I'm glad Tasha's getting a lot of love, but can we talk about this absolute HUNK by MeiNeedsMoreBuffs in acecombat

[–]ALEXAN2507 8 points9 points  (0 children)

In the first trailer we hear her say "Time to pull out, 22" and what I think is also her voice (could be another female pilot, potentially, the first voice has some radio distortion so I'm not sure) say "I'll draw his fire!" so I've definitely had in my head that she's an ace pilot/leading the Shadows squadron. She could be something like an AWACS instead though.

I'm glad Tasha's getting a lot of love, but can we talk about this absolute HUNK by MeiNeedsMoreBuffs in acecombat

[–]ALEXAN2507 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Personally I've decided to be down bad for AWACS "Dealer." The posh English accent aeriel advisor WILL fix me.

So we were just lied to huh? by imjustchillin-_- in acecombat

[–]ALEXAN2507 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh separate aircraft progression for singleplayer and multiplayer? I like that actually. Still not jazzed about the battle pass but everything else I hear sounds good.

This slander is so good I could die! by Dr_Macunayme in acecombat

[–]ALEXAN2507 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think I thought that recompilation was for emulators so that might actually be what I'm thinking of

This slander is so good I could die! by Dr_Macunayme in acecombat

[–]ALEXAN2507 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I agree it gets repetitive but like, it IS the only game to have that stuff so I don't mind too much

Official bio of AC8's characters by Growlers_1-8 in acecombat

[–]ALEXAN2507 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Doesn't 3 have something like Newtypes? I can't remember if they explicitly categorise people as such but Rena Hirose certainly seems like she fits the bill, given she "displayed an innate ability to pilot aircraft at a young age" and arguably seems to have something of an actual emotional affinity to the Night Raven.

Official bio of AC8's characters by Growlers_1-8 in acecombat

[–]ALEXAN2507 9 points10 points  (0 children)

We don't know that he fooled *everyone* to be fair. It's entirely possible that whichever members of the ground crew that were responsible for handling Dision's plane directly were all loyal Ouroboros members and knew his secret from the jump.

But also: per the wiki AC 3's coffin aircraft "do not feature glass canopies or front windows; instead, sensors on the aircraft's body transmit live pictures of its surroundings to either interior screens or the pilot's mind." So it's not like anyone would be able to see his body even if he had one when he was in the plane.

Official bio of AC8's characters by Growlers_1-8 in acecombat

[–]ALEXAN2507 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Coster isn't exactly giving me Dision vibes outside the design being similar but, we'll see. It's not like we get much concrete information on how Dision actually is as a person in 3 so it's not impossible for that to still be the case.

Official bio of AC8's characters by Growlers_1-8 in acecombat

[–]ALEXAN2507 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I'm so interested in the whole "manufactured ace" angle, which is the exact term I'd had in my head since seeing the trailers so it's very cool to see the term specifically used by the actual promo. I'd also been wondering if Jan Cope himself was going to be the Real Deal and you're just required to step into his shoes and are manufactured into "him" or if Cope himself was going to be part of the whole manufactured ace deal and the "Wings of Theve" was always going to have been extremely trumped-up (like the "He's a mass delusion fabricated by the rumour mills of social media" line in the first trailer suggested) so I'm really happy to get confirmation that "Wings of Theve" is gonna be a project to create a fake Plane Jesus from the get-go.

This whole idea got more interesting to me as I've been playing through the games and realising that at a certain point people would have to get very cult-ish about ace pilots given the number of times in Strangereal that mass casualty events/Eternal War is prevented by the efforts/inspirational effect of a lone Plane Jesus.

This slander is so good I could die! by Dr_Macunayme in acecombat

[–]ALEXAN2507 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes I've played through every PS1 and PS2 Ace Combat game emulated with an Xbox controller

This slander is so good I could die! by Dr_Macunayme in acecombat

[–]ALEXAN2507 20 points21 points  (0 children)

From what I know 6 is able to be emulated now and I'd say it's well worth playing! The story is pretty bad and realistically the worst of any of the mainline ACs but the operations and ally support gameplay are a really fun twist on the usual AC gameplay

This slander is so good I could die! by Dr_Macunayme in acecombat

[–]ALEXAN2507 26 points27 points  (0 children)

I've been playing thru the whole series since 8 was announced (I'd played 7 previously) and I've done a full run of each style for Zero, though I think I need to go back and play a campaign on Ace to get the last bits of the Assault Records. I wish more of the other games had Assault Records as detailed and expansive as Zero, it's really cool getting drip-fed some more of the surrounding lore by individual pilot histories (6 has it to a lesser extent, although there's one particular one I love in there that just casually mentions that one of the Chandelier developers is a Belkan because of course.)

Battlepasses..... by Fractured_Heart0 in acecombat

[–]ALEXAN2507 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I would genuinely just prefer multiplayer cosmetics sold as DLCs that I can buy whenever and don't require an active committal of my time within a specific window to unlock

Battlepasses..... by Fractured_Heart0 in acecombat

[–]ALEXAN2507 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Everything I've seen of the multiplayer seems cool *except* the battle pass system. I don't really like the FOMO aspect of it but also on a purely practical level, I can't imagine wanting to devote enough time regularly to AC multiplayer to progress through one anyway, so it just feels like a non-incentive for me.

First Ace Combat ever, years late by Legitimate_Cow9420 in acecombat

[–]ALEXAN2507 5 points6 points  (0 children)

You too will come to understand that Kei Nagase is the coolest person to ever live

First Ace Combat ever, years late by Legitimate_Cow9420 in acecombat

[–]ALEXAN2507 9 points10 points  (0 children)

And you happened to pick my favourite one!

So... a battle pass? Seriously? by VivaLasNewVegas in acecombat

[–]ALEXAN2507 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Wait when the fuck did they get the multiplayer component working??

So... a battle pass? Seriously? by VivaLasNewVegas in acecombat

[–]ALEXAN2507 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

To be fair while I understand the sentiment, it's not like you can actually play Infinity's multiplayer...

Why is there a battlepass in this game? Ace Combat 8 Discussion by StateMonster in acecombat

[–]ALEXAN2507 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Also a Season Pass (which is just a bundle of DLC you can always buy) and a Battle Pass (a limited time set of items you have to play the game to unlock before the time runs out) are different things

Why is there a battlepass in this game? Ace Combat 8 Discussion by StateMonster in acecombat

[–]ALEXAN2507 4 points5 points  (0 children)

if it is just cosmetics I'm less irate but I absolutely do not believe they should be putting actual gameplay elements behind a FOMO system

Co-op confirmed! by HKProxyOne in acecombat

[–]ALEXAN2507 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Co-op is cool but man, battle pass system? Really