https://x.com/PROJECT_ACES/status/2026129971245441052
Repostan from previous thread. Do we know for sure if the FCU existed at the time of AC2/AHL? Even in AHL it's never namedropped, hell I think the only countries that are explicitly named are Yuktobania and Osea.

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>>558405386
I wonder what the upside-down FCU flag in the trailer means. Is it like a Philippines scenario where the upside down flag is the wartime flag?

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Also interesting that the FCU shares the 7 star motif with Erusea.

>>558405386
ace combat but with kojimbo's levels of autistic detail

>>558405605
Yes, it's just called USEA in AHL. You fight for the side who wanted to ally with the Oseans, though.

Basically Cross Rumble's explanation of AC2 plot is:

>Erusea and North Point want a continent-wide federation to resist Osea and Yuktobania's new dominance after the Belkan War
>FCU core states in the south prefer an alliance with Osea and sabotage the treaty negotiation
>North Point orchestrates a series of military coups in the southern states to force them to sign the treaty
>FCU government and Osean-allied forces work with Scarface squadron to suppress the coup

Well, how about a missile that shoots planes, huh? How about that?

>>558407546
mobius 1 country is...le bad?

>>558407546
>North Point
Perfidious Albion working together with Crazy France to fight the EU and America? Man, I love Strangereal.

>>558407662
>Names their massive fuckoff ICBM base Fortress Intolerance

Splendid isolation, I believe

>>558407546
Is this before or after Erusea transitioned from a monarchy to a republic?

>>558407686
North Point kind of fucks itself over, the fascist coup blows up the military of every state that isn't Erusea and then the asteroid fucks them up even harder.

>>558408415
The implication is that Erusea became a republic some time in the 70s-80s, within Mihaly's lifetime or just before his early career.

Ace Combat spinoff written by Yoko Taro send post

>>558408415
One of the briefings in AHL refers to Albireo Squadron being from the Erusean Republic, which means the monarchy got ditched prior to AC2/AHL. The exact point of the change is not mentioned anywhere iirc, but Mihaly joined the Erusean Air Force while it was still a monarchy.
Albireo is also mentioned as being 'the strongest of the Allied Forces', the games starts with the Allies holed up in Erusean territory, and Mission 3 states that Anchorhead (an Erusean city) was a crucial Allied port before being occupied, which means Erusea was/is on the side on the Allies during AHL.

Looking at the timeline in Aces at War 2019, they did a pretty good job retconning everything to fit in place all things considered. 1 and 2 are a little kludged into place but integrating events that occured before Strangereal as a concept truly existed isn't the easiest thing.
>>558406764
Which I find very strange. Supposedly at one point Usea was an acronym for United States of EuroAsia, maybe just a reference to that?
>>558411791
I guess Mihaly taught Albireo their bullshit maneuvers. Also Anchorhead cannot catch a fucking break can it? I wonder if we'll sink a fleet in their harbor for the third time.

<< ALL AIRCRAFT CLIMB ABOVE 5,000 FEET! >>

>>558418369
<<CLIMB, NUGGETS, GO GO GO!>>
For some reason I've been using videos about airplane crashes recently as background noise and honestly it helped explain why that was such a big deal for the rookie pilots to do. Sudden changes in altitude does weird things to your mind and can make you lose track of your surroundings, even in clear skies.

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What is your guys headcanon for each player characters intermediary plane(s)? Like after the starter but before the final "canon" plane.
I like to imagine Mobius 1 flies the Eurofighter

>>558424454
Isn't the F-18 a "canon" plane for Mobius One thanks to some official art? With how easy the S-Rank requirements are in the PS2 games I don't think intermediate planes are necessary. In my heart of hearts Mobius flies anything and everything like in Nassault's animations, but Wardog styles on the Yukes solely in F-5s up until they had to be reborn into F-14s, and Cipher either hangs out in his Draken until the second B7R mission or he just had the F-15 the entire time.

That said I fully think Trigger switched planes every time he changed squadrons, so F-16 -> weird junk Avril got running -> F-15 -> F-22. And then he and Avril pilot their privately owned his and her F-104s because Osea is a beautiful country where civilians own anti-tank rifles and milsurp scrapyard warplanes.

>>558424454
Trigger's obvious with the Eagle, but I like to think he flies a Hornet during mission 3 and 4 so the Harling things makes a little more sense to me. During his time in Spare, I like to think he gets whatever they have ready to fly and gets an A-10 for Long Day and Pipeline Destruction. When I replayed recently, I did a couple missions where Wardog flew F-20s and X-29s depending on mission so that's what I imagine before they get their F-14s. Zero I just imagine Cipher going straight from his Draken to an Eagle about halfway through the game. Plane Jesus flying a Euorfighter makes a lot of sense honestly since some Mobius pilots in the final mission have them. I'll have to try that when I replay 4. X I'm thinking Gryphus One uses the Apalis before getting his Raptor, because it's pretty middle of the road as far as the superplanes go.

