what's so bad about the multiplayer that you're all complaining about? i haven't touched it yet beyond making my toon and running around that lobby place for 30 seconds

>>583779956
progression is shit, you get the special superweapon raid missions purely by rng

>I don't wanna squeeze le trigger
>Laughs like a maniac whenever a teammate downs a bomber with multiple people inside it
They are Sotoans and a bomber crew on top of that, but I sense some inconsistecy here.

>goofed off during a certain someone's final moments and stalled, crashed
>this time I just afk it, doing none of the dialogue prompts
>this makes him crash into the Endurance and die
>mission failed
Lmao, so you actually have to keep him awake guys.

>try to S rank M28 on ace again
>6 minutes on shadows again
>B rank again
Fuck these cheating bastards and their turn radius.

>>583779956
There's little to no limits on matches, so you could be in your un-upgraded F-4E going up against fully upgraded Barricaders, and even if you're in the PvE mode you won't be fast enough to get to targets before those guys on your team do
Somehow they didn't think to add cost limits to anything other than T/DM

>>583779956
For a lot of people it's too grindy and people are shitters, especially in the Emergency Sorties where everyone ignores the objective. For me and others though, the menus are GODAWFUL. Something as simple as checking SP weapons is nested under something like seven menus.

>>583779956
Linux support still isn't enabled in EAC.

>>583779146
>Why the fuck do you have a fire control system for the satellite on a plane instead of the satellite???
Because the satellite doesn't have enough space for a crew.
>Why put the system on the plane instead of the super fortified mega fortress from the get go???
So you can control the satellite when it's cloudy over the megafort.
>Why does the satellite only defend itself when fired upon instead of someone being able to tell it to shoot a target???
Because the satellite doesn't have a computer powerful enough on board to do targeting calculations, they need to be fed to it.

>>583780472
>So you can control the satellite when it's cloudy over the megafort.
Clouds don't stop radio or radar.
>Because the satellite doesn't have a computer powerful enough on board to do targeting calculations, they need to be fed to it.
Then how can it shoot shit on it's own when it's being attacked?

Fa36 is shit, sure it's fast and maneuverable and modded sod is ok but I don't care for sasm and it's an ugly design, planform is all fucked up, the droopy wingtips is hideous, reminds me of the ai jet from the movie stealth.

Can i get a fucking scramble bruh

>>583780593
>Clouds don't stop radio or radar.
Have you played the game? They very much do, even in short distances when you're trying to lock onto a plane. The distance to space is a couple orders of magnitude more than that.

>Then how can it shoot shit on it's own when it's being attacked?
It doesn't take calculations to shoot something coming straight at you, especially in space when there's no ballistic trajectory.

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>>583780837
It's more like the YF-21.
The X-40 got the neural controls though.

It's hard to keep hating the Sotoans when the Lux Lunae battle chant is the coolest shit ever

>>583781007
Their emblems are very cool also. I might actually start larping as a Sotoan in multiplayer.

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>>583779956
>LAAMS EVERY SINGLE AIR TARGET IN UR PATH

>>583781007
You could make a very despicable enemy likeable if you give them great sauce and holy fuck are they dripping.

>>583780593
>Clouds don't stop radio or radar.

Clouds in AC are made of minovsky particles, as that shit seem to pretty much being able to weaken radars and mess up missile guidance.

Were Kate and Cope a thing? Cope doesn't say much about her but Kate is YEARNING for him

>>583781265
No, everyone just admires Cope for his way of elegantly running like a bitch

>>583780889
They only do with IR missiles. Radar penetrates clouds without any issues. Even early WW2 could do that and nowadays we even have GROUND PENETRATING radar.

>>583781308
Brave sir Jan Cope ran away. He bravely ran away!

>>583781265
Nah, after running with Rex so long she got curious what Cope was like

Infinity already had an event going at this point. Bamco is gonna lose players for MP.

>>583781232
>make a very despicable enemy likeable if you give them great sauce
SALVATION

>>583781402
I think people actually like Sulejmani for the memes too, we should let PA write more villains

>>583781183
That one is carrying a MPBM tho

if there's gonna be rock songs playing during missions they should have gotten The Pillows to make one

>>583781007
Hearing it during takeoff in mission 3 and 28 actually gave me goosebumps. Absolute kino moments.

>>583780837
Honestly what I dislike about it is the very noticeable delay of the weapon banks and gun port opening, it feels weirdly unresponsive.

>>583780343
I can't tell if time bonus matters as much as overall points, some missions I kept trying to beat the clock and got shit ranks until I just started slaughtering everything I could possibly target

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Huh, the Theve equivalent of the Amphitheatre is... different?
Where am I supposed to watch my Purple Magic concerts in Theve
I guess to be fair they're probably a band that'd play a smaller venue like Danforth

>>583780343
you need about 150K score without time bonus, so get to killing everyone I guess

>>583780837
you are an ugly design

>>583781265
>last moments are spent thinking about him
idk you tell me

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So is Tasha naturally blonde or naturally pink?

How are we doing saleswise? how much do we have to sell to guarantee AC9 existence?

>>583781965
Is pink a natural hair colour?
You should be able to answer this.

>>583782073
This game did better than gears of war by 25k more players.

>>583782073
They must've sold 1 million by now or close to that number.
I think it's pretty good considering the price.
Was AC7 $59.99 on release?

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>>583780837
If you upgrade the blast radius and power of the SASM you can use it as a makeshift air-to-ground bomb to take out small groups of ground targets.
It works. It gets annoying when your targeting system wants to lock onto a plane in the air and it flies off somewhere else, but it's so stupid that it works.

>>583782073
>How are we doing saleswise? how much do we have to sell to guarantee AC9 existence?
Only Online can guarantee AC9 existance and so far, it's not looking good.

>>583782162
Honestly I'm more worried about the hardware limitation scaring away potential sales if anything

>>583782118
I mean if Bulma can be naturally blue then she could be naturally pink, right?

>>583782160
yeah

>>583782162

Will the thread nail me to a cross if i admit that I'd be completely fine with an AC game without online multiplayer?

>>583782073
https://steamdb.info/app/2288340/charts/

>>583782283
That's honestly crazy considering how little content there was. AC7 didn't feel AAA yet was priced as such.

>>583782338
Ace Combat 7 had shit and dead Multiplayer. So I don't know where he gets that as a metric for success.

>>583782362
It peaked higher than most triple A games that came out around this timeframe.

I wouldn't be surprised if most of the playerbase migrated to snoystation and played there instead

>>583781007
On one hand it's lame that like 90% of the squads in 8 are just Lux Lunae, on the other hand they're so cool it doesn't bother me as much
Almost every mission I was just waiting for the
>Mission Update
>woooah oooooh oooooh oooooh hey woah

If Enso had made the spears hit everything but their Belkan HQ then the Belkan conspiracy narrative would have worked much better.

>>583782343
Nta am I supposed to know what this is?

>>583782338
I said this on release. I don't think this game's design fits for pvp. Could be good for MP PVE though. But the PVP is just...
But also I don't know how much money and time was spent on the multiplayer relative to the amount that they could potentially earn from it. Like maybe it was dirt cheap to produce and people have already paypiggied enough to have effectively covered for all the extra costs.

