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Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown – How to Get S Rank in Every Mission (Easy Rank Guide)

Earning the highest rank on Hard difficulty can be done in
Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown
be quite difficult
. Unlike most current games, you’ll collect points as you knock enemy planes out of the sky. The higher your score and the faster you complete the tasks, the better your rank will be at the end of the mission. And they don’t have to settle for a simple A Rank — they can work their way up to S Rank. Read on for tips that will make achieving S Rank much easier.

You should wait until you have played through the campaign at least once before attempting to achieve these S Ranks. You must first unlock some of the best aircraft, such as the F22 Raptor fighter, before attempting to achieve S Ranks. Of course, having the best planes makes replaying missions on Hard difficulty in Free Play mode a lot easier – if you don’t have very good planes with the best upgrades, the whole thing becomes an almost impossible challenge. What’s pleasing is that once you’ve beaten the campaign once, you can replay any level/mission at your leisure on any difficulty level.

How To Earn S Rank On Every Mission | Easy Rank Guide

S Rank
is the highest rank you can earn in a mission. You can achieve S Rank on Normal and Hard difficulties to complete your skin collection – every mission is different, but in general you can earn S Ranks fairly easily by following the tips below:

  • Turn off the F22 “Raptor” Fighter jet free, which can be obtained via the central Aircraft Tree Unlock path. This is one of the best fighter planes in the game and can be equipped with special weapons that make most missions a breeze when replaying.
    • SDBs make many missions downright trivial. For the F22 you can also unlock “multi-air” and “multi-ground” missiles, which can destroy anything in the air or on the ground very, very quickly.
  • Earning S Ranks is all about completing objectives/tasks as quickly as possible and dealing as much damage as possible before time runs out. You can use as many missions and special weapons as you want.
    • Be careful not to harm yourself in order to improve your ranking.
  • To easily earn more points quickly, you should reload checkpoints to recharge your special ammo. There is no penalty for reloading. Knowing this will make getting S Ranks much, much easier.
    • Upgrade your aircraft and weapons with parts to improve ammunition capabilities. Better targeting (lock-on), faster missiles and greater damage are very important. Only use upgraded weapon parts after unlocking the F22.

The best plane in the game, the experimental one
Wyverns
, is strong, but not really useful when it comes to completing missions quickly and efficiently. If you stick with the F22, you’ll easily clear the missions when you replay.


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Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown – How to Spawn All 24 Aces (‘Bird of Prey’ Guide)


In
Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown

Finding and shooting down pilots by name is anything but easy. These hard-to-find Aces will only appear after you complete special, secret tasks – and they only spawn when you replay levels you’ve already beaten. These named pilots are particularly good and you will only find them in certain missions. If you manage to locate all 24, you will be rewarded for your efforts with the ‘Bird of Prey’ achievement/trophy of the same name.

Ace Combat 7

is an action-packed flight simulation in which you fight in a war between fictional nations. The series is also known for its storyline, although you only interact with the game world with the help of various fighter planes. You will bomb ground troops, engage in dogfights, and help defeat an imperialist enemy trying to conquer neighboring nations in a massive war.

And you’ll earn lots of airplane skins along the way, allowing you to personalize your favorite jets. To get the “Special” skin for the X-02S Strike Wyvern, you must shoot all of the Aces on this list. Read on to learn how to take them all down.

How To Spawn All 24 Aces | ‘Bird of Prey’ Guide

Aces are special “collectible” pilots with names that appear when you complete special, hidden tasks (objectives) in certain missions.

Mission: Charge Assault

  • Ace #1: Huang Xuan Tai “PYRO”
    • Shoot the third wave with Multi-Anit Air Missiles (4AAM, 6AAM, 8AAM). PYRO appears in the northwest corner.

Mission: Charge The Enemy

  • Ace #2: Joe Barker “JESTER”
    • Destroy all Radar Vehicles and then very quickly destroy the TGT-CTRL TOWER before the UAVs show up. Jester appears on the tarmac at the air base.

