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Horny for Hornets

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Ahhhhh forgot a link
>PA Twitter (ENG)
twitter.com/AceCombatGames

The official F-35 account on TWFKAT posted a video with background music that sounds like something straight out of AC.
https://x.com/thef35/status/2016179467845083217

If it's a Yuke it gets the nuke

>>555360267
It doesn't sound like AC music
However I didn't know F-35 has an early version coffin system like the XFA-27 has.

>>555361939
>>555360267
Fucking hell we better not end up with the coffin system IRL because the last thing anyone need is someone training their own killer AI

>>555360273
Belka pls

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>>555362195
Uhh......a few years ago a Blackhawk was flown via AI control. While last year? year before? An F-16 was used for the same testing.
A buddy here fixed up the image of the AI blackhawk that was posted with the story to be more fitting for what it did.

>>555364065
So where do someone get some mute people with no blood to take them down

>>555365653
I'll remind you the first one to stomp all over ZOE was constantly talking in battle.

>>555364065
>someone actually saved my shitpost from '22
>>555362195
>the last thing anyone need is someone training their own killer AI
Loitering munitions have been thrown around IRL since Nagorno-Karabakh, and the fields of Ukraine have seen swarms of them essentially since the start of the conflict. We already live in that timeline, and we didn't need COFFIN to create it (although we could argue that FPV drone operators get a version of it).

>>555358404
This is the only F-18 that matters.

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A question:
Do you think Kono is going to have a music surprise in 8 like JA
>Playing level set to normal AC music
>With out warning a vocal power metal track starts to play at mission update.

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Got something in the works, releasing super soon! <3

>>555376895
Ohh Area 88 mod
>Something PA really needs to do a tie in with again.

I'm still new to modding and could use some advice.

I've been using an infinite ammo mod from moddb com. But when I mod in new aircraft, it disappears and the aircraft takes priority. I've tried increase the ~ but it doesn't work. Any one around have experience with this mod? Is there a way to use them both?

>>555382575
>i've been cheating because i suck cock at the game pls help
Yeah get good you fucking PC faggot

>>555384787
It's so... short

>>555390546
Plens used to be VERY smol.

>>555391457
I mean short as in not tall. Like no need for a ladder to get in there

>>555397668
Yeah she was a short stack plane

polandballs in the big '26
get that thing off the road bruh

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>>555405591
Its fine if they are AC balls

>>555371367
<>

plene

>>555387097
I guess someone is mad they can’t afford a ps5 for the new game.

>fell for the nuclear option meme
Of all the lies Ace Combat tells me, it's how helpless surface combat ships are. Trying to survive 3 layers of air defense to release a saturation attack at 5km as a solo player is suffering

>>555434636
Yeah ships are basically free points in AC, kinda like ships in Gundam that aren't used by the protagonist or their rivals.

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I really hope this or a similar camo skin comes to 8 for its F-35, looks so much nicer in camo. Plus the blue stips on the vertical stabs is cool.
https://www.nexusmods.com/acecombat7skiesunknown/mods/2532?tab=images
Also a mod for 7 I found with a similar camo scheme.

>>555434636
AH had naval assault where that was somewhat not the case.

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Nassault's next video is going to be Zero
https://x.com/Nassault_/status/2011653152559472871
https://x.com/Nassault_/status/2016420580807868483

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I'm S ranking all missions in 7 and just how the fuck do I get nearly 62k points in Anchorhead Raid (SP mission 2)?
I've been using the 12 missile SP weapon of the CFA-44 and I can barely scrape 60k, plus the plane is listed as a multirole fighter but handles like a high speed train so I'm also having a hard time taking down the bats within 4 minutes.
Some ace please help me out.

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Hello /aceg/, I don't come here often but I did some AC6 fanart and thought I'd share it here :D

>>555456920
Try using the xfa-27 with MTSM. Good luck buddy. That mission is super overwhelming.

>>555457046
*spins revolver
You're pretty good

>>555456920
Take the Rafale or Su-35, then spam LACM/LASM for the ships and ground targets, and 6AAM/LAAM for the air targets. Try to get some of the Ospreys carrying the high-ranking Erusean officers, they're worth 1.5k points each IIRC.
If you're willing to carry less ammo, fly the Su-33. EML bypasses Mimic's bullshit lock-breaking jammers, and it still has LASM to deal with the ships.
The X-02S can do the exact same with better maneuverability and more ammo, but I'm assuming you can't afford it yet.

>>555457659
Engravings provide no tactical advantage

>>555457641
>>555457673
Thanks for the input.
And yeah I've unlocked every plane and special weapon and S ranked all of the main campaign, but I'm a bit dejected that someone who's done that would be expected not to have my issues with this SP mission...

