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nine-gear crow posted:Everyone lived happily ever after except for the bad guy and there were no war crimes or civilian casualties and everything is going to go back to normal in like a week because we’re dealing with a work of fiction in which wars are frequent and frictionless except when they aren’t for story purposes. Can you tell I’m getting incredibly cynical about these games as we finally claw our way to daylight on them, or have I just always been like that? Please, let me know by posting something about it so that I know people are actually reading this poo poo and I’m not just screaming into the void about the nichest entry in a series of already niche games about magic jet planes and fantasyland geopolitics that falls apart the second you bother to try and analyze any of it. I'mma chalk that up to going back-to-back from AC6 to ACX, both of which are pretty big on the "consequences of war what consequences" side of the scale more than anything else. Mostly because 7...well...doesn't exactly hold back on that front.
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I admit I skim most of the lore posts for this game but usually I enjoy them! And I'm really looking forward to 7. edit: Speaking of other games, of the links in the OP to the LP archive the only ones that exist are 0, 2, and 3.
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Jun 24, 2021 03:53
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Sindai posted:I admit I skim most of the lore posts for this game but usually I enjoy them! And I'm really looking forward to 7. 4, 5 and 6 are placeholders pending Crow completing the bonus videos and getting them archived.
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Jun 24, 2021 04:11
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Bloody Pom posted:4, 5 and 6 are placeholders pending Crow completing the bonus videos and getting them archived. I mean, 4 is 100% done, I just need to proofread it and resend the archive request to Baldurk because he changed the procedure for getting stuff archived since the last time I sent something off to him for archival.
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Jun 24, 2021 04:55
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nine-gear crow posted:I mean, 4 is 100% done, I just need to proofread it and resend the archive request to Baldurk because he changed the procedure for getting stuff archived since the last time I sent something off to him for archival. i think it's reasonable baldurk update the process every 5 years 
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Jun 24, 2021 05:57
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nine-gear crow posted:Everyone lived happily ever after except for the bad guy and there were no war crimes or civilian casualties Though you should say, it wasn't for the lack of trying. 3 cities were on the brink of complete destruction (by shockwave burst, poison gas and ballistic missiles) if not for that meddling pilot.
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Jun 24, 2021 17:48
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It was a game, a game about planes. It wrapped up far, far too cleanly. The "bad ending" seemed more honest.
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Jun 24, 2021 19:54
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goatface posted:It was a game, a game about planes. It wrapped up far, far too cleanly. The "bad ending" seemed more honest. Yeah, especially for the situation of a military dictatorship based around a Big Lie suddenly collapsing. There’s still going to be people out there loyal to the dictator and who still believe the Big Lie and will keep fighting for it. We’ve seen that in real life lately in the recent months and over the last 20 years in general.
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Jun 24, 2021 20:09
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I think it says something about devils? I can only read in little endian 
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Operation X SP Mission: Operation X – Date Unknown, 20XX Overview: Gryphus 1 is invited to participate in a special training operation against some of Aurelia’s most advanced aircraft...  Guest Commentator: I am joined for this final for real video of the base game of Ace Combat X by Trizophenie. Because he joined me for Mission 2, which, aside from Mission 1 is the only mission in the game that doesn’t have an A, B, or C variant, he returns for Operation X to ensure that like everyone else on the commentary roster he puts in at least two appearances in the LP.   OPERATION X Unlocked by beating all 30 missions of Ace Combat X on a single save file, Operation X is the game’s one and only Special or SP Mission. Other games like Assault Horizon Legacy would include a larger slate of SP Missions, while Ace Combat 7 features a slate of three SP Missions as DLC that take place midway through the game’s main storyline in the two-week gap between the missions Bunker Buster and Cape Rainy Assault. Operation X is analogous to The Gauntlet from Ace Combat Zero, in that you are thrown into combat against a roster of enemies, though instead of Name Aces, Operation X is where the game’s not-so-special special planes come out to play. You face off against a progression of waves of enemies, starting with two XFA-24A Apalises and two YR-302 Fregatas, then two XR-45 Cariburns, then two YR-99 Forneuses, then two XFA-27s, then two X-02 Wyverns. For every enemy killed, the game will spawn in the next plane on the roster so