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Know i'm late to the game, but just ran through it over the last week and had a blast. AC6 kicks rear end. One of the best paced games i've played in a minute. Got a really brisk campaign that know the right time to spice up its pretty fair and generous campaign with the ocassional roadblock boss or challenging mission and you're never far away from a great setpiece or sick encounter. It just knows how to keep the hits coming. Mech construction is great too, feels very rewarding to make a bunch of builds so you always have something for any occassion and even after I basically zoned in on a preferred playstyle of speedy close to mid-range mechs I still made like 6 variations of that type just to try out all the cool weapons the game throws at you. Highlight of the game was being stuck on Balteus 2 for a couple of hours before trying out a half-baked pilebuker mech i'd made chapters ago and never felt was that useful and then watching it wreck the boss in like 4 hits. Writing's also pretty strong too. All the characters that show up more than once are pretty cool guys and its always a treat when you get a mission where one of your pals shows up. Even Iguazu, that useless loser. Do think the game kinda falters at some of its bigger ideas though. As you're running through the game there's this pretty clear thread of freedom and spreading your wings and making your own choices. The whole conversation around the real Raven fight is about this and Walter's last words are something like "you gotta make your own choices now" but then there's this other thing about the virtue of fighting for someone or something that needs you and both these things culminate with your best buds throughout the game who have been giving you all your missions, giving you one last mission each and although you choose which pal you stick with it doesn't really feel like you're doing anything different than you've been doing in the rest of the game. Just doesn't quite come together. Even moreso in the bonus route where you just kinda go along with this random AI's plan just because, and then kill it at the end. Though I do like how this random bit of UI that is the only thing that reacts to NG+ ends up being the secret final boss because its been studying your previous runs. That's very funny to me.
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Neat! haven't played in a while. how do you unlock the new weapons? My save is at the point where I've beaten NG++ and at the start of NG+++,, so hopefully I won't have to go through the missions again
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hey mom its 420 posted:Neat! haven't played in a while. how do you unlock the new weapons? My save is at the point where I've beaten NG++ and at the start of NG+++,, so hopefully I won't have to go through the missions again They are added to the shop for purchase. The 1v1 match making is a lot of fun and I dig the new maps. Only blemish I'm feeling is the occasional person from across the goddamn planet being super laggy. 
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Are you able to matchmake with specific people or does From still not support that? I would love to host a tourney and fight with my friends with Battlebots
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CJacobs posted:Are you able to matchmake with specific people or does From still not support that? I would love to host a tourney and fight with my friends with Battlebots You can lobby up and manually set sortie status and keep a bracket somewhere else but you can’t do it all in-game
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SyntheticPolygon posted:Know i'm late to the game, but just ran through it over the last week and had a blast. AC6 kicks rear end. I'm 98% sure that one of the patches/DLC is gonna add some more missions and an additional 'route' or two, and I feel like the whole thing of Raven's handler showing up, having a few lines, then never being seen again after saying they'll keep 'close watch on this one' when they're saying they have a mission on Rubicon, and how that goes absolutely nowhere means we'll eventually get an update where we get a Raven Route or something like that.
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Captain Foo posted:You can lobby up and manually set sortie status and keep a bracket somewhere else but you can’t do it all in-game Hell yess i;m going to get the poo poo beat out of me admiring all my friends' cool mechs and that could not be more exciting
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Finally got around to playing ranked, only got to D rank 1v1 before I got distracted painting my mech. The game continues to be Very Good.
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CJacobs posted:Hell yess i;m going to get the poo poo beat out of me admiring all my friends' cool mechs and that could not be more exciting hell yeah
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Is there like a ranked queue tool now in the game or do you still have to find random lobbies and join and go through the busy work before getting into a match?
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Rascyc posted:Is there like a ranked queue tool now in the game or do you still have to find random lobbies and join and go through the busy work before getting into a match? You press the ranked game button
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Rascyc posted:Is there like a ranked queue tool now in the game or do you still have to find random lobbies and join and go through the busy work before getting into a match? they added proper ranked matchmaking along with a bunch of new maps and parts in the latest patch, it's great
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Au Revoir Shosanna posted:they added proper ranked matchmaking along with a bunch of new maps and parts in the latest patch, it's great The watch point map is really bad unfortunately, but everything else has been fun
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Captain Foo posted:The watch point map is really bad unfortunately, but everything else has been fun I'll never understand people picking Watchpoint for 3v3. It feels like mashing your transformers together and calling it a fight.
