The Gauntlet -ACE OF ACES-

Описание: Ace difficulty version here:    • The Gauntlet -ACE OF ACES- (Ace Difficulty)  

PALMS ARE SWEATY. Credit for this Cheat Engine script and lots of cool PS2 AC modding stuff goes to Charles Charleston. His original video with links to CE script and guide:    • Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War - Everyone...  

So yeah, it's The Gauntlet with all aces spawned at once. I played on Very Easy difficulty just to keep myself sane, but believe me, it was anything but easy anyway. One big issue is that the game caps the amount of missiles that can be active at any given time, and locks your own missiles from firing unless there's room. The CE script includes a way to nerf the enemy fire rate to work around this, but it wouldn't work for me, possibly because I'm playing on a different difficulty than indicated or because I'm using a different version of PCSX2. So when you see me not firing missiles at obvious easy targets for no apparent reason, that's why. On the other hand, I'm pretty sure it also includes a stealth buff to player missile homing, so it kinda compensates (either that or homing is buffed on Very Easy and I never noticed). And of course there's the slowdown caused by the ACZ engine simply not being designed to handle this amount of targets in close proximity - the CE script also has a workaround for this by lowering the enemy models' level of detail, but I couldn't get it to work either. Oh and I also totally forgot this mission has a return line, eh well.