you’re always facing at least three or four enemies until the final X-02 is defeated. At that point four TGT ADF-01 FALKENs will spawn in all around you as the final boss of Operation X. The FALKENs all have the TLS laser equipped on them as their special weapon, but are somewhat reticent to fire it on lower difficulties. The FALKENs are programmed when using their lasers to sweep across the player’s fight path only briefly to cause low to medium damage instead of training the laser on the player for prolonged periods to deal lethal damage like the player would against a target. The four FALKENs in Operation X were also the first time that an enemy FALKEN spawn would use the TLS in combat. The one that appears in Ace Combat 2 as the game’s optional final boss didn’t have it, but the FALKENs that spawn in the SP Mission version of Fighter’s Honor in Assault Horizon Legacy glimpsed here, will turn their lasers on the player. If the player can destroy every plane but the final ADF-01 in under five minutes, two additional non-TGT Named Aces will appear on opposite sides of the map: an XFA-27 named Scarface, and an ADF-01 named Z.O.E. The two planes will engage one another in combat without interference from the player and can be very easily missed (like I do in the video) by taking out the final TGT FALKEN before you even realize they are on the map. I will rectify this error and show off the spawn in the first bonus video. The Z.O.E. FALKEN also uses the TLS laser weapon, while the Scarface XFA-27 will fire off four standard missiles at a time, the same special ability as the XFA-27 from Ace Combat 2, which the XFA-27 in X can replicate with unlockable parts. Destroying both Names Aces will unlock the Special 2 colours for each respective plane: the Scarface skin from Ace Combat 2 for the XFA-27, and the green camouflage Knight skin from Ace Combat Zero for the ADF-01. (The red and black Z.O.E. skin is the default Aurelia skin for the FALKEN.) Beating Operation X once unlocks the ADF-01 Falken for purchase from the hangar for a cost of $140,500 credits. It also unlocks the Special 1 colours for the Apalis, Fregata, XFA-27, Cariburn, Forneus, and Wyvern. (The Special 2 skins being unlocked by getting each respective plane’s Kill Rate up to 100%.) Ace Combat: Joint Assault (also known as Ace Combat X˛) also has an Operation X special mission as a reward for clearing the game and is basically identical to X’s version, only you also fight a Named Ace called Dandelion flying an XFA-33 Fenrir. Clearing Joint Assault’s Operation X unlocks a second SP Mission called Ace of Aces.   YR-203 Fregata Manufacturer: Neucom Inc. Role: Prototype Attacker Manufactured: 2020 Status: Prototype Primary Operators: Leasath, Aurelia Quick Facts:
quote:A fighter with four massive engines, its characteristic design distinguishes it from all other large-body attack aircraft.  
  Tracks featured in SP Mission: DISC X   Wallpaper from the defunct Project ACES Ace Combat X Japanese website featuring the cast of unique planes from Ace Combat X. Left to right: Fregata, Cariburn, Fenrir (back row), XFA-27 (front row), Apalis, Forneus. nine-gear crow fucked around with this message at 04:40 on Mar 7, 2022 |
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I must have forgotten how ugly Fregata is sorry plane, you're not great. That single tail does nothing for you. pictured: an unrelated, but also ugly, plane: 
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There was at least one thing in the good ending that was questionable. During the riot in the stadium Navarro gets swarmed by the crowd and presumably gets beaten to death. Where did his body go? There's no way he escaped the hordes of pissed off rioters, so what happened to his body? Did somebody steal it? Was he torn apart and every body "literally" got their pound of flesh? Did he fade into the ether when his stock price crashed harder than his planes did? Personally, I hope they stuffed him into one of the demonstration planes fake engines and no one noticed.
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Jun 29, 2021 02:31
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stryth posted:There was at least one thing in the good ending that was questionable. During the riot in the stadium Navarro gets swarmed by the crowd and presumably gets beaten to death. Where did his body go? There's no way he escaped the hordes of pissed off rioters, so what happened to his body? Did somebody steal it? Was he torn apart and every body "literally" got their pound of flesh? Did he fade into the ether when his stock price crashed harder than his planes did? Personally, I hope they stuffed him into one of the demonstration planes fake engines and no one noticed. It's one of those obviously edited for rating things. Ace Combat's ratings don't really permit showing Navarro's savaged corpse.
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Jun 29, 2021 04:10
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Materant posted:It's one of those obviously edited for rating things. Ace Combat's ratings don't really permit showing Navarro's savaged corpse. Yeah, Navarro wound up somewhere on the scale of Mussolini to Ghadaffi in terms of “fallen dictator torn apart by a crowd of their enraged former subjects”, but Ace Combat X is rated T for Teen, so none of that would ever wind up on screen. But reading between the lines the implication is 100% that he was beaten to death by the crowd at the very least.
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Probably with bits of the plane.
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