I always liked AC series and played all of them, this one didnt capture me. Looking at it now, I really like the action cameras from the gunner POV and others. I also really like the zoomed in camera more than AC7 (why dont we get that option??) But the game takes away too much control from the player and forces these kill cams, it got boring pretty quick as it was too try hard. I like the pace of AC7 but I think it also could benefit from cinematic cameras from the gunner, the missile wing and rear cam when being trailed by a fighter. Perhaps that could be in the control of the player too? Some good things here though. The apache parts were sick in my opinion but didnt need to be in AC, they shouldve been their own game. Really reminded me of the Strike series, I miss them! I'd love Namco to do this apache game.
During the stage SPOOKY, enemy has more than 20 SAM（Each of SAM I had taken a picture by steam）, most of them are MANPADS on SRN's infantry so they can hide in somewhere can be hard to locate and destroy. It made the mission be very hard in ACE Difficulty without checkpoint. Besides, there's also have a hard point in Lock and Load, a couple of SAM ships between two cargos will be very dangerous by their rapidly and deadly rockets, if any one of them hit you, the remaining amour of your MH-60 will be hardly to defeat these gating gun raised from the second cargo. Finally, in stage Launch, you have a huge risk when you tried to chase the rising ICBM under the blast missile's tail fire and enemy's fighters. Unfortunately, if you failed in this checkpoint and restart here, you will get a 2-3 second "invincible” that made your practice be totally wasted. I had usually restart many times for 1-3 hours of the entire mission to have a completely "no checkpoint" video of the stage.
Wait you are the person I found who beat this on ace difficulty, nice job, I have been wanting to do that for a while but it's gonna be hell. There is only two playlists that I found where the whole game was on ace difficulty, of those only yours said it was without checkpoints, quite impressive.
@@RookFox Thanks. Your flight basic skills is pretty good. I think you might be need some advice about this, it may be helpful for you to clear this hardest challenge. Firstly, there are many hidden skills or bugs which you can use in PVE campaigns. If you master this, most stages in planes will be easy(except Launch, it needs both skills and luck). 1, When enemies' missiles launched and tracking you, you can do not only maneuvers and flares to dodge, but find a nearby bandit and start DFM is also a good way--that will made these missile lose their target. It is very useful in some heated air-combat which is full of missiles in the air. 2, On the otherwise, while you're tracking a bandit in DFM but some missiles tracking your back too, you can quit DFM and restart it rapidly--it is also be work. But watch out your speed and distance to the bandit, too fast and too close to quit will made you can't DFM him again and even across him that made you more dangerous. This skill is useful to fight against some demanding targets, especially the Markov in final battle--he will tried to fire rampaging 4 QAAMs in front of you and round to your back to hit you. It is very dangerous in ACE difficulty because you can not recover your plane's amour in this difficulty, maneuvers and flares is not usually worked on it, but the skill above can dodge them easily. 3, When your fighter in DFM to fire MSLs to enemies targets, each full assault circle could only fire one, another need about 1 sec to cool down before it starts recharge the circle and full up. It is to slow in some emergency time like takedown trinity, ICBM and bombers, you can switch your weapon to SP weapon and switch back to remove the cooldown time. It can made your MSLs recharge speed and firing rate much better(These skill is not worked in Multiplayer PVP, but COOP can use) 4, Some target is dangerous for DFM, but you can destroy it without DFM(except ICBM, unless you entered DFM its amour is locked so your firing can't damage at all). Like the last Tu-95 in Power Play, its rear defense gun is hardly to dodge in DFM, you can fire MSLs and SPs right behind to bowl it in half, then use DFM to destroy the remaining half. 5, Even when you use helicopter, you can also use some skills to master it. You can move your crosshair to the way enemy will arrive to make your rockets and gun much more accurate to kill these helicopter in first time. About this I upload a new video yesterday, you can see in my homepage, spend some time on it, it will be useful. Secondary, this game is not develop completely in fact, so there are some issues in some stages' design, it made these stages be very ridiculous in ACE difficulty. In these stage(Spooky, Lock and Load, Launch) I have no idea or special skills to skip some hard points. The only advice to you is practice, practice and practice. You'd better try to remember the SAMs' and RPG's location to find and destroy them before they fightback as fast as you can to save your amour as far as possible. In Launch, the only and most disgusting point is pursuit the ICBM before it fly too high. I have no good idea but only some tips： 1, The tail fire's range is like a fan, further remove you have, more dangerous you are. 2, The tail fire is very deadly, your plane must be not touch them as possible as you can. That even made enemies' fighters looks like not so seriously. 3, In fact, your gun fire will create a recoil to yourself, it will effect on your plane and make it run wrong way. When you start the pursuit, I recommend you shouldn't fire your gun any time, your plane will be better to control instead of rushing into the tail fire and be quickly totalled. 4, Wisely choose your plane, some faster , more agile and more armored plane like F-22 have much more possibility to survive from the entire pursuit. 5, If you can control your plane well, after ICBM stop maneuver and fly straight, you can try to maintain your plane in a position that can lock ICBM with your SP or MSL but not be hurt by the tail fire, you could consider to use the skill 3 above to make your missile firing rapidly. The less time you destroy it, the more safety you are.
@@leesaionji1753 Hey, I just beat the game in ace difficulty using a lot of your tips, I'm now getting ready to start recording it but figured that I needed to thank you before that.
@@RookFox Dogfight mode is weirdly forced upon as the only way to take out some enemies as they fly in such ridiculous ways that missiles don't work. Camera is way too zoomed in if you like being in 3rd person. The aesthetic of the game was very samey to many games of the era while 6 and later 7 did aim for something different from the norm. DFM also takes away control from you. Too many missions involve not being in planes and they are just the weakest and last way too long for their own good. Being another game set in the real world with US vs Russia was tired in 2011 and is still tired now with how oversaturated that market became in such a short amount of time. The story is bland, the characters are not as neat as the game wants us to think they are, there's a lot of missing charm and a lot of missing personality. The game was obviously trying to aim for the CoD market hard, sellout and people did not buy in as much as I'm sure Bandai wanted people to buy.
@@JCOdrjones The camera zoom is not that bad, the helicopter and gunner missions are fun (but yes there are too many), you can beat most enemies without DFM, only TGT leads actually requiere it, yes their movements are terrible but it adds some pretty cool moments, DFM does not take away the controls from you unless you play on novice controls. The story stuff I agree with, but atleast they tried something different, from what I can tell every other game seemed to be US vs Russia, while here you allied with them against a coup, again thats only what I can tell from other games. Now the AC-130 mission is terrible and should not have been included at all
@@RookFox The DFM makes me motion sick honestly, I do see it’s appeal but it’s a little too crazy imo I don’t mind it too much that it’s set in the real world, but what I like about Strangereal is since it’s all fiction, you can detach yourself from whatever country or nationality we really have
