Uhhh, Useans? Is THIS your savior?
>>750558478I can't believe Master Miller was a nazi
>Usea>Osea>EruseaWhy are there so many Europes?
Usea + Osea = Uohsea
>>750558756Osea is US though?
>>750558478Nah this guy is.
I finished the game and I am very pleasantly surprised they're not retconning 3 and actually setting up for it. If 9 turns out to be the actual war that was depicted in 3's simulations it'll be the most kino build up in gaming.
>>750558478that's a sotoan
Is Emmeria the only country in Ace Combat that doesn't have a superweapon? Even 3rd world shitholes like Leasath have multiple ones.
>>750564731They wasted their budget on universal healthcare.
>>750564731>Emmeria doesn't have a superweaponExcuse me?
>>750563828>AC9 is this but Nemo when released into the world got wiped out by basic anti-virus in like .3 seconds because Simon is a fucking moron.
>>750565523AC9 is going to be about Nemo seeking to become a real girl. Mark my words.
>>750558478It's just a habit, don't mind it.
>>750565601AC9 will be a prequel to 8 and in the end the main character looks into a mirror and it's dision.
>>750558478>22, that's not a number I want to get close to, you feel the same, right?><Yes.>>You get it, this is why we need a final solution.What did he mean by this?
>>750565745Nothing, Sotoa doesn't have enough land battleships to burn that many sotoans in the timespan. It's impossible.
>>750565803>Hey General Resource formerly ensneed chuckster?>Yeah can we get uuuuuuuuuuuuh 200 unarmed landbattleships from surplus>Yeah send them to the Sotoan deathcamps please.
>ran out of GUN trying to gun only Ladons on ace>didnt even kill a single oneyou're telling me i need to do this with MGP on a fucking f-4? jesus
>>750565882fishbed is better. multirole has 100% damage multiplier against aerial targets while fighters have 137.5%
>>750565929>multirole has 100% damage multiplier against aerial targets while fighters have 137.5%There's hidden damage multipliers in the game? Has this always been a thing?
>>750565929yeah but im doing multirole medal at the same time. might have to give up on it though>>750565961no its new with ac8 and total bullshit desu. also applies to multiplayer which makes 2/3 of all planes pointless to use if you want to win. wish they got rid of it
>>750565961well you can notice it pretty easily with strike eagle when normal missile oneshots tank (150% against ground targets for attackers) but it takes 3 missiles to kill planes (87.5%)
>>750564731Most countries banded together to build giant cannons and shit in order to stop Ulysses from decimating the planetEmmeria went "Well if anyone else gets close to succeeding there's still probably going to be fallout" so they made underground shelters insteadAfter that they just economy-maxed, and instead of having a wasteful weapons program they wasted a lot of GDP on trying to solve Estovakia's problems for them
yeah theres no way to do mission 15 gun only on ace without the mig21. you get 2 passes and the mission is over. it takes 1,5 to just kill 1 bird with constant MGP on the f-4, this is horseshit lmao
>>750564731Emmeria spent their money on something completely unthinkable to other Strangereal militaries: pilot training.Everyone else just throws disposable mooks into planes with 5 minutes of simulator time, and hopes a one-in-a-million mute psychopath psychic pilot appears. In Emmeria, your wingmen kill targets when you tell them to.
>>750566641You know what Emmerian armed forces as a whole give off a sense of absolute professional well beyond that of any other nation. Everyone else struggles to wipe their ass on their own.
>>750566707the FCU ground units being made of paper mache in this game really made me yearn for the days of Warlock Battalion
>>750558478>Oh, this? Just an old habit...
>>750564731Emmeria has the most powerful superweapon in Strangereal. All of their millitary branches being competent.
>>750564731The Emmerian superweapon is their ridiculously powerful explosives that they put in all their weapons.
Emmeria if they wanted to could easily fuck Osea and Yuktobania if they wanted to. They are the true world superpower.
>>750558478elliot rogers
>>750558478
>>750572618Hungry are we?
>>750572618finally, my airdash nuggies
>>750572618
>>750558478he's a rocket man.rocketmanburning out his fuseout therealone
>>750558478What were they thinking with this entry? Why would they give catchiest song to the enemy? It gets stuck in your head the moment you think of it and you have to get it out of your system like a fucking Sote.
>>750582424Rise Above is for the good guys tho
Speaking of the best tracks in the gamehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6gVNCtNEr8
>>750572618They're so bad I forget and have to stop spinning around like I have plane aspergers and just shoot them instead of spinning around like a drunk gyroscope
>>750583390https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBh9-T4CGRk
>>750583390Blockade... you got a glowup
>>750582424the coolest songs are always related to the main rivals or the superweapons, bruthis game is no differenthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6jYsJlHXiY
>>750583390Use this onehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fb5a6KZmYi0it's the actual in-game version rather than the soundtrack version. Soundtracks have to be shorter and project Aces likes having 7-8 minute versions there, but the entirety of Mission 21 is synced to the 15 minute timer before the shuttle launches, so the in-game version of Star-Bound Bird is synced to what happens in the mission
>>750584362Hell yeah
>>750583390its a bit sad how people always go for the big songs like daredevil and magnus dei when talking about ace combat songsmy favorite songs are all lacking in vocals and the overly bombastic orchestra. songs like these are the bestac7 for example had eastern wind. i loved the tubas coming in in the 2nd half, signifying a part of mihaly in the dronesyinshi valley was also awesome
SO WE WILL RISE ABOVE
>CALL ME UUUPhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIhfpSIZeTY
How would Maverick fare against the average Ace Combat protagonist?
>>750585626he's not bloodless so unfortunately he losesthe canyon run in the movie and the high G turn they pull at the end is just another day at work for an AC protagonist
>>750585626I could picture him being a wingman but he's definitely not protagonist level.
>>750565523>>750565601>>750565674I'm convinced AC9 is just going to be a straight remake of Electrosphere for modern audiences since those are all the rage nowadays. That, or they're going to do another contemporaneous game that inches towards its setting. Maybe depicting the origins of UPEO or Neucomm since AC8 did it for General Resources. Either way, I hope it doesn't take seven years to come out.
>>750585572SET ME FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
>>750585626maverick has a head, which implies the possibility of a blackout. not ideal
>>750586009They should get Yoko Taro signed on to be part of the writing team so they can get away title nonsense like Ace Combat Root 9 / 3 Square in addition to the usual preorder remaster for 3.
>>750586009>AC8 did it for General ResourcesThey were around in AC7's DLC.
>>750586009Considering the IUN gets absolutely fucked by Sotoa in AC8's beginning, NUN and UPEO are basically the natural next step.
>>750585572ReminderPurple Magic fought the land battleship so (you) would have a shadow of a chance against it the next day
>>750586647>IUN gets clowned on by Erusea in AC7>IUN gets gaped and raped by Sotoa in AC8It's no wonder everyone gives up on the organization after that. It does not guarantee security or keep peace.
how much cheating does this game do with enemies. The mission where there are two bombers that jam your radar it appears when you get too close they will just warp the fuck out of there.
>>750586920>The mission where there are two bombers that jam your radar it appears when you get too close they will just warp the fuck out of there.They're just faster than you in a straight lineFly better and cut their corners and (you) will be able to shoot them downAnd use your gun
>ruins your immersion Either don’t have this guy show up early or give me a chance to take him down early. Making him bulletproof and forcing me to wait down an invisible timer isn’t fun.
>>750586907I mean, that's kind of what happened with the League of Nations except instead they just appeared weak and ineffectual whilst the IUN got bombed from orbit at the start of the war.
>>750587043>I totally could've wrecked all the previous game protags but I was busy uhhhhhh doing something else but you better believe me youngster you ain't special at all
>>750587043Congrats, you now know one of the main critiques of AC7He does have cool music at least
>>750585243I really liked "Rescue" in AC7. It gave this immense sense of stress and urgency, even more so than "Magic Spear" where you were blowing up missile silos and intercepting MRBM's.
