Me and (you)

>>583204758
<<My name is Purple Magic 2, yo.>>

Cost limits please, I'm tired of Morgan

>>583203628
Superior Mobility II or Roll / Pitch 2? Which one do I take /aceg/?

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RANK THEM
www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-x_iyF-0vU

HOOOOO HOOOO HOOOO HOOOO WAUUUU EY WAUUUU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-x_iyF-0vU&t=257s

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>>583204903
>tfw I'm saving my Battlepass voucher for the next one because I'm sure it's the microtransaction hook
Patience, is a virtue

>>583204903
I get why they didn't bother. The game won't have enough players in a month to cover < 1000, 1000 - 2000, 2000 - 3000 brackets

I'm so sick of the fucking menus in online mode

>>583205008
best thing to come from AC in ages

>>583205050
Fuck I'm too new to gatcha games to have the forsight for that.

>>583205097
they're way too slow. everything wrong with AC7's menus times 10

>>583204985
>>583205008
Nightmare>Gaffed Card>Shadow 22>Moonlight and Shadow

Alright, do we still have room in a 404 squadron? I tried searching for 404 or aceg in the name but it didn't turn anything up.

>Sotoa has supercharged XB-70
>clearly has more military budget than brain
>has a massive floating arms factory
>Only fields two (Deuce) ((二)) of those bombers
>still used Bears, Blackjacks and Bones
Why did they do this?!

Tasha and Nikolai really are chinks. They have chink english VAs and they aare doing the all voices must match the character ethnicity shit in the localization.

>>583204903
>assault
>4 morgans and 3 foxhounds
>chandelier
>6 fighters

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Apologize

They need to implement cost lobbies badly, especially in warfare. You're going to get mulched trying to level planes or if you're starting late. It's fucking ridiculous. You don't have a fucking chance trying to level a plane, either. Have fun getting smacked by QAAMs in your slow piece of shit level 1 plane. Nobody is going to want to play the online in like two weeks.

>>583205192
For me it's Frostwave, that guitar is so fucking sick.

>>583205329
she shouldn't have come back

I can recognize that 8 is a better game in almost every aspect yet 7 still feels like home, wonder why that is. Makes no sense considering it's not my first game and I also saw Zero as a better game back in 2019.

>>583205227
Because it's AC aka everything goes. That's why 60s planes are still used in a world where mass giga weapons is something everybody just has cuz it's cool.

They tried to have their Nier Automata moment with this song but it really didn't feel earned

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEUZwCiHPTw

>>583205484
It was fun. Had a great atmosphere, real life story surrounding it, soundtrack, and funny memes.

>For the purpose of XP/Money it doesn't matter what plane you use
This is pretty much exactly what everyone wants

I wish Cope was in my head

>>583205484
Because the world has become worse since then.

I think mission 28 is the most fun I've had with a video game in a long time

Okay previous aces not popping up in other entries kind of made sense until now. Given Cosette's presence, Trigger or Three Strikes never even being mentioned is weird. Dude is like the bogeyman of the skies.

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>the plague of SU-33s doing PSMs and spamming QAAMs has started

>>583205574
Such shit
Really seeing cracks in the future of AC with this game

Your Zoomer chants from One Republic don't interest me.

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>You don't need to reach the level cap to unlock the next
o-oh...

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finally finished the campaign so i feel safe to post here
game was so so so sooooooo fucking good
the story did get a little wonky at the end but that's how every ace combat goes and i'd have it no other way. I was surprised it stayed so coherent and cinematic for as long as it did!

Tasha turned out to be a massive disappointment.

>>583205916
She obliquely references him, Nagase does the same for Blaze in this game too. Mobius gets a whole set of missions in 7 and most people who know Cipher exists are dead, in jail or in an old folks home.

>>583206067
You turned out to be a massive disappointment.

How's ace difficulty in 8?

>>583205574
yeah it was a "Smile" moment for sure
not quite as terrible but still pretty bad
we got a massive crop of bangers out of the game though

POST THAT PIC OF TASHA SHOWING OFF HER TWO MASSIVE NYUKES

>>583206191
Pretty easy, like 7

WHATEVER MUSIC IS PLAYING DURING MISSION 16 SOUNDS LIKE DUEL OF THE FATES

>>583206264
Damn

>>583206067
disagree
i liked all the characters, especially AWACS. loved our cute little fanboy above
though i didn't care for the cirppled lady. she wasn't as well realized as 22

>>583206191
you'll S rank the first half of the game without trying, then maybe S/A the rest

Eh I played 7 recently just to brush up a bit and Trigger feels like a better protagonist, or at least a crazier fucker than Rex. Rex is mostly always with his buddies with maybe like one cool solo moment. Meanwhile Trigger in mission 7 is fighting Mihaly solo in a thunderstorm.

