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Captain Beans posted:How does the "two teams of four" work in multiplayer? Also when you target something there are pips indicating how many people from your team or the other team are targeting the same thing, so you can try to steal peoples' kills or avoid having your kills stolen. It's all pretty cleverly implemented on top of the traditional AC 4-6 gameplay.
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Was there a beta exclusive skin or was it just beta only? I vaguely remember there being one when I tried out the beta but I don't seem to have access to one now.
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Jun 12, 2014 20:40
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I will try to join you guys on Saturday if there's still room.
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Jun 12, 2014 22:15
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Been playing this for a few days now, psn is rbo818 if anyone sees me online and wants another goon to run with. I'm digging the throwbacks to the PS2 era games. I've always preferred playing ground attack in high speed aircraft, so I like the F4G, but this Desert Rock F16 is just too much fun. Somehow I managed to score 55k in Tokyo with the drat thing still at level 1 and only a tail actuator equipped.  Are there any alternate skins for this thing, or is it waiting for Namdai to release something other than tiger stripes?
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Jun 12, 2014 22:18
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Skwerl posted:4 human players per team Woah woah where can I get this.
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Hobo on Fire posted:Been playing this for a few days now, psn is rbo818 if anyone sees me online and wants another goon to run with. I'm digging the throwbacks to the PS2 era games. I've always preferred playing ground attack in high speed aircraft, so I like the F4G, but this Desert Rock F16 is just too much fun. Somehow I managed to score 55k in Tokyo with the drat thing still at level 1 and only a tail actuator equipped. There's a pink sakura blossom-themed skin that features an anime girl available for download from my dreams Skwerl posted:Also was reading the Ace Combat artbook yesterday, found something that werent covered in the original Ace Combat Zero: Holy poo poo, that makes perfect sense in retrospect, given the odd terrain. What a strange detail to leave out. Also where the hell did you find an artbook?
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Jun 12, 2014 23:07
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IIRC, Aces at War was only available as part of the JP special edition of Assault Horizon, which is an interesting choice since the book exclusively covers the previous games/Strangereal stuff.
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Jun 12, 2014 23:23
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Saturday works best for me as well. Probably be on sometime in the evening.
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Jun 12, 2014 23:24
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Oh god, first mission I start up is Moby Dick again. please dont shoot the cockpit pubbies 
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Jun 13, 2014 00:07
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I'll be idling for a while if anyone wants to add me to their room. PSN: KitchenGun
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GOTTA STAY FAI posted:There's a pink sakura blossom-themed skin that features an anime girl available for download from my dreams The Shield 5 emblem looks kind of like goatse so maybe you could put that on the Zipang since that is bright purple with cherry blossoms on it and it can partially fill the idolm@ster plane-shaped void in your heart
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Jun 13, 2014 01:47
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Welp game only lets me join like 1/30 rooms and I'm not into spending 40 minutes looking at a "failed to join the room" message so I guess I'm out. Call me when they've fixed the netcode. (It's weird, all the other online games I have on my ps3 routinely give me 2-3 bars out of 4 for my connection, but this one gives me the grayed-out 0 bars with a slash through em whenever I manage to get in a room. I don't have any lag and the thing runs fine when it actually wants to let me in so  )Maybe I'll give Zero another chance in the meantime. I only ever played through it once and I remember being mildly disappointed coming off 4 and 5, but better than this! E, vvv the latter, sadly. Gamwhiz1 fucked around with this message at 05:15 on Jun 13, 2014 |
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Jun 13, 2014 04:14
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Gamwhiz1 posted:Welp game only lets me join like 1/30 rooms and I'm not into spending 40 minutes looking at a "failed to join the room" message so I guess I'm out. Call me when they've fixed the netcode. Are you using quick match or actually searching for a room. If it's the former, do the latter.
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Jun 13, 2014 04:57
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Yeah, Room Search + "Everybody let's have fun here" works great for me most days. Quick Match isn't all that quick for some reason 
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I always do Room Search set to "Best Connection Only" for the host. Or just make my own room.
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Jun 13, 2014 13:09
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ninjahedgehog posted:Incidentally, has anyone here ever fought Moby Dick III? I wound up looking it up on YouTube, and holy poo poo It's gold-plated and covered with loving laser cannons. I have, once. I got shot down a lot but we did manage to finish it with a B-Rank with about 18 seconds to spare. Worth a ton of cash.
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Jun 13, 2014 13:21
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Couple new special challenges popped up this morning.
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Jun 13, 2014 13:39
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Has anyone figured out whether there is or is not a rank requirement for the Zipang? I'd like to get it before the event ends.
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GOTTA STAY FAI posted:Has anyone figured out whether there is or is not a rank requirement for the Zipang? I'd like to get it before the event ends. There is not from what I read on different forums.
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iastudent posted:
Awesome, looks like this challenge is repeatable, every 2 days.
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GOTTA STAY FAI posted:Has anyone figured out whether there is or is not a rank requirement for the Zipang? I'd like to get it before the event ends. Well I'm at 1st Lieutenant and I got it, and I'd be surprised if you haven't reached that rank yet. The drop rate for it seems pretty low though, I only got it 2 days ago and I usually get in at least three games a day.
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iastudent posted:Couple new special challenges popped up this morning. Take note these two involve two planes at the end of separate tech trees, say goodbye to any directed research and your credits if you wish to complete them. iastudent posted:Couple new special challenges popped up this morning. These two give 1 supplied fuel each and are daily. Purchasing a Mirage will let you complete another challenge.
