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>Whatcha flyan?

Nothing

Finished the story yet?

No

Thoughts?

I haven't even gotten the game yet

t. pc user

(Posted in previous thread but I might as well put it here too)

Haven't finished it yet, but for anyone wondering how good the game is here's my rundown:

PROS:

>Soundtrack is quickly becoming my new favorite for the entire franchise. Sound design in general is fucking GODLIKE. Can't wait for the full soundtrack to drop.

>Imo the Plot is holy trinity tier. Of course it still has its cheesy moments, but it's a good in-between of AC5 and AC0/AC4, so it also pulls off some great serious moments.

>Aircraft definitely feel a lot less same-y than the PS2 entries. When I went from the F-14D to the MiG-29 I could actually feel the difference. For example it feels like I have a lot more freedom to maneuver at high-AoA on the MiG-29, which makes sense for that aircraft.

>Parts also make a difference. I honestly didn't expect to use them much, but I found that they really add to the experience and let you tweak your aircraft to be exactly what you want.

>graphically the game looks GORGEOUS. Playing it on a base PS4 right now and damn, even at ~970p (don't know the exact resolution) it looks fantastic. There have been a few times where I've seen it drop into the 50fps range, but for the most part it stays close to or at 60fps. Cutscenes are always at 60fps. Aircraft models are of course crazy detailed as well.

>For a console game, it has a lot of options for your control scheme. I was able to tweak it to be exactly like the PS2 games.

CONS:

<The first mission is nowhere near as memorable as the PS2 entries, especially Zero. It's not bad by any means, but it was mostly there to tell you the controls. Even on hard the enemies barely put up a fight.

<Really not a fan of how restricted head movement is in cockpit mode compared to the holy trinity. You can hardly look up so at times it's difficult to keep track of exactly where enemies are, especially against drones. That being said it is something one can get used to.

<Bamco can get fucked. My AC5 and digital bonus codes still aren't here. Opened up a support ticket and now my email's getting spammed with "We'll respond in 48 hours" messages over and over again.

>>16014848

>forgot to greentext

pls no bully

>>16014849

Fug excuse the reddit spacing, shouldn't have recklessly copy-pasted it I guess

>>16014855

I don't normally preorder either, but this was a gift from my wife so it just makes me doubly mad that she might have wasted her money.

>It's actually good

Fucking great, I'll be waiting for the PC version. Was it ever confirmed if it'll have Denuvo?

>>16014843

>whatcha flyan

F-14

>finished it yet

no

>thoughts

bretty gud

Any suggestions on which planes to buy. F-14 has been my planefu since I was 4 or 5 so it was my obvious choice as my first buy. A-10 is my second favorite plane but I don't know how good it would be considering every mission always seems to end up involving air-to-air combat. I've got my eye on the Hornet but kinda want some MiGs too.

I'm stuck on Mission 6 "Long Day", I've been trying it with the A-10. Any tips or do I just need to GIT GUD?

Nothing, I just fucked around with the VR mode for a bit. Spent the first mission trying to get reacquainted with the controls, and then it was over. Cockpit looks nice, but low resolution. Everything is readable, so that's a first, but it still looks like crayon drawings over cardboard boxes. Some of the HUD elements and whatnot don't really align right with my eyes giving me a sensation of double-vision. For instance, when the sun is behind part of the canopy in the right eye, but part of it is visible in the left eye and that eye is flooded with bloom. But that's probably just a matter of needing to re-calibrate it. Mission areas aren't very fun to just free-fly through. Ocean/Mountains/Plains. Would have been nice if I could zig-zag through buildings or had some more vertical obstacles (like that space elevator from the promos), or canyons/buttes to fly around.

Also, and maybe this is another issue with my config, but I couldn't really get much in the way of audio when hitting the throttle. I expected to hear the airframe creak as the engines roared a bit… but nothing.

Also, I only unlocked two planes so far. Not sure how many are in the VR mode altogether, but I was hoping I could at least dick around with a wider variety of jets.

If you're at all interested in the PS4 version for the VR component - it's probably the best cockpit VR experience, but it's just an "experience". A tech demo, like GTSports neutered VR mode. I knew it wouldn't be the full game going in, but I was hoping for something more than just a "look at this cool thing we made that you can't play more of". The only reason to not get it on the PC is Denuvo, and overall you're really probably just better off waiting for a crack/repack.

The VR mode is nice, but not worth giving Sony money for I think.

>>16015174

I turned down the music and radio chatter volume and it helped me hear the plane a little better. Really wish I could turn the aircraft sounds up like another 20 or 30 percent.

>>16015188

>>16015230

>taking the bait

plebs

>>16014941

It's Bamco, of course it will have Denuvo.

Actual spoilers.

The ending is pro refugee. Although someone on cuckchan said it was just displaced Erusean refugees, but nothing in the ending or previous cutscenes say it's just Eruseans. Also, it's another "Belka fucks up everything" plot. It also seems to be pro-globalism and anti-borders, especially with "but what is a nation?", mentioning borders you can't see, and at the last mission where they introduce you as an Independent Squadron with the claw marks going through both the Osean and Erusean flags. It's the opposite of Zero where you BTFO A World Without Borders, a Globalist terrorism group, and where Pixy starts to see the importance of borders in Zero's ending. The game is still fun as fuck at least.

Analysis of every version

>>16015021

i used/ bought an F-2A from the "tree" buy the unguided rockets for the thing too . if you can buy the bomb.pow+ too

blow up everything on the ground untill you to 170000 point. only attck the air craft if they are fucking with you. dog fighting them is a waste of time. the F-2A can out fly any missile shot at it. unlike the A-10

>>16015651

>Analysis of every version

but the PC verson

>>16015706

It does show off PC version options though. 144Hz support and downscaling. Not bad. I just wish the game had other anti-ailasing options and 21:9 support.

>>16015671

thanks lad I'll give it a shot

One thing I didn't understand: What happened to Belka after ACZ? Did everyone literally leave the country like the dude said? There were people there in Ac5

Yo buddy, still alive?

>>16015641

So basically Belka did nothing wrong.

But yeah, you can tell they really didn't give a shit about the story this time around. The game's still fun, but the story leaves a lot to be desired. Especially when compared to 5 and Zero

>>16014869

>Having a wife

I bet you also have kids, you fucking degenerate.

>>16014848

Reminder that the PC version has Denuvo it states so right in their EULA.

>24. THIRD PARTY SOFTWARE.

a) Denuvo. This Game is protected by Denuvo Anti-Tamper technology (“Anti-Tamper Technology”).

>>16015870

But even during AC5 the Belkans were all around causing the war to continue. I don't think he is saying North Osea Belka is completely empty, but many left to sow chaos elsewhere, and the country known as Belka at that point is no more.

I've only played Assault Horizon, which AC to get for the PS2?

I think I like multiplayer more than the story. Plus it seems really easy to farm credits in multiplayer.

>>16016277

4, 5, 0 - the holy trinity

I wonder if they'll try to fill the 21 year gap between AC7 AND AC3 with more war. Will eventually have to show Osean be weaker then the corporations that take over.

>>16016621

What if osea was msg patriots?

>>16015994

The EULA is copy-pasted between all their games, for instance it also talks about microtransactions, even in games that don't and won't have them (like AC7)

>>16016277

I'll post this again from the last thread:

4, 5, and Zero. They're called the holy trinity for a reason. You can play them in any order though, there is no overarching plotline, though 5 and Zero's stories are connected and they all take place in a shared universe. I personally recommend playing Zero, then 5, then 4. If you're wondering which ones are most relevant to 7, it's 5 and 4.

