I've been trying to replicate the briefing map style of Ace Combat 8 using real-life continents. I'll tweak the aesthetics later to be more legally distinct and original if I want to adapt this for my future game's cinematics.
For now, could you imagine if this was Assault Horizon 2?
My first entry to the game was Ace Combat 7, a favourite youtuber of mine (Altf4games) made small review about the PSX trilogy and I got interested into trying out the series for myself.
So I bought AC7 and played through it and it was amazing. This was around 2020, after Ace Combat 8 got announced I set myself up to play through the major titles in timeline order before 8.
After beating all of them and AC8 this is my final rating.
I will beat AC:X and the PSX trilogy seperately.
Though I'm not gonna lie, I'm definitely biased since I loved Tasha's growth during campaign
I hope I'm not the only sailor on this ship.
One chance to be on the right side of history for once and they slept through it smh
Now that the game is already out, I was wondering what people would like to see moving forward. I’ve only played AC7 and AC8 now myself, but I’d like to see something with the bigger superpowers come into the story.
Not because it's an amazing game that is extremely underrated within the franchise. (It is.)
Not because playing it's easier and more accessible than ever before. (It is.)
But because you all are HORRIBLE at the Ace Combat 8 Online Chandelier Emergency Sortie my GOD.
I swear if I see another Morgan score less than 10k in this thing I'm going to eat my controller.
ALL of it's TGT's are BIG so USE your MG to HIT THEM (it's VERY EASY!)
When the BARREL CHAMBER is OPEN you HAVE to fly INTO the BARREL from the FRONT.
It has a LOT of HP so STOP hitting RANDOM STUFF and FOCUS the BARREL CHAMBER (unless you are in a fighter I guess.)
When HITTING the BARREL CHAMBER you DON'T have to CRASH and DIE into it, you can use your YAW to fly OUT of the BARREL from it's SIDE GAPS (Dying wastes TIME!)
The BARREL CHAMBER has TWO PHASES. The FIRST ONE is the MAIN ROADBLOCK for the WHOLE SORTIE because it has A TON of HP and GATEKEEPS the rest of the SORTIE.
When the first BARREL CHAMBER phase is over, BACKUP COOLING becomes a TGT. You can HIT THEM by flying into a tunnel BELOW the CANNON. Fly LOW between the RED STRUCTURES in front of the Chandelier to ENTER (They don't have much HP tbh so you can leave skilled attackers to take care of them.)
You can also ENTER the tunnel from BEHIND Chandelier.
The SECOND PHASE of the BARREL CHAMBER is what will end the Sortie. From what I've seen, you'll NEED at least ONE MINUTE of FULL FOCUSED FIRE to destroy it (I said it has a TON of HP!!!)
It's easily the hardest Emergency Sortie from the ones we have, but I swear I only managed to destroy it once. Not because of it's difficulty, but because people genuinely don't know how to hit the damn thing.
Farming all the SAMs and AAs give you a ton of points, sure, but make sure you know how to actually clear the sortie before focusing on farming scores.
ACF already released gameplay of it so if you struggle with it you can go watch that video to learn how he approaches all TGT's.
Good luck Aces, and go Dance with the Angels!
Really brought out my inner Merc
I don’t understand anything that everybody is talking about the lack of tension in the middle of the game. This game was tense AS FUCK ALL THE TIME. I literally spilled like 100 gallons of sweat during my first 20 hours playthrough. I was not expected this will be this good. Its too good. I dont deserve that game man.
>!So apparently, Rena was born in April of 2021... Meaning she's like 8 years old during the Satoan occupation. !<
>!Happened to peruse the ace combat wiki and found that she also was recruited at 9 years old for General Resource... !<
>!This means RIGHT after the end of this game, Rena begins to work with General Resource, who has just finished, as I understand it, absorbing the assets of Enso Order (which, as I understand, is basically a big front. The same people control GR, just changing names to cover their tracks). !<
>!So the neural link that Tewy tests is immediately tested and refined further on Rena as she begins to fly for them. And to connect it further, Tewy is using a similar flight suit to Rena. I'd say it's all but confirmed now this is a direct prequel to the events of AC3. Maybe there's a prequel war between the two games, but essentially from here the corporations only gather more strength and no real major events could drive that. It's just silent consolidation in the background. I could actually see the next entry being an ace combat 3 remake, kinda in the same vein that FF7 did with a modernization of the original, focusing on bringing the new tech but more or less telling the same story, though perhaps they'd modify it to fit whatever cutscene system they use. I think what would be cool is same characters, same story, but obviously new graphics and maybe a bit of modification, add a super weapon or something. Basically, new missions, but the story is more or less the same with the same factions... Then as a free inclusion you get the original AC3 japanese version with both Japanese and english dub!<
Again dont look at unless ya completed Mission 8 in AC8!!! Its Environmental fanart!
P.S, thank you Ace Combat. Absolutely loved the series. This game truly made me happy to be a fan. I've got many more art to come!
I'm on my 3rd playthrough now and I'd really just like an option to turn this off or have a prompt to skip them. I know its a small thing and pretty inconsequential but still
I mean, doesn't this mean he's watching every Rex's move?
We (yes, we) were all Larping as Cipher and Pixy in AC7
I've been playing Ace Combat all my life. I was so young that I couldn't comprehend the story line or manage basic controls when I first started.
I played through 4,5, Zero and X as a kid/teenager. I then played all of them again plus 6 and 7 as an adult and these games live rent free in my head and remain in my game collection.
I came here wondering if any other long time Ace Combat player felt the same way and so I'll ask this without trying to spoil anything story wise.
But um, did anyone get chills down their spine while playing the 3rd mission of AC8? Everything about this mission absolutely screamed "WE ARE F***ING BACK" to me. The type of mission, the dialogue, the type of enemies and their spawn sequence/threat level and the soundtrack. Dear God the soundtrack going from a morale/confidence boosting country/rock mix PERFECTLY fading into the usual mission specific Ace Combat style music, I felt the adrenaline rush through my veins.
All this combined with updated graphics, improved movement, smoothness (etc.). I just love that I know this is that same game I played more than 20 years ago. The developers litterally stuck to their roots and produced whatever masterpiece this is.