User blog:The Ace of Razgriz/How to kill a shark.

This blog is for anyone having trouble defeating Markov on the last mission of Ace Combat: Assault Horizon.

As we all know, Markov is a pain to kill in the last mission especially with his 4QAMs. After countless defeats to the Shark Bastard over the weekend I finally figured out how to counter his 4QAMs.

4QAM
This is the weapon that makes Markov the difficult opponent he is. 4 missles coming after you that are nearly impossible to dodge. It is a real pain if you have used all your flares but if you are good enough this should be worth more than a 100 flares. When Markov uses his 4QAM you should either start DFM of stop DFM and then immediately start DFM again. Why you might ask? Because when you start DFM all missles locked on to you lose their lock, including Markov's 4QAMs. The problem being that Markov likes to move around like crazy making it hard to start DFM again and you only have a short amount of time while doing this before his 4QAM hits your plane. But if you can do this Markov's 4QAMs are pretty much useless making your chances of survival much greater.

If you can do this properly and counter Markov when he uses DFM on you, you should be able to complete the mission without taking any damage from the Shark Bastard. This should be helpful to you as I used this strategy on him on "Ace" difficulty and it worked the first time (Although he did hit me once with his 4QAMs.)

I hope that this is useful to someone.

The Ace of Razgriz 16:29, March 19, 2012 (UTC)