>>583781965
Brunette, you can see her roots are darker.

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>>583782437
>It peaked higher than most triple A games that came out around this timeframe.
That timeframe was pretty poor on AAA releases in general. This is kind of the only game I could find to compare it too.

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lmao

>>583782338
I think co-op PvE with the bros has the potential to be a lot of fun but they *really* need to be giant missions without the forced competitive slop
The scrambles and emergency sorties are the closest thing we have and even they're timegated really obnoxiously

>>583782528
Can't have been particularly cheap though, remaking entire mission landscapes from earlier games, not to mention all of Chandelier from scratch.

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>>583781839
>>583781794
I instantly got good with baiting SASM on them I guess because 22 folded quick and the rest followed.

>>583782338
No, I would 100% be onboard with getting rid of multiplayer altogether and directing all those resources and dev hours to making the single player stuff bigger and better.
Not fucking everything needs to be online.

>>583782457
Yeah I play it on PS5 and even that thing overheats during multiplayer. No way my computer could handle it.

>>583782996
Wasn't ACO outsourced?

>>583781340
Not in AC since clouds fuck with radar guided missiles as well.

>me confused over why would a Major be replaced with 2LT
>me when I realized a 1LT replaced Lt. Col in OADF
I guess things were different in the Strange yet real world

>>583782941
>without the forced competitive slop
is that how ac9 multiplayer works? coop but it's not about finishing the mission as a team but who gets the most points?
thats fucking dumb
in 2026 devs still don't understand the mindset of the average player?

>>583782502
That would've cast suspicion on them. The point was to cover their tracks and erase all evidence.
A conspiracy theory isn't a conspiracy theory anymore if it's comes true, ya see.

>>583782958
what the fyck is Harmonius?

>>583783173
The ace.

>>583783050
yea and that's silly

>>583782941
People are still competitively competeing for the top spot in those too, so long as score exists for the individual and not the collective.

>>583782996
Bringing back operations as a large lobby coop mode would be pretty great, but I have to agree that the focus on competitive multiplayer just isn't a good fit for a game like this.
The freaks can have their token TDM mode at the bottom of the matchmaking list, but the focus should be on cooperative content first.

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>>583783095
I just want something more interesting than the same old shit we've had for over a decade now. Like gimme a small multiplayer conquest mode where you have to work together against some other team.
I don't care if it turns out bad, just give me something different, anything.

>people realizing infinity was never good
lulmao

>>583783503
we all know it's P2W bullshit, but we just want that feeling of raping a raid boss.

>>583779956
The game's systems don't feel thought out at all
No real private lobbies.
The menus needing you to press 8 things more than you're supposed to immediately piss you off
The hub space feels unpolished and just an excuse to sell you MTX
The progression is abysmal and it'll take you at least like 400 matches or something to earn your way to a 5th gen fighter (which all of the unemployed smelly competitive tryhards have already obtained, and you will face against an IEWS fitted 5th gen in your first matches already)
The fighting itself has never felt more random to the point where it feels even more loose than ACI, you can't really dogfight, you can't consistently rely on missiles between netcode and stuff like the "focusing bonus" which speeds up your missile completely throwing off the shot you were lining up, you'll get times where planes are flying at like 10hz and you will see them stutter from one frame to the next or just hang in mid-air
There's no cost limits, so you can't NOT play against super advanced planes
You can't tell the game what mission you want to play, so if you wanna hunt ships because that's all you have for your new plane, have fun playing air to air only for 10 missions until the search resets.
Plane archetypes have debuffs in damage to the thing you're "not meant to be hitting", but more importantly, they have a points debuff, so if there's no ground targets up and the attacker still wants to play the game, they will be griefing you if they try to take air targets because the game will reward you with less points
It's bad. Really bad and not intuitive and just anti-fun.

>>583783503
I-It was only bad because of the oil system!

>>583783379
"Forced competitive slop" also includes scoreboard faggotry. At most the only score you should get is your own, and it should essentially be meaningless.

>>583783503
I didn't get to play Infinity in its prime, I only got to play the emulated version, and the thing that struck me the most about it, that was an inherent flaw of the game that no matter how many free planes you had was gonna fix, and applicable to AC Online so this'll be a follow up post to my other reply

>>583783586
The worst part about the Online mode for me is how much it LOVES to make you feel useless
PvE isn't Cooperative PvE, it's a battle royale where you're hunting for ground targets and if your plane wasn't as boosted as someone elses or if god forbid you just misunderstood the extremely vague advice for the game with "fighter - multirole - attacker" you will lag behind by a shitload no matter how good or how hard you were trying.
Especially in Scrambles (4v8 special PvE A2A only mission), people have no etiquette, if it goes well for you, you can get out of it with like 10k Zoll (which is like, equivalent to doing 5-6 matches, and my estimate comes from my experience where I always used boosters so assume half of what I just quoted normally), which is great! Except you probably need to get at least 2 kills for that payout, except no one will just get their 2 kills and let people get their own share. So you just got the super special mission meant to be a free payout, only for you to miss out on everything because someone else wanted it all for themselves, and now the mission is gone and you'll have to do ??? amount of missions before you get to try that again.
God forbid you want to try out multiple planes and have fun with the game. You're just really meant to stick with one thing and grind it out to level 20, and everything else will just be way too time consuming to get.

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>>583783586

All I wanted was co-op, straight forward couch co-op. Just a couple of missions where I'm the pilot and my player 2 is the WSO.
Thats all I wanted.

TOTAL SOTOAN DEATH

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beat the game last night (elite difficulty) probably best AC since ps2 trilogy yep yep. Good game just wish the last 2 missions were cooler, idk they felt like a damp squib compared to the other end-game missions you do (like 28) Hoping we get some dlc where we have a last battle against some extremely intense super-weapon/super-plane. Just give us some bullshit that makes us suck up our nuts everytime we do a High-G turn to evade missiles.
Probably my favourite wingmen, AWACS and XO in the series. It's just very solid aside from a few things. The 'PRESS BUTTON TO LOOK' is obnoxious mid mission, it does not have to be that big and attention grabbing.
Also, the glare on objective markers on the map and regular view got a bitch sometimes, it hurt my eyes if it clustered too many together and it was basically impossible for me to tell what I was looking at sometimes .
Finally: Good lord Usea is such a shithole. Every game they make it a worse place to live. Are the Yukes and Oseans laughing at us Usea bros?? How did it get this bad.
Oh right the Ulysses strike.
Every game we get new countries and divisions. How do the Useans not have any sense of unity against the Sotoans after two wars against Erusea? The Eruseans are basically teddy bears compared to the BLOODTHIRSTY RAIDER OF THE STEPPE coming in on megafloats and genocide spears.

>>583783909
You know what the real kicker is?
When you finally unlock the plane you were working towards you don't even wanna play the game anymore.
So whackity schmackity doo, the game defeated itself.

