Just started the game. Does powercreep exist in this game or is it like Souls where I can use my starting equipment until the end? So far, my beginner laser blade hasn't failed me.
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Just started the game. Does powercreep exist in this game or is it like Souls where I can use my starting equipment until the end? So far, my beginner laser blade hasn't failed me.
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starting build can definitely clear the game. Only thing you really need to upgrade is your FCS, booster, and generator.
Honestly, the booster is usable for its low EN load and it’s great efficiency. The engine and FCS are indeed shite tho.
The laser sword stays good forever, the frame is pretty bad and the gun is total dogshit.
You can probably clear the whole game with it but some bosses will be painful.
My mech was all from the first chapter, except for DOUBLE TROUBLE.
Beat all endings, and S-ranked all missions with the build okay I did not S-rank that one fricking mission with that build and I did go full wheelchair gatling songbird to complete it but that mission can frick off
Was it HOLD THE LINE mission?
>WE ARE CORAL W-ACK
I'm not familiar with what mission you're referring to, but this anon
is spot on.
The fricking wheelies I could deal with but the wheelies AND the other frickos was simply too much for me
Yep thats the mission I was refering come on you must have hear it thats the full stupid line, aslo missiles made the thing easy combo with a good melee and something to deal damage.
Oh yeah they call it out in the beginning I guess? In the end I only played the mission 4 times total, and it was a while ago.
Now the fricking stealth bot mission that fricker was a real hassle to S-rank. A bit sad the more boring missions were the most difficult to S-rank, since all bosses felt like they just had a time requirement and the chainsaw deals frickcrazy damage it felt a bit too lenient.
>complaining about having to use the burst smgs and chainsaw
>stealth bot
You mean the swinbourne assassination or the junkbot escape mission? The assassination mission you can literally just assault boost across the map directly toward the objective and you'll be out of sight of any alerted MTs by the time it matters.
Nooo, the one where you go into some BAWS facility (iirc) and it turns out allmind had a bunch of stealth bots laying in ambush.
There's an alternate version of the mission where you fight your way out, I think that one (the alt) is called "Stop the routine inspection" or something like that
Ah, yeah that one can be tight. Much easier if you remember that one hidden guy just past the first one you encounter. Still you need to be super frugal with ammo costs.
Could be the ammo cost yeah, I don't remember the cost of the burst smgs but maybe they were high.
Just feels weird to have some missions be super tight on the S-rank requirement but things like Eliminate Michigan which I expected to be an all-night grind just came free (though I guess I had a lot of practice from my og playthrough for that one).
I actually just did that one for S-rank, double flamethrowers utterly trivializes the MT swarms, cleanup with the earshots. Was actually pretty fun.
Damn that looks sick as frick.
My og playthrough I think I used the duckettes (or whatever the first handguns you get are called), and they have about a sneeze's worth of ammo so my learned strategy for the mission is full-on Dark Messiah.
How far along are you on S-ranks?
Just 5 more to go for me. Both instances of Reach the Coral Convergence, then a few others that shouldn't be much of a problem in comparison. Could do them all in an evening, but I'm pacing myself out a bit. Not really in any rush to finish. I usually run it like this. Earshots are too much fun now with the lowered reload.
Those pistols got a huge ammo buff in the last patch, they're up to 190 rounds from the original 90.
Holy fricking moly maybe cowboys are back on the menu boys, god bless anon
I think Reach the Coral is exclusively time-based, so should be a good time yeah.
Really wish there was a way to hold an assault rifle with two hands, I think they look really cool but it just looks too goofy for me.
The gigantic grenade launchers on the back my brain has no qualms with, but for some reason the assault rifles just irk me.
Seeing lightweights holding chainguns in pvp is lulzy.
>see gigaton mechs doing somersaults
>my mind sleeps
>weird center of mass spotted
>monkey brain goes full alert mode
I rage at Lance spammers because my mind says their mech's arm should be breaking with that little connection to the lance.
I think the lance is too hilarious to be mad at, it's basically a fricking Energia rocket strapped to the arm and it looks like it will take you to space
I always see alba builds using it and they look like they are being carried across the map by it. Real yeehaw shit.
Nah brother I'm a shit brick house
It looks great on me
I didn't even need to do that I just changed the colors on the headpart itself and covered his forehead with a singular white decal
Meant for
Now I'm sad the rocket isn't even bigger
WH-WHAT IS THAT THING??!
missiles make that mission a joke
by laser blade are you referring to the green sword (pulse saber) or the actual laser blade? (giant blue energy sword)
Well, both are good anyway. It's the gun that sucks.
The beginners guide on Steam and Bandai Namco website, not to mention the tradition of the series, tells you to try a variety of builds. Don't be a homosexual and ignore half the gameplay.
anon, youre trying to convince the normalgays
I had a friend who would unironically play souls games with only the basic knight class and refused to use any other set of armor or weapon available.
its moronic but there isnt any convincing them
Starting equipment for souls classes is close enough to BiS for that role/playstyle its not really a big deal.
This isn't a souls game. The starter AC is pretty trash.
>best in slot
Go back to your mmo shitfest
You can be best in my slot
Getting balls deep in Anon's slot
the start AC is like the third worst AC in the entire game. You can clear the game with it, but it will be hard. Very hard. You'll have to rely almost entirely on melee. The starter gun isn't bad and the starter melee is great, but the rest of the AC is absolute shit. None of the parts are decent or remotely usable. The entire body, the missile launcher, the generator, the booster, and the fcs are all trash.
The starting booster has some niche uses so it's not entirely useless.
