Ace Combat General #25

First for shitposting.

FFS I want that wardog emblem!

First for fixing my sleep schedule so I can sortie 3 times every 12 hours.

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>>71480990
Already doing that. Going on a bender helps with that too, though.

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>Thread is dying
>Game is dying
>Series is dying

>>71482525
>Series is dying
Already dead.

>>71482525
Shibou!

>>71482525
This is still a pretty fast general any way you slice it. Sure, maybe not as fast as the 24/7 front page ones, but a lot faster than say, Shin Megami Tensei general.

I can't remember the last time I had an Alps S rank; nearly every time it bugs out and nothing spawns for the last 20 seconds or so. Last run we got the fucking Bears in the NW corner and I was the only one near them in my Fullback with 40 seconds to go by the time I actually reached them; slowly shot down two of them (holy fuck they take forever in an attacker), help arrives with a few seconds left, and we run out of time with the last one at a sliver of HP. If only my MG aim was a little bit better ;_; But who knows, maybe we'd shoot it down and still get lol A rank.

>>71480990
I can only use 5 of my supplied fuel each day and that requires playing soon after coming home from work if I don't want to have to stay up too late waiting for a second fuel to replenish.

I'm wondering if it's my shit connection or the game's servers but I'm losing connections from hosts much more often now. (prob a combination of both). Used to be I was able to get like 5 sorties in at least in the evenings, just tried now and I can't even do it. Mornings/middays are out. Anybody going through the same thing?

>>71480990
This is the only schedule in my life I'm sticking with at the moment, wake up, play AC: I at 09:00, go about my day, play AC: I at 21:00 haven't deviated much since May.

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>Only three supplied fuel
>Have to make each one count
>Can never push myself to have fun and use planes I want
>Always have to just ground pound all day with whatever my best plane for that is

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>>71484545
It's like being a real Ace.

Anybody know if your Mission Completion Rank ever recovers if it goes into the negatives. I don't deliberately quit missions (why lose out on the points and experience, I'm a new player) but ragequitting hosts and a day or two of spotty internet service has dropped my rank to -7. Now I can't actually find PUG rooms, and nobody I know plays ACI.

>>71484545
>Always have to just ground pound all day with whatever my best plane for that is
I'm afraid I can't sympathize with you, I enjoy bombing the shit out of everything more than shooting down planes that can turn on a dime

>>71486893
It is pretty stupid that you basically have to attack ground when you're starting off, though. Early planes without the homing upgrades just aren't good enough at air to air combat.
The game got a lot more fun for me when I got the homing upgrades and a good plane so I can actually fight air if I want.

>>71487190
this is true, if you enjoyed dogfights more and you're just starting you're pretty much shit out of luck at the start

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>>71487190
You can always datalink with me anon, i mostly use the antenna upgrade and High Homing, though i recently unlocked Quick Turn and Anti-Stall, but haven't tried them out yet.

does upgrading the morgan make the laser do more damage? the level 1 -> level 2 upgrade doesn't give it more ammo, but currently the damage is just terrible.

I want an X-02

>>71489380
Oh, things have been fine ever since I got medium missile homing and a plane that can actually turn. It was just back at the start when I didn't have anything that sucked.
I'm currently using the long range datalink, but it's becoming less and less useful since range goes up as you upgrade planes anyway. Wish that fast reload one didn't take so long to unlock.

I really wish there was a way to restrict planes by tier. I'm getting tired of Japs in F-22's and T-50's killing fucking everything because they spent all their manga money on this game.

>>71489479
Upgrading a plane makes all its weapons do more damage. Though only a little, so the TLS will still suck.
It gets another shot at level 6, but that's it. You probably don't want to bother upgrading it. The ammo sucks, the rest of the stats suck, and it's the most expensive plane in the game. Just keep it at level 1 while you get to the Super Hornet/Strike Eagle and then forget about it.

>>71489670
I'm getting mixed performances from those F-22 and T-50 pilots, sometimes they can be a good addition to the team to a point where we finish the map really fast while S-ranking it, other times they just suck real bad that I get the MVP and carry the team with a wild weasel. It's a lot like the F-14 early on when just about everyone used it because top gun.

While planes do matter it still comes down to the players themselves, as for me I still try to stick to the role my plane flies despite everyone seems to have abandoned this idea by now.

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The hardest decision of tonight- sortie or watch Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

>>71490218
It's hard for it to come down to the players when ping and pong both have level 10 F-22's with QAAM's and both are taking out ALL targets. I shouldn't have to fight an air superiority fighter for ground kills when I'm the one in an F-15D with SFFS bombs.

>>71490816
That's true, you shouldn't. An F15E of at least level 4 should be able to get loads of kills on ground targets before the F22s can do anything. Try harder.

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Drunk sortie time.

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>tfw you get your first S rank.

does the UGB upgrades affect the A-10's FAEB?

>>71494535
No. The damage and ammo upgrades for bombs are generic, but the UGB range one is UGB only.

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>>71494307
Remember it
Embrace it
Breath it in
Strive for it
Live for it
Conquer for it

The journey for S has just begun

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>>71494307
>tfw finally s-ranking stonehenge

How the hell do I use my damn nonstandard upgrade request form?

>>71495946
Isn't it just an option when you've got your plane at level 5 and the research for level 6 is done?
I haven't actually used one myself, though, so.

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>>71494853
I was drunk. It might never happen again.
I've used this image before, but it's the most accurate one.

>>71495946
Research a plane to level 6 and instead of paying a ridiculous amount of credits for the upgrade purchase you use the form, an option is presented between the options for paying for the upgrade or canceling.

>>71496686
Funny how that works. These days I always seem to get matched with people in endgame planes so S ranks are guaranteed. I kinda miss the early times when I had to try instead of being able to go AFK and still get S.

Fuck.
>in game
>get MDP
>"time to make some cash"
>host has closed the room

>>71497165
Which MDP? I was always excited when I saw MD1, but on further reflection the rewards for it aren't really very good. You only get 4000 more than a normal map, less if some idiot destroys the core early, and someone always fucking does.
Missing MD2 or 3 is pretty sad though.

>>71497437
MDP1. Haven't even seen 2 or 3 yet.. I probably play in too short sessions

>>71496958
Play 4-player rooms. Enough targets to go after, still S-rankable with competent pilots (don't even have to have endgame planes). Best way to play.

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>>71496686

I thought I was the only one who liked to fly hammered.

It really helps.