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>>555464461
I would bring the F-15E with the SFFS to take care of all the clustered ground targets and ships, and then just switch to the 6AAM when it’s mostly just fighters hanging around. The Eagle gets pretty fast on its own so I’d just bring mobility and ammo upgrade parts. You’ve got this, buddy.

>>555455925
Ohhh, TLS beam looks odd both other than that this should be great.

>>555456920
>multirole fighter but handles like a high speed train
She is a purebred Zoom n Boom girl trying to use her in any other way ends badly.

Part wise take stuff that increases blast area for bombs and better homing for missiles with faster reloads if you want it. With 3 returns lines you don't have to worry about ammo count. Go for ships and Ospreys over anything else they bring the most points. The targeting drones are worth hitting if you can
As far as planes go, what other anons said are good choices. Also F-15E SFFS to clear ground and ships, missiles for planes and TLS for the bats. Before you go WTF and I thinking use it as a support role they can't jam or block it letting you get constant hits on them while you riddle them with bullets and try and get missile locks. Its perfect to do chip damage on them till they die.
But if you really want to go ok time for you to die just take Darkstar 4 PLS make short work of everything on the map.

>>555457046
really fucking sick work, buddy!

>>555464461
That’s the exact situation I’ve been in buddy. SP1 is easier but SP2 I’ve only s ranked on ace one time. Never doing that again.
Remember to checkpoint abuse once Incel and Butch spawn, that way you have full health and ammo. You should ideally only resupply once or twice during the first part. Another thing that helped was turning the music bgm off that way I could actually focus.

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>Rare footage of a Buccaneer flying at its maximum altitude.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhV2Lo3fnZQ

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>>555477396
Why is british naval aviation so bad?

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>>555478068
Its not the planes its the infrastructure

>>555481880
>engine so powerful it tears the land apart
Guess Brits were fans of warcrimes from the very start.

>>555481880
>You see, Nigel, when your engine destroys runways, you do not need to burden your plane with the unnecessary weight of anti-runway muniions.

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>>555487617
But then your enemy develops a counter to runway destroying engines.

>>555490460
Cesna is a rulebreaker and absolutely unfair to the world of aviation.

>>555490920
I still dream of a Cessna with bolted-on manpads in one of these games. Like Bazooka Charlie but Strangereal.

>>555494870
Only if it is added alongside an Antonov An-2 with barrel bombs

>>555495568
And a TB-3 SPB, but with drones instead of I-16s.

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>>555494870
So this then?

>>555466703
>>555468845
>>555476727
Here's an update on my efforts with SP mission 2:
I've tried the SFFS with the F/B-22 and the result was similar as the previous ones, I got maybe 59900 points and downed the bats in time, but I didn't enjoy the bombs very much, and I didn't have any good option to deal with the air targets.
I've tried the LASM and I barely got to the 40000 points needed to complete the mission, I might try the PLSL on the F-15C or the Su-57 but I'm not sure how much I trust my aiming abilities.
I've also tried the XFA-27 with MTST and I've gotten a good amount of points but I was always shot down before the end of the mission or I crashed while escaping the terminal guidance UAVs, having to get THAT up close and personal is difficult with the amount of artillery and planes.
The suggestions of using SP weapon upgrade parts were great.
So thanks everyone, I'll let you know how it goes.

>>555503156
>PLSL on the F-15C or the Su-57
A lot of ships on that stage just soak up PLS fire if your not using Darkstar then PLS would be for air only as you will waste to much time killing the big point ships.

I hope(cope) AC8 will have an AC3 tie-in

>>555510298
COFFINs are coming

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>>555510548
>Hornet is the hero plane
>This will be in as a high end plane

>>555510548
really???

>>555498668
Pretty much. Joke/meme planes are funny and surprisingly fun to play. If only there were more of them.

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>>555520935
>Joke planes
Well while we have only seen 2 Sota officers just going by the uniforms they wear this plane would not be out of place in Sota

I don't wanna wait for AC8
Can I just have it right now pls

>>555524387
You can fly to Japan head over to PA office and bribe Kono with a Flanker you acquired from India or somewhere that has some type of Flanker they would sell you.
Now you can play the game today.

>>555525704
Trying to bribe anyone with anything from India would send the wrong message. Maybe try one of Indonesia's or Kazakhstan's, they have cool roundels.

>>555528904
Fair point I was just thinking of the easiest place to "acquire" a Flanker from on the cheap. Didn't think about the cost to repaint it.

>>555531473
Or better yet somehow steal a su57

I am the only person who wants AC8 to have the non-super Hornet

>>555534292
wasn't it already in promo materials?

