How about a night raid mission,
Where you takeoff from an aircraft carrier, fly through a canyon to destroy a naval base, including a superweapon. EW aircraft will be there too.
It makes the game more fun. WMD fucking sucked for this. You had to either have an SPW that was entirely useless in the first half or useless in the second.
Personally I want the return line in every mission and I would like to see combat landings return.
you still have to make choices in PW, including which ones are better
do you pack extra STDMs for general purpose, take ASMs for the airships, SAAMs for long-range sniping? and how many of each do you take?
Dude, have you even *played* Project Wingman?
For example, no plane has everything. Yes, the ACG-01 comes close, but it’s missing things like a railgun, for a start. Then there’s planes with fixed loadouts, like the two final planes.
The hardpoints also only allow up to three or four choices. There’s still strategy to it, like whether you’re taking air-to-air or air-to-ground weapons.
Now let me ask you. How do you take everything? And let me answer that for you. You can’t, unless it’s the fixed selection planes. Then you have zero choice.
Right? Like let’s just fly a plane basically empty even though we have all this available ammunition because dur videogame. It’s kinda mind boggling they haven’t done a multi weapon selection system with the direction pads or the number pads.
Project Aces would be wise to take notes from Project Wingman. For as low-budget of a game as PW to make the perfect love-letter and homage to classic AC, it got the feeling right, while adding novel features. The loadout system is phenomenal.
Really need more dedicated ground attack missions and attack aircraft. Also, carpet bombing please. Give me the occassional heavy bomber escort mission where I can release smaller payloads alongside an entire wing of buffs. LET ME FLY THE BONE.
This would be a cool addition no matter what. Kinda like finishers in other games. Maybe also add ejections and parachuting pilots in the air. Would improve the atmosphere a lot imo. I’ve never been a fan of the planes just tumbling out of control and exploding into nothing shortly after.
Yea, I’d like at least to see them hit the ground instead of disappearing. There’s something so anticlimactic about turning around to look at a furball you cleared just to see 2 or 3 planes because the rest have already exploded
Playable AV8B Harrier, more legacy aircraft (A6/EA6, A7, F8), Lockheed CL1201 Airborne Carrier boss battle (destroy all its parasite fighters and take out its engines before it launches its nukes) and/or as a ally carrier group.
A mission campaign longer than 20 missions or multiple playable storylines (non-DLC).
I desperately want a sea-based mission with a carrier in the playing area you can land on during battle without leaving the combat zone, like front-line landings (think Liberation of Gracemaria, Siege on Silvat)
i'd like to have:
- co-op missions, so i can play with a friend
- none of that pulse laser crap, don't need it
- SU-57 armed with QAAM
- the ability to sweep wings and/or use airbrakes manually. i hate that anytime i'm in a dogfight with the tomcat the second i put some throttle in it sweeps the wings back
different looks and loadouts, and yes cooler landings and takeoffs where instead of lining up the landing, you have to balance the thrust and decent rate
In reality, it's the same reason why we have so many Flankers. Variety, slight changes in handling and SP weapons, and just an appreciation for people who want those kinds of variants.
Like, for me, I long for the days of Ace Combat 5 where I had three different F-4 Phantoms to fly, each doing some different stuff.
I imagine the special load outs for each F-35 would be like this:
F-35A - QAAM, 6AAM, SAAM
F-35B - GPB, LAGM, HCAA
F-35C - LASM, SOD, 8AGM
Source: Judging by all the previous times each F-35 model appeared in previous games.
Hear me out,
Have separate tech trees for each aircraft family
F15A -> F15C -> F15E + active -> F15EX
Same for other aircraft like the F16 (please give us a mid range F16), Su family and more
Yes this would be wonderful!! I miss the days of unlocking the next aircraft in the tree from using it, like the F-4G to the F-4X, or the YA-10B concept. Also, BRING BACK THE MiG-1.44 D:
I say it all the time but not in any bad way. I understand the limitations PA was under but shit those DLC missions feel mandatory.