I'm pleasantly surprised by how useful the Su-24MP's ECM is. I was expecting something completely trash-tier and ignorable, but they're handy in a pinch, especially if you're wanting to shoot at The Dick undisturbed by the escorts.

Granted, I'll be chucking it out in favour of UGBs once unlocked.

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>MDP2
>everyone's too busy chasing fighters to destroy the cockpit
I'm in fucking bizarro world.

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>>71480772

If only i could bomb the Aigaion with this.

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>>71506949
If only I could bomb things at sanic speeds with this.

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>>71510584
If only I could bomb things once with this.

>>71511271
No playable bombers allowed. They tried an AC with playable bombers once and it didn't work. No more.

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>>71511271

Or this.

>>71511454
I thought the bombers and helicopters worked fine.

Funny enough, it was the standard fighter missions that I didn't like as much because of the forced DFM (which was supposed to be optional).

Well that and the gunner missions, fuck that COD noise.

Any rooms up? I got 3 supplied to play with.

Savin my stock for Moby Dick and/or Wardog.

Actually, why didn't we get F-5s in this game seems like decent for an early level fighter

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>>71511271
>>71511643
XB70 strongest bomber. All other bombers go home.
>>71512447
Because this game is largely composed of assets from AC6 and AH, so there was no F5 model available. And there are lots of fighters of all sorts anyway.

>>71512690
But Morgan
But F-16F
But F-4G

>>71512842
F-16F was in Assault Horizon.

>>71512972
Oh right. I don't really remember what the plane list was like in that game because I only used choppahs

>>71512842
F16F was in AH, and the F4G is nearly identical to the F4E so it was hardly more work. The Morgan is the only new plane, and it's a lot more recognisable than the F5. A fictional superfighter is a lot more interesting to most players than that starter plane that was in a few games that I stopped using as soon as I unlocked something better.

>>71513140
>Morgan
>superfighter
>in ACI
I got news for you...

>>71513312
Well, it used to be a superfighter at least. People were pretty impressed when it was announced. More than they would have been over the F5.

>>71513386
Not me. I'm all for more Cold War era planes in the game. Really couldn't not give less of a damn about fake planes.

>>71513386
Hey.
Fuck you.
Everyone loves the F-5

>>71513513
>couldn't not
>could not
Whoops.

>>71513513
Well, I guess Namco think more people would like a Morgan than would agree with you. I'd like an XFA36 more than anything else, but I don't think that's happening either. It's very sad, isn't it?
>>71513546
Yeah well I don't so there.

>>71513706
Yeah? Well then you're not a real person. Ergo, you're a figment of my imagination and therefore don't exist.
Goodbye

>>71513706
If they really wanted to make those people happy, they wouldn't have made it one of the shittiest planes in the game.

>>71513854
It's better than making it good. If they did that they'd either need to make it really hard to get, or it'd break the tech tree by making the planes that take loads of grinding redundant. Both those options suck.

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>>71511454
>>71511909

The heli missions were dogshit. Period.

I felt they ruined the bomber missions with ASM. The way I would have done it in classic AC is to make the change weapon button a toggle for closing and opening the bomb bay. When it's open, the camera looks down towards your targets and the plane goes semi-transparent, especially for big wide bombers like the Spirit, so you can see. Then bombing runs can be done normally.

A mission where one or two selected players that have a bomber purchased from the aircraft tree can randomly become the designated bombers in preflight for the mission while the other 6 players provide top cover, and destroy soft AA/SAMs. The bombers would only have chaffs and bombs, and no MG or missiles. Clipping would also be enabled on bombers with other aircraft. The bombers' role would be to destroy hard red targets that are beefier than Scinfaxi that would otherwise take a long time with attacker planes.

>lost connection with host
>bomber is now CPU

lel too bad, enjoy your D rank.

>b-but what if I want to fly bombers in Dubai so I can free towelheads
>no imposed bomber # limit for sortie
>nobody sorties off with fighters/MR/attackers

This is why we can't have nice things.

>>71511643
Lancer a best.

well, i see enough people are pretty pissed on the AC:I fb page about the upcoming Wardog tourney.

Namco really does seem dead set on murdering this franchise...

>>71514067
The correct answer is "This is an experimental plane, not representative of the final product you know from previous games. Its performance is highly subpar, but it will rapidly improve relative to other planes with sufficient R&D."

Then make its price at level 1 average for a starting plane, with its overall upgrade prices scaled to where else you might be on the tech tree if you were following it, ending with its level 10 upgrade being equal to an endgame plane upgraded to level 10.

That or, I dunno. Make it receive double benefit from equipped parts.

I just kinda stopped playing Infinity. As much as I like the game, I just can't get myself to play it anymore. It feels so heartless, yet screams for some great from itself. It's kinda heartbreaking.

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>>71513706
>Namco releases the fictional superplanes
>Col. rank block
>price of Fort Knox
>shitty at Lv1, but a monster at higher levels
>lots of parts slots
>costs even more to upgrade it
>swapping out parts also costs an arm and a leg
>needs a shitload of research to unlock and to level up
>HCAA and HPAA for Lv1 and Lv4 SPW lel

So I finally got my AC4 and found time to play last night, then I realized: I need some fucking component cables. This is the first time I've even hooked up the PS2 to an LCD TV and holy shit it looks like total ass with composite. I can get it looking acceptable by setting the TV and game both to 4:3 (in-game 16:9 setting does nothing to the actual aspect ratio, just makes it look even shittier) but it's still blurry. I thought it might just be AC4 being such an old PS2 game but had the exact same things happen testing it with Valkyrie Profile 2.

Goddammit.

>>71515618
It has the potential to be something really amazing but several things hold it way back.

Also I've been playing the older games and I miss the thunderous sound of missiles hitting the targets. It sounded more impactful in Zero and 5 and such.

>>71515832
Component cables help a lot, but you'll still see the low resolution unless you sit far away from your TV.

>>71514896
The heli missions were the only part of the game that I LIKED.

If the whole fucking game was 15 missions of that I would have bought it. Could have used a few more playable units, like the AH--1Z, RAH-66, Mi-28, etc. Seriously I want a full game of that. There aren't enough helicopter games out there and EA is making too much Battlefield money to revisit the Strike series.

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>>71516125
It's a shame that the Strike games died with Future Cop. That game was so broken it's not even funny, but it was fun and didn't get the sales that it deserved. Although it did have some of the best explosions you've ever seen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cc6KmgXuWZY
Not my video, but Bacura floating over Tokyo for those have yet to see it in-game.

