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based Kate finally fixed the previous thread link
>>583835667Coster stop being a sped for 5 minutes and do your goddamn job
>>583835768:D
Alright, that's done. Honestly, I expected more of an evil ass rape difficulty but i felt almost no difference from Elite. What's next, S ranks?
The machine gun pods are a real terror online I want to switch to simple controls so I can become a god and a monster, just zooming into anyone mid high g turnfight or lawnmowing attackers.No wonder they're only on starter planes and there's no pulse laser in this game.
>>583835940>He didn't S rank during the ace run
Enough with the best planes, what is the worst plane in Ace Combat 8? Or one that has been butchered the most compared to the previous entries
Thoughts on Joker Flight? How do they compare to Count?
How much custmonizqtion is truly available
>>583836065I honestly didn't pay attention and I havent checked the ranks yet, I assumed it wouldn't be possible without pre-planning. I S-ranked some even blindly on Elite on my first playthrough. I was more focused on getting the Aces.>>583836224>worst planeGotta be the x-40, what a massive letdown of a superplane.
realistically, what better option than an all out war did sotoa have considering they couldn't really unfuck their country's devastation?
>>583836029>Thing on online is bullshitYou don't say?
>>583836224>ButcheredFlankers>Worst planeProbably the fulcrum
What do you think? Will this tide you over until AC9?
I'm about to start Mission 22 and I can afford just one of the big endgame planes, and they've started showing up in enemy hands now so I don't want to be out-teched. F-22A, F-35C, or Su-57? Raptor has the best spw loadout by far and HCAAs are lame but I already used it a shitton in 7, F-35C has carrier support and is sexy but has a terrible spw setup, Su-57 is also sexy and has QAAMs but no carrier supportPlease help my indecision
>>583836412More megafloats instead of like 8 land battleshipts worth of spare parts? Asking to join Yuktobania?
>>583836307Count was a charisma void and the interesting characters got killed. I miss Full band and even tabloid was somehow more interesting.Joker flight is just straight up an upgrade, even other flights got much more life in them and you can actually remember them beyond 5 minutes after closing the game.
>have AC7 on PS+>dont play my gaystation enough to justify ps+
Stupid Fatsia
>>583836319Checked my mission stats, somehow the only missions I haven't S-ranked were 04, 14, 15, 23, 24 and 27 to 30.
>>583836307Count was an insufferable retard for most of the game only redeeming himself at the end. Joker Flight is likable from the get go. Initially I though Coster would be the edgy one who would have some beef with you but no he gets along with you ASAP.
>free track of pass only gives 100 gems>paid track gives 400 (500 total)>pass it 1000Will the planes at least go to the store for less after a pass ends? Is or will there be any other source of gems? I'm not paying extra for a game I already paid for. Yes, I'm poor.
>>583836307I love them, even Tasha who's an archetype I normally hateWas really leery of the non-plane stuff when they showed it in the earlier trailers but it worked really well for getting me attached. Think Pike and DD benefited the most, probably wouldn't have liked either of them if they were just voices but shit like Pike trusting you to dodge so she can blast the spy adds some flavor that'd be hard to get if it stayed in a plane-only format.
In the Mission 13/14 cutscene, Why did Baxter tell me to look down? Was it because in my autism I was staring too much at Toprak or was there actually something I didn't see myself under the table?
>>583836224X-40. I hitched about it in the previous thread, the 1mil price just isn't worth the disappointing weapons, no relevant parts for weapons, pricetag on weapons (150.000 for QAAM lol), wide wingspan, and lower mobility than FA-36.I'm still fucking mad, I spent my entire 2nd campaign playthrough saving up for it like a fool.
>>583836945pretty sure you kicked a gun under the couch
>su-25wowthis is dogshitit handles like the mig-31 should have apart from the speed
>>583836561man, the penal unit-only game that never was
>>583836962Just think of the X-40 as a 1 mil MRP gate for the super busted final part that trivialises a no damage run.
what the fuck is this LOOK, PRESS BUTTON TO LOOK AT THE THING YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO LOOK AT, JUST DO IT, LOOK prompt thing in the middle of the screen? can I turn it off? what the fucking god damned shit is this?
>>583836561I still don't know what was Champ's deal
Are scrambles and emergencies completely random or are they on some sort of rotating schedule?
>>583837087oneshoting s22 instantly is a decent bonus
>>583837132autism
>>583837196No frontal lobe.
>>583837026almost like it's a cold war flying tank not a 5th gen supermaneuverable ufo
>>583837196his blood's boiling
>>583836307im da joka bby
>>583837158
>>583837197random proc after matches
>>583837196he was hype
>>583836307coster is jus like me
>>583837196<<WOHOOO!>>
>>583837132It killed me during the Megafloat mission, I pressed the button to watch the struts collapse and it made me 9/11 into the main building.It made me laugh, i was retrying that mission a billion times anyway.
>>583837041What annoyed me then with AC7 is that it tried to be three stories on top of each other.You got your original squadron arc, which you get cancelled out of for killing the president. You're abruptly removed from it and all banter/history is moot since you're a president killer now.Then you get the penal battalion arc, which i thought would be more meaningful but it's basically just a place you spend time until the rehabilitated arc, which is when characters actually matter and stay with you.Nothing before that does. Everyone is dead or memory holed after less than 5 missions each time.There's no time to develop people, and the little we have gets snuffed out when they get killed by mihaly to hype you up, except you don't know these guys.At least the setpieces were good and it revived the series.
>>583836945I thought he was trying to point out the wheelchair but now that I rewatch the scene it looks like there's scratch marks on the floor but I'm not sure what that's implying
>>583837196he was just a dickhead. they were criminals, after all. i've literally met people like that irl
>>583837216IF YOU CAN EVEN FUCKING HIT HIMTHE FUCKING THING HAS PIXEL ACCURACY AND HE FLIES LIKE HE'S ON CRACK YOU CAN'T EVEN HIT HIM WITH STANDARD MISSILES ON VETERAN
post those ACO pilots
>>583837786The thing is you don't fight him at all, you railgun him as soon as the cutscene is over since he's flying straight at you
>>583837132>hold the button>see a residential skyscraper falling onto the land battleship>wow awesome>stop holding the button>immediately crash into another residential skyscrapedyou'd think they'd at least put you on a course that prevents collision when doing that shit
>>583837553It was really disappointing that the penal legion AWACS didn't get any comeuppance for the blatant murder.
>>583837786You're supposed to wait for him to do his epic 180 to blast his asshole with the MG
>>583837860le chudette
a LOT of people died in the campaign why did they bring kate back?
This is a Kate general
>>583837553It's sad because all three of those squadrons were really good. I liked the Mage and Cyclops squadrons a lot, I thought the Spares were hilarious and Count and Huxian bouncing off eachother in the latter parts of the game were also very good. Except you just don't spend enough time with any of them, not to mention most of the spares get killed off
>>583837553I agree with you all the way.I bet the fundamentals of the set pieces were the things that survived most of the developmental shit,and even after shuffling and reshuffling, ensured that there'd be okay stuff to do and see at minimum.
>>583838053Rex needs a Queen.
Is there any particular reason to hold back on the gacha for cosmetics? Does missile speed increase missile turn radius, thus counteracting guidance upgrades?
>>583838281No, if you get the same thing again you get some gacha currency to directly buy whatever you want in the future.
>>583837553I wrote a big autistic rant about it the other day but Mission 4 was clearly made before some of the later missions and wasn't changed to accommodate a rewrite that happened at some point, the whole Harling plotline is completely fuckedThe princess fakeout death is also nonsense
>>583837928>AWACS didn't get any comeuppance for the blatant murderWasn't Full Band literally on open comms bragging about divulging military secrets in a time of war? I mean that alone would get you executed but he was already an inmate on top of that.
>>583837860with the world's lowest poly beret
>>583836307I like all of them which I was a bit surprised by, I think voice performances carry a lot of characters in this game there was not a single bad performance Plus even though they're melodramatic anime characters they're less annoying about it than 5's cast Also the gameplay helps too because the wingmen actually do something in this game, compared to Count who's constantly bitching and complaining while failing to do anything meaningful through the entire game because the AI is awful and allied missiles tickle their targets
>play mutiplayer>2pm on a workday because I finished early>lobbies are full of faggots who already have all the top tier planes>use meta loadouts causing everybody to quitWhat goes wrong in life that you become one of these joyless faggots.
>>583838252I can b ur rex if u'll b my regina 2gethr we fly in our HORTUS REGIS ALTI
>>583838563Guy really went full retard. Why did he do it? You'd think after spending time with a little bitch known for sending a man to solitary for sneezing he'd know better than to go full retard on open coms
>>583838696When there's a win condition in a game players will do everything to achieve that win condition even by sacrifing all of the enjoyment, it works in every single game that has ever existed and the only way to fix this is either to keep nerfing the best things, add something new that requires different kind of meta or play in a close circle of friends which ACO really isn't built around
>>583836412Call it after the initial victories and settle on Expo City+Some Islands. Chances are FCU will not oppose you too hard when you're not threatening their entire existance.
>>583837928>>583838563Unironically one of my favorite parts of the entire game writing-wiseYou can hear the exact moment when Bandog decides to get rid of Full BandLater in the mission he asks Full Band where in the formation he is, and at the time it doesn't seem threatening because Bandog's manually marking friendlies based on their proximity to Trigger and Full Band's at the back, but in hindsight he's clearly trying to confirm which plane is Full Band's so he can mark it as hostile while everyone's distracted
>>583837860Who the fuck is playing this shit online lmao
>>583835798It was fine last thread. It's the one before that that was fucked. Also Kate's fault.
>>583836412Maybe they could've if they didn't invest everything they had into weapons and shit
Arsenal Bird is pretty straightforward. No problems there but the last one was a B, ran with a bot and didn't shoot enough fighters. Chandelier is like me and one other guy doing the heavy lifting no idea what's going on there with teammates. How's Alicorn? I've only disconnected from that one.
How can a single song be so fucking kinohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3JfHrEV78o
>>583838696>hop on multiplayer around 10pm after having dinner and doing dailies in another game>most players are in mid-game planes>get comparable scores to everyone else in my F4/F14>Even got MVP one round
I wasn't ready for mission 20. Thanks for the pic, anon from the previous thread.
>>583837928Honestly that's the lesser evil of the things i complain about. It's a matter of "nothing happened because nothing mattered here">>583838103I would have really really enjoyed the story of a penal battalion earning its redemption. You had all the characters needed : a hothead, a conman turned leader, a manipulative prick and a smartass with fingers in all the pies.>>583838119This drives me insane because PA is capable of so much more. Purple magic are random guys we see for TWO missions, and i definitely felt rough when i heard them go.I acknowledge AC7 was a hail mary to revive the brand, but it feels wasted.>>583838483My guess is that the development was chaos and then just put everything together to have a working game. WHich it was, but it could have been better. The DLC definitely showed that they are able to characterize people in very little time, and make them fan favourites. The VA put in some big work too, bu the writing for Torres is fantastic. It felt like the AWWNB manifesto all over again, but this time the guy is talking to you directly.
>>583838004>>583838583faggots dressing up as girls go away
i'm on mission 9game is very fun so far but when does it get HOLY SHIT MY BALLS ARE IMPLODING OH JESUS kino good?
>>583836502>More megafloatsThey don't have the tech for it unless Enso order assists them with it.>Join YuktobaniaRather die fighting and free than live subjugated.
>>583839263I don't know if it's recency bias but the in-game version specifically might be my new favorite Ace Combat song
>>583838696the best part is there are anons who tell you at the end of the grind is a fun game mode lmao
>>583839463post mission 16you have an average early game sav for two missions, a dry spell in the middle although not too bad of one, then around mission 17 onwards it keeps climbing until the end.
>>583839263https://youtu.be/X6xXbRSt5bs?si=X9Wvl5_egwMeJocA
>>583837928Bandog did nothing wrong, its the Solitary man who was an ass.