>>750587361Dual Wielder is probably one of my favorite stage tracks in AC7
>>750587043>Making him bulletproof and forcing me to wait down an invisible timer isn’t fun.legitimate complaintwe all hated that shittoo bad namco overcorrected and made the shadows dodge everything and have infinite flares
>>750587009I was right on it's tail and instead of going straight and getting away it just zoomed upwards at a warp speed.
>>750587485That one's so good it returned in Online. Kind of a shame Online's a mess.
>>750583390https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCOd8IexY1Mthere's story to this shit man
>>750587632Well, I still hope they can fix online somehow. Worst case I guess mods will have to take over at some point.
Where's my SU-30?
>>750587859Kind of redundant since there's less SP. W's than in AC7.>WhyFCU doesn't have Osea-money to buy exotic weapons like lasers and plane-mounted railguns.
When a friendly Sotaon squad shows up in 9 chanting is gonna be KINO
I really liked how this game somehow salvaged AC7's clusterfuck story and made it great.
>>750588079>FCU doesn't have Osea-money to buy exotic weapons like lasers and plane-mounted railguns.fuck that shiti want my PLSL back
>>750587361for me it is Homeward
>>750588723The princess is far more enjoyable as a character in 8, than 7. By trying to be obscure and secret by hiding the story in 7 they made all characters boring. In 8 she’s out and obvious as a character and far more interesting.
>>750589018>gets on the radio>has her childhood friend call D.D>hits him with the https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ROjh6Tcjdo>causes D.D's soul to resurface from under his corpo stooge persona/our/ princess
>>750558478First person cutscenes always look terrible and make everything happening feel small
Explain to me as you would a child the point of the "Press A to do something" during a cutscene.
>>750589262To test if you’re paying attention
>>750586009I will personally be mocking aces by implying dision's paradox: That you can never actually re-release AC3 just we get half-as-close timewise until it's like AC19: Two minutes, three seconds and 45 milliseconds before AC3.
>>750585243I really liked the music in the final briefing for 7, especially when it kicks in during it when you see the drones do a helix. I also liked siren's song because it effectively signifies trigger isn't regarded as being the lee harvey oswald of osean pilots.
Ace Combat looked NUTS on the PS2.
>>750588830when eventually the DLC planes come out more you'll get one PLSL plane
>have to wait at least 4 months for a full psm sukhoi without dogshit special weapons (SU37) and it will cost 10 bucksfuck you PA
>>750583390I still like "Literally just a Top Gun Track" from AC7 https://youtu.be/QIIIHmEAdEI?si=ifNdQW9ydYO5SHO6
>>750590083the venn diagram of people who play ace combat and people who enjoy top gun is pretty much a perfect circle after all
>>750590083>>750583546>>750583390>>750584362>>750587695>Add a load of AC8 tracks to my hype playlist>Now I fucking get Aaaaaaaooooooo Oooo oooo aaoo aooo'd in my playlist every now and then. Fuck's sake.
>>750590234Oh for fucking sure. They're so related they can't marry and if they had a relationship /v/ would post about them 3000 times a day (not about the games though)
>mute retarded dialog>skip every gookslop cutscene>no idea why i'm doing what i'm doing in missionThe only way a non weeb faggot can enjoy this game.
>>750572618sorry mavisimen chan but I need that FA-36 skin
>>750587574shadows are very weak to machine gun
>>750589262So that you can go to the bathroom mid cutscene
>>750587574>>750590664It's pretty funny in those first few days of people going "wow I killed him in 2 seconds because he banked into my gun" and on the other side "Fucking hell fuck why does he have 600 flares"
>>750590526>>750572618is it even possible to save them? I've seen even Tasha down multiple of them
I just beat Ace Combat zero. I had it on ps2 as a kid but got filtered and only finished AC5. After 8 this was a LOT easier, short game too everyone should take two nights and play it. OST was a bit more understated, the dogfighting was fun. The story was all over the place, I definitely prefer 8. Probably going to replay 7 before I do an 8 difficulty ace playthrualso can I "Yo, Buddy" post now since I have beaten the game. am I better at playing the Sitar?
>>750590856you can, but they'll turn up again in Rocky Island 2 to shoot down Kate
>>750590856Apparently if you spare one of the veterans but wipe everyone else Mavismen will be talked out of shooting herself.I wouldn't know. It wasn't a matter of perspective.
SOME PEOPLE MAY SPEAK DOWN TO YOU
>>750564731they don't need a superweapon, they have angels
GUN only on ace difficulty really shows the effort they put into enemy behavior in thisin 7, everything was basically braindead. they dodged maybe 1 missile and then flew straight. except for scripted mihaly and drones of coursein 8, the moment you get a missile lock, even the mig21 grunts go crazy on ace. barrel roll, ascend, back down, jinking, all without a break. im actually having trouble. mission 20 was nuts, i had to resort to jousting to hit these motherfuckers
>>750565601>nemo will become your WSO waifu>maybe also starts to infect your cyberware and speaks in your head like ayre in armored core 6
I want her back. I NEED HER BACKhttps://acecombat.fandom.com/wiki/S-32
>>750591295You can semi-bluff the game by offsetting your target. Aces clearly worked out I'd be an asshole and do this though because the AI wakes up pretty quick that you're gunning a different target but it's good for a double kill on initial encounter: target a guy, align and gun down another and either shoot as early as you can or do the funny kulbit and drop a pair down their neck. It also should be the standard approach for all ground targets when you're using standard missiles.
>>750591640nah brotermie needs to returnwith her FAEBshttps://acecombat.fandom.com/wiki/Su-37_Terminator
>>750591584I am NOT having a relationship with a fucking clanker son of Huggy and Muggy. I wouldn't touch nemo with a 20,000 league pole.
>>750586009my money is on 9 being a prequel to 8 covering the Sotoa-Yuktobanian, just like how AC0 was a prequal to 5
>>750591584I do not eant to listen to this shit or huginmunin SCREEENHKDKGCNGNGNhttps://youtu.be/Sr_607pOH8c
>IMAGINE
>>750591936What part of lager beer makes your hull bullshit I don't drink beer.
>>750592026I love Torres but it's pretty clear all it basically takes to etch yourself into the consciousness of players is to just let the VA go full fucking ham on a character written as "He's fucking lost it bro just go nuts"maybe a small part is the portrait, the portrait really does fucking convey he's fucky.
>>750592134>>750591936can you befriend submarines by giving them lager beer
>>750592260I will credit that everyone else in the DLC is pretty mediocre: The autism siblings are one-note, black anal list asking gpt how what would a nutter do, general backstab. white sheets definitely makes it.
>>750591295I also noticed (and I'm not sure if it's intentional, accidental or I'm just hallucinating things) that it feels like the Shadows like to pull off "Wiseman" and whenever you target one of them, that guy starts taking you for a ride, focusing on just evading as best as possible while the rest of the squadron goes after your ass from behind.You can also tell Shadow 22 is doing the same commands that you can do, it's really evident when he orders them to cover him and they all flock to him and start shitting flares en masse.
>>750565523I hate the fact that AC3’s whole premise is basically an incel cuck’s revenge fantasy: the game
>>750591726i think they actually offset that from time to time by assigning squads the same behavior. i noticed it during mission 21 when intercepting the A10s. if my lock is on 1, the whole squad starts turning, so that targeting trick doesnt even work consistently, because they all break at the same time>>750592426yeah the saturation attack order is pretty funny. im wondering if they also get the team targeting bonus like your squad does cause their missiles feel more accurate in that moment
>>750592576that's what'll make it funny when nemo's server racks get bonked on the head or something and he starts thinking that everyone is Dision, making what started as an incel's cuck revenge fantasy end up as a schizophrenic AI who doesn't know what route he's on trying to nuke the world
I love the f16c so much
>>750558478he comes from the Hyperborean basehttps://youtu.be/wdU2z4cDJdk?si=IYaB4ww5b3rTBBjz
>>750592576I am genuinely concerned /v/, specifically (nobody else will even know anyway) will get what they wish for and not realise. It's already been happening with people going back to play it, and I like electrosphere a lot and its themes. But I know you fucking tossers will post about cucky simon and get mad and moon11overjune will have to put you down with guided munitions.
