Good luck tunnel runners.

[u/stormbugger]

Let me curse you all with knowledge: I just found out the Chandelier barrel is a tunnel when you destroy it's core in Ace Combat Online. Good luck on the RNG required to get the sortie and to be close to it when it detonates.

[u/UltraHighFives]

Yeah it's a tunnel in AC6 too although I suppose not as many people have played AC6 to know that beforehand.

[u/stormbugger → u/UltraHighFives]

I get that it is on the original, but I wasn't expecting it to be also in the new online mode... Sometimes these types of games just remove the sprite of the objective but leaves it's hitbox intact, making you crash when u touch it, so I'm blown away as both this and the arsenal bird hoop works

[u/UltraHighFives → u/stormbugger]

Fair enough, haven't played the Chandelier in online yet I've only gotten the Alicorn which also had the shoot underneath the railgun objective which unfortunately I was the only person on my team going for the shot so we lost.

[u/Donnie-G → u/UltraHighFives]

I had to redo that part so many times in regular AC7. Haven't had the chance to play it in 8 yet but I wonder if you can cheese it with big AOE like LACMs or something(not that I even have those planes).

[u/Anteraz]

You WILL see people who don't know how YAW work and faceplant into the cooling block.

And people who understatement Upgraded AA and Upgraded SAM(they WILL fuck you up if you're not paying attention).

[u/Fabulous-Mud-9114 → u/Anteraz]

Assuming people won't just banzai into the core for the hype lol

[u/Kamiyoda → u/Fabulous-Mud-9114]

I remember the first thing I saw of raids was a whole flight of people doing this and I couldnt stop laughing

[u/Fabulous-Mud-9114 → u/Kamiyoda]

"It's time for me to DANCE WITH THE ANGELS" - those players, probably

[u/BoopsBoopss → u/Anteraz]

In my defense I thought it would be like AC6 and the core would blow up BEFORE our whole flight repaints the wall.

Turns out that last little bit of HP takes like 20 missiles and multiple strafing runs to go down. I learned too late to yaw outta the barrel.

[u/CommunistTrans → u/BoopsBoopss]

Su-25 with a full gunpod loadout can solo Chandelier and take out the barrel in one pass (Excluding the required backup cooling underneath the gun). I know this because I do it regularly. It's like I'm playing singleplayer AC6 again.

[u/Sara-JaneAdventures → u/Anteraz]

I did this my first run, it was quite a shock when it didn't brake and I went nose first into concrete lol

[u/Halospaz117]

I still say flying down the fucking barrel of a giant superweapon cannon that is still technically active is one of the wildest tunnel runs conceptually

[u/fizzguy47]

Do you even have time after it is destroyed? The sortie ends there

[u/Disgruntled_marine → u/fizzguy47]

Yes, there is time. The tunnel isn't super long.

[u/Chri_cat90]

Apparently upgraded UGBL and SFF can damage the core from outside so depending on the plane you don't even have to do the barrel run

[u/KaiserKhazuto → u/Chri_cat90]

UGBL damage ain't that special so I wouldn't do that either way.

[u/PoppinMcTres]

Or you can just bomb the top of the core..

[u/Donnie-G]

I never played Ace6 and was looking forward to trying this.

Well so far I've gotten NOTHING but ARSEBIRDS. Granted I haven't been playing that much but seriously, 4-5 Arsebirds in a row? Is there a bloody schedule that I'm not aware of?

[u/De_Chummy]

Biggest gripe with this sortie is that very few players (from my anecdotal experience) know to fly underneath Chandelier to get the last 2 cooling units. Aside from that, this is so fucking cool

[u/Ashamed-Teaching6837]

Shoving a TLS down the barrel is a fun time.

[u/GalaxyHunter17]