Game too hard, missions don't make any sense.

[AlmX]

[SPOILERS]

Rescue mission - ridiculous. You shoot down the president even if you don't even look his way. I was fighting somewhere else, miles away from the chopper, suddenly "Trigger was the closest." Huh? Really? If you want me to shoot down the chopper accidentally, DO it, force me to shoot to something close, so it would at least make sense.

444 mission - you are playing as a prisoner who is responsible to make an IMPRESSION something going on at the airbase which is actually a fake with a prison. Turns out, the IMPRESSION includes shooting down 4 waves of heavy bombers escorted by fighter support.

Long Day mission - "Oh, just do nothing, let them shoot at you, so we know what they have there. If you can, soften up their defenses". Turns out you have to blow up everything on the ground and in the sky in 14 minutes, or the mission fails. Makes perfect sense, right? Why not say, destroy the airbase and support? And while you are at it, decrease the required score to 10000 or increase time to 30 minutes. The mission is undoable unless the enemy starts behaving like fish in a barrel.

[OfficerTerror]

finished the whole game first try no problems. and it all made sense to me.

edit: i play with KB and M too btw lol

[Qle]

Too hard? More like to easy

[RAWRmonger]

Bams32 původně napsal:

https://youtu.be/y8KWiZfoFdw

>novice controls

[RedFaster]

I guess this is no spoilers but I'm pretty sure it should be obvious that nobody there really knows what happened and they just blamed it on the new guy. In the next mission briefing it is even mentioned that it doesn't really matter if he did or not. Thank Bandai Namco for bringing this to PC!

[Jonathan J. O'Neill]

RedFaster původně napsal:

I guess this is no spoilers but I'm pretty sure it should be obvious that nobody there really knows what happened and they just blamed it on the new guy. In the next mission briefing it is even mentioned that it doesn't really matter if he did or not. Thank Bandai Namco for bringing this to PC!

Too bad they cut dialogue from the game.

George, who is with Avril and your wingman while you're with Spare, had some dialogue that went into detail about what happened at the Space Elevator. How they used Trigger, to make him look like he killed Harling.

[JtDarth]

Jonathan J. O'Neill původně napsal:

RedFaster původně napsal:

I guess this is no spoilers but I'm pretty sure it should be obvious that nobody there really knows what happened and they just blamed it on the new guy. In the next mission briefing it is even mentioned that it doesn't really matter if he did or not. Thank Bandai Namco for bringing this to PC!

Too bad they cut dialogue from the game.

George, who is with Avril and your wingman while you're with Spare, had some dialogue that went into detail about what happened at the Space Elevator. How they used Trigger, to make him look like he killed Harling.

Or, ya know, General Labarthe, who explains what went on.

[Jonathan J. O'Neill]

JtDarth původně napsal:

Jonathan J. O'Neill původně napsal:

Too bad they cut dialogue from the game.

George, who is with Avril and your wingman while you're with Spare, had some dialogue that went into detail about what happened at the Space Elevator. How they used Trigger, to make him look like he killed Harling.

Or, ya know, General Labarthe, who explains what went on.

Well, yeah, Labarth talks about it but George was the one actually responsible for it.

[Naruto 607]

HentaiShop původně napsal:

Play on easy difficulty and change your mindset, I guess.
Long Day for example, ignore some planes and focus on ground targets. An F-16C with GPB can do great against packed targets.
The idea is that you make quick work of ground targets then move-on.

If you're below the threshold by 10.000 points, I can only see that as you're too passive or not aggressive enough.

Try Ace difficulty, if you're up to it.

I did that with only F-16 in the entire campaign, with parts varied on each mission.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1769649081

Qle původně napsal:

Too hard? More like to easy

If you got wits to do it. The key is speed and number of points in this game.

[JtDarth]

Naruto 607 původně napsal:

HentaiShop původně napsal:

Play on easy difficulty and change your mindset, I guess.
Long Day for example, ignore some planes and focus on ground targets. An F-16C with GPB can do great against packed targets.
The idea is that you make quick work of ground targets then move-on.

If you're below the threshold by 10.000 points, I can only see that as you're too passive or not aggressive enough.

