Milan Kestrel Seizes the Enemy’s Island Base in a Six-Hour Ace Combat 8 Session

NIJISANJI — Milan Kestrel, the Nijisanji streamer, took the enemy’s main base on Rocky Island in Ace Combat 8 on Saturday, closing the third stream of her playthrough after more than six hours.

The stream opened with small talk about new sofa cushions, a box of drinks and outlet covers that had arrived. Once the game started, she explained that she had been grinding in-game money offstage to afford better aircraft, and she reported that she already had the F-35C. She kept buying aircraft as the evening went on, and about four hours and 25 minutes in she unlocked another fighter she had said she wanted to fly.

“That’s how hard I worked at farming money.” — Milan Kestrel, while buying more aircraft

Early missions had her pick out three disguised ships from among civilian vessels and shoot down suicide drones launched toward an orbital elevator. About an hour and 24 minutes in, she cleared anti-air defenses ahead of a bomber carrying a large bunker-buster and the third of the enemy’s land battleships fell; the second went down near the orbital elevator at about two hours and 16 minutes. Around two hours and 55 minutes in, she urged viewers in the Kanto region to be careful, saying heavy rain and landslide warnings had been reported. A spacecraft was launched at about three hours and 21 minutes, and a strike on one of the enemy’s orbital weapons succeeded about 24 minutes later. Expo City was retaken at about four hours and 20 minutes.

The longest stretch was the assault on Rocky Island. The landing force took heavy losses when the enemy’s orbital weapon struck, and she needed several attempts, remarking afterward that it had taken quite a few tries. Her flight through the tunnel into the power plant, nicknamed the Turntable, came just before the mission was cleared at about five hours and eight minutes. She said the tunnel run was not strictly required but that she had wanted to do it. Chat, which included 13 Super Chats, congratulated her, and several of the paid messages were about the tunnel. In the final mission, a pilot named Kate of the allied Queen Squadron was shot down, and chat filled with messages for her.

With the enemy’s base on Rocky Island taken, the in-game briefing said the war was not over and another operation would follow. Closing the stream, Kestrel thanked viewers and said the enemy had been hit hard but the story was far from finished, inviting them to enjoy what comes next.