Armored Core Six

[tranquil magnet]

(Well actually I’d kind of like a less grim dark tone but gameplay wise all of my yes)

Sunrise please take inspiration for a Gundam game this would be exactly what your fans want

[split stream]

Does NG+ increase the difficulty and numbers or is it just Redo The Story with more stuff

[dense zealot]

Armored Core games are usually fairly short as well. They're made to be beated quick and replayed. Though this is one of the longer ones

[distant raft]

25 hours i saw the story was?

[split stream]

I mean to be fair, I think the difficulty also adds on the hours a bit

[gloomy umbra]

enjoy the pain and suffering Twin. its part of the experience.

[gloomy umbra]

Ill let you know when I get there.

might take a bit longer than these other folks though given my crusade to always buy out the shop

and then S rank everything

I need muh S rank.

[dense zealot]

It's okay I still haven't beaten the chapter 1 boss. Wayfinder has me good

[regal flower]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1071880005279285340/1145277544279588915/creatura.mp4

[mild jetty]

the missleman is destroying me

[near trail]

Beat him at his own game.

[tranquil magnet]

First decision mission
I think first run I do the ones that I'll feel bad about to get it out of the way before NG+ and ++

[gloomy umbra]

Do note for the first split mission ||invading the wall gives a gold battle thingy||

And I’m 3 hours late. Ah well.

[mild jetty]

I am the missles

[astral cliff]

How do I tell when it's a decision mission?

[tranquil magnet]

It'll have a special mark next to the selection

[weary kayak]

your handler will exclaim that the threads of prophecy have been severed /s

[astral cliff]

Ayw

[regal flower]

I found an interesting log in Chapter 4 || It's from the Director of the Insitiute, and it's about how with the coming of the Fires of Ibis he has to "pass on the legacy of their sins" to "Assistant No.2", who is female. I think this is either Ayre or Carla ||

[gloomy umbra]

||I found an earlier log that placed Carla as an institute engineer. I’d have to find it again.||

[regal flower]

Ohoh

Another log I found, on one of the ||Invisible mechs||

[gloomy umbra]

||now that, is VERY interesting.||

@regal flower where can we review logs? or is it only in missions?

[regal flower]

Press Y in the garage

On controller

[gloomy umbra]

oh found it

[regal flower]

It's on the bottom bar

[gloomy umbra]

had to access lisense menu

thats a weird place to put it.

[gloomy umbra]

||okay heres the thing I referanced earlier.... ignore everything I said, my brain has apparently fully cooked itself to the point Im inventing memories.||

||this has nothing to do with the institute. we've never even seen Cinder. I just.... what.||

||Ive become an unreliable narrator. my worst fear.||

well, now that Ive realized my brain has caved in on itself, back to earning S ranks.

[regal flower]

||Timed Boss Fight?????||

||It has the Moonlight Greatsword????||

[gloomy umbra]

||have fun!||

[regal flower]

Okay, Multiple things: Why is it so difficult to get new Head parts? || The timed boss I fought might be named Ayre, and is stated to be an institute creation, so that answers that question I guess. And Walter said that he would stop choosing missions for us and mentioned that we probably have friends too||

[gloomy umbra]

||well thats a giant big dump of madness. neato.||

[regal flower]

||Because the corps are going to fight over the coral properly now||

[gloomy umbra]

||interesting. well then. have fun!||

[regal flower]

And || I got S rank arena ||

Apparently the guy at the top of the arena is ||a normal dude?||

[gloomy umbra]

well now time to try and S rank watchpoint

[gloomy umbra]

||god damn. the top of the arena, allminds best ranked person, is just a normal dudge. ya know what, I aint even mad. thats impressive.||

[regal flower]

That was, ||easy??????||

[gloomy umbra]

||arena battles almost always strangely are.||

[regal flower]

I’m so confused

[gloomy umbra]

arena fights are 1v1 battles with no distractions, we are used to fighting other ACs after grueling battles against vastly superior forces, so when its the isolated sterile enviorment, its really easy.

no distractions, no random high powered weaponry

just you, and the opponent.

