Everything Wrong With Ace Combat Zero In 30 Minutes Or Less

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Well, it's been a long time coming! Six months of void, as some might say. This was a nightmare to edit for various reasons, but I'm proud of the final result and I hope you guys enjoy. :)
As with Ace Combat 5 and Ace Combat 04, there were a lot of sins that I either cut while recording, cut while editing, or just missed entirely. Please remember, this is a video meant for entertainment and comedy, not an actual game review!
Thank you all for your support, and see you in 2018!
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[@Blaze1337]

21:41 Why thank you

[@iceyplayz_2826]

The best thing in there is how the tone and explosion are timed *perfectly*

[@Carlos_Tito]

Other fan 🤦‍♂️

[@bayuchriswoyo4128]

Actually, releasing the secret records to public for decade actually happened in real life. For example, United States' World War II archives (1945) were still highly confidential records that were not officially declassified for public until over a decade later in 1958.

[@amodsinyan.2151]

Same thing with the Korean war there's stuff they still have not release to this day.

[@trainknut]

Which actually explains why war movies released immediately after WW2 were for the most part, totally inaccurate and kinda trash... I assume part of it was because they didn't want to offend the actual veterans by telling stories too close to reality so soon after it happened, but at the same time, even when they did attempt it, it wasn't until the mid-late 60s that you actually saw war films even slightly attempt to replicate real life battles and strategies.

[@johnmyers6802]

We're still discovering things from ww2. Imagine if the former soviet states declassified everything. Hell we still haven't declassified everything

[@kylenovak6188]

Using "actually" twice in one sentence. +1 sin

[@phantomaviator1318]

There's probably some superweapon WW2 tech we still use but have never declassified

[@AceCombatFan]

10/10 game - lots of snowy mountains Happy that I managed to still watch this in 2017. Great work Sly!

[@9999AWC]

Ace Combat Fan Meanwhile here in 2018, borders still exist...

[@Arrow_118]

Correction on the 20:00 sin. If the player slowed down, Pixy will attack YOU, not the allies. It caught me off guard when he started shooting me, so I had to try and shoot back with my guns ( since I couldnt lock onto him), but his Wingman AI made it extremely difficult to do that. I was mad and sad simultaneously when I played this for the first time. This guy who made this footage was on full after burner which prevented Pixy from locking onto him, but if you just idle the throttle and simply fly on autopilot, you will see him break formation, get behind you, and THEN start attacking you.

[@ArcturusOTE]

Mobius 176 Can you take down Pixy with the guns?

[@Arrow_118]

Yayo' Ariowibowo no. I tried, but no matter how many times you hit him, he wont be shot down. But if I do remember, it may trigger him to leave the zone sooner once you shoot him. God it felt bad to do that.

[@ArcturusOTE]

Mobius 176 Well if you do hit him, does the hit sign still show up?

[@jossepassant4085]

25:47 "Let the victor be justice." >Epic line, but it makes no sense. In terms of literary meaning, the one who carries out justice is expected to be morally right. Kupchenko wants the victor to be the more virtuous person, as opposed to an archetypal villain who is morally inferior yet more powerful than the hero (considering you're the protagonist wearing the title of Demon Lord, purposely playing up this juxtaposition can refute his epic line). I think the worst possible person to both refute and defeat him is a Demon Lord who is morally bankrupt yet either too lucky or too skilled to die. On the flip side, perhaps he WANTS to be defeated, as long as his opponent was someone more influential in the grand design of the universe than himself (thus interpreting Kupchenko as a man with zero regrets).

[@raindrain1]

Or more simply- trial by combat, the victor is ex post facto the one who had "justice" on their side. Considering the whole chivalry/arturian mythology theme surrounding the whole game, it's pretty obvious.

[@alum202]

Perhaps another way to interpret is, whoever the victor is, that person's perception of "justice" will be the one used. Kupchenko's form of justice seems to remove borders with a nuclear weapon. While Cipher's to prevent that.

[@johjoh9270]

"Why would a bomber need to withdraw if it's IFF was inoperable?" To avoid friendly fire, you know, if IFF is broken, then the bomber will be seen as a bogey for everyone in both sides that has a FCR, it would actually make sense -1 sin :P

[@oneofmanyparadoxfans5447]

inb4 comment on a year old comment. Even with IFF, we still see incidents of friendly fire.