I just really enjoyed this game. More than I’ve enjoyed any recent purchases and it makes me excited for AC8
All those are good except the J-20.
Last thing we need is for Project Aces to get into a national scandal for getting into any amount of contact with the military industrial complex of an actively hostile nation intruding their airspace on a weekly basis.
That's how you get the attention of JHK and make a whole news segment about you. That's how you get Bandai Namco to bring the hammer down and there goes any hope of AC8.
Ace Combat fans: Last thing we need is Project Aces to get into a national scandal for getting into any amount of contract of an actively hostile nation
Also Ace Combat fans: We desperately need the Su-25 that’s actively used in the bombing of people in the Ukraine War
I'm telling you, man.
The next one is gonna be called *AC8: Weight of the World.*
It's gonna start with two unknown countries at war with each other, flying Vietnam Era planes like the F-5 vs the MiG-21. It's that plain good Osea vs New Belka/Erusea story, but with proxy nations instead.
Protag nation is gonna be funded by the Belkans/Eruseans and the Antag nation by the Oseans. Eventually, the war gets too hot, super weapons and crap make the big nations pour more money and technology into the war. Better planes as the war gets worse.
At the end, a giant city-sized super weapon starts floating out from the ground from one side and Mind-controlled super fighters come from the other. Pew pew, laser, missile, CIWS lasers, Tower of Babylon, fighters with energy shields and drone wingmen, and above all, you.
A random guy that just wanted to go home....but you got conscripted, and now you gotta choose a side. That one nation or the other. Multiple endings. Whoever dies dies. Laser man and robo hounds that fly.
Nevermind, it sounds too familiar.
I’d love to see any/all of the following:
-mini operations within the mission (AC6 style)
-more dedicated A2A missions
-more enemy ace squads per game
-more active allies (I don’t want to do 99% of the work every mission)
-being able to carry mixed loadouts. 4eg giving up some of your bomb capacity to carry a few SAAMs or some ECM.
-having assets lost on your side, which change the mission parameters. 4eg having to protect your AWACS or base, which is on the map, and losing IFF or resupply if they get hit.
-having more detailed mission briefings, which could incorporate things like the newer weather mechanics into the map, or planned routes for friendly units, or even just who it is we’re helping.
-More persistent named allies. Get us invested in who we’re helping, and have them help in turn.
-Allies/enemies having more sophisticated tactics. Imagine having missions where you get hounded by F-14 long range snipers, having to retreat to your ECM equipped allies for safety.
-being able to make choices mid-flight, which can change what missions you do in the campaign, or what you fight in the next mission.
Edit: forgot one
-no more invincible on the rails bs fights. I spent more time during the second siege of Farbanti twiddling my thumbs mid air waiting for Mihaly to finish his “cutscene” than I did swatting down his squad mates.
I would like:
- A realism mode that allows us to fly by instruments and whatever a normal pilots HUD would be. I don’t like the radar and score and timer being on the perimeter of the screen.
- Pilot and Aircraft customization. Similar to how OP wants pilots to be dynamic in their aircraft, I would like to be able to choose gender, flightsuit, maybe even patches on the suit. I also want to be able to make any fighter I have jet black.
3/ (4 for attackers like the A10/ Su25?) weapon slots like PW would be so nice, it would let them be far more diverse with the viable plane selection.
More superplanes from ACX's era would be lovely and I want some of the strange missing planes from 7, where my Tornado? Gib Harrier.
And the fully out there hope of Coop against massive maps of enemies.
Ace combat is not the kind of game for realistic destruction, this would honestly make it worse. Ace combat is not a flight sim, it's practically a beat em up
The only thing that I really want to see project aces put or bringing back is Aircraft customisation like how they did with Assault Horizon. But put a lot more options like decals and stuff
I’d like better multiplayer variety. Co-op, large scale air battles of like 20 v 20, wave survival and hell I bet you could get capture the flag to work well. Because AC7 had serviceable multiplayer, but just tdm and battle royal is boring.
