"Say my name" editionPrev. Mission :>>569090242Theme: https://youtu.be/Pw7W7GfVgMk>ACI is playable again!https://youtu.be/Q9wDRE7PszU >AC7/8 on Steamhttps://store.steampowered.com/app/502500 (AC7)https://store.steampowered.com/app/2288340 (AC8)>/aceg/ Emulation Guidehttps://rentry.org/ybyx6>Official /aceg/ multiplayer guidehttps://rentry.org/acegMPguide>/aceg/ livery and emblem packhttps://rentry.org/3tokr>Ace Combat 3: A New Translationhttps://pastebin.com/i6sfa9aK>Encyclopedia Strangerealhttp://www.encycstra.net/>New /aceg/ MEGAhttps://pastebin.com/aYYx2UKm>PA Twitter (JP)https://twitter.com/PROJECT_ACES>AC7Shootout Saturday is back! /aceg/ rooms are open every Sat at 1930 CET/1330 EST, with three rules:>Put /aceg/ in your tag before game for IFF purposes>No EML/QAAM/SASM>In Roca Roja, use ONLY air-to-ground special weapons in the tunnel>Resourceshttps://pastebin.com/Xbb41nvVhttps://rentry.org/ho8mm>OP Templatehttps://pastebin.com/e9PNHDcD>Project Wingmanhttps://store.steampowered.com/app/895870>Skin/Texture Modding Guide for PWhttps://pastebin.com/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) after ACZhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qat5kEtrrpk >/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...>New Ace Combat trailer? YES! COMING OCTOBER 2 2026https://youtu.be/5i_W3HDZVLA>Has a PS2 trilogy remake been announced yet?No.
updated the link at the bottom guys
china has stonhenge
So the deluxe edition is just all battlepass and online stuff right? Nothing important for the single player mode? New mission or something like that?
Fourth for the land battleship.>>569250743A new ACI guide dropped, so next thread should have it.https://youtu.be/EUCyqimAOkU
What role will Erusea play?
>>569250994the Princess will attempt to be the peacekeeper, but her pilot husband can't fly a transport plane and it's up to Joker Flight to rescue her
noise looks fucking cool not gonna lie>>569250949I think so... I got the other one that comes with a book and two vinyl records
>>569251197I can take pictures with my S24 and post them here for you guys if you want.
>>569251181Joker 1 is obviously sponsored by the oil industry to go after green infrastructure.
>>569251103standard it is then, not sure if they even send physical goodies to my region anyway.
I feel emotionally compelled by what I saw and heard. Lots of little things.I was initially a bit put off by the characters and cutscene direction during the reveal trailer,but this time, I think I've come around to it.An exemplary "disparate snippets of dialogue over footage that may or may not be directly relevant" trailer.
>>569251181I'm glad they're showing off the A-10. I hope the stats are buffed bigly in Campaign.
I'm glad the Aces at War book is a hardback this time around.
>Bust my ass saving Harling in 5>Dies in 7>Bust my ass saving the Space Elevator in 7>Blown up in 8
>>569251257please do
the game's tagline in Japanese is空よ、教えてくれ
Did they finally remove the Luneburg Lenses from the F-35?
>>569251515Yeah, what the fuck was that about?
I got Usea fatigue bros.... I need 9 to be like 6 was... No Osea/Belka, no Erusea/FSU...
Once again, the Eruseans are at fault
Who tf is this nigga
FYI if you're in EU you can get 20% off on bamco store with 1000 club pointsLinking steam acct should give you like 5000 points if you have achievements
>>569251658at leat nagase could come home safe
>>569251968looks like a joke character, might be this games jaeger
THIS GENERAL IS MOVING TOO FAST NOW AND I DON'T LIKE ITSLOW DOWN
>>569253003
whos the imposter
Sex
>>569253003Shoulda been here when 7 got announced, many moons ago.
>>569253179I wonder if she can do the Kulbit in bed
>>569224798>>569224923That's a bunch of shit to say about a franchise that has indeed stayed topical to real world conflict
>>569253179My cute Yuke wife.Rex and Tasha doing high-speed maneuvers together as a date
>>569253003This is actually much slower than 7's pre-days. I think we lost most off-and-on AC posters last year.
>>569254151Game still too far away and the general dying because of the longass wait between games didn't help. I just wanna play
>>569253169hey i've got this one in war thunderdidn't know it was real lmao
Name my band
isnt this where AC7 starts?
>>569254324Not only is it real but she was one of four mascots for the 4th Anti-Tank Helicopter Squadron. Sadly the squadron was reorganized earlier this year so I doubt those mascots are even acknowledged anymore.
>>569254568Wardogs 2
>>569254727Yep, that's Fort Grays
>>569254568Average Japanese game group of fans circa 2026, only missing the fat guy but he already showed up in the trailers (has a fedora and everything)
>>569254727You can see how they've improved the foliage rendering. Look at that forest!
>>569254568Who's the Tom Cruise lookalike on the right?
