Is this bad as majority said?

[Zeon Did Nothing Wrong]

With the price cut for quite a good deal and AC7 hype, is this game just as bad as everyone said? Why so many negative reviews?

[Nathanx42]

The negative reviews are from normal AC players bombarding/downvoting it in reviews because DFM is so prevalant

[Metal Zero One]

Originally posted by ELI5 why ELI5 is not for 5?:

With the price cut for quite a good deal and AC7 hype, is this game just as bad as everyone said? Why so many negative reviews?

As a game, it's not... As an AC, it is

[=^.^= Bigshow]

its alright.....not ac04, but alright. as said before....most of the negative reviews are just from salty AC fantards

[Mblaze]

Originally posted by =^.^= Bigshow:

.most of the negative reviews are just from salty AC fantards

Like Bigshow said. I guess mostly the purists are lowering the overall rating.

[Vanacutt]

On the second mission you are forced to pilot a helicopter, the controls is so bad that makes DFM issue to be really irrelevant. this is enough for me to hate this game. period.

[t.tv/seemo_94]

Highly scripted.. and DFM is criticized because you don't have the full control of the plane somehow, though you are able to perform some unrealistic moves... but it's actually funny to play. Still, the worst AC ever made, but it's good fun for the money.

[Wrayday]

The game relies way too much on DFM. To the point that firing missiles at any target is rather a waste of time. Also, you have to switch the controls to original AC controls. It will say it's the expert control but you absolutly need to do it because the game tries to keep you from flying into the ground and in doing so prevents you from diving on targets properly. But, if you don't have a 360 and can't play AC5, this will hold you over until the next game comes out... I picked this game up for the PC for 5.00 sooooo I can't complain.

[Naruto 607]

As for me, first, this is like combining Battlefield-based and Call of Duty-based games into an arcade flight simulator game, only without that FPS (first-person shooter) genre. You'll know what I mean, if you have, for example, Battlefield 3 and/or a remastered version of Call of Duty 4.

Second...

Originally posted by _Seemo:

Highly scripted.. and DFM is criticized because you don't have the full control of the plane somehow, though you are able to perform some unrealistic moves... but it's actually funny to play. Still, the worst AC ever made, but it's good fun for the money.

DFM. DFM everywhere. You just can't get rid of this system, especially the ones tagged "TGT_LEAD". Classic AC missile shoot on it won't work, for a lifetime. Hence, that one is scripted. You just have to deal with it.

[Romfullmetal]

What is this DFM you all are talking about?

[Mblaze]

Originally posted by Romfullmetal:

What is this DFM you all are talking about?

DFM is an acronym of DogFight Mode/Mechanics[/b]. It works like this - when you are close enough to the enemy aircraft you can initiate it's automatic chasing: your jet fighter movement is very limited and camera is more zoomed yet it allows you for can more precisely aiming and shooting (shown in the gif).

https://steamusercontent-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/272846813673949903/1A885366426934EF3F41D9FF4849342C0E0A9BC2/

Sounds like a cheat mod but believe me it really isn't. On higher difficulties enemy pilotes can easily counter-maneuver this tactic and trash your plane.

[Romfullmetal]

Originally posted by Depleted Residual Material:

Originally posted by Romfullmetal:

What is this DFM you all are talking about?

DFM is an acronym of DogFight Mode/Mechanics[/b]. It works like this - when you are close enough to the enemy aircraft you can initiate it's automatic chasing: your jet fighter movement is very limited and camera is more zoomed yet it allows you for can more precisely aiming and shooting (shown in the gif).

https://steamusercontent-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/272846813673949903/1A885366426934EF3F41D9FF4849342C0E0A9BC2/

Sounds like a cheat mod but believe me it really isn't. On higher difficulties enemy pilotes can easily counter-maneuver this tactic and trash your plane.

Wow, I almost bought this piece of sheet

[Saviliana]

The problem of the DFM is that your enemy will cheat against you, no matter how good your skill are at, you will forced to waste your missle/sp weap/gun ammo/time to enter correct attack position, you can't do anything about that. Even you are not going to attack in DFM mode, they are still design to force you to get into DFM or you will not able to hit your mission enemy without dozens of missles. And enemies will recharge their HP mid-air when they leave DFM mode.

It IS a plain bad design.

[RiseAgain]

No, Assault Horizon is NOT a bad game. It's a solid air action game. However, many fans of the original Ace Combat games set in Strangereal are salty because assault horizon feels different due to the DFM mode and the presence of missions where you fly other types of aircraft besides fighters.

This game is what introduced me to the Ace Combat series, and since then I've also played Ace Combat 5 and Ace Combat Zero (two amazing games that have aged pretty well in terms of gameplay).

The DFM mode by itself is not bad, and some dogfights caused by it are entertaining to play. It also makes the machine guns on the planes FAR more useful than in previous entries. The only problem here is that the game relies on the DFM mode too much, and at time, using the DFM mode can feel repetitive.

I would also remove the missions where you control the gunner of the black hawk. Those are pointless and drag on for too long. However, I would keep the bomber, the AC-130 and the Apache missions, because they're really solid too.

[Valden21]

Another aspect of the bad ratings is due to the setting of the game. The other games in the series are all set in Strangreal, and this game is set in modern-day Earth. The differences in the set somewhat threw the longtime fans of the series for a loop, since it was such a departure from previous games in the series.

[=^.^= Bigshow]

Originally posted by Valden21:

Another aspect of the bad ratings is due to the setting of the game. The other games in the series are all set in Strangreal, and this game is set in modern-day Earth. The differences in the set somewhat threw the longtime fans of the series for a loop, since it was such a departure from previous games in the series.

i really didnt mind that, seeing as im used to both games set in both fictional and real/semi real world settings. as long as they have real world names for vehicles/weapons and not some weird ass ♥♥♥♥ like asak47 for the name of a ak74 XD point is...i treated it like i treated AC3 *being the first of the series i played* and after a while, found myself enjoying it, cave for a few missions that annoyed the crap out of me. was really hoping theyd take another crack at it, but it seems the fantards got what they wanted and its back to strangereal......and back to the silly anime esqe stories. other than AC04, which i like for both gameplay and story *the planes have friction and weight to them* the rest of the games *ac5 onwards* i just play for the gameplay. cause it seemed like after 5 they just wrote some of anything and called it a story.
TLDR this is no more jarring than AC3 after coming from AC2, specially how namco handled the japanese and US/EU releases