Thread 714080812

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We are now officially a Boomer series.
Next game when?
Futuristic spaceships with customization when?

They NOW decided to announce work began on "something", either the 8th game or some remake..they were supposed to show a full trailer of a almost finished product.

If what was shown on that video is true then the game was put on hold for years, akin to SC5..we all know how that ended. Fucking bandai.

Ace Combat 8 announcement after the concert.

>>714081462
They've been hinting at working on the game since they dropped their Ace Combat lore videos

>>714080812 (OP)
>wow check out all these games we made between 1995 and 2014
>AC7 2019
>happy 30th

>>714082117

Why did he delete his post?

Six months before a teaser? Really?
They have better some fucking castanets when they play Zero this time

nothing ever happens

>>714082923
>They decided to announce working "something", either the 8th game or some remake..they were supposed to show a full trailer of a almost finished product.

>If what was shown on that video is true then the game was put on hold for years, akin to SC5..we all know how that ended. Fucking bandai.

Triggered some janny maybe ?

>>714083169

It'll be worth the weight.

I'd buy a compilation of these games in a heartbeat
Bamco hates my money huh

>>714082195
yes 1995 was actually 30 years ago

>>714084303

Yeah like they don't even need to change the graphics.
Just port all the games over to steam.
I have emulators but I'll still buy it so.I have an excuse to replay.

>>714084378
1 game came out in 10 years

>>714084579
I'd take a Switch compilation of the 4-5-Zero in a heartbeat as well. Bought the Switch port of AC7 a while ago.
I assume plane licenses are one tricky pony though, aren't they?

>>714085039
I heard the Typhoon guys were a total pain in the ass regarding licenses
The Sukhoi dudes don't give two shits if you put their planes in a game

>>714080812 (OP)
wait didn't we celebrate 25th anniversary last year

>>714085364
2020 was 5 years ago, anon

where is the hd collection?

>>714085258
oh yeah, fur sure about the Typhoon. if you actually look at the licensing stuff PA puts into the game credits, the Eurofighter portion comes across as both schizophrenic and litigious.

>>714085258
Typhoon guys are easy, they're just slightly pathetic. All you have to do if you want to license their plane is have a note saying it's really cool.
I'm not kidding, look at the AC7 startup screen where it lists all the owners and you can see the Typhoon is singled out as a highly advanced plane when no other plane has anything like that. That's there because Eurofighter Jagdflugzeug GmbH insist you say their plane is cool. They're weird.

>>714085747
I don't know why they bother to bring it back. Typhoon is an ugly piece of shit.

I don't care much about planes but those russian fighters are aesthetic as fuck.

Eurofighter Typhoon is one of the leading combat aircraft of the world

>>714080812 (OP)
It really shouldn't take 6 years to make a followup to AC 7, which sold well. Bandai really hates this series especially since we still don't have a rerelease of the ps2 trilogy in any way.

>>714080812 (OP)
cute nugget!

>>714080812 (OP)
I hope Ace Combat 8 brings back the Draken

>>714086321
When not copied from the mutts, they can make very pretty planes

>>714086321
Bercute my beloved.

>>714088276
I hate this soulless stealth shit

>>714085904
yeah, I'd a rather use a Gripen or a Rafale if i had to use a Eurodorito-with-canards.

>>714088194
based.

It's infinity offline

>>714086321
Flankers are cool.

>>714088443
suit yourself, crisp clean right angles are sex

>>714088372
Is that botan?

>>714082370
there's also this in the steam post

>>714088879
yes, she's the most popular with russians for whatever reason, probably because her shirt has Adidas stripes

>>714088948
mmm- a conspicuous gap!

Arcade Archives is releasing Air Combat 22 to everything (except PC)
https://youtu.be/oo3PahlZ-Vs?si=2_r3xJSY-5SZyd_R

>>714089060

>Stripes
>Plays lots of FPS
>Actually good at games

This is all it takes to win them over.

>>714080812 (OP)
Next game is macross

>>714089060
So some poor bastard probably has a picture of her in his helmet while he waits for an Ukrainian drone to kill him.
Truly we are all the same.

>>714088276
>>714088372
>>714088673
>vtumor skins now

Why is this shit everywhere?

>>714089237
I was just about to mention that this so called "anniversary" event doesn't even mention 22, and as far as I can tell there was zero news from the ace combat website about this port. Still, I'm glad it's getting ported but sad that Hamster refuses to do any PC releases.

>>714082370
>talisman stuck in the bottom section with the NPCs
RUDE

>>714089623
AC had idolm@s skins since 2007, hold your tongue.

>>714089623
SEA monkeys, Ace Combat communities or any mil-otaku communities for that matter, are an autistic breeding ground for degeneracy.

>>714080812 (OP)
Picked up the game on the sale now, playing it for the first time. It's pretty alright, but the gimmicky spare squadron missions almost made me quit. But the game picks up after that. Not sure how to feel about the aircraft handling, it's heavier, yet somehow more arcadey than even the PS2 games.

>>714088194
Yeah, they should put it in strangereal past, like the 80s or something, back when most of the cool jets were still around. Also they should add the Viggen while they are at it.

>>714089687
They did work with Konami on that Arcade Anniversary collection on PC, but the port was absolute shit.

>>714089623
To make you mad.

>>714089623
>vtuber
>Re:Zero Emilia-tan
Anyway, have you considered that people like different kinds of entertainment?

>>714089939
I know they're not M2 levels of quality but as long as they've got the license to sell these ports, no one else can. I just want something official.

>>714089623
Well, AC6 had official idolmaster skins

>30th anniversary
>still have nothing

>>714089467


I FUCKING WISH!

>>714089939
Wasn't that m2? Or am I thinking of hamster actually

I hope they're actually ambitious with this next game, but knowing PA it's just gonna be the bare minimum again hopefully Iwasaki returning whips them into shape.

>>714090370
Nah, I feel like in AC7 they tried to be too ambitious

>>714085485
Reminder that we are closer to 2050 than 2000

>>714090370
AC7 was ambitious and ended getting getting three separate AC games stitched together

>>714090502
How was ac7 ambitious? There's absolutely nothing in that game that is any different from their PS2 releases.

>>714090502
>>714090608
Where is the ambition in 7 genuinley? it's only new mechanic are the clouds which barely affect you, the story being shit is not because of ambition lmao.

The only times ace combat has ever been ambitious is 3 and 6 where they immediately threw everything out

>>714090717
>>714090781
>ambition can only mean game mechanics

>>714090781
You can't critique 7 for lack of change and praise 6 when both are doing the same thing.

>>714090717
>>714090781
Agree with this. 7 was not ambitious, it was a retread of 5. 6 was ambitious and was the best game in the series. Hell, Assault Horizon was ambitious in comparison to 7 too. It had helicopters, a good story, and high altitude bomber and AC-130 missions.

Bandai lost money on that Unknown 9 thing, they tried to turn it into a media empire thing and it flopped massively.
The money for AC8 was probably used on that.

>>714090894
Give me some examples of 7s ambition

>>714090915
Yeah i remember 7s squadron mechanics and non linear mission design.

>>714090894
I'll repeat the question, how is it ambitious?

>>714090894
So you're not going to answer how it was ambitious? I mean the only thing maybe is HD assets for vehicles and that was just a given from being a newer game or more weapon choices per plane.
>>714090915
You never played 6 if you think 7 is the same thing.

>>714091093
You only have two things lol, 6 played the same largely as the ps2 era games. The only real big ambitious AC was 3 and by thier own admission they wouldn't do that again because of how much effort it too.

>>714091090
I can only hope there was a ritual disembowelling or three because of that atrocity.

>>714091262
It's bandai, they probably got promoted.

>>714091152
I have. People only praise 6 because it's xbox only and it's hard to get objective facts since there's no modern port.

>>714091090
Despite what people here want to believe, AC7 was not exactly that successful and AC8 has never been assured. The licenses for these planes and equipment aren't cheap and the developers want to keep pushing graphics, so the budget is becoming higher than the return as costs go up.

>>714091256
>You only have two things
So yeah. You have never touched 6 and think those mean nothing.

>>714091364
Apparently not if you think it is the same as 7, when 7 is barebones compared to it.

I don't trust Kono because lets face it Assault Horizon was his magnum opus and Infinity only existed because bandai whipped his ass into making a F2P ace combat 4/5/0 mashed together.