-Zero is the shortest and in my opinion the tightest of the three. It's the quickest to complete, so it'll also be the quickest way to know whether you'll like the series. I also recommend it before 5 as a key moment of the game is semi-spoiled by AC5's opening cutscene. Zero has just about everything great about Ace Combat bundled up inside it, and in my opinion the best story overall of the holy trinity

-5 is the longest of the 3, and also BY FAR has the largest aircraft selection. It's absolutely massive, but does suffer from a bit of bloat in the middle of the story. The story isn't for everyone either, as it's definitely heavy on the drama and the dialogue can be cheesy, but it also has quite a few fantastic moments and the ending is my absolute favorite of the series (Though Zero is still a very close second)

-4 is the one I'm gonna get a lotta shit for. People fucking WORSHIP this game, and it is absolutely a great game deserving of being in the holy trinity, however I don't think it's quite as polished as the other two. Nearly every mission is "shoot down X number of aircraft within X time to win", which gets boring after a while. All-in-all it very much suffers from just being old, so it has a bunch of weird quirks from the PS1 era of the series that the later games since then don't have. As I said though, it's still a great game with fantastic moments, and its story is a treat. Definitely worth playing, just play it after the other two.

>>16016537

pretty much

Is it better than 3? Because those are some fucking big shoes to fill.

>>16016869

Hispanic names are like that "One extreme example is Pablo Picasso. His full name is "Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso."

Just killed my first enemy Ace with the A-10 of all things. I think its an omen BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRT

>>16016869

>>16016875

>>16016923

im doing my second run on hard now an just like the previous AC games there are special skin jets you have to take down to unlock the skin. this is where the plane shows up in mission 7 when the timer hits 6 minutes.

ill be posting the rest when i find them

>>16016923

There's also other culture where they include their lineage in their name.

When is the PC release date?

>>16017275

source of that is the bloopers of full metal alchemist brotherhood

>>16017287

Feb 1

>>16017389

hey fella can you spoiler those please

>>16016359

>AC4 texture mostly fixed

>but still has black outlines

Finally a good version of Vector Thrust

>>16017389

Does anyone know how to get the mission 4 ace to spawn?

>>16017289

Thanks

>still playing AC3

Aces,how long will it take? Should I do more than 1 ending?

By the way,the game is amazing. I liked 1 and 2,but they were more arcade fun than anything. 3 has really sucked me in. I hope the PS2 triology is even better because this is becoming my favourite series.

>>16017866

whenever I shoot at the drone right behind mother goose one the cutscene is triggered on my first run I was almost convinced I had actually shot him down

also, someone mentions in early in the game that harling launched a space ship with the elevator, but that's pretty much it.

>>16017915

Ah yeah I do remember that mention now, but it just seems like they should have made things a little more clear about a mission returning home and needing to make sure they are safe, rather than pulling it out at the last possible moment for cameo points.

>>16017939

Play 4, zero and 5 in this order, and you are good to go.

If you are still curios play the japanese version of 3(has a fan-translation), 6(360 exclusive) and maybe the PSP versions.

>>16017939

I always tell people to play 4, 5, 0 (release order) and then you can go wherever else you want from there (except don't touch Assault Horizon, however if you have a 3DS you can play Assault Horizon Legacy which is actually just a good remake of AC2).

The reason >>16017946 says to play 0 before 5 is because that's how they are chronologically, but I personally adhere to release order because minor changes in mechanics and control schemes can weird you out if you are breaking the order they were released in. Very, very minor though, so it's not a terrible idea to use his order, just a consideration.

>>16017952

I mostly recommend playing 0, before 5, because of the bombing of Belka is much more impactfull when you don't know it's going to happen, as opposed to playing 5 first, where it tells you it did happen, and how horrible it was.

>>16017961

Fair enough, but I still will always be a stickler for release order.

So what exactly will the Season Pass be adding, do we even know? Just plane skins? Planes for multiplayer? Maps for multiplayer? VR missions? I doubt any story content would be added.

>>16017939

Read the thread, I'll post this again:

4, 5, and Zero. They're called the holy trinity for a reason. You can play them in any order though, there is no overarching plotline, though 5 and Zero's stories are connected and they all take place in a shared universe. I personally recommend playing Zero, then 5, then 4. If you're wondering which ones are most relevant to 7, it's 5 and 4.

-Zero is the shortest and in my opinion the tightest of the three. It's the quickest to complete, so it'll also be the quickest way to know whether you'll like the series. I also recommend it before 5 as a key moment of the game is semi-spoiled by AC5's opening cutscene. Zero has just about everything great about Ace Combat bundled up inside it, and in my opinion the best story overall of the holy trinity

-5 is the longest of the 3, and also BY FAR has the largest aircraft selection. It's absolutely massive, but does suffer from a bit of bloat in the middle of the story. The story isn't for everyone either, as it's definitely heavy on the drama and the dialogue can be cheesy, but it also has quite a few fantastic moments and the ending is my absolute favorite of the series (Though Zero is still a very close second)

-4 is the one I'm gonna get a lotta shit for. People fucking WORSHIP this game, and it is absolutely a great game deserving of being in the holy trinity, however I don't think it's quite as polished as the other two. Nearly every mission is "shoot down X number of aircraft within X time to win", which gets boring after a while. All-in-all it very much suffers from just being old, so it has a bunch of weird quirks from the PS1 era of the series that the later games since then don't have. As I said though, it's still a great game with fantastic moments, and its story is a treat. Definitely worth playing, just play it after the other two.

>>16017987

IIRC 3 aircraft, some skins, 3 maps, VR missions

>>16018834

So not holy trinity tier but pretty good tier? Like 3 and 6?

>>16018847

I'd say gameplay wise it's the best, but story not so much.

>>16015137

I got no money to pay for the goodies of DCS you shill

I've always hated the multiplayer in these games

So the game has been out for two days and half the people have the maxed out fighters. the first match i was in some guy was doing pretty much zero point turning on in some prototype jet that had a rail gun. you would get behind him he would turn around and fire a rail gun at you , instant kill

there should be a mode were one team defends a base and another team attacks it. it wold force people to play different roles.

>>16019328

if a rail gun counts as a gun then that would be easy

>>16019328

I could see myself beating it with only the gun thanks to the parts you can equip like auto-targeting and auto-fire.

>>16019520

play point limited matches

AWACS Long Caster for best AWACS

>>16019581

Nah, that's still SkyEye. Today's his birthday, you know?

>>16019342

While Belkan clay wasn't in this game, there was the theme of countries policing the world and taking over others. The Belkans anger and need for revenge against Osea was just like all the tiny countries rebelling against Erusea after communication around the globe got fucked. It is as you say, Belkans only used Erusea as a pawn against Osea. The scientist Belkan says as much and then laments how they will have to pay the price for fucking Erusea too.

>>16020289

I'd give it less than a week before someone mods it in. If Dark Souls can get VR, then AC7 surely will.

found enemy F-117A in Stonehenge Defense, i wonder if its unlockable

Was anyone else really upset at how they handled Spare 6's death? It seemed to me that Bandog was concerned he knew too much and might've been about to blow the lid on some major shit, so he saw an easy way to get rid of him and fucked with his IFF. Especially since he went out of his way to confirm Spare 6's position in the formation and make sure he was marked correctly. This could've been a great opportunity to take the story in a far more interesting direction, rather than completely gloss over it like nothing happened.

>>16020811

That mission was infuriating.

