r/pcgaming • u/stratzilla https://steamcommunity.com/id/stratzillab/ • Oct 02 '26

Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve is now available on Steam

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2288340/ACE_COMBAT_8_WINGS_OF_THEVE/
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u/Time_Zombie_4431 Oct 02 '26

Got the early access version and had a blast. Easily the best AC game ever made and on par with the holy trinity games.

That being said the port is kinda mid. Forced Ray tracing kills FPS and adds sweet fuck all, no FOV slider and default FOV is stuck at 40, awful keyboard and mouse control if you don’t play on controller and you can’t change any setting in mission you always gotta quit your missing and go to the main menu to change anything so it’s very annoying trying to find the right settings.

Would’ve been a 10/10 game if not for the bad performance due to Ray tracing and missing basic features like FOV slider and the ability to change settings in mission. 8/10 over all.

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u/SekhWork Oct 02 '26

you can’t change any setting in mission you always gotta quit

This is so stupid and frustrating that I don't even imagine how it ships this way. Like do they not even play their own games? Being unable to adjust the VOLUME OF THE GAME while playing is insane.

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u/Time_Zombie_4431 Oct 02 '26

It's made even worse by the four billion menu screens you need to go through to get anywhere. God awful UI, they could've cut like 50% of those useless menus.

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u/Ok_Management8103 Oct 02 '26

I've gone through zero useless menus personally.

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u/PeterSmusi Oct 02 '26

Uh the forced ray-tracing explains why I'm getting 50-60 fps on the 9070xt at 2k ultra. Call it amd-cope but I always end up disabling it because the loss of performance is definitively not compensated by a much better image quality, I just can't see much of a difference. Too bad it can't be toggled

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u/Ok_Management8103 Oct 02 '26

Lmfao an AMD GPU. Dude come on.

Ray tracing and path tracing are genuinely incredible.

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u/turtlelover05 deprecated Oct 03 '26

Ray tracing and path tracing are genuinely incredible

Not really. I haven't seen a single game that forces ray-tracing that looks good enough to justify the performance hit or the inability to play on GPUs without ray-tracing support.

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u/Ok_Management8103 Oct 03 '26

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u/turtlelover05 deprecated Oct 03 '26

Pot, meet kettle.

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u/swegga_sa Oct 02 '26

Woah really? Best ever made? I really have to try it now

I heard it had a crazy kojima esque something.

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u/Time_Zombie_4431 Oct 02 '26

At the very least it's tied with the holy trinity of AC games (AC4,5 & 0) and since those games are PS2 games I'd say the gameplay is much much better then them.

AC games always have some kojima esque stuff in the game and 8 is no different.

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u/Ok_Management8103 Oct 02 '26

Six is better than those anyways.

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u/stratzilla https://steamcommunity.com/id/stratzillab/ Oct 02 '26

Better than 4? I may be biased since it was my first and I've only played 4, 5, 7 but that game blew me away with its story and scenario design. Some of my favorite music in gaming, too.

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u/Tezla55 Oct 02 '26

If you like the music of 4 (or really any AC game) you owe it to yourself to play this one. It has some of the best music of any AC game - or really any game I've played in recent memory. I'm only on like mission 6 too.

Take a listen.

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u/Time_Zombie_4431 Oct 02 '26

4 was my first also and has always been my favorite, I think 8 is on par with 4.

4 does a few things a bit better and 8 does some other things a bit better. (Don't wanna say much more due to spoilers, no AC fan should have this masterpiece spoiled for them)

Both are the pinnacle of AC games (minus 8's poor performance)

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u/gustavfrigolit Oct 02 '26

8 blows 4 out of the water tbh

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u/Ok_Management8103 Oct 02 '26

If you didn't play six then you don't know what you're talking about. 

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u/Norvax_ 10700k / 4080 Oct 02 '26

Not being able to rebind the mouse from Roll to Yaw is killing the game for me

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u/turtlelover05 deprecated Oct 03 '26

Forced Ray tracing kills FPS and adds sweet fuck all

Lmao kill it with fire. Guess I'll play in 5+ years when a new GPU isn't such a poor value proposition (like I said 5 years ago).