And on top of that it 6 YEARS for them to launch a trailer saying "we are back making ace combat again", Jesus not even a trailer or a concept like AC7 had..

>/v/ is now so contrarian they think ass horizon is good
AC threads have fallen

>>714091364
No, people praise 6 because it's a fucking awesome game with much better missions, much larger battles, competent AI squadmates that actually complete objectives or protect you, and a way more impactful story.

>>714091506
You are actually delusional if you seriously think 6 was some super ambitious ac game when all it did was reiterate the exact same shit as the others but with better graphics.

>>714091536
It was good, and there's contrarian about saying so.

>>714088339
My negro

>>714091256
Do you really believe PA wouldn't be able to accomplish another 3 when it had way more resources and success int he ps2 era? the reality is that after Iwasaki left the series to make drakengard the series was left with a pretty unambitious dev team.

>>714091692
You have never played it and clearly have no idea what you are talking about. It was by far the most different and large scale game in the series. Instead of being a retard, go find an Xbox 360 and a used copy and play it.

>>714091090
Bandai Namco are ridiculously huge and one game failing doesn't matter to them. They have hits and misses all the time.
>>714091364
I mean in practice it's more like they talk shit about 6 because it's Xbox only. 6 gets disrespected incredibly hard compared to the PS2 games for no good reason.

>>714091536
It's American humour

>>714091090
>Bandai lost money on that Unknown 9 thing, they tried to turn it into a media empire thing and it flopped massively.
where's daddy fink's ESG bucks these companies so much boast about ?

They blow so much money on that wokeslop that a Naruto, a DBZ and a One Piece game were killed ( besides a exclusive game for nintendo )....absolutely buck breaken by judaism

>>714091056
>AC-130 missions.

>>714091803
Yes because technology costs more as it advances. Also you're forgetting paying the anime studio for cutscenes. Or the expensive va casts

>>714091819
>large scale
>empty fields of nothing
So ambitious bros I'm crying..

Remastered Trilogy PLUS ACX

>>714091823
>6 gets disrespected incredibly hard compared to the PS2 games for no good reason.
I remember the story mostly sucking, but maybe I should dig out my xbox and try it again.

>>714084378
I thought this was one of those memes at first.
Fuck I'm old.

>>714092024
They're fields of enemies, retard. 6 has ridiculous amounts of friends/enemies. You should know that even without playing it just from browsing /v/ AC threads and seeing people talking about it.

>>714091506
>>714091692
And by barebones, obviously 7 beats 6 in number of planes or mission total, but the only missions in 7 that even have a similar freedom of objective choice that most of 6 missions have are the assault on Farbanti and the second DLC mission. Every other 7 mission sends you to the same objectives in the same order, while 6 lets you chose your starting position among multi objective missions and tackle the rest in whichever order you want.

>>714092024
Oh, you're just a shitposter.

>>714092181
So just like the other games. Thanks for making my argument retard.

base game of 7 is 90% off on steam: yay or nay?
t. last ace combat I played was on the ps1

>>714091950
Voice cast is a bizarre example since 3 doesn't really have that many heavy hitters and only has about a dozen voice characters and even if it did PA were making MORE money after 3 how would they struggle to pay?

The fact you bring up these elements and not the really unique stuff from 3 like the branching narrative, realistic flight models, unique weapon types etc, shows you probably haven't played it.

>>714092227
>Every other 7 mission sends you to the same objectives in the same order,
I'm only like halfway through AC7, but I've noticed that the game does this a lot, even the starter mission has you destroy the bombers in a very specific order. It's kinda gay with the hand holding.

>>714092227
Maybe half of 7s levels are actually fun to play more than once, AC games always fall apart if they're longer than 4 hours long.

>>714092269
Do it, half of the missions are a pain in the ass but the other ones are fun

>>714092269
Obviously, a thread full of AC fans is going to tell you to buy AC7 though you should try and get a version with the dlc missions since they are some of the best in the game.

>>714092419
The best missions in 7 are the ones where you just have to get x points in 15 minutes and you can do what you want as long as you get there. Though even then they have the problem that most of them are too easy so if you're competent you run out of enemies.

Which AC games are best? I only recently started playing the series with 7 and just wondering where to go from here. The ps2 ones?

>>714092339
Because the argument was about resources?

>like the branching narrative, realistic flight models, unique weapon types etc, shows you probably haven't played it.
That wasn't part of the argument so I don't see the point of bringing it up when those elements have been returned in the series

>>714092590
Yeah, so far fleet assault has been my favorite mission by far

>>714092670
Yes. The ps2 ones are great.

Also consider Project Wingman.

>>714092269
It's worth $5 easy. Decent game. Ignore the fanbase for this series on /v/ though, they are as bad as toxic tranny furfags for some reason.

Did Banddog actually kill Fullband on purpose?

>using dlc planes
You didn't beat the game.

>>714092942
It's the only thing that makes sense.

>>714092269
Go for it, anon
The Season Pass is also worth it
>>714092670
I'd recommend going with the PS2 games (04, 5, Zero) since they're the most relevant to 7
Then you can play pretty much any AC game and have fun with it if you enjoy AC games, so X, 6, AHL (not AH), 3JP (not Export), 1 and 2
Avoid AH and JA and basically any other title not in the above, unless you're curious (or if you have a friend, since JA has coop)

>2030
>A maniac jew working for a big tech corpo tries to push AI simulation into the goyim
>his "lover" asked for private tests with her chosen candidate while shlomo waited
....
>she spent most of the time banging a jap version of Ice Man, rode his BWC while moshe watched everything like cuckold porn
.....
>Company ( General Resource Chads ) discovered the lowkey porn filming and kills both Dision and Yoko.
....
>Elon Cohen creates a simulation and a player ( you ) to take revenge on a copy of Dision
>( You ) join Dision and Cohen gets cucked in real life and in the simulation

huh.....jewbros your response ?

>>714092670
depends
5 has a great story, 0 has the best dogfighting in the series, 4 is like a quick game to play and learn the ropes
3(jp) has the greatest replay value but it's ps1

>>714092942
Fullband was risking secrets that would've cost Osea the war if they leaked, Bandog did NOTHING wrong

>>714092972
But I did in fact beat the game

>>714092670
Yea ps2 title are great
play 0, its the best in the series

>>714092670
6 is the best one, but you can only play it on an Xbox 360. 4, 5, and Zero are decent albeit inferior to 6 and 7. 5 in particular is a lot more frustrating and boring than anyone seems to want to admit with a lot of shitty gimmick levels and a bland storyline.

>>714092820
Nice, how good is the jap ac3 if I can get it with eng subs? I heard it was pretty ambitious

>>714093027
Oh, and Project Wingman is legitimately very good, would recommend that too

>>714092942
Yes, and he is 100% in the right.
Should have listened to the guy warning you to not brag about how you're going to blackmail your CO at threat of spoiling the countries only shot at turning the war around, dumbass.

>>714092942
It's incredibly obvious he did. Please pay more attention.
>>714092972
Half the DLC planes suck though.

>>714092670
Play 0 then project wingman
Both have same tone

>>714092679
>those elements have been returned in the series

>branching narrative

Doko?

>>714093027
>>714093057
>>714093082
>>714093093
>>714093181

Thanks for all the responses

>>714093046
Was Yoko Belkan?
He never had a chance dating her

https://store.steampowered.com/app/340860/RaidersSphere4th/

Off topic but is this game any good?
I'm looking for new jet/space games.
I already have all the popular ones.

>>714092679
You lost the resource argument as soon as AC4 became the best selling game in the series until 7

And none of these have returned to the series, no AC game has branching story paths (unless you're nice enough to count 5's cointoss shit), none have flight models as detailed and none have the unique gun/missile types of 3. We're still using the same 4AAM,QAAM etc garbage

>>714093237
3 was from before they expanded the world beyond Usea, so the concept of Belka didn't exist at that point.

AC7 should stuck with the penal squad stuff and throw you into increasingly near suicidal missions with no way out but forward just give it overwhelming odds

>>714093097
Either it's the best AC game bar none or dated to hell
Personally I think it's very cool but considering it's 50+ missions spread out over 5 routes it can get a bit tiring at times
Hopefully all the future planes come back

>>714093093
>6 is the best one, but you can only play it on an Xbox 360
or an Xbone, or an XSX, or Xenia

>>714093237
Usea

>>714080812 (OP)
>not even a teaser for AC8

>>714093284
>no AC game has branching story paths
X has branching missions.
People always ask for remakes of the PS2 games but we need a remake of X so it's not trapped with PSP controls.

