u/Krescentwolf

Literally... everything here was built by Osea though.

We've seen a few hints of NC if you look real close. I believe NC made the phone DD keeps using.

I've seen F4's sweep MVP with scores way ahead of higher craft.

Theres definitely some innate powercreep from the jets themselves... gonna be hard to do much if the enemy team is all felons, raptors and Games/Barricaders... Not impossible though.

At the end of the day, theres alot to be said for skill.

Everyone always reminisces about their first.

Kind of a tradition round these parts.

You can snipe with LAAMs, but all the big LAAM spammers are targets for that reason. HVAA is a little more spotty.

D.D. was a red herring. Cope was a red herring. Man... I REALLY had Cope being 'yeah not dead, surprise im your 11th hour rival now.' Pixy style on my bingo card too. The trailer monologues really hooked me XD

The problem is that ECM doesnt nerf you... it basically makes it pointless to fight unless you can line up guns.

And since most of the ecm planes are high tier anyway theyre super maneuverable, and likely being supported by the rest of their team.

I.E. you dont get to shoot. they get to shoot all they want.

Really pulls the fun outta the game period as it is currently imo.

eh... even online isnt too bad. I wouldnt say im the best pilot around, but i've only hit one real toxic instance so far. The missions are so quick that getting in and out isn't too bad, win or lose.

Atleast until the enemy party is all Games, Barricaders, and Felons. That might spike my rage a little. XD

Oh Rex isn't even the worst case honestly.

Mobius 1, from AC4 is literally credited with SINGLE HANDEDLY winning Usea's lost cause war.

Cipher, from AC Zero, essentially duelled every ace pilot at the epicenter of probably the single biggest explosion of aces in the setting, in addition to putting down ALOT of superweapons...

All the aces in the series are absurd. Thats basically the fantasy.

The way I see it, EVERYONES lying to you in Night City. It doesn't make Songbird special. You have to basically expect it.

Reed being a bootlicker though? Reason enough to betray him. XD

As Nagase is around, its safe to assume Blaze is around in both AC7 And AC8.

Mobius' various arcade mode stories run a long breadth of time meaning he was active for a good chunk of time. Trigger may not be active, but hes definitely still alive Circa AC8.

Talisman is likely living quietly in Emmeria too.

Even the oldest aces, from the Belkan War would only be around Mihaly's age... if not a little bit younger. Old Pixy confirmed.

No, they aren't reincarnating.

I can see why people thought he'd be connected to Dision

https://preview.redd.it/ki23c7xp6sxh1.png?width=360&format=png&auto=webp&s=7d839551e90b9106df5ba78be069e88c376ee278

But he don't have half the absurd balls this guy has... XD

AC tends to script a TON of extra dialogue... ive played AC5 well over 100 times through, and I was hearing new lines for a LONG time after the first few.

I imagine whatever voice acting service they look to acquire is something like 'Quick in and out, X amount of money for a handful of lines.'

Just as a means to avoid everyone sounding the same. Then they scatter that offer to every voice actor in the industry XD

I liked AC5's airforce... personally... But i feel like the game doesn't spend enough time on airbases.

We get alot of aircraft carriers -_-

I wouldnt mind some more mercenary stories though.

I wholly expect AC9 to be the real world corporate war, with us as ZoE fighting off the next stage of development of DoE

The overall geography of the broader map of Usea is the same... i dont think the Expo city map is one for one the same, give that the maps in a ps1 game were considerably more basic.

They can likely get away with 'it was always this.'

Oh thank god... or rather thank YOU for this... that damn save button was annoying the heck outta me.

AC5 is the first time the enemy outright fears you... Like seriously.

Which is funny since Mobius should probably have inspired more fear than Razgriz... but its not how that game was written

ahh i was wondering why this refused to update... thanks

This matchup will likely come down to Edge vs. Pixy.

Nagase is the closest in skill to her squadron ace, and Faulk literally becomes Ciphers rival.

I'd probably edge out the finale toward Pixy, if for nothing else that he's way more efficient in battle than a relatively pacifistic person like Nagase is.

ESM as it is isn't very integrated into the team play. It's almost exclusively OP because it makes dogfighting you painful. And that basically means only the Barricader and the Morgan are worth using in the role And thats only in pvp modes.

Theres very little incentive to use ECM/ESM in pve modes.

Excuse you... you really think this AC5 fan hasn't already exceeded 8492 playthroughs? I need to prove myself better than those Belkan bastards.

Canonically... it's probably a toss up between Cipher and Mobius.

Mobius for the sheer NUMBER of kills, given that he basically won the war single handed.
Cipher for the sheer quality of kills, given all the Belkan Ace Squadrons and superweapons he had to deal with.

Best overall squadron still goes to Razgriz imo.

I get the distinct feeling AC9 will be an AC3 remix/remake.... maybe what actually happened outside the simulationEither way... i'd love something like a ZoE versus DoE showdown...

closest we got to that was Ofnir vs. Razgriz in the canyons in AC5