>>569250743AHH MY ROCK AND ROLL RECORDS
SOLITARY
>>569254568Jacks rexcoat and the kings of steve
I guess I'll complain a little. I feel like there is a lot of influence from that other studio that merged with aces, and I don't like it. The whole look of the characters and multiplayer is way too colorful/silly and generic. Especially the way the multiplayer was presented (avatars? really?) just kind of annoyed me. Reminds me too much of one of those hellish modern multiplayer shooters. The land battleship is also wayy too retarded, it doesn't even have a cool design, it's literally a big scifi littoral combat ship and makes zero sense. Very much feels like they literally ran out of ideas and didn't even try to come up with something cool. Also is it supposed to be tracked?? Fuck. 7 for all it's flaws at least had some great designs like the arsenal birds and the space elevator, 8 has nothing so far. At least the protagonist and allied squad liveries are amazing, I really disliked how plain they were in 7.
>>569255162Didn't we run an RPG on this general a few years back where we played as a merc squadron out of the now-abandoned Zapland base? Guess this is 404th Simulator...
https://enso-order.acecombat.jp/
>>569255793All we're missing is a refurbished PBY Catalina as our liason plane.
>>569255674I'll agree about the battleship although I love how daft it is, personally. My issue is that the threat of it seems to be Stonehenge/Arsenal Bird/Aigaion/Scinfaxi again. I'm also wondering they didn't go full retard and make it a walker.
>>569255674Multiplayer is obviously bamco pushing hard. Just let the suits learn the hard way again.
>>569255793I want to say it sounds like a fun idea but I don't think it's a good idea to be done in current /aceg/
Did you guys miss the big land battleship with the railguns?
>>569252005thanks buddy, saved me a bunch
>>569256214Yeah, we miss her :(
Do you think pvp or pve is going to have the bigger community?
>>569256323Probably PVE, coop games are kinda in right now with the success of games like Deep Rock Galactic and Helldivers. A little late to hop on the trend, but if it's Infinity style competitive coop they'll have that niche all to themselves because nobody else does a game like that.
My dream is something like a co-op version of PW's Conquest mode but I very much doubt it'll happen
>>569256323I don't think any of the mp will be alive after a few months
>>569256045The landships are probably more of a mid-game thing anyway, the end superweapon will be whatever those cargo planes are carrying or the space thing>>569256120IDK, it might just work...
>Nvidia Geforce RTX3060Thank god I think I can run this game, is there anything else I should be worried about? Processor maybe? AMD Ryzen 9 5900hx should be good enough right? I just want to prepare before i buy it.
>>569256323PVEIt feels a bit odd hearing all this doom and gloom over the multiplayer itself, like we didn't just spend years having people talk about wanting coop, or how Infinity emulation just came back last week and it's the biggest thing on that emulator's servers next to TekkenThere's a pretty clear demand for this exact thing but people are expecting that as soon as they get it, they'll lose interest? Eh
>>569250743Dision looks like a fuccboi
>>569257410doomers are also retarded btw, its the 8th highest selling title on steam right now
>>569257647Don't they know the game will be dead by October 3rd?!?
>>569257647which begs the question, where the fuck do all of these guys came from? Ace Combat is a nobody tier franchise to be real honest.
>>569257950>which begs the question, where the fuck do all of these guys came from? Ace Combat is a nobody tier franchise to be real honest.topgun maverick collab got a ton of eyes on the franchisevtubers also played a part
Man I hope we finally star to get AC3 planes in this game again and way more fictional stuff.
>>569257950I blame the Tokyo Olympics
Buddies i'm falling for the hype hardi am very tempted to buy the deluxe physical edition with my 20% discount from bandai store front
>>569257950I think they buy and then never play. It doesn't add up. Every reaction I watch nobody knows what the fuck AC is but can name literally every other game in State of Play
>>569258193I used to think the Cariburn was too goofy and Batman-esque but now I want to see it again in 8Bring back all the fictional planes you cowards
>>569258193I'm going to be disappointed if it's just the same line up as 7 + 2-3 New planes
>>569258386Cariburn would be great without that retarded scoop
>>569258512How else is it meant to drink water and scoop up my enemies
Are we even bigger than the neighbouring AC, Armored Core at this point? i somehow doubt it.
Do you guys think that the version of Ace Combat Zero that comes with AC8 will be as good if not better than the PCSX2 version?
>>569258926>thinking Armored Core is bigger than Ace CombatWhat world are you living in?
>>569258926We have a new game in the pipe, they don't. They've had jackshit for almost three years straight now, in fact, despite 6's success. Which sucks, 6 fucking rocked and I want more.
>>569259035i learned not to underestimate Fromslop
>>569259090Fromsoft now has multiple studios that are all working on their own games. I bet one of them is working on Armored Core.
I'm not super familiar with preorder/collector's edition stuff, is there any chance they sell the artbook in the vinyl collection seperately down the line or am I fucked?
>>569258386At this point they need to start adding more fictional planes, 6th gen jet are still far away from being realized and Chinese shit is out of the question.AC3 has a bunch of shit that can already be in the game without feeling out of place.