I don't have any thoughts for the rest of AC, but for Project Wingman I think of Monarch going Phantom/Tomcat/two seater Chimera, with the Frogfoot used for A2G missions.

>>558425882
>because Osea is a beautiful country where civilians own anti-tank rifles and milsurp scrapyard warplanes.
God bless Japanamerica

>>558425882
I've seen theories that Trigger had a MiG-21 or F-104 in Spare because you unlock them in that point of the game, but I've also seen a theory I'm personally partial to that Trigger kept his F-16 from Mage somehow since the Spare Skin retains his emblem and Fort Grays markings.

>>558409279
So the continuation of Ending E?

>>558424454
I dunno because the my player character's canon plane in every game is either the Eurofighter, a Flanker or the F-18
I'm not interested in F-22s

>>558433438
I'm bummed that AHL doesn't have a Flanker-E, or that the Terminator in game doesn't have the Ace Combat 2 camo scheme. But the Terminator is so much fun in that game with the cartoon physics flight model.

Naval planes are so cool, I'm glad we're getting a whole game about them.

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>>558448540
They sure are.

>>558003904
>>558004797
Late but what if she is the ranking officer on the E-2 so she is the voice you hear across the game

So which Erusean insurrection is Mobius 1 going to put down this time?

>>558424454
0: Draken, F-15C
1: Whatever he wanted
2: Su-35
3:The simulation doesn't give Nemo a choice very often
4: F-4, F-18, Tornado, F-22
5 F-5, F-14A
6: F-15, F-22
X: F-4, Apalis, F-22
7: F-16, F-15C, F-22, F-104 as a post war hobby plane.
8: F-18C, F-18F, F-18B3, F-18ADV

>>558448801
imagine if the wright brothers saw this

>>558453836
>They look up in the sky with smiles from ear to ear
>They walk over to all the doubters they know
>They say one simple phrase
>Suck it bitches, ok whatever the 1903 equivalent to that phrase is

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>Watching Solo camping for two
>The short hair tomboy girl is wearing a shirt with 3 claw marks
Hmmmm

>>558449226
I think the AWACS is the British-sounding guy from the trailer who says:

<<Radar contact, we think it's the Shadows!>>]

Though I suppose we could get more than one AWACS.

>>558464835
It could happen again in JA the game gave you 3 choices for your AWACS voice. You could do the same here the game lets you pick which one of the crew you want to hear during missions.

They sure are taking their time with those news.

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Pixy you WHORE

>>558473124
Got'em in my pipper

A thought
With Zero being the preorder bonus do you think they'll do a bit more and all the skins from zero are in 8's base game.If the plane doesn't appear then something close would get those skins. Like say Draken's skins are given to Gripen for instance.

plene

>>558484880
At the very least I would expect that we's get all the squadron skins for their respective planes, which means things like the F-15S and the F-16XL are probably base game planes, in addition to the skins for Cipher, Pixy, and PJ. Them doing all the Ace Style skins would be cool though.

>>558473124
>>558474128
>t. femCiphers

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>>558493064
>F-15S
You mean MTD
I would love to have the F-15S back in the game she hasn't been in since 2. Remember that F-15 only appeared in 2.

You know you're about to be up against a huge faggot when they have the F18 with the Top Kek shit on it. Double if they're post stalling and using EML.

>>558498169
The S was in Infinity. I didn't know it was in 2.

>>558498169
I totally forgot about that.

>>558498275
the top gun hornet doesnt have the EML

>>558498275
Haven't played multiplayer since I finished grinding achievements, but playing meme builds against tryhards is fun. Mirage (and a lot of other 120 HP planes) with Bulletproof Fuel Tanks has the bulk and maneuverability to eat a few tryhard hits while also maneuvering for good hits on the enemy. Or drop down even further jnto Mig-21 territory and be an old bumblebee in the superplane world.

Give me your favorite aviation documentaries. I used to watch a bunch of old ones about 1950s american jet fighters

>>558498417
No it wasn't it only ever appeared in 2 the MTD & SE was in infinity but not the S

>>558500839
I like watching videos from this channel
https://www.youtube.com/@AirSafetyInstitute/videos

>>558499071
I'm talking about a skin, emblem, w/e. When they win the Top Gun music plays so I know it's Top Kek shit.

>>558500260
I use the MiG-29A against the and bumfuckem with 4aams. These guys love to just stop and stall into oblivion just to get a snipe on a new player

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>>558464835
Sure would like to have actual accents be a thing for once.