The starting gen also has the fastest recharge iirc.
>the start AC is like the third worst AC in the entire game
only because you have to face down absurdities like ayre, the starter AC in 6 is actually pretty solid outside of the lack of a left back weapon, which is moronic.
the generator and FCS are easy upgrades, but the rest is fine. I'd just add another of the same rifle, put the sword on the back and you're good to go, otherwise. Starter AC is a perfectly fine lightweight build.
Because the starting gear tends to be the only unique gear that belongs to you. Wearing anything dropped by enemies or picked up by known npcs feels like you're cosplaying as someone else.
The Vagabond armor in elden ring for example is the best because it fits who you are
You can still be a vagabond in a set of armor you took from another knight you killed. You even have the excuse that it's not falling apart like your old armor is.
I dunno sounds like your friend is the smarter one, wearing starter gear in a Souls game is kino.
>refused to use any other set of armor or weapon available.
Because you have to upgrade them you moron, no shit someone is going to stick with the setup they made strong.
Oh I'm doing that. I'm just wondering if certain parts or weapons become outclassed by other weapons due to filling similar roles or niches.
Some weapons kind of have pretty much superior alternatives, like the starting TURNER rifle being basically outclassed by the later SCUDDER, but generally weapons are balanced out in some way by being lighter, using less EN, etc.
Yes/No.
Most parts are side grades to other comparable weapons with varying reload time or ammo count or something to make it different but not strictly better than another option.
Not all parts are created equally though and late game parts and weapons will have higher overall stats so the normalized stats does have a few tiers of quality.
A weapon will have a 6 missile launcher and a 10 missile launcher. 10 missile isn't strictly better because reload time is longer and that matters. Late game you'll get other missile launchers that do more damage or fire more missiles or reloads just as fast as the small launchers but has a strange flight path. It will be better than the basic stuff.
Post patch the starter missiles became high tier. They have a very small reload time while still doing good damage and stagger.
They actually went and made the fricking final boss a stupid gimmick fight you need one specific build to beat
Trying too hard.
And which specific build is that, precisely?
Whatever can spam aoe staggers i guess. Im going to keep trying with my regular build before just going wheelchair zimmbird since that is the From approved build it seems
I'm afraid to say it anon but you're fricking moronic, I cleared the last mission with lancer+ashmead the literal definition of single target only. Git gud.
I beat it with scrap body and double rifles shitter
I beat every boss with missile spam and leg kicks you’re just bad
No, in fact it feels like an attempt that different phases had different types of builds be more useful for each phase. It just sucks that the last phase all you need was the thing that steam rolled you through the entire game already.
Beat it with linear rifles and the pilebunker.
God I fricking love that weapon, if only they let me put 3 more pilebunkers on my AC.
>dual pilebunker arm weapons
Let me fire them all simultaneously with a tetrapod build so I can be a true spider.
>tetrapod
>bunks on each foot
I was missing some of the sharp tetrapod legs from previous games, so it'd work out.
>Pile bunker reverse joint kicks
was it a tank build? because that worked for me
Source is EDRG-014 Yankee Sister AIKA for the archives
This skinny piece of shit that flutters in the wind like a plastic bag has S-ranked every boss in the game.
I beat it with an entire bubble arsenal.
Skill issue
I killed it with a laser dagger and vientos. It's not even the hardest boss
>~~*they*~~ ban decals and mechs
Great to see your suffering.
Have you no fear!
TALL WHITE IS STILL HERE
probably because you haven't shared it
Oh lol why would you do that?
You must keep your dark homietry hidden
based
>4 mana 2/2
>trash ability that only targets black and not non-white
garbage wouldnt even draft
I haven't had a reason to share this with anyone until now, so here you go. I didn't look, but I don't think that I even finished it.
just worse in every way
You even used decals to get the eyes to be holes. 10/10
There is no powercreep. Everything is a side grade with trade offs between weight and EN load but the game also wants you to use different strategies to progress which means changing gear when you get stuck.
No there are clear upgrades. Reshift versions of things come to mind.
Redshift has EN load and higher direct hit damage than plasma weapons but a way lower damage radius, so no, you're wrong. Plasma weapons also get up to a 1.5x damage and charge time modifier from a generator with good energy weapon spec that coral weapons can't take advantage of. In the case of redshift vs moonlight, moonlight gets higher damage charge attacks while redshift gets higher damage regular attacks. Even end game coral shit like the oscillator is literally just a side grade of the basic b***h starter pulse blade. Only the coral shield could be considered much better than other shield options, but even in that case it has like 800 EN load, which is no small ask.
There really can't be powercreep now that the latest balance patch basically kneecapped the most broken elements and brought hope to dozens of other build attributes. There's a lot of things people declare as broken, but when the list is literally dozens of weapons, almost every single combination of body parts and FCS, and in all weight classes, it's about at the point where everything should be considered horizontal upgrades.
The power creep isn't in numbers. Later weapons or AC parts are just better to use in practice than the starter stuff from early game.
If you are using the Loader 4 AC parts and thinking all other parts are just side grades of that frame you are insane.
The entire game can be S-ranked easily with parts from the first two chapters.
If you're only willing to argue the absolute beginner stuff then sure, there will be upgrades more than sidegrades, but considering the game as a whole you don't really get stronger past like 15% through the game.
That is because the game isn't hard. The other AC parts are all generally superior to the Loader 4 mech.
Still strictly better with the variations. The redshift moonlight has literally the same specs but does more damage. The variance in the stats is irrelevant, the redshift versions are better.
