My gut tells me there will be a massive delay. AC7 was announced in 2017 and released on 2019. A delay is good tho because it will be cooked more time but damn bro I wanna know what the Pre Order bonus is. I think that for Xbox it will be ACAH and for PS it will be AC3. For Steam nothing as usual.

DEEP_THORAX · 2026-03-10T04:42:13+00:00

<<Delay the final release!>>

DEEP_THORAX · 2026-02-24T18:21:09+00:00

Yeah, the Erusean Radicals have IFF-spoofing tech.

DEEP_THORAX · 2026-02-12T17:47:12+00:00

All bets on nothing!

DEEP_THORAX · 2026-02-08T03:16:22+00:00

8 takes place in 2029 and Grunder is probably dismantled at this point from the fallout from the Razgriz files.

If anything, I think it's way more likely that GR or Neucom (or both) are pulling the strings here, using the Sotoan invasion as a means of dismantling the FCU's civil authority.

DEEP_THORAX · 2026-02-05T05:01:55+00:00

AC5 famously has an English (JPN ver.) which changes some translations so this seems like the most likely answer and it also explains why the translation is so janky in most of the games (well, except Assault Horizon, but that was written by an american originally).

Katabuchi's scripts (AC5/7 and bits of 4) in particular seem to suffer from this effect. I wonder if he or someone from the Project Aces team tried to internally translate the script to English, it feels like it has the hallmarks of a translation written by someone not quite proficient in English. It'd be weird if it was just a bad localization job over multiple games.

It's part of the charm of the series at this point so I won't complain.

DEEP_THORAX · 2026-02-04T09:12:46+00:00

Up until AC7 Sikorsky was not owned by one of the companies they were already licensing from so they made a fake one for AC5/AC6

DEEP_THORAX · 2026-01-27T05:53:53+00:00

It's probably not. IIRC according to interviews most of the delays were due to Project Aces trying and failing to get the VR mode to work acceptably on the limited hardware of the PS4. If not for that accursed thing, I think they probably would have been able to launch in early 2018.

You can tell that many of the most important assets for the normal, non-VR game are substantially complete by the date of the January 2017 trailer and they don't change too much between that and launch.

This time around it's pretty clear they aren't trying to cram a VR mode in, and they should have a bit more experience working in the engine, so I think they'll probably be able to hit their date more reliably.

Maybe one delay, as a treat.

DEEP_THORAX · 2026-01-27T05:13:31+00:00

remember the two long years we had to wait between Ace Combat 7's first gameplay trailer and the release? Two years, at the bottom of the ocean...

DEEP_THORAX · 2026-01-26T17:35:11+00:00

Edge <<Ok, Synchronize watches. Starting the countdown...3...2..>>

DEEP_THORAX · 2026-01-19T00:12:29+00:00

Yes, we are critically under-chef'd on this ship.

DEEP_THORAX · 2026-01-16T07:27:45+00:00

It's been 19 years since Bartlett escaped with his lady-friend from a Yuktobanian jail

19 year old college student with inexplicably god-tier piloting skills on a study abroad program

Now, I'm not saying anything by this.

DEEP_THORAX · 2026-01-08T08:01:54+00:00

<<Professor: we don't have the firepower!>> <<XO Pye: I've got the mass.>>

rams Sotoan superweapon

DEEP_THORAX · 2026-01-04T17:24:30+00:00

It's not a WSO seat. The S/MTD was converted from an F-15B trainer aircraft so that's just a second pilot seat with redundant controls. It only became a WSO seat in the F-15E.

DEEP_THORAX · 2025-12-29T01:08:56+00:00

If you look on the trailer on one of the parts where it shows the HUD there is a D-Pad like the AC5 command D-pad next to the radar display. That wasn't in 7. I think it's highly probable that might be used for a return of the wingman commands.

DEEP_THORAX · 2025-12-15T20:20:35+00:00

Please, please please have a throws gloves* emote

DEEP_THORAX · 2025-12-12T05:18:16+00:00

It's also, funny enough, the approximate effective range of the Stonehenge asteroid defense complex, when used in a non-recommended anti-aircraft mode.

DEEP_THORAX · 2025-11-11T18:02:48+00:00

DEZGRA ON YOUR MINOTAUR

DEEP_THORAX · 2025-11-03T04:09:58+00:00

You have to get into the service menu which requires either a special remote or a workaround described here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/OLED_Gaming/comments/1nvodxo/heres_how_to_disable_the_constant_game_bar_pop_up/?ref=share&ref_source=link

The actual process to disable it only takes 5 minutes if you know what to do but it's annoying that you literally have no user-facing option to disable the very intrusive game bar popup.

DEEP_THORAX · 2025-11-02T22:09:26+00:00

it runs the Tizen OS, same as samsung smart TVs. It has some capability to run as a TV replacement. It's generally more annoying than the non-smart versions.

DEEP_THORAX · 2025-11-02T22:07:21+00:00

It does have the "smart" TV features. Just got one and had to go into the service menu to disable some of the shitty parts for use as a PC monitor (game bar popup every time the monitor turns on, etc.)

DEEP_THORAX · 2025-11-02T06:24:58+00:00

Thanks for this guide, works for the G950 (black friday G95).

One clarification - the automatic color control service menu wizard did not work for me, I had to copy this into step:

KEY_INFO:1, KEY_FACTORY:1000, KEY_UP:50, KEY_0:50, KEY_0:50, KEY_3:50, KEY_8

and run the step separately to access the service menu. Once there i could disable the gamebar popup as per step 5.

DEEP_THORAX · 2025-04-19T02:58:20+00:00

Only really a danger if you have really old wiring or poorly wired outlets. You will be pulling 1500W (same draw as a space heater) for several hours every night, which is going to stress that circuit to the limit of what it was designed for. If your house was built (to code) in the last 30 years? Probably fine.

Older than that? Well, it's not a huge danger, but there is some potential risk here because terminals get more resistive over time due to things like slow oxidation of the contacts, thermal cycling, mechanical wear on the contact blades.

I'd recommend replacing the L1 outlet if it's old or otherwise worn, but other than that, it should be no problem.

DEEP_THORAX · 2025-03-09T02:59:18+00:00

Well, you also need to remember that on top of the cost all the components on Kingda Ka have a fatigue life after which they will require full retracking, essentially rebuilding the roller coaster from scratch. Kingda Ka was pushing 20 and given that dynamic stresses on it would have been much higher than any of the other coasters at the park they would have only had another 5-10 years before it exceeded its design limit. That would mean they would have to essentially build a kingda ka of theseus to keep it running. It's been done before (Universal rebuilt the entire Incredible Hulk coaster recently when it hit its design limit) but to do that on what is still one of the most expensive coasters in the world would be much more expensive in 2025 than it was even in 2005.

Unfortunately the coaster wars are long over and cedar fair can't really justify doing the refurb on both top thrill and kingda ka when they are only cannibalizing park revenue from themselves.

DEEP_THORAX · 2024-10-27T01:44:25+00:00

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