Ace Combat 7, the unflappable JRPG disguised as a jet fighter game, had some dissatisfied pilots when it got here out on PC final week. The trigger-happy fly ‘em up released without support for most joysticks or HOTAS controllers, which irritated folks. And other technical foibles also inevitably annoyed people. Well, there’s nonetheless no pleasure for the stick customers. But there are another small fixes, unofficial ones, courtesy of these rapscallions in modder squadron. One of those will increase the draw distance to cut back pop-in, and the opposite provides assist for these ultrawide displays you by no means cease happening about.
First, the draw distance. I understand how upset you get whenever you’re unable to see tiny bushes 3km away. You can’t manually change this in-game, however you possibly can alter it by performing some INI file tweaking, as explained by Steam user “Speedwagon”. They’ve performed a comparability shot of the before and after, and sure, you possibly can see many extra pines and mannequin homes. They’re mannequin homes we’re blowing up, proper? Nobody dies on this game. It’s a contented game.
Getting your ultrawide monitor to work is a little more sophisticated. Modder “susahamat” has come up with a tool to get the game operating on 21:9 or 32:9 displays. But it additionally shunts your entire HUD to the left, making the entire thing considerably unusable in case your fundamental pleasure is murdering within the sky. Luckily, one other modder has give you a fix for that, which itself entails extra INI tinkering. Yes, it’s undoubtedly a PC game. If you mess this up and find yourself firing missiles out of your afterburners don’t come crying to me.
Ultrawide or normalwide, this videogame is sweet. It’s dumb as a mudskipper, however simply as likeable. There’s an area elevator, there are big roboplanes, there’s an ace pilot with 14 names. At one level you might be court-martialed and despatched to a penal unit. Your job is to make a pretend airbase appear like an actual one. The greatest method to do pretend missions, causes the warden, is to simply do actual missions with actual planes. That manner, it appears legit. Financially, I’m unsure this makes any sense. Militarily, nevertheless… No, sorry, militarily it additionally is mindless. Anyway, learn our Ace Combat 7 review if you need the total shakedown.