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ACES CURE PLANES posted:If the prospect of playing Ace Combat in VR isn't something you IMMEDIATELY thought of and looked forward to immensely from the second the concept was introduced of a modern VR thing, I don't know what to tell you other than you're pretty much in the wrong.  I am loving amped to try it
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NobleSixFour posted:Maybe this game will finally solve the mystery of why every loving military on Strangereal broadcasts unencrypted on the same frequency Yeah, and nobody points this out until Ace Combat 5 with someone saying "The radio is picking up the enemy's voice!" ITS BEEN DOING THAT FOR 5+ GAMES YOU DUMMY
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Stonehenge Offensive Mission 12: Operation Stone Crusher – April 2nd, 2005 Overview: Using the intel provided by the defecting Stonehenge engineers, ISAF is able to formulate a new strategy to penetrate rail gun network’s defenses. With Istas Fortress and Los Canas back under FCU control, ISAF launches a massive airstrike against the Stonehenge Turret Network, with Mobius 1 at the tip of the spear. If Stonehenge is destroyed, ISAF will regain control of the skies over Usea. Meanwhile, in San Salvacion, the Resistance deals a crippling blow to Yellow Squadron with a deadly act of sabotage.  Guest Commentator: Today I am joined once again by my near-continuous LP partner in crime (Blind Sally excluded) CJacobs. Having just wrapped up co-LPs of The Evil Within and Resident Evil 4, he has now begun work on an LP of the Stephen King-inspired horror game Alan Wake along with fellow Ace Combat alum Skippy Granola.   STONEHENGE As noted in the video, Stonehenge, the megalith, is one of history’s most enduring architectural mysteries, and the subject of much debate, speculation, mythmaking, and just flat out lies as to its purpose, its method of construction, and just who built it. Located just outside of Amesbury, England, the site has been officially denoted as UNESCO World Heritage site and is actual owned and maintained by the government of England itself. Stonehenge has many conflicting etymologies, but many of them work out incredibly roughly to suggest “Stonehenge” basically means “hanging stones.” People have taking this literally in both directions, regarding the seemingly suspended nature of several of the stones in the megalith, and suggesting that the site was once also used as a gallows for hangings. In its earliest incarnation, it was thought to be a burial ground, as human remains dating back to before the megalith’s erection have been recovered from the site. The Stonehenge we know in the modern era is actually the seventh incarnation of the stone circle. Each successive generation of Stonehenge (numbered 1, 2, and then 3-I to 3-V) added a new layer of complexity to the site, though most of the traces of the first two generations have been lost to the decay of time. Only the ruins of Stonehenge 3 remain. A sister site, called Woodhenge stands 2 miles north-east of Stonehenge. Theories abound on the relation between Stonehenge and Woodhenge, suggesting a symbolic representation of the transition between with life and death and what would have been a ritualistic pilgrimage between the two sites on the night of the sunset of the Winter Solstice. The key stone of Stonehenge site is aligned near-perfectly with the angle of the sunset on December 21st, just as a matter of reference. Stonehenge also has a connection to the Arthurian Legend, which allows us to very briefly dip back into Ace Combat Zero territory and put our HEY GUYS DO YOU KNOW ABOUT KING ARTUR?!!  hats back on.According to Geoffrey of Monmouth’s History of the Kings of Britain, Stonehenge was constructed by Merlin and Uther at the behest of King Ambrosius Aurelianus, who wished a monument be constructed to honor the deaths of 3,000 soldiers who fell in battle against the Saxon hordes. Now the thing was, Stonehenge was already constructed at the time… in Ireland. It had been built by the giants, who hauled the stones up from Africa and planted them in the ground at Mount Killaraus. So Uther and Merlin decided they were gonna steal it and give to Ambrosius as a gift. Because, as we remember from that whole “let’s play dress up and seduce your future wife away from her soon-to-be-ex-husband via rape” thing that resulted in Arthur’s birth, Uther and Merlin were a pair of HUGE assholes. So with the help of 1,500 of Uther’s soldiers, Merlin’s magic and inventions, and a whole lot of dead innocent Irish, they packed up Stonehenge