>>714093381
>Xenia
Does Xenia emulate AC6 well?

>>714092972

As someone who bought everything, I still find myself using the SU-47 a lot.
Good missiles and nice handling at low speeds.

>>714093097
It's massively overrated. Most people fall for the "it's not translated so it must be good!" trap when in reality it's 90% the same as the international version.

7 was not ambitious. The mechanics were standard Ace Combat fare. As far as gameplay was concerned, nothing about it was new or upgraded when compared to its predecessors. Squad mechanics from 5 were gone, open-area battlefield mechanics from 6 were gone, everything from Assault Horizon was gone (for better or for worse), and apart from the massive upgrade in graphical quality, it may as well have been Air Combat (and yes, I was actually around when this series was still called that). Whole thing was a regression back to 4 and its one-man wonder show.

>>714093382
Huh, wonder how she ended as an assistant for Schroeder

>>714093284
Electrosphere has 5 routes in the JP version
X's mission structure is non-linear which is cool, it's probably the model I'd like to see return the most
And 5 and Zero, if it needs to be said, also have alternate missions, though they're just variations of linear missions

>>714093046
>>714093307
Wait so they retconned things and AC7 is now a prequel to Ace Combat 3 !?

>>714093284
>no AC game has branching story paths
AC X did have branches.

AC uses mostly real planes so we don't get those wildly different flight physics like before.

>>714093530
No wait nevermind, I read that as Osea

>>714093414
Branching missions aren't entirely separate story paths. I do love X though classic example of PA coming up with something awesome with how choosing different levels opens up new ones and then never doing it again. Shame that X2 is so shit (but still insanely funny

>>714093545
Every game is a prequel to Electrosphere
Even Electrosphere
Technically 7 isn't even the furthest along the timeline, it's X

Reminder that the new Idolmaster game is ridiculously successful so they'll probably have idol skins in the next AC.
You should decide which idol you like now so you can be prepared.

>>714093436
IIRC it emulates near-perfectly, though I'm not sure they ever fixed the cutscene audio
Which is fine, because the cutscenes in 6 suck

>>714086321
I agree the flankers are peak

>>714084992
Yeah, and 0 actual AC games came out between 2008 and 2019

>>714093524
Unironically filtered.

>>714093607
Have you played AC3? it's flight model isn't because they're fictional planes the planes have proper thrust, inertia and even have missiles that actually lead!

>>714093436
Missions are fine, but the cutscenes are broken. You'd have to watch them on youtube. You have to change a specific setting in the config file for the emulator to fix the terrain rendering wrong in gameplay. Definitely not comfortable for a first playthrough, but fine if you've been through the game before.

>>714093623
>Shame that X2 is so shit (but still insanely funny
>hey boss, we have no room to develop our villain
>uhhhh just make him tell you he was a child soldier out of nowhere while you're fighting then
my honor!
my pride!
my life!

>>714093881
Somehow this scene tops the twist that the entire plot is an elaborate insurance scheme

>>714093881
Kek, that sounds funny as fuck

INFINITY PRIVATE SERVER WHEN

>>714089623
>actually surprised that mil-autists are the nerdiest, most autistic group on the planet
LMAO

>>714091856
Skill issue

>>714092269
Worth it, yeah.
The DLCs are pure, undiluted kino. Don't skip them

>>714094009
He's also flying a fucking plane shaped like a guitar while it happens, just to make it more ridiculous. It's like they were trying to make a parody of Ace Combat, except they weren't. They just did it by accident.

soooooooooooooooooooooooooooo wheres ace combat 8?

>>714094382
why didn't they make this a dlc plane for 7?
a true mystery

>>714082370
Which one is Nemo?

>>714094521
UPEO scheme Su-37 below Razgriz Tomcat and above Pixy Morgan.

>>714091536
when you get to actually place ace combat in it and are not forced into dogfight mode (like the boss fights) its actually good and still has a great ace combat OST helicopter and bomber missions were brutal and bad though

>>714089060
I just remember some of her Russian fans were going to try to mail her an actual AK and she had to shoot it down for the obvious legal reasons.

>>714093623
AC does a really good job at evolving over time, I'm still half convinced that 7 was originally gonna have at least two routes/ending before they had to squeeze.

>>714094329
nta, but is the Maverick dlc for 7 just planes and skins? Confused since it's same price as season pass. I only ever played base 7 few years ago and loved it despite couple dogshit missions, will be getting the season pass now.

>>714082370
Why are planes so sexy?

>>714093324
I agree with this so much. The story could have been truly epic if they had followed through on that idea until either the whole squad is dead or hailed as heroes and granted their freedom at the end. It was so disappointing that they abandoned it.

>>714095605
Yeah, no missions or anything, but it does also come with Top Gun music for multiplayer (wow!)
It's an odd duck but I guess like every other plane pack it's there if you want em

>>714095814
I see, thank you. Will just skip it then.

>>714095092
>AC does a really good job at evolving over time
LOL

>>714082370
where crimson and monarch i know i know

>>714095092
AC evolves about as much as Dynasty Warriors and COD lmao. Nice bait.

Reminder that Ace Combat 7 is quickly becoming real, they strapped a german AI onto a Gripen E and it actually successfully fought a BVE engagement and maneuvered just fine
your new robot wife will come to an airfield near you soon

>>714096412
Getting real sick of Belkans

>>714082370
>Mobius 1 not at the top

>>714096512
just be glad they aren't nuking everything yet

>>714089623
>now
AC6 had idolmaster skins way back in 2007
Shit is nothing new

>>714096145
>Dynasty warriors
They did tried something different with DW9 and everyone hated it iirc

>>714096823
He would be but he was busy, like he was in 7
>>714096938
They nuke themselves the most, if anything that'll be better than what we get

>/vg/
>>/vg/
>>>/vg/

>>714097032
It was still the same gameplay. Point is, Ace Combat is shallow and every game is the same arcade shooter

>>714093324
Yeah it was the most fun premise of the varies stitched together story threads in 7. Wouldn't have been that hard to play out the rest of the story but with you remaining in the prisoner squad to the end anyway.

>>714097227
9 plays nothing like the other games, they reworked every aspect of the combat system plus added a shitty open world.

We're going home to Strangereal.

>>714096412
First time?

>can't save Brownie
why live

>>714097093
>video game news are somehow /vg/
fuck off

>>714080812 (OP)
Transcoded series for literal trannies

>>714080812 (OP)
I dont speak Japanese, is there anything in that video that acknowledges they are working on AC8?

>>714097570
How well can these things maneuver? The Gripen E Drone was at least able to mimic human maneuvers and engage in combat against a real aircraft as a test, but it was also apparently doubling as an autopilot or assistant.

>>714097582
You'd lose contact with her by the 4th mission anyway

>>714089939
How was it shit exactly? Hamster's pretty good with arcade ports

>>714097830
The whole live action segment is.
They've also been hinting that they've been working on it for at least 2 years (they mentioned it in this video, 6:45)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyuHSSj8K4s

>>714097830
I mean they pretty overtly show they're working on developing a new AC title it couldn't be more clear, just no official announcement for whatever reason

>>714080812 (OP)
japs suck at (big) anniversaries. instead of having something grandiose ready to roll, you get just single poster and a paragraph of 'uuuh,uhhh maybe we will poop out something in few more years'

>>714089861
No he isn’t. He’s to the bottom left of Trigger

>>714080812 (OP)
>>714082370
It definitely looks like they're leading up to an announcement, finally. I'm guessing 2027 is when we'll be actually playing Ace Combat 8.

>>714098040
The AI F-16s have already engaged in dogfights and been called equivalent to veteran human pilots in performance. The program is training the AI for the expected loyal wingman companion drones that are supposed to be ready around 2030~

>>714082370
yeah, thats all you get for such celebration. where is fully remastered pc collection, lazy hacks?

Happy Anniversary, Ace Combat bros.

>>714093352
The premise of AC7 was fine (you get shoved into a penal squadron) but they hardly did anything with it.
They hardly did anything at all
>the princess is kinda there
>the grease monkey girl is kinda there
>the old dude pilot is kinda there
>penal squadron only lasts like four missions
>last arsenal bird fight is great but super drones after is underwhelming
It all comes together in a whateverly way

>>714080812 (OP)
I'm playing 7. Any beginner tips? Should I use nornal or expert controls? Should I drop the controller and use KB+M?

