
Something don't look right here
These Ace Combat 4 trial missions are making me rethink my entire life. The first time I played it I ignored it completely, now that I've S ranked every mission I was giving them a god, and I just cannot get S rank on the first mission, it's too hard, I'm trying to copy what a guy who got S rank on youtube did, with the F-22 and the PGB, but I've only managed to get A rank. I'm getting really humbled by this.
<< Climb nuggets, climb! >>
https://www.war.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/4413689/two-american-heroes-awarded-medal-of-honor-during-state-of-the-union/Elmer Royce Williams was finally awarded the Medal of Honor that he should have been back in the 50's. The Korean War is a major gap in my war knowledge, so I never knew about the incident he was involved in, but taking on that many Migs in a Panther is nuts.
the wso is NOT for hand holding!
>>558596514Then why do plens with side by side cockpits exist?
>>558596982because we live in a sinful world
>>558581719Guns, missiles, bombs and go fast it can take a lot of attempts to get and S.Remember this stage takes place at the early construction stage of Megafloat
>>558524908It's a shame israel are such cunts. They make some nice camos
thinking about taking a tiny little plane like f-16 and tacking stuff onto her body and stretching her out until she is big and round makes me feel a tingly in my tummy
>>558602124I really like their Eagle liveries with the bird on the vertical stabs and the desert camo. Also their roundel's neat. If I ever build a model of one I'll be sure to put it next to a Luftwaffe plane because I think I'm funny.
>>558608665>b-but anon what about my turning circle? i'm supposed to be a small and nimble dogfighter you know...
>>558610123Don't worry compared to what you'll fight today you still are a small and nimble dogfighter.
>>558611234viper-chan is always trying her best even when she has been eating too much...
>>558596982So you can get called a baka
>>558613372Based Eureka chad
viper-chan getting all flustered and embarrassed when you call her by her real name
So are cutscenes still fucked in AC6 in Xenia? I want to get my AC fix and 6 is the only mainline game I haven't played yet.
>>558614516Last I heard they were.
>>558614516Yeah but its not like your missing anything besides you can just minimize the window and watch the cutscene on YT then go back to the game.
>>558616094That only affects the pre-rendered cutscenes right, not in-mission ones?
>>558562252But she only has eyes for Blaze!
>>558619014>But she only has eyes for space!Fixed that for you. Blaze can tag along on Pilgrim One, but space is to Nagase as planes are to /aceg/rs.
What if Blaze was a dog all along? Think about it, he does what he is told to, can only communicate with simple yes/no/abstain, and is the only Ace Combat character to have canonically conversed with another dog.
>>558621185THIS IS THE NAIAD
>>558621909Hey, that's one of ours!
Fucking B*lkans
>>558631773What WAS Dr. Schroeder hoping to build instead? Analyzing a retired flight vet and turning it into algorithms for autonomous killer drones doesn't seem like it has a lot of non-military applications.
>>558632084It was revenge against the Oseans because Belka got its ass kicked by them twice in as many decades and they're STILL seething over it.
>>558632693Watching Schroder seethe over Count calling him a dumbass is fun, because it shows Belkan scum are incapable of having any accountability. While not all Belkans are trash (Tabloid is a loyal buddy through and through), the worst actively make Strangereal a worse place.
>>558509321
>>558633159At least Schroeder seemed to realize in the end how stupid all of it was. He didn't seem actively malicious in the same way the Grey Men were, more like he was running on momentum because making weapons was literally all he knew how to do. Like Belka still exists but he talks about it as if it was outright destroyed. Given his age I would think he probably just started working in the Belkan arms industry when the war ended and got snapped up by Grunder. I genuinely don't think he ever considered the morality or practicality of what he was doing to begin with.Speaking of Grunder how in the fuck were they not dismantled at the end of the Circum-Pacific War? They never stopped stirring shit even after they got their shit pushed in and even considering the secrect surrounding that war it's ridiculous. Was Harling not able to fully remove the warmongering element of the Osean government when he was restored to power or did Grunder just make up too much of Osea's MIC to fully dismantle?
>>558604937>If I ever build a model of one I'll be sure to put it next to a Luftwaffe plane because I think I'm funny.I can do you one better https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avia_S-199
ac8 time yet/>?
>>558635461I was also thinking of getting a kit of that as well. Empahsis on thinking because I'm very out of practice for making model kits of any kind. Last thing I built was a snapped together gunpla.
Bruh this TheNewBie cunt is such an obvious hacker I hate how dogshit Jap games are wehn it comes to anti cheat or moderation
I was not expecting X to have elevator music as one of its credits songs but I like it. Great fucking game, I'm.gonna have to replay again to finsih all the mission variants.
>>558608665Two seater F-16 is extremely fucking ugly already, no need to put tumor tanks on it
>>558642961good luck getting 12C without looking up the mission sequence
You're not supposed to hold hands with your WSO because you are supposed to be attracted to your wingman and/or your rival enemy ace. This is why Zero is the best Ace Combat for making your wingman and rival enemy ace the same person and doubling down on romantic tension.
The Game mod is finally outhttps://www.nexusmods.com/acecombat7skiesunknown/mods/3520
>>5584244540: Draken, F15C, F-15 Active4:F-4, F-14, F-225: F-5, F-14A, F-14D7: F-16, F-2, F-14D, XFA-27
Were they trying to be funny when making these games?I mean who gives a character a name like>Mihaly Dumitru Margareta Corneliu Leopold Blanca Karol Aeon Ignatius Raphael Maria Niketas A. Shilagecompletely unironically without intentionally taking the piss? But they treat it so seriously.
>>558659759It has historical precedent. Royals are weird.
>>558659759>Anons learn about royal names from IRL history
>>558659759>>558659960And it's not even an old-timey thing. They still do it.
>>558635461>shot down two Royal Egyptian Air Force C-47s, which had just bombed Tel Aviv>Shot down Egyptian SpitfiresThat was a very strange short war indeed
>>558666334Especially given that the thing was a genuine piece of shit.
>>558634486Cute, very good draw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80XAJKqRU9k
>>558651482What about a two seater Typhoon?
>>558667280Ugly but not as badThe only jet fighters in the world whose two seater variants look good are the F-15 and Flanker
f-35s, yay or ney?
>>558668348ugly
>>558668243Two seat Harrier is also a thing
>>558668408You shall be raped at the earliest convenience.
>>558668850that won't make the f-35 stop being ugly
>>558668348Sex
ladies, one at a time
Yeah ok but this still hasn't been surpassed and it doesn't need gay stealth and internal weapon bays to be the greatest jet fighter of all time
>>558669805>the f15se would like a word
>>558634950It's a major corporation anon. Think of the North Osean voters who will lose their jobs!
>>558668841But where does the fuel go?
>>558673404She's a Marine she can fly on pure rage at not being allowed to eat crayons like the rest of the Marines can.>They give her some really bad gas when she does eat them and it messes with her engine output.
>>558562252fucking whorethis is why women don't belong in the battlefield the new girl in 8 will probably be even worse
So F-22 are hanging around Israel. Time to fuck up Iran already?
>>558683070>the new girl in 8 will probably be even worseshe's gonna cuck the MC so bad it'll make Nagase seem faithful to Blaze in comparison.
>>558684072Nah MC will have a case of full on planetism if it ain't metal or aluminum and smells like oil he don't care about it.
>>558659960Not even restricted to royals either, Spaniards have long ass names too. Look up Picasso's full name. I even had a college professor whose family was Spanish and he had a long ass full name too.
>>558684354>metal or aluminum and smells like oilyeah thyey should've made the new girl into a robowaifuthey're so behind the times
>>558684763We had a machine waifu in 7 you can fly her anytime you want.
>>558683917I'm still team Nothing Ever Happens until signifigant strikes take place.
>>558685769I prefer the red head version
>>558683917why does america need the alpha predator 5th gen superplane to deal with sand people?