and moved it to England. Beyond that, Stonehenge has appeared in a vast number of works of fiction. It is the site of the climax of Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the D’Urbervilles, where Tess makes her final stand as a grand gently caress you to the world that basically destroyed her before the cops take her off to the klink. It has been referenced and parodied in countless works of fiction (like Ace Combat). There is, I’m not kidding, an accurate recreation of the stone circle in Alliance, Nebraska made entirely out of automobiles called “Carhenege.” And in the realm of music it also led to a bit of hilarious rock history minutia. Black Sabbath had an instrumental track on their album Born Again called “Stonehenge,” which ultimately lead their manager, Don Arden, to suggest that the band use a recreation of Stonehenge as a stage backdrop for their tour for the album. Ozzy and the boys loved the idea, but when the plans for it were drawn up, they were mistakenly labeled in meters, instead of feet, so that when the set was assembled, it stood three times taller than it otherwise should have. This famous mixup was parodied in the mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap, where the boys from Tap, who also have a song called “Stonehenge,” are also talked into having a Stonehenge replica on stage for their tour by their manager. Only, the inverse occurs, and instead of feet, the plans are labeled in inches, resulting in a comically tiny stone arch.  NUMEROLOGY With the death of Yellow 4 in this mission, we have to sort of address the elephant in the room at play here with the Erusian characters in 04, which is of course numerology. For people who have even a passing familiarity with Asian numerology and numerical superstitions, they would have known Yellow 4 was a dead woman walking the second she entered the story as was identified as Yellow 4. In the majority of east Asian languages descended from Chinese (including Japanese) the words for "four" (四) and "death" (死) are written differently but pronounced similarly, roughly as “shi.” It carries a similar superstation to the number 13 in western cultures. Buildings will often omit the number 4 to denote their fourth floor, opting for roundabout numbers like 3A or the letter F, groups of four are shunned or looked upon with suspicion, or are otherwise generically terrifying (see: the Four Holy Beasts, the Four Heavenly Generals, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, the Elite Four, and on and on). This superstation continued in eastern fiction, and western fiction influence by eastern storytelling styles and tropes. In fact, there is a whole page of TV Tropes (where I liberally lifted material from because I’m lazy and this isn’t an academic setting so I can get away with straight plagiarism  ) dedicated this peculiarity of numerological superstition. Basically anything with a number 4 on it or in its name is either going to die or cause someone else to die before the end of the story.Similarly, we should also keep a studious eye on Yellow 13 too. 13 is also crowned with a culturally unlucky number, this one with a lot of western hang ups, so we’re covering ALL our bases here. The origin of the “13 is unlucky” belief allegedly stems from an old 19th century belief that if 13 people are seated at a dinner table, then one of them will die before the year’s end—a belief which more than likely tracks back to the Last Supper in the New Testament, where Jesus had one final supper with his twelve disciples (meaning there were thirteen people at the table), and then died several days later after Judas betrayed him to the Romans and they crucified him. Much like in Asia with the number 4, buildings in the west will often omit (acknowledging) their 13th floors. The superstitious wariness of Friday the 13th also allegedly stems from the realm of Norse Mythology (another stomping ground for Ace Combat), this time with a connection between Freyja and Loki. Loki was the 13th Aesir, and betrayed the others, repeatedly. Friday the 13th was considered unlucky because people believed bad things happened on that day because it was Freyja’s Day (Frey-day—Friday), and Freyja had a particular hatred for Loki and all things associated with him, such as the number 13. So it particularly incensed Freyja whenever her day fell on the day of the month associated with Loki, and people assumed that any catastrophe to befall people or things, major or minor on that day was the result of Freyja’s anger. Watch out, Yellow 13.   