Ace Combat 8 Campaign On-Disc

Figured I'd share preliminary results for anyone seeking this info—I just installed Ace Combat 8 Wings of Theve from disc on PS5 with the internet disabled to prevent day one patching, and upon booting the game it appears that the Campaign is accessible.

Ace Combat Online and Ace Combat Store are greyed out in the main menu. When highlighting either of them, it says, "This can only be selected once the installation is complete". Of course, you wouldn't interact with this modes unless you had internet connection enabled anyway.

I'm sure someone from the DoesItPlay community will do a full playthrough proper to confirm, but at first glance it appears the main game is available from disc installation. 👍 Initial install size 88.34 GB.