>>558698748She's gotta get out and stretch her legs every now and then, bomb some sand people and maybe just maybe Iran gets a plane in the air and she can finally get that intercept she keeps dreaming of.
>>558634950>Like Belka still existstbf they only really have a bit of belka left after the breakaway states and the big chunk that osea ate. it's like if america was left with only michigan
>>558705027But as far as Belka cares they did save the best part of Belka and thats all that matters. Getting revenge on the world is a fun national hobby
>>558709004that would imply michigan is the best part of america
>>558709291Never said it was (Its not btw) but as far as Belka cared the part of Belka they kept was the best part. They didn't even bother nuking the lines until Osea was about to enter North Belka aka the BEST Belka.
I hope the first-person cutscenes with the silent protagonist will all feel really awkward as the characters fawn over you like you're a severely disabled Make A Wish kid
Why do I fucking love airplanes so much, brostfw no big airshows where I live
>>558711196I hope they let us walk around during dialogue while saying nothing in response like it's Half-Life.
>>558712023I think keeping it on-rails adds to the wheelchair-like Make A Wish experience
>>558711196It has potential for NFS Most Wanted/Carbon-style hilarity and I welcome it
>>558712017Fun Fact: That carrier appeared in Tora Tora Tora as the stand in for Enterprise returning to Pearl.
>>558715521Being a naval aviator in the 50s let alone world war 2 had to be fucking terrifying
>>558716686They had it worse in the 30's
>>558717232At least there if you botched the "landing" you had plenty of altitude below you to recover, instead of going into the drink
>>558717423Luckily, that fear never really went away
>>558717861I wonder if that big ol' radar dish provides any significant lift
>>558717861Real life Looney Toons. Also shows how big carriers are when that plane just disappears under the flight deck for so long before regaining altitude.
>>558717423If you botch that landing it could damage your wings and you won't recover only fall.>>558717861>webms you can just hear the Indiana Jones music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfEtHZsmq20
>>558723328
planes
tenjin hidetaka shinden
>>558727570Very nice.
>>558728565would be epicsauce if the special edition for 8 had a tenjin painting as the cover boxart instead of the usual edited cg render
>>558727570Never really thought how good Phoenix colors work on the Shinden
What kind of country is the Republic of Sotoa?The Republic of Sotoa is a nation located in the western part of the Belusa Continent, separated by the outer ocean to the east of the Yujia Continent. It features a diverse range of environments, including dry grasslands, mountainous regions, deserts, and oasis zones. In ancient times, it was established as a chieftain federation by multiple nomadic tribes. It transitioned to a republic through rapid modernization in the 20th century, but even now, longstanding powerful clans maintain strong influence over politics and the military. Having modernized its military forces through contemporary wars, it is a country currently facing challenges from desertification and water resource issues. Peep! #ACECOMBAT #ACE8
>>558732192Cool flag
>>558732192>ClansAlright time for some Dezgra shit
>>558732192
>>558732192Clan fuckery? I smell an enemy civil war coming.
>>558732192so they ARE iranian
>>558739734Irano-turkic-algerian.
>>558732192>cool-looking flagSotoa did nothing wrong.Death to the FCU.
You know if there's one thing I wish they actually kept fron Assault Horizon/ it's the plane destruction. I think they kept it in Infinity since Infinity reused basically all of AH's model, but in 7 it seems like the aircraft all just have one damaged state they always go into with no variation.
>>558754489You might be in luck, AC8 is apparently implementing a newly-patented physics system that takes into account the state of a crashing aircraft and its parts when calculating its trajectory, including the possibility of ground destruction as a result.
>>558757972I do remember seeing them mention the physics in an interview, yeah, it's got me hopeful honestly. Especially after you get stuck in a protracted dogfight for a while seeing the enemy plane fall apart based on how you damaged it would make it even more satisfying. And seeing pilots bail out would be pretty cool too, I noticed some parachutes after downing fighters in Project Wingman. Stuff like this isn't required but they're little touches that make the games more immersive and cool.
>>558698748There's a difference between the insurgent with a HMG on a pick-up and a state with actual SAMs and an air force, even if it may have been mauled in the past months. The houthis actually managed to threaten two F-16s and shot down a number of Reapers.Do not underestimate an opponent just because he has a different skin colour.
>>558405751my guess is that it was a texturing error and the flag got flipped, or maybe the one in the trailer was the correct orientation and they accidentally flipped it on the post?
>>558754489PA ported the exact same destruction animations from AH into 7.They were just used for the enemies instead of the player.
>>558771187Believe me, they are not the same. God knows I played enough AH to tell.
>>558405386I have no where else to say this.But instead of a missile or pull up alert, all I want is a mod that replaces it with>CORTISOL WARNING CORTISOL CORTISOL CORTISOL
you dont deserve this bump
I’m a little disappointed PA didn’t name the rest of the countries around Sotoa and Yuktobania for the extra world building while working on Sotoa’s lore they fleshed out basically all of Osea for 5 and Zero I just want these countries to have names finally. When I first heard Sotoa was the antagonist nation I figured we’d finally get that verusea world building
>>558782568I wish aggressor liveries were just the default paint scheme for planes instead of Air Superiority Grey. The F-35 aggressors have an awesome camo design, and on that note I wish the Japanese would paint their F-35s blue.
>>558800328Maybe all those other little countries are part of Yuktobania?
>>558801067AC5 confirmed those aren’t states within Yuktobania, but separate countries. Looking at picrel now it’s interesting Clavis isn’t named anymore
>>558803736Huh. Also seems like Griswall was the name of Aurelia at this point in time. I checked my copy of Aces at War as well and the Verusan Continent map is practically unchanged as well. It has been almost two decades in universe since AC5, maybe some of those smaller countries joined up with Yuktobania like a lot of smaller Usean states joines the FCU.
>>558806436It’s possible, and idk why I’m using images of maps from AC5 briefings when I have my own copy of Aces at War as well for a more updated map oops glad to know you confirmed it legit hasn’t changed at all over there though. I still find it interesting they came up with a lore reason the Anean countries aren’t named in AC5 cause they also tried to form a union which fell apart. I wonder how they felt about the Circum-Pacific War reaching their waters in the Razgriz Straits
>>558800387Air superiority grey is beautiful in its own right.
>>558807646I had no idea about the Anean Republic thing, neat. Gotta suck working backwards like that to make Strangereal into an actual setting but I think they do a good job all things considered.>>558808897Of course, but it gets a little boring when it's on everything and especially 5th and 6th gen planes can look pretty samey when they're all grey. It also looks really good on Eastern Bloc planes too.
>>558811651>Of course, but it gets a little boring when it's on everythingWell, thats why AC has unlockable skins that reference aggressor camos, prototype liveries, etc. Its what incentivizes people to work for those skins. I'm sure 8 will be no different.
>>558812187Hopefully we get a fuckton of skins in the base game. There's so many ones from previous games they could bring back and new IRL liveries to reference.
OSEA OSEA OSEA OSEA OSEA OSEA
So what are the current projections for the release date? Doesn't seem like they'd want to compete with GTA6 so maybe late December after everyone has already played it?
>>558813224I feel like they're gonna aim for a summer release to get ahead of GTA6.GTA6 and the inevitable GTAO2 is gonna suck up all the oxygen for games in a two month window around its release.Recent Kono-posts indicate the game is content complete and in QA/polishing, and the recent trend of background lore posts from all official Ace Combat social media accounts means we're getting the ramp up for the promotional period right now. If it was slated for a December release, I feel like they would still be keeping total radio silence.
>>558813796Yeah I assumed summer release as well, fall would be a bad idea normally for AC but especially with GTA 6 like you said
>>558813224Release date trailer at SGF, August or late July release date.
i hope the carrier in 8 has working bathrooms
>>558808897No it's not, it's fucking boring and lame.
Some of you need to be scale modelling pilled and realize the sheer artistry that comes from lovingly weathered grey.