>>583206067
She was pretty much exactly what I expected her to be, so I guess I was hoping to be surprised

>>583206320
I got a D on the one where you have to assist the three-pronged assault on the island base. I needed a better plane :(

Trigger Sue

>>583206356
I don't think that's really a fair criticism, Rex is more like Blaze where it's trying to build up the mythology of the whole squadron, not just you.

Is it just me or do SAAMs seem weaker than in AC7? I've just used them in Online and I'm not impressed. Or do they need upgrades to be good?

>>583206356
Rex fights off like a dozen shadows by himself in mission 20

tasha should be in school not a plane

>>583205984
Got obliterated by one of these guys earlier and it made me super nostalgic for ac7. If only I had my eml or psl

Guess what Trigger rhymes with.

>>583206467
No I think you're right, I've always liked SAAMs but I haven't been feeling them this game.

Trigger fucks Minks

>>583205916
Ace Combat 8 is like if Ace Combat 7 didn't exist. Like weren't there like, three continental wars on Usea fought there in like the past 30 years? How the fuck did some Non-Mongolians like ransom the world anyway? Where was Osea, what happened to ISAF?

>>583206604
>Is it time to run, Ray?
>It's an awful plan, isn't it?

tasha should be in my bed not a plane

tasha should be in school not in my bed

>>583206467
>>583206593
In AC7 PvP a SAAM was basically certain death but they feel a lot weaker in 8. I don't know if stacking passives and upgrades make them better though.

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>>583206715
It was kino though. Wish Rex had more moments like this.

Tasha should be in yuktobania not on my carrier

game was 10/10 right up until the mission where kate fake died. after that, the story beats started feeling off, and a little confusing/contrived, and things dragged just a bit. Still loved the game overall but it ended as a solid 9/10 for me

The Su-57 should be in my bed not the skies

Rex gets NO bitches. Tasha cares more about Coster and Kate pines over a dead man. What kind of pilot are you if you get no bitches?

It's not your career. It's my career. I decide. She stays. In MY bed. On MY carrier.

>>583207083
the only bitch I need is the open sky

>>583205276
oh my god this.
WHERE'S THE FUCKING ADXFS ON MY TEAM??!!

Fishbed lol

>>583206356
Trigger is a mad bastard to the point even other mad bastards are shocked by just how mad of a bastard he is, but Rex has his moments. Going "Nah, I'd win" at the idea of a 1v10 against two Shadow squads for example.

>>583207083
Game literally ends with you flying into the sunset with Kate

>>583207409
Not really. Besides she's a hag.

Got the A-10 in Online and took it to Warfare. That was a mistake. That thing is rape-bait. Also less effective than the F-4E with UGBs and I'm not sure leveling up will make up for the fact it takes a year to turn around.

just finished. i liked ac8's balance of air/ground missions compared against ac7 which felt too air based. planes lack variety though. also does anyone feel like flight is more agile in ac8? it feels like Aces realized there was an appetite for PWM's whacky arcade aerial combat and incorporated it in ac8. i swear the psm's feel like 70% as responsive as AOA limiter.

>can already tell the difference between a leveled and unleveled plane
I want to fucking vomit, this shit is so fucking egregious.

>>583206906
they don't. their tracking is borked even with the level 2 upgrades and a maxed out MiG-31

>>583207469
The ending cutscene is literally (You) in Kate's WSO seat flying off after leaving Cope's dogtags on the Sotoan prairie

I started ACZ for the first time and I heard that Gelb team was supposed to be difficult but I beat them in 30 seconds with just 4 missiles
is it me being on expert and not ace that caused this?

>>583207494
>play an attacker
>your entire team missiles your bomb targets before they land
turns out both modes are pvp

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as if trigger got bitches either. all he got was a stinky brown mechanic

>>583206356
Trigger just had better dicksuckers, going "HOLY SHIT! WTF" all the time while Rex's cheer section was mostly "you can do this! I belieb!!!"

Trigger's chatter was also much better
>"oh my god it's the 3Strikes!! You're so fucked now!!!"
>"They say that if you see 3Strikes, close your eyes and count to 3 and the enemy is gone!"
Rex doesn't have any equivalent from my experience

>>583207725
>I heard that Gelb team was supposed to be difficult
who told you this, they're infamous jobbers

>>583207469
You didn't play the game

>>583207725
You can shut them down pretty fast

>>583207635
Damn, that sucks. It was a fun gimmick to sit back and SAAM then bail when someone came after you.

