Ace Combat: Infinity

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Paulie
I didn't seem to have time to use stocked fuel tonight, and my 3 supplied weren't enough to get a prop plane (maybe I should have researched them all at once :lol:). The addition of WWII planes to the Ace Combat franchise does have me excited for the ideas of what could be possible on a PS4 Ace Combat though.
Tomorrow or at some point I'll plan on using a bunch of stocked fuel in the tournament to ensure top 3000 on the special Spitfire.
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Did you know there is a rental one?
 
Flaren89
Did you know there is a rental one?
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At the time I did not, though I probably wouldn't have used it anyway. I went back on and used a couple stocked fuels (finishing a couple Attacker challenges in the process) and bought my prop plane, a Messerschmidt!
So do the bigger cannons do more damage or is that just a name they put in the game when in reality all the cannons do the same amount of damage? Either way, I started out using a L damage reduction part, the Medium machine gun part for damage and range (combo part), Quick Turn Datalink effect and the range booster for Datalink. Feels like a pretty solid setup! Just as I did my 4th sortie in it (with the replenished supplied fuels) I was able to earn and use a couple research reports to finish research on level 2 which I bought. I also got an expanded parts slot, which allowed me to upgrade to the LL damage reduction part and swap the machine gun combo part for L damage and S range parts. So I'm pretty keen to use it again tomorrow as I finished up after that.

This TDM is really fun! Some of the execution on the prop planes left a little to be desired, like how the pre and post-sortie cinematics make jet noises. And I kind of wish the piston engines sounded better like real life. But it's a solid effort, rather fun indeed.
 
I would play this game all the time if it weren't for the business model. Stocked/supplied fuel is a pain in the ass and you can potentially lose a lot of money in a round if you aren't lucky. I also hate that fighters go after ground targets when they should be taking down the fighters hitting my attacker.
 
I noticed that levelling up piston planes is really important. This makes me think that unlike jets, maybe because the lavk of missiles, the regular missile improvement is placed on one or both of the guns.
This and the additional manuvreability gives you a huge advantage on opponents.


On a side note, I'm preparing future campaign runs. Just setting up lists to try use specific planes each setups and trying to use different planes from other runs. At this moment, I might have the chance to do 3 runs:
- Vanilla real planes run, in which I use only planes that exist also in real life, but considering also experimental planes (like X-29). Here I just need to get the Tornado to level 5 and it should be ready to be done;
- Aces run in which I use Ace planes, like Su-35 -S1-. Considering on use the Spitfire -Flying Aces- on Mission #1 (because of the name) and a vanilla ADF-01 but using the Z.O.E. skin, which would make this an Ace-like plane as Z.O.E.s are considered "aces" on the wikia. But I still miss, other than the Spitfire, also the ADF-X -RB- which I should get on the tournament coming in next weeks;
- Special run in which I use special planes which aren't Aces, like F/A-18F -BH- or F-117 -ST-.
All of the runs will be done using my own setups I gonna also use in Co-op/TDM/NTDM, so already there in my hangar setup list.
 
I got to around 1000th in the tournament today, I feel like everyone else has been able to upgrade their planes faster than I have. My Messerschmitt is now level 4.
 
Vitocorp
It's just me or it's a bit difficult to find a room in TDM now?
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In the CET night I dunno, in early morning for sure. Just 2-3 rooms found in every research, sometimes even just 1. And as I won't join much higher or lower rating, I may have to wait several minutes before get into a game. Afternoon/evening it's a bit easier to find a room, but I think that casual players have already lost interest on this TDM, just ppl looking for at least top 3000 is still playing there.
 
So I bought the most expensive airplane in the game- The Night Raven.

It's underpowered and wants even more money for upgrading. Will sit in the hangar as a collector's item.
 
I'm still finding this TDM to be quite a lot of fun, it's soooo much better than the frustrating regular TDM's. I'm just inside the top 700 as of typing this, I could probably go for top 300 easily enough but I won't have the time for it.
I sortied with @Vitocorp before work this morning. Luckily he was on my team, as his level 9 plane gave my level 4 (at the time) Messerschmitt a hiding.;) Mine is now up to level 6.
 
Well, it is. The area of effect with the P-38 is much narrower and denser/accurate than with the planes that have weapons in the wings, thus, with right parts it becomes like the A-10.. Killing things far away with the guns alone.
 
I think I probably benefit more from less accurate guns on account of being such a terrible shot.

The TDM seems to be fun but I haven't played it too much, just using the free fuel to work on catching up on other challenges I ignored during the F-14 tournament. Top 3,000 is probably impossible by now unless I spend every free moment playing, so I'll probably not worry about it.
 
As of typing I am around 800th, and my Messerschmitt is level 7. I've been doing really well in this TDM, my team nearly always win and I often get MVP.
 
I had a lot of connection issues on Ace Combat tonight, it meant I missed out on the end of the TDM and the 3 Supplied Fuels challenge.👎
 
Woohoo! Got lucky tonight. My 3rd sortie in was a MDP II, so I activated a Merc contract, used 6 stocked fuels, got S rank and MVP for $700k. A few sorties later in a different room I got MDP III. Did the same, but this time got 2nd in lobby (basically the same score as MVP though) for a further $1.36mil. Suffice to say I finished the challenge for a level 5-6 upgrade request form. Spent a lot of the cash on level 13 for the F-117.

