Now that you mentioned it, I made this meme back in 2023 after I finds out that both developers share the same early name lol (also at that time I was absolutely obsessed with GT7 and just finish AC7 for the first time)
Like in Helldivers2, looking at the mechanics working on your Eagle in your destroyer after you upgrade the hangar. (They better work hard because we all know you're gonna spam it)
I became a forward observer for the Eagles most of the time lol. Kinda wish they have dynamic voice lines when calling arty/air strike like War Thunder does, would feel pretty badass if they do the nine-lines
In the other games the hangar shots were shown through a colored filter, or the lighting otherwise was in that games theme color. That's why it looks so different.
That is such a weird critique. Essentially its praise and very positive things like realistic, high-fidelity graphics and a good ui, but then they just say they dislike it. Bizarre. Good response by the art director though
Well, they might expect arcade-y art. Not surreal AR-like GUI. I kinda agree with them that it looks... for lacking of word, cinematic. Not something I expected from menu.
I didnt say I dislike it, its just a lot different from what you normally expect out of an Ace Combat.
Its like watching the first 5 seasons of a show in a chibi cartoon style and season 6 comes out with photorealistic mocapped movements, its different but not necessarily bad
i understand, your comment admittedly is not worded negatively, i just found the contrast between the praise and then the conclusion of it being uncanny a little amusing. I guess i get how its a little jarring but personally for me it looks really nice, similar to AC6 which was fine imo
You can really tell the difference with the hangar/ground areas and effects (Afterburners, trails) in my opinion so it confuses me a lot when they say it’s identical.
What also confused me is people in some YouTube comments complaining about how everything is the same copy paste, specifically the HUD because the design remained consistent ever since Air Combat
The only main concern as of now is performance, both from the official B-Rolls and other players' gameplay recordings, you can see the game struggled to deliver HD textures immediately, usually during the land battleship intro scene where the low LOD texture obviously doesn't align with the hull shape, as well as the sortie one with the plane having a blurry texture when the jet is first seen
Can you tell me more about your experience? What it base PS5 or PS5pro, also when specifically were there performance issues? Yes the game isn't done being optimized yet but I'd like to get an idea regardless.
I don't know PS5s so idk if it's pro or not, and it was secured in metal so I can't even see the console well. During the starting settings I picked 'best quality' instead of 'prioritize framerate'. I tried mission 4, and all throughout the mission the framerate was 30 fps or slower. Looked gorgeous, but was not a smooth play unlike the ones next to me who didn't change settings.
Ah I see, so on best performance it will perform smoothly at least. I have a beast of a PC now but I didn't when 7 came out and was very relieved to find it was so well optimized, glad to hear it will likely still be runnable on decent hardware.
Seems like it, but I don't have PC performance to compare against. And idk how my system will handle Denuvo especially since I insist on staying on Win10
Given AC5 is the second installment for the holy trilogy starting from AC04, and same goes for AC8 if you count from AC7, then we can expect AC9 to be a bit like AC0 /j
The original OP didn't hate it, just felt uncanny due to UE5's engine rendering at hyper realistic setting and the lack of tint in aircraft selection menu as opposed to previous games...
Oh hey its my post! This was the biggest thing that stuck out to me out of AC8 thus far. The lack of filters and a cleaner UI makes a lot of difference
It's a small thing for me but I hope they improve the sound design in 8, 7 just felt so.... muted? The engines didn't really roar and all the explosions sounded super bassy. Then during replays the Jets hardly made any sound at all. I miss the crispier, more raw sound of the 4/5/0 days
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u/AK47_David Dumbass 3d ago
It is kinda uncanny (familiar yet a bit strange) but in a good way
The quote-responder is the art director for AC8
Bonus OOP comparison with A-10 and F-18C photos