Same reason the Zimmermans were so great before patches. The weight was supposed to be the balance but the later AC legs can just hold more than the starter stuff so the added weight never matters.
>The redshift moonlight has literally the same specs but does more damage
No. It does more damage if you're not charging it. It does less otherwise.
redshift vs moonlight (w/ BASHO)
uncharged:
1079 vs 817
charged:
2386 vs 2671
This is a sidegrade.
No it isn't. It is always going to be superior running the redshift.
You have to make justifications to run the normal one and they are all inferior to just running the better weapon.
The ALLMIND missile launcher that shoots to the side and leaves a trail is superior to most missiles solely because the reload time is dummy short.
All the stats in the world won't change some weapons being better in action that others for reasons.
The game isn't very hard. It is just fast. Once you get used to the speed it isn't hard in the slightest. The variety is for the pvp meta. When you are going against a player all the sidegrade considerations make sense because they do amount to manifest edges you can see when playing.
Against the AI in the campaign you don't get to your top skill demands outside of prepatch Balteus. And he is ironically before you get any real weapon options besides the basics.
>You have to make justifications to run the normal one
No you don't. You pick which one you want based on whether you find yourself using charge attacks more or regular attacks more.
Redshift ignores damage negations.
Idk dude when I went through the game I was disappointed I didn't have any reason to switch my shit up - I'd unlock something, look at it, and realise that it's worse for my build than what I already had.
But maybe I'm wrong - what parts would you use for a lightweight build with the chainsaw as its main focus?
Basho arms, ALBA parts otherwise maybe, no other weapons. Chainsaw and FISTS.
Alba parts are heavy and ugly and don't do a lot for speed/damage.
Chainsaw and Basho are unlocked during chapter 2 (first 15% of the game).
Yeah I agree that the game is easy and that parts are just a sandbox to tailor the experience to the player's wishes. Shit's cool.
But your argument is that as the game progresses you get strictly better parts, straight upgrades.
So what are the straight upgrades that a build focused on melee damage and quick boost speed will get later in the game that isn't there in the first 2 chapters? To me it all looked like downgrades and sometimes sidegrades (frick coral generators, I'm not waiting that long to start recharging).
Chainsaw is chapter 3.
Oh damn you're right!
First 20% of the game then.
Do you really think they're clearly superior over the other generators? Despite them being balanced around running out of juice completely for a while waiting for that (admittedly massive) recharge?
About 50%-ish through the game actually. From the Eliminate "Honest" Brute mission, which is one of the last missions in Chapter 3.
By your calculations, when do we get the coral missile launcher? 280% through the game?
Oh, if you're counting for all three playthroughs then 15-20% is roughly correct I would say. Of course in that range you basically unlock 90% of parts and weapons anyway.
It was a pretty funny switcheroo, right?
Fr though I genuinely think it makes sense to look at it this way, if we're comparing shit like the redshift moonlight to earlier weapons.
And even if we're not, I think getting my endgame bis weapon within the first 50% (which arguably could be a sidegrade to the pilebunker, but it honestly is just better) of the game is absolutely reasonable and not an indication of powercreep.
>Play with agency and not like a moron
Stopped reading, alerted the police, and told on you to the teacher.
Coral missiles fricking rule yeah, enemy gets hit? Win. Enemy dodges? Get fricked by the lil shits, also a win.
I haven't tried pvp much so you might just straight up be correct, and even though I agree with your idea about certain parts can help you form better habits, I also wonder if the same principle applied to dark souls would mean that the drake sword is a downgrade - and again I think I would agree with that too, but I think it would be very hard to quantify the power in power creep if we put so much weight on the skill of the player.
Also if I ever do pvp it would be with a light lil shitter so coral generators for me are still a sidegrade (in aesthetics)
I haven't used coral generators much, but don't they also change how your assault armor behaves? Like makes it cause more damage or something?
ALLMIND sex
Whoa
They have their place and when you get into real combat (PVP) they have a ton of utility. The way you end up playing is conducive with good play, not bad play.
The actual downtime on the generator isn't bad in actual gameplay. If you are getting shot up when it's down in your hypothetical you were going to be getting shot up with some other generator.
Play with agency and not like a moron and the coral generators are amazing. I only like the heavy one though I wouldn't run the light one on a lightweight. On a middle weight and above I'm almost always going to be putting the heavy coral generator on unless I'm maxing energy damage and using the 128 buff spec generator.
I thought the coral missiles would be shit when testing them in the test mode. They are very slow and look like anyone would dodge them. Turns out them being slow is a benefit when charged and it wouldn't be good if the missile shot fast. You have to test out the parts to see how they actually play in reality, trust me the coral generators let you do some cool stuff.
> (frick coral generators, I'm not waiting that long to start recharging)
You blew your cover in the end there shitposter. No need to have anymore to do with you.
ALULA, P066SPD, BUERZEL and NGI-001 are the best thrusters in the game. The former two in particular for light/mid weight builds. Dunno when they unlock though.
>(frick coral generators, I'm not waiting that long to start recharging).
You're not supposed to let them recharge. You're supposed to exhaust your energy and make use of the insane post-recovery EN supply.
>Chainsaw
BASHO arms and you will practically 1 shot anything with the charge attack, but landing it is a b***h and whiffing means being stuck in place for an eternity. Nebulas just got nerfed into the ground, but I'd imagine they're still good just for topping off an enemy's stagger gauge since they can't escape the radius in time and you can freely move about and pre-charge the chainsaw as they're about to get staggered for a guaranteed charge attack. Nebulas radius is so insane that you won't lose out from having shit tracking on your arms. Also, BASHO and double trouble are so low EN cost that you can get away with using VE-20B for nebulas so everything here is very complimentary. I made pic related around this synergy but it's more of a mid weight. Little gem is there because nebulas alone aren't good enough for staggering anymore.
