Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-172.1.44.57-20150206011443/@comment-32666162-20171209010442

DRosencraft wrote: In addition to what Sly says, as an Ace he is probably the one in-game setup to be the "best". The F-22 is his signature plane. Most other player-characters have much earlier planes in the tree [Cipher's F-15, Blaze's F-14 (Wardog and Razgriz)]. Even if as a player you can pick a different plane or whatnot, in-story most of the time the palyer-character is set to go through it all with that one plane. I'd say Scarface is the exception since they flew Su-35s, but that gets into the general problem that Ace Combat's own history of designation on the Sukhoi series has been a little wonky at times so I know some who aren't that into things easily mix up the various Sukhois of that general design (Su-35, Su-27, Su-37, to say nothing of the in-line variants of the 27 and 35). Even then, the F-22 and Su-35/37 are of the same generation, with the 22 having stealth, which of course is part of the dogma that stealh beats non-stealth. in that sense sure, but tech doesn't always wins. unless there is a huge Tech gap between the two planes, like early in the Korean war, sometimes pilot skill would be the deciding factor here.