Pilot Plays Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown | Experts Play

Today on Experts Play we have US Navy Pilot David Gregor in to try out Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown. Having already reacted to Ace Combat 7 last year we thought it only fair for David to return and try out the game for himself and put his skills to the test. Whilst flying David gives an in-depth overview of how realistic the game feels, how the plane handles, and other key details. Be sure to let us know what you thought of today's playthrough?

Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown, like the rest of the Ace Combat series, forgoes a realistic flight model in favor of arcade-like gameplay to make it more accessible to gamers. Furthermore, players can select Novice or Expert control settings; the latter allows them to perform realistic aircraft maneuvers, such as rolls and high-G turns. As with previous entries in the series, most of the aircraft are real-life licenses, although some fictional superplanes are also included.
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[Atamusk]

I think he could've handled normal difficulty, and definitely expert controls. It would also be useful to let them know what units the HUD is displaying.

[strangewolf]

Bruh... why'd y'all not give him Expert controls?! That's like.... HALF the experience!

[HossBonaventureCEO]

Let this man play with expert controls!

[honorablespartan]

Ace Combat is intentionally ridiculous and that makes it good.

Edit: Wait you guys didn't enable expert controls.

[theraiden]

OK, I'm gonna be honest. Giving a real pilot a Novice control in Ace Combat is sinful than killing Ex-president.
Gamology should go to SOLITARY.

[MysticRL]

"I've never seen UAVs launch out of a truck like that"

How about launching UAVs from a big UAV?

[julioaltavas]

You guys should've enabled expert controls for him.

[ScienceRules]

Why did you not enable expert controls? That is basically required for the game to be good.

[gergokerekes]

would be interisting to see him react to the falkens, the vr cockpit is cool but would be actually that much better? etc.

[bzrkls]

yeah, y’all are gonna do another video with him and actually enable expert controls this time right? could’ve explained so much more to him in terms of what stuff meant on his hud/indicators too

[ChloePricesNumberOneSimp]

Bruh why yall give him normal controls. It restricts so much movement. He's a real pilot im sure he could handle expert controls

[helioramos]

Yeah, put an expert to play the game but don't enable the expert mode controls. Come on guys, it's basic stuff.

[d.o.kgaming]

I got so much info from the first 30 seconds more than anything

[clericneokun]

Glad to see David back. You should've enabled expert controls for him though. Based from all the stunts he did, he could have easily handled it.

[railsloopdrown]

Everytime playing Ace Combat, always turn on "Expert" control in game setting. This is how to make Ace Combat feels good to play & watch since anyone can see what maneuvers used by players. Without turning on "Expert" control, every maneuvers performed by players very bland to see & feel. This also makes enemy missiles hard to dodge.

[SurprisinglyDeep]

This man deserves respect. He's able to recall an entire university textbook's worth of knowledge while performing fast paced takss that require a high level of hand eye coordination

[champagnegascogne]

Most of the features that Gamology needs to feature on the part 2 of the Ace Combat 7 video:

-Post stall maneuver
-Special weapons (air to ground, air to air, air to ship, electronic countermeasures, railgun)
-Cockpit view
-Expert controls on the entire gameplay+ David flying other varieties of planes such as the F/A-18F and its block 3 version, F-35C, and F-22
-Carrier takeoff and landing sequences for some planes that have that feature
-Aerial refueling
-David analyzing the fictional planes
-David analyzing the special weapons
-FLARES

[Parthornax]

I hope the people who are gonna make the next ace combat game watch this video.

He's given alot of very interesting ideas for game play mechanics...

Engine Failure: where you have to maneuver the plane without thrust until you can restart your engine.
Single engine failure on a multi engine plane: where you have to maneuver with half thrust.
Location damage: where depending where enemies are hit it could result in them losing maneuverability or having engine failures of their own
Different Detection and UI to match the generation of the plane. (Never made sense how a cold war era plane has the exact UI and computer system as a modern super fighter jet.)

[MrAnimeMilitary]

A redo is needed with this video with Expert Comtrols enabled in Ace Combat 7.

[deadstickgaming]

Yeah as someone who's got the platinum trophy and thus spent well over 50 hours on Ace Combat 7, gotta say Gamology dropped the ball on this one when they didn't give him expert controls.
Overall he still got the gist, AC7 is definitely arcade-y and not meant to be treated as a flight simulator like DCS, but I just think he would've enjoyed it a little more if he was on the realistic controls.
Maybe you can get him to come back and try out the F-18 in VR!