Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve opened early access today for deluxe and premium edition buyers, a head start before its October 2 release. Early players are praising the game’s use of diegetic music and describing brutally intense missions, with one player failing mission 4 multiple times before finally earning an S rank. The rollout also brought surprises and logistics chatter: some early orders included Ace Combat Zero as a preorder bonus, others needed GPU driver updates or a Proton Hotfix to run the game on Linux, and one player pointed out the presence of a transgender character in the cast.