>>583838053It felt odd that they did that and then killed off our nigga, felt like they had to kill someone to get us to hate Tewy and then they started hinting at her not always being like that which left me conflicted
>>583839342>the development was chaos and then just put everything together to have a working gameYeah, here's a translation of Kono's tweets about the productionhttps://docs.google.com/document/d/1TQ3yHTQ3NnggQiWwoKHkm4DBw-VnF4FxA4K-F7ueXzc/edit?tab=t.0They presumably had time to actually polish the DLC and weren't trying to get the game functional and it shows
>>583839463>HOLY SHIT MY BALLS ARE IMPLODING OH JESUS kinoMission 20 although it has some really good moments leading up to it too
>>583839338the i cant imagine the DLC mission memes
>>583839463Once you hit mission 19 almost everything up to the very end is kino
>>583839668>which left me conflictedEh at that point even Cope was just telling us to put her out her misery and she was his waifu. On the flipside since Pilot heaven is now an actual thing in AC we did her a favor.
I kinda wish the A-6 mission in 8 was a remix of the music from the 747 mission in X2. That would have been neat.
>>583833937ty anon, I was waiting for thisalso kek @ the misspell in picrel
>>583839590Same shit with War Thunder. Everyone harps on the top tier jets like their the 2nd coming of Christ, but when you get there its just some thirdie in a chinese sukhoi knockoff spamming all of his missiles at you, repeatedly.
Imagine being upset at being asked to fly a plane in a plane flying game
>start mission 22>music speeds up and gains energy right as i start the ascent into the attacki love the dynamic mixing in this game so much
>>583840137I've never liked planes that handle like a geriatric wading through mud, never will. If I had my way every slow ass attacker would never return to the franchise ever, not even the A-10 with all its meme value.
>>583838696Hop in an EW and buff your teams LAAMs
>>583836497F-22 or Su-57 will make it much easier for you in M28
>>583840098>I can't die until I eat my wife's baklava one more time>Can't wait to tell my son about it
>>583840297the problem is they arent given literally anything to make up for their shit performancein 8?>no tankiness>no maneuverability>no extra ammo>no extra damage because LOOK AT THOSE BASE DAMAGE BARS LOOOOOLhell the A-10 should handle like a dream at its speed, but no>max speed=dogshit handlingwhich is dogshit for getting a good attack run
>>583840362Hmmm.. the growler DOES look very tempting...
>the one ace that bails out but gets crushed by a falling building
>>583840442both of them tempted fateone them defied it
Frostwave does seem to be the best shadows track by far, would've been an improvement it that's what was playing in m20
>>583840663I'm also fond of the ambush one, moonlight and shadows.
How do I have fun in MP
>>583840297>not even the A-10
What's the song that says whoa
>>583840663>lets not play the AC8 theme song for the most ace combat moment in any ace combat gamehuh?
>>583840861speedrun ground kills in warfare and ignore all pvp
I was hoping the bravery's crew would have made it...
>>583840861Accept that the modes currently going aren't the real end goal, they're the grind, so if you have a bad mission and some fag just eats 50k worth of points you're moving towards the goal of levelling the plane you want to for when we get real shit.
>>583839973Tell me anon, how do you convert those files into a usable audio file ?
>>583840938whoooaa whoooaa whooaa whoaaoooaa
>>583840861You don't
>>583840938Whoanderwall by Whoasis
>>583840938I guess Nightmare has the most woahshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wqldwLegPo&list=PLGzf_95xpbyY
>>583840538I've come to the conclusion that if I can't beat them I will simply just make it worse for them until I can afford to buy something that can compete with them, plus it's really funny how revealing an EW can be against some of these players
>>583840947while you were doing that an ESM plane with their QAAMboat boyfriend did ten times your points by running heads-first into your alliesexcept losing doesn't mean a fucking thing in this MP anyways so I guess who cares
>>583841087This tool https://github.com/vgmstream/vgmstreamI'm using the main conversion tool with a chatgpt script to convert all the files to .wav but I think you can grab one of the plugins for one the players they listSeems the .wem files are the audio files and the .txtp ones are the ones that "create" the streaming files since it's videogame music and there's looping versions and whatnot
I enjoyed listening to the Sotoans getting cooked alive inside the second Land Battleship.Total Sotoan Death
>>583840663>>583841282I really liked Nightmare and I'm sure I'm gonna like it even more if the DLC can flesh out Tewy more
I've fallen for a woman in her 30s.
>>583836561I thought Count had some funny banter. Generally I think he was a victim of 7's weird development cause I think he worked fine in the DLC essentially as our main backup guy. We and him we're the weird prisoner dudes but we also tackled Rage & Scream together and stuff like that.I still have no idea why they made the main campaign allies useless when they can do damage in the DLC.
>>583836945Your flightsuits are sticking out from under the bench you and he are sitting on.
>>583841282is that rafale ok
>>583841747Yes, he flew away to the Promised Land
>>583841558Women in their 30s literally cannot provide you with anything meaningful, your feelings for one another at ephemeral at best
>>583841427Cool, thanks anon.I wish PA would put the OST online on spotify or some shit, but i guess getting the paypiggy edition doesn't entitle me to having the OST available.I guess this is the best i can do while waiting for someone to have it easily listenable to. Zaptroxix is good, but i can't listen to youtube on my phone without it pissing me off. I prolly should look into pirate plugins for it, but the pirate spotify adventures pissed me off.>>583841603Who knows. I'm just glad ace combat is alive again after the ten years of waiting. The promised land is here, until Bamco ruins it.
She even gets her own theme. Where the FUCK is Blaze?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6gVNCtNEr8
Why must i type my posts like a drooling moron god fucking damnit.
>>583842060Blaze is still tied to the bed. Nagasae was in the middle of making her 20th kid when Joker flight showed up.
>>583842060the "second asteroid" was just the cover up for a mission to send Blaze to space to fight alienshe's up there protecting all of us
When you hit your 30s, 20 year old women finally want you but you've already been invested in a 10 year relationship and dont want to cheat.
>>583842060Previous protags are never mentioned and are memory holed by the world. It's a Project Aces mandate.
>>583842214Previous protags are mentioned during the Chandelier fight>memoryholed and forgotten but show up to some fuckass arctic wasteland
>>583841558They're the best women. They've got more experience than early 20s brats and keep their shit together.Kate is one of the most respectfully, maturely, and down to earth written female characters I've seen in a while.She's not just for sex, she is for talking to, marrying, and raising kids with.
>>583838053I'm surprised the savian mercs even helped considering that I might have downed a Charles de Gaulle worth of aircraft
>>583841928
>>583842459You tell 'em courage.
hmm should I keep upgrading my f-22 or buy the su-57? I only have enough gold folders to upgrade f-22 to 15 but I love the su-57 too. max battlepass so ok can only get my five daily folders now
Are these real?
>>583842634Coster is still young and fertile, he can bear many children for you. Why deny your heart's true desires?
>>583842526Their economy relies on them afterall.
>>583842765>he's playing online
Should I sell crack rock cocaine to afford ram and a 5090ti to play ace combat at max graphics?
>>583842526I don't know if you've heard it before but their economy relies on mercenary work and D.D. paid them a hefty amount of Wings of Theme memecoin that went to the moon after the livestream. Then he sold and became the wealthiest man in Strangereal overnight
>>583839973btw, seeing a lot of tracks from previous gamesare these in MP or something? I haven't touched that yet
GOD I HATE THE FUCKING REPLAY CAMERASTOP CHANGING AUTOMATICALLY I AM TRYING TO SET UP A SHOTYOU ARE NOT HELPING
>>583842813fuck nocarriers are hugethe closest thing is probably the sub pens of ww2
>>583842828>>583842890whoa, whoa, what's that about their economy? do they rely on mercs?
>>583842865I play games, you post bocchi.we are not the same
Ohhhhohhhhhohhhh ohhhaooo ohhaooo
>>583842934yeah a lot of those play in online.There's even nightraven jumpscares
>>583842964>carriers are hugesome carriers aren't floating cities designed to move an entire air force around
>>583842964Disappointing but these too are pretty sick
Kind of an semi off-topic question, but is this game a good source of detailed plane models for use in 3cdg animation?
>>583842934Yes. You get random classic Ace Combat tracks during online missions but their names don't pop-up so new people listen to the best Ace Combat music not even knowing where it's from lmao
>>583840938The base is Ad Terram Promissamhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gUQwQLW_M0
Holy FUCK they named the stadium in oured, in which chopper crashes, the "Davenport stadium"This game is a fucking goldmine
What's the closest thing we have to Enjoy Order irl? Kalshi? Polymarket?
Did you feel bad?
>playing through the valley of kings>allies are dropping like flies left and right>one of your allies over the radio is shouting in hopeless desperation >become infuriated>see a pair of enemy su47s flying towards me trying to stop me>select xmaa, double lock, fire>scream fuck you as i fly past their exploding planes on both sides of me>mfw
>>583841558Kate goes through so much shit and the most you'll get out of her is a sniffle.Meanwhile Tasha and Coster spend half the game having mental breakdowns.That's a strong female character done right. Go get em, queen.
>>583843169There's War Thunder too, if there's one thing that game does well is high quality plane models. And it's free, unlike AC8DCS has probably the highest quality plane models, on the planes it does feature
>>583843265no. sotoa shoots down ejecting pilots. total nugget death.
>>583843258Amazon
>>583836412Build a couple dozen more Ladons instead of land battleships and crush everything in their path. Seriously, those things are absurd.
>>583842960Didn't they say they improved the replay system lmaoIt's like the exact same as 7
>>583843249>not The ChopperdomeWasted opportunity
>>583843362How long till they start orchestrating wars?
>>583843258Probably one of those major investment firms like Blackrock or Vanguard>>583843362Maybe this too considering shit like Whole Foods
>>583843265
>>583843360>no option to shoot down ejecting Shadows for extra points>>583843475fairly sure it's even worse because, at least on my end, it doesn't even play mission music so it's bland as fuck
>>583843258I was about to post how dumb of a name Enso Order is because it literally sounds like a James Bond villain company, but then I remembered that there's a domestic spy camera company called Palantir and shit like that and realized it's just par for the course.
>>583843319Tbf, Tasha is still in college and Coster is a /mu/tant that just watched his favorite band get decimated, they're bound to be emotionally vulnerable.
>>583843265lollmao>gun run every last onesucks to suck
>>583842813There's stuff like picrel, Muskö Naval Base in SwedenI think somewhere that North Korea has similar installations
https://i.4cdn.org/wsg/1791497703071327.webmas it turns out you get some different dialogue for assisting kate last?>>583843120let me preface then>be the USA>literally the only country with a carrier force that anyone takes seriously>typically have air superiorityall that said>why do we need to cover our carriers?so no, no they arent real, and any country that has carriers probably doesnt consider them good enough to be a strategic asset worth building a giant enclosure for
>>583843618>there's a domestic spy camera company called PalantirWell see, maybe the public won't see how evil and psychopathic we are if we name ourselves after some geeky thing!>see? we're nerds too! just like you! :DDD
So who's the most skilled Wingman in the series? Count?
Something about this is so fucking funnyBeing landlocked is no reason to not have a massive navy I guess
>>583843803pixy
>>583843803dumb phoneposteralso it's obviously Pixy
>>583842967They mention it during rocky island part 2.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5O8nCGgWaAThough I can't remember exactly when. It was an off-hand remark during the mission.
>>583843803Rick.
>>583843808Why aren't land battleships real
>Be Ace combat wingmen>Finish dead or crippled
Huh?
>>583843808who's landlocked?>>583843968because a bunker buster does more than disable the guns of most things that irl get hit by them
I'm so fucking mad.
>>583843803Pixy, then Count.