>>714098434
>>714098040
>>714097570
>>714096412
AC8 with an AI WSO wife when

Maybe we'll see something about AC8 soon I hope. At least they're still working on it.

>>714098792
>Any beginner tips?
don't be afraid to lower the difficulty
>Should I use nornal or expert controls?
expert
>Should I drop the controller and use KB+M?
controller

>>714098792
Expert is the ONLY control scheme, I don't know what you are talking about
Never played with anything other than controller and as far as I know it's the best way to play it

>>714098768
It's simultaneously one of the most polished games in the series whilst being a rickety mess under the hood. The main issue being the original development hell they had. Hopefully we won't be having that this time.
>>714098792
Normal "controls" is legitimately for casuals. For an experience that's more true to what Ace Combat is you're supposed to learn the Expert controls.
KB+M works like ass in AC7 in my opinion, controller always worked best for these games.

>>714098792
Go fast
Attack planes are a meme
Learn how to shoot your missiles properly
Learn how to shoot your gun properly
Use the first mission to learn the controls, there's no real threat and the sky is wide open
Have fun
Use Expert controls and use a controller

>>714093698
Only if they do cinderella girls skins

>>714098768
that's what happens when you rewrite script four times and half of those by time all lines were already recorded

Is there a mod that increased the amount of gimbal you have to look around in the cockpit view in AC7?
I'd like to use cockpit view more in the game but the way you can barely look upwards sucks so bad.

>>714080812 (OP)
AC8 announcement coming soon. I can sense it.

>>714099983
No, because it's not a flight sim. If you want that you need to play a proper flight game.

>>714100161
You say that, but the old games give you much more freedom of movement to look around in the cockpit view. No reason why AC7 can't have that as well.

>>714080812 (OP)
I'd just like to get a re-release of zero on PC so I don't have to emulate it.

>>714090018
Yea and they're gay incel weebs.

for me it's Nuclear Option.

>>714082370
Badass poster

>>714089623

Anon, I...

>>714097830
The video has English subtitles for most of the speaking.

I hope the new game got serious gameplay improvement, no more dumb ai that can't handle a little joust + missile right in the face, that should never happen

>>714097823
This

WHERE IS STRIDER 1

>>714089623
>now
This image is from 2009

>>714080812 (OP)
More bomber missions please

>>714087310
It takes 6 years because
>2 years making DLC content for AC7
>2 years learning Unreal Engine 5
>4 years not having a good idea where future conflict is going until Russia-Ukraine and Israel-Iran got as far as they did
And the truth is that these wars showed drones will replace manned planes by the next great war. AC3 isn't the future because the future is not having a big giant flying target, it's about having 300 suitcase-sized piloted missiles flying at treetop level. Ace Combat cannot come back to its old corpocracy timeline nor can it portray the next world war as anything but 500 people playing videogames with live-fire ammunition.

>>714093525
It was pretty and the music was better than 4.

>>714098374
Look at Macross 40. A fucking fiasco where fans got pretty much nothing.

>>714099983
Unfortunately there's only a cheatengine mod for increasing the fov. It's annoying since it has to get updated everytime AC7 gets an update to the banlist so it doesn't work out of the box. Bandai might have finally given up on that though meaning you only have to update it to the current version of the game.

>>714098792
>Should I use nornal or expert controls?
You decide.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9wVCKQxYTQ

>>714103526
Nigger cancer. So are these chicks all fat and ugly or men or what? Dudes are jerking it to a picture making anime noises and acting retarded.

>>714082117
They've been talking about the next game since 2020
https://www.frontlinejp.net/2020/07/05/ace-combat-series-25th-anniversary-interview-part1-2/

>>714084303
>>714084579
The plane licenses have expired and can't be renegotiated

The free copies of 5/6 with 7 was via a loophole where it only worked because they were free and they said they would never be able to sell them for money

>>714103160
Yes it can. The Arsenal Bird could tank missiles hitting it like it was nothing, 500 drones are only an issue if you don't have the defenses for it

>>714102797
Actual anime girls and vtumors are not the same thing. This on the level of making a pewdiepie skin and just as shitty.

>>714104073
Only if Ace Combat increasingly diverges from reality.

>>714103829
>>714104115
This is Elliot Rodgers.

>>714104115
They quite literally are the same thing, both are just anime girls. the only difference is that one is newer and the other is old.

>>714104279
Vtumors aren't anime. They're faggot streamers using the face of anime.

>>714104269
We can't both be him. That other anon is a weeaboo, while my post had the opposite indication.

>>714103160
The setting already has canon 2040s, and drone development didn't go far in them. Magic fighters with infinite missiles and fuel are stronger.

>>714104184
>>714103160
Nigger it's fucking Ace Combat, who cares if it's realistic to modern or near-future combat lmao. They can do whatever they want. There's no reason why they would delete planes from the game because it's not le realistic. None of it is.

>>714089623
>now
idol masters skins have been a thing since 6

>>714102797
BASEDO

>>714103160
FPV drones are only a problem on shithole battlefields that can't use modern jamming or countermeasures. Strangereal militaries have up to date tech on the battlefield.

>>714104184
Strangereal has never matched reality.

>>714091536
>ass horizon is good
It's okay on console, but it's completely broken on PC, Dogfight mode will have the enemy pull the player into the ground

How could 7 not invite my baby to the dance?

I see it's name on the very beginning trade mark screen but is it even in the game?

>>714104930
It's in the Stonehenge mission

>>714104930
It's an enemy during the Stonehenge mission
I know, I'm depressed about it too

>>714086321
Then you play them in a sim and have to ask why there is a sticker with a picture of the plane on it where the RWR should be. Gorgeous aircraft, dogshit avionics.

>>714104760
>Strangereal militaries have up to date tech on the battlefield.
They have tech beyond what we have. Giant jamming facilities that can disrupt radar and communications over thousands of kilometers (while somehow not frying its employees and surrounding wildlife)

>>714105063
You just need to learn how to read the Russian RWR.

>>714082370
GRYPHUS 1 SPOTTED
GOD BLESS AURELIA

>>714082370
>planes at the top looks similar to 8
ace combat 8 confirmed

>>714104989
>>714105009
really?

>>714105393
You have to shoot down enough aircraft and move fast for them to spawn

>>714105393
Yeah. You have to keep shooting down planes and it will spawn eventually.

>>714094130
Please no, I don't have free time like that anymore, I would lose half my sleep running Naval Fleet Assault in my YF-23

>>714080812 (OP)
>photographing an f22 up close
Isn't this illegal? And isn't f22s a US-only plane??

>>714105853
Picture bans on the F-22 haven't been enforced in a decade. And yeah it's US only but there are US bases in Japan it can visit. Japanese designers have gotten to tour US bases lots of times when they get official licensing deals.

>>714093808
I wish we could get AC3's "oh fuck oh fuck the ground is approaching and I'm turning but I'm not stopping" physics back, but I'd even settle for 4/X's heavy lead-sled planes coming back. High G-turns were a mistake for the series.

>>714098434
might be one of those things that would be deployed suspiciously quickly if there ever was a major war. Very economic use of otherwise useless airframes.

>>714097570
aircraft drones are almost as old as combat aircraft

>>714105853
The only picture ban in place is inside the cockpit and pics of the avionics

>>714105853
I got yelled at for taking close up pics of a Predator drone sitting in a hangar about 10 years ago and had to delete them. So I wouldn't be surprised if its still not allowed.

I hope the next game isn't an evolutionary backstep like & was. Not being able to pick my flight team's planes sucked ass.

Honestly I hope the next one brings back a bunch of old planes, or just gives us Electrosphere 2. The future for IRL plane design is grim, everything is just a copy of American homework with yet another flavor of Raptor or F-35, it's so boring.

Hey, can I be in the next Ace Combat please?

>>714107349
Your vertical stabilizer is looking a little floppy

>>714106621
>Not being able to pick my flight team's planes sucked ass.
And all the shit that was removed from 6 like combined cover and combined attack along with the different operation zones. I miss helping the Marigold first and landing on the carrier for resupply.

Please, for the love of fuck, Armored Core has let me have custom livery and colors and emblems since 97', please Project Aces, why not Ace Combat?

>>714107591
>why not Ace Combat?
that was in Assault Horizon

>>714107591
Assault horizon did let you make custom emblems

>>714103160
Which is why the next game should take place in the Strangereal past instead.