>>583783924
>and my player 2 is the WSO
Who'd want to be the WSO?

https://x.com/SHASHA_Z7/status/2079039563943887193?s=20

>>583784073
>The 'PRESS BUTTON TO LOOK' is obnoxious mid mission
This should just be a picture on picture window that pops up on the corner of the screen without interrupting the gameplay.

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What am I supposed to think about the Morgan?
Apart from being really badass, it feels kind of meh honestly.
>Tons of inertia, you feel like you're being dragged around by the plane's weight.
>MPBMs are really fucking funny against Podarges and things that fly straight, but have no ammo, reload forever, are useless on enemies that actually maneuver and are worse than bombs for a2g.
>TLS feels alright, but is stuck on a sluggish airframe.
>ECM instead of IEWS because uuuhhh
It might be better in MP, but in campaign, it feels a bit like a meme plane.

>>583784232
If it was anything like swat kats i'd cum

>>583783924
I feel like we should've just gotten the campaign in co-op already, and it's what we were hoping for when we first spotted the co-op tag on the Steam Store. Unfortunately we didn't even get private lobbies where the game adjusts for player amounts within the missions, that already would've helped a lot with that.
I don't think normal shootouts can even be hosted anymore since TDM requires you to be in a 4 stack and match against ANY 4 stack out there willing to fight, and Battle Royale (as in free for all) is a time limited mode.

>>583784118
Yeah I felt that too. I got the Super Hornet F because I loved in the campaign, realised it would take me like 100k Zoll to get it beyond Level 15 to get it with the LASM/GPB config I want it for PvPvE ground strikes and my will to play just kind of evaporated.
I'm not really enjoying the fighting, I don't really want the 5th gens that badly, so what do I even wanna grind for?
Even if I get the Barricader and basically auto-win every match, why would I care to win against randoms if I'm not having fun?

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I HATE MIGGERS
I HATE LAAMBOATS
I HATE MPBMS AND MULTIROLES COMPLETELY IGNORING THE AIR TARGETS

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**SNIFF**

When do the week 3 challenges drop?

>>583784337
It's good for M28 at least

>>583784491
I'm here to crater the earth. Let the zippy fucks deal with the flies.

literally all they had to do was co op missions with plane restrictions so you don't end up with a stock starter turd and a hot rodded 5th gen superplane in the same squadron, make it not grindy because who fucking ever wants to grind, and make the rewards based on team performance not individual performance
just that, literally just that
>select multiplayer mode
>select whatever plane you want, all unlocked from the start
>get put into a mission
>have fun and beat the mission
also this bullshit with avatars and a lobby you can walk around in is lame and completely out of place in ace combat

>>583784337
They should've that bullshit bullet deflecting ECM tbdesu

>>583783909
Do you get less ZOLL if you kill 2 planes but your team can't finish the rest?

I know Online is shit but I'm addicted. Warfare is fun in my Gripen

>>583781920
Yeah this one scene pretty much sealed the deal for me.
Only during my second playthrough I noticed that when she accompanies us to Cope's room, she REALLY wanted to get a word out but stopped herself multiple times.

>>583784748
I like the lobby in concept, but the execution is sub-barebones, it barely functions, and everything in it can also be accessed in the menu, defeating the entire thing.
It should've been one massive lobby that took up the entire base, like the stuff you see in the background, and have sharded zones of that base. Put in a bunch of shit that can win you prizes and cosmetics like claw machines, coin pushers, and ticket droppers. If you really wanna go all out, put in some shitass FOB-quality basketball or badminton courts. You could totally make this a fucking killer part of multiplayer, but it's so unfinished and poorly implemented that it's annoying to use. I really hope they expand it into something worth interacting with, and soon.

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>>583784337
I flew the Morgan as part of my no-damage multirole-only run, and I can say that jet handled much, much better than the X-40 Nightmare. Sure it’s a bit slower but having the MPBM and TLS together is amazing as compared to the railgun and UAVs.

>>583784812
I'm not sure, these aren't things you can really consistently test
What I do know is that if you don't get a kill, you don't get shit, as there are multipliers at the end for individual performance specifically

>>583785037
Bro I have 0 interest in any of that shit you mentioned. I just want to spend more time in my plane and less time in the menus and the lobby.

Had it not been because of Tewy, Blaze might have accidentally killed off Mrs. Seversky in one of his mission over Yuktobania.
Have you guys ever say "thank you Tewy"?

in a series that's all about "this isnt how a military works", 8 manages to be the least how a military works

>>583784232
Girlfriends, boyfriends, spouses, partners, roommates, etc.

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>>583784880
Gripen brother, SASM to the extreme!

>>583784812
Probably, but I've never had it happen. It's a three minute game and there are only eight enemies. They're tough but your team would really need to be slacking to not be able to kill them in that time limit. All you need is a single competent person and they can wipe most of them solo.

where the fuck did they hid Grindylow? Why aren't we taking off THAT ship?

>>583784880
>Have both SASM and LAAM
Metawhore

>>583785147
I understand, man. The way it is now, I agree, nothing would genuinely be better than this. That said, if they want long term retention, making the base more intractable and customizable is important. Like a guild hall in an MMO is important.

>>583785159
nah, we could've gotten an ace boss fight as of 5 if not for her.

>47
>86
>other random numbers are not available as emblems
wtf?

>>583784661
sure but those zippy fucks are also just going to kill your ground targets too because they can and will outspeed you :)

>>583785130
The variation doesn't seem that bad in my experience. I get ~6000 on a bad round and ~7500 on my record 10000 points one where the rest of the team weren't doing anything, before contracts. It's far better than a normal round anyway.
The real problem is it gives plane specific blueprints and not general ones like emergencies, so that part sucks. I can buy specific blueprints with zoll, so they're not important. Gold ones are. Especially since scramble likes giving blueprints for planes I don't care about anyway. Give me the fucking emergencies.

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>>583785575
I'm not saying this is 100% what it is, but this is what I thought of.

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>>583784232
Me

>>583785575
14 and 88 are apparently used by neo nazis so that's why they're out. 14 is a reference to some Hitler phrase which had eight words, H is the eight letter of the alphabet so 88=HH=heil Hitler.
Yeah they're being pretty careful.

>>583785673
This can't be why
That would be so absurd

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>>583785575
ALL I WANTED WAS 69
THE WORLD WON'T LET ME HAVE IT I REAL LIFE AND NOW THEY WON'T LET ME HAVE IT IN VIDEOGAMES EITHER
WHY EVEN LIVE

>>583785575
67

>>583785641
Yeah, I wish you could choose what blueprints you were getting, would probably streamline the grinding a lot.

>>583785575
>>583785890
I think it's probably due to the game being sold on Xbox too, they have extremely aggressive filters for offensive things so it may have to do that with that too.

>>583785673
Harling is still my president...

>>583785037
>>583785412
I'd have liked a proper serious base, not a party in the hangar
I don't want my Ace Combat to turn into Forza Horizon

Rosie's voice makes me hard..

WHERE THE FUCK ARE THE SCRAMBLES
HOW HAVE I HAD 30 EMERGENCY SORTIES AND NO SCRAMBLES

>>583786083
gay

>>583786123
I have the opposite, wanna swap?