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War Wizard posted:It feels like mashing your transformers together and calling it a fight. hey don't kinkshame
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Reaching the point in 1v1 match making where a large portion of the ACs are some variation of double zimmerman and double viento. The new shoulder mounted las cannons feel strong. edit: Noticing that a lot of the more annoying matches are buerzel booster related.
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I've done it! I've beaten Armored Core!
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WHAT IS THIS SONG
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Finally got all my S ranks done; the one that gave me the most trouble was Stop the Secret Data Breach, but I was overthinking it and realized I just had to clown on Iguazu harder. The new machine guns and the autonomous little drone launchers legit do a lot of work once you get the rhythm of never stop pressing shoulder buttons to keep replenishing your little laser fellas. Feels real good to just melt BALTEUS with them. Alkarl fucked around with this message at 00:42 on Dec 24, 2023 |
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Waffleman_ posted:I've done it! 
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Waffleman_ posted:WHAT IS THIS SONG lmfao
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Waffleman_ posted:WHAT IS THIS SONG thats what all armored core music used to sound like lol
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i learned this recently myself by playing 4 and for answer
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people didn't know fromsoft had that dog in em (that dog's name is shoegaze)
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like genuinely the osts for 4 and for answer sound so much like "friends goofing off in their garage and making an endearingly earnest set of rock albums that they had to record on casette tape cuz they didnt have money" and its so charming https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTSZDsrDn7I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2vib83SYTs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxhAnz0wwDM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuFMFe-T3rM
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yep https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kLPPUQyLNA
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This game has been in my backlog for a while and I finally gave it a crack but I think I made a mistake. I got stuck on the boss that does a bunch of drunken missiles, looked up a "best early game builds" video, and got turned on to the plasma rifles. That worked great except they seem to be carrying me through the whole game. I've already beaten everyone in the arena with them plus anything shoulder mounted that will throw plasma. Seems like plasma is kinda OP. I'm still having fun though so it's not the end of the world. wash bucket fucked around with this message at 05:14 on Dec 24, 2023 |
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there's a lot of builds that are op but most likely the real reason you're coasting is that you Got Good
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Au Revoir Shosanna posted:there's a lot of builds that are op but most likely the real reason you're coasting is that you Got Good
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Thank you for believing in me, Armored Core Thread.
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Kagaya Homoraisan posted:like genuinely the osts for 4 and for answer sound so much like "friends goofing off in their garage and making an endearingly earnest set of rock albums that they had to record on casette tape cuz they didnt have money" and its so charming The OST for Armored Core was the first part of the series I got really into. 4's music is something else.
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Yeah, even though there are weapons that are Extremely Effective in PvE (dual Ransetsus my love), I don't think any of them are powerful enough to trivialize the game on their own without you being good at Not Dying.
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stun needle launcher probably comes the closest but theyre also loving heavy so a lot of builds arent gonna go in on them regardless
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Kagaya Homoraisan posted:thats what all armored core music used to sound like lol It's all about the techno, drum and bass, and weird experimental tracks from AC1 and 2 gens for me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g54DVpnxhqI
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I love how after three complete banger soundtracks from the 3-era between AC3, Silent Line and Nexus, Last Raven's soundtrack is just a bunch of weird experimental atonal poo poo like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDpsXl24v9c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-vEdG2TkaA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovXXZitwjKc
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Spent forty minutes running out of ammo on the third final boss before I realized he wrecks the sea spiders too when he phases Anyway, cool game
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Yeah, while it's helpful to take out a couple of the trash mechs in the first phase to ease the pressure, you're probably best ignoring the spiders in the second phase because they really only seem to do the one laser attack you can avoid and they take too much time and ammo for how much pressure Allmind is gonna put on you while doing it.
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Just gave the people of Rubicon a wonderful Christmas present: death by space fire.
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wash bucket posted:This game has been in my backlog for a while and I finally gave it a crack but I think I made a mistake. I got stuck on the boss that does a bunch of drunken missiles, looked up a "best early game builds" video, and got turned on to the plasma rifles. All weapons are legit good and have their places in the game, the part where it gets going is when you find a weapon the just clicks with how you like to fight.
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