>>71515971
Well I can live with the low resolution, I know part of the issue is just the shock of switching from PS3 to PS2. Even when I used to play PS2 games on a big-screen rear-projection TV a decade ago, some looked like total shit because they were too pixelated; I recall Disgaea looked better on a shitty tiny CRT.

At least it's playable once I changed settings for 4:3 vertical letterboxing though, I'm not going to wait for cables to arrive to play. Also turning up the TV sharpness seems to help a little bit.

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>>71516495
>dat theme

My childhood right here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VrCnkdjIbo

>>71517146
>>71516495

I knew I could count on you types to have fantastic vidya tastes.

I loved how every mission had video briefings/files for EVERYTHING. Right down to individual vehicles.

>>71517146
Did the PC version have the badass credits theme like the PS1 version?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTUUGcataKQ

>>71517340
Those games are a very rare example of 90s FMVs done right.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2TKNclTfIU

>>71517646

>dat mission in Best Korea

Holy fuck that shit was intense.

>>71516610
Wait, there's a nickname? Wonder if you get that just for seeing them or if you have to kill one. Whatever, if they spawn I'm not going to risk missing it.

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>>71517872
>jacking the BBRRRRTTT in DMZ
>curbstomping all dem north koreans with tons and tons of freedom

That felt so good. Finding the hidden Hokum on Fortress makes you feel like a comeplete badass too.

>>71517146
I personally preferred the PSX menu theme, but this is memorable too.

>>71517646
Naja a qt.
7/10 would liberate.

>>71518536
>have to take out the SCUD or else it blows up your BRRRTTT
such a dick move

>>71518463
Yea, "Gast Noch" or whatever it is in Xevi language. Quite an easter egg that Project Aces threw in there.

>>71517872
Did you play Soviet Strike? That goddamn Transylvania mission was so eerie.

>>71519508

I didn't man, no. I'll look it up on Youtube, really curious now.

Played the Megadrive Strike games though.

>Dogfighting Pixy in an A10 because I was sucking ass at the mission before with a normal fighter.

Moment ruined.

>>71520161
Wow, that's just terrible.

>>71516610
>can blow them up
Lame, even Solvalou can't do that but a damn Nighthawk can?

So I just downloaded Infinity, is the infinite campaign thing worth a shit? Do you even get rewards from those missions?

>>71522302
Barely. You can expect about as many credits from an S-rank in campaign as you can from the first third of a mediocre run of a multiplayer mission.

The only worthwhile part of campaign is that completing the last level gets you 20 fuel to play the real meat of the game, the multiplayer. And it costs like a million credits to do that, without the unlimited campaign pass. (Which is $20 on the PSN. That still comes out to $1 per fuel, but I guess also some story and a rehash of the Stonehenge Offensive.)

>>71521491
>>71520161
And fucking done. That was actually quite exciting.

Now to wait for 4 to get here.

>>71522302
At least support them by purchasing the campaign ticket, you'll get 20 stock fuel by completing the last mission, at the beginning, you have a lot of challenges to do which will give you healthy amount of fuel. Also S ranking the missions give you nicknames and emblems. The last 3 missions at first may seem hard to S rank, but lvl up your favorite jet and go back and do them.

>>71522619
Prepare for feels. Also, a greater appreciation for Stonehenge. It goes down like a bitch in AC:I. I'm hoping they set up three explicitly different models of it (with us only having encountered the lowest grade one) to pave the way for a much more serious threat from one. Also, dem sky-shattering shells instead of the large but mundane FAE rounds we see. Those couldn't possibly be used to shoot down asteroids in anything but atmosphere for obvious reasons. They must have used something else in the not extreme-close-range shells, as even nukes are reduced to a teensy tiny fraction of their effectiveness outside of atmosphere.

"I was just a child when the stars fell from the skies, but I remember how they built a cannon to destroy them."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYJ6fSr-on4

For those of you who saved up the credits to playor bought the full storymode in AC:I, how is it, and is it worth the investment?

>>71524341
I bought the campaign pass. I'm going to say "it depends on whether or not you want to pay for fuel", because that's really what you're doing. The game holds your hand like an extended tutorial for the first two or three missions, and it never stops giving you a warning message about not using any given mission's recommended craft, like it's afraid you'll hurt yourself if you use something else. You get to fight Stonehenge, but there's no buildup like in 4. It attacks you, and then you kill it. Same with Aigaion. There are three more missions that are going to be released that the campaign pass will get you into, but it's hard to call if they'll be worth it.

But you get 20 fuel for finishing mission 5. So if you're okay with buying fuel at a $1/per price, then all you'll really lose by going with the campaign pass is... well, nothing. You'll get 5 missions you can replay infinitely. They're not particularly interesting missions, but they're something to do while waiting for your resupply. Also, apparently it costs credits to fly them without the campaign pass. I hear it's a lot, around a million in total, but I don't know. I bought the campaign pass because I wanted to support the game before I realized how much nothing I was getting.

Missions 6 through 8 had better be fucking amazing.

>>71524870
Thanks for the impressions. Hm, that's a tough choice, then. Like you said, I definitely want to support the game, especially since Namco seems to have listened to fans when it comes to the gameplay and style of the series since AH. But if the missions aren't altogether great, I'm not so sure. Do we have a timeframe on when 6-8 might be coming out?

So who else likes using the SAAM missiles as a close range weapon?

>>71525405

Only just decided to crack SAAMs out last night. They're bretty gud. Great for sniping those pesky red air targets at range.

>>71525405
It's probably the only things they're good for other than sniping SP planes out of the air.

Should I get the F-15E or save for the F-35?

>>71525767
Is there an F-15MTD? If so save for that.

>>71526630
At the moment, only for enemies.

>>71526752
This is currently bothering me quite a bit. A lot of the coolest planes are presently AI-only, including the F-15MTD and Su-47.

>>71526946
Yeah. Lots of planes I'd want are npc only right now. Su-47 or Shinden II would be nice..

>>71526946
and they'll all be tournament rewards in the future

on a more serious note, I'm fine if they are tournament rewards, just you know, everyone who participated in it gets it by the end of the tournament while top ranking players get the cosmetic stuff.

>>71528187
This is how it would be in a somewhat decent F2P game, but Infinity is P2P.

I really want to collect all the planes. Making them only to a \1000 makes my completionist gene cry in a corner.

Aringon_Snow is hosting a room if you want in.