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>>583785286
Gripen a cute

>>583785408
Happy coincidence desu
>currently Lv15 with multirole damage
>normal missiles don't two shot stealth jets
>normal missiles under friendly focus buff only just now are starting to one-shot normal jets
>SP weapons don't one-shot stealth jets
>need to stack SupMan2 and Flaps2 to still lose turn fights to actual fighters, negating the multirole's extra body part slot
>possibly the worst suite of abilities I've seen
>only 2 flares for 19 levels, then 4
>pitiful amounts of gun ammo
Believe me if I didn't already love her I would not be flying her

>>583786276
Multirole has the best damage multipliers thoughbeit.

>>583786075
Most military bases, even some FOBs, have some forms of entertainment to pass the time. I can totally see a PMC base having even more of it, especially if it's sponsored by certain brands.

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>>583779845
I have finally finished the AC8 campaign, and I have some thoughts.
~22 hours (Steam playtime, includes menus), on Veteran.
AC player since 2004.

When I finished AC7, I thought that it was weird and didn't really "get" the story until after later playthroughs and talks with /aceg/.
This time, my thoughts are clearer.

Still, I want to see if my impressions line up with the rest of you guys, or if I'm way off-base on something.

>general spoilers:
>Higher highs than AC7, but lower lows.

>There were a lot of great moments, often undercut somewhat by just how little context you're given about what's going on in the broader war most of the time—or by characters not reacting as seriously as you'd think that they should, given the context that you think you're seeing. And it's usually just that they're not freaking out like they should be. You could apply that more broadly to the whole war, too. People mostly weren't treating it like it was as devastating as it looked.
>There were some moments that were just great, executed almost perfectly, well done.
>There were a lot of moments that could have been great, but just weren't presented / executed well. Often, this was an issue with things just being unclear. Other times, though, the dialogue would clunkily reiterate stuff like four times just to make sure that you didn't miss it.
>And then there were some moments that were just so corny and detached from reality that they got in the way of me taking the events seriously (which I was getting more and more invested in as time went on, because of all the good moments).

>S rank seems a LOT easier to get than it was in AC7. I took my time in AC7 (because I like to explore, okay?) and didn't get a single S on my first time through. I think I played it on Hard, but it might've been Normal.
>In AC8, I got 20/30 S ranks without rushing anything.
>Also, I hate how they changed the difficulty names.

>the title unlock from the paypass is Solo Wing Pixy, not just Solo Wing
that's so fucking stupid

>>583786823
>specific spoilers:
I still don't really get how / why the war started.
Enso Order manipulated something something, yeah, sure—but I wish I had a better sense of 1. what the two sides *thought* they were fighting for, 2. what the cassus belli that kicked it off was, and 3. how the events of the war played out before we got involved.
This is the sort of stuff that is usually clearer on second playthroughs, but I made sure to pay really close attention this time, and I don't see where the gaps could've been with explanations that I just missed.
All I really got was that the Sotoans have a single racial trait of "being nomads" and so they wanted lebensraum in Usea and decided to go all supervillain out of nowhere. They were heartless psycho warriors who wanted to kill everyone when they invaded, and in their radio dialogue throughout most of the war—but by the end of the war, they were reasonable enough people again to not only negotiate but to feel *indignant* at how Enso Order had treated them?
The FCU's motivation of "let's not die" is clearer.

I wish that we'd been given a better sense of how the war was going with FCU forces who weren't us, to give us a better sense of how we were a piece of a whole military. It would give us a better sense of why things were happening when they did, instead of some next missions seeming to come out of nowhere.
I feel like AC5, sometimes just in what it showed in its briefing maps, did a better job of giving this sort of context.

I thought that the blackout at the end of AC7 set up an INCREDIBLY interesting setting for future games—seeing how countries might act without the satellite surveillance or global infrastructure that hegemons like Osea and Yuktobania use to enforce their order.
And it also coincided with the declassification date of Circum-Pacific War documents (2020), which could've upset people enough to start a war over.
And we just skipped that period? I really hope we go back to it.

>>583786654
What do you mean?
Everything I've read says that the damage you do is directly tied to the length of the air-to-X stat bar in the hangar
I'm definitely doing less damage than my Tomcat and Fishbed

>>583786954
>specific spoilers:
I wish that characters / the public weren't still hung up on Cope being Wings months after we'd established our own impressive reputation.
Like, DD, you don't have to fake shit anymore. We seem good enough on our own.
And I wish that they'd better shown how Wings's fake story was affecting people, beyond just one girl with a drawing going "we have hope that things might get better." Like, convince me that there was a purpose to DD continuing to fake stuff long after we were kicking ass on our own. Show us why it was vital to troop morale or something. And then, the accusation that it was all lies would've been more impactful, too.

I was annoyed at how they threatened destroying the ISEV, damaged it in such a way that it probably *should've* been destroyed, but then didn't let it collapse.
It felt like they wanted have the shock of threatening to destroy it, but were too afraid to follow through on the natural consequences of what they'd done because of how much they'd built up the Lighthouse in AC7 and 8 as a beacon of hope and a refugee settlement (they're still there?) and a power source and blah blah blah
So, to keep the land battleship from destroying more of the supports, they just had it... doing donuts. lmao

Are land battleships amphibious? Because if not, how the fuck did that one cross the bridge to the Lighthouse without crushing it?

The Heart of Darkness tunnel gremlins under Fort Gray's Air Base were absurd.

Nagase? Again? Please let her retire after this, she's gotta be close to collecting Osean social security.

I didn't mind the reuse of old locations from past games. It made sense, it was nice to see some old places, and I thought that it was usually done well. For instance, I thought that they showed the redevelopment / evolution of Newfield Island from AC4 very nicely.

>>583787039
>specific spoilers:
I noticed them reusing maps from past missions, but didn't mind. The changes to clouds, lighting, and what you were doing made it feel different enough.
Some of the clouds + lighting environments were genuinely beautiful (Escort Orbiter comes to mind).

I didn't believe that Cope was a ghost for the longest time. I thought that he was some AI fragment made from brain scans trained off of his flying like in AC7, and that we could only hear him because we still had his same helmet.
But then we lost the helmet (because it shows up in that picture).
I hope that this just stays as some one-off artsy-fartsy thing. I really hope that they don't introduce supernatural shit into Ace Combat as a series mainstay now.

They should've had escorting Sotoan troops accompanying Ms. Hot Wheels and Mr. Supervillain to explain why we didn't just pop them right then, but we've been over that.

I didn't like how they implemented the "avoid the radar" mission in this game. The plane that they give you was probably most of why I disliked it. If you want to stick me in something pitiful, put me back in the trainer jets from AC5.
But no, it had to be an A6 so that Baxter could give me his glasses and hold my hand or something.
Still, I prefer when you couldn't see the bubbles, and had to go by your actual radar. But failing because of misjudging a bubble would get in the way of the overly-scripted story sequence that they were really using that for, I guess.

