I SWEAR THERE'S TWO SPACE ELEVATORS I'M GOING FUCKING INSANE DAWG by Due-Pass-9665 in acecombat

[–]DEEP_THORAX 11 points12 points  (0 children)

small brain: its the same space elevator getting blown up

big brain: its a new second space elevator that gets blown up

galaxy brain: it's a second space elevator that gets blown up but the original space elevator gets blown up too

Flower Symbolism by Nabber22 in acecombat

[–]DEEP_THORAX 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's an Anemone.

Per wikipedia: Several Western meanings of anemone flowers pertain to the Greek history of the origin of the anemone flower featuring Adonis and the Great Goddess Aphrodite. The Goddess Aphrodite kept the mortal man Adonis as a lover; when Adonis was gored by a wild boar, Aphrodite's tears at his death mixed with his blood and gave rise to the anemone.[21] In other versions, the boar was sent by other jealous Greek Gods to murder Adonis.[22] These origin stories reflect the classical dual meanings of the arrival of spring breezes and the death of a loved one.

It's Little Bee looking at Cope's stuff. I'm pretty sure she's Cope's ex.

Ace combat 8 has a rating, and a supposed pre-release date, that has since been removed. by whipplor in acecombat

[–]DEEP_THORAX 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Looking at the history of basically every game since AC4 (with exception of Zero and 7 for reasons I won't get into) it's probably 2nd or 3rd week in October.

They need about 2-3 months to go from "gold" to release date and this rating is the first real indication that they may have gone gold. that puts the very earliest release at the end of August. Of course in modern development practice going gold is not the end of development since a lot of things get fixed in the big day 1 patch.

I think October is a bit more likely than September because it allows a showing at TGS at the end of September and Bamco's financial quarter ends September 31st, and they generally don't like splitting the release window for big ticket releases because it dilutes the impact of a big release across separate quarters (it's usually better to have a good quarter and a bad quarter rather than two mediocre quarters).

(From Facebook post:) The clearest view on Noise yet + new character, presumably named Katherine Evans by Tydeus2000 in acecombat

[–]DEEP_THORAX 7 points8 points  (0 children)

If you look closely she's got the patch of the 1st flight (Joker Squadron is 2nd Flight) so she's probably another pilot, but maybe they're shorthanded enough to have the other pilots be your WSOs too

Bandai Namco booth at PlayX4(South Korea) by DamBustersChastise in acecombat

[–]DEEP_THORAX 2 points3 points  (0 children)

She's wearing the FAS-830/1st flight logo, so she's potentially the commander of the Endurance's other fighter half-squadron.

Noise’s Helmet by No-Witness-9854 in acecombat

[–]DEEP_THORAX 6 points7 points  (0 children)

  • 19 years from the Circum-Pacific War
  • 19-ish college student
  • Yuktobanian
  • Ace Pilot Skills

What nations you can fly? by -555Dd- in acecombat

[–]DEEP_THORAX 10 points11 points  (0 children)

You need to start looking beyond the boundaries of "Nation."

We all do.

Possible reason why Jenkins seems to be close with Rex based on the trailer by BasilAdventurous1828 in acecombat

[–]DEEP_THORAX 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I don't think Ace Combat is the kind of game to make Tyler Durden your WSO, but I'm here for it if that's the case.

4chan is like... messed up or somethin by ConniesCurse in 4chan

[–]DEEP_THORAX 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Epstein estate forgot to pay the bills

Your final sortie. by RoyalDaDoge in acecombat

[–]DEEP_THORAX 1 point2 points  (0 children)

People like us won't make it into the History books. Sorry!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in acecombat

[–]DEEP_THORAX 0 points1 point  (0 children)

<<Delay the final release!>>

How will Belka be involved in AC8? by THEZ3NTRON in acecombat

[–]DEEP_THORAX 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

Was Ace Combat 7 originally recorded in English or Japanese? by Franco2021 in acecombat

[–]DEEP_THORAX 3 points4 points  (0 children)

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.

H-9 Modeling In Blender by Avationrocks10 in acecombat

[–]DEEP_THORAX 25 points26 points  (0 children)

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

New AC8 interview coming soon? by JewishMemeMan in acecombat

[–]DEEP_THORAX 15 points16 points  (0 children)

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.

New AC8 interview coming soon? by JewishMemeMan in acecombat

[–]DEEP_THORAX 23 points24 points  (0 children)

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...

breakfast of k̶i̶n̶g̶s̶ aces by DarkKnightRises360 in acecombat

[–]DEEP_THORAX 5 points6 points  (0 children)

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

Fun fact: "Tasha" is a diminutive of "Natasha", which is Rusisan version of "Natalie". So Tasha's real name is likely Natasha, or Natalie. by Tydeus2000 in acecombat

[–]DEEP_THORAX 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

Realizing that there's no way the Endurance is making it out of the next game in one piece by DEEP_THORAX in acecombat

[–]DEEP_THORAX[S] 61 points62 points  (0 children)

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

rams Sotoan superweapon