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First for Sotoa did nothing wrong.
>>582816979I can't run the game because my setup is shit but I finished watching a playthrough of 8, gotta say I liked what I saw. The Sotoan war chanting on the radio was cool and I thought Kate was actually a goner and went "what the FUCK she didn't get picked up???"
Disappointed there wasn't a Zero Gravity mission
>story with a bunch of characters spouting "we're all one multicultural beautiful people, open-borders for all!">in just a couple of years the entire world will have their governments lose all power and be under a brutal corporate rule who are superpowers by themselveswhat did project aces mean by this
>>582817637they looked at real life
>>582817637The world's only hope has always been a benevolent tyrant.
Which missions are/aren't A-10 safe? (don't have bossfights or otherwise required high-speed air targets)I've still got PTSD from the <<MISSION UPDATE>> against Sol Squadron at the end of the Farbanti mission in 07.>akshually a-10 can do all missions. skill issue lmaoYeah but on a first playthrough of the campaign it's more fun to do the dogfights in actual fighters, and bring a dedicated ground-pounder when there is a good opportunity.>>582816979Should be a plane pic in the OP.
Gun running the Podarges is fucking fantastic. That is all.
>>582817637I mean, people in this universe have been questioning the point of nations and borders since the 90s, something had to give eventuallywe obviously know that nothing good comes from the world in Electrosphere, but they probably hoped that this might genuinely be a better way forward
>>582816979The encounter with Shadow 22 and Shadow 24 in Mission 18 is so fucking Kino. The extra dialogue you get for not getting hit, shooting down Shadow 24, and then dodging the fucking horse archer missile in the mini-cutscene makes my PP extremely big.
https://www.nexusmods.com/acecombat8wingsoftheve/mods/1it's up
>>582817860for me it's dropping a UGB on the thing
>Mission 4 is basically reenact Perl HarborBased
>>582816979>Unironic zoomer buzzwords>Shadow squadron being lame and gay jobbers>DEI everywhere>Bossy niggress for XO>Mutt half breed foid who lectures the straight man in the game>First 30 mins being an unplayable cutsceneshills and AC7 tourists will unironically defend this shit
>>582817637That's the real life trend too though
>>582817637We went from globalists being the aggressors in Zero to them being the saviors in 8. Very zogbrained.
>>582817961>we obviously know that nothing good comes from the world in Electrospherehow was the world in electrosphere any worse than the world in any of the other AC games?
>582818165https://youtu.be/uS1LmpiJFaM
>>582818061>AC8 supports framegen but you aren't able to turn it on by default How strange
This game really captured the current political trends well>>582818165You've been doing this for a decade you fag, when are you finally gonna take your meds on time?
>>582818148Would've tried it if I'd brought any, but the only carrier plens I have right now are the paypig Tomcat and the starter Hornet and I wanted to do Top Gun things.
>>582818165i want to make the fattest and sloppiest cum tribute for her face
>>582817637
>>582818265Enso is literally behind the Sotoa-FCU war
>>582818406>how was the world in electrosphere any worse than the world in any of the other AC games?What part of "two corporations who took over the world and are death-warring each other in every part in and out of the planet" sounds better than AC 04, 5, 0 and even 7 to you?
Everyone gangsta until the radio starts chanting in Tatar.
>>582818165Being the EU fighting to stop the tyranny of what is basically Iran + Mongolia from world domination so we can protect the world domination of post-national post-racial corporate rule and neoliberal economics is way funnier.
life might be a bit better for the average person in electrosphere, who knows
>>582818265That's not what happened in 8's story at all wtf are you talking about you retard
>>582816979>me just starting to get into learning RU hey I know some of these lettersDoes anyone know what settings would be good to turn down with a below spec CPU?
>>582818789How can we be the EU if Theve is Toronto. Last I checked Canada wasn't part of the EU.
>>582818754>blasts rock over your chantinggo back to your desert
>>582817976if i dont shoot down 24 where does he go
The live anniversary cd sounds kinda bad. It's like the orchestra took downers before recording.
>>582818697>What part of "two corporations who took over the world and are death-warring each other in every part in and out of the planet" sounds better than AC 04, 5, 0 and even 7 to you?the part where in every other game where two countries who took over the continent and are death-warring each other in every part in and out of the planet
>V2 succeeds>world is now a nuked mad max shithole>this is supposed to end wars and borders and shitwhat was the plan here
>>582817637Art reflects life.
so,did you finish the game?
>>582818676And who do you think is controlling such an entity? Belkans. It's pretty funny seeing people on strangeinternet asking the Belkan question.
lmao there's a secret bad end if you're an asshole in every? prompt in your save where copes takes over and you shoot down tasha
>>582818925Most of the military bases and harbors are either from satellite shots of LA or Tokyo. Farbanti just happened to be based of Toronto
>>582819363Strangereal does not have Isreal.
>>582818165I'd call it pretty anti woke>faceless mute MC is still a white male instead of ambiguous they/them>all the non white squadron members are killed with only the 2 white males and 2 white females surviving, with the women being the men's backup>Man bad guys are committing war rimes to claim their "promised land"
Am I crazy or are UGBs absolutely top tier in this game? Especially if you increase their range/power
>>582819676After the Razgriz Files and the Lighthouse War, they have one now.
>>582819731always have been
Shadow 22 boss fight is the biggest piece of dogshit I've ever experienced. Solely because I can't aim my machine guns, and it's a machine gun fight. Fuck this gay maneuver shit.
>>582819546So how long until Verusa? or are we going to avoid that for as long as due to JPN/CHN geopolitics.
>>582819153They're psychotic anarchists and the very concept of sensible planning is a statist psyop to them.
>>582819546Consider changing Russian to Soviet.
i have chud fatigue
>>582819546Forgot the Japanese flag for Osea too.
>>582819363It’s actually general resources pretending to be a belkan conspiracy
>>582818925Isn't Canada unironically trying to become a pseudomember of the EU?
>>582819895it's so fucking gay that we couldn't get chinese planes
>>582820349fuck chinese planes
>>582820349probably next game, they didn't settle on an agreement in time
>>582820192Just to keep the TDS Boomers that voted the same party in again thinking America is Canada's biggest problem
>>582820349You know battlefield 2 for having Mandarin Chinese call-outs and PRC military hardware, was the most popular FPS in mainland china for a while. It has been a couple decades since so I don't know how the bugmen would react to their military being depicted, even as an advanced adversary with shit like Sotoa's landships.
Got S on everything so far but a C on 7, the search and destroy mission. I got double the minimum points too, so I wonder what the trick here is, maybe reload a lot more while spamming bombs?
>Missions 1-12Decent to great.>Missions 13-15Some of the worst dogshit in Ace Combat.>Missions 16-29Absolute fucking masterpiece, some of the best moments in all of AC.>Mission 30Mechanically the WORST fucking finale the series has ever seen. It's not difficult, it's the definition of a waste of fucking time. There is no finale where you spend so long doing so little.
>>582820549 How can they settle on an agreement? The PRC would just step in and complain about shit like the Yasukuni Shrine or some random disputed islands in the South China Sea.
Niggas taking ace combat story seriously when its just thishttps://files.catbox.moe/gx2kye.mp4
Am I the only one who liked mission 15 a lot? Maybe I got lucky equipping the long range machine gun on a fast f-16 but I had a great time
https://breakingdefense.com/2026/09/boeing-navy-ngad-faxx-next-gen-fighter-competition-northrop/Boeing won F/A-XX
>return to Comona islands to shoot down a rocket launch, a mirror of 04>oh hell yeah, furball time>it's a shitty boss battle and then you shoot down two slow moving rocketsWhat a fucking disappointment
>>582820562At this point Canada deserves everything it gets. If Alberta secedes I hope we nuke it, I don't want a bunch of faggot Leafs who expect free healthcare voting in our already retarded system.>>582820832Funny you mention Battlefield because 4 may be one of the reasons you barely see the PLA in vidya games anymore. The campaigns portrayal of how China works offended some ultranationalists who whined about it to the CCP and now the Westoid game publisher fears the wrath of the Han BVLL if they make China look stupid. BF4 is however a huge meme on the Chinese Internet because of how silly the campaign is and because half of the voicelines in MP are all swears.
>>582819546I wish there was a more explicitly Japanese country, and not just "yeah Osea is basically the US but Japan is the 51st state", because Japan fills a very specific niche in geopolitical history and it's not present at all.
Apparently you can get S ranks while dying and loading checkpoints on 8? Was this ever a thing before?
>>582821654Japanese are such cucks lmao, cant even stop sucking american cock in a videogame, for shame
>>582821782yes, if you make up the difference elsewhere as you did there with destruction score multi and time multi
>>582821498Yeah, compared to Stonehenge's reprisal, it was lacking to say the least.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRVH5Hp__FYhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBMvRzd2eeUI expect either of these at Geoff's.
>>582821498MOTHERFUCKING DOG FIGHT MODE
niggertourists fuck shit nigger faggot tourists reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
>dies trying to prevent the franchise from embarrassing itself with AC8Why didn't you stop it?
At the risk of sounding hyperbolic, the sound is fantastic in this game. Like genuinely another level. I've literally never heard a game with this good layering and dynamism. My expensive ass headphones have never been this good utilized in a game before, wouldn't surprise me if this gigantic game size was half flac files.I've literally in 30 years of gaming never heard a game respond this good in my headphones, any other dumbass with way too expensive headphones respond?Otherwise great game Kate is bae
>>582821498Don’t worry, there will be a better Comona furball later
>>582822591didn't mean to replyanyways, that was a good mission
Nothing more fun than massacring the gemma nuggets. Hopefully I can make a new plane out of their corpses.
>>582821462>boeing won ngad>boeing won f/a-xx>boeing just won more space contracts after their near catastrophic mishapNot to see here lade move on
Actual spoiler so don't hover over if you care.Is mission 30 meant to have me flying around in circles non-stop for 5+ minutes around the Endurance while nothing happens after the sub hits it?
>>582821782I had a mission where I had fucking -11,300 or so in restarts and still got an S rank. On elite even.
