Sketchy EditionThread Theme: https://youtu.be/hn9cag6QrcsPrevious Mission: >>584228305>AC8 OUT NOWhttps://s.team/a/2288340https://youtu.be/F54vGYxj0ts>404th squadron ID70688023Please don't join if you don't plan to stick around>Online Progression Guidehttps://files.catbox.moe/g0cq7z.png>Aircraft & Part Database (SP Spoilers)https://ac8-database.pages.dev>Aces at War 2029https://pastebin.com/WMkgZKYM>AC7https://s.team/a/502500>Shootout Saturday is back! /aceg/ rooms are open every Sat at 1930 CET/1330 EST, with three rules:Put /aceg/ in your tag before game for IFF purposesNo EML/QAAM/SASMIn Roca Roja, use ONLY air-to-ground special weapons in the tunnel>Official /aceg/ AC7 MP guidehttps://rentry.org/acegMPguide>AC7 Resourceshttps://pastebin.com/Xbb41nvVhttps://rentry.org/ho8mm>AC6 is playable on PC via recomphttps://youtu.be/vr9m2XHpWYY>ACI is playable again!http://youtu.be/Q9wDRE7PszU>/aceg/ Emulation Guidehttps://rentry.org/ybyx6>/aceg/ livery and emblem packhttps://rentry.org/3tokr>Encyclopedia Strangerealhttp://www.encycstra.net>New /aceg/ MEGAhttps://pastebin.com/aYYx2UKm>Twitterhttps://x.com/PROJECT_ACES (JP)https://x.com/AceCombatGames (EN)>Misc Stuffhttps://rentry.co/acegmisc>Project Wingmanhttps://s.team/a/895870>Skin/Texture Modding Guidehttps://pastebin.com/ykPhc6hn>SPECIAL MESSAGE TO /aceg/ FROM PIXYhttps://www.cameo.com/v/qSL5bOosg>/aceg/ Permalinkhttp://orph.link/aceg>OP Templatehttps://pastebin.com/P0E8NwWCBECAUSE IT BEARS REPEATING:>Skill and guts are required here>Be a buddy, not a border>All planes are beautiful dreams>DELAY THE FINAL ATTACKFAQ>Has the Project Wingman update dropped yet?Haha...>Has a PS2 trilogy remake been announced yet?No.
>>584272264Still think anon should have drawn Kate trying on Rex's helmet preferably in a bikini
How do I go after the ace in M15 without the fleet getting destroyed?
stinky
fishbed or gripen for online SASM shenanigans?
>>584272786Game
would you hate me and call me a faggot and a hindu if i posted sexy AIslop Kate
>>584272873yes and i would be right to do so
>>584272786Neither.
YES, THEY DESERVED TO DIE, AND I HOPE THEY BURN IN HELL!
>>584272786Ego
>>584272264What an awful drawing.
>>584272873not yet. there's no t a lotAC ""content""post it
>the Game is ostensibly the best Fighter in the game>very slightly faster>worse in multiple other ways especially weaponsDoes it just exist to be a carrier-capable F-22 sidegrade?
DLC where everyone goes to the beach when?
>>584273060>there's no t a lotAC ""content""Go to bed Rajesh
>finish the campaign>Belka was NOT responsible this time
>>584273162The SOD is better purely by virtue of you being able to use it for longer than the first 10 seconds of a mission
>>584273306>he lacks critical information
>>584273241start drawing\photoshopping while the aifags hold the line
>>584273162Essentially yes. Barricader is better than both though.
>>584273306The submarine in mission 30 was speaking belkan dum dum
>>584273162Anything the F-22 does the Su-57 does better(in the video game).
What's the science that makes ESM make missiles fly faster and kill harder
>>584273578Belkan witchcraft.
>>584273306it was
>>584273578Don't question itbelieve in it
are they going to bring back nagase in every game from now on until the one where she fucking dies peacefully wathing the sky or reading a book at 106 years old?
>>584273162Su-57 wins on maneuverability, which is far more important in a QAAM/SASM shootout.That said, it is INCREDIBLY funny to turn yourself into a jihad jet with SASMs and only fire them when your planes are almost touching in a joust, as they immediately detonate and it's an instant kill.
>>584273578The missile knows where it is by where it isn't and so
>>584273756I thought they did a good job for her cameo in 8 desu
I find that with a HOTAS I'm not able to actually perform PSMs, at least with type B controls it seems that you can't
>>584273306I'm so sorry to disappoint you. The Triumphant was Belkan and Enso Order's HQ is in Belka.
>>584273439>Barricader>not Nightmare
why do they even put the A10 in these games, honestly
>all this talk about "they'll be safe, they'll be alright, they'll come back">melancholic piano music as the rocket climbsthey're gonna die aren't they
Leveling the A-10 and pitching into the ground instead of letting people get the kill this game made me evil
>>584274040that ain't melancholic bro it's triumphantalso i fucking love the way the music mix shifts as the rocket launches
>>584274028Because of the BRRRRRRRT meme. Literally. It's an obsolete piece of junk that still lives on as a popular icon because of its fuck you gun. People would bitch if it wasn't in the game.
>>584273798>Su-57 wins on manoeuvrabilityIt doesn't bro. It has literally the exact same copy-pasted Pitch and roll stats as the F-22. It has very slightly faster yaw but who cares.It also has the same health, top speed, and even PSM stats. The only difference is that the F-22 gets very slightly faster accel and stealth level 5 while the Su-57 is stealth level 4 but gets way better SPWs(LACM is way better than XSDB).
Land Battleship death lines:https://youtu.be/aH_j2lnQNrUTriumphant AI lines:https://youtu.be/Sr_607pOH8c
Turns out I was playing the entire game auto-set to Low graphics, I didn't even notice cause it still looks really good
>>584273162The Raptor is kinda wack in 8 tbdesune
>>584272873im waiting nigga
I fucking hate 4AAM the fucking thing won't hit literally anything that't not essentially standing still not moving in any direction fuck off don't give me this as the only a2a secondary weapon on my plenfu
>>584273668>we will restore the pride we had 35 years ago
>>584273306He's going to feel silly in the DLC when we learn that Division 303 is Belkan.
>>584274327Multilocks are useless in multiplayerAnd in single player it's a gamble
>>584274270havent made it yet
Is Mission 26 the only mandatory landing in the series? Every other airstrip/carrier landing I can think of has been optional, even in the PS1 games.
>>584274202Is that information for SP or MP because we have a clear difference between SP MiG-31B and that hypermaneuverable abomination we have in MP.
How would anons improve each character in game?>BaxterI think we needed a scene or two where we were having a quiet drink chilling together cursing death upon Sotoans so you feel a bit closer to him.>CosterI think once Purple Magic get killed he should be coming to Rex with requests for more training on how to get better at killing Sotoans.>TashaShould have been orphaned by the Sotoan attack and grown increasingly more psychopathic closer she gets to Rex ending the game hell bent on Sotoan genocide. >KateShould let you drop a bomb or two on a Sotoan yurt and have a wedding ring on her finger at the end.
>>584274202Then why are we only comparing stats from that page? Doesn't make much sense. If you invalidate the 89 vs. 87 you have to invalidate the entire page which also means the entire prior discussion as well.
wtf i LOVE sotoa now
you're telling me the reason we beat these asshats is that they were cheap shits about building their superweapon of global annhilation and dominance?
>>584275063As if that doesn't happen irl
I wish there was a module to make Attacker guns fire straight.This is purely because of Chandelier.
>>584275063The fact that Yuktobania would even sell them the parts in the first place raises a lot of questions considering their history with Sotoa.
>>584274867SP, but it's the same in MP for the Raptor and the Felon. The online Mig-31 has a better peak pitch rate than the Flanker-E. Which is just funny. >>584274964If the stat bars don't represent actual in-game stats then yes, they should be invalidated.
the su57 is too fucking fat and makes tunnel runs hard
Alright, what's the secret to actually performing a Kvochur's Bell? I can get the plane to pitch up, rotate around 180 degrees, and then it gets forced out of the PSM and flies backwards. I can't figure out how to do a proper 360 so it keeps heading forward
This shit's so fucking expensive man.
>>584275417>spending a total of 60 golden goy tickets on the memeplane
>>584275417>unironically maxing out the morgan
The stupid -15 degree gun angle on attackers cucks me out of so many head on kills in PVP
>>584275417And there are multiple aircraft that cost the exact same.
>220 Online Sorties>22 Scrambles>Only 15 Emergency Sorties (I think 2-3 of them have been from party invites)Fuck, even a hardcoded "every 10th match is a superweapon fight" would be better than my proc rate. Although I guess it is kinda nice that it's averaged out that nearly 1/5 sorties is a special one. 12/15 successes is cool since it feels like every thread there's a couple of posts about dumb lobbies losing Emergency Sorties, I think the three failures were 1 Alicorn and 2 Chandeliers during the launch weekend.
unpopular opinion but the yurofiter's intakes look cool
>>584275648The yurofighter is such an uggo
>>584272873Curse vishnu and you'll be good in my book
>>584275648I'd much rather have the Tornado in game.
I was wondering whether this time I'd bother at all with the multiplayer but after everything I've seen about it here I'm pretty sure I'll passWay to make something seven orders of magnitude more complicated and stupid than it needs to be
>>584275626I've never seen a rank below C, what the fuck does the announcer say if you get an E?
>>584275497>>584275519>t. TLS rape victim
* kills any chance of you getting actual independent pc ports of the older games in your path *
>>584275826One of the running theories that the devs have deliberately sabotaged multiplayer mode to try and kill the online service asap. It is not possible to make something this bad by accident.
>>584275930just remove it from the games
>>584272873Seeing the caliber of drawfag we have here yeah it would be more welcome to have AI
>>584273060>>584274270>>584275761https://files.catbox.moe/3z184o.jpegCurse vishnu
>>584275930Elaborate
the bombers from mission 15 are among the best bosses in the series
>>584276079ok we need more data centerswhat did you use
>>584276079Not hairy enough.
>>584275930I keep seeing this repeated but no evidence has ever been provided because if the Eurofighter is in game then there should be no barrier to the Tornado as it would have been subject to the same licensing arrangements?
>>584276079
>>584276079add hair
>>584276258kek the true ending.
>>584275626115 sorties, 17 scrambles, 13 E-sorties. I felt like my rate was bad but I guess it's still better than yours.
>>584275930Reminder that the "pre-order loophole" is completely made-up bullshit that has never ever been officially stated by PA
>>584276392It's become a meme at this point. Gaijin got the license for the Tornado just fine a few years ago so it can't be -that- difficult.
Why can Battlefield 4 and shart thunder get chinese jets but not Ace Combat?
>>584275930european bureaucracy is so awesome
>>584276704Japs don't want to glorify chink machines
>>584276596I don't believe there's an actual pre-order loophole but I'm pretty sure the game can't be sold because of license agreements.So like, they could not be fags and just give the game away for free to everyone but that gives them no incentive to port it in the first place.
>>584276728Superior german paper faxed over 1000 times, barbarians just don't understand.
>>584276079Holy PEAK
Okay but why did PA suddenly stop putting the F-5 and F-20 in the game?
>>584275204>The fact that Yuktobania would even sell them the parts in the first place>he thinks these were legally soldThe IRL Yukes are currently obtaining a lot of stuff they aren't supposed to have the same way the Sotoans probably got the parts for their sats: disassembling belkan washing machines
>>584277112Is the two-toned hair her style, or was she all pink and it simply had grown out since she has no access to dye on the carrier?
>>584275204>Yuktobania would even sell themThey're commercial parts anon, you can buy them off of Ensomazon
>>584273756There's been a Kei Nagase in most games, she's a mascot/cameo character.>AC2: Selectable wingman, callsign Edge>AC3: Listed as an Ouroboros member>AC04: AC2's Nagase, now retired, flying Air Ixiom>AC5: Osean Nagase introduced, callsign Edge, autistic hyperfixation is SPACE>AssHor: Background character, even cameos in the trailers>Infinity: Part of the UN>AC7: AC5's Nagase, returns from SPACE>AC8: Helps Baxter and DD go to SPACE
>>584275417wait what the fuck you need gold blueprints for high level uncaps?
>>584277295A lot
>>584276079bro what ENSO technology did you use?
>>584277213Her roots are dark so the blonde-pink hairdo is probably dye, hair grew out into her natural color over the course of her stay on the carrier....Someone please shop her hair fully matching her roots. I have a theory.
>>584277117>>584275204>>584275063>The fact that Yuktobania would even sell them the parts in the first place raises a lot of questions considering their history with Sotoa.They're stated to be COMMERCIAL parts. The Yuktobanian government likely wasn't involved in the transaction whatsoever. The parts probably don't have export restrictions, and Sotoa may have bought them through an intermediary. DD was pretty clear about how Enso's supply chains easily crossed national borders.
>>58427729510 for level 5, 20 for level 10 and 30 for level 15, 60 in total.
>>584277295From rank 9 onwards you need them just for the first level.
>>584276523Regardless Scramble/Emergency rate is way too RNG dependent. Hell I'd even take purchasable/reward vouchers for them to use any time you want, they're the most fun and highest reward game modes and they're locked behind a dice roll.
Remember to check account stats on the electrosphere bros.
>>584277262Also a honorable mention to Reiko Nagase, Kei's sister from Ridge Racer
>>584277365?
>>584277563Fuark...
why is it so much easier to do PSMs in the su57 compared to the f22
>>584277738Because devs are Slavaboos.
>>584277652I hate to say it bros but she looks better like this
>>584277901Literally every woman looks better with dark hair.
>>584277738It's the only place where the su57 is better at something than the f22, let them have their small victories
>no damage or reload parts in MPThat's annoying.
uh oh
>>584277563Why was she walking through that tunnel in high heels? Where was she going?