>>569258926If we went strictly by sales, AC7 has more than double Armored Core 6's, but Armored Core does have that Fromsoft backing that everyone loves so maybe Armored Core 7 will do even betterIf it comes out>>569259026I'm hoping for a texture upscale at leastFMV upscale will probably suckWhat I really hope for is modding potential, someone dedicated could probably slap 5 and 04 content into itHell imagine if we got ACOnline Classic using Zero and the PS2 games as a base, even if it wasn't official
>>569259269I'm not trying to downplay AC7, it's obviously super successful, but it feels like it's on sale for 90% off on steam every other day whereas Armored Core 6 is maybe 50% off its launch price once or twice a year.
>>569258602>to drink waterwith a probe, like normal plen?
>>569259704>Using a probe when it clearly has a mouth at the frontGreedy guts...
>>569257410It's clear that this game will sell a lot, I don't think anybody believes otherwise besides shitposters, but for me in particular I just absolutely hate the inclusion of battle passes, even if it's multiplayer stuff only. I have accepted it though, I'm just not the target audience for the AAA industry anymore, I'll just stick to emulating and indies, though I'll probably pirate 8 to play the singleplayer eventually.
>>569259456maybe because they can just let From's name carry it and there are no games in planning? no point in pushing it for now
>>569260036Why did u post a picture of me
>>569259791give mademoiselle Rafale a break, she's Fr*nch.
>>569257950There's been a surprising quantity of AC memes going around the normie internet. Hell, if the "x lore vs y lore" meme format has Megalith mashed up with Gotye's song, I'd imagine that alone got people curious about the weird latin chanting.
>>569260308I guess that's why they have bidets
I fucking hate living in Theve bro
>>569260635Imagine living in a landlocked city and looking out your window to see this shitYou can't move to space because it's full of rocks and weaponized satellitesYou can't go underground because some ace is eventually going to fly a tunnel mission through your bunkerYou can't even live in a superweapon as a pre-emptive measure because some ace will blow that up tooWhat the fuck do you do
>>569260827Theve is a coastal city, so it's gonna be more fucked up because what do you a massive battleship is invading the city from behind
>>569261135>Sir, the enemy navy is deployed in the city harbor, what do we do?>Send out the landships to interceptDare I say kino
da bus
>>569261298>>569258112Is there a press kit doko where are the hi-res screenshots
>>569261298Bonus mission where we take the whole squad in one of these and do some AC5-tier objective while having a good time
Suggestive themes?
>>569260635da storm
>>569261484Presence of lickable Yuktobanian bellybuttonsImagine we got a romance sideplot with fade-to-black cutscenes
Your MP pilot can be a cute girl
>>569261596I'm going to be underage and play as a dude instead I guess
>>569261596you mean a cute Type B
>>569254954Old Man Pixy why do you think AC5 was packaged with 7? Because Nagase and Harling were in it.Why do you think AC0 is packaged with 8? Because someone from that game is in it.
>>569261674Hell yeah I love Type Boobs too
>>569261484Shower scene fanservice
>>569261596Can't wait to see all the variants of Mobius and Pixy the same way Xenoverse players make Gokus and Gohans
>>569261484unskippable beach day just like how aircraft carriers sometimes let their crew jump off the flight deck for a quick dip
>>569261942
>>569251968John Yakuza
>>569254568Calling it now btw>Little Bee's Queen squad will get downed by the Super Weapon but she survives>One of the Joker squad members will KIA ala Chopper>Little Bee from Queen replaces them>Squad gets renamed to some Poker hand or some shit
speak of the devil, these two franchises overlap a lot huh?
>>569262201I'm thinking that Queen squad will job to the Shadows to hype them up.
Terminus Fingers is a really goofy name for a super weapon
Tell me about the grind, infinity bros
>>569262236<<I won't miss.>>
>>569262390Working 9 to 5
>>569261596Spooky a cute! CUTE!
She's doing that stuff you see in every photo of luftwaffe aces
>>569262390The worst part of the game was the fucking fuel system
>>569262468>>569262591do people bitch about the grind in infinity? Maybe they could tweak it to make it more player friendly this time?
>>569262589Chuunibyou reich
>>569262390The grind in ACI was worse than what War Thunder could ever aspire to be, you don't want it
>>569257950max0r
>>569251181Wait, fox 3 AND bombs?
>>569261942Isn't carrier flight deck dangerously far from the water?
>>569263940they lower the elevator until it's thrillingly far
>Hands to the sky everyone>THE TERMINUS FINGERSidk the juxtaposition of this made me laugh
>>569251103they didn't send me a steam key along with it and i'm getting worried
>>569263893Yeah, we get to bring 2 SPWs in 8.
>>569265006why not let us bring all 3 SPW altogether? seems more fun especially since the map is allegedly 50 times(?) the size of AC7 maps.
>>569255674>The land battleship is also wayy too retarded, it doesn't even have a cool designIt's not just the design. Graphically it looks awkward. On one hand you have these impressive UE5 graphics showcases with all the clouds, lighting, weather systems, etc. On the other hand, PA decided to place the land battleship combat in an urban environment, with all the low-detail houses and buildings. I feel like they could've placed them in a more graphically appropriate place like the desert to hide the obvious graphical limitations.
We still talk about you.
So are we bringing back the /aceg/ lobbies like we had during Infinity? I miss the boys and girls from 2013 /aceg/
>No pre-orders with physical edition yetDammint
just saw the news, i'm hyped but not buying it day 1. gonna wait until dlc missions release and the all-dlc bundle goes on sale for as cheap as i got ac7 for. i'm not falling for fomo battlepasses.
