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ProjectRaven has ACE COMBAT 8: WINGS OF THEVE

Oct 11 @ 1:44pm

I feel like im playing a different game. Why does nobody else seem to have issues with this game?

I don't want to ♥♥♥♥♥ for the sake of it, but I just don't see from posts and forums what im experiencing. Im on mission 28 (kinda my last straw) and I'm just beyond fed up with this game from every aspect of it. I expected AC7 but better and to me, it's just worse. The new flight models suck, the missions are incredibly frustrating, and CERTIAN bossfights (mission 28) and the worst ive ever seen in the series.

I'm getting really sick of missions telling me to bring loudout A, but then I get jumped and now I really should have brought loudout B. The land ship fights and certian gimmick missions are more frustrating than fun. I get that I can min max a plane per mission but on a first playthough im essentially getting jumped each mission. So far there's been a handful of fun moments but theyre always cut short by a suprise mid mission or a following frustrating mission. Combine all of this with nearly all the planes feel terrible until you get a 5th gen......idk what they were thinking.

The dialouge is TERRIBLE. Like worse than what I expected from Ace Combat. It's gotta be a translation issue or cultural difference or something but holy hell the writing is THE WORST. The story is garbage, the characters are annoying, Cope needs to shut up or move on to the afterlife, and my god the cutscenes drag on forever.

I'm stuck on mission 28 and this mission alone has convinced me I'm over this game after I beat it. I do not expect to come back. Looking through guides my only options are to make guns work, which i cannot do. Skill issue sure but I just cant. Or go grind out previous missions to get a plane with proxy missiles. Both options suck since I had zero reason to either of these before but now these bosses are literally immune to missiles so I guess im screwed.

Im so over it. Maybe mutliplayer could be cool but that also needs some changes. But I didnt hate that nearly as much as the campaign so far.

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Osssssssssuzu has ACE COMBAT 8: WINGS OF THEVE

Oct 11 @ 2:08pm

have you tried changing the camera to the old camera system? with that it feels normal to play. also parts exist and the planes dont feel ♥♥♥♥ except the a10. also try SASM´s in mission 28 when your to bad with guns. makes the whole fight be over in less then 2 minutes if unlucky. also it says what kind of weaponry is needed on the bottom right when choosing aircraft. there is 2 bars ,one for a2a and one for a2g the higher one bar is the more you should focus youre loadout on that , yes theres surprises but unless youre bad and cant adapt to it ,i dunno what to tell you. the dialogue ,i heard from clips the english voices which just sound dumb ,but i play them all with japanese va which just fits and sounds better. in my first playthrough i didnt really struggle and didnt even have a 5th gen till i started my second run

Mr.Infro[CZ] has ACE COMBAT 8: WINGS OF THEVE

Oct 11 @ 2:43pm

Maybe you should just refund, since clearly this game is not for you. Clearly a lot of ppl dont agree with you based on the reviews....

AWildAmericanAppears has ACE COMBAT 8: WINGS OF THEVE

23 hours ago

Originally posted by ProjectRaven:
Im so over it. Maybe mutliplayer could be cool but that also needs some changes. But I didnt hate that nearly as much as the campaign so far.

I doubt you're going to have fun in multiplayer if the campaign is causing the kind of frustration you've mentioned.

Might just be a wash. Not everyone is going to be a fan.

ProjectRaven has ACE COMBAT 8: WINGS OF THEVE

22 hours ago

Originally posted by AWildAmericanAppears:
Originally posted by ProjectRaven:
Im so over it. Maybe mutliplayer could be cool but that also needs some changes. But I didnt hate that nearly as much as the campaign so far.

I doubt you're going to have fun in multiplayer if the campaign is causing the kind of frustration you've mentioned.

Might just be a wash. Not everyone is going to be a fan.

i just think the match times are far too short

Krazy

22 hours ago

"bad dialogue" but you think 7 is better

lol

another one filtered by improved flight model and refusal to use guns

Last edited by Krazy; 22 hours ago

ProjectRaven has ACE COMBAT 8: WINGS OF THEVE

22 hours ago

Originally posted by Krazy:
"bad dialogue" but you think 7 is better

lol

another one filtered by improved flight model and refusal to use guns

i think they're both written pretty terribly but ac7 had much less dialogue and cutscenes were shorter so it wasn't as long of bad dialogue. also i never said the writing was better

sudebu

9 hours ago

Originally posted by ProjectRaven:
I'm getting really sick of missions telling me to bring loudout A, but then I get jumped and now I really should have brought loudout B. The land ship fights and certian gimmick missions are more frustrating than fun. I get that I can min max a plane per mission but on a first playthough im essentially getting jumped each mission. So far there's been a handful of fun moments but theyre always cut short by a suprise mid mission or a following frustrating mission.

this is the result of the average mission length getting longer and longer while still primarily relying on mechanics from games where the average mission was so short that they didn't need checkpoints.

midway through the game, i switched to only air superiority fighters even for ground focused missions because i knew that there would probably be some late incursion of fighters and i didn't want to take them on in an A-10 or whatever.

Jonathan J. O'Neill has ACE COMBAT 8: WINGS OF THEVE

9 hours ago

Honestly, I run Standard Missiles and one SP for dedicated ground targets. Generally the 8x LAGMs on the F-35C. I put all of my weapon upgrades into STD missiles as those are my primary with 8xLAGMs used for bulk targets like Land Battleships / Cruisers / Destroyers.

I've been able to handle every mission on Ace difficulty with that loadout. If I know it is a pure AA mission, I replace the LAGMs with HCAAs.

Egoist

8 hours ago

i want a history of log for every AC and still not out
they keep talking and talking when i get missile alert , railgun alert , keep dodging and aim with gun.
do you think the whole world is native speaker of eng or jp?

ProjectRaven has ACE COMBAT 8: WINGS OF THEVE

7 hours ago

Originally posted by Egoist:
i want a history of log for every AC and still not out
they keep talking and talking when i get missile alert , railgun alert , keep dodging and aim with gun.
do you think the whole world is native speaker of eng or jp?

What?

#10

Weizsgriff has ACE COMBAT 8: WINGS OF THEVE

7 hours ago

I think I got S rank on my first try on Pilot difficulty for every mission except the rebel escort one and the "tunnel run". The game is extremely easy and your standard missiles + gun are enough to clear everything on the map, the rest of the loadouts are just icing on the cake. Elite difficulty doesn't seem to change much from what I've tried of it, maybe Ace will be more difficult but I haven't tried it yet.

I am not trying to be mean but I don't understand how anyone can struggle in this game. This is not Dark Souls, it's an arcade shooter for people who want to turn their brain off after work.

Story wise, it's basically an anime, if you don't like anime then you probably won't like it.

#11

Nollix

6 hours ago

Unironically, and I don't overuse this like most of the larpers that say it, but Skill Issue.

#12

Verenti

5 hours ago

Originally posted by Weizsgriff:
I think I got S rank on my first try on Pilot difficulty for every mission except the rebel escort one and the "tunnel run". The game is extremely easy and your standard missiles + gun are enough to clear everything on the map, the rest of the loadouts are just icing on the cake. Elite difficulty doesn't seem to change much from what I've tried of it, maybe Ace will be more difficult but I haven't tried it yet.

I am not trying to be mean but I don't understand how anyone can struggle in this game. This is not Dark Souls, it's an arcade shooter for people who want to turn their brain off after work.

Story wise, it's basically an anime, if you don't like anime then you probably won't like it.

Every Ace Combat is anime, specifically Area 88.

#13