>>558500839
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyjnMKNifUo

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<<I want to understand the enemy.>>

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overly excitable anti-submarine warfare gf often gets herself into awkward predicaments

>>558509321
Sometimes you gotta get in the water and fish the enemy out personally.

>>558509429
but she cannot swim!

>>558509548
She'll be fine. There's more planes in he ocean than submarines in the sky after all.

>>558509548
Subs aren't on the surface she has dive deeper to get them.

the submarines are just under a cover, you have to approach head-on and low to the ground to get a shot

>>558481867
XT's are to cool

Just realized we're never seeing the CFT F/A-18 again because while the Navy did buy Block III they opted out of the coolest looking CFTs to date.

>>558516138
The Navy already had several B3 in service and wasn't going to use the CFT when the DLC came out and PA didn't remove them then I don't see why they would now. It helps the plane stand out in the game compared to the normal super bug.

>>558516138
Boeing is still offering it to export customers of Block III. Most of its problems with the USN was related to carrier operation, so it's not unfeasible the other carrierless operators of Superbug might acquire them. None have opted for it so far, but the option is there.

post fat f-16 NOW

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>>558520480
feed me more palestinians

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>>558520480
Does this count?

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>>558520480
She's a bit heftier than her Gaijin cousins, but she's taller so it proportions out.

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>>558520480

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whats your favorite aeroplane

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Alect Squadron is how you do a boss fight, they don't fuck around.
>>558520480
Oh lawd she comin'
>>558530862
Phantom. Luv me flying bricks.

Why does f-35 have curved surfaces if those are bad for stealth?

>>558540079
the shape with the lowest radar cross-section is a sphere

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>>558540079
Everything in aircraft design is a concession. If the F-35 has a curved spot, it's likely the benefits of making it curved outweighed the potential increase in RCS. The DSI's are probably the most notable example. The humps *have* to be rounded, it's just how they work.
I also remember reading that some curved parts are actually made wholly of radar absorbing material and underneath them is an angled structure that reflects whatever isn't neutralised, mainly on the belly. Not sure how true that is though.

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>>558540079
They're not inherently bad for stealth. Rather, the shape is determined through computer simulations, and the more powerful the computer, the more polygons it can handle. The F-117 was devoid of curves (even the airfoil!) simply because the computers of the time weren't powerful enough.

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>>558405386
Don't worry guys, I think I'll be okay for Mission 16 now!

>>558542534
When I replayed 7 recently I thought this was a bug, not a bug that become an official skin later on. Funny stuff.

Do the PS1 and PS2 trilogies benefit much from playing on a CRT, as opposed to a modern display, or are they about the same?

>>558543054
For 3 exclusively I'd say there's a benefit, just as the FMVs are 240p and will not look good highly upscaled and would likely benefit from the CRT lines.
Otherwise I'll be honest I played AC4 with a CRT filter to make the UI look a bit sharper and didn't bother with AC5 or ACZ.

>>558543054
Well the PS2 has deinterlacing hacks for all three games so besides some of the 2D UI elements which maybe could look better on CRT, I don't think there is much benefit to playing it on a CRT. This is assuming you're using emulators of course.

This is a real autismo gripe, but I really wish the plot of AC7 was being a Erusean Ace, fighting with the drones against OSEA.

>>558543857
An AC game playing as the aggressor would be weird, it can be done, like in certain routes of AC3, but that's a very specific situation.

>>558543857
this post fact checked by TRUE BELKAN PATRIOTS

>>558540831
Sphere is also a shape that has a guaranteed radar return from every single angle

so are Belkans supposed to be the germans or the jews?

>>558552121
Both

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>he thought he would be safe bringing the a-10 on a ground pound mission

>>558551368
doesnt matter so long as the return isnt identified as a plane, it may as well not have happened

>>558552486
shut up fairy, awacs says you have to listen to me and i say you have to bring and use ugbl at the round table

>>558553520
>you have to bring and use ugbl at the round table
In his defense, he still probably does better than PJ.

>>558553117
I would know...

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>>558543039
Its always nice when a studio pays attention to what the players like and give them more of it. Does make me wonder what other planes will glow in 8.

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>>558547498

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>>558542534
MY FUCKING EYES
>>558557893
I think the players have SHIT TASTE
LOOK AT THIS SHIT

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MY NAME IS BUCC AND I'M HERE TO FUCK

>>558561223
Fat fuck

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fucking slut

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>>558562252

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Ever get the feeling Osean swat teams show up to a scene with Abrams, MRLS & F-35B's?

>>558526724
She's still fucking fat, all that extra mass and no new engine to go along with it, she might be taller but she still has the same amount of muscle as her better cousins.

