Ace Combat: Infinity

[Vitocorp]

http://asm.aceinf.glasscore.net/
We found this aircraft set assembler, it's a great tool if you want to know the damage imput of your aircraft as it's automatically calculated.
The pain in the but is I just realized that my Y13 is able to take down MiG-31 at LVL 10 with one std missile, and I've played Moscow lots of times...
Plus, with LVL 5 QAAM the Mobius 1 is capable of one shooting T-50s and F-22s, while Y13 needs the S damage part...
QAAM is probably the best choice for my Mobius but it's the only aircraft I have with LAAMs...maybe I should swap the Y13 with HPAAs...

 

[nocturnalgrey]

The only airplane I wanted was Mobius 1... I did not have the money(fuel) or time required to get it, so as a result I basically retired from this game.

 

[Leonidae@MFT]

The only airplane I wanted was Mobius 1... I did not have the money(fuel) or time required to get it, so as a result I basically retired from this game.

F-22 is overrated.

 

[nocturnalgrey]

F-22 is overrated.

Whether or not the F-22 is overrated really isn't important. What was important is that Mobius 1 had a special place in my heart (for personal reasons).

I knew that the top rewards usually required a user to spend $100-200, so I came to the conclusion that it was sadly no longer worth it to me.

 

[Paulie]

Well I just sortied with a guy with a MR in the 2600's for giggles. It was a 4 player no bots room at regular Tokyo, my team mate quit/DC'ed early on and his team mate was a 1500's MR (I'm about 2080). This guy outscored my be 90,000 points. No, he didn't score 90k, he outscored me (a 2000's MR player) by 90k. That. Is. Rediculous. Tell that dude to get a life or something.

 

[Leonidae@MFT]

Oh look, we're getting a new F-22 skin! Just what we needed.. NOT! I'd rather see Mig-29 OVT as entry level thrust vectoring aircraft., just like there's F-15 MTD in the F-15 lineup.

 

[Vitocorp]

The only airplane I wanted was Mobius 1... I did not have the money(fuel) or time required to get it, so as a result I basically retired from this game.

F-22 is overrated.

To be honest the F-22 Mobius is probably the best fighter for now, it has IMO the best SP roster, 4AAM is the balanced multi-target missile, LAAM for long range, QAAM for short range, great stats,great performances even at low levels, 30 slot parts since LVL 6 and a balanced price as well (not like the Delphinus).
It's my deadly tool of choice and I was "lucky" to grab it (I actually bought a good amount of fuel cans to snipe the top 300), but there's a good news for Mobius fans, recently they spotted this...looks like the graphics comes from Infinity...you know what it means...

 

[nocturnalgrey]

but there's a good news for Mobius fans, recently they spotted this...looks like the graphics comes from Infinity...you know what it means...

Oh wow.... look at that Mobius 1 F4E.

They need to really stop with the tournament only prize planes and sell the planes on an individual basis.

 

[Paulie]

I'm not convinced, a few of the recent Ace Combat games all look alike, Infinity is essentially recycled material from older games anyway. I would like a Mobius F-4E though.

 

[Vitocorp]

I'm not convinced, a few of the recent Ace Combat games all look alike, Infinity is essentially recycled material from older games anyway. I would like a Mobius F-4E though.

Drop or tournament we will get the plane at some point, there's still plenty of content Namco can recycle.
The latest game of the series were AC6 and AH, I'm sure the plane was not featured

 

[RACECAR]

I'm not convinced, a few of the recent Ace Combat games all look alike, Infinity is essentially recycled material from older games anyway. I would like a Mobius F-4E though.

A few? There's only been one recent Ace Combat so I'm not sure what you mean by a few. Ace Combat Assault horizon doesn't at all look like Ace Combat 6. Of course Infinity is recycled Assault horizon assets (the same applies to Tekken Revolution being recycled assets of Tekken Tag Tournament 2), its a F2P game so I don't see whats the big deal about it.

 

[Paulie]

A few? There's only been one recent Ace Combat so I'm not sure what you mean by a few. Ace Combat Assault horizon doesn't at all look like Ace Combat 6. Of course Infinity is recycled Assault horizon assets (the same applies to Tekken Revolution being recycled assets of Tekken Tag Tournament 2), its a F2P game so I don't see whats the big deal about it.

I'm not concerned with the fact it's recycled, I was just saying that the box looking like Infinity graphics doesn't make me think that jet is necessarily coming to Infinity.

 

[Leonidae@MFT]

I'm within 400 best I think.. Differences in points are so great this far up in the rankings that its impossible to get within 200 anymore without throwing a ton of money at the game. Ugh.

 

[Paulie]

I'm within 400 best I think.. Differences in points are so great this far up in the rankings that its impossible to get within 200 anymore without throwing a ton of money at the game. Ugh.

Haven't you ranked well a few tournaments in a row? How are you doing that?

 

[Leonidae@MFT]

Patience and lucky streak of getting sortie fuels for rewards.. and throwing some money at the game. I also started as soon as the tournament came available. IMHO, the the limit for getting the price planes should be within first 2000 instead of first 200..

Edit: Also, being long time Ace Combat fan and avid flight sim player with reasonable talent using cannons for sniping helps..