Ace Combat is oddly prescient about how humans are needed to train AI.
>>750594097It's actually kind of funny that 3 was made back in 1999, and now the timeline has caught up with it and it's actually super relevant to how the real world is going in regards to AI and corporations running everything.
https://youtu.be/3axYqSmZvHY Does bgm canonically play during debriefings?
so the FCU/Theve just let a destroyed land battleship just sit in the middle of the city for multiple weeks? couldn't even get enso order to scavenge it for battle data?
>>750594370I'd argue yes because the guy forgot to turn the going-into-debriefings-music-machine on for the president harling murder (not out of respect he was just distracted)
>>750594493lmao
>>750592260>all it basically takes to etch yourself into the consciousness of players is to just let the VA go full fucking ham on a character written as "He's fucking lost it bro just go nuts"That's just an universal truth.https://youtu.be/m6qhHPF8IcU?si=G1oTdgLfKQjWIyx5&t=244
>>750594907Oh for fucking sure. We just apparently fucking love ham.
>>750585243Long Day is still one of my favourite tracks from 7, especially the part at 1:48https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLKkap8E1uI
>>750585626>Has bloodHe can't hang.
Oooh oooh oooh oooh ewaaooh ewaaooh HEYI tried to make it so that Moon would be doing a little hand jive and the step routine would be more involved and intricate, but it seems that the models are heavily biased against depicting white people being able to dance.
>>750585243For me it's Winter Storm from Ace Combat 5, i wish the belkan niggers that spawn before the SOLG were harder to kill.
>>750595986Timmies can't dance so there's nothing for the model to be trained on.
>>750594437Didn't they do exactly that, allowing them to learn that the bunker buster bombs worked on it?
>>750582424>Why would they give catchiest song to the enemyBecause they always do....?
>>750596343I need them to be smoov bruh.It was also hell finding that one step routine, folks is getting way too fancy. Put your men in a line and make them stroll. This is why Sotoans can't build no generational wealth.
>>750582424Mindfulness. Listen to the sounds around you instead of what's in your head.
>>750586043This frankly explains a lot.
>>750585626My headcanon is gravity on Strangereal is less than our Earth. Maverick almost blacked out doing a high-G
>>750582424I just consider it my theme song, not theirs.
>>750596972I'd argue a fundamental physical law means the entire universe is just more. More missiles, more gun, more gs, more superweapons, more warcrimes.
>>750585626He's Pixy level
>>750583390>>750584362The His World of it all. Might even call it Sonic Wings.
>>750594437It took a lot of effort to get it stuck there, man. Just let us bask in the glory of our triumph for a bit and don't sweat the possibility of a nuclear fallout.
>>750594437You think "scavenging" is instant?
>>750594437Enso was studying it and considering even each of its armour plates are bigger than whole two floor houses in Theve, there wasn't any way for them to move it
>>750589771Man I just started Zero, and as one of the last games produced for the PS2 it looks insaneIt was especially crazy to go from 3 to 4 in only two years
>>750597243Strangereal has more wars because they have a philosophical predisposition for war, easily explained. No physics needed.
Randomly found this, I know some anons have already well and truly picked out the heavy referencing going on with AC8s music but this is a really comprehensive cover of that and it's really, really well done. No I don't know this guy just, fuck look it's good manhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bl5TUw7sUBs
>>750598938FUCK. er, not that one, this one.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1beXOXpziUk
>>750598938>>750598995Has anyone pointed out that Rise Above comes within inches of Defying Gravity yet?
>>750596972That would help explain the construction of the space elevator.
Strangereal to me appears to be ahead in materials science but behind on consumer technology.DD even mentions that the military spending makes touchscreen smartphones like the one he has rare.
>mfw AC9's subtitle is 3lectrosphere
>it's not going to be called "AC9">it'll be AC3x3
>>750599961I wonder if most TVs used in Strangereal are still CRTs since they're still used for instrument panels in aircraft.
>>750600480That would make the dining area having 4 flarscreens even more fucked up.
I'm glad that 8 wasn't just "Belka did it" again.
>>750601130Well wait till you find out who made Enso...
>>750601359>Hey chief, what's the "Larry Foulke Foundation for Retired Aces", and why did it contribute 20% of last year's black ops budget?
>>750599961>canonizing inconsistencies due to obviously lazy worldbuilding
>>750592260>the portrait really does fucking convey he's fuckyWhatever could you mean?
>tfw killing nuggets by lobbing 1x LAAM from max range
>>750591936Was Triumphant part of the same design lineage as the Alicorn and Scinfaxi class subs?
>>750602120this is my mona lisa
>>750601790>Please donate to the A World Without Barriers* SuperPAC
>>750602120
>>750602754I NEED A GIANT MECH LOLI POST-APOCALIPTIC SURVIVAL GAMENOWWWWWWWWWWW
>>750603581Paradise becomes real for those who believe in it.
>>750603581Closest I can think of is Doll's Nest. Sadly not giant in it except for one NPC.
So, does 8 surpasses 5 as the best game of the franchise?
>>750558563I didn't think master could get any more Based and non-goyim.
>>750604126If 5 is your favourite, 8 should be just your thing
>>750603581>>750603856Dolls nest is really good
>>750604459I thought 5 was the weakest of the PS2 titles but I enjoyed 8
>>750604459>>7506046808 is 5 but good, Enso is a weaker belka though.
The landships being airdropped from the transport planes on the island mission is cool as fuck and most players won't even see it.
>>750604845I don't think most people manage to take out the Podarges before they drop their cargo on their first run
>>750604845I think on the first time I played the mission I let the podarges drop the battleships off and didn't get a chance to take them out until afterwards, and by then the battleships had split up so suddenly I had constant RAILGUN WARNING on top of all the MISSILE ALERT messagessecond time I did the mission I dropped UGBs on the podarges in midair and nuked half the propellers on my first go
If only I could run 8 at a stable 20 fps...
I know it's most likely headed that way, but I don't really want AC9 to be Electrosphere Again. I didn't like AC3, and one of the things I like about the series is real-world aircraft mixed with fantastical machines. I don't want the whole thing to be sci-fi, AI nonsense with "muh corporations" running everything, then it's just Cyberpunk with planes.
>>750605232you're already too late, we've been heading to AC3 again since they started doing 7 in earnest. But I don't know why people seem to think they're going to just straight up do AC3 again with all the ghost in the shell references and all that when they've just built up this audience of people interested in the regular world-building. AC9 will likely be some middle ground between the two.
>>750605183Didn't realize this Alicorn shipgirl had more fanart
>>750605232It's the direction Strangereal is heading. Though if I'm honest I'm somewhat expecting severe retcons of 3 assuming AC9 takes place around 2040.
Your arcadeshit didn't even get nominated for best soundtrack lmao.
>>750600013Ace Combat 10 will be Galaga
>>750605232I imagine we'll get the real world, "Countries still exist and pretend governments control things but just try and nuke Google and see what happens," situation.
>>750605232I really doubt it'll be a complete retread of AC3 but they've acknowledged it as a core component of the series. If they continue down the timeline they will not ignore it. Literally D's phone is running a prototype Data Swallow OS.And honestly, almost everything that happens in the game is centered around Usea. We have no idea how the rise of General Resource actually impacts other continents. The Electrosphere basically becomes the internet so it's important, but economically The Yukes and everyone in Anea still have what they had before. I really don't expect a full remake of 3, at most it'd be a parallel plot running alongside Simon's scheme. If two "morally grey at best" world superpowers that are above the law start fighting a hot war, other actors will move as well.Also these guys fucking love real planes. They're not going to throw them all out or just rename them like some people want them to do so they can re-release the PS2 games. The old shit being repurposed into Coffin planes was a way to disguise Nemo in universe pretty much. A mute psycho in this universe can do anything, including rape an R-102 Delphinus with an A-10.
>>750558478fact checked false by EnsoGPT v4
>>750605483The artist did them back when the DLC came out I think, also a design drawing for the mecha section.