>>555534042
Would it count? its not a real Flanker its a pancake

>>555528904
>Indonesia's Flanker
Kek. You're going to pay double to repair what they do gave you. Shit's a hangar queen

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>>555534292
>>555535419
Yep.

You think we'll get to choose Joker squadron's planes like in 5 (and Zero and 6) or do you think they're gonna be stuck with F-18Es and we only get to choose our own plane?

>>555544794
I feel like us picking the entire squadron's planes makes the most sense, especially with orders being back seemingly. I'll be sure to take the most cursed rosters imaginable just like I do in 5. I just hope they're better at using their special weapons.

>>555544794
I wanted it like 6. Let us choose the planes and the spw to go

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Ok, show me those bingo cards

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>>555545702
>I just hope they're better at using their special weapons.
I have lot of hope because allies in 7 regularly hit shit, they just do practically no damage at all. Pretty much the only things I see go down are the first set of oil tanks in Pipeline Destruction (if I don't blow them up first) and the occasional helicopter.

>>555556223
Every once in a while they'll steal one of my kills on a weakened fighter. It seems like their AI in the DLC missions is also a lot stronger, when I played through it recently I remember them nabbing a few drones and Count was actually a lot of help in the Scream/Rage duel.

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>>555534292
No
Old school F-18 >>> soulless meme F-18

>>555548367
>Shadow22
fuck i don't know who that is
with that i'll admit i'm pretty new to the games, played 3 4 5 ZERO 6 and 7 only once, should I do them again to get every lore bit?

>>555560201
He's the new rival ace in 8, he appears briefly in the reveal trailer

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>>555560201

>>555565564
>not a single one with glasses
a bin of garbage
is where your image must go
now you must perish

Su-37 needs to be in AC8, I don't care if it's outdated and only for nostalgia points, I need me Terminator

plen

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>emulating AC4 is plug-and-play now
>works in hardware more
the sun is not square
>don't have to nuke my machine with software mode
>no double tapping F9 to remove blackface
>whole game works seamlessly and jank-free
never kill yourself

>>555579074
one day we'll have fully stable, fixed AC6 emulation

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Some AC3 Fanart I did this morning

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>>555560201
Got me thinking:

>Shadow22 is Ares (god of war)
>Ares has a sister Athena (god of generalship/leading troops among other things)
>22 is a reference to Air Combat 22 (which ran on Namco system 22 board)
>22 isn't the squadron leader
>Original Air Combat ran on namco system 21

The real boss is Shadow21/ATHENA and Cope gets got by the damn wingman

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>>555590721
I wonder if we'd get some bonkers shit like her trading her wheelchair for mechanical legs, which also have the benefit of improving her piloting since her heart doesn't need to pump blood to real legs.

plens

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>>555544794
Giving that was one of the biggest complaints in 7 since the first week after release. I would expect without question that we'll be picking wingmen planes again.

>>555545702
Yes

>mfw the mod for PW that changes the models of all planes to be two-seaters so i can hang with prez all the time is busted
yeah i know the prez everywhere mod works but it bugs me not having the planes with the physical space for her

>>555592356
Nah she'll have Belkan super robo legs when she bails out they deploy wings and small rockets.
She has a .50 cal and sword
Boss fight phase two starts
Yes you really are fighting a Belkan witch

>>555548367
The only prediction I'll put forward for now is Noise being the narrator kid from 04 but older now, fits with him having the guitar and looking kinda of down all the time.
>Tasha is Bartlett's daughter
Wait how did anyone come to that conclusion?

>>555604076
If Barlett and his Yuke lover hooked back up during or shortly after the events of 5, their kid would be the right age.

>>555603996
kino, fund it now!

>>555604076
>Noise being the narrator kid from 04
Just not feeling that but I could see PA doing that for muh AC4 reference.

>>555603584
I feel you, if I knew anything about modding I'd make one myself or try to fix it.

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Why we already have one of the best Tomcat livery I do hope for 8 a couple of other more well known ones

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>>555609062
And this one

>>555512096
I mean it'd be fitting as a way to give some older planes new life as getting the AC3 super versions would work. And with how the entire Wings thing is if you've got planes with COFFIN installed you'll never actually have to see who's in there. No need to worry about photographs potentially blowing your cover.

>>555603584
What if Prez was sitting in Monarch's lap?

>>555611669
That would make the final fight with Crimson 1 very difficult.

>keep accidentally saying belkan instead of balkan

>>555604576
That is a bit of a stretch, it wouldn't really explain why her only line in the trailer is Spanish. I feel like you'd have a better chance of Professor being Snow's kid or related to Keith somehow.