Mission: Two-Pronged Strategy

  • Ace #3: Rosie Lucas “BAYONET”
    • Destroy all enemies within 90 seconds before the Missile Alert event. BAYONET appears in the northwest corner.

Mission: Rescue

  • Ace #4: Florent Noilet “RONIN”
    • In the first part of the mission, stay below 200 meters until you reach the space elevator. Ronin appears in the northeast of the map.

Mission: 444

  • Ace #5: Sebastian Koch “FANG”
    • Take at least 75% damage while your weapons are disabled. After you shoot down the bombers, FANG will appear in the center of the map.

Mission: Long Day

  • Ace #6: Sophie Andre “KITTEN”
    • Fly through the narrow tunnel through the mountain in the western base. KITTEN will appear in the southwest corner.

Mission: First Contact

  • Ace #7: Thibault Besson “FAUCON”
    • In the first part of the mission, destroy all non-TGT enemies on the map. FAUCON will appear in the northern area of ​​the map.

Mission: Pipeline Destruction

  • Ace #8: Samuel Everest “GAZELLE”
    • Destroy all oil facilities before the timer reaches 00:00. GAZELLE appears in the northern area of ​​the map.

Mission: Faceless Soldier

  • Ace #9: Hans Weber “SPIDER”
    • Destroy more than 50% of the non-TGT enemies on the map before destroying the radar turrets. SPIDERS appears in the East.

Mission: Transfer Orders

  • Ace #10: Ken Warren “LOUVETEAU”
    • Destroy all SAMs very quickly. LOUVETEAU appears on the eastern side of the map.

Mission: Fleet Destruction

  • Ace #11: Chris Azure “CHASSEUR”
    • Destroy all aircraft on the northernmost platform before they take off. Anti-air weapons can also be used against aircraft on the ground. CHASSEUR will be released in the West.
  • Ace #12: Matthieu Bertin “IBIS”
    • Fly through the narrow passage in the northeast platform complex. IBIS spawns in the west.

Mission: Stonehenge Defense

  • Ace #13: Arnaud Durand “WALRUS”
    • Prevent the bombers and ground forces from damaging Stonehenge. Unless Stonehenge is damaged, WALRUS will spawn in the northeast when the “chopper win” appears.
  • Ace #14: Kees Bakker “BUFFLE”
    • Destroy all three non-TGT A-10s that spawn to the east. BUFFLE will appear further west.
  • Ace #15: Nathan Roche “FOUDRE”
    • Fly under the narrow spawn below the Stonehenge cannons. FOUDRE appears in the south.

Mission: Bunker Buster

  • Ace #16: Owen Corwin “COMET”
    • Destroy all missile silos very quickly so that COMET appears after the checkpoint to the west.

Mission: Werewolf

  • Ace #17: Jules Martin “GADFLY”
    • Reach the end of the canyon very quickly. GADFLY will appear with the Fighter Wing reinforcements when the air base is attacked.

Mission: Battle For Farbanti

  • Ace #18: Russel Faulkner “SERPENT”
    • Earn +5000 points beyond the required number. SERPENT will appear with a reinforcement squadron in the southeast.

  • Ace #19: Vincent Masson “BOW”
    • Destroy the Aegis Ashore, an anti-aircraft ship near GHQ. It appears at the end of the first part of the mission. BOW appears south of the ship.

Mission: Last Hope

  • Ace #20: Emeric Pons “AXEMAN”
    • Earn over 15,000 points to have AXEMAN appear as an “Unknown” in the southern area of ​​the port city limits.

Mission: Homeward

  • Ace #21: Olivier Perrin’s “MANTIS”
    • Fly over (and very close to) Mass Driver as if you were launching from it. MANTIS appears with the bomber reinforcements to the east and will be marked “Unknown” like all the others.

Mission: Lost Kingdom

  • Ace #22: Benjamin Neumann “LYNX”
    • Destroy all enemies before reaching Shilage Castle in under two minutes. LYNX appears over the castle.