>>569266193
>>569266792yeah good luck not getting spoiled the shit out of while waiting for a discount after release, cuck.
>>569265963Yes but then it'd lose the impact of a giant fucking battleship wrecking havoc in the middle of a city.
>>569266193>"Sotoa sent us to a hell but we are going even deeper. Take back everything that we have lost."
>>569266954i'll just play other games on my backlog while checking my wishlist every steam salenot that hard nigga
/aceg/ will look like this
>>569268001If they haven't added every single pose from Hot Shots, then it's a failure.
>>569268001<< The gang's all here. >><< We're all set to go. >>
>>569268001not enough girl
>>569266212Fuck off, Prec. I wonder how many original ACI buddies are left.
>>569251658I have two theories about this oneFirst: Sota does this early in the game to prevent you from takeing out the totes 100% not Belkan built Rods from God system they have.Second:Just like in 3 if you fail the space mission you get a special fail screen of you being destroyed by the OSL. Now if you fail to destroy the Rods from God in time this is what you see. Lighthouse destructionVersion the 3rdNagase who is back on Strangereal is beyond fucking mad this is in full blown rage that even a Belkan nationalist would go uhh take it easy girl.At the start of a mission in a cut scene you see 4 Cariburn's in Razgriz livery fly in and completely decimate an entire Sota air division that was near the elevator. Your new mission is just a simple mop up as most of the mission you hear the enemy yelling in confusion and fear at the same time over what just happened.
>>569268639that was painful to read good job
Battle pass but no loot boxes, huh? Interrsring
>>569262589>>569262731>Chuunibyou reichI'm warning you now once I stand up I'll unleash my true power muwhwhaha>Cool poseNow witness my power mere mortals none shall stand before me my dark powers are almost to much for me to control not even you could stand against me if I go all out nugget.
>>569262390>the grind itself is almost inaccessible, because you can barely play the game (one free sortie every six hours!) and one unit of fuel cost a buck>when you do get to play the game, the rewards are insultingly low (20k-30k credits if you S-rank and MVP a mission, if you don't spend more fuel on that single sortie; 100k if you S-rank and MVP a special raid) unless you've got "elite mercenary contracts" (WT premium time)>upgrade costs for planes hit the million mark around lvl 10 on average, and the tens of millions for lvl 20>you need to research planes and parts to even buy and upgrade them, and you don't even get to choose where you spend research points from your sorties>you could get research forms, but you'd need to spend about 150 to go from lvl 9 to lvl 10, and about 300 to go from lvl 19 to lvl 20 (for a single plane!)Let's just say that the Operation Eternal Liberation guys were right to give you a save editor for credits and research items.
>>569268001PA really loves that yellow Mig-29. They have used it in an ad for AC2 its a skin in 7 and now its parked in the MP lobby.Even after it did slice its teammate in half during a show .......THAT IS IT!! PA loves its because that Mig had its wings folded a thousand times so it could cleave planes in half.
>>569269342Excellent I was aiming AC 6 style writing
>>569269907Fuel would absolutely kill this game's multiplayer, there's no way around itI have to imagine with all the advances in bleeding players dry and not making really bad AC decisions (see DFM) that they won't make such a grievous misstep
>>569259236Artbook + Vinyl collection is being sold separately right now. But buying it and the base version of 8 costs as much as buying the bundle, and doesn't get you the digital bonuses that the bundle or deluxe edition do. So you could wait but it might be a "while supplies last" sort of deal, and it's still goinbg to cost you the same arm and leg.
Sometimes I wish ace combat has a controllable superweapon>Northern WinNot like that. Maybe a one-off mission where you can tag a target and the railgun/laser will blast it for you
>Sold my whole steam inventoryAnon... i did it
>>569271251Maybe one day we'll finally get one.
>>569268001Can you actually walk around? I understand that it's not possible in the campaign mode (probably not a bad thing, choregraphied cutscenes will always beat a stiff hub system) but how is it in multiplayer.
>>569271251That's basically Fenrir/Varcolac+LSWM in JA/Infinity and especially X (where it is strongest)
This has to be Shadow 22 Ares
>>569272907He looks french
how lewd
>>569266193not enough people are trying to figure out who the fuck is this
>>569271948Probably, the displayed aircraft seems to be from the players and bamco will want to get as much as possible from the character creator and its cosmetics.
>>569258384For fun I watched some reactions on the AC8 reveal trailer and you can really tell apart true fans from the casuals by how they reacted when the FCU was brought up. The mere mention of Usea should immediately tip you off it's an Ace combat game but most of the reactors either realised halfway through or by the end that it was an AC game. it's also rather interesting how many people have no idea what AC Zero is as most people were just confused when the port was announced.
>>569257950>Ace Combat is a nobody tier franchiseIt really really wasn't in the 2000s, second rate yes probably but not lesser
What was THE theme song of Ace Combat 7? Was it Daredevil? Or Archangel?
>>569275443Daredevil because it uses the leitmotif of the other songs associated with Trigger
>>569275443I've heard Daredevil in PLA official propaganda videos, I don't remember any other AC7 ost in one.