>>584276704Chinks don't want their jets depicted being shot down or being used by the bad guys?Plus Battlefield 4 was banned in China prior to release lol.
>>584277968LACM > XSDB
>>584277901Most things that women do to try to make themselves look pretty just make them look worse. Dyed hair, long nails, tattoos, piercings, implants, etc.
<<A matter of interpretation, I'd say>>
>>584277738because the one and only selling point of russian planes is that they can do meme maneuvers that look very cool at airshows
>>584278103Imagine the fucking CCP meltdown if Shadow 22 did his heckin warcimes while flying a J-20
>>584277652Would trust to be my wingman
>>584278136Alright buddy we gave Kate a pass but don't get too excited with your slop.
>>584277738Unrelated but I pulled a bunch of PSMs in the Su-57 on Mission 28 trying to get the achievement but none counted for some reason, then in Mission 29 I unintentionally did one in the F-22 and that one got it. Really weird.
>>584277652>>584277901black hair and ponytail
>>584277901She definitely looks cuter with natural hair. She also come across as very young to me based on that image mainly because it draws attention to her freckles. If I was to guess her age without any other info I'd start guessing she was 16 or possibly even younger.
>>584278369Did Kate do her hair here or did she just want to be like her adopted mommy?
>>584278269I go to twitter and fish for memesSlop or not it's not up to me
>>584276079>hairy arms
>>584278515should have extremly hairy cooch with pubes reaching the belly button and also hairy armpits desuThat's the perfect embodiement of the true female form, and if you don't accept it you're a faggot
It's been two hours game can I have a sortie fucks sake
>>584278634> extremly hairy coochMhm>hairy armpitsAlright, let’s not go too far.
>have utopic goals for your nation>be war criminal>lead to ultimate demise of your nation
>>584278210The russians lag behind NATO in most fields, but they have an advantage in hypersonic missiles.
>>584277968My man giving up LACMs is not worth a slight increase in Stealth level which barely does anything in this game.
>>584278790too bad they can't put them on their planes because they're too broke to build any planes to begin with
>>584278739>Alright, let’s not go too far.Homosexual.
oof
>>584278790>hypersonic missiles.no such thing.
>>584278210Which makes them good in Ace Combat since it's a universe where stealth is fake and gay, BVR is fake and gay, and it's all about who can do the most outrageous manoeuvres at knife range.
How I wish the AC3 experience wasn't locked behind PS1 graphics
>>584277652Is that Kei Nagase the sixth?
>>584279061Forget the graphics, you can't even experience the canon story unless you're Japanese. It desperately needs a port at the very least.
I like that one guy who goes RAAAAAAARRRGGGGHHH instead of cheering normally
>>584279008>BVR is fake and gayBro, your LAAM?
>>584279149There is 2 fan translations now.
>>584278261The funny thing is that Chengdu themselves would love to have their planes in the game, but I'm guessing state autism prevents it. Just gotta add the Tempest or Checkmate for more 5th gens or something.
>>584278975>Abdullah, short for Abdul-Allah(servant of Allah)Does this confirm Islam is a real religion in Strangereal?>>584279061I think it still looks pretty sweet, especially in HUD mode. Something about that cyperpunk aesthetic really works with crusty low-res graphics. >>58427921710km is basically kissing distance in modern air combat and it's mostly good for clapping NPCs who don't bother dodging it.
>>584277652Wow.
>>584279309Allah just means god in arabic, it could be referring to any god instead of the abrahamic god.
>fuck around during landing>complete it with 15 seconds left>"Happens to the best of us."lmao
>>584279309Still BVR(if the weather is particularly shitty)
>>584279061There's a jeet doing AI stuff with the decompiled build that I'm looking forward too. Just needs to make it more stylistically fit in.https://youtu.be/61YKVLr9_Z8
>>584276160No ways of getting the rights because Panavia
>>584279309The entire europe-shaped subcontinent in Strangereal is an islamic caliphate.
a hidden F-15C with a Mage logo behind the stage?
>>584279268It would be hilarious if they added something that looked vaguely similar to a Chengdu aircraft, sold in bulk ala strangereal temu, but fails in various ways, and your first mission is going through like 10 different recruits that all die in horrific ways before the last guy says he wouldn't get in even if you threatened to shoot him, and that's the player character. Then throughout the game you see the same temu planes on the enemy team, and they randomly explode or nosedive or when the pilot tries to eject it just pasta them into the canopy, and you can go from S to A rank on higher difficulties if you don't shoot them fast enough as they'll take themselves out given enough time.
>>584279606>Just needs to make it more stylistically fit in>>expecting a """prompt engineer""" AIbro indian to care about aesthetics and style while making an AI remake up to modern qualityyou are genuinely delusional
playing Zero after 8 is weird, these planes feel so different now
I actually find it bizarre that there are no Chinese planes in AC8. Does the Japanese hatred run that deep?
>>584279762Anon we love aircraft here, all that nonsense you wrote sounds very hateful towards aircraft.
>>584279909it was never going to happen after the chink chimpout over japan's new (at the time) prime minister
>>584279909loiscense
>>584279762Last time Chinese planes went up against Western ones they completely shat all over them so I don't know where this strange fantasy of them being rustbuckets comes from.
>>584279804I don't have high hopes for the jeet, hoping someone else will put some effort into it as well.
>>584279909Chinks are never gonna let it go, which is understandable. Anyways it's a win-win because they get to stay away from japanese cultural influence and we get to stay away from ugly chinkshit planes.
>>584279901makes me feel like a demon again, I'm making many more front aspect shots
>>584280101But the J-10 looks cool. There's never an excess of delta wings.
>>584280148Probably Republic of Verusa or Kingdom of Verusa.
>>584280060Not actual Chinese planes, I'm talking about literally someone scamming countries by selling them temu knockoffs.
>>584280148>Africa>South Africa
>>584278990wat
>>584280314The Russians do not have hypersonic missiles. It's made up zigger propaganda.
>>584280323>AC9 protagonist inside
If the J-20 were in AC8, it would have LAAM to reflect its real life armament and role, which would make it the best plane in the game. So I am glad its not in it.
>>584280060i feel like people don't talk enough about the part of the J10 vs rafale fight where the pakistani/chinese AWACS was guiding the missile, not the J10
>>584279909Kono himself was approached by Chengdu in regards to the J-10 and J-20 and I believe this may have been brought back up again recently but I may be wronghttps://x.com/Ace_Combat_Fan/status/1105328862844542976?lang=arBeyond that, I don't think there's some deep hatred as both of the extra skins for the FA-36 are literally the J-20's, with Sotoa/Gemma Squadron's skin being the black and grey camo, and the Ace skin being the unpainted J-20
>>584272873people's tolerance for AI is directly proportional to how good it looksmake it good and nobody will careand it turned out well, so fugg it, keep it up
>>584280323>filenameCosa cazzo posti bro sta roba fa schifo
mmmmmdosh
>>584280692and a boppity boopy to you too mr. bistro poster
>>584280558You're right on that one, Chengdu has nothing against PA and PA has nothing against Chengdu, but the governments hosting these groups don't quite see eye to eye.
>>584280394>the country that has been proven to use hypersonic missiles due to their repeated use in ukraine... doesn't actually have hypersonic missilesok
>>584281010>has been proven[citation needed]
>>584281046I mean, we have the footage of all the parking lots and civilian apartments they've hit with mach 10+ missiles that can still manoeuvre(which I believe is the definition used for the term "hypersonic".
>>584280394>>584281010>>584281046>>584281186go back to /wtg/ faggots
>>584281046I thought this was a dig about how every ballistic missile is hypersonic in nature or terminal phase guidance making them not true hypersonics when it comes to ship hunting but it seems we're entering retard territory>>5842811865, not 10.
>>584281010Actually good hypersonics are missiles that are able to go to such speeds at low altitude in the terminal phase. Russian hypersonics (like most third world hypersonics) still have a ballistic trajectory all the way through, which is why the Patriot has managed to shoot down several Kinzhals.
>>584278926>too bad they can't put them on their planes because they're too broke to build any planes to begin with
>>584281415>a plane with notoriously awful engine life and is no longer in production
Ingame performance aside, where would you guys put the X-40 among the other superplanes?
>>584280394of course they do, they've been using them for yearshypersonic missiles aren't unobtainiumeven Iran has them
>>584273741Liberty bibbity?
>>584281545Ah, the goalpost move of concession acceptance.
>>584281407>Actually good hypersonics???
>>584280060the west is not ready for the conversation about how chinese science and engineering are not only catching up but surpassing us in many fieldswe're busy self-destroying while they sit and watch and laugh and get better while nobody pays attention to them
>>584281614>to build any planes to begin withreading comprehension.
>zigger vs nafoid shitfest againright i'm heading off for a drink see you later
>>584281767>mig-31's don't exist and aren't in active serviceretard
>>584281407>which is why the Patriot has managed to shoot down several Kinzhals.in the context of how many munitions have been used over the last few years, "several" doesn't sound that impressive
nice bread
What the fuck, man
>>584281835Kinzhals are a rare sight as well.
>>584281885That poor drawfren.
Hypersonics aren't AC related.
>>584273578Imagine your waifu personally being within earshot, shouting and cheering you on. You too would fly faster and kill harder if that were the case.
>>584281932They should be SP weapons.
>>584281932The X-49 is hypersonic capable
>>584281947Does that make EMS a whore since it's cheering everyone's missles?
In AC9 there should be a mission that's fought entirely at hypersonic speed. Basically a tunnel run where you have to dodge munitions in order to catch up to a bomber.
>>584281932oh yeah?*holds down the accelerator button*catch this, libtards
I like our drawfags
>>584282113I'm disappointed we didn't get more sci-fi stuff in AC8. We're 10 years off AC3 and we didn't get a space mission or any sci plane weapons.
>>584282152Have any of the old ones shown themselves now that 8's out?
scramjet superplane when
PLSL shouldn't have been removed from campaign.
>>584282152>>584282295I haven't drawn in too long and now I genuinely can't do it anymore
>>584282295Not that I've seen
What are the best parts for missiles online? Guidance?
>F15-C is my planefu>Online does not have a Pre-Morgan Pixy skin for ithow could they have fumbled the bag so hard
>>584282421Damn, that's actually quite sad.
>>584282421What'd you used to draw anon?And at least for me, it's mainly rendering techniques that I forget with time, but line-art and such I come back to quite easily and that's enough to put something cool down.
So, is La Chanteuse supposed to be someone we know?
>>584282295AI mogs the drawtrannies anyway
>>584282612They are holding it for the F-15C -PXY-, thats gonna will be 60 yellow blueprints to max upgrade it please.
careful not to fall for it
>>584282802Kys jeet
>>584282881Jeet means victory, timmy.
>>584282856I fell for it...
>>584276079>no pubesTHIS close to perfection
My wife Betty
>>584282806watch it start out with LAAMs and QAAMs at lvl5 while having better stats all around than a normal F-15c because fuck you I HATE THE JAPANESE JEW
>>584280859>governments enforce borders to create divisions>companies seeking international concordance but strain against arbitrary boundariesWhere have I seen this before...
>>584282612>battle pass only has one actual plane in it>only has a handful of skins that aren't just generic camo recolors>only has squadron emblems in three variations with no roundels>doesn't even have all of the squadron emblems from Zero>most of avatar cosmetics are shit>the store is barren content wise so people don't really have incentive to whaleI'm constantly surprised at how so many big companies can't even be greedy right, you'd think that would be the one thing Bamco's good at.
>>584283031This useless piece of shit couldn't even take out stationary targets in Retaking of Theve II. I had to run over and save her ass.
>>584283102The entire state of ACO seems like a bare minimum effort to appease Bamco salarymen
>>584274232We have long since hit the point where high graphics only exist to sell datacenter tier GPUs.
Is there a way to turn off depth of field?
>>584275808But it is anon. On a poster in the fucking arcade.>>584283178Seems that way, either that or the campaign took so long to develop the multiplayer was last minute. What I really hate is that you can barely get anything out of the new better emblem system because there doesn't seem to be much of anything to use. Like they couldn't port over most of the emblems from 7 and throw half of them into supply boxes to incentivize grinding MP?
>>584283160>clear all the AA>leave only ground attack troops because I have bigger things to take care offEither this retard got shot down by arty or crashed trying to impress me by killing them herself and failed miserably.
>>584283031ahh. going down.
>>584274974Now he really is Girlish Topkek
>>584276596Yes it has you fucking retarded nigger.
>>584283394I'm lucky enough that my favorite emblem in 7's multiplayer was Crow from Zero so I don't really want to use anything else but the emblems are fucking woeful, especially since so many symbols you have to get from gacha crates
>>584282190honestly i prefer the non fictional planes but then again its good to have more experimental goofy boomerang planes and no more need for licensing shenanigans. the experimental planes do exist outside of the simulation is 3 right?
>>584283394I'm so sad I've no way to use the best AC7 emblem again, it'll probably stay there forever.
>>584279804The bones are there at least. It really just takes someone with actual love for the game as well as some skill to really elevate it.
>>584281550I don't like superplanes in general and X-40 isn't a particularly good looking one.Nosferatu>Game>Morgan>Wyvern>Nightmare
SFFS - Shit For Fucks Sake
>>584283628The ones that have shown up in other games do, the ones that haven't probably do but we have no way to confirm or deny because it's not like you ever get outside the simulation in 3.
Baffling how limited the missions online are. No land battleship mission? No float mission?
>>584282057Either that or everyone happens to just have the same taste, good or bad.