>>16021117

Stop being outraged by everything like some kind of SJW and just fucking enjoy yourself. Kikes suck, but being miserable and not being able to enjoy a single thing except The Greatest Never Told sucks even worse. Just be glad that you're woke enough to spot the propaganda and take heed in the fact that eventually this entire system will collapse in on itself and the kikes will lose.

>>16021431

>AC:AH

which assassin's creed was that?

>>16021252

Yeah I mentioned this earlier in the thread more or less, that some of the plot points felt like they should have been leading to something but then never did. As if they had to cut things from the story to spend time developing the VR missions, only for the VR missions to cause a two year delay in the game's release.

>>16021449

I want to assume you are making a joke but just in case you are serious, he is talking about Ace Combat: Assault Horizon, which is a horrible spin-off that no one should play.

>>16021117

I can agree that when AC games focus on drones things become a lot less compelling, so the last mission basically being kill the same two drones twice but the last one is an easy target inside a tunnel is pretty underwhelming.

I had hoped that having the same writer as 4 and 5 would result in the Holy Trinity becoming the Holy Quaternary, but instead I'm mentally comparing its place alongside 6 and X. Solid, traditional AC gameplay but with a story that doesn't grip me as hard as I would like. As cheesy as 6 is, one might have to argue that its plot is overall better constructed, even if it does throw in some stuff I don't care about like that random tank crew that wants to steal some shit.

>>16021117

>or should I be mad it was as mediocre as Electrosphere

Depends. Are you talking about the International or Japanese release?

If the latter, slap your self, nigger.

Did anyone else immediately start laughing when the Kestrel II didn't even make it through 3 missions of the game before being sunk?

>>16021817

Yes.

Although I thought the Admiral Andersen was an interesting callback. Both the ship and its namesake were abject failures that happened to be in the right place at the right time to put a stop to the war.

>>16021720

It's just AC5 running via hardware accelerated emulation at a higher internal resolution, same as you can get on PCSX2, though I'm amazed they didn't even turn on anti-aliasing for it when surely the PS4 has enough horsepower for that.

>>16021720

>>16021953

I should add, the base PS4 there is no AA, but your video kind of looks like it has AA or at least super-sampleing, so does that mean the PS4 Pro cranks it up a notch? You could still match it in emulation, but at least the console would be less of a hassle for most people.

>>16021252

I also thought that mission 18 was kind of a dick move, but then again, "it was for survival"

>>16021953

>same as you can get on PCSX2

Not exactly

In PCSX2 at best you'll still have missing clouds (or bugged to shit ones appartently in some rare cases) and an upscaling artfact in the HUD as well as low framerate FMVs if you do use the progressive mode code.

>>16022014

The radio chatter HUD isn't perfectly scaled on PS4 but then HUD does look pretty good. I'm not aware of graphical issues with 5 in hardware emulation, but certainly with 4.

>>16022043

The* HUD looks pretty good

>>16021728

>>16021720

The games always looked good since they followed the same design as racing games with a focus on making the vehicles look as good as possible.

I always thought the cutscenes for AC5 looked like dogshit

>>16022117

By PS2 standards it was OK, not cutting edge but not terrible either. If you played them after the PS2's era then yeah they would not hold up to expectations.

>>16022132

Nah I've seen better cutscenes on ps2 games, even other AC games.

The cutscenes for AC5 were always disgusting to look at, they were blurry and at a weird resolution were everyone looked like a dwarf.

It's nearly 8am, and I have just stayed up all night to finish the game in a single sitting. Not one bit of the story or character's actions/reactions/motivations make a bit of sense. I'm honestly too bewildered to be angry or even properly disappointed. It honestly reminded me of middle-school fanfiction to a degree that became nostalgic.

Gameplay was really good though, with a couple rough burrs that could have used polishing here and there. Plane/weapon/parts list feels sparse too, but maybe I'm spoiled on Infinity.

Any faggot know if the XFA-33 is in the game?

FUCKING HELL MISSION 6 IS FUCKING ANNOYING

>>16022414

It's tragic how many times this story almost gets interesting.

Remember how when the space elevator gets shot at in the beginning, and upon questioning the osean pilot says he was just "following orders"? That made it seem like there were elements in the Osean army that had thier own agendas,and it gave a very menacing overtone. That plot point goes nowhere. By the end of the game someone says "Oh ya we snuck drone pilots in Osean planes in to shoot at the space elevator and harling, because osea gud boi, didn do nuffin."

This story had so many chances and teases at becoming really good. But it didn't commit to any of those chances.

>>16015641

Erusea was gravely hurt by the Ulysses planetfall and wasn't taking their quota of refugees so the other nations imposed sanctions against them. Unable to see a peaceful solution and risking collapse the Eruseans struck first and captured Stonehenge, the rest is history.

>get out of our town fascists pigs!

<do you really hate us that much?

Yellow 13 and Erusea did nothing wrong, they were good people.

I don't think I need to explain why Belka did nothing wrong either, the writers had to have the government nuke themselves in order to make them look evil. If I lived in that world I would suspect some kind of coverup.

There was an actual dog in the game and it died recently after getting filmed for the game

https://twitter.com/mombot/status/1087361133457989632

F

>>16021955

Yea, that was on the Pro. One of things I noticed was how good the AA looked.

>>16023820

RIP

>>16022662

there should be a check point when you reach half of the points.

the thing that pissed me off the most was the full restart.

>>16022700

It seems like they were too mesmorized by the trilogy to make AC7 good on its own. Take the Farbanti mission. Almost the same exact mission from AC4 except you come from the land instead of the sea. Even has the enemy squadron come after you finish the main mission. Or mission 16 which is also like the one from AC4 where you liberate a city at night while you listen to broadcasts about the fighting.

What I really don't understand is why they didn't give you choices like in Zero or AC3. Couldn't choose to join different squadrons or different missions. Makes you wonder what they were really doing these past few years.

>>16024457

>Makes you wonder what they were really doing these past few years.

Trying to get PSVR to work well. Two year delay for a three mission gimmick. At least the optimization spilled over into the main game, as PS4 Pro outperforms XboneX despite the hardware differences.

>>16024457

>What I really don't understand is why they didn't give you choices like in Zero or AC3. Couldn't choose to join different squadrons or different missions. Makes you wonder what they were really doing these past few years.

On top of that, they used U4 engine to save time and money, makes you wonder what happened during development.

Where were you the day the lead writer for Ace Combat 7 called Mark “mentally deficient from playing to many games”?

https://archive.fo/MMim2

While the PSVR missions look phenomenal, I personally think they should've put the time, effort and resources into making another 5-10 missions for the main game instead of doing the VR. Then again, I'm sure Sony persuaded Bandai to cut/shift development time to go for the VR aspect to increase sales and the like on that platform, doubly so when you consider the one year exclusivity on the VR aspect. A LOT of the plot threads just seemed to go nowhere and I feel it suffered from a lack of cohesive development from it. That said, the gameplay aspect looks like it's on point, so I'm looking to see what kind of mods and crazy things the PC fanbase comes up with in the future.

>playing 5

>within the space of a month or so of being attacked Osea manages to launch massive invasion of Yuktobania despite an ocean being between them

It shouldn't bother me, but it does

>>16024461

try to lock on to more than 4 targets with cluster bombs watch the game turn into a slide show.

its almost like the reviewers didn't play the full game.

>>16024472

>Mark apologizes for his shitposting like the gigantic fag he is

Why must he always be such a subservant beta.

>>16024687

It's established that Osea and Yuktobania had a cold war very similar to the one between the US and USSR. It's probable that the Oseans already had an established plan for how to quickly invade Yuktobania, similarly to how the US still has several different strategies and plans to invade Russia if the need ever arose.