[@phantasm1321]

its a year old i know but itd be weird if ustio brought a b-52 to an air defense mission, like whats the main strategy a "no u" to belka lol just bomb the bombers

[@blaze6400]

@@phantasm1321 Still there is a chance Belkan fighters may loose a long range missile without visual identification thinking in a Ustio transport or something

[@phantasm1321]

@@blaze6400 Well they had a functioning radio to give their position and in the game conditions arent that bad off that they cant make out a b-52

[@blaze6400]

@@phantasm1321 Still not worth the risk and its near impossible to pick out an aircrafts shap and long range

[@wardog0086]

It shoulda been 0 sins, cos I reckon the soundtrack, Zero and the credits theme especially are worth -140 sins.

[@normanjin8897]

yea, that Flamingo like track was epic.

[@ryanpayne9119]

When you start humming the last mission's theme when getting into a dogfight in DCS, you know the music was phenomenal.

[@rextremendae]

I beg to differ :)

[@chasetoyama8184]

“No mission is without a sin.” - SlyCooperFan1 While I was writing this, I literally typed, “No mission is without a mission.”

[@mkvector9539]

-666 Sins.

[@lgmmrm]

"Electrical Charge has Surpassed Maximum value." Means that Excalibur's capacitors have filled up and the readings are above the "100%" mark on the command room's gauges. "target confirmed" means that they have the target, they know what they're shooting at. "Laser Emission Distance has been calculated" Means they've calculated how strong the laser needs to be to damage their target.

[@TheGunningPony]

You forgot sinning for Eagle Eye calling XB-O a unindentified aircraft while the top right it says XB-O

[@RoguexGuardian]

22:15 Bonus fact: In AC5, it was "Dilectus" when in ACZ, it's "Directus"

[@rouymalic4463]

@Lost PJ much more prefer Erectus hehe

[@KingHalbatorix]

thanks, engrish

[@ryanjapan3113]

@@rouymalic4463 I think you beat Max0r

[@ryanpayne9119]

The attention to detail is one of the reasons I like Ace Combat. For those that don't know, "Magnum" is a NATO radio call used to announce the launch of an antiradiation missile. Seeing as how the particular missile was visually modeled on the AGM-88 HARM, an antiradiation missile, having AWACS announce Magnum was only partly wrong. But with Cipher being a silent protagonist...

[@PedroHenrique-yy2dy]

0:33 a war that engulfed the world but mostly takes place on belka (?)

[@bradknightable]

pedro henry no emmeria or yuktobania or estovakia or ect "world war"

[@wild_sergeant716]

And no nations from Usea taking part.

[@calamitousenigma9052]

Bradknightable Actually, the Yukes did take part in the Belkan War. Nordennavic, Emmeria, Estovakia, Erusea, the rest of the Usea nations, Leasath and Aurelia did not take part.

[@cloudftw113]

pedro henry Considering all the crazy shit that happens as a result of this war, the statement isn’t wrong.

[@clankplusm]

@@cloudftw113 mind you the interview is in 2005, before the unsung war.

[@Arrow_118]

The Ace Combat PS2 Trilogy games had one thing in common: All events that took place on December 31st had ICBMs and space stations or sattilites that were either launched (Comona AC4), Launched and detonated (V2 AC Zero) or detonated in the sky (SOLG AC5). Quite the fireworks!!! Happy New Year!!!!!!!!

[@Karaseenya]

Don't forget they each had a tunnel mission at the end

[@ryanpayne9119]

Now, if only they could make a 4K remake and port it to Xbox 1S and PC. Damn aircraft manufacturer trademarks.

[@Barri2410]

What a *_noisy_* new year, eh? :V

[@phantomaviator1318]

@@ryanpayne9119 War Thunder: *laughs in Russian*

[@UltimaDoombotMK1]

25:56 Well one of the arsenal Birds was Justice and both had an APS so technically now Justice does block missiles.

[@RepublicofE]

I really hated how AC Zero ground attack missions end as soon as you get enough points, instead of like in four and five when you had to survive by running out the clock and have fun causing as much damage as possible in the mean time.

[@SlyAceZeta]

RepublicofEthan The counter-argument is that in 04 and 5, you had way more time than necessary to get the point requirement so you end up flying in circles. I can't count how many times I 100% cleared the map in Invincible Fleet. Pros and cons to both methods, of course.

