Bandai Namco and Project Aces will release a new update to Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown on January 19, 2021. Titled the “2nd Anniversary Update,” it will add more emblems and aircraft skins. The latter includes an aircraft skin based on a former glitch in Ace Combat 7. [Thanks, 4Gamer!] A previous update in August 2020, which added US Armed Forces emblems and skins in Ace Combat 7, was noted to have a glitch where applying the Red Devils skin to F/A-18F Super Hornet would cause it to glow at several scenes. Although the glitch was fixed with a subsequent update, Project Aces decided to implement a re-enactment of the phenomenon on the X-02S Strike Wyvern, the fictional superplane available in the base game. The 2nd Anniversary update will also add the following aircraft skins from prior Ace Combat games:
- Air Combat‘s Phoenix skin for F-22A Raptor
- Ace Combat 2‘s Scarface skin for Su-37 Terminator
- Ace Combat 04‘s Mobius skin for F-4E Phantom II
- Ace Combat Zero‘s Crow skin for F-16C Fighting Falcon
- Ace Combat X‘s Gryphus skin for F-22A Raptor
- Ace Combat 6‘s Garuda skin for F-15E Strike Eagle
- Ace Combat Infinity‘s Ridgebacks skin for ASF-X Shinden II
- Ace Combat 3‘s UPEO skins for Typhoon and Su-37 Terminator