Ace Combat: Infinity

[Louie_Schumii]

@Morgoth_666 that gets me thinking about drop rates for each individual account. I have a feeling they bias certain drops for certain accounts; maybe in an attempt to make you spend more money? This is all speculation from experience of course playing with different PSN accounts and the item drops those accounts have received.

Also I found this:

Quite useful when you want to work how much money you need to unlock a certain aircraft or part without the PS3 running. Thanks to this I just found out that I'm 1,054,190 cr. away from maxing out my top-fuel S/MTD...

 

[Bobert power]

Naval fleet assault is like Capital Conquest from Assault Horizon, just without the terrible DFM/ASM.
I really like this tournament due to the fact every role can cause the game changer. I use my T50 to protect the A-10's and F-2's, and in return they destroy frigates to earn cruise missile attacks! I already got MVP on my second match and everyone including the scum F22 pilots, congratulated each other after each battle. So far i'm very impressed with this TDM tournament!

 

[Vitocorp]

I can't post my best TDM since I took some photos and my underwear is clearly visible...
It's darn hot here in south Italy...
Anyway, I've done a great sortie with a bunch guys with my same MR level, was a sure MVP, but sadly I lost connection to the host (probably got kicked).
My best was 8X'XXX pts and over 23XX ranking points, sitting around 2XXX now with just supplied fuel.
Ranking points are extremely low if you are in the losing team:
1)Seal clubbing all the way, I only got 80K points in that match because every player in the room was SLEEPING , the MR was pretty much the same but a single guy can handle the whole match.
2)If you are good and you team is bad, you are screwed.
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Now, since I love you all , here's a way to trick the CIWS.
Have you noticed that most of your attack from SP weapon are useless?
You can use RKTL in close range and in the co-op naval mission were extremely good.
Not sure if bombs (SFFS,FAEB,UGB,GPB) are effective, since you need to be quite precise to drop those (water neutralizes bombs or not?) and you need to be fast, the AA weaponry and enemy fighters are a bad nightmare when you get close o the fleet.
SOD can be an alternative, not tested yet.
LASM or LAGM (please don't be dumb, use LASM...; (R) LASM publicity blurb) are the best way to take down ships from long range, at safe distance from SAMs and AA guns.
BUT there's the darn CIWS, most of your SP missiles won't even see the enemy vessel.
A quick and easy trick is launch them from above, do some vertical divebombing then repeat, the chance to hit an enemy ship is significanlty increased!

 

[im2fst4u]

Haha Vitocorp. Underwear=instant funny.

I really do like this TDM. I have gotten 2nd place in overall points everytime with the 4 matches I've done. I think I got over 30xx on one of them...At least 28xx. But I did see one guy pull a 68000 with I believe a stock Rafale on my first match which is crazy considering over 30xx seems rare. But we did it with 100% to 37% (on score) and that was with a guy who had a Yellow 13 on the other team!
And what you said about being good and your team is bad, yup got that right. I lost 2 matches because of them...Getting hounded but still getting points.
Bombs still work on water. I used some FAEB's to massecre some Stealth vessels from Toyko. Worked really well. And I was using GPB's on the ships in TDM but I couldn't tell if the CIWS were shooting them down. I think all mine hit...it's so frantic out there.
Also I hate those guys who sit waay up high and snipe the LAGM's down. They are too far for me to spend time chasing down with my slow F-16F DR.

So where is the proof of the F15S/MTD skin you guys are talking about? I couldn't find anything in the game about it. Is it a drop? Well as I am directing those part researches I get towards getting the MTD I want that skin now if there is one. (hopefully Sorcerer Stripes) But maybe some Camo would look nice too. Like this.

 

[Bobert power]

I now hate Berkut pilots! WHY YOU ASK?!?! Because one shot my T50 out of the sky!






With a UGB!!!!!!!!

 

[LJP64]

I now hate Berkut pilots! WHY YOU ASK?!?! Because one shot my T50 out of the sky!






With a UGB!!!!!!!!

OOoops, maybe I'm the guilty guy...

Just kidding. I tried the TDM yesterday (just once, to get the 3x supplied fuel units). After some hesitation I decided to give it a go with my beloved level 7 Berkut and UGBs. I finished second place in the end. I think I'll try again.