>>16023468

F

>>16024472

>>16024706

>>16024742

He replied again saying he understands Mark was making a joke. Still funny though.

>>16024968

>>16024881

Has Mark had any interaction with any dev that hasn't resulted in him being mocked?

>>16025077

Before this game came out I said, "no Eruseans, no buy" and behold there is no best side to play on. Pirating to spite Bandai Scamco.

How do these games compare to those old hawx games? Asking for a friend

>>16025132

The Ace Combat games are all vastly better than the Hawx games, with the exception of Assault Horizon.

>>16025307

>>16025132

Assault Horizon legacy however is good. The rule is to just avoid AH, the international version of 3, and Advance. The rest of the games are decent to incredible.

>>16025077

>mutts

/leftypol/ pls

>>16025532

Well I just didn't want to disrespect him. After all it could've been HIS dog.

>>16025132

HAWX > AC: AH > HAWX 2

Although I'll admit I haven't touched Hawx 2 or AH in a long long while but for some ungodly reason I have decided to replay them while waiting for AC7 on PC along with anyand all arcade filght sim I can think of no matter how good it is

>>16021473

Yep, it was a joke. I was hoping it would rustle some jimmies

I’m having trouble finding the preorder skins (Yellow 13, etc). Anyone knows where you actually get them? I bought it digital

Thread theme.

>>16026942

He was first.

>>16026942

He plays shit long enough to get the memes then fucks off.

>>16023468

will jpeg doge protect anon from curses?

>>16015641

What a shame, but it's no surprise. I really enjoyed the story of 0 where you destroy the globalist terrorists. But of course, everything has to be Kosher in modern video games.

>>16026942

>Remind me again how this guy came to own /v/?

He's Jewish.

>>16026932

Fuck I love it.

Whens it out on PC again? 31st of Jan?

>>16026972

>>16027000

Bamco game, it's gonna have Denuvo

>>16027011

Who said I was gonna buy it.

I don't support pre-orders or Denuvo.

>>16027120

This spastic just needs to stop posting on the internet.

>>16027120

I cant learn jap, what did he say.

>>16027190

A story about the daughter 's daughter died was also reported overseas. While the comment section is filled with memorial tears, there is a person who says "Belka did it." (Belka did it), and his game brain is concerned.

>>16024472

Not that I'm defending mark, but writers are pretty retarded themselves

>>16027200

It feels like they planned to have multiple plot routes at several points in the game with how certain events unfold.

>>16027328

Because anime-posting faggots like you give him power

>>16026925

The codes should either be emailed to you or they should appear in your library. Mostly depends on what platform you bought it digitally from.

>>16027303

Then they may have bitten off more than they can chew

>>16027516

Look through the trailers. Are there any scenes that don't happen in the game? If so then maybe this theory has some weight.

>>16027565

>>16027516

Or it could just be Bamco being the Japanese Jew again and that will be DLC

>>16027749

I fucking hope you can unlock an ADF after beating ACE difficulty. Oh Look you unlocked a plane that was available in AC4

>>16026932

Just listening to the OST now and quite alot of songs have that progression sung by the female voice in them.

Is that this games CUM?

>>16027303

Do you reckon they will add more missions to fill in the gaps?

>>16016621

Could be whatever the three DLC scenarios will be about, post-campaign missions as things slowly change.

>>16016869

>says every single name except for whatever "A." is meant to stand for

It's almost comedic in a way.

>>16017919

I don't think there was really any relation to your mission and Nagase returning to the space elevator from her own, it was just a matter of convenient timing. Even if totally-not-Skynet ended up winning I think she was going to be returning regardless, and you weren't really doing anything to save her, you know?

Also a question. Does anyone know how old Tabloid is supposed to be? Because I've got a pretty retarded theory about him, that he might have some relation to Pixy, maybe Tabloid is his son even. Visually they both look similar, have similar ideals, and Tabloid even mentions his parents are both Belkan, which Pixy is.

>>16027749

It was easy, like shooting fish in a barrel. When I entered the room I thought maybe we were going to get something like one of the boss fights in AC3 where you had a ceiling to avoid crashing into as well as the floor, but no just a lazy half loop and two missiles is all it took to end that fight.

>>16028050

There is a season pass but I highly doubt they would be altering storyline content in it.

>>16028050

>>16029447

The season pass on the Steam page did mention missions, so…yeah. Shit.

>>16029491

That was my point, there was no relation, but because there is no relation it feels stupid and completely out of left field. There is no emotional impact involved if I didn't know it was coming. Just confusion, a moment of "wait, did I miss something here?"

The Aces at War book reveals Mihaly was the mentor to Yellow 13.

>>16029512

Got any scans?

>>16029497

Ah, I see. I guess it was pretty out of nowhere then besides the random radio chatter that was coming up during the mission, which I honestly thought was the drones talking at first like a dumbass.

>>16029494

I couldn't get my missiles to connect for the life of me. I was shooting ten at a time at him too since I was using that 8 air to air missile system the F-22 has as my special weapon, and two shots from my base missiles, which were upgraded to home better. I lost count how many times I had to flying around in circle with that guy in that little room.I ended up getting a lucky shot on him with like 3 seconds to go and got to fly through the shaft of the sky penis and squirt out the top like a metallic dribble of jism.

>>16029514

No, not yet.

>laser weaponry useless if it hits a cloud

Guess that explains why I was eating shit at first with the PLSL. But now they've quickly become my favorite subweapon to use so long as enemies aren't hiding in the clouds.

>>16029512

possible, dr. schroedinger said the last war he fought was around 1990

>>16029627

Lasers have always been good, they were fun as fuck in Infinity.

They played way too safe, the story was on par with the last couple of releases which is to say, bland garbage with a reliance on dramatics without an emotional base to stand on, and unfortunately gameplay is the same, hold the stick back and hit the circle button twice when you hear tone. They should have taken a few more leaves from AC3's book. Right now the last few AC games are sort of blending together into a grey malaise in my mind.

>>16026942

>>16026954

Oh fuck off, I beat the Holy Trinity and 7, I'm also doing the patched version of 3 and will be doing 6 as soon as Bamco actually gives me the damn game. Additionally I didn't wanna come off as a dick to the guy since it may have been his dog, if anything I find it funny that he called me an idiot for playing too much Vidya.

>>16030685

Which one is the best mark?

also just learn japanese faggot, that way you can tell

>>16030194

I agree. When it comes to the story, I don't really feel the same connection to count as I do Chopper, Nagase, Pixy, Bartlett, etc. Although the other characters connect with me even less. I didn't even realize that Mihay killed the black guy until a second after. if anything I felt that Count was kind of a cunt. Also I wish scrap queen was an actual fighter instead of a random NPC, but whatever.

>>16030694

I'm conflicted between 5 and 0

>>16030694

I'm thinking of taking lessons

>>16030714

Both are really amazing, I find it hard to pick between the two.

>>16030704

0 and 4 are better than 5

>>16030714

Want me to fix your post?

>>16030718

I felt the first half of 5 was real weak and the story was kind of stupid, but the last 10 missions or so gave some really good 4 vibes.

>>16030732

yes

>>16030727

Well the final mission in 4 made me cum and rage like a madman. Any I think anyone who wants to get into the series should play it first. So perhaps you're right.

>>16030743

The final missions of the holy trinity are pretty great, including the tracks used for them. AC6's final mission was cool too. Does AC7's final mission live up to the rest? I won't be playing until crack because dumbnuvo.

>>16030738

I got you.

>>16030733

Perhaps, but I would consider it like an anime where it takes ten episodes until it gets good. It's part of the experience.