ALULA is unlocked by the training missions.
NGI-001 from loghunt pretty late.
The others I have no idea when they unlock.
NGI-001 is the only one with higher QB, but they also come with the downside of more consumption and less overall thrust (normal + melee).
To me, that does not seem like a straight upgrade, but a sidegrade.
>You're not supposed to let them recharge. You're supposed to exhaust your energy and make use of the insane post-recovery EN supply.
Yes, but I still need to wait for the recharge time for this to kick in. Seems more like a sidegrade (trade downtime for burst) than an upgrade.
Basho arms are unlocked during chapter 2.
You might think I'm being very autistic about this upgrade vs sidegrade distinction, and you'd be correct. However, you also jumped into an autistic argument about sidegrades vs upgrades.
I wasn't the same anon you were arguing with. I was just chiming in. I was the one that originally stated everything is a sidegrade
That's nice but now you've triggered my autistic rage and I will embarrass you and your poor reading comprehension for all future
Don't do it anon, you'll fall over that autistic bridge and never make it out of that autistic hole
You imbecille! I am the master of the autistic pit, I'd never trip an-G-ACK
>Fromsoft difficulty = enemies reading your inputs and dodging
>Multiple enemies with shields*
>frogposter
>worthless dogshit opinion
back to your discord looney troon
>NOOOO YOU CRITICIZE THIS GAME NOOOOOO
Who let the pet troon out of his discord cage?
>Snail can already do the "I am Arquebus" rant if he gets damaged in the Ice Worm fight.
Huh...
I want an Arqueboy plushie
The starter AC is pretty bad. However, 1.03.1 buffed the legs and they’re actually pretty good for energy efficiency builds, they’re reasonably fast and have alright defenses. The rest of the frame is terrible and should pretty much never be used. I see people using the arms for the aesthetics and feel bad for them. The starting weapons are pretty bad too, but the pulse blade is genuinely one of the best parts in the game and will carry you through the entire game if you build for it. As for early game shop parts, nearly everything you get in the first few chapters is perfectly viable.
>I see people using the arms for the aesthetics and feel bad for them.
Yeah they're rough
The 4-missile is actually a good part as well, it has a very low cooldown.
Once you git gud you can generally use most things unless you're trying to make a shitty build. I haven't 100% the game yet, but I've only run into 1 mission I've been forced to change builds for and it's in NG++
Armored Corn
Armored Coral
> Lightest possible parts in all body slots + generator
> max boost speed thruster
> lance is the only weapon
Yehaw time lads
(I beat ibis with a lance + pilebunker only heavy boy so this should be good)
>enemy is 11 degrees below you when you let go off your charge
>zoom all the way back to grid 86 without passing go
What's are some good Gundam Knight weapons?
I'm thinking
>Shield
>Laser Lance
>Nebula/KRSV
>Grenade cannon
Thoughts? Ideas? Critiques?
This is my Gundam Build, or 'Mobile Core', if you will. It's not inspired by any Gundam directly, just the general colors and guns. It has a grenade cannon, machine guns and a pulse blade.
neat.
trying to build around the KSRV is a fricking pain.
I swear if they'd reduce they weight just a bit and increase the ammo pool it would be in a much more agreeable state for builds
It goes pretty well on a dom leg build you won't have problems with the weight.
You can use your starting equipment but it's heavily recommended that you swao out the generator and FCS at very least
You starter gun sucks, but you get much better guns for free
The booster is ok but there's much better stuff available
You might want to get vertical missiles because they ignore shields.
the starting engine and fcs and booster are all pretty shit, but the rest can stick around. The pulse blade is especially good, with its super high direct hit mod.
The game has been beaten by people with no weapons just punching.
Run earshots and sweet sixteens.
To be fair though punching is moronicly strong against enemies that can be staggered since you can just stunlock them until you overheat.
What's everyone's favorites? This got to be the AC game I got the most invested in characters. List would be too long involving everyone so among my favorites it be something like
Walter > Snail > Carla > Michigan > Ayre
Iguazu and Rusty fighting for the last spot, I usually really like characters like Rusty, but he's kinda a meme, quite literally jobs in the route we "side" with him, and in fires of Raven route, he's a fast enemy, but you get infinite boost against him, making him a joke anyway, nevermind that Ayre and Iguazu gets mechs that are lightning fast so he isn't even that fast in comparison.
I think Michigan could've been my favorite if we got more of him too, wish we had atleast one route Balam would overtake Arquebus. I really like Snail's attitude though, a piece of shit to the end.
The cast is big enough and interconnected that I see it like eureka seven. Michigan, Iguazu and Rusty steal the show and are the backbone.
Turns it red.
Is that it? Heard someone claim that it made it do more damage. Oh well.
I don't think it does more but I do think redshifted stuff goes through shields or something.
I notice it kills opponents that try to shield before dying more when I'm coraled up.
Might be some heavy confirmation bias though I've done no actual testing.
all assault armors go right through shields
Could it be that assault armor with a coral generator equipped deals coral damage, which so far as I know ignores your defensive stats? Maybe that makes it seemingly do more damage? I dunno. I never tested.
Yes it does coral damage which is just flat and ignores defenses
I ended up really liking snail on account of just how smarmily the VA was able to deliver his lines.
>one... last... post...