>>583843968because it wouldn't work anywhere that's not flat
>>583843995LM is on suicide watch since Boeing will produce both the F-47 and the F/A-XX so they must cope with "muh 1980 jet"
>>583844216not sure that's great news considering their recent track record
>>583843968we were robbed of kino
>>583844192>wtf uneven terrain>too bad we dont have any rocket assistance
>>583844107>Counti did never see the fucker get a kill, or do fucking anything.And in the only iteration he does anything, he fucking crashes into the space elevator
>>583835667[Embed] those who [Embed] will [Embed] again
>>583843249My fuckin nigga
>>583844216>BoeingAren't they the ones whose planes explode or am i mixing them up with someone else?
>>583844348Oh no, it's not a good thing at all. It'll be the same old shitshow, that will sink billions into corruption and overspending for shit that the chinks will have for a single digit % fraction of the price
>>583843265hahahawow
>>583844365that is retarded even for ace combat standardsthe land battleship weighs what, a few million tons? and what, it can just fly? nah>>583844394yes, they are the company where immediately upon hearing about an airliner accident you think "boeing 737"
I think someone asked about this a couple threads ago
>>583843249That was in November City though, not Oured. Our man got a whole new stadium built in his honor.
>>583843265"I just wanted a callsign of my own.."
>wait 5 minutes for the game to boot up>wait another minute for Ace Combat Online to load>wait another minute for a match to start>wait another minute while the match loads and the intro sequence plays>"Connection lost returning to title">wait another minute for it to return to the title>have to wait several more minutes for the title to load, then for ACO to load, then to matchmake again, then repeat the process several times until you actually get a game>alternatively: after failing to matchmake, the whole game crashes>takes a minute or two to fully crash and stabilize>have to repeat the long startup process again from scratchI'm tired bros.
>Enso Order is an autonomous corporate entity>Enso Order is an ACE>we go from combatting Ace Pilots to ACE businesses as the timeline progresses
>>583844672Nagase my GOAT wife
Would be cool if for once in an Ace Combat war our country was the one with superweapons of doomThe Arkbird doesn't count
>>583844909ive got one for youKIA
>>583844951>>wait 5 minutes for the game to boot upDoesn't happen on my SSD>>wait another minute for Ace Combat Online to loadDoesn't happen on my third world wifi
>>583845000The Space Elevator is the closest you'll get
>>583844075Man, I'm still mad they made so many confusing country names. They get mixed up in my brain.>Osea>Usea>EruseaThis was confusing as fuck to me when I was still new to the series.Imagine is someone named a country Thailand and some other fuckstick named his country Taiwan. How stupid would that be. You'd make an embarrassing mistake in front of that cute asian exchange student in uni and never be able to talk to her again. Could you imagine how embarrassing that'd be. Fuck my life.
>>583844989
>>583845056My fault for installing it on an external SSD. But I run games from the external that in theory should be much harder to run than AC. This game is very poorly optimized.
>>583844909Sotoan apes, out of my way!
Do we think Cope's soul was weighed down by gravity?
>>583845098they dont care if you make a mistakethey care if you get bent out of shape and spill your spaghetti over it
>>583845237kek, snail was such a great character
>>583845250something about being the windthat tewy though? yeah
>>583845000but the superweapon is (You) anon
>>583845237The AC and AC fanbase overlap brings me great joy
>>583845487Nigga, I did a spittake when Rusty called me 'buddy' for the first time and was expecting them to lean into that WAY more than they did.
Where can I get the lossless OST for AC8? I thought it'd dropped on kh/soc but cant find anything anywhere
>mclarghuge bomber>oh nice gonna bag this>somehow can do cobra>will do that just to hit you with glorious sotoan steel>mission failedWho made this shit?
>how do we make people use attackers?>fuck it just make the F-15 onelol
>>583843265When Gemma 1 blew her brains out, yeah. But then they show right up again in the next mission and shoot down Kate, and at that point they get what they fucking deserve.
>>583845871Did the OST even release yet? Like on disc or digitally?
>>583845487Armored Core 6 set a new standard of paint and emblem customization that I was somewhat disappointed to see Ace Combat 8 didn't even come close to meeting. At least we can have more than one emblem on any given plane set now, but they could've at least brought back AssHor's paint editing, probably the one thing that game got right.
>>583846015Mihaly.
>>583844216LockMart has the F-35 export market.
>>583845871I think best you can get at the moment is the game rip, see >>583833937 and >>583841427Look for BGM_MUSICPLAYER tracks for the ones you want and if not available for BGM_MS[mission number]
Are there any special weapons that are particularly good or shit on my squad? Like can they use SAAMs and UGBs properly?
>>583846015Belkans
>out of town for the week>play PW on my laptop>remember how cool it is to have an actual in cockpit radar as well as an fov sliderGet it together PA, I hate the 40 fov in the cockpit view.
>>583843620>implying Tasha could get into college with how dumb she is
>>583843265I shoot down Silber squadron at the peak of my chivalry, I don't feel sorry for S*t*an nomads with delusions of grandeur
>took me three (3) hours to finally get an emergency sortie so I can get my five daily general blueprintsthis is ridiculousyou need 50 or more per plane
>99% damage on landingAnother day of great workholy shit HDR screenshots without HDR look like such ass
>>583846705hdr is a meme
>>583840137I get Kono really wanted to do the TGM escape scene in the game but did they really have to give us the 747 mission again but with an A-6?
>>583846705Yeah it's not worth the effort imoMake your game look slightly better and then make your screenshots look like dogshit to everyone else
Is this good or pisswater? What do we think?
>>583846705HAHAI did the same thing on that missions landing sequence
<< Where are you looking? >><< I'm over here. >><< You are the finest opponent I've ever faced. >><< The golden eagle is going for the kill. >> (?)<< No one can hide from the moonlight that pierces the dark. >><< You're behind me. But at what cost? >><< Is it my turn to be the prey? >><< Go on, then. Fire. >><< You hesitate. >><< Do you really think you have me? >><< Alas, a single bird of prey is no match for the apex predator. >><< I have given everything I have. My soul will be delivered unto the promise land. >>
>>583846868>military grade beerCertified 100% pisswater
>>583846690Why do you still play? Genuine question.I stopped once I realized it's just a grind to unlock the plane I want and then I'd lose complete interest because the multiplayer is complete ass.Why do you guys still play? What am I missing?Lemme ask you a different question also, what other games do you guys play that has online functionality or online play?
>playing AC8>graphics card exhausting hot air>the rest of the house is actually cooler than my room>even though my AC is onmfw my AC can't compete with my computer for temperature dominance
>>583847049>Why do you guys still play? What am I missing?I logged into online once and never touched it again, just 100%ing the main game for now.The only reason i'd play online is so i can unlock my planefu to fly in the eventual /aceg/ lobbies, otherwise I don't really care.
>>583847049I thought maxing out the Growler and supporting dogshit planes with it would be a fun experienceIt's a classic fallacy of "it might still get better, it's barely out">what other games do you guys play that has online functionality or online play?at this point Helldivers 2 is the only other mp game I still play
>>583847049>I stopped once I realized it's just a grind to unlock the plane I want and then I'd lose complete interestSo they've done it then? They've just turned into War Thunder?
>Mission 28, eat shit to su-57 aerial drifting way too many times>really lock in and finally win>the moment I answer yes, game closes>ran out of video memoryif it didnt take shooting down the entire Sotoan airforce i would've retried instantlymusic is banging though
>>583847049sorties with the boys when they eventually let people queu them directly
>>583847049i like going fast and ground pounding in my berkutonline lets me go fast and ground pound in my berkut
This got me thinking, is there any flight sim game where you can actually play AWACS? I think you can sort of do that in nukeop with the medusa?
>>583847049My buddies and I were having a good time with this before AC8 came out, and odds are good we're gonna go back to having a good time.
>>583847049>Lemme ask you a different question also, what other games do you guys play that has online functionality or online play?Conan Exiles, though just for roleplay, I don't really do any grinding there. I do need an online game to busy myself with and I was hoping AC Online would be it, but it's not hooking me at all. I guess I'll just wait till Path of Exile 2. Also play some LoL but can't play more than a couple matches of that in a day.
>>583845286Him and Iguana seething at you in the final parts of the game is a treat.
>>583846775It looks great on a HDR monitor
Can they reimagine AC3 in AC9 and make a compelling game?Would you rather see the Japanese plotline with a bunch of branching story paths and the original ending twist, or would you prefer they take the localized American version and flesh it out into an actual story that tells something interesting?
>>583847273I think there's an AWACS in nuclear option
>>583847273Only ultra modded arma>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0KOlxYGY_o
>>583847049So I can style on superplane fags in my maxxed out F-4E and earn the ability to use the Mobius skin
>>583847049I regret buying a month's playstation plus subscription to try out AC online. That was ten bucks down the drain.It's a joke. You buy AC8 and AC online, then you gotta pay a fee to even play online on PS5, and then they have the gal to make this god awful multiplayer PAY-TO-WIN.It's just a big fucking joke.
>>583846868Probably a very mediocre mass market but drinkable
>>583847049I enjoy the pvpve strategy.If we have a bomber and they don't, it's important to protect him so he can rack up ez points. And vice versa, we need to kill the enemy's ground pounder otherwise they'll run away with the game.If the enemy is purely trying to pvp and it's taking forever, maybe I should fuck off and just go collect some ez points then reengage once they forget about me.And lastly, players are far more persistent in trying to shoot you down than the Ace AI is. Going high speed through Waiopolo desperately dodging 4 jets chasing you is fun>other online gamesHelldivers 2 and Old School Runescape
>>583847474oh fuck oh fuck i didn't read the other side of your post i can't recover from this.
>>583847049I haven't played MP the moment I realized the meta is LAAM and I refuse to be at the bottom of the scoreboard for not using the foxhound or tomcat. I might play warfare in an hour or so but I'm not touching assault
>>583847474There is, but it basically just does datalink stuff to make it easier to spot enemies and guide your allies' missiles in. You need to keep the plane flying so doing callouts like a real AWACS would doesnt really work.
>>583847273>>583847474Imagine if Dealer could've shown up to Rio Bajo and blasted all the radar stations himself so Rex and Baxter could just cruise on out.
>>583847273I figure you could maybe do it in DCS by looking at the F10 map and talking to your allies on actual radio, but there's no dedicated awacs plane or tech
why does nobody ever shoot down the AWACS plane
>>583847568>and then they have the gal to make this god awful multiplayer PAY-TO-WIN.The Foxhound is free however.
>>583838053>why did they bring kate back?Because I love her.
>>583847712Because the AWACS is a cowardly lil bitch who sits all safe and comfy hundreds of miles from the action
is 20 the max level for planes in ace combat online?
>>583847712AWACS are generally far as fuck away from anything going on because their radar is mega powerful IRL. They also get escorts, you actually get to see them in mission 28
>>583847568How is it pay to win when the best planes aren't locked behind the pass? Multiplayer is dogshit, and it isn't because of the morgan.
>>583847919for now
>>583847990this system is niggers
>>583847919Same as Infinity.
why don't we have this
wait if i use sasms at 1000~800 range can i just fire and forget? i thought they were supposed to connect but they just explode.
>>583848282They're proximity fuse, they detonate as soon as they're within damage rangeThey also have a bit of AOE by their nature which is useful for massed drones
>>583848282They aim for a connect but if their target begins to pull away they explode
>>583847049I want Schnee's fat bird ass as my emblem
>>583847982all that just to get stick drift in 6 months
>>583848392Two things.One, I'm a gay moron for trying to snipe with the SASM.Second. holy shit the berkut is so back, all i have to do is drive bys.
>>583848392No they don't, because if you're on track for a direct hit they go in for massive damage A proximity explosion doesnt 1shot but the missile can 1 shot
>>583843265No.Their missiles (presumably) hurt you just like anybody else's. And if they'd made it back to base, then those fighters could have been used in the future by more competent, dangerous pilots.Anything that threatens my baby Kate is a valid target.
>>583848535>berkutsaam and sasm are two different things
>>583847420I don't think making a big branching story would be worth it because they would have to invest an ungodly amount of resources to make so many missions or scale down the mission complexity. They can make something like Armored Core 6 with mission alterations and some branching missions
>>583848121i have not played infinity
>>583846775>>583847390Is HDR kind of in the same spot as the 3DS was, were the advertising can't actually show off what the gimmick looks like or why it would be appealing because it's a visual gimmick that depends on hardware that you don't actually have yet?