 

[Paulie]

20th Anniversary celebrations began today and so far the content looks pretty awesome! The month's random drop is a special R-101 Neucom, and some F-15 skin. Available as a challenge is a special F-4E 20th Anniversary (625 cost, blue/white livery). And also in challenges are a bunch of jets getting cool special skins the same as the original Air Combat! Been waiting for these skins! Plus, it would appear once you earn the Air Combat skin for that aircraft, a second challenge becomes available with another skin for that aircraft. I got the YF-23 Air Combat skin then a second challenge became available for some purple looking skin which I'm about 1/3rd through.

 

[Leonidae@MFT]

Already got the F15E skin

 

[Morgoth_666]

Working on the F-16C skin, since I'm already working other challenges for it. I feel sorry for anybody who I sortie with though, at lvl 5 I can barely manage 30k with it. I wish they'd stop putting out challenges for this thing, every time I think I'm done with it forever they release another one. Don't they have any ideas for things that would let us use one of the other worst planes in the game?

 

[nocturnalgrey]

IMHO, the the limit for getting the price planes should be within first 2000 instead of first 200.

If Infinity did this, I would still be playing. There was to many planes I wanted that would have cost me $100 or so to get and to be honest, that is an insult to me considering the previous Ace Combats offered plenty of content for $50-60.

 

[Leonidae@MFT]

Oh god, these are Air Combat paintjobs from N64! The feels, man, the feels..

Edit: And just got the Neucom R-101 Delphinus! It's a savage beast, that one..

 

[Flaren89]

I got the Delphinus

 

[Vitocorp]

So after a long journey I was able to upgrade at LVL10 all my classic Aces except Jean Louis, currently an unactive set at lvl6.
I have to say, you can really feel the difference, tested Pixy and Mobius 1 with my new setups, 4 parts for the body, 2 for the SP weapon and one for the std missiles.
Mobius 1 missiles with mobile fin L are brutal, along with LAAMs you can deal with both fair and close range targets, making the best match possible.
Still, it has a GREAT stability, not a single stall recorded since now, while Y13 suffers a lot from this issue (maybe because it can perform cobra maneuvers).
The only real different between QAAMs and STD missiles of a high spec fighter at high level with both the fin part L is when you have to deal with mid stage bosses, QAAMs are a little more "aggressive" and usually effective, against other planes, you can't really tell the difference.

 

[Leonidae@MFT]

Well, got almost all Air Combat skins besides the ones for YF-23 and F-22 due the fact that I don't have those planes yet. Now I'm just grinding with my SU-47 Berkut until I can buy that handsome Sukhoi T-50 PAK-FA.. Oh yeah, is Shinden worth of upgrading? It is bit on the slow end..

 

[Paulie]

These challenges are very annoying when there's a tournament on, but at least once I complete the F-16C skin I'll never have to deal with that ugly grey standard skin again.

BTW, did anyone else see that apparently in combat simulations the F-16 has been giving the F-35 a spanking? Man, the F-35 program, talk about a whole bundle of 🤬.

 

[Leonidae@MFT]

F-35 has been a disappointment, failure and there's more drawbacks than advantages to it. It's supposed to replace what, half a dozen of the current multirole planes US has? As I keep saying.. Jack of All Trades, Master of NONE..

 

[Morgoth_666]

Still hanging on to a top 1,000 place early, but I'm sure it won't last long once forced sorties start. Been off work so burning fuel during the week makes me look like more of a contender for the moment lol. Hoping I can stay in the top 3,000 by the end, otherwise it's not really worth burning fuel at all(I had my most - 80 - going into this one). It seems the ranking events have become a lot more competitive lately, at least at the low end. Getting into the top 10,000 used to only require playing now and then, and top 5,000 you could almost get to with just 5-6 sorties per day. I could pretty much guarantee a top 3,000 if I flew 10 sorties per day and used a bit extra on the weekend. Now I usually need a little stocked fuel and/or focusing on doing missions for score instead of fun just to get to the 10k mark. The longer events make things a bit less pleasant too.

Of course I'm somewhat shooting myself in the foot by doing challenges in weak planes right now, but I figure once most of those are out of the way the sorties I have left later will be more likely to be in the 1,000 ranking point range.
At least there were some challenges for my F-14A and not just planes I never fly. Still debating whether to bump that up to lvl 11 or bring my Su-24M to lvl 10. My Su-37 is already probably better than the Tomcat at level 6 and I still haven't created a better attacker, but I've got so much memories with that F-14...

I'm not sure if it's even worth trying to do the 50,000 credit Bomber challenge when the only bomber I have is a level 1 IdolB0mber. It's quite expensive to upgrade(and would still be lousy) and I might cost myself 50k of doing poorly in a crappy plane I'm not used to by the time I get to 150,000 points.

So far I have seen one guy fly the dropped R-101(still don't have one myself). He didn't do very good.

 

[Leonidae@MFT]

R-101 can be difficult due to the immense agility it has.

Edit: Anyone else having trouble due to game losing connection to PSN? I just lost 70k point game rewards due to that.

 

[Leonidae@MFT]

Still no contact to PSN by the game. What the heck? Did their servers melt down or something?

 

[Paulie]

Still no contact to PSN by the game. What the heck? Did their servers melt down or something?

PSN is having issues today, luckily I was able to get on 6hrs ago. During which time I also finished the 20 sorties for that F-4E which I'll probably upgrade.

 

[Leonidae@MFT]

Ugh, figures. Just when I fired up Merc contract to make money in order to purchase either B1-B or T-50..