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Something don't look right here

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These Ace Combat 4 trial missions are making me rethink my entire life. The first time I played it I ignored it completely, now that I've S ranked every mission I was giving them a god, and I just cannot get S rank on the first mission, it's too hard, I'm trying to copy what a guy who got S rank on youtube did, with the F-22 and the PGB, but I've only managed to get A rank. I'm getting really humbled by this.

<< Climb nuggets, climb! >>

https://www.war.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/4413689/two-american-heroes-awarded-medal-of-honor-during-state-of-the-union/
Elmer Royce Williams was finally awarded the Medal of Honor that he should have been back in the 50's. The Korean War is a major gap in my war knowledge, so I never knew about the incident he was involved in, but taking on that many Migs in a Panther is nuts.

the wso is NOT for hand holding!

>>558596514
Then why do plens with side by side cockpits exist?

>>558596982
because we live in a sinful world

>>558581719
Guns, missiles, bombs and go fast it can take a lot of attempts to get and S.

Remember this stage takes place at the early construction stage of Megafloat

>>558524908
It's a shame israel are such cunts. They make some nice camos

thinking about taking a tiny little plane like f-16 and tacking stuff onto her body and stretching her out until she is big and round makes me feel a tingly in my tummy

>>558602124
I really like their Eagle liveries with the bird on the vertical stabs and the desert camo. Also their roundel's neat. If I ever build a model of one I'll be sure to put it next to a Luftwaffe plane because I think I'm funny.

>>558608665
>b-but anon what about my turning circle? i'm supposed to be a small and nimble dogfighter you know...

>>558610123
Don't worry compared to what you'll fight today you still are a small and nimble dogfighter.

>>558611234
viper-chan is always trying her best even when she has been eating too much...

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>>558596982
So you can get called a baka

>>558613372
Based Eureka chad

viper-chan getting all flustered and embarrassed when you call her by her real name

So are cutscenes still fucked in AC6 in Xenia? I want to get my AC fix and 6 is the only mainline game I haven't played yet.

>>558614516
Last I heard they were.

>>558614516
Yeah but its not like your missing anything besides you can just minimize the window and watch the cutscene on YT then go back to the game.

>>558616094
That only affects the pre-rendered cutscenes right, not in-mission ones?

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>>558562252
But she only has eyes for Blaze!

>>558619014
>But she only has eyes for space!
Fixed that for you. Blaze can tag along on Pilgrim One, but space is to Nagase as planes are to /aceg/rs.

What if Blaze was a dog all along? Think about it, he does what he is told to, can only communicate with simple yes/no/abstain, and is the only Ace Combat character to have canonically conversed with another dog.

>>558621185
THIS
IS
THE
NAI
AD

>>558621909
Hey, that's one of ours!

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Fucking B*lkans

>>558631773
What WAS Dr. Schroeder hoping to build instead? Analyzing a retired flight vet and turning it into algorithms for autonomous killer drones doesn't seem like it has a lot of non-military applications.

>>558632084
It was revenge against the Oseans because Belka got its ass kicked by them twice in as many decades and they're STILL seething over it.

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>>558632693
Watching Schroder seethe over Count calling him a dumbass is fun, because it shows Belkan scum are incapable of having any accountability. While not all Belkans are trash (Tabloid is a loyal buddy through and through), the worst actively make Strangereal a worse place.

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>>558509321

>>558633159
At least Schroeder seemed to realize in the end how stupid all of it was. He didn't seem actively malicious in the same way the Grey Men were, more like he was running on momentum because making weapons was literally all he knew how to do. Like Belka still exists but he talks about it as if it was outright destroyed. Given his age I would think he probably just started working in the Belkan arms industry when the war ended and got snapped up by Grunder. I genuinely don't think he ever considered the morality or practicality of what he was doing to begin with.

Speaking of Grunder how in the fuck were they not dismantled at the end of the Circum-Pacific War? They never stopped stirring shit even after they got their shit pushed in and even considering the secrect surrounding that war it's ridiculous. Was Harling not able to fully remove the warmongering element of the Osean government when he was restored to power or did Grunder just make up too much of Osea's MIC to fully dismantle?

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>>558604937
>If I ever build a model of one I'll be sure to put it next to a Luftwaffe plane because I think I'm funny.
I can do you one better
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avia_S-199

ac8 time yet/>?

>>558635461
I was also thinking of getting a kit of that as well. Empahsis on thinking because I'm very out of practice for making model kits of any kind. Last thing I built was a snapped together gunpla.

Bruh this TheNewBie cunt is such an obvious hacker I hate how dogshit Jap games are wehn it comes to anti cheat or moderation

I was not expecting X to have elevator music as one of its credits songs but I like it. Great fucking game, I'm.gonna have to replay again to finsih all the mission variants.