>>555606762
Probably not since PA doesn't really do that but it is a fun idea if a little dumb. But out of all the 'who is Noise really supposed to be' that one would probably be the most satisfying. He doesn't seem like Count and his attitude doesn't seem quite right for Dision. More than likely he's just another entirely new character with no connections.

Also do we ever get a time on when the boy from 04 wrote the letter to Mobius? He was already grown up at the time, it must've been sometime near the end of the 2010s.

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I think I may militarize the ISS so that some renegade F-15 pilot who grew up on NASA optimism and idolized the ISS as a beacon of peace and human cooperation has to shoot it down

>>555610952
> AC8 high end planes will just be the normal planes but with COFFINs
...replace the machine gun with pulse laser and I'm in

>>555620976
Yeah what was up with Nagase going "oh my science, the Arkbird, a symbol of peace, can't this war just end..."
Then going "FOX TWO SHOT DOWN A BANDIT I'M GOING TO RAPE THESE YUKE FAGGOTS" in missions

do you think eruseans ever get smug about how they had the enemy at the gates twice and never nuked themselves

>>555623026
Considering they kinda lead the research on brain-ejection tech (neucom), they are absolutely out of their minds.

>>555623026
erusea got turned into boeing-amazon-walmartopia, not sure if theres any reason to feel smug about that

>>555621160
Pacifists aren't know for being very bright. I think her logic was more that everything Osea was doing was to end the war faster, which was true to a point since Harling was on his way to North Point before he got yoinked by the Belkans, so while she was sad the Arkbird was militarized she was able to rationalize it. This all went out the window with Harling's disappearance but the plot mandated no one in Wardog picked up on that until it was too late. Really Nagase picked the wrong time to join the OADF is all, she probably figured she'd get her wings and do patrols for a few years before training to become an astronaut. No one ever expects peacetime to end when they join up during peacetime.

>>555610952
And it works inuniverse as well these planes would be high end in 2029 but by 2040 they are getting rather outdated by far newer planes that are everywhere.

>>555620551
Given how his hand looked older like in his 40's I'm guessing sometime in the 2030's? 2029 if he didn't age well.

imagine being belkan you will never win any argument because the other guy will just post "7 nukes lmao" and win by default

The game itself calls it "unthinkable" but faggots will act as if the game presents it as a genius strategic move

Is it possible for Delphinus I to be the end plane for AC8

>>555627809
I don't think we will go beyond ACX era planes. Maybe in a later installment.

>>555628176
ACX was a decade ago (in universe) its already beyond "ACX era"

>>555628176
ACX: 2020
AC8: 2029
By this point all the originals minus Fenrir should be common 6th gen planes across the planet. Having the low end real world planes from 3 be the high end planes in 8 makes perfect sense both in and out of universe.

>>555631371
>NAV Hawk might be a high end attacker in AC8
At last...

>>555638567
It would open up some fun with a high end F-117

>>555639550
It's weird that 7 doesn't have a playable Nighthawk. They're in the game already and the Erusean ones already have machine guns.

>>555641194
Same goes for the Harrier.

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nuh-uh you cant hit me through my everything-proof shield

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>>555643691
FUCK your everything-proof shield

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>>555644681

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>>555645075
think the thing that im most excited for in 8 is actual persistent debris with hitboxes
shooting planes down and seeing their wrecks actually impact the ground or other NPCs is gonna be sick

>>555644681
>>555645075
SURPRISE MOTHERFUCKER
Now your Anti-Anti-Everything-Shield-Railcannon is out of action, now I will rule the sky uncontested!

>>555638567
carrier based Nighthawk taking off from a modernized Essex class is going to be awesome

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F/A-18C and two SP weapons is confirmed right? I hope Charlie Hornet + SAAM is an option

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>>555653447
Seems it'd only for eurobuddies. Maybe the other regions will get ome later.

>>555655359
considering the timing, perhaps the next big info drop is coming late feb/early march?

>>555655656
Good chance.

Every day I get closer to death and despite knowing that, Kono actively chooses to not release the game.

>>555660117
Just hold on long enough so you can play through 8 on your deathbed.

I still find it very funny that Ace Combat 5 has a Puddle of Mudd song as one of it's theme songs but I'm glad it's there. The game even comes with its own AMV if you sit on the title screen.

>>555580684
DISION!!!!

I find it strange how BUFF and the dorito get retired before long Bone in AC3.

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>>555660117
>>555660369
Every day someone complains about 8 not being out yet is another day 8 has to spend in solitary.

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J-36 prototype unit 4 spotted. EOTS unit shifted aft, no visible pitot tube.

