Tips to S rank Mission 20?

I hope they add low tier planes and not just mid and high tier planes. Variety is fun :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSqhc1ayKaA
>Purple Magic song that only plays in the background of a cutscene
secret kino

>>584186524
shoot things
don't not shoot things
go fast
don't go not fast

Are there any MP rewards for completing the campaign on Ace or with all S-ranks or both? I know you get all the Joker/Queen shit just from clearing it

>>584186832
nope

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Are you staying in shape between sorties, /aceg/?

Show me your Aircraft Sets

right now.

>>584186524
can you even not S rank that? It's just a boss fight

What part is better for SFFS on online? Additional Bomb Explosives or Improved Submunition Liner? SFFS is a bomb type weapon and looks like ABE affects it.

>>584186863
I'm still recovering from injury so I haven't had a serious workout in weeks besides walks

>>584186852
you think they'd at least make one cosmetic as bragging rights for nolifing their game

>>584186863
I can't sortie because they won't enable Linux support in EAC. :^(

>>584187035
Tying online and offline rewards/achievements together was a common complaint in 7 so I'm not surprised they didn't want to do that again

>>584187142
dual boot into windows 10

>>584187248
Orrrr they could tick one checkbox in the EAC control panel and save me the hassle.

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all buddies that weren’t able to get into 404th due to squadron limits I made a second squadron for overflow id is 46285414 no request required to join so I don’t have to be online to let people in

>>584187148
I'm fine with offline -> online, it's online -> offline that sucked

>>584187148
>using shit you unlocked in sp in mp
good
>having to play mp to unlock shit to use in sp
abysmal dogshit
it's that shrimple

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2898481118?tt_content=vod&tt_medium=mobile_web_share

HERE IS AN HOUR OF ME PLAYING IF YOU WANT TO MAKE FUN OF ME (OR TELL ME WHAT IM DOING WRONG)

>>584187485
>2 missiles at a shit angle for a hind
try better angles, and stop wasting missiles

>>584187485
what the fuck kek
have you ever played a video game before?

>>584187485
i am not creating a bitch account for that

>>584187597
>does loop dee loops and barrel rolls in no particular direction towards nothing while doing... nothing
maybe hes larping as cope

>>584187807
>slows down to 300kmph for the sake of it while not engaging anything

>>584186957
they do different things
ABE increases the radius of the container explosion which means the total area they can be spread at depending on your altitude and angle
ISL increases the blast of the inner bombs which makes it easier to overlap damage
IMO ISL is better for SFFS, but I'm not an expert

>>584187874
>300000 kilometers per hour

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I like Cope. Of all the "dude in your head" games I've played he's one of my favorites. Up there with Arthur from Tainted Grail.

>horribly bottlenecked by pilot level before most of the fun planes become available
>plane level doesn't stop you from uncapping so there's hardly any reason to play warfare over assault
>cooler planes also tend to be more expensive both to buy and to upgrade
>discouraged from buying new planes to experiment because you need the same zoll to upgrade your existing planes and because they're super shit at low level
>both the mode that gives blueprints and the mode that gives lots of exp are locked behind random procs
>deathmatch has even worse rewards so there's literally zero reason to ever do it beyond funsies
This is like the shittiest progression system possible
Why does the game want me to spam assault so bad

>>584188212
>300 kmph = 300000 km per hour
tasha has entered the thread

>>584188689
who the fuck abbreviates kilometers as "km"

>>584188212
for the time being you should stick to simpler things, iwantpancakeslp
like learning how to control your virtual airplane with a gamepad

>I'm watching ww2 manuals to figure out how I'm supposed to actually hit something with the guns.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXbCbpPQPVc

>>584188743
How the fuck else are you gonna abbreviate it?

>>584188689
I have never in my life seen kilometers per hour written as "kmph"
It's literally always kph

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>>584188743
what the fuck dude just bing it before you ask

Can't wait for the MiG-21 with COFFIN in AC9

>>584188860
the mig-21 is already a coffin thoughever

>>584188840
oh i 100% agree with you, but the idea that anon would, in the process of trying to be a smart ass, get 300 kmph = 300000 kilometers per hour is more baffling to me

>>584188835
>>584188849
true, i misspoke, should have specified in the contest of speed because i've only ever seen it written as either kph or km/h depending on how formal it is

>>584188860
I think it's about time we finally let the MiG-21 go.

>>584188998
kono is going to shut down PA before he removes the 21 from the series

>>584188957
Well anon, I have absolutely no excuse for myself except that I'm retarded and was typing mid mission

>>584185706
What does being in a squadron even do?

>>584189214
access to a squadron chat is the biggest boon
you could use it to invite each other to emergency sorties
that's pretty much it for the time being

>>584188998
The 29 will go first

>>584189258
A persistent chat would be nice.

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I hope the LAAM nerf comes soon
It's depressing looking at this list and seeing most of the planes I like being functionally cucked to assault-only because LAAMs blow the fuck out of every other spw in warfare

>>584188998
i cant imagine an entry without the FAGOT
we're strapping rocket boosters to that thing if we ever need to intercept meteors

>>584189351
they nerf laams and then qaams are still the meta
they nerf qaams and sasms are still the meta
they nerf all three and the other A2A options are still bad

>>584189351
I wan't 7's HCAAs back with their near-endless reserves

>>584189426
oh sorry its the fishbed
we all know i was looking for an excuse to say FAGOT

>>584189475
>add high capacity air to air missiles
>make them low capacity
niggers have gone insane

>>584189114
>>584189292
>"With this latest Ace Combat, we felt that the MiG-21bis has become overrepresented."
>"So with that we've removed it and put the MiG-19!"
>it somehow has even better stats than the MiG-21bis

>>584189351
>functionally cucked to assault-only
any fighter without LAAMs in assault might as well not exist

>>584189463
Neither are anywhere near as annoying, you at least have to be in dogfight distance for QAAMs to lock you and SASMs don't do enough damage to dominate as hard as the other two

>>584189590
>>it somehow has even better stats than the MiG-21bis
historically correct
t: war thunder pro

>>584189597
you're getting assault and warfare mixed up

>>584187485
>stuck on mission 5 anon is now stuck on mission 6
Pottery...
Please continue posting your journey through this game

As for actual advice:
Go fast to get to a target. Slow down to kill target. Then go fast to the next target and repeat.
This game is all about positioning. Any time you go somewhere, ask yourself why you need to go there. For example, at the start you launch a missile, then slow way the fuck down and climb straight up. Why? There's nothing up there. Your friendlies are low to the ground, and most of their threats are on the ground next to them.
Pause the game at the start and look at the map. The enemies in the north are all roughly lined up from west to east. Go from the closest to the furthest, leave nothing alive in your wake.