>>558820513I struggle enough getting airbrushing Because whenever I want to paint the weather will always go to shit. I live in fear of oranges
Year of the Superbug
>>558825692Classic bug has much more sovl.
>>558827076I quite like both of them personally. The Legacy Bug is kinda cute and smol kinda like eurodoritos are, but I like the big leading edge root extensions and wider wings for the Super Bug. It's kinda why I like the Viper Zero just a bit more than the normal F-16.
gunship grey >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> air superiority grey
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCHbs2Jiu4wJesus Christ this guy makes the F-104 look downright nimble
>>558836067It also makes War Thunder look like a good video game instead of a skinnerbox run by the greediest Russian stereotypes imaginable. Apparently the F-104 was or is extremely strong at its BR.
>>558732192Doesn't matter what translator your using it can not understand Versa as the continent name. When I use twitters translate function it called it the Belusa continent same with google.>>558739734>>558740230Alright Kono you did this to yourself you KNOW what you must include in the game now.
why do i hear flamenco music
>>558844131I have no clue
>>558844131Oh no.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dw0h2AksKT0
>>558844131Would you call jousting one of your strong suits?
<<Glad to see you boys finally made it up>>
We're bombing Sotoa right now
>>558859676I bet the Belkans are behind this.
So how's that pivot to China going?
Sources tell me the Tomcats are stable.Please God
>>558863552pray that a bunch airforce pilots decide to defect with their tomcats
>>558863552just spoke to the big man upstairs, he said no
>>558863552They're gone man
>>558859676Of course I find out it started here. Not from the news or /k/, but the funny plane game general.>>558862514Iran is technically in Asia :^)>>558863552There's a really good chance they all died last year when Israel was running laps in their airspace, and from what I understand they were essentially husks by that point anyways. The Tomcats are gone man, I'll be outside.
>>558864158rip
Honestly, to me it has always looked like F-14 has shoulder padsI'm not exactly upset that there's less of 'em left intact in this world
>>558877441it's a massively overrated plane and the only reason you see so many autists overrating it is because they saw top gun as kids
ace combat missions for this feel
>>558882970Nowadays I mostly see people ragging on it instead of overrating it, most autists you see bawling for the iranian f14s getting destroyed just want to handwave their plane autism and deep down wanted to see it get shot down in the air for some poetic bullshit.
>>558862514Sandbox Eternal. We're all teenage dirtbags, baby.
>>558885106>bawling for the iranian f14s getting destroyeddo people forget these are war machines whose ultimate purpose is to go into combat and risk getting destroyed?do plane autists actually develop romantic feelings for planes?
>>558885376>do plane autists actually develop romantic feelings for planes?Its called plane autism for a reason
>>558885505my plane autism stops at wow planes are so cool
>>558885376>do plane autists actually develop romantic feelings for planes?That is quite literally a symptom of autism, intense object personification.
>>558885251One of the reasons it's been so eternal is because of those Islamic Republic fucks funding and arming every retard with a grudge, so maybe taking them off the board will calm things down.
>>558885376Personally, my sorrow comes from never being able to see one fly in person. I was holding on to hope that a few flyable units would survive for airshows.
>>558886227you'd think with a plane so iconic there would be one or two excentric rich planefags pumping dollars into restoring/keeping an airframe or two airworthy
>>558886670They legally can't. Tomcat's were rendered unflyable by congressional law. Specifically, the parts that make Tomcats flyable had to be destroyed, in order to prevent Iran from getting their hands on them.
>>558887367>in order to prevent Iran from getting their hands on them.maybe they shouldn't have sold them f-14s to begin with, fucking retards
>>558887925But the CIA installed stooge would never get overthrown. They had the killteams they trained kill all the """"commies"""" so there's no other group which would be angry enough and organized enough to remote our pet dictato-- oh nevermind.
>>558887925How could you predict that the leader of the country you helped put in power and sold the jets to made the people so fucking mad they preferred some theocratic loonies and started a revolution over it?
>>558888371that whole part of the world was always going to remain an unstable powder keg for decades
>>558883180The radar destruction missions from 4 and X.>>558885376I only feel sad because I was hoping at least one of their Tomcast of Theseus would wind up in a museum to gawk at. I don't feel bad about all the Flankers or Fulcrums that have been shot down in Ukraine, or the Rafales India lost. The latter case gives me a roundabout way of making fun of the French so I find it funny more than anything. Unless a plane is very rare/1 of 1 or it gets destroyed in an air show crash like that P-63 crashing into a B-17 a couple years ago it's whatever.>>558888371I've never understood why Iran was the only other country to get Tomcats personally. What made them so special?
>>558902476>I've never understood why Iran was the only other country to get Tomcats personally. What made them so special?Nobody else wanted them and had the cash to pay for them. As iconic as the Tomcat was it was also a maintenance nightmare.Why bother with that when you can just have F-16s or Mig-29s(depending on which side of the cold war you were on).
>>558902476>I've never understood why Iran was the only other country to get Tomcats personally. What made them so special?They wanted them. They were given an option between the F-14 and F-15, and they went with the Cats.
>>558902908and why did iran want tomcats anywaythey dont even have a carrier
>>558902908That's true. >>558902984Huh. Maybe they just thought the Tomcat looked cooler.>>558903327Apparently they wanted an interceptor because the MiG-25 spooked them.
>>558903327No idea honestly. There's some speculation that they preferred the F-14s radar to the F-15 for a pure intercept role against the russkies constantly flying over the airspace.If you're conspiratorial you could claim that the US pushed them toward the F-14, a very maintenance heavy plane requiring a constant stream of parts from the US, to ensure their long-term support. That didn't end up happening and they somehow cobbled together the parts themselves(kinda, sorta, but had to write off a lot of airframes).Ultimately it might just be down to the timing(F-16s weren't an option) and the random whim of some Iranian official thinking the F-14s swing wings were cooler than the F-15 being a big brick with wings.
bro is that fucking three strikes
>>558903327The AWG-9 and the Phoenix. The F-14 was the most advanced fighter in the sky at the time, with a TWS radar and Fox-3 Missiles. You only need to look to the Iran-Iraq war to see how that turned out, the Iraqi's got absolutely bodied by the Tomcats. The F-15 would have likely performed well too, but nothing else offered the standoff capabilities the F-14 did at the time.>>558903902Outside of its capabilities, there's an anecdote of the Shah being personally won over by the wing sweep mechanism during a flyby. Probably an urban legend.
>>558904131THE SKY IS CONNECTED
>>558903902MiG-25 was so based. Imagine being a piece of shit but everyone is terrified of you
>>558904131>Operation Epic FuryPlease tell me this is some sort of satirical news site.
>>558888927i mean the dinosaurs should have just known a meteor was gonna hit them and just hidyou're only saying shit like this because we have hindsight to thank for it you retard
>>558904754>he doesn't know
>>558904754Nah, they named it that for real.I had the same thought when I first read it.
>>558905063>>558905084These people are deeply unserious.
>>558904754When you got a CoD Kiddie running the Pentagon and a retard running the show who thinks BIG IMPRESSIVE NAME ensures it works better even when it's just another round of "Do Anything to distract from The Files"
>>558904774the dinosaurs were dumb animals who didn't know what an asteroid is and had no concept of history, politics, war, religion or literally anything that a human could consider before making decisions to arm people in unstable regions
>>558905740The official White House twitter posts AI slop memes, the world is a fucking parody of itself.>>558906416Yes but the T-Rex's had a fleet of F-14s, really no excuse for losing against a fast rock. They should have deployed Tom 'Rex' Cruise.
>>558906804>'Rex'Silent protagonist... the General Resource connection...AC8's big twist is that we play as a sentient combat-trained dinosaur.
>>558907402Calvin grew up, moved to Japan, and got a job at Project Aces.
>>558904754Go to twitter and look up the White House accounts, or other US govt departments. It's like reading /pol/ complete with /pol/ memes. Just missing the Pepes.2026 is such a fucking absurd year so far.