>>555674618
Seems like it's lacking space for an AESA radar in the nose and hasn't gotten a whole lot of stealth optimization yet. Still seems like it might still be an aerodynamics demonstrator more than a preproduction model

>>555675570
>Seems like it's lacking space for an AESA radar in the nose
??
the thing is ginormous dude

>>555675932
any size comparison to known 5th gen fighters?

>>555664490
Yeah, one of the weirdest random choices they made, but it gets stuck in your head as very fitting.

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postwar south belkan pilot (OADF) who wasn't special enough to be with the grabacr guys being assigned to the widowmaker squadron and getting really excited at how cool the name is until he sees what he will be flying

>>555503870
In the end the XFA-27 with MTSM and a lot of care not to stick around swarms of enemies did the trick.
On to the last one.

>>555580346
if you can stomach 30fps it's not that bad but i wish cutscenes didn't have fucked up audio.

Plains

>>555685026
IIRC this thing's like F-111 sized. It's a fucking chonker and a half

>>555711349
JASDF has my favorite anniversary liveries.

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>>555711349
The JASDF is the last breath of SOVL before we drown in a sea of ASG and Stealth Grey.

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>>555718376
I really like their F-2A Yatagarasu livery even though it's a clusterfuck of different colors.

>>555718762
I really wish they could paint their F-35s in blue, unfortunately reality demands blandness.
>>555718775
I love the Phantom livery they added to 7. They gave the old girl a fond farewell when they retired her.

>>555685835
I wonder how it happened honestly, was someone in the band a big fan of Ace Combat and wanted a song in it? Or was Kono just a fan of their music and reached out to them? Honestly that sounds like something Kono would do

>>555725817
https://www.gamespot.com/articles/ace-combat-5-lands-in-puddle-of-mudd/1100-6110753/
Oh there's my answer lol. Also while I was looking this up, apparently Ace Combat 7 is going to be one of the 'free' games for PS Plus next month.

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I HATE AIR SUPERIORITY GRAY I HATE RADAR ABSORBENT MATERIAL camo honestly depend on the pattern, some of those green fulda gap colors were really lovely I HATE LOW-VIS TAIL FLASHES

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I wanna get a couple custom wide mousepads with plen images, give me plen images in the style of pic related

I really like getting to choose everyone's planes in 5, it's fun getting to personalize like that. I would kill for a game with XCOM-style squadron management options, though I would prefer to keep the fully scripted characters for a campaign.

wings of steve lol

it's wings of theve not wings of steve

wings of thief

>>555755608
isn't that just the B-1

did we ever find out what a theve is

>>555758670
Steve, but in Engrish.

>>555758670
>>555758875
Apparently the FCU's captiol is named that.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/theve
According to this it can either mean a small shrub or the first ewe lamb of the year.

thevez nutz

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F-5, F-20, or X-29, which would you pick to be in 8 if you could only pick 1?

I'd pick the F-5. It's so precious. 4 AAM, rockets, and unguided bombs for the SP weapons.

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>train delayed
>everything sold out

Kill me.

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I guess I'll just some of these instead.

>>555765896
F-15 is a big girl

>>555767741
how did they make the f22 so small that's actually really scary

>>555765896
F-5 with an all black MiG-28 skin of course. I love the Tigershark and the X-29, but if one has to get in it should be the F-5.
>>555770281
Sekrit Belkan shrink ray technology

Was anyone here in ACE/S '26? Please tell me you recorded AC8's theme. PLEASE.

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https://steamdb.info/app/2288340/history/
what the fuck

>>555565878
which planes should have glasses and why

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>>555782508
HOLY TRINITY PC PORT
I BELIEVE

>>555653447
It wasn't among the options, but what I'd REALLY like to see in AC8 is more realistic mixing when using the inside-cockpit view.
I want noisoer comms, a lot less bleed from outside the canopy, and annoyingly loud warning sounds.
>>555782508
More likely than not that's just going to be a recap of some sort.

>>555783580
>ACZero\acz.exe
It's an executable, would they really make a whole separate program just for that?

>>555782508
Belkan conspiracy plot confirmed
>>555783426
Any plane with a split cockpit window should have a pair of shades, like the A-6 wearing aviators.
>>555784357
Yeah I'd expect it to be a video file if that's what it was. Unless it's some kind of digital artbook thing, some companies make bespoke apps for stuff like that.

>>555784357
>>555784474
The Elden Ring and Armores Core 6 artbooks were included as .exe files in their Collectors' editions.

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>>555782508

>>555785976
Aww man that's probably what this is then, maybe like a new version of Aces at War.

>>555783580
They already released 5 on PS4 running on emulation (had to be, since PS4 has no hardware compatibility with PS2 unlike PS3), I don’t think it’s unreasonable at all for them to do the same for ACZ as another preorder bonus.