[@DMSwordsmaster]

I _definitely_ prefer the Zero method, to be frank. Because it doesn't waste my goddamn time. I'd rather destroy a certain number of targets and just have the mission end instead of destroying everything and then just sitting back, flying forward, and going off to do something else for another five or so minutes like in AC04.

[@RepublicofE]

But you feel like more of a boss when you S-Rank a strategic surface attack mission on Ace Difficulty having annihilated everything in sight.

[@DMSwordsmaster]

No, I don't really feel like a boss after that. I feel bored and irritated because I just wasted five extra minutes of my life because the mission just didn't end after I had destroyed everything.

[@RepublicofE]

Do you feel the same about air-to-air furball missions like Shattered Skies?

[@trainknut]

7:59 First they refer to them as the 101st airborne, now they're recklessly dropping them into hot landing zones in the early morning risking the lives of every trooper. This is too close to reality to be a coincidence, there is no way they didn't entirely base this mission on Operation Market Garden. Keep in mind, the Belkan War is Strangereal's equivalent to WW2, so the fact they would make such an obvious error in judgement actually kinda makes sense, because in this world there never was an Operation Market Garden or Crete to teach them the hard lessons about parachute operations we learned in real life. Also, "left behind" in this context means left in the plane, in other words, if you hesitate, they kick you out of the airborne... not exactly something they'd have to say in a combat jump because all of these guys should be fully trained and prepared for what's coming. But in WW2 during parachute training, if you ever failed to make a jump, you were immediately disqualified from the airborne, some guys got second chances, but usually they were transferred out the moment they showed weakness...

[@PXTother]

Goddammit, I saw that V2 meme coming.

[@Ikcatcher]

Perfect way to start the new year

[@somethingsomethingcrotasen1643]

Noice likes

[@Barri2410]

_twice_ Operation Arcadia

[@nick0875]

I remember playing through this game multiple times just so I could get all of the ace entries in the combat records, it was very interesting to find out what happened to all of those different pilots after the war.

[@Lulu-ex7fc]

"I should've died that day. But I didn't." "Because I was better than my fears. Better than my nightmares. But to find out, I had to face them all. I had to get through the worst to prove I was the best. That...is my reality."

[@the_director_vinsanity]

... STOP...

[@SuperGamerx123]

New Sly video? 2017 had a great ending!!!!

[@V-Oblivion]

The Tank in Sapin was an easter egg for an incomming FPS set in Sapin's capital (Gran Rugido, yes, that's its name). But the game never reached completition.

[@viper13b53]

The whole line “we wouldn’t want to keep anyone waiting for you” is just wrong for cipher. he literally just killed his previous wingman that killed his current wingman. Not to mention that cipher has to tell PJ’s S/O what happened.

[@mobiusraptor7]

"For the sake of time, not every possible sin will be included." You should have said if you're sinning Assault Horizon

[@AidenPearce19]

"A real Ace pilot can use any aircraft to their advantage,but i guess PJ wouldn't know about that." *OOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHH*

[@BertReno]

This is even funnier when you factor that PJ is completely useless for ground attacks

[@saltystalin5088]

The three most inevitable characters in fictional human history; 1.) Thanos 2.) Nagase 3.) Aircraft Carrier Kestrel and it’s descendants

[@UnsungSoldiers]

In the French version, Gault’s intro line makes more sense, it translates as « Victory will have a taste of justice »

[@SlyAceZeta]

RazgriFPSB I mean, even in the English version it's an awesome line. But that one is certainly more grammatically correct xD

[@fikrifadillah3247]

26:26 Damn,that's a quite detail for A sin

[@vaillant_500]

5:21 LOL, I lost it at 420 refrence

[@scarecrow108productions7]

😂😂😂😂 *Smoke weed everyday* !

[@stivaoblonskystan]

14:13 It seems this random guy is the one who made up the "demon lord" nickname and everybody else just rolled with it. He could actually be one of the most important characters in the story.

[@raindrain1]

Funnily enough, the Mars/Mercury/Jupiter thing is *also* an artifact of Japanese localisation, one that's encountered nearly every time the names of the planets are used for any metaphorical significance (like Sailor Moon, for example): Mars, Mercury and Jupiter are called Kasei, Suisei and Mokusei in Japanese, or Fire Star, Water Star and Wood Star. Yup, it's the good ol' Five Elements Astrology striking again.