>game is supposed to be a ode to the whole franchise (probably because the old devs are retiring or leaving the bamco shitshow)>the assault horizon parts are the worst parts of the gameYou can't make this shit up
>>582822787>I've literally never heard a game with this good layering and dynamismgt7
I don't know what retard baked but the thread has become too fast for me to keep upThread #1129Previous mission: >>582744730
>>582822937Important information for mission 30 for those who don't quite care about spoilers. This is a pretty bad possible soft-lock.Oh, okay. So by the looks of it by researching on Youtube, I fucked the sub up so hard and fast that I completely broke the scripts of the mission and soft-locked it even on a checkpoint restart. Watch the fuck out for this, do not use SFFS on the sub, it'll blow up important components before they're available to actually target and prevent narrative events from proccing.
Does Yuktobania have any involvement in the plot? Share the details buddies I can't even run the game anyway.
>>582824050>spoilerLMAO
>>582823882That wasn't the previous mission. The previous mission never existed. It was DD propaganda.
omg nagase hiii!
there's a mod on nexus to force turn off eac for offline mode, if you're having memory issues that will probably help
>>582824131Sotoa bought some parts from them for their superweapons, that's it I think.
>>582821587Rural white Canadians are probably the most armed and conservative population besides America's, Ontario and Quebec's massive share of seats in parliament and rampant immigration to our cities has doomed the country but ok...
>>582824340Don't compare Canadians to Americans. Americans are pieces of shit, Canadians are nothing like them.
>>582824483You euthanize people to save money.
>>582824131Tasha’s mom set the plot in motion accidentally by shooting down the main antagonist 20 years ago.
>>582824131>Does YuktobaniaYe
>>582824131They are but they aren't, it's near impossible to tell without spoiling anything
how the FUCK am I supposed to beat mission 15
>>582824516No, it's to give terminally ill patients in pain a dignified death.Americans let them die on the street with no treatment after they run out of money.
>>582824516common english speaking country W desu
>>582824612tape down r2pray
>>582824641>Americans let them die on the street with no treatment after they run out of money.hey, people shitting all over the sidewalk is a time honored tradition here
Is there ways i can toy with mavismen or whoever leads the fa-36 noobs at expo city?
>the population of osea and pretty much every major country including yuktobania and erusia wants to glass sotoa>their governments don't want anything to do with it and are waiting for the war to end to buy the whole continent in a fire saleMost realistic part of the game ngl
>>582824483Most my fellow Canadians are idiots, we've voted the same party thats taken our country form being one of top ranked in the west to one of the worst for a decade or more, we deserve the scorn.
>>582818165>bossy>as in she is literally your bossholy christ have you ever worked a job in your fucking life you faggot, this is hardly bossy
>>582824896You mean other than killing all the nuggets before them?
So how much were Coster and Tasha FUCKING? Because holy shit those two were attached at the hip.
everyone is calling sotoa iran but one of the main sotoan antagonists has a turkish surname
>>582825094a lot of the sotoan aces have russian names
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBb9OB1MJFUAn interesting benchmark, RTX 2060 6GB, Ryzen 2600X and 16GB RAM, everything on low and 1080p, but the upscaling is set at Quality instead of Performance. It runs at 40-50fps in the tutorial, higher if staring directly at the sky, it can reach 60 there, but the tutorial is very barebones so I expect actual gameplay, particularly the more intense missions, to run at 30 fps, with frequent drops into the 20s. I am interested to see what the difference would be if upscaling was set to Performance instead, and what impact lowering the resolution to 900p would have. I would be very interested in seeing someone test the game on an RX 6400/6500, since those are about the weakest cards you can find that have hardware raytracing support.
>>582825062Nevermind i beat the mission and she just suicides at the end
>>582824612lots of machine gun fire, coordinated sp barrages with your squaddies, and restarting from checkpoint to refill your ammo
>>582825014Every party is identical to the LPC and democracy in every country is fake and gay anyway
>>582819731You're not crazy, they're even better than they were in previous games.You can grab the Mirage 2000 pretty early in the game along with the part that expands bomb loadout and then either get 42 UGBs with no other SPW or 30 with another one.It's absolutely fucking insane, 30 UGBs just clears entire maps and you can still take 4AAMs or LASMs.It's even better once you unlock stronger planes that also carry UGBs like the Berkut or the F-15J.
>>582824483And this is a bad thing because?? We only have so many doctors and so many resources, it's better that they go towards treating young people and killing off terminally ill boomers than the other way around.
CALL ME HOME SET ME FREE
>>582825094Iran's second or third largest ethnic group is Turkish and it was ruled by Turkish dynasties at some points in its history.
>>582825409is there a checkpoint when you first encounter them or is it after you kill one, having trouble killing one, might try gunpod cheese because missiles always want to lock to the vls
Goddamn the Shadow22 fight in mission 28 is kicking my ass. I beat him eventually by dragging him behind me while kate and tasha shot him up with qaams until I could land a high aspect machine gun kill. How are you supposed to actually kill him? I tried launching immediately after he and the lux lunae boys do the parthian shot kulbits, but they seem to just flare those away.
>>582824612I did it without too much trouble by using a full EW growler.
>>582826245you get it after downing one. the first goes down pretty easy if you missile spam its engines, but the second one is an utter fucking nigger pretty sure he's voiced by vergil from dmc, which made the whole thing pretty funny despite the asspain it caused me
>finished my first playthough in a Phantom I never washedHoly shit do I suck flying this thing in 8 but that was fucking amazing. Second best gunplay in the series after 6 (but 6's gun was broken as hell), UGBs are better than ever, and fighting crazy sci-fi shit in a Vietnam era rustbucket was incredibly satisfying. Not sure if I should do an F-18C only run for Ace or actually just enjoy the plane roster.
The Cerano reminds me of the Banshee
>>582826046turkic, not turkish
any missions in June 2030?
When can I buy the Game (aircraft)? I want to pilot unique stuff too.
Lmao. I love how rare surviving aces are in the assault records and the few that did make it have eternal PTSD.
Is it true that the game has an X-40 as the final plane? I can't find any good footage of it.
>>582827278>pigeon flies above him>"THE WEAK GET EATEN"
>>582827285
How's the F-16 now that it's not nerfed to shit for being the starter aircraft?
>>582827792nta but I was concerned about this thing from it being described as "adf-11f but bigger" but this thing is sick.
cute reference to the data swallow OS from 3
I just notice the phase of the moon changes for the Shadows depending on the ranking
>>582827792Waw, it looks sick What's the name used in game so I can look up videos? And are those pylons protruding from the wings or dies it have some really weird wing extensions?
>that second hangar theme
Mexico???
Just played the ligthhouse mission and I did not expect Mihaly's granddaughter to return
>ADF-11F Raven>X-40 Nightmare>X-49 Night RavenVgh... Kino...
>>582828128x-40 nightmare
Purple Magic got the coolest fucking emblem ever wtf
Mission 30 drops the ball so hard it honestly almost spoils the entire experience. I can't believe that passed for the end of the game.
900
>>582828565i just pretended it was an extended reference to 7's dlc and didn't count it as a real mission
THE NUMBERS COPE, WHAT DO THEY MEAN?
>adf-11>x-40>11+40=49>x-40Fuark
>>582828564Hell yeah.
>>582828693there was a comment in the japanese prologue trailer that mentioned the 11 when cope gets shot down was a reference to bailout king omega 11
Your first superfighter encounter being a bunch of scrubs fresh out of training is an odd choice
>>582828414>Only one video>It's the final missionWell fuck me. It looks really weird, is the front supposed to become an escape plane like the Raven? Actually, why does it look like a less advanced Raven?
There is no point in the HUB world. Everything you need is accessed in the menu. What is the energy drink shop for though? And the red and white car booth?
>>582828748Based retard
>when the drone appears in mission 26holy mega kino
>>582829335The FA-36 is probably designed to make flying a fighter jet like playing Ace Combat
>>582829362>What is the energy drink shop for though? And the red and white car booth?No idea for the drink shop but I think the car booth will change when we have any crossovers
>>5828293411. Yes2. It does3. Because it’s Belkan tech. Who do you think runs Enso order?
>>582829335Porbably supposed to channel a bit of that 0079 feeling. Tech keeps advancing but we run out of manpower.
Well the good news is there's zero achievements related to multiplayer for anybody who gives a shit. They're all related to the campaign and can be achieved in there.
anyone else basedpoint at DFM?
>>582829635it's kind of weird they'd name an energy drink after a global near-apocalypse event
is the deluxe version worthwhile or is it just battle pass nonsense?
>>582826795yeah that shit was gigaaids
>>582830404It stayed around exactly long enough for it to not wear out its welcome (3 times total in the campaign and never in place of a real fight)
>>582830846exactly, it was pretty much an in game story QTE of no real consequence. I liked it.
>>582830698early access and battle pass, basically just multiplayer shit
COPY!
>>582831128Solitary.
>>58283040450% laughing my ass off and 50% going KINOOOOOOOOO
>>582829672>3.There's no way its fucking Belkans again
26 good missions and 4 bad ones is probably the best ratio any of these games have ever had. Just a shame one of the bad ones was the ending.
>Hypothesis one: Tonitrus is a Yukes Cold War era discarded concept>Hypothesis Two: Cold War happening after Belkan War>Hypothesis Three: SOLG is created for Belkan War'>Hypothesis Four: Tonitrus is based off SOLG>Conclusion: This is all Belkans fault
The fact the only fun online part is unlocked through RNG is insane. The whole online could have been 6 boss fights, adding a new one every once and a while, ranging from 30-60m missions, and it would have been infinitely better than what we got. A clusterfuck of PvPvE which no one on earth ever would ask for.
>>582832121Belkans did nothing wrong. This is yet another clear case of Osean aggression.
>>582830698I genuinely don't think you will be able to finish the battle pass without the 30 level skip, its insanely grindy.
>>582832225Sure wish I could play Online but PA is racist against penguins.
>>582832225I don't get it, is there no dedicated PvE mode, just PvPvE and PvP? I thought there'd be one, seems like it would be good.
>>582828748Amazing post
so what did you think of the fight against Moon 11?
>>582828748
>>582828748Breh not even D.D can fix this...
>>582832339No there is PvE but it's a score attack race against another player team. You don't interact with one another, you just out-speedrun the others to victory.
>>582828748Is that so?
>>582828748Retarded or just pretending?