Shoot me an invite. I want to see if I can get the Zipang.
I don't think I ever will. :(

Hope the devs include a jolly roger emblem.
That shit would look great on the F-14 WD

>Use F-4G on Moby Dick
>IT'S SUPER EFFECTIVE
Dem bombs man

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>>71532072
>MD appears
>Fly the Typhoon so i can progress the HCAA challenge a bit
>There's always that faggot that blows all the engines

Every fucking time

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>>71532072

Just... Don't bomb the cockpit too early like i did when i unlocked UGB's.

Or is it too late for that?

>>71532408
>>71532492
>bomb all the engines on every craft
>get MVP
>high ranking guy in F-22 rage quits after mission

>>71532492
>Noise

It's all in the past, good taste too

>>71533234
Also, an F-14 made the cockpit kill shot. Of course.

>>71533234
I've been kicked from a lobby after getting MVP in a Fishbed. It saddens me that so many people take this game so seriously.

>>71533234
>>71534131
N-not like ill complete that challenge in time anyway.

Yall see the Bacura easter egg from Xevious on Tokyo Martial Law?

>>71535146
Nope. Still waiting on them meteors.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cc6KmgXuWZY

>>71536534
wat

>>71514896
They ruined bomber mission with
>it's only one mission
>no cockpit view for you
>no slavshit bombers for you either
>by the way I hope you enjoy painting bomb markers and just bomb markers

Cruise missiles would've been nice.

Also anyone who didn't like the chopper missions clearly didn't play with the DLC Kamov using iron bombs, that bitch is fucking hilarious.

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>>71536534
Confirmed ranking event reward for whoever can kill the most of them

>>71536534
That's fucking scary

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>>71523063
the feels man... the feels

>>71520161
So wait, you took a Hog to Avalon.

Ok, in a vacuum that makes some sense.

But how the fuck did you drive through B7R without getting buttfucked by the Gault/Sorc/Wiz encounter? The endgame's a mission marathon.

You should've picked the F-15C man.

>>71540313
I used the Su-37 for B7R
When I tried it for Avalon, I couldn't control it, so I quit the mission to take a break
When I came back to it, it allowed me to choose a new plane. So I chose the A10.

>>71540483
>not marathoning it

Man that's the fastest way to buzzkill Zero.

Terminator's too stronk, you want the F-15C. Trust me on this one. F-15C.

>>71540743
When I inevitably replay it in the future, I'll take that to heart.

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Alright /ACG/, post your best time vs Pixy. Only Ace difficulty may apply.

Also, my PSN is in the email field, if anyone wants to fly with an Ace and his tricked out SU-37 in AC:I, but don't feel bad if you invite me to a lobby and I don't reply, I'm either away form the game, or already playing.

>>71541010
If you didn't place against Pixy using the Fishbed, I'm revoking your bragging rights privilege.

>>71541173
Are you implying I didn't S rank the entire game using the MiG-21?

God I hate the look of that plane, SU-Series for life.

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>Osean Aigaion
>letsdothis.chat
>Take out Gyges 1, and Kottos 1 and 2 by myself
>1 minute left on the clock
>Get B Rank
>My score was 51K
>Next highest was 21K
>No one else even hit the 10K mark

Holy shit I thought the pubs were filtered out. At the same time I'm pretty happy it's getting new players... Poor nuggets.

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>>71541642
>mfw some nugget in an F-4G with the reaper emblem goes to attack Aigaion.

I know he doesn't have much of a choice, but still... He's in for a bumpy ride.

>>71541961
>implying F-4G is not the master of disaster when it comes to Aigaion missions
Now it's those F-14 kids you need to look out for...

>>71542125
Hey, don't talk shit about the F-14. My buddy flies that all the time and generally gets 30,000 through 40,000 on Aigaion. Really with middle tier planes, it comes down to the pilot.

>>71541286
I want my MiG-31 Foxhound already.
>It's known as the Interceptor for a reason
>Hit & Run all day
It's a flying brick, but the AA power would be bonkers.

>Go from lvl7 F-4G to lvl1 F-15E
Going sanic fast is nice, but I miss my damage bonuses.

>>71542125
>>71542234

>Viper
>Viper Viper Viper
>Viper is with them! Careful
>yo viper got a kill step it up scrubs
>Don't let Viper get a single kill in Great Migration

Sometimes the campaign irks me more then it should.

>Straya in a Fishbed

captcha: from ughsome

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>>71542827
>People tell me the SU-35 is slow.
>I get it up to level 9 and strap a bunch of engine mods to it.
>Go faster than my allies F-22

So, who wants to bet We'll get a Yellow/Aquilla event, with a special SU-37 as the 1-1000 bracket reward?

>>71542874

Pretty much every campaign character is a raging faggot, with the exception of Omega. Yeah, he's a bit of a dork but otherwise likeable.

Especially Nagase and that other prick. Ridgebacks a shit.

>>71543002
>yfw Yellow 13 skin for top 10K
>top 1K gets Yellow 4

>>71543101
Bronco a best

>>71543101
>"Yeah! You tell him! Single line!"

Omega is the best wingman.

>>71543101
Omega is legit retarded.

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>>71543215

Ace Combat 5 is done, i could go straight to Zero now, but i feel like going back on Infinity for a bit, at least now i feel more confident with expert controls.

>>71543101
Nagase is pretty clearly set up to be the fish out of water story, forced to cooperate with people so far outside of her norm that she doesn't know what to do with herself, journey of self-discovery, hey these people aren't so bad personal growth blah blah blah. You watch. That ice queen thing is going to melt so fast you'll think V2 hit it. She already cracked at the end of mission 5.

>>71543182
I was actually somewhat impressed with that line; I didn't figure Namco would have someone in the core cast actually have an intelligent ethical motive to tell off a superior. Acts of rebellion within the series have always been dead simple "this guy is clearly evil and ordering us to enact an atrocity" (Huckebein/Pops) or just completely dumb moments of impulsive self-righteousness that are immediately turned into misfortune for the perpetrator. (The douchebag in the beginning of 5 who orders you to cover him while he tries to land at an airbase under attack.)

>>71541961
someone needs to make a OP version of this picture ASAP

>>71543441

You do that. Expert controls will make it feel like an all new game.

>>71543789

We'll see how well Bamco handle her "self-discovery".

It'll either be awesome or cack-handed.

For now, fuck her and the Shinden she flew in on.

>>71543789
She needs someone to stick a V2 in her mouth if you get what I'm saying.

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>>71544951

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>>71543838
Did I deliver, Captain?