@Vitocorp I can tell you that UGBs are good for attacking those ships. Mine are level 3 now, but 2 bombs dropped simultaneously will cause serious damage or even destroy a medium ship. And the Berkut can carry many bombs... and is also capable of clearing the sky from almost any type of aircraft.

I also noticed that my missiles (at least the standard ones) were sometimes intercepted by the ships' AA. But all the UGBs I dropped hit the targets without being intercepted.

I may try the Su-34 Fullback with LAGMs, but I'm afraid of being shot down many times. It's a fantastic attacker but it is by far not as maneuverable as the Berkut.

 

[Vitocorp]

I'm the only one who can see the next tournament prizes???
The new skin looks very basic anyway, nothing special.
Last one I used a fighter to take care of enemy attackers...I only died twice and usually I get shot down multiple times.
A slow attacker is great for the damage but needs escort fighters or it can be slaughtered by the enemy.

 

[Louie_Schumii]

PSN and Infinity Servers having trouble? I've got contracts running as well T_T

 

[Vitocorp]

You guys are mad, wasting contract and fuel for a lousy Mirage 2000, just kidding
Fun fact, for now I should be able to rank top 3K if I keep winning all the time.
Anyway, I got a 300'000 credit drop today...(gold box)
No issues with servers/PSN for me anyway

 

[Bobert power]

I tried to find a TDM lobby and no rooms were found. Then i had to re-sign in and my friends list wouldn't load. Everything is fine now and lobbies are showing up, but everyone on the forums (Excluding GTP) are not to happy.

 

[Flaren89]

Instead I got right now in my last sortie of the morning (6 total due to 3 supplied reward from DM daily challenge) a free upgrade lv5-lv6 This will mean a net credit saves depending on which aircraft I will use it. From 275-300k for low tier to 400-500k for mid-high tier aircrafts to 600-750k for high tier special aircrafts

 

[LJP64]

I tried to find a TDM lobby and no rooms were found. Then i had to re-sign in and my friends list wouldn't load. Everything is fine now and lobbies are showing up, but everyone on the forums (Excluding GTP) are not to happy.

Same for me. No rooms showing. I tried to open one, it worked but nobody would join.
Moreover, my friends lists didn't show either. And signing out and in didn't solve the problem.
Same with my PS4.
PSN was down as it seems, but I don't know why.

 

[Flaren89]

It's known that yesterday evening/night (CET) PSN got another major problem, maybe nother DDOS attack or emergency maintenance.
This morning I played fine, let's see.

 

[Vitocorp]

I found out that having at least one fighter (or multirole with AA SP weapons) is crucial in this TDM.
If you chose to be the fighter you have to sacrifice the score but the team will thank you, my own crusade against Bombkuts users has just begun
In a single match I've managed to sweep multiple times 2 Rafales, an A-10 and a Berkut letting our team winning by 100%-51%.
And in another one I barely managed to get the MVP title.
The "perfect" formation is: 2 planes engaging ships, one escort these two attackers/multiroles and an air superiority machine to keep allied ships as much safe as possible.

ATTACKER/MULTIROLE=attack. bombs, rocketpods or long range air-to-ground missiles
ATTACKER=attack. see above, one attacker is recommended due to the high payload of a-t-g weapons


FIGHTER/MULTIROLE=escort. air superiority equipment or if the attackers are not good long range a-t-g missiles

FIGHTER=defend. mostly close range air-to-air weaponry, if you are the only fighter then pick up long range weaponry


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http://acecombat.wikia.com/wiki/Collaboration_Event?file=Tekken_Revolution_Collaboration_Event.png

please be another tournament, my fuel supplies will thank you a LOT, 35 units saved since the end of Yellow 13 event!

 

[Flaren89]

I got a 38%-0% win this morning, I was the 3rd of the lobby with the lv1 Rafale M -VA-. But still, I'm the man which gave us the victory, as I destroyed last 15% of our enemies by shutting down the aircraft carrier. Brought its life from 40% to 25% in a first double missle + double LASM + double missle while damaging with guns also, then flew away to avoid missles and come back to get down remaining 15% (in the meanwhile he got damaged by another guy).

