In celebration of Ace Combat's 30th anniversary! (which was like two days ago)

>>23359219

happy birthday ace combat. have some kow yokoyama's yukikaze designs.

>>23361963

I like vic vipers

Grunder Industries, save me

AC8 announcement in 13 hours

>>23361976
are you fucking kidding me

>>23361992
Bamco presentation today at 8pm GMT, makes sense they'd start teasing it now right? Development confirmed a few years ago, series 30th a few days ago, just seems too perfect

>>23362006
You've gotten my hopes up.
If it turns out you are wrong, how will you take responsibility?
>>23361975
I love the cockpits of the grunder super planes, if anyone has quality images / concept art please share them.

>>23362012
Well obviously I'll take my life in ritualistic suicide and send the video your way. But I'm really hopeful. If not ac8 then just... something. AC3/holy trinity digital rerelease, not even remasters, would be enough. Anything.

>>23362012
>If it turns out you are wrong, how will you take responsibility?
blame bamco for hyping it up

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

to take us on a "tour" of the dev team's offices and blur out screens but not actually be developing a new game would be a level of corporate trolling that I welcome

>>23362025
>blame bamco for hyping it up
Boooh.
>>23362017
>I'll take my life in ritualistic suicide and send the video your way.
Now this is more like it.

The anniversary video is cute, they're clearly working on something alright. Here's hopping we get an annoucement, but i'd wager the chances are pretty good.

Now here's a good question, what would you want out of AC8?

Personally I hope the plot is more coherent than AC7's. While what we got wasn't bad... I wouldn't call it good either.
And I want more things like the weather effects, the clouds in 7 where cool but the wind and thunder were barely used. And I think there's potential there.

>>23362053
>what would you want out of AC8?
Something other than Osea, Erusea (or just Usea in general) and Belka. And maybe a protagonist nation that isn't Western-coded and has a blue flag (looking at you, Aurelia and Emmeria)

>>23362025
I remember a Volition behind-the-scenes well into the Saints Row 4 era, where they very deliberately had a shot where you could see 'FREESPACE 3 RELEASE DATE:' on a whiteboard and someone standing in front of the next part.
>>23362086
I wonder where they go with the setting, especially as we inch more futuristic. They could honestly probably stick where they are for a while. Hell the Erusian drone ambushes out of trucks at the start of 7 ended up being more realistic than probably intended, they just assumed you'd need more trucks and to deal with defenders that're awake.

>>23362217
If the speculation about Ace Combat 8 being an indirect prequel to Ace Combat 3 is true (and it does have a great chance of becoming that) then we're definitely going to have Project ACES double down on the theme of drones and unmanned warfare again. It does mean we will have even more Usea though, which is what I don't like about that idea.

Also, going to dump some pages from this handbook for an indie Ace Combat-like title that is seemingly abandoned by the devs.

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>>23362237

>>23361976
>>23362006
>>23362017
Are you ready for your spanking?

Before anyone gets excited about 8, keep in mind it'll likely be a UE5 game unless the madlads at Bamco-ACES stand their ground and keep to the UE4 codebase.

And if it is using UE5, that iteration of the Unreal Engine has become kinda infamous for how little fucks it gives about encouraging scalability from the developers.

>>23366311
Not ready for it.

My beloved