[@hyperx72]

Sin 4: While he did have wingmen, it can be true that he did some fighting on his own, and we don't really know if he did any lone mercenary work before this Sin 6: How is that a sin? Sin 14: You mean you wouldn't call someone you've fought with and relied on in life-or-death battles your buddy? Sin 20: Well, considering that he's a well-established mercenary, and currently battling with another merc who's been shown as quite skillful... Sin 20: Basically saying "Don't hesitate" in a position where hesitation may mean death, and 21: Definitely has to do with the current battle, with firing all the missiles and heavy ordinance everywhere... 27: ... 31: You know damn well what they meant... 38: "Determine their fate" Doesn't mean there wouldn't be punishment for shooting civilians willy nilly... 43 and 59: That's a problem? 61: Other defeated pilots, onlooking ground teams...Those kind've nicknames happened before, like the White Death or Night Witches... 117: That being more of an inspirational before-battle quote and not meant to be taken literally... Just wanted to do some nitpicking of my own...

[@Barri2410]

43: well, yes. THEY CAN BUT WHY WE DIDN'T (same problem as flare/chaff) I know the Terminator HAD rear-facing radar, but stil...

[@pedrosabino6721]

sin 24 could be a reference to a real life f15 pilot who landed his plane without knowing it was missing a wing, the 1983 negev incident.

[@hyperx72]

@@pedrosabino6721 Pixy is exactly that.

[@gamermadness8501]

3 years late but the 42th also is worng since they affected the ace style, if you helped it would move to the right

[@acerusea5156]

Can't wait for "Everything Wrong With Ace Combat 6"

[@ohjiajun1]

thegrassmaster2 My body is prepared for the MATILDAAAAA memes and sins

[@mr.bluesky2524]

Everything *video ends*

[@vaillant_500]

Every sin for "Go dance with the angel!"

[@wild_sergeant716]

If Sly is gonna sin it, it should go a little like this: "Is that just a kid-friendly way to say 'Go f*ck yourself or something'"? +1

[@theformalpsycho3143]

thegrassmaster2 and 7 lol cause assault horizon sucks

[@josefuentes5496]

As a a former paratrooper, if you had second thoughts about a combat jump on the bird, you will most likely be shoved out by the Jumpmaster. You would also probably get Article 15'd for it as you can get one if you refuse a practice jump.

[@CaptainZlex]

One of the most powerful moments in ACZ was the Jupiter portion of The Final Overture. Hearing enemy pilots vow to shoot you down and avenge their fallen really hit me hard. Especially because your Ace Style doesn't affect the dialogue as far as I know.

[@borisglevrk]

Sin 13: there are some Belkans who could retreat when "neutralized" and you choose to spare them. They'll have a commander having trouble reporting to their superiors even if the bomber crews are all dead.

[@badasstasticusbadass4908]

I kind of shed a tear during Larry's speech about true peace been achieve by trusting eachother but that would never happen, it's one of the sad truths about both Strangereal and our real world.

[@johnmyers6802]

16:22 he pronounced it correctly. In German depending on the dialect its either spoken with a hard "k" or a "sch". The Belkans are Germanic based peoples so I give this video 1 sin for that.

[@TheGhostOfRazgriz23]

23:14 That would be Schnee 4. If you look in the assault records, you can see that it says he gathered up the remains of other squadrons.

[@ramosgonzales2691]

You are god damn right

[@SonicTheHedgehog17]

As someone who was born on June 6th, Mission 12 and all that follows it hits me really hard every time.

[@Megalodon64]

Man! It must have taken a long time to make this video. I can imagine since you gotta play and observe EVERY single little detail in this game and decide what sounds good for every sin you come up with. Props to SlyCooperFan!

[@SlyAceZeta]

Megalodon64 Unfortunately I can't record the PS2 games, so all of the Everything Wrong With videos thus far use footage from other KZbinrs. Check the description for the credits. But despite that, yeah, having to watch so many videos and pay attention to every minute detail, then record myself and edit it all together does take some time.

[@josephg3153]

The cockpit firing missiles, I have in my mind the crew firing Stingers from the cockpit as a last ditch effort or revenge. It’s a funny image, although the backblast would kill them all.

[@Jaceblue04]

I just thought of something: This game's story revolves around a militaristic country trying to rule [part of] the world; one of the main characters is voiced by Johnny Yong Bosch; and another one of the main characters is voiced by Yuri Lowenthal. And this game came out in 2006. Did this game take some inspiration from Code Geass by any chance?

[@ghadabad]

Really good job on the video. Even the comedy after the credits was really good.