>>16030755

While I think it's amazing, I don't think it's quite as legendary as the trade-off with Pixy, the Satalite boss, or the battle against Yellow Squadron into the tunnel. Also the lack of branching paths is a disappoinment.

>>16017814

Didn't IGN have another review where they were called out by a player that showed they didn't even play on the normal difficulty because they would have gotten another level to play and get the true ending and were caught editing the review. I forgot the name of it but it isn't the first time IGN was caught doing something stupid. Mainstream critics in most mediums are likely too retarded to be taken seriously, which they shouldn't.

>>16030953

I think it was pixeljunk shooter.

>>16030762

Yeah that sounds about right, everything I hear about 7 sounds like 6 tier.

Has anyone ever shot down the yellow squadron in the 5th mission of Ace Combat 4?

>>16031575

They can not be shot down.

>>16031742

gay

>>16031575

They have an hitbox but infinite HP, or at the very least so much hitpoints that they can take about 10-20 QAAM like it's nothing

>>16031575

I remember trying to fight them for 10 minutes and managing to land a single missile hit. I was so proud of myself until I released I couldn't do it again.

>>16017939

this is a nice image haha

>>16021117

>>This old guy was the top scoring Ace in the last war… is he Yellow 13? Is he a character that we fondly remember from a previous game

TWO WARS AGO

Go dance with the Angels!

Zero is still the greatest. 7 is better than 6, but I cannot get over the obvious logical glares concerning the:

[spoiler]1. motives of the characters. belka holy clay scientist backs off after….(why??). The obvious Artificial Intelligence Boogeyman just ends up sapping any weight out of beating the final mission(s) because you've already beaten Mihaly. So it just feels like a hollow extension of that fight, which by the way, really was well done only because of the soundtrack. felt like VERY well trodden territory, moreso since the quality of the trailer set things up to be much more confrontational than they ended up being.

2. the missed opportunities the devs had with you, the "pilot", flying over scrap queen, or tyler island, being seen in the story in the framing cutscenes, or really holding any weight in the story other than being a mary sue superpowered faggot. which is par for the series, but it feels so much more bleak and hollow without any sort of actual reference from the narrative. everyone just sucks your dick over the radio. which I will say was well done. contextual and stays abreast, and keeps the combat in focus at the same time.

3. scrap queen does save it a bit, especially at the end. and some of the "twists" in the story were well done like with Harling and I laughed when Kestrel finally died. but you never get the feeling like you're coming back from obscurity or the "brink" during the story. nor do you ever feel anything but annoyance at the big "chaotic" conflict when the satellites go out. they somehow tried to manifest this into the gameplay by making you have to stare at the enemies longer before shooting them (i shot almost every enemy without identification and never failed a mission). story really felt all over the place and while it comes together at times it has a very ace combat 6 feel, where you just do not give a fuck about gracemeria or any of the forgettable shit happening.[/spoiler]

All in all, I'd give it a 7 objectively. I'd like to think of this like 4, where its a solid launch into a next gen "airspace", if you will, and will spawn better titles down the line. Anyone else agree/disagree? I love the series, I've been in blackout until I got ahold of a copy to play and I've been dying to talk about it.

These fucking submarine docks in mission 10 of AC4 suck.

>>16036971

>[spoiler]

fuck off to where you belong

>>16021117

>This entire game can be summed up as:

>>Go to a place and shoot soldiers so you can go to the next place and shoot soldiers, until the end of the game where you shoot a guy in a tunnel.

You have played other ace combat games right?

You do know that you shoot soldiers in all of them right?

You do know that you fly through a tunnel while shooting things in all of them right?

Admittedly it isn't as immediately great as the holy trinity, but I think it will grow on me.

I'm a little dissapointed there are no co-op missions I enjoyed taking down moby dick, Excalibur, Stonehenge and the SOLG with other pilots in Infinity, I just want them back

>>16037890

good post.

>>16037890

Alright, so it's not just me. I felt like every emotional tie in the game banked entirely on AC4 and a bit of 5. I didn't give a shit about any cast members introduced in this game. I had a greater emotional swell hearing the familiar voice of the ISAF briefing officer in the latter third of the game. The mission briefing. A character with no face or name.

Arkbird did have drones, though. Remember the Vogels? Along with a pulse laser on each wingtip and a sustained beam mounted in the middle. It was the Arkbird's Echo Fighter.

>>16038812

Oh yeah. And I want to call out that this was intentional. The back of the box specifically advertises the game as "being steeped in Ace Combat lore". The game was designed to be as self-referential as possible.

Towards the end of the game, when you're looking for a place to evacuate to, the briefing officer's manually-controlled mouse cursor darts around a little as he considers options, and lingers a bit longer than the others on an island labeled MEGALITH, just long enough to make you think you're about to take shelter in its bombed out ruins.

I did like the Stonehenge mission, but that should have been where the reliance on 4 ended.

>>16033648

It's sadly not on the Windows store, additionally the digital version is exclusive to the Xboner. I plan on selling it next week, but I'll be losing ten dollars from the affair. I spend more than that on lunch.

>>16033648

>>16039067

Is AC6 backwards compatible then? My 360 is dead but i can borrow an xbone from one of my nephews to play it, i have a physical copy of the game.

>>16039154

I've been doing some light research and I was incorrect about one part. The Arkbird had two lasers total. The orbital strike one mounted on its belly that was used to shoot down missiles and pierce submerged submarines, and an anti-asteroid pulse laser mounted on its top.

I'm actually being an autistic fuck and jotting down notes on a piece of paper on how the two compare, and it's increasingly obvious that the Arkbird was a repurposed civilian project and the Arsenal Bird is the militarized-from-day-1 version.

Side note, Arkbird launches 4 Vogels, not 2. Arsenal Bird, by comparison, launches 80 MQ-101 drones.

>>16039124

It is. If you have a physical copy, it should work.

>>16037890

>the game ends with a repeat of the arkbird fight but with drones this time

I have to disagree with this part. In AC5 that mission was all about chasing after the Arkbird as you shot it. The Arsenal Bird is a much slower target that wants to hang around and fight, and has the drones and shield as a way to shake things up.

The rest of your post is pretty spot on though.

>>16039174

Also the Arkbird has a propulsion system capable of reaching low earth orbit, where as the Arsenal Bird just has giant propellers and would never get that high.

>>16039124

Yes, but the digital version won't go on sale according to bamco. I hate this new Jewish scheme where they hide old games behind pre-order bonuses. It's so fucking evil, yet it works.

>>16039409

I'm aware of the technical differences in the fight, but I'm speaking in generalities. You chase a large, white, monolithic object, that deploys drones, has laser defenses (one being a large beam weapon on it's underside), was seen as a symbol of peace, upon which you destroy it's means of propulsion, and then deal a finishing blow, ending with you witnessing the craft impacting the water.

Beat for beat it's almost identical. I understand wanting to be self referential, but this was a bit heavy handed.

I feel like I'm getting a hang of how to play Ace Combat, but I still have no idea how I'm supposed to hit anything with machine guns.

>>16039485

I stick to large airborne (bomber) and ground objects (tanks and ships) with the guns. The range is further than just when the targeting reticule shows up. For other jet's I use it as more of a weapon of opportunity if they happen to be close and in a similar trajectory. You'll get a feel for it. On the right side of the altimiter is a distance meter, the colored part shows weapon range and the chevron shows your target distance. It descends on the vertical bar the closer you move to your target. Your gun pipper shows up at a roughly a quarter of missile range. Use that as a gauge, you'll get the hang of it.

>>16039520

>>16039485

Fuck my life, the pitch ladder, not the alt.