The squadmate characters were done pretty well.
Tasha's delivery is overdone, but at least her voice isn't grating.
Coster is cool. Reminds me of a co-worker who almost never talks.
Baxter ended up meaning more to me than I thought.
Kate is best girl, unquestionably. And they had me going for a while there. They give you a mission to really stew on what you think happened.
The supporting characters were mostly decent.

>>583787138
>specific spoilers:
The AWACS's voice sounded like some goober character from UK children's television. I couldn't take him seriously, and that really got in the way of some moments. He's no Thunderhead, that's for sure.
DD was super inconsistent. The "where are my heckin livestream viewers" sequence and the "oh yay 90 billion viewers that means we're saved now" moment was turbocringe.

There are some sequences (I think mostly in-mission cutscenes) where the music drowns out what characters are saying.

The "here's everybody coming back to help you" thing in mission 28 could have been done well—like, I think that the team-up sequence at the end of AC5 was presented decently—but they made the threat in this mission so retardedly absurd to begin with, and then made most of the squad introductions so fucking cartoonish.
I wanted to be able to believe (or at least better understand) the enemy's motives there.
And I wish that we'd at least had a line (unless I missed it) explaining why your allies all knew / decided to show up at just that moment. Like, have the XO say something about putting out a request for back-up, but there's no time, so we've gotta sortie now, and then you can have that Checkov's Gun fulfilled later in the mission when people do end up arriving. As it was, they seemed to come out of nowhere in the most convenient way possible.

People in the setting were really blasé about tungsten rods getting dropped on civilian cities. And the death count was an absurd underestimate. What we saw was apocalyptic. You'd think that the hatred would have been stronger. But we never got a good sense of the wider picture, so the reality of it can always stay frustratingly shrouded in mystery.

Some of the later Lux Lunae fights were really challenging, and I don't know HOW the fuck a new player is supposed to handle those.

WHERE is my canyon mission?

WHERE is my tunnel mission? No, the megafloat doesn't count. No, not turntable either.

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>"don't mess this up, this is our last chance!"
I got pretty far in this mission but got yeeted on the last bit, now all my energy is drained trying to S rank it on Elite keep so I keep fucking up the beginning. I'll come back to it after some sleep...

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>>583787039
The Forr Grays gremlins were fucking hysterical, though. Like actual comedic timing funny. Thoroughly committed to being completely insane. Then M28 happens and they somehow get themselves in the air in rustbuckets and IMMEDIATELY start talking about ramming the bombers. I laughed almost as hard at that as I did crushing the nuggets.

I still don't know how to do how to do a PSM

>>583786083
How
Her voice actress fucking whisper acts, delivering her lines in breaths almost as bad as DD's. It's an annoying as fuck trend among VAs these past couple of years.

>>583787387
I looked up how to do it once in AC7

loaded up Selatapura in free flight, took a Flanker to the open stadium to do the in-and-out trick, pulled it off maybe second try... and then promptly forgot how to do it ever again

>>583787282
>canyon
You had the shitass A-6 stealth mission, the C-130 escort, and the first half of the inflatable landship stuck in a forest mission.

>>583787473
It sounds like she's doing ASMR rather than real dialogue..

>>583787387
I can only do it reliably in a controlled environment

>F-4 ace is sixty years old, flies with a Vietnam-era paint scheme, and survived to help raise his grandkids
Fuckin based

>>583787573
>>583787473
Once you notice it you'll never stop hating it.
It's like the voice actors are awkward and embarrassed to be voice acting.

Why does the 5 wing emblem have to be so damn ugly...?

>>583787571
>You had the shitass A-6 stealth mission,
Oh god, you're right. PA probably counts that as the canyon mission.

>the C-130 escort,
I don't remember this.
HOW do I not remember this.

>and the first half of the inflatable landship stuck in a forest mission.
You can just ignore the altitude restriction, though. All that happens is that the same railgun that can never hit you starts missing you some more.
WHY was it just hanging out in some forest, by the way?

>>583787739
Kate's makeshift one was better than the final thing, yeah.

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... are "Princess Rosa" and "Rosie Italiansomething" supposed to be the same person?

>>583787704
WHICH IS EXACTLY WHAT MAKES IT HOT

>>583787759
C--130 is the one with the rebels and the bomb on board, gotta shoot the manpadds.
>why was it in a forest
I think that's where the podarge or whatever it was crashed, and it had the materials to 3D print... some of the ship? Something like that, sorta nonsensical. And yeah, you can just dodge, but I'm sure PA counts it because technically you're not supposed to, just like they probably count the C-130 escorts because they technically put enemies in the canyon.

>>583788007
riiiiiiiiight, thank you
that storyline didn't really go anywhere, did it?
aside from setting up the next mission

>>583787282
You know you can still tunnel run through the ISEV right?

>>583787978
ah, a CMNF / ENF fan, I take it...

I still don't understand what icing up means
It doesn't seem to impact me at all

>>583788241
it affects your controls
and if you ice up too much, you can stall (start plummeting toward the ground (until you just press "accelerate" again))

>>583786823
>war start
The Sotoa-Yuke war forced them to industrialize, which accelerated the desertification of their country. They needed land to nomad around in, and they couldn't go east and attack the Yukes they just lost to, so they went west.

>>583787039
Yes landships are amphibious. In one of the later missions you have to destroy their railguns but the ships as a whole aren't active yet. They're under construction in a traditional drydock next to water

>>583787282
There's a tunnel in mission 4, though it's obviously not a tunnel mission
it spawns the ace for that mission

>>583787759
Pretty sure they were there to draw you in so that they could test the new autofiring system that Battleship 2 uses later

it's actually ridiculous how much better than 7 8 is

>>583788385
It's a pretty massive upgrade, yeah.

>>583788241
Slightly fucks with your maneuverability to make you more vulnerable to being traced with guns/AA fire if you try to camp in the clouds for extended periods of time

>>583788385
If 7 didn't have such a fucked development cycle, it could've been on a similar level

>>583788428
>>583788385
It did make me realise a lot of the praise for 7 is just for the three DLC missions, they occupy a lot of mental headspace for 7 for people.

>>583788370
>accelerated the desertification of their country. They needed land to nomad around in, and they couldn't go east and attack the Yukes they just lost to, so they went west.
oh, right
it's so incongruous with their war strategy of "turning everything into ash and giant holes" that I forgot about it
I remembered that the Sotoan-Yuke war was their backstory, but I didn't connect it as a motivator for them to go to Usea

>They're under construction in a traditional drydock next to water
I suppose it could have just been there because the construction facilities for a normal ship can be used to build a land ship as well... but that's probably not the only reason for it
you're probably right

>test the new autofiring system
right
from the player's perspective, you're having to dodge occasional railgun shots either way, whether it's automated or not, so I guess it didn't seem like a big enough deal for me to note the connection

>>583788791
That and the fact that we got it at all.

>>583786701
I wonder what, if anything, will come out of the inactive sponsor booths that we have atm. Hopefully not more microtransactions.

>>583786823
>Higher highs than AC7, but lower lows.
I'd say AC7 had higher highs and its highs were more natural, whereas highs of AC8 feels more forced. The average level of AC8 is higher though and still has pretty high highs.