[@warhawk9566]

"Are you going to shove them out the door if they don't jump?" Paratroopers literally do that, if a guy is standing at the door and won't jump the guy in charge will push him

[@TugaAvenger]

Quite a few interesting details I never noticed here. More than just the Ls and Rs, it seems quite a bit was lost in translation, and even the base game seems to have more erroneous minutia than 04 and 5. Of course that might be just selective memory and Zero having less major flaws that force us to delve into the details to find them, but I suspect it's a reflection of the time and manpower constraints in place during development - working on AC6 and supervising X at the same time, and presumably trying to launch before the PS3. Good work. PS. A piece of advice - I'm not sure if that's the case, but if you're using Sony Vegas, it looks like you left Smart Resampling on, at least for my clips, resulting in heavy ghosting. It's an terrible feature that's harmful 99% of the time, and extremely annoying as Vegas defaults to it and AFAIK there's no way around it other than manually changing it for *every single clip* (right click, switches, disable resample). But I do find it necessary as the distortion's terrible. And that's why I try to edit as few of my caps as I can...

[@SlyAceZeta]

I mean, it's still all nitpicking, that's all these videos are :P Translation quirks will always be present. Yeah I'm using Vegas, I had no idea it was the resampling causing the ghosting. Thank you! Now that I've upgraded to Vegas Pro 14 (thank you Humble Bundle!) I'm hoping to make all of my videos in 2018 and beyond with much better editing (which is partially why I published this video on Dec 31 2017). If you have any more suggestions, please let me know!

[@LegendaryAce73]

Man. There's a LOT of sins I didn't see in Zero. Regardless, I firmly believe that Zero is tied with Ace Combat 5 for best game in the series. Such a shame that it didn't get the recognition it and the series as a whole deserves. But then again, that's what's nice about niche games. Enough people know about them and are big enough fans that the devs know what makes their games great. AAA games all suck now. Give me Ace Combat any day! Anyway, great job as always Sly. I love your work and these videos.

[@DAN007thefoxx1]

LegendaryAce 73 Given that Halo 5 was the worst in the whole series I think its time we at least get an Ace Combat game on Xbone.

[@LegendaryAce73]

Fox McCloud 007 Agreed. Halo died after Reach. And did you not know that Ace Combat 7 is being released on Xbox One, PS4, and PC this year? I'm actually asking.

[@DAN007thefoxx1]

LegendaryAce 73 I did. Read about it on the Wiki

[@LegendaryAce73]

Fox McCloud 007 Okay. I thought you were implying you didn't know that Ace Combat 7 was already announced. That's my fault. Anyway, I got my copy pre-ordered.

[@theformalpsycho3143]

LegendaryAce 73 tie no 0 is the BEST 5 hyped it up that’s all 5 was for is a hype up for 0

[@KnightValfodr]

Happy New Year, Sly!

[@S_Cube]

Happy new year Sly! You just had to release it the last day of the year didn't you? Thank you for all the content this year, hope to see you next year!

[@StrvB-ng8kb]

28:28 Yes, Avalon staff did have to prepare it. And they prepared it, they were just executing a launch countdown for... 10 minutes? This is getting sinned anyway for WWB being unreasonable.

[@krisgordon3116]

5:07 If you go into the EU, the magnetic interference due to ores in the area don't effect comms in the air, but on the ground they screw them up, i.e. if you get shot down, your screwed. It gets brought up in some of the enemy ace interviews. 5:22 Really, does that deserve a sin? 5:40 Its big, round, and flat 8:20 That actually happens in reality. Paratroopers are specifically trained to brace their hands on the outside of the plane right before they jump so that if they lock up, the jumpmaster can push/kick them in the butt and out of the plane. 21:30: Its supposed to be Hresvelgr's hangar but you are right, the scale is off. Oh yeah, Bristow is batshit crazy.

[@michele7275]

Special mention goes to Pixy after losing his Morgan, crashing into Avalon and carry his wounded body FROM Avalon to GROUND ZERO (Waldreich) and still: 1) has his hair intact and attached on his head. 2) no baldness from the side effect of radiations. 3) Got no cancer at all, which we can CLEARLY see HOW MUCH ATHLETIC is. 4) He speaks like nuclear fallout isn't that big deal. Pixy, seriously, what have you done to your body!?

[@cloudftw113]

Belkan science is TRULY wondrous!