TURNING POINTS So this is officially, the halfway point of the game. Yes, numerically the halfway point was back in in Mission 9, but this is the thematic halfway point of the game. If Act Two of the game was Deep Strike to Stonehenge Offensive, then everything from here forward is basically Act Three, our mad dash to the finish line. With the loss of Stonehenge, Erusea has been pushed on the defensive and forced to retreat in a major way for the first time. For the first time since the start of the Shattered Skies crisis, the Erusian military has been pushed back within its own national borders. As ISAF continues to retake territory across Usea and restore control of the continent to the FCU government, the Erusians have begun to heavily fortify their own national border to levels not seen since the Erusian Refugee Crisis of 2002. To make matters worse, the death of Yellow 4 and the failure of Yellow Squadron to defend Stonehenge from ISAF has shaken the FEAF’s confidence in Aquila Flight, as well as the squad’s confidence in itself. Moreover, Mobius 1’s single-handed destruction of the rail gun network has now made him the hottest topic of conversation on both sides of the war. The front page of the Times of Usea Yellow 13 posts in the Sky Kid bar openly names Mobius 1 in its opening paragraph about Stonehenge’s destruction, meaning that just about all of Usea now knows the story of the ISAF’s greatest pilot. The ISAF troops now see him as an invincible hero, the great avenger in the skies. The Erusians effectively see him as the Grim Reaper, Death in an F-22* (we’re getting there, but the point remains). And as for Yellow 13, the days of regarding Mobius 1 as a bemusing curiosity are over. The next time they meet, one of them is going to die. And 13 doesn’t seem to care which one of them it is, so long as it’s a well-fought fight. Now that Stonehenge has been taken out of the equation, the Erusians have effectively ceded Delarus to the FCU and its allies. Their only major stronghold outside of the Erusian homeland still under occupation remains the city of San Salvacion. If ISAF can retake San Salvacion itself, they will have a major springboard into Erusian territory, and ultimately into the Erusian capital city of Farbanti on the west coast. Plans for the liberation of the city are already being drawn up and preparations are being made. Both sides are painfully aware of how vital the inland metropolis is their war efforts, and that a massive battle for the city is now brewing. With Stonehenge now gone, whoever controls San Salvacion by the end of summer wins the war.   STONEHENGE In the winter of 1995, when the existence of the Ulysses 1994XF04 asteroid and its collision course with Earth was revealed to the governments of the world, plans were hastily put into motion to ensure the survival of the human race from what was being doomsayed as an extinction level event. The first ones to come up with a viable solution were the Useans, who called a continental congress of all the nations of the continent to draw up plans for a Spaceguard countermeasure program to mitigate the inevitable damage from Ulysses’ planetfall, calculated to occur on July 3rd, 1999. While the independent states focused on the construction of impact shelters in and around the metropolises of Usea, the FCU and Erusian delegations fought over a weapons system that would, in theory, be able to intercept incoming asteroid fragments and explosively reduce them to relatively harmless sizes before they did serious damage to populated areas. The original proposal called for the construction of a chemical laser array similar to the old Excalibur Tactical Laser System build by the Belkans. However, those plans were hastily shot down when analysis showed multiple weaknesses and shortcomings in the TLS system when it came to asteroid interception. The Belkan laser was ultimately written off as an inviable curiosity—a testament to Belka’s engineering mastery, no doubt, but ultimately nothing more than a curious ahead-of-its-time dinosaur. The final approved proposal instead consisted of a plan for an array of eight independently targetable railguns each mounted on massive turntables and counterweights to ensure for the largest possible firing arcs. The project was to be codenamed “Stonehenge,” after the old Neolithic stone circle and ANESCO World Heritage Site in the Kingdom of Sapin, believed by many to be associated with ancient astronomical-based druidic rituals. The final product of this development would be the Stonehenge Turret Network, or STN for short. The project would be headed up by rewound physicist and munitions expert Dr. Yang Tomic and overseen