Fuck Ace Combat 6 in the ass

[Hitler Stole My Potato]

Alright.  I'm through with it.  Mission 9 made me its bitch for the last time.  I even bumped the difficulty down to easy and I still can't beat it.  What am I supposed to do here?  I'm on the mission where you have to take down the big flying carrier along with the support ships AND(!) shoot a dozen or so ace pilots out of the sky at the same time. *inserts gun into mouth*  There doesn't appear to be any checkpoints in the level and if you go beyond a certain point the main carrier launches a massive cruise missile strike your direction.  Ridiculous.  Why the hell would they do this?  Looking at the achievements it doesn't even appear that this is the last level so why bust our balls at this point?

Bah.

[GilloD]

Alright.  I'm through with it.  Mission 9 made me its bitch for the last time.  I even bumped the difficulty down to easy and I still can't beat it.  What am I supposed to do here?  I'm on the mission where you have to take down the big flying carrier along with the support ships AND(!) shoot a dozen or so ace pilots out of the sky at the same time. *inserts gun into mouth*  There doesn't appear to be any checkpoints in the level and if you go beyond a certain point the main carrier launches a massive cruise missile strike your direction.  Ridiculous.  Why the hell would they do this?  Looking at the achievements it doesn't even appear that this is the last level so why bust our balls at this point?

Bah.

You can avoid the big missile strikes pretty easily. It's just a fucking pain because there are no checkpoints (Biggest fail in gaming for AGES) and it takes like 4 minutes round trip. I quit on this mission when I had like 99% of it done and I clipped a wing.

[y2kev]

There is one level like this in every ace combat game. It's pretty irritating, and AC6 has an entirely broken checkpoint system. If I remember correctly, there's a way to avoid enemy fire by diving at the right time. You've gotta be quick about things, I guess.

[demi]

shit series

[Hitler Stole My Potato]

Honestly, if I could find a half-way decent method of taking down the planes (or at least half of them) right when they're launching from the carrier I could probably do this but I don't think I want to put anymore effort into it.  If I concentrate on the planes, then the radar is still up making everything a complete bitch but if I take the radar out first then I got ALL the planes out there on my tail making for any type of attack run at the main ships harder than hell.

This level NEEDS a checkpoint.  Like after you take out the first layer of defense on the main ship or something.

[y2kev]

japanese develolpers

[pilonv1]

no checkpoints?

no need for me to open my promo copy then

fuck japan

[hyp]

lets play some co-op hitler 

[Fragamemnon]

No checkpoints isn't a huge deal, but at least give people the chance to move past the mission if they fail X number of times. Sometimes some mission design just doesn't click with people the way you thought it would, this at least gives them an out.

[balikeye]

It's been a month or two since I've played, and I believe I beat it on normal or whatever the normal difficulty is called.

Anyways, the way I remember beating it is that you do much better if you go at the ships from side to side rather than front to back. That is until you get all of the defenses down. Then you can take out the engines from back to front. I just ignored the planes, having my wingman defend me the whole time.

The most frustrating part is when you have to blow up the cockpit to finally take the thing down. You have to take exactly the right approach or your missiles will miss every single time.

Also, I think I used the F-15 with the multi-air (maybe ground, whichever will lock on to the carrier parts) missiles. Save the multi missiles until after you get the radar jamming equipment down. I think I basically used them to lock on to the engines at the same time after I got tall the other stuff out of the way.

I think the rest of the game after this is well worth getting past this annoying level. However, it's pretty much more of the same if you've played any of the other versions in the series.

[Hitler Stole My Potato]

I kept pressing down to have my wingman cover me but it didn't seem to help all that much in that mission but it obviously worked for you so maybe I'll give it another go.  Those damn planes are the worst element in that level, imo.  And I agree about attacking the support ships from the side but with all the missiles coming at me I'm constantly avoiding them like crazy so I'm usually way out of position by the time I get my bearings.