[@EfftupSmith]

and for a man who was an Ace pilot 10 years ago he looks pretty damn YOUNG too.

[@cloudmangalm03]

About the Galm 1 thingy. I believe it is implied that Pixy was Galm 1, and then Cipher came over, and, for some reason, Cipher became flight lead, Pixy being number 2. And about Eagle Eye calling you a rookie, I also believe that Cipher was basically a rookie, and it was only because of Pixy's help as wingman that he improved. Letting him give commands and all to gain experience, which makes Cipher a fast learner.....???? In any case. Funny as hell.

[@razrayk8470]

No. Chipher was a mercenary before joining the galm team.

[@cloudmangalm03]

a rookie mercenary, perhaps??? It's the only plausible reason I can think of that justifies Eagle Eye calling him a rookie...

[@jeremypurdy3728]

@SlyCooperFan1 They literally tell you where the terminology of the "Round Table" comes from right after you docked a Sin for that. It's actually kind of really fucking cool imho that a place has such a renowned history of historically game-changing pilots showing up there and making a name for themselves. In the AC0 'verse, it's where any pilot would want to be at: To prove themselves as the Ace among Aces. Pilots have that sort of mentality.

[@DAN007thefoxx1]

@13:20 the MBSRs from ACX posed a much bigger threat than the RTLS. I remember having to weave thru them and the other guys saying you had to fly fast so they cant track you. But the RTLS doesnt even try to aim for you.

[@ghostspy1073]

First.... and Happy New Year Sly! May the next year (2018) bring new beginnings, and hopefully a new Ace Combat story with Skies Unknown (at least to us... Project Aces knows what's up).

[@SlyAceZeta]

Thank you Ghostspy! A happy new year to you as well, and thank you so much for supporting me :D

[@ghostspy1073]

No problem..... *Morgan plays in the distance*

[@wild_sergeant716]

That's what V2 is for.

[@the_director_vinsanity]

I think the split operation missions are a "testbed" of sorts for the Operations in Ace combat 6. The same for the random distress call objectives.

[@alexmdrkblu]

Okay maybe 2017 wasn't the worst year ever. THANK YOU SLY!

[@communistpotato3204]

so, how's 2020

[@DemonLordGamingAC0]

10:22 You can see the flash if you look at the right direction. It's was the excalibur laser, and it appears really fast where the allies were, and they get shot down. That is mentioned in the debriefing

[@johnconner9149]

Another fine job Sly!

[@GintaPPE1000]

Ordering pilots to bail out is less of a "they're trained to stay to their plane to the end" thing so much as ensuring they bail out. Going down with your plane is not an unheard-of thing in both Strangereal and actual history.

[@SlyAceZeta]

What I was going for was that the line felt out of place, as if Gelb 2 was just going to sit there and accept death unless Gelb 1 told him outright to bail out.

[@DaVinkiee]

You should have knocked off a sin for the location of the Stage of Apocalypse mission with the nukes. When you first start the mission, if you fly low enough you will see the castle from Ace Combat 5 that the Osean President was imprisoned in. I liked how they included it in the game because in Ace Combat 5, your teammates talked about how gruesome the location was adding more to the emotion of this mission in Ace Combat 0.

[@Direwolf13PS3]

Beating the Morgan with every aircraft on Ace difficulty, what a thrill.

[@fadhilnugraha195]

15:02 I love how PJ get roasted at the same time the sin count turned to '66' xD

[@naervern2107]

I always thought in the interview with Pixy, when he mentions Ground Zero of the Nuclear Detonations, he was referring to the V2, not the inner-Belkan border

[@SlyAceZeta]

The V2 exploded in the air at the end of the mission.

[@LocalDiscordCatgirl]

“This is a house. This is very obviously a military storage facility” lmao

[@jeremypurdy3728]

But the game was so fucking amazing over-all, the messages were amazing, the real-life people in the videos for the cinematic story-telling was an amazing alternative to trying to go fully cinematic (and it worked), and last but not least: The music was so fucking epic and used correctly that it alone is worth -140 Sins to make AC0: The Belkan War a perfect game.

[@xXTheShermanTankXx]

What a happy new year gift! Thx Sly ^_^

[@christophermichael8010]

Holy Sh*t HAPPY NEW YEAR AND THANK YOU, SlyCooperFan1!

[@Dumbrarere]

28:48 pretty much confirms that the missile you destroy during the attack on Megalith was a V2. Belka was involved in AC04 confirmed.