>>558608665
Two seater F-16 is extremely fucking ugly already, no need to put tumor tanks on it

>>558642961
good luck getting 12C without looking up the mission sequence

You're not supposed to hold hands with your WSO because you are supposed to be attracted to your wingman and/or your rival enemy ace. This is why Zero is the best Ace Combat for making your wingman and rival enemy ace the same person and doubling down on romantic tension.

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The Game mod is finally out
https://www.nexusmods.com/acecombat7skiesunknown/mods/3520

>>558424454
0: Draken, F15C, F-15 Active
4:F-4, F-14, F-22
5: F-5, F-14A, F-14D
7: F-16, F-2, F-14D, XFA-27

Were they trying to be funny when making these games?
I mean who gives a character a name like
>Mihaly Dumitru Margareta Corneliu Leopold Blanca Karol Aeon Ignatius Raphael Maria Niketas A. Shilage
completely unironically without intentionally taking the piss? But they treat it so seriously.

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>>558659759
It has historical precedent. Royals are weird.

>>558659759
>Anons learn about royal names from IRL history

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>>558659759
>>558659960
And it's not even an old-timey thing. They still do it.

>>558635461
>shot down two Royal Egyptian Air Force C-47s, which had just bombed Tel Aviv
>Shot down Egyptian Spitfires
That was a very strange short war indeed

>>558666334
Especially given that the thing was a genuine piece of shit.

>>558634486
Cute, very good draw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80XAJKqRU9k

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>>558651482
What about a two seater Typhoon?

>>558667280
Ugly but not as bad
The only jet fighters in the world whose two seater variants look good are the F-15 and Flanker

f-35s, yay or ney?

>>558668348
ugly

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>>558668243
Two seat Harrier is also a thing

>>558668408
You shall be raped at the earliest convenience.

>>558668850
that won't make the f-35 stop being ugly

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>>558668348
Sex

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ladies, one at a time

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Yeah ok but this still hasn't been surpassed and it doesn't need gay stealth and internal weapon bays to be the greatest jet fighter of all time

>>558669805
>the f15se would like a word

>>558634950
It's a major corporation anon. Think of the North Osean voters who will lose their jobs!

>>558668841
But where does the fuel go?

>>558673404
She's a Marine she can fly on pure rage at not being allowed to eat crayons like the rest of the Marines can.
>They give her some really bad gas when she does eat them and it messes with her engine output.

>>558562252
fucking whore
this is why women don't belong in the battlefield
the new girl in 8 will probably be even worse

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So F-22 are hanging around Israel. Time to fuck up Iran already?

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>>558683070
>the new girl in 8 will probably be even worse
she's gonna cuck the MC so bad it'll make Nagase seem faithful to Blaze in comparison.

>>558684072
Nah MC will have a case of full on planetism if it ain't metal or aluminum and smells like oil he don't care about it.

>>558659960
Not even restricted to royals either, Spaniards have long ass names too. Look up Picasso's full name. I even had a college professor whose family was Spanish and he had a long ass full name too.

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>>558684354
>metal or aluminum and smells like oil
yeah thyey should've made the new girl into a robowaifu
they're so behind the times

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>>558684763
We had a machine waifu in 7 you can fly her anytime you want.

>>558683917
I'm still team Nothing Ever Happens until signifigant strikes take place.

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>>558685769
I prefer the red head version

>>558683917
why does america need the alpha predator 5th gen superplane to deal with sand people?

>>558698748
She's gotta get out and stretch her legs every now and then, bomb some sand people and maybe just maybe Iran gets a plane in the air and she can finally get that intercept she keeps dreaming of.

>>558634950
>Like Belka still exists
tbf they only really have a bit of belka left after the breakaway states and the big chunk that osea ate. it's like if america was left with only michigan

>>558705027
But as far as Belka cares they did save the best part of Belka and thats all that matters. Getting revenge on the world is a fun national hobby

>>558709004
that would imply michigan is the best part of america

>>558709291
Never said it was (Its not btw) but as far as Belka cared the part of Belka they kept was the best part. They didn't even bother nuking the lines until Osea was about to enter North Belka aka the BEST Belka.

I hope the first-person cutscenes with the silent protagonist will all feel really awkward as the characters fawn over you like you're a severely disabled Make A Wish kid

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Why do I fucking love airplanes so much, bros
tfw no big airshows where I live

>>558711196
I hope they let us walk around during dialogue while saying nothing in response like it's Half-Life.

>>558712023
I think keeping it on-rails adds to the wheelchair-like Make A Wish experience

>>558711196
It has potential for NFS Most Wanted/Carbon-style hilarity and I welcome it

>>558712017
Fun Fact: That carrier appeared in Tora Tora Tora as the stand in for Enterprise returning to Pearl.

