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Has anyone else been using Ewar planes in online? I swear the ESM reduces spawn timers for downed allies but nowhere in the tooltips does it confirm this.

Sidenote: I'm using a ps5 controller while I wait for my new hotas and it feels like my wrists are broken.
 
Pixy said:
Hasegawa is producing the Mobius F-22 again.
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This was at one of the major hobby stores in Australia, and even then they only had 2-3. The official AC model kits are too big for me to display, but if they made any in 1:72 scale I'd absolutely snap them up.
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Hasegawa's Raptor is a pleasure to build. The fuselage halves mate perfectly as do the intakes. There's lots of resin and photoetch goodies available to really spruce things up. The tough part is the paint, as the real plane doesn't have a FS code; the radar dispersive coating is birefrigent.
 
How the actual fuck do QAAMs work, they're supposed to be best for dogfighting other players but I'm struggling.

The SU-33 just can't turn with the Pixy, why they give everyone the best plane day one. Nothing else competes and its HUNDREDS of matches to get further into the tech tree (leveling up goes from 1k to 2k xp to unlock planes and I bet it goes to 3k a level soon)
 
I haven't had too much trouble with pixy spammers in either warfare or assault tbh. That's probably down to most of them being bad and not using their SPWs properly. I imagine someone who is good with the TLS and ECM could be a real pain in warfare.

QAAMs are not as strong as they were in 7, which I guess is unfortunate in some ways since that's part of the reason why the meta has solidifed into LAAM spam. I imagine if you want to main QAAM planes you'll need the level two guidance and flight distance parts.
 
Dim Glownigger said:
I imagine if you want to main QAAM planes you'll need the level two guidance and flight distance parts.
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Level 2 guidance seems a must, but would distance or speed make more sense as the other part?

Pixy pilots are either morons or pulling bullshit turns in ways less maneuverable planes can't counter.

LAAMs are definitely the best for high scores against non-player planes though. I'm mixing up the Mig-31 and SU-33 to do both. Only downside is leveling planes is FUCKING EXPENSIVE. I just have the double ZOLL/XP tickets running full time for now, Scrambles aren't common enough to save them for. Unlocking level 15 on the SU-33 is ~60k+ Zoll between the actual currency and blueprints. Its fucked.
 
The Starcard said:
Most of these are reasonable, but how were they mostly wrong?
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DiabeticSydePhil said:
Level 2 guidance seems a must, but would distance or speed make more sense as the other part?
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QAAMs can turn back in after missing, so distance lets them make more passes to try and get the hit. I haven't been running QAAMs so I can't be entirely sure on how useful it is now, but the distance parts were the meta in AC7 for QAAM spam.

I've had a lot of success in warfare throwing LAAMs at players who are already engaged in a dogfight. They also hard counter ECM planes if those are on the enemy team and the pilot isn't keeping on his toes for long range threats. The only thing more threatening to an ECM plane is someone who uses the SAAM relocking trick, but I have encountered literally 0 people doing that so far.
 
Is it just me, or the Shadow squad in mission 28 kind of a bitch to hit? I know you have to wait for them to pull a kulbit to jam your QAAMs up their nozzles, but even then the chance to hit them is almost close to 0 even if you track and align your missiles perfectly. I actually ran out of the mission timer a couple time just to chase these chucklefucks around.
 
The actual best way is to stack both gun parts, bait them into their post stall maneuvers by spamming missiles and then gun them down while they're spinning the air like retards. You can rape them in like 2 mins like that, but it does require being good (and more importantly, fast) at aiming. I'm not, so I used QAAMs during my S rank run, but I got them in just under 4 mins without too much trouble.

Also re guns, change your crosshair reticule to type B if you haven't already, it helps.
 
Plastic Paddy said:
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I think Reprisal is still one of the most egregious missions in the series. 5's ratio of good to dogshit missions is about 1:4. Thank God Harling got drone striked by Erusea because I got sick of saving him.
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That award goes to Four Horsemen.
 
Dim Glownigger said:
I haven't had too much trouble with pixy spammers in either warfare or assault tbh. That's probably down to most of them being bad and not using their SPWs properly. I imagine someone who is good with the TLS and ECM could be a real pain in warfare.

QAAMs are not as strong as they were in 7, which I guess is unfortunate in some ways since that's part of the reason why the meta has solidifed into LAAM spam. I imagine if you want to main QAAM planes you'll need the level two guidance and flight distance parts.
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LAAMs have pretty much made mostly air-to-air sessions unplayable because every faggot in the lobby goes full BVR and you're just stuck waiting for the next waves to hit and pray one of your LAAMs hit first. Metaniggers somehow enshittified PvE in less than two days. Praying these things get nerfed into the ground so you can actually have proper dogfights in Ace Combat again.

Morgan users are functionally retarded since all they know how to do is fire burst missiles into 2 AA guns or a singular fighter that didn't get BVR sniped by the 3 Mig-31s in the lobby.

I for one am absolutely dreading whenever an EML plane gets added. Shit was so ass to play against in 7.
 
I just got the F/A 18 G and I love me Growler, simple as. Now they just gotta reach out to VAQ-133 and give me a Wizards unit emblem.

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I will also accept a Razgriz battlepass next, gimme that shit.

P.S.: Their official callsign is Magic.

Also for the QAAMs to be really good you need an Ewar homie running ESM to give your missiles bullshit tracking, I trivialize scrambles with it.
 
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As I wait for AC8 to be patched on PC so I can play something other than a Powerpoint presentation with an hour long loading time, I do want to say how funny a certain section of the AC fanbase gets really upset at people liking Belka. From Panymyxia's video on "Belka did everything wrong" having a few minutes sperging about how people supporting Belka are just saying "Hitler did Nothing Wrong" with a few changes to this absolute gem for the Trivia section on Acepedia for Belka:
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All I got to say is if you wanted people to not like them, you should have made the other factions cooler. Sorry!
 
RA-5C Vigilante said:
I do want to say how funny a certain section of the AC fanbase gets really upset at people liking Belka
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I agree and I also find it hilarious Belka is arguably the most sympathetic of all the antagonists nations. Especially compared to Sotoa, they commit atrocities on the regular and we don't even know why they invaded in the first place.
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The fandom wiki was essentially abandoned I understand for a mediawiki based website. The new wiki doesn't have this text and only notes Belka is somewhat based on Nazi Germany.
 
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