>>582831729That’s because it isn’t. General Resources is the real core stakeholder in Enso Order and it’s faking a Belkan AWWNB conspiracy so that it can dissolve the whole bitcoin organization, seize all the ex-Grunder tech the organization absorbed, and cement its own rule openly.
There's a non zero chance Sotoa fought against the two Scinfaxi-class submarines and now I wonder if Shadow 22 has stories about it
>>582832426Insanely good OST drop. Otherwise felt like a slightly more polished Mihaly fight with less bullshit invulnerability phases. Pretty good for ace combat standards but Shadow22 is the better fight.
so far I'm having fun and I haven't experienced any bugs or crashes or alike, mission 3 is when the real shit begins>"are we ready to run?"> -> No>"are we going to fight!?">"Yeah!">mfwI'm on mission 8 currently, but so far the game knows how to hit the right notes.
>>582828748YES <-
>>582832748this is a game that goes "you're a fake ace!!" when you actively solo defend a base against thirty planes the plot isn't that deep
>>582832426the input reading part was pretty cool
>>582833132I thought it was more Cope was a fake ace, you take his place as a fake ace that ends up making the lie true.
>>582833551half way through the game they call you a fake, it's bad pacing for the plot point
>>582833065>MY PEOPLE ARE DIVIDED>THE NATIONS ONCE UNITED>DIVIDEDplease christ give lyrics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lC7diQ6F904&list=RDlC7diQ6F904
>>582833132Yeah, that’s kinda the point. Everybody is so focused on the corny hero story that they’re missing the games going on in the background. Like how GR got exactly what they wanted out of basically every interaction with them.
>>582832426Way better than Mihaly. Really fun to do with gunpods.
___Kate's death in mission really fell flat ngl
>>582824131>>582824579technically speaking the reason sotoa became a desert to begin with is because they rapidly industrialized out of fear of yuktobania ever invading them
>>582832339>Co-op AssaultPvPvE. You can't directly kill other players, but you must race against your team and the other team to score kills on targets>Co-op WarfarePvPvE. You start by killing ground/air targets which gives you a wanted level, then try to kill the other 4 players with wanted levels.>Scramble "Work together in four-player team to shoot down powerful enemy aircraft". I haven't been able to play this. I don't know how/why its locked. Not sure if its good or bad. >Emergency Sortie PvE. Actual true PvE, 8 players vs a boss. Its still a race to out-score but you earn a lot even if you don't perform well individually. Over 6 hours of playing Assault and Warfare I got to play this ONCE. >Deathmatch/Team deathmatchPvP. Obviously. I want to point out as well that Assault and Warfare offer 0 challenge. The NPCs are shooting foam darts, you can literally fly head first into missiles and flak. So the only "challenge" is racing everyone else to click on boxes faster than them. I'm pretty sad about it I was really hoping for a online mode with some effort in it but this is a clusterfuck of bad design and beyond fixing.
>>582834145It does feel a bit silly for a unit that kills tens of thousands of people to cry when it loses a single pilot
>>582834218I was hoping I could queue for the pve exclusively, but I also never buy these games for online and I want to play Dynasty Warriors 3 in 3 days so I am not overly upset the online is shit
>>582834218I don't know why every fucking company keeps insisting in PVP when it's clear you can get a much broader and healthier audience by catering to PVE instead. Just look at shit like Arc Raiders making bank by just catering to those people instead of killing your game for ultrasweats like Marathon.People are still going to spend money on skins even if you don't force them to shoot at each other.
>>582832748>faking a belkan plotThat has to be the funniest shit ever
>>582834218>Assault and Warfare offer 0 challenge. The NPCs are shooting foam darts,Aren't there difficulty levels buried in there somewhere?
>>582834679>I don't know why every fucking company keeps insisting in PVP when it's clear you can get a much broader and healthier audience by catering to PVE instead.Costs more to do PvE. Just look at how little effort went into Assault and Warfare. They populated a map with some assets, then made the challenge racing other players. Designing a mission which is actually engaging and balanced for 4 people requires extensive effort and testing. Its simply cheaper to do PvP than PvE.
>>582834679>Arc RaidersIsn't that game barely chugging along?
>>582834831>Aren't there difficulty levels buried in there somewhere?Hypothetically but I have not noticed any difference from difficulty 1 or 5. Which is forced on you by the way, because everyone is running Morgans. >>582834679>>582834893Arc Raiders is also adding PvE which is hilarious.
Dorito get
>>582835149>ARMS slots? Yes.
Finally done. First dozen missions are decent with some kino moments, that string of gimmick missions with the XB-70 bossfight in the middle can get cancer, but the rest of the game is fucking amazing.
>>582833825>SpoilerWait, if they inherited multinational assets, how come the 2040 simulated war have them be equal with Neucom of all people?
i cant fucking believe ghosts are canon. what the fuck lmao
>>582835565The snow parts were so comfy.
I've practically spoiled half the game for myself because I can't get it yet and I hate waitinf like this lol
>>582835586The G in /aceg/ stands for Gundam
Has anyone else got trading card drops yet? Is it because the game isn't technically released yet?
I HAVE BEEN COMPILING SHADERS EVERY TIME I BOOT THE FUCKING GAME UPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP I HATE UNREAL ENGINE 555555555555555
>>582835914enable shader cache, bro
>>582835345I'm so glad the F-16C isnt a lead brick like in 7
>>582836037i have lol. unreal engine is so fucking ass. takes me 2-3 hours to compile shaders on this game
>>582835386In 3 Neucom started out as a bunch of ex-GR scientists branching out to make their own megacorp with blackjack and hookers.
>>582835386Because by 2040 they got complacent (well, they were already getting complacent in 2030 when they stopped sublimation research by assassinating Martha). Neucom was the new kid on the block and heavily invested in new aircraft where GR’s were just upgrades of existing aircraft.
>>582835376the only cool part about that fight is that you think they're just valkyries doing wacky maneuvers until they bank and open up their adler arms
>>582835914>>582836262Something's wrong with your PC, buddy.
>it's another 'east asian cultural love for gambling ruining a video game' episode
another crusty fucking millenial complaining that a gamedev needs to generate profit to continue releasing new works of art
>>582836952At least these loot boxes aren't paid. I think. The rates seem like total ass though.
>>582836952Gacha is the future of video games. Only gacha games will survive the crash.AC9 will have over 100 waifu pilots you can roll for.
>>582837185What if OP is talking about how dealer will NEVER SHUT UP ABOUT POKER METAPHORS
>>582837148I already get my gambling fix from rogueslop and a gacha game, I don't need in my funny plane game's multiplayer suite. I wouldn't even be that bothered if it wasn't for the fact that you have to open supply crates or purchase skins and emblems in the shop just to get them in the campaign.
>buy the F-15E, my love>immediately before a carrier mission where I can't even use it
>>582837315Hey I'd play Girls' Frontline/Azur Lane for planes. Surprised it doesn't seem to exist already. Make all the bombers fat titted hags and all the drones into lolis, it'll sell billions.>>582837351He might be the dorkiest AWACS in the series.
>>582837351it's fucking kino in mission 20 though
>>582837315>Gacha is the future of video gamesThen there is no future for video games
>>582832225I just don't know why scrambles and emergency sorties aren't a like, once an hour or even once every half hour thing.>>582834218>I want to point out as well that Assault and Warfare offer 0 challenge. The NPCs are shooting foam darts, you can literally fly head first into missiles and flak. So the only "challenge" is racing everyone else to click on boxes faster than themThis is also really lame. It's a complete waste for the PvE aspect of the PvPvE mode to be utterly pointless.
>>582837351I like Dealer, even if he's a fuckin' NERD. He's got a lot of personality and never acts like a jerk like Thunderhead or Ghost Eye do sometimes.
>>582837430>buy 3 F16Cs for the gang>it's a carrier mission
>>582837516Unfortunately direct military themed gachas like Kancolle and Girls Frontline are no longer in vogue, although obviously Girls Frontline is still going but it had to change to keep up with the times.What gachas do now is have characters and setting be independent on military stuff. Like nobody views Blue Archive characters as synonymous with their weapons.
The Super Hornet is a fat pig
When do I unlock the FA-36?
>>582837693Thunderhead gives deserved feedback. A fuckup is a fuckup, and a fuckup costs lives.
>>582837763Gunna give the gang an F-35 each once I've played through the game like four times and have the whole tree unlocked.
>>582837430>go down the Hornet/F-35 route for the Jokers>stick with the F-4 for myself, or the legacy Hornet for he carrier>spend the rest of my MRP jumping around the tech tree to chase parts that seem cool
>>582837351I like Dealer, he's a STRAIGHT shooter.
>>582837769I mean to be honest the characters in GFL2 don't have much to do with their guns anymore either, most of them aren't even named after them. And Azur Lane's theming has always been kinda loose with it just determing what kind of slutty outfit they have sometimes. Not that it matters to me anymore since I dropped all the other gachashit I play save for Zenless.
>>582838198I think a lot of his metaphors are a real flop. He's just trying to cash his chips in on his name, but he's a few cards short of a deck. Poker reference.
>>582838297>I mean to be honest the characters in GFL2 don't have much to do with their guns anymore either, most of them aren't even named after them.Yeah, that's exactly what I mean. It gives the devs more freedom overall.Like if I were going to do a plane gacha, I'd have pilots and planes as separate systems - although obviously some pilots would be better in certain planes, but you can mix and match to create a build as you like.
>>582838198>>582838443I see have a Fulll House, Jokers and 2s with no Aces
Did they ever explain what the fuck the terminus fingers are
>>582838538https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfU69_up02Y
I hope we get dress uniforms with winter coats at some point.
Is performance really that shit? I have a 9070xt but I'm considering cancelling my preorder
>>582838484It does. I still think the way Flight Highschool did each plane girl was good, their personalities are a bit inspired by the planes.>>582838550I think it's Sotoan religious bullshit.
Does she game actually run badly? or is it another case of people with 8 year old hardware not being able to run the game?
they dangle the harrier squadron infront of my face and don't make it playable, they mock me
>>582838637it works on my machine (4070 super w 16gigs ram)
>>582838550Some Sotoan folklore "hand of death" sorta deal. There's a mission before Kate repaints the wing where a Sotoan mentions something about the Terminus Fingers taking him to the next world.
i'm thinking about the first level in 3, the one where you fly over expo city, and how despite the graphics being from the PS1 era and the textures looking flat and the few buildings that were actually modelled are very low poly, the overall design of the city still has a forward-looking and futuristic feel to it. someone is apparently making a PC port and they've somehow managed to pop up the textures so that all the buildings are modelled and it just doesn't look like the future at all anymore. it looks like a current day tokyo or gracemeria or something
Can we fucking not? I swear if all the ridiculous bullshit you could abuse in 7 is back in 8 I will never touch the multiplayer after the first week.