>>584283775Surely Simon created the simulation to accurately reflect the state of the world at the time the simulation was run(so 2040). So all the planes should be correct. The X-49 Night Raven was built like 8 years earlier and Neucom's Delphinius and Orcinius lines already exist at the start.
>>584283858The mp reeks of having been made last minute
>>584276079>shavedThere's zero chance Kate doesn't have a full bush.
>>584280096>>584283641Again, genuinely delusionalThere wasn't a person writing any of what was used, and when you make a web of retarded vibecoded trash, Claude or whoever else is at the helm can't go back and make sense of it, you can't make a project with AI from the literal foundations of it and expect it to ever be remotely good"Wow I sure hope santa claus makes the game for me tomorrow!"And if it ever became a serious project it would get cease and desisted immediately because why would Bandai ever allow itStop accepting vibecoded pajeet bullshit, I'm begging you
>>584284001disagree, she definitely takes care of herself
>>584283967I really hope so, because right now my biggest concern is that the series future depends on the Online mode doing well.
>>584283691Thats what I say whenever a ground target blob gets sweeped by a UGBL or LACM before the SFFS lands
>>584283957Logically that makes sense but that'd also back them into a corner.
>>584283691Thing should have more base ammo than standard UGBs and maybe a faster reload. Other than that, they're alright. Basically the diet-UGBL.
>>584283568I just wanted roundels so I could do full larps as a Belkan merchant or something.I actually did buy the pin up emblem pack because I liked a couple of them, especially the brown bunny girl and the bomber ones.>>584283632I'm sure they'll throw it into the supply crates or an AC7 themed pass.
>>584284143Anon the game hit a million sales in a week. Even if the online utterly dies I think we're fine
>>584284238Not really. They can just completely fucking ignore it, like they did when they remade AC2 with AC3DCR/ACAHL. The F-22 Eagle+ is now just the F-22, The F-15S is the F-15S/MTD, The Mig-33 is a Mig-29, etc.And there's nothing all that limiting about the Neucom planes, they're all pretty fucking rad.
>>584283967Yeah. I can't see me sticking long with it. I'm having fun at the moment since I like flying around but the basic missions are starting to get tiresome.
>>584284086Nah, maybe for pits, legs, etc. but she's definitely got hair between the legs. Even if it's trimmed some she seems the type to not keep it bald.
>>584284481she's a pilot, she would shave it into a landing strip
>>584283691>>584284256Slow and you might not even hit the target. So much better in Infinity with all the parts.
X-40 be like
>>584284256SFFS needs anything but more ammo
>EMERGENCY UPDATE>"THOSE GUYS WERE NO PUSHOVERS NICE WORK">fuck lol that got me didn't know it was a message
>>584284086Yeah, taking care of her bush.
>>584277295
>>584284608I hope she’s got EMAS, because I’d be coming in hotter than Prime Air
>>584284608[/spoiler]I considered making that joke but I couldn't bring myself to do it[/spoiler]
>Hit Warrant Officer tonight>Got like three aircraft that I'd like to upgrade so nothing new I'd want to buy>Curious if they'll adjust progression at all with the patchGuess that's time for a break tonight
>>584285313ctrl+s anon
>>584285198Why is the MiG-21bis in the middle cost bracket?
If you restart the campaign, do you keep your aircraft tree progress?
>>584285671yeah it's NG+
>>584283632It'll probably be in Trigger's pass rewards
>>584285954>It'll probably be in Trigger's pass rewardsIdk what that means
>>584286238like in a future season, with the pass's items themed around stuff from AC7
>>584286238People datamined a handful of planes that are coming, there's a Raven with -TRI- after it, Trigger. So the Osean emblems would probably be in that.
>>584286470Oh boy, Raven TLS + PLSL + PLSL drones sounds fucking annoying for Warfare and incredibly fun for anything else
>>584286654UAV is useless in AC8 though? Right?
>F-16C>F-15C>GripenWhat 2 buy I grinded for a few hours and I'm approaching 200K zogdollars
MUH FOV
>>584286781The cockpit view is so fucking narrow tho.
>>584286730Considering that people cried about superweapons being bad in 7 and their response was the state of TLS in MP, they will be annoying as shit and way too good
>>584286761Grippy IMO
>>584286761you could pick a good plane instead
>>584286761Gripen a cuteJust don't fall into the low speed dogfight trap, since maneuverability is best at around 1k
>>584286958but we already have UAVT in AC8 and people are saying it's completely useless and a waste of ammo and it can't even keep up with Shadow 22, I don't imagine UAV will fare any better
>>584286781muh hot ass stick
>Retaking of Theve>A single F-2 breaks through in the second half>Three LCACs die instantlyok
>>584286761I'd skip this lineup but if you really have to then Gripen, SASM is good for PvP and LAAM is LAAM, if you can afford the upgrades that is
Is the EA-18G worth investing into or should I just wait until i get the EA-36 for an ecm plane
>>584287360you need to fully invest in it to get ESM, I'd wait until Barricader instead
>>584287360Growler is the better support since it has great abilities that buff its buffs. You can stagger ESM / ECM depending on what you need so you don't waste. But that requires heavy investment since ECM is the Lv20 uncap and the ESM buff is at Lv20 itself.Barricader is a fighter that has good MSL buffs and IEWS instead of a special missile
>can you hear me?>NoComedy distilled.
>>584287509*ECM
>>584287360it's 100 more missions until you can get the EA-36
>>584287747and 1 mission is like 5 minutes, provided you're not showered with 'a player has left the matchmaking'
So how exactly do you get lvl 2 and lvl 3 abilities online? I've only seen lvl 1 abilities so far.
>>584288290They don't currently exist. A lot of stuff on the build planner site don't currently exist in game. Maybe they'll be added tonight, who knows
https://acecombat.wiki.gg/wiki/Osean_War>Osea tried to conquer Belka in the past when airplanes were brand new>Osea invented bombers to destroy defenses>Belka invented fighters to defend themselvesMan there's some crazy stuff in old JP promo material
>>584288537It's another "japs don't understand history" episode.The actual evolution of aerial warfare is "planes were used for scouting, then armed with guns, then armed with bombs". And things evolved from there.
>>584288410I shudder on thinking what will be the requirements to get higher level abilities.
>>584288537all of the the backstory between Osea and Belka constantly portrays Osea as underhandedly scheming and aggressive and actually the ones in the wrong, always trying to steal Belkan territory and resources and limit and control thembecause of this, I struggle to believe that we will never actually get a "Belkan redemption arc" gamethe similarity to some of Sotoa's pre-war maneuvering in the latest lore book makes this seem even more likely to me>>584288617different planet, different history
>>584288617But this isn't the real world, it's a strange one
>>584288537>>584288617Shit, I misread, Belka invented both bombers AND fighters, which is even weirder
>>584287747>>584287949If you save all your zoll for those 100 missions you might be able to fully uncap the Barricader when you buy it. Keep in mind that it's the same cost to upgrade the Growler as it is to the Barricader, so it's really just a matter of preference.
>>584288889It's not a matter of "different history", it's objectively how warfare naturally evolves.The usage of air balloons as scouts was first, and will always be first unless you are so retarded you never invent air balloons. This same niche is then adopted by the airplane, and when two opposing scout planes encounter each other, they realize they need to start being armed. That's how you get 'fighters', not "oh shit, we need to stop enemy bombers". That's a misunderstanding that puts the modern mature purpose of fighters into the wrong context. The cart before the horse.
>>584278369How could PA Fuck up something as simple as a cute teenage hapa?
How are you inviting people to parties? When I look at their profiles it only prompts me to send a friend request.
>>584289105See >>584288914
>>584289831You need to create the party before, stupid menu navigation I know.
>>584289908The only way I'll accept it is if there was a period of air balloon bombers and then zeppelin superweapon bombers first.
>>584287131The Raven probably will have a different UAV that has much better results because it uses PLSL instead of TLS
>>584290013That's a given but I swear it's still not there, what do they have to be in the lobby
How can I check my current rank and EXP needed before leveling up without having to clear a game? Also how many ranks are there in the game?
>>584290170pilot ranksame menu as your aircraft sets i don't remember the combination
>>584272264looks like she was punched in the face really hard
>>584290170>Hangar > the second option under your plane setsAlso see >>584285198
I miss them.
>>584290327what are they chattering bout
>>584290327Anti-AI luddites don't want you to have this.
>>584285409>copy and pasted because I'm phone posting>forgot to remove a /Whoops
>>584289105>The usage of air balloons as scouts was first, and will always be first unless you are so retarded you never invent air balloons.It is not inevitable that a technology must be used in a certain way, at a certain level of prominence, or that it is a necessary step before another technology can rise to prominence.It depends on the niche that it's being asked to fill in that moment. If an event that drives necessity (like a war) happens before or after a certain technology comes to prominence, then that will change which technologies are used, and how, and will influence their progression as well.If a war starts earlier (relative to the technological development of the world, since Strangereal and IRL years don't quite line up in that respect), then earlier technologies will probably have their moments to shine and become prominent before being superseded by later ones.But if it starts later, then that earlier technology could be more or less skipped over by the world, being little more than a footnote, while the newer technology (the first airplanes, in this instance) are the ones that are pressed into wartime service and get all of the wartime research and technological development.Furthermore, it is not inevitable that a plane in wartime must be used first and foremost for scouting. If planes were already an established-enough civilian technology (for travel, surveying, crop dusting, etc.) that airplanes had seen some technological development and developed a bit of lift capacity, and THEN a war broke out after that had already happened, it is not unfathomable that the first idea some general would have is "what if we carried some bombs over the enemy and dropped them on their heads?"Maybe in Strangereal they did start off using planes for scouting, too, but rather quickly the effectiveness of bombers took over and became what determined the course of the war (and the need for interceptors), so that's how history remembers it.
>>584290219>>584290270if only this menu is a bit faster, going through each options is a drag, so 75 more games before I can get Rafale, okay
>>584290021not if there simply weren't any wars going on during the window of time when balloons and zeppelins were prominent and before they had been superseded by planes>>584290360begging for their mother to feed them
>>584290601>not if there simply weren't any wars going on during the window of time when balloons This is actually a huge window, because the first air balloons as we know them were developed during the late 18th century, and were immediately used for scouting during the Napoleonic War.So you're basically arguing "no wars for over a century".
>>584289659Look man they got called honorary aryans one time and ever since the default depiction of a hapa in Japanese fiction is a blonde, sometimes with blue eyes but not always.
>>584290327coming soon to a battlepass near you :^)
>>584290707>no wars for over a centuryYou know it'd be really funny if the vast majority of Strangereal's history was relativelt peaceful until the literal day aircraft were invented.Unless the ancient Belkan Knights were flying around on dragons.
>>584290983I actually want Strangereal to have a precedent for dumb superweapons, even during the Medieval era.Like that fuckhuge Zheng He Chinese junk that was intended to sail around the world? Yeah, Belka built their own version of that, to invade Usea or something.
>>584290360Discussing how many will die now that the unerfed TLS is back from the grave.
Our economy relies upon mercs like us.
>>584291185WHAT IS SAVIA FOR $300
>>584291185STRENGTH AND MUSCLE AND JUNGLE WORK
Did the CFA-44 have its semi auto double railguns in AC7? I never bought the DLC and the only game I've used it in was 6
>>584290983>he doesn't knowdo you think dragon spirit was added to the arcade for no reason?
>>584291554Yes.
What should I do to get started with online play? I only really care about PvE. I pre-ordered and had a voucher for the battlepass, so I apparently have the F-4E, F-14A, and ADFX-02. I see that I have 15k of some sort of currency.What should I do to avoid bricking myself?
We trained and gave them planes with wrong controls, as a joke.
>>584290983>Ace Combat: Dragon Rider>dumb missiles are fire breath bolts>guns are a continuous stream of fire>press R3>you have the classic AC HUD in your helmet ala F-35 pilotsI'd play the fuck out of this
>>584291765Wait until tomorrow to see what the patch ends up doing. The game's in a pretty mediocre state right now
>dragons turn out to have been real in Strangereal>so does Razgriz>and obviously so do Ghosts and the Promised Land
>>584291665Sick, that was one of the best superplane gimmicks in the series> << Garuda 1, SLASH. >>
>>584291765Get all your planes to level 5 in the meantime, maybe check the weekly challenges if you feel like doing the battlepass stuff though some of it requires PvP so you won't be able to get everything.
>>584291964I wish they brought back the radio calls for firing the EML and ADMM
>>584291991The ADMM is also quite good though it suffers the same problem as the 8AGM being multi locks into the same target that will die to half a missile.
It's uphttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKB_l9vNDhU>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKB_l9vNDhUhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKB_l9vNDhU>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKB_l9vNDhUhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKB_l9vNDhU>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKB_l9vNDhU
Sukhoi blyat!
>>584291991Is the Morgan a noob-trap for a new player?
>>584292176Meant for >>584291964
>The YF-23 is in the normal battlepassThis is a poor decision because it's going to be a stealth laam sled that everyone is going to abuse>The YF-23 is in the ace battlepassThis is a poor decision because it's going to feel underwhelming compared to a new super planeControversial Opinion: Nothing but super planes should ever be in the battlepass, we should get testbeds and prototypes from previous games from updates as begrudging DLC.
>>584292280Yes, because leveling it is expensive as all fuck and they'll get cranked by better players in lower tier but max level planes.
>>584292213not watching this parasocial nigger. does he recommend the game or not.
The EA-18G looks so fucking stupid this shit doesn't need 7 fucking EW pods.