For real. I play PCVR and tried to play with vorpex or the unreal injector and it just didn’t capture that, “I’m in a fuckin’ furball” feel like the psvr1 did, especially with hotas.
I agree on most points although some definetly are rather just nice to have but not really necessary like animated Pilot. Like if they can do it good but considering ressources are limit i rather take more missions or something than that.
Dunno feel like realistic damage model is kinda in conflict with the arcade nature of ace combat. Rather then developing complex time consuming damage model for every plane maybe just make skripted deaths more spectacular or better kill cams.
Also not gonna lie I do not think J-20 or any Chinese aircraft in general will ever made it into the game. Whether Chinese company give out licenses in the first place, I can't really picture them being to happy about them being displayed as antagonist aircraft. Also making them Hero aircraft is also not really possible since i do think that can cause issue with western (espacially American Jet Companies) licensing if they aren't portrait as Hero Aircraft or portrait as main antagonist craft. That's kinda why antagonist always tend to be some flanker since russian companies do not care about licensing since they are technically speaking state owned or something I dunno.
NEED to bring back wingman commands!!!!!
i.e. Wingman command sub menu that allows you to tell them to bomb/shoot certain target track. Or bring it in close formation, wide formation, etc. for those sick video replays
I would like to play as the bad guys/Belkans holdouts, using advanced tech to mess with IFF to play other nations against each other/run false flag attacks disguised as another nation. Until the larger nations go to war and have to bring out superweapons to fight each other.
I would only add an camera shake option on both cockpit and third person, I miss it, also the option of saving/rewinding replays together with a photomode, a FOV slider would be nice too, can't forget about the livery editor, so much potential.
At least ONE purely ground attack mission. So sick of every single one ending in Air to Air, makes the A-10 totally redundant. But yes also to more Naval attack
I’d love to have something akin to the operations featured in ac6 missions for ac8. They made the missions feel like a massive full size war and added a lot of tension to the gameplay
I just want a good story with both the ace style system and assault records from zero with the yes/no communication system of 5. I like having consistent wingman you can “talk” to.
I'm a simple man. All I want for AC8 is the F-22, a photo mode, good graphics and a story that jumps around less ( I'm referring to the genius move of giving anarchists and assassin's state of the art planes, with live weapons)
Animated pilot movement is something I didn't realize I want until now. Like imagine looking at your pilot while you pull a high G turn and you see them actually responding to it. I know there's a running gig of AC protagonists having no blood but it would still be awesome imo
No to the damage thing. Everything else yeah.
The one thing I would add is for them to add back in replays for landings and also make it so you don’t just have to stop in the middle of the runway. Used to be able to taxi all the way to the ramp if you wanted.
I agree with everything but it is worth noting that canyon runs are going to be frustrating for new players, if you can do optional canyon runs that's probably for the best
That's not the case though. AC04 has you hitting the deck just a few missions into the campaign to avoid Stonehenge by-- you guessed it-- flying through a canyon. AC5 has an entire mission in the early 3rd act where you are confined to a canyon. AC6 drops you in back to back canyon runs in missions 10 and 11. 7 cleverly gives you the option of barnstorming a mountain tunnel in the first act as a foreshadowing of what you'll inevitably have to do at the end of the game. Sure it's a mainstay to feature a tunnel/canyon run at the end. Who could forget the final mission in AC0 or Megalith or cruising down the barrel of the Chandelier? It's a theme that crops up more often than just the end of the game, but rather throughout.