>>583207748
Rex has the power of friendship

>>583207748
You do get a ground team that says they're cursed to not die because you exist, I liked that vote of confidence

>>583207725
GOT PRANKED LOL

So uh, why play Co-op Warfare over Assault? Are the rewards that much high? Going by the menus it looks like Warfare gives more Zoll but Assault gives more EXP, and I think EXP's just harder to come by than Zoll.

Thank God AC8's campaign was mostly coherent instead of the mess that AC7 suffered from (some things could have used a bit more polish but it would mostly just be nit-picking.) Also it's crazy it ended up with the longest non-linear campaign of the franchise and there are still some DLC missions yet to come.

>>583207748
Trigger definitely had better "enemies are shit scared of you" dialogue but to be fair that does play into the whole thing of a lot of people not believing that Wings' exploits are real. It does get better when the Sotoans start seeing you as basically a harbinger of religious doom though and start speaking about having the life choked out of them by the Terminus Fingers, though that's mostly the last 5-6 missions.

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>>583207494
>>583207729
I love the A-10 but I wouldn't recommend it. I've got mine to level 18 and its stacked with parts to make it more usable but all the money/effort that went into it just to make it mid when you have no many other more fun options isn't very smart.

>>583207935
There is barely any difference, pick whichever one you enjoy more.

>>583207836
it feels like the devs got upset at SAAMs. there's no reason they should lose tracking on a target flying straight

Tasha should be in an SU-37.

After what those nomad bastards did to my elevator I felt nothing but pure hatred for them. We should've gone all the way to their capital and bombed it.

>>583207935
I only do it for the challenges

So, was Cope a projection of consciousness from the data chip in the dogtag? wtf was all that computer shit at the end, electrosphere shit?

>>583207748
The Sotoans switch from calling Rex featherhead to Terminus Fingers because they're scared of the hand of fate that Rex' presence on the battlefield has come to mean at that point
Doesn't quite roll off the tongue like "Three Strikes" but it's pretty on brand for edgelords that like to give all their military shit Latin names, even their callsigns

>>583208021
>>583208150
Thanks buddies, Assault feels less stressful so I'll stay there. Just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing anything. Only times I'm desperate for Zoll is when I've hit the level cap and want to unlock the next, because I sure as fuck don't have 30x plane blueprints lying around.

>>583207885
the Immortals Captain had a full character arc to lover which I loved
>"Stop hyping Wings up! He was there when my ship sunk!"
>"if my feet actually touched Theve, maybe, MAYBE I'd believe Wings was legit
>Look Wings, you sucked but we couldn't have done it without you, so thanks I guess
>Wings has cursed my unit to live forever! Come on guys lets share this curse with the enemy!
>See! Wings decides who lives and dies and he won't let us die!
>Just let us die god dammit! I guess we have to charge forward now
>Come on Wings! Shoot me! Shoot god damn you!!! You control life and death! We can't die so long as you will it! NOW SHOOT!

>>583207935
Warfare is what you play if you feel like getting spammed to death by QAAMs and LAAMs.

>The ending
so am I interpreting it right that Rex's growing power/ability literally came from being accompanied by all the spirits of the pilots that die during the course of the story, and at the end he lets them all go (which is why he's back to being the navigator instead of the pilot)? Or is that reading too much into it.

>>583208359
wakarimasen lol

The Immortals were so fucking cool.
I thought there were tons of likable side characters.

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>Coster

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>enemy team has three FA-36s
>was alt tabbed while loading in so i didn't see at first
>alt f4 as soon as i get in game and turn my camera left to see them
No thanks, I'm not feeding your egos you fucking losers.

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How would (you) fix online?
The more extreme and interesting the better.

>>583208359
All the computer generated imagery at the end makes me think the consciousness of fighters are being uploaded to the electrosphere via the chips in their dogtags. That maybe Rex carrying Cope's tags made his consciousness interfere with Rex's chip? Idk though, since Cope literally tries to call that theory out at the end before turning into a bir made of computer magic(?)

>>583208448
They reminded me a lot of Warlock battalion, except they were storming positions as sailors which is somehow even cooler

>>583208520
how the fuck do they have them already

>>583208608
By removing it.

>>583208285
>because I sure as fuck don't have 30x plane blueprints lying around.
You buy them in the store for 1k each. But you don't really earn extra Zoll from the other mode.

