Ace Combat 5 (Emulated) - M20: Ancient Walls

Positron says this mission is cursed, and he's goddamn right. The nuke crater causes massive FPS drops for me - I had to go down to 3x native rez for this mission. And that on top of having to deal with glitched cloud shadows again - my QUALITY bug is twitching.
Further, I wanted to use the Growler for the carrier takeoff, the F-35's lack of HUD makes it so bleh, but it simply doesn't have enough ammo.

[@Mohandar881]

"Since this war began, this ship hadn't taken a single hit from enemy forces." About that...

[@IgorFonseca244]

F

[@hartantoanggoro]

That's because Osea lost communication with Kestrel and the majority of war took place on land and not naval combat. With Scinfaxi assault destroying 3 air carriers and slightly damaged Kestrel, Osea decided not to send the last carrier to another sortie.

[@floggerfrog]

"whatever you do, don't shoot the President by accident!" Trigger: hold up

[@PSP27699]

[@mrandrossguy9871]

RIP voice actor for PoPs Legend

[@COD04MW]

The takeoff cutscene for 2004 game is very well detailed

[@DMSwordsmaster]

And here we see the aftermath of the Stage of Apocalypse. Jesus, man. Fun level. Though anything is fun after Final Option. But still, lots of enemies to go after, some planes to spice things up. Stakes aren't majorly high in this level (Despite everyone crying "OMG DA PLANES ARE GOIN AFTER DE HELICOPTER", the planes just sort of fly around and go after me more often). Am I the only one who wants to play an FPS level starring the Sea Goblin dudes as they storm this castle? Yes? Okay, I'll shut up.

[@smilingmiura6515]

DMSwordsmaster at 19:55 can you identify who's behind the big dude? the one with the cap?

[@DMSwordsmaster]

Uh... Probably just a crewman of the Kestrel. Can't be a Wardog/Razgriz pilot since the clothes are different.

[@smilingmiura6515]

DMSwordsmaster yeah... I started getting excited for some reason.

[@matiascandia4946]

I always thought about that! To play lit fuse and desert lightning as ground troops!

[@marines7l564]

Me too

[@PositronCannon]

I knew it, the curse is official.

[@Razgriz0111]

Harling: By the way, your voice sounds familiar. Are you...? Blaze: literally said nothing...

[@hartantoanggoro]

Only in cutscenes that our boy Blaze can talk

[@bonjourdy]

Good old days, same place in ACZ when Belkan detonate one of the 7 nuclear. And also when pursuing the XB-0

[@michaelbreckshot6589]

That's where Stage of the Apocalypse was, right?

[@michaelbreckshot6589]

@05. Divyananda Japara he Probably retired a rich man/proud pilot/hero

[@bonjourdy]

Yep, also Talon of Ruin

[@OnxGrid]

7:14 people in the town be like: "why the fuck there an F 35 flying above?"

[@crisscrosszx]

about that.... that's a ghost town. everybody died long time ago

[@OnxGrid]

@@crisscrosszx *15 year ago flashback*

[@fulcrum2951]

Seeing that crater aches my heart

[@atigerclaw]

After the escape mission, and the morose cutscene here, hearing that briefing for the first time just makes your head come up and go: "Yeah, it's time to get back into this fight!"

[@MrLemmy82]

Aw yeah badass new briefing music! I always found it funny that the controller goes "Return to your mission" instead of... say "Begin the mission", especially since there's no return line in this game, so you can't ever "return" to a mission. That mission sure starts slowly but at least it does get better and keeps you occupied for the rest of the fight. Harling sure has a good memory, huh? Remembering the number of votes he won in two elections, just like that. :P

[@TugaAvenger]

I talk a lot about scripting and scale, but honestly, I'm an easy man to please. Give me enough targets to shoot at and I'm happy. And as repetitive as it is, this mission does accomplish that for the most part.

[@Umbra_of_Emberspike]

Lots of ghosts in this region... Nuke victims, Hresvelgr, Razgriz...

[@09Scherzo]

One thing i've noticed more on recent breakthroughs is how many matte paintings AC5 uses. The first four shots of this cutscene are almost entirely mattes.

[@jarkkaizer15]

I love this sequence

[@Vy.mp4]

Ah, just like Cipher and Pixie. Shooting down Belkans on Belka.

[@Su-33-27K]

Isn’t his TAC name spelled as “pixy”

[@RoguexGuardian]

One of the most repetitive missions in Ace Combat history... yay... at least the music and night landing on a carrier is nice

[@aquila3958]

I dont think that there is enough ammo for the planes, I always run out of missiles

[@parjai97]

git gud

[@Gilicus18793420blazingfury]

What if you want to preserve your missiles but PA said... uhh.... *GUNBOAT*

[@TugaAvenger]

I don't need those points. I don't need it. *I NEED IT*

[@jacobridgeway2849]

@@TugaAvenger 🤣🤣

[@SleepyPopups.Unedited]

I still can't believe they forgotten the X-02 is a naval aircraft at the time, i wonder the one in AC5 isn't naval

[@Superdeath25]

This mission kind of tedious, and the cutscene at the end really just rubbed in the fact that all your previous accomplishments were totally meaningless

[@accent1666]

how is it meaningless? just because Osea didnt get to capture the Capital of Yuktobania? that doesnt really matter at the end, bc there are worse things than the war

[@OverlordGrizzaka]

Yikes. I'd give you an orange on the greenie board for that landing.

[@TugaAvenger]

Could be worse: kzbin.info/www/bejne/sGLJpaBolpJ5Z7c

[@OverlordGrizzaka]

@@TugaAvenger lmfao nice. Btw I enjoy all your AC vids.

[@lordray1284]

You sould have just used the Rafale for the carrier takeoff.

[@kommandanthanz8346]

Is it iust me or are all the Belkan using SU47s?

[@100thdragoon]

It's not just you, PA seems to have decided that the SU-47 is the signature Belkan plane, which fits right in with the Morgan and Falken also having swept forward wings.

[@kommandanthanz8346]

I see. Well, I can't blame them. I had a blast using SU47 in AC5 on my PCSX2

[@iworymer7055]

So OSEA has about 150 mln citisens!

[@TugaAvenger]

Which is a really small number for Osea's size - it's far larger than anything in our world.

[@iworymer7055]

+TugaAvenger Yes, that would suggest that there is about 0.5 bilion humans on Strangereal, which makes sense as there are only west-based countries, and thanks to the Demon of Razgriz, no conflicts rise to the level to cause a demographic boom.

[@flarerik]

"far larger than anything in our world" Casual reminder the population of the People's Republic of China is around 1 billion or so, or even more.

[@TugaAvenger]

Osea's far larger *geographically* than anything in our world - which is why only having 150 million people is very odd.

[@iworymer7055]

We are not talking about population, but about size of the countries. And Avenger is right, Osea is as large, as if you would take 80% of Asia, and joined it into one federation.

[@Lucas-pw2ni]

Bandai was to lazy to make maps zo they copied a map from AC5 to AC zero.

[@TugaAvenger]

This is a historical location, ground zero of one of the nukes. Why wouldn't they display it in ACZ? It fits perfectly.

[@accent1666]

and how is it lazy? it makes perfect sense why would be chosen in Zero, theres a reason why you fly there

[@SleepyPopups.Unedited]

m8 they ain't lazy, this place is Waldreich Stier Castle 15 years later, also they re textured and redone some things like map and grass before nukes.