by the hastily assembled Central Usean Treaty Organization (UTO). Among the Erusian delegation to the STN design bureau was physicist Dr. David Hartmann, a Belkan expat who became an Erusian citizen after leaving the Belkan Air Force following the signing of the Treaty of Lumen in 1995. Through his contacts in the BAF, Hartmann was able to provide the design board with plans from a proposal drawn up by the old South Belka Munitions Factory for a hybrid gunpowder-magnetic railgun from the controversial Project Pendragon, which produced the V2 nuclear MIRV and the still-classified ADFX-01 and 02 Morgan superplanes, among other weapons. (Partially unreacted documents suggest that the proposal was authored by Lorenz Riedel—now suspected by FCU Intelligence of working for the Estovakian government.) Though the proposal was rejected in its time for its unfeasibility, Hartmann argued that with the advancement of technology since the late 70s and early 80s, the designs could be easily adapted and upscaled to meet the needs of the potential Stonehenge railguns, an idea Director Tomic ultimately supported. The UTO settled on an area of land south of San Salvacion in the Delarus Desert designated Area 26021-3 to be the construction site for both the STN complex and the adjoining FCU-operated Peterson Air Force Base. Numerous governments and corporations contributed to the construction and outfitting of the STN. Both the Osean Federation and the Union of Yuktobanian Republics initially came onboard as partners in the STN initiate, intending the STN site in Delarus to be the first in a series of facilities around the planet, but ultimately backed out of the project for economic and political reasons (bad blood between Osea and Usea still simmered over the botched Osean sublimation treaty that sparked off the Continental War). Construction of the base facility of the STN was completed in June of 1998, as the Usean Continental War raged on around it. Construction of the actual railgun turrets would not be completed until well into early 1999, leaving precious little time for testing before Ulysses Day. When the IAU released an updated projection of the impact path of Ulysses fragments in June of 1998, it led to severe protests on Anea, which was now forecast to receive the blunt of the impact along with Usea and Wellow. By that point in its construction, however, no additional modifications could be made to the STN to extend its range beyond Usea. The Estovakian government on Anea hastily scrambled to begin construction of its own spaceguard facility, codenamed “Chandelier,” but poor planning and construction and insufficient time to complete the project saw the facility fail spectacularly during its startup tests, leaving much of Anea utterly defenseless against Ulysses. While Stonehenge performed admirably on Ulysses Day, it was far from perfect, and unable to prevent catastrophic destruction to key Usean cities such as Newfield Island, Saint Ark, and the Erusian capital of Farbanti, each of which suffered direct or glancing blows from asteroid fragments which Stonehenge failed to intercept. Even Stonehenge itself fell victim to Ulysses’ wrath, as one uncanny asteroid fragment managed to strike the STN complex while the turrets were focused on larger fragments, disabling one of the eight railguns, severing its counterweight gimbals and locking it in a straight vertical position. The disabled gun was ultimately left as-is rather than repaired, for political and economic rationales. Following Ulysses Day, the facility was placed in a semi-shuttered state by the FCU government. Thanks to the unusual political arrangements brokered by the UTO to facilitate its construction, Stonehenge existed in a troubling legal and political grey area which the FCU now had to contest with. While the facility remained operational in diminished capacity to intercept any Ulysses fragments still in orbit which could potentially fall to Earth, it was placed under heavy guard, lest it fall into the wrong hands. The STN design board had tried to have all data on its potential usage as a terrestrial assault weapon suppressed, but intelligence leaks saw this information slip out regardless—information that quickly found its way into the hands of the Erusian government. And that’s how we got here. On April 2nd, 2005, seven years after its initial construction, the Stonehenge Turret Network was destroyed in a massive assault upon the facility by ISAF and its Air Strike Team lead by Mobius 1. As the remaining seven railguns fell, and Yellow Squadron was driven off, the Erusians quickly abandoned