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>>558715521
Being a naval aviator in the 50s let alone world war 2 had to be fucking terrifying

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>>558716686
They had it worse in the 30's

>>558717232
At least there if you botched the "landing" you had plenty of altitude below you to recover, instead of going into the drink

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>>558717423
Luckily, that fear never really went away

>>558717861
I wonder if that big ol' radar dish provides any significant lift

>>558717861
Real life Looney Toons. Also shows how big carriers are when that plane just disappears under the flight deck for so long before regaining altitude.

>>558717423
If you botch that landing it could damage your wings and you won't recover only fall.

>>558717861
>webms you can just hear the Indiana Jones music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfEtHZsmq20

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>>558723328

planes

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tenjin hidetaka shinden

>>558727570
Very nice.

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>>558728565
would be epicsauce if the special edition for 8 had a tenjin painting as the cover boxart instead of the usual edited cg render

>>558727570
Never really thought how good Phoenix colors work on the Shinden

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What kind of country is the Republic of Sotoa?
The Republic of Sotoa is a nation located in the western part of the Belusa Continent, separated by the outer ocean to the east of the Yujia Continent. It features a diverse range of environments, including dry grasslands, mountainous regions, deserts, and oasis zones. In ancient times, it was established as a chieftain federation by multiple nomadic tribes. It transitioned to a republic through rapid modernization in the 20th century, but even now, longstanding powerful clans maintain strong influence over politics and the military. Having modernized its military forces through contemporary wars, it is a country currently facing challenges from desertification and water resource issues. Peep!
#ACECOMBAT #ACE8

>>558732192
Cool flag

>>558732192
>Clans

Alright time for some Dezgra shit

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>>558732192

>>558732192
Clan fuckery? I smell an enemy civil war coming.

>>558732192
so they ARE iranian

>>558739734
Irano-turkic-algerian.

>>558732192
>cool-looking flag
Sotoa did nothing wrong.
Death to the FCU.

You know if there's one thing I wish they actually kept fron Assault Horizon/ it's the plane destruction. I think they kept it in Infinity since Infinity reused basically all of AH's model, but in 7 it seems like the aircraft all just have one damaged state they always go into with no variation.

>>558754489
You might be in luck, AC8 is apparently implementing a newly-patented physics system that takes into account the state of a crashing aircraft and its parts when calculating its trajectory, including the possibility of ground destruction as a result.

>>558757972
I do remember seeing them mention the physics in an interview, yeah, it's got me hopeful honestly. Especially after you get stuck in a protracted dogfight for a while seeing the enemy plane fall apart based on how you damaged it would make it even more satisfying. And seeing pilots bail out would be pretty cool too, I noticed some parachutes after downing fighters in Project Wingman. Stuff like this isn't required but they're little touches that make the games more immersive and cool.

>>558698748
There's a difference between the insurgent with a HMG on a pick-up and a state with actual SAMs and an air force, even if it may have been mauled in the past months. The houthis actually managed to threaten two F-16s and shot down a number of Reapers.
Do not underestimate an opponent just because he has a different skin colour.

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>>558405751
my guess is that it was a texturing error and the flag got flipped, or maybe the one in the trailer was the correct orientation and they accidentally flipped it on the post?

>>558754489
PA ported the exact same destruction animations from AH into 7.
They were just used for the enemies instead of the player.

>>558771187
Believe me, they are not the same. God knows I played enough AH to tell.

>>558405386
I have no where else to say this.
But instead of a missile or pull up alert, all I want is a mod that replaces it with
>CORTISOL WARNING CORTISOL CORTISOL CORTISOL

you dont deserve this bump

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I’m a little disappointed PA didn’t name the rest of the countries around Sotoa and Yuktobania for the extra world building while working on Sotoa’s lore they fleshed out basically all of Osea for 5 and Zero I just want these countries to have names finally. When I first heard Sotoa was the antagonist nation I figured we’d finally get that verusea world building

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>>558782568
I wish aggressor liveries were just the default paint scheme for planes instead of Air Superiority Grey. The F-35 aggressors have an awesome camo design, and on that note I wish the Japanese would paint their F-35s blue.

>>558800328
Maybe all those other little countries are part of Yuktobania?

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>>558801067
AC5 confirmed those aren’t states within Yuktobania, but separate countries. Looking at picrel now it’s interesting Clavis isn’t named anymore

>>558803736
Huh. Also seems like Griswall was the name of Aurelia at this point in time. I checked my copy of Aces at War as well and the Verusan Continent map is practically unchanged as well. It has been almost two decades in universe since AC5, maybe some of those smaller countries joined up with Yuktobania like a lot of smaller Usean states joines the FCU.