>AIIIIIEEEEeeeEEEEEEEEEEEEE
I kind of get the feeling that guy was quite enjoying himself while recording. Like just how much of a smarmy smug british-officer-pacifying-the-colonials voice could he get away with. It's perfect.
the whole cast nailed it but snail really stood out because like you said, it's like he really enjoyed it.
They really needed to show Rusty as being more formidable than they did, at least they could have made his fight with you at the end of Fires be harder than it was. Him dying off-screen is also kinda lame.
They really should buff those top tier AC fights like Rusty, Freud and Walter. Maybe they shouldn't be able to be staggered at all so you can't just nuke them.
Yeah, in fires it just felt sad.
>shows up again in a different AC
>plays his fricking theme song
>can just boost away from him whenever he starts swinging his tricky blade
like come on, man. I started pitying him and slowly taking his hp away just to read the entire dialogue.
for me it's Michigan>Carla>Allmind and then the rest are mostly pretty even.
Snail > Rusty/Iguazu > Chatty > Carla > Pater
Paters Rusty impression kills me every time
Walter > "Chatty" > Carla > Ayre > Michigan = Pater > Rusty with honorable mention to Snail being a gargantuan piece of shit. Red is good too, shame how he goes out
Full-auto laser rifle when
Pilebunker but Sword or Axe when
Chaingun(mini-gatlinggun)when
Magnetic weaponry(Full Pull on ACS overload/partial pull on non-overloaded ACS Cores) to pull some enemy AC into your PB when
THIS IS G1 MICHIGAN HERE
OUR ASSOCIATES AT 大风 HAVE ENTRUSTED US WITH A MISSION
I got deep into this series after this game and my friend who played FA and VD is sending me music daily from the previous games. I listen to this shit every day now. Frick dude, if only I still had PS3 and my shitty potato could emulate any one of the previous games, I'd play this entire series in a week.
Regardless, post AC songs. Now.
Buy Dafeng weapons
Use Dafeng generators
Best in the market
Stout tree, slender branches
BAWS sells better products
Armored Core
3D Mecha Romance Simulator
Too much actual discussion here, posting pics
That Hyaku Shiki is baller as frick anon.
Also. I HATE THE PCA I HATE THE PCA I HATE THE PCA
I would take pics but I really don't feel like turning off hdr.
You gotta have screenshots bro
DIE b***h, GO HIDE BEHIND YOUR DRONES NOW homosexual. BET YOU TOUGHT YOU WERE HOT SHIT WHILE GANGIN UP ON TIRED CARLA AND WALTER
I'm sorry, anon. Please stop yelling at me.
Hey, better him do it than you have to finish the job yourself, not like Walter was gonna be happy with you siding with not just an AI hellbent on instrumentality but doing it to be together with a C-wave or whatever the frick Allmind calls Ayre, just a reminder she's not a cute white haired anime girl.
Imagine what kind of a slack-jawed, drooling dumbass 621 would have to be to actually listen to an obviously malicious AI entity as well as a random voice, who admits to being good at manipulation, in his head over actual human beings?
I dont know, Walter wouldnt have spent half the fight hiding behing nigglets and C-Weapons. At worst it would be Carla and him.
Yeah, but you would have the 12 Vesper clones to help you out.
post ACs
Damn, those parts are relatively OP for that stats that they give. Absolutely insane adjustment on that chestpiece and there isn't a set of legs in the game that gives those defensive stats + speed. Looks kind of cool, though.
it's a Gundam
it's supposed to be OP
ACs are MTs compared to them
Sounds like you just want to play a Gundam game. I'm playing the import version of Gundam Breaker 3 on my vita currently, it's pretty alright.
im still pissed about that gundam overwatch game
I would KILL for a gundam game to receive this level of effort and polish
Huh, not that it's particularly amazing apparently, but apparently From made a Gundam game for the PS3 back in 2012.
yeah, I found out about it years ago and to this day I've yet to see even gameplay footage of it. It's a unicorn.
>I've yet to see even gameplay footage of it
took one yt search
FROM should make a new one with all the gundam series to date and make it PVE focused
they now got the acolade from AC6 to make it a success
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Can’t believe the Nu Gundam parts mod there is the only mod at the moment that adds unique parts.
Put this one together yesterday. The laser turrets are actually pretty fricking good if you have good positioning. Also the amount of beams firing at once with the build is just funny
Do you fire them off as they stagger or do you have to do it before? I get destroyed by this type of build online.
You just start dropping them all over the arena while spamming the pistols. They last a super long time I've had them continue shooting enemies AFTER the next round started
I'm gonna try the build. I've been seeing them a lot after the patch guess they got modified to be better or something.
I don't think many anons will agree but I wish we got a 2 v 1 fight with Carla and Walter instead of allmind just jobbing them off screen. It would've been a much cooler end to the destroy parasite modules mission, although I did enjoy Chatty's laser death circus, it was mind numbingly simple.
I feel they did this just so people wouldn't feel as bad considering this is supposed to be the final route. I already didn't think it was that nice of an ending, if I had to personally kill Walter, I'd probably think of it as a bad ending.
621 probably would have changed sides if he actually met with Walter and Carla, at that point it was clear you made a deal with the devil and probably that is why ALLMIND sent iguazu to gank them instead of letting them talk to you
Fair points, I just think a 2 v 1 with Carla and Walter would be kino. Maybe I should learn how to mod and make it as an arena fight...
>Does powercreep exist in this game or is it like Souls where I can use my starting equipment until the end?
I don't think you know what "powercreep" means.