>>71546282
>Rafale M
>Not Gripen cutie

You were so close

>>71546282
Close. Blurry.

>>71546282
Just erase that shit with black.

>>71546282
HAHAHA that's perfect!

>>71546282
that's great
we need more OC anyway

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Well fuck me sideways, i was starting to think it didnt exist.

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>>71546282
Here, use the better one.

>>71547823
>tumblr

>>71547663
I'll probably never get it. I'm also thinking of not doing shit for the Wardog tournament.

I think I'm losing interest. I'll save my stocked fuel for something like Galm, Razgriz or Mobius emblems.

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...That's no pinball.

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>>71548451

I can't see myself getting Galm/Razgriz/Mobius skins/emblems, as much as it pains me to say it. Not in a game like this, not when there's wallet warriors flying about with more money than common sense.

>>71548892

Make that into a webm.

>>71548892
>NineZeroZeroOne

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Whoop, there it is.

While I'm at it, I'm just gonna slap on a Thread Theme. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rdCH9O48-8

>>71549839
Beautiful pic.

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>>71550554
Ace Combat has the absolute best fan art.

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>>71550554
Search your feelings, Anon. This is true beauty.

>>71551029
The feels....

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>>71551180
<<You fired up? Come shoot me down!>>

>>71551113
HAHAHA!

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>>71549498
I'd kill for a Galm emblem. Or even an 8492nd skin/emblem.

should I even bother with AC:I at this rate?
or will I just get curb stomped constantly like every other F2P game?

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>>71551236
Yeah, I don't even know.

>>71551398
But there's already an 8492nd emblem.

>>71551398
ACI is mostly about team work. There's no PVP.

>>71551460
The 8492 emblem doesn't exist!

>>71551545
We have to tell people about this, but how?!

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>>71551398
>12,000 people would eat this

Okay, sides gone.

>>71551398
>ingredients: Hatred, Power, Honor
My sides have been delivered to the Arkbird

>>71551428
You'll be fine as long as you learn the patterns of the maps. Just join up with us and somebody will show you the ropes.

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>>71552328

>>71551641
>>71551545
>>71551460

8492... 8492! Is that all you people can say?!

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>>71552501

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>>71552501

Think we'll ever see a AC3 remake?

>>71552691
Whoever did this did a good job, but they forgot freaking Ghost Eye, and Nemo.

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>>71552668

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And it was going so well, too.

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>>71552501
>mfw I just now realized he's Blaze because he carries Razgriz's lantern.

I feel like an idiot now.

>>71552691
Aw, no Oka_Nieba?

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>>71551545

Forget about what happens after Fortress

"I HAVE MADE A TERRIBLE MISTAKE!"

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>>71552828

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>>71552796
NEVER

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>>71552997
>See you again.

When though?

Pixy and Cipher cameo in AC:I?

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>>71552841
Oh.
Wow.

I thought that it was a mis-post.
Now I too feel like an idiot.
On a similar note...

>>71552997
What's he saying? Same as the cutscene?

>>71553048
Gotta learn moonrunes for this one ;_;

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So I think I just figured something out. More like had an epiphany.

Assault Horizon Legacy told us that Z.O.E., the project for creating autonomous UAVs, stands for Zone of Endless. Which doesn't seem to make sense, but whatever. That's Japanese naming conventions for you. But "Zone of Endless" literally means "area of infinite".

Is Z.O.E. supposed to be an allusion to the colloquialism of A.I. becoming sapient being referred to "the singularity"?

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H-hey guys, can I be in your game? I heard YF-23 might be getting a shot, so, you know...

>>71553081

This is now my new wallpaper, thanks.

>>71553505
You are quite welcome.

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Moar fanart please, I love this.

>>71553419
Dude it's obviously a retronym meant to be a tongue in cheek reference to the more commonly known ZOE (Zone of the Enders).

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>>71553891
Who else here thinks Megalith is the best final mission?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZBoiW460nU

REX.

REX TREMENDAE.

MAJESTAAAAAAAAAAAAAATIS!

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>>71553891
Does this count?

>>71554227
>Megalith
Oh wow, yes!

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>>71554097
Eeeh. I dunno. It definitely has ALL the right atmosphere, but it lacks an element of personal conflict. Pixy was great because you knew him. Even the Belkan aces at the end of 5 were people you'd been fighting for half the game in one form or another.

Actually, that makes some thematic intensity, the fact that you've reduced your enemies to nuggets merely wearing the obliterated legendary squadron's colors as a show of defiance. I'll have to think more on it.

>>71554004
That would make sense if Ace Combat's ZOE didn't predate Zone of the Enders, and they came from the same company, which they don't.

>>71554586
That's why it's a "retronym". It originally had no meaning.

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>>71554586
The fight vs Yellow 13 and the squad over Farbanti is still one of the most intense battles for me, where-as with Grabacr and Ofnir are pushovers, and Pixy has become very easy for me to dispatch.

Also I need more Ace Combat x Touhou pics.

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>>71553891

>>71554004
Stupid fuck

>>71554586
>yfw ZOE was just ZOE in AC2 and didn't mean anything

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>>71554805
I suppose if you think of the end half of the Siege of Farbanti and Megalith as the same mission with a checkpoint inbetween, then yes, they are collectively the greatest final mission, no questions asked.

>>71554961
>Ace Combat
>Thinking something doesn't have subtext, backstory, or more thought put into it than is spelled out to the player

There's a reason my headcanon is that Ace Combat and Metal Gear are the air and ground halves of the same world, respectively.

>>71555291
>Thinking something doesn't have subtext, backstory, or more thought put into it than is spelled out to the player

I've come up with a stupid complicated reason as to how the Gauntlet, the bonus mission of AC:0, is actually canon. But I haven't shared it with anyone.

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>>71555291
Kahz you're hilariously overthinking things.

That shit doesn't properly kick in until Electrosphere happens, fuck there wasn't even a Strangereal until this particular gem happened with 04.

one day they'll make a remaster of all AC games. When that happens, i'll buy whatever console it's on. If it's on pc, i'll celebrate for a year.

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>>71554097
I actually just beat AC4 minutes ago for the first time, jesus.
What a white knuckle thrillride. The whole campaign kept me engaged. And Megalith was just such a nice end with an apocalyptic touch to it.
>DONT WORRY ABOUT THE RIBBON!
>IS THE ONE WITH THE RIBBON FLYING?
>ILL SHOOT DOWN THE RIBBON!
>Mobius1 confirmed for one-man fighter army
And Yellow 4/13 really did nothing, they were just on the other side of the conflict ;A;7

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>>71553891

>>71555470
Where is that from?