>>582837763>earn a ton of money in the first few missions>unlock F4 and then unlock all the way up to but not including Gripen>next three missions are ground attack>can't switch SP of wingman to UGBreeee
>>582838845Erm, this is totally realistic dude
>>582838827i also wish they'd change the UI of 8 a bit to look a little more near-future
>>582838637>>582838695I got a RX6800 and I get steady 60fps at 1440p with medium. Only drop I've seen is during the first few cutscenes. Had a few odd crashes but thats just >AMD drivers lmao
>>582838695Bit of both. I’ve a 5070ti + i9 ultra 295k + 64Gb ram so near top of the line for a pre-RAMpocalypse PC, and the game runs very smooth about 90% of the time playing on 1440p ultrawide. However, I have had at least one CTD so the game isn’t totally stable even with modern hardware. I have to imagine it’s worse for people who haven’t upgraded since around covid times.
>>582839076yeah most of my graphix settings are set to medium bar texture res and cloud detail +dlss quality and i got rock steady 60 during gameplay @ 1440p6 hour straight session yesterday and zero hitches
>>582838845>He doesn't know of Sovyet sekrit backward thrustNGMI
Just finished the game.It's basically the chad son of AC5 + AC6, with Easter eggs and references to all the other mainline games.Managed to get an S rank on every mission on my first try, except for one: the under-radar Prowler mission, where I got an A. I tried it one more time because I never want to play that fucking thing again.Kinda like AC5, it has a couple of very low lows (the Valkyrie bomber fight and the Prowler run were pretty frustrating), but other than that, the highs were really fucking high.I've played all of them, and this has now become my favorite.The only real gripe I have is the UE5 performance. After about an hour, though, I kinda just got used to playing at 60 FPS.I also noticed a pretty big spike in difficulty from M15 onward. And honestly, every major battle or boss fight somehow manages to be better than the last one.Very, very happy with this game. This one's gonna stay with me for a while.Now i'll jump straight to the online
>>582838845That's accurate to actual Russian hardware. The Su-57 is sixth gen for a reason.
So what was that weird, repetitive radio chatter on the final mission? I could barely make it out.
>>582839443
>>582839443It seems that the drones are autonomous. I was able to make up something like "Launch additional units" or "unit has been intercepted", basically just Hugin and Mugin chatter but in english
>>582839443incoherent ai screeching
>>582839579>>582839601>>582839613Figured.
not the worst for 1 day latebut I wish I had it today lol
>>582838845PSMs have been a blight to these games
>>582839715I haven't even played the game yet and I knew it was ZOE.
>>582838845>gains 600 alt while upside down How did they not even test this
>download Skies of Deception since it's one of the few AC titles I still haven't played>can't turn for shit>can't pull up for shit>pushed my stick slightly harder to the side? instant barrel roll Why is it so painful to play
Where's the named ace that spawns after you fly through the tunnel in mission 4? I wiped all targets after going through it and didn't see it. Got the medal for the tunnel.
>>582839934there was a tunnel in Mission 4?
>>582839934>>582840019pretty sure named aces only show up after your first campaign run
>>582839934theres a mission 4?
>>582839896draft winds sir>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzGpc1bEKNk
>>582840079Well dang.
That MGS style interactive pov opening cutscene was amazing. Really great creative decision. I'm locked the fuck in. Played the tutorial mission. It's VERY evident how much the sound design especially in this one was inspired by Top Gun Maverick.Anyway, I'll be back in a few days when I finish this shit. Have fun, buddies.
>>582838845This game doesn't even attempt to simulate physics somewhat half-decent. Just basic collision and simple math.
>He's not a caged bird like meHoly fucking kino
>>582839934Aces show up only after you complete the campaign once >>582840019Yes with some trucks inside. You get a funny dialogue line, a steam achievement and a campaign medal for flighting into it
>>582839825PSMs aren't the problem, it's that there's no fucking limit to them. Even just a literal video game cooldown on them would be enough to stop this garbage.
>>582839406You mean seventh gen. They're getting really good mileage out of all the alien tech in that asteroid that crashed in siberia a while back
>>582835376>>582836512the supervalkarie fight was fucking kino come on
There's a period where Tasha's mother might have met and worked together with Bartlett's ex.Think about it
>>582840328might go redo that mission then, I could some more cash anyways
>>582839908it plays almost exactly like 4, what do you mean
>>582840329I don't get how they're even useful when you have to slow down so much to do them. AoA in PW has a cooldown but it's also busted despite that.
>>582840409The only good part is Vergil voicing the second pilot.
Mission 28 took 40 fucking minutes what in the macross was that
>>582840578they're useful in precisely one game mode (1v1 pvp)
>>582840429Tasha is Bartlett's illegitimate daughter
Wow the team with FOUR morgans won? no wai
>>582840558I don't remember having so much trouble dogfighting in 4. No matter which plane I pick in X they all feel like I'm flying heavier than average bricks. Some just go way faster than others.
its me, im the wings of theve
>>582840690maybe the real ace combat 8 was the friends we made along the way
>>582840837suck on theves nuts
>>582840409It's kino but it's also fucking infuriating. I might have a better time on my second run since I know mostly what to do now or not since I'll be on ACE this time
So is there an /aceg/ squadron in multiplayer?
>>582840578It's basically a dogfight thing exclusively but even in the 4v4 modes provided there's nobody to sideswipe anyone doing them you're at the mercy of whoever knows how to spam them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZaybIJP5gI"""high level""" AC pvp is so fucking gay even pride parade fags would call it gay. PSM aside, 7 has so much retarded broken shit that I wouldn't be surprised if stuff like missile looping and warping were in 8 as well.
>>582840772Is the TLS an instant kill in MP?
>>582840690«Bloody hell! Tally 1000 bandits!»«We got you three from Joker flight, plus Jackpot squadron from the dauntless»>mfw
I think it would've been cool if the X-40 was powered by Aeon engines like the X-49
>>582840837Cope, you were shot down by Girish Toprak
>>582841169Jackpot squad getting dragged into the worst situations with Joker squad the whole game lol
>>582841169I would've thought people would be chomping at the bit to be psychopath murdering everyone on their own in m18 and m28, was that just me?
I can't believe there's still no fov slider. I really dislike how closed in the camera is.
>>582841348more like Girlish Topkek
>>582841089Yes, and it outranges pretty much everything.
>>582841759>m18Sorry, I meant m20. I felt like I was out for blood then.
>Added ECM class>No use cases ever Thanks
Are Trigger or Count mentioned at all in 8? I know the Princess is.
On mission 4, please tell me this isn't front loaded, it's easily far above any other AC
>>582842009LOOK AT THIS PHO
>>582842009Count's probably back in jail after going bankrupt and Trigger's too busy banging Huxian and Avril
>>582842172It just gets better, the only downside is goddamn UE5 raising the minimum specs.
>>582841819Fuck. There's gonna be a lot of complaints about that. They can nerf in multiplayer. But I hope to christ they don't nerf it for single player.
>>582842396Damnyeah I gave up trying to reach 60fps, 40-45 with higher settings will do
>>582842286anyone who says the clouds arent worth it is coping and seething
The final map is literally just the Alicorn shitslop editionbut I guess after mission 27, 28 and 29 were the kinoest kinos I can forgive it to some extent
>>582842396is 30 FPS playable
>>582843008No, the human eye sees anything below 40fps as a power point presentation.
The voice direction in Ace Combat dubs being off at times is nothing new but this game had an abnormal amount of "There's 0% chance the VA was told the context for delivery of their dialogue line" moments
>>582843105Bad vocal direction is unfortunately becoming standard these days.Like in the new Halo 1 remaster (which is bad for a myriad of other reasons, but let's focus on this one) they had Cortana sounding like a cheerful child the entire time. No other reason than the vocal director liked those takes.
I was gonna be really pissed about Kate dying since it's obvious Tasha and Coster are fucking but then luckily not only did she survive but she's still with (You) at the endRex won
>>582843061So I'm fugged? Or is there a mod to turn all of these nonsense off?
>>582843261Baxter should've lived too, ride-or-die niggas like him are dime a dozen but they so rarely survive to the end. Maybe their sacrifice is what cements their brotherhood and loyalty to the protagonist.
>>582843497No, I'm joking, it's basically just how smoothly each frame updates. 40fps is still a lot.
>>582815798Yes, it's SUPPOSED to play but no intro movie or any pre-rendered/video format cutscene plays. Including mission briefings.That's why I'm asking anons if their steam ported copy of Ace Combat Zero has cutscenes or not. It's just fucked on my end.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0r5RaNbSC3o
>>582843617yeah, but I'd still want to turn off ray tracing if I can
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INRfyju1dQkI love that Mission 28 is literally just Macross
>Shoot down all the cadet pilots in the experimental slop planes>Tasha acts like I'm doing something questionable by targeting them>Mission ends with the shot down lady either committing sudoku to avoid capture or dying in a blaze of gloryuh should I have ignored them
how many missions does this game have anyway? and since I'm fine with the plane roster spoiler, what are the available superplanes? Fenrir in there?
>>582843660>easy difficulty>easy controls>mouse+keyboard
>The number of upgrade materials required for upgrading planes increases by 5 each time you do itHoly fucking shit what the FUCK are you doing devs. I upgraded the Frog and wasn't even told it would FUCK me over for future plan upgrades. Whats the cap on this? Are we going to have to buy +50 blueprints just to upgrade from 5 > 10 once we've done a couple of planes? Jesus fucking christ.
>>582844081So far it's the Game, an EW variant of the Game, Morgan, and the newcomer X-40 Nightmare [\spoiler]
the ladon bomber missioni know when im picking mig31 for my next playthrough
>>582842009Not directly, but yes
>>58284408130
>Cope didn't attack Sotoans because he was Sotoan himself>Blaze on December 29,2010
>>582844323That's good enough for me. After all the shit he went through, Trigger doesn't deserve to be forgotten. None of the AC protagonists do, really.