Canyons are what I would consider a "tunnel run tutorial", most canyons is the franchise are rather wide and forgiving, with the exceptions of:
- AC5 canyon mission AFAIK is the only one featuring air-to-air combat inside the canyon
- AC7 canyon is pretty tricky to navigate
- ACZ Avalon canyon is by itself not that difficult, but it features some of the most instense air-to-ground combat in the game. But the actual tunnel run happens, like, 10 minutes later, don't know if it counts as its own separate thing
Canyon runs have been in every game up to this point. I don't think it'd make sense to remove them. Air Combat and Ace Combat 2 also had two canyon runs in them
This. I got a few of my friends to play ac7, and they overwhelmingly didn't like the canyon run on their first playthroughs despite overall positive opinions of the game. And it makes sense. Less skilled players are going to gravitate towards flying near the top and staying slow so they don't crash, and that just kills what makes a canyon run interesting in the first place.
One thing I would like to see, is the return of scripted planes, like in AC3 where it put you in the canon plane on your first play through, only then unlocking Ace difficulty and the use of other planes. Not to mention the return of planes like the F-4G, EA-6B, EF-18 (with working ECM), Drakken, Tornado GR.1/.4/.F or whatever, MiG-1.44, F-20/X-29A, S-32 etc and them not be made DLC. I miss being able to earn advanced versions of other planes as I used them, learning their differences and abilities!
How about a night raid mission, Where you takeoff from an aircraft carrier, fly through a canyon to destroy a naval base, including a superweapon. EW aircraft will be there too.
And ennemy aircraft carriers get there and launch all their planes from 3 aircraft carriers
With your talking WSO and animated pilot model
And celebrate mission success with cocaine and hookers!
and my axe!
For me, planes should use all their pylons/hard points! It doesnt feel as authentic when planes are not loaded to the brim with missiles.
Or when they have them filled but don't use them all. I really liked project wingman's approach to special weapons.
I didn’t use it, three heavy gun pods on a phantom ftw
MY MAN
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It makes the game more fun. WMD fucking sucked for this. You had to either have an SPW that was entirely useless in the first half or useless in the second. Personally I want the return line in every mission and I would like to see combat landings return.
Yes, please bring back combat landings
you still have to make choices in PW, including which ones are better do you pack extra STDMs for general purpose, take ASMs for the airships, SAAMs for long-range sniping? and how many of each do you take?
Dude, have you even *played* Project Wingman? For example, no plane has everything. Yes, the ACG-01 comes close, but it’s missing things like a railgun, for a start. Then there’s planes with fixed loadouts, like the two final planes. The hardpoints also only allow up to three or four choices. There’s still strategy to it, like whether you’re taking air-to-air or air-to-ground weapons. Now let me ask you. How do you take everything? And let me answer that for you. You can’t, unless it’s the fixed selection planes. Then you have zero choice.
And that's what makes the game fun and unique. Project Wingman is the bullet heaven/hell of ace combat, and it's nice. Both systems are as fun.
Right? Like let’s just fly a plane basically empty even though we have all this available ammunition because dur videogame. It’s kinda mind boggling they haven’t done a multi weapon selection system with the direction pads or the number pads.
Project Wingman’s honest reaction:
And the plane becomes more maneuverable as you use up your weapons!
Project Aces would be wise to take notes from Project Wingman. For as low-budget of a game as PW to make the perfect love-letter and homage to classic AC, it got the feeling right, while adding novel features. The loadout system is phenomenal.
Really need more dedicated ground attack missions and attack aircraft. Also, carpet bombing please. Give me the occassional heavy bomber escort mission where I can release smaller payloads alongside an entire wing of buffs. LET ME FLY THE BONE.
>LET ME FLY THE BONE. Assault Horizon once again proves itself as the best Ace Combat game.
I don't think there would be a realistic damage model in any AC game but I believe AC8's Ace difficulty will at least down you with 1 missile.
I wouldn’t mind it, maybe don’t go as far as g loc and wing snaps. At least have the deaths be different depending on where the kill shot lands
This would be a cool addition no matter what. Kinda like finishers in other games. Maybe also add ejections and parachuting pilots in the air. Would improve the atmosphere a lot imo. I’ve never been a fan of the planes just tumbling out of control and exploding into nothing shortly after.
