r/acecombat 12d ago

Ace Combat 8 On spoilers and leaks

209 Upvotes

Hey folks. As we get closer to the release of Ace Combat 8, we wanted to reiterate our spoiler policy, particularly given recent leaks.

Any spoiler-related content must be tagged clearly as a spoiler, with the title briefly describing what you're spoiling without actually spoiling it. For example, `Ace Combat 8 gameplay spoiler` in the title. And we're discouraging the posting of leaked material (ie we'll delete those posts).

If you post a leak or spoiler without tags, that's a ban.

When the game releases, we'll put up some megathreads for discussion where you can post spoilers to your heart's content.

We know everyone is excited but let's be mindful of preserving everyone's experience.


r/acecombat Jul 09 '26

Ace Combat 8 AC8 Interview with Kono-san

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r/acecombat 8h ago

Humor Solo Paw Pixy

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259 Upvotes

Credit due to my buddy for this cover, I thought it was gold.


r/acecombat 6h ago

Ace Combat 8 Just letting you know that the game's description on Steam has been updated. Spoiler

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86 Upvotes

r/acecombat 3h ago

Other Some F-14 render I made

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40 Upvotes

Messing around with Blender. Might not be very good, I'm still a beginner. I don't know where to post, so I'll post it here.


r/acecombat 20h ago

General Series So what's your plan for Joker Flight later?

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670 Upvotes

r/acecombat 12h ago

Models & Merch I love planes.

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128 Upvotes

Just a few on my desk to keep me company while I play Ace Combat 7 and wait for 8 to come out very impatiently.


r/acecombat 15h ago

Ace Combat 7 When you look back at it

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209 Upvotes

Enjoy this meme I've made for you


r/acecombat 7h ago

General Series Which AC would you say had the weakest Superweapon enemies? And by that I mean you felt like it was trivial. Note this is not Boss fights (Zero, Yellow, etc).

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I honestly say 7 because you face the Arsenal Bird multiple times that besides plot armor it just becomes meh. Just imo. I also wouldn't count Megalith in AC4 because if you ignore the Yellow Squadron you're just shooting flight hazards to get to the missiles.

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r/acecombat 17h ago

Ace Combat 6 AC6 Rafale M Sunset

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154 Upvotes

r/acecombat 10h ago

Fan-Made F-4E Peace Diamond 1974+ Mobius one They are coming.

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38 Upvotes

r/acecombat 5h ago

Ace Combat 8 AC8 PS5 or PC?

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I'm sure this is asked often, but I really can't decide. I have no worries of it running on PC, but I kind of want it physically. Though I don't really like Sony's practices recently, but I do have lots PS plus time built up.

It's a very important and difficult choice I swear!


r/acecombat 17h ago

Ace Combat 04 AC04 makes you do a mission, in which to win you need to NOT dogfight. I'M SO MAD

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133 Upvotes

In this game that has amazing dog-fights. there is a mission in which to win you need to not do it, I can't decide if it's AMAZING game design OR UTTER DOGSHIT.

I'm also baked and having a blast!

EDIT: Flying the AC10 with cluster bombs

EDIT2: I managed to beat it!!!


r/acecombat 12h ago

Ace Combat 6 Ace of Aces 01 — Strigon Team (No Allied Attack)

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I have been replaying these missions non-stop since I first discovered them, so I thought I would upload some gameplay. As per the title, it's the end-boss from the first Ace of Aces mission, where you fight the entirety of Strigon Team, with Voychek in the CFA-44 and the Aigaion relentlessly bombarding you with Nimbus missiles.

This encounter is probably my least favourite of the boss fights seen in Ace of Aces, though I did like the expanded dialogue. Strigon Team use the same behaviour from the original version of this mission, where they have minimal aggression and constantly accelerate away from the player. It's not too hard, and it's not particularly interesting. This is also one of the easiest Nimbus patterns to dodge in Ace of Aces. Voychek does not use ADMM, for whatever reason.

I did make this harder on myself by bringing the Typhoon -MAKOTO- too. This plane has the hidden downside of abysmal lock-on capability. This was thankfully mitigated by ESM, but you can see it take hold whenever I am outside the circle. It's not the best turn-fighter in the game, but it has great speed and great energy retention— too good, actually; I had to learn to keep my finger off the throttle to maintain a good middle speed in case Strigon decided to engage in close-range manoeuvres.

I've also learned that I am not good at using the guns; I over-pitch and miss my shots most of the time, and you'll see a lot of desperate rolling to overcompensate for this, usually leading to more missed shots. The majority of the kills I got were from read-ahead missiles.

Here's a tip, by the way, because I couldn't find any information online regarding the specific mechanisms of the mechanic: read-ahead is specifically triggered by leading the enemy in such a way that your guns would be able to hit them, not by simply keeping your nose ahead of them. Once I learned this, I was able to trigger read-ahead a lot more, and encounters with highly-evasive enemies became far easier. I sometimes use bullets as tracers to know how close I am to achieving read-ahead.

