Hello, Aces! Ace Combat Fan here, and as you know one more Ace Combat 7 trailer has been released and of course now it’s time to analyze it!
Unlike my previous analysis, we will start with the ending of the trailer to the most important information – Ace Combat 7 will now be also available both Xbox One and Steam!
While I am a PS4 owner – which I bought just to play Ace Combat 7 – I am very happy that more people will be able to enjoy the Ace Combat series on a different platform.
So it’s time to leave that PlayStation/Xbox rivalry aside and just focus on enjoying the game because the Ace Combat series only benefits from that.
People who can’t afford a PS4 or don’t want to switch from their Xbox or PC will then be able to enjoy the game after all.
Another interesting point is that since the game is coming to PC it will eventually get moded, because PC games eventually do just like what happened to Assault Horizon, so you never know the possibilities we could have with an Ace Combat PC game.
The multiplatform however isn’t a surprise, at least to me, because earlier we had some indications on the internet that Ace Combat 7 was apparently being rated for Xbox in Taiwan and Ace Combat producer, Kazutoki Kono, had previously mentioned in interviews that he “wasn’t closing doors on a multiplatform release”.
But now you may ask, then what is the advantage of playing on PlayStation? Wasn’t it supposed to be an exclusive game?
The truth is Ace Combat 7 is still a PlayStation exclusive when it comes to virtual reality, so far the game’s VR capabilities will only work with the PS VR, this means no Ace Combat VR content for either Xbox or Steam.
Coming back to the trailer analysis, this trailer is basically an extended version of the 2016 PSX trailer and because of that I am only going to comment on the new and scenes and details. In case you want to go more in depth, I will leave the links of my previous trailer analysis in the description of the video.
We start the trailer with an aerial view of a desert area and as you can see in the bottom part of the video there are some markings on the ground that indicate a test site with a compass rose and two runways.
I have done a bit of research and this place in Strangereal seems to based on the Edwards Air Force Base in California which is located right beside a dry lake. Comparing Edwards AFB to the base we see in some screenshots of the game they both look identical and the coincidence doesn’t stop there, it is the same layout of the Stonehenge air base.
Of course though that the Stonehenge air base had to go through some major upgrades to become this new air base but this could easily have happened between the events of Ace Combat 4 and Ace Combat 7.
What I am not so sure though is how the Erusians, which apparently are running some tests from this air base, can operate from there since the Stonehenge air base is actually located in the country of San Salvacion.
After this scene we have only some minor additions to the trailer where we can see Mihaly receiving some medical attention, the F-104 leveling off -and I bring your attention to the instruments of the aircraft which will be functional in the game-, some new mountains and clouds.
So as he said, the “suit” was ineffective – that is referring to Mihaly’s special flight suit.
On this next scene we see that the computer screen reads a very high total load with a peak of 10.887 Gs and an imminent risk of G-Loc. This means that Mihaly almost pulled 11Gs during the flight whereas a typical fighter pilot only pulls around 9 Gs. The G-LOC refers to g-force induced loss of consciousness because the guy was pulling so many Gs that there wasn’t much blood going to his head.
Also, notice too that we have seen these graphics before in Ace Combat Infinity and they indicate that the whatever input was 140% to and the output was 90%.
In the next scene we see the air battle around the lighthouse not much to say but I just noticed that these two missiles keep going straight and cross forming an X – I’m just not sure if this does mean anything though.
After that we have the girl talking about the era of the drones and it looks like she is some sort of mechanic to the air force who has to fix that F-15 with a missing tail. A slight Pixy reference of course. Note too how the left side her face is dirty just like the markings found on the left side of our protagonist aircraft.
After that we have a bit of cockpit view inside the F-15 and then again note how the instruments are functional.
I've noticed too that in this scene where the F-18 is passing by, it seems like one of the targets in the mission is destroyed by a laser coming from the ground.
In the short gameplay footage we see the player engaging with some MQ-101 drones, a timer counting down and an indication that we will be able to see missiles on our radar.
After that we see the carrier used in the demo mission and the F-104 flying over a different airbase - which is close to the sea so definetely not the Stonehenge airbase.
This is pretty much it to this trailer analysis, the only other new scenes are the mechanic girl in her prison cell, the number 44 guy around an aircraft and a mysterious women, and I want to speculate that's the princess of Erusea, by a beach with some black sand - it kinda reminds me of Megalith but I just don’t see how Megalith can fit in with the limited information we have so far.
So that was the analysis for the trailer, did I miss anything? If I did please let me know in the comments because I would love to know more.
This was another Ace Combat 7 trailer analysis, I hope you have enjoyed and stay tuned for the next one!