>>584189351
It's the opposite.
LAAMs in Assault mean you have nothing to shoot at in the air.
LAAMs in PvP are easy to dodge, then you can close the distance and use whatever you want against the Mig.

>>584189463
Nerf LAAM performance and ECM / IEWS become meta.
I would be okay with a capacity and reload nerf so that Assault bros get some relief though

>>584189351
honestly if they nerf the aerial target score a bit and make ground more rewarding we might not have this problem, maybe make standard missile and gun kills more rewarding than SPW kills too

>>584189727
>ECM / IEWS become meta.
ECM/ESM would be fine if it had longer cooldown, IEWS should be removed as it removes the only downside of ECM boats having to waste two slots on both buffs on top of being just ok at flying

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>>584189351
some nigga posted this 2 threads ago

>>584189727
EWs are already meta no matter the weapon, just nerfing LAAMs means now TLSfaggots have 100% free reign in any PVP matchup from being untouchable

>>584189727
>LAAMs in PvP are easy to dodge, then you can close the distance and use whatever you want against the Mig
This isn't really the problem. The problem is that niggers launch them at you while you're fighting other team mates and they become a complete nightmare.
>hurr just watch the radar
The radar isn't even trustworthy because of the fucking netcode.

>>584189916
>TLSfaggots
the clouds not offering protection from TLS anymore is such a baffling decision I lack the vocabulary to even call it out

>>584189652
Come on, you know that's only in low speed dogfights.

>>584190052
it's an infinite energy printing loop da loop machine
it mogs most planes until the block 10 f16s

>>584189673
No I am not, the same reason why LAAMboats gets tons of points in warfare farming fighters and ignoring players still applies to assault, hope you have fun closing in to that AI fighter squadron that just spawned, because two of them are already dead.

>>584189351
I'm glad that the A-6E gets UGBs for when I do my attacker-only run. There's only four carrier-locked missions if I'm counting right, and while LASMs would be ok for mission 12 I'd rather just have plenty of dumb bombs to complete mission 26 with. 10 and 11 are whatever, airships die to ~4~5 MSLs without damage parts and Podarges get shredded by gunning their cargo bays.

>>584190326
>Podarges get shredded by gunning their cargo bays.
Wait, what? you can do what?

>>584190572
you supposedly can oneshot them by targeting cockpits as well

>>584189770
Agreed with most but I wouldn't buff ground points. An attacker can already carry your score hard if left unchecked.

>>584189820
The "downside" of having to run both isn't even a downside. You're not going to run out anyway

>>584189918
I hope you're not doing death loops until stall.
If you keep your speed up you can just keep turning and dodge them automatically alongside all the other missiles being thrown at you.

>>584190639
I thought killing their propeller is the proper way, guess I'll try that out

>>584187485
Wow. That is... really brutal.
When they chatter says "something is coming in from [direction]" it almost always means that's a critical TGT, in this case as soon as you heard "choppers north" you should have opened the map until you could see them and then bee-line it at max afterburner.
For helicopters and a lot of ground TGTs, you only need one missile, and you don't need to slow down to fire on them, as long as the target is red and somewhat close to the middle of the screen, they'll go down.
For planes, the other guy is right, intercept fast, then get on their tail with average speed. You can usually let off both LT and RT when pursuing fighters, but you'll need to brake for prop bombers and boost for jet bombers.
Finally, please buy a better plane. I know, the Hornet is pretty, but in SP she turns worse than an attacker.

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>Suddenly get jumped by the entire enemy team
>Dodge as good as I could but can't dodge everything
>Wonder what the fuck my team is doing
>This
Ah yes, of course.

>>584187485
I'll mention stuff in the order that I see it.

You need to keep holding the accelerator to keep going fast. As soon as you let go of it, you will start losing speed.
You don't have to go MAX SPEED all the time, of course—but a lot of the time in this game, you'll want to be flying quickly (sometimes, as quick as you can) in order to catch up with a target.

When you're using anti-ground special weapons, you usually want to save them for targets with extra HP, or targets that are all clustered together.

Whenever you switch to one of your anti-ground special weapons, it will almost always show you a small circle that's parallel to the ground. This circle extends further than the target's icon that you lock onto—sometimes by only a little bit, sometimes by a lot.
That circle is showing you what the explosion radius will be. Anything within that circle will take damage. Most of the time, a target will take as much damage if it's anywhere within that circle as it would if it had taken a direct hit.

I mention all of this to explain why, at 2:08, you didn't need to shoot two LASMs at that clustered-together group of targets. The first explosion takes them all out, so the second one is wasted.
In some missions, there aren't that many enemies, so you can be more cavalier with your special weapons. But most of the time, you'll want to save them for tougher or clustered-together targets. The briefing screen before the mission can give you a sense of which of these kinds of missions it'll be, but sometimes, you can only really optimize your special weapon usage on a second playthrough.

Of course, that might have been because of the explosion from the enemy labeled Fuel Truck, too.
Whenever you see an target labeled something like Fuel Truck, Fuel Tank, Fuel Storage, or whatever the fuel ships are called, that will explode when you hit it. You can hit those targets to destroy other targets around them, letting you save time and ammo.

>>584191008
thanks grok

>>584191008
>>584187485
For HP values, you'll just have to learn them over time, through experience.
Think of enemies' HP in terms of missile hits—like with fighters, how most enemy fighters take two missile hits to go down, but heavily-armored or advanced fighters will take three.
Small ground targets like AA guns, SAMs, watchtowers, or APCs get blown up in only one missile hit. Tanks require two missile hits to destroy. Ships often require three, four, or even more, depending on the size of the ship. Harder targets (like on boss enemies) can require even more than that.

Some targets, like watchtowers or APCs, can't even shoot back at you, so you definitely want to save your special weapon ammo, and only take them out with missiles (or guns, once you get good enough).

You also seemed to be sticking with your allied helicopters a lot.
You don't have to stay with them all the time, because they're slow, and you need to be fast to zip around the map and take out targets.
Whenever you have an escort mission like this, you can just fly around to engage targets away from your escort allies, and only come back to them when you need to.

Listen to the dialogue for lines from your allies about how "enemies are getting closer" or "we're taking fire" or something like that, and then go back to them. Or, you can just check your zoomed-out radar every now and then to see how close enemies are getting to your allies, and go back to cover them before the enemies become a problem.
Also, when an escort ally takes hits from enemies (and is in danger of taking more hits), it will send out blue pulses from its location on the radar. If you haven't already noticed that they're in danger, then this will alert you to go back to them. I think there's also a little sound effect that goes with this, too. And usually some voice lines about "help us!" or "we're taking fire!" or something.

