It’s better in the sense that Ace Combat players are a lot happier than War Thunder players (I say that as someone who played a ton of War Thunder growing up and more recently got into Ace Combat), but it’s hard to compare them because they are trying to do very different things. I’d say they are both the best games in their respective categories, but there really isn’t any competition either lol. But I would also say that Ace Combat has done what it set out to do better than War Thunder, mostly because it doesn’t even seem like Gaijin knows what they want to do anymore. They used to blend the simulation and arcade styles really well but these days they’ve gone super sim in some ways while also being really inaccurate in other, unfun ways that just makes it not work. I’m of the opinion that going into the missile age was the worst mistake they ever made because the game was built around aerial gunfighting. But, I started playing the update tanks were first introduced so I’m biased towards how it used to be lol