{"id":65068,"date":"2026-04-10T18:20:42","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T09:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=65068"},"modified":"2026-04-10T18:30:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T09:30:42","slug":"going-fast-will-feel-realer-than-ever-in-ace-combat-8-thanks-to-new-proprietary-cloud-engine-devs-detail-new-features-and-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/going-fast-will-feel-realer-than-ever-in-ace-combat-8-thanks-to-new-proprietary-cloud-engine-devs-detail-new-features-and-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"Going fast will feel realer than ever\u00a0in Ace Combat 8 thanks to\u00a0new\u00a0proprietary cloud engine. Devs detail new features and technology\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Bandai Namco Entertainment&nbsp;published&nbsp;a Developer Diary&nbsp;featuring&nbsp;<strong>Ace Combat 8: Wings of&nbsp;Theve\u2019<\/strong>s&nbsp;dev team&nbsp;on April 10. The behind-the-scenes video details&nbsp;some of the new features and technical details of the&nbsp;series\u2019 long-awaited next mainline entry.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"ACE COMBAT 8: WINGS OF THEVE | Developer Diary\" width=\"1160\" height=\"653\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/70-qgnDyMZs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Keiichi Yamaguchi,&nbsp;one of Ace Combat 8\u2019s art directors, the new&nbsp;3D&nbsp;flight shooter will bring a&nbsp;\u201cserious upgrade\u201d&nbsp;to fighter&nbsp;aircraft&nbsp;models. The&nbsp;models&nbsp;use 4k textures (previously 1k), and their&nbsp;polygon count&nbsp;is&nbsp;roughly six&nbsp;times&nbsp;higher&nbsp;compared to the&nbsp;previous&nbsp;installment. An abundance of weapons also awaits across land, sea, and air, and according to art director&nbsp;Masato Kanno,&nbsp;weapons are&nbsp;designed to be linked&nbsp;together&nbsp;rather than&nbsp;operate&nbsp;independently, which will be expressed both through the game and the story.&nbsp;This means&nbsp;you\u2019ll&nbsp;see things get transported by carrier and assembled at the destination, for example.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ace Combat 8 producer Manabu&nbsp;Shimomoto&nbsp;also expands a bit on the game\u2019s new cloud engine, which was briefly mentioned back when the game was initially announced&nbsp;in December last year. Replacing third-party middleware, the new&nbsp;proprietary&nbsp;engine&nbsp;called&nbsp;Cloudly&nbsp;has&nbsp;allowed the developers to create a dogfighting field with heavily layered clouds. This will, according to&nbsp;Shimomoto, play&nbsp;a big role&nbsp;in&nbsp;allowing players to&nbsp;actually feel&nbsp;the&nbsp;velocity&nbsp;(which is hard to tell if&nbsp;you\u2019re&nbsp;traversing an empty space)&nbsp;through&nbsp;feedback such as&nbsp;the sensation of \u201cpiercing the clouds.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1352\" height=\"756\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1352px) 100vw, 1352px\" src=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/20260410-65068-001.jpg\" alt=\"Ace Combat 8 Cloudly\" class=\"wp-image-65075\" srcset=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/20260410-65068-001.jpg 1352w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/20260410-65068-001-380x212.jpg 380w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/20260410-65068-001-768x429.jpg 768w\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1517\" height=\"844\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1517px) 100vw, 1517px\" src=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/20260410-65068-002.jpg\" alt=\"Ace Combat 8 Cloudly\" class=\"wp-image-65076\" srcset=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/20260410-65068-002.jpg 1517w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/20260410-65068-002-380x211.jpg 380w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/20260410-65068-002-768x427.jpg 768w\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Additionally, with the game being developed in Unreal Engine 5, use of Lumen (the engine\u2019s dynamic illumination and reflections system) will give Ace Combat 8 an even&nbsp;more photorealistic look,&nbsp;especially paired with the improved 3D models. Speaking of photorealism, the developers&nbsp;apparently took&nbsp;over 1,000 HDRI photos and 3D scans&nbsp;(per team)&nbsp;of real-life hangars, based on which they created the game\u2019s&nbsp;environments.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Aside from\u00a0the human drama told through its\u00a0singleplayer campaign\u00a0and a new training mode for practicing rules and moves, Ace Combat 8 will also come with the \u201cbiggest\u201d online mode in the series\u2019 history, as the developers describe it.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1352\" height=\"757\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1352px) 100vw, 1352px\" src=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/20260410-65068-003.jpg\" alt=\"Ace Combat 8 Cloudly\" class=\"wp-image-65078\" srcset=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/20260410-65068-003.jpg 1352w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/20260410-65068-003-380x213.jpg 380w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/20260410-65068-003-768x430.jpg 768w\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Ace Combat 8: Wings of\u00a0Theve<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>will launch in 2026 for PC (<a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/2288340\/ACE_COMBAT_8_WINGS_OF_THEVE\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Steam<\/a>), PS5 and Xbox Series X\u2758S.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Related:&nbsp;<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/ace-combat-8-wings-of-theve-brings-new-in-house-cloud-engine-a-new-take-on-cinematic-scenes-and-10000-square-kilometer-map\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve brings new in-house cloud engine, a new take on cinematic scenes and&nbsp;10,000 square kilometer&nbsp;map<\/strong><\/a><strong><\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bandai Namco Entertainment&#8217;s new Ace Combat 8 Developer Diary details new features and technology used in the upcoming new installment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":65074,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[64,3],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-65068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-development","category-news","tag-japan-related-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Going fast will feel realer than ever\u00a0in Ace Combat 8 thanks to\u00a0new\u00a0proprietary cloud engine. 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