How big is the difficulty jump from Elite to Ace?
>>583848976insignificant
>>583848916Do yourself a favor and waste as much time in ACO as you did in a infinity
>>583848976Much like with 7, the only things I've noticed is increased score limit on destruction missions and returns lines only rearm you, no repairing.
>>583848975Kind of. The thing with HDR is that most monitors really aren't that great with HDR despite them marketing it on the box, and most games have absolute shit HDR implementation, so it comes across as a meme, but when you hit the right combo of a monitor with decent enough HDR and a game with proper HDR you understand why it's great.
when are they adding the next events in ACO, surely the don't expect the entire battlepass lenght to survive on this amount of content right?
>run out of missiles, down to just my guns>game gives me more missileshuh
>>583848629shit am i still sniping with this thing or can i do a drive by
player bombers (like in infinity) when
aight look man I get that these Shadow dudes are meant to be the big deal big baddie enemy squadron pilots who are kickass flyers and whatnot but if you're gonna have the enemy pull these retarded maneuvers at least don't make them a fucking mig-31
>>583849383standard missiles very slowly regenerate just to keep you from completely running out of ammothis was in 7 too, not sure about older games
>>583848975>>583849251I think there's also an element of it being misunderstood or not really explained properly, and people think HDR just means very high contrast, and it sort of it, but what it looks like on actual HDR hardware can't be represented on normal screens, you really have to see it for yourself. It's high contrast but it's also darker blacks and brighter whites, more vivid colors, the whole thing just pops
Ace combat fan is playing ace combat with some vtubershttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57fXZzqL_oY
>>583833752I don't recall variants being that big of a deal in terms of grind compared to the normal versions, aside of needing Nonstandard forms to go past level 10. Fictional planes that weren't the Morgan or Falken were a whole other story though.
>>583849383>>583849623>they felt the game needed ammo regen when you're carrying nearly 200 missilesremember the days when a plane having 80+ missiles was endgame power?
>>583849763>already farming vtuber ePussy
>>583849763An ad, buy it.
>>583849854I was doing Mission 8 and was down to just guns towards the very end so I appreciated getting a few more missiles to help finish off the last 8 or so ground targets
>>583849763is there anything more cringe than vtubers
>>583849763>Matching unsuccessful as some players have leftJEJ
>>583849975idkhating them like they're doing something to you?
FUCKI KNEW WANTING TO FUCK AROUND ON THE STRIKE EAGLE WAS THE WRONG CALLAt least i got the ace but damn
>>583843968why stop there? where are the world battleships?
>>583843968Because Belka doesn't exist in the real world.
>fighting Tewy>she starts calling out my movementsWhat good does this do when she can't even come close to matching them? I hate to say this but for all the hype, despite the amazing theme, she was a total sandbag
>>583849854not sure what the threshold is but it only kicks in when you're low
>>583850156isn't this just Highfleet?
>>583849383Happens even on veteran difficulty.I don't like it. I enjoyed how Rocky Island part 2 had a firm grip around my balls when I was running out of ammo and had no time to resupply.Regenerating missiles just feels like the game going easy on me. Does it happen on ace difficulty?
>>583849854I finished Mission 20 with 12 missiles left despite having a ton of parts for them so I get it
>>583850156The world needs World War 3 to happen so we can see more cool military tech
>>583850156This is so stupid lmao
>>583850359I was doing the mission on Ace, it happens on all difficulties. It's only like 2 missiles at a time though and I swear I had to hit 0 missiles before it kicked in.
These things look so silly lol
>>583850542you mean badass
>>583850604yes, if you hit 0 you get 2 back on a very long reload
>>583850660he posted a hellsing image so he's aware those are synonyms
>>583850657remind me of those old belkan bombers
>>583850657You know, maybe I'm stupid, but why can't you just target the Podarge's cockpit to take it down? Surely it can't fly itself and a few hits to the cockpit would be quicker than having to destroy all the sub props.
Kate has the sweetest voiceTell me the VA isn't ugly
>>583850930You can do exactly that. A little tricky since it doesn't have its own target box, but that's what MGP is for.
>>583850930They'd probably come up with some bullshit like redundant autonomous flight computers or something, but yeah obviously that would be the quickest way to kill them in a setting that didn't sacrifice "making sense" for "being cool and fun"
>>583850156It gets funnier the more I look at it
>>583850930b-but that's a war crime..
>>583851249A matter of interpretation, I'd say.
>>583851104I GOTTA TRY THAT
>>583851249Is it? I'm killing most of the pilots I shoot down, especially the ones that fail to eject.Sure, I'm not supposed to shoot down parachutes, but an actively flying Podarge should be fair game?I guess if you wanted to be really nice you'd shoot just behind the cockpit to sever it from the aircraft
>>583851249
>>583851447this line made me laugh
>>583850156Slap some skulls on it this looks right up the IOM alley.
>>583850930>would be quicker than having to destroy all the sub props.If you destroy the cargo area with your guns the plane breaks in half you don't have to touch the engines unless you feel like missile spamming.
I hope you guys aren't cleaning your planes
>>583852334Of course not I fly a dirty girl so we can do wet and wild things together.
Me and my planefu when the ground crew leaves us alone in the hangar
Anyone else kinda shocked at the fact that they included Assault Horizon music in Online?
>>583852535not really? some of the tracks in singleplayer are heavily influenced by asshor anywayac8 is just a mashup of most ace combats released until now
>>583842060She looks damn good for a 43 year old. Blaze landed the jackpot.>>583843265Why would I? They were told to stay away, thought they could be hot shit just because they had advanced jets, paid the price for their naivety. And considering their bosses are literally nuking cities from orbit and their comrades are shooting at bailed out pilots, I feel not a tinge of guilt.
>>583852632not shocked at all because that game's soundtrack is great and 8 takes a ton of stuff from ah
>>583852718meant for >>583852535
which old game do you think will be offered as preorder bonus with AC9
>>583853208ac3 lol
>>583852334You better believe I am, they deserve it
>>583852334Do you also not clean your underwear? Of course I clean my planes.
>>583853259do you wear your jet fighter around your balls and ass?
>>583853380Yeah?
>>583853380I mean, I'm sitting in it so you could say that.
A qaam F-16 was dabbing on me up close I want to try that now
>>583853380In a cosmic sort of way, yes
>>583852632Lifeline and Expo City mission tracks are definitely done by Rio Hamamoto, exactly his usual style.
Someone is slapping the life size Nugget on stream
>>583843265No, I actually feel a bit bad for Ventus if anything. They were already fighting in a losing battle and then got asked to protect a bunch of retarded kids.
>A2G recommended mission>Migger gets MVP by over 10k points
I wonder how heavy the AI/drone focus will be in AC9It was a thing in AC7 and AC8, but surely an AC9 set even further into the future is going to be to the point you might be fighting entire artificial squadrons. Maybe one real human Ace and then he has 4-5 AI planes slaved to him
>>583853380What, you don't?
>>583854413>Maybe one real human Ace and then he has 4-5 AI planes slaved to himThey already did this in 2006
i've always found it kind of sad how much of a step down 4 was compared to 3 in a lot of ways
>>583854413>>5838547827 also did that, Mission 19 has human pilots leading squads of drones and once you take out the human the drones fly like retards
You know what I hate most about LAAMfags?They never actually effectively use them to kill air targets. Nine times out of ten, if we fail a mission, it’s because the LAAMfags are too busy dicking around shooting AA guns or SAMs that can easily be mopped up by attackers, waving too many air targets to clean up in too short of a time.
>>583855127Where as in the real world they'll go>FUCK YES the flesh bag is dead now we can kill till we run out of ammo.>Loyal wingmen turn into X-9's when you kill the human with them.
how sad is it that this is an achievement
Kinda sad I found it fairly easy, like 90% of the missions on Elite for me were S ranks, and on the Ace run only 2 weren't S on the first try.Also wished the story took a darker tone, I loved the atmosphere made of grief and doom that the first missions had, same goes for the music, kinda became too epic/epic jap rock and generic to me.For the rest it's peak, easy top 3Also Tasha is just Nagase 2.0, very annoying, just slightly different, ruined the mood plenty of times
>>583848629
How would you feel about an AI ace as a primary antagonist?You shoot it down a few missions in, say mission 3 when it shows up in a relatively low tier plane like a Fishbed and nothing is made of it aside from one of your wingmen noting that the plane didn't have a cockpitIt shows up again and again throughout the story, getting better planes and flight behavior as you shoot it down. Maybe it even learns from you (if the game is ambitious enough) and starts countering your flight style. Eventually the culmination is you launching a raid on the data center that holds the neural cloud/backup of the AI plane, destroying it and finally bringing the AI ace down to one life, where it pulls out all the stops to try to defeat you and is finally erased from existence when you shoot it down and destroy the black box holding the codeOf course there's room to find out that you DIDN'T destroy the black box and it was recovered, either by an antagonist faction or by your own faction who hides it from you and uses the combat data to develop their own AI aces
>>583856138>AI ace as a primary antagonistThats just ZOE again
>>583856138Ah yes the nemesis system, but with planes
>>583855861I legitimately don't know how to get that one lol. I hit "preview" when speccing out a plane and it doesn't trigger.
>>583856138We did that in 2 and in 3 we get to play as a future antagonist. That is a idea nearly as old as the series.
>>583856846Can't do it from the hangar.Go main menu > campaign > data viewer > aircraft viewer > preview
>>583856138If the AI can't talk then it's just Hugin and Munin again and they were shitIf the AI can talk then it might as well be a human permanently wired into a cockpit like an Armored Core
I want a Fortress Intolerance Emergency Sortie
>>583857224Season 2 raid area
I think instead of AC9 I'd rather have a full AC3 remake with the AC8 designBoth to make it fit better into the ongoing canon and to let people actually play it without fan translations
>>583857082>silent the whole game other than maybe some electronic screeching>during the final mission boss fight it says one line, heavily digitized/distorted>"You. Kill."could be cool
A week to sell a million copies, could be better given the budget I suppose but it's not bad at all.
>Haven't played Online in a few days>Spend the day telling myself it probably isn't that bad and I should approach it with a different mindset>Try again>Assault>Other team is three Barricaders and a Typhoon>Basically don't get to play the gameYeah no this is ass cancer. Genuinely how did they fuck it up this badly
>>583857605Next up will be AC 0.5 the Yuke-Sota war being set in 2005-06 you'll play as either Scarface 1 or Cipher once again.
>>583857082>>583857776What if it listened in on your comms and stole your wingman's voices?So it'd taunt you/mock you in a slightly distorted version of your wingman's voices.Maybe it shoots down some of your allies like what happened to Queen flight and each time it kills someone it takes their identity
>>583857985skill issueI'm having a great time
>>583857605>wanting a remake of 3the monkey's paw curls...
can you unlock the campaign medals on rookie or does it need to be pilot+?
>>583858230have you tried getting gud?
>>583857605I want AC3 to be almost entirely retconned out as "it was just a futuristic AI simulation."
>>583857605I’d rather have AC9 (or, uh, maybe AC10 honestly, I’m kinda hoping 9 is either a zero-style prequel game for the Sotoa-Yuktobania War or another standalone story that could help further set up the AC3 world) take place after AC3, as in just after Nemo has been released into the real world. It would be a (or possibly the) main antagonist of course. This way they could soft-retcon parts of AC3’s worldbuilding because “it was just a simulation” but without stepping on it at all, and would be pretty much an entirely new game (although of course it could contain remade levels if they wanted) which is a lot more interesting than a straight remake of a game I could just go emulate right now if I wanted.
>>583850292>Wow I beat a cripple>In a plane that can't turn for shitNot tg flex you think it isAlso accessibility wise I imagine huginn and munin triggered a lot of triggers
>>583858230Don't knowIf it's like 7, it doesn't matter for medals, but it matters for those ace skins.
