https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4D72v6NRPI

May AC8 survive recent Bamco axing.

Air Combat 22 is getting a rerelease to conicide with this, which is cool. Judging from the behind the scenes part of that video they're working on something, they had a model of an F-111 on a table so they could be making it's debut in the series. They also had a model of what looks like a Falken, but it was blurred out. That might be a mistake though.

Also I can't believe Nugget is fucking dead.

Tenjin did a 30th anniversary doodle

>>23359219 (OP)
I wonder what took them so long for AC8.

>>23367678
There's been some shuffling going on in Bamco's development studios. I also think 7's development was such a clusterfuck that it didn't leave them in a position to start work on a new game immediately.

>>23359219 (OP)
I'll go dance with the angels

>>23359543
noice

>>23362402
autistic kids choosing their pride flag be like

>>23368084
7 would've never gotten off the ground if not for AC: Infinity. Aces scraped together a F2P PVP/Comp Co-Op game to show bamco execs that there was still even interest in Ace Combat. (Maybe if they stopped doing console exclusives they would have gotten more sales with 6 but publishers gonna publisher) and only with the revenue and player retention did aces get the greenlight for 7. Them not announcing 8 or even an AC:I 2 was giga retarded but maybe TGS will have something

>>23368440
>Them not announcing 8
i wonder what all those tweets from kono about working on an unspecified videgame with project aces staff, the footage of said staff recording fighter jet audio at an air force base, so on so forth means, guess its a mystery

>>23368513
F-22 in Fortnite

>>23368513
>tweets
I don't use twitter

>>23368530
said footage of project aces working on some kind of AIRPLANE GAME is in the youtube link in this very thread OP

>>23359219 (OP)
Here's to another 30 years.

>>23368440
I guess they don't want to repeat AC7 case of announcing things too early. Also with how the current industry works, studios tend to announce games close to release.

>>23368084
It's been in development for at least 5 years because they talked about it during the 25th anniversary
https://www.frontlinejp.net/2020/07/05/ace-combat-series-25th-anniversary-interview-part1-2/

>>23368440
>whale copium
Of course, if Infinity was so good, why was it also a console exclusive, hmmmm!?

At this point the only explanation as to why Ace Combat continues to exist is because Kono is waging a private war with the Bamco shareholders and he'd do whatever it takes to make a new AC possible in any form.

>>23362402
>four fucking Raptors
Make it stop

>>23359246
Playing 22 right now and the wildest thing about it is that while it (or more accurately the preceding Air Combat) is clearly part of the foundation of Ace Combat proper, the pace and the emphasis on close in dogfight action actually reminds me a lot of what Assault Horizon was aiming for, as if it were a divergent evolution of what AC could have been.

I can't say for sure how it fares in Mach Storm (AH's arcade spinoff of sorts), but a lot of the dumb shit AH does makes way more sense as a quarter munching arcade game.

>>23367678
How hard is it to get licensing stuff for the jets?

>>23372308
Just like all beings will eventually evolve into crab, all jets will eventually evolve into Raptor. Also, chances are those are different jets, like the Su-57 or the Lightning II. A lot of 5th gen fighters out there are kinda copying what the Raptor did because it is a fucking monster. Also, iirc, there's only so many shapes that can help a jet hide its radar cross section while still being aerodynamic.

>>23373632
They're Raptors.
Each silhouette corresponds to the generally accepted iconic aircraft of a given AC protagonist, which yeah the Raptor is kinda over-represented on that front.

>>23373632
>>23373924
Lol KF-21s are literal proof of this.

>>23373924
Ah.
I'm retarded, despite this being a literal ace combat thread, it didn't fall on my head that these were the AC protagonists...

Thoughts on Gotchard?

>>23374623
The one thing I want to call shenanigans on is that it has Falco's Apalis, which is a kinda stupid deep cut while also showing zero respect for Phoenix's affinity for the XFA-27 which would help cut down on the Oops It's All Raptors problem.

>>23374633
Sounds like a slur

>>23373632
It's because Raptors are the most beautiful jet of the modern era and everyone wants to be it.