I’m new to the series from Ace Combat 7, haven’t played 5 but I found missions 15, 19, 24 and the end of 28 to be challenging, I had to restart a few times for each of these 4 missions. The hardest part for S Ranking on Ace is you can no longer restart checkpoint to fill up ammo and health since there’s a penalty.

15, 19, 24 fails if you don’t protect or destroy a target within a short amount of time.

Originally posted by GhostHawk196:

I’m new to the series from Ace Combat 7, haven’t played 5 but I found missions 15, 19, 24 and the end of 28 to be challenging, I had to restart a few times for each of these 4 missions. The hardest part for S Ranking on Ace is you can no longer restart checkpoint to fill up ammo and health since there’s a penalty.

15, 19, 24 fails if you don’t protect or destroy a target within a short amount of time.

I didn't get ace combat zero, I just figured I can just download and play the ps2 era game on an emulator

Mission 9 can be annoying with the railgun spam and you have a point where you have like thirty seconds to bring three buildings down to stop the land battleship.

For a first time run, 15 will be difficult if you still have a slow plane at that point.

Mission 16 is annoying but not hard. You have to visually ID three ships before engaging them.

Mission 19 is another land battleship mission that's annoying but not hard.

Mission 27 is the epitome of target rich and that means a lot of fire coming your way. Plus, a short tunnel run.

Mission 28 is probably the hardest if you go into it expecting to missile spam the enemy squadron there. Time your shots for when they're vulnerable or gun them down. It's really long so losing at the end stings a bit more than usual.

Originally posted by Jonathan J. O'Neill:

Mission 9 can be annoying with the railgun spam and you have a point where you have like thirty seconds to bring three buildings down to stop the land battleship.

For a first time run, 15 will be difficult if you still have a slow plane at that point.

Mission 16 is annoying but not hard. You have to visually ID three ships before engaging them.

Mission 19 is another land battleship mission that's annoying but not hard.

Mission 27 is the epitome of target rich and that means a lot of fire coming your way. Plus, a short tunnel run.

Mission 28 is probably the hardest if you go into it expecting to missile spam the enemy squadron there. Time your shots for when they're vulnerable or gun them down. It's really long so losing at the end stings a bit more than usual.

does this game have missions like ace combat 5 where if a guy you are supposed to protect dies it's mission failed, I never had problems with getting shot down I always use to struggle on escort missions. luckily this has rookie mode though.

Originally posted by doomguy:

Originally posted by Jonathan J. O'Neill:

Mission 9 can be annoying with the railgun spam and you have a point where you have like thirty seconds to bring three buildings down to stop the land battleship.

For a first time run, 15 will be difficult if you still have a slow plane at that point.

Mission 16 is annoying but not hard. You have to visually ID three ships before engaging them.

Mission 19 is another land battleship mission that's annoying but not hard.

Mission 27 is the epitome of target rich and that means a lot of fire coming your way. Plus, a short tunnel run.

Mission 28 is probably the hardest if you go into it expecting to missile spam the enemy squadron there. Time your shots for when they're vulnerable or gun them down. It's really long so losing at the end stings a bit more than usual.

does this game have missions like ace combat 5 where if a guy you are supposed to protect dies it's mission failed, I never had problems with getting shot down I always use to struggle on escort missions. luckily this has rookie mode though.

Several. There are numerous escort missions but most are pretty straightforward and easy. Don't stray too far if they tell yo to stick close and fly out to meet aggressors before they get close if there aren't limitations. Most can take a ton of hits, even ones you wouldn't expect to.