>>750558478is he supposed to be like.. great value tom cruise?
>>750606683ghost tulpa turkic tom cruise
>>750606464If the timeline keeps progressing it won't even be a plane game anymore, Electrosphere aircraft are borderline mecha.
>>75060701390% of AC3s roster are current day planes, they just have COFFIN cockpit replacements
>>750605637nobody sniffs their own farts harder than an ace combat fan
Behold: the most evil looking aircraft ever.
>>750607414I love him all the same
>>750607414Imagine how fucking cozy it is, middle of the night, flying super low or super high, the only light visible is the moon, its reflection, and pinpricks of light of a costal town you're rapidly approaching. Nobody can fucking see you, nobody is on the radio to you. The only company you have is the bomb in your bay.You wheel around to get a proper look, you can see sleepy fishing ships in the harbour, the occasional flicker and dimming of lights of cars going through the main street, you can even imagine the people. Then, with just a big click and then a larger clunk, you drop your B61 thermonuclear bomb.Very cozy. That'll teach those idiots to rebel.The nighthawk itself is a cramped, hot, apparently smelly nightmare to pilot alas
>>750607414sex with evil planes
>>750608141Your people are out there, go find them.
>>750608129>Can't get a photo of a F-117 dropping a bomb.You idiot its RIGHT HERE.
>>750582424Song of Wings is better, Everflow is better, Purple Magic's album is better. Fuck Sotoans.
>>750607414Geometry is pretty evil.
>>750608567Star-bound bird...
Has anyone tried making the x40 nightmare work? Or is it the most shitty superplane?
>>750558563What's his full name again? Kaz something Miller?
>>750611161Kazuhito "Hero" Miller.
>>750610996Its very fast and has ok to good mobility with stacked parts. Its just its special weapons that are underwhelming, the UAVs are absolute garbage and EMLB is decent but has low ammo if you bring two SPW, QAAM is QAAM but ammo is also low and the F-22 or Su-57 both carry more and are more maneuverable.
>>750606683Great Value Goose
>>750602550the netcode is so fucking bad I've had LAAMs magical spawn out of thin air with a split second to react
>>750610996I S-ranked mission 28 with it, so it can do some work, but I had to use QAAM only.
>>750610996it just suffers a lot from the Fa-36 being pretty damn amazing having access to what are functionally the 2 best single player weapons in the SASM and SOD, while also boasting fantastic stats overall and having a large MG ammo count
>>750617362QAAM is better than SASM if you do PSM magic missiles, and X40 excels at that.
>>750617695maybe with the recent updates, but before that SASM was capable of taking out anything a QAAM could take out, but also drastically superior at taking out Shadow-22's squad and the Ladons (a SASM fired at the Ladon while it releases suicide drones blows them all up causing collateral which can take it out even on Ace with ridiculous efficiency) I think, but don't quote me on that, a direct hit from a SASM deals more damage than a QAAMbut even if QAAM is now slightly better than SASM, it is nowhere near enough to offset the fact the Fa-36 actually has a viable secondary weapon, HPAA is also not the best (though in the situations you want it it's adequate) but it sure beats the X40's drones
>>750617880>ladonI went in with barricader and spammed super missiles and destroyed both in the first turn around.
>>750591791But what if she was a cute anime grill who loved you?
>>750617973I think it's possible if you have all the +speed parts to take them out before they do their first pass on the barricader would need a video confirming it but I have been able to get multiple shots on them before the first pass myself
>>750617973You can actually kill one of them in Mission 7 with the barricader, that plane is so fucking stupid
Imagine being an Osean
>"Bravo 1-DAMN IT, CMON GUYS!"wtf is his problem?
>>750618142Ain't 621 a barely living corpse inside a plastic bag?
What happened to all the laser guns that planes had in 7? Did they get banned internationally in a 10 year span?
>>750621230Most of those were being used by Oseans, I guess the FCU was too poor to keep up
Why are surface ships in Strangereal so fucking pathetic? A couple sidewinders to the bridge and it's fucking over
>>750621230Those are Osean weapons, you're in the Zfcu! And in a WW2 carrier at that.
>>750621310>>750621349Imagine not having lasers. Trigger had lasers when he was a fucking inmate. Any nation too poor to have lasers deserves to fall.
Can anyone tell me if the coop is fun/playable? I will of course buy AC8 fpr the cheesy story and god-like soundtrack, but after I've raped all missions thoroughly, I'm wondering if the multiplayer is worth spending an hour or two on.
>>750621310Isn't the FCU supposed to be canada? They're not that poor.
>>750621545I had fun for a while but it's really too barebones and unbalanced at this point, LAAM and ECM/IEWS makes everything samey and boring, unfortunatelyAC7 has a functional coop mod nowadays, if you can get people to play with you there I'd recommend that instead
>>750621545Co-op is just multiplayer PvE where you try and outscore an enemy team. It's okay. Regular vs multiplayer is cancer just like it was in 7.
>>750621612Canadian armed forces are dogshit due to poor funding so it fits.
>>750621638Thanks fren. I'm going to get AC8 regardless, as I understand most people say that if you liked 7, you like 8.
Kates taters
>>750621612the FCU is involved in a destructive war like every 5 years
>>750621612Canada would be poor if it suffered through 5 wars (7 if we count Katina and the VR missions) and getting bombarded so hard with asteroid fragments they're still feeling it 30 years later AND its entire economic future hinges on two megacorps who have no regard for the countries they're buying up and filling with rogue AIs and nanobot swarmsUsea is a cursed continent
>>750621638>AC7 has a functional coop mod nowadaysit had, before the dev left the internet because he was getting death threats from anti-ai people
>>750621746That pool probably has its own IFF signature like that one Fried Chicken place in Osea
>>750621692>ace combat pvpYeah, lol no. I never liked the pvp in 7. Luckily, I have war thunder if I want to fly fighter jets and not have any fun while doing so.
>>750621739Have fun anon, I really enjoyed 7 and I think 8 manages to be a step up in just about every way (including multiplayer but 7's was pretty abhorrent), I think you're in for a treat>>750621814Check the nexus, he came back thanks to people's supportTurns out most people just want good things and we should ignore the terminally online and insane
>>750621889>Check the nexus, he came back thanks to people's supportoh thank god, seriously I don't like AI slop either but if AI lets people make actual interesting mods like co-op in AC it's a good thing
>>750621889>Turns out most people just want good things and we should ignore the terminally online and insanewell that's all good and well but if insane people put death threats out there it can be bad for your health to ignore themnot to mention there were active campaigns to try and get him fired from his job, which are things you actually have to take serious, even if they're too cowardly to actually try and kill you, setting up fake sexual harassment is exactly the sort of thing cowards like that would do to try and get you fired
Am I tripping, or did the sonic boom effect not exist in AC7?
>>750596972It'd help explain the superstructures but makes the flesh that much more susceptible to Gs. We simply have to accept that we are just rare mutant mute psychopaths operating on a shortage of blood that can apparently see ghosts.>>750597243>>750598513They just have way bigger guns so it only makes sense to have way more planes, landships, tunes and railguns to keep parity.
So we went from railguns to drones to orbital weapons + coffin precursors, aside from coffins what would 9's feature tech be ba-Of course. It'd have to be >>750565601. Cope and Night Raven + Nemo pretty much set this up thematically. I was just thinking it's odd we haven't gotten genuine coordinated aces against you yet but a clanker waifunemy would fit that sort of challenge..
>>750590945They ones in Rocky Island II show up even of you kill all the gemmas in expo
>>750617695>QAAM is better than SASMThat's funny to say. Best joke ITT
Am I retarded or did they not explain shit in this game>why are ghosts real>what did cope even leave unfinished>why did he join the military but not shoot anyone down if he wasn't actually a spy>why did sotoa even invade in the first place, and why an entire continent instead of just one country, and why not the continent they were on instead of on the other side of the globe>why did no one try to use a simple bunker buster on a land ship before>why did DD even do a whole media campaign? what was that even supposed to accomplish?>what did civilians cheering for wings actually do>why did the refueling drone randomly explode and why did no one comment on that ever>if the whole point of enso order is that they're a decentralized collection of unrelated shell companies run by independent operatives who don't communicate with each other, how does exposing 303 affect literally any other part of the company
Oh no...