Edit: Got a SHR II this morning as well, another $700k.:sly: I don't think I'm getting an reimbursed credits at the moment.
 
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Paulie
Woohoo! Got lucky tonight. My 3rd sortie in was a MDP II, so I activated a Merc contract, used 6 stocked fuels, got S rank and MVP for $700k. A few sorties later in a different room I got MDP III. Did the same, but this time got 2nd in lobby (basically the same score as MVP though) for a further $1.36mil. Suffice to say I finished the challenge for a level 5-6 upgrade request form. Spent a lot of the cash on level 13 for the F-117.

Edit: Got a SHR II this morning as well, another $700k.:sly: I don't think I'm getting an reimbursed credits at the moment.
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I hate you :P
 
Anyone else with severe connection issues? I couldn't do much during weekend as the disconnects were constant..
 
I was working on making the last 800k of my million credits on Sunday, and took a break to fly a WWII plane mission for fun at Tokyo. Of course following that mission would be when Stonehenge II came up. I waited in the lobby for a while, then went to my Hangar to see if there might be any changes I wanted to make to my Fencer for the mission and realized that it was still restricted to piston planes.

I messaged the host about it but they either didn't get the message, couldn't read the language, misunderstood what I said, didn't care or else just couldn't change the setting... so we sortied with 1940s aircraft against Stonehenge. I still used 6 fuel on a whim even though I knew it would be inefficient.

We ended up getting a B rank. The dual machine guns were still pretty effective at taking everything out. I was rather amazed at how I was able to slice up even the emergency fighter planes with my level 5 Bf-109, they didn't seem to be trying any harder to outmaneuver me than the ones from the Retro Combat mission. The main issue was speed... even leaving behind unimportant targets it still just took too long to cover the map at 800mph. Our guns were not very effective on the railgun turrets themselves for some reason, although my rockets did good damage. We took out 5 turrets and at least one more after the time expired.

The most amazing thing was that no one ragequit. If we had had 8 people instead of 6 we could have taken out all the turrets for sure, but whether we could have got enough for S rank I don't know... a group of aces in higher level planes could have likely done it, or if it had been Stonehenge I instead of II. The bots(in F/A-18s :lol:) were useless, one got about 3k points and the other scored zero.

I made a bit under 450,000 for the mission(with Merc and Research contracts) so it was still a good bit better than just doing 6 regular S ranked missions. I had a SOLG I later that finished off my NSU challenge and paid at most 50k more with S.




I did have some issues getting disconnected and severe lag early on in the day, but that went away after maybe an hour.
 
Flaren89
Because I think host cannot change restriction after creating the room.
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That was my best guess. You can change some things but not others, so of course you'd naturally be stuck with piston planes on the Emergency Air Strike. That would be fun.

Oh, I left out the fact that Stonehenge never hit me, I only died at the very end when we were all flying really slow to try to take out as many guns as possible.
 
Leonidae@MFT
Anyone else with severe connection issues? I couldn't do much during weekend as the disconnects were constant..
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I had them a few days ago as well, hasn't been as bad the last day or two. Always seems to happen near the end of a tournament.
 
I am becoming convinced that picking one aircraft (regardless of it being an attacker, fighter, or multirole) and making sure it has 35-40 parts is the way to go.

My Talisman 1 has 39 arms parts right now and I can build it do anything.
 
Strigon Leader CFA-44 now in Supply Ticket catalogue. Only 400 tickets. Sweet. Gives more damage to AA and AG than Night Raven, but has worse specs. Bubble canopy gives great observation. Standard missiles can suffer from "launch lag" that plagues airplanes with internal bays as the missiles on Nosferatu, while out in the open, take some time to retract.
And since I only left to buy these standard airplanes:

Delphinus
Nosferatu
XFA-27
Fenrir
Varcolac
Spirit

I guess I'll leave the standard Delphinus and Nosferatu for last. ( I have Delphinus in AC3 colors)
hmmm... Spirit will be my next addition to the collection then. And it will go on sorties. It's slower than Lancer, but packs a lot more damage and has wider ability for tuning.
 
I finally picked up the Lancer a day or two ago, then saw the 1 million credit price tag for level 2 so yeah... probably not gonna be flying that too much.


Just finished chucking SFFS's at 200 things with Chihaya, which was a lot of fun but usually not terribly effective. So I guess I'm done with the tournament challenges as I probably can't stay awake to get the SAAM one, and I've got some flying to do in my weak Draken and brand new level 1 MiG-1.44. Debating buying the Tiger F-15 since I don't have it and have little else to spend tickets on, but I don't really want to fly it.
 
I will FINALLY have a decent F-16, the Windhover looks cool and probably will be one of my most used aircraft, missed the PJ back then but luckly I will get this, the top 3000, as of now, is extremely at range, currently I'm in top 1000 with 90 fuels left, no plan to get the shamrock, mainly because I don't want to spend money on the game anymore...plus...it has THE SAME paint scheme of the Garuda! Even the tailcode number!! (the only cool feature is the new LACM missile...)
 

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