[regal flower]

Getting to hot to continue, have to make a decision anyway || Do I kill Pater or Michigan?||

[gloomy umbra]

||you kill michigan and I will mount your head on a pike. he's my frand.||

||then again Im gonna kill him first so that in my be good playthrough next time round I can save him.||

[regal flower]

Yeah, I’m probably going to ||kill Pater, Arquebus is getting too powerful||

Also the ||liberation front and Ayre asked me to||

[gloomy umbra]

||....... well damn, guess I really have to kill michigan now given that this is my "stab the libfront in the back repeatedly" playthrouhg.||

[regal flower]

Kinda feel bad though because ||Pater is the one who asked me to kill Michigan, and he’s a nice guy||

[gloomy umbra]

||Pnad, its michigan. he's a real one. he's a good guy.||

[gloomy umbra]

Watchpoint S ranked.

woo

[gloomy umbra]

it was, harder but easier than I expected.

the boss fight was the easy part actualy

its those opening lasers that are run killers

they deal a truly absurd amount of damage.

especially when you are trying to conserve costs and not use healing.

because of course, using healing, and shooting bullets, is counted against S ranking.

isn't that just lovely?

look I get it, its trying to be kinda realistic, but there comes a point when Im failing S ranks by a couple hundred dollars and I just want to tear my hair out.

or at least it feels like a couple hundred dollars, I have no idea, some missions require specific special things to be S ranked or some garbage because THE MISSIONS DONT TELL YOU. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA.

[gloomy umbra]

I got ten S ranks, there aint nothin new to buy.

I feel like I may have been lied to.

ah well, Ill keep this going for the pride if nothing else

[astral cliff]

I swear the tank tread legs are so goofy

[gloomy umbra]

they are interesting.

remember to activate boost while using them

I kinda forgot to do that

[tranquil magnet]

Also
Remember that you still can quick-boost
And while you're not that good at dodging in one of these that serves the important function of letting you turn around faster

[spiral blaze]

Hey so I have been stuck on the first boss once you meet the ||strange coral lady|| and I can't figure out how to dodge the attacks I've tried different builds and the only one that seems to work is being really tanky and hoping

I've been trying not to look at guides but this thing is starting to get annoying

[gloomy umbra]

have you tried dodging forward.

no this isn't an anti tutorial

[spiral blaze]

Yeah? Like it kinda worked when I assault rushed the guy

But that's kinda hard to control

[gloomy umbra]

I don't mean assault boost.

I mean the quick boost feature

your dodge.

long story short, playing close to enemies screws with their attacks.

I don't fully know why, but it does for most.

[spiral blaze]

Yeah alright

[gloomy umbra]

and a lot of attacks are beaten by dodging forward still.

the way I beat them the first time was just playing close and laying on the agression.

just ||watch out for the fire sword||

[spiral blaze]

Yeah that's about when I just die

[gloomy umbra]

yeah so you wanna know the funny thing about that?

dodge forward.

[spiral blaze]

I'll see what I can do I just really don't want to redo the mission for the third time to respec

[gloomy umbra]

this entire game is about teaching you to never dodge forward, until it suddenly forces you to do other.

[gloomy umbra]

if you just die you can retool?

[spiral blaze]

Not if you don't have the parts

[gloomy umbra]

.........

why did no one else buy out the shop

theres a reason I do what I do.

oh well, best of luck Pagan.

[spiral blaze]

Well I just started

And didn't feel like grinding

[gloomy umbra]

Pagan, I always buy out the shop after it unlocks something new.

I know the wall.

I am the wall

I no longer lcimb the wall

the wall climbs me.

the wall is a money printer.

the wall is your friend.

just blow up every cannon. lots of money there.

[spiral blaze]

Mmhmm

[gloomy umbra]

remember to equip missiles that rain down, they ignore frontal shields.

very useful

[spiral blaze]

Yeah I got the big 8 stack missles equipped right now

[gloomy umbra]

very good

use them

abuse them

rain hellfire.

[astral cliff]

hehehehehheheh

[mild jetty]

become the missleman to defeat the missleman

alao just full on gunnery worked for me, pulse guns run out of ammo way too fast

bullying the trainee mech guy also makes money pretty fast, if you get destroying it down to a science

why are the mech fists so good

[near trail]

I gave up and made the chunkiest lad I could with the tank treads. Had double 8x missiles, the shield buster pulse gun and a rocket launcher.

I tried dodging a bit, but I kept stunlocking the boss over and over so I didn't have to.