>lock onto target
>shoot homing missile
>miss
Yep
All I needed to know about this dogshit series

>>714080812 (OP)
I really need to get around to playing AC7. It's been sitting in my steam library for over a year at this point.

>>714107856
>being bad at videogames

>>714107856
anon it's called a missile, why do you expect it to hit
you shoulda equipped hittiles if you wanted to not miss

>>714107751
Only if the player is a rookie Mihaly

>>714107856
The missile knows where it is, what's your excuse, retard

>>714108337
Controversial Opinion: You play as his wing man

>>714107349
Based fellow Viggen chad

>>714107525

>Fighting Mister X and his wingmen.
MY TEAM LITERALLY DOES NOTHING WHILE 5000 MISSILES ARE HEADED MY WAY!

Bro is like, "I'll distract him"

>Dies

They need to bring back team commands and new targeting options like in space games.
Target enemy targeting me would help immensely.
Even better a list like pic related would help on some missions.

>>714108897
*You steal his identity when he dies (kill him?)

>>714109252
More like he steals yours

With all the satellites fucked after 7, how would Ace8 not be a prequel to Electrosphere where every nation is trying repair them? Make the final unlocks be the first tier of the old future planes like the the F-16XF Gyrfalcon.

>>714103160

The future is each fighter pilot operating five bot drones with some level of autonomy giving fire support, jet fuel reload, kamikaze and being decoys.

>>714096412
when's Yukikaze

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ul2B4ND4SM0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVsn5aPcvRk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6TBkOjTsek

>>714109873
>Ace Combat 8: Lonesome Skies
>You play as one of the last true pilots of a poor nation
>Your wing men are all AI with created personalities so you won't feel so alone.
>Everything you fight is a remote drone or AI controlled
>Only the secret aces in every mission you have to shoot down for their livery are real, like you
>In the final mission real pilots come back to scramble since AI and drones couldn't stop you

Feels bad, man. Come at me.

>>714096412
Ukraine's attack on the Russian strat bomber fleet is directly out of AC7's introduction, down to the containers containing drones performing a clean attack on targets deep inside enemy territory.

>>714097529
Someone get the guys that decensor porn in here, we need to figure out what's written there.
If they can decensor cunts and cocks, they can surely do this, right?

>>714110416
>>You play as one of the last true pilots of a poor nation
>>Your wing men are all AI with created personalities so you won't feel so alone.
this is just Sky Crawlers again

>>714110416
>>714110605
Since 8 is a möbius strip, you either play as or have to finally kill an old ass Mobius 1

>>714110481
So your saying that the Ukraine is a Belken ally and is getting weapons from Gründer?

>>714104930
Made for Serbian AA crews.

>>714109787
We don't need to go forward in time. It could be a prequel or an in-between war. We could even be revisiting a previous conflict from another perspective.

>>714111382
I'll never get it, but I want ancient strange-real with planes F-104 Starfighters and MiG-17s

>>714104184
>If

I want to see her in game

>>714110416
>>714110761
>play as old-ass Mobius whose boomer ass got tired of all the jet action happening around his comfy secluded retirement house
>forcefully drafts himself into a fighter squadron to make the war end quicker
>brings his old F-22 with him, a mid-high tier plane performance-wise but lacking the drone uplinks, on first playthrough flies it through the tutorial mission to not overwhelm the player with drone squad controls but then gets forced into a drone-enabled low-tier because that's just how war is done nowadays
>final mission reveals that the drone-herding planes he flew also spied on him and built an AI model of the greatest ace to ever fly, so real Mobius has outlived his usefulness and now faces himself in an autonomous F-22 (it actually trains on your flight data and learns your habits in the playthrough)
>upon completing game on Ace you unlock his personal drone-less F-22 for all missions, it's positioned as an extra challenge because without drones you have to use ammo wisely and can get overwhelmed
>the final mission changes if you've only used his F-22 throught, as it now reveals that this playthrough was a simulation for the AI you've faced, and now you are facing the real Mobius

>>714084378
That can't be right, because I was born in 1995, and that means I'm going to be 30
oh sweet jesus...

>>714110416
>f-14
too soon

>>714112020
>>714112174
>>714110416
Just copy Battlestar's Galactica's homework, with a little bit of that shitty Stealth movie thrown in. AI jets can hack planes that are late 4th, to 6th gen, so in order to get around that all the old analogue 3rd gen and early 4th gen planes are brought out of retirement and refurbished with jammers, EMP weapons and gamified update trees. Allowing nonsense like stealth F4 Phantoms and such. Is it stupid? Yes, but so is Ace Combat, lovingly so.

>>714106252
They've also said the AI control module can be setup for different aircraft with only a little adjustment.

Can we admit russian planes are overstatted

>>714112468
The final mission is just the graduation program for the player AI from Electrosphere.

>>714113145
Everyone knows they are technologically inferior. Soviet doctrine always accounted for these facts, one way or another.
Most of the times throughout history where American and Soviet planes fought against one another, it involved highly trained and supplied US pilots on US jets, while non-Soviets were on the Soviet jets. When actually well trained Soviet pilots were in control, the results were a lot less one-sided.

Soviet air doctrine is not about winning, it's about not losing.

>>714112468
Sounds awful.

>>714082370
Makes it look like they are flying to Heaven, like the series is officially dead.

>>714089623
>rezero
>vtuber
??

>>714113068
>upgrade trees
Please no. This shit fucking sucks and doesn't belong in the series.

>>714096412
Not really, if the RU/UK war is anything to go by for a future near peer conflict, planes are far more valuable and harder to replace than pilots, which make any AI piloted plane offer no real advantages.

Do you believe the story of the biggest dog fight in history that took place in Kashmir on May 7 this year?

>Hey let's put the guy convicted of murdering a former president in a jet fighter!
What were they even thinking?

>>714113798
AC5 did it, why not do it again? It kinda sucked there but only because each variant only got one special weapon so you could only use Super Tomcat with Bomb o' Guided Penetration.

>>714114084
Surely someone would've recorded something

>>714114116
we need pilots and we need them now, and if he tries to do anything we'll eject him with no parachute or change his iff or something

>>714113742
Considering that 7 was a revival, it basically is dead. With that in mind, Bamco should make Ace Combat Infinity 2 and just use the gatcha model for it. Make the gacha roll-outs of new planes, with all the fanfare gatcha waifus get, but they're just the actual planes as part of the joke.

>>714114116
Wartime logic. There are skills you cannot just discard. Combat pilots are a scarce and difficult to produce resource.

>>714114116
Total war do be like that. Everyone means fucking everyone.

>>714114246
Right? That's my point. With all the footage produced during the current conflicts it's very strange that we don't have one single frame of the engagement leaked on the internet.

>>714114246
The accounts on both sides say it was bvr lobbing missiles at each other over the border. Even with all that no one has claimed even 10 actual planes went down total for both sides.

>>714113994
If that were true then Russia's way larger air force would be useful, but the truth is that it doesn't have the pilots, training or equipment to be useful so it's just sitting mostly behind the front. It's not low on fighters at all. Ukraine however is low on fighters and equipment so they too mostly just kill drones.
The issue with comparing RU/UK war to a real near peer conflict is that both are lacking in air power and the ability to bypass air defense. Air defense is a question of equipment (stealth or HARMs and HARM compatibility) which neither can procure in any big amount.

>>714114084
India would have had the obligation to report to French authorities if the planes had been shot down or gained Air-to-Air victories. I think a battle this large would've been way too hide. Unless it turned out that nobody was able to shoot down anybody else, in which case that would be the only scenario possible where all parties involved would want to keep it a secret.

>>714114353
You're not having a gacha work without waifus or some kind of shonen power fantasy appeal (see hnk legends revive, dokkan battle) IMO. Though I'd agree that an actual military scifi mecha musume game would be pretty cool. Of course, they can come with their realTM forms too.

>>714114084
>>714114486
Purportedly, the poos didn't even bother to have the French AWAKS systems integrated into their poo nonsense for the planes to properly function like they should have and now won't even let French military so and so's onto their airfields to check, out of embarrassment, so would be surprised if anything at all ever turns up.

>>714114353
An Ace Combat gacha would be interesting. Either cute girls or just straight up planes, both would be amusing.
Problem is, I find it difficult to imagine that the aircraft manufacturers would accept "official" anthropormorphic versions of their planes.