>>558909618>Go to twitter and look up the White House accounts, or other US govt departmentsI shan't, thanks. I'm very fond of American military hardware and don't want to ruin that by getting to close to the absolute retards that use it.
>>558904754>>558905084>>558905740>>558906804>These people are deeply unseriousThese people know their audience very well.
>>558909775Twitter is a frankly fascinating place now, if you ignore the part where it's also scary just how fucking retarded, psychopathic and gullible so many people areSocial media were a mistake we will take generations to recover from
>>558909775Smart play anon.
how does aceg feel about omega boost
>>558911008I have it downloaded on an emulator but I haven't tried it yet. Funny that the Gran Turismo devs decided to randomly make a mecha shooter between games.
>>558910136Honestly it's pretty much the same shit as any new media is for manipulating the masses. So many believe anything presented to them as long as it fits their worldview even if it's an obvious lie
>>558912279The big difference is that social media is all real time so you get propaganda, state funded or otherwise, hot off the presses with no time to think about what you're seeing. Our brains aren't able to handle the gamut of information spewed at us. Shit drives you absolutely insane and I know this from experience following current events too closely.
>>558913009I kinda gave up trying to keep up with all the epstein shitand I know this is precisely why they dumped 3 million files on us all at once, to make it too much for 99% of people to bother following after the initial couple weeks of outrage
>>558913009I just don't really use it as an information source DESU. I just use it mostly as a gallery because some people STILL refuse to post on established gallery websites. While sticking to Forums or even bloody newspapers for primary info feeds.
>>558909775the problem is they're mostly not retards, they're evil and they're israeli puppetsbut anyway, planes
>>558925664Big fan of the era where every jetfighter was a giant straw with wings.
>>558926869this is why the F9F is the prettiest jet of its erait had a fat centrifugal compressor engine like everything else but it managed to not look like a chubby tube
>>558888927me, a genius, continuing to throw matches on it
>>558927285Personally I like the Cougar a little more than the Panther, I just love the way the swept wings blend into the rest of the fuselage.
>>558928140yeah I love it too but I think from certain angles it looks a bit too chubby, whereas the panther is just sex from any perspectivemost importantly it's from a time when every plane had a style and a certain personality, even manufacturers and whole countries had a unique style, in ww2 and during the cold war you could immediately tell if a plane was american, russian, european, etc.now everything is a mystery meat F-22/F-35 mutant. the su-57 might be a meme but I can respect it for being its own thing
>>558904754America has always been dogshit at military naming conventions and now they're being led by a bunch of retards who never left their edgy fourteen year old phase.
>>558904131Close enough
First time I've ever seen a one of the Turks Bayraktar's on flight tracker
>>558939759Umm ok?
>>558939759Cranked delta wings my beloved
>>558909618>It's like reading /pol/ complete with /pol/ memes. Just missing the Pepes.More specifically, it's reading /pol/ memes from 2016-2018 made by the moronic boomers that flooded in from r/the_donald.
>>558950914Isn't this a blue board?
>>558958121>dorito fishbedGive it MGPs or PLSL and put it in AC8 Kono, I NEED it.
>>558950914>control surfaces barely deflecting and yet it¡s pulling massive alphaJust how unstable is that thing
>>558973727Incredibly! Also even minor thrust vectoring may result in funny things happening.
Found this on /k/. Spoilered for graphic violence.
>>558979892
Real slow fucking day huh.
>>558993090almost like there's nothing to discuss because the newest entry in the franchise is 7 years old and the upcoming one has already been discussed to death
>>558993090It's fucking snowing again man. Seen enough of this shit so far. And apparently got more inbound. Gonna be so deep you could hide a plane under it
>>558994932I'm genuinely surprised this place has stayed up as long as it has. There's an argument to be made we should have closed up shop till 8 was announced but half the generals on this board are dedicated to things having a general makes even less sense for. Plus having this place for nuggets trying to get into AC or just to discuss plane games that try to do similiar things to AC is nice. I've been using the hype cycle of 8 as an excuse to replay the entire series, I still have 6 and JA as games I've never played at all. I've only got 5 games left at the moment and I'm saving 4 for the finale because it's my favorite.
!WARNING!Confirmed launch of V2
if they bring back the f-35 its base skin should be weathered like so
>>559012954>ifnigga you say that like they would leave the most important jet fighter of its time out
>>559013229I wonder which variant it'll be this time. Probably the C so they could reuse the model from 7 but it'd be funny if they finally gave the B it's VTOL capability.
>>559012954Would fit with the FCU or at least the Endurance being on their last legs.>finally unlock your late game 5th gen>she's a rusty, decrepit hag that you got only by offering the seller more than what they would've got for scrapping her>still baby the old gal because she's new to you, dammit, and you can still appreciate the upgrade from crusty 4th gen to rusty 5th gen>style on the pristine Sotoan guard squadron with a plane that makes others fear catching tetanus just by looking at it
>>559012954HNNGG F-35chan with a tan
>>559012954Is there something specific to the stealth coatings that make it get patina faster than the Hornets?>>559015296Brown tomboy erotic
>>559015657salt water really hates planes especially the ones with more delicate coatings
>>559015657Iron nanorods/nanoballs oxidizing
since the us really sperg out at anyone who looks like they're developing nukes would they also bomb them to shit if they tried to make a huge aircraft carrier
>>559012954>dump trillions on dollars on making the world's greatest superplane only for it to rust to shit on your carriers
>>559024446>t. smarmy landlubber who's never known the terror of the seasSalt water genuinely hates everything. It's an ionic metal dissolved in the universal solvent, it's basically tailor made to fuck everything up. Only the Dutch properly fear the great devourer that is the sea.
>>559026719>never known the terror of the seasi went on one of those boats that take tourists out to the norwegian sea to spot whales and we spent like 4 or 5 hours out there (cause the deal was if you dont see any whales you get your money back) and if I hadn't been off my tits on magic norwegian anti-nausea pills i probably would have been terrified cause that boat was moving up and down more than it was moving horizontallyi did see a kid my age almost get yeeted into the water when the boat was coming down a big wave, lucky for him my dad was there to catch him
You'd think the bad guys would be able to hear a jet aircraft flying nearby in the quiet of night
How do you feel about the 8AAM/AGMs in 7?
>>559051418brought down bigly by mandatory lockstacking if there arent exactly 8 or more enemies in range
what is this thread's opinion of Ridge Racer?
>>559051562I find with the AGMs especially that havung more than 8 confuses the targeting system too.
>>559053309I played Type 4 for the first time last year and I loved it.
>>559053309I wish they'd make one that is very explicit about being set in Strangereal.
Blue on blue https://x.com/sentdefender/status/2028335527431160100
>>559061129Glad to see two chutes, hope the pilots were scooped up quick. I wonder what happened and whose Eagle it was.
>>559061129>>559062541Oh there were updates on the rest of that Twitter feed. Both pilots safe, it was an American Strike Eagle.
Seeing an F-15 go down hurts, man. I love those things.
>>559063634>filenameLol. Yeah they're pretty planes. It's kinda funny how it falls out of the sky like a giant leaf when the pilots bailed out.
>>559063685Really speaks to just how stoutly the thing is constructed that its airframe held together like that.
<< Mobius 1 shot one down! >>
>>559065620I hope that rumoured new destruction physics system PA has a patent on gives us plane kaboom effects like this...
a few birds are gone, no idea how many, but at least all the pilots are ok
>>559069102Christ, did a SAM battery go apeshit or what?
>>559069560it's unknown yetI did read a theory on twitter that it was Iran jamming radar or masking radar to trick ground sites; but I also heard it might be birds
>>559053309I only ever played a demo for a PSP oneI remember being impressed by the graphics but the driving felt really stupid
>>559070432Ridge Racer's driving physics are very particular to the series.