>execution of moments
I don't like that it relied so much on looking at stuff by holding Y/Triange. Feels unnatural. I think just injecting a cutscene or a picture in picture view depending on the importance would serve it better.

>difficulty
Felt a lot easier than 7 overall. I think they knew the game would pull lots of new fans to the series so they kept it more accessible.

>>583786954
>war
Yuktobania tried to invade Sotoa, Sotoa had to industrialise quickly to prevent that invasion but doing so turned their land uninhabitable, so they invested into megafloats. They yearn for lands again and FCU is probably the most suitable target, having already been weakened by wars. I'm not sure what their casus belli is, maybe something like manifest destiny, but I don't think it matters too much, at the end of the day it's just the kool aid.

>perspective on war
I think to some degree, information is intentionally kept limited to play into the first person storytelling and the theme about misinformation and fog of war.

>>583787925
Yeah, Rosie is the name she went by before her father became king.

>>583787925
yes
she gave up her title iirc but people still call her Princess.
Idk what her pizzacelli name comes from, maybe its a family name or something more ancient they just slapped on her after she abdicated. Like when they got rid of Louis XVI in France and he was named 'Louis Capet'

>>583788385
I think that 7's story has better flow, is more coherent, is more serious, and that it has better music.

>>583788981
>Idk what her pizzacelli name comes from
She could've gotten married in the decade since AC7.

How come nobody in the lobbies ever wants to play pong with me? It's cool that it exists but nobody ever come here

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>>583787345
Also Kobold is a dead-ringer for Ben Kingsley. Seriously why does he look like him so much circa-Sexy Beast.

>>583788981
Her full name of Rosa Colgate Pizzagatti was dropped in the short story 'Rose'.
I dunno if it was shown before that was story was made available - I'm no lorefag.

>>583788981
>>583789023
It’s her pseudonym she used before she became Princess, it’s from AAW2019

>>583788953
>I don't like that it relied so much on looking at stuff by holding Y/Triange. Feels unnatural. I think just injecting a cutscene or a picture in picture view depending on the importance would serve it better.
Agreed.
I feel the Assault Horizon DNA there. At least they aren't handcuffing us to on-rails sequences anymore, but you can tell that they still kind of want to.

And the regular "hold triangle to track target" effect has this dumb zoom-in animation now that makes it way less responsive. I really hope that they add an option to use the older, snappier style of tracking.

Plus, if you're already holding triangle when one of those prompts comes up, it messes up what you think you're doing and you can miss whatever they're trying to show you.

>>583789321
>It’s her pseudonym she used before she became Princess, it’s from AAW2019
ty anon
now I have to replay those missions and figure out why I was so convinced that it was a different voice

What do you think would happen in society if the United States developed XB-70s again but with hyper agility, CIWS stations and air to air missiles?

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>play AC8
>wheelchair lady shows up at one point
>immediate boner upon hearing her voice
>learn later that she shares the same V.A as nicole demara
oh that's why

>>583787925
Yeah. Rosa Cosette is her real name, and Falcinelli is a name she adopted either for secrecy or officially when everyone settled around the elevator.

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>>583787345
«DEATH IS A LONELY ROAD»
«WE SHALL RAM INTO THE ENEMY»

Tasha: «Wh-what???»

It cracked me up

>>583789520
i'm sure twitter would have a lot of opinions to present to the world as if they mattered

>>583789545
Do you think she'd jack you off with the wheelchair hand or her real hand

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>>583789651
I jokingly called them mole people and then saw in MP that they're actually the Flying Moles
Best squadron

>>583789742
why not both

>>583789545
Twintails sexo. Now stop posting gachashit and post planes

>>583789824
I genuinely want at least one DLC with them as long-term allies

>>583789386
>now I have to replay those missions and figure out why I was so convinced that it was a different voice
La Chanteuse and Rosa are different people so you could be getting the two voices mixed together

>>583789742
Real hand jacks, wheel hand prostate pounds

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Ngl it's pretty evil of bandai to give us less than a day per level to finish the battlepass

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>>583789824
I wish Lux Lunae had more variety in patches and skins, it's not like Project ACES were asleep at the wheel with them between Moles and Purple Magic patches.
Yeah it's cool the Lux Lunae have different moon phases but I still would have liked more variety.

>>583789958
Weeklies give 1 level per, and 3 levels for finishing the week

>>583789958
Sure hope they flip the Linux switch in EAC before it's too late for me...

>>583789958
Dailies+weeklies gives you 116 levels, plus 15 points per battle is generous.

>>583790059
Week 1 still has sorites requirements that are rng.
And we're still waiting for week 3 to populate.

>>583789958
I'd probably be further along but I refuse to play Warfare. Assault is as close to pure coop as I can get, and Scrambles/Emergency Sorties are too rare.

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>>583789837
uhh
i like GILFS

>>583789023
>7's story has better flow
what the actual fuck???

>>583790402
Don't worry about anon he's just a contrarian who can't pirate the game so he's just typing shit for (you)

Where is my F-117 Nighthawk Bamco?

>>583790889
he got kicked out once it's revealed he has micropenis (no guns)

>>583779956
I wouldn't mind the grind too much if the game wasn't just a complete miserable slog to actually play.

The fact a single LAAM slinger can solo the entire air aspect of a match and you probably have 3-5 of them in a lobby because it's the only viable A2A weapon right now, with the rest of the lobby most likely being a mix of Morgan / F-15E / Fullback because those are the only viable ground attackers in the complete ratrace that Assault is.

It doesn't feel like any level of co-op when everyone is desperately scrambling to hit the same target for 10 seconds of dopamine and your own team would rather fuck each other over.

>>583787039
>wings story
I think it was fine, I didn't really expect much more from it other than it being how people refer to us the same way Trigger was called Three Strikes. So everything they do on top was a nice addition. I especially liked how it evolved into a hand which is a much better logo than the initial wing.

>ISEV
The battleship wouldn't want to destroy it, they wanted to use it to send satellites up. Presumably they believe they can win the battle while fighting, and if they do, they would get back to satellite sending more easily with a less damaged elevator. Also if broken the elevator wouldn't collapse, it would fly up into the space.
As for refugees, they're basically permanently settled there now. ISEV has become a micronation independent from Erusia and FCU.

>Land Battleships
Are amphibious, you even see some of the land Aegises on water in one of the missions.

>Tunnel Guys
I was a bit disappointed nothing more came from that for how big part of a story it was.

>>583787138
>Supernatural
I agree, I don't want them to introduce supernatural shit. My headcanon is that Cope is a coping mechanism for Rex after being shot down by shadows.

>Avoid the radar mission
I also thought it was weak but not because of the plane. I just think flying through canyons is cooler than flying through digital bubbles.

>Squad
Agreed with pretty much all you said.