>fire HVAA at topkek doing kulbit>instead of the typical straight trajectory with sluggish guidance the missile steers 90 degrees into random directioncant use this shit even at intended targets because of the terrible psm scripting.
>why are ghosts realDon't think about it>what did cope even leave unfinishedCope couldn't cope with his fellow Sotoans being larping warmongers and wanted to see them fall>why did he join the military but not shoot anyone down if he wasn't actually a spyHe's a sheep herding pacifist>why did sotoa even invade in the first place, and why an entire continent instead of just one country, and why not the continent they were on instead of on the other side of the globeYuktobania would rape them hard, the FCU was easier since they were fucked up the Lighthouse War and they kept pussyfooting with giving them aid.They really only touch the FCU and San Salvacion in Usea technically, they don't bother Erusea or North Point (lol)>why did no one try to use a simple bunker buster on a land ship beforeBecause it has a shit ton of Anti-Air some of which can be 3D printed on demand. (You) are built differently and take out everything so the bombers can do their thing.>why did DD even do a whole media campaign? what was that even supposed to accomplish?Give the FCU hope/propaganda and he's also really attached to Wings of Theve as his personal pet project and succeeds in the end with Mission 30 when everyone in the world cheers you on live.>what did civilians cheering for wings actually doBring attention to the shady stuff Enso was doing which helped caused their supposed down fall as a company.>why did the refueling drone randomly explode and why did no one comment on that everEnso sabotaged them with the help of the traitor to stop (You) from winning the war>if the whole point of enso order is that they're a decentralized collection of unrelated shell companies run by independent operatives who don't communicate with each other, how does exposing 303 affect literally any other part of the companyThat's the neat part they actually won in the end and exposing them technically did nothing since they just get positions in GR now.
>>750624650Ironically, that's realistic behavior
>>750624186>>why are ghosts realThey just are, it makes sublimation more fucked up as a part of you is now stuck unable to pass on>what did cope even leave unfinishedHe never got to fly with Tewy>why did he join the military but not shoot anyone down if he wasn't actually a spySon of an inmigeant, think of all the US soldiers with mexican surnames.why did sotoa even invade in the first place, and why an entire continent instead of just one country, and why not the continent they were on instead of on the other side of the globeThey tried 20 years ago and lost, now they're working for corporate interests.>why did no one try to use a simple bunker buster on a land ship beforeIdk>why did DD even do a whole media campaign? what was that even supposed to accomplish?Propaganda that would motivate a losing country to continue the war instead of giving up and surrendering.>what did civilians cheering for wings actually doCreate a symbol of hope for Strangereal>>why did the refueling drone randomly explode and why did no one comment on that everIdk>if the whole point of enso order is that they're a decentralized collection of unrelated shell companies run by independent operatives who don't communicate with each other, how does exposing 303 affect literally any other part of the companyIt exposes that Enso Order are a bunch of shady, war-profitting assholes, but as it's just a small part of company it doesn't reach the people actually profitting from the war, just the guys directly involved.
>>750625069Ah fucked up the greentext.
>>750624186>>750624727
>These skies belong to you, Rex. Go take what's yours.
>>750624650PSMs break locks, that's why it flies off. You have to catch him in a very specific window.
>>750624236Why did they do it bros?
>>750622759Unless you've barely touched AC7 its kinda obvious its not in the game. Its in 5, Zero and 8.
>(Partial) OST has dropped>Listen to Times Are Changing on its own for the first timeFuck, this is good. Wish Wings could have been there...
>>750627460Such a cool emblem
>>750627530Might need to get it as a patch
I can't believe people find Kate more attractive
>>750628407Who'd want a zoomer yuke? Eww.
>>750565882each engine has like 600 hp,a normal plane has 60 hpget the mod that shows HP
>>750558478W-w-wuh WHAAAAT?CANCEL HIM CANCEL HIM
How do I stop the sub from killing Endurance?
>>750587043>>750587235>>750587574AC8 does the exact same bullshitmoon 11 and shadow 22 is completely bullet proof the first time you encounter themin m29 when you fight moon 11 you can first down her via dogfight mode after she is done yapping. she is invul until then
>>750564731These guys, nothing comes close to a competent air force in Strangereal.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVW53VdjCAI
>>750628635Shoot it until it dies
>>750628635Get behind it and dump everything into it, missiles, bullets, bombs, wingmen with attack/special weapons enabledApparently there was a bug that caused it to be unkillable in that last phase but apparently they fixed it, I never had that issue so I wouldn't knowUnless you mean earlier in which case kill all the missiles and marker drones, Endurance can take a hit or two but it's easy enough to do it hitless (there's a medal for that, even)
>>750628753Moon 11 is bullet proof in the same way that Pixy in Zero is bullet proof, he has two phases and you kill him "once" he enters the second phase. Mihaly won't even die if you "kill him" until he finishes his routine.
>>750628948exactly the same for moon 11go test it with a modded superjet, and HP indicator mods
>>750628780There was a bug? I did everything, and it wouldn't die. For some reason it died during one attempt even though I did the same thing
>>750627460Mission 8 is way too good for it to be in the first third of the game
>>750629157>Fixed an issue where the TGT “HULL” could not be destroyed even after repeated attacks, preventing the mission from progressing.From the patch notesI'm not sure what else could be the issue, just about every other enemy in the mission takes a single missile so it's not like you could run out of ammo before thenJust dump everything and don't let go until it goes boom
>>750627129I just don't see Kate being embarrassed playing dressup for her husband?
>>750628753>>750629095you mean her first yap when she has her shield drones on her? that doesnt really count cause the fight hasnt even started yetor does she also not take damage before hortus regis alti starts playing either?
>>750628753You can actually shoot down Moonman 11 in the earlier missions if you are fast enough.
>>750629279>mission 8Not be >ackshually but it's My Blue Sky Home that plays, another amazing song song But yes I agree. It felt like a latter third of game mission for sure.
>>750630570both, you cant enter the next stage until she has completed her speechif you do stage 1 fast enough its like a full 6 minute afk yap fest where you just blast her invunerable plane with lead and explosives. Combine that with the dogfight mode finish and mission 29 is honestely up there with 30 as some of the most dogshit missions created
the cinematic dogfight mode bits are lame as fuck but I commend PAs courage for owning their assault horizon baggage instead of trying to pretend it never existed. the few metal tracks are another example like the one playing during expo city nugget massacre.
>>750630812>>750629279To me it's more that we've heard all the purple magic songs before we've hit mission 10I wanted at least a new one every 5 missions or so :(
>>750631550But then it does let their musical artists work on making variants and incorporating motifs in the music for the next missionsIt's incredible how autistic their musicians are, I cannot understate how much I mean this as a compliment
>>750558478>Usean continent is Western Europe and Scandinavia>Osean continent is a mix of the US, Latin America and Central Europe>Verusan continent is Eastern Europe, the USSR and Mongolians>Anean continent is Scandinavia (again) and the BalkansIs this analogy of the Strangereal continents accurate?
>>750628596The fuck's a Nazi, isn't that an old Belkan salute?
>>750625218>>750624650or just outsmart him with bullet(s)
>>750631684Osea has Western Europe stapled to it, given Belka and Sapin and all the restUsea also has elements of China, Singapore and Canada, it's the most hodgepodge of all of Strangereal's hodgepodgesBut otherwise, in broad strokes, yeah that covers it
>>750631708it's the traditional groman salute used in ancient osea before their legionnaires scrambled into a glider battle.
>>750631787I already S ranked the bitch on ace. I'm trying to understand what the point of hyper velocity missiles is.
is this what all AC protagonists look like
>>750631995We know that Blaze has hair, but we don't necessarily know how much of his head exists thanks to Chopper
>>750592576and also jew jews the electrosphere net
>>750593349>F-16 in F2 coloursSEXOOOO
>>750593349>>750632191Wait no that *is* an F-2 I just checked "no japanese rondel" and didn't look at the canopy
>>750631995It would explain why they don't give a shit about excessive Gs. Can't blackout if you don't have a head.