Ending 1 and 2 having a high-spec AC and a boss fight in opposite orders with their missions 2 and 3 is kinda cool. Snailteus is the boss for Liberator and Walter is the high-spec AC fight with his special AC, whereas in Fires there's final form Rusty with infinite boost in his unique AC, followed by Ayre. They still both got a boss and both got a fight with a super AC.
Did new update fix this webm yet?
>idiot close range lightweight build with no other options
No, dumb people still exist regardless of game version
for some reason, people don't get how busted gats are.
>for some reason, people don't get how busted gats are.
EVERYONE knows how busted gats are but they're the kind of busted that's unfun for PVP
not at all and if anything that setup has been buffed because now the earshots have a shorter reload so that tank can spam them more. if you're a lightweight and don't have at least 2 missiles you will lose all matchups against tanks 99% of the time
Where is this?
MIA mission in NG++
MIA, exploding tunnel
>"Raven! Don't!"
Make sure you play all the way to NG++ for new endings and missions, anon.
>Nosaac tricks RaD into killing his debt collectors
>not only did they do it FOR FREE, they also did it AT A LOSS
>engaging the debt collector's AC probably cost them some ammo, fuel, and general maintenance and downtime on their MTs
How does Nosaac keep getting away with it?
Either the dosers were too high to think, or Carla found it funny and having aditional muscle seemed worth it.
But who was Nosaac waiting for?
There a LOT of people who're looking to get their moneis back. He probably thought 621 was yet another debt collector/guy who he swindled.
That, or he's just a paranoid butthole.
What the frick was his endgame? Okay, how debtmaxxed and bought a bunch of AC parts... now what? He doesn't go out and do any missions, he's just hiding in some random factory. Is Nosaac just too galaxy brained for me to understand?
He wants a shiny AC full of mid tier parts to boss around. Reminder that Ziyi, Index and Father are literally running around in junk Bashos while Flatwell is the only RLF busy running around doing AC work while Freddie is busy being a literal homosexual. Nosac looks like number 3 of RLF in comparison.
And yet he'd still get bodied instantly by Dolmayan hitting him with coral assault armor.
>Middle Manager Flatwell managed to buy a decent rig during his time running Arquebus HR
Also how much of Freddie's existence is pain, dude is fricking the big boss of the RLF but Dolymayan is too busy thinking about his tulpa waifu to reciprocate
Another debt collector
So long gay doser
>Raven we can sti-
That's a pretty kino ACK
il be pissed if they for some reason add another mission,i already have the S rank achieve and another level would reset that but i reset my entire game and would need to s rank it all again
>Stopped using Zimmerman's because bored
>Use Akimbo Handcannons now
I BELIEVE IN DUCKETT SUPREMECY!!!!!
Hey pal try one paired with a Sampu
You won't be disappointed I promise!
Is it possible to make a Nine Ball build?
You can, after you get the arms in chapter 5.
Coralpill me on coral generators, which one should I be using?
I'm enjoying the hokushi in ng+
I know you gotta completely empty the energy bar so it recovers faster, but are they worth it?
I have both slippery homies and slow homies builds.
Usually I don't use energy weapons but I'm open to using them too.
Don't put coral gens on slippery homies unless they're missileboats that literally run away from combat. On a frail AC that actually engages in fighting at all, those seconds waiting for energy are precious to their survival.
play an older armored core game right fricking now
But what's the boost kick button
Mods will port it in
I played 1 to Silent Line and 4/4A before 6 came out. Guess I'll do the nexus games since I can't get the 5 games to work on emu no matter what I try.
I did the exact same shit anon
Project Phantasma was my favorite I'd say. I love gen 1 movement and gameplay the most
how do i gitgud at gen 1?
Emulator AC4 right now and I feel like it is a bad choice
The game feel really worse from graphic to control compare to your webm
these are actually really cool
a massive fricking shame they killed gunplay for this shit
What are you fricking talking about, it uses the exact same gunplay. You have a lock-on box that auto-aims your attacks via fcs stats.
You don't play old Armored core
I've been playing it from the day AC1 was released. Karasawa was the first hidden part I found, I didn't know there was hidden parts but it was so weird seeing this weird surfboard looking thing under the barrels I mashed everything trying to interact with it and was shocked to find it was a new gun, and an overpowered one at that.
Things aren't quite as satisfying to dodge when the overall gravity is lower. that isn't even mentioning the obvious like the lack of true long-range weapons outside missiles
>it uses the exact same gunplay.
did you watched the Webm and had the gal to say this shit to me anon?
no wait you actually played the game
you barely functional consumer slopper when I say gunplay i mean about the GUNS you fricking c**t
the current AC game euthanized the mid to long range guns so bad that the bullets you shoot out is just dogshit that at lunch it doesn't even feel like your firing a gun
if they embraced the past AC gun play the ZIMMERMAN would would actually do what the in game description says and have the bullets shorter spread and longer range than the actual shotgun to make it more distinct but then they fricked it all up for reasons we all know by now
now off to get to emulating those AC games see ya you braincell-intolerant twat
There is a discord homosexual that thinks AC6 is ruined because you can lock on. He also thinks there is no softlock on pc at all (no button for it).
It is a mental illness.
>AC6 is ruined because you can lock on
It kind of is. It made it impossible for them to also have turn rates on legs too since your AC has to always be able to face your target. I really don't know why they went this route other than to make it easier for newcomers.