>>583208191
He literally makes fun of you for thinking the dogtag was a Chekov's gun
Cope was 100% ectoplasm

>>583208650
no-lifing
the F-22/F-36/Su-57 players are using cheats to select them, since there is no way you can have those already

>>583208608
Just add private lobbies where you can launch with any amount of players

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how close to it are we now?

>>583208301
I accidentally responded No to him once about how I won't let him die or something and he just laughs maniacally

>>583208608
I don't think it can be fixed. Its a total clusterfuck of bad choices from start to finish. A whole new mode which was 4 player coop and actually challenging MIGHT fix it.

>>583208816
10 more Strangereal years at the end of AC8

>>583208749
but then why did he turn into Windows XP at the ending?

>>583208881
that was pilot valhalla

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>Deathless
>Dies

>>583208816
Two more games

>>583208831
I did that on purpose
>"We don't have to worry about dying with you around, right Wings?"
>NO (you still do)
>"... Heh... Hahaha!"

>>583208881
That's Uçmag

>>583208520
>>583208753
I started playing the campaign on the early launch on Monday and haven't touched MP yet. Is the multiplayer progression definitely too much of a grind to have gotten it in that time frame if all they did was MP?

What the fuck triggers Emergency Sortie in the online mode?

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>>583208816
>Usea is expected to recover in 15 years.
>Intercorporate War simulation: 10 years from now.

>>583208913
but it was all "digitally generated". I mean yeah it's a video game, but it looked like what you were seeing was supposed to look like it was something being generated inside of a computer

>>583208991
It's too much of a grind if you're not a disgusting no life tranny, yes.

>>583209040
that's just the Gundam newtype shit

>>583208991
it's a hyper grind, you have to grind your Pilot XP level before you're even allowed to buy the planes and then level the planes to get parts/weapons for it.

>>583208021
I'm seeing the point of the A-10 a little bit in Assault. I guess the way that the balance works is that ground attackers just plain do way more damage to ground targets, even with standard missiles. Plus you can slow almost to a stop without stalling for more attack time. The gun is actually annoying to use since it's below the nose but it works. The sheer ground attack stat makes it good for hard targets like bunkers that are worth a lot of points. Not great on the ships though, they shoot back too much so a faster plane would be better.

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Say hi to the reason this world will end via overpowered AI pilots

>>583209195
ZOE has been around since at least 1997, the game was always rigged from the start

>>583209147
Its not balanced against other attackers though. The Fullback is infinitely more enjoyable to use and has better weapons.

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>>583209195
I for one think it's poetic Strangereal ends in 9 and we can start with the Electrosphere series.

>>583208816
>>583208872
>>583208939
>>583209025
>>583209195
I still can't decide if when AC9 or 10 meet up with the AC3 timeline they should try to do something new with it or just go straight remake. Normally I detest the modern remake industry but AC3 might be one of the few games that truly deserves it if done properly.

>>583208745
Yeah, that's what I was trying to get at. To get my Fishbed from 15 to 20 I'll need 60 blueprints and 60k Zoll, so effectively 120k Zoll. 20 General purpose blueprints too, but I've got those and the Fishbed is something I'm willing to invest in because MGPs are hilarious.

>>583209625
They'll re-retcon everything and USEA will be back in the real world

>>583209147
In theory Assaults can do well, but the scoring heavily favors air targets which you are no good at, you're almost guaranteed an enemy flight second phase, and your performance is HEAVILY dependant on where the third phase spawns relative to you (since you're slower than everyone else) and whether your team is attacking ground targets under you instead of rationalizing "I should just let the Attacker do this while I take care of air / more distant targets."

Like, I've gotten MVP several times in the Frogfoot, but I'm not gonna pretend that would've happened if there was a Morgan with three brain cells in the match.

>>583209627
just do it like "this is how it actually goes down" since AC3 is just a simulation of how it could go down and make Nemo the final boss that shows up out of nowhere after the narrative is complete or something.

>>583209627
I have 2 ideas.
Have multiple endings again. 1 leads to Strangereal surviving (AC11+) the other goes to Cyberpunk hell (EC 2+). Then we can have these games every 5 years instead of 10.
Alternatively just have AC3 but not a simulation so events play differently

>>583209627
AC3 was just a simulation so they have a lot of leeway for what actually happens. While the state of the world is set by 2040 when Simon released Nemo, 7 established the concept of anomalies that they can't predict and warp the whole game board so the simulation paths may just as well end up being completely changed.