>>583857082Hugin and Munin do talk to you one time at the start of the fight. They just talk in machine language https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1k67xD2o9Og
https://x.com/AceCombatGames/status/2108361805856735672we AC9 nao
>>583858559Best I can do is 2035
>>583857605I'd rather just get the "true" events of AC3 by Nemo showing up and absolutely derailing everything and then ultimately just becoming fixated on the protagonist.
>>583858275why have i been seeing so many russian memes for 8, i obviously understand there's a russian plane bias but have they always been here
literally what's the point of HCAA missiles
anybody got the SOTOA-TV meme with Tewy?
>>583858738Would you rather just have more missiles and gun ammo
>>583857440I hope Z.O.E drops some good loot
>>583858738They sit between standard missiles and HPAA. What's the issue?
>>583858559Good, this was my question last thread, I guess hardware limitation didn't tank the sales too hard, I just hope AC9 is a bit kinder to my PC next time.
>>583858675All the russian stuff you've seen in the thread is literally posted by one guy on xitter who draws Umamusume stuff.
How do you fight back against a morgan pilot who can actually aim his TLS?
>>583858892You offer your very own PJ as sacrifice and close the distance while the TLS cools down, and as soon as he respawns you get to do it again.
HCAA would be cooler if they did half the damage of a normal missile but you got like 50-60 of them base and they reloaded super quick so you could spam out a ton of missiles and flood the sky
>>583858892Shoot a LAAM outside his laser range
>>583858628>7 AC games>PW>SW Squadrons>Delivery Must CompleteI waited 13 years between Zero and 7 because I didn't have a PSP or 360. I can wait another 9 years
>>583858738they should switch it so taking HCAA gives you 4 missiles
>>583858628I’m relatively optimistic they can get 9 out faster. It seems like they set up a lot of internal tools and assets working on 8 so they won’t need to start from scratch next time, kind of like 5 and Zero (probably more different than that but still).
>>583858806>>583858819Not him but I feel like single target A2A spw are so redundant, there's no reason we should have HPAA, HCAA, HVAA, that's just lack of creativity. 2AAM is also a joke.
>>583859059In 7 you got like 50-60 of them (up to like 75 with the extended ammo upgrade), you could pretty easily fly an entire PVP round without touching your normal missilesThey got nerfed pretty bad in 8
>>583859142More hags?
>>583857883Mow much did AC7 sell in a week? Someone pull up the graph of the lifetime sales cus that it's impressive how it just keeps selling
we're never getting a character as good as pixy ever again, are we buddies?
>>583859163>HVAAThat's an even faster LAAM though.
>>583849763>2 missions in 2 hoursamazing
Honestly I want a SPW that fires one big slow lethal missile and then you can tap the fire button again and splits into multiple smaller faster but less damaging missile.
>>583839342Ironically the penal battalion part is the one that wasn’t in the original script
>don't trust her yet>You're missing the point Tasha>She wasn't a true nomad like us>doesn't even aknowledge Kate existsIs cope just a huge misogynist?
>>583859231>A character as good as PixyI'm sorry but he didn't exactly have alot of characterizationHe's still great though
>>583857883>given the budgetWhat was the budget? Haven’t seen that anywhere. Glad to hear it’s been selling well for sure, god knows they deserve it for this one.
>>583859316Yeah, and that's basically just LAAM with different stats, kinda boring
>>583858559Good opening week, I wonder how long until it hits 8 million?
>>583859418I bet he hard the XO's cakes too the sotoan fuck
>>583859432which characters are as good as him?
>>5838595265 years, assuming the sales and discounts are common
>>583859213It took 1.5 years for AC7 to sell around 2 million copies, so this is pretty much the most successful Ace Combat launch ever
>>583859231Pixy was an annoying faggot the entire campaign, its the Interview one that is good.
>>583859418Honestly he might've been a kind of a dick to everyone, he's the only character that no one mourned for some reason but people acknowledged his flying skills
What's the use case for HVAAs?
>>583850292I mean that’s the point, later in the fight she freaks out when she realizes she’s calling the mov,ends wrong
>>583859770Poor man's LAAM
>LAGM>LACMwhat's the difference
>>583859652he was great through and throughsimple AS
>>583859570>HardMeant hated>>583859598Well like as good as he is I can't be sure it's my ace combat/anime attuned head filling in the blanks on why I "get" himThere aren't really alot of good ace combat characters that aren't nemesis or the protagonist imoFuck it, archer, let's go with archer
>>583859451We don't know but simply looking at the game's general quality and marketing, we can safely assume that high.
>>583850292You do know X40 is kinda mid right? Enso clearly wanted Sotoa to fail, it's amazing the shit Tewy pulled with her fucked up body
>>583859610>>583859213This. Look at this. Look at this beautiful curve.No other game or woman on earth has curves like this.I'd fuck it.
>>583859978Yeah the marketing budget/pre release coverage alone had me concerned they were going for broke
>>583859403I could have guessed>first mission in the penal battalion is to shoot down bombers that attack your base.
>mission 25>seems to be all about supporting a ground assault>these are the barsi'm worried
>>583859874>LAGMLv 1 A2G missile>LASMLv 1 A2G missile sidegrade>LACMLv 2 A2G missilebasically you only use the other two if you haven't unlocked it.
>>583859874LAGMs recharge faster and have more ammo while LACM have a bigger AoE and an extra 4km of range.
>>583860150What's incongruous there? Sincere question, I don't see it
>>583860178Maybe let go of the fucking MGP and bring an actual non rust bucket
>>583859936Nah, the faggot was too pretentious and I enjoyed bringing his ass down to earth last mission. Him having enough braincells to fire two missiles was nice though.
>>583860178There's a boss fight in the middle of the mission, stock up on some QAAM or SASM, or don't, you can just switch whenever since there's a return line, but it's mostly A2G
>>583860278I mean the Air-to-Air bar being so much higher
>>583860346Meh it's late game ace combatIf you aren't expecting a few planes I'm sorry for you and your warthog
>>583859874LAGM, LASM, and LACM have different flight behavior on top of different damage models.
I want my boomer plane back.
>>583860178You know that support also include air superiority right? You aren't completely stupid, right?
>>583859874Lacm is dog shit at short range unless you dummy fire
>>583860217Since you seem to know your shit, how do the LACMs stack up against SOD/SFFS?
Anyone do any of those AI recombination mods with Ace Combat and anything?
>>583859874LACM is UGB on a stick while the other 2 are complete dogshit.
>>58386024304 starts this wayZero starts this way6 starts this way7 starts this way8 has you chase recon planes and a big AWACS (bomber with no bombs)It's a very bog standard way to start an AC game. A few bombers with some escorts to get you up to date with the basics.
>>583860609That's more of a matter of preference, I like LACM more than SOD but I can find some place where SOD might be more useful than LACM, like a lined up ground formation, I haven't tried SFFS in this game
>>583860341F-35 it is>>583860443>>583860590I just mean how a mission where the briefing is heavily ground-focused has an ominously high a2a forecast
>Hinge your entire post-launch monetization on multiplayer microtransactions>It's so blatantly poorly made and unfinished that most people bounce off it after a few hours with itWhat *did* Bamco mean by this
The mig-29 was pretty popular in AC7 online but Ive seen like two in ACO, what happened?
>>583860904Thank God Linux saved me from wasting my time with it! I'm not upset at all.
>>583860904They barely talk about MP during the early days. They clearly don't really care much about it imo.
>>583861052LAAMs are the only viable A2A weapon and if you don't have them you are actively throwing in the current environment
While AC games keep up with modern war stuff 8 really managed to hit different with the drone refueling and Rapid Dragons. It really made the game feel like yes this is how it will be in a couple of more years
>>583861102>They clearly don't really care much about it imo.>An entire trailer and stream dedicated entirely to it
>>583861052Mediocre SP.W choice and the 31 is meta with LAAMs.On top of that, they basically handle the same and the 31 might be faster.Still bought one because i like the little shit, but yeah it's not good comparatively.
i just hope they do a better job of integrating dlc aircraft into the story mode's progression this time around instead of just making them free and instantly unlocked
>>583861281the morgan already has that, so i'm guessing the answer is no.
>>583861281Yes each new plane addition comes with a mission where both sides deploy them.
>>583861240Yes. Compared to like 6 trailers and 5 streams and 2 entire events dedicated to the SP campaign.
Multiplayer missions should last twice as long and replace every enemy with one that's a tier above it.
Where's all the silly weapons? Where's a railgun mounted on a rustbucket? Where are my Star Wars PLSLs?
>>583861830too OP, gotta pay up for that
>>583861830>introduce PLSLs>no one uses anything else for G2G or A2A i dont think theyre coming back in that way, if ever
>>583861830FCU can't afford weapon pods.
>>583861830FCU are poor as fuckSota didn't pay Belka for extras only super weapons.
>>583835667>no thread themeSo Kate hates music, huh?
>>583861984>>583861951>They equipped a convict with lasers in 7 but not th national war hero in 8how bleak, but I guess their army does consist of like three ships and twelve planes at this point
>>583861830I have a feeling that AC7's meta being railguns and lasers might have scared them a little. Not that it really played out great given the state of things but, you know.Or it's like always and they just shake shit up every game. One of those.
>>583861830If PLSLs come back they're being fucking nerfed for sure, don't get too excited.
>>583839342Seriously, I loved those guys, I wish we saw them more.They have the dopest emblem too.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lC7diQ6F904
>>583862070I do find it funny the FCU seems to be like a larger European country or just Canada economically, but their military is so weirdly barebones. I'm surprised they have carriers at all. Maybe they just got screwed by the contstant conflict on the continent. Or maybe it's commentary about how leafs and most euros don't take defense seriously, I don't know.
>>583861937>ADF-11 - Tri is the meta and every room will have 5-6 of these fuckers>You need to pay up to joinIt's over
>>583862070Being a pilot in a superpower has its perksOnly Osea, Yukes & Belka use lasers & railguns as standard issue.
so how much replayability does the game have? more than the other games?
>>583862467About the same as the other games. Online would have added more but it's a complete flop
>>583862467>First run>Ace run>Machine gun run>No damage run>Attacker run>Multirole run>Fighter runGonna take a while, the latter three are mutually exclusive, but you could probably pair it up with some challenges above to make it faster
>>583862872Isn't there also EW run?
https://youtu.be/bZbg0j_LHkw?si=JbCd8WiIstQbATJ7Now that I actually get to sit down and listen to the OST, it really does sound a lot like AH.How'd they make AC8 so different from the rest of the rest of the series? It's so refreshing, and then the multiplayer happened??
Retard playing online for the first time here, should I spend all the supply tickets or hoard them?
>>583862918that too I guess
>>583863092You should quit and never look back
>>583863092just use them, it's only cosmetics and most of them are shit to lame
>>583863169I really should but that stupid battlepass can't grind itself
>>583862872>>Machine gun run>>No damage run>>Attacker run>>Multirole run>>Fighter runLol fuck that, the last 3 are stupid like they were out of ideas for medals but still wanted to give you reasons to continue playing.
>>583862467In addition to what's already been listed, you also gotta unlock Ace mode. I didn't know there was an unlockable mode so I just played on normal. Which sucks cus i just got done S-ranking veteran.Just... fuck.
ONE MILLION BUYShttps://tmp.acecombat.jp/QB1ckRTCWj/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/ACE8_1million_3840_2160.png
>>583863287I thought the same thing. I dunno if it's execs knocking on their office doors with demands or if they're just some dumbass middle manager trying to ride up the ladder
>>583859936Man people really want to drag zero down lately, probably 7 and 5 fags
>>583863493well at least attacker run is an actual challenge, the other two seems to be added so they don't feel left out
Is there a way to keep the game running when I alt-tab?