[@thelongcastercommander3049]

Well so basiclly, erusean bought the v2 from belkan during the usean continental war, and they did put the v2 inside the megalith, and i think they’re planning to use the v2 to destroy a whole continent But however mobius 1 destroyed the v2 inside the megalith and end the war

[@Dumbrarere]

@@thelongcastercommander3049 r/wooosh!

[@thelongcastercommander3049]

@@Dumbrarere lol

[@davepyoh1460]

How the heck my notification received this from this day? Not yesterday! Btw, Happy New Year!

[@RepublicofE]

As to sin 15, I'm not sure but I've kind of gotten the impression from playing AC 4, 5, and 0 multiple times that freedom of information policies are less of a thing in Strangereal. Everything surrounding military campaigns is more secretive as far as the public is concerned. It would explain some things like how the protagonists can just fade into history as a legend instead of a well-documented public figure. Maybe in Strangereal fighter pilots are treated like deep cover operatives and names are released on a strict need-to-know basis. Just a theory.

[@SlyAceZeta]

You say that, but then seven nukes went off in Zero. I don't think there's a whole lot they could do to cover *that* up.

[@ridholautse4431]

A game theory

[@RedRocky54]

It _would_ make sense to try to keep secret the identities of pilots so incredibly skilled they're capable of singlehandedly turning the tide of a war. I'm sure any nation who faced one of the Aces would have a keen interest in neutralizing them by any means possible, like taking their family hostage or something for example.

[@MrAllofyourbase]

We got our answer by implication in the cutscenes for AC7 SP03. Analyst North is specifically making the case that Trigger is a fundamentally good man who shouldn't just get bumped off or forcibly disappeared as a threat to world peace merely for being a "singularity." Captain Torres is cited as an example of the kind of person Trigger is not, and by implication somebody whose death would have made the world a better place. It seems that military figures like Torres and Trigger and potentially many others are routinely *forced* to "retire" and enter isolation, or else they die of suicide by three gunshots to the back of the head, to head off any possibility of one going rogue or defecting to a hostile nation and causing massive problems and potential mass death. Which explains how Mobius 1 keeps getting recalled to active duty (AC5 Arcade and AC7 VR missions say hello). The Osean military is keeping a close eye on him and drafts him back into service whenever something needs unfucking until he gets too old to fly. @SlyCooperFan1 , thoughts?

[@SpeedWarrior93]

28:07 The encrypted transmission from Pixy before this happened and as soon as Cipher heard about the said threat...did he know that it was Pixy and knew it wouldn't hit him? I ask this because Pixy wouldn't take down his "buddy" with just a cheap shot from long distance...I don't think that's his style, but I could be wrong.

[@calamitousenigma9052]

EWW ACX Skies of Deception next, please!

[@ZubirAissa]

I second this. ACX is my favourite game in the series

[@calamitousenigma9052]

Imagine something like the Shock Cannon in 15A in HD..... REMAKE THE GAME BAMCO Also, PPSSPP is a godsend for people like me who didn't have a PSP.

[@morrislee8512]

"ThIs Is ThE nAiAd"

[@noivern8869]

Happy new Sly, year!

[@dennishallada890]

What about Pixy saying "What *Has* borders given us?" in the final battle? I've always seen that mistake as one of the most glaring ones due to the importance of that fight

[@kylestewart15]

ITS OUT!!!!! I'VE WAITED SO LONG FOR THIS BEAUTIFUL VIDEO!!!!!

[@beardedbadass4209]

Love how no one has realized that Pixys voice actor is Sasuke? Its fitting that he becomes a traitor halfway through the anim- i mean game

[@novadyaomah3168]

Welp I do

[@JaelinBezel]

I am so doing this if someone asks me to explain what Ace Combat is: "Oh him? Yeah, I know him. It's going to take a while. It happened years ago... Did you know that there are three kinds of Aces? Those who seek strength (Cipher), Those who live for pride (Mobius 1), and Those that can read the tide of battle (Blaze). Those are the three... and Him? He was a true Ace..."

[@theweebinthe240hphatchback6]

HAPPY NEW YEAR! And yayyyy ACE COMBAT ZERO

[@mannyfur6756]

Oh man your video kept me laughing throughtout 30 minutes. Perfectly done! xD I'll 'move on to the next'

[@TheGhostOfRazgriz23]

The pilot that said "The man who wiped out my squadron!" was (I think) Schnee 4 (I know it was one of the Schnee's). Also XB-0's cockpit doesn't fire. There are 4 missile tubes to both sides of the cockpit.

