High-G Turns are still available by pushing triggers together, as well as Autopilot if both shoulder buttons are depressed. It prohibits one from doing full rolls but this is to gain the stability needed to get the best of the new ‘Close Range Assault System’. On the other side, the new 'Optimum' control scheme -the default mode and the one used in all the trailers released so far- is NOT the equivalent of the usual 'beginner/novice' control style of the series. As expected, it gives full control of the aircraft, with the left stick making it roll (not turn) when you push right or left. The 'Original' control setting is similar to the controls known as 'expert controls' in the previous Ace Combat games. The game provides players with two control schemes, 'Original' and 'Optimum'. However, this is only at scripted points in the campaign. Scenery damage will be often combined with Close Range Assault to provide a cinematic feel to gameplay-for example, stray fire in a pursuit will hit nearby buildings, forcing the player to evade the debris while remaining in pursuit. As mentioned before, buildings and other structures are now subject to combat damage and will deform in real time.

This engine allows for real-time deformation: as an example, sustained gunfire on an enemy fighter will rip off its tail, while more severe damage will either tear off the wings or (in more extreme cases) even completely disintegrate the airframe as a whole, spilling the aircraft's oil across the sky and forcefully ejecting the pilot from the cockpit. The game runs on a revamped game engine allowing for destruction on a scale never seen before in Ace Combat, and indeed in a flight simulator.

For the first time in the series, the player will alternate between piloting fighter jets, helicopters and bombers as the story progresses for example, some missions will have the player being the door gunner of an MH-60 Blackhawk, while others put them in the role of a B-2A Spirit stealth bomber. Assault Horizon boasts several radical changes to the standard Ace Combat formula.

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