>>16039467

The Arsenal Birds were not seen as a symbol of peace though, where are you getting that from?

>>16039588

All of the newspaper clippings talking about the end of air conflicts at the beginning odlf the game.

>>16038353

There's always the Project Wingman demo.

>>16039421

I can't imagine the Arkbird having anything less than nuclear in its powerplant. The booster it fires to reach orbit is pure blue and it doesn't have the physical dimensions to be carrying fuel for more than half a second of burn. And it just stays on until you destroy it. So it's probably some kind of plasma jet. Not to mention powering a laser that vaporizes asteroids and can bore through fucking salt water to skewer a heavily armored submarine aircraft carrier/boomer. I saw someone calculate the laser's output once and it came out to double-digit gigajoules. And that's when he calculated for fresh water.

>>16039485

>>16039520

>>16039536

Gitting gud with machine guns is super satisfying. Learn to use your rudder control to slide your gun scope onto targets while also arcing tight combat turns 'up'. Once you're skilled with it, it actually makes harder fights easier because the AI doesn't react to machinegun fire the same way it does to incoming missiles. And they can't be distracted by flares. And yeah, the rounds reach further than the scope indicates. I use them a lot for skimping on missiles against 2 or 3-hit targets like bombers, tanks, and many buildings. Or just raking mercilessly through soft ground targets. Pipeline Destruction is an all you can eat buffet for 20mm.

>>16039759

The AI reacts a bit differently in this game. In 5 I used to tag them with the gun, and they would usually always peel away in the opposite direction they were going, making for an instant missile kill. It is satisfying to kill with the cannons though.

So how did the princess survive getting hit by a missile?

>>16038353

as >>16039653 said

Also Sky Rogue

>>16037890

ok it wasnt only me feeling that way. good

Are the numbered Ace Combat games the only good ones?

>>16039898

The same way Mihaly and Scrap Queen survive their plane crashes: plot armor.

>>16040384

Best:

4, 5, 0

Good:

2, 3(JP), X, 6, 7,

Acceptable:

1, Joint Assault, Assault Horizon Legacy

Terrible:

Advance, Assault Horizon

No longer available:

Xi, Infinity

The NA/EU version of 3 I guess could be put into "Acceptable" but now that a fan translation exists you have no reason not to play the superior JP version instead.

>>16040074

>>16039653

I had those in mind too but I was more looking at stuff that is less known and older like, Airforce Delta, Dropship, Raider Sphere 4th etc

Also somewhat related I really don't see why people shit on JASF that hard, it's not particularly good but the gameplay is okay with some neat ideas I'd love to see elsewhere even if the overall execution is kind of mediocre and I enjoyed the story in a "so bad it's good, why is everyone except the pilot voiced by the GLA VAs and why can the pilot not stop making bad jokes every mission" kind of way

Sure beat the fucking trash heap that was HAWX 2 anyway

Feel more like I'm racing ally AI than fighting enemy planes in AC5. These motherfuckers really want to fuck up my score.

>>16041787

anon…ac5 has the worst allied AI….

>>16041822

Maybe I'm just unlucky but they stole kills from me like 3 times in a row in the last mission I played.

>>16039653

Speaking of Project Wingman, I really fucking want this game to come out and be good, even if it was supposed to fill the Ace Combat emptiness. I still hope the guy will make good use of the Kikestarster money and make it a fun game.

I beat the game a few days ago and just now finished Re2. I'm thinking of going back and playing AC7 but I dont know what to go for. Any suggestions?

>>16040997

Yeah, but there's a difference, however thin, between crashing in a plane and getting directly hit by a missile.

>>16043702

Beat the game using only the F-104C?

>>16015641

>caring about the bullshit philosophy waxing of ace combat

It's all just meaningless flower words don't ever take it seriously.

>>16044136

I did most of the game with it. It's not too bad once you get the maneuverability upgrades.

you can actually turn

>>16044347

>Close Air Support

The funny thing is that it's classified as a Multirole plane in the game. So they actually expect you to use it for ground attacks.

>>16024313

>>16044354

USAians do it by having better radar & electronics & networking & group strategy than Ruskis; so they don't have to rely on dogfights to win /sarcasm ~ what is Vietnam War air combat?

>>16044354

Greater access to spare parts that aren't locked away in a country on our doorstep for our existing hardware, and better technology. However our most prominent contractor is (((Lockheed))) so I'm not optimistic about the future.

>>16044652

I wish goalposts in american niggerball were as movable as they are in your argument.

:^)

With the main series getting a new game, would you be OK with a non-plane spinoff that expanded on the Strangereal (e.g., tanks)?

>>16044685

Acktually, the debacle in Vietnam was due to the ROE requiring visual identification in order to engage. Thus they could not engage at BVR. What also didn't help was the fact that the ground crews were leaving missiles out on the tarmac in the Vietnam sun all day which cooked them badly. Thus many of them failed to track when they left the rails. It wasn't the gun equipped F4E that turned things around. It was mostly storing missiles in climate controlled bunkers until it was time to fly.

>>16044590

Yes the F-104C was the German variant which the salesman claimed could do close air support despite being designed for high altitude high speed interception. Because of this the Luftwaffe had an average of 2 crashes a MONTH as inexperienced pilots forced the round peg into a square hole. It was known as "the lawn dart" due to the very frequent crashes.

Despite its terrible reputation in Germany; Italy, Taiwan and Japan loved the plane and flew them into the 90s because they used them for their intended purpose. Italy flew them until the 2005 and all the countries only retired them when spare parts ran out.

>>16045454

Honestly I feel like attack helicopters could work in ace combat if they didn't handle like an insult with auto aim like in AH.

>>16045454

So basically if Brave Arms wasn't an april fools joke?

>>16045868

The Luftwaffe forced Erich Hartmann into retirement because he wouldn't stop busting their chops about the F-104.

>>16045029

says the dumb fuck that thinks someone in AC7 is a person that has been DEAD in the story's canon for years.

>>16044354

>Anti-radiation missiles

>Just explode the radiation away cyka

I like this doctrine.

>>16045454

A true sequel to Ridge Racer Type 4, but set in Strangereal? I'd love it!

>>16045454

>do you want ace combat to become war thunder

No.

>>16046429

> Im a retard that thought two wars ago meant two games ago. Its the writers fault that i'm a retard.

>>16047238

>tanks

>in a post 90's world

from what i've been understanding from people more in the know that i am, these are a waste of money, and endangering their crew since you can't use them in cities because they're going to get shitcanned by much cheaper rpg's, and gulf war 1 proved that they get eaten like candies by choppers whenever they try to step out of cities.

so their only use: impress civilian populace.

(Don't get me wrong, tanks LOOK awesome, but that's it, they're seemingly a thing of the past).

>>16047262

>Europa

>Islamic Europan Union

They did this on purpose.

did anyone beat the game on ace difficulty yet?

>come back to thread several days later

>multiple posts deleted

>including one where all I did was talk about the Arkbird's laser being able to penetrate seawater

What the fuck happened in here?

>>16050233

It's Unreal 4, there is nothing to fuck up.

>>16050271

>It's Unreal 4, there is nothing to fuck up.

Nope, see SG/ZH, JAP devs have the uncanny ability to fuck anything up

>>16050401

Don't worry it'll get cracked eventually. And you don't even need to worry about online since there's not even co-op. Just DM and TDM which never worked well in ace combat anyways.

>>16050464

Yeah but I want to buy it so they make more games. Just remove Denuvo already Bamco stop being like this.

>>16050401

Mutant Year Zero got cracked after a month and a half and no one gave a fuck about that.