>>582840996Were people really having difficulty with this? I murdered the first one in like 2 seconds and then the second one only lasted like a minute longer because of bullshithax speed letting it get away.
god damn the fight against moon 11 is omega kino
Mission 30 has to be the smallest superweapon battle yet
>>582844520Unbelievable how 27-29 were back to back bangers but 30 is a massive snorefest.
I'm tired of the same planes. Can't we have some exotic ones.
>>582844682They REALLY want to ride on the Top Gun Maverick wave with this one
>>582844250Actual Electrosphere reference?
F/A-18E or F
I know what the blue and grey currencies are, but what's the yellow one?
>>582844848Required for some planes upgrades. The Morgan needs grey and yellow.
>>582844828F for you because of GPB and E for the shitters because of QAAMmy 2c
>>582842009Not by name but Rosa does talk about them
>>582844520>moon 11 says what moves you're going to do over the radio before you even do them while her plane's AI keeps saying that her neural load is increasing until it goes beyond a measurable number as she keeps flying faster and hardershe is literally pic related
>>582844828C
>"Wings' killcount is fake!">literally have a medal for killing hundreds of pilots by this point in the story
>>582840772uh? owned?
>>582845028>>moon 11 says what moves you're going to do over the radio before you even do them while her plane's AI keeps saying that her neural load is increasing until it goes beyond a measurable number as she keeps flying faster and harderWait, is that what she's doing? I thought she decided to turn on voice commands because her neural link was getting overloaded or something. She actually responds to your input?
>>582845346yes, it's the return of Psycho Mantis
>>582845346before she starts doing it, she says "a hunter anticipates her prey", starts doing it and then a few seconds later your teammates say "she reading our movements?" and "she can see right through us"
>>582844037NO.DEATH TO SOTOA
So the female pilot that leads the Shilage special forces squadron is 100% Mihaly's grandaughter, the older one right?
>>582845741I tought so as well, but i really don't know how to conferm it
>>582838845I get that the fake outrage is for replies, but anyone looking at this cant think this shit is good for MP.
>Complete the campaign using only attackers>only fighters>only multirole>only EW>without taking damage>using only machine gunsthat's a lot of ace combat 8 for all the medals
Holy based
>>582844253>play 7 MP and deal with cancerous Mig-31 LAAM snipers booming and zooming>hours later play that mission in 8I was fucking livid
>>582846041>guy slows down to 200kph to do some gay flippy shit>gun himIt's that easy lad
>>582845973she has a different first letter for her first name
Congratulations Belka on not being involved!
>>582846415Fucking spoilers? Hello?
>>582846127>He pivoted from AWACS duty to fast food after the warActually based, he earned it
>>582846415Plot twist: It actually is another Belkan conspiracyDLC will vindicate me
>>582846253I know, hell I'd probably be cheesing in the corner with a foxbat + LAAM and get half my score from that one guy flipping around.
>>582842009Trigger married Cossette and is the new king of Erusea
>>582846127wait, so he actually retired?
>>582846415Bullshit, it's always Belkans behind it all
>Sotoan theme
>>582846415I like how at one point they were like "Social media thinks it's either X, Y or a Belkan Conspiracy"
>>582846415>Sotoa is so fucking unhinged Belka didn't even bother with them
>>582846739Every single time.
F-18C is so fucking dogshit in PVP, holy fuck
what the fug
>>582844037Wild takes from>Let's kill Sand Island nuggets with burst missileYuke
kek can you warcrime the ejected pilots?
>>582846778I cant decide if they want Soto to be Navajo, Persian, Mongolian or all 3.
What's up with all the EMLs and pulse lasers being gone this time around?
>>582847056As long as you can argue your hand has stopped but the bullets are already on the way, you're innocent
>>582846873>IRL a low speed dogfight god that turns better than its successor>flies like a piece of shit>also no SAAM option when it looks so right with AIM-7sNot happy
>>582824131Recent Geopolitics ruined some real funny Ace Combat plots.
>>582843261I'm happy for Kate-fags getting the good ending. I was all in on Tasha and Coster ever since Project Aces released his profile saying he was a dedicated wingman that always had her back. I wonder which stateroom had the loudest celebration sex on Endurance after sinking the Triumphant, Kate and Rex or Tasha and Coster.
>>582847346i am unbelievably angry at how raped the F-18C is
there's a shit ton of named enemy pilots in this one
>>582846127Kazuhira Miller alive in Strangereal.
>>582847189FCU are brokies
I legit thought that Kate was gonna just be a ghost voice 2.0 along with Cope hahaha that was a pretty good Yes/No option
>>582835336It's great, it already handles lovely so you can just stack parts to arm it to the fucking teeth.Still sad about no HCAAs and no multi-locker improvements though.
Leasath, Sotoa, Belka, Estovakia.Rank them based on evilmaxxing.
>>582847458Coster's a gentleman, he'd treat Tasha right
>>582847795Even the Stovies never shot at bailed out pilots
>>582847795Belka>Sotoa=Leasath>>>EstovakiaAlways blame Belka
>Every level of the A10 gives +RKT capacity>But you don't unlock rockets until level 15>It also gets an abnormal number of body upgrades which might fix its terrible turning and speed I swear to fucking god this thing better have 5000 rockets and 0 reload speed by the time I get there or else Japan gets a third nuke
The Wings of Theve boring 1 wing becoming the kino Terminus Fingies was one of the best emblem upgrades we've gotten
>>582847458Dealer and Gambler, sadly. Teacher sex is all the rage in FCU. I don't make the rules here
I dunno why I thought Cope's voice was gonna be some electrosphere thing
>>582847362Are you joking? The Ukraine War is the exact kind of micro-conflict that Strangereal has every six months.
>>582848496I can accept this. Those two are always working hard and deserve to decompress, too.
I'm kinda sad that those 2 super jet things were just a one time enemyThey were cooler than the Battleships
Are ACO usernames unique or can you pick whatever?
>>582848887Not a clue, but I got my usual one locked in.
>>582846954shit on em loldid you get autographs
>EAC means no mods without disabling EAC>will need to turn EAC on and off regularly if you also want to play multiplayer once mods start being made Annoying as fuck
>>582848645Which is why Yuktobania is practically written out of AC8.
>>582849014The ban on anything Russian related really annoys me.
It's so fucked that I can't use the f15 from the carrier.
>>582847624They spent all the money on integrating the races of 7 nations instead of cool planes.
>>582849014I really want a Sotoa-Yuktobania war prequel game now, but it's never going to happen because of irl reasons.
God I fucking hate UE5 reflections.
Do we have an /aceg/ squadron yet?
>>582847795Leasath ain't even bad, it's just Navarro being a parasite for the entire country for his own gains
<<I'm Kei Nagase of the ISA.>>
>>582846415They actually say that might be a belkan conspiracy during a cutscene
>>582845741No, it’s a different character from AAW2019. Just confusing because she’s also Shilagian, similar-looking, and devoted to Rosa
>>582849209>Yuke protagonist>is wingman to Tasha's mom>Fought for peace>Final mission is against Moon Squadron>Epilogue has a scripted sequence>Sand Island Base night attackYou Rike?
>>582848856more games need to have the XB-70
>>582848887If they are, then I guess I will forever be anon of Ace Combat Online.
I blew 148 missiles trying to hit Shadow 22's squadron in mission 29, do they just automatically dodge or flare every single one? I ended up doing the fight in about 3-4 min by waiting for the scripted opening and using guns.
okay buddies, do i do my first Ace run f-18c only?
>Joker 1, do literally everything all at onceyou incompetent shitheads
>>582850307sure, not like it's dogshit or borderline unplayable and not lore accurate or anything
>>582849112Funny part is it feels so arbitrary, you'd think now would be the time to bring them back as a stock bad guy for fiction. But the only time I see them in anything is incidental or in espionage themed shows. There's some CIA show my parents watch that has a set of episodes set in Ukraine of them trying to capture a Russian agent. What you really never see is China being an actual antagonist, Hollywood is fucking terrified of offending them lol.>>582850359As is tradition.
>>582850307I probably will, tee bee haych. UGBs are unmatched and after doing my Elite run mainlining the F-4E even the F-18C feels like a super plane.
>>582850419I think the problem is (((banking institutions))) or something all collectively agreed to pressure companies to stop portraying Russia in any light, positive or negative. So you had some consultant telling Project Aces "NO RUSSIA OR YOU DON'T SUPPORT UKRAINE".
>>582850587why not save the verusa continent for future projects when everything calmed down then? Game should've been Osea vs Wellow or something.
>>582850359Your wingmen do more than the lazy FUCKS in 7 at least.
I wish we had access to damage data and hp stats for parts and planes. I want to know if it's ever worth stacking MSL damage, i know you can get one-shots on MiG-21s and i think Mirage 2000-5s that way.
>>582818165>>582819709Hold on.. is the plot really "ebil middle-easterns"?No shadow hand/mastermind controlling Sotoa?
>>582851042those anons are reaching really hard, the game is basically a corporation having a civil war using nations as pawns. Fitting given that PA wants to keep going for an AC3-style future.
>"We're low on missiles and bombs"WHAT
>mission 14I generally like this type of mission but it went on like 30% too long
>megacorp future is canon>alien space war also canonYou really just can't win in the Strangereal universe.
>>582850151They don't automatically dodge every one but you have to use ESM or QAAMs (preferably both by sticking Coster in a growler and keeping SP.W off until that part of the fight) to get a chance of hitting them normally since they basically have protagonist powers to keep pulling Gs.
Is there a way to make text less blurry in Electrosphere? It hurts my eyes to read.
If you kill Shadow 24 in Comona, does he show up in mission 28 again with a new plane?
>alien space war also canonExcuse me?
>>582852059>he doesn't knowGalaga is set in Strangereal, retroactively
>he lacks critical information
>>582846253>It's that easy ladIt's literally not, which is the point.
>killed most of shadow 20 squad with 4AAM when they were in the middle of their post stall maneuver-kobra bullshit being perfectly still targetsmightve been the funniest moment of the entire game, nothing can counter AIM120 to the face, 10/10 game
>>582851323Rex keeps spamming 'em at ground TGTs.
