which edition to buy, base game or ultimate?

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i'm interested in the dogfight, very new to plane game. Any advice?

[deathspeed]

Might as well get the Ultimate - you get three extra missions that are a lot of fun, plus some additional aircraft.

I would recommend not using those additional planes on your first play through unless you get stuck somewhere since they are overpowered for the storyline, especially in the early missions. Instead play through the story and unlock aircraft through the normal gameplay process, and learn to fly on the simpler starter jets. Even those are quite capable of completing the missions.

When you get stuck come back here and ask for advice. You will soon learn which people are genuinely helpful and which ones are hear to just bash the game, so you can ignore them and their responses.

[Waryth]

It's on sale right now so buying the ultimate edition is extremely worth it but then if you don't like or even use what you've bought then there's really no point and contradicts its worthiness.

You know nothing much about Ace Combat or talk about Top Gun so I highly suggest sticking with the base game. The only regret missing is the huge sale discount.

The thing is huge sale discount comes in rotation in the future. You'll be occupied or distracted with other games by then just be sure to add them in your wish list by the time it comes and you'll instantly buy it just like the time you've missed it.

The ultimate edition contains bunch of skins that you'll most likely won't use. It's true it has extra missions but its a bundle after all with a premium name of "ultimate". You can just buy base game + DLCs for the extra story/missions then the unique skins can wait this way you won't regret overspending.

You can convert your base game to ultimate which also applies to other Steam games once you've bought everything even at a bundle discounted price in the future and Steam sale so it has nothing much to do with social gimmick that you don't have a superior version or what not. It's just a sales marketing tactic making it sound like you got an inferior product when the real inferior products are the ones you don't want being bundled into the game.

I assume you're new to the gaming industry in general. If you really like a game, the only time you go all out buying these if you're a huge die hard fan like Assassin's Creed as an example doing these overly priced bundled packs.

[eEXM-21]

Neither on PC

[Harolf]

If you buy the normal version, you have to buy the whole game again to get the ultimate version.

[Waryth]

Originally posted by Harolf:

If you buy the normal version, you have to buy the whole game again to get the ultimate version.

I checked it and you were right but I refreshed it again and it turns out it's just a bug from Steam not updating the ones from your Steam library.

So technically it's possible without needing to buy the whole game again. It's maybe with the sale fest causing this issue but generally its upgrade able to any edition to any games.

[Maverick]

If you buy dlcs you will get some extra planes that are unlocked at the beginning, and they're pretty good, so you don't have to gain MRP to buy planes

[Rastrelly]

Originally posted by Maverick:

If you buy dlcs you will get some extra planes that are unlocked at the beginning, and they're pretty good, so you don't have to gain MRP to buy planes

Yeah, why do we need the progression loop in our games?

[Harolf]

Originally posted by Waryth:

Originally posted by Harolf:

If you buy the normal version, you have to buy the whole game again to get the ultimate version.

I checked it and you were right but I refreshed it again and it turns out it's just a bug from Steam not updating the ones from your Steam library.

So technically it's possible without needing to buy the whole game again. It's maybe with the sale fest causing this issue but generally its upgrade able to any edition to any games.

Try again. Tjere ist only an upgrade forbdie Maveric Version for more money than it was on sale.

[Waryth]

Originally posted by Harolf:

Try again. Tjere ist only an upgrade forbdie Maveric Version for more money than it was on sale.

Okay I see what you mean now. It turns out I'm wrong. It wasn't like this back then with the other package on other games. Steam must have changed it.

I'm going to update and edit my previous post as well.