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>>555782508
>Rukbat

>>555782508
>Denuvo
Oh

>>555795172
Still makes me sad.

>>555795172
Aww look it's even a little grassy enclosure a tiny plane could crash into

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>>555782508

>>555795172
>>555795350
>>555798310
>>555798325
I HAVE SEEN THIS EXACT SEQUENCE OF POSTS BEFORE
I SWEAR

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>>555782508
>8
>Zero
>Online
Golden Age of Ace Combat incoming
>>555798372
I feel like I would've remembered making that joke before
I suffer from persistent deja vu but it didn't tweak

>>555798861
Russians and Finns need to grow up and stop pretending their gibberish is a real language

>>555765896
Playing DCS made the F-5 one of my favorite plens even despite its limitations, so F-5

>>555765896
I have immense love for the Tigershark but having the Tigershark without the Tiger would feel a bit wrong, no?

>>555789498
>>555782508
I wonder what would that mean

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Its a cold and snowy day today. Might be the perfect time to start a new run on Zero

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>>555765896
If it has to be one, It should absolutely be the F-5. The F-5 was in service with 26 countries, had over 2000 units built, was the bad guy in Top Gun, and is still in service today. It's even seeing combat with Thailand's updated F-5TH.
Meanwhile the X-29 was a one-off X-Plane and the F-20 wasn't adopted. As much as I like them, they've had nowhere near the same real world impact.
Side note: I'm still mad they didn't add a "MiG-28" with the Top Gun DLC

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>>555803406

>>555646049
>shooting planes down and seeing their wrecks actually impact the ground
The older games did that. Unless you were really high up the shot down plane would keep falling until it hit the ground.

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>What if JDAM, but missile?

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>>555805341

>>555805341
Ah yes, the PJDAM.
Alternatively known as the Pajamadam.

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Once more into the fun

>>555782508
We got Ace Combat 5 as a pre-order bonus on PS4 (not PC) and Ace Combat 6 on Xbox. I assume this is something similar, in which case you better make sure to pre order cause there's no way to get the former now. The former was basically a PS2 Classics port running at a higher internal resolution and with higher resolution UI assets with trophy support. The Ace Combat Online part is most interesting, cause it could mean a separate mode (or even executable) entirely like Metal Gear Online, or just be a regular online mode partitioned into a separate app for a closed network test, either way we might get to try it out early!

>B7R
>Take the F-5
>All kills on mook and Rot done with normal missiles and guns
Feels good

>>555811323
5 was just using Sony inhouse emu like they use for their other PS2 games they sold on PS3/4
But with Zero I know its a long shot for sure but what if instead of just a simple do what we did with 5 they instead have redone it in 8's engine and we'll get the first in the remasters. I know its a long shot but still given 7's huge success they could have made the case for a sort of test run before they do the other 6, Yes I'm including X & PS1 trio

>>555814289
>But with Zero I know its a long shot for sure but what if instead of just a simple do what we did with 5 they instead have redone it in 8's engine and we'll get the first in the remasters.
delusional

>>555814289
>But with Zero I know its a long shot for sure but what if instead of just a simple do what we did with 5 they instead have redone it in 8's engine and we'll get the first in the remasters.
We'd be lucky if it was a source port, a full on remake is fantasy. It would most likely be a repackaged emulator.

If wanting remasters makes me delusional then so be it.

>>555816317
a remake in a different engine is a whole ass new game, being developed alongside their most ambitious mainline title? it is simply not happening

>>555805341
Welcome back V1 flying bomb.

>>555816543
I wish Ace Combat had that kind of pull. But our game series is no Resident Evil so for the time being even remasters are a thing of fantasy, unfortunately. Makes me sad.

imagine trinity remake but like how fromsoft did with DemonsSouls

>>555820780
Haven’t played either version. Was the remake good?

>>555820989
neither have i, i dunno
but i know its absolutely gorgeous

>>555803406
>>555803617
Yeah this is definitely the variant PA should bring into AC8. It's nice to see the F-5 turned into a modern killer.

>>555826785
i sure hope that warhead works and the missile doesn't just lodge itself into the plane so it can be recovered and reverse engineered

Directus liberated with Mirage 2000D
>Gelb wanted to be cheeky and reverse fire a missile at point blank range
>made for an easy kill

>>555820780
>butchered art direction in exchange of visual fidelity
>butchered the soundtrack
Oh god please no

>>555820989
the remake plays better and the techinical quality of its graphics is very good, but it completely misses the point of the original's art direction and atmosphere

>>555832426
>butchered the soundtrack
This is how you get a fist fight to break out at PA

>>555837695
I dunno that might result in people being someone to death with some prop helmets they had around for mocap sessions.