>>583209782
FUND IT

>>583209465
I'll keep it in mind.
Everyone says that it's more important that your plane be leveled up at all than which plane it is, but man, it still feels like I could kind of regret leveling up the "wrong" plane. Like when I use the F4-E (i've got a few MVPs with the UGB) I wonder if I shouldn't be getting XP for a plane with more potential instead. At least the level cap increases are much cheaper for the early planes.

>>583209625
>>583209729
every AC not in Strangereal killed the studio.
I don't think they'll be brave enough to try real world again

>>583209869
Nemo's special, anon. He's powered by sheer incel rage programming

Idolmaster dlc when

Nothing wrong with them doing it in 8 but I really hope 9 isn't set in Usea.

>>583210028
Next battlepass

>>583209869
>7 established the concept of anomalies
would be kinda cool to play Trigger in Mihlay age acting as the singularity that changes AI prediction data

>>583209782
I'd be pretty disappointed to play as anyone other than NEMO for this, though i don't want them to make this game at all, modern PA wouldn't be able to handle 3s stuff about player agency

>>583209951
They only invented strangereal for 5, before that every game took place in our world just with USEA being in the pacific ocean

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>every other fucking mission
>[RAILGUN WARNING]
love it and hate it

>Electrosphere2
>peak cyberpunk dystopia
>there's no human NPCs, everyone's just an AI drone inside a plane
>you still get cute waifus because drone portraits or something

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>>583210147
4 was in retconned into Strangereal

How the fuck do you turn off these annoying tutorial pop ups? I know this fucking game, stop this shit.

>>583210371
You can't, not even in NG+.

>>583210371
they disappear after like the 2nd mission iirc

>>583210298
People already have AI girl/boyfriends in our world, by Electrosphere time you can hook them up directly into your brain

someone explain why the EA-36 in multiplayer can eat 6 QAAMs or 4 LAAMs

>>583210147
What are you talking about? AC4 is the start of Strangereal. The NAME Strangereal comes from the announcement trailer describing it as a "strange, real world."

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Just let me play you fucking worthless ass game. Fucking fuck.

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>people talking about Electrosphere like it's in the next entry
there's roughly 10 more years left. That's literally 5 Wars at least

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>>583210147
>>583210318
4 exists in a prototype Strangereal state, you can see the world taking shape but it was only in 5 that they solidified it
It's still miles away from being Earth + Usea as it was in previous games, unless you're a New Zealander

>>583210749
AC7 to AC8 was a jump of 10 years right?

>>583210590
they probably took it at an angle that minimizes damage

I don't want Nemo to be a villain more of a force of nature

>The entirety of AC3 is a simulation
>Ace Combat has a lime limit since the UGSF is a thing
This series has one more game in it before they HAVE to stop making games for it.

>>583210810
Yeah but 4 -> 5, 5 -> 6 and 6 -> 7 were only 4 or 5 years each time.

>>583210749
That's true, we'll need a remake of Ace Combat Advance which takes place in 2032 first.

>>583210810
Yeah, there's still room for a game between those two and the time gap between 8 and 3. I'd like to see a Yuke game and see what they were upto before 8's plot kicked off.
>>583210928
Namco was so stupid doing the UGSF thing. It retroactively limited the fuck out of this series unless they do a Galaga by Project Aces.

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>>583210901
>Game pretends like it's the former
>You finally down him
>5 Geopelias with NEMO inside
>Fly too close
>VIRUS ALERT

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>first emergency sortie in probably 12~ hours of online
>alicorn
>fail because i'm watching half the lobby chase fucking uavs and rafales

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>we are the southern waiapolo airforce
>gets shot down immediately

>>583211003
They could easily say that the OG AC3 is a separate timeline thing because of how different the setting is to the rest of series at this point.

>>583211045
surely we'll get a patch that rotates those every 2-4 hours of MP game-time rather than the 5% chance to get it or whatever the fuck those nips did. I wonder if it's just because we only have Chandelier and Alicorn atm. I thought I saw SOLG in the trailers, but haven't seen any gameplay of it.

I hope the AC8 modding tools (if any are ever made) don't get held hostage for years by a cabal of discord trannies again, like what with AC7

>>583211186
We have the arsenal bird too

>>583211186
There's the arsenal bird, isn't there?

btw for those anons who were saying that you don't get any dialogue for flying into the turntable

https://x.com/KingSavageAxe/status/2106177216157552644

>>583211003
>>583210928
Aliens don't show up in the UGSF until 2243.
The United Earth Government isn't until 2090, and even then there are rebel groups.