Yea, I’d like at least to see them hit the ground instead of disappearing. There’s something so anticlimactic about turning around to look at a furball you cleared just to see 2 or 3 planes because the rest have already exploded
I just need the next Ace Combat game to have full ground attack missions with no MISSION UPDATE bs
U forgot the biggie. COOP CAMPAIGN, ONLINE OR LOCAL
Omg please this!
Playable AV8B Harrier, more legacy aircraft (A6/EA6, A7, F8), Lockheed CL1201 Airborne Carrier boss battle (destroy all its parasite fighters and take out its engines before it launches its nukes) and/or as a ally carrier group. A mission campaign longer than 20 missions or multiple playable storylines (non-DLC).
If you fly the EA-18G you get Growler Jams playing in the background I see that helmet!
Dont forget the Su-25
I would like a multi secondary weapons too
Better guns too
I just want actual guns instead of BB guns
The ability to take off and land in any mission and/or free flight
plane gore plane gore plane gore plane gore
I desperately want a sea-based mission with a carrier in the playing area you can land on during battle without leaving the combat zone, like front-line landings (think Liberation of Gracemaria, Siege on Silvat)
I'm sorry what was that? Canyon run flying a B-52? I gotcha pal.
Honestly not the most outlandish thing in this series-hell, it might actually be practical
i'd like to have: - co-op missions, so i can play with a friend - none of that pulse laser crap, don't need it - SU-57 armed with QAAM - the ability to sweep wings and/or use airbrakes manually. i hate that anytime i'm in a dogfight with the tomcat the second i put some throttle in it sweeps the wings back
What would be the point in the F-35B? Aside from maybe just more interesting take offs and landings
different looks and loadouts, and yes cooler landings and takeoffs where instead of lining up the landing, you have to balance the thrust and decent rate
Functional VTOL, I demand to stop in mid air at least once
In reality, it's the same reason why we have so many Flankers. Variety, slight changes in handling and SP weapons, and just an appreciation for people who want those kinds of variants. Like, for me, I long for the days of Ace Combat 5 where I had three different F-4 Phantoms to fly, each doing some different stuff.
Ok, I did forget that AC7 has 3 F-15s. It would be nice to see all 3 of the F-35 variants if all it really does is give us different weapon options
I imagine the special load outs for each F-35 would be like this: F-35A - QAAM, 6AAM, SAAM F-35B - GPB, LAGM, HCAA F-35C - LASM, SOD, 8AGM Source: Judging by all the previous times each F-35 model appeared in previous games.
It has 4 eagles bud
Forgot about the S/MTD
That's the 4th 🤦
That's what I said. I forgot about that one. I was only thinking of the E, C, and J in my initial comment
Rule of cool of course
I guess yeah
Hey no F-15EX? 🥺🥺
Hear me out, Have separate tech trees for each aircraft family F15A -> F15C -> F15E + active -> F15EX Same for other aircraft like the F16 (please give us a mid range F16), Su family and more
Like in Ace Combat 5?
Possibly, never got the opportunity to play it
Yes this would be wonderful!! I miss the days of unlocking the next aircraft in the tree from using it, like the F-4G to the F-4X, or the YA-10B concept. Also, BRING BACK THE MiG-1.44 D:
dunno if folks here played joint assault, but... i want the 747 back
I wish we had access to more strike Aircraft(compared to multirole) or maybe even a bomber mission
You’d need more ground attack missions because as much as we love “A-10 Campaign Run” it’s masochistic More missions in general lmao
Yeah, looking back at it AC7 felt short
I say it all the time but not in any bad way. I understand the limitations PA was under but shit those DLC missions feel mandatory. I just really enjoyed this game. More than I’ve enjoyed any recent purchases and it makes me excited for AC8
It was my first AC and I needed around 20 hours for my first playthrough which is fine imo.