>>750631965They're for Tu-160s if you don't want to play catch-up.
This is fort grays mole squadron, we are going to show you the real Wings of Theve
Holy shit, I did it, I 1v1'd and shot down Mr. X. Mission 15 was my bane thanks to him and SOL Squadron, but somehow I still feel like I didn't beat him truly still, I just got lucky again.
>>750624236That's what you get for starting a war for the Belkans you dumb bitch
>>750621064That just how he was after the initial surgery in the trailer. The game doesn't really specify what he looks like, but its known that he's at least functional enough to crawl through a sewer when outside of his mech
>>750591791>I am NOT having a relationship with a fucking clanker son of Huggy and MuggyOkay but what if she had a massive penis and you lived in it?
>>750590234I actually rather disliked Top Gun. It's an over-extended training montage feeding into a very mediocre dogfight against a faceless enemy with no personality to speak of. Plus its primary cast is almost entirely unlikeable, and the only tolerable one amongst them fucking dies.
>>750599961No, it's just that his phone in particular is stupid powerful. Shit's got a satellite uplink and onboard AI.
>>750633952The intro is also pretty much the only moment where you actually get a real "aviation movie" vibeI haven't seen the new one yet, but I'm expecting it to be betterI watched the french version with Mirages too, that was surprisingly fun, with great real flying footage
>>750624186the refueling drones exploded because Enso Order was done with Wings and wanted to Martyr him so they could move onto something else.
>>750621230the FCU is poor as fuck you're on an aircraft carrier that was commissioned to be a museum. It's also why the Satoans invaded
>>750605725they confirmed Ace Combat is not apart of UGSF anymore. 3 is in both timelines
>>750633836tee hee, cockpit
>>750634427>instead of space aliens, a rift opens in Antarctica
>>750634427Proofs?
>only 3 emergency missions in ACO>land battleship and celaeno aren't even in despite already being in the gameWhat the fuck? Why is ACO so half baked?
>>750605725star ixiom reboot when?
>>750636275Presumably they'll add more, but it might be too little too late by that pointHopefully not but it's not a great start
>raped by coups and civil wars>raped by Ulysses>raped by Erusea>raped by Erusea again>Erusean goverment collapses the second internet goes down>raped by Sotoa>FCU collapses the second a single sotoan touches the continentLife expectancy in Usea has to be like 20 years at most. Honestly megacorp control might not even be that bad compared to what came before.
>>750634103The new movie is unironically better than the original in every way except the soundtrack.
>>750636495>Honestly megacorp control might not even be that bad compared to what came before.Oh ye of too much faith
>>750636693Gotta kill the corpos before they grey goo the planet
>>750636693These fucks creeped me out hard as a kid. I still don't know what that is
>>750637247Nanomachine blobs eating everything and getting into your lungs
>>750631640https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1beXOXpziUkI need at least ten more videos like this injected directly into my brain
>>750633952>>750634103Watch Hot Shots instead
>>750622759>>750625862You get some vapor, but there is no thunder shock like in 8 or it was far quieter.
>Usea produces three Aces (Phoenix, Mobius 1, and Rex)>Osea and Aurelia produces two (Blaze/Trigger and Gryphus 1/Falco 1)>The rest only has one
>>750638073The rest only needed one.
>>750637378>he missed all the blockade references and the megalith/song of wings (as one) stuffbaka desu senpai
>>750629319>>750629157>>750628780the patch hasnt actually been deployed yet from what i've seen. they delayed it due to the whole PHP issue fucking up half their company
>When AC9 is an alternate timeline where General Resources was a front for Grunder and The Grey men all along. LONG LIVE BELKA
>>750638784>Implying that's not going to be the reveal
desu, the soundtrack for "thousand points of light" is just disappointing. Way too short and the best moments of the music pumping up are so brief. In the game, when you're flying into the bomber formation it just feels epic with that music blasting, the official soundtrack just doesn't capture that which is weird because the rest of the soundtrack is fantastic. I've been listening to it a lot since I finished playing the game. Maybe it's recency bias, but it might be my favorite AC soundtrack after 5. Maybe even better than 5 honestly.
>>750639135A lot of the youtube releases of the music feel like they aren't pushing what the game versions do well. Star-Bound Bird is probably the best example where it goes absolutely insane with the extra sections during the mission updates but the OST version in the game doesn't have that and I'm not sure the streaming version has it either.Similar problem that Mimic had, since Mimic had (Rage) and (Scream) versions that were both very different in their own way (goes crazy on the drums, goes crazy dissonant and proggy)
>>750638954>Alright, welcome to the General Resources family. Let us show you the ro->Yeah, whatever. Anyways, here's our plans for super sick jet fighters that will make our enemies question the laws of physics.>Wha- wait, we bought you. you don't tell us what to do.>DO YOU WANT RECORD PROFITS OR NOT?!>.........yes sir.
>>750638073You need to be in a war first to have an outlier ace. And no other place gets into wars more than Usea.
>Strangereal has a country that has been proven to have started at LEAST 2 major wars between major powers>it's so well known that people in universe assume anything that happens is a Belkan conspiracyHoly fuck, Belka is Ultraisrael
I would quite like to indulge myself in some hot wings.
>>750640541Israel WISHES they were as sneaky as Belka
>>750638073There's some Yuke aces like Tasha's mom, and Toprak counts for his continent tooBut we've never played as one of those guys
>>750639610I love the Rage and Scream callbacks in Star-Bound BirdSo goodIt's a pity I didn't play 7's DLC that much; I should boot it up again...Probably if I can get the Frame before Christmas, replaying the game in VR sounds sick
>>750631684Sotoa in earlier maps was clearly North Africa, and the desertification of a prairie has parallels with what happened to the Sahara/Sahel, so I'm gonna add that.
>>750633179
>>750605725Galaga having a story is actually blowing my mind a bit....Mr. Driller? Dig Dug? What is going on I'm tripping balls.
>>750641913Both Toprak and Tewy count, they just got got.
Imagine the sheer insane weapons we would see if Japan's military wasn't disbanded..
>>750640642
>>750643742>Throwing 4 missiles at his ass right as he starts going straight and pressing the BBRRRT button at the same time
>>750633179Imagine how many PSMs they can do at that speed...Speaking of, when are we gonna be able pull off a herbst? We can pseudo do it but I want to be able to horizontally 180 so I can drag race in the sky.
>>750624186>why did the refueling drone randomly explode and why did no one comment on that everSabotage by the mole presumably. Remember, it was two drones simultaneously.>Why did nobody comment on that everI assume the script went through a lot of re-writes and focusing on that one thing fucked up the pacing. That whole plot thread ends when Pike shoots the mole anyway.
>>750644125Tasha would approveThere's always the good old immelmann
>>750644201Not that guy but I assumed it was ol' planning division trying to do a sneaky rugpull to remove an uncontrolled variable, but I could both buy it being the moleys or I missed that being explictly stated somewhere. Unless the camera zoomed in just before they exploded to a little "Made in Belka" sign on the drones.
>>750624186>why did no one try to use a simple bunker buster on a land ship beforeThe fucker was going to shoot the bomber down like 8 times and had to be stopped by the superhuman protagonist over and over for it to get close enough
>>750644227True, I love doing immelmanns but it's mostly because it's the first airplane funny trick I ever heard of and like the name. It's actually fairly easy to do in AC7/8 due to high-g turns to the point I'm sure most people have done it naturally at some point.
>>750644360>>750644125>Airplane combat used to be cool/Was basically the dark souls 1 meme of planes doing circles until one backstabs the other.>Now it's all about shooting invisible specks in the sky before going home.
