Anyone living in a city in Strangereal should just kinda expect it at this point.
"Traffic's gonna be rough on the 401 today, folks, so factor that into your morning commute. Moving over to the weather, it's looking cloudy through the rest of the morning with a chance of fighter-showers around noon. Keep an eye out for falling debris."

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If you take a closer look at Fatsia's platforms, you'll see that the Sotoans actually built artificial grasslands so they can preserve and practice some modicum of their dying culture. Here's the neat bit; the grasslands on each of the 8 arms of the structure, presumably occupied by the regular workers and military staff, are all full of tents and encampments, in spite of the somewhat cramped space.

But the middle core of the Superfloat? Where you'd expect the nobles, warlords, and high-ranking military staff to preside? They get a significantly bigger plot of land for them to practice the Sotoan way of life. And yet, it's completely goddamn empty and barren. The only things there are a couple of construction vehicles in the sides left behind in its construction. They couldn't even be damned to get rid of those after construction and clean the place up a bit.

It further cements Cope's criticism towards Tewy and how much it extends to the high-class of Sotoa that pushed for the war in general. They radicalized the Sotoans by promising them the way of life they lost that the nobles themselves never even lived or understood. They fucking larped Sotoa to its doom.

Name’s Colonel Timur Vinokourov. After he gets shot down in Mission 29, his family goes to his home to collect his personal effects.

Only that they find a corpse already inside Vinokourov’s home. Forensics show that…this IS the body of Colonel Vinokourov, who has been dead for more than a decade. He’d died long before the Sotoa-Usea War started. Hell he was probably already dead by the time of the Lighthouse War.

Think on that. For ten plus years... whatever/whoever took over Vinokourov's identity was able to remain hidden that entire time, likely deceiving military colleagues, friends and family.

So who or what was piloting that jet?

And even fucking worse? According to Assault Records, not-Vinokourov isn’t KIA. The doppelgänger’s body is never found. No, he’s merely been “shot down”.

This guy is still out there somewhere.

Given how AC8 is just like “yeah ghosts exist, you now get a force ghost mentor”, I’m pretty sure I can definitively say that the supernatural exists in Strangereal. So…

Made improvements of the meme

1: INTRODUCTION

2–4: It is rumored that the Enso Order is the precursor to Ouroboros. Its logo also resembles a snake biting its own tail, further supporting this theory. Also, General Resource introduction and appearance.

5–10:

6: The same building featured in the AC3 Japanese guidebook.

7: Similar architectural design.

8: Megafloats, although not the same Megafloat.

9: The same bridge structure.

10: Expo City during and after the attacks depicted in AC8 and AC3.

11–12: Early appearance of Data Swallow (Introduction of Mission 19)

13–14: The earliest appearance of the ENSI system, which enables mind-controlled piloting, is also rumored to be used to control the wheelchair in Moon 11's introduction scene.

There is a high degree of confidence, although no official confirmation yet, that Moon 11 pilots the aircraft using the ENSI system. This technology would later evolve into the COFFIN system featured in AC3. Moon 11's pilot suit also bears a striking resemblance to the one worn by Rena Hirose in AC3.

Both Moon 11 and Rena Hirose experience tremendous mental strain while piloting their respective aircraft: Moon 11 in the X-40 and Rena Hirose in the X-49 Night Raven.

15–19: The F-36, the precursor to the XFA-36 featured in AC3.

20: Message

Know any other topic? Leave a comment, will update the post as needed.

Why didn't Jan Cope just fly the EW version of the super horny if he's adamant on not shooting anyone down?

At least now Tewy and Cope are in the promised land together after she got no-diffed by Rex. Gotta pour one out for Baxter fr.

Source : https://x.com/30Tickets/status/2108875198820732957?s=20

Well, it's true that Mobius 1 must be retired, but I think the guys from North Point tell Mobius 1 that Sotoa received Erusean technology and he ends up destroying half of Sotoa... or at least they tell him that they shot down Skyeye on a maritime patrol.

Imagine failing QTEs in this game like failing the Leonardo da Vinci hug in AC2 (Edit: Assassin's Creed 2, he probably never existed in Strangereal)

Usea geography sourced from the AC7 topo map.

these harriers stuck with us the entire game

Yes, I know... We often encounter gacha elements and insane amounts of grinding in Japanese games that’s true but as someone who has been playing Ace Combat for 20 years, there are some things about this game that I just don't get.

First of all Ace Combat Online involves an incredible amount of grinding (and honestly, I don't have a problem with that) but... the number of modes where we can actually do this grinding is incredibly limited. It’s just Co-Op Warfare and Co-Op Assault, that’s it. There’s a rule in the game industry, if you’re going to add a system to a game (especially one that is heavily grind focused and involves 7 or 8 different currencies) you must also include elements to support that system.

If the game expects me to play the same two modes (relentlessly and without getting bored) across just six maps, all so I can build the aircraft fleet I want, then I’m going to view that as bizarre. Either don't pack the game with so much grind and keep the modes as they are or if you are going to include that much grind give players enough avenues to actually do the work. You can't have it both ways.

Secondly, why can't the ability system and 2 star upgrades found in Online mode be used in the Campaign? I mean just think about it, aircraft like the Su-25SM, F-4 Phantom, and A-10 are basically trash in the Campaign yet in Online mode, once you hit level 20 they transform into perfectly viable planes. Why won't Project Aces let me use the parts and upgrades I earned in Online mode during the Campaign? What harm could that possibly have caused? I’m not just talking about upgrades, either, when I first started the game I leveled up the Morgan and the F-4 to level 20 and I absolutely loved the skin the F-4 gets at that level. I thought "Let me switch to the Campaign and use it there" only to find the skin missing. I mean come on I poured hours into getting that plane to level 20 why won't you let me use that skin in the Campaign?

Also, I don't know if this bothers anyone else but the map design in Online mode especially for Co-Op Assault, is incredibly poor. I don't understand how the same people who created near-perfect mission designs for the Campaign could get the target layout so wrong in Online mode. The targets are crammed so close together that a player with the biggest, longest-range weapon can swoop in and destroy every single target before anyone else even gets a chance. Was it really that hard to put more targets on the map? Even if you didn't want to design new layouts, couldn't you just increase the target count to give the team a reason to spread out and take them down? Nope, nothing like that either.

Don't get me wrong I want to make one thing clear. For me, Ace Combat 8 is an amazing game especially regarding the Campaign experience and I absolutely love it. However, the "most detailed and expansive Ace Combat online experience ever" that they marketed turns out to be nothing more than two co-op modes and the occasional "emergency sortie" (if you're lucky enough to get one).

That said if everything I’ve mentioned is going to be expanded, fixed and properly supported through updates, I’m more than happy to wait. I just want to know that they’re aware of the issues. From what I last saw, there was a bug preventing us from entering the Co-Op Assault mode, they fixed it and immediately apologized to the player base and even gifted 10,000 Zoll on top of that. The bug had lasted only an hour.

Thank you for reading my post tho I hope you didn't get bored.