I've been unironically using the music player. There's some jams on there.

>>16050464

meh, I'm having fun with online. Especially in points limited servers or ones that have special missiles turned off. Plus it's pretty easy to have 70,000-100,000+ point matches. At least in TDM, which is definitely the mode to play on IMO.

So we are getting 3 more missions, with Trigger and the most evil character in ace combat

>>16051132

>Ace Combat Fan

Kill flavela nigger with fire.

>>16049321

I didn't do shit.

>>16041592

I'm playing it and I dunno if it's because I'm playing on hard but damn this game is weird, missiles have this thing where you have to aim them like the gun if you want them to hit, even weirder is that if you hit the magic angle those things will track like QAAMs but if you are a bit off they just don't even track at all

Also it's nearly impossible to hit anything outside of stationary target or large planes with the gun because literally every plane outmaneuvers you when the AI pilots it regardless of what you're piloting

It basically feels like Air Combat on DC with gameplay that doesn't particularly make sense and follows rigid arbitrary rules that are completely obfuscated, although I'll take that over Raider Sphere 4th where it's basically "here have all those missiles that don't track for shit except when you're on the receiving end"

>(seriously though, fuck that mission in particular)

Oh yeah I can see why, if you don't know missiles rearm when they explode this is extremely fucking frustrating

>>16051134

>blond hair

>blue eyes

<favella nigger

I'm pretty sure Ace Combat Fan's grandfather goose stepped off the U-boat into Hueland in '45.

>>16053308

Just got done with the game, all in all pretty fun, I'd put it rather high on my list of AC-like games, it really only has QoL and player feedback issues

>That's one of the things that game does better than AC in my mind

I mean it's more realistic, not sure I really like it over the usual AC fare but it works well once you understand it.

> and some specific planes can only be unlocked in the store if you shoot them down with guns

Wait, which ones, I already have 31 planes unlocked just playing normally through hard mode, I hope that doesn't mean I have to shoot down the drones from the satellite mission with guns to unlock them because fuck that noise.

>>but its nearly impossible to get these gun kills without having to use the "expert" control scheme which removes your easy to reach analogue throttle input on the triggers and moves it to the buttons. On top of that some planes are very bullet spongy

Gotta love emulation for that, although I still lose analog throttle.

> I feel like if guns destroyed enemy planes in only 6-7 hits then they would be much more useful

I'm fairly sure there's an hidden stat for gun power going by how many times I shot down those B1s using guns with different planes, but yeah you have to just use missiles to start damaging then switch to the gun for the last bit or you're basically never killing more than a couple planes in a single mission.

>>16050271

so is dragon quest xi but my cpu dies in towns even though it exceeds the minimum requirements

>>16050401

jesus christ they only list denuvo in the eula

fuck

at least i still have plenty of ace combat games to play since i'm a newfag and kh3 later today

Playing the AC5 port and fuck Desert Arrow.

>1st try.

>AI refuses to disperse.

>Run out of ammo after spawning the AWACS/Refueller that I'd happily forgotten about and accidentally end the mission because I forgot AC5 doesn't let you resupply.

>2nd try.

>AI refuses to disperse.

>Manage to spawn the AWACS etc, it does an impossible maneuver and crashes into me.

>3rd try.

>AI refuses to disperse.

>When the Vulcans spawn one of them rams into me from behind, I had to watch the replay to figure out what the fuck happened.

>Mission is 20+ minutes long with no checkpoints.

Fuck Desert Arrow, at least in Whiskey Corridor you don't have to wait for the enemy to magically fucking spawn out of nowhere on a shitty linear script.

>>16060677

Hey, I'm on the same mission. And also running out of ammo.

>>16064973

>>16060677

Same. The AI doesn't shoot down enough targets to ever give you a break and it doesn't help that there are way too many targets that keep popping up.

>>16064969

>Press X to get behind enemy

>innovative

A shill that forgot he wasn't getting paid for years.

i have an i5 4460, gtx 1050ti and 8gb of ddr3 ram, could i run this game at 1080p 60fps? looks pretty good

>>16065238

bitching about hotas and ultrawide support and some other shit that doesn't matter, my guess

>>16065238

>straight up fucking negative

That’s impressive. Does it melt your CPU or something?

>>16065238

>>16065244

-Issue is no widescreen support (which is expected in a nip game)

-No HOTAS support, except for the Thrustmaster Ace Combat 7 branded HOTAS. So yeah, if you wanted to use a HOTAS in the game, you had to buy the official branded on.

-Mouse doesn't work on menus.

-Issues with 4K. Even though 4K is suppose to be supported and working, it might be bugged? Someone on leddit said:

>I got 4k to work by putting it in windowed, then borderless, selecting the resolution, and switching it back to full screen.

-Someone told me 1080p doesn't work on full screen mode. 1080p on full screen, not working or not available. WTF?

>>16065263

-Game doesn't recognize XBox controller, despite having the XBox button prompts. No idea if this is exclusively an XBox 360 controller issue or if it affects the XBox One controller as well

>>16065238

I bet you scamco butchered the fucking port.

I hope this doesn't kill further PC ports of AC games.

>>16065269

>>16065263

Just to add to the 4K thing: Digital Foundry showed off 4K in his video preview and he said it looked amazing. So Bamco must have screwed up something for 4K to not be supported.

Check 16 minutes of the video and he mentioned it at 16:35

>>16065267

Damn even my PS2 emulator recognized my old X360 controller, how do you screw up this badly?

>>16065279

or it's Denuvo

>>16065263

> no widescreen support

I'm going to assume you mean Ultrawide, which is a shitty gimmick so who cares about them. Still, UE4 should make it easy to force the resolution you want in a config file I'd imagine.

>>16065307

Yeah that's what I meant. Typo, sorry.

>>16065311

Meant 21:9.

Going to update >>16065263

Negative reviews due to

- No ultra widescreen/21:9 support (which is expected in a nip game)

- No HOTAS support, except for the official Thrustmaster Ace Combat 7 branded HOTAS. Keep in mind Assault Horizon had native HOTAS support.

- Mouse doesn't work on menus

- Issues with 4K not being supported, even though it's suppose to be supported and working. Seems like a bug since Digital Foundry played it at native 4K with no issues as pointed out here >>16065280

- Game has issues with detecting resolutions at the moment.

- Lots of bugs, sometimes the menu lags.

- Gamepad issues, particularly with the XBox controller, despite the game only having XBox controller button prompts. No idea if this is exclusively an XBox 360 controller issue or if it affects the XBox One controller as well.

- Some people say the game crashes after Mission 1. "Fatal Error"

I got a hunch that Denuvo might be the culprit here. Since the review copies reviewers and Digital Foundry got seems to have been working fine. Maybe their versions didn't have Denuvo?

>>16065326

yes. 0 before 5

>>16065391

Maybe the preload was bugged as well?

>>16065391

It's fucking massive, well over 50gb.

>>16065413

>>16065405

The fuck is the point of preloading if the actual game has to unpack first? I might as well have just waited

>>16065280

>digital foundry

>he

>one person

It's a team of fps spergs who are earning minimum wage in the UK and an american fag too at best.

is it another point and click plane game like new horizon? or something, that one terrible game, sadly the only AC i ve played

>>16065519

>point and click game

Well if you want to be pedantic all PC games can be summed up as point and click.

My very first AC game, on normal, with expert controls.

Beyond you guys saying it was good I went in pretty much blind to the entire franchise, so here's some random thoughts and questions after getting past the third mission.