>Provide the bulk of planes and the soul of Ace Combat for decades
How can they do it bros ?

>>714114683
Compromise, you get waifu livery and emblems with the planes.

>>714114803
Wait, what chinese planes are in ace combat?

>>714114894
Close, but too abstract. The gacha would be the pilot girls. That's the winning solution.
You could also roll for weapon officers, which you could put onto planes like support characters.

>>714114894
>pilot waifus that jump into plane armors, turning into those mecha-looking girls that can then go transformers into a real plane or "merge" with it like it's part of their body for real
>superweapons like the alicorn, arsenal bird, arkbird and hresvelgr are bosses and work similarly
>drones or drone piloted planes are just robot girls
>>714114803
there isn't a single chink plane in any AC
the posterchilds (aside from AC3) were always american planes btw aside from those few european cover arts

>>714114803
chinks have provided nothing, and if they will provide something they'll mandate that they are the best planes and can't be shot down

>>714114923
All of them are, since they can carry 200 missiles just like Chinese planes

>>714114119
It's one of the reasons AC5 sucks.

>>714115116
Only if Pixy stays my bro

>>714115221
I think it's neat. Builds loyalty to your planefu, instead of having you jump between F-22 and Rafale on short notice just because you need that anti-ship missile.

>>714114683
>>714114802
Easy enough, the gatcha are still the planes but each one comes with a pilot waifu that's a manifestation of the individual plane's aesthetic. So you get both your F-22 and then the amalgamation that it represents in waifu form as its pilot. Then extra special custom skins and costumes for the whales.

>>714114923
>>714115127
>>714115128
>cope noises
Denounce ZOG

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjNpRbNdR7E

Quickly, we need suggestions.
>name for our upcoming Ace Combat gacha
>the 4 starting planes
>male pilots or no male pilots?

>>714080812 (OP)
I kind of want this thing, but I don't think they will sell it to gaijins

>>714115651
What controller is that underneath? An 8bitdo or something?

>>714115620
Controversial Lewd Opinion: the planes are male but their pilot representations are female

>>714115771
https://www.type2.co.jp/products/ac/
Type 2. I've never heard of this brand before.

>>714115602
>De-ACK
https://youtu.be/9Oy6XBZuc8s

>>714115573
Your idea is flawed, in the sense that there just aren't enough planes to keep going for too long. The gacha has to be the pilots. They have an associated plane that is fixed to them, but it's just a piece of equipment. For example, you could have a dozen different F-22 pilots, a handful for each variant, but would all be their own unique units.

For two-seaters, you could also roll for weapon officers like I said before, which could then be put into any two-seaters. And then, you'd also roll for AWACs crewmembers. This is good, because those are the only character with extensive voice narration, so you can hire cheap seiyuus for those roles, while the expensive ones only do the pilots(that have few lines).

>>714115651
I don't want a controller with Osea' flag in it. Can I have a Belkan version instead?

>>714115860
I'm not even sure what you're suggesting here. If the planes are not girls, what do you mean making them male?

>>714115620
Ace Combat: Flight of the Valkyries
Draken, F-4, Mirage-III, Mig-25 maybe?
Male pilots only for certain bosses and story

>>714115620
The framing should be that WE, the player, are a male AWACS, and the pilots are girls, also the pilots could also be themed after the planes they fly as well, so they can be kinda pseudo plane girls as well.

Voiced WSO and way more SPW flexibility; that's what I want from AC8

>>714115620
The player is a humanized shadowhead representation of the AWAKS directing the planes. So basically Idolmaster with the AWAKS as the Producer. You as the AWAKS whore out your collection of planes to various global conflicts as the leader of a PMC.

>>714116435
Oh, I hadn't considered the role of the player yet. Although putting the player as AWACS makes little sense, because the player can't speak, and AWACS are traditionally made to speak for the pilots in AC games.
I think the player should be the "Brigadier". In the eventual fanworks and doujins, he would be represented like the Admiral/Teitoku from the ship games, except his uniform is blue instead of white.

The AWACS really needs to be female characters, because that's who's talking most of the time.

>>714115620
>Ace Combat gacha
Make a mecha musume gacha, and I will play it.

>>714116159
You could also do unique versions of the planes that are Drone-controlled, or COFFIN variants. I think keeping the "girls themed after the plane but it's actually the plane" would help out since you could mix the human aspects with the plane much better. In a gacha sense the designs would be allowed to pop better.
>AWACS crew members
Obviously the player should be the AWACS, it's supposed to be a waifu game after all.

>>714116709
Do pilots really need a girl who tells them they can press the weapon button now?

>>714116159
>there just aren't enough planes
Just make block releases and revisions separate planes.

>>714116734
AWACS is relaying orders and information so I still think it'd work as far as the position of player goes. Then the girls would be talking to (you). Otherwise you'd have to be way out of field and range of the battle.
>>714116724
I think they should somehow be bound to their aircraft or else they may as well just be any other pilot. Themed after them works though, but I'm much more into letting them basically become the plane in a form shift kinda way.

>>714116435
>>714116724
>>714116734
Bandog gets a bunch of new military convicts represented as plane waifu's he throws at conflicts that need areal support.
>>714116159
There are thousands of planes that could represent thousands of different waifu types, personalities and designs. Just get some decent slant artists and go. Easy.

>>714116734
Well I actually have no idea how most gachas even work but if it's supposed to be a gacha about pulling cute pilot girls making the player the AWACS makes sense, then the gameplay would be that you as the AWACS controlling/commanding the different pilot girls in engagements. I think that would be a pretty fun framing for an Ace Combat gacha.

>>714115573
>>714116854
>F-117 is the shut in nerd girl with the thick rimmed glasses who is secretly into anal

>>714116838
>AI WSO keeps telling you what to do, asking if she needs to take over or offer assistance
>Eventually can't predict you since you're a singularity
>Devolves into having to trust you more than herself
Tell me it wouldn't be cool

>>714116763
I'm a big fan of mechamusume, trust me. But getting the manufacturers to agree to official versions of anthro planes would be impossibru.

>>714116778
>Obviously the player should be the AWACS
I'm not entirely convinced of this. I think that a major appeal of the game would be picking out your AWACS operator, so you can listen to their voice while playing. The player needs to be an actual high-ranking officer, which would be present inside the AWACS plane.

>>714116854
That goes without saying. As many F-16s as AC8 has F-15s, and then multiply that by 10x.

>>714117118
>AWACS is relaying orders and information so I still think it'd work as far as the position of player goes. Then the girls would be talking to (you). Otherwise you'd have to be way out of field and range of the battle.
Hence why the player is inside the AWACS plane, but he's not the radio operator. He's the mission commander.

>>714117184
I like the idea of some of the girls being criminals and being forced to fly against their will, but eventually warming up to it because they can be useful to (You).

>>714117280
The player being AWACS just has too many inconsistencies with how they are portrayed in the series. You can't give the role of the character that talks the most to the player, who's supposed to be silent.

>>714117118
>>714117184
Each of the Waifus are actually plane AI's that the player (a human male) in his AWAKS has to babysit because there still needs to be human hands on their decision making.

>>714113531
Out of date, F-16 has more kills.

>>714117503
Wait, I think you're onto something here.
We still keep AWACS as being cute girls, but the player character is the pilot of the Drone Mother-ship. Entirely defenseless, so they both have to do the mission and protect you. Gameplay would involve tactical movement over the skies, and it'd be 3D to account for altitude differences.

And then, and THEN! All the girls refer to (You) endearingly as Mama, Mother, Haha, or similar terms. Because you're the MOTHERSHIP.
I feel like we're close to a breakthrough here, folks.

>>714117497
>I'm a big fan of mechamusume, trust me. But getting the manufacturers to agree to official versions of anthro planes would be impossibru
I mean... Making somewhat modest but cool looking mechmusume could have the effect of pulling in more people than making them completely skimpy. It's all about appealing design + cute face for most people. 2hu characters for example mostly dress in odd doll clothes and genuine 1800s shit but fanart does the rest.
>>714117503
At the very least, I think allowing for both drones and humans linked with planes would allow for more diversity. Then you could have specced up COFFIN variants

>>714117497
>The player being AWACS just has too many inconsistencies with how they are portrayed in the series. You can't give the role of the character that talks the most to the player, who's supposed to be silent.
But you directing the pilots in the gameplay you "talking" to them, and then the pilots answer back to you. And if you are the AWACS you could have some sort of system that if you fuck up or something, and one of your pilots gets shot down, you then have to visit them in the infirmary and console them and stuff

>>714117497
>You can't give the role of the character that talks the most to the player, who's supposed to be silent.
You absolutely can, the characters talk to you, the players actions are them talking back. Gatcha does this all the time. Wizardry Daphne has a silent player character who is constantly talked to without issue. Regardless, >>714117503, this could be reversed, the player assumes the role of an AI that manages waifu pilots, that way you are also with your amalgamated plane girls as they fly.