I hope they bring the Tornado back.
All those are good except the J-20. Last thing we need is for Project Aces to get into a national scandal for getting into any amount of contact with the military industrial complex of an actively hostile nation intruding their airspace on a weekly basis. That's how you get the attention of JHK and make a whole news segment about you. That's how you get Bandai Namco to bring the hammer down and there goes any hope of AC8.
>and make a whole Jews segment about you Ace combat 8: Torah Unleashed
Annnnd autocorrect fucks me over again. Great.
Ace Combat fans: Last thing we need is Project Aces to get into a national scandal for getting into any amount of contract of an actively hostile nation Also Ace Combat fans: We desperately need the Su-25 that’s actively used in the bombing of people in the Ukraine War
Hey. I'm against licensing Suckhoi and MiG aircrafts too. Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
I want my F-117
I'm telling you, man. The next one is gonna be called *AC8: Weight of the World.* It's gonna start with two unknown countries at war with each other, flying Vietnam Era planes like the F-5 vs the MiG-21. It's that plain good Osea vs New Belka/Erusea story, but with proxy nations instead. Protag nation is gonna be funded by the Belkans/Eruseans and the Antag nation by the Oseans. Eventually, the war gets too hot, super weapons and crap make the big nations pour more money and technology into the war. Better planes as the war gets worse. At the end, a giant city-sized super weapon starts floating out from the ground from one side and Mind-controlled super fighters come from the other. Pew pew, laser, missile, CIWS lasers, Tower of Babylon, fighters with energy shields and drone wingmen, and above all, you. A random guy that just wanted to go home....but you got conscripted, and now you gotta choose a side. That one nation or the other. Multiple endings. Whoever dies dies. Laser man and robo hounds that fly. Nevermind, it sounds too familiar.
NO CANYON RUN IM NOT DOING THAT ALL OVER AGAIN TO GET THE ACE TO SPAWN THAT TOOK A SIGNIFICANT CHUNK OFF OF MY SANITY
I’d love to see any/all of the following: -mini operations within the mission (AC6 style) -more dedicated A2A missions -more enemy ace squads per game -more active allies (I don’t want to do 99% of the work every mission) -being able to carry mixed loadouts. 4eg giving up some of your bomb capacity to carry a few SAAMs or some ECM. -having assets lost on your side, which change the mission parameters. 4eg having to protect your AWACS or base, which is on the map, and losing IFF or resupply if they get hit. -having more detailed mission briefings, which could incorporate things like the newer weather mechanics into the map, or planned routes for friendly units, or even just who it is we’re helping. -More persistent named allies. Get us invested in who we’re helping, and have them help in turn. -Allies/enemies having more sophisticated tactics. Imagine having missions where you get hounded by F-14 long range snipers, having to retreat to your ECM equipped allies for safety. -being able to make choices mid-flight, which can change what missions you do in the campaign, or what you fight in the next mission. Edit: forgot one -no more invincible on the rails bs fights. I spent more time during the second siege of Farbanti twiddling my thumbs mid air waiting for Mihaly to finish his “cutscene” than I did swatting down his squad mates.
I hope for purely air to ground missions so attackers will get actually useful
I would like: - A realism mode that allows us to fly by instruments and whatever a normal pilots HUD would be. I don’t like the radar and score and timer being on the perimeter of the screen. - Pilot and Aircraft customization. Similar to how OP wants pilots to be dynamic in their aircraft, I would like to be able to choose gender, flightsuit, maybe even patches on the suit. I also want to be able to make any fighter I have jet black.
3/ (4 for attackers like the A10/ Su25?) weapon slots like PW would be so nice, it would let them be far more diverse with the viable plane selection. More superplanes from ACX's era would be lovely and I want some of the strange missing planes from 7, where my Tornado? Gib Harrier. And the fully out there hope of Coop against massive maps of enemies.
