Ace Combat 8: Wings Of Theve Smashes Series Steam Record With Over 52,000 Concurrent Players

Ace Fight 8: Wings of Theve is off to the collection’ greatest PC launch by a large margin. The sport got here out on October 2 and peaked at over 52,000 concurrent Steam gamers a day later, in accordance with SteamDB. That’s practically 4 occasions the 13,758 that Ace Fight 7: Skies Unknown managed in 2019, whereas Assault Horizon solely reached 3,795. It additionally apparently topped Steam’s international prime sellers chart. That is definitely not dangerous for a reasonably area of interest collection that Bandai Namco revived greater than seven years after the final mainline recreation.

Steam critiques, nonetheless, are rather less glowing. The sport sits at round 78% constructive, which places it within the “Largely Optimistic” bracket. Gamers appear to love the dogfights, the mission selection, the marketing campaign, and the soundtrack. Most complaints are about efficiency, with body charges decrease than folks anticipated, and opinions on multiplayer are blended. There was additionally some confusion across the pre-order bonus, Ace Fight Zero: The Belkan Battle, which wants Wings of Theve put in as a result of it is handled as DLC as a consequence of licensing restrictions. Bandai Namco hasn’t shared gross sales figures but, and Steam is just one of three platforms, so we do not understand how large the launch formally was. I feel a patch or two for the body charges would in all probability assist that evaluate rating.