>>750644301>Unless the camera zoomed in just before they exploded to a little "Made in Belka" sign on the drones.Unironically if they did something similar it would be one of the funniest "oh shit" rugpulls ever. You expect nothing and then BAM, all belka, and kaboom
>>750644360I would absolutely love to ennemy aces do a herbst or stand their plane still just to flex how good they aremore airshow bullshit please
>>750644449We can't ring the bell very tightly, and unless the yaw parts modifier gets a lot stronger sidewinding is impossible, but the others are at least partly possible through high-g bullshit>>750644542I am 10000% certain there's a this but it's belka version out there somewhere. I swear I've even seen it.
>>750644735Yeah, let's embrace the bullshit more, we want the enemy to understand us etc. Ace combat has always been on the softer end of realism. Let me spin the dime.
>>750644762shit, sorry, this.
I was expecting the dog to speak againRex would have rolled with it
Huh
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900....That's a number you should remember.
This is our signal that most people are done playing this game now and these daily threads have come to an end
>>750644929BELKA WILL RISE AGAIN
>>750633952wouldn’t be 4chan without a dumb contrarian post like this>but what is the mig-28’s tax policy?ass post
Project Aces has hired (you) as the new Ideas Guy. Come up with a plot for AC9.HARD MODE: No electrosphere
>>750648748The dogfights just aren't that cool it's all composite and not enough of the movie is about flying planes hard and fast :(There's a reason why it was popular with couples in the theater, half of it is romance with a woman, the worst kind Tom should have fucked his F-14
>>750650139my mom and dad when they were dating went to see top gun like 3 times in theaters. boomers were crazy
>>750649939There's a country in the verusean continent named Verusea, which implies that at some point it was a continent spanning empire. Nationalists take over Verusea and invade Yuktobania and, thanks to (INSERT SUPERWEAPON HERE), actually manage to put the yukes on the backfoot.You play as a yuktobanian pilot fighting to take back your country. Cover plane is the SU-57 yes I know PA would never release a game with a non-american cover planeAs a bonus, you occasionally get glimpses of the corporate war going on in Usea
>>750587043You can't just take that beast head on, Trigger.
>>750649939I come up with the extremely original idea of Metal Gear's MSF but with planes in the Savian mercs: Go inna various conflicts from various angles. Copy 0s Galm team but with an entire materiel force than two/three dudes in planes. Get to wax philosophical about living and thriving on war for war's sake and finding a true purpose possibly involving borders. Fight former allies, save former enemies. Have the Tac name VIC and fight a mobile bipedal nuclear tank called Belkan Cog. Very original.
>>750650819But I did! And I kicked his ass, but the game decided he’s unkillable
>>750628596Dude should just stick to selling his electric air planes.
>>750650873>Go inna various conflicts from various angles>Northern Wings 2Holy kino
>>750651013it's funny that there's worse glowie spooks than the Belkans it's just nobody really remembers because they -aren't- like Belkans who feel an innate nationalistic need to declare their belkanage at some point. Meanwhile the planet strangereal belongs to the nords
>>750650897You're getting too cocky penal unit. Yup, you just got you and your team awarded another suicide run against the Arsenal Bird!
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>>750587574I'll be honest, Shadow 22 as a boss fight is good enough as it is. The only problem comes from the fact that it comes at the end of a mission that's already 30 minutes long, so them being able to fuck up your S rank is annoying.If it was a separate mission it would work fine.
>>750649939San Salvacion breaks down into a violent civil war due being overwhelmed with refugees and migrants from the numerous civil and international wars plaguing the continent over the past decades. Central Usea has become a hotbed for mercenaries as numerous countries in the region have become dependent on the radical instability in the region, thus regime change has become as constant as breakfast among most nations. In order to bring peace to the continent once and for all and in order to ensure corporate assets are protected, the Neo United Nations sends UPEO forces to wipe out and subjugate all PMC, rebel, and mercenary forces in the region on behalf of General Resource. However, the conflict soon escalates into a continent-wide war as parts of General Resource fractures into a rival corporation called Neucom, which has taken to fielding advanced aircraft to claim air superiority.As Blackbeard 1 'Davy Jones', infamous ace of the mercenary strike group Calypso, how will you navigate these dire waters?
>>750582424Usually how it is for ace combat. Trigger is the odd one out with daredevil.
>>750649939is it cheating if I said Dision's terrorist suppression activities in 2026? I'd headcanon that he was sent to somewhere we've not been before like Wellow too.
After finishing this game again, I realize that despite the ammount of AC3 references in 8, 7 ironically does a much better job setting it up.At the end of 7 basically the whole continent is devastated politically, and communications going down sets up the Electrosphere perfectly.Meanwhile at the end of 8 the FCU should be doing fine. They took a beating but they did win the war. Not sure why or how they could get cucked by GR in such a short ammount of time.
>>750650873Savian mercenary squadron struggling to reconcile being used as corporate attack dogs as Savia yearns for a national identity beyond hiring themselves out for bigger players' agendas.
>>750651696>Meanwhile at the end of 8 the FCU should be doing fine.Sotoa bombed many of their cities to shit, then they got bombed again in the re-taking.>They took a beating but they did win the war. Not sure why or how they could get cucked by GR in such a short ammount of timeMy headcanon is that AC3 has an unreliable narrator. It's a cop-out but it allows a lot of leeway.
>>750651696>Not sure why or how they could get cucked by GR in such a short ammount of time.GR being the main supplier/company doing 99% of the infrastructure rebuild probably has something to do with it.
>>7506514489 being a prequel akin to 0 would align with the juxtaposition 7 has with 4 and 8 has with 5
>>750649939Romeo and Juliet Ace Combat Edition
Fuck that guy
>>750583390https://youtu.be/YCdDqvGR9cE
>>750651232>Shadow 22 as a boss fight is good enough as it is.Not really? You just BRRR there for a minute or two and the whole squadron is wiped out, and from what I've heard it's even easier with special missiles. Moon 11 is also the same.
>>750653920I want bronze age Ace Combat with F-22s.
>>750654951>Belka hid superweapons and concept planes in various eras of the past, you must find them with your time-travelling f-22 and destroy themthat or >a time rift opens to WW2, you easily win at the start but your shiny moderns planes get replaced by era appropriate fighters, until the end where you find out Belkans crossed the rift first and have almost completed a jet factory after producing multiple concepts
Imagine being Cope
>Ace Combat threads this dead already What happened, Acebros? I thought we were back?
>>750657829anon we had constant threads for weeks purely on a mildly niche single player game.
Anyone noticed that Kate's eyes tend to wander when she is looking at the player?
>>750603581It already exists
>>750644929https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lB8GG55gfpw
>>750628753I just finished AC8 and I'm having an existential crisis. I fucking hated it. I fucking hated larp 22 and Mary Sue 11Every mission is either an escort mission or the most scripted shit since assault horizon I might as well be playing with a dvd remote. And I can't believe Tasha turned out to have more balls than Cope ever did.Oh and Sotoans were just tricked. They drop orbital nukes and are going to use surrendered enemies as slave labor, but it's Walmart that tricked them.Goddammit. Now only another 7 years to see if the next one is better. Fuck. Fuck this game.
>>750658073She's into you, you autistic sperg.
>>750661663
>get to the part where it's leaked that Cope is Sotoan>Baxter yells "WHAT WAS I WINGMANING AND RISKING MY LIFE FOR ALL THIS TIME, A LOWLIFE SOAT?THAT GODDAMN NOMAD PIECE OF SHIT I SHOULD HAVE KILLED HIM MYSELF. "Did project aces go too far here?
>>750662709Not far enough.
Why did DD even need to make shit up about Wings once Rex (Ray) took over?
>>750657976Dead game. Flopped game, even.
>>750663262Even once you start showing that you're more than capable, it still takes a long while for people to register it. Like Dealer doing the "oh this is a terrible idea isn't it" happens 2/3rds of the way through the game after you're already splashed god knows how many bandits, but also other shadow squadrons.
>>750663262His character is very brown coded nepo baby.
>>750663262Wings defeating some no-name Shadows at an irrelevant arctic base is not something dealing with Sotoan occupation or invasion cares about.But a legend that single-handedly saved Theve? That's another story.