the facility as ISAF ground troops closed in to retake the complex and free the POW technicians, soldiers, and pilots who were being held at Peterson AFB next to the facility. Rather than repair the complex to use against the Erusians, the FCU ultimately decided to shutter Stonehenge completely. The cannons were left where they fell, though the vital components of their firing systems were removed or sabotaged so they could never again be used for war making purposes. By that point forward, clean up of any remaining orbital or Trojan Ulysses fragments would be handled by a soon-to-launched orbital unit developed by the Osean Federation. A weapon codenamed “Arkbird.” Stonehenge as a stage and enemy is a massive trend setter for Ace Combat, it is, in effect, the series’ first actual super weapon. It’s the first “boss” mission that really shows up in the series. Electrosphere experimented with certain elements of this, but it’s here in Shattered Skies where the formula is set in stone, as it were. Contrast this to what we saw in Zero with the Excalibur mission, or what we will be seeing down the line in 5, and 6, and what it certainly coming down the line in the newly revealed Ace Combat 7. I said that Shattered Skies is where Ace Combat really becomes Ace Combat, and now we’re finally getting to see that in action. Stonehenge is also one of the many setpiece missions remade for Ace Combat Infinity, the Free-To-Play game for the PlayStation 3 built off of Ace Combat: Assault Horizon’s engine.  
Kadorhal posted:Ace Number Twelve is Urata. Named for Urata Takeshi, born sometime in 1947. Japanese astronomer who is, by far, the most-prolific namesake of this game's aces, with 641 asteroids discovered between 1978 and 2000. Particularly, in 1978 he became the first amateur astronomer to discover a minor planet in 50 years, 2090 Mizuho, which he named after his daughter. This feat lead to an upsurge of such discoveries, and within the next ten years another 160 minor planets were discovered by Japanese astronomers. He also co-discovered the comet 112P alongside Niijima Tsuneo in October 1986.   Tracks featured in Mission 12: DISC 1  Stonehenge concept art and renders:    .jpg) .jpg) .jpg)    Stonehenge pages from ACES at War artbook:   Stonehenge, as it appears in the Ace Combat 7 trailer:  Stonehenge from Ace Combat Infinity:  .png)  
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^^^ The LOOOOOOONG overdue Stonehenge post.
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Dec 5, 2016 04:28
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"It's the ribbon fighter!"
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LEGO Genetics posted:"It's the ribbon fighter!" I'd love if an Ace Combat had the enemy radio react with genuine terror when you show up at any time. Even at the very beginning of the original Mobile Suit Gundam series, whenever anybody saw Char Aznable's distinctive red mobile suit, Earth Federation forces would be sent into a frenzy as he would effortlessly rip through his enemies. There's a bit of that with Pixy in Belkan War, and the protagonist basically always winds up with that status by the end of the game, but it would be amazing if you could have a reputation that proceeds you before you even start. Even if it was only for an opening mission, so that they can give you an amazing plane early on just once, I want to get a sequence where it's you who is the ace pilot that shows up to shake everything up. A chance to be the indomitable Yellows, Strigons, and so on.
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Dec 5, 2016 08:04
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nine-gear crow posted:This superstation continued in eastern fiction, and western fiction influence by eastern storytelling styles and tropes. I think I found the the best typo. 
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Dec 5, 2016 12:59
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nine-gear crow posted:The project would be headed up by rewound physicist and munitions expert Dr. Yang Tomic and overseen by the hastily assembled Central Usean Treaty Organization (UTO). Found the second-best one. Also, wanted to chime in with my own personal favorite appearance of Stonehenge in popular culture. In the Stephen Baxter novel "Timelike Infinity", aliens take over Earth in the far future. So some rebels basically turn Stonehenge into a time-machine-cum-spaceship to travel back and warn the slightly-less-far future, because they know that the aliens won't gently caress with anything going on in/around Stonehenge as it is a human sacred site.