>>584292280Kinda sorta. It's really good if you know what you're doing but it's a complete resource whore to upgrade. But all the weapons on it are good and it flies pretty well.Everyone will assume you're a retard until proven otherwise when they see you in it though
>>584292280just use it until you're at a point where you can purchase stuff you actually want to use. don't put too much (or any) actual resources into upgrading it since it's in the highest tier and is therefore expensive as fuck
>>584292280Arguable.It’s definitely a better ground-pounder until you get the SU-34.A2A you can get the MiG31 almost immediately, which doesn’t require you to aim (or think) unlike the TLS.EMS is mostly for PVP memes with the TLS making you an untargetable instant death machine.You can get it to 15 relatively painlessly, I wouldn’t take it to 20 (yet).Unless you want to. Then do what you want.
This does not even deserve a Wings of Theve introduction BECAUSE THIS IS DEAD SERIOUS. The routes I planned A FEW HOURS ago of the strike on Comona Island, everyone on the Intranet...THE X.O. AND QUEEN FLIGHT ARE ANGRY AT ME! THEY'RE BLAMING AT ME! IT'S MY FAULT, I ADMIT, IT'S MY FAULT; I WANT EVERYTHING ABOUT THAT ROUTEOFF! THE! INTRANET!I'll send in detectives! I'll send in police! I'll send in EVERYTHING IN MY POWER! To get it off the intranet...
>>584292495He says it isn't as good as Assault Horizon.
>>584292495yes, a lothe bitches only about the briefings between missions being "sometimes as long as 5 minutes, halting the game to a glacial stop"
>>584292510i like watching the little propellers spin :)
>>584292510it looks great the propellers make it go fastersick airplane
>>584292280Yes I love hunting those down
>>584292280No, >>584292451 is a retard, leveling the plane into being useful cost just as much as buying a low tier plane and upgrading it to the point of being able to compete with a Morgan, not only that but the Morgan is currently the top dog as nothing can beat it's TLS and being a true multi role it has a tool for every situation and all of the tools it has are good generalists anyways.
>>584291991>>584291843>>584292451>>584292617>>584292586>>584292558Thanks, what I'm hearing is don't buy anything but just start jumping into matches with the phantom and tomcat. Stock poverty morgan too.If the patch were to change nothing, is there a recommended plane to pickup early for PvE? Especially multirole or ground attack. I've heard a lot of negative things about the Su-25, with the exception of some anon claiming that its gun was superb for some superweapon fights.
>>584292728it reminds me of this
>>584292658To be honest, as far as briefings go I thought 8's were on the weaker side.
>>584292658Briefings are a filter. If you don't like them you're tourist and should fuck off.
>>584292858nta but I share the sentimentI liked the professional narration tone of the previous one more than debra wilson yap
>>584292802MiG31 is the Hitlerframe of A2A.
>>584292802If the patch changes nothing then get a LAAM slinger (MiG-31 or F-14D but the MiG is better overall) and just brainlessly shoot air targets. Nothing will challenge you but you will print score because of some retarded balance choises. You're pretty much completely screwed on the ground attacker front until the Fullback since it memes on everything
>>584292434Easily solved issue by adding more than a single fucking plane (unlocked at lvl 1 btw) for a whole battlepass
>>584292858I agree, they could have used a bit more punch.Like in 7, there are briefings where the base is getting bombed and the briefing software hiccups a bit. In 8, they should have started with an obsolete style of briefings to show the carrier was in dire straits, and then upgraded to the latest gen as the game went on.
>>584292801>noob>bring able to effectively use tlsShut the fuck up you glue drinking mongoloid. The Morgan is absolutely a noob trap. It's fine for assault but they will get face fucked in warfare.Also, people have leveled up planes already you stupid fuck.
>>584292434>>584293007if they weren't gay ass retarded niggerfaggots they'd release a free plane at like lv75 for the free bp and a named version for the paid one right awayi.e YF-23 and YF-23 Z.O.E like infinity
>>584292434I would like planes to be unlocked via events (NOT leaderboard events), but that's the AC:I inside me speaking.
>>584293143>playing warfare at alljej, jmao
What's his problem
>>584292936i think the same. The briefing are hella cool, even long ones
I can't decide if the sticker sets online are AI or not but they all kinda look bad either way
>>584293143nta but TLS’ issues are solved (on PC) by just dropping your controller into your lap and using MKB solely for directing your sotoan evaporator 9000imo still inferior to the MiG31 (especially when you have Q/LAAMS at the same time) but that’s a pure PVE perspectivesidenote that the TLS is surprisingly good at handling the Chandelier, and you get a lot of gun ammo as well.
>>584293385My F4 gunpods carrying chandalier hard.
>>584293143It's a hitscan laser, it doesn't require any skill to use.>Also, people have leveled up planes already you stupid fuck.Then what was the point of saying >they'll get cranked by better players in lower tier but max level planes.If they can easily deal with a level 10 morgan then they'll absolutely rape any other low tier plane he might level up to 15 or 20Nothing about the Morgan is a noob trap
>>584293096Could've done the opposite too, switch to really rudimentary stuff after they get paranoid about someone backdooring their equipmentA one-off whiteboard briefing with someone's hand offscreen doodling the enemies and flight paths would've been super funny, uncapping different markers, etc
>>584292495He shills it pretty hard
If you’re on Chandelier with a Morgan, and you Chuck MPBMs while your Allie’s are in the pipe, fuck you. You are the blacked retard gorilla.
>>584284732The side story for Ace 8 will more Mobius One, just like in 7. It will focus on Enso Order directing Sotoa to attack North Point as a prologue kaikaku so that Mobius One's old ass can stomp them for the sake of data collection in their sublimation project. He will do this n an X-40. This will explain why the Sotoans get their hands on an X-40 for Selene. Because after said stomping, Sotoa will cry to Department 303 and thus get an X-40 to use themselves as now that Enso has good base data for further augmentation using Selene. The sidestory will be just as short as Mobius One's dip of missions in 7, but part of the opening to this sidestory will be the 8 in Ace8 turning into a mobius strip, because the Japanese love puns. None of this will have anything to do with the addendum campaign missions to the main story that we will get later.
>>584293576I do it on purpose btw.
>>584293576I do it on purpose desu
>>584293576>morgan fires a mbpm>fps dip into 20s>crashTHE STRONGEST ELECTRONIC WARFARE PLATFORM
>>584293576Go dance with the angels
>>584293594It'd be interesting if we got a Mobius DLC, and then a Trigger DLC that shows Osea's reaction to Sotoa's bullshit.
Do Sorties/Scrambles expire? Can I save this one for tomorrow?
>>584293859ye no worries
>>584293814Unfortunately it seems like the good guys decided to stay out of this time because they gave them too much shit for being interventionists the last time.
>>584293893There could have been some underhanded wetwork missions going on.
I think it's lame we've had 2 playable superplanes with detachable flight pods and we can't actually detach them ourselves. After running out of special ammo/taking enough damage I should be able to drop my dead weight and gunfight in a little turdmobile.
>>584293219I too would like this, but not for default planes like a basic bitch YF-23. That shit from which you speak should be for augmented stat variants of planes already in the game, like an F14-D RAZ.
>>584293937>Trigger's reaction when he's told his job is done and somebody else already took care of his 2 greatest foes combined (a super sub and a drone)
>>584294049Wouldn't Trigger just be banging crippled tomboy puss in Osea?
>>584293576heh... nothing personnel kid...
>>584293576Oh shit, i think i'll add that into my repertoire.
Missile trails disappear too quickly.
>>584294049Triumphant barely counts as "super" desu
>>584293814Trigger is too busy pussy pounding his cripple. Besides, he may have fought for the Space Elevator, but that never meant he did so for the sake of Rosey. So, since she now controls the damn thing, Trigger could very easily just not bother. Because the people who shipped Rosey and Trigger always ignored the fact of her being the direct cause of a lot of grief he suffered.
>>584294204He get to do that everyday, multiple times and back to back, what he doesn't get to do everyday is fly at mach 3 while at sea level and violently pressing the off button on whatever AI controlled vehicle he comes across.
>>584293576The worst people in this game are people that bring ECM planes into death match. What the actual fuck is wrong with your brain that compels you to do this? Absolute maximum faggotry.
>>584294364if they did this in UE5 your house would catch on fire
>>584293576I just SFFS the barrel from outside when it's open because my chonker of a vodka fueled Rook doesn't need to fly in to damage the thing. Not my problem.
>>584292802Just did my first match. My F-14A, two F-4Es, and a morgan vs two Su-34s and two F/A18Es.
>>584294859me when i see kate
Coooopyyyy. :D
Ladon might just be the coolest addition 8 made to the fictional plane stable desu
>>584291821this is half of drakengard
I'm still letting my first playthrough stew in my head. How hard is Ace compared to previous games?
>>584295098Those anti-missile drones can fuck off, though.
>>584295195The easiest, by a large margin.
>>584295195really isn't, the presence of your squadmates and their ability to spam spw at shit makes 99% of S ranks really ezAI isn't really much smarterthe biggest difference is that they won't take head on double missile taps as often now
>>584294859
>>584295279NTA, but what's the hardest Ace difficulty game?
>>584295424X
>>584295424seconding>>584295493 the missiles there are fucking insane and it's an old AC game, so you know the AA gun is demonic there
>>584295279>>584295308I never downloaded Ace of Aces DLC on AC6, was that the peak?
>>584295709it's not just the missiles, some of the missions are straight up evil
>>584293005The only things that need adjusting are, the amount of laam you get should be cut short, so you have to waste a part slot for the option of more special. And two, the laam itself needs a much longer refresh time to reload, so you can't spam them, unless, again, you take a part to do so. What makes laam broken is that you don't need parts to make them good in a system that has gimped all other missiles into needing parts.
>>584295832time limit eh
>>584295424X is up there, but I'd put 04 up there too,, there is some godawful fuckery in that one
>>584291821Wasn't there some shitty dragon game early in the PS4 lifecycle that tried to do this but it sucked? Also they tried again with Century of Ashes, which is only remotely playable if you like Korea teir level grinding.
>>584295873LAAM homing is also stupid. You shouldn't be able to shoot red enemies from any angle and still get a hit 90% of the time.
>>584296072Divinity Dragon Commander?
>>584292434Instead of super planes being an option, they should only be tied to a new gamemode.>Ace BountyRandom player from a group of five is seleted to pilot a random super plane. Doesn't even need to be conventional, as it can also include typically unplayable crafts.>Strike Wyvern, X-40, Morgan, XB-70, etc.First third of game time, both sides start far away and are given an objective to destroy a bunch of targets. This is also a nice way for the bounty player to test out their new craft.Last two thirds, it rolls a random objective for the rest of the players:>Hunt down the bounty target>Defend A LOT of allied units both air and ground from said bounty target (to be lenient to the defenders)>Defend a specific objective from being taken (king of the hill style)
>>584295910That one is just a waiting game with no checkpoint, it's more boring than hard sometimes
>no eagle with SAAMaww
>>584296215SAAMs are dogshit in 8 anyways.
>>584296087That's more a problem with AI being ass. Red targets should be ace quality assholes who need to be hounded to kill, no matter the missile.
>>584295709Standard missiles are HVAA in X, though it goes both ways.
You'd think by the time of the battle for rocky island that dealer and joker flight would be used to Rex instinctively flying into holes big enough for his plane to fit in
>>584296654Rex is a hole autist, which why he likes tight fighter pilot puss.
I've only found one tunnel run in 8 (the power plant). What are the other ones?
I'm begging my S rank Ace run, during elite, I tried to S rank mission 28 with the Game, equipped with SASM and HPAA, I got 132k before fighting the Shadows, and took too long. I thought SASMs were supposed to work well? I launched them, and every time it didn't hit with the proximity explosion. The Shadows just kept dodging and dodging. I got an S rank with the F-15C during my Pilot run, but I figured the Game would be better on a harder difficulty. So what is the right way to kill these faggots quickly?
>>584296997fire two missilesbait the kulbitsasmthere's a ~1 sec window after their chimpout acrobatics where your sasm will be at its peak performance
>>584296967Mission 04 has another with enemies inside, there are a couple of holes you can fly through but nothing special inside them.
>>584296967Technically the tracks on the land battleship. But I don't think you can actually blow off the tracks early.Also 03.
>>584297059Seems really annoying.
>>584297096>there are a couple of holes you can fly through but nothing special inside themThat's stupid.One of the things I hate about 8 is while there are a lot of epic setpieces like the landships and such, there's nothing like 7's Fleet Destruction mission where the whole setpiece is tunnel run training.
>>584296967numbered fleets has a tunnel between the portsentering it spawns an ace (a gripen)it's implied he ejected while in the tunnel and got splatted on the ceiling
>>584296967I know of>mission 4's highway through the mountain>mission 24 and 25's geothermal plant>the inside of the space elevator whenever it shows up>land battleship treads whenever they show up
>>584297236When I did that one I was assuming he spawned on the map somewhere, not right in the tunnel. So I didn't nail him and he made it out of the tunnel...
>>584297349great job dummy, now you've created a time paradox
>>584295873I mean just nerfing LAAM wouldn't change the fact that the missions themselves are complete pushovers that get completely rolled by 8 playersStraight up just not enough action for everyone
>>584297349I did shoot him down but it did catch me off guardpic semi related
People are overrating TLS by a lot. By the time you get in range to comfortably aim (TLS range is ~5km), and maybe kill a single plane, you're already being swarmed by IWS buffed LAAMs.I'm pretty sure most people are getting TLS kills on distracted players, which a fire and forget weapon like the QAAM would be able to accomplish with far less drawbacks.
>>584296997EML-Bs, TLS and MPBMs are all better at dealing with shadows than SASMs, you'd be sacrificing normal mission performance for a big boost to boss fight performance.
>>584296921>tightKate has a thousand cock stare
>>584297608SASM oneshot bombers, you know.