I'm going to watch more and see what else I can add.

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>>584190124
Don't get me wrong, I love them, something about the open nose of the 15/17 is just extremely cool to me, but the 21 was capable of mach 2, so it could easily just fuck off to boom and zoom you into the dirt. Something's gone terribly wrong if a 21's wound up in a turning.l fight with a 17.

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HELP
PLEASE

>>584187485
use more afterburner. fly like the wind

>>584187485
>HERE IS AN HOUR OF ME PLAYING IF YOU WANT TO MAKE FUN OF ME (OR TELL ME WHAT IM DOING WRONG)
I didn't watch it all, but I skipped around the footage. Off the top of my head.
>give your squad some orders. On this sort of mission where you need to clear a bunch of targets on the map, the "Disperse attack" order that's left on the D-pad will make your team spread out and attack things. That's arguably more useful than them just sticking to you like glue.
>right on the D-pad permits your squad to use their special weapons. They tend to burn through their SP weapons fast, so you might want to wait until the "serious" moment in the mission to let them use their SP weapons.
>there's a lot of ground to cover in this mission. You should be flying faster most of the time. Slowing down only if you need more time to actually kill targets once you're in weapon range.
>Pay attention to lesser enemies that are actually attacking your escort targets. Something like an Mi-24 Hind helicopter normally won't be a big red "TARGET" but it will just loiter in place and fuckup friendly ground units. Ordinary tanks and howitzers will fuck them up a lot too.
>adjust your map size. The full size map is good for seeing the big picture, but sometimes you'll need to shrink it down to see targets amidst all of the clutter of friendly icons.

Who said LAAMs are getting nerfed? I checked the online notices and didn't see anything on that

>>584190736
>I hope you're not doing death loops until stall
Of course not, but there's only so much you can do. Worry about dodging the LAAMs being lobbed at you from 8 miles away and you get caught by the guy you're dogfighting, worry too much about that guy and you miss a LAAM. I just think LAAMs are a bad fit with ace combats gameplay, especially in multiplayer.

>>584191580
Just speculation, they only said they're doing adjustments to the online. They're are going to fuck it up and not solve any of the issues.

Mission 28 definitely feels like they contemplated having branching story paths where you make allies on the way to the end.

Everyone we met showing up to save our ass just as the swords come down? That's where all our choices would've come to terminus.

>>584191489
Such waste.

>>584191798
I hope in 9 we get both branching pathways and "three kinds of pilot" again, for the reason you just said.
It makes it more impactful if you choose to spare Shark Squadron or the Sotoan rookies.

i don't understand what i'm supposed to be doing in warfare, i'm 3rd or 4th every match and 1st usually has three times as many points as i do
are ground targets priority? air targets? other players?

>>584191798
They probably tinkered with the idea only to back down when it was late in development. I'd reckon there's a chance we'll see a tangible choice and consequence options in the next game.

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>>584187807
>>584187874
He's sticking to the helicopters like glue. Which, for what it's worth, is more or less what the briefing told him to do. For all he knows some infantry with MANPADS might pop up into existence of fucking nowhere and rape his escort target if he flies off to slaughter ground targets on the other side of the map. It requires some meta knowledge to know that this won't happen on this escort mission.

Rex/Ray never really got a cool nickname, did he?
He got the mocking "Featherhead" for most of the game and then towards the end when he's really scary he's "Terminus Fingers" but that's a lot less punchy than "Three Strikes", "Demon Lord [of the round table]" or "The Grim Reaper"

>>584191798
I felt a very clear "we wanted to do branching stuff, and more in-depth stuff, but this is our first game in a new engine and we have deadlines" for both SP and MP. Especially MP. I get the feeling they wanted the base stuff to be way more integrated into the experience, like a persistent lobby or customizable lobbies for squadron leaders or other stuff like that, and they just couldn't figure it out in time.

>>584190805
I killed them with rocket pods.

>>584192003
Still more than Talisman got desu

>>584191151
>>584187485
Well, that first run ended quickly.
Some more general thoughts:

The best way to protect an escort ally is to go out ahead of them and destroy all of the enemies in their way. This is more effective than staying near them.

If you see a target on your radar that's red, with a red circle around it, in thicker lines, you need to focus on taking that out.
Its target box on your HUD will say "TGT" in red capital letters.
These are the targets that you always need to destroy in a mission. Even if it seems like other enemies should be able to threaten your mission somehow. Like, on that mission in your stream, it might seem like any SAM could threaten your allied helicopters, right? They shoot missiles at air targets. Normal enemy fighters do that, too.
Ignore that. Don't apply logic here.
If an enemy is not marked with TGT, it does not matter for the mission.

Prioritize shooting down the enemy TGT fighters and destroying the enemy TGT ground targets before they can shoot at your helicopter buddies.
And be proactive! Fly ahead to destroy TGT ground targets before your helicopters can get close to them, and fly out to the sides to shoot down the TGT fighters before they can reach your helicopter group.

There are other reasons to delay taking out TGT enemies in order to hit certain mission triggers for ace spawns or unique dialogue lines or stuff like that... but you don't need to worry about that AT ALL.

Just focus on the basics first: the TGT enemies are your first and only priority, always. Keep things simple, nail the basics, beat the missions, and you can focus on mastering other parts of your gameplay later.

I'll keep watching more to see if anything else jumps out.

Lastly, I honestly can't tell which control scheme you're playing on, but I would recommend playing on expert if you can, because it will serve you better in the future. But it is tough for new players, so if you can't handle it, then don't worry about it.

>>584192003
I actually found "Featherhead" refreshing after Trigger getting called "Three Strikes" with scare quotes the whole time.

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>game managing to trigger the japanese
lmao how is this possible
>>584191990
bruh i dont know what AC game isnt
>blow up immediate threats
>work outwards but keep a loose eye on the radar in case urgent threats pop up
its a jet fighter
also doesnt excuse the absolutely bizarre attack angles

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>>584191990
>no Miranda-class
It's a wonder we won without them.

>>584192098
I also suspect they were considering making Rex a customizable character. Maybe not as in depth as MP, but at the very least, male or female. Since Rex is seeing things from a POV, and the focus on the pilot in replay, and being animated. I just can't help but feel they wanted that as an option, but let it go.

It's fine by me, keeping the protagonist pilot male is tradition.

That "kill ground targets in a plane of 1500 cost or more" weekly challenge must be mistranslated or something, my plane is 1500 exactly and it doesn't increment at all

>>584192379
It's base cost 1500 or more IIRC

>>584192124
...Huh. You're right, Talisman didn't actually get all that much in terms of special attention from the Stovies. I guess the idea was to emphasise that you're not carrying the entire war effort on your lonesome?