[spiral blaze]

Fair enough I think I finally beat him a couple hours later with like 530 health left but I had used the quad legs instead

[tranquil magnet]

Ch3 defeated
I enjoyed that boss fight

[weary kayak]

I am soo glad they kept || hidden parts || in the game

[gloomy umbra]

who is missile man again?

[gloomy umbra]

||its very evil and I love it, its a shame most of them are worse than what you can buy in the store.||

S ranking..... going well...... and is painful.

I think I might be getting better at the game, I honestly don't know

I hate S ranking boss levels though. makes me have to think about how I kill the boss, and then work backwards from there on how that build could potentially work in the level.

[regal flower]

I’m over here using them anyway

[tranquil magnet]

Is the chainsaw the best melee weapon
Probably not
Is it a mecha sized chainsaw
Yes
It’s going on the mech

[distant raft]

Is the chainsaw rad? yes

[gloomy umbra]

Why. Can’t. The game…. Just TELL ME THE REQUIREMENTS FOR S RANK

I don’t even know what I’m doing wrong!

[regal flower]

Speed, low damage taken

At least that’s what it usually is

[gloomy umbra]

ahahahahahahaha YOU'D THINK THAT WOULD BE THE ONLY REQUIREMENTS WOULDNT YOU

YOU SILLY SILLY PNAD

BUT NO

NONONO OF COURSE NOT

YOU ALSO HAVE TO DO CERTAIN BONUS OBJECTIVES SOMETIMES

BECAUSE REASONS

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

and of course the game doesnt tell you any of this

why would it

[weary kayak]

usually the bonus objectives come out of listening to the briefings and such

[pulsar oak]

Eventually someone will have a list

[gloomy umbra]

bah humbug.

theres so much god damned conflicting data, I really wish From just actually said what needed to be done

[gloomy umbra]

I think

Ive figured it out

specifically for Attacking the Refuling Base ||theres a number of optional objectives, which you can blow up for extra cash. you if get all of them Ayre gives a special voiceline. well then, I now know my goal.||

||blow all of that up, and dont get hit too much||

[tranquil magnet]

||That’s called out in the briefing yes||

[gloomy umbra]

||while called out in the briefing, its called a BONUS OBJECTIVE.||

[tranquil magnet]

||Yes? It goes without saying that bonus objectives would be needed for the max rank||

[gloomy umbra]

||you also aren't told how many containers there are, or how many you need to break, or anything specific just "hey, bonus pay if you break these things" which sure, its S rank, but Id like a GOD DAMNED TRACKER so I KNOW WHAT THE HELL I HAVE T ODO.||

||twin, I have been through some absolute nonsense going for these ranks, I just want some god damned courtosy from the developers to give me a bloody checklist.||

[tranquil magnet]

||I agree that they should at least have Ayre count them down or something||

[gloomy umbra]

||and my bigger issue with this mission in particular is that theres a bunch of run killers everywhere, because again, I know I have to keep costs down, but I have no idea by what ammount, is it a percentage of total pay? is it a flat number? does anyone even BLOODY KNOW AT THIS POINT.||

||do I ignore the snipers to try and save on health, or do I fight them and lose some garunteed health, but they wont be hounding me, do I have to kill the first big mech in the mission? or are they something else entirely. the game slomos when I kill them, so I assume they have to die. there are some guides online but they are all absolutely useless because they just show a run, and give no instructions.||

||Im just saying, it would have been nice, if just SOMEWHERE, ANYWHERE, there was something that said "do XYZ, and you will get S rank"||

||somewhere in game.||

[gloomy umbra]

I just can't even with this mission. I feel like, Ive done literally everything it wants. yet apparently its not good enough.

yet I can find people online who took longer than me, and yet they got S rank, and didn't even do everything I did.

this mission can burn in hell

I guess I can try just ignoring everything and doing it supid fast

[mild jetty]

I am!!

[gloomy umbra]

thats nice

[mild jetty]

but really, first chap boss

[gloomy umbra]

ah

I do more than these people, I get hit less, my ammo cost is lower, and yet, these people get S, while Im stuck at A.

what the hell am I doing wrong.

[mild jetty]

not enough sacrifices to rngesus?

[gloomy umbra]

it shouldnt be RNG

I just. nonsense like this is why I want a god damned tracker.

so that I know, exactly, what Im doing wrong.

but there is no tracker

everyone is just kind of guessing.