>>584297680female fighter pilot pussies are restored to factory settings after every high G turn
>>584297429Yeah, if everyone is competent you can get S rank with four people. Eight people is way over the top for what the missions are.
One of my favorite assault moments is when I am pursuing a mission update ace, he flares and then immediately dies to a LAAM.
>>584297586Anything inside the 6.8km range of my TLS is dead in less than a second because getting in and out of the hitbox instantly hits you with another damage tick. I can get in range of a MiG-31, shoot him down and turn away from the LAAM before it reaches me. It's also better at dealing with distracted players because they'll see you or your missile in radar and react accordingly but by the time they get the first warning of my TLS, that being the laser burning through their cockpits, they might as well already be dead.
>>584297680She not only witnessed her whole squad dying but nearly drowned and was around on the Endurance to witness every other flight besides Queen and Joker getting shit on earlier in the war. Rex's giant giga-raptorum will be the only thing to help her heal from all that trauma.also I have it on good authority that lady fighter pilots often piss during repeated high-g
What is maximum threat?
>>5842983153 stars
>>5842983153 stars near the nickname
>>584297680That's just standard shellshock
>>584298259The revelation that women have zero bladder control will always be funny to me.
>>584297734Yeah, as I said, you're at 70% capacity throughout the mission but that doesn't matter because the time bonus is gigantic and you're at 200% power for the boss fight.
>>584298215TLS is the counter for ECM, theoretically. But it's too weak for the role, and if they buff it, the thing will be abused again just like 7. There is no winning.
>>584298431It's the best and most consistent A2A weapon, sits at the top of the food chain when it comes to dealing with a specific target and that's how you win warfare, nowhere near weak.
>>584298364Do flight suits get washed in one of those massive industrial spinners, just like any other bit of dirty cloth kit on a boat? Because it doesn't seem to me that they would. Flight suits ideally would be steam cleaned only I think.
>>584298364imagine the smell in the x40
>>584298348>>584298351There's no way it's just that. I get that at the start of every match just killing AI, there's no way I've only done that twice
>>584298359dunno man, knowing military woman, that back tattoo may just be so that guys remember her name after theyre done with her
>>584298259Hot...
Is Scramble the only mode that drops plane blueprints?
>>584298698odds are it only counts if you survived with 3 stars until the end of the matchidk>>584298971yes but you can just buy these at 1k/pop in the store
>>584299040ntw but I have a massive mismatch between ending the match at 3 stars and being the max threat.I got no idea what it means
>>584298315Maximum thread mogged.
>>584298431TLS is great but most people are shit so they can't use it. Just like how so many people time out mission 28 because their entire strategy is pushing the missile button when the box is red and they can't do anything more complex than that. It's not the weapon's fault, it's just that most players are really bad.
>>584298971You can buy them with zoll thank god
>>584298814Imagine being on the run for an entire war unable to find furlough or resupply easily. The stink on the seats of those F/A-18 aircraft would be impossible to get out. Burn that shit after the war.
>0:44-0:45Well, we found the new Sotoan saint here. Can't wait for massivfe demonstration to happen in Ibirshhttps://youtu.be/aH_j2lnQNrU
>>584299040>>584299197Alright, I thought there were other modes that gave blueprints like deathmatch. What even is the purpose of that mode if the rewards are low on everything?
>>584299241My face smells the same for similar reasons, you want to burn me as well? Sometimes you have to live with the imperfections.
is online relevant enough to warrant a general over at /vm/?
>>584299173The problem is more that you need to learn how to use it predicatively while on the run from a team of laam boats being babysat by ECM. That is beyond most people online.
>>584299371stop being a retard
>>584299289I'd feel bad for them, but then I remember what happened in Expo City and I down another Gemma flight.
>>584272264
>>584299371No lmao
>>584299329it's fun tbdesu. less stressful than the co-op modes
>>584299361Face sitter advice. You should try wearing swim goggles to avoid pink eye.
>>584299469kek>during the reign of Gumpta the Great, all of Southern Usea was under Sotoan rule
I did it
Look at that cash moneyToo bad my dumb ass is doing these all on free mission so I'm still not getting the secret plane on this level
>>584300096They should bring back finding secret plane parts. That was a fun bit of replay in Zero and 5.
>>584300096Oh I should also mention that re-arming mid-fight seems to break the Shadows' AI and they didn't dodge my ensuing barrage of ESM boosted SASMs, so I could kill them super fast.
>>584300223I don't think there are secret plane parts in Zero
patch doko
The F-16s so fucking good now, it's been so long since the last time.
I just realized none of the armed NPCs in the online lobby have any kind of sights on their rifles
The last time we had cool default skins was in Zero, why can't we also get cool paint jobs, why do I have to fly with the enemies colors if I want to stand out.
>>584300981
What will the DLC be about? If it's even half as good as Torres wild ride i'll be happy
>>584301292ok thankyu much
Is this the only Ace Combat that doesn't have a coherent reason for actually happening?
>>584301338I don't think anything will ever top AC7's DLC trilogy. Two of the best point destruction missions in the game, then the best boss battle in the game.
>>584301447>Fucked your own country up so much you invade another for lebensraumI don't really see what's hard to follow here
Anon who just started online here. I have a hard time gauging just how shit I am. I don't know I'm playing like shit or if my planes are just shit. I've scored well a few times. I did the warfare mode one time for a daily, but damn I feel like the netcode is too garbage to seriously do PvP. Maybe if this wasn't ace combat and pilots had to abide by realistic turn rates.
F-14D or MiG-31 for MP? It seems they have similar niches
>>584301585I think at low levels, its a bit pointless to get into turning dogfights since your planes handle like shit without higher levels and/or parts versus taking sniping potshots with LAAMs or SAAMs.Though maybe the MiG-21 can reasonably do it I guess since it comes packed with SASMs? Maybe anons with more experience can offer more advice since I have not used the 21
>>584301447The Sotoans have the most coherent and sympathetic reason for invading, even if they are war criminals.Although it is a little weird they didn't decide to go all in on the nomad larp and become ocean nomads. I guess they might have run into some problems with fishing rights and such.
>>584301607MiG-31 imo
>>584299162>>584299040>>584298315I just killed a blue 3 star dude and didn't get a +1 maximum threat kill. I think there's a hidden value that we can't see that determines maximum threat, not just stars
>>584302029since more than one guy can hold the max threat at once it might be highest points based?
>>584288537>https://acecombat.wiki.gg/wiki/Osean_War>AC?>Set in future.>You are the last in the line of Gollnitz, you are a mercenary fighter pilot.>As the corporations fight each other and the NUNs you earn your keep with your fellow Belkans as fighters for hire. >The contracts go bad, you are double crossed.>You must now choose vengeance, fighting avenge fallen comrades...>... Or answering the call for aid from the homeland, on it's heels as the rest of the world seeks it's final demise.>Either way, you must fly across the world...>... Every one your enemies...
>>584301731I've bought a handful of different planes, but upon the advice from anons here I'm not upgrading anything beyond 5 until the patch notes.
Would it be a good idea or not if AC9 is the actual General Resources and Neucomm corpo war...but the twist is that at one point you see an unknown mute and silent plane pop out of nowhere and start blasting
>>584302378They've never had a previous protagonist make an appearance beyond vague references, would they really shove Nemo into AC9 considering he came from a PS1 era game that was never officially translated?
>>584302378would that really be a twist if everyone playing is just waiting for nemo to show up
>>584302378As long as it doesn't take place in Usea, I will approve
>>5843023789 should be the corpo war and then electrosphere combined. People forget how short Ace3 really was.
>>584301607F-14 flies better but MiG-31 has QAAM in the third slot which is good for some missions.F-14 costs far less to upgrade (half the credits, only 10 gold blueprints instead of 30) which is good, but eventually that'll stop mattering.You should wait a few hours in any case since there's a chance the update will change something relevant.
>>584302378But there never was any corpo war
>>584302705But there will be.
>>584302513>They've never had a previous protagonist make an appearance beyond vague referencesexcept for Falco 1, which actually spoke to Gryphus 1
>>584302798Fake news.NeuTwitter said the explosions in Expo City were just fireworks.
>>584288537>the ace combat world when airplanes were brand new
Just bought the Nightmare for SP. And it feels kinda meh for a super plane. The drones are terrible especially when I compare it to the Raven's drones. Haven't tried the railgun though.
>>584302705>>584302798Strangereal people are genetically predisposed to war, the moment things look good someone will become violently retarded and shit everything up for everyone.
>>584302901The EML is the EML. Nothing really new or exciting at this point
>>584302868Also, isn't Expo City supposed to be decimated by Tonitrus? How come it's intact in AC3?
>>584303026The impact craters actually get repurposed into Domes. It's a little scary when you realize what you're looking at.
>>584302987That's fine. I like the EML anyway. Still disappointed with the drones. Wish it fired pulse lasers like the Raven's instead of a beam.
>>58430302611 years is enough time to rebuild quite a lot
>>584303117idk there's a pothole on my street that remembers reagan's administration
>>584303026Probably repurposed into something like the meteor crater in mission 4
>>584303184America is a 3rd world shithole, we know
>>584303209It's literally this, to the point where it feels like the rebuilding from the meteor retroactively foreshadows the rebuilding from the Tonitrus Spears. The world has gotten so used to cleaning up and covering up the damage from Ulysses, the corporations do the same thing to cover up what really happened in this current war.
>>584303270it's poland THOUGHI just localized the joke for a broader audience appeal
Which character surprised you the most bros? I initially really disliked DD but he slowly grew on me especially during the reveal. He literally had no stakes in this war and yet he willingly stuck his neck out multiple times.
>>584277652hnnngg, somebody better mod this in
>>584303393I want him and Nemo to burn the corps from the inside
>>584303393The XO, i was fully ready to hate her because Debra Wilson and she ended up pretty good, also Kate because i thought nothing of her until i played the game.
>>584303393Fort Grays schizo, I really thought we're going to murk them for being Torres 2.0, but then mission 28 happened
>>584303517>DD, David North, Alex, and Nemo work to take down the megacorps
>>584303563Debra Wilson is perfectly fine when she's not just herself. You can get away with it in movies because that's the nature of the medium, but that isn't a limitation vidya has. Anytime I see a character that is just the actor, it's like my immersion gets flashbanged.
>>584303563The problem with Debra Wilson is everyone lazily uses her face scan and as a result she becomes "the bald black lady you see in every game", when they just have her act as another character she's actually pretty good.It's the same problem with VA's like Nolan North. He's actually talented, but VA directors always tell him to "do the Nathan Drake voice" because that's why they hired him.
>>584303584>Schizos who holed up underground and went insane>Molemen squadronBRAVO KOJIMA!
>>584303738It always sucks when an actor has excellent range and they're repeatedly told not to use it
>>584303829A good chunk of VA directors should hang, and I'm not joking. Whenever you have a terrible VA performance, that's because the director didn't do enough takes or work with the VA for long enough.
>>584303563>Degenerate Gambler that loves pastries and card gamesWow, Debra Wilson is literally me...
>>584303117where i live 11 years isn't even enough to build a single railroad line, lol
>>584303954are you brown
>>584303073>>584303026>GRL and the Doniphans begin to immediately rebuild all the damage after the Sotoan chimpout>Meanwhile places like Newfield Island and Farbanti are still fucked by Ulysses with ruins circling forty years oldWhat gives?
I hope that by AC9 they finally make it so the enemy faction's aircraft carriers aren't kuznetsovs
>>584304047ac9 will be set before the belkan war which will make kuznetsov cutting edge for the setting
>>584304047>can't use US or Euro carriers because then western players would think that's a political statement o algo>can't use Chinese carriers because that'd get your game bannedKuznetsov will be PA's abuse goblin for eternity.
>>584304012Ulysses is way too big, meanwhile Tonitrus is just a pimple
>Joker squadron AKA the wings of Theve>N-no don't follow Rex into the tunnel no... He's the only one who can do it how can we compete?>Chad Count>Uses ancient magics to disable the Arsenal bird forcefield>Realizes they have been relying on Trigger way too much so he follows him into the space elevator chase the drone>Plane is damaged inside but someone manages to actually run the tunnel before having to make an emergency landing inside the damn thingCount>>>Joke squadron
>>584304012Farbanti got flooded and the ground may be completely unstable. Coastline is forever fucked.
>>584304012But Newfield island is fully rebuilt what do you mean?
>>584303980 ethnically speaking yes, but i'm actually really fucking pale in a slightly unhealthy way
>>584304221With ghosts being real, could Count's magic also be real?
>>584304047Could try making their own damn carrier for once.
>>584304447Count can't directly change reality, but he can suggest things to it. Cosette would have failed to break the space elevator bits if Count hadn't weakened the veil between reality and the beyond.
>>5842943642d cloud blending tech
>>584304325Take a closer look, in free flight there are still ruins.
>>584304221Do you think it's hard to fly a plane through a tunnel IRL? Or is it just the fear of death that stops pilots from trying?
>>584304447>>584304601S-sugoi...
>>584294364is it me or is this game stages incredibly dark? I know Anea is supposed to be snowy region but damn Usea is all sunshine
>>584303393I'm surprised how much I like Baxter. The old wise mentor type is always a favorite of mine but he didn't seem all that interesting from the trailers. He's cool. I like the scenes showing how the war is actually taking a toll on him morale wise and how he tries to keep up appearances for Tasha and Coster's sake.>>584304538I think 3 had OC donut ship designs.
>>584304734Operation Chastise was basically a tunnel run irl
>>584304538>gets nuked
>>584304795His little sperg out with nomad(Hard N) made him one of my favorites. He was gonna leave man why did you have to start blurting slurs now?
