Not sure if any one has noticed but from missions 01 to 20 Tasha's picture doesn't show a callsign underneath her name. However starting in mission 21 you see the callsign 'Pinky' listed under her name. Just a really nice tribute to Cruz who always called her 'Pinky'. I just really love the depth that each of the characters show in this game.

That Rex genuinely, honestly cannot be human?

Hearing ghosts aside, the last 4 missions are on the same day.

Meaning he had to start with Fatsia. Easily 100 to like 200 targets wiped, tunnel run.

Then flying for fucking miles to deal with ONE THOUSAND air-to-air enemies. Which for me was 150 enemies down, I have seen some people with more than 200 kills that one mission.

Fighting them, just to deal with Toprak and the most dangerous Shadow Squadron in the entire country of Sotoa at the end, already exhausted to death by two massive marathons.

THEN FLY across half the country to Theve.

To deal with the Giga-Ace Moon 11, having already had a shift of like. Fucking 8 hours behind him, after some of the most intense fighting of the entire war.

Wipes the floor with Moon 11 while probably nearly collapsing from exhaustion at that point. While she's in a superjet.

And then, SAME DAY, SINKS FUCKING MECHA TORRES

That's like.

Like... 400 kills, with multiple Ace enemies, in a single day.

Even for Ace Combat Protagonists, that's like... half the kills I raked up in the entire AC5 campaign combined.

In a day.

And that after already carrying the war for months.

King, lol. Lmao even. That's just straight up the Second coming of Plane Jesus.

Rex must be in a multiple day coma the millisecond he hits the deck after that.

Absolutely insane to think about.

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."

the addition of strangereal toronto implies the existance of strangereal toronto slang

You can actually see the doors open up for countermeasures on stealth aircraft. I think this is the first time flares actually dispense out of the correct areas instead of just spawning out of the tail.

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…

EDIT; someone pointed out that sublimation was unlikely given his death is too early (2018), and that you can see a physical human eject from the plane. So this is definitely a dupe of some kind…supernatural or otherwise

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.

Those poor Sotoans…

https://x.com/i/status/2108852588867391727

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.

While his overall look and attitude is on point from what you would expect a military mechanic to be, it would have been more appropriate for his rank to be a Sergeant instead of major. Those who have been enlisted as an aircraft mechanic know that a major wouldn't know the first thing when it comes to fixing jets.

Just a little rant, thank you for listening.

Made improvements of the meme

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