This game is at it's best when it's doing original things and at it's worse when it's doing "remember [old ace combat]?"
fucking ground retards died to one tank after a long fucking dogfight with these Shadow fucks REEEE
AO3 is really something else
I think Moon 11 might be my 2nd favorite AC antagonist, below Yellow 13 and above Pixy. Seems like the new Holy Trinity is 4, 6, 8.
>>582852954>Wind Beneath His WingsI want to strangle whoever decided that was a good title.
>>582847795As the other guy said, Leasath wasn't bad, Navarro was. (And likely a early General Resource since their CEO has a Brazilian name)
who's the guy sitting behind us when we fly a 2 seater
>>582852976>billions must die because our idea of "progress" has become a cancer, now watch me nuke toronto Wow she is literally me
>>582852059https://ugsf-series.com/en/Dig Dug is set in the Strangereal universe, in 2382
>>582853454>nuke TorontoIf only it were so easy...
>>582853428Don't worry about itEspecially don't worry about it when you stick the rest of your squad in 2-seaters too
>>582846127kino
The more I think about it, the more I feel like they are subtly trying to accustom people to a corporate war plot.
>still no extra character for two seatersCome on, Project Wingman had this figured out.
>>582853737The next game should have the first open corporate war, but there are still a few nations involved but by the end nobody can deny this is the new normal. Then in the epilogue, you see the opening moments of AC3's Intercorporate War.
>land>>???fuck me now i'm gonna have to replay this for the achievement kek
>>582853737The problem with corporate war plots is that in reality, corporations would rather take the safe route and oppress humanity together, rather than fight eachother. They have identical visions for the future, so there is nothing to start a war over.
why does the F-35C have a gay purple cockpit
>>582854045Not necessarily. People forget what "corporation" actually means and think it means exclusively "for profit capitalist company". But when megacorps get big enough, they become governments and do government-things.
>agree with the final boss>lose on purpose>uninstall gameSotoans truly are subhuman animals who have no sense on right and wrong and only serve their own base desires but that paraplegic lady was right.
>>582853621ESPECIALLY don't ask about the three extra guys in your Prowlers.
>>582854045>YOOO IF WE DRIVE OUT THAT OTHER CORPORATION FROM THIS MARKET OUR GREEN LINE WILL GO UP>b-but longterm...>GREEN LINE MUST GO UPNot really. They are already just chasing short-term profits with barely any regard for long-term sustainability. You could spin plot like this pretty reasonably.
>>582853737>subtly
>>582854107Because it's a gay awacs plane cosplaying as a multirole fighter.
>no laserspoor felon got castrated
>>582853428Ghost of Kope
>>582854296You really think your average Joe, who picked up AC8 because his favorite 'tuber said it's good, will be paying attention to cutscenes? I guarantee you that this plotpoint will go over the head of like 80% of players.
>>582854434Good. I know it's ironic to say when this game has absurd superweapons, but fuck that outright scifi shit.
>>582854506fuck you the Su-57 and F-15E with lasers were fun
>>582854630I'd much rather they be gunpods like the MiG-21.It's literally not how military lasers work in real life, which makes my autism mad.
>>582853918Everyone was asleep...
>>582854434It's got some of the strongest A2A weapons AND arguably the best A2G weapon in the game, Felon's got nothing to complain about.
>>582854630I hope we get lasers back with the more sci-fi planes
Optical camo.
going back to try and unlock some ace skins, first mission reports killing all non-targets makes it spawn but nothing happened. I did select non-story aircraft thoughdo I have to beat the campaign first or select story-mode to make it appear? the past games didn't do this IIRC
finished the game with Hornets only, my autism is happy(sorry Legacy Bug I wanted you in for so long but I had to ditch in you mission 11)
>>582854858Named aces for skins have traditionally been a new game+ deal.
>>582854281It is way easier to just say "hey we both like money and want to rule over goyim for eternity, let's merge and make green line go up together."
>>582854045elite theory says otherwise
Speaking of, can you use skins you unlock in the campaign in multiplayer?
>>582853737the other AC series has done this the whole time
>>582854467Yes actually, I do think that because they're hitting you over the head and showing you all of Enso Order's evil wrongdoings and the fact you see that as subtle or think that somehow most of the playerbase won't catch that makes you even more retarded than any average joe, compounded by how disconnected from reality you are. If someone were somehow unable to catch it then they probably didn't catch anything else and by those standards we might as well call Erusea invading the rest of Usea a subtle hint to PA thinking that war might not be all that good if you think about it.
>>582854990Nothing on story mode either so yeah must be NG+. I guess because higher difficulties were locked to NG+ runs on older games that's how I got themI'm already on Elite mode for my 1st run and after getting the 3 shadow skins in Theve Invasion I thought I'd look it up and go back for some point farmings, but I guess I'll continue with the campaign
i might be retarded, but i have got like 30 universal upgrade blueprints, why can't i use those to upgrade the plane?
>mission 23B-But we have state-of-the-art fighters!lollmao says Rex
>sotoans are REALLY that insanejesus
Anyone else notice that the lighting in first person is completely fucking broken?
>>582854630They were stupidly overpowered and it's not like what it got as replacements aren't still very good.
>>582844250Can't use morgan in campaign why the fuck
>>582853428One of the best 7 mods was the one that turned the WSOs in the various two sweaters into the robot thing that Mihaly has in his planes.
>tewy's body never recovereddid she land on the enso property and get vaporized?
Is it worth getting non carrier planes early?
>>582856720you alternate pretty much throughout
>>582856720Honestly there's actually not a lot of carrier-plane-only missions. You're probably fine buddy.
>>582854159Sotoans strike me as a people who have the intelligence to adapt to modern existence but deeply dislike it on a spiritual level. They'd rather be simple but cultured volk who herd sheep hunt deer and pick berries, but staying up to date with the times infringes on this lifestyle, and gay ideas like "international laws" make living as a nomadic mongol raider on a railgun battleship deeply frowned upon. And so, the lady with drip would rather just obliterate bourgeois civilization under a hail of kinetic impactors than live in a world under the boot of corporate shareholders as an atomized deracinated individual consumer. Pretty based.
What was land battleship #2 doing at stonehenge anyway?
>>582857667Scenic rest stop along their road trip on their way to invade the space elevator and presumably Erusea afterward.
>>582855231Supposedly you can.
>>582857667teasing for the trailers
is Nagase POTOF yet?
>>582854941Should have given the Legacy Bug to Tasha for the funnies.
This is some bullshit
>>582857667Capturing and disabling it so it can't be used against themSource: it sounds right
I'm surprised more people aren't talking about the forced FPS section. I want to fly planes, what were PA thinking? The gunplay felt terrible
>>582858279It really was Call of Combat: Ace Horizon all over again
>>582858279I thought it was fun. Getting to shoot a few Sotoans in the head personally was cool
This poor old soviet migger has recieved a good three or four significantly upgraded variants since it debuted in the early 80s, but Project Aces insists that only the Fulcrum-A, basically a 4th gen airframe with 3rd gen avionics, is allowed to play.
>>582858279I think they are a fun detox after a long mission.
>>582858494They added the 35 to ACI and AC7 eventually. Maybe they'll do that here if the live service is successful enough and they start running out of ideas for new planes.
>that bailed pilot who blows her brains out if you shoot her squad downbrutal
I know AC fan is pretty autistic for this series but he's tanking five railgun shots like it's nothing on ace, this game looks pathetically easy
>>582858494It's extra insulting that the MiG-29K didn't even make it, given the naval focus this time around
>>582858723Sotoan railguns are just weaker, simple as. Some mild precedent IRL as well, as the failed Zumwalt railgun had more ambitious design requirements than the successful Japanese railgun program has accepted for their needs.
>>582858205Frankly quite based considering the role of artillery in Zaporizhzhia and Donbas. Only problem is you never see this thing move for a reason.
I bet the game actually runs without a hitch if you were to disable denuvo and EAC.
>>582858805I don't blame them for not including the Mig-29K, would you seriously want to put a foot inside a pajeet aircraft carrier?
>>582858279they're just fulfilling the promise they made long ago
>>582858982Maybe in a hazmat suit
I accidentally killed Shadow 22 instantly because my guns were on him when they spawned and i just held down the trigger.
>>582854990You can shot down aces in mission replays before beating the game in 7, cant remember with the others
Something tells me they put more into making the planes land better than actually fly.
>>582852915I was hoping there was going to be more "hey remember [ace combat 3]?"
They should've made your WSO a character just so Cope could be him in your mind
Sitting on it, the final mission is a let down on pure gameplay because the first half is doing nothing and once you fight the sub, it lacks the bombastic flair of other finale missions. Moon 11 felt like a better final boss. But man I can forgive it all for hearing that choir. That shit was peak.
saar do the needful and do not shoot the land battleship secondary threads saar
Thoughts on Cope literally coping about being a coward and loser in life?
Help i can't summon auster by tunneling in mission 4
For the purposes of special weapon, do land ships count as ships, like PW rules?
Moon 11 is just seething Cope failed to put a baby in her before fucking off to FCU
>ROGER ROGER ROGERWho is this? Who put this talking robot in my plane?
>>582855639Anyone?
>>582860418>RETARD RETARD RETARD RETARD
>rock band songs segway into full orchestra while maintaining the beatactual soul god damn
>>582858205>>582858952Prototype of antlion tank from AC3 >>582860108Did you finish the campaign first?
>>582860429From what I understand you need plane specific blueprints no matter what, and later upgrades will also need universal blueprints on top of those.I don't have the game yet so I am unreliable.
>>582859867The final mission feels more like an emotional wrap up than a plot round up, like SOLG in 5 but a less cool set piece. It's a great story beat but the gameplay is pretty boring.
>>582856447you can see her burning up sitting in the planei don't think there's anything to recover
>>582860665A single Scinfaxi is just not a very awe-inspiring battle.
lord have mercy mission 5
>FINALLY get into one of the scramble missions>4 players>8 enemies>Over in 2 minutes >10k currency, bunch of blueprints What is the point of this. I swear this online was made by chatgpt.
That Jackpot girl is so cute...
it's really weird how half way through the game the writers start pretending like Cope was a real ace after all
>>582861359I can't get over the fact his stupid name is Cope.
this thing handles like it hates you
the steam reviews have recovered fairly well
>>582860252No, but ASM can target any ground target in AC.