Try Ace difficulty, if you're up to it.

I did that with only F-16 in the entire campaign, with parts varied on each mission.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1769649081

Qle původně napsal:

Too hard? More like to easy

If you got wits to do it. The key is speed and number of points in this game.

*Laughs in F-104*


No seriously though. ANY plane in this game is viable. Except maybe the A-10. Even then, stacking speed parts might make it possible, I've never tried.

[Naruto 607]

JtDarth původně napsal:

*Laughs in F-104*


No seriously though. ANY plane in this game is viable. Except maybe the A-10. Even then, stacking speed parts might make it possible, I've never tried.

Haha...

F-104 has GRKT for ground attack, but it's only used as a precision where you need to destroy a heavily armored ground unit like ships (Mission 11 and 15 prove its worth), and IMO, 8 rockets against a single lightly armored unit is a waste of ammo.

F-16 is the first plane you can ever fly in if you start fresh (otherwise ADF-11F, ADF-01, or ADFX-01 if you bought the Season Pass). And regarding what OP said, I have no difficulties whatsoever during my Ace difficulty run in an F-16. Especially missions 4, 5, and 6.

Videos I uploaded on YouTube and added on Steam confirms it; just check my videos from my profile. Again, the key is speed and number of points acquired. Also, plan a strategy in order to prevent your plane from reaching 100% damage threshold. Automated Fire Extinguisher part is very useful in this case as you can repeatedly taking hits so long as you gave time to reduce the damage threshold itself to 50% and not being hit by anything. ANYTHING. Guns, missiles, and collision.

[Perihellion]

I never played Ace combat game before and i finished the campaign on medium difficulty on the first run. Now i play on hard and trying to finish all achcievments like Ace planes etc. Also i played multiplayer and i have max lvl, all planes and all upgrades. Game is not hard if you know something about air combat. But i am veteran of War Thunder almost 3500 hours ;)

[Wanda]

Just finished the game 1 hour ago in "normal" mode. (with Xbox One pad).

I died maybe 6-7 times in the whole campaign (without counting the last "trick" to do in the last mission #NoSpoil) so i didnt understand what you mean by "Too Hard"...

I mean really ? you find this game too hard ? O_o

[Mad Scientist]

JtDarth původně napsal:

Naruto 607 původně napsal:

Try Ace difficulty, if you're up to it.

I did that with only F-16 in the entire campaign, with parts varied on each mission.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1769649081


If you got wits to do it. The key is speed and number of points in this game.

*Laughs in F-104*


No seriously though. ANY plane in this game is viable. Except maybe the A-10. Even then, stacking speed parts might make it possible, I've never tried.

Actually played a majority of the game (including taking down arsenal bird @ space elevator) and the last drones. Somehow, it was actually much, much easier I don't know how the drones were programmed but they were nowhere near as aggressive against the A10 (except the final 2) I was able to stay behind it almost the entire time spamming missiles and the gun and only a few times had to actually evade, finished with a split second to spare as well. Was quite fun doing that.

[JtDarth]

Orion původně napsal:

JtDarth původně napsal:

*Laughs in F-104*


No seriously though. ANY plane in this game is viable. Except maybe the A-10. Even then, stacking speed parts might make it possible, I've never tried.

Actually played a majority of the game (including taking down arsenal bird @ space elevator) and the last drones. Somehow, it was actually much, much easier I don't know how the drones were programmed but they were nowhere near as aggressive against the A10 (except the final 2) I was able to stay behind it almost the entire time spamming missiles and the gun and only a few times had to actually evade, finished with a split second to spare as well. Was quite fun doing that.

The drones are programmed to be super evasive, but seem to derp out hard if you are moving slow enough. Maybe they don't consider moving slow enough to be an attack vector. I observed that behavior on the stock F-4 myself.

[Cyberlisk]

I response to the rescue mission one : You actually ARE supposed to be shooting drones close to the helicopter. If you are flying like a normal craft for about 10 seconds you can see the drones fly in and get very close to the chopper. Once you shoot a missile at one that is close the cutscene gets "Triggered"