Mission: Lighthouse

  • Ace #23: Cyril Noiret “TEMPEST”
    • Earn more than 20,000 points in the first part of the mission. TEMPEST appears in the southeast.
  • Ace #24: Paul Lebrun “CALAMITY”
    • Earn more than 20,000 points in the first part of the mission. CALAMITY flies a stealth aircraft, so you have to fly south to spot him on your radar.

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Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown – How to Find 5 ‘Real’ Bunkers (Mission 13 Bunker Buster Guide)


Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown
“delighted” with some really difficult missions that will demand everything from you. One of these is Mission 13: Bunker Buster — in this mission you are stripped of your special weapons and instead must use a strange new targeting module to direct bombs into tiny missile launch silos. Some of them are fake, others are real, random. And to make sure this doesn’t become too easy, you’ll have to dodge missiles that are being fired at you and successfully complete the mission within a very limited time.

However, there is a trick that will make this mission quick and easy to complete and will help you if you want to quickly destroy all five missile silos so that the extremely powerful named Ace Pilot appears on the map. The bunkers are random, which is why the “real” bunkers will be in different locations every time you restart. You can’t identify them from the ground, only bomb them. Here are some tips that will make this task easier.

How to find 5 ‘true’ bunkers | Mission 13 Bunker Buster Guide

In Mission 13: Bunker Buster you are forced to use a strange targeting module to control bombers in the sky. You’ll drop Bunker Busters on missile silos – but some of those silos aren’t real. If you want to complete the game 100%, you must complete the first phase before the timer
falls below 4:00
. If they destroy the real bunkers quickly, an Ace Pilot will appear.

  • The “true” bunkers will randomly be in different locations each time you load the mission. But they stay in the same places when you try again. If you retry the mission from the beginning, the “true” bunker locations will be unchanged.
  • To speed up the hunt for the real bunkers, you should simply destroy all the bunkers and remember where the real bunkers are. Then try again and only destroy the real bunkers to complete the first phase of this mission very quickly.
  • Aiming with the aiming module is not that easy. Align the center of the circle with the silo before activating the special weapon – it is very difficult to aim once you have activated it. It’s better to get a perfect shot from high in the sky and slow down. A long line on your red circle will shrink. When it reaches the ground, the bomb will land.

  • Your aiming grid for your special weapon has two circles. If the missile silo you are targeting is in the inner circle (red), the silo will be destroyed in a single hit. If you don’t aim accurately and the silo is hit while it’s in the outer circle, one of two results will happen – it’s a fake silo or it’s a real one and a missile will appear.
    • You have to fly high up and shoot into the opened missile silo to hit the missile. If you destroy the missile, the entire facility will be destroyed.

The real challenge in this mission is to get the Ace out of the sky. To successfully destroy the Ace, you must complete the first phase of the mission in a few minutes, then knock the Ace out of the sky before it escapes, and then destroy the Intermediate-Range Missile (IRBM) before it leaves the map. Choose the fastest fighter plane and equip it with parts that increase its speed. The MiG-31 and F-22 are good choices. You should also equip your machine with parts that improve the missiles – anything that improves strength, speed, targeting and range will be helpful here.

After completing the first phase, immediately turn and chase after the Ace. Once you lock on this target, you must fire immediately – there is no time or room for error. You must destroy the enemy fighter plane with a single volley of missiles. Then turn again. If you take too long to knock the flying ace out of the sky, you won’t be able to destroy the IRBM in time.

Fire your missiles once you have the target in sight. While you are tracking the Ace, you should aim your machine gun a little in front of this plane to deal a little extra damage. Make sure this enemy is taken care of, then do a high-G turn to chase after the IRBM at top speed. Just before you reach her, she will have accelerated to her top speed. Fire two volleys of missiles at the medium-range missile to destroy it. If you manage to destroy the first IRBM, the rest is a piece of cake. You will have plenty of time to take out the remaining targets. Ignore the enemy fighter planes – don’t be distracted.

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