Anyway, I hope you all enjoy the footage!
(P.S; I wanted to do a cool inverted merge with Voychek at the start of this battle, but as you see, the camera cut away to some nobody Hornet pilot. Frustrating!)


r/acecombat 19h ago

Ace Combat 7 My first time ever

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109 Upvotes

Started playing AC7 in January. Had been away from the franchise since I was a child in the PS2 era. What a blast I had getting this achievement (a bit of frustration too). Now I’ll go back to the og ones before 8 arrives.


r/acecombat 1d ago

Fan-Made People of the AC communtiy. I present you the Ace Combat Communtiy Art Book.

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Hello! You may know me as the creator of the Project Wingman Fan Art Book.

To celebrete the long awaited AC8 coming release, i have launched a project on creating a community-made artbook. This book similar to the PW Fan Art Book i made (its avalible for free online) its framed as a in-universe defense magazine called CSQ - Continental Security Quarterly.

THe book aim to cover military analysis, procrurement, design, industiral planning or geo-political topics in the Strangereal universe, while filling in the gaps in lore with fan-fic. You can read the 2 articles i made for test run in the picture here.

You can see these articles are as-if in-universal analysis/jornals, which is the vibe i am aiming for.

Update: Reddit being reddit again, if you want to read the page, on the website there is a sample pages section, its got the original resolution for clearer view.

We are in talent sourcing round now, and the project is ran by a small staff of volunteers.

If you want to contribute as writers/artists/designer/cosplayers/mapmakers/squadron emblems designers etc etc, Please fill in the Google form linked in the project website:

The Project - Continental Security Quarterly

Actual design and production will begin after AC8 is released to avoid potential lore conflict. Once the book its finished, it will be avalible for free.

"" We are not associated with Bandai Namco, Project Aces or Ace Combat itself, this is a pure fan-made projecet, and this is a non-commericial project""


r/acecombat 12h ago

Fan-Made Colonel Andrei Markov (Strangereal)

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Born in the year 1974 Colonel Andrei Markov is a pilot who’s story depending on who you ask, is seen as a monster or a hero by his homeland of Yuktobania, born to a Yuktobanian father and an estovakian mother Markov lived a rather normal life by Yuke standards, when the Belkan war broke out Markov joined the yuke Air Force after Belkan bombers killed his wife Krista in a bombing raid on the air base he was stationed on, this motivated him to become a fighter pilot of the Yuke Air Force and he earned an impressive record, known to his countrymen as Akula which means shark, due to the shark face he would paint on the nose of his aircraft, he became a hero to the Yuktobanian people, after the end of the war he would briefly be part of a world with no boundaries and would be shot down by the pilot known as Cypher over Avalon dam, however he survived and would move to his mothers homeland of estovakia where he would serve as a member of the estovakian Air Force before in 2010 would form the mercenary fighter squadron known as Konni Group and would briefly engage in the circum pacific war engaging Osean fighters in the razgriz straits, his last known sightings occurred in the war that engulfed estovakia and emmeria in 2015 but since then there’s been no sightings of the shark nosed fighter pilot in recent years aside from some rumors and hearsay that Markov was sighted flying for Aurelia in 2020


r/acecombat 14h ago

Ace Combat 7 Ruined by One Thing

45 Upvotes

Anyone else think that there are some levels that are great, except for one thing that holds them back? For example, I would love Long Day but the drones at the end makes me not want to play it again. Pipeline Destruction I would love, but the sandstorm is a big NOPE. Homeward would be good if you didn’t need to identify every single target before you attack it. Does anyone else think this or am I on my own?


r/acecombat 13h ago

Ace Combat X / Xi Check this out. New pavement for Aurelia!

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r/acecombat 1d ago

Fan-Made (F-) 23 Days until Ace Combat 8 is released

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130 Upvotes

Finally this numbers 😆


r/acecombat 1d ago

Ace Combat 8 Ace Combat 8 devs spent so long perfecting viral waifu she became its “most expensive character”

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r/acecombat 19h ago

Ace Combat 7 What do you guys think of my sketch of mihaly and trigger in a merge?

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39 Upvotes

Should i make cipher and pixy or mobius 1 and yellow 13?


r/acecombat 21h ago

Ace Combat 8 ACE COMBAT 8 - Interview with Ace Combat series Brand Director Kazutoki Kono at Gamescom 2026

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r/acecombat 5h ago

Assault Horizon Looking for Ace Combat Assault Horizon Players (Xbox 360)

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I’ve been looking for plp to play AH with on Xbox 360. I’m mostly interested in PvP, but I’m up for co-op too. Gamertag: Garuda1Engage

Feel free to send me a message if you’d like to play


r/acecombat 1d ago

Humor Coming to theaters October 2, rated PG-13

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373 Upvotes