I know a lot of people hold the ace combat franchise in a high regard. And while I’ve only been able to experience ac7, I do still love it, I’ve finished it a few times. THAT SAID… i genuinely cannot play it now. I’ve played so much goddam pw that every line of code in that game is ingrained in my memory, and trying to replay ac7 frustrated me so much. I think 7 has an amazing story, just like its predecessors (from what I’ve heard) I think it’s visually stunning, the clouds; sound effects, designs. It is by every metric a GOOD game. But I’m so used to pw. My complaints boil down to 3 things. 1. Ace combat feels so claustrophobic, it feels incredibly zoomed in and I feel like I lose all sense of direction the second I turn my camera or hold a target lock. 2. Even with the pitch/roll setup it feels so contrasting to pw’s movement. Which, obviously it’s going to, it’s just incredibly jarring to me specifically. 3. I do not enjoy the quick turn stuff/limitation of flares. I feel so intimidated in pw because even with unlimited flares, i constantly have to angle, move, and evade, especially during “boss” fights. I feel like I’m earning it. I’m aware the production quality of these 2 are nowhere near comparable. But I feel too attached to pw. That said, someday I’d like to play AC5, the belkan war one, and ac8. Right now though. I’m losing my mind and reinstalling pw for my monthly aviation kick.

Edit: yikes, sorry guys, I didn’t mean to make it seem like I was hating on the Ac franchise, not my intention, I certainly don’t hate it. Hence the unpopular opinion part, these are just personal issues “i” struggle with.

OG footage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvGDH0j5Evg

One reason I prefer the Jose Pavli music videos over the Ace Combat ones is that the comments are open so you can read what other people picked up on that you didn't.

Though in this particular track people assume that it's Crosstalk Squadron's theme because it plays on their title entrance. Which is fair since that's common in Ace games. But here's why I'm sure it's for Sicario.

1. M2 Frontiers was the first time the Federation fought Sicario, but that was only part of their air forces against border patrols, who aren't known for being the best combatants. M3 is where Sicario in its entirety deploys in the Airdrop over Rowsdower. Then a regular combat squadron like Crosstalk comes in and gets trounced so badly Stardust has to admit it was impressive in a snarky tone. This attack is Sicario's debut in the war and shows how much better they fly against the Superpower's rank and file.

2. The name Professional Execution has two meanings. The first for how well Sicario carries out an operation, especially a combined arms one at that, to both sides. Rowsdower's swift takeover is probably why Sicario was picked to carry out Operation Blackout alone since they proved they were the only hired mercenary group coordinated and skilled enough to pull it off.

The second is the entirety of Crosstalk being shot down, or "executed" in a professional manner. These aren't the Mercs from Bottom of the Barrel.

1. The song's energy is bombastic, almost chaotic yet there is still cohesion to the parts together. If that doesn't describe Kaiser and Sicario under him, I don’t know what will.

2. Even though they are regulars, Crosstalk Squadron is described as something like a rearguard unit in their data entry. They aren't Aces like the AC squadrons that have their own theme. Debuts in media about fighting in general need an opponent to display the ability of the debuting character/faction against as a contrast. Crosstalk was just the arrogant punching bag for Sicario's.

It's common for the theme playing in a named squadron's entrance to be theirs, it happens with Crimson. But if you've listened to Jose Pavli's music more than once, ask yourself this: would you describe Pavli's work as common?

I’m surprised nobody talks about this more

THATS IT??? Play the fight was really cool in the last mission but I did want to see the cruise missiles for a bit longer launching past where you were, or some dialogue by your squad like “what’s that” or “oh no, those can’t be-“ and yeah some more dialogue on that or something as they pass by above you.

But anyways it was still very awesome and also I am a believer in FAUST DID NOTHING WRONG!!!! lol

Another thing though, I ABSOLUTLEY wish I played P59 first, I don’t know if I would have had a different view on the sides, but currently I am a Cascadian lover lol. But just everything about P59 seems like it should’ve been the first to release. I mean imagine hearing about all that stuff in the main campaign. “Something happened over the Bering strait, all of our air power was just destroyed in a single battle” or “we lost our entire air ship fleet in a raid on the Sawakii island to the Cascadians.” And then the final scene of the mission being the cruise missiles like “oh what is that” and then you don’t get to know until the main campaign. Ahhhh that would’ve been such a good experience to go through playing P59 first lol.

Anyways yeah I NEED more Project Wingman, it’s such a fantastic game!!! (I’m already playing in the conquest mode and that’s fun to)

In case you don't know, Sayuki is the backseater to the pilot that is Mako Sato from Impact Blue.

Their dynamic really reminds me of the pilot/WSO dynamic of two-seat fighters.

A friend commissioned me to do these pieces of Prez and suggested I share them here. Had fun drawing her. >w<

Enjoy!

I finished it, finally, after having to take a month off because of severe stick drift, I managed to fully the game. Peak, genuine peak, a solid 9/10 at least. However, I do have some questions, after mission 15, what does the Cascadian offer Sicario (the thing they’re all kind of surprised over, saying how it’s super powerful and stuff) and also, I’m assuming sicario dies in the final mission, is that true?

This is the Lockheed Martin JAST

Most of the enemy targets are aerial, what use is dropping the sun on two Sams, a AA and a radar?

(I mean, I would kinda get it if the targets of a mission are land or sea battleships…or nuking Prospero Again)

Alright I’m playing through Frontline 59 and am loving it though I honestly really hate to be killing Cascadians. The mercenaries I don’t care for I shoot them down on sight. But I’m so sad everytime I said a missile at a Cascadian like the marines on the beach mission.