On Co-op side, I'm really angry on the fact that it's the second time in 2 days that I find an host (it was different in the 2 cases) that closes the lobby.
When a raid sortie has been revealed... They change to the raid mission, wait some seconds and puff, host closed the lobby... WTF?
Oh and my co-op points has changed in a really weird manner, even by not doing special things they increased from 1.610 to 1.625 today, then I get 2 MVPs (F-117 @ Weapon base assault and Rafale M -VA- @ Tokyo) and it rose to around 1.643...

Vitocorp, do you see that next week is THE week when use the elite contract + burn all fuels?
Still not sure, maybe they will wait one more week for Tekken collaboration.

 

[Bobert power]

Those Emblems for the upcoming AC x Tekken would look pretty sexy on my T50. Perhaps they could make F22 pilots wet their pants!

 

[Vitocorp]

@Flaren89 Burning fuel? LOL no, I don't care about Tekken either, why...

Another battle confirms how important is to have at least a fighter, my team managed to keep up with the enemy thanks to my brutal annihilation, I've performed darn well against an SU-47, an F2, an F-15 MTD and an F-22.
Very proud of my Typhoon!
We lost by 96/100 at the very end of the match, the Berkut user unleashed hell from above and he killed me with an UGB, a fk*g bomb!
@Bobert power , I know that feel, bro.
p.s. I'm sitting in top 1,5K, and I don't even care about the skin...

 

[im2fst4u]

@Vitocorp @Bobert power Two people now who have been crapped on by bombs. I wanna do this. I had a guy in an moby dyck pursuit of late get over 100k because he was dropping the ugbs.

And I also saw a guy in TDM get 75k with his Su-24! I hate that ugly plane.

And Vitocorp, what do you average for points? That seems pretty insane to be 1.5k with only supplied fuel. (Even if you use the extra's we've been getting)

I got a Lvl.5-lvl 6 upgrade today. That saved me a bunch of cash. I hope I get three more of those babies. I got one more level 5 almost done cooking for level six. And I got two planes on the way I want to save for those.

And I broke 60,000 points for the first time today. I changed my typhoon's standard missiles to have a Warhead M and now I can one-shot orange targets. That is how it is done. Excited for that one to get even stronger.

 

[Paulie]

Oh my......I was just looking up the Gripen on seesaawiki and found out that, while it's pretty much as good or better than a level 10 F-35 when it reaches level 15, the level 15 upgrade costs $4.2mil !! The levels before it aren't cheap either.

Edit: The same goes for other high end level 15 capable jets, like the F-2A essentially becomes the BEST Attacker in the game but getting to level 15 takes serious $$$. Even the level 15 Su-24M becomes better than a level 10 Su-34.

Edit 2: A level 15 F-15C is on par with a level 10 F-22. How cool would it be to have these low level jets all on level 15 and annoy people with high end jets?
The major disadvantage of course being parts slots.

 

[Flaren89]

In fact I don't see the reason to put F-15C Eagle in the lv15 aircraft list and not put there the F-14D Super Tomcat which is a lower tier, only the A Tomcat version have lv15 upgrade. I would love an F-14 as second fighter after the F-22, just to switch and try something different (would use QAAM in F-22A, 6AAM in the F-14D Super Tomcat).

 

[Vitocorp]

@im2fst4u , picking the right aircraft at the right occasion and winning most matches, that's why I was in the top 1,5K spot.
Now, with forced sorties, I "missed" 2 supplied and won only 1 over 6 sorties I dropped in 2,2K.
If you are in the winning team the ranking score is MASSIVE, it's like 3 TIMES the loser!

 

[Flaren89]

I'm doing the TDM just for the free 3 supplied fuel reward , so technically 2 more sorties each day in co-op. Quite angry because to unlock the F-15 S/MTD now I need only 50% on one of the 2 parts (the other one already purchased) but I get a progression there only 1 time every day while other things got 3-4 researches per day -.-. It's taking ages.

@Vitocorp Did you read the Message in the inbox?

 

[Paulie]

I'm doing the TDM just for the free 3 supplied fuel reward , so technically 2 more sorties each day in co-op. Quite angry because to unlock the F-15 S/MTD now I need only 50% on one of the 2 parts (the other one already purchased) but I get a progression there only 1 time every day while other things got 3-4 researches per day -.-. It's taking ages.

@Vitocorp Did you read the Message in the inbox?

I've been doing pretty much the same thing, except once I complete all my challenges for the day I go back to TDM because the cash payouts are higher. I have finally unlocked level 5 on the 4AGM, so now I've unlocked the Su-47 but I don't yet have the cash to buy it (buying a level 5 special weapon and the Su-34 in one day will strap you of some cash!).