>>71555530
trailer for AC04.

Reminder that AC2 might as well have been in the real world until Strangereal kicked in.

>tfw finally too bored of the 5 missions we have to play any more
>also fed up with constant tournaments instead of any kind of actual new content

RIP in peace ace combat

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>>71553891

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>>71555526

Guys I just got my Fencer. For some reason a shitload of Research went into it and it's already lvl.2 Worth the investments?

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>>71555470
>>71555574
I don't see how this invalidates the possibility of Z.O.E. having been an allusion to the idea of Singularity. It's not like they were pulling punches on ridiculous technology back then, either.

>>71555505
Mobius 1 is canonically equivalent in effectiveness to an entire squadron. Ace Combat 5 has a side arcade game where you play as Mobius 1 after the events of AC04, and they outright say so.

>>71555440
Hit me.

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You know that feeling

when you have a pic you want to post

but you can't find it?

Like that one lego piece you pass by every time you don't need it but when you need it you can't fucking find that piece of shit?

>>71555470
Is Strangereal the official name?

>>71555505
Actually, allegedly after the war, ISAF evaluated Mobby and determined that he had the combat effectiveness of an entire squadron.

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>>71555806

>>71554805
Personally, AC4 made you feel like a superhuman. With your enemies going on about the ribbon. And taking down something as intimidating as Stonehenge and Megalith.

AC5 didn't do that so well. It made you feel good, still but not like 4 or Zero. Maybe because you shared the spotlight. Also I have a problem with Swordsman just hopping on board with the motherfucking Ghost of Razgriz. I barely know the fucker.

I still really like fighting Ofnir in the canyon, even though they're trivial now, since I know their tricks and how to get around the canyon.

As for Zero, it happened way too fast. While they did make you feel really good with the ace interviews and whatnot, I felt like I just started and then suddenly I'm at Avalon fighting Pixy. There were very few missions that had tension-filled moments. I still really, really like the battle with Pixy. The music and dialogue help make it, but 'jousting' using the planes. Turning when you miss and then barreling towards each other again, it was amazing. It's still one of my favourite boss fights ever. It's a bit more personal as well.

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>>71555876
The singularity thing holds more water in Electrosphere considering the reveal.

ZOE was just fuck if I know, you're seriously putting way too much thought into this shit.

You're like the kind of person who will immediately jump at Zero as evidence Area 88 is inspiration for the material without taking the necessary amount of skepticism into account due to there being no official word on the matter.

>>71555938
Strangereal's fan coined, but the phrase "Strange, real world" is a Namco invention.


>>71556082
See, the genius about Zero is that you've got three loops to clear before you can start bawwing about it being over.

X might be the only other easily accessible game that competes with it in replayability.

>>71555876
I think the Gauntlet takes place far in the future, in the AC3 time period. Where, in a test flight for the COFFIN system of AI pilots, they take data gathered on various aces of the Belkan War, and put them in control of their own respective planes.

Then, of course, to test it out, they track down and hire Cipher to go against the AIs in a live-fire drill. Cipher would have spent most of the money he'd made off of the war by then, so he begrudgingly accepts the offer.

What they didn't tell him, was that they also gathered data on the best ace Strangereal had ever seen, Mobius 1, who they send in as a surprise element vs Cipher to see how he fares.

What they didn't tell him, was they actually planned to use flight data gathered of him as the basis for the COFFIN system. So Cipher's flight patterns went on to be used by the AI systems in AC3.

Yeah, it's probably pretty stupid. But hey, aren't most fan theories stupid anyway? At least they're fun to come up with.

>>71555505

Before i actually found Ace Combat 4, i was told by a friend that the Yellows where something to fear. So i was expecting them to be right dicks.

Que the cutscenes with Yellow 13, and he was anything but a dick.

Same friend told me stuff about Zero before i got it, and the way he explained it. I thought that the person interviewing everyone was Pixy himself. I know that makes no sense now, but that's how he explained it to me.

>>71555574
Except for the fact that AC2 took place in Usea.

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Also on a tangent about stupid headcanon bullshit.

I insist that all three routes of Zero happened in one go.

Yes this runs into some perceived contradictions, for example the chatter at Avalon is dependent on one of the guys from Sorc/Wiz (forgot which) not getting fucked at B7R right before, but you know what? The documentary frame story is ultimately a bunch of guesses as to just who Cipher was and what he really did in the war. It pretty much ended with really only one thing proven: there was definitely some abnormally badass ace ruling the skies during the shadier portions of the Belkan War and the followup AWWNB incident. But the records won't paint much clearer a picture than that.

So here I am, willing to believe Cipher was all three kinds of aces, and did a number on every major squadron involved in the War, in addition to quite a list of recognized aces as seen with the game's assault record.

>>71556260
I was shrugging all the way through while reading but I'm glad you admit your theory's stupidity, a sliver of hope for the AC community.

>>71557045
Are you familiar with inventing fictional countries for the real world?

It's done quite a bit, it was the reveal of Earth being a different version of Earth that crystallized the concept of Strangereal being a distinct entity, making Usea part of that world rather than being some landmass in a fictional fork of our world.

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>>71551398
Jesus christ.

>>71554874
>Someone actually made fanart for the Invincible Fleet

Whoever made that is my nigga. Best mission in 4.

>>71553183
It just says "Ace Combat 3"

Does anyone have the image where it shows Ace Combat Discussion/General; Round Table, and than two guys say F-22>Su-37, next image is two guys on horses jousting in the sky and one is saying "Here comes the snow!"

>>71553048
Fiona waifu end > *

>>71557245
It "could" take place in the real world, yes. However the fact that the story in AC2 was self-contained, with no reference to the real world tells Usea was never part of real Earth, if it ever then it would have been a huge waste, not to mention an oversight I don't think any creative team would allow themselves to make, not to establish a link to the real world, which is kind of important when building a setting for a story.

The fact that years later the team behind AC04 had coined a term for their fictional universe doesn't mean they retconned 2 to be in Strangreal, only that someone thought of giving it an actual name, for whatever creative reason.

There's no way to know 100% without asking the original devs but all things considered, it's pretty clear what Namco's intentions were ever since AC1.

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>>71558586
SU-37 best plane.

>>71558791
Well, AC1 mentions NATO on the back of the case. So there's that.