>>584304909I absolutely adore that little arc, it's like the game turns into a comedy for 30 minuted until Rio Bajo get destroyed. The canyon mission is kinda ass but the dialogue is fantastic and it's a good showcase of how ramshackled the FCU separatists are.
>>584304538That's not really a great example since Nuclear Option's vehicles are all heavily inspired by real ones.
>>584305252
I wish more squadron shows up for mission 28, we got Shark as Baxter rep, Green as Cope rep, Flying Mole as Ray rep. I know Purple Magic could've been Coster's and I wish they are saveable but Tasha does not form any relationship with all these side squadron.
>>584305460I know we can't get protags back but I would have liked to see Count or any of the other past non-protag characters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKB_l9vNDhU
>>584305556If only Count was named Nagase
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The Tonitrus Spears are noted to have a kinetic yield of 10 kilotonnes.So each hit is only a little shy of the bombing of Hiroshima, but without radioactivity and most of the blast going into the ground.In fact they are singularly ineffective considering Expo City got hit with five and most of the buildings were still standing.
>you are in violation of international law>a matter of interpretation, i'd say
>Matching unsuccesful as some players have left. Returning to the Lobby.
>>584305252Hell, I'd take the Ifrit too, be nice to have another high-tier carrier plane since IRL has provided nothing beyond the F-35C. And B I guess but PA hates VTOL for some reason, so no FS-20 either.
>>584305839Unfortunately, the Sotoans failed to realize that the rules of warfare are not objective, but reciprocal and escalatory, so enjoy all your dead nuggets.
>>584305908That plane looks too small.
>>584305908chibi f35 send post
woweeee the Alect squadron and Fenrir fights are a pain in the assI'd really forgottenbut I guess it's partly my own fault for immediately jumping in on Expert with only that initial campaign's worth of planes and parts
>>584304538If AC9 is gonna be a future war game, I want to finally take off and land on an Alicorn tier sub. Fucking imagine how stuck it would be to do that with a super plane or some shit while underwater, at depth.You see people clearing the deck as internal floodlights blink on. The bay door lowers with a rush of seawater as the liquid reverberates into darkness with only the instrument diodes of your COFFEN flickering, until a flash from the EMALS turns everything white. The sub elevates to punch you through the surface, and for a split second you see the filter of a cold sea blue as a random fish darts away while a swarm of bubbles blur your cockpit like a thousand tiny drones. Then you explode into the open air, the pitched whine of your Night Raven's engines screaming as you High G directly into combat.
How many people died on Megafloat Fatsia?The crew eventually surrenders but the game also says it sank, taking the Sotoan high command/hereditary warlords with it.
>>584306208The answer is not nearly enough.
>>584303563I liked her too. I really liked the reveal at end that she was Dealers mentor since she had also been making gambling analogies and it made so much sense. Her having a big sweet tooth was also fun.
>>584306272Do you think she hijacks the carrier's kitchen to bake the cakes herself
>>584305860It was me, they saw my lvl 20 F22 and decided to bale
do you think tewy died when she exploded or did she live till she splatted on the floor
>>584306430I'm going to drop a fucking MPBM in your HOUSE
>>584290434I just wanted to say I enjoyed that write-up
>>584306517She got desintengrated by my Su-57's GSh-30-1
>>584306646ty anon
>>584306517Died from the blast, easy
>>584306517A close explosion like that would liquefy your brain even with a high tech helmet, she was dead frame one.
>>584306517She COULD be the first enemy ace to come back considering she got digitized by hitting 100% neural uplink, the black box from the Nightmare would need to be recovered though.
i want to see a protagonist ace die
>5 matches in a row where the match couldn't fire because "someone left the lobby"fucking hell.
>>584279762Anon, the F/A-36's HD model has Chengdu stylings and is explicitly called out as being unintuitive and liable to get inexperienced pilots killed...
It's me. I've been disconnecting my internet on purpose.
>>584307062I don't get why they can't just hotswap the empty space with a CPU
>>584306972This is how a combined corpo-war and electrosphere game should go, the first half culminates with your rise as a hero and death at the closing of the war and the second half is electrosphere where the uninitiated nugget thinks they're some sort of digitized data wraith as the same character but the seasoned no-lifer knows the deal with NEMO.
this is like the 4th japanese game that tried to make "Terminus" sound cool (and the only one that isn't a JRPG), but it just doesn't work imo, there's always something added on that sounds funky and lame like 'fingers' here. i know they're going for the mythological connotation but still
>>584304746Lighting tech still wasn't there. The PS2 games were pretty dim too.
>>584304047Yuktobania's naval export scene must be fucking huge. Their ships are EVERYWHERE.
>>584307558AC5 and AC0 are pretty bright during the morning, especially on place like Sand Island
I don't know why but I've been obsessed with the idea of hollowing out an Arsenal Bird and turning it into a giant flying monowing-shaped house and/or base. I feel like it'd be extremely comfy.
How mighty is the dragon, really?
>>584308531It feels wrong for an aircraft that isn't giant to be called the Dragon
>>584308531Spoiler that shit, I'm not fond of throwing up in front of my PC.
>>584308531Seems pretty slow but it has good combat range and is more functional as a low observable fighter than the Su-57
>>584273306>Belka was NOT responsible this time>DD namedrops AWWNB>Also implied that Enso was a puppet of GR (which was founded by former Grunder people) from the start and the ending they are just re-absorbing their assetsYeah, safe to say that belka was involved this time too, they where just smarter this time.
>>584308656To be fair, the J-20 is absolutely a huge bitch
>>584308531It's better than the Felon and they actually know how to build the fucking thing in numbers. I 100% believe it's inferior to the F-22 and F-35, but numbers do count and I am worried about that.
>>584308821Who's the belka of corporations? I haven't played 3
>>584308656dragon sounds like the name of a bomber, or maybe a close air support platform like the a-10
>>584308821This is why I'm all in on Neucom, fuck GR!
>>584308531If it was any good, then the CCP wouldn't be so afraid of it getting blown up in videogames.
They're going to gut LAAMs right?
>>584308872I think I saw some reporting by USAF saying that they've had some encounters with them. According to them it can schmoove pretty well but those aren't actual combat situations either, just patrols bumping into each other and fucking around to display dominance. No mention about who saw who first though.
>>584307157I should at least be compensated when faggots are alt-f4ing when they don't get a map that they like.
>>584303393CopeI wasn't expecting a brooding one-liner ghost in your head to be as funny and charming as he was
>>584309249The patrols all go out with those stealth-impeding attachments anyway so that anyone watching can't get a good read on their true capability.
>>584309207They just need to return other missiles to their previous lock distance. What makes them so good now is that all the other missiles got range gimped.
>>584307106Anon, no. They're based on the X-36.
>>584306957>Planning Division 303 remnants recover her X-40's black box>Plan to upload it to drones>It's a Mihaly situation all over again>DLC is about stopping said drones, except they come in all sizes now (ground, air, sub, carrier, etc)
>>584309207>nerf to emergency sortie spawn rates>buffs to EW aircraft stats>raised the costs for uncapping aircraft>added 5 new avatar skins in the shop>added the card game to the lobbyu rike
>>584309207Literally just nerf the score gain from using SPW, if you nerf LAAM as a whole then campaign players are going to suffer too
Just dawned on me that the existence of Kate's brace means she might have an ongoing injury. Which means that, as her husband, Rex has dibs on massaging her
>>584304012They didn't bow down to corpos.
The sp mig-31 is based on the fake mig-25 the Soviets let escape to fool the crapitalists into thinking it's some steel body rocket with wings. The mp mig-31 is based on the real 100% Stallinium made mig-25 that the USAF shat themselves over.
>>584306957Man I REALLY hope they don't use the sublimation thing to handwave Cope force ghosting Rex in the campaign. Him being an actual real supernatural ghost is far superior thematically.
>>584310260They are Useans, they do by default, just like Emmeria to GR and Aurelia to Neucom
>>584310530>mig-25 that the USAF shat themselves overwhy did they think it was going to be an air superiority fighter to begin with? the engine size and wing aspect ratio are so drastic that they don't say anything about the plane being anything other than an interceptor/missile truck
>>584310251>Just dawned on me that the existence of Kate's brace means she might have an ongoing injury.seems like she has multiple injuries, actuallybut she keeps going despite them
>>584292280Its God tier if you're good.If you're a retard that can't fly or aim straight with the TLS you are better off with legit anything else.
>>584310940Rex living out his best Katawa Shoujo fantasy
I won a Deathmatch lobby with the Fulcrum so I guess it's my got to Fighter now.
>>584310986how do I practice TLS?
>>584311161the red swallow....
>>584311182What do you mean? Just point the laser at the enemy
>>584311182Use a mouse and keyboard
>>584311182The same way you practice anything, just use it until you're good.
>>584311193Funny enough I was actually rocking a blue livery I got from the supply boxes.
>>584311407the blue swallow...
>>584311420Yeah I guess so. It's a fun plane. I never gave it much thought in 7.
Linuxbros.. I want to play online too..
How do i get the Morgan? I don't really give a shit about multiplayer, i just want it for the campaign
>>584311590money
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uWgnr4msfwThis remains the best hangar theme.
>>584311614How much money?
>>584311680At minimum ten bucks.
>>584311557I played the shit out of fulcrum both in mp and sp in 7hoping for the mig-35 soon so I get one with SAAM shame the aviatika 925 is a bp skini love the yellow fulcrum but i am not spending a fucking dollar on the abomination that is ac online
>>584311680Tree fiddy.
>>584311708Do i need to play multiplayer to unlock it?
>>584311758You need to be able to open multiplayer
>>584311758Just need to redeem it via multiplayer otherwise no.
why can't you just creamapi the morgan
>>584311795>>584311796Good enough, thanks anons
>>584311835Denuvo or some shit.
>>584311716>spoilerSmarter man than me, I spent 20 bucks, 30 if you count one month of PS Plus. I don't hate it so far but God it's rough. Reminds me of GBO2 funnily enough. I hope that skin is added as a DLC pack or something when this season is over.
>>584311874>PS Plusthis shit is such a fucking scam
>>584306517She got shot before being thrown out of the plane.
>>584311874>30 if you count one month of PS Plus>paying to use your internet connectionunironic mental illness
>>584311874>PS PlusMemba when you could play online on Playstation for free?
>>584310251>>584310940This is what makes Kate a true mother type and why Rex is lucky to have her. She keeps going on despite everything to protect her kids.
>>584310842>why did they think it was going to be an air superiority fighter to begin with?They didn't. They lied to congress and overhyped the photos of the Mig-25 in order to scare them into approving more funding for their pet projects.
>>584311674Hanger III from 8 completely wipes the floor with this lmao
>>584312042ur dad should have wiped u with a hanger when he had the opportunity
>>584312042Hanger deez nuts.
Kate should've either died or never got shot down. I like Kate but I hate the trope they used.
didn't ask
>>584310054Suddenly your flight is interrupted by a rebuilt Huginn and Muninn as another autonomous corpo-node decides to go against 303 for their clear incompetence in handling the war. It becomes a fight against singing Sotoan drones all patterned on Tewy and silently competent Mihaly drones while Rex is in the middle as a combination of Hortus Regis Alti (Tertius) and ADFX-10 plays.
>>584311674For me 5's Hangar 1 is iconichttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EYh-58xZ6s
>>584312142i thought it was fine but how it happened was a little stupid
>>584311927>>584311972Damn right it is but unfortunately a Nogamestation 5 was my best option to play 8. I almost pulled the trigger on a 'cheap' prebuilt PC, but I'm glad I didn't because low end GPUs have been struggling with 8. To be honest I don't even know long Online's gonna hold my attention.>>584311994I member. I also remember we rightfully made fun of Xboxfags for paying for their online and how the coped about it being superior because Microshaft was incentivized to make it better. But now even Nintendo charges for online. This fuckass industry needs another crash and Sony specifically needs their headquarters V2'd.
>>584312021Much like the Marines tricking Congress into getting them a new service rifle by pretending the M27 was going to replace the Saw.
>>584312336>M27 was going to replace the Saw.didn't it?
>According to this image Tasha is 29Aside from the fact that this doesn't line up with the timeline of the game with the whole Sotoa-Yuktobanian war and Tasha saying her parents met after it, Tasha just does not really look it. Either its a typo or I am choosing to believe this is part of a fake ID she uses to get into places with age restrictions while on shore leave and it always backfires on her cause Baxter or Kate always inevitably catch her and send her home.
This game is much easier compared to the older titles. I only got shot down in campaign twice and both times were because I slammed into the ground at 99% then got tagged by AA
>>584312423Nah, she's not 29. I'd say 19.
>>584312449>I slammed into the ground at 99% >then got tagged by AAhuh?hitting the ground is supposed to kill you outright.anon... you're not using the reduced crash damage setting, are you? because that would be shameful.
>>584312390It sorta did but the SAWs never got removed from service. What I understand now is that they're shifting back to belt feds but keeping the M27 as the standard rifle. Really it's more of a happy accident than the crayonmunchers fleecing Congress but it's so much funnier to think of it that way.
>>584312538nah ever since 7 if you tap the ground at a high enough angle it'll just bounce you off
>>584310675Watch, they will make Rex a legit newtype who does actually communicate with ghosts as a medium to fighter pilot Valhalla, just to ALSO do the sublimation plot, so we get a man made horrors of technology theme clashing with the supernatural biological evolution theme in an all out grudge match fist fight.And then Larry Foulke and Joshua Bristow are namedropped as the founders of GRL and Enso Order.