>>559069627Probably sacking and deferring maintenance because it's not WARFIGHTER enough for these idiots. Because current leadership thinks military equipment is magical and you don't need to do things like buy ammo, repair things or have downtime. Ford's at 8+ months now without going to dock for it's routine upkeep. Gonna run the military into the ground with stupid shit like this.
>>559075108It's not as if the MIC is particularly open to the idea of the military maintaining their shit themselves.There's loads of stories nowadays of techs and shit across all the services just not being able to repair crap because it is in the contractors' interests that repair or replacement has to go through them, usually at a premium cost.You could go through job training learning how to repair crap at component level and then end up just swapping in and out black-box parts that the supplier charges the gov't fat stacks for every time they break.Anyways, plens.
what an embarrassing way to lose the perfect k/d ratio
>>559080087It's not A2A so it doesn't count.
>>559080087104-0 is for Air-to-Air victories. Several F-15s have already been shot down by air defenses prior to this. This makes around 5, I think?
>>559061129>first Eagle lost in combat>it's due to friendly fireFucking Chair Force. I hope the aggressor is permanently grounded
>>559080087>>559090532Could you guys please not fall for the years of clickbait YouTube video titles/thumbnails and news article titles? Or rather, could you guys please do basic fact-checking? I'm not even an anal SOURCE? SOURCE? kind of retard.Especially the latter guy. You can't even claim ignorance, seeing as how >>559082184 said otherwise, although I can see how you'd interpret his words to mean in only non-combat situations.Eagles have been downed by aggressor ground defenses in combat theaters (see Operation Desert Eagle).At least one Eagle was downed by a friendly Sidewinder in a training situation.
This is chatgpt's idea of "fictional jet fighter that looks slightly sci-fi but in a retro way, like something that would have been designed in the 70s thinking that's what the jet fighters of today would look like"
>>559082184Also worth noting only Strike Eagles have been shot down, F-15A through D have never been lost in combat. That's not necessarily because they're better, mind you. It's just that F-15Es have been pushed into much more dangerous situations due to their strike role.
<<Carrier Shahid Bagheri, sunk!>>
>>559101031i dont believe for one second iran could even come remotely close to sinking an american carrier, but it's funny to see the current american administration talking about "false messaging machine"
Forgot that thing even existed.
Qatar has allegedly knocked down two Fencers. Possibility that it was a Meteor kill, its first known if true.
>>5591108363000 black mirages of Qatar, inshallah.
>>559110836First AA kills for the Rafale/Eurofighter it is (not counting drones)
>successfully shot down two 50 year old soviet turdswoooow
>>559113345There's not much else to shoot down at the moment.
>>559110836>Iranian pilots can't make their Fencers pull PSMsMajor skill issue tbdesu.
>>559090173>Yep. That's me. You're probably wondering how I got in this situation.
What's the point of forward swept wings on a cruise missile?
>>559121491Looking cool. I wonder if the smaller size of the cruise missiles also helps negate some of the disadvantages of forward swept wings.
>>559121491maybe forward sweep gives you +0.4% better stealth or something
>>559124205I swear I saw something saying FSWs are worse for stealth but I'm probably wrong.
Ace Combat 8 gameplay trailer in 2 weeks.
>>559134192They're usually worse for stealth because they limit your options for how you can shape the airframe. But a cruise missile isn't a plane, so you can use them to avoid reflecting edge configurations.My guess is the new block TLAMs are just borrowing a bit of work from the AGM-129's design.
>>559038402The thumbnail makes that look like a wireframe I would expect to see on a synthwave track.
>>559101031We all knew that was going to be one of the first targets but do we have video of it going boomOn another note with Sota being NOTIran is Kono going to have to delay 8 and update Sota mindset so when we strike Sota's mainland they will launch attacks on every country around them?
>>559152850It does seem to be fairly standard behaviour for aggressor nations in AC to chimp out.
>>559110836The QATARIS managed to notch their belt? God, this is embarrassing.
>>559152850>>559153228>Sotoa chimps out and attacks Yuktobania>Yuke/Usean joint ops on the Sotoan mainland> << La la la... Listen to our beautiful voice. This is AWACS Oka Nieba. That would mean "Sky Eye" in your language. >>
>>559153228Given the lore blurb they put out about Sotoa mentions they're dealing with economic issues and desertification, I'd imagine it's the case of the more hawkish parts of the Sotoan government/military using the crises as an excuse to bomb the shit out of the FCU. What I wanna know is why they chose to strike acrosd the ocean to hit them and why Yuktobania doesn't seem to care very much.>>559153365They do have some pretty sick Eagles to be fair, the F-15QA is what the F-15EX uses as a base.
>>559154515EX-chan can trace her roots to Sand Eagles Does this make Ex-chan a hot tanned girl who likes to wear belly dancer outfits and knows how to dance when off duty?
>>559154868I like the way you think buddy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ob3UIqjoKI>Assault Horizon Memorial Movie
>>559155921>Completely missed 6's video and its sounds in the cockpit one.>AH one is nothing but door gunner and DFMWHY?
>>559155921Better to acknowledge a misstep than sweep it under the rug. Also Jesus Christ it's been 15 years?
ACE COMBAT 30th anniversary sketch by Shoji Kawamori.
>>559157367That's rad.
>What is “Theve”?“Theve” is the capital city of the Federation of Central Usea (FCU), a federated nation existing on the continent of Usea. It is the pivotal city for the player faction in this installment. Players take on the role of the “Wings of Theve,” a symbol of hope bearing the name of the FCU capital, and challenge the Republic of Sotoa in battle to reclaim their stolen lands.>Is the terrain shown in the holiday postWhite Valley Base?This is an image posted on X by our mascot character, Nuggets-kun, who infiltrated the development site.As you all guessed, this is White Valley Base.Given that the game is set on the continent of Eugea,some of you may have anticipated its return.Please stay tuned for further updates on how it will appear in the game.
>>559157795White Valley Base?
>>559157795Also peep the new map they teased.The ISEV is called "Earthport" now.>>559157885Operation Katina.
New artwork of Kei Nagase from Ikaros in the Sky. A lot of content today, we're definitely getting something big soonish.
>>559157994I never noticed they named the little island to the east of Tyler Island. Was it named in 7?
Also meant to say, after a few days of seeing the internet discourse on the Iran War being like 95% straight-up lies (most of that being made and willfully believed by just regular users) I think 8's theme of the 'mass delusions of social media' in war and the damage it causes is probably going to be the series' most poignant theme yet.
>>559157994Ah. It was in 2 and 3 as well. Didn't make into 2's remake for whatever reason though.
>>559157994>Earthport>is actually a spaceportGood to see the implications that space development is proceeding well in Strangereal.
>>559158493is we getting a mission where we have to dump SFFS on a sotoan elementary school because North Point paid off FCU politicians to start a beef
>>559158493The worst part of that I see a lot of people who are, theoretically, on the same side I am lie as much as the Iranian government has. You know I've actually started watching the news since this started? Like, actually watch and pay close attention to what the pundits and interviewees say, not just have it on as background, and avoiding anything that seems like it's ragebait. It's funny comparing the reporting between the various US outlets and foreign ones. But at the end of the day I have no power and no say in any of this crap anyways. The only thing I know for sure is Iran is FUCKED and no one in the US government has any goddamn plan on what to do after we stop dropping warheads on foreheads. >>559158894Personally I can't wait for the mission where we bomb not-Indians pretending to be Osean on not-Twitter.
>>559098018nice, gemini gave me this
>>559098018>>559161146I also tried it in Grok
I tried gemini again, but I added in soviet to the prompt it looks like a MiG-31
>>559161146>>559161332>>559161561We don't like slop around these parts
>>559161935ok
>>559161146I don't know if the random Starfox logos or the open maintenance panel on the engine is funnier.>>559161935On the contrary I say it's good to see what our taxplayer dollars and a fuckton of new pollution are being used for, AI slop machines that can't even accurately reporduce real aircraft. We're all dead and this is Hell.
im a 42 year old gen millenial w/ a norwood 5 and these are my posts
>>559162123I didn't know the Israelis had an alliance and arms share with the fucking Zentraedi.