[mild jetty]

is it missions with logs?

[gloomy umbra]

and then here I am, doing more, and better than them, and yet Im stuck at A

thats not the issue.

Ive got every log, and the S ranks Im looking at dont do any of them

I guess I can try and be even FASTER

oh okay NOW you give it to me.

go to hell game.

after everything I did, all you wanted was speed.

I didn't even need the bonus objective

of course not

the bonus objective was a red herring OBVIOUSLY

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

TLDR: ||kill the PCA enforcement mech, ignore everything else, bum rush final objective. kill what you need to but go quickly.||

my build if anyone wants it

I'm just gonna say it, for what they are, Songbirds are way overtuned.

the ammount of stagger and damage they deal is insane.

they weight almost nothing, and you get them fairly early on.

they're mental.

Id honestly argue they are equivilent to, if not better than, the worm hunter.

which I consider one of the best heavy back weapons that I have found so far.

[regal flower]

I showed my brother and he cringed

[dense zealot]

Can't you directly share the mech data?

[distant raft]

Perv

[dense zealot]

Hey I didn't do anything yet!

[astral cliff]

Yet

[gloomy umbra]

I have now S ranked everything up to chappy 3.... except for the damned first mission

[gloomy umbra]

yeah I have no idea how to do that

[gloomy umbra]

what why?! its a perfectly acceptable mech made of tissue paper and high explosives!

I hate it. but Ive used it to S rank multiple missions now so its saved/.

[distant raft]

https://attackofthefanboy.com/guides/how-to-share-mech-designs-with-other-players-in-armored-core-6/

[distant raft]

how to share

Head into your garage.
Select AC Design.
Select AC Data
Go to User 1 and select the plus sign.
Name your saved mech.
Select the saved mech and scroll down to upload, click it.
The game will generate a Share ID Code, which you can share with other players.

how to load

Head into your garage.
Select AC Design
Select AC Data
Scroll over to the Downloaded tab and click it.
You will find a large gray square with a white arrow, click it.
Input a Share ID Code.

https://tenor.com/view/the-more-you-know-smile-sparkle-knowledge-dropping-gif-17644285

[gloomy umbra]

THAT WAS A SCROLL MENU?!

why is it a scroll menu

you have room on the screen

Well my main 2 mechs then are JBYFLF98M53B and TL83X4QXE50J

one of which is the thing that Pnads brother apparently cringed at

even though its annoyingly effective

now to do the impossible. S rank this madness.

which Im going to asusme is just collect data, ignore everyone, kill boss.

dear god I hope its that simple

[astral cliff]

Oh does replaying that force the default Loadout?

[regal flower]

Yes

[tranquil magnet]

Double shotguns are like that

[tranquil magnet]

I S-ranked it mostly by accident I was doing it just to have a rank on the replay to work from

The main build I've enjoyed lately is
-Really light and zippy
-Reverse joint legs
-Double shotguns
-pulse blade on the shoulder
-regular missile launcher on the other shoulder

It can get knocked over by a stiff breeze but it deals unholy violence up close

...On the other end of the spectrum is a heavy tank with the songbirds and laser cannon on the shoulders, a chaingun on one arm and a rocket launcher on the other
For when I'm not in the mood for subtlety :P

[gloomy umbra]

Fair nuff

I typically do a midrange assault rifle beam sword with a worm killer and plasma missiles

Worm killer is a wonderful setup or finisher.

I really like the traditional ARs. They just feel…. So good. Pure unadulterated consistency.

[gloomy umbra]

I do not like that this helicopter can go out of bounds

cheating piece of gabrage

got it!

that first fight is annoying, until the dude bugged out and just kinda stayed still while I was under him..... so uhhh, we take those.

[gloomy umbra]

okay Im just gonna say it, institute mech tech, sucks.

their automated weapons are absurdly terrifying, but their mech tech just aint it.