>>569273713There is nothing to figure out, his character profile is on the official websitealso>Jane>Pronounced Yahnokay
>>569275443clearly daredevil
>>569258384Should watch Maid Minto's stream then
>>569275443Still go back to lighthouse just to fight Arsenal bird and listen to the track. It's also the best mission in AC7 (lighthouse is an underrated track as well)
>>569272907Its the wheelchair lady. You don't need legs to fly he is just that named mook wingman you blow out of the sky to get her mad.
>>569275721How are FCU pilots so dogshit, they need to manufacture an ace?
>>569275721so he's the one that gets KWAB'd in the beginning of the game
>>569250989I'm going to enjoy doing bombing runs on this thing with an A-6 while paranoia is playingNow why does it have an armor skirt to protect the treads in the center but lacks one for the front and rear treads?
>>569278367How are Osean pilots so dogshit they needed to pull a guy in a penal unit out of it to have an ace?
>>569269578
>>569278184Except we hear her talking to him in the first trailer <<Time to pull out, 22>>Wheelchair's probably Shadow 1.
>>569275721How does Jan become Jane never seen that before
>>569278480He's not dead.
>>569279530PointI wonder what superplane she'll fly at the end.....She's going to fly a Night Raven prototype that just mysteriously appeared in her hanger isn't she?
>>569279738>Implying she'll be the final bossFinal boss is against a turncoat Cope. The fake has to surpass the original.
>>569279653You're telling me this isn't a good guy no way
>>569280114Ehh he looks and feels like mid boss material. The fight against the fake Cope (heh) will be posted on Tasha Strangetube channel
>>569279653I think this is probably the case.It's why he has dialogue that indicates that is aware of plot details after he would've been dead.It's gonna be the fake surpasses the real for the final battle
>>569276228>Maid MintoShe's also a newfriend nugget. Up until last month the only game she had ever played was 7, and while not to shit on your egirl oshi don't pretend she's deep into the series.
>>569279653IIRC his JP voice is TsudaKen which feels like a waste if he is there only for a mission or two
>>569282373>Cope is a gambler who never pays his debts>Sotoans bribe himNever meet your heroes
I like the plen game
>>569262201They obviously called Joker because Rex = King, it's playing cardsJoker will become King Squad or ACE
>>569275547Cute
>>569275721still can't believe that cope is the actual name of this guy
>>569284813
>>569284813it's a real name, like this guy for example
>>569258926The AC popularity power ranking>Animal Crossing>Assassin's Creed>Ace Combat>Armored CoreAlthough considering the trajectory of Ass Creed it might drop all the way to the bottom
>>569271251>tag a target and the railgun/laser will blast it for youBuddy, your OSL?
>>569285379Tom Cruise lookalike, named Cope who is a fake ace. Bravo Kojimbo.
>>569283874So now that it's been a day since the trailer dropped, I still just can't mentally square away that a damn LAND BATTLESHIP is one of the superweapons in this game. It feels way too out-of-place and impractical even for an Ace Combat setting IMO. At least flying aircraft carriers, loyal wingman drones, laser weapons have some practical basis in reality and in the context of modern military technology, but there's a reason why the concept of massive landships died out circa early WW2. I'm sure it'll be a compelling bossfight when the game comes out but it'll be hard for me to take 100% seriously, so to speak.
I hope i get to bomb osea at some point... twice
>>569288370I mean in a world where they can fly the Arsenal Birds indefinitely a landcrawling battleship isn't too weird. The game was solidly into the scifi zone with 7.
>>569288405OADF has been dispatched to your location, please wait where you are
>>569288370Just wait until the mission updates and you have to blow up a civilian building with people inside to drop it in its path
>>569288370I'm not gonna try to justify it using IRL logic since we know it doesn't work. In strangereal logic, it's basically a portable Stonehenge. Why wouldn't you want a mobile version of the weapon that nearly conquered the FCU once?
>>569288370Some sort of [hamfisted?] climatic or post-Kessler Syndrome justification, perhaps?Maybe even a thematic dichotomy between the aged Endurance, and these cutting-edge amphibious(?) battleships.
Osea... bad?Hmm
Oh right, since Online will be a big thing, There is a valid reason to fly an EW plane, huh?Do you think its fun inside that cockpit
You know the FCU got real lucky they just HAPPEN to have a Yuktobanian aerobatic pilot that just HAPPENS to be trained to fly a hornet on their carrier
>>569288515>>569289061Fair enough, I suppose an adequate amount of "suspension of disbelief" is a general prerequisite for Ace Combat games as it is. Land battleships shouldn't be an exception.>>569288684It'll probably slice right through. If that armored bow can pierce waves, why not physical obstacles too?>>569289260That's actually a pretty tried-and-true theme, old vs. new. I guess it makes sense here too.
>>569290346You think they play board games on long missions?
>>569288370I don't get this take, AC superweapons have literally never felt "in-place". Ever.You'll be fighting giant, futuristic, nuke-carrying, laser firing megavehicles in fucking cold war era fighter jets. There is a ginormous dichotomy there.Stonehenge and megalith are the only ones that don't immediately stand out and that's pretty much entirely because they're stationary facilities.