>Love the menus, of all things

>Music is pretty good

>like the little touches like water sheeting off with sharp turns and the like

>Combat's fun

>The tomboy from the cutscenes is a q.t. So I guess she's dying.

<Fuck telling me how to G-turn several missions in. I could have done with that in the first mission.

<I still don't know how the fuck the gun works-I assume you need the circle to get over the target when you're close enough and it appears? But then you need to predictive fire, surely?

<360 view feels far too sensitive on my xbox controller-it goes to the extreme view far too fast

<While I understand why, I really, really wish left stick was pitch and right was yaw; I accept that I will just have to git gud (because holy shit the 'normal' joystick control isn't very good) but I'm currently fucking up even minor adjustments in my flight path right now.

I do appreciate being able to slam the brakes, rotate 180 and pitch 'up' so I'm dropping like a rock. Seems to do well for missile dodging.

Any tips?

>>16065368

>playing a flying game with K+m

Are you fucking retarded? Do you play real time strategy with a controller too?

>>16065613

>I still don't know how the fuck the gun works

The reticle is predictive aiming for you, notice how the farther you are from the target, the farther from the center of your screen the reticle is. Just put it over the target and fire

It's good.

>>16065360

There was a brief period where Star Citizen's dumb little proof of concept arena dogfighting minigame was actually fun. Pewpew and missile spamming people while zooming around in your stupidly overpriced humming bird on cocaine space fighter. Then they started actually trying to work on the real game and shifted the jpg selling scheme from normal jew to super Hebrew-jew level three, and it's been all downhill since then.

>>16065263

>-No HOTAS support,

How did I see this coming… I mean besides fucking unreal 4 not actually having baseline hotas support meaning we're at the mercy of what ever shitty plugin for it that the developer decide to cheap out on, assuming they add it at all.

>-Game doesn't recognize XBox controller,

>-Mouse doesn't work on menus.

what the fuck is this game suppose to be played with?

>>16066118

>what the fuck is this game suppose to be playable with?

a console.

Now we just wait for the game to be cracked

>>16065360

He deserves it

and I'm pretty sure the "doesn't support 4K or 1440" is crap because I saw reviewers praise it for its 4K, they might have been bullshitting, can someone confirm?

>>16066955

> they might have been bullshitting, can someone confirm?

The AC subreddit says that 4K does indeed work, except it needs a workaround fix by setting the proper resolution in the config ini, as the settings in the main menu are bugged

>>16065725

Ah-ha, thanks. Any tips for dogfighting and general gameplay?

Finished it on PC after playing Ace Combat games ever since Ace Combat 5 came out. Even JP 3 and Xi and ACAHL. Did my first playthrough on Hard.

Good:

>Graphics pretty, pretty graphics, yay. Even my mid-range computer from 3 years ago can get a solid 60+ FPS even during the busiest and explodey scenes.

>Lots of little touches like interior gauges actually functioning and being readable, detailed cockpits, those goddamn weather effects holy shit

>the wind drift mechanics were really nice, forced you to actually use your rudder and slip during those finicky ground bombing portions

>Music is pretty good. Lots of moments when I got into it.

>I really found myself enjoying the Parts system, but the gun auto-fire part is pants-on-head retarded

>it's easy to pass most missions, requires concentration and planning to pass some missions, but it takes actual skill to get S-ranks on most missions

>the game has a good sense of timing, stakes, and danger. Sometimes you absolutely have to focus on accomplishing the mission or else you simply won't finish it on time.

>the plot was AC6-tier, which is to say, it was cheesy, perhaps dangerously so

>I wondered how hard they were going to pander when I saw Stonehenge, but it was used really nicely

>lots of callbacks to the previous games, especially some that were just quietly there with zero attraction drawn to them, like craters here and there and simple geopolitics being taken as given, which means you'll miss out on a lot of the plot coherence if you're a newcomer or just didn't pay attention to AC04 or 5 or Zero

>there's lots of nuggets to kill in multiplayer

>holy fuck that canyon-run mission jesus christ I loved that

>the true villain has always been Osea and the first 10 missions made that comically clear, followed by an emotional response that makes you not want to fly for Osea against Erusea, and that Erusea did nothing wrong, and that the Oseans were responsible for the space debris, and the reason everyone's fucking gone mad by the end of the war is a near-complete shutdown of the world telecom network

>brown-skinned wingman in first mission is called Brownie and that's fucking hilarious

>the game feels like AC04 but dropped into today's modern hardware and after the past 17 years of tech/control advances

Observations:

The game really throws you into the deep end by the fourth mission and tells you to fucking swim.

The gun reticle is the most useless of any of the Ace Combat games, since its predictive validity is nil. You have to gain an instinctive sense of where the bullets will go, forcing you to GET GUD.

The missile sweet spots are more unforgiving, but they act almost exactly as in AC Zero in that they do pop out from underneath you, allowing you to get a few trick shots just as in Zero.

A lot of the content, like the aces or medals, is hidden behind a skill wall, which makes my dick hard.

Holy shit AA guns are a fucking nightmare in this game, I don't ever think I'll get the zero-damage medal because of these nightmare fuckers.

Bad:

<the game feels like AC04 but dropped into today's modern hardware and after the past 17 years of tech/control advances

<every single character could have been more fleshed out

<the campaign really needed to be AC5/6-tier long considering the replayability

<needed more Cossette

<my usual dual-stick USB controller that works perfectly fine for emulation and that I used for recent PS2 emulation wasn't recognized, but thankfully x360ce worked fine. I can't really blame AC7 for this one though

<game relied too much on hordes of zippy physics-fucking drones as a challenge

<Nagase was a welcome surprise but handled so poorly

<honestly most of my negative points are just about the length of the game, it really feels like it should have been 10 missions longer and it feels like Project Aces wanted to do more, but perhaps were held back to prevent it from becoming too ambitious and disjointed.

Overall it feels like AC04 in that it lays a foundation for future games while being a solid game on its own. I really, really hope that we won't need to spend another 12 years waiting for the next game.

>>16067906

That PR fag is Ace Combat Fan, the flavela nigger. Cringey faggot. At least he's not (((SlyCooperFan/Alban Zekthi)))

>>16070424

The starting camera angle for the previews is retarded and I hate it. The camera moves slowly enough that you need to use the laggy preview to use it, and about half the skins are just re-badging on the tail. The previous games at least made each re-badging have a neat paint scheme.

Come to think of it, Ace Combat 7 feels a lot like an effort by a close-knit team of ~40 who are trying to do the job mandated by the publisher that requires a team of ~120 under the budget of a game that would be fitted to ~30 people. More time wouldn't have helped. But to go bigger would mean losing the magic touch. The magic touch is still there, the scope simply didn't fit the team. It didn't fit the team in Infinity, and the style absolutely didn't fit the team with Assa*lt H*rizon at all.

Bamco needs to give Project ACES free reign and let them off the leash.

>mission 17 of AC5

>after chopper dies

>enemy pilots talking about how we're suddenly even better than before and freaking out

>I'm out of ammo besides machine gun so i only shoot a couple down

haha

also ;_;7

Which direction did you go down the aircraft tree? I went down the middle since it had a fuck ton of missile upgrades.

>>16073681

I wanted the SU-47 so I went straight for it.

Silent protagonists are such a shit meme.

>>16065238

It's called retards who use Steam who don't know how to work computers.

>>16073681

Same as

>>16074555

But ended up using the MIG-31 a lot while earning the mrp. It's fast as fuck and the pulse laser is very useful in certain missions.

I'm going to try the european fighters next run.

>>16073681

I went for all the speed upgrades. Then I went for all the EML upgrades. So my tree is all over the place.