What are the chances ac8 started active development this year and we have to wait more than 3 years for a teaser

>>714118037
They've mentioned working on this as far back as 2022 at least

>>714114802

Play Doll's Nest. On sale now.

>>714117854
They refer to us as FATHERSHIP and some of the more rambunctious ones like F-14 call us DADDY

>>714118037
It's already being worked on.

>>714118234
Now this is Cope.

>>714118234
Bandog was the best part of 7, I want him back.

>>714118005
>and one of your pilots gets shot down, you then have to visit them in the infirmary and console them and stuff
I like this. I've always wanted tactical games to be more involved on when a unit "dies", either by giving them permanent scars or injuries. In this case, it wouldn't be permanent, but you'd lose intimacy and stack debuffs the more you let the same girl be shot down repeatedly.

>>714118037
The teased they showed us was basically the announcement of an announcement. I'm sure we'll get an actual trailer for AC8 this year still.

>>714118163
It's on my list.

>>714118174
I suppose that would be an option when you make your character. But even if you choose male, some of the girls still call you mother(ship) because they are just annoying like that.

fucking weebs

>>714118392
The younger AI waifu planes representing the latest 6th gen call you MAMMA because they have have personality of children.

>>714118392
>I like this. I've always wanted tactical games to be more involved on when a unit "dies", either by giving them permanent scars or injuries. In this case, it wouldn't be permanent, but you'd lose intimacy and stack debuffs the more you let the same girl be shot down repeatedly.
Yeah, and you can write some cute/tender moments with your girls around it as well. Also if you wanted to really fucked up gacha profit maxxing, there should be chance that if one of your pilot girls gets shot down, simply consoling them in the infirmary won't be enough, you'll actually have to buy them a gift or something (with real money off course) for them to accept your apology.

>>714118623
I like the idea. Let's make some of them lolis, too. We gotta have a wide appeal.

>>714118683
The units can be used again after some time, but too much "dying" means they stack debuffs that are permanent until healed using a gacha-only item. This item is not the desired outcome when rolling, but it's a resource only obtainable by rolling.
if you play normally, you'd never run out. We don't want players to quit because their entire roster is ill. But for players that are reckless and lose units often, it's an incentive to either git gud or pay up.

So when do you guys send this proposal to bamco

>>714105236
>Europa
>Islamic Europan Union
Lmao what?
That can't be right, I would have noticed before on other maps

>>714115620
>Ace Combat: Aceverse
>Mirage III, Draken, F-8, F-104; MiG-21 is a tutorial unlock
>male and female pilots

>>714119206
Not sure how real that map is, it's made by some redditor I'm pretty sure.

>>714119039
Wait, we can go even further.
So if assume the player is the mother/fathership, and it's a tactical game where you have to both accomplish the mission while also protecting yourself(using the girls to guard you), then things could be different depending on how they get injured/destroyed/shot down.

For example, if a girl is shot down while far away from the player's mother/fathership, while trying to do a mission objective. That would be one thing.
But if they are shot down near you, while protecting you. That'd be something else entirely. The more yandere-minded girls would actually GAIN affection/intimacy points for self sacrificing to save you. Meanwhile, girls that you haven't raised affection/intimacy points with would outright refuse to perform reckless commands, like throwing themselves in front of a cruise missile going towards the player.

I almost want to make this game myself now. Just imagine it.
>assign the yandere tornado pilot to escort you
>missile comes in
>order her to fly in front of it
>her plane goes down in smoke
<>

>>714118501
Gonna cry about it? Again?
>>714115620
All an Ace Combat plane-waifu gatcha would need to be a smash billion dollar success is the addition of Chengdu-chan J-36 with high stats, as a stern, all business no fun, airforce uniformed tall Chinese girl who constantly pushes up her aviator sunglasses at each of the players orders and NEVER smiles. Charge the whales for a swimsuit skin. I know the chink market, this shit is money-parted sucker guaranteed.

>>714110416
>AI makes war unnecessary
>World is at peace
>No place for soldiers like us, eh Big Boss?
>??????
>We cause a nuclear inferno for no reason other than to have some good old fun

>>714119730
>Ace Combat 8: the anti-project wingman except the antagonists are explictly fightfags instead of just the player being a mute one
You rike?

>people are actually brainstorming for a shitty gacha
Reminder that gacha is the most braindead form of "game" featuring non-gameplay that plays itself, shitty time gated content that locks permenantly, "free" play that lets you unlock things(if you spend actual work hour lengths with the game open grinding the auto gameplay)

If gacha is your suggestion just go in the corner and think about where you made mistakes in life.

>>714119206
RETARD
RETARD
RETARD

>>714120061
It'll never happen anyway
That said, what kind of waifus will they put in AC8? No way they're not bringing back portraits for everyone like in AC7
I'm still holding out for some AI assistant but another Huxian would be rad

Raptor-Chan, Lightining-Chan and little Boramae-Chan all hang out together as a kliq to bully everyone else. PAKFA and J-20 form their own rival kliq and they all constantly shit talk each other.

>>714120061
>Fag retard on /v/ takes things too seriously, yet again.

>>714119206
https://youtu.be/flWuvkNWuS4?t=126

>>714119920
it's okay :)

>>714120242
The waifutards got a bone thrown at them with Kei Nagase showing up at the end of 7, but personally I want Cossette to come back to do more war crimes. Also Avril sucked, she can stay in her shitty hanger.

AC now with alien invasion
>asteroid Ulysses crash into Strangereal
>100 years later, alien bacterial lifeforms inside the asteroid begin to thrive at SR's surface, rapid Pokemon-like evolution happens, they evolve into Lavos-like creatures with Lovecraftian traits (named Seeds)
>the Seeds begin to feed upon all lifeforms (vegetal or animal) all SR begins to turn into a barren wasteland
>SRLRF (Strangereal Life-Force Resistance Front) has been founded many years before the Ulysses incident, and they created a Noah's Ark, deep into the planet crust (called Agharta), for the moment "something would come from the sky", and now, Agharta is being used also as a base, protected from the Seed threat from the surface
>Agharta's intelligence know the aliens' abrupt evolution is being stunted by the SR's atmosphere, and know they are being dumber as the time passes, and that's the perfect time for a counterattack
>(You) are one among the rare pilots who will take in a near-kamikaze chain of missions, ready for a revenge, bathing in extraterrestrial fluids and blood plasma
Complete with branching mission trees, where you can change to the alien side to rape humankind further if you want it

>>714080812 (OP)
How do I play the JAP version of AC3?

>>714120508
>>714120096
I don't get it

>>714120729
The point is that I can't believe how fucking dumb you are for thinking that map could be real. For one, you could just google it.

>>714120726
Find a patched iso and emulate it
/aceg/ probably has a guide for it but you could just as easily google it and get good results as well

>>714120729
We know, anon
We know

>>714120865
>>714121016
What the fuck

>>714080812 (OP)
what kind of shitty way to promote is this? just fucking drop the trailer not a single human being cares about your concert when you have 10 games in a span of 30 years

>>714120602
Huxian is by far the best girl in the game
>Not a preachy retard
>Pretty much only behind Count in prominence
>Actually flies, not a pushover (can actually kill enemies in the dlc)
>Attacked the shitty Osean guy during a fucking briefing no questions asked who paid GR's mimic squad to kill you specifically
>feels like a tomboy that isn't forced to be a brown fit girl (i.e. avril) but also has that ordinary looking charm to her

>>714121498
Also cool call sign which associates her with kitsunes n shit

>>714120061
I just want a cool game with pretty girls doing airplane stuff.

>>714089172
They dropped this.

>>714106621
>&

I wonder if PW made a big enough splash on the AC team for them to copy anything that PW originally copied from them

>>714121853
We just gotta wait and see if red becomes the dominant color palette on screen. If yes, straight up copied from PW.

