History YMMV / AceCombat7SkiesUnknown

** Mission 9 - "Faceless Soldier", in the first half of the mission you must fly below the clouds in the narrow canyon. Stay above it for too long, and you'll get shot down by invisible SAM sites that launch high speed projectiles that can't be dodged or spoofed. It doesn't help that the mission targets you're required to destroy are often located above the clouds, forcing you to fly up in order to strike and hurry back down, where you could crash into the ground because you never know what's waiting below the clouds. The real kicker is that the topographic map in the radar can be deceptive, a player might be forced into a cul-de-sac valley, try to quickly rise over the mountains at the end to dive into the clouds on the other side, only to find that there ''is no cloud cover'' on the opposite side [[TrialAndErrorGameplay and no time to turn back]]. Fortunately, the second half of the mission is [[MomentOfAwesome a glorious turn around]].

** Mission 9 - "Faceless Soldier", you must fly below the clouds in the narrow canyon. Stay above it for too long, and you'll get shot down by invisible SAM sites. It doesn't help that the mission targets you're required to destroy are often located above the clouds, forcing you to fly up in order to strike and hurry back down, where you could crash into the ground because you never know what's waiting below the clouds.

** Mission 7 - "First Contact", you're destroying enemy SAM and radar sites in a twisted maze of canyons under extreme weather conditions, which only got worse in the latter part of the mission, where you're fighting the fast UCAVs and enemy aces in a lightning storm with barely any visibility.

* ThatOneLevel: Mission 6 - "Long Day". It's an annihilation mission, meaning that players must cause enough damage to enemies to exceed a certain score threshold within a time limit for the mission to be successful. The actual opposition in that mission isn't terribly challenging, but the threshold for points is high and the time is low, and causing enough damage to pass that threshold using only the options available to a player early in the story is quite difficult, especially if they are playing through on Hard difficulty. What's more, afterwards, there's another assignment to destroy Erusean fuel trucks, which are fleeing under the cover of an absolutely brutal sandstorm that can send your plane into the ground and completely hides the trucks from radar unless there's a gap in the storm or you get within about one kilometer/half a mile or so of them, meaning you're basically flying blind while feeling around for them.

* GoddamnBats: [[AttackDrone UAVs]]. Frustrating agile and never alone, it can be a right pain to get a lock on one while three more are tailing you. Weapons like Burst Missiles are available just to make dealing with them easier.

* ThatOneLevel: Mission 6 - "Long Day". It's an annihilation mission, meaning that players must cause enough damage to enemies to exceed a certain score threshold within a time limit for the mission to be successful. The actual opposition in that mission isn't terribly challenging, but the threshold for points is high and the time is low, and causing enough damage to pass that threshold using only the options available to a player early in the story is quite difficult, especially if they are playing through on Hard difficulty.
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: [[spoiler: While Avril Mead does play a large role in the story and has her own character arc, she doesn’t actually get to become a pilot and flies alongside Trigger. Despite the game establishing her as having a passion for the sky and shows that she has potential as a pilot, she’s instead be relegated to a conscripted mechanic and a frontline soldier. She even lampshades in a cutscene by complaining that pilots like her are instead being put into ground soldier roles.]]

* ThatOneAchivement: One of the medals in the game requires you to do a NoDamageRun through the ''entire campaign''. Doesn't help that the AA fires are more accurate this time around so it's more likely that they will hit you when you try to destroy them.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: [[spoiler: While Avril Mead does play a large role in the story and has her own character arc, she doesn’t actually get to become a pilot and flies alongside Trigger. Despite the game estrablishong her as having passion for the sky and shows that she has a potential as a pilot, she’s instead be relegated to a conscripted mechanic and a frontline soldier. She even lampshades in a cutscene by complaining that pilots like her are instead being put into ground soldier roles.]]

* ThatOneLevel: Mission 6 - "Long Day". It's an annihilation mission, meaning that players much cause enough damage to enemies to exceed a certain score threshold within a time limit for the mission to be successful. The actual opposition in that mission isn't terribly challenging, but the threshold for points is high and the time is low, and causing enough damage to pass that threshold using only the options available to a player early in the story is quite difficult, especially if they are playing through on Hard difficulty.

** Anyone who has been up to date with the game's plot will point out that someone of Belkan background probably manipulated Osean and Erusean leaders to go to war.

* GoddaamnBats: UAVs. Frustrating agile and never alone, it can be a right pain to get a lock on one while three more are tailing you. Weapons like Burst Missiles are available just to make dealing with them easier.

** Also, the game's title sometimes reffered to as "Ace Combat 7: Date Unknown", as no official release date has been announced for the past ''two years''.
** Fans have taken a liking to juxtaposing Mihaly's rethorical "Yet, what is a nation?" with [[VideoGame/AceCombatZeroTheBelkanWar Detlef "Red Swallow" Fleisher]]'s description of what consitutes a country.

** The repeated use of the phrase "[[ArcWords Can you hear me?]]" from the Gamescom 2018 trailer has been seen as this game's equivalent to "[[AceCombat6FiresOfLiberation Go Dance with the Angels]]"

** It's also common to make macros with screenshots of Rosa Cosette D'Elise, especially one that presents her as prim and proper at the start of the Osea-Erusea conflict, then looking disheveled while the screencap claims it's been three days into the war, even though we don't have a clear timeline of the events pre-release.

* MemeticMutation: Anyone who has been up to date with the game's plot will point out that someone of Belkan background probably manipulated Osean and Erusean leaders to go to war.

* CounterpartComparison: Some fans have compared this to Film/SuicideSquad2016 since the Osean military is using convicts to fly in squadrons that are deemed to be expendable in case things go wrong for them.

* CounterpartComparison: Some fans have compared this to Suicide Squad since the Osean military is using convicts to fly in squadrons that are deemed to be expendable in case things go wrong for them.