>>583791195
If the supernatural bit is just one-time then I'm fine enough with it. Cope was alright.

https://www.bandainamcoent.asia/sea/news/ace-combat-8-flight-guide-SEA

>Detailed guide
>only available in SEA
Thanks for nothing bamco

>The mixture of complete fanatics and the guys lucid enough to realize what's coming
I liked the enemy chatter in 8 desu

>>583789190
nigga ain't nobody got time for that shit, i have rank and zoll to grind

>>583786954
The war "starts" by Sotoa invading the FCU for Lebensraum. They felt threatened by having Yuktobania relatively close to them, overly industrialized and militarized to the point of their country turning into a desert, lost the war they were preparing for (we don't know who started it) and now their country is practically destroyed from desertification. They attack the FCU because it's 1: in Usea, which is still reeling from the Lighthouse War and foreign intervention (i.e. Yuktobania) is unlikely there and 2: because the FCU is basically just pretending to be a country, yet controls a lot of territory.
Enso Order simply helps bankrolling their war effort and convinced the leadership to pull the trigger.
Before (you) got involved, things were absolutely bleak. Sotoa attacked in July 2029 and completely steamrolled the FCU. Theve was lost 2 months into the invasion. Rex flies for the first time on November 1st 2029.
Important distinction: the Sotoans aren't epic warrior nomads, they're by and large hypocritical larpers pretending to be, with their leadership trying to create and imbue them with this warrior myth.
Their extreme brutality isn't really explained, they likely expected to steamroll FCU without too much resistance or foreign intervention and nobody finding out I suppose.

>Are land battleships amphibious?
Yes, all the land ship classes are amphibious. Why do they ferry the third one to Usea by Podarge instead of assembling it in Fatsia? Don't think too hard about it. Maybe it's faster.

The Heart of Darkness tunnel gremlins under Fort Gray's Air Base were absurd.
>Nah, the schizo garrison was fucking hilarious. They fit in perfectly with the overarching themes of propaganda, deception and misinformation too.

>>583787282
>AWACS
He had his moments but overall, I think he lacked a bit of character.

>DD
He was cringe but it didn't seem out of place in an ace combat game. The question is, what did he mean by "The wings is real, and so am I."

>M28
Wasn't a huge fan of the presentation of this mission either. It might've been better spread into several missions desu with how much they've packed into it.

>Tungsten Rods
These aren't nukes. Realistically, they wouldn't be stronger than the Beirut explosion, and while that did have plenty of casualties, I think it's in line with what the game presents. Even in game, in M29, a rod on the Enso complex that's right next to Theve basically has no effect on the rest of the city. It's only a serious danger if it lands on a nuclear reactor and triggers a nuclear explosion. They're essentially just a big cruise missle that can't be intercepted once fired.

>Lux Lunae
I only really struggled with the 22nd, I don't think the previous ones were much above the level of just a regular enemy reinforcement.

>No canyon or tunnel
This is what I mean when I say they tried to make the game more accessible to newbies.

>>583781920
That's just her, just like Baxter, seeing Cope as they're about to enter the pilot valhalla afterlife howeverbeit

>>583791931
Sotoa might've used an excuse of liberating people from FCU as well, since there are talks about people wanting independence and not committing to FCU being traitorous behaviour.

>>583792194
>The question is, what did he mean by "The wings is real, and so am I."
Spent the entire game peddling a bullshit Wings just to have something tangible and real to show by the end. It's kinda abrupt and very Japanese but I do get it. On top of just generally being a weird autistic nepobaby that finally started going his own route

>>583791931
This is false, read aces at war and pay attention to the game. They don't JUST attack, ENSO don't JUST get involved post war breakout. And usea isn't JUST reeling from the lighthouse war. Don't bring up larping if you're going to larp about lore yourself.

>>583792378
They could have gone a bit harder with that maybe, show the FCU basically considered a fake-ass country with bullshit propaganda like the Wings of Theve and Enso Order machinations propping it up, so constituent members or former members feel no reason to fight the Sotoans.
I think it would have been neat to have the separatists draw comparisons to ISAF but claim the FCU failed where ISAF didn't and it wasn't worth fighting an aggressor who doesn't seem to want their land specifically. Of course that falls apart when you realise the Sotoans just want Total Usean Death and likely do not give anything but the most superficial fuck about the divisions between the Useans beyond what can be exploited strategically.

>>583792832
>show the FCU basically considered a fake-ass country
Like 30 minutes into the game you have someone declaring the FCU dead and asking which republic you belong to

"Times Are Changing" being a pre-war song doesn't really paint the best picture of the FCU either

>>583792717
>read a book for a videogame
nah nigga I'm good

>>583779845
M I S S L E A L E R T
R A I L G U N W A R N I N G
M A K E I T S T O P

>>583793287
*launches a few medium missile dispensers at you*

>>583793287
>he wants it to stop
I wish I had more missions

Hello. It is I, the Ace of the mission, spawning 20 kilometers away from the objective just to make sure they scream at you just a bit longer.

No need to thank me.

So. How are we going to shake up the team thanks to 8?

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>>583793419
honestly I wish the last two missions had MORE bullshit I had to pay attention to and deal with. I wanted to get my blood pumping again.
>>583792937
ah yeah I forgot. The game's pretty long so there's some blink and you miss it things like that.
Do they ever point out who were the die-hard FCU supporting nations in Usea? We kind of only hear about the ones that less loyal because uh well they're trying to separate so they have a more clear identity beyond the FCU (San Salvacion (well neutral country) and Southern Waiapolo.

Gonna go read Aces at War now didn't even realise this was a thing.

>>583793515
are you the LAAMGOD???

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good evening

I'm about to embark in the Wing of Wax only gun + no dmg + only fighter mission

wish me luck

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>start game
>you're banned!
>what the fuck no
>try again
>works fine
Don't scare me like that, what the hell.

>>583793873
You say that like good gun handling doesn't make them a joke

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Does anyone have a better version of Aces at War than the one that is on Exhentai?

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>>583792832
Here you go buddy, talks about what you were thinking, half of what you said was right. Sotoans do just roll on past places but no they don't go total usean death, funnily enough the Usean rebels here are seen causing issues. If youre interested on source, its the flight data minis tory of Tewy and Tasha's mom, starts at page 154 in aces at war 2029

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Why is every person on the internet who records their ace combat gameplay actually retarded? I just got an Instagram reel of someone playing Anchorhead Raid from 7 and most of the ground harbor targets were still up including high value ones, and the man was using the F-15 with pulse lasers. He then proceeded to just fly in a straight line and the caption was >oooo too hard goo ga boo ba

God I wish this series was niche again

>>583794110
All Ace S ranks for 7 only has like an under 2% clear rate too

>>583793780
Cope's sloppy seconds..

>>583794110
if being mainstream is what would ensure the future of this franchise I don't care. We need bad players to showcase what actual players are like anyway.

>>583794274
Cope would never be able. He'd always run away.

>>583783586
>progression is abysmal takes like 400 matches to get to 5th gen planes
WRONG
t. f-22 in less than 150 sorties. didn’t even metafag, just used planes I wanted to use

>>583794030
I wonder what the FCU did to piss them off so much.
Maybe hastily put together by Enso Order money/Osean backing after the Lighthouse War which means people resent it for being a very artificial union?
Like imagine if the EU got set up in 10 years rapidly, it would piss off a lot of people.
Reading Aces at War to find out.
It's funny how restrained the amount of worldbuilding narrative stuff there is in the actual campaign of Ace Combat games. Project Aces just have very refined and directed autism. You don't get to sketching out the Patches of military units you see exactly once, or the records of downed aces without having autism for it. It's just the game doesn't really lore dump you so flagrantly.