 

[ibnumgt1]

Those Emblems for the upcoming AC x Tekken would look pretty sexy on my T50. Perhaps they could make F22 pilots wet their pants!

Tekken?!

And sadly, I have to ignore this TDM tourney due to an examination held between the 27th to 31st of October.

 

[Louie_Schumii]

Anyone feeling a real sense of "meh" with a few of the prizes/drops/challenge planes lately? F-16 Libra, MiG-29 Libra, Mirage-2000 Scorpio and the upcoming F-15C Scorpio. Plus there's the Tekken drop coming up - probably with a limited edition plane as a top 200 prize - this is alright (would be even better if there's a hot girl character emblem or skin) but still relatively meh to me.

Just waiting on the next big update or proper TDM - maybe co-op - tourney with a half decent prize...

 

[Flaren89]

I hope Tekken collaboration will be right next week so that I can burn everything to get finally the F-15 S/MTD and upgrade it to lv4 fast, plus get the special skin for it (1 - 3.000th place in the incoming co-op tournament), so that I have an even more reason to do it .
There's the chance that one (probably the Su-35 "Tekken") will be a special aircraft while the Su-34 "Xiaoyu" only a special skin.

 

[Vitocorp]

Anyone feeling a real sense of "meh" with a few of the prizes/drops/challenge planes lately? F-16 Libra, MiG-29 Libra, Mirage-2000 Scorpio and the upcoming F-15C Scorpio. Plus there's the Tekken drop coming up - probably with a limited edition plane as a top 200 prize - this is alright (would be even better if there's a hot girl character emblem or skin) but still relatively meh to me.

Just waiting on the next big update or proper TDM - maybe co-op - tourney with a half decent prize...

Yes, I have the sense of "meh" too, but that's good for my fuel pool, the next one, accordingo to the 1.03 should be Garuda's F-15E.
Nothing particular about the colour scheme, but, being a strangereal craft, I will probably go for it and that's a multirole!
I need some ground sweepers, I got too much high-end level fighters...

 

[Flaren89]

But don't forget that after F-15E, always according to 1.03 leak, should come the X-02 in both base and special (-Tiger-) versions and probably the ADF-01 FALKEN, both aircrafts always been on the top tier of other Ace Combat series. I remember the fights against ADF-01 Z.O.E. in Ace Combat 2 (the only game I played untill Infinity) in the final mission. Such memories and feelings...

 

[Louie_Schumii]

@Flaren89 yeah forgot about that S/MTD skin...which makes it part of the the "meh" update . Anyway I've been upgrading my Y13 over the weekend. Currently at level 4 and sitting pretty with 1.09 million credits thanks to those contracts (@Vitocorp I told you they were worth it ).

I did find something out about the additional plant investment contract. If you've got one running alongside the elite mercenary contract make sure you have at least one part or aircraft that needs research done because the elite merc contract doesn't double the credits reimbursed from the plant contract.

Also:

 

[Vitocorp]

@Flaren89 yeah forgot about that S/MTD skin...which makes it part of the the "meh" update . Anyway I've been upgrading my Y13 over the weekend. Currently at level 4 and sitting pretty with 1.09 million credits thanks to those contracts (@Vitocorp I told you they were worth it ).

I did find something out about the additional plant investment contract. If you've got one running alongside the elite mercenary contract make sure you have at least one part or aircraft that needs research done because the elite merc contract doesn't double the credits reimbursed from the plant contract.

Also:

That's blasphemy! And I thought that using Yellow 13 with the coloured Aquila instead of the low vis logo was disrespectful!
Another guy had the reaper emblem on it, that makes me sad...
Anyway, mine is level 5, I was lucky to get the 300K credits plus 76K from the gold boxes!
I've got an excellent hangar so no hurry to upgrade stuff (stocked tons of research reports as well.)
Just waiting for the Garuda, the X-02 -Tiger- is not a strangereal's Ace craft so if it's a tournament prize I'll pass that (I'm sure we'll have the stock one). I really can't afford to use a single unit of stocked fuel If I'm planning to place top 200 in some tournaments...
X-02 Mobius? Count me in! But it's tiger so, how about no...!

I see what you did here :3