>>584192187
It's always the rival character too, if it's not scripted like Mihaly they're just too annoying to fight

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What did Iran do to anger both Japan and Sweden?

>>584192379
It doesn't count bonuses you stack, only the default stock cost of the plane.

>>584186702
Wow, thanks!
>>584186931
Apparently it is because I got a B rank on it both times I played. I had to take a checkpoint both times but even with a full reload of QAAMs I cannot kill the Shadows efficiently.

>>584192187
AC games love to try to rugpull you.
>Oh, did you bring an attacker for this air to ground mission since the briefing said that we're just providing CAS for the operation.
>SURPRISE IT'S A TRAP. Go fight the enemy Ace Squadron
or
>need to defend some dumbfuck escort targets
>kill everything near the escorts
>then fly off to kill other shit
>SURPRISE ADDITIONAL ENEMIES APPEAR OUT OF THE WOODWORK TO AMBUSH YOUR ESCORTS. I sure hope that you knew to loiter near the escorts instead of rushing off to mop up other targets elsewhere.

>>584192463
>What did Iran do to anger both Japan and Sweden?
fighting with senpai America and sending immigration, respectively

>>584192525
At least in this game the bars that show what you need during plane selection are accurate.

>>584192518
The trick to killing rival Ace opponents in AC games is to git-gud with guns.

>>584192525
Motherfucking MANPADS.

There are going to be people that disagree with me but I'd rather have a well scripted ace fight with a few sections that require actual skill to progress than have "they spam flares and cobra every five seconds and the only way to damage them is SASMs or guns"
They unironically should've hard-coded the amount of Flares the Shadows get, you get 4 flares if you're flying an SU-57 so limit them to 4 flares too. Sure, they'll also wingman flare and that'll prolong the fight for a while but you should burn through their flares pretty quickly and have a more "fair" fight

>>584192676
The AI opponents will always get dunked on if they aren't allowed to cheat.

>>584192560
>Sweden
>being mad about immigration

>>584192525
I like the one where you shoot down a target, and there's like five hours of dialogue, and the CORRECT play is to immediately hit your afterburners and fly to the border where the return point is.
If you don't you have to do an INCREDIBLY hard railgun section with the most accurate railgun fire in the entire game that was so bad I just restarted the mission so I wouldn't have to do it

>>584192742
To be fair Arkan's lot caused a lot of issues.

>>584192518
do not use the checkpoint, your score will tank, save your SPW for the shadows

>>584192728
>get dunked on if they aren't allowed to cheat
Well yeah I don't know about you but I WANT to dunk on Shadow 22
I don't want him to die IMMEDIATELY, so give him four sets of Flares so he can be entertaining prey, but once those run out and I've had my fun I'd like him to go down. If anything, I'd rather they increase his HP so I'm landing hits more often and being engaged without the fight ending too early

>>584192676
Yeah, I agree, as annoying as Mihaly's fight was, I'd take it over Topkek any day. It's not even difficult, just tedious, or retardedly easy if you go guns because he makes himself a huge slow target every time you shoot a missile at him.

>>584192763
>people are having trouble dodging the railguns
bruh go dodge excalibur full throttle

>>584192763
That was one of the only times in the campaign where I got shot down by enemy fire. I set down my gamepad and got up to grab a glass of water while listening to the dialogue, and then got wrecked by Not-Stonehenge before I could get back into my seat.

>>584192676
hgit gud

>>584192915
Every other instance of railguns was predictable and easy enough to dodge. If I got hit by railguns in other missions it was a skill issue.
In that one, even though the NPCs said "the fire will be inaccurate because it's so long range" they literally pre-emptively put up an entire wall of fire and unless you were immediately turning the moment they popped up on radar you'd get boxed in and die.
>so just turn
And then you make no actual progress towards the return line and another railgun barrage comes in and cuts you off
Meanwhile the entire sequence can just be... skipped

>>584192676
I would rather know I'm good enough to meme on a fight quickly instead of being stuck with my fist up my ass while an old man jerks off in my face (I have landed 30+ missiles but the game says I can't win yet)

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>>584192763
I dodge the fire and clear the enemies, every single time. One of the funnest acrobatics challenges in the game.

>>584192876
Noted.

>>584192915
>so just turn
they're spherical, you can turn AND climb/dive

>>584193078
my man, it hurts to see people be like "i dont know how to play and its the game's fault i have to cheese"
>>584193231
meant for>>584193060

>>584187485
That was honestly completely pathetic. How retarded are you?

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>>584190572
The damage system in 8 is pretty cool. Podarges die with like 10 seconds of sustained gunfire. Do keep in mind that if they're not carrying shipping containers you do have to aim at their cargo racks to do damage, really makes dealing with the ones in mission 25 pretty trivial, both for the mission and for the medal.

>>584191943
Being an Ace gives you massive score multipliers. The game mode is all about preserving your team's Ace status and denying Ace multipliers to the enemy.

Farm AI until you're an Ace, then assess.
If you're an Attacker, there's nothing to do differently. Keep pounding that ground. The most important thing that you can do is survive. Dying and having to re-farm the Ace multiplier is a huge loss of potential points.
If your opponent has a competent Attacker and you don't, you absolutely must kill him. If his team is around him, kill them first, then kill him.
If you have a competent Attacker and your opponent doesn't, keep him alive. Just like in SP, you can flare for others if needed.

>>584193338
Do you not remember how bad you were at flying in a game the first time that you tried?

>>584193520
nta but even if he did, he didnt ask for opinions on 4chan about an hour long mission

>>584191943
Kill air or ground TGTs until you're 3 star, then go after enemies. You get a 3x multiplier to all your kills, and if you kill an enemy it makes it 6x, you can pop someone for >20k points if it all lines up right.

>>584193520
I'm not mentally disabled and understood how planes worked

>>584193582
>he didnt ask for opinions on 4chan about an hour long mission
What is wrong with asking for help to try to get better?

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The Sotoan dedication to LARP is truly incredible

RCLing Aigaion in 6 is very fun.
It's like FAEBing Hresvelgr. Kinda.

>>584193358
>suddenly SOLG
I need to experiment more god damn that's nice

>>584193650
how old were you?

>>584191943
Another critically important thing: if someone has already locked in attacker on the selection screen, DO NOT pick another attacker. Two attackers is a massive net loss in points. Pick a multi or fighter with A2A focus instead.

