An Ace Combat alternative with real people in it

Ace Combat gives you the fantasy of the arcade dogfight against a script. MCS gives you the same fantasy against a person, for free, tonight.

Price: Free
Opponents: Real pilots, up to 24 a lobby
Flight model: Arcade, with flares, a radar and a lock tone
Roster: 93 machines, all unlocked
Needs: GTA V, FiveM and a Discord account

What you get on MCS

The airframes Ace Combat made famous, flyable now: F-22A, F-15, F-14, Su-57, Su-27 and Su-35, Typhoon, Rafale, Gripen, F-35.
Arcade handling with the tools that make a dogfight readable: radar, lock tone, flares, a kill feed and a scoreboard.
A 1v1 dogfight arena and ranked matches from 1v1 to squads, first to ten kills, so every fight has a result.
Helicopters and armour when you want a different fight, and two evening flight windows being set up so that a full lobby has an hour you can plan around.

What you should know first

There is no campaign, no story and no cutscene. Every fight is against people, and people are less forgiving than a script.
It runs inside GTA V through FiveM. You need GTA V on a Windows PC; there is no console version.
The flight model is GTA physics tuned for combat. It reads like an arcade sim; it is not a copy of one.
The first load takes three to five minutes. After that the server puts you in the air within a minute.

//Sidebyside

Aspect	MCS	Ace Combat
Opponents	Real players, matchmade into lobbies of up to 24.	AI in the campaign, a small online mode on the side.
Progression	Everything unlocked. Ranks and leaderboards only.	Aircraft, parts and skins unlocked through the campaign.
Flight model	Arcade on GTA physics, with radar, lock tone and flares.	Arcade with a signature handling model and cinematic missions.
Story	None. The server has a history, the fights do not.	A full campaign with a cast, a plot and a soundtrack.
Cost	Free. Cosmetics and queue priority in the store.	A full price release, plus paid extras.

Which one, then

Play Ace Combat for the campaign, the music and a story to fly through. Come to MCS when the campaign is done and you want the merge against someone who fights back.

Try it tonight

Free, no application, no launcher beyond FiveM itself. The first load takes a few minutes, the first fight takes one.

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Ace Combat is a trademark of Bandai Namco Entertainment. MCS is an independent FiveM server with no connection to it, and the comparison above is our own honest reading.

What you get on MCS

The airframes Ace Combat made famous, flyable now: F-22A, F-15, F-14, Su-57, Su-27 and Su-35, Typhoon, Rafale, Gripen, F-35.

Arcade handling with the tools that make a dogfight readable: radar, lock tone, flares, a kill feed and a scoreboard.

A 1v1 dogfight arena and ranked matches from 1v1 to squads, first to ten kills, so every fight has a result.

Helicopters and armour when you want a different fight, and two evening flight windows being set up so that a full lobby has an hour you can plan around.

What you should know first

There is no campaign, no story and no cutscene. Every fight is against people, and people are less forgiving than a script.

It runs inside GTA V through FiveM. You need GTA V on a Windows PC; there is no console version.

The flight model is GTA physics tuned for combat. It reads like an arcade sim; it is not a copy of one.

The first load takes three to five minutes. After that the server puts you in the air within a minute.