why do all missions have a timer?

[Agomir]

why do all missions have a timer?

[Naruto 607]

Tell me, have you played Ace Combat 04 before? On PS2? It's the first game that that pioneered the time-based missions in the next series.

There's a reason behind it, but I have no idea what it is. Probably because people don't want to spend a lot of time in one mission.

I myself am a type of leisure guy, but timer addition like this kills the fun of "pranking enemies". Talk about fuel IRL, because, yeah, planes run on jet fuel.

Ace Combat X is one example that timer duration can go halved or something like that if you proceed on a mission while another factor like non-captured places are there.

[FerSantander]

He means why timers are so stupidly tight in ac7, this to be one of the main reasons to kill its replayability you know

[Stoo]

They're not that tight once you have better planes and weapons. Mission 11 is quite difficult on a new run, but it becomes laughably easy to sweep up 45K+ points well before the timer hits zero when you're half way through the tech tree.

[Naruto 607]

Originally posted by FerSantander:

He means why timers are so stupidly tight in ac7, this to be one of the main reasons to kill its replayability you know

For me, I don't think so, if you got skills to do it.

Originally posted by Stuchinoko:

They're not that tight once you have better planes and weapons. Mission 11 is quite difficult on a new run, but it becomes laughably easy to sweep up 45K+ points well before the timer hits zero when you're half way through the tech tree.

PLSL or EML in that mission work well IMO. You can get 60k+ points in that mission, or 3 times more in Ace if you use TLS damage/range mod (yea, score cheating, what are the odds?).

[Uhzu]

I enjoy the timer. Makes it feel like its a race to win.

[Det.Bullock]

Weirdly enough I never ran out of time, I forgot the timer even existed until I tried (and failed) to go for S rank on all missions on ace difficulty.

[RAWRmonger]

Fuel maybe, who knows, I think you might be told why in-game if you let the time run out.
Also, because the game uses a per-mission queue of dialogue that's finite and that tries to cover most of the mission time with banter to entertain players.

I am a series veteran and I lost to the timer in my frst playthrough on easy, but it gets super doable in replays. These days I clear out score attack maps easily with the PLSL on an Su57 and then am stuck waiting for extra respawns for at least 1 minute.

Also, once you get better, the game becomes much more frantic and it's OK to interval that kind of condensed gameplay because it gets draining. Even playing 1 hour after work can make me feel satisfied in terms of action dosage.