>>584192763
>If you don't you have to do an INCREDIBLY hard railgun section with the most accurate railgun fire in the entire game that was so bad I just restarted the mission so I wouldn't have to do it
But it's not. You just set your heading for 270 and alternate between pitching up and pitching down every time RAILGUN WARNING pops up on your HUD, letting you easily dodge the blast sphere on your way to extract. Caught my ass out the first time as well and it's definitely a pain in the ass, but like the other buddy said Excalibur's a harder varation of the same idea. Especially because there's a fucking Ace hidden during that section.

>>584193659
nothing's wrong, i just dont see why you would respond to such a negative statement on 4chan and am tacitly recommend you learn to ignore overly toxic shit on 4-fucking-chan

>>584193358
That makes sense i guess since gunning down the cargo makes the whole plane moot

>>584193773
holy fuck i ESL'd
>>584193659
my point is what on earth were you expecting, literally 100% only supportive feedback?

>>584193838
>>584193358
yeah, but why mechanically would it destroy the whole rest of the plane? just from the sudden stress of shifting the weight so much?

it looks like the podarge just explodes out of shame after you destroy its cargo.

>>584193659
this isn't reddit, if you post a particularly bad gameplay piece like that you will get clowned on
he got all the feedback one could want anyway

>>584193870
>my point is what on earth were you expecting, literally 100% only supportive feedback?
>you
To clarify, I'm not the guy from the gameplay. Not sure if that's how you meant that.
I just don't see the point of going "you're bad" to someone who is obviously bad and already knows it.

>>584193680
irl it would chill in the stratosphere and fat cruise missiles at everything and never coming this close

>>584193998
>implying reddit is nice
theyre worse imo, theyre dishonestly passive aggressive about it
something along the lines of
>well actually I aced this no damage, guns only, first try
or something gay

>The guy on my friends list who has played entirely too much Ace Combat 8 has surpassed 180 hours in it

>>584194157
damn
mine topped off at 160h

>>584194082
>I just don't see the point of going "you're bad"
neither do I, but its like road rage, are you going to magically improve every shitstain who drives like shit on the road?
This is 4chan, theres alot of shitstains

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what the hell

>>584194174
He left a review after 185 hours played, he has played at least 2 more since then. I am concerned.

>>584194870
this idiot uses machineguns lmao

>>584194868
Fuck Craig. I bet he doesn't even have an economy dependent on mercenaries.

>>584194868
Our economy depends on Mercs like us

>>584194870
GET DOWN MR PRESIDENT

>>584194870
based and baxterpilled

>>584195108
NOMAD

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>>584192763
>>584193060
This fag >>584193771 here. Here was my dumb ass experiencing this for the first time and just figuring out I can TURN TO NOT RUN INTO THE GLOWING DEATH SPHERES. Even before the restart I knew I could just weave left and right a little to juke the railgun blasts. Spoilered as courtesy for the handful of anons who lurk but haven't beaten the game yet, there's a couple still.

>>584195268
no you idiot you need to zoom your fucking map in so you can see where the damn railguns are aiming

I'm just happy we got the A-6 again.
It's just so damn sexy.

>>584195429
all the aircraft arbitrarily losing all maneuverability at max speed is retarded though

>>584195429
it's a VW bus with wings

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>>584195429
righetous

PA need to consult somebody who knows how to write characters. Tasha's IMMEDIATE reaction to Kate's "death" and her sobbing for a good couple of minutes behind a stick is so out of left field I can't help it. Something about these games with people getting emotional as fuck while ON a mission. Just write her to do all of that but after. There's absolutely zero reason to do it on the spot and then snapping it with a simple "yes" on d-pad.

>>584195495
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0DQ6BTfnv0
she'll chew you up and spit you out

>>584195374
>no you idiot you need to zoom your fucking map in so you can see where the damn railguns are aiming
they're aiming at you the whole way through, buddy :^)
also not like there's any mystery when you're flying in a straight line and can see the giant death oranges they toss in your face

>>584195553
>caring about the characters
Go fly down a tunnel

>>584195568
bruh im not the one actually having died to the railgun blasts with no idea how or where to dodge them

>>584195553
You all did this when chopper died back then

>>584195553
>the unprofessional teenager who we put up with in a role that she's not suited to because we're short on pilots and she's good enough at ancillary skills turned out to be not that professional
I just don't see it as a stretch at all
out of all the things that I found unfitting and off-putting in AC8, Tasha's reaction there wasn't one of them

>>584195681
NTA but she seems to take Cope's death pretty well and the guy has been her squadmate for way longer than Kate

>>584195661
Are you not >>584192763 >>584193060? What are you even doing then? The whole point is pointing out that you can be both retarded and dodge the railgun blasts because it's not rocket science to dodge things in a jet game.

>>584195772
no, im not
but if i had to say something, you didnt "learn in real time" you still took like 40% damage just doing your weird roller coaster pattern
THats not the first time you're going to have to deal with hazards, so if you dont know how to spot or deal with them, god forbid when you actually have to fight while getting bombarded i have no idea how upset you're going to be when you hve to do it again

>>584195758
It felt like Cope was fairly standoffish from the group, which would probably explain why everyone seemed pretty onboard with you replacing him. I could be wrong but that's what I got from the intro.

>>584195568
>also not like there's any mystery when you're flying in a straight line and can see the giant death oranges they toss in your face
but it actually does vary (or, at least, it can)

the railgun operators try to aim the projectiles so that they'll explode in front of you
but this is based on your current path, and is set at a particular moment that you can only tell if you're looking at the more-zoomed-in setting of your minimap
once you see that it's set, you can then immediately start flying off to the side in a different direction to best avoid the explosions, and then just straighten out and get ready to do it again when they set the trajectory for the next volley

it works a lot like trying to avoid Excalibur's lasers in ACZ

>>584195758
she wasn't in the air at the time, and would have heard about it second-hand
who knows how the news was broken to her?
I don't think that we see her right after she learns about, anyway, so we don't know how long she's had to come to terms with it

plus, for that other one, that came after the squadron had been on a roll for a long time, and she probably felt like we were damn near invincible at that point, so it would have come as more of a shock to her
with Cope, that came at a time in the war when constant losses were just expected, and she was probably kind of numb to them, or at least used to them

None of the other missions railgun fire is even half as pinpoint or accurate, it's literally a non-issue in every mission but that one
But again it's a moot point how BS it is because you can just fly to the map while everyone monologues and skip the entire section
Cleary the devs realized most people weren't going to enjoy it and added an easy out

>>584195268
>Even before the restart I knew I could just weave left and right a little to juke the railgun blasts
actually this is the thing i take issue with
>has 60% damage
>dies
>restarts at checkpoint with 0% damage
>takes up to 83% damage
"guys i totally just weaved a little and it worked"
like you cant be fucking seriously thats awful advice and I genuinely hope no one learns from your instructive clip for their own good

>>584196039
the dialogue from mission 3 doesn't seem that way, apparently the flying trick Tasha uses when you allow her to herd the enemy was taught by Cope, so they are kinda close? There's also Baxter final moments reminiscing about Cope you don't do that if you don't like the guy.