Depth 2 ||coral is not only organic, but self propigating? thats.... thats actually terrifying, and explains why the fires of ibis were so horrifying. how much coral was created and stored before ibis was set off? so many questions.||

||so does that mean Ayre is just coral becoming sentient?||

||was she the mutation they launched Ibis to stop?||

||"and I am no exception" in response to corals gathering instinct.... by the nine Ayre is just a manifestation of Coral given consiousness. thats.... thats messed up.||

||so about that ol buddy ol pal. Ive got the living enbodyment of coral in my head telling me to do things for her. don't worry about it. theres institute documents recording her creation right before they set off Ibis in a deranged attempt to kill her. don't worry about it.||

||they just made a giant automated AC. The institute are a bunch of madmen.||

||wait the PCA did this one? okay then.||

@regal flower Depth 3 ||............ why does this guide referance "Ayre" as a boss? I THOUGHT WE WERE FRIENDS!||

[regal flower]

No idea

[gloomy umbra]

alrighty then.

[regal flower]

I don’t think it’s called that in game

[gloomy umbra]

thats...... hm.

Ill check

[regal flower]

There’s a bunch of data logs that aren’t mentioned in the guide too

[gloomy umbra]

yeah

hm

oh hey its made out of all those hidden parts that we've been collecting, thats neat.

[regal flower]

Ye

[gloomy umbra]

speaking of that guide not mentioning things: a chest.

oh dear

depth 3 ||passing the sins onto student number 2 huh? well then. thats, interesting.||

||if Ayre once was a flesh and blood human, and now has been trapped as a coral being that had no mouth and must scream, for 50 years, well, thats messed up.||

[gloomy umbra]

||so yeah that things not even remotely refered to as "ayre" I have no idea where they got that from||

[regal flower]

I thought so

[gloomy umbra]

||Im apparently a threat to the institute city now.||

[regal flower]

Did you notice that ||the boss had the moonlight great sword?||

[gloomy umbra]

||I did, it was very painful.||

S ranked arena time

3 battles.

...... annnnnnnnd its gonna be another aggro fest.

welp

I got all hyped up for nothing

oh well

and thats all arenas done

time for chapter 4s choice mission ||Im sorry michigan, but, given that I have no choice in the matter, I have chosen to be evil. Ill protect you next time around, I promise.||

||god damnit michigan stop hyping me up YOU'RE MAKING THIS HARDER.||

|| ||

||oh my god, Michigan knows literally all of his subordinates names and is calling them out directly. you are my favorite character michigan, Im gonna miss you.||

||why'd I have to choose to be evil this time.||

||that was awful. Im never doing it again. god damn you arquebus.||

||all of that, for a stupid piece of coloured ribbon.||

[regal flower]

Ugh you have to kill them to get their emblem?

[gloomy umbra]

yup

have fun crying.

[regal flower]

Pain

[gloomy umbra]

because Im barely holding it back right now

I get that its a viddy game, but I became attached damnit.

never again.

never again will I do that mission.

until I have to S rank it that is, but ittle be real painful

Unknown Territory Survey ||I.... I have to kill Rusty too? no..... not like this...... not like this.||

||these bastards..... well then. if its blood they want, its blood they will get.||

||he's not dead but, he considers me a threat that needs to be killed now. I see. well then. Arquebus is going to burn.||

||well then.||

well, time for chappy 4s finale.

and moonlight time

||walter, what the hell is your connection to this place. you clearly know far far more than you let on.||

[regal flower]

So suspicious

I need to get back to playing this

I was too busy napping today after I got drenched

[gloomy umbra]

fair

||.... THE IBIS SERIES STILL FUNCTIONAL?! WALTER WHAT THE HELL DO YOU MEAN MAN?!||

||this thing is apparently not just powered but CONTROLLED by coral. by the nine.||

||so this series of C weapon is supposed to prevent coral disasters. somehow. yet the event that destroyed most of the coral is called the fires of ibis. what the hell is GOING ON||

||this mission is gonna be a nightmare to S rank||

||good news its a massive glass cannon, bad news Im waiting for a second shoe to drop and there to be a phase 2.||

||Ill let you know if that happens via biligerent screeching||

||THERES A PHASE TWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO||

||AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA||

||not just any phase 2, a phase 2 with a brand new refilled healthbar, and EVEN MORE AGGRESSIVE ATTACKS||

||and the chekcpoint is at the start of the fight. ohno||

[gloomy umbra]

holy crap that was stupid hard

well I now have moonlight

||man chapter 5 is gonna be rough||

||multiple ibis series weapons.||

things have gone from bad to worse

oh dear

post chapter 4/pre chapter 5?||welp, time to recreate the fires of ibis. Walter was entrusted with this duty, and now, its ours. time to burn rubicon.||

||one last job "find your freedom"||

Chapter 5? ||oh god, this again. welp, seems Walter prepared one last ditch effort. a run down, beaten up, barely useable AC. time to make Rubicon burn.||

||dear god when it says older model, IT MEANS OOOOLLLLLD. this thing can barely lift itself it feels like.... an AC from Armored Core 1 almost. by the nine.||

||IM UNDERGOING WHAT?!||

if nothing else, chapter 5 is starting out with a bang.