>>569264749I think it comes IN the box... hopefully.
>>569257950You do know there are goddless degenerate retards who spend their entire lives online, shitposting about games they don't care about and never will for whatever psychotic reason their brainworm has told them matters today, don't you? Although that's obviously not where all of it is coming from and I think most of the criticism I've seen is from a position of good faith, or just extreme fatigue over things like battleppasses which I understand.
>>569268639That's pretty sensible.>>569288370>Strangereal had guns that could hit asteroids in medium earth orbit in the 90s>Excalibur was an 80s project>ISEV alone is our best material scientists' and engineers' wet, forbidden fantasyThe land battleship is a nothingburger compared to the engineering sorcery we've already seen in Strangereal.
>>569262390You don't level up by finishing matches. You level up by getting contracts then dumping the contracts onto the plane.
>>569288370The military is being dragged kicking and screaming into building more warships as we speak though. Yeah it's stupid. But life's stupid.
>>569291183>>569291780Not him, but to me the land battleship just feels out of place, I don't know how to explain it. Yeah, if you look at it in absolute terms, it's not more ridiculous than some of the things we've already seen, but somehow to me the Arsenal Bird feels more "believable" than the land battleship. It's not rational, but it's a feeling I can't shake off.
I was emulating N.Gen Racing last night and in its weirdass plane roster, I saw this thing. I had never heard of the HIMAT before but this is rad.
>>569279108All the piloting talent of the entire Osean population is channeled into a single mute psycho every generation, it's basically their version of the Avatar.
I still dont knos why that dickass general wanted to kill trigger?Osea should know that mute pilots are happy as long as you feed them targets to kill
>>569294457You know if I remembered to attach my image that really would have helped.
>>569280114>>569282373>surpassYou mean RISE ABOVE
>>569290346Where are you people getting these screenshots?
>>569295760See >>569255825
>>569295738In JP the tagline of the games is "Skies, tell me"
>>569268001I'm just gonna do what I do in nu-racing games that force you into a character creator and be a goober with his helmet on the entire time.
>>569293901Maybe it's because landships wouldn't fit in our world, while a drone mothership would.
>>569297383Same.
>>569297542Both of them are theoretically possible in our world; neither are practically possible in our world for the same reasons (impractical resource costs and being too much of a big fat sitting duck target).
This game looks like shit
Maybe its not as silly as a land battleship but isn't a giga submersible battlecarrier really whack too? Dont these things live and die by their furtiveness? Let alone how much of a pain maintaining and launching the aircraft would be.>but I-400Cmon man its not nearly the same, we might as well call a t-35 a land battleship too
At this point we need to accept that Strangereal is a universe where physics just work differently from the real world. Like it's mostly the same except for the retarded fringe stuff that wouldn't work in our reality.
>>569299639A space elevator, gigawatt lasers mounted on fighters, kilometer-long anti-asteroid railguns...A slightly bigger version of a real life concept is really what gets you?
>>569300686Yes, a slightly bigger(actually much fucking bigger) version of a failed real life concept. Its not like I am complaining though, I still find them really cool and just wanted to discuss.
>>569290346why do they bring back this retarded flying tumor but not my beloved F-5 and F-20
>>569301204Failed concept mostly due to lack of trying. I'm sure once actual fighter drones become more advanced and maintenance automation improves, there will be submersible aircraft carriers. Probably not at the scale of the Alicorn which could carry 40 full-size fighters but something smaller and more maintainable. A land battleship is a bit more fantastical since "don't be spotted" is pretty early in the survivability onion and a tank the size of a tanker is visible to anyone in the country. Still, if APS improves faster than anti-tank weapons can keep up, tanks could get bigger again.
>>569288370I think it just comes from Land Battleships dating to interwar military fever dreams while other Ace Combat gigaprojects and wunderwaffles draw inspiration from post war/cold war military fever dreams. We've had a longer time to realize that the Maus and Rat and other fuckhueg tanks are silly ideas, especially with paradigm shifts in warfare, than we have had to come to terms with airborne aircraft carriers being equally unfeasible.
>>569302452A submersible aircraft carrier that stealthily deploys some smaller fighter/cas drones is probably doable, yeah.
>>569301436Because the A-6 is unique in both looks and functionality while the F-5 looks like a 7 year old designed it and only serves as a worse F-16.
>>569261705His hair should be a lot grayer by 2029 if so. Unless Pixy has the same Scientology life extension magic Tom does, which I suppose is plausible.
>>569302834Case in point being this naive armchair admiral >>569302452. You don't build something as complex as a submarine just to give it a weapon system worse than existing options. Small FPV drones lack the range and payload of cruise missiles, and what range you get from loading fighter-sized drones onto a submarine is counteracted by making the ship more vulnerable while deploying said weapons and far larger and more unwieldy during the 99.99% of the time it's not deploying weapons. Don't get me started on if you were harebrained enough to try to retrieve drones after their attack run, subs hate being on the surface for a billion reasons already.We could probably build one but it would be fucking retarded.>t. fast attack gaylord
>>569288370Just like the future of large scale naval warfare in the limit are huge nuclear powered battleships that will have the output to power enough railguns and lasers to create a fuck you km interdiction zone around it, so would be the future of land warfare in the limit: a huge land battleship that has enough power output for a metric shitton amount of railguns and lasers to interdicts anything in a regional area. I mean, not exactly, but you get the idea.