How to avoid the Alicorn's railguns when there is no cover around? I only played it once so I didn't recognize any patterns.

>>584196063
wish they'd do the same to the stupid Excalibur jumpscare setpiece in Merlon

>>584196242
Just keep circling the sub. They stop tracking you before they fire

>>584196039
he wasnt standoffish, his bio suggests he was pretty chill, but pretty impersonal/unwilling to divulge anything about hiimself
>>584196063
i genuinely have no idea what youre talking about
Youve never dodged the hazards in 4, 5, or Zero the railguns are frequent, but easy to dodge since you can actually dodge them vertically, they do exactly what they should, which is be exceptionally annoying and punish sustained attack vectors, but theyre extremely easy to fly around
also
>Cleary the devs realized most people weren't going to enjoy it and added an easy out
i dont even know what to say to this, but im glad the Ladon, 22, and the prowler are filtering people, lord knows i appreciate being forced to fly to compensate for game mechanics for once in the damn series

>>584186863
Every time I see this picture, she gets more sweaty.

Nice.

I'm gonna be honest, fellas, unless I missed it, I don't believe that I took a single point of damage from any of the railguns throughout AC8.

I'm kinda confused to hear that other people had trouble with them.

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>>584196323
contemplate the aroma

>Retaking of Theve I

LCACs just keep dying for some reason, i'm hitting as many howitzers as i can. the fuck.

>>584196337
The only mission I failed to get S rank on on my first run was the land battleship at the space elevator because it kept railgunning me.
I just suck at railguns specifically I guess.

>>584195681
Her reaction struck me as someone speedrunning through all 5 stages of grief.
It comes off as forced and somewhat cheap just for the sake of showing some form of reaction out of Tasha. One just doesn't react like this only to snap back immediately but then again this happens during the final stretch of the game so by the time Kate's death would normally begin to sink in she actually just returns. Which, I must admit, is one of the tropes that I don't like that much.

>>584196456
right, about as much as everyone who "hit as many as [they] could} im sure

>>584196315
huh I tried that and still got slapped, guess I wasn't flying fast enough

>>584196456
the game sucks at this mission. The game pushes you to fight the beach while it just spawns helicopters behind the LCACs you left behind to deal with them. You want to IGNORE the howitzers until you deal with the helis.

>>584186863
>>584196452
This must be in the OP and I don't care if it's AI.

>>584196456
They can also be killed by the SU-25s

>>584196607
>helicopters behind the LCACs you left behind to deal with them
the helicopters take off from the civilian airport
you're just not very good at this video game

>>584196675
what does this have to do with anything, that they dont just come out of nowhere?

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>fire flares at enemy in front of me
>MISSED because they instantly start chasing flares that a different enemy dropped five seconds ago that aren't even on the fucking screen
scramble flares are ridiculous

Just had a thought. How will they implement the multi-SPW system for the CFA-44? Twin EMLs with a single ADMM pod underneath, or twin ADMM pods above and a single railgun below?

>>584196675
no its clearly the game's fault and not mine because im perfect
i also have a HOTAS and run on Linux!

>>584196729
you can deal with them well before they become a problem, they spawn around the same time you're cleaning up the leftover surface units on the beach anyway
I'm just pointing out that if you let the least threatening enemies wave even contest the L-keks it's on you and no one else

>>584195553
It's not really solely a issue about characters, modern PA just stretch out literally every conversation for as long as possible, it's jarring to play older games (not 5 of course) and see how much more efficient the story telling is

>>584196497
hold the accelerator at basically all times
listen for railgun warnings, and do high-G turns (or just regular-ass hard turns) whenever you're concerned that you might get hit (constant high-Gs being enabled by constantly being so fast and having extra speed to burn)
be okay with aborting an attack run, don't get frustrated that you were just flying by doing nothing because you had to evade; you'll have a hundred more chances

and if you need a moment to reassess, take a breather, find a new target, etc., just head behind the supports at the base of the elevator, since the railguns can't shoot through that solid cover (even though it looks like they're trying to)

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>>584196456
Listen to your XO, Rex

>>584196456
What's weird is the actual retaking of Theve makes so much more sense. Kill the navy, then kill as many arty units while pausing to shoot down bombers and fighters. makes perfect sense.

>>584196963
Thanks bro

>>584196793
The latter

>>584196524
>Her reaction struck me as someone speedrunning through all 5 stages of grief.
I get how you could see it that way
I think it could also come across as someone having a bad emotional reaction but then forcing herself to control herself and lock in again because she's in the middle of a battle and she knows that she has to

I've only played that mission once so far, and everything in the moment was obviously new to me, so it's possible that I missed some parts of it and that I'll have a different overall reaction after playing through it again

>>584196675
>if you don't perfectly pick up on and track everything that's going on during a dark, cloudy snowstorm, you are bad at the game
calm down

>>584197247
>everything that's going on during a dark, cloudy snowstorm
bro it's an arcade game where enemies are highlighted for you
what the fuck are you even talking about

>>584196793
>pod
the ADMMs were internal though?

>>584197312
there have to be easier ways to jack yourself off

>>584196675
>come looking for sympathy
>everyone tells you you can be better
>no im actually perfectly content with being upset at the game for challenging me
what a bitch

>>584196793
That plane will either be the most broken thing of all time or completely unusable

What's the best naval fighter for the gun only run?

>>584196905
That's due to higher budget and production costs I reckon. Sometimes you feel like you absolutely MUST fist it all in because your budget is X and this much must be spent on Y. Older games had smaller budgets so they had to be somewhat frugal.

>>584197447
the phant- OH WAIT LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
NAVY 1
ARMY 0

>>584197447
FA-36

>>584197447
the one with the highest A2G and A2A stat
yes the bar effects damage
its fucking stupid its true

>>584197447
probably just whatever the best carrier-capable fighter is

>>584197565
>the one with the highest A2G and A2A stat
>yes the bar effects damage
>its fucking stupid its true
fucking hell
this is like playing Kingdom Come: Deliverance and learning that you're not actually playing an action game during the fights, you're just playing weird D&D where everything is determined behind the scenes by stat rolls that don't match up with what you're actually doing on-screen

>>584197320
It's a contained unit that plugs into the internal bays. Apparently with the EMLs they plug a heavy capacitor into the ventral bay to power them, but later games have made it clear that EMLs can be run purely off aircraft power nowadays.