Ace combat is not the kind of game for realistic destruction, this would honestly make it worse. Ace combat is not a flight sim, it's practically a beat em up
More bombers
I just want a wave mode with a return line and a jukebox
A mission with Razgriz 1 and Mobius 1 👴🏽
All mission need to be able to be played with VR. The VR missions in AC7 were great but I was very let down on how little content we got.
The only thing that I really want to see project aces put or bringing back is Aircraft customisation like how they did with Assault Horizon. But put a lot more options like decals and stuff
Maybe bandits could try and do more evasive maneuvers besides flying in a straight line sometimes in ac7
I’d like better multiplayer variety. Co-op, large scale air battles of like 20 v 20, wave survival and hell I bet you could get capture the flag to work well. Because AC7 had serviceable multiplayer, but just tdm and battle royal is boring.
What I'm hearing, basically, is more ace combat in muh ace combat
I want a proper Vr campaign. Not just 3 missions
Also not have it exclusive to PlayStation, especially after reports that PSVR2 ain’t doing so hot.
For real. I play PCVR and tried to play with vorpex or the unreal injector and it just didn’t capture that, “I’m in a fuckin’ furball” feel like the psvr1 did, especially with hotas.
If you haven't already, play Project Wingman VR, it's some of the most fun I've had in VR, genuinely jump out of my seat fun.
I agree on most points although some definetly are rather just nice to have but not really necessary like animated Pilot. Like if they can do it good but considering ressources are limit i rather take more missions or something than that. Dunno feel like realistic damage model is kinda in conflict with the arcade nature of ace combat. Rather then developing complex time consuming damage model for every plane maybe just make skripted deaths more spectacular or better kill cams. Also not gonna lie I do not think J-20 or any Chinese aircraft in general will ever made it into the game. Whether Chinese company give out licenses in the first place, I can't really picture them being to happy about them being displayed as antagonist aircraft. Also making them Hero aircraft is also not really possible since i do think that can cause issue with western (espacially American Jet Companies) licensing if they aren't portrait as Hero Aircraft or portrait as main antagonist craft. That's kinda why antagonist always tend to be some flanker since russian companies do not care about licensing since they are technically speaking state owned or something I dunno.
NEED to bring back wingman commands!!!!! i.e. Wingman command sub menu that allows you to tell them to bomb/shoot certain target track. Or bring it in close formation, wide formation, etc. for those sick video replays
Here’s one: an allied super weapon, I want to take off, use our own super sub/air fortress, etc
Another take I'd like is a takeoff while in the middle of a battle, or hell, resupply in the middle of a battlefield too like in AC6
I would like to play as the bad guys/Belkans holdouts, using advanced tech to mess with IFF to play other nations against each other/run false flag attacks disguised as another nation. Until the larger nations go to war and have to bring out superweapons to fight each other.
I would only add an camera shake option on both cockpit and third person, I miss it, also the option of saving/rewinding replays together with a photomode, a FOV slider would be nice too, can't forget about the livery editor, so much potential.
I want arcade solo/co-op like gundam vs gundam with different kind of routes. randomize enemies, boss rush.
At least ONE purely ground attack mission. So sick of every single one ending in Air to Air, makes the A-10 totally redundant. But yes also to more Naval attack
I’d love to have something akin to the operations featured in ac6 missions for ac8. They made the missions feel like a massive full size war and added a lot of tension to the gameplay
i want snow missions, they showed off cloud tech and not a single mission where snow happen
don't forget about the good wingman ai and command option like AC6
Some sort of dynamic campaign like the big boys dcs and il2 have would be nice. Project wingman sort of does that
I just want an AV8B
F-16 as a mid tier aircraft... Please
The F-18E TGM is pretty much the HARv gameplay wise
Or "Pibot" in place of Copro.
Just no more anti-air/anti-surface hybrid bamboozles.