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Dec 5, 2016 14:00
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http://www.dualshockers.com/2016/12/05/ace-combat-7-return-strangereal-reason/ The plot literally thickens. quote:I would definitely say that it has a similar tone to 4 and 5, because the person who is working on the script is Katabuchi-san, who wrote the script for 4 and 5. Of course, there are going to be different perspectives that we’ll explore in the cutscenes, so we have got backstories of the different parties at play in this fictional world. And we also take a look at the theme of war in general, kind of taking a step back and examining what that means.
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Dec 6, 2016 12:36
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Sounds like 6 tho
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Dec 6, 2016 17:35
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The problem with 6 is mostly that they gave a terrible cringe-worthy (more so than a regular giant robot anime) translation to good voice actors and told them to deal with it. That how you get the catchphrase that will be ban-worthy in the 6 thread.
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Dec 6, 2016 17:50
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"The main story and PlayStation VR content follow two completely different lines." - Famitsu interview with the producers, wanna see that LP Now, who was asking for Big Head codes all those videos (and one game?) ago? 
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Dec 6, 2016 18:01
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I really like the original Stonehenge mission, and I also love the remake in Infinity. Just a real sense of turning the tide (in the former at least).
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Something I noticed during Stonehenge that I kept forgetting to mention until now is that the flyby shot of the Fulcrum during the mid mission cutscene is one of two instances in all of Strangereal canon that the Good Guys are shown operating Soviet aircraft (apart from player choice), the other being a cinematic in ACX. In non Strangereal Ace Combat, obviously you do get loyal Russian NPCs in Assault Horizon, and a cinematic in Joint Assault shows an Antares member flying a Terminator in Scarface camo.
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I'm an LP or two late but I couldn't help but notice that the map in the OP is very, very wrong. It features multiple countries that either don't exist or claim to exist on unceded Belkan territory. Here is a corrected map, with all regions of Belka correctly labeled. We can see that the first few missions of Ace Combat '04 take place around Weak Belka and the Gulf of St. Belka. Radio Free Kobold fucked around with this message at 10:55 on Dec 11, 2016 |
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Dec 11, 2016 10:31
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I'm gay belka
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Dec 11, 2016 21:02
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To the tune of The Llama Song Here a Belka There a Belka Everywhere is also Belka Little Belka Bigger Belka Belka Belka Gun Tougher Belka Smarter Belka Neutral Belka, Quiet Belka Boring Belka Belka Union Belka Belka Plane [continues Ad Nauseam]
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I recently came across a new map of the Strangereal solar system. I think that Light House tower is just gonna be the tip of the iceberg in 7. Possible plot spoilers, so just in case.
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Dec 12, 2016 06:50
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Kadorhal posted:Belkass Perfect.
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Moving onto non-Belkan news, according to a news broadcast that I literally just heard a few minutes ago, Donald Trump is very skeptical of the F-35 project and may end it. It IS Trump saying that, but maybe one good thing will come of this, no?
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Dec 13, 2016 11:49
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The truly Trumpinian thing to do would be the cancel it the moment it actually works. I'm holding out hope for that one.
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Dec 13, 2016 11:55
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Maybe someone will finally buy the loving Silent Eagle
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http://useatoday.blogspot.co.uk/2016/12/ac3-e-ie-discs-22-h-e-v-e-n-n-d-e-r-t-h.html?m=1 The Ace Combat 3: Electrosphere fantranslation of the unaltered Japanese version is now out.