>>583863493I think it's more that the challenges trickle down now so all you need to do is S rank Ace and you get all the difficulty challenges done. The class runs balance that out
>>583863448I am one of those
>>583863357I like how you fags shit on the no-lifers in ac online but then turn around and do this shit lmao
>>583863756F-2 is an attacker it can hold its own across the entire game. If you stick to Su-25 & A-10 then it would be a challenge.
>>583864140man i havent seen these comics in ages
>>583864207The carrier-only missions are the bane for attacker only runs
>>583864389what naval attackers are there, anyway?intruder and...?
>>583862872>>583863287>Attacker run>Multirole run>Fighter runInstead of doing these three they should've just made it one challenge that required you to beat the game using every plane from the roster.
>>583864582yeah, now you know why
>>583864887ah.too bad harrier isn't in the game :^)
>>583864582:)
>>583860609LACM lets you blow shit up from far away, SOD/SFFS stack multiple explosions instead of a single AoE.
>>583865139I like that using LACMs from far away enough means the CIWS on a Land Aegis can't react fast enough and they just die in one shot
I hate how shit LAGMs are.
>>583865379isn't that because they have a lower approach altitude?
Jesus how many songs did they make for this fucking gameAC5 had like 90 something which already was a ridiculous amount for the series
>>583865485a hundred and one or soa fifth or fourth of these are online only though
>>583864389You should able to do it in free mode I thinkIts been so long since I did these in 7 I can't remember if I did them in free mode or started up story mode again.
Does the ECU Software Update part cuck me out of PSMs since it makes stalling harder?
>>583862268>Pilot music So this was the outcome of what happened when someone introduced Kono to Dos Gringos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cltwpbcw3vYSPOOKY
>>583865485zaptroxix's youtube playlist is 73 entries, so about that many depending on how the official soundtrack splits things
>>583865997It's 110+ as of now, if you don't count the online ones, which have their own dedicated playlist.
How many gbs on pc
>>583866176How about you check the fucking steam page or google it you retard
>>58386617655gb
CALL ME UP, I'VEGOT TO FEEL ALIVECALL ME UP HIGHSET ME FREE TO FLYMY BLUE SKY HOMETHE MILES ALONEI'VE FELL AND FLOWNOH, MY BLUE SKY HOMECall me up...Set me free...Call me up...Set me free...Call me up...Set me free...Now that we're down a guitarist and drummer, this bassist is a one-man band. So it's time for me to go. That's all. Over and out.
>>583866176i got 140 but that's with ac0
>>583866091oh what the fuck, the list i had saved was from like a week ago lmaoshame on me for thinking he was done uploading
>>583865776No, PSMs are purely speed-based and have nothing to do with your actual stall speed.
>>583866176
>>583865379I don't know what the fuck they did to the AI but in general it just doesn't react to you if you engage it from maximum range with shit like LACMs or LAAMs
>>583865626nah, they specifically said 'campaign runs' so it has to be in one go
>>583866387i think it's supposed to reduce cpu loadtheir AI seems mostly void until a missile or player is within ~5km of themit's even worse in online; the interceptors on arsenal bird stage have their AI completely disabled until they reach a certain point
>>583866387>>5838665097 was kind of like this iirc. That's why PLSLs were so OP. Just shoot the squares lol.
>>583861052If you're not using LAAMs you're not geting MvP period. God fucking forbid someone has LAAMs and a good anti-ground weapon, its game over you lost.
>>583866176abooooooout.... hmmm.... tree fiddy
>No way to earn general blueprints outside of the stupid season pass Holy fuck I hate the devs. I only have 60 left, which means I can only max out 1 fucking plane.
>>583843803If Pixy counts then him. If not, Count.
>>583867119you get 5 daily from emergency sortiesnot scrambles btw, these only give you plane specific blueprints (the 1k a pop ones LMAO)enjoy your gameplay gacha
>>583866246I dont know where on the steam page it is
>>583866969>God fucking forbid someone has LAAMs and a good anti-ground weaponwhich craft would this be?
>>583867282Basically all the eurocanardsRafale, Typhoon, Gripen
>>583863448ONE MILLION SALES!
>>583843803PJ. (Patrick James) (the guy who likes to play polo, you know the game with horses)
>>583867381okay
>>583867282Behold, usefulness.
>>583867449>Rafale M>LAAM>LACMHoly fuck the stench
the wings killcount is heckin fakerino plotline kinda falls flat considering the mc is already a giganigga supermurderer who's made ace 20 times over by this point
>>583867231Genuine retard
>>583867823Only downside is you have to take it to level 20.
>missed the S-rank because all 8 of us went for the F-2s and missed the B-2You know what, the only one I'm actually disappointed in is myself.
>>583867823If only it didn't have that fuck ugly dick wart hanging off the side of it
>>583867203The 50% chance that a raid is a scramble and not emergency is fucking killing me. It's such a disappointment when the raid message pops up and then I realise it's the bad rewards raid instead of the one I need.I don't want blueprints for planes I don't use and that I could buy anyway. I don't care. I don't fucking care.
>>583847646blessed opossum poster
>>583867231
>>583868313tell me about itit took me about 3h of gameplay today to get the fucking blueprintsit was nothing but scramblesI was ready to stab a jap
>>583835667
>>583868305>ahh oui oui we surrender
>>583868305le snale :D
>>583836307Count was the nickelback vocalist bro
>>583868569You just stapled a flag to the poor creature's eyes, that's kinda fucked up.
>>583868669Its ok the french will still slather it in garlic and try to eat it
>>583849975You
>>583868390I'm like you except without the finally getting the blueprints part. I fucking hate these devs.
It's sad how much the Rafale mogs the F-35 in game.
>>583868868Just like irl .
>>583868868Both are ugly.
>>583867830yeah...it bugged me, too, that the FCU kept propping up that unnecessary fake story when they could've just told a real one about the player and/or their squadronit was especially weird since basically every past Ace Combat game has been about how you, the player, are trying so hard and doing so much on your own that you're inspiring the rest of your army to keep fighting and rallying your entire country to come back against impossible oddsthis time, it seemed like we never really inspired anybody (except for maybe our squadmates)when other FCU forces showed up to join our efforts later in the war, it seemed like they rarely had a reaction to us, let alone a positive onemost of the time, we just heard other allies doubting or outright shit-talking usI can remember maybe one or two lines (from the Expo City mission) with ground troops being surprised and glad at how effective we turned out to be, but that's about itI guess the counter-point would be that we don't want the story to lean too hard into "omg mr. player you're the greatest" wish-fulfillment, but I still think that we need SOMETHING to convey how our efforts are making a positive difference to our sideI think we needed to see / hear more than we got in AC8, anyway
>>583867381Typhoon gets 8AGMs so unless you've got bulk ammo upgrades you're done after 2-3 volleys.Rafale with LAAM+LACM is stupid busted.
>>583869027We cursed Immortals with eternal life
>>583869080>>583867381>Upgrade Rafale to max >LAAMs get nerfed into the ground>LACMs get nerfed into the ground
>>583869027You could say the prior propaganda and doubt plus the existence of AI editing means people just don't believe the outrageous things you've done to that point until they see it for themselves. In any case it goes away pretty fast iirc.
>>583869282please by all means do thathasten it
why the fuck doesn't the in game version of Hortus Regis Alti sing the second stanza?
>>583869027i think part of it that is fairly understated (intentional or not) is that dd had been ai slopping wings's achievements for like months which definitely did not helpand if you ask me immortals seeing all your feats firsthand and becoming your biggest hype men over the course of the game was pretty fucking good
>>583868868F-35 gets an ability that lowers stealth (who cares) in return for ammo. If that's strong it might be able to take reasonable amounts of both LACM and 8AGM and be the ultimate ground destroyer even if its AA special sucks.
>go out of my way to not attack gemmas in previous mission>they show up again>at the worst possible time for them
I like how they managed to give different feel for the enemy elite squad here in 8. I think most of them being jobbers drives home the point that they are faggot larpers who think they're hot shit. They started to think they were invincible because they have survived for a long time.
>>583869557>LACM and 8AGM and be the ultimate ground destroyerIts not an attacker, so it cant deal enough damage. F15E is the ultimate anti-ground.
>>583869368so you listen to the real hortus regis alti
what are the best planes and special weapon i should give to my teammates so they can give me S rank while i just fuck around?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSqhc1ayKaAThis game has a lot of music.
>>583869680>I think most of them being jobbers drives home the point that they are faggot larpers who think they're hot shit.And for that, I don't think I'll ever forget Lux Lunae
>>583869938just give them rafales with LACM/LAAM combo lmaothey're a bit wasteful with LAAM but they carry so many LACM that any a2g mission is just a walk in the park
>>583869602They shot down Kate and bragged about it, all bets were off.
>>583869770I don't have it yet because lol 250 games but it should work. LACM is strong enough to kill most things even without attacker bonus, 8AGM is for spread out weak enemies where you don't need it either. Ships will be a problem but the stupid 8AGM lock stacking might actually be helpful there for once.Or maybe you're right. I don't know, maybe I'll find out in a million years when I finally get high enough level to unlock it and then get another twenty emergencies to to get the general blueprints to level it too.
Fighter No Damage Guns OnlyDo them all at once? How cheesy is that final upgrade part on the tree?
>>583869602Does the text at the end of the mission still say the two Sotoan officers were killed, if you don't shoot down their Osprey?
>>583870000get this ai shit outta here
>>583870050>How cheesy is that final upgrade part on the tree?it makes you completely immune to AA and machine gun fire
>>583870050Apparently it blocks all damage below a certain threshold, so shit like AA gunfire doesn't even register anymore.
>>583870132I got quads on that slop. The slop STAYS.
>>583870094What effect does this have on the campaign anyway?
>>583870026why rafale. doesnt f35 carry more?
>>583870358because f35's air to air spw sucks doodooHCAA are way worse than LAAM even with how wasteful AI is with them
has anyone noticed a high disconnect rate in co-op assault? it's more than 3/4 of the matches at this pointnot nearly as bad in warfare
>>583870151>>583870173that seems insane for no damage runswonder if it works on the ladon's rear lasers or the shockwave drones
I hope they make Ace Walker Peace Combat one day. That'd be the day.
I like to headcanon that the reason previous Aces just disappear is because all those stupid high G maneuvers finally caught up to their bodies and did irreversible damage.
are the planes listed in the progression guide what I should unlock or is that why gets unlocked at that rank
>>583870620I like to think their own glowies "retire" them for knowing too much.
>>583870664What gets unlocked at that rank. It's missing a lot of ranks so it's meant as an explanation that going up ranks=more planes, not a guide.
>Phoenix/ScarfaceWouldn't surprise me if he's the oldhead running the Savian mercs.>Mobius OneRetired instructor for the North Point Air Force. Not even Sotoa is willing to incur his wrath.>BlazeOsean glowie of some sort.>CipherSwore off piloting wholly and disappeared. If you ever see an angry drunk sitting in a dark alley who looks like he could and would kill you if you pissed him off, it's probably him.>TalismanStill with the Emmerian Air Force.>TriggerRetired, married Avril and is now a civil aviator.>Gryphus OneLikely in command of the Aurelian Air Force now.
How PvP-centric is ACO?
>air to air spw are limited to 10 (14 with upgrades)there, fixed ACO
>>583870181Your humble quads have happened 583870000 times, there is not one achievement to your name
>>583870945About 20% of your time will be in PvP and its pretty dogshit, bring LAAMs and you win, don't bring LAAMs and you lose.
>>583858657The 'true' events of AC3 are nemo getting released and killing dision just like in the sim, NEMO and the player have no agency and simon won
HCAA are worse than fucking standard missiles at basically everything except one shotting low HP targets that fly in a straight line.
I think we did goog
>>583870705That's what they tried with Trigger. Didn't work.
god I love her
>>583871306They don't fly off the rail like in AC7
>>583871385I miss AC7 HCAAs...
>>583871385Even when the motor kicks in they're still slow as fuck.