The most UGSF does outside of Electrosphere for the next game is say there's gonna be four-legged tanks, and we already have those if you look at the EX-Howitzers in Online.

>>583211168
The namedrop of General Resource in the ending makes it clear we're headed to the Electrosphere timeline

It would have been nice to hear something from Baxter at the end. Or have Cope mention Rex asking him to say hi to him.

>>583211003
https://www.reddit.com/r/acecombat/comments/1nzcaqj/hottake_the_ugsf_timeline_is_poorly_made_and_ac3/
Comments said ac3 is free of it

>>583211259
>>583211261
I forgot about that, but I also haven't seen footage of that. Just Chandelier and Alicorn and I only know Alicorn exists thanks to 4chan posters.

Lotus (HPAA ace) sounds kinda cute

>>583211186
There's seriously no reason for scrambles and emergency sorties to be as rare as they are. It's a fucking CHANCE for them to happen every half hour when it needs to be something you get every half hour and then it's just a chance for either or. Scrambles also need to be enemy squads from previous games or something instead of a random mix of shit.

>>583211003
Nobody seriously gives a shit about the UGSF timeline, it's just a fun way to tie in namco franchises. I have no idea why people act like it's a serious thing they have to consider

>>583211186
>I thought I saw SOLG in the trailers
What trailer? link?

Bravo 2DAMNIT COME ON GUYS

>>583211303
I don't think they will go full blown electropshere. Since, again, the whole game basically didnt even happen. They will most likely use the time period but make it so they are not locked into the UGSF timeline.

>>583211713
Why does he say that everytime

>>583211657
one of the pre-release trailers, there's like 10 of them so I don't remember which one specifically, but I thought I saw the SOLG.
>>583211635
Its also kinda disappointing that the MP missions are just random assortments of enemies instead of just doing what Infinity did and wholesale copy missions. They're already playing music from across the franchise so idk why this would be a problem outside of worries about time

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So for assault records, I cant seem to get them to appear on Expert. Is it Ace or nothing?

>>583211952
Aces only appear on a second playthrough.

b-bros..? I'm already bored of multiplayer... why can't they be smart and make a co op campaign instead?

>>583209625
love yusuke kozaki's work and its cool seeing him aiming for a realistic style in this. it's gotta be a breath of fresh air after doing pokemon shit

>>583212040
Oh so they don't appear at all in free mission mode?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTC0XeXQs9A

Stick with Trigger and you'll make it.

>>583212217
no I don't think so, you'll have to reset campaign progress. They should've called it SP Campaign like normal, but whatever. You keep all purchases and your tech tree intact as long as you've beaten it once.

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>get these every match
>some fucking PIX who just shoots MiGs all game gets top score anyway
just rebalance the scoring ratio for jets thanks

>>583212160
They wouldn't even need to make an actual coop campaign, they just needed missions you could play coop instead of this gay fucking point race dogshit. I'm already bored of the multiplayer, for the most part, because every mission feels exactly the same. I'm not even finding warfare fun because most of the people playing it are people who are running leveled up planes and cleaning house.

I wish you could sell aircraft like in the PS2 games

>>583212379
I've made a couple posts about this, but roles really need point modifiers for playing their intended roles
>fighters get 1.x amount for shooting down air targets
>attackers get 1.x amount for blowing up ground targets
>multiroles get a static 1x
Or something. For as much as they were hyping up the multiplayer they very clearly did not put all that much thought into it.

>finally get arsenal bird for emergency sortie
>player quits while the intro's playing
>get chandelier instead
Well I'm 2/3 for successful Chandeliers now.

>>583210754
damn, lemuria is real in AC04 strangereal

>>583208608 (Me)
Nix infinity style missions with the 3 phases in favor of AC6 style "here's fucking everything", make them longer, really spread the players thin so it's not a feeding frenzy in a small section of the map all the time.
Maybe implement focused objectives like "secure airfield by destroying anti-air and interceptors which would allow field resupply" or "protect these allies to get a free random blueprint" or "destroy this ace to panic the enemy and make them less accurate/evasive" or "make this tunnel run to get your dick sucked by the mechanic lady"
2v2 missions that are about the same length as missions right now, 4v4 missions that are twice the size, length, and give double the reward to compensate.
Change mission updates so they show up when the mission hits B rank or something so you need to contend with squads on your ass while trying to groundpound the objective.
tl;dr infinity structure is "fine" but gets dull fast
>>583212475
I think they overtuned the plane score. In infinity it felt like all roles had a fairly good chance of MVP.