>>71558791
>It "could" take place in the real world, yes. However the fact that the story in AC2 was self-contained, with no reference to the real world tells Usea was never part of real Earth

Actually, not mentioning it at all does nothing to support or refute any argument as to what world it takes place in.

Just that it takes place in an otherwise nonexistent location.

The fact that 04 reuses Usea and establishes without a shadow of a doubt that the world is not our own is what confirms 2 to be in that world, which can be taken to men anything from an elaboration on 2's nature to, if you assumed it were the real world like any normal person would before the concept of Strangereal was ever even given form, a retcon.

>>71558924
Thank you so much!

>>71559063
Any time, buddy.

>>71559045
>>71558791
The original Air Combat is non-canon. The Ace Combat world doesn't start until 2.

>>71559049
You're an idiot. Quit assuming people agree with you.

>>71559123
And Strangereal didn't exist until 04.
2 was a realworld game until 04 made it part of a different world.

>>71559123

I should have been more clear but what I meant was that ever since AC1, Namco was going to have their ACs take place in a fictional place completely detached from the real world.

>>71559045
I don't seem to remember where NATO is ever mentioned in AC1, is it in-game?

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>>71559206
>>71559123
So does this mean we all retroactively agree that AH isn't canon at all and should be ignored entirely? The russians are always attacking. Even in Infinity ;_;


I hated the dogfighting mechanic so much.

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>>71559206
1/10 made me chuckle

>>71559839
No.
You're going to stare at those lovingly rendered details and enjoy yourself, you shitposting motherfucker.

The blue skies Bishop sees near the end are the skies of Strangereal.

>>71559049
> if you assumed it were the real world like any normal person would before the concept of Strangereal was ever even given form, a retcon.

any normal (read:non idiot) person would see the fictional country/continent without any reference to "real" places as its own fictional world.

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>>71559598
It's on the case.

>>71559972

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyaotT_RhiU

>>71560092
The existence of real world planes undermines your argument, why would a fictional world be making the exact same planes as real life with two glaring exceptions?

>>71559049
>>71557245
>>71559206

stupid fuck #2 and #3

man talk about a target rich environment today, ac comunity never fails to deliver in stupidity and hilarity

>>71560112
When does this play in Infinity?

>itt: dumb shitposting

Ace Combat Assault Horizon is a good game masquerading as a shitty game, discuss.

>>71560241
Shitposter spotted.

>>71552691
mfw i remember those exaxt 2 pillar/arches that grim is flying under from the tunnel mission of 5 on ace. those fucking things make you fly over the top of the first one and below the top of the second one at speed to avoid the closing doors. fuck them. thats the only reason i ever fail that mission

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>>71560109
Also, gonna repost this because why not.

>>71560109
lol, then it's pointless 'merican marketing unless it's on the JP case as well, but the game as a whole doesn't matter when discussing canon anyway

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>>71560526
C'mon Kahz you know damn well the real dealbreaker was that shot of the earth in one of the trailers.

Otherwise all we've established is that Usea is in two Ace Combat games, and nothing about where Usea actually exists.

>>71554004
ace combat 2 came years before zoe 1

>>71560526
What point r u trying 2 make, that the two are different? If so then the AC2 japanese guide book ha a perfect rendition of the Usean map jidentical to the one in AC3 and AC04.

>>71560786
ace ocmbat 2 totally ripped off zeo from that robot game

>>71560604
I'll tell you when I get my JP copies of 1 and 2 later this week.

>>71558527
I meant the game anon, come on.

>>71557089
i actually think along the same line. more of a Schrodinger cat sort of thing. whichever particular facet of the war being discussed was what he actually did, and theyre only canon if those particular branches are being talked about.
and when you play zero you can choose all 3 choices. it makes sense, no 1 is the overall canon route, all 3 are.
hence why after pixy lists off the 3 different ace styles, he goes on to say that cipher was a 'true ace'

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>>71560993
Why wait.

And no NATO on the back cover, as I suspected.

'Merican marketing wins tho, now where's my NATO emblem in AC:I

>>71560214
Undermines but doesn't negate.

>>71562070
That doesn't really say much of anything there.

The game has virtually no story anyway, and the PAL case pretty much only says "fly planes in a 3D world".

The NA cover is the only one that even attempts to attach a story to the game.

>>71560214
Because people like real planes. It's one of the reasons they'd even look at a game like Ace Combat in the first place. It'd be like releasing a modern racing game with no real cars to do nothing but fictional planes. Hell, I even like the fictional planes more than most real planes, but the game would suffer incredibly without the real ones.

They'll never remake the best AC.

By which I mean
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5ec9OoohqE

>>71562565
>It'd be like releasing a modern racing game with no real cars
You mean like the GTA games, right?

Well, GTA isn't a racing game, but you get the point.

GTA also takes place in the "real world", albeit a fictional place in the real world.

>>71562423
Well, yeah, the cover isn't the game though, especially when it's not even the original release.

And I thought the in-game intro did enough to explain what's happening to the player, and it didn't have any nato in it

>>71562816
In-game, it pretty much just says "you're the best of the best of the best, now go take out these generic terrorists who are occupying this generic place".

Again, the game has essentially no story at all. It's an excuse to put you in a plane and shoot things.

>>71562950
Ok, so you're going to take what they give you, actually I don't have anything against that, it's pretty reasonable.

For as little story or context that AC1 has, I'll take that over, what I consider to be, extraneous marketing from what I imagine was some guy sitting in an office coming up with a made-up idea.

>>71562739
That's a nice example actually, in GTA the setting is real but the vehicles aren't whereas in AC games the planes are real and the setting isn't.

>>71563630
Pretty much. Instead of naming it California, it's just San Andreas. Like the fault line.

Their North Carolina is North Yankton, etc.

also
Holy fucking Coffin in a Stratosphere, all that dosh from MD2 and 3.

>join 1783 rank pub room
>everyone except the host is in the 1400s
>connection lost with host after about 30 seconds in lobby
I swear he did something to boot me without actually kicking, like block my IP.

And fuck the F-16 challenge so hard, yet again it took me two sorties to do it, both times I end up dead last. In between though I end up MVP'ing with my Mirage against the same players.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hijfAvVUtUY

we've come a long way

Is sabotaging missions a thing now? I was in a 4 player room, and me and my teammate were the only ones killing anything. The other team literally scored 6k total, and the CPU was their high scorer. We got a D rank because they wouldn't help with the TGT fighters after the mission update (me and my wingman were using attackers) and we ran out of time.