||CHATTY! RaD TO THE RESCUE!||

||size comparison because I didn't realize how tiny I was..... this AC really is old old school.||

||also walter is kinda sorta Im pretty certain dead. sooooo.... oh dear. it would seem the game has but just begun.||

||heh, game gave me all the parts for THAT hunk a junk, well, thanks I guess. Ill never use em though.||

alright, new chapter, new parts available, new story.

and my funds from S ranking everything prior were more than enough to buy everything

woup

[regal flower]

Arquebis does that

[gloomy umbra]

god damn they're evil

I can't wait to repeatedly slaughter them in NG+

[regal flower]

Going to be interesting to see what happens when I ||kill Pater||

[gloomy umbra]

Chapter 5 Mission 1 ||so walter, Carla, and dozens and dozens of their dead friends, were all part of an organization meant to burn the coral before it hit critical mass and spread outside of Rubicon. now, only Carla remains. well and us, but mostly Carla. its time to bring the heat.||

||things are heating up and getting real interesting. yes Im going to be making lots and lots of fire jokes now.||

||this is also real bad news for Ayre who is a living embodyment of coral. conflicted interests!||

||sweet merciful crap. walter knows how to do a parting gift.||

||boy would it be nice if someone in power were able to help you follow that dream instead of the current 2 competing view points. burn it all, or consume it as fuel. Ayre is really in a tight spot.||

||chapter 5 is real depressing.||

damn, only a few missions left, and they're ALL BRANCHING

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[regal flower]

Oh yeah, there’s a ||True ending||

So there’s || 3 options: Consume, Burn, or Live with the Coral ||

And there’s ||3 Endings||

[gloomy umbra]

||so Ive noticed. Im guessing live with coral, isn't exactly an option until I get to NG+ now is it?||

||really what Im trying ot figure out is that in NG+, do I get these same split choice again, OR, do I have to do some a fourth playthrough.||

||thats all I want to know.||

||do I get these same options next go around no matter what I do, meaning in 2 playthroughs Ill ahve all the default missions.||

||Im gonna just hope thats the case, and uhhhh, go and burn all the coral away into nothing.||

||bye bye weird voice in my head, we'll meet again soon.||

god damn the moonlight is good

damn all these missions are going to be BRUUUTAL to S rank

||chatty.... no..... I lost chatty, I lost walter, I lost Rusty, I lost Michigan, and Im going to lose Ayre. Why does my mech game have to be so sad damnit!||

||why do I hear final boss music.||

||rusty.... rusty is horrifyingly powerful now. before he was just another arquebus pilot but now..... now he's a force to be reckoned with.||

||and now we're just quoting ace combat.||

||the mans got a phase 2||

||he's so dedicated he just said "no Im not dying here" and repaired his AC||

||I think maybe, in a different time, in a different place, Rusty would be the main character.||

Chapter 5 post mission 4 ||someone has control over the satalite cannons.... but its not the corps..... and I think theres really only one person who could do that. Im sorry Ayre. Im sorry it had to be this way.||

||que MGR ost||

||and for murdering rusty, I got his mech parts. that.... thats cold comfort.||

final mission of the game.

at least on this path.

so be it.

||"come to me, raven" I guess, I guess its time to fight Ayre. for real this time.||

||oh dear, shes.... upset.||

||I think, I might have chosen the badguy option. or maybe not, I have no idea, what I do know, is that Ayre is really really upset with me for some reason.||

||dear lord she can teleport.... thats..... I think that thing is a C weapon.||

||oh yeah. IB classification, its an ibis class C weapon. well then.||

||ayre please stop making the "you made the wrong choice" speach. I CAN'T PHYSICALLY DO WHAT YOU WANT UNTIL NG+||

||Im sorry Ayre. maybe in a different timeline. things will turn out better. or worse. hard to say!||

||and thus, rubicon, shal burn.||

[astral cliff]

congrats on finishing?

