Acepedia Survey Results August 2022
Greetings, aces! Last month marked the 16th anniversary of Acepedia! After so many years, the wiki has gone through a LOT. The community is currently in a quieter period between Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown and the next Ace Combat game, so we wanted to take the opportunity to gauge everyone's opinions of the wiki and where we are right now. At the start of August, I posted a survey for Acepedia readers and editors to fill out. 97 people filled it out, and we'd like to thank all of you! We sincerely appreciate it!
This blog post goes over the details of the survey, from data analysis to specific responses. Let's dive in!
- 1 Visiting and Editing
- 1.1 Visiting
- 1.2 Mobile
- 1.3 Editing
- 2 Content and Social Media
- 2.1 Games and Articles
- 2.2 YmirFritz1845
- 2.3 Anonymous #7…
Final AC7 S Ranks
Greetings, aces! We've got an update on the Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown S Rank information presented on the wiki. Thanks to xBlazededge sharing some in-game data with us, we're now able to present the exact S Rank conditions for every mission in the game.
- 1 How S Ranks Work
- 2 The Official Data
- 2.1 Compared to Our Data
- 2.2 Fun With Data
- 3 About the VR Missions...
- 3.1 Lack of Testing
- 3.2 Cut Content
- 4 Final Word
As a reminder, AC7 is one of the only games in the franchise that uses a combination of time and score to calculate the player's final Clear Rank. If you take more time, you can still get the S Rank if you destroy more targets. It works like this:
- Your score from destroying enemies in the mission is your Destruction Score. You see this at the top-left of …
15 Years Ago, There Was a Wiki
Greetings, everyone! August 19, the date of as well as Operation Dragon Breath, was also the date of this wiki's very first edit by its founder, User:Thunderhead, all the way back in 2006. In the 15 years since then, Acepedia has grown tremendously to become the primary destination for Ace Combat lore, game info, mission details, and more. I talked about Acepedia's history in the 10th anniversary blog post, and more information is also available on the wiki's About page.
I say this all the time, but our success is thanks to everyone who has ever contributed to the wiki. We're completely run by Ace Combat fans without any direct support from Bandai Namco. We wouldn't be where we are without every viewer, every commenter, and every editor, as w…
AC7 Original Aircraft Series
' It's official -- the CFA-44 Nosferatu, XFA-27, and ASF-X Shinden II are the next DLC aircraft being added to Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown! We also got hints of more skins and emblems, as well as some interesting development details on the three aircraft!
- 1 Trailer
- 2 DLC Info
- 3 Design Details
- 3.1 CFA-44 Nosferatu
- 3.2 XFA-27
- 3.3 ASF-X Shinden II
This is paid DLC. It is not free, and it is not included in the Season Pass.
The release date(s) is not announced, but all of this is coming within Autumn 2020.
The three new aircraft will each come with 7 skins, like the previous aircraft DLC.
- The CFA-44 has only been seen with the livery.
- The XFA-27 has only been seen with the , but there's a lot they could choose from here.
- The ASF-X has only been seen with its stand…
Ace Combat 25th Anniversary
June 30, 2020 was the 25th anniversary of the Ace Combat franchise! While Ace Combat has its roots in the two arcade games, Air Combat and Air Combat 22, the franchise officially began on June 30, 1995 with the Japanese release of the first Ace Combat game on the PlayStation.
A few official announcements and a big teaser took place over the past couple of days to commemorate the anniversary. Let's go through them!
- Translation by User:TaskForce23
Unfortunately, the has changed the world this year, and a lot of what Project Aces wanted to do was simply impossible, canceled, or postponed in the wake of this global crisis. Other than the LINE stickers and the AC7 update earlier in the year, this is all they could do.
Personally, I didn't expect anything at…
25th Anniversary AC7 Update
This year is the 25th anniversary of the Ace Combat franchise! Last year, Brand Director Kazutoki Kono and Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown Producer Manabu Shimomoto revealed that there would be some surprises in store for the fans to celebrate the franchise's 25th anniversary, which takes place on June 30, the date of Air Combats release in 1995.
- 1 AC7 Free Update
- 2 More DLC Aircraft
- 3 2nd Alpha Industries Collaboration
- 4 LINE Stickers
- 5 Closing Remarks
A free update to Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown will arrive on April 2nd! This update will add a bunch of new skins and emblems to the game for all players on all platforms!
The free new skins are as follows:
- F-15C Strider 2 (Count)
- F-16C Mage 1 (Clown)
- F/A-18F Spare 6 (Full Band)
- MiG-29A Spare 8 (Champ)
- Mirage 2000-5 Spare…
AC7 DLC Info Dump
Everyone, meet the Alicorn, a nuclear submarine that we will get to know very well in the DLC missions of Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown. We've gotten quite a lot of nuggets of lore in the trailers we've seen thus far, so here's what we know about what we're getting!
First off, the DLC missions themselves. All three missions take place between "Bunker Buster" and "Cape Rainy Assault" in the main campaign. You can access the DLC missions through the new "SP MISSION" section in the menu.
- "Unexpected Visitor"
- Release Date: September 25, 2019
- Operation Date: September 4, 2019
- Location: Artiglio Port
- Objective: Shoot down the Erusean fighters trying to defend the Alicorn. Erusea is supported by ECM aircraft that will block our radar. We will be supported by …
Acepedia Update: 30 Days After AC7 -- Uploading, Editing, Citing
Welcome to the first Acepedia Update after the full release of Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown on all three platforms! We're over a month after the console releases, and almost three weeks after the Steam release! Early indications are looking really good. AC7's sales figures appear to be far surpassing both AC6 and Assault Horizon, and reviews are fairly consistent and mostly positive: tight gameplay, deep (if at times complicated) story, and incredible visuals.
As you would expect, Acepedia has been hard at work over these last few weeks, gathering as much data and info as possible. Aces At War: A History 2019 having accessible English and Chinese versions in addition to Japanese is an incredible help in this aspect.
So let's go over what the past mon…
S Rank Methods in Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown
In Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown, the Clear Rank for campaign mode's and VR mode's missions are graded by a combination of both Time Bonus and Destruction Score. In other words, players need to be quick and take down a sufficient number of enemy targets to earn the S ranks. This requirement is the same regardless of the mission's difficulty.
When looking at the results after a mission, a few things need to be taken into account:
- Total time to complete a mission
- Time Bonus
- Destruction Score
Let's start with the Destruction Score, which is relatively straightforward. All enemy targets you have destroyed in a mission are summed up in this score. Enemy targets destroyed by allied forces do not count, nor do targets that cannot be destroyed in the miss…
Strangereal - How Ace Combat's fictional universe came to be
"Welcome back to Strangereal!" Masato Kanno tweeted from Project Aces' official Twitter account on December 6, 2015, shortly after the newest Ace Combat game's teaser trailer. Fans rejoiced upon the news. After all, the last numbered Ace Combat title before then, Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation, released way back in 2007.
Strangereal is the name of the alternate universe where most of the Ace Combat games take place. As brand director Kazutoki Kono has mentioned in interviews, the name "Strangereal" was first coined as "Strange Real World" to refer to the reality within Ace Combat 04: Shattered Skies (aka Ace Combat: Distant Thunder in Europe) when the developer was constructing the said game's lore, albeit a grammatically wrong term. The name "Str…