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>euro hours
>post frequency doubles
>hostile posts triples
Why are eurobros so angry recently? Been a weird trend this past week. Early Access/Launch was calmer even if there was some whining around Mission 15 and online, seems like anons are gradually growing more sour.

>>584197754
meh, all i remember is pasternak shooting at me with both so i dont really recall much past that

>>584197757
id be upset too if i had to STARVE in the COUNTRY of EUROPE

>>584197757
>euro hours
>post frequency doubles
It's usually the opposite.

You ever noticed how the word Sotoan is kind of phonetically close to the word Satan?

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>>584197757
Angry ghosts

>>584198050
All I know is that ever since launch, when I go to sleep in burgertime I'll wake up and find that I've missed most of if not an entire thread by the time I wake up. Feels like it slows down during burger hours.

>>584197757
>Why are eurobros so angry recently?
>recently
it's been like this for years
and it's because they live in an incredibly pessimistic place that frustrates entrepreneurs and risk-takers and promises no future for them except to keep funding public pensions, and it grinds down their spirits
they'll cite "here's this beautiful vacation spot, here's this old castle, none of the rest of you have this so actually we're great," meanwhile the reality is that they have like 40% youth unemployment and anyone who can actually get a job is paying infinity taxes to put up foreigners who don't work in mansions and 5-star hotels while being berated by boomers for not working harder while they struggle to pay rent
it's in the back of their minds all the time, constantly agitating them

I'm really struggling to understand the point of introducing Enso when GR already exists and is powerful enough to have it's own private army, they even retcon the DOE program to be a enso thing.

I wonder if they wanted to go for something a lot more AC3 with you working alongside GR but backed away in order to come up with a more happy ending? being a corpo merc would make Teweys final speech accusing you of fighting for the NWO make alot more sense atleast

>>584198143
that stupid chant of theirs is satanic alright

>>584198236
between
>the UK and its out of touch nobility
and
>germany and its youth filtering scheme of undocumented underperforming students that get kicked into the system
No child left behind is too noble for its own good

>>584198226
Feels like the opposite for me. Actually, maybe the split is somewhat equal. I mean it's a fresh AC game. A huge chunk of fans lives in the NA timezones and while no single Euro country can compete on that front, they probably make up for another large chunk when taken collectively.

>>584198312
It took me a few missions to figure out wtf Enso was because it's not blatantly the name of a corporation (fitting considering the nature) and it was almost like DD was some sort of political commissar for a bit there with like, how they had a stake in ownership of the Endurance. Think IRGC vs the actual Iranian government

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He's on mission 27 right now. Wonder if he's playing 28 today.

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>>584198236
>it's been like this for years
Well ace-gee has been dead for years so maybe I hadn't really noticed. I don't know enough about life in their parts to refute your assertion, but I also don't know if I'm awake enough to digest such a worldview of their circumstances. I do think it's a good sign to go to sleep though, good night ace-eggers.

>streamerslop
don't care unless it's my man iwantpancakeslp

>spent so long shooting down the Ventus flight that my allies have already killed most of the nuggets
That was a good dogfight though, those old fuckers pulled me up to to like 25,000 feet the whole time and I kept losing my bearings constantly because of the cloud layer.
>>584197724
Is that a hypothetical you pulled out of your ass or is that actually how KCD's combat works?

>>584198312
>I wonder if they wanted to go for something a lot more AC3 with you working alongside GR but backed away in order to come up with a more happy ending?
it seems like with every new AC game, PA thinks that they have to "reintroduce" people to Strangereal and the events going on in it
and because they already have "reintroduction" on their plate, that cuts down on how much story and world advancement they feel like they can cram into one game's campaign, because they don't want to give us too much at once
but they still want to slip in little hints and references and small developments
it's like they're always setting up that "this crazy shit is coming next game, trust us, we've finally set the stage for it now, we promise"

but then like 6 years have passed since the last game before they finally release a new one, and they go, "shit, we have to reintroduce people to this world again," and so any big world-changing developments are pushed back yet again, and we just crawl forward incrementally

I don't mind it that much
smaller stories are still nice, and big, world-changing events are rare
it's just a pattern that I feel like I'm seeing

>>584198713
Getting lost in the clouds and almost CFITing is some of the most kino stuff in the combat

>>584198641
Well, at least he's actually playing through the whole game using normal controls. Most got filtered 3-5 missions in.

>>584198713
I love the Ventus and Gemma dogfight. I killed the vets right away and after that it was literally a fox in a henhouse.
Those poor kids are going to be abused for all eternity, so long as AC8 has players.

>>584198749
You'd think Strangereal engineers would learn not to build anything wide or long enough for some lunatic to do a tunnel run through.

>>584198312
Also the outlier shit being back just fully convinces me the eventual goal is to make a electrosphere """remake""" where you play as a human who defies simons plans in a embarrassing refutation of 3s points about the hollowness of both player agency and the power fantasy.

>>584198742
This is definitely true, you can really see this with how far they go to just completely ignore 7s ending where USEA is in total chaos due to the satellite fuckery that should have set up electro sphere perfectly

>>584198749
You will show this clip to D.D and the fucker photoshop 5 other crafts flying with you instead of posting it as is

>>584198312
I thought that DOE was a partnership with GR and Enso like the FA-36, the X-49 comes later when GR already fully incorporated them.

>>584198809
>i want to play the silly plane game
>i also want to just get it over with instead of enjoy flight
what possesses someone to be like this

>>584198834
Or maybe they'd test singularities during training. If the recruit is mad enough to try a tunnel run, then you either take them out back and shoot them just in case, or you earmark them for superplane training.

>>584198632
good night sir, I hope that you dream of little bees ____________________

>>584198713
>Is that a hypothetical you pulled out of your ass or is that actually how KCD's combat works?
it is, apparently, actually how KCD's combat works
at least in the first game
I don't know about the changes that they might've made for the second one

I kept trying shit with different timing, different aim, trying to slip around an enemy's defenses, only to learn AFTER beating the game that it was like this, and that my 100 hours of frustration had been mostly spent on misdirected efforts
I should've just been fighting that one guy in the practice yard outside of Rattay to grind up my combat stats

>>584198881
People see "expert" and get intimidated I think. Especially in games they usually don't play.

>>584198832
I think I'm going to try going for Gemma firsr next time I play that mission.