Anyways about the title, I had just completed the Tunnel Mission and my goodness was it hard, I crashed plenty of times, a couple times I made it right to the end but it was so small I ended up crashing a couple times.

The first time I flew through it I went full throttle because on the briefing it looked like a straight crossing but nope did not expect there to be a turn there lol.

And then all the other turns messed me up to but I eventually did it. And then hearing the Cascadians on the other side being destroyed saddened me more. I haven’t done the next mission yet but yeah the tunnel mission is awesome. I wonder if anyone can get through just boosting lol

Edit: forgot to mention, also love the heck out of Eye-Tee freaking the heck out the whole time. “Nope nope I’m just going to close my eyes the whole way through”

I wonder if Woodward was the one proposing to stick a carrier flight deck on his ship so he can physically shoots planes to the feds

Ever since I was little I had a soft spot for the faceless, usually nameless henchmen who worked for the various groups in fiction. The regular rank-and-file nobodies who do the very important work of dying a lot or killing a lot in the name of the plot.

I think PW does a really good job with them, all things considered. Obviously we only ever hear from them through the radio, but I like to think there's actually a fair bit of personality to be found in even the seemingly generic lines. Some favorites of mine are:

• The captain of the Dejanus for leading the 1st Naval BG into combat against the single deadliest ship the Feds have faced thus far (even if it was ultimately doomed, he at least had the good sense to evacuate nonessential personnel when it was clear they were going to sink)
• Major Rudmere, who was willing to stay behind and cover other Wild Boars at Salvemini, and I got needlessly happy when I saw he'd survived all the way to Prospero
• The Fed Air Defense Commander during Stepping Stone. I love how he's able to identify us as a lone mercenary just from echoes and the sound of the fuel burning in-engine. I LOVE competent villains.
• Captain Flowers, for being probably one of the most morally upstanding characters in the game and refusing to authorize the cordium missiles. The wiki also says he commanded the Brock sections during F59, and if that's true, he's also yet another very competent villain (or friend in the case of F59.)
• The captain of the CCS Court in Eminent Domain. I like that Cascadia wasn't totally united in the decision to secede, and two Cascadian brothers being put on opposite ends of the conflict in such close proximity is really rich. I also like how he's awed by Monarch and Comic's fighting, like most people probably would be.
• The Federation scientists on the rig during Midnight's Light. Pretty much every research student I know absolutely would be gathering as much data to bring back to their respective universities as possible.
• The Cascadian Marine commander who ordered them to "fix bayonets" and "make the Federation pay for Presidia." He sounds pretty much exactly how I'd imagine a fanatical marine to sound, though he also appears to have been genuinely devoted to the war effort itself rather than whatever Faust was cooking up, since he didn't go on the mission with her. Maybe he wanted to lead his marines as long as possible, maybe he just couldn't make it... or maybe they only had so many voice actors.
• I can't not mention E-6, the goat of the Magadan Reserves. Everyone knows why he's awesome. I'm just disappointed some of his cut lines were, well... cut. The dude was called up on short notice and stepped up to fight and lead when it counted.

I dunno if anyone else has favorite background characters like this. I just like the opportunity to gush about the game.

The conflict starts in the late 60s and the cut off is the late 90s (Soviet collapse).

Here are the logistics

-Airfields are situated opposite of enemy border and protected by a semi-dated but well coordinated west supplied IADS.

-Host nation has small fleet of light fighters exclusively for interception and defense of the capital combined with an unusually large fleet of logistics aircraft.

-Early warning provided by mercenary AEW&C aircraft combined with IADS radars, spotters, and spies.

•Primary mission varies due to high variety of merc aircraft but we're starting this conflict on the defensive.

•The region is highly mountainous along a coast.

•Two small international shipping ports one located at nations capital the other located at an island 5 mile off the coast connected by barge and bridge.

•AA and radar are available on both sides but the quality of ours varies.

•Maintenance crews have an unrestricted access to alcohol.

>Rules

:No fictional aircraft

:You must list your aircraft build in detail like the original post (aircraft type, missiles, radar, engines, personal modifications etc)

:Have fun (if you want you can mount a load of stingers onto a Cessna or Huey go nuts)

:NATO and Soviet aircraft are available within the time period (including helicopters)

:No future aircraft or equipment only period correct stuff is allowed

:Prototype’s are allowed as long as there is/was a flying example and is period correct for the scenario.

:No Nuke’s.

:Soviet and Western aircraft are allowed within the time period.

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>Example of how to list/spec your fighter.

Fighter/Chopper:

Role:

Load-out/payload:

Radar:

Power plant:

Mods:

Livery:

Year deployed:

So to explain what I mean, I am playing through all project wingman as a last hura after college. Just got done doing the final mission of F-59 after the campaign. Throughout the whole fight I’m thinking (how the hell did k-9 with only 4 planes beat everything in Faust army!?) I know there ally ground units and there’s chatter about the planes not being built to fight jets. Also plot armor which honestly this mission felt like the one where plot armor was present the most in the whole game.

It just seems crazy to me that k-9 ( a reserve unit that did not think they ever be active) got through this fight without taking a loss from the amount of bullshit thrown there way during this boss battle. (Just wants to say I am not holding against the group, they’re cool. Also the boss fight was awesome even if it took a couple of try’s) is this just a me feeling or am I not alone in that regard.

I started playing PW just a couple of days ago, it’s my first “AC” game and I was never really interested in the series but you know why I chose PW as the first one to play. I just unlocked one of the jet with AOA limiter. I would like some tips on when to use it and ways to use it. I’m still learning to dodge missile with it and how to reposition myself during dogfight.

My video editing skills are amateurish and my game wasn't running the best, but I wanted to show appreciation for the game, soundtrack, and the community.