There’s no instructions on their site and I’m stupid.

I'm not a big fan of competitive multiplayer. Besides Infinity, I haven't played any online games in the last 15 years, so I have no idea how the Battle Pass works.

Do I need to complete daily tasks or just log in? Will the Battle Pass be valid for two months? What's the difference between the Ace Pass, the Premium Ace Pass, and the Premium Ace Pass Plus? Do I need to complete the tasks for the Premium Pass separately? Will the rewards for completing tasks be available immediately or after the season ends? And so on.

Planes

Why are the explosions square?

Something my brother found, so i lowkey just took it cuz he didnt care for it.

Just saw episode 2 and... I wish I still had tears...

Completely different shapes from one another

To me, the YF-22 is and always will be the canon airframe for AC2 over the standard F-22. It was a massive bummer that AHL retconned it into a regular Raptor and we never got the true prototype back.

​That nostalgia alone made me grab this old 1/144 Trumpeter kit, and man... what a mistake. The kit is absolute garbage. It sat on my shelf of shame for literal years because almost nothing fit, seam lines were a nightmare, and the vertical rudders were straight up molded with the wrong angles/orientation. This thing just wanted to die in the box as if Phoenix himself double tapped it into a BINGO fireball.

​Eventually I figured I'd stop stressing rivet counting and just salvage it with a fun paint job. And honestly, what’s simpler than painting the whole thing red? So much easier than my last done Aurelian Viggen model.

​For the display base, I went with a little hangar setup. Lore-wise, I picture this as an early phase of the Zone of Endless project before the AI started relentlessly copying Phoenix’s combat data in the skies. It’s sitting in some dark, subterranean rebel hangar hooked up to diagnostic rigs while Grunder engineers run initial avionics calibrations and test the neural link algorithms before clearing the autonomous red devil for actual sortie.

​Pretty happy to finally have this cursed plastic done and off the bench.

Didn't remember seeing this here so if it has been posted, mods, please delete

The other day, I completed the Ace of Aces DLC missions for the first time.

I was not expecting these missions to be as hard as they were, but I had a blast overcoming them— except for the half-a-dozen times I found myself having to restart Vitoze Aerial Defence, which is the one mission I found myself disliking.

The mission I struggled on the most was Sipli Field. I believe this mission features highest concentration of anti-air emplacements throughout the five missions, and quite durable ones at that; I had to give up on completing Operation C due to the line of buffed-up XSAMs that appear during its second half. This is to say nothing of the six CFA-44s that appear at the end of the mission.

It's also the mission that I had the most fun playing though. I've always been a fan of large ground attack missions in this series, especially when they're as difficult as this. They may not require as skilled manoeuvres as air-to-air combat, but the satisfaction of flattening an overpowering enemy base is second to none. RCL FTW.

I found Bartelomeo Fortress to be the easiest of the missions. The level of resistance faced in the first half was only slightly elevated compared to the original version, and the Strigon/Gault duel, though incredibly fun, was only remotely harder than the Sipli Field duel. I wouldn't say it was disappointing, but I was surpised by the drop in difficulty from the previous mission.

Heavy Command Cruiser is going to warrant a few replays; what part of the mission is hardest will likely depend on what weapons you bring. I chose unguided bombs, so the first half of the mission took me far longer and resulted in more deaths than the extended dogfights to follow, which I was able to bypass by bombing the airborne fleet into ruins; I was unfortunately not able to kill all the previous player aces.

CFA-44 Pasternak did not live up to the legends. His tendency to fly in a straight line makes him susceptible to read-ahead fire, resulting in an easy victory no matter how many drones he was able to pump out. SU-33 Pasternak, meanwhile, would not stay still at all, resulting in a prolonged dogfight that vastly increased the window for me to make a fatal mistake. The UAV-45s also provided minimal cover for Pasternak, unlike the endless barrage of missiles from Strig/Gault.

I'm interested in hearing what other people who have played these missions, especially after the game's return to relevance via the pc recompilation, think. Which missions was your favourite, or least favourite, and which one did you struggle with the most?

Is there anything official saying if the multiplayer will be cross play between PC and consoles? If not does PS5 or PC usually have a bigger playbase?

Got fired, at least we have 2 ace combat games coming this year (8 and 0) so, as we all said in December, self erasure postponed ( joking) 🥲

There I was putting my life on the line only for Punkrock to bail on us 😡

Localisation at its finest, lol

(Im sure the English account will probably say something different)

Edit: For context, I’m referring to the description for the plane, particularly for what’s in the second pic

Custom painted MiG-29 fulcrum in shadow squadron colors