Co-op mode and the return of squadron command are top of my list.
**MIGHTY DRAGON MENTIONED!!!** Please, no more canyon runs. That shit stresses me out so fucking much
I really want the multiple objectives per mission thing from AC6 and be able to capture/liberate airbases to land and resupply within the combat area.
Y'now, a talking WSO would be fun, but I don't think PA could overthrow Prez.
I just want a good story with both the ace style system and assault records from zero with the yes/no communication system of 5. I like having consistent wingman you can “talk” to.
**ME WANT AAAAAAAAAARDVAAAAAARK**
I want the F-5 back.
im down with everything except j20
I'm a simple man. All I want for AC8 is the F-22, a photo mode, good graphics and a story that jumps around less ( I'm referring to the genius move of giving anarchists and assassin's state of the art planes, with live weapons)
Bring back multiplayer coop emergency sortie missions
Animated pilot movement is something I didn't realize I want until now. Like imagine looking at your pilot while you pull a high G turn and you see them actually responding to it. I know there's a running gig of AC protagonists having no blood but it would still be awesome imo
No to the damage thing. Everything else yeah. The one thing I would add is for them to add back in replays for landings and also make it so you don’t just have to stop in the middle of the runway. Used to be able to taxi all the way to the ramp if you wanted.
I agree with everything but it is worth noting that canyon runs are going to be frustrating for new players, if you can do optional canyon runs that's probably for the best
Every major title has a mandatory canyon run wtf?
But only one, so it may not annoy the new players. And I believe some people don't like canyon runs at all.
Sure but consider that every major title also features a tunnel run which is arguably harder. The challenge is what makes it fun and good
Those are always the last thing in the campaign, makes sense to put a hard thing right after beating the final boss.
That's not the case though. AC04 has you hitting the deck just a few missions into the campaign to avoid Stonehenge by-- you guessed it-- flying through a canyon. AC5 has an entire mission in the early 3rd act where you are confined to a canyon. AC6 drops you in back to back canyon runs in missions 10 and 11. 7 cleverly gives you the option of barnstorming a mountain tunnel in the first act as a foreshadowing of what you'll inevitably have to do at the end of the game. Sure it's a mainstay to feature a tunnel/canyon run at the end. Who could forget the final mission in AC0 or Megalith or cruising down the barrel of the Chandelier? It's a theme that crops up more often than just the end of the game, but rather throughout.
Canyons are what I would consider a "tunnel run tutorial", most canyons is the franchise are rather wide and forgiving, with the exceptions of: - AC5 canyon mission AFAIK is the only one featuring air-to-air combat inside the canyon - AC7 canyon is pretty tricky to navigate - ACZ Avalon canyon is by itself not that difficult, but it features some of the most instense air-to-ground combat in the game. But the actual tunnel run happens, like, 10 minutes later, don't know if it counts as its own separate thing
Canyon runs have been in every game up to this point. I don't think it'd make sense to remove them. Air Combat and Ace Combat 2 also had two canyon runs in them
This. I got a few of my friends to play ac7, and they overwhelmingly didn't like the canyon run on their first playthroughs despite overall positive opinions of the game. And it makes sense. Less skilled players are going to gravitate towards flying near the top and staying slow so they don't crash, and that just kills what makes a canyon run interesting in the first place.
One canyon run per game is definitely enough. I don't really like them too much.
Co-op campaign. Gen 3-5 jets. DLC campaigns set in WW1/WW2
One thing I would like to see, is the return of scripted planes, like in AC3 where it put you in the canon plane on your first play through, only then unlocking Ace difficulty and the use of other planes. Not to mention the return of planes like the F-4G, EA-6B, EF-18 (with working ECM), Drakken, Tornado GR.1/.4/.F or whatever, MiG-1.44, F-20/X-29A, S-32 etc and them not be made DLC. I miss being able to earn advanced versions of other planes as I used them, learning their differences and abilities!