[gloomy umbra]

||the way I played this out, there never were going to be winners||

[astral cliff]

the heck did u do

[gloomy umbra]

||well now thats a hell of a title||

||"the fires of Raven"||

and NOW I get a title card!

[gloomy umbra]

TLDR ||I burned the planet to a crisp, destroyed all civilization there, and made it so that no one would ever go back there again due to the horrors I caused.||

[astral cliff]

wow gg

[gloomy umbra]

||look it was that, or coral was going to be used as fuel. I think I chose the better option.||

IM A GOOD PERSON

I THINK

well.

now to S rank that all

which is going to be.... an event.

ahahah.... and then..... right back in huh.

well, Im still gonna S rank what I have first.

then maybe, figure out next steps

Im pretty certain I have every purchaseable part possible which feels..... lackluster.

Im unsure honestly.

but I think, its time to read a book

11 missions to S rank.

[regal flower]

I think there are more parts in NG+

[gloomy umbra]

oh boy

[gloomy umbra]

and ++

I know

oh parts

not missions

ah

yes probably

but Im gonna read a book. that was a lot to do in one sitting.

tomorrow though, S ranking.

may NG+ be nicer, and not make me do such horrible decisions.

because I truly did some awful, horrific things, that actually made me feel bad.

this mission right here, late chapter 4 mission, is going to be the worst to S rank.

I can garuntee that.

maybe mission 5/4 hard to say

both are brutal slogs with nasty boss fights at the end.

Ive got a new subtitle for this game though

Armored Core 6: Victory, At What Cost.

goodnight all

or technically goodmorning since its 3am

[astral cliff]

goodnight

lol

you have fun?

[gloomy umbra]

yeah, but, emotionally I feel like I just went through ARR and HW back to back.

massive rage, only then to be filled with sadness.

strange how video games can do that

[regal flower]

Gotta work for that true ending

[gloomy umbra]

true that.

trueeeee that.

[regal flower]

I guess I’ll find out if the other ending is any better

[gloomy umbra]

let me know, because Ive seen what the guide tells you to do

I think you're gonna cry just as hard as me.

which is to say I have a single extremely manly tear dribbling down.

internally Im sobbing though

[regal flower]

Oh boy

[gloomy umbra]

yeah

have fun

[gloomy umbra]

||https://youtu.be/Ox4VsczS-6Q?t=975|| just tying up a lose end I forgot to add.

[astral cliff]

balteus down to 50% on my first go

and only about 80 on my second bruh

40% this time, several attempts later

thats enough for now

[tranquil magnet]

Okay I was prepared for the Chapter 4 boss to be a pain
||Then it was easy. I was prepared for phase 2, and I was proven right, so I was like, "Ah, here's the pain"
...And then I killed it on the fourth try.
Ibis is not immune to 00 Buckshot||

[gloomy umbra]

||the secret….. was shotgun spam?!||

[tranquil magnet]

||my build was just a lightweight reverse joint mech
With two shotguns and a sword (and missiles but those are mostly just filling space)
Being light and mobile made dodging most of its attacks easy enough and weirdly it was easier when I was closer||

||The boss also does not have very much stagger gauge the shotguns chewed through it like nothing||

[gloomy umbra]

||which shotguns.||

[tranquil magnet]

||Just the first ones you get, hal-something I think?
It flies too much for the sawn offs to have the range
The longer range shotguns probably also work||

[gloomy umbra]

||I see. Interesting. Thank you Twin.||

[tranquil magnet]

||Its possible I got lucky because I like
Accidentally dodged its sword waves the first time it fired them in phase 2 so I basically had that dodge down from the word go
But honestly I think this is a boss that demands either being really fast or loaded down with enough heavy weapons to nuke it the second it slows down for a second||

[gloomy umbra]

||yeah I typically do midrange which..... did not work, so I went superheavy.||

I don't have a new addiction, thats crazy talk.

[tranquil magnet]

You do sleep right

[gloomy umbra]

yeah

[distant raft]

No

[gloomy umbra]

I just left the game on accidentally multiple times

[split stream]

no he doesn't sleep

he's been grinding for that long

[gloomy umbra]

S ranking does take a long while

[gloomy umbra]

10 S ranks remain (for now)

a small handful, mayhaps 2 are freebies, the rest though, are going to be hell.