[@aliacf8518]

Omg Totally one of the best funniest ace combat videos Especially the magnum sponsor xD Btw great word sly !

[@scarecrow108productions7]

Some say...the Ruchs unit is still wandering somewhere in Ace Combat 7...lol 😂😂😂

[@AvroBellow]

The briefer says "unidentified aircraft" but the top right of the screen clearly shows the Reman Scimitar-looking Hresvelgr and it even says XB-0. Unidentified my afterburners!

[@eldestsucubus]

ive played ace combat zero more times than i can count and there were things i didnt notice that were in this video, top stuff.

[@templarwyvern9236]

I'm still a little tilted at the whole laser beam killing PJ thing, as it doesn't seem to make sense. If it was aimed at PJ, then either A) PJ should be fine as he broke away. It's a laser beam. It goes in straight lines. Any movement at all would've moved him out of the way. Or B) That was a terrible shot by Pixy as it looked like PJ broke INTO the incoming beam, meaning the beam wasn't going to hit him at all, and he just screwed himself. If it was going for Cipher, then either A) That was an awful shot, as the beam passed by his plane. Or B) Both Cipher and PJ should be toast. It's a laser, not a bullet. Jumping in front of it doesn't make it stop.

[@chengzhou8711]

Wizard One is basically the gang weed representative

[@JinteiModding]

"I'm gonna propose her.." *astronomia slowly fades in*

[@josea.4491]

3 Ace Combat sins, each around half an our, and still no confirmed release date for AC7

[@ArcturusOTE]

Jose Alonso At least we'll get more info since we know 7 is confirmed for the Taipei Game Show this January

[@luckysuryajaya2615]

Nice Job Sly, thanks for make it. Hope Project Ace notice it, and can make less sin on the future games, also take advantage of some of sin knocker on this vid

[@shayminthedoctor9663]

Ugh... This day has been just awful... So much for New Years... *Sees this in my recommended list* Well, forget everything I just said. Best day ever.

[@LeonheartDelta]

6:38 I see another sin there. You have an Operation Costner, and it is purely Anti-Air operation, instead of the mission that would involve attacking naval assets, which is Operation Round Hammer.

[@gamermadness8501]

Would've been funny if you added a sin for the Very Wrong Guy saying "They only Belkans nothing to get worried about"

[@edwpinto25]

hey!!! I didn't noticed 'till today this video exist, what a good new year gift

[@andrewkamakanda7636]

At 18:11 ; its been bothering me for 10 years now........but isn't Sudentor supposed to be Southeast of Stier Castle....(from AC5 map)??? Probably a bonus sin ;)

[@michaelthayer5351]

To answer why the Belkans used nukes rather than offering peace negotiations, the Allied forces were so dominant that the Belkan leaders knew that any peace settlement would likely carve up or otherwise destroy Belka. Therefore they used nukes as a way to gain leverage and preserve their independence, at least in the north. We saw after the war that Osea simply annexed all the Belkan territory they held and had the nukes not stopped the Allied advance then all of Belka could have suffered the same fate. Belka had to agree to disarmament, but AC5 shows us how badly that was enforced since Belka was able to produce the V2 and several squadrons worth of Su-47s and YF-23s. This shows why major nations have nuclear weapons, they are a guarantor of independence even if you lose the conventional war and have no cards to play.

[@aaron_905]

I always found that Pixy was the best wingman in the Ace combat series, even PJ was pretty good. Much better than the other wingmen you can fly with, these two actually make efforts!

[@razrayk8470]

Except that PJ actually don't attack ground targets

[@aaron_905]

Alex53Ace Yeah I leave him on Air targets only when dispersed

[@Rizkyace118]

I'm so sorry Sly... i missed this at new year. I feel really stupid now. An awesome video as always! Can't wait for AC 6 & 7! Good luck! P.S.: So that's what they put inside Megalith!!!

[@panabrasrns8298]

ACZ is always my favorite. The atmosphere and the unique storytelling are fantastic. Let along the ending credits, it’s a masterpiece.

[@chasetoyama8184]

22:56 that is actually pretty deep, coming from a video that was supposed to be lighthearted and funny. Everyone does something in their own particular way, but never the exact same. PJ should borrow elements of Pixy’s style, but not copy it exactly.