DLC for pre-orders?
 

I heard a comment in the live broadcast about 2 exclusive aircraft for those who pre-order from a company in Europe. Anyone know if this will be released for those of us in the U.S.?

I have a preorder from gamestop, so I know I get a free T-shirt. I'll be kinda mad if we don't get the aircraft over here...

Yeah the 2 aircraft are available to customers that preorder from a certain shop and in the UK. The planes will be available as DLC from day 1 because if you don't have them you will not be able to enter a server if the host does as happens with all other DLC on consoles. No buy, no play with that host.

I'd rather the T shirt unless they are going to take the piss with the DLC prices.

Here's a link to the site.

http://www.game.co.uk/Xbox360/Flight...Birds-of-Prey/

Let me make sure I'm 100% on this. If I were to preorder from here and get the two planes, can I not play with others who didn't? Or just when I want to host a game with those paticular planes?

Of course you can play with others, but yea probably not use those planes with others who dont have them, but they might be on disc already and that the download only UNLOCKS the planes.

Happens with other games who have their DLC in there updates already so you can still play with others who dont have it ;)

Thanks. Just wanted to be sure.:)

There are many games where you can't connect with people who don't have the DLC. Just depends on if the DLC is really downloaded or not.

Since the planes were held back before the game went gold they are probably on the disc already. Anton mentioned bringing out patches and DLC at the same time, so probably any aircraft would come in the patch and any new maps in the DLC itself.

False.

No console game includes DLC files in updates/patches.


If you do not have the correct and same files as the host you cannot enter their server. You would not be able to 'SEE' the aircraft if you did not have the models on your console. The ONLY game where you can enter a server without the relevant files is Forza 2 and instead of cars you see black boxes.

Your only hope is that they already exist on the disc, so then you will have the files and will be able to enter, but this means for you to fly them you will have to pay extra for content already on the disc, like EA's 108k unlock keys.

Anton really need to make clear what happens to those that don't pre-order from that particular shop in regard to how this is handled online. Is content on the disc being held back for more money, or will you have to buy the content to be able to enter servers with a host that does have it.

I think your on the PS3 so I'm not sure, but with the 360 yes that is the case. You can chose to enable/disable the DLC from the options menu so you could play with those without but then you wouldn't be able to use the content.

It works that way with every 360 game I have except Forza 2 car packs, it will still let you race them but they are just black boxes not the actual model.

But I'm going to assume it is handled like every other 360 game I have, if you don't have the content then no you cannot enter the hosts server unless they have disabled the content first.

Sorry, to resurrect a slightly old topic but figured better than creating a new one. I was hoping someone could just assure me that these two DLC aircraft you'd receive as a pre-order bonus from GAME will also be available as buyable DLC on both XBOX LIVE and the Playstation Network?

I still haven't decided between the 360 and PS3 versions and with some sites charging as low as approximately £27 for the game, I really don't want to have to pay a full £40 unless its the only way to get the 2 aircraft. I do recall the pre-order Ace Combat 6 bonus as those two aircraft never appeared as buyable DLC.