Because the game is faster than all the older AC games, with a bigger focus on melee attacks, but your AC is closer to AC3 era, you're not a Next godmode hack lightspeed mech. They balance it by making unlocked mode much more accurate for gun attacks, and they give you the abillity to turn off FCS on command
No not at all you thought there was no button for softlock on pc. You aren't allowed to post about this topic anymore gay.
It is an unwell discord. Very sad stuff.
sure can do
God people make aiming look so easy in the old games, even rebinding the aiming to the face buttons to kinda simulate another d-pad I still suck.
It is easy. You point at stuff and fire guns at it. Same as in AC6.
Several years of analog stick and mouse aiming make it really hard for me bro, I'm only getting older.
I'm edging on 40 anon. Brain fog is becoming an issue, you still fire on anything that moves. That actually helps the brain fog.
you get used to it after bashing your head long enough against first rank arena fights
You know what anons? I really hope that AC6 and other Fromsoft games get a release on the Switch successor
Switch babies can't handle the sophisticated gameplay mechanics and high-IQ required by Fromsoft games, unfortunately. That's why they shafted them with 30fps Dark Souls Remaster. They can't tell the difference.
dumping my decals, PC codes
https://files.catbox.moe/g6hqtj.txt
damn, are these original?
you really have an eye for this stuff
nah they're all from Girls Frontline, I used a program I saw some nips use that holds a transparent version of the image in front of the screen so I could basically trace it
regardless, great job, they look really nice
nice original work
Ow! My eyes! Adjust the focal-length/f-number next time so I'm not simulating an eye-disease when trying to look at your cool AC.
Yours looks cool too anon.
Mine is supposed to look like this - I went to photomode and this looks kinda 'comic like'. Pic related is the AC
>Yours looks cool too anon
Thanks, but it's just the starter AC, can't really take any credit for it. That screenshot looks much better, very nice mech, anon.
>Adjust the focal-length/f-number next time
Every time I try to mess around with those options I notice absolutely nothing happen to my screen. how close do I have to be to something for it to start having an effect?
It just depends on how far away the subject is from the 'lens'. If your AC is really close, you can see the effect right away. If your AC is farther away, you'll notice it blur the background first. I use it to get a sort of DOF effect. Make sure to disable the motion blur, too, or the shot will look terrible. Some blur will probably still remain, though.
i'm boosting different
this shit ain't nothing to me man
i'm a hound
we smokin' coral in a glass pipe blowin' the raven's bubbles
i'm sick in the head
coral zaza got me staggered so hard they thought i got hit by the fricking stun needles
this that shit that made me climb the wall
call that pussy the allmind mercenary liaison organization, 'cause i'm in this b***h and i can't get out
i'm on gen 4 augmentation smokin' that coral haze
last hound who ran off on the pack got his core punctured with a balam pile bunker, the last thing he ever saw was the price tag on it
slowly faded into darkness, and i let the redguns trauma team take him
tied a vesper to the back of an AC and boosted him around the grid for 24 hours
motherfricker looked like AA-J-123/RC JAILBREAK after we was done with him
PCA wanted some initiative, shut down their entire karman line
i've seen the ice worm
i've seen the fires of ibis
i was doing jobs for handler walter before y'all even gained access to the arena
this shit ain't nothing to me you stupid piece of shit
boost the wrong way and you will PERISH
One of the best weapons in the game is the Ransetsu-RF which I believe you literally start with.
Sometimes, I am still utterly blown away by the next-gen graphics that From put into AC6.
that the new cybersuv?
Ah yes, the cars barely as large as your mech's feet. Clearly FromSoft should just tank everybody's FPS by giving these things 30,000 triangles and 4K textures.
>mfw this came out 15 years ago on PS3
They didn't need to have PS3 quality, but at least PS1 quality would have been nice.
The difference is that isn't rendering 10x10 kilometers worth of scenery (true to scale) and at least two dozen giant mechs.
You're right, it's only rendering miles of laser-scanned race tracks and scenery (true to scale) and at least two dozen full-size race cars. Cars may be insignificant in AC6, but even the road signs in GT5 have twice the polygons as the laughable cars in AC6.
You don't quite seem to grasp rendering in video games, and how much shit you don't actually see in racing titles because of the ground view, occlusion culling, the obsessive use of trees with low poly variants the moment they're not immediately in front of your car.
An Armored Core in 6 is literally 1:1 scale to Elden Ring's humans. They are ten meters tall, they are what have the 4K textures. And you think it's fricking clever to instead spread performance thin by having 4K supercars ripped out of Gran Turismo sitting on roads that you will never ever see unless you stop and start sniffing the concrete?
>you think it's fricking clever to instead spread performance thin by having 4K supercars
No, I just want to not be able to count the polygons on one hand. The cars in AC6 might as well be the cars from AC1, it's about the same level of polygons lol.
>No, I just want to not be able to count the polygons on one hand.
Then my alternate advice is to go waste your time playing Snoy slop like TLoU and Horizon, make a Twitter account, and share screenshots of the grass while sucking off the developers.
>no argument so resort to attacking an utter strawman
But the cars that are in AC1 are just as bad and that's 4 console generations ago. Have they really made no improvements since then?
It's not a strawman when it's a completely valid representation of your mindset
>Urgh, these fruit don't explode when I shoot them, what were the devs even doing?
>No, I just want to not be able to count the polygons on one hand.
Unnecessary performance dip for no reason. You're asking for the non-mech equivalent of giving a random tree model a higher polygon count. There's no justification for it.
And I can count the individual pixels in the road stripe in your original GT5 image. And guess what, they are of the same importance, static props that fill space and you don't pay attention to because you're too busy playing the game. Plus the trucks are gonna get blown up or stepped on in 10 seconds anyways.