>>584309207They just have to switch LAAMs with SAAM
GOD PLANES ARE SO COOL FUCK
>>584312449I died at the Megayurt but that was because while flying to destroy the fusion core I had an unfortunate sneeze which made me lose control and crash into the core.>>584312515Yeah maximum would be 19. I would say if you look past her pink hair and notice her facial features along with how flat chested she is I would say she is a lot younger and even go as low as 15.
>>584312538I think it depends on the angle you kiss the ground.
>>584312606>>584312664blasphemythis should be patched out at once
>>584312606>>584312664nta but it still does damagethere's also a misc part that reduces it but it'll kill you if you're at 99% even with the misc part and that setting
>>584311716It's really funny that you can do post stalls in that little fucker.
>>584312646holy f*cking TRUTHITRUS SPEAR
>>584312609Using the souls of Sotoan pilots as ammo to guide the missile, creating more souls for more missile guidance
>>584312628Yeah, I feel like things would be better if LAAMs were the long range version of HPAA. Good for skull fucking that flight of bombers way the fuck over there, but kind of shit for shooting fighters. Use SAAM if you want long range that can track fighters well.
>>584312609An Ace Combat game where you have an entire squadron of batshit insane not-Viking warriors obsessed with seeking Valhalla complete with seers speaking to the dead seems like the sort of acid trip PA might go with at some point.
>>584304734
>>584312702>>584312698it used to be especially egregious in 7in fact if you struck an actual entity you'd take a laughable amount of damage instead of 99%see: this old ass webm
Speaking of licensing, I'd assumed that they didn't use B-52s, B-1s, or B-2s as enemies in 7 because Boeing and Locksneed didn't want their bombers portrayed doing war crimes, but then randomly in Mission 28 of 8 we get a bunch of B-1s to slaughter. Why exactly did they practically only use Tu-95s and Tu-160s as the bomber enemies in 7 and 8 when they used American aircraft as enemies previously?
>>584312858jesus christ what the fuck
>>584306972Remember how people were false flagging Rex dying before the game came out?
>>584312858Alicorn though is made out of rubber armor. That is why it bounces back most of what you throw at it.
>>584312858Average Mole Squadron fighter
>>584307174this is just mgs2
Anyone got that picture of Tasha roasting a battleship on a campfire? I can't find it anywhere.
>>584306972Coster being mute for most of the game and getting progressively less chatty made me think Rex was going to die and then he'd suddenly snap and take over.
>>584313032https://x.com/i/status/2109116696179130372
how do i look like Coster in my 30s
Fucking hate Tasha so much its unreal. Why couldn't it be her instead of Baxter..
>>584312884>he didn't find the B-2sOh no no no...Follow the missiles in the "this is a terrible plan right?" mission
>>584313075Thanks buddy
>>584312884Erusea's arsenal is even more Russian than Yuktobania's for some reason.
>>584312858This gotta be on easy or something.
>>584275063Ok, but isn't the real possibility of home-depot superweapons more worrying than super scarce top sekrit militur shit? You could even optimize and build mini superweapons
>>584310675Sublimation means they scan your brain and create an AI based off it. Even if that had somehow happened to Cope all that means is that there'd be a Cope AI on a computer/the internet somewhere. He wouldn't be stuck in your head unless you were secretly a cyborg with the hardware to support that.It'd also be a perfect copy of him so it'd act like he was when he was alive. When Dision gets sublimated the first thing he says is WHY ARE YOU FUCKING MY GIRLFRIEND to the human Dision, not weird muttering about how he's dead but he still has things he must do or seeing numbers from the future or whatever.
>>584313181Oh, didn't do that yet. Still begs the question as to why B-1s aren't used more and why the B-52 isn't used at all. Kinda boring just endlessly slaughtering 95s and 160s.
>>584313242it was my first run ever as I recall, and I don't believe ace diff was locked behind hard clear for dlc missionsI've managed to replicate that during the canyon run level on my recent ac7 ace playthrough although it put me on 72% and after bouncing off I crashed into the wall anyway
>>584304012Your image puts me in mind of a neat idea where you are forced to play using Belkan retrotech against all modern aircraft which everyone underestimates to their own peril as you start flinging shit like mini nukes in dogfights to compensate for the tech disadvantage.
>>584313270Dropping a big ass tungsten rod onto someone isn't that hard. Getting a big ass tungsten rod into orbit in the first place on the other hand is rather difficult. Or at least very expensive
>>584313163do some methnot too much meth, mind you -- just enough that you get skinny without losing too much muscle and you let your hair grow out and get messy
>>584313558what name is him
>wanna game a little before bed>pick up from where I last left off in AC8>mission 15I wish I was better at video games but thank god I S ranked in one shot otherwise I would have off myself
Who would it be easier to handle high Gs for? A lighter and smaller person or a heavier and bigger person?
>>584313805Technically a smaller person.
>>584313581R-103
>>584313863wow, like the minesweeper?
>>584312794Complete the cycle with the AWACS support plane that blasts a live concert on board as psionic supernatural support that legit increases your ability to fight, Macross style.
>>584313395I think it wouldn't really make sense for a force to field two different types of legacy heavy bomber. You can explain different fighters with differing levels of sophistication, but a defence ministry would see the 95 and 52 as rough equivalents.
>>584313001First time?
bee seventeen bawwmberr
>>584313395>>584312884isn't that because sotoa captured an amount of them after taking over the fcu and it's supposed to highlight that they sent in EVERYONE gary oldman style?
So, what's the best latin theme now?
>>584312609Hear me out: Ghosts of Razgriz, but actual ghosts.
Tasha should have had her ass beat by Kate and made to apologize to Baxter after her outburst post mission 14.
>Ghosts vs AI clones of people fighting in the electrosphereNow this is podracing.
>>584314072it's still alicorn even with its retarded lyrics
>>584313514Ideally that should have been 8, you're on a WWII carrier that was understaffed because was going to get retired, you should have spent the first few missions, until getting to the caviar palace, in old as dirt planes like F14As. The FA-18C. being slightly more modern, should have been your first reward for getting the Endurance to its first safe port.
>>584314112Ghosts that possess pilots randomly and greatly enhance their fighting capabilities for short periods of time? Ghost of Cipher possessing random nuggets in their hour of need causing them to solo entire hordes solo.
>>584314072Agnus Dei/Megalith always and forever.
>>584314273> solo entire hordes solo.go to bed anon
>>584314309I just noticed the typo. I think I will anon.
>>584314273Or ghosts finding a way to sublimate into COFFIN-equipped prototypes. Imagine the sheer terror of someone getting close enough and seeing there's no pilot, pinging there's no AI, yet still flying like an ace of aces.
>>584314432I've seen this plot before and it was not very good
>>584314248I thought they were trying to copy nuBSG at the start with the museum ship gathering up whatever people they can. I was expecting a whole bunch of retro aircraft to be available to play with because of it. Missed opportunity honestly.
>>584314484Okay, okay, but imagine:><<There's no one in the cockpit!>>><<Oh my god... they're all empt->> [explosion]
>>584314112but none of the ghosts of razgriz are confirmed dead yet chopper doesn't count
Okay, shut up. I don't wanna hear about this ghost shit. That's retarded. Take your supernatural shit and pitch it to the "Supernatural" showrunners. I don't want it in Strangereal.
>>584314579Well the devs started it with AC8?
ok what aboutplanes piloted by SKELETONS
planes piloted by other planes
>>584314112>Fighter pilot Valhalla exists, PJ, Professor and Chopper are up giving pilots their energy>But fighter pilot Hel also exists, full of parachute shooting dogs, with full merc Cipher is down there as the Demon King.>While oldass Pixy is staying alive as long as possible, just to spite him
I really wish Tasha/Coster repeatedly breaking formation resulted in at least one negative consequence to the team instead of just them, like Baxter having a close call with a sneaky shadow or something.
>>584314072I think it really is Hortus at this point. Its lyrics aren't repetitive and they actually say something relevant to the story.
>>584314687in all ways except physical, I am a plane>woosh
>>584314687aren't the arsenal bird's drones that already
>>584314579too late for that
>>584314728great way to make everyone hate the character who causes it
>>584314634Walk it back. Say he was just a schizo and the FCU REALLY needed pilots. Trigger is probably legally nuts and he's in the army. Walk it back.ONLY FLESH AND BLOOD FUSED WITH CUTTING EDGE AVIONICS AND METAL PLEASE.NONE OF THIS GHOST SHIT PLEASE. IT'S A PANDORA'S BOX THAT YOU DON'T WANT TO OPEN.
>>584314728Kate gave them both a spanking after nearly getting themselves killed by breaking formation on mission 20.
>>584314817but she told me that that was just something special for us...
Predictions on what the update will change?
Did maintenance start? Any patchnotes yet?
is wings of wax the greatest filter in the franchise?
>>584314870slight LAAM capacity decreasecard game addedthat's it
>>584314878LINUX SUPPORT!
>>584314878>>584314870lol
>>584314780ace combat fourteen will have you fight the summoned ghost of allen c hamilton and you will like it
>>584314946>summoned ghost of allen c hamiltonfor some reason i read this as lewis hamilton and thought why an f1 driver would be flying a jet
>>584314946>14>6 more games>best case scenario we get one game every 5 years>30 yearsOh I don't know.
>>584314273What about some obscure Ace Combat lore about a legitimately haunted plane that shows up in random battles to claim souls. Like the Black Marauder being this old gen mech full of holes, moving all odd and jerky but somehow fast as fuck, deadly and permanently terrifying anybody that witnesses it
>new games>implying ac8 won't be a forever game
>>584315037Kono doesn't have 30 more years in him. He's got two more games at best. I wonder who's picking it up after he's gone.
>>584315118me
Holy fuck they had me in the >depends on the direction of the turnpart
>>584315118going by the topic at hand, probably his ghost
>>584314712>AC9 is a Pixy redemption arc where he is the mentor to the player teaching him everything he knows to make them a true knight of the skies they need to be>Whole game you are fighting really advanced aircraft that you are struggling to compete with having to rely on skill>He dies protecting the player going down in one last fight despite his age>He leaves you one last gift though after death saying its to give you a chance to even the odds>Hangar opens up to reveal inside the Morgan
saving a good post for the next thread
>>584314571what if they kept pilots brains on ice and when the tech was advsnced enough they added it to the AI training, and over time different branches developed different personalities, and the speech they try to produce ala the Triumphant and Hugin/Munin became garbled callouts of your old dead wingmen
>>584315396Pixy is most likely dead at this point.
>>584314975Ridge Racer crossover?
>>584315417
>>584314637As an F-4 main, my time has come.
>>584314859For Rex its not a punishment.
>>584315396>Pixy loses one wing>keeps on fighting>takes multiple more bandits down>finally loses his second wing and goes downwould be poetic and kino
i understand mission 15 can be annoying but surely there's not this many ace combat veterans calling it difficult and it's all just a meme at this point?
>>584276079We can't have that in the op!
>>584315685>>finally loses his second wing and goes down>keeps on flying giving testament to victory of thrust over aerodynamics
>>584315561>>584314637>Ace Combat Fantasy>You fly jets against dragons, wyverns, griffons and other fantasy creatures
>>584314870I predict the only change will be a couple new cosmetics and a new set of videos on the big TV screen and literally nothing else.else.
>>584315726Most people who play Ace Combat are actually really bad.I mean really bad.
>>584315726it's not too difficult once you know what to expect from it, but the first time through it of course catches people by surpriseit's not that it's impossible, it's that it's frustrating and obnoxious when stuff doesn't work how you're used to
>>584315561gunpod spec F4 is my go to plane for murdering the arsenal bird whenever i get it
>fat, slow, boaty, subsonic >attackersWhy are these in ace combatWho fucking flies an A-6 in these gamesWe lost the F-5 or the MiG 1.44 for this trash
>>584315726It's not about difficulty it's more about how the mission does the switchero where you >go in with 4AAM > can't keep up> retry with faster plane and still cant keep up > notice the scripted sequence and finally bring sasm/mg parts
>>584231769I can do you one better than that...
>>584314432Simon is a fraud who never created a real sentient AI, he just plugged a ghost into a simulation to convice it that it's an AI program.
>>584315968wingmen who do bad in a mission get put in the A-6 as punishment
>>584315537I could see it working.>on the ropes>your wingmates have all taken enough hits to need to RTB>solo against a radar filled with red triangles>suddenly an empty jet drops into formation on your left><<Miss... miss... voice...>>>[your favorite dead wingman AI drop into the other two slots]><<One, two, three... One, one, two, th-three planes. Count 'em... all back... safe.>>
>>584315417Could go full Gundam and make every pilot a child and newtype.>>584315685It would be a sight to see. >>584315968A-6 actually has some decent loadout options at least but it arrives far too late in the campaign to be of any use and due to online lacking any balance whatsoever there is zero point using it.
>>584315845Same for me and the Chandelier. It melts stationary stuff so good.
>>584315992dunno man I beat it on my first tried with the f-18e and qaams, most of the time i just stood there and the ladons just turned around and came to me, i didn't really have to do anything clever
>>584315845The F-4 is surprisingly strong. Most people overlook it but with bombs or gunpods it can melt most ground targets or handle emergency sorties with ease.>>584316171*a newtype
>pixy is an old man nowjust like schumi... bros, i don't feel too good...
>>584316338its ok next ac will be set in 1985 he'll be young again
>>584316338Imagine being the "greatest ____ of all time" at something, an absolute global superstar, and then one day you have some stupid accident and you disappear entirely, virtually ceasing to exist as far as the rest of the world is concerned
>>584316046>he just plugged a ghost into a simulation to convice it that it's an AI program
>>584316257>i just stood there and the ladons just turned around and came to mein fairness, when the game tells you "OMG you have to chase these guys and stop them before they kill our entire fleet," most players are going to try to do that
>maintenance was literally maintenance, no actual changes to the gameokwelli hope the update comes soon!