>>714121853
I definitely bet at least someone on the team played it
Multiple Spw and crazier encounters (in the late game at least) would be the best to copy.

>>714121853
I'm betting at some of PA did probably play it

>>714121853
I hope the one thing they take away is they have to create a character even more schizo then Crimson 1

>>714105236
Fucking Wellow, what are they up to?

>>714094329
KMAO
(KEK-MAO)

>>714094329
The bedsheets...

I don't remember or even care about any of the secondary characters.

>>714094130
Why would something nice ever happen

>>714080812 (OP)
I'm just happy to see proof AC8 and the new Aces studio aren't dead, Bamco has been a dumpster fire lately.

>>714110761
>8 is a mobius strip
OH
FUCK

>>714110761
So what, are we nuking North Point at the end?

>>714126162
>8 is a mobius strip
>Ace Combat 8: Skies Infinite
It's an obvious play, but I would prefer Skies Eternal

>>714127062
Eternal Skies or Infinite Skies does sound good.

>>714127406
Skies Unknown -> Skies Within

>>714127883
Would be cool for an Osea insurgency game during a civil war.

Final mission of 8 is going to be about you climbing into an experimental time traveling plane and going to space to stop Ulysses from crashing into Strangereal, preventing all future wars

Eastern bloc or Western planes?

>>714108337
Where was Mihaly during the AC4 war anyway?

>>714080812 (OP)
Crazy how a psx game about arcade dogfighting turned into a series whose entire playerbase is made up lgbtq+ types who unironically hate real life pilots and aviation.... but here we are

my friend really liked Ace Combat Infinity
are we missing out on something like that now that it's gone?

>>714114084
>Dogfight
>Just a bunch of assholes lining up and firing long-range missiles from home airspace
>Barely anyone even gets hit
Fuck the subcontinent.

>>714080812 (OP)
ZERO REMAKE ANNOUNCMENT SOON

TWO WEEKS!

>>714080812 (OP)
>opening with unsung war soundtrack

Total
Unsung War
Superiority

>>714131170
Their jealous seethe over real pilots is hilarious. The FAA is basically the final word on trannies being nothing more than mentally ill since they don't let them be pilots under any circumstance kek

>>714134037
>>714131170
Are you replying to your own retarded as shit post?

>>714131170
>>714134037
Incredibly weird fanfiction.

>>714086321
They are. Shame modern Russia is fucking dogshit and can't build nor update them properly.

>>714102797
BASED

>>714092670
0 > 5 > 6 > 4

>>714089861
>dance with the angels bla bla
>only one plane has an angel's halo above it

It sure isn't the one on the bottom left

>>714080812 (OP)
Assault Horizon was such dogshit.
7 was so meh but aight, but I wish the whole thing was VR mode.

That level in 7 where you max damage the oil refinery I played this song in my headphones:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxjyG9fwdc4

>>714105853
F-22s are black voodoo magic, whose blueprints were drawn on human skin using the blood of Iraqi orphans as ink. But they were made for a war that never happened and so will probably be retired without ever seeing combat despite being the most overengineered, overpowered planes ever designed.

>>714135295
Assault Horizon was kino and has the best story in the franchise.

>>714088339
They should to a flashback thing where you fly cold war era planes then future planes.
The J-6 Farmer is the most glorious jet ever made with it's beautiful tail fin and large tail elevators.

>>714135359
It had terrible gameplay. It got rid of flight controls in favor of Star Fox controls, and then had those QTE bullshit sections (which are based on how jet assault routes are planned, but sped up and gayified)

An Ace Combat thread hitting the bump limit on /v/?

I didn't know people here still had good taste.

>>714093324
After playing the game multiple times I got a feeling that the penal unit might've been the original setting, and we might've spent the whole game attempting to earn redemption. LRSSG and IUN-PKF feel like last minute additions. Fuck you could replace LRSSG with 444 and it wouldn't have made any difference, story-wise.

>>714096512
If Osean dogs don't want to face Belka's retribution maybe they shouldn't steal rightful Belkan clay to begin with.

>>714093324
That was exactly how I assumed the story would progress and it does sound exciting.
When they got killed off one by one in that one mission I was pretty disappointed.

what's it gonna take to get chink planes in this?
why are they such touchy motherfuckers

>>714080812 (OP)
So, would a older propeller aircraft Ace Combat work? Like a fantasy WWII AC game? Could be fun, love to somehow win a dogfight using a B-17.

>>714082370
>fucking bishop made it in
lmao

>>714129045
I have a thing for the Mig29 but for the f-22 too.

>ac 8
>final boss is mobius 1

>>714138774
Already exists, and it's by Project Aces too.

>>714085258
>>714085683
>>714085747
Typical Germoid H&K-style "you suck and we hate you" behaviour

>>714140537
Sky Crawlers is very good. Do you know that Teacher identity in the movie it's the player in the game for the Nintendo Wii and that's why the pilot is an unstoppable ace

>>714135296
Did you miss the part where the recent B2 bombings had Raptor escorts?

>>714138483
In order to get chink planes, a jap has to sit in cockpit and record how it looks and how it's body works to animate on the outside

>>714138483
The CCP
Enough said
That's why there are no China expy in Strangereal despite the decent potential it could have for a game
Like imagine an ace combat plot with China-like nation in it

>>714135296
The F-22 was so scary that America's enemies and rivals didn't dare launch an air war against it. It did its job.

>>714082370
Unironically kino

What do you do in these games? Fly and shoot shoot stuff?

>>714142218
It doesn't help that the Raptor gets down played all the time and its actual operational limits are still unknown thirty years later. For example, the gold canopy, a layer of indium-tin oxide, which also helps with temperature and solar radiation regulation and reduces radar visibility, ok that makes sense. But then why would the F-35 not have the same thing? Surely that isn't some gonzo expense by itself. Instead it has some sort pink yellow thing going on, not actual reflective fucking gold. It's curious that this has never changed too, like you got astronaut helmet visors with the same anti-heat, anti-radiation gold tech in them for a VERY specific purpose, yet the Raptor has never been stated it could get high enough into the atmosphere to actually need heavy duty solar wave protection for its pilots, curious.

>>714141453
>Like imagine an ace combat plot with China-like nation in it
Chinese civil war Three Kingdoms tier but in the modern era and you play as a merc that gets the favor of one out of the three conflicting factions by doing their missions

>>714142816
Ace Combat games are a story about fictional wars in a fictional universe. The MC is a different fighter pilot every game, and his exploits change the course of the war. It's all about being cool, shooting down everything in front of you while you slowly become airplane Jesus for all your allies.

>>714142816
it's basically supposed to be a shoot em up but 3D

what do you guys think of the Nosferatu?

>>714134606
>>714134403
pretty sure it's just the guy who kept shitting up AC threads for the last 5 or so years, he has these weird hangups despite at least a few pics like these existing

>>714144083
>>714144083

It's neat.

>>714144083
Probably my favorite of the fictional planes in Ace Combat.
Still, I don't understand how the hell backwater Estovakia was supposed to have gotten the drop on Osea, Belka, and the Yukes and got into sixth generation aircraft first.
Unless I'm misunderstanding the timeline and if stuff like the Falken already counted as sixth gen

>>714142816
You pick a dlc mission with 35919539026 ships and ground targets and you regret not picking a bomber.

I've played every game from PS1 up until Zero, and I wanna continue from the Xbox title going forward.
The problem is that I'm probably legit autistic and can only play during certain dates of the year, thanks to AC5 and Zero drilling in the dates June 6, December 25 and 31. Are there any date autism for the other games? including PW

>>714143003
>>714146054
>file names
Thank you for the chuckle Anons.

>>714145386
You do a 40 minute long ground-target section and then feel like killing yourself when it ends with epic hardcore aerial battle section.

Nothing was announced then?

>>714147516
Nah I'll just use my gun ( and win )

>>714147959
AC7 port on the ouya

>>714096412
What's the difference between a German AI vs a regular AI?

They have a flamethrower!

>>714093402
it literally was though

>>714142816
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQCDj3emnHk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAFQocWA-CA

Its a first/3rd person arcade flying game about a fictional not earth. An asteroid was detected I think 20 years before it was supposed to break up and rain upon the planet. Every nation and their mother built superweapons to shoot down fragments (or made agreements with neighboring countries). After that some nations got the great idea to use them as weapons of war. You start as a no name pilot but work your way up into being the top ace in every game.