>>583794687
You get a fixed 100 xp per game and max rank needs 25000 xp=250 games, so no you didn't.

>>583794030
I've noticed that this is a recurring theme in the series, where the antagonists really don't have the manpower to fully occupy these vast swathes of land and instead use area denial tactics via their resident superweapons.
>Stonehenge
>Aigaion
>Arsenal Birds plus drone spam
>Land Battleships and Spears
Whenever any of these are taken off the board, huge chunks of the continent turn blue in a matter of days. The enemy occupation is essentially hollow.

I can't get the "perform a PSM in campaign mode" achievement to pop, despite doing many, do I need to actually get a kill mid-PSM or something? Yes, I know the difference between high G turn and PSM.

What do I have to do to be able to play scramble?

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>>583794720
ENSO have been whispering into sotoa's ears for a long time, usea was the easiest target for ENSO to enact its plans. Its fine to hold sotoa at fault for in war atrocities but the reality is, it was ENSO pulling the strings the whole time from way way back

>>583795037
Grab some eggs, crack them into a heated and buttered pan. Then break the yolks and stir until firm. I hope this helps! :)

>>583794943
Doesn't need anything special. I got it spamming Su-47 kulbits during one of the talking sections in mission 8.
>>583795037
Just get lucky lmao.
I hope you're at least getting emergencies instead.

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A 30 something year old woman gives you this look, how do you react?

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>>583795439
>the look of disgust

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>>583795413
Wonder if you need a normal plane, was doing it in the Morgan.

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So let me get the timeline down:
>Neucom's Megafloat begins construction off Newfield Island in 2004
>by 2010 it is getting larger, but still just construction platforms
>2019 no mention of it on maps so still under construction
>2029 Sotoa has built not one, but two Megafloat structures, one to house its civilian Population, the other as a manufacturing and command hub
>2040 Neucom finally finishes construction of their Megafloat which they say "Neucom does the Impossible :)"
>despite taking 35 years to build
>despite being the third we know of being built
>despite being beaten to the punch by sheep herders with zero resources

Am I off?

>They added honest to god compression lock ups in Online if you go too fast
Why.

>>583795439
It's a really remarkable level of detail, huh?

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So I'm actually playing AC7 because I need to upgrade my PC before I get 8. But protagonist getting his own tsundere brown tomboy mechanic is a nice surprise.

>>583795821
neucom megafloat is a proper MEGAFLOAT

>>583795821
Nothing in AC3 matters other than the message of computer/engineered human spirit is an awful future. Everything you as the player interact with is part of a simulation, yes, so nothing inside the game can be trusted but that doesn't mean the message doesn't matter or has no value and especially when it contrasts AC8's ending of natural human spirit.
So basically, don't worry about how X should have happened by Y year according to AC3 but the game still has value.

>>583794862
ok fine 250 is still not the over 9000 games required hyperbole, point is he’s dooming just to doom

>>583796156
Avril doesn't have as much characterization as Kate or Tasha but she hits so many of my likes that she still wins. Also, I like how she and Trigger are still hanging around together after the story.

>>583796156
She single-handedly modified my taste in women.

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>>583796296
I think AC8 looks great but I do wish they preserved the "pseudo-anime" style from 7, at least a little.

>>583795439
the eye and eyebag tech is pretty good in ac8. Kate looks like she hasn't slept a proper nights sleep in months but still projects an air of dignity and professionalism.

Only a few times did it seem like I was being stared at by soulless homonculi.
Baxter dying got me fucked up, you could see how bloodshot his eyes were and how purple his lips were getting from lack of oxygen/blood. This might sound dumb but it seemed really realistic? Did they have the modellers look at what a dying man looks like to get the details right, or maybe they just had reference materials from other media. In any case it was very effective and got me fucked up.

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>>583796351
Unreal.....

sex with hags

>>583796438
It was mostly in the pre-mission hangars she felt off. Which is weird because everyone else looked fine.

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>>583795439
I do find it interesting how she's gaining more popularity than Tasha

>>583796634
>Tfw you've been a kate enjoyer since the beginning
>now you get twitter artists feeding you for free
Feels good man.

>>583795439
>>583796351
MATING PRESS
BABY MAKING SEXOOOO

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>>583796438
>how purple his lips
Kate also looked really rough, dehydration I think?

i want older like Nagase

>>583795712
The achievement specifies "successfully" so maybe it doesn't want you to stall at any point doing it? Maybe it's that.

>>583796817
Hypothermia, more likely.

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>>583796156
Canonically hangs out with her after the game too. You just KNOW they're fucking.

>>583796634
We basically had Tasha for awhile pre-release, whereas Kate was more or less unknown and even in-game was intentionally hidden as a side character. We basically got to know her more naturally through the game's story so it feels better.

>>583796817
The ocean would be cold and you'd be exhausted detaching and swimming away from your parachute

https://x.com/XanaxSoup/status/2108031483952902164
This shit is so gay lmao

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>>583796965
tfw she leglocks you and calls you a dumbass

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>ps5 software almost cracked open
I'll play AC8 on ps5 emu before the de-denuvoed crack drops kek

>>583796634
Maybe because of the implication Rex and Baxter are the team dads, so
Tasha and Coster feel like the 'kids' even though at youngest Tasha is probably like 19. Coster looks older than he is because he's gone hard into the gig-going aesthetic early. Probably has more of a baby face if you shave the beard off.
honestly I wasn't attracted to Tasha, I was more invested in her development along with Coster. I like all the wingmen though.

Also Kate's nape of her neck tattoo and seemingly noticeable breasts help. She's not even heavily eroticised but yeah she's a very attractive woman even in the circumstances she finds herself in, >>583796817 like so.
Without clearly being too much of a never-marred waifu character.

Time to ask the real questions: Is Tasha's mom hot?
I admit I laughed when I saw how much of 'age 40s-50s' masculine actor man (think like a guy you would see in Yakuza) Tasha's dad looks like. Even in Strangereal where Japan does not exist you must have a conspicuous halfu.

>>583797259
>Kate's neck
I get the feeling the only reason she has the bee tattoo is specifically to draw the eye to the nape of her neck. Which means whoever was in charge of designing her is immeasurably, impossibly based.

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>>583797259
Her height and poise are hot as fuck too desu

>>583797525
That's the "you. me. my bunk. five minutes." stare

Tfw i'm gonna crash out because i can't get a Kate IRL. I need help.
Ace Combat

>>583797525
>manlet nepobaby
Wew, D.D.

It feels like a post-campaign picture (Trigger and Avril) and flying a plane together while also having complimentary titles (Kate and Rex) is the closest Ace Combat will ever get to "confirming". Which is fine, we don't need more. I just find it funny.

Man they really don't want you to replay Mission 14, that's a hell of a cutscene sandwich
At least I got the S, I'll go back for the medal later fuckin radar out of nowhere right at the end