>>559162252Slop generals can be found on nearly every single board across 4chan we don't need it creeping in everywhere else.
>>559162705I'll take AI planes over AI anime slop
>>559162705Fair point.
>>559162790how abt neither
>>559157994So Theve has gotta be on the East coast somewhere, right?Also RIP Voslage
You AIslop niggers need to go back.
>>559163549Volsage must have gotten annexed around the same time Shilage did by Erusea, especially if there's been enough time for kids to grow up only speaking Erusea's language.
>>559157795>White Valley BaseShit this really is a Gundam story.
>>559163851Anon's probably referring to the map being post AC7 and there being no Shilage or Voslage, meaning that Sol Squadron's bid for independence in M18 likely flopped.Cranking up the contrast though you can see that the disputed area near Gunther on the new maps is named Amber, so we finally know where those guys are located.
>>559174837I always assumed it floundered anyways with how slapdash the whole thing was. Good to have confirmation at least.
<< On first sighting the Erusean's Arsenal Bird, I naturally gave the order to destroy it. That's my style, sir! >>
>>559173440I like how in ace combat jets always fly under 1000 feet
>>559176824<< SKELETON SQUADRON ANSWERED WITH THEIR LIVES! As YOU should have done if you had any sense of honour! >>
>>559157367God bless Kawamori. I do think a number of AC's original planes would look right at home in Macross, I'd fucking kill to see the Nosferatu as a Valkyrie.
>>559162790"i'd rather take shit moulded in a form i like than shit in a form i don't like"keep that shit off this board. i can't believe anyone on this board that prided itself on designing outlandish and silly designs from our own creativity would decide that it'd be alright to offload our own whimsy to some bot.
>>559161332Eggplen!
>>559205419
>>559200487Man I wish the Phantom had a better loadout in 4, just having two dumb bombs sucks.
think she's currently seeing some action over Iran?
ple- wait a minute...
>>559220915--pLEn--
>>559220780NopeUnlike Ace Combat or Gundam we don't send prototypes into battle.
>>559220915>Nuclear Option has a F-111 stealth in it?
>>559230675i only posted it as a bump (although someone beat me to the bump), but yeah, it's still indev but they showed it off recently>supersonic bomber>swing-wing with folding tailfins so it turns into a tailless dorito during high speed flight>also gets jammer podsit has the F-111 style crew escape capsule too
>>559231530Nuclear Option devs must have access to some Napkinwaffe tier coke to come up with shit like this. I need to get it when I have a PC that can run it, I like the idea of a simcade flight game.
>>559231530Ooooh neat but will they add the detail of you can do a fuel dump?
Seems the UK's F-35 have finally scored her first AtA kill. Just like Typhoon it was a drone.
>>559234951Seems like every fifth-gen's first kill is gonna be a drone.
>>559178301<<And what makes an ace pilot, Mobius?>><<The ability to fire 3 missiles a minute at any altitude Sir.>>
>>559235243Not all of them F-22's first AtA was a high altitude balloon just like her 2nd-5th AtA kills were also balloons.
Iran has made a huge mistake they have stuck 3 amazon data centers.. The Persians wanna start shit up with a megacorp now.
>>559239370>amraamazon primeLmao
I do not respect stealth fighters
Now they're saying it could have been air-to-air kills. The Eagle's streak may have been ended by a Hornet.
>>559249042It's weird living in a new era of fog-of-war thanks to misinformation (deliberate or unintentional) combined with said misinformation getting signal boosted before it can be corrected. With so much noise out there the truth can be hard to uncover. I wonder if AC8 or 9 will revisit Zero's conceit of not knowing what exactly happened and trying to unearth a real timeline.
>>559249042hornots got the last laugh after being mocked for decades for being the only air loss in desert storm
>>559249042I'll withhold judgement until the final verdict is outThat said being shot down by a Hornet is acceptable if it had been a Typhoon it would be completely unacceptable.Still >Arab armies they never change.
reminder, still no air kills for the f-22
>>559249574It truly would be the last laugh buddy Kuwait doesn't have Super Bugs they still use legacy Hornets
>>558800328have they confirmed those big islands as part of sotoa? feels like a waste to not fight over thoselike we do in X with terminus and danern
Friendly fire kills do not count in combat.
>>559251143they are usually lumped with crashes caused by accidents or malfunctions which is very boring
>>559251058Not yet, Until that changes I will say those 3 smaller islands are Ridge State they are in the close enough area to match(ish) the map in RR7
>>559251551realistically they should be the launch pads for the invasion of usea
>>559251713Will the Useans EVER catch a break? Wait, shit, we're not even at Electrosphere yet.
>>559252234well me personally, i wanted the new game to be solely centered around verusa
>>559013229>the most important jet fighter of its timeIT'S NOT FAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIRRRRRRRR
>>559251713Unless Kono makes my crazy ideas come trueThey didn't need islands to use as a spring board to invasion.They brought the island with them.
>>559249532>I wonder if AC8 or 9 will revisit Zero's conceit of not knowing what exactly happened and trying to unearth a real timeline.I think if they do bundle Zero as a pre-order bonus that would all but confirm it. Like I can imagine a post-mission segment on the carrier where a sailor or one of your wingmen shows you a social media post that's flat out fucking wrong compared to what you actually did in the mission. Alternatively say you accidentally(?) drop a fighter on a civilian area, your PR guy might get with you to make sure you have your story about what happened straight. I don't wanna fall in love with potential but this has good potential to be very interesting. >>559253156Raptor-chan being the jealous older sister to the Lightning wasn't what I was expecting desu.>>559253239That image reminds me of this.
>>559253156Don't complain, buddy. It could always be worse; an F-22 could be lost during some bullshit snafu during this current Iran campaign, and then she'd never live it down.Anyway, I need to knock on some wood.
>>559253156i said most important, not betterf-22 is the better and cooler fighter, but it's not the mainstream definition of 21st century 5th gen fighter that's been marketed to almost everyone on earth
>>559254320One of the problems with being the first is that you tend to get outpaced by the people who come after you, in one way or another. But hell if the Nighthawk still hasn't been officially retired I say the Raptor's still got time in the sun left.
>>559253156maybe theres some weather balloons out there if it looks hard enough
>>559253239the giant city ships from girls und panzer look more practical than this
>>559254847Yes it does but on the flip side that thing is just a huge collection of floating platforms bolted together. A much smaller version exist in 7 we blow it up all the time in M11. It would be possible in Strangereal to build larger. With the Yukes being master shipbuilders I could see them building something like that might have sold one to Sota back in the 80's or 90's as a counter to rising Osea influence in USEA.
>>559256509like in the arcade mode from 4 where you play around the platforms that eventually become megafloat from 3?
>>559249532I mean 7 already played with this a bit but most of the impact that actually got focus was how your IFF was fucked up. Which is relevant to this.But really it'd be interesting for them to more in-depth explore that concept. Maybe something like Metal Gear Solid 2 and Revengeance worked with.
>>559261716
>>559261883<<Checked the Internet lately?>>
>>559261534Exactly just this version has enginesIt could be an excellent destruction level 30min timerplenty of planes, tons of ships you can either destroy whats on top or start to disassemble it section by section Once required points are met you can either fly to the opposite of the map the return line is on to end the mission or keep playing till the timer runs out. This way you can use the return line all you want and leave anytime you want after that point.
Do you think Kono is now thinking maybe he shouldn't have made Sota NOTIran as now along with all the existing ones the game will have a whole new set of comparisons ones fthat no one could have seen or planed on happening.