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>Bamco announces AC7
>takes a page from Star Fox Adventures
>Time Crisis now mixed in with AC
>random invasion events after landing
>Yukes be coming
>get out of cockpit and arcade rail shooter starts
>gotta stop the invasion else your plane gets stripped of parts and get stuck with repair bills

5/10 would Osea

>>71565350
Oh dear... I hope now.

>>71564750
That's weird. Something like that happened to me too. Did a bunch of missions in a row, ranking MVP except two. It was some guy and his pal. Both had mics. All I hear was "I hate this guy." and about a minute later, I lose connection.

>>71565350
not*

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>>71565516
>Playing a rail shooter with a controller

Also stop trying to mix other games with AC, next you're going to try to shoehorn in an arcade helicopter sim oh wait

>>71565516
>0/10, would not Belka

FTFY, Osean scum.

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>>71565516
>implying they won't throw in Tekken

>>71565516
Fund it and I would buy a guncon just for dat game

>>71565958
the more the merrier I say!

looking for some opinions on equipment in AC:I

What parts would you say are worth unequipping for the High-G turn upgrade?

Also, is Homing+ M worth replacing Speed+M? Damage+ isn't going anywhere.

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I just played the third campaign mission. The haughtiness of the Ridgebacks is so grating. The camraderie of our ragtag group is miles better, even though Viper is a chode, and Bronco is probably the next MC in AC7.

Otherwise, it felt stellar. The sudden panic of being fired at from a railgun and going fast in the canyon were great moments. I can hold off on buying stuff as I got everything I want at the moment.

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>>71568246
>Speed out of the canyon, miles ahead of everyone.
>Slash:"We could've gotten out of there faster if the Pirate's newbie kept in formation..."
>mfw

Asshole, no one told you to fly slow. Some Ace, am I right...?

Some Ace...right...?

>>71567837
Anything that decelerates you or increases yaw. You're gonna be breaking your neck a lot. Sanic it up.
You'll always want Homing. Sometimes the speed isn't going to do jack and shit, when Jack leaves town, get it?

>>71568696
>>71567837

Attackers don't need homing on parts or datalink, do they?

>>71568638
That nugget in his fancy plane deserved to get shot down. I'll admit, you tickled my funny bone.

>>71568887
Maybe he deserved to get shot down, but...?

God, I kinda got chills when I heard Omega say. <<Slash...! In midair...!>> Because I knew exactly what happened right off the bat.

I can't wait to go up against Camila in round two...

>>71568793
Homing can help on Attackers because it gives you a wider possible angle of fire, effectively broadening the strokes you can paint while making a run. With practice, you can even arc missiles around buildings to hit targets you don't have line of sight to. And all missile parts are worthwhile in the sense that they increase your damage besides their stated effect.

Also, if you're attacking, anything that increases your reload speed is good, as you'll often be hitting clusters of targets rather than lone bullseyes separate from everything.

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>>71568793
Attackers are just that. They rule the ground. The only reason you might need Homing is if you misjudge your distance/angle. Then at that point, Speed is your best bet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiuSCkprkZ0

Thread theme.

>>71568793
You're going to want pitch and reload speed for an attacker. You're competing against F-15 fags going sanic with 4AGMs so you need to hit everything they can't kill in one pass. Pitch helps for circling around for respawns, which is your best bet in beating one of them.

>>71569007
Those UCAV's are brutal, man.

I guess I kinda feel bad for Edge. Since it sorta seems like it was going for that Yellow 13/4 dynamic.

>>71569326
I really hope that in the new missions they stop calling you Reaper. I have no problems with Rookie, but Reaper is way too cheesy, even for AC standards. Mobius, Blaze and Cipher are all fine nicknames, why couldn't they pick something else this time around?

>>71569326
About that Yellow 13 dynamic, it's a shame that they couldn't make more missions (Eight is nowhere near enough) to expand the relationships between the characters besides holding your hand for training purposes. It all feels so scripted that it hurts, especially for people who played the previous games. Newcomers might not care much about all of that.

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>>71570090
I like how Omega even lampshades your emblem during Mission 1. The whole Reaper pseudonym is supposedly a reference to Mobius' brief nickname as the Grim Reaper, but then that was junked and they started calling him Ribbon Fighter, etc

I don't think we're gonna see Reaper as anyone else but Reaper, just as Nemo, Scarface, Blaze, Mobius, Cipher... aw hell you get the point.

>>71570507
Well, they are already starting to call him "Ribbon" in the trailer for 6-8. I hope they stick with that because "Reaper" is so tryhard it hurts.

>>71570769
Yeah, im guessing that missions 6 to 8 are the transition from 'tutorial campaign' to 'real campaign'. And if everything turns out good, they could even add new campaigns, maybe side stories playing as the butterfly master, who knows.

>>71570769
Oh shit really?? Hot damn there's hope after all. Ribbon is way better... I didn't see the trailer yet.

>>71570090
excuse me but i believe THE DEMON LORD OF THE ROUND TABLE was the best nickname.

So I'm bored and I decide to youtube ACI and I get this..... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVOlTbDGKxc ( ofc they are japanese )

>>71571269
>The Demon Lord Of The Round Table
>Not the Gooiest, cheesiest mess you've ever heard.
>Inb4 Swordsman's <<You're the ace of aces!>>

Part of me wonders if Cipher even wanted that title.

Hey /aceg/.

What are the best parts for maneuvering, ie turning? Roll, Pitch, Yaw, Brakes?

Also what is the best order for tackling Moby Dick? Kotos=>Gyges=>Aigaion?

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>>71571538
>bombing airplanes
>a childhood dream
>watch video
>arigato japan arigato

>>71574189
I always just run accel/roll/high g on my fighters/multiroles. Roll because planes roll too slowly by default, the other two so I can spam high g turns for the entire game no problems. It works for me.

>tfw you manage to emulate ace combat 5 in 1440p 60 fps for glorious grafix and muh gameplay

>Tfw the third mission bugs out because you can't destroy ships/nimrods.

Atleast AC4 works flawlessly. Might upload the footage i recorded of it later today if anyone is interested

>>71574189
Pitch>Roll>Brakes>Yaw IIRC

About MD, go for the ones who are nearest to you, besides jamming the radar and launching (more) missiles i can't remember any substantial difference that would require to specifically go after one over the other. Most of it depends on the composition and performance of your team, so a degree of adaptability is always a good thing to have. With time and practice you'll be taking them down in no time, so don't worry too much about it.