>>584316456
>>584316660linuxbros..
>>584316456Cipher lives on as Scarface and Phoenix, no one can convince me otherwise as the entire deal with Cipher being a war hero and rich as fuck lines up perfectly with a merc group of aces led by a legend that lends itself to the highest bidder and flies under no boarder loyalty
So nothing changed for online?
what exactly were you expecting lmao
honestly quite incredible
Called it. Nothing at all, nothing at all, nothing at all...
The journey begins...
>Nothing changed>Rafale M confirmed MvP plane for all time Thank you Japan for your ingenuity
>>584314273Clive Barker's Jericho (2007)
Fuckin' Japanese developers man.
belka intercepted the balance changes btw
Any patchnotes?
peep the mig-31's stats, thank me later
>>584317632Yeah:>>>>Keep those helmets flying!
>>584317610So what's implied? That the guy we shot down was an impostor who stole that guy's identity?
You know, thinking about it, the Morgan might be my least favorite superplane. Something like Nosferatu or even the Wyvern are.just so much more aesthetically pleasing. I think it's the giant bulging Star Wars-esque engines on the Morgan.
>they think there are going to be any substantial balance patches of notein two months you will be dripfed 5 more emblems and 2 skins, you rike?
>>584317610>>584317714Ghost, stolen identity, COFFIN shenanigans, mistaken identity, take your pick.
>>584317738The Morgan's problem is that it's an attempt at a more realistic-looking and grounded Falken, and that just doesn't really work
>>584317738because nosferatu and wyvern are complete OC donut steel creationsmorgan is just an enlarged mockup of the PZL Skorpion
>>584317738I never liked that it was so comparatively slow even though it has those massive two engines. The thing should be a drag race king by default because that's how you shoot down Pixy in the first place.
>>584317738>I think it's the giant bulging Star Wars-esque engines on the MorganI pretty much said this a couple of days ago.
>>584317921The giant fuckoff laser causes a lot of drag.
>>584317459This is good news for the Savian economy.
>>584317840Definitely part of it, especially the size of the cockpit area being so tiny vs. the Falken, everything feels more proportional.>>584317908I laughed very hard when picrel was the first result, found what you meant a couple down though, the real life one looks better. >>584317921True, especially without the TLS. Should be like an upgraded (real life) Foxhound.>>584318001Well, nice someone agrees, but I missed it, probably missed the whole thread.
>>584318221>Buttplug aircraft
DUDE IT'S CALLED MEGAFLOAT BECAUSE IT'S LIKE A MEGA CITY BUILT ON WATER, LIKE IT'S FLOATINGOH MY GOD
>>584318221>Prop driven superplaneThis feels like it could be a hilarious idea if you could weaponize sound.
>>584317838>An Ace9 where COFFIN refits are becoming standard>New squad is either called Zombie or Wraith or some other undead gimmick>Squad are actually sublimated dead pilots with fake memories to make them think they're alive>Game is about reclaiming your humanity from digital space and proving you're "alive" by your own terms>Missions branch according to decisions made to either reclaim agency or embrace being a ghost in a fighter jet>Corpo War can be won on a good note with people getting some national autonomy back or go full blown NEMO dystopia future
AC8's ace skins are kind of... lameAC7 picks mog them on just about every aircraftI miss my white Su-33...
>>584318370>gives everyone within 500ft a concussion with or without earplugs and causes all ground crew within 50ft to violently shit themselvesunfathomably based retard of a plane
>>584318462You just want the annoying omniglo laser skins back, admit it.
>>584318462At launch AC7 had about the same level of skins. Give them time.
>>584318519I don't even remember them, I think they got added super late in game's lifetime?I just miss the all black sleek rafale and matte gripen, the gromov fulcrum and a few moreIn comparision AC8 skins seem very tame and generic, especially the picks for sukhois
The Morgan's my favorite...
>>584318626>>584318462holy shit...ellipses posting is making a come back...
>>584318626Putting it as a day 1 season pass p2w garbage has ruined it forever
I need the Nosferatu back. My planefu...
>>584318746Tainted by wallet warriors who do not know to her fly her nor deserve to.
>>584318626And as the person who said it was his least favorite, there's nothing wrong with that. Hell, I'm sure there's someone out there whos favorite superplane is the X-49.
>>584318830Yeah, she's called Rena.
>>584318798This but the F-5E
Kind of a bummer that you end up unlocking every plane in AC6 on your first playthrough.
>>584318830It is pretty slickIt's like a B-2 sandwich (also a favorite of mine)
>>584318976There is just tooo little aircraft in 6
Need full retardation of plen like in AC5. Give me F-4X with SASMs god damn it
>>584319026Yeah, the roster is smol.
>>584318587It's not about the amount, it's about what they picked.>Su-33 gets an ugly Su-35 prototype skin>Su-35 gets a serdyukov which isn't bad by itself but 7's splinter camo was far superior>Fulcrum gets that ugly 29SMT 918 desert splinter camo while 925 is exclusive to battlepassI can excuse the lack of 29K unicolor because they'll probably end up adding the sea fulcrum as a DLC aircraft but manhttps://ac8-database.pages.dev/aces/#skinmost of these definitely suck compared to 7at least Gripen got the LVDOKINO viggen remembrance camo
>>584319175The viggen is referenced in the files so that'll be close enough
>>584319175>they'll probably end up adding the sea fulcrum as a DLC aircraft but manThey are gonna have use a hazmat suit to get any reference pictures of the 29K
>>584318931They should all the planes from AC0 to the game. In fact they should add everything playable in AC5 as well for good measure.
>>584319175Yeah, fair enough, it really feels like the Soviet stuff got the shaft this time. F-4E gets the iconic Vietnam face paint, what you said about the Gripen, and even the A-6E gets the cool shark face one. At least the MiG-21bis got the iconic red/white one.
>>584319387I want all X planes
>>584319337Is there a full list of aircraft referenced?
>>584319435except the fregata, it's too fat and ugly
>>584275747Every dorito wing is an uggo. Especially that ass retarded Gripen crap.
>>584319581I like frugly fregata...
>>584319391>At least the MiG-21bis got the iconic red/white one....in multiplayer AND behind a paywall.The ace camouflage is just a spotted vietnam camouflage, which is alright since the phantom got SEA camo which is a great pick and as much as I love the jap blue I'm very happy to see it so that's as fair as it gets>it really feels like the Soviet stuff got the shaft this timeI concur; at least they had the decency to put a fair amount of aggressor aircraft liveries on western airframes so it's not a total loss>>584319383>have either to visit india or the kuznetsova bleak outcomeat this point they should just buy a premium aircraft in war thunder and use that as a reference
>>584319585Unironically end yourself.
The real scandal is that the game with the FCU as the protagonist didn't feature the XFA-27.
>>584319585>>584319698The draken is the only good looking europoor dorito
HRIDUR DAGUR LAGUR
>>584319175I have to disagree here, the Su-35 prototype gradient is way cooler than the boring ass serdyukov that we got on three fucking planes for some reasonI have no idea why they even entertain putting basic mono/duocolors with no patterns as ace skins, so boring and lame
>>584319751SWARM UAV KAL
su37su30m2su30smx02sf104zoefj37df05ef104avsu27f16fpkfa (yes, this is separate from the su57 in this list)a04fm25pdprvncaflknsu24su24mppamrgnephnxwyvnsfa44These are listed as AI craft in the files but most will probably also be playable.Also there's variant planes there too, so get ready for f-14 -razgriz- LAAMSPAAM
>>584287230This is why China doesn't invade Taiwan.
>>584319585Don't talk about my wife with that whore mouth of yours.
>>584319880>prvnc>pamrgn>ephnxWhat are these?
>>584319880But my Harrier...>a04f>m25pd>prvnc>pamrgn>ephnxWhich ones are these again?
>>584319880>Avril's starfighterNeat
>>584320012The last one is the E-130J Phoenix for sure. I guess they included all the prop jobs in the list too.
>>584320060>>a04fA-4 Skyhawk maybe?>>m25pdMig-25PD, weird choice since it's just a worse Mig-31
>>584319880>j37dOH FUCK YES
>>584319585nah, it looks great
>>584319698>mirage forma f-15kinoI wish they went a bit wilder with the variants again, sort of like AC5would be funny to see the mirage 4k, maybe the F-20 again and a couple more of these lame ducks that no one bought>>584319768>the Su-35 prototype gradient is way cooler than the boring ass serdyukovI'm just not a fan of the blue/blue/grey gradient camouflages of the VKS; they just seem boring compared to stuff like the black 901 - it definitely feels like after you've seen two you've seen them all, and that includes the hohol lego camouflagesalso as I've mentioned before, I liked the J-15 white on the Su-33 the mostI don't hate the darker serdyukovs; the one on the fullback in ac8 is peak tone, but giving three (four?) different sukhois a different shade of a serdyukov when all the vatnik and vatnik adjacent states produced a lot of more interesting liveries is just lazythe su-25 being just a light gray unicolor was really dissapointing I was hoping for an iraqi camo
>>584319880>a04fwe're getting skyhawks? wow
>>584319880>pkfa (yes, this is separate from the su57 in this list)MARKOV
>>584319816MIDRAG SKAL
>>5842943645You can actually deplete your armaments and then be stuck with only guns even if you are an above average player
>>584319880>f05ePlease tell me this is the F-5E
>>584320265RAMMING SKAL
Magic Spear I is still king.Magic Spear I takes flight. Oh yeah.
for the love of god, bring them back
>>584320274or maybe a thunderchief
>>584319880>a04fA-4F Skyhawk?>prvncWhat the hell could this be?
>>584320012ephnx=xfa27prvnc-ADFX-10CThe other not sure>>584320060A-4 is the skyhawkM25 is the mig-25PD
>>584293259That's meI keep you guys busy so my Su34 can get mvp :)
>>584320373https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fb5a6KZmYi0
>>584320402I never played X and only recognize the XFA-27, what's the deal with the rest of them, were they story relevant? The ones on the left look like the weird fish planes in 3
>>584319880>pkfa (yes, this is separate from the su57 in this list)probably just a premium variant of the su57 so timmy can get it straight away>viggencool>f5ecool>a4fhere's your other naval attacker so you don't have to play the intruder lmao>>mig-25pd>no gun>su-24>su-24 (EW)holy based>twin seat fat f-16alright i guess?>basic bitch su-27HOLY BASEDnow how many of these will be locked behind battle passes i wonder
>>584320489Wait nvm PAMRGN is likely the prototype morgan
>>584320523>not recognizing the Wyvern from 04Anon, I am so disappointed in you.
>>584320519By the way, this is essentially a remix of blockade. With some comona thrown in.Hope the official OST has the solo in the middle when the support comes in.
>>584319880>each sold separately>$4.99 per plane
>>584320523>were they story relevantThe big one at the back is. The rest of them not really.
>>584320561>>584319880Wait, we're actually getting the Viggen? Can't recall it being in a game before.
>>584320523>were they story relevant?no, not unless you count them being unique to that setting as part of the setting's worldbuilding or somethingbut they were the only planes in ACX that you could modify with parts (like you can now do with all planes since AC7)and so I think that a lot of people who played ACX eventually bought the best parts that they could and used them to turn one of those into their personal favorite superplane that they fell in love withpretty much every player who's played ACX loves at least one of those
>>584319880>No Tornado>No HarrierWhy?
>>584320735ac2 had it as an unplayable enemy plane iircproject wingman featured it too
>>584319880>pkfa (yes, this is separate from the su57 in this list)Maybe it's the Su-57 with the new nozzles?
>>584320402>FenrirGranted but HPM and LSWM sold separately
>>584320780I hope so
>>584320741The harrier is in a different place (it's with the other playable aircraft) it uses a-10 stats>>584320780I wish but it's probably just gonna be based on AH so it can get the nuke
>>584320780PAK-FA was the project's name before they dubbed it the Su-57 so I doubt itit's probably su-57 in whatever form it was known at the time of infinity
>>584320881>>584320881>>584320881
>>584320735Not gonna lie, I'd prefer the full shitbrick that is the draken.
>>584296170This mode wouldn't work because you're extremely disadvantaged in 2v1 situations. Even if you can keep avoiding extra good regular missles, you'll just eat a laam from the guy chilling in the distance or some SASMs from the guy on your ass.
>>584320735it was in ACX as the 3rd plane that you can unlock
Why not just have a generalized model of a plane like F-15 that you can tune instead of having all these individual series like F-15E, F-15C, etc. cluttering up the progression tree?Why do I need to buy the 4AAM when I already bought them for a different plane? Why can't I just buy special weapons seperately?
>>584320198Yeah except WE DONT HAVE ANY GOOD SKINS DO THE JAPS FUCKING HATE MONEY
>>584273756I think her character merely serves to remind the gaijin playerbase that this is still a Japanese developer game first and foremost. Anyone familiar with anime not set in Japan that somehow manages to shoehorn in that one !Not Japanese character will know exactly what I'm talking about
>>584274028Tried it once in campaign against the First Land Battleship Mission (9?) and was appalled at the abysmal roll rate.I mean I get the flight model is supposed to make planes feel closer to their real life counterparts but when rail guns are firing at you every 2.5 seconds it kinda makes the plane feel out of place in game
>>584319880Some of these I recognize, others I don't. Can someone write the full accurate model numbers?
>>584318302nah its a reference to macross bro
>>584272995>trainee squadron>explicitly admits they dont know what they're doing but get involved anyway>actively threaten the lives of our allies if we dont stop them>almost kill one of your wingmen>apparently we're supposed to go easy on them bc fighting them farily would be meanThey all deserved their demise