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Jun 13, 2014 15:49
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Man I wanted to play a game where I get to fly a Mig-21 around but then I realized my brother sold off his PS3s.
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iastudent posted:Couple new special challenges popped up this morning. Yeah but then you have to fly F-16s and Mirages
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Jun 13, 2014 16:02
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The challenge to destroy 4 targets marked SP or TGT also repeats, but every other day, and gives a stocked fuel.
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Insane Totoro posted:Yeah but then you have to fly F-16s and Mirages I get at least 30k score on Pipeline with a Mirage. If I can do it, so can you. 
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Yeah but the Harrier and Hornet are way cooler iastudent posted:Good flying with you this morning, KingTotoro. To answer your question from earlier, the Moby Dick missions pop up randomly after completing a sortie. IT IS A MYSTERY Also good flying that morning. I had a Merc contract activated that day! Insane Totoro fucked around with this message at 16:11 on Jun 13, 2014 |
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finally got my first moby dick iii... forced sortie 3 fuels, s ranked it.....got about 250k because I wasnt the MVP and I crashed twice. and got 2 fuels back in random drop.
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RE: Moby Dick Pursuit IIIquote:Similar to the other Moby Dick Pursuits, the only objective in this mission is to destroy the Aigaion-class heavy command cruiser. The one that appears here is colored gold and is armed with numerous laser units that fire lasers consistently in a sweeping pattern. They fire at all angles in all directions from the cruiser, meaning all players flying close are vulnerable to laser fire. Additionally, the lasers will shoot down all player ordnance (exactly like the MQ-90Ls), so machine guns are the best way to destroy the laser units. The laser units do give the players one advantage: this cruiser does not carry Nimbus cruise missiles. Well poo poo.
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Pornographic Memory posted:Well I'm at 1st Lieutenant and I got it, and I'd be surprised if you haven't reached that rank yet. The drop rate for it seems pretty low though, I only got it 2 days ago and I usually get in at least three games a day. I'm lagging behind due to lack of time to play. I'm at 2nd Lieutenant #20ish at the moment, but I have plenty of stocked fuel for tomorrow.
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Do the missile upgrades make a huge difference, or is there a trick to getting your missiles to hit more reliably that I'm unaware of? I am pretty terrible at air combat in general, which is pretty important in a game focused around planes. However I'm sticking around because I'm having a much better time with attackers. I'd ultimately like to get an A-10 but I'm hoping my floundering around doesn't impede my progress to the point where I get burnt out and quit before that happens.
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Tequila posted:Do the missile upgrades make a huge difference, or is there a trick to getting your missiles to hit more reliably that I'm unaware of? They make a difference which is greater the more parts you equip. You can also change your datalink effect to give your missiles greater homing as well. It adds up until you find yourself reliably hitting the F35's, F22's and T50's in emergency missions.
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Basically to hit planes fire from the rear ~180 degrees behind them, don't launch missiles when an enemy plane is in a sharp turn, and pay attention to what kind of target it is. A yellow plane on the radar will be so dumb you can often fire missiles at them from any angle and score hits. Orange planes are not much better, and if you are anywhere behind them you are almost guaranteed a kill. Reds and SP/TGT planes are where it gets tricky, and in those cases I'd say fire from close range (~3,000 or so), only when they're going straight ahead, and watch very carefully because a lot of times when it seems like they're going straight they're actually pulling really tight-rear end Immelmans that will make your missiles miss.
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would also add that do a lot of fire and forget, if you get a good angle and launch the missiles, go for the next target immediately instead of waiting for visual confirmation.
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Also the correct way to go through a bunch of tall buildings is to not try to twist and turn. Slow down and hit your targets. Keep your thumb on the guns. Then go straight vertical and loop around screaming towards the ground, braking and spamming missiles. Repeat.
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Skwerl posted:would also add that do a lot of fire and forget, if you get a good angle and launch the missiles, go for the next target immediately instead of waiting for visual confirmation. Unless you're using SAAMs. But you can actually fire two of them at different targets and they'll both hit as long as both targets are inside the targeting circle.
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ninjahedgehog posted:Unless you're using SAAMs. But you can actually fire two of them at different targets and they'll both hit as long as both targets are inside the targeting circle. I miss the days when I could launch an SAAM early and worry about locking on later, or redirect one if my intended target got killed by someone else, because that keeps loving happening here. Targeting two guys at once with them isn't even that useful anyway, because two guys sticking that close usually would be easy pickings for standard missiles or guns, too, and if you know getting in close enough for that would waste too much time then some jerk on the other team with 4 or 6AAMs is probably going to get them first anyway. That said, I took the F-15C with SAAMs to Aerospace Center Defense just now and ended up MVPing with 50,000 points and an A rank overall. Even taking into account how I used the above trick on the B-2's during the emergency mission and killed at least a third of them myself, I'm not quite sure how I did that.
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Played and MVPed Moby Dick III (and triple fuel-ed it for that sweet 3.5x bonus), got the Black Morgan, White and Gold Moby Dick emblems, all today. 
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Always 3x fuel the Moby Dick missions. The only way you can lose if you play on a completely dumb newbie team.
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PSN id is Unusual_heights the pubbies in this game are pretty trash so hopefully i can join in on a game or two with some of you guys.
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