>>559265389I think Kono's just a good sci-fi writer in the sense that he's able to understand the ebb and flow of humanity and come up with plausible scenarios that even if they don't come to pass still resonate with people. There's levels to it, of course; making not!United States of Eurasia fight not!Iran isn't the biggest stretch of the imagination. But if Tom Clancy extrapolating military capabilities so successfully that the DoD made him get a security clearance so he would have to stop writing about the stuff is at the top of the league, I'd rank the Ace Combat series in the middle of the league somewhere around Kojimbo's ramblings about the MIC and politics in MGS and the average cyberpunk work.
>>559267221I think it helps that AC's allusions to IRL politics are more abstract as opposed to being total parallels with them. They take inspiration without transplanting them into the setting and I think AC's storytelling is more concerned with broader themes. Yet they still manage to be really on the nose in a charming way like Theve rhyming with Kyiv, Bulgurdarest building a border wall, and Belka being EXTREMELY German. Makes me wonder what Yuktobania's relationship with Sotoa will be because there's no way they'll sit the story out being right next door to Yuktobania.
It finally happened.
>>559280327>a trainerwoooow
>>559281058you could argue that the f5 is a trainer. LCAs tend to be pretty competent these days since all you need is a good AESA radar and some funny radar slingers.(though, that definitely is not what the iranians have)
>>559283357I mean they were probably using it to swat down drones and shit if it was shot down over Tehran, then got bounced by the F-35 because they overextended. As far as I can tell they don't even have the """modernized""" variants either just the basic two seater trainers, so it wasn't even a fair fight lmao
>>559281058Still counts a lot more than a drone or a balloon does.
The unfortunate part about the US and Israel having basic opsec is that we don't get a lot of footage like we did with Ukraine.
>>559281058Iran doesn't exactly have that many fighters left
>watching video from targeting cameras being shown on the news. From the quality of the video it appeared one launcher was sitting behind a hill made it look exactly like one of the IRBM sites in Magic Spear.
>>559280327F-22-chan is going to lose it the nerdy girl got an AtA kill before she did.Best girl is on the scene
>>559268729>Yuktobania's relationship with Sotoa will be because there's no way they'll sit the story out being right next door to YuktobaniaI've been thinking about that as well came up with a few answers that fit>The 1stThe Yukes are busy with someone(s) else on the continent and can't devote any forces while Sota took the chance while they had it.>The 2ndThings didn't go as well for the Yukes after the coup in 2010 it simmered in the pot for years until it finally blew up very violently in the mid 2020's and they are still in the middle of a civil war>The 3rdDifferent version of above it didn't blow up violently they just sort of broke up like the Soviets did in the 90's and aren't in any shape to do anything now.>The 4thA very nasty person came to power and he is using Sota as a pawn for his own goals>The 5thThe people who led the 2 attempted coups in USEA all fled to Sota at the end of 90's to build up a power base and then revenge. The Grey men are also working with them and now its revenge time They stirred up enough shit with the Yukes internally to keep them busy while the three groups go on a revenge boner tour of the FCU
Legacy Hornet enjoyers, you'll be pleased(?) to hear that apparently those Strike Eagles downed in Kuwait were hit by an F/A-18C with 3 Sidewinders. https://www.twz.com/news-features/kuwaiti-f-a-18-hornet-responsible-for-shooting-down-three-usaf-f-15e-strike-eagles-reportWell it's not confirmed because it's being sourced from one contacy from one story from the WSJ, but I choose to believe it because it's very funny that some random Kuwaiti pilot almost became a reverse ace in a day
>>559311324All bets on Yuktobania not even being mentioned
>>559316285very certain tasha is a yuke
In other sub related news a US sub has gotten her first kill on an enemy surface ship with a torpedo. First time since WWII since this has happened
VTOL is a meme and isnt worth it
>>559317904
Keep coming back to these screenshots. Ough I'm getting hyped again.
>>559322314THEVE LMAO
>>559322314I hope we get more info soon man. And more pretty screenshots, goddamn this looks gorgeous already.
>>559317904*bombs ur runway*
>>559333535I want the BDSP back so bad
>>559333535shouldnt have had indian for dinner last night
>>559339436Can also be loaded up with warcrimes in a can.
>>559343197.i've come to learn that surstromming doesn't actually keep that well when not stored cold.i think a lot of the internet lore around surstromming stems from americans ordering cans to be shipped across the pond, breaking the cold chain so that the cans keep fermenting until it turns into a foul, biohazardous sludge by the time it arrives.this is plane related because surstromming is swedish and sweden makes planes.
This whole thing is actually really fucked up you guys. I can't fucking believe we're letting these lunatics go through with this shit. Like it's all fun and games when it's just hypotheticals and war games and fiction but this is poised to be fucking catastrophic. Even if you set aside the death tolls and nobody should, the economic damage is going to be so fucking far-reaching, and the US's limits are on full fucking display, as are their priorities. Like, fuck you South Korea you don't need this missile defense platform, sucks we couldn't properly defend the other ones. What the fuck? What the fuck are we even doing anymore? Is all of this just so some pricks can make a killing betting on it on gambling sites? Jesus christ.
>>559354773...first time?
>>559354773Are you feeling alright anon?
>>559354773I don't get it
imagine if current events make the global economy go nuclear meltdown mode and they cancel ace combat 8 because people are eating their neighbours to survive
>>559355754You need to turn off the net for a while anon this war isn't even close to doing thatNow when the US & China have that throw down over Taiwan ok then you can worry about that happening. But this nah small potatoes in the economic sense.
>>559354773PIXYGET THE V2RESET THIS TWISTED GAME
Back to plane newsYes we knew she would be sent and yes the B-52 has got to blow shit up in Iran like her younger sisters have been doing.Reminder that BUFF is eternal and will fight in all wars for all of eternity.
>>559355027Been better>>559355754Well the closing of the Strait of Hormuz has left Japan with less than a year's supply of oil so that's not as unlikely as you'd think.
>>559356972Ok plenty of time see nothing to worry about your just panic!! for no real reason.
>>559355754I imagine I would be more concerned about getting eaten by my neighbor than the funny airplane game
>>559355754>fuck fuck games with silicon destroys the consumer electronics market>fuck fuck games with oil hobbles the consumer goods factory country and the craftsmanship island>fuck fuck games with big tech are driving energy and water prices up>tariffsI mean it's easy/fun to doompost but it's not like there's anything (You) or anyone here can personally do about it. Just roll back on the internet and enjoy the stuff you have right now. Staying informed and well-read is important and all but the 24 hour news cycle and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.
>>559358104meant for >>559356972
>>559354773I think you're overestimating the consequences of what's happening by quite a lot.
Has anyone looked at flighttracker or other plane tracking sites? You see the new flight paths around the ME. Afghanistan hasn't seen this many planes over its skies since the US was hanging around.. If you didn't know they use to fly near the Iraq/Iran boarder.
>>559358278Depends on what's going to happen next.
>>559358278Well two of the, what, seven THAAD systems in the world have been destroyed? The US couldn't protect its radar systems from a flying tractor you can shoot down with an AK? Billions in hardware gone, bases in several other countries just having to tank hits. Even the country we actually ARE trying to defend is getting hit, so what fucking good is our "protection" we insisted NATO needed to be paying us more to have? That's to say nothing of the refugee crisis this will no doubt reignite as people try to flee this clusterfuck. I'm not saying shit is gonna go nuclear but there are long-reaching consequences for this impulsive action.I just don't know man. I'm sorry for the bad vibes but it's all just so goddamn much.>>559358104I wouldn't call it fun, more I'd say that it fuels an anxiety spiral, but your point is taken. I need to get away from war shit for a while. Maybe try to get back into Brew Barons for more relaxing plane shenanigans.
>>559359172Nothing of importance China isn't massing its forces for an invasion. Russia is still bogged down in Ukraine, Turkey doesn't feel like fighting the Greeks. Anon you just really need to take a break from the net for a couple of days. Go outside touch grass for a while, watch the clouds
>>559359604Found the problem your reading tabloids and rags just STOP and read news sites that are creditable not sensationalist click bait sites that spew whatever BS they see on twitter.