>separate "Shark Squadron" entry in the kill listAre they teasing ACZ-style ace fights?
they should bring back Ridge Racer.
>>569305269>Not even an S rankShameful display.
>>569306963perhaps Mission 4 could be the Long Day of AC8
>>569305269>MiG-29AThe K is right fucking there and there's a naval aviation focus going on here, does Kono have something against Fulcrums? Is the K tainted by its association with India? Because if so, that's actually fair and reasonable.
>>569305269>devs can't even S rank their own gamesnever meet your heroes
>>569308546Hell they put the MiG-35 in Infinity and in 7 as DLC. Hopefully the A is just the starter shit plane Fulcrum.
>>569251658Just having it damaged and offline knocks out a massive amount of power to the FCU/Useans and a giant communication array while also preventing the FCU from using it to launch satellites or a spaceplace equipped with a laser to try blast the Sotoan version of SOLG out of the skies.Because where else would they launch something into space to shoot down that SOLG from Tyler Island's Mass Driver? Comona's probably held by the Sotoans. I doubt they'd get the Oseans to let them launch them out of out of Basset Space Center unless the Sotoans did the big stupid and directly dragged the Oseans (and maybe the Yukes) into the war directly.
>>569312616Perhaps this is what V2 really is for...
Pour one out for the Harrier, buddies...https://twitter.com/RealAirPower1/status/2062252258541080943
>>569283874Ok its not just me then as I had this very same thought today. Does the land ship have those shield drones that the Alicorn had?What does the thread think?Yes<- ->No
>>569313909
Man iunno if I just suck or these guys are cracked but I haven't gotten a single MVP in ACI yet, lots of 3rds and 4ths.I get it when an FAEB S/MTD scores over 90k, they were the meta cancer back in the day, but how about a 6AAM ASFX or 4AGM X02? Is the Adler just too slow? Or do I need the bigger rank-locked parts?
>>569288684If you didn't want to die then your building shouldn't have had a target box on it and be worth 3000 points.
Ace Combat 8 should add realistic flight physics and complex systems for no other reason than to filter these fucking tourists. Normgroids CANNOT be allowed to touch my planes.
>>569313241RIP in peace funny jump jet.
>>569290346I guess it they could make it work like the Medusa in Nuclear Option where you can pick radar jammers as an SP weapon and blast planes to ruin their tracking, but it'd be boring to play
>normgroid fan of the nomiest plane game doesn't want normgroids touching his normgroid games
>>569270194If it's a case of Fuel or Battle passes I'll take the later any fucking day of the week
>>569291183Only difference is we didn't invest the money and resources to build them they did.
On the topic of electronic warfare, do you guys spell IEWS or do you pronounce it like the Moonbase Alpha TTS?
>>569315121I imagine what they'll do is make it work like the Enchanter squadron Growlers from Unexpected Visitor, where the pods buff your missile tracking and debuff your enemies' missile tracking.
>>569261570ace combat dating sim
>>569290743>zvezdaNice model kit reference
>>569312616>(and maybe the Yukes) into the war directly.Aren't they already in the war? Buddy posted pic related from the first trailer recently.
>>569317427I think those two are still on COLD WAR status as I suspect if they went to blows I think we'd see South Yuktobania soon forming
>>569314707A lot of us are old players coming back, don't let it get to you.>>569314707>FAEBUse anything with busted SFFS. That was the meta back in the day. My FB-22 build never gets me below 80k on avalon.
>>569318916ignore double reply, i'm retarded.
>>569288370The problem with this is not that it's too goofy in a world of goofy impossible superweapons, the problem is it's just fucking stupid conceptually
In a just world we wouldn't need to pre-order.But this is not a just world.
>>569318916I'll try to adjust my mindset, then.>SFFS FB22Right, I forgot about that one, I just haven't ran into any yet.>SFFSit's description doesn't really appeal to me because it's a sliding scale of AoE vs Damage, which makes it sound hard to use. Buuuuutt I'll try it out next time.>anti-stealth high power radarTell me more>advanced mobile fin (msl) LNot Homing Enhancement Plan (MSL) L?
>>569319585in a just world whether or not you're allowed to put an f-15 or a gripen in your game shouldn't be contingent on negotiating expiring licenses with evil corporations
>>569305269Where is this from?
>>569319861I get that, if you're not familiar, you just feel like you're missing. The trick is to watch those little circles in the big circle, fly at a medium altitude so those little circles don't miss anything>Tell me moreflying slow and creeping with guns so Sam does unload into you and make your plane jerk>Not Homing Enhancement Plan (MSL) L?Nah, it takes up all the blocks. Not worth it when you need Advanced Hard Points L to work its magic
>>569313241So long girl enjoy your days of rest and bliss
>>569320809NTA is the stealth part for detecting those mid stage stealth bosses?
>>569321765Kek you might be right the description is kinda vague. Either way that still helps with the F-22's.