The cars in AC6 are like the size of your foot. You never see them close enough to actually warrant them needing to be ultra high def unless you're specifically zooming right into them in photo mode. It's like being mad that small rocks on the ground are lower poly than everything else.
>The cars in AC6 might as well be the cars from AC1
And that's soulful.
>My dad works at Sony and he said the PlayStation Infinite is gonna be powered by a nuclear reactor and it can read your mind!
Those cars are the MAIN models on the screen during moment to moment gameplay, in any racing game really. Your argument could not be more disengenuous.
Without using photo mode in AC6, you can't even get close enough to the car models below your feet to see what they look like. They're like small rocks.
>Clearly FromSoft should just tank everybody's FPS by giving these things 30,000 triangles and 4K textures
Ah the Square Enix way
this is the equivalent of zooming in on a rock in a human-sized protagonist game
Game is beautiful where it matters
They know not to waste effort putting details into things few will notice or care about. KT is also good about this.
Stop feeding the troll you morons
threads gonna die soon anyways dude, let me have my fun. Should I talk about how the trees look worse than PS2 games next?
Luv me quads
(build)
What do you record with?
CAPES when https://youtu.be/c0UZXBE0Lks?si=m5IN9dSe50Wa98qj
Haven't touched the game since beating it on release, have the latest patches shaken things up?
How the frick do I beat that cheating piece of shit Werehound in AC2? It doesn't matter how much I try to move I'm constantly getting hit by that motherfricker's machine gun spam causing me to overheat to death and I try using the same exact fricking gun arms and I keep fricking missing while he's doing circles constantly hitting me. What the fricking kill is this bullshit?
Come back when you've beaten Matthias on this map.
AC2 is about constantly overboosting and maneuvering.
>Matthias
Bro he's on 42nd ranked Raven in the Arena I don't think he knows what that is
You pretty much have to pick out a loadout that lets you keep your distance. With the machine gun arms he has, he runs out of ammo very quickly.
A tip for avoiding weapon fire, make sure to "feather" your boosters between your bunnyhops. It throws off the enemy's FCS so it'll try to predict a movement you're barely going in
I actually played the game on the PS2 years ago, I don't remember this fricker being this hard.
fromsoft should make a modular toy line with every AC since 1
and you can assemble the haed, tosro, arms, & legs together along with every weapon.
imagine how much money they would make if every AC fan bought the whole set
no need for it to be model kits even
>You were kicked by the host.
>Versus room has disbanded.
>Versus room has disbanded.
>You were kicked by the host.
>Versus room has disbanded.
>You were kicked by the host.
I kneel
Very, very good
Your Dark homietry
Has Awakened!!!
>No one outruns...the EKDROMO
Sure thing homosexual
I kinda like the theory that ALLMIND is Seria.
That isn't a theory. Go to bed buddy.
no
ids habbening
Enjoy anon
Don't be like me, use the hard lock-on.
i'm firing off the "Honest" Brutebros signal
I found myself frequently using parts from the base AC
The body parts are light but not stupidly low hp and the starting weapons are reliable and decently powerful
The rifle especially is imo the best weapon of its type in the game, sure there's a slower firing higher damage version later but it's not as good at clearing out chaff enemies and constant harassment of foes
I have to kick almost all japanese players because they name all their mechs Loader 4 when I'm in a Loader 4 only lobby.
I can't stand how bad they are at the game while trying every underhanded minmax strat you possibly can.
found this screenshot of a magazine page or some shit that shows LOADER 4 with a different R-back missile launcher and an L-back pulse shield
any idea what publication this came from?
Removing the pulse shield is strange in hindsight. The player having that from start might not have made Balteus feel like it comes out of left field. Also would make Sulla less kitted out to take down Balteus and more kitted out to take us out.
Doesn't look like a magazine spread, it looks too small and devoid of pages (look at the staple bindings).
Looks like a promotional pamphlet for the game itself.
I get an unholy power trip kicking people that ready up with shitty counter builds.
If you equip the bad cook or bubbles you are getting kicked. It is that simple.
Based. For me it's the wheelchair legs. I don't kick though, I force them into spectator mode and don't think about them again.
>I don't kick though, I force them into spectator mode and don't think about them again.
Snail-tier
I'm tired of old japanese people roleplaying as the black tristars.
what unholy build would warrant the use of this emblem?
Heavyweight build kitted out like a lightweight. Dual Ludlows or Etsujins with coral shield and 1 starter missile.
OPEN TOOTH or MILK FAITH?
OPEN MILK
If you use the Ayre Echo arena data in pvp you have unique weapons no other AC build has :).
Any good AC6 fanarts?
I'm looking for a new phone wallpaper.
It's like Souls games
does this game suck? i was tempted to play it but the gameplay footage looks generic as hell, nothing impressive about it, and no one talks about it at all.
>and no one talks about it at all.
There are literally AC threads on Ganker since the day it came out, what are you talking about
shitposters gonna shitpost
yeah it sucks you can go 1000 miles per hour in a giant metal coffin with a sword and cannons attached to it
So... I'm done I guess. All I have to do now is fart around in pvp. I have 28 of 30 achievements, the only one remaining is for S ranking missions and... I don't really feel like bothering with that now. I'm imagining the headache some missions would be to s-rank.
It's kind of a sad feeling to be honest, I thought the game would last me the rest of the month. Now I gotta wait like three weeks before I can play that Robocop game. I mean I got other stuff in my backlog, but I don't want to be playing something else when Robocop drops.