>>555580684
He looks very chudded out in this image.

>>555840110
>one PA dev offhandedly suggests using AI to recreate the soundtrack
>the guy next to him walks out on the spot, goes to the hardware store, and starts picking out doohicky components

>>555840182
>Billions must be Sublimated.

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I'M GONNA FUCKING DO IT again

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The sword has been pulled, Still a fun level if simple. I have never attempted it but has anyone ever got Excalibur to kill them as it falls to the ground?

>>555844948
Good Luck

>>555841504
>Kono pulls out a flamenco guitar

>>555844948
why are you playing a shit game

It's so funny how they just kept Gründer around after the Circum-Pacific war

>>555853937
*Euroflamenco with latin chorus starts playing.

>>555853579
>Implying Osea was ever able to fully remove Belkan influence from the military and goverment

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>>555853579
Listen, they somehow managed to mass produce X-02s cheaply. At some point Belkan fuckery doesn't justify throwing the baby out with bath water.

>>555854824
i mean it didn't help them all that much in the belkan war

>>555818935
I miss forums. We had some grade A autism back in the day. Now they just make fools of themselves on twitter rather than standing up for themselves because they have main character syndrome.

>>555854824
>mass produce
They built ONE (1) X-02 sold it to the Yukes who's pilot got himself shot down by I would assume coastal AD
This really should have been a mission. Your on another patrol over the mainland this X-02 along with a large amount of Su-35's & Su-37's showing up. Instead of oh this plane yeah it was shot down off camera.

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>>555857350
It was a better time

Bartlett flew a F-14D in Zero had forgot that detail

>>555811323
It's just some pvp modes with a lobby that can handle a lot of people

hitting the hardest o7 of my life as the kestrel goes down

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Mayhem with F-20 is such Kino it gives all the right feels.

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>>555731592
Search for "cutaway" and you'll find them, buddy.

>>555854724
Dude that would fuck so hard

>>555854824
Same as in WW2, wonder-weapons aren't going to decide the war all on it's own. Belkan superweaponry won't go too far when they decided to start a war with BOTH of the major superpowers of the world and the other neighbors along with it, not even regarding the allies had the magic mute super-ace on their side.

The real Belkan retardation was starting that war at all.

something about airplane cutaway diagrams feels perverted...

>>555766445
>>555767569
>>555767741
>>train delayed
Japanese tragedy. How was the concert, buddy? Was it packed this time?

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Is the second phase of Pipeline Destruction with the sandstorm and all that a remix of Yellow 13's boss theme? I've been hearing it lately.

can you take it all away

Ace Combat Online will feature fuel
t. knower

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>>555782508
>also includes mentions of proton and linux
Inttradasting, although I wonder how much (if anything) changed on that front since AC7 runs pretty well through Proton already.
>denuvo
Can't seem to escape it.

>>555896682
I really hope it's not merely a pre-order bonus and is an actual game on Steam.

>>555854824
Hell when the EASA wanted an improved X-02 Grunder had to pretty much rebuild the thing from the ground up to NOT be a death trap due to infamous wing failure issues because it turns out the switchblade wings make regular variable geometry wings look simple from a mechanical standpoint and those fold points are massive failure points when it comes to stresses from flight.
That and working to incorporate CFTs and more fuel load because the original X-02 had range as bad as the F-16 or original F-18

>>555858116
Hell he could have been switching from the high speed configuration to the low speed configuration and had one of the wings actually rip off at the point where the wing swept forwards.

Turns out the reasons why forward swept wings never really caught on is that the gains weren't worth the mechanical weaknesses at the point where the wing sweeps forwards (resulting cracking if not catastrophic failure)
Even Aces at War brought up just how the X-02's funky wing configuration really doomed it from even limited production beyond prototypes

Still trying to remember why Denuvo's the devil again?

>>555895576
>>555860054 here, no it doesn't lol

>>555908405
>Still trying to remember why Denuvo's the devil again?
Haven't kept up with it, but supposedly it keeps/kept writing shit on your drives over and over and over again, effectively reducing drive lifetime.
What IS well known is that at least the early versions killed performance for no reason whatsoever (presumably, the supposed constant writing to disk). When they finally managed to crack it, the cracked version ran better than the legit one.