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Safe Return Mission 13: Operation Blindman’s Bluff – May 7th, 2005 Overview: An ISAF U-2 spyplane is returning to Los Canas from Erusean territory with vital intelligence on both the Eruseans’ defenses around San Salvacion, and on their ballistic missile launch fortress, Megalith, in the Twinkle Islands. However, the plane has suffered engine trouble en route and is returning to ISAF territory at extremely low altitude via Gnome Ravine in the Lambert Mountains. Mobius 1 is dispatched alone to escort the spyplane back to Los Canas, and clear out an Erusean-laid aerial minefield of radar jamming blimps in the ravine to allow for the U-2’s safe return.  Guest Commentator: Joining me for this inaugural mission of the back half of the game is Cooked Auto, marking yet another guest commentator who is racking up an Ace Combat hat-trick with this game.  MEGALITH The bulk of the intel the U-2 spyplane “Leopard” is returning to ISAF GHQ with concerns the Erusean ballistic missile launch facility codenamed “Megalith”. Located in the Twinkle Islands, much of Megalith’s operational specifications are classified, as it was developed in relative secrecy by the Erusean government during and after the first Usean Continental War as part of Erusea’s own proprietary spaceguard program, should Stonehenge prove in effective or fall victim to the endless bickering politics of the FCU and the UTO. The facility was ostensibly shuttered by the Erusean military government following Ulysses Day to maintain its secrecy from the FCU and the Independent States, though with the loss of Stonehenge, the Eruseans are now scrambling to reactivate the facility. ISAF and FCU Intelligence believes the facility to be a first- and second-strike capable ICBM launch facility, capable of striking targets both on Mainland Usea and within the Osean Federation across the Spring Sea to the west. A potential maximum firing umbrella is still being calculated, with speculation being that it can even strike targets within the Union of Yuktobanian Republics or the Republic of Emmeria to the east. Given the general opaqueness of the Erusean military government since Ulysses Day, it is unknown exactly how much of its nuclear arsenal exists following the global nuclear disarmament agreed upon in accordance with the Treaty of Lumen. It is also unknown how far along the Eruseans are in their efforts to reactivate Megalith as a launch facility. Megalith coming into play has forced ISAF GHQ to advance its plans for liberating San Salvacion significantly. If the Eruseans bring Megalith online before ISAF reaches Farbanti, it will spell disaster for the rest of Usea.  NOISE JAMMERS This mission sees the Eruseans resorting to unconventional tactics in order to thwart ISAF, particularly their use of airship mounted noise jammers. These unmanned helium-lift blimps could be deployed quickly and effortlessly by Erusean ground troops and remain tethered in place via guidewires. The balloons were equipped with high-intensity electronic countermeasure equipment designed to output excessive radar noise in order to render an aircraft’s radar useless at a given range. They also acted as a potential collision hazard for any blinded aircraft that might wander into their jamming field. The Eruseans “mined” several hazardous stretches of the Amber and Lambert mountain ranges along their border with large numbers of airship noise jammers in order to impede ISAF’s advance into the Erusean homeland via air. A similar tactic was used by the US military in the real world during World War II, only minus the radar jamming capabilities. The US Army would often employ so-called “Barrage Balloons” (which Cooked Auto briefly mentioned in the video) over battlefields like the D-Day beaches to discourage strafing runs on Allied troops by Luftwaffe fighters. The idea was that the steel guidewires tethering the balloons to the ground would severely damage any attacking plane that crossed their path. The tactic was ultimately abandoned, however, after it proved ineffective, as the balloons had a very low coverage ceiling and were largely useless against high altitude bombers and rocket-powered artillery. 
Kadorhal posted:Ace Number Thirteen is Gunn. Named for James Edward Gunn, born October 21st, 1938. American professor of astronomy at Princeton University in New Jersey since c. 1968, with short stints also working at the University of California at Berkeley and the California Institute of Technology (the latter of which being where he got his Ph.D. in 1966). His work has not been so much discovering asteroids and comets like the others, but rather establishing the current understanding of how galaxies form, the properties of the space between galaxies, and observational tests to confirm the presence of dark matter. He also developed plans for one of the first uses of digital camera technology in space observation, leading to the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. He has been awarded with the Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics in 1988, the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1994, the Gruber Prize in Cosmology in 2005, and the Catherine Wolfe Bruce Gold Medal in 2013, among others. One of the few namesakes who is still alive [at the time of this LP], currently at 78 years old. Tracks featured in Mission 13: DISC 2 The mission map production sketch: 
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Something tells me that even if we completely level this Megalith complex in this game, Ace Combat 7 is going to feature either Megalith 2: Electric Boogaloo or some dumb retcon that Mobius 1 only wrecked 80% of the place, and the 20% he missed is more than enough to provoke Osea into global war.
