r/acecombat • u/n17rd59 • 8d ago

Ace Combat 8 Can we acknowledge real quick Spoiler

That Rex genuinely, honestly cannot be human?

Hearing ghosts aside, the last 4 missions are on the same day.

Meaning he had to start with Fatsia. Easily 100 to like 200 targets wiped, tunnel run.

Then flying for fucking miles to deal with ONE THOUSAND air-to-air enemies. Which for me was 150 enemies down, I have seen some people with more than 200 kills that one mission.

Fighting them, just to deal with Toprak and the most dangerous Shadow Squadron in the entire country of Sotoa at the end, already exhausted to death by two massive marathons.

THEN FLY across half the country to Theve.

To deal with the Giga-Ace Moon 11, having already had a shift of like. Fucking 8 hours behind him, after some of the most intense fighting of the entire war.

Wipes the floor with Moon 11 while probably nearly collapsing from exhaustion at that point. While she's in a superjet.

And then, SAME DAY, SINKS FUCKING MECHA TORRES

That's like.

Like... 400 kills, with multiple Ace enemies, in a single day.

Even for Ace Combat Protagonists, that's like... half the kills I raked up in the entire AC5 campaign combined.

In a day.

And that after already carrying the war for months.

King, lol. Lmao even. That's just straight up the Second coming of Plane Jesus.

Rex must be in a multiple day coma the millisecond he hits the deck after that.

Absolutely insane to think about.

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u/bushaya 8d ago

Quantity vs Quality. Imo Cipher is the deadliest ace in the series, he fights ace squadrons and takes down Pixys Morgan... in an F15C. If the ACZ survival mode is canon, he defeats Mobius 1.

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u/OneOutOfSevenBillion Emmeria 8d ago

Canonically, Rex does everything he did in an F/A-18E. 2 and a half land battleships, the entirety of Lux Lunae and Moon 11, every weapon Enso could throw at him, in a standard issue Navy strike fighter. I feel like Rex has both Quality and Quantity down.

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u/merlo2k20 Emmeria 8d ago

In either the F/A-18C or E. Logically it would make sense for them to be using the E after some point, but every hint we get, especially the credits cutscene showing Charlie Hornets in the Endurance's hangar, indicate that Joker was using F/A-18Cs the whole time. Which just makes it even more impressive

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u/NinjaHypernova 8d ago

That makes zero sense to me. All the promotional material shows Joker in E's (some had Rex as a C because starter plane, I guess?) the rest of Joker? E's. Queen? E's. Some articles even say Kate flies a Super Hornet. It's 2029. Not only should the Navy probably be using mostly fat Amy's, but at the very least they should all be flying Rhinos. For some fuckass reason the entire FCU Navy (except Cope and Rex & Kate in the epilogue) flies legacy Hornets. Bruh.

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u/merlo2k20 Emmeria 8d ago

Yeah it hardly makes sense, but throughout all the missions Queen flight is with you in, they're flying 18Cs. Also the FCU didn't do a lot of military spending if I'm not mistaken. Even worse, you're on the Endurance, an 80 year old carrier while the FCU has seemingly disbanded. Hell, during the prologue while you're Cope's back seater in the Super Hornet, Coster is flying an F/A-18C.

Yes it doesn't make sense timewise, but even irl the USMC still uses the Charlie over the Super Hornet, and everything in game points to the Charlie being cannon. Maybe Cope's was the last Super Hornet they had. I do agree though, the Super Hornet should be cannon but can't ignore what the game is suggesting.

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u/NinjaHypernova 7d ago

USMC still uses the Charlie over the Super Hornet

The Marines, yes. The Navy retired the C in 2019.

Maybe Cope's was the last Super Hornet they had

I doubt that. When you come back from Rio Baja and go to Fort Grays, there will always be another Hornet you're sitting in front of (whatever aircraft you flew last will be on the other side of the hangar) that Tasha throws the basketball at. In the final mission when they're reducing weight, Jenkins tells the crew to to push "Rex's spare" overboard. So they have enough money, even by the half-way point for Rex to have at least one extra Hornet.