>>559359604Ah I see, the issue is you're incredibly retarded, nothing we can do about that unfortunately, might as well kill yourself and spare the rest of us from enduring your posts.
>>559360629>>559359739eagle put your name back on
>>559361618Sorry buddy I'm not him but you are clearly on the edge of a mental breakdown from reading to much bullshit on twitter and so called "news sites". For real anon go touch some grass for a few days it'll do you a lot of good.
>>559359739On that note there's potential that the REAL reason we're doing this is to choke off one of China's last oil suppliers. If Iran capitulates and we install an even remotely friendly regime all they have for oil imports is Russia. Not that this would stop them from doing the funny in 2027 but it would make shit harder for them even if only slightly. Just because China lies through their fucking teeth about literally everything related to their military (in general really but especially on th at front) doesn't mean we can just assume we're going to curbstomp them so we need as many advantages as possible. Ideally Uncle Pooh will just drop dead and any real ambitions to invade Taiwan die with him though because the world is actually fucked if they go through with it.
>>559363505I'm sure that was one of the reasons by logical sane people so not the ones in charge but the guys with all the brass. China losing Iran oil will be a blow its the 2nd one this year first blow came with losing access to Venezuelan oil. I'm sure Xi is feeling the pain when it comes to needs lots of oil in a steady supply for sure but what would be the death kneel for Chinese plans is in Ukraine's court as they keep pounding Russian oil sites.On another note as we are a plane general the French have got Rafale flying around the UAE protecting bases. Look like our french girl is about to see her missile and drone kill marks grow at a crazy rate.
>>559366398China is a big fucking country and I'm sure they have strategic oil reserves, but I'm skeptical if they have enough to support an invasion. That's also probably why they're pushing their shitass EVs down everyone's throats so they can conserve oil for their shipping fleets and military.Also I really wanted to make a joke about how France should hope that Pakistan doesn't get involved since the JF-17 shot down those Indian Rafales, but after I typed it out I realized it wasn't funny. Hopefully she gets a few intercepts in while this clusterfuck is going on
>>559367503Of course they have a strategic oil reserves all nations have one but its never as large as you think it is even for the US.I fully expect Rafale to get intercepts but I highly doubt it'll be against another plane Iran can't have many left between Israel smacking them last year and what we're doing now I wouldn't expect many left but an odd Su or Yak that somehow didn't get blown up yet.
>>559373837
>>559373837>>559373969Cute
Plens?
>War with country known for having a fuckload of drones>Does not do anything to prepare for fuckload of drones despite prior experience with said fuckload of dronesTruly an Osean Moment.
>>559354773I like the current beef bewteen trump and spain>yo let me use your bases to bomb iran>no piss off>I will trade war you bro>don't care>HEY EVERYONE SPAIN AGREED TO HELP US OUR THREATS WORK>no we didntinternational politics is such comedy since the us govt went full nutty
>>559354773At this point you'd be better off not taking things too seriously and just laugh at the absurdities of it.
Today, 5th of March, is the 90th anniversary of the Spitfire's first flight in 1936.
>>559373837Here buddy have a larger version of the that page.
>>559400303CoolVideo timehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brd44OS0Ueohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFt36mVjvw8
>>559400303Imagine going from designing one of the most elegantly beautiful planes of all time and a certified world war 2 superstar to creating this flying turd that was already obsolete by the time it entered service
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkAIUvd2eF8
>>559406006Sometimes getting high off past success can lead to complete disaster in future works.
JASDF just dropped a new Eagle videohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h62IbNH18hI
>>559406006Supermarine just wasn't ready for the jet age. Though they're most famous for the Spitfire, most of their experience was in building flying boats and seaplanes (hence why they were called Supermarine), an issue compounded by R.J Mitchell's death in 1937. He was the lead designer of the Spitfire and by far the most knowledgeable person in the company when it came to fighter design, so they were left high and dry when seaplanes fell out of fashion after the war.I mean the Attacker's wing was quite literally taken from the Supermarine Spiteful, that should have been a warning sign. Side note: Gaijin please add the Supermarine Spiteful, I'm begging you. I will run naked through the streets of Kyiv singing the Russian national anthem if I have to
>>559413663Saved the thumbnail award
https://x.com/AceCombatGames/status/2029602844354007220If you're a content creator in North America, Bamco is floating a program for early media access to AC8.
106-0 (Friendly fire doesn't count).
>>559417406
>>559417406>Flying at 80ftChrist, those guys were ballsy. No way they ejected in time.
>>559419219Ballsy? I'm not sure its kind of flat flying over the Persian Gulf being water and all. Then followed by flat sand in Qatar
>>559413663>R.J Mitchell's death in 1937>died of butt cancer at 42poor lad
>>559420281Taking off in such a situation is already a ballsy move to be fair
With Iran hitting Azerbaijan now I wonder will seeJF-17's bombing the sand people?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJ9r8LMU9bQ
>>559415018Which one of /ourguys/ do you want to see make it?>Nassault>Ace Combat Fan>Solutus Eversol>Marco Meatball>Fictional Horizon>Knight Valfodr>SoloWingBuddy>CholeHonorable mentions for timmm (not in NA), Max0r, and Mint Fantone since she's also apparently a buddy. Who else am I missing?
>>559425017none
>>559415018We inch ever closer to release. I guess this for people wanting to go to a preview event to make videos of the what see/play. Personally my pipedream promotion for 8 is them doing a preview at an airshow in the US because I might be able to go to that.
>>559425017Nassault or FH just for the fact I would expect both of them to make one of their own videos on the first mission. That would be great to watch before release And Mint to play a few levels for us as I do like that ghost maid. >First time I found her she was doing a tour of the USS HornetRemember PA also went to visit the Hornet to get accurate models for 8's carrier.
>>559427457The Hornet also does a big weebshit convention in the latter half of the year too. 8 might make an appearance there whether as a preview or a demo session after release.
>>559425017>>559427457I recall Mint wanted to do a big playthrough of the entire AC series, did that ever happen? Did she stream it?
>>559413663If the snail did add the Spiteful, you know it'd be another P-51H/Spit Mk24 situation where it has to choose between making high tier props unplayable or getting clubbed by jets. And that's putting aside the fact Wart Hunder is hot dogshit anyway, treat yourself a little better.
>>559429678Doesn't look like she did I don't see them on her channel. Guess if she's going to do it she'll try and do it closer to 8's release.
>>559425017Remove Max0r entirely; he is barely a fan of anything he makes a video of and his only contribution to Ace Combat or Devil May Cry was to have a swarm of locust-like children spam the unfunny jokes he made because they saw them on youtube shorts.>but he is kinda funnyNo he is not and I shall plant a FAEB under your bed if anyone says as much.
>>559442185That's fair enough. I put him in honorable mentions since he's just a general gayming channel, with very high view counts on his videos. Same with Mint because of the Hornet thing and having unrelatedly collected the series with intents to do a full playthrough even before got announced.Also I completely forgot about Bepsi Mig until I saw him in my subscription updates. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRyZufY5dUw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zU4peujwQYITS UP
Why is ACE8 set in 2029?The Ace Combat series' strange realityhas always been setin a time slightly ahead of the real world.By depicting technology extending from reality,it creates a realistic fantasy world. Set 10 years after ACE7, which took place in 2019,the story of ACE8 unfolds on the Eurasia continent in 2029.Beyond that, the series' timeline connectsto the world of ACE3.
>>559479352
I think we'll get ACE 8 news within the next two weeks.
>>559427571>latter half of the yearIsn't carrier con in March? It's only a few weeks away.I doubt we'll get anything from PA though, it's a small American event.
>>559479352>The Ace Combat series' strange realityhas always been set>in a time slightly ahead of the real world.is that why zero was 1995
>>559488238Oh shit you're right, I knew about Carrier Con but not that it happened in March. Still possible they do something there, and if they do I'm going to seethe that I can't go because I'm on the other side of the country..