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I do love the shift in briefing music here; that's such a great touch to show how much the tide is turning. The little things like that are always great. But yeah, it's odd how gimmicky and relatively sparse this and the next mission are after the climax of Stonehenge.
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 STREAM ALERT!!!ddinkins, LadyDragon, and incredibly sick feyerbrandX, and I, and maybe some other people will be STREAMING AIR COMBAT tonight in an hour-ish (8:00 PM PST / 11:00 PM EST) until I get frustrated with it. Tune in at http://www.hitbox.tv/nine-gear-crow and I will hopefully see you there. I'll post an update in the thread as we're about to go live.
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Dec 18, 2016 03:55
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Please tell me this will be archived in some fashion Also you have Gunn listed as flying an F-2 rather than an F-15 NobleSixFour fucked around with this message at 05:12 on Dec 18, 2016 |
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Dec 18, 2016 05:09
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NobleSixFour posted:Please tell me this will be archived in some fashion It will be. Yes. Also 5 minutes to show time!
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Dec 18, 2016 05:16
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Air Combat is dead.
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Dec 18, 2016 07:08
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As someone who was watching the stream, believe me when I say that Air Combat is just...no. Just no. Let me put it this way: it makes Ace Combat 2 look fantastic by comparison. That's all you need to know about it really.
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Dec 18, 2016 08:04
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The archived stream will be online later tonight once it finishes exporting and uploading. Yeah, that was an amazing heap of garbage and that stream is about as close as you will get to seeing me LP Air Combat itself. If some other brave soul wants to take a swing at it, they are welcome to, but I think I made the right call the first time when I threw the game down in frustration 30 minutes into it and never touched it again until tonight.
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Dec 18, 2016 08:07
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What do these PILLZ DOOOOOOO!??!? WHAT DO THESE PILLS DO?
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Hi, I'm very easily distracted for hours at a time by Far Cry 4. First time playing it in two weeks and I didn't stop until six hours later. Ace Number Thirteen is Gunn. Named for James Edward Gunn, born October 21st, 1938. American professor of astronomy at Princeton University in New Jersey since c. 1968, with short stints also working at the University of California at Berkeley and the California Institute of Technology (the latter of which being where he got his Ph.D. in 1966). His work has not been so much discovering asteroids and comets like the others, but rather establishing the current understanding of how galaxies form, the properties of the space between galaxies, and observational tests to confirm the presence of dark matter. He also developed plans for one of the first uses of digital camera technology in space observation, leading to the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. He has been awarded with the Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics in 1988, the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1994, the Gruber Prize in Cosmology in 2005, and the Catherine Wolfe Bruce Gold Medal in 2013, among others. One of the few namesakes who is still alive, currently at 78 years old. (also that's the strike eagle)
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Dec 18, 2016 11:51
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Here is some Ace Combat 7 VR gameplay https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2DWSO_BL2Y possible spoiler Also check out Project Wingman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5kfwKABXY0 Tythas fucked around with this message at 17:33 on Dec 18, 2016 |
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Dec 18, 2016 17:27
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Tythas posted:Also check out Project Wingman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5kfwKABXY0 Certainly looks promising if anything.
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Dec 18, 2016 18:15
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Cooked Auto posted:Certainly looks promising if anything. if you wanna try it out the demo is up free here https://rb-d2.itch.io/wingman
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Dec 18, 2016 18:41
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If you ask me the worst part of Air Combat is that terrible paint job. I remember always using the cheat code that gave all the planes back the colour they have in the purchase screen.
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Air Combat certainly looks and plays like a game from 1995. Polygon Ceiling was very noticeable.
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