I think Ace Combat 7 is still really great
gotta replay 8, since the second playthrough of an Ace Combat game is the first true playthrough, but after beating it I do think it's better than 7.

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Who are these mysterious WSOs

>>583213395
Enso synthetic humans

So was D.D trying to bring down Enso Order the entire time?

>>583213580
i think he was following their orders most of the time
him going viral resolving his character arc was hilariously cringe and cute

>>583213395
Don't worry about it.

Dealer was the best AWACS we ever had
I loved him so much

>when you get MVP in Warfare as an level 4 F-4E against a shitload of Morgans
get out of my sky

>>583213395
Clones of Rex in case any of the Wings were shot down. Courtesy of Enso

>>583213814
Bandog had higher highs IMO his -
"this is the penal unit. I. decide. when you die"
still gives me chills.

Dealer was good though

>>583213630
There were plenty of times where he wasnt exactly on board with what EO was doing and was quick to sell them out. Not to mention he didnt want their end goal to go through.

>>583213927
ehhh Bandog was a douchebag though
and lowkey a little comically evil

>MP is now full of metawhore MiGgers-31

>>583213927
Bandog was retarded shit. The whole convict section of AC7 was retarded shit.

Not sure why everyone holds any of that garbage in high regard.

>>583213927
bandog actually considering sabotaging your landing so that he could win a bet endeared me to him a lot as a horrible motherfucker, also the whole

>Bandog: Pipe down, excited to have another murderer flying with you?
>Unsubtitled Spare squadron member: YEAH!

is the hardest I've ever laughed at an AC game

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>>583213395
Ernest Borgnine.

>>583213967
which is what gives him character.
Same with Lunch caster.
Dealer was just a cheeky british guy with a gambling addiction who was carried with the better squad interactions in 8.

other than the 1v10 peptalk, the only thing I remember from dealer was his
>oh god, what do we do?
>Coster: what do you mean what do we do, isn't figuring that out your job?

>>583214171
I did like "BLOODY HELL, 1000 BOGEYS".

>>583214104
Penal air force was retarded. but Bandog and Spare had some of the best squad interactions.
Especially when Sol squadron showed up and he and trigger locked the fuck in.

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>>583213395
That's the ghost of Cope.

>boot up multiplayer
>play a couple matches
>quickly get tired of the grind and quit
Yeah this shit's getting shutdown in a year. Bamco cannot make a decent multiplayer.

>>583213814
Hes grown know me quite a bit but it think I like long casters fatass a bit more. Ill give him this he gave me the second biggest hype moment since EagleEye when he sends you to go fight the 99s and 100s alone.

>>583214278
Yeah, I liked Dealer's lines when you face the Shadows alone but nothing compares to Bandog spouting stuff like TRIGGER'S TAKING THE BEAST HEAD ON

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>>583209909
F-4's basically a brick until somewhere around level 10, and starts getting really nice at level 15. Having both SPWs is amazing, MGPs are a meme that combined with UGBs will melt any ground targets and Emergency Sorties. Focused machine guns will melt any naval ship and heavy howitzers, UGBs and blast radius parts help clear the map really quick. Biggest downside is that the grind is fairly map dependent because low target density makes you waste bombs and everyone else is running something that can A2A better than you.

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>>583212217
>>583212278
Aces do appear in free mission, but only after you complete your first campaign runtthrough
Source: I've just been doing Ace hunts in free mission for the past 4 hours.
I'm glad AC8 seems to have far less obstinate trigger requirements for Ace spawns compared to 7, and also that Aces that do spawn dont immediately try to fuck off towards the map border (like 7)

the mp was fun for a bit but yeah it really needs more going for it if anyone is going to stick around

>>583211341
if it's actually Newtype shit, then only Newtypes can access the discord server

>>583214104
It was fun

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Please anons, give me all your Belkan shitposts. They sustain me.

How do i speed up ranking in aco

>use attacker on chandelier
>can't hit the core because the fucking gun aims so far down

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>>583215581

>>583215680
Every game is 100 rank points.
So do missions fast.

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>>583215581

So which mission is good to farm up MRP?

>bravo 4
>DAMMIT CMON GUYS

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>>583215581
¡REPRESENTACIÓN DE BELKA!

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GR phone owned by DD has a swallow on it.

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>Fly through the tunnel to spawn the ace
Oh okay he must spawn once you get through
>He flies at fucking mach 50 right into your face in the middle of the tunnel

>>583213395
With the obvious inspiration AC8 takes from PW, I'm surprised they didn't make a new character to be the WSO for Rex. Of course I guess they would have to do the same for everyone else's to two seaters? Which means more time making, modeling, and voicing characters who are only there if you pick specific planes.