>>582861529When you pick this mission in free mission can you use any plane?
>>582861529I thought this was going to be an introduction to EW focused gameplay and we were going to be jamming / spoofing enemies to escape, but nah
Too many shitty rock tracks, they were fine in the first missions but they killed my bonner when the time came for M28.
Gotta say, I was hesitant at first but I ended up really digging the whole ghost thing. I'm glad that in the end they made it clear that it was more than just coincidences and protagonist senses and he was actually someone who still had to see something through
>>582861647I like the part that using a EW plane in multiplayer benefits everyone, except you, and you actively lose money/XP because you can't kill things faster with good special weapons.
>>582861945>calls you out on the dogtag red herring fuck you I laughed
>>582816979FUCK MISSION 5
>>582861537Like, 500 of them were deleted
My fav attacker didn't make it :(
wen day is dark alway rember <<YES>>
I wonder if a proper co-op campaign could be modded in now that there's a working framework for online play against NPC targets. Probably not.
I think what I inflicted upon the Savian mercs would probably count as a genocide.
>>582860762I think that's the AI bitchin' betty she has just like mihaly. You can actually see her falling off the plane
the times where the game would randomly drop 15 fps off a perfect 60 are killing me
bunch of Japanese people posting this for not being able to finish it in one go lmao
>>582862732game's long
oh damn
>>582862732I gave it my all but my dog really wanted to go to sleep with me on a bed and I can't say no to the little guy.
>>582863010fair
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lC7diQ6F904MY PEOPLE ARE DIVIDEDIN NATIONS ONCE UNITEDCOLLIDINGHEAVEN KNOWS WHO TO SIDE WITHTHERE'S SHOUTS FOR LIBERATIONMY DOUBTS AND HESITATIONBUT I WILL PRESERVE ITTAKE ITTHEN SECURE AND CARRY ON
>>582862732yeah I already reached unc status and had to do a double sesh
>>582856447Cope and Tewy meet in heaven at the end during the supernatural vision where Sotoa isn't ruined desert, she's dead
It feels like everyone and their mother somehow bought the deluxe edition and I'm the only one left behind here.
For bathtub planes that roll like dogshit (i.e. the A10, Frogfoot, ect) is it better to grab parts that upgrade just Roll, or are the more generic 'increases aircraft maneuverability in all directions' better?
>Former lover is a foreign officer>Country went to war, got shot down>Reunite with former lover>Planned an escape together>Have sex at the Kestrel>Is the secret backer to achieve peaceCope can only dream he's like (((our))) captain Bartlett
>>582863416yes, everyone is avoiding any risk of spoilers
>>582863593I don't even understand any of these spoilers without any context so I think I'm safe
I dunno why I thought this was the first XB-70 appearance, AC0 has them at the start
The last Shadow fight unironically sucks, it's unfortunate because they made the AI do cool shit with flares
>>582863424Personal preference really, but if I'm using one of those I generally prefer to yaw than to roll.
I don't clean my planes
Baxter's my favorite squad mate.
>>582864026DD is wailing and gnashing his teeth
>>582862732I can kind of forgive Project Aces for taking this long because the game in terms of campaign length is at least 2, maybe even 3, Ace Combat games.
>>582863868Problem is I will have to spend +40k just to figure out which parts do or don't work. Annoying we can't test them.
>>582864281isn't it because the game is just so laggy and slow therefore bloating the game time? According to steam reviews anyway
Looking back at it what the hell did they put into those hellfires for them to become anti ship missiles capable of obliterating a destroyer in a single hit.
>6 major wars>3 coups>A catastrophic meteor impact>A huge refugee crisiswhy the FUCK does anyone still live on Usea, man?
>>582864554No one else will take them
ok one mission actually made me sadthat va killed it
>>582863416I bought the normal version and we're stuck waiting together
I'm impressed by how effective the Cover command was during that first land ship battleMy guys kept their VLS locked down
we're blue yaylet's see how it goes once the floodgates open on oct 1st
Has anyone played RaiderSphere? Ace Combat indie set on terraformed Venus
>>582863734Ace Combat 4 has one during Breaking Arrows.
>>582864867is the memory leek fixed?
am I supposed to know who La Chartreuse or whatever the fuck was?
>>582864925I think there's driver issues. A friend of mine constantly crashed, while I was able to play 10 hours with no issues. I was on NVida driver 610.88 with a 9800x3d, 5070ti and 32gb DDR5.
>>582864925Sorry buddy, they forgot to include the functionality to attach crash reports when the game crashed.
>>582864545Hellfires have a little 9kg HEAT warhead. Anything less than a quarter ton of TNT really shouldn't be doing any major structural damage to ships bigger than a frigate
>>5828649056 in one mission too. The one in the mountains where the drones show up to target nimbus missiles at the end.
>baxter lamenting that an entire town was obliterated from orbit and he doesn't know how things will go from there>Tasha comes in and yells at him for no reasonThe fuck is her problem?
has anyone ripped Ray's 3d model yet?
Hey am I dumb or is this really a mistake, the 8AGM on the f-35 is an air to ground weapon.but here it says it's anti-air, should I tell bamco?
>>582865014is your friend a laptopchad?
>>582865076Everyone in Joker flight has a different kind of autism
>>582865014Same friend also fixed everything by downgrading to that driver. Hopefully they fix all that for the full release but you know how it goes. >>582864545Ships in general get punked on constantly in Ace Combat, don't they?
>>582865096That is a mistake in the description. They fucked up.
>>582865076she was mad that he was feeling guilty over the whole concept of WoT because of it
>>582864986It’s Mihaly older granddaughter who went to school with Rosa
The Immortals are the best ground team we've had in awhile
>>582865096Send them to Stonehange, they'll sort it out
The AC7 characters are the worst written characters in AC8 which makes sense. That princess fucking sucks.
>>582827792Why did they poorfag on the canopy? pre-coffins already exist.
>>582864986Read the artbooks
>drop tanks are a NG+ unlock How odd>>582861640No
why do they reference every mainline game other than 6, why do they hate it so much
>>582865404when was 0 referenced? Just the existence of the mercenaries?
>>582865404What do you mean they say Angels once or twice
>>582865404What is there to reference from 6? It's pretty self contained
>>582865404It's geographically and console-y isolated from everywhere else
Leaktroon lied to us, IEWS and ECM are completely different things and the ADFX-02 only has ECMs.
>>582865404Nigga X is nonexistent, that's a mainline too, right?
>>582865404Six was a complete nothing burger.
>>582865516>Series finally catches up to X chronologically if not technologically>Zooms right past it on the way to ElectrosphereFeels bad
realistically what was Tewy trying to accomplish by sacking thousands of recruits to take over one shitty airbase
>>582865516they show a spear landing in Leasath I guess
I hope they make the MP missions longer. It's a lot of cutscenes and menus to go through for 5 minutes of gameplay, and it's not like they're using up fuel or whatever anymore.
>>582865404I liked that we passed by the Skully Islands. Shame we didn’t have a fight near it against some Shadows
>>582865681damn, as if poverty isn't enough
>>582865670I think she was just trying to destroy her own country at that point
Why do some lock ons get RNG booster lock ons?
>doing Lighthouse multiplayer mission>second phase>4 ADF-11F Raven appearI’m betting that the next battle pass will be AC7 and it’s adding the ADF-11F
>>582863158wish that guitar solo at the end was longer. My fucking favorite track in the game
>>582865684I figure they'll be adding new planes frequently enough, but more mission length and variety would go an insanely long wayOnce people start getting really upgraded planes and mission times get even shorter they'll have to do something if they don't want online to die
why is Rex Kate's WSOShouldn't it be the other way around
>>582866097Rex is the malewife
>>582865450When they reveal what Enso's goals are, specifically mentioning the death of nations. It's more of a thematic callback than "hey look it's Belkans"
>>582865984In my dreams we get an AC130.
>>582865670I think she and Shadow 22 were on standby. If the Wings flight ended up on the ropes, they could have intervened, killed them, and then dealt with Enso Order. If it looked like wings could take 1000 men in a row, then she'd dart off to Theve and use the battle as a distraction to execute her plan.
>>582866097The cut from cockpit to cockpit wouldn't work that way. It's because Rex was Cope's backseater, so when the camera does the whole "wow isn't it sad that the only thing left of sotoa's way of life is ghosts and deserts?" it can cut back to the exact same view for maximum impact.Ngl i was expecting cope to have somehow been sublimated early but i'm glad they went spiritual.
>MPBMs are affect by both air to air and air to ground missile partsCool, shame that the TLS is on par with 7's if you used all the laser parts.
>>582860762the explosion flung her body out of the plane so the only way for no remains to be found is by being at ground zero of the Theve Tonitrus cleanup rod
mission 15 is unadulterated dogshit
>>582867057which one is that
have i ever told you the mystery of tegimen>trying to talk with a giant drone sub>classified for 20 years>2045+5aces pls
>>582867057it's fun if you fly fast and use guns, if you're in a slow piece of shit then yeah it's bad
Anyone done the math on how long the ace pass takes to finish?
>can't look at aircraft tree because nobody is willing to screenshot and stitch together the entire thing (reasonable enough)>can't play game and look for myself because delayed accessFrustration is getting bigger. I want to look at it so I can plan out progress and see all the parts but I can't.Not long now at least.
So we all agree that this is part of the new holy trinity right? Just beat the game and i really have nothing but positive things to say. Rare case of a game living up to the hype. Fixed damn near everything i disliked about 7. Also we can ALL agree that moon 11 is the best girl.
>>582867057I had fun, but I also like going fast.
>>582867239I've been playing MP non-stop since launch, have done both daily/weekly missions and I'm only at level 45 (having started at 30).
>>582867405Yeah, it's like Ace Combat 5 it it was half as retarded while still keeping all the soul and it acgually has good gameplay to go along with it.
>>582820349I'm tired of playing the same planes 8+ games in a row. We finally have an interesting 3rd branch of planes in real life and we can't have them baka.
>>582867657Ugh. I really hope I don't need to play the multiplayer every day for the next 2 months.>>582867765Chink planes are just ugly knockoffs anyway.
>chinkshit>interestingr o rr m a o
>>582867154>>582867510>full throttle+lead pursuit the entire time>still can only catch them on the scripted slowdown sequencesmission is dogshit. worse than anything in ac7
>>582867704As a 5fag i have to agree. As much as i like 5 and its wingmen and ideas 8 seems to be the realization of what they've wanted to do.