>no "conquest" style game mode where you pick your wingmen and go liberating area by area, upgrading your shit along the way and finding stronger enemy aces tooWhy do they hate moneyWhy do they hate funWhy do they hate me
>>583871335It's a shame because Galactic Racer is actually really fucking good even if you don't care about Star Wars (I don't)
>>583871562I hate star wars but this looks so much like an f-zero/wipeout game that I wanna play it, and I don't like that
>>583871526Japanese brains cannot comprehend making fun
>>583870664If you want a simple guide.For air go F-14D or MiG-31 since they have LAAMs and LAAMs are broken. F-14 costs less to upgrade and is available earlier, MiG-31 is slightly better and has QAAMs as a backup for when they inevitably nerf LAAMs. You can switch to Typhoon when you unlock it but that takes a long time.For ground go F-2 (lots of UGBs and attacker bonus, with LASMs for ship maps) at first but don't level it too much, just to 10 or 15. After a while you'll want to switch to Su-34 or F-15E. You can switch to Rafale or F-35 eventually but they also take a long time.Bear in mind that people will call you a bitch for being a LAAM spammer, because I'm not kidding when I say they're broken. And the devs are probably going to nerf them because they fucking deserve it. They're probably going to be overnerfed and become useless.
>>583870945if you take an attacker in Warfare and fly low people usually ignore you and you'll end up with 120k points lol
>>583871526docile japanese consumer is unable to protest garbage treatment so their online situation has never improved
>ENGAGEMENT NOT ADVISED
>>583870664Pick anything with LAAMs and stack range and speed upgrades.That's it. That's your strategy guide.
>>583870912Trigger is 100% doing stunt pilot shit
>>583870912>BlazeNot getting dragged by Nagase into spaceshit?
>>583870094The Enso call in mission 28 later states they rigged an accident to kill them in that helicopter. Therefore they'd have died anyways off screen if you didn't shoot them down, so there's no need for an alternative line.
>>583836307i miss jaeger
>>583858559I wonder how much money that brings in for them.
this isnt fun
>>583871829>tfw I specifically hunt down this kind of playerNo mercy for the furtive pygmy.
>>583864140Sometimes I wonder what /v/ is like nowadays, then I go there and wonder what I even liked about that place to begin with.Did funny thread screenshots create fake memories of me being there when it happened?
>>583872743at this point this AFK big bro, the mission is done anyway
>>583871726We gotta take what we can get, fellow AG racer chad. It's this or BallisticNG pretty much. The mixed vehicle types is honestly really cool, you don't see that often in any racing games. Plus the main camapign is a roguelike which pleases my gambling addiction
>>583872803It was marginally more tolerable when they weren't just calling each other trannies in a circular motion.
I still think Hresvelgr is one of the coolest missions in the entire series and it might be thanks to the music alone. I like the drums.
>>583872918Hey now, they don't just call you trannies: sometimes they'll call you brown.
>>583872689Take the box price then minus 30% for Steam/Sony cut then another 30% for tax man.$70 becomes about $35 which means AC8 made about 1 million copies * $35 which is $35m.
>>583872803>> <<Sometimes I wonder what /v/ is like nowadays, then I go there and wonder what I even liked about that place to begin with.>>>> <<Did funny thread screenshots create fake memories of me being there when it happened?>>
>>583873023kekcope and theve
>>583873023
>>583872803No it actually has gotten worse with time. 4chan and the internet as a whole has. Personally I blame mobile usage and the more general access that brownoids have to the internet.
>>583873012You forgor regional pricing as well. It's $45 instead of $70 in China which is a huge contributor to the sales numbers these days.
>>583873023Oh god here comes a fucking nother one
>>583872778I've noticed
>>583873175>Israel has to pay the mostKek
>>583873263>BLOID
>>583873023>Copeposting is a thing now
>>583872778I also do this, lol. Usually if you're fast enough you can pick them off before their teammates notice you dived on them.
>>583871526Besides SW Battlefront and EaW/spoiler] how many games even have that period?
>>583873023>> <<420......69......7.8......more numbers I can't make heads or tales of. The last one has something to do with water, I think?>>
>>583871031jesus bro chill out
>>583872040>"Hey Tasha, you were stunt pilot. Did your dad train you?">"Nah, I had a real instructor. Dad hired this mechanic lady and her husband. He painted three lines on his plane, I didn't get it."
the prologue track has been living rent free in my headhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ou3t7lYqr2M
>>583873589<< Count to six. Inhale. Count to seven. Exhale. >>
Surely it couldn't have been that hard to allow us to choose which SPW our allies take.
>>583873703While I like some of the variations this one's the best rendition of the theme as long as Hortus Regis Altis is excluded from participating
>>583868197The curves of the Rafale are absolute sex but then it has that thing hanging off the side. It's like the hottest girl you've ever seen having a hairy mole the size of her eyeball on her cheek.
https://youtube.com/shorts/HjZ_Ze-RZFEAce Combat if real
>think most euro planes look lame compared to the US and RU ones>the best loadout for literally any ground mission is 3 Rafalesaaaaaauuu
Why is trigger's like that and hers is all shiny?
>>583873904You have to think of it this way, it's her feminine penis
>>583873965If Rafale is the single-engine one then I think it looks cool. I like how single-engine plens look.
>>583873986From what I gathered it's because flying a mirror would scare the enemy, which is a human rights issueBut Casca is scary like that
>>583874115that'd be the gripen
FLYYYYYYYYYYING HIIIIIIIIIIGH
>>583873986Avril likes to buff out the canopy and make her plane shine. Trigger likes to put the thing through the wringer so much she's stopped trying to make it look nice because he'll ruin it in five minutes.
>>583874006God, why are you so ugly Morgan?
>>583873863I specifically like the sense of urgency to this oneIn fact, a lot of the tracks of 8 have that going for them and I enjoy that a lothttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Bo1O54PDtQ this one is a good exampleI also really liked the Sighthound from 7
>>583874115this is a Rafale from AC7for single-engine European planes in AC8, the more-triangular one that you unlock earlier is the Mirage, and the later unlock is the Gripen
>>583874342I think fixed fuel probes SUCK.
>>583874420>make one of the sexiest aircraft ever built>ruin it with the fixed fuel probe
>>583874342>>583874115top is a Mirage (in AC6)bottom is a Gripen (in AC7)
What's the trick to getting good with the gun? I've heard switching to reticle type B makes it a bit easier but im not sure if I notice a difference
>>583874694You hold down the button that shoots bullets and point it at the enemy
I don't like the mirage.
I wrote a review.
>>583874902didn't ask
>>583874902ok
>>583874902alright
>>583874570rafale looks like a trainer it's a little dainty frog plane for dainty europeans
>>583874957I did
>>583874694if you're using a controller on PC, map gun to a different button (like a trigger) or honestly just get a peripheral like a USB foot pedal and use that for the gunyour right thumb is always pressing or hovering over circle or triangle during a dogfight, and it's awkward as hell to go back down to Xespecially if you're relying on triangle for target tracking and you have to fire off a gun burst in the middle of it
>>583875038you asked yourself?
>>583875096yes
>>583875142no
>>583874694there is no trick, just practice. you'll get the muscles for it eventuallytip, yaw more. don't roll and pitch if your target isn't also rolling, just yaw to adjust the cannon
>>583875039CLAW GRIPPERS HERE WE COME
>>583875208WHY NOT
what's the point of reticle types
>>583874902I also wrote a review, but will not be posting it here...
>>583875278Fucking with you specifically.
>>583875278The game setting tells you what the exact difference is. IIRC A adjusts to predict both enemy movement and yours, which makes it way more jumpy and harder to aim.Seriously just stick with B
>>583875278Gun? Type A is twitchy and nearly unusable. Type B is PS2 style, stiff and predictable.
>>583875208yes I did.
>>583875223also the fishbed is the best planefu for gungang
>>583875339What the fuck bro you can share things with us
>>583875339I'M ASKINGI ASKEDSHOW IT TO MEE!!!!!!!
>>583875531oh mgps count?
>yeah, we can sign a peace treaty with the people who did this
>>583875039>Getting good at gun involves you using a fucking racing car periphial.nose of plane to tail, let off the after burner. any range between 1200~500 is decent for gun fights but a majority of it involves letting off the speed enough to let your tail aim at it. that and honestly, banking and using your pitch makes gunning far more easier.t. xbox one controller player
>>583875638It was all the work of some young Enso Order token holders...
>>583875628yessir they do. mg medal would be an absolute whore if not
>>583875638The masterminds are gone anyway, no point in blaming the sheepherders, they don't even know what their fellow countrymen did
I keep seeing some cosplays and fanart (predominately of tasha and kate). Feels like this is new for the franchise or maybe I'm just unfamiliar with the Japanese side of the net (which I am).
>>583875705Does it matter what difficulty I do it on?
>>583875782nah
>>583875782i don't think so
>>583875638It's ok, they were manipulated into doing it. That makes it ok.
by the way, do your allies have to use attackers too in an attacker only run or only you? Also how do you bypass the mission 1 forced F18 use?
>>583875768>kate cosplayspost them, i'm not on twitter.
>>583875909just youforced aircraft don't void the run - neither the starting hornet nor the intruder
>>583875909ally planes don't matter for medals, and if you read the description they'll tell you aircraft selection only counts for the missions you can actually select aircraft in
>>583875951okay, so me on a junk while everyone else in F22/F35/FA36
>>583875919>kate cosplayThat part was about fan art. Sorry. Cosplays that I saw were just some chicks cosplaying as Tasha.
>>583875909
>I play 8 tables at once in online pokerJesus Christ man
Did they really give bozo 22 infinite flares because they were mad that Mihaly could be made short work of with qaams as soon as he wasn't carried by arbitrary invincibility phases?
throat's a bit tight
>>583875909You can basically cheese the challenge by letting your squadmates wipe out everything.
how do I stop EAC from killing my pc? It Bsod 3 times now
Petition to rename "expert controls" to "normal controls"
>>583876020 Both the motion capture actress and the voice actress for kate were introduced to the term waifu this weekend.GOD DAMNIT
>>583875669>nose of plane to tail, let off the after burner. any range between 1200~500 is decent for gun fights but a majority of it involves letting off the speed enough to let your tail aim at it. that and honestly, banking and using your pitch makes gunning far more easier.I don't have any problem with this part of it.It's always the awkwardness of just switching over to the button in the middle of a dogfight. Which I know sounds retarded, like "can you even play games" tier, but it just feels weird in Ace Combat specifically when you're trying to use the other buttons (usually Triangle / Y) to do other stuff at the same time. I'm basically never going for just a gun kill, I'm pretty much always trying to use missiles instead and then having to switch from that plan really quickly and try to use the gun in time when the small window of opportunity comes up in the middle of a fight. That's the scenario that I'm thinking of when I suggest using a peripheral to get one of those functions off of the face buttons.
>>583875768AC doesn't really have cosplayable characters beyond Pixy, their designs are too subdued.AC8 compensates for that by having them be just distinct enough and really likable
>>583876127NIGGA
>>583876029you actually can hit him with missiles. i finished him off with a qaam in my elite run, he's the one that explodes last in this webm after i gun 28
>>583876006Why does the FA-36 have the COD 4 red dot sight?
>>583875885Lindsay-Clancy-ass country
>>583876280because the average pilot is 14 years old
>>583875638Imagine the reparation terms
Missions 14, 15 and 16 have to be some of the hottest garbage I’ve ever played in any form of interactive media ever. Hopefully PW 2 can save this dead genre.
>>583876029>>583876275I finished him off in a head-on joust where we both shot missiles at each other at the same timethen it cut away to a quick cutscene of a plane blowing up and I thought that it was mine for a second
>>58387639410 sheepMaybe even 12
>>583876464>then it cut away to a quick cutscene of a plane blowing up and I thought that it was mine for a secondtop kek that was me as wellthough in my case I just shot a short burst in his general direction at 1.5km after a very frustrating attemptI figured I just got 1 frame missiled
>>583876275i killed him with a missile too but i theink they wanted him to be a guns kill. the other 3 happened to go down to guns.