>>555908405
>Still trying to remember why Denuvo's the devil again?
denuvo basically forces a game to be recompiled on the fly, causing it to run 10-1000x worse, and it also fails a lot leading to crashes, and the worst thing of all, it forces a game to be online only and once the verification servers are turned off, the game is rendered permanently unplayable

>>555908405
Everything that others said, but also a caveat that is probably not relevant to you is that Denuvo DRM-locked games will lock you out of the game for 24h if you hit its activation limit (run the game on multiple different machines in a short amount of time)
On Windows this is generally a nothingburger but if you're a Linuxfag or Deckfag then every time you change Proton versions that also counts as an "activation". This can be made even worse if you're on one of the Proton branches that updates regularly (thereby also counting as "activations")

>>555909535
>>555910346
>>555911724
I mean I was waiting for it to hit the deep Steam sale cycles anyhow as I might not be able to run it effectively until I do my system rebuild which might be a 2030 thing with how stupid RAM prices are. Because even without anything else it'd be >UE5 and I question if even Belkan Black Magic for programing could make that remotely optimized.
Especially since this box is hitting 7+ years old at this point so my CPU is the utter bottleneck (also >slow RAM as ARMA painfully pointed out constantly)

Fave AC track? for me it's https://youtu.be/QdJ_mkgFeAE?si=ni0lKxACKgQwE_8w

>>555615443
they are the same

>>555908405
X-02 did see limited production you fight 8 of them in 5's arcade mode. Aurelian has some as you unlock her from normal gameplay. The FCU built a few for testing.
Just watch they'll use that as an excuse to send you one of the test models bring it to your carrier and get her airworthy once again for late game missions.

>>555916447
AC severely lacks missions where we are tasked with test-flying super/project planes.
AC3 space mission and ACX2 air liner were the closest thing to a formula change.
Like, imagine being made to test flight a Delphinus I/II and see it just style on conventional top end planes, then have it pop up as an endgame boss.

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Using Denuvo for flight games in 2026 is so retarded. At least 80% of flightfags that have enough money for at least one of the following: HOTAS, pc powerful enough, pc powerful enough for VR, VR headset, huge monitor.etc
Have enough money to buy the game on steam, basically almost killing piracy. And the ones that don't, are mostly people that you dont want as customers anyway.

>>555916447
It'd probably be a X-02B or something as an improved model.

>>555917235
But Delphinus I is kinda crap it only gets remotely interesting with the Delphinus III. Still manages to be the ugliest top tier / super plane Project Aces ever made

>>555917760
I don't have the room for a HOTAS and don't want one anyhow. I'd go with a cheaper stick which reminds me of the old Sidewinder sticks from Microsoft.
Also >VR is such a dogshit meme

>>555918079
>Delphinus I is kinda crap
In 2040. If the prototype exists by 2029 and we assume production by 2030, that's a ten-year-old plen

>>555918206
but you DO have the money to buy the damn game is what i'm saying. Now if they use Denuvo you will be punished for it.

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>>555918079
>X-02B
I can see this

>Delphinus III. Still manages to be the ugliest top tier
You take that back right now!! besides nothing out ugly's THIS plane

>>555918079
Infinity put DI as a superplane though?
But i mean in general testing some high end experimental shit.
Also, the only really ugly thing about the Delphinus series is the straight rudder tail. It looks weird on a plane that is absolutely designed to look super sleek otherwise.

>>555918726
>Varcolac
Fair points anon, but still fuck you for reminding me that flying dick exists

>>555918297
If they do that is all the excuse I need to finally buy that PS5 I've been meaning to get for years

>>555918726
I didn't even remember that thing existed!!

>>555918263
Even the Prototype seen in X was kinda dogshit. Not even having any level of Stealth.

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Happy weekend, pilots
>t. flying dick with sharkteeth

It's not a plane. It's just a flying guitar, guys.

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>>555919487
>flying guitar
Huh so that's what its called

>>555917760
The Denuvo anti-piracy isn't the part that worries me. It's whether they'll actually make it online only even if you just want to play singleplaer, and shove in kernal-level anti-cheat, which is far more invasive and resource intensive, because they want to whore lootboxes for online play.

>>555921531
>shove in kernal-level anti-cheat
My system literally can't run those considering my motherboard is rather old.

>>555922164
>My system literally can't run those considering my motherboard is rather old.
anticheat is probably the least of your problems wrt AC8 if your mb is that old...

>>555918726
>>555919430
The Varcolac would look so much cooler as a flying wing, or maybe as a short-nosed delta.

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Once more Zero is complete its been years since I played it last but still just as fun as always. It still has the best ace squad fights. Something I really hope 8 has

On a different note has anyone ever paid attention to or read the text when the briefing screen is booting up? I never did till now someone just copied a few lines from generic company paperwork on the screen.

>>555926801
I mean I built it in 2017 and it lacks those security features that Battlefield 6 or Windows 11 need so I guess a super fancy kernal level anticheat wouldn't work with it right?