>>558806436
It’s possible, and idk why I’m using images of maps from AC5 briefings when I have my own copy of Aces at War as well for a more updated map oops glad to know you confirmed it legit hasn’t changed at all over there though. I still find it interesting they came up with a lore reason the Anean countries aren’t named in AC5 cause they also tried to form a union which fell apart. I wonder how they felt about the Circum-Pacific War reaching their waters in the Razgriz Straits

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>>558800387
Air superiority grey is beautiful in its own right.

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>>558807646
I had no idea about the Anean Republic thing, neat. Gotta suck working backwards like that to make Strangereal into an actual setting but I think they do a good job all things considered.
>>558808897
Of course, but it gets a little boring when it's on everything and especially 5th and 6th gen planes can look pretty samey when they're all grey. It also looks really good on Eastern Bloc planes too.

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>>558811651
>Of course, but it gets a little boring when it's on everything
Well, thats why AC has unlockable skins that reference aggressor camos, prototype liveries, etc. Its what incentivizes people to work for those skins. I'm sure 8 will be no different.

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>>558812187
Hopefully we get a fuckton of skins in the base game. There's so many ones from previous games they could bring back and new IRL liveries to reference.

OSEA OSEA OSEA OSEA OSEA OSEA

So what are the current projections for the release date? Doesn't seem like they'd want to compete with GTA6 so maybe late December after everyone has already played it?

>>558813224
I feel like they're gonna aim for a summer release to get ahead of GTA6.
GTA6 and the inevitable GTAO2 is gonna suck up all the oxygen for games in a two month window around its release.
Recent Kono-posts indicate the game is content complete and in QA/polishing, and the recent trend of background lore posts from all official Ace Combat social media accounts means we're getting the ramp up for the promotional period right now. If it was slated for a December release, I feel like they would still be keeping total radio silence.

>>558813796
Yeah I assumed summer release as well, fall would be a bad idea normally for AC but especially with GTA 6 like you said

>>558813224
Release date trailer at SGF, August or late July release date.

i hope the carrier in 8 has working bathrooms

>>558808897
No it's not, it's fucking boring and lame.

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Some of you need to be scale modelling pilled and realize the sheer artistry that comes from lovingly weathered grey.

>>558820513
I struggle enough getting airbrushing Because whenever I want to paint the weather will always go to shit. I live in fear of oranges

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Year of the Superbug

>>558825692
Classic bug has much more sovl.

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>>558827076
I quite like both of them personally. The Legacy Bug is kinda cute and smol kinda like eurodoritos are, but I like the big leading edge root extensions and wider wings for the Super Bug. It's kinda why I like the Viper Zero just a bit more than the normal F-16.

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gunship grey >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> air superiority grey

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCHbs2Jiu4w
Jesus Christ this guy makes the F-104 look downright nimble

>>558836067
It also makes War Thunder look like a good video game instead of a skinnerbox run by the greediest Russian stereotypes imaginable. Apparently the F-104 was or is extremely strong at its BR.

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>>558732192
Doesn't matter what translator your using it can not understand Versa as the continent name. When I use twitters translate function it called it the Belusa continent same with google.

>>558739734
>>558740230
Alright Kono you did this to yourself you KNOW what you must include in the game now.

why do i hear flamenco music

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>>558844131
I have no clue

>>558844131
Oh no.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dw0h2AksKT0

>>558844131
Would you call jousting one of your strong suits?

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<<Glad to see you boys finally made it up>>

We're bombing Sotoa right now

>>558859676
I bet the Belkans are behind this.

So how's that pivot to China going?

Sources tell me the Tomcats are stable.
Please God

>>558863552
pray that a bunch airforce pilots decide to defect with their tomcats

>>558863552
just spoke to the big man upstairs, he said no

>>558863552
They're gone man

>>558859676
Of course I find out it started here. Not from the news or /k/, but the funny plane game general.
>>558862514
Iran is technically in Asia :^)
>>558863552
There's a really good chance they all died last year when Israel was running laps in their airspace, and from what I understand they were essentially husks by that point anyways. The Tomcats are gone man, I'll be outside.

>>558864158
rip

Honestly, to me it has always looked like F-14 has shoulder pads
I'm not exactly upset that there's less of 'em left intact in this world

>>558877441
it's a massively overrated plane and the only reason you see so many autists overrating it is because they saw top gun as kids

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ace combat missions for this feel

>>558882970
Nowadays I mostly see people ragging on it instead of overrating it, most autists you see bawling for the iranian f14s getting destroyed just want to handwave their plane autism and deep down wanted to see it get shot down in the air for some poetic bullshit.