How about a 3rd and 4th branch that are Neucom and GR planes
>>582820349It's extra annoying since they were sending kono j-20 brochures, side note what happened to the tempest? they got invited out by BAE and everything to talk about it
>>582868045>still can only catch them on the scripted slowdown sequencesYou mean like almost the entire time? You can even hit them right at the start before they do their first pass.
>>582868263>You can even hit them right at the start before they do their first pass.yeah, they're scripted on rails garbage that's annoying the first time you do it and offers 0 engagement every time after that because you just fly at them and gun them forever after. they fly the same exact route every single time throughout the entire mission. it's fuckin ass
anons who have played/grinded the multiplayer, is it good? is it fun?
>>582868501>thinks he can dodge the scripted slowdown claimI bet you can hit them the entire time if you went all in on top speed on some of the faster planes.
>>582865404sexy cripple lady says she used to fly with the angels or something like that
You can't join multiple squadrons, right?I'd want to join /aceg/'s but I should prioritise my IRL friends who play this
>>582868643No, and not really.
>ship(water): Dead in few missiles>ship(land): Needs a bunker buster to kill
>>582868643Yeah, at least currently, we'll see how things get once people start using actual planes
>>582868643Its astronomically bad. In short its got a day 1 p2w plane, progress is painfully slow, its massively grindy, and not a single mission you face will ever be challenging in the slightest which is crazy given ACs campaigns are typically quite hard if you play them right.
>>582868829This is why God created Cruise missiles.
>>582868829UGBs are truly the great equalizer.
>>582868643It's infinity but make infinity less fun and remove a bit of the grind. Levels don't have the weight I thought they would and its rather easy to level up
>>582868829Seaships can be killed with Sidewinders missiles (about 100kg)Landships can be breached (but not killed) with a MOP (about 12000kg)
>>582869558>and its rather easy to level upIt goes exponential after level 5. Only the special missions (boss fights/scrambles) give a real chunk of XP.
>>582858279Honestly having a reverse White Noise mission where you are the on the ground trying to escape sounds like an actually intresting idea
The multiplayer sucks ass they copy the lobby from GBO2 but don't steal the cost limits for different modes
>>582868643I played about 5-6 hours with a friend of mine. It's fun, i want more maps and more superweapon missions because those were crazy funThe missions have randomized objectives from what we saw, they are somewhat similar but the actual targets and positions change, on a single map we had on random, jammer encounters, super artillery tanks, 3 types of AA objectivesHopefully they can add elements to it later on too, more maps, time of day, different clouds, more and different enemies and combinations of objectivesCoop needs a mode up to 4 people with objectives like annihilation missions and ace squadrons without 2 teams too so i can play 30min annihilation missions with my buddies because i love thoseIt's grindy but like it's not that bad? Dunno it's been a day and i have 4 planes1 is above lvl10 but i forget the actual level and one is 10, its not that bad Like people want everything day one and having to play a game for a few hours is too much for them, its a game, it wont go anywhere, you wont miss out on anything There's no fomoTake your time and have fun you'll get everything anyway Can't speak on the balancing, I'm generally in the top scores, i didn't really see ac7 like impossible manoeuvresUt runs well, loads quickly, i had a single person disconnect in 6 hours, i had no issuesThe menus are a bit annoying, they are multi nested nightmares I wanna see wild combinations like Excalibur in infinity with the aigaion flying circles around it. I want to fight a insanity mode ac7 farbanti with 3x the targetsAlso for those who want pvp and those who don't You can play both playstyles in pvp, i had a bomber run where i had the entire enemy teams points just by killing their fleets without ever engaging a player and i also hunted enemy aces and ebemy bombers sniping them from 10km range
I will not do the gun-only campaign run until they add my Infinity fat wife back in.
>>582870173rubenesque...
>>582869558>less grindynot him but how
>>582870023>Like people want everything day one and having to play a game for a few hours is too much for them, its a game, it wont go anywhere, you wont miss out on anything>There's no fomoThere are season passes, with FOMO content attached including airplanes.
>>582868643I doubt the multiplayer will have anyone playing it in a month tops, so play it while you can.
>>582870375They said the planes are always going to be grindable, the FOMO are the limited time skins.
uuughh finally I'm gonna puke... right after I sleep now.
How do you get parts in multiplayer? What are blueprints for? Never played Infinity.
>>582870729You can get parts at the store and from challenges
>>582870624>theres no fomo>except for this fomoYou know what else they could have? No season passes.
>new Ace Pass every 2 months>07 themed pass with Falken probably next>04 is the logical next step, followed by 05 and 06How many months until we get X themed Ace Pass with the Gryphus Squadron emblems and Fenrir?
>>582870679Senior master sergant is even harder to move past lool
So, in the end, is the port of Zero good or should I not bother with preordering?
>>582870794>at the storeHoly shit, I thought that tab was just real world money for skins, I had to scroll all the way down to see parts. This UI is shit.
>>582870968>he doesn't like five hundred menus to access anything Clearly not a Superior Japanese Race individual
>>582871028The UI is actually more confusing than GBO2 for me
>Bamco commissioned a Lindsey Stirling videojesus fucking christ that's a name I haven't heard in like a decade
>Love the Morgan>Don't want to use it online because everyone is using itBleh bleh bleh
i never really got into ace combat (had 4 on the ps2 but i barely played it) but i got 8 (deluxe) cuz it looked cool.i always heard it had kino moments and lol, even just the first mission is sick>is it always gonna be this violent?>yescutscenes seem to be 60fps at the lowest, but so far missions run at ~90fps at ultra 4k settings w/ dlss quality on my 5090im using expert flight controls or w/e it's called. any other settings i should change around to make it feel better to play?
>>582858205
>>582871298Change the camera setting to Type BThe starter planes are going to feel like shit until you unlock better ones and parts
>>582871298basically type "B" on everythingand play on the hardest difficulty at all times, the first playthrough should be on "elite"
>>582868192So it only took three generations of console to finally realize what AC5 had dreamed of? wingman who can actually follow order AND score some kills?
What the fuck is up with the Strike Eagles guns? They do not shoot dead ahead.
>>582871298i like swapping the controls for changing special weapon and minimap display, you use the minimap display a lot more so having it on square(X) feels better, and thats also how the ps2 games did it
>>582871486>and play on the hardest difficulty at all times, the first playthrough should be on "elite"really? even as a newfag?
>>582871625yeah i would say so, i know that it unlocks new difficulties after a full clear, although now that might be for a full clear at any difficulty
>>582871625If you're not playing on at least elite the only way you'll ever die is crashing
>>582871625It's the best way to learn, Elite isn't even the hardest difficulty
>>582871604All of the guns do this, they shoot just under the nose so you can't see shit. On the bright side, the guns seem to be overly generous.
>>582871625AC isn't a hard series, 99% of deaths are avoided by turning slightly and not hitting the ground.
>>582871758It felt fine on every plane so far then, this is the first i've noticed it not working the way I feel it should.
>>582870173>good old Fishbeds still in service by 2030>No one used Falken or Raven within a ten year interval since 2020Grunder has fallen, billions must sell
>>582871604Cause it's listed as an attacker and not multirole for some dumb reason
>>582872026now thats interesting
>>582871875Will we get dlc of past fictional planes for campaignProject Aces pls
>>582864554Cute princess
just woke up for a 13 hour nap after my 18 hour marathon of the game, how many of you buddies actually finished the game now? let alone in one go
FUCKING FINALLY IT SPAWNED>we lost because 2 niggers were sub 2000 points and literally chandelier had 1hp left
>>582872309How was the enemy dialogue compared to the original game?
>>582872092>for campaignMm.....yes please. I'll use my company credit card if I have to
The ADFX is not vanilla. It's literally -PIX-. They're not just doing skins, but actual beefed up personalized supers like Infinity.
>>582872373I truly hope the nips love planes like Fenrir or Apalis or Nosferatu as much as I do to want it in AC8 campaign
Isn't it kind of fucked up to sell Meteor Energy in Usea
>>582872348There's no strigon
Ooft, this is getting extreme. Average mission is giving 2.5k, boss/scrambles give 10k (with 100% boost). Going to take a real long fucking time to get the 120k.
>>582872309Is it just the original map?
>>582872649*disables EAC**cheats my ZOLL*Bamco is notoriously "who gives a fuck" about people cheating in their games. Whenever I'm done with the campaign I'll probably just cheat engine my zoll up lol
Is there a reason not to use the free super plane in multiplayer other than it being unfun?
>>582872797its not the white thing to do
>>582864554It doesn't have Belka
>>582872797no
>>582872348Less chatter overall and Strigon spawns but doesn't talk.The "Preparing stauros for launch" is still there and it's still hauntind, under the notes of Chandelier>>582872707It's remade, but more or less is the same. There are way less air and naval targets tho
>>582872591I mean does the Chandelier operator reuse AC6 dialogue or does he have new linesIs it just the more emotional story relevant Estovakian dialogue being removed basically?
>>582872779I'll probably do 1-2 planes legit then yeah, CE all the way this grind will be obscene.
>No part that increases the speed threshold for post-stall movesHoly fuck it's even WORSE than in AC7
>>582872891So when alicorn shows up online will it be operated by Torres or will Torres be removed likely?
>>582872797Miserable A2G capabilities at low levels. Gun running from the Frogfoot is probably the easiest way to make bank.The cruise missile seems good in Waiapolo or the A2A version of Fort Grays but is just dogshit at anything that isn't Aegis Ashore. Last match I played I killed three different Morgans slinging the missile at Aircraft Carriers in Port Artiglio. This is the real Ace Combat Infinity experience, preserved in amber — Nothing else comes close.
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i just beat the campaign that is a rather muted and somber ending, especially with the electrosphere connectionsbiggest surprise is that there isn't a second character who actually speaks to Cope, would've thought there'd be at least one more newtype
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>>582838695Both. I'm able to run a mixture of medium/high settings on my 3080 at 1440p/60+ fps but it chugs during the intense bits.
>the thrusters are all destroyed (they are covered by buildings and have to be shot from under)!>haha jk it reached the final containment line mission abort FUCK YOU ALL, I hope your shitty nation burns
