That's Supermaneuver, the guy is the main dev so he was doing that just to virtue signal and own the chuds.
Which is a shame because I really like AC3 and its sci-fi aesthetic.
Was also looking forward to Supermaneuver, but can't support faggots of that caliber. All I want to do is zoom around in a plane and blow stuff up, plane games don't need Pride nonsense.
Anyways, people like that and Nguyen et al are why PW is the only thing that will ever come close to Ace Combat - you have to have to be pretty chuddy in order to get the storyline to be compelling in one of these games. At least until AI gets cheap enough that someone can vibe code the thing and do it from their basement.