>>569261596Close enough, welcome back Janice "Assault Horizon" Rehl.
>>569320158Honestly I imagine PA could do just that and none of the defense contractors would really care that much. But aside from the prestige of having them officially licensed, Japan doesn't really have a legal concept of fair use. It also depends on how chickenshit a given company's legal team about getting sued.
>>569322337>the prestige of having them officially licensedreally doubt anyone actually gives a shit whether or not the jet they're flying in a videogame was put there with the permission of some bean counting department at the manufacturer's offices
So what plane will be taking on your first run of mission 1?Tomcat or Hornet?
>>569322753F-18 evidently. F-14 is gay.
>>569322525No but they might care when their F-22 Raptor is named the F-97 Kestrel and is slightly off model just because the lawyers are scared their multibillion dollar company is going to be sued by Locksneed Fartin or renaming the fucking Luger to some legally distinct name when I'm not even sure anyone has the copyright to that name anymore. Believe it or not some people really do care about this crap, it doesn't bother me that much but it does take me out of games just a bit when I can clearly see what the gun I'm using is but it has a fake name. Car guys get real bent out of shape when their Ferrari isn't called a Ferrari, if they didn't then we'd still get games like Ridge Racer with fake cars inspired by real ones.
>>569323332Speaking of we better see some more RR cars in 8
>>569323613It'd be funny if one part of Theve or some other place is like a track layout from RR1.
Rafale, mon amour...
>>569322848Call me a slutty cocksucking faggot then.
>>569266792What about "we can't legally sell zero anymore so you have to preorder 8 so we can give you zero "for free"" fomo?
>>569326179I'm sure you'll be able to just pirate the PC port of Zero when it comes out.
>>569326179zero emulates flawlessly, this port is entirely redundantunless you really want achivements for a 20 year old game or something
>steam discussion>largest comment thread is bitching about no VREvery single time.
>>569327307It's fascinating how VR gamers are perpetually sour grapes about their niche hardware setup not being catered to. You don't see the simfags getting upset that their cockpit rigs or digital car setups aren't useful for most games.
>>569328035Ultrawide monitorfags are also in there somewhere.
As Kono already dropped the new trailer what are they going to show this weekend?
>>569330412Persona 6.
>>569279908D has droptanks too. I wonder if all planes get that as a visual option
>There have been non-stop Tasha threads on /v/ since the announcementI was thinking they'd eventually slow down because of sleep and timezones but they kept going even after I fell asleepI guess it's nice that they found someone to take turns with
>>569323613>>569324174Wasn't Expo City in one of the RR games?
>>569331029The drop tank on the Hornet was very popular with everyone due to you can drop it with a push of a button. You'll be able to do it again now with all planes instead of just one.>We can now do this at the start of a shootout in a few months.
More info tomorrow
>>569332093>Walkthrough trailerWhat's that supposed to mean?
>>569331971Perhaps its a visual change that occurs when you only equip single SPWs on certain aircraft, so that those awkward looking empty pylon issues from older games is done away with. Like the targeting pods in 7 appearing when you choose gpbs on the Mirage and Tomcat
>>569332192https://youtu.be/DcphpBvdt28in-depth gameplay it says
>>569332192Gameplay trailer that goes over all the new mechanics, I suppose.
Why is /v/ suddenly going nuts about this game?
>>569332307Cool, I guess this means we'll get to see them choosing a plane and that means taking a peek at the early game plane list.
>>569332307>>56933209310 minute video
>>569332410I don't knowI don't careI don't like /v/
>>569332410>/v/ WHO
>>569328035Sunk cost is quite the thing.
>>569332093did erusea seriously lose zero territory after plunging the entire continent into war in 7?
>>569328035i was always under the impression that simfags literally only play the one thing they bought their setup for
>>569332214Or its just the fun feature people enjoyed given to all planes.
>>569333675It sounded like some of the territories they absorbed earlier, like Shilage and Voslage, started clamoring for their independence again during the chaosErusea probably had enough on its plate to not try and get that territory back for now, though it does give them an excuse to kick off yet another war later down the line
>>569314707Update: 6AAM is much better than 4AAM, if only because of the lockon range. It's a shame AC games are so stuck in their ways with what weapons can go on what craft. I like thematics and I like the Adler but the Falken gets 4AAM, so I might swap to the F35 series so one gets 6AAM and the other gets 4AGM.How's Nosferatu? And when are we getting a turreted fictional superplane? Varcolac doesn't count.
>>569333675They lost two tiny areas that are like the size of Rhode Island. I guess it was The state of Shilage & Voslage
>>569332410Seems to be mostly niggerfaggot contrarians who see Tasha has pink hair, immediately think MUH WOKESHIT, then spam threads about AC8 so they can claim it's being "astroturfed"
>>569334039>kick off yet another war later down the lineWe are already at 2029 USEA nations no longer matter after this point we have hit the age of the Megacrops running the continent after the events of 8
>>569334491All I'm saying is that Erusea likes having casus belli so much it'll manufacture them for laterIf the timeline shifts and the megacorps collapse, they'll have to pull Mobius out of sublimated retirement to kick Erusea down again
me and the boys on the way to commit some war crimes!
