Only if you want to earn the campaign-specific medals (no damage, machine gun only, sub 4 hours). These can only be done in a continuous run, but on all difficulties
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I hope this game significantly increases FromSoftās confidence in putting resources toward armoured core VR
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So, do enough free play/MP to get the gun homing/auto-fire upgrades then do a campaign run on easy
Not that Iāll ever do that but hey
I made sure to get the gun parts on my Hard run, then did an Easy run with the Fishbed (MGPs are allowed!). A bit of a hassle on ground attack, but dogfights are a lot of fun if you need to get very close to shred. And boy, do you shred with three guns.
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yeah playing the VR campaign first was a good idea in terms of getting adjusted to how well the machine guns work (badly, but just well enough that you really want to use them when possible)
Been playing through this beautiful game over and over since it came out. Mission 13 probably has my favorite song.
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OK I got my own unit and I am going to fuckin Stonehenge
saving up for that F35, gonna do what Obama couldnāt
hugely appreciate the diversity of missions in this, they made a huge toolbox and made sure never to reuse any of the combinations
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I am still laughing from when I saw that you need to unlock the F-35C before the game will let you play as the F-22A.
they fuckinā know
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I donāt think the Flanker density has ever been this high and I love that the 37 now has a fucking long range laser.
Wish the Tornado and Nighthawk were in.
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The F-22 is my favorite fighter jetā¦ I so want to play this and zoom around in it
A friend and I joke at work about how people have mains in fighting games and Overwatch, we have mains in flight sims. Mine is a toss up between the A-10 on the practical side and the F14 on the impractical side.
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I used to not like the A-10 because itās so big and chunky and inelegant but it just sounds so awesome that I came around to it. The F-14 is certainly my first love but when the game F-22 Raptor came out I was just completely in love with it, to this day. I didnāt understand the F/A-18 love for a long time but Independence Day is cool I guess so sure
Iām happy that the Su-34 is in AC7! Itās just the most beautiful thing
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much like the real life A-10, the A-10 in ace combat is your de facto bomber for almost every mission in which you need to fuck up ground targets because itās a workhorse and nothing really replaces it
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The F-35 worked well on missions where the 48 8AGMs were enough and I needed something more maneuverable to deal with air targets
congratulations, you have justified the pentagonās decision to replace a dedicated bomber with a hybrid fighter plane
(that did seem to me to be the direction the game pushes you in, since the only other bomber is wayyy in the corner of the upgrade tree but a lot of routes lead to the F-35 as an upgrade)
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Thereās like, one or two pure ground attack missions. Is it that surprising that the game would push you towards a multirole fighter when most of the missions require a mixture of offensive capabilities?
I think a lot of the routes lead you to the F-35 because irl every country represented by the non-russian parts of the tree has either decided to stick with what they have or has settled on everyoneās favorite defense boondoggle
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Yeah you and the USAF officer corps
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True and still, when you get to the Raptor and its new guided bomblets, you donāt ever think about the F-35 again
Looking forward to finally play the VR campaign once this Hell Week is over
Hey I canāt help it that they have style and feel self-conscious when theyāre flying non-pretty warplanes
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