>Baxter: <<We should behead all Sotoans, am I right, Rex?>>><<No>>>Baxter: <<Huh? You're saying we should beheading is too good for them and that we should cover them in honey and bury them alive in ant hills? I like the way you think, Rex.>>Some of the choices in this game are kinda weird.
>>750663535
>>750663792top zozzle
This is the most kino vidya I've played in a while.
>>750558478Heil tom cruise!
Was the multiplayer any good?
>>750662709>Baxter keeps casually dropping the n-wordWhy is he like this?
>>750663262why did everyone in the world listen to moleman's conspiracy theory and also believe it
>>750558478Reminder Cope is a loser just like Tewy. There are no good Sotoans.
>>750663262It takes your guys 20 whole missions just for them to find out that you can solo a Shadows squadron.
>>750664139No
>>750600480I worked on aircraft up until 2023. Most of them had upgraded to LCD but one of the MFDs on one of my aircraft still had a CRT. I wouldn't put it past Strangereal pilots to prefer CRTs just for the motion clarity while they're pulling 10Gs.
>>750564731They have a military that's not retarded
>>750591584If AC8 is Mobile Suit Gundam with newtype ghosts, then AC9 is going to be Gundam Wing with the NEMO System
>>750664248Counterpoint: Only good Sotoans are dead Sotoans and therefore Cope is a good Sotoan.
>>750664920i wish the Ace team made a full on gundam game.AC series, esp 6, is overrated.
>>750665001>AC series, esp 6, is overrated.6 was stuck on 360.
>>750665083armored core
>>750664920It would not surprise me if the next AC game goes full Gundam with newtype kids piloting coffin equipped planes only for Kate to order them to all immediately land and park their planes or she'll be taking off her belt
>>750664139It gets old pretty fast and has shit, SHIT UX.
>>750603581You take what you can get.
>>750665637dolls nest was great.really hoping for a dn2
>>750664978Cope upset me when he said all pilots go to the pilot heaven. Fuck Sotoans I'm sending them to hell.
>>750665879What do you think is worse, hell, or heaven where 20+ years of fighter pilots all laugh at you for losing a 1000v10 and not being able to hit an inch of a tiny ass island?
>>750665879Really? All pilots?
>>750558563the final lesson is fascism, snake
>>750664079That line has got to be the most unintentionally funny sentence uttered in a video game. A general from a comically evil country's military arrives in a wheelchair to do some charity work for some country bumpkins and tells some kid she'll find whoever hit her and nuke them into the stone age in the most calm voice ever.
>that Stonehenge mission in 7, with seconds to complete>that tracking pod mission, followed by chasing not one, but three ICBMs, with seconds to complete (again)Abysmal dogshit.
>>750666584the ICBM mission was kino and I'm not entirely sure why people think it was hard
>>750665976I wonder how the mook pilots shot down by the protagonists in these games feel about the crazier ones. I like I don't think the average Yuke shot down by Wardog holds too much hate in their heart for their killer at this point, but everyone shies away from a Sotoan or Belkan and sits at a different table>"No hold on I didn't-"They've heard it all before at this point
>>750644735damn wtf is that webm from?
>>750666989probably the targeting parti kinda get it, but i also thought that mission was awesome and is my favorite gimmick mission in the series
>>750665996Rex's wife said 22 is going to hell
>>750667053>the gemma nuggets awkwardly sitting at a table of their own because the other Sotoans don't want anything to do with them either
>>750666989It's not hard at all, just dull and annoying because you hit the invisible altitude wall if you try to do what the mission asks you to (shoot down the ICBM), so you need to slow down and take your sweet time for the ICBM to waltz into range instead. A mission which should be exciting, made tedious.
>>750649939Yuktobania Sotoa war Prequel in 2009 and call it AC09
Man how does AC0 still hold up this well? Literally perfect controlling.
>>750667101Yukikaze, it's weird and the story is barely explained but the plane porn of is legendary, and it's interestingreally high quality animation and design (with real sound recordings of F15 and the collaboration of the JASDF)Also some interesting themes underneath, not only looking at human vs. ai but human + ai (against an enemy)
>>750667821The boys are prettier than the girls, also this gormless twink is the protagonistHe's okay
>>750668221Well no the real protagonist is Yukikaze
>>750668317I'm partial to the Super Sylph
>>750668317>>750668479Man, these are the Taimanin people are fapping to, huh? I can see why.
>>750667386That's gonna be DLC.
>>750664920Tasha is definitely a Newtype, right?>AC9>GR secretly develops 5 prototype units and sends them to different countries to see what each does with them. >Your country is facing a multi-front invasion>Systematically down or capture each prototype with your (you) powers, at least 2 of their pilots join your squad.
>>750631995I expected Rex head to be just his helmet in cutscenes but this is funny.
>>750668606Every girl should have a ramjet upgrade.
>>750669470>GR implements a not-S3 Program to create a swarm of loli COFFIN pilots with Tasha's and Rex's flight dataI believe it.
Why is this zoomer so sexy?
>>750669905Teenaged tomboy in dire need of war trauma correction.
>>750670118I mean, as far as angsty smartass Newtype teenagers go, she handled things pretty well. Only one BSOD when her onee bit it.
>>750670118She got spanked at least once by Kate according to dialogue.
>>750670118She was pretty good at killing those Gemma Nuggets when I had them on disperse and I was attacking ground targets
>>750670654Everyone got in on that even Jackpot flight shot them down with Harriers. It was an all you can eat Long Caster nugget bucket special.
>>750669126>Play as Tasha's mom and wreck Tewi's shit again
>>750669470>How'd you know there were shadows coming there from beyond the horizon?>ummmmmm, I saw themEither psychic, or she also has a ghost haunting her.
>>750670949It'd be funny if Cope was a two-timing whore ghost and they'll both never realize it because they both didn't speak up about it.
>>750669470>>750669825>AC9 has you fight a bunch of loli newtypes>You play as Milf flight going around forcefully adopting them all>Title of the game is Ara Combat
Try Long Caster from now on. Get yourself a double cheese with fries for 2.95 NUGGET
>>750671236>Ara Combat: Darkness of Enigma>99% of your 'baby birds' die by the end of the game due to increasingly fucked up neural link testing swept under the rug as covert ops for some skunkwork PMC>except for Rena
>>750670949Like I said, Newtype. She's lucky she didn't get Foured (or maybe sensible enough not to).
>>750671657PA doesn't suffer from enough depression to pull a Victory.
do it for her
>>750671657You know its not the most terrible of ideas and I could see PA doing something along these lines.
>>750669905>zoomerTasha was born after 2010, she's Gen Alpha.the zoomer is Coster.
>>750672645Sure about that?
>>750618142Here's your robo wife anon, sorry no take backs.
>>750672714>born 2020>game takes place in 2029i knoiw shes supposed to be a kid, but 9 years old is a bit young to be fighting a war.
>>750673608old enough to cry, old enough to fly
>>750659932I honestly agree with youall these faggots larping it as the greatest game are mentally deranged.Online is worsefewer planesworse musicbraindead storyAC8 is assault horizon tier badonly redditards that loved slopfield would say otherwise
>>750658073kates hot and all but just imagine the ptsd cry sessions
Why did they make the black guy the most racist character?
>>750674840they were based
>>750674840so, exactly like black people in real life?
>>750674840>That's a sheep shagging Sotoan for you>You inbreds really are itching to stick your dicks into that goat right? Woah there Raimi.
>sotoans built new landmasses>decides to invade a continent ravaged by war for more land
>>750586009i hope, w*mans in AC3 are just cringe
>>750676094It's about the principle
why park the land battleship in the middle of a highway niggas just trying to get to work
>>750676094"Megafloats + Free infinite energy from space elevator = #1 world superpower" is their thought process clearly
>>750658073She wants it, and won't take no for an answer.
>>750676094I mean if you look at the megafloat they had they clearly used most of its spsce to larp in yurts rather than use competently
>>750676094Megafloats aren't *that* big. Only a mile or two across.