>>584198837
>with how far they go to just completely ignore 7s ending where USEA is in total chaos due to the satellite fuckery
the whole world would have been affected by that
I really, really hope that they go back to that time period in a future game
it presents so many interesting opportunities for countries and other actors to try to do crazy stuff without the world's hegemons being able to easily spy on them from orbit and enforce their normal world order

>>584198973
yeah but regardless ofwho you are, say, a 10 yo
imagine growing up and being all
>i dont want to do a barrel roll
who tf does that

>>584198837
Kepler Syndrome is actually a meme. There's no evidence that it could ever reasonably happen, or be a permanent issue.
Like for example, the Earth regularly passes through the trails of comets which produces spectacular meteor showers. The threat to satellites during these periods is zero.

>>584199104
>who tf does that
kids who grew up during covid, probably

>>584199164
Excuse me, Kessler Syndrome.

>>584198837
Simon's plan is just "kill the guy who BSS'd me". I don't know how you could make a story about blocking that unless the entire game is about being a bodyguard.

>>584199104
Well if that ten year old's only experience with flight games is Star Fox or some other rail shooter I could see why they'd be confused by it.

>>584198837
>Also the outlier shit being back just fully convinces me the eventual goal is to make a electrosphere """remake""" where you play as a human who defies simons plans in a embarrassing refutation of 3s points about the hollowness of both player agency and the power fantasy.
What if the player character tries to defy the simulation predictions, nearly fails, but is helped by Nemo - who desires freedom from the simulation as well.

>>584199164
>Kepler Syndrome is actually a meme. There's no evidence that it could ever reasonably happen, or be a permanent issue.
>Like for example, the Earth regularly passes through the trails of comets which produces spectacular meteor showers. The threat to satellites during these periods is zero.
but comets are just passing by the planet, not orbiting it
if you destroy a bunch of satellites that are in similar orbits at REALLY similar altitudes (because you need certain specific altitudes for particular orbits, like geosynchronous), then it's just a race to see whether their debris cloud deorbits first, or if it hits another satellite and creates more debris first

I don't think that a constantly-circling cloud of debris that is on the same plane (even though it's a sphere, you know what I mean) as a ton of potential targets to impact and thereby grow the cloud is comparable to a meteor shower

besides, any problem with the numbers not being sufficient can always just be solved by PA just saying "yeah well Strangereal had more satellites in orbit than real Earth does"

Is Schilage supposed to be like an independent French nation?

Also what do you think Cosette is doing right now?

>>584198928
That sounds kinda annoying, I heard it's combat was jank as fuck. I bought it a couple years ago and never got around to playing it. Maybe when I finish 8 and some other games I will.
>>584199501
>besides, any problem with the numbers not being sufficient can always just be solved by PA just saying "yeah well Strangereal had more satellites in orbit than real Earth does"
DD does say Enso alone has 40 thousand satellites in orbit.

>>584199490
i just know nobody wants a
>it was all a simulation
gimmick

>>584199605
>Is Schilage supposed to be like an independent French nation?
this one didn't play ac7...

>>584198612
He is doing it.

>>584199501
The problem with Kessler Syndrome is twofold:
First, it assumes that the distances between satellites is smaller than it actually is. Space is insanely massive. The risk of collision between satellites and any debris is not zero, but is very small. Kessler Syndrome assumes a "shotgun" effect that grows larger and larger with each collision, but that would assume any collisions happen in the first place. Satellites already do not have a problem with the meteorites that already exist in Earth's orbit, and intensify during showers. So the assumption of a "growing shotgun cloud of death" doesn't even pass the muster of the already existing space debris.
Second, Kessler Syndrome also rests on the assumption that the growth of space debris is higher than any debris lost from either fucking off into deep space or fucking off into Earth's atmosphere. And that's a pretty big assumption on its own, as we can barely keep old satellites in orbit - let alone old space debris.

Anyone got the link for AC8s music dump which was shared a few days ago? Did the files already expire?

>>584199681
all I need to know is whether the chance is greater than 0%
if it is, then fuck it, I'm fine with that being what happened in AC7's story

>>584199490
Nemo isn't a sentient being who would ever want freedom, it's a machine with a singular goal: kill dission, this will happen no matter what.

The entire point of the game is that you're not a human being and you have no control, it's why you can only sit and watch as nemo starts raping reinas memories despite befriending her.

>>584199783
All I'm saying really is that Kessler Syndrome, if it happened, would not last very long.

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How do I fix the error code 01 on mission 11?

>>584199826
Play fullscreen usually works, still error 01 but rarely, like a week once rare

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Still going stronk in Japan.

>>584199826
It's dependent on your specs, so post them.
I have never gotten an error code and I run the game on very obsolete hardware.

>Endurance's plans keep getting leaked
>turns out it's an Enso plant
>literally a living breathing dude on the ship
>leaking his own location so that his corporation could send guys to kill him
What the fuck was his plan?
There was never a guarantee he'd survive any given attack.
Was he just ready with a life raft during every battle or some shit?

Man I wish there was a bit more love for PC like PW had. I'd like to be able to set the curves and buttons on my stick so I could actually aim the gun

>>584199890
must be
twitter is flooding my daily kate search with
"i needed to go down in difficulty for this mission" translated from JP

>>584198842
Seriously what the fuck is his problem

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He does look like Ben Kingsley.

>>584199916
i7-13700k
48gb ddr5
rtx 5080

Switched to fullscreen when mission 1 wasn't working, now the game just crashes anytime I go into the aircraft tree or missions

>>584199984
Of all the story twists in 8, the one that caught me the most by surprise is the mole just being some fucking guy. No name or even a good view of his face. I knew it wasn't gonna be DD because he's far too obvious to be the mole, but that was not what I expected. Hell I thought Jenkins was gonna be the leak for a hot minute there. Anyways if the guy was an Enso corporate stooge they must have some insanely good hazard pay.

I should doodle Kate at some point even though I'm not particularly good

>>584200149
It might be the Nvidia drivers. The new ones suck. I run an older driver, and it works fine.
Blame Nvidia.

>>584200124
If we get post-story DLC I hope we get some more fuckery with the molemen.

>>584199984
Enso picks and chooses what to send to the Sotoans. Notice how the Endurance itself doesn't get attacked during the "How the fuck do they keep figuring out our plans" arc unless it's actively putting itself in harm's way, but Joker and Queen flights get jumped.

Glacial Skies x100.

>>584199984
I was confused about that too, unless his family is being paid millions or being held hostage, I can't imagine going along with it. He seemed really gung-ho about it, too, when he rushed forward, not like someone doing a job under duress would be.
>>584200174
I thought for sure it was just going to be Enso technology in general having a Unit 303 backdoor rootkit that allowed them to monitor devices and it was basically everyone's fault.