>>583875638>we can sign a peace treaty with the people who did thisI mean we had at least TWO documented World Wars which were times like twenty more destructive in terms of scale and casualties compared to this yet another annual war in Strangereal and they all ended with sides signing peace treaties.
>>583876269It didn't even occur to me that it would be a spoiler lmao
>>583875418>>583875442i swapped to B and within the span of 1 mission the difference is already absurd
>>583876578i think they just wanted the penultimate boss baddy rival to be an actual dogfight for once and not just flop over to the first 2 qaams you shoot at him so he dodges most missiles but you can still get him if you get a perfect line up on the missile and don't fire from too farone of the lamest parts of ac7 for me was just dogging mihaly the second his invincibility was over lol i mean most ac bosses that aren't in some gigascifi future jet kind of flop over to missiles so i actually like the 22 fight a lotmy main complaint about the 22 fight is that it comes all the way at the end of a fucking 30 minute duck hunt so if you want to do the fun dogfight you have to slog through taht shit every time
>>583876020>kate cosplay>That part was about fan art. Sorry.well?are you gonna post it?
>>583876275I dropped him with missiles too, in my case it was because I was so close on his ass that when I fired the first one he did his Kvochur's bell move and the second one just ran straight into him after dropping off the rail.
>>583876006>HUD frame just like the coyote sight from Battlefield 4
>>583876643I for real am trying to find the scene in the hangar where baxter is having a hard time with the writing of this game and youtube just wants to show me (for real spoiler because that's the point): baxter's actual fucking death
>>583876979Oh for fucks sake
>>583876280>>583876319>>583876893>Sotoa is so poor that their state of the art super jet uses a fucking airsoft red dot for it's HUDLmao
>>583876131Write cmd /d /c "set EOS_USE_ANTICHEATCLIENTNULL=1&& %command%"in your launch options
>>583876979lmao what the fuck, you're right. I thought I was clever, "bro just look up the basketball scene that's pretty distinct" and then it's just this. Google's algorithms are so beyond fucked and useless these days it's fucking sad
>>583877278>Google's algorithms are so beyond fucked and useless these days it's fucking sadon the bright side AI is still dogshit
>>583876979It's post mission 14 cutscene
>>583877257can also put a steamappid in your game files and launch from the .exe in the folder. same same
>>583877278I was trying to listen to Frostwave and I literally wrote "Frostwave Ace Combat 8 Zaptroxix" and I still got everything but the fucking song, it's unusable.
>>583877396I tried that one, didn't seem to work even if I closed it manually, but the other one worked for both me and a buddy so I was more keen to recommend that one.
>>583877257Neat, thanks
<< Anon to all callsigns. I just let out a raunchy ass fart. >>
>>583877413>zaptroxixHis nickname isn't even indexed afaik. Like I literally have to punch the whole thing in and press enter. The drop-down thing gives entirely different result.
>>583876979just look up mission 14 or 15, it'll be included as part of the cutscenes
>>583877565<< PUT YOUR GAS MASKS ON >>
>>583873505san andreas
>So offense is the best defense, huh Rex>Don't even think about trying to copy himWhy is she such an asshole? Can a dead man walking not have a little fun?
>>583873505Project Wingman. It sucks though.
>>583877565<< Roger. Increasing oxygen supply flow. >>
Do PS5 games need cracks? I might try emulating this shit instead of waiting for the dnuvo crack.
I'm already losing interest in multiplayer. It's boring.
>finish mission 26>Princess pops up talking about "peace"Bitch I am going to turn Sotoa into Carthage do not play with me
>>583877919just spread your pc's buttcheeks and play it via hypervisor exploit
>>583878086i quit that shit after 3 days. even when i get mvp every match it's just boring.now that i have all the campaign medals idk what to do. i'm already fiending for dlc and the game's barely been out for a week kek
What does the drop tank do?
>>583878182look coolyou get +50 morale if you drop it at the right moment before the boss fight
>>583878182Look cool when you start a mission or match.
>>583878182It's cool. No really, that's the reason it's there.
>>583878182drop (nothing)it's for roleplaying. in area 88 they'd drop the tanks right before a dogfight scene for maximum "shit's going down NOW" energy and it's hard af
speaking of impossible-to-find shit, has anyone found any of the music that plays when you're in the aircraft tree?I can find any other part of the soundtrack except for that
>>583878182autism
>>583843265the rest of my squadron genocided them before i got to them because i was doing "ladida" with my propellor hat ground pounding
>>583878362aren't those bgm tracks from older AC games?
>>583877565<< Kate? Is that you? It'd better be. >>
>>583877565<<Your WSO here. I'm lighting up the cockpit with your methane. >>
>>583878425if they are, then I guess I didn't spend enough time in past games' aircraft trees to remember themand it's a further indictment on AC8's overall soundtrackI was going to credit the aircraft tree music for feeling the most like old ace combat music instead of feeling like generic anime music that was pulled straight out of a stock library (which was like 80% of the tracks in the game)so if that's the reason why it sounded good, then AC8's original music is looking even worse
>>583878425no that's in mp
>>583878362Aren't those just the normal hangar themes for whatever point in the story you're at?
I wish Infinite Industries Incorporated was real, I'd love to work for them.
>>583878112That too, is a path to peace.
How do you do the post stall flips and shit?
Is there a way to change fov?
This "escort lcac" ace is genuinely driving me up the fucking wall. I hate escort missions so fucking much.
>>583879812not without mods
>>583879812There's probably a mod for that.
Is the AC0 PC port audio mixing off to anyone else?
>>583879812nyop>>583879550press both triggers at once and pitch when below 450kmphonly works on some planes, and you can only kortparad and not kulbit on some
>>583879830wtf, you mean on the retaking of theve?there's barely any shit spawning to contest the L-keksjust pick a plane with LAAM and have your wingmen spreadthe mirages and f2as are barely a threat
>>583879895>press both triggersIsn't it both accel/decel and not triggers specifically.
>>583878856look anon you have to promise that you won't tell anyone how retarded I amI could've sworn that there was at least *something* different about them, like at least a filter or something, but nope, I looked up the hangar OSTs and it's exactly what I was looking for
>>583879992are the buttons in the back not called triggers? deccel accel are set to that by default no?ace combat is the only game I use the gamepad on, I might be mixing their names up
>>583878086For me, the EA-36 is already ruining matches with it's jamming and high mobility. It's already hard enough to hit other players, why not make it straight up impossible? lmao
>>583880073I think r1/l1 are called bumpers and r2/l2 are called triggers.
>>583880108>can grind out a growler to lv20 taking days>or just purchase an EA-36 and get IEWS right out of the boxwhat were they thinking
How does ESM work when you give allies the plane? Do they randomly turn it on or is there a way to tell them when to do it?
>>583880168whatever their names are, these are what I meant>>583880180they'll run it constantly whenever it's off cooldown regardless of their position relative to you
>>583880180turn sp.w usage onyou should turn it off immediately after though or they'll spam it on cooldown and run out right away
>>583880108I sandbagged a match with two, not contributing to that cancer
>>583880009Don't worry, when I first noticed that I thought it was some weird glitch because I figured the menu music was supposed to play on the tree. All three hangar tracks are fucking bangers though so I don't mind.
Why the fuck is the music so loud when playing online? Changing the settings do nothing
>>583843249I know this is just a funny poster in the game but if it were canon that means Strangereal isnt' a strangereal of our earth but a strangereal of tekken earth (and it has Tekken's characters, too)Lili is probably Erusean
>>583880180The moment you tell them to use SPW they spam it until you tell them to stop. It's spirtually a third SPW since you can have them for it on command then back out of the command with the one up for its duration.
>>583880413to stop you from falling asleep
>>583880108I just shoot them with my TLS and for some reason they vanish from the player list halfway through the match. Real odd stuff.
>>583880275I understand. It's just that depending on his control scheme his triggers could be bound to either decel/accel or yawing.
>>583880429Ridge Racer also takes place in Strangereal too, at least in some installments.
JP dub > EN dub
Oh god I should've played elite from the start... You're telling me I have to do EVERYTHING again...?
>>583880630if you want Ace yes
Chandelier is the most cancerous sortie and I refuse to hear otherwise
FCU politics must have been gigafucked if the Sotoan invasion was enough to start dozens of separatist movements so fast. Also Times are Changing has such on the nose lyrics that in-universe it must have been written in reaction to said politics.
>>583880767git gud
Redpill me on Savia
i hope AC9 includes a scene where all of the characters from the previous games who advocated for a future without nationstates or borders finally comprehend the full extent of their own retardation after seeing what that future entails and realizing that getting anally reamed by cyberpunk megacorps for the rest of eternity is bad, actually
>>583880785Man I feel like I'm the only one actually on target. Everyone else is fighting the ground and air targets. Spamming direction helps sometimes but most of the time it goes ignored.
>>583880805it lets you draw two cards from your deck
>>583880805The economy relies on mercenaries like them.
>>583880840based, same>>583880805I don't even know where it is on the world mapthey only Savians we met are all sociopathic turboautists who remind me of lawyers who prosecute / defend a case even when they know they're on the wrong side of it because "this is how the process works, I'm not doing anything wrong," etc.but they apparently did one good thing for best girl, so all is forgiven
>>583881029>I don't even know where it is on the world mapI was under the impression that it's one of the separatist states formed after Erusea fell apart?
Hey, I've tried going left, right, and center first on operation broncobuster, but queen flight always gets their kill in, anyone got a guide on the exact route to take?
>>583880840>getting anally reamed by cyberpunk megacorpsThat's just going to happen anyway. What does it matter if they're all split or not.
>>583871380>Kate's tatoo is a litteral missile armed hornet with "good kill" written underneathThis woman is more bloodthirsty than i thought, truly a match made in heaven
>>583881080the ace combat wiki seems to think so, tooit's not clear whether it separated, or if it's still a part of Erusea, like a vassal or an autonomous zone or somethingbut it's "within" Erusea somehowacepedia, on the other hand, hasn't been updated since before AC8 launched
>>583881259>acepediaGOOD, fuck em fandom wikis
>>583881196I NEED to bury my face between her landing gear
>>583863448PICTURE IT
>>583881029They're just extremely committed to the letter of their contract, because their economy relies so heavily on them. Imagine you hired a PI to track someone, they're not going to go one second past what you paid for, because it's their job, their only care is delivering what was paid for. They wanted to retreat, but Sotoa HQ didn't specifically state that their contract was fulfilled when they ordered their own military to surrender, so they had to keep fighting until the end of the contract. Just like how they had clauses in M28 to minimize casualties by only sending one wave at first.
Don't mess around with swarm drones...
>>583881429Sotoa HQ didn't specifically state that their contract was fulfilled when they ordered their own military to surrenderThey really need to fire whoever wrote that contract.You'd think a government whose economy relies so heavily on mercs would have better lawyers on hand to think of situations like this
Man I love the collateral damage model in 8. It might not pop up all the time but it feels amazing every time it does.
>>583873986the super muscle gorilla assist guy always makes me laugh
>>583881648Their balls didn't even touch.
you nbeed t5y to stop plauitying multiplyuer and have a graand ol time in campgainbecause multiplaye will drivce you insayan
>>583881429yeah, I get all thatI just find it autistic and inhumanlike, yes, their economy relies on them, but economies can rely on all sorts of inhuman shitpick your political orientation, pick one that you hate, pick another random one that you've never heard of, and all three of them will have a lot in common to say about this even if they prescribe different solutions or whateverand "we'll try to kill you and all of your friends, but you shouldn't take it personally because we're super rigid about it" is never not going to seem inhuman to meeven if it's what ensures their reputation and gets them future work and keeps their families fedI just don't buy that this is "honorable" or somethingof course I'm still going to hate them and take it personally that they shot at mejust having a "code" doesn't get them out of that
>>583873986Who this?
>>583882037>>583882037>>583882037>>583882037
>>583881924The help
>>583881157it doesn't matter, just kill the ship's weapons and tgts as fast as you can before the bomber arrives, somewhere around 2:30 mark should be safe