Perhaps it wasn't worth it to them.

>>583215774
I did the desert one a few times to save up for the growler. The 1000 plane one seems to have the highest ceiling for mission points, but it takes a long time. Desert one's capped at 15 minutes and I can finish it in 13.

Just beat the game. I think 8 might be my favorite Ace Combat game.

>emergency sortie
>chandelier AGAIN
>nuggets are STILL allergic to attacking TGTs or doing a tunnel run to hit the core or a warhead
Let me fight the fucking Alicorn at least. I've seen that thing ONCE, and never the Arsenal Bird.

>>583215909
YAAAAAAAAAAAAHOOOOOOOOOOO

>>583215970
What fucking inspirations? Why the fuck do you PWtroons have to insert yourself into everything? Aces stealing from PW? When PW stole everything from AC? Go join 41%

what do I get for sparing the enemy noob squadron with the fancy planes?
and how do I spare them?
I tried leaving them alone and they all still died?

>>583211285
I also didn't get any of that dialogue, must be bugged. I did proceed through it rather slowly though, and that clip goes through fast, so maybe that's related?

>>583216023
When I'm actually playing it's almost certainly my favorite. I'm not a huge fan of the narrative, but it's the most fun to play.

Any oldfags here? What was the response like for AC6 being xbox exclusive back in 2006?

>>583216068
Land battleships and two SP weapons are pretty on the nose. Calm down.

>>583215581
Jej. Glory to Belka. Now where did I kept my glory to Belkan memes...

>>583216138
seems rather obvious what the response was, considering its one of the lowest selling entries into the franchise

>>583216172
Are you sure land battleships aren't an Airforce Delta Strike reference and multiple SPWs aren't a Sky Rogue reference?

>>583216068
>Moon 11 doing PSMs followed by a series of quick railgun shots is almost 1:1 to what Crimson 1 did
>Landships
>Two SP weapons
>Thousands Points of Light is clearly Cold War inspired. Dealer even has some similar dialogue to Galaxy.

>>583216291
didnt joint assault also do multi SPW

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>>583216172
There's also this

>>583216138
Disastrous. Xbox 360 had no presence in Japan. The last 4 games at that time were all on Playstation devices. At the dawn of the new console generation, PA decided it would be better to get the next gen Ace Combat on Xbox. They gambled on the wrong horse.

>>583204758
>on Xbox
>can't match without an error
>turn off crossplay
>no more error messages upon loading into the match
PC players are a scourge

>>583216339
>>Moon 11 doing PSMs followed by a series of quick railgun shots is almost 1:1 to what Crimson 1 did
Mihaly (forma de strike wyvern)

>>583216291
Perhaps? Anything is possible. But I think PW made more waves recently than those old games. It just seems too perfect that Ace Combat would have things from the game that was a love letter homage to it.

>>583206604
>Going in, Rex?
>No
>yeah that would be retarded lol
MISSION FAILED

>>583216138
I was a teenager and saw the commercial for it on TV. I was freaking out that there was another Ace Combat game for me to play, only for my heart to shatter when it ended with "ONLY FOR XBOX 360." Didn't end up playing it until almost a decade later.

>>583216349
Sort of. You could replace your missile outright for a SPW. Or a SPW for a different missile (there's 4 different "basic" missiles). The low SPW ammo count makes it a hard sell, though.

>>583216107
nah I went through it at nearly stall speeds to get all the enemies and I got it

>>583216458
Does he? In my experience he barely uses it. Tawa spammed the fuck out of it.

>>583216439
Xbox might be the problem anon. I've had PC lobbies with some PlayStation players no problem.

>>583216523
>Let's get back to the Endurance, right Rex?
>NO
>Endurance explodes offscreen

>>583216090
>sparing nuggies
Sotoa guns down parachuting pilots

>>583216673
>Does he? In my experience he barely uses it. Tawa spammed the fuck out of it.
If you leave him alive long enough he starts firing off multiple shots while twirling through the air like a madman

I can't believe they didn't put Torres' lines in for the Alicorn fight. What a waste

>>583216783
Oh...guess I was wrong then.

>>583216068
I'm curious anon. What do you think about this tidbit in the OST?
https://youtu.be/y67ykByFT3Q?t=55
https://youtu.be/gRa3MPLLR7Q?t=42

>>583216816
Do they at least play the music? It's my favorite track in 7.

>>583216837
NTA but this is some accidental similarity since no one would like Frontline 59 enough to take anything from it