Ok, someone explain..

I’m someone who should really love Ace Combat and looking at 8 after Skillup’s persuasion 😄

Can I just ask though, it’s been many years since I played flight sims, even arcade ones. But my main issue was always back then that they felt like button click sims. Wait for target lock, push button, thing die. Watching videos it still feels like that, so can you vets tell me what makes the combat thrilling here, particularly in multiplayer as I love dogfighting? Thanks