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>>558862514
Sandbox Eternal. We're all teenage dirtbags, baby.

>>558885106
>bawling for the iranian f14s getting destroyed
do people forget these are war machines whose ultimate purpose is to go into combat and risk getting destroyed?
do plane autists actually develop romantic feelings for planes?

>>558885376
>do plane autists actually develop romantic feelings for planes?
Its called plane autism for a reason

>>558885505
my plane autism stops at wow planes are so cool

>>558885376
>do plane autists actually develop romantic feelings for planes?
That is quite literally a symptom of autism, intense object personification.

>>558885251
One of the reasons it's been so eternal is because of those Islamic Republic fucks funding and arming every retard with a grudge, so maybe taking them off the board will calm things down.

>>558885376
Personally, my sorrow comes from never being able to see one fly in person. I was holding on to hope that a few flyable units would survive for airshows.

>>558886227
you'd think with a plane so iconic there would be one or two excentric rich planefags pumping dollars into restoring/keeping an airframe or two airworthy

>>558886670
They legally can't. Tomcat's were rendered unflyable by congressional law. Specifically, the parts that make Tomcats flyable had to be destroyed, in order to prevent Iran from getting their hands on them.

>>558887367
>in order to prevent Iran from getting their hands on them.
maybe they shouldn't have sold them f-14s to begin with, fucking retards

>>558887925
But the CIA installed stooge would never get overthrown. They had the killteams they trained kill all the """"commies"""" so there's no other group which would be angry enough and organized enough to remote our pet dictato-- oh nevermind.

>>558887925
How could you predict that the leader of the country you helped put in power and sold the jets to made the people so fucking mad they preferred some theocratic loonies and started a revolution over it?

>>558888371
that whole part of the world was always going to remain an unstable powder keg for decades

>>558883180
The radar destruction missions from 4 and X.
>>558885376
I only feel sad because I was hoping at least one of their Tomcast of Theseus would wind up in a museum to gawk at. I don't feel bad about all the Flankers or Fulcrums that have been shot down in Ukraine, or the Rafales India lost. The latter case gives me a roundabout way of making fun of the French so I find it funny more than anything. Unless a plane is very rare/1 of 1 or it gets destroyed in an air show crash like that P-63 crashing into a B-17 a couple years ago it's whatever.
>>558888371
I've never understood why Iran was the only other country to get Tomcats personally. What made them so special?

>>558902476
>I've never understood why Iran was the only other country to get Tomcats personally. What made them so special?
Nobody else wanted them and had the cash to pay for them. As iconic as the Tomcat was it was also a maintenance nightmare.
Why bother with that when you can just have F-16s or Mig-29s(depending on which side of the cold war you were on).

>>558902476
>I've never understood why Iran was the only other country to get Tomcats personally. What made them so special?
They wanted them. They were given an option between the F-14 and F-15, and they went with the Cats.

>>558902908
and why did iran want tomcats anyway
they dont even have a carrier

>>558902908
That's true.
>>558902984
Huh. Maybe they just thought the Tomcat looked cooler.
>>558903327
Apparently they wanted an interceptor because the MiG-25 spooked them.

>>558903327
No idea honestly. There's some speculation that they preferred the F-14s radar to the F-15 for a pure intercept role against the russkies constantly flying over the airspace.
If you're conspiratorial you could claim that the US pushed them toward the F-14, a very maintenance heavy plane requiring a constant stream of parts from the US, to ensure their long-term support. That didn't end up happening and they somehow cobbled together the parts themselves(kinda, sorta, but had to write off a lot of airframes).
Ultimately it might just be down to the timing(F-16s weren't an option) and the random whim of some Iranian official thinking the F-14s swing wings were cooler than the F-15 being a big brick with wings.

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bro is that fucking three strikes

>>558903327
The AWG-9 and the Phoenix. The F-14 was the most advanced fighter in the sky at the time, with a TWS radar and Fox-3 Missiles. You only need to look to the Iran-Iraq war to see how that turned out, the Iraqi's got absolutely bodied by the Tomcats. The F-15 would have likely performed well too, but nothing else offered the standoff capabilities the F-14 did at the time.
>>558903902
Outside of its capabilities, there's an anecdote of the Shah being personally won over by the wing sweep mechanism during a flyby. Probably an urban legend.

>>558904131
THE SKY IS CONNECTED

>>558903902
MiG-25 was so based. Imagine being a piece of shit but everyone is terrified of you

>>558904131
>Operation Epic Fury
Please tell me this is some sort of satirical news site.

>>558888927
i mean the dinosaurs should have just known a meteor was gonna hit them and just hid

you're only saying shit like this because we have hindsight to thank for it you retard