[distant raft]

Ya know

I thought it would have taken longer

But nope

https://kotaku.com/armored-core-6-boss-punch-balteus-cel-240-sea-spider-1850783750?utm_source=regular

[tranquil magnet]

I watched his video on it a few days ago

[distant raft]

Goofy runs already

[tranquil magnet]

VaatiVidya is trying a no damage run (with checkpoints allowed for “sanity”)

[distant raft]

I give it a week before a no checkpoint version is done

[gloomy umbra]

I CAST FIST

[split stream]

I WAS WONDERING

I wanted to make a FISTICUFFS robot

[gloomy umbra]

unequip weapons.

thats how

[split stream]

I don't even have the game. 😛

[gloomy umbra]

bah humbug

I hate these late game missions

so much to do in but one mission

I miss the easy S ranks, like the wall.

[gloomy umbra]

alright for S ranks, it really seems that absolute speed is key, as long as you do it fast enough, you'll be fine, costs be damned.

or, its all mission dependent.

boy I wish the game would just tell me

[regal flower]

Tyson was playing this, but they aren’t in this thread

[gloomy umbra]

well then ping them and drag them in here

or dont

its really their choice

[distant raft]

@dreamy light thread for AC6

[gloomy umbra]

6 S ranks remain, 1 of which is going to be free, 1 which might be free, and the rest which are going to be nightmares.

[dreamy light]

bruh

why

why do this @distant raft

i didnt need this att bro

but uh

im fighting the ||funny spider||

[distant raft]

Figured it woulkd be helpful

[gloomy umbra]

||ah yes, the funny spider. good times.||

[gloomy umbra]

||you did not get lucky, it keels over and ceases to exist vs shotguns.||

||the things a paper mache cannon. its squishier than glass.||

[gloomy umbra]

WOUP! S ranked coral convergance!

yay!

[gloomy umbra]

4 missions left

[regal flower]

AC stopped working, so playing this will probably boil me alive, but whatever

The irony is not lost on me

[gloomy umbra]

heh

[regal flower]

Luckily the house has 2 units, so it won't get too hot

[gloomy umbra]

thats good

Ive ogt..... a box fan and a air purifier

its..... functional

also, I did GET a part for replaying a mission.

only one mission so far, Reach the Coral Convergence, gave me a really good all rounder institute targeting part. B ranked it when I did that.

no idea why it gave it to me now.

maybe it was for getting all the combat logs?

but, the combat log menu didn't pop up when it did that

I don't know

Im going to assume its combat logs

[regal flower]

Ugh if you ||Kill Pater, Michigan gets killed by Rusty||

[gloomy umbra]

||there is no winning. god damnit.||

[distant raft]

https://tenor.com/view/truth-is-the-game-was-rigged-from-the-start-fallout-new-vegas-gif-14316695

[gloomy umbra]

I hate that you're right

[gloomy umbra]

one mission left

thankfully its a straight bossfight

downside its a straight bossfight

...... considering how that went I think..... I might actually be good at this game

thats..... huh.

well I did it..... S ranked all the missions I could..... now I get to progress in NG+

I really think, that what Im gonna do, is play the game as I did the first time round, not picking any of the new shiny options, and just getting hte other alt missions.

[gloomy umbra]

okay Ive figured out what I need to do, found new guide thats actually helpful.

yey

[regal flower]

Give

[gloomy umbra]

https://www.pushsquare.com/guides/armored-core-6-endings-guide-how-to-get-all-3-endings#how-do-you-get-the-liberator-of-rubicon-ending

tells you what missions you need to do for what endings

[regal flower]

Thank

I defeated the ||first Ibis|| with missile spam

And ||Pater survives anyway||

[gloomy umbra]

NG+ spoils ||new arena fights. very very shiny||

[gloomy umbra]

||what an asshole||

[gloomy umbra]

||pure agression does not work as well as it once did||

||well I mean, it works but, well, midrange is better.||

[distant raft]

Go to sleep

[regal flower]

I missed a combat log on the Coral Convergence

[gloomy umbra]

its only 4:30

[distant raft]

Did you sleep the night of the 28th/29th

[gloomy umbra]

its in a stupid spot, look it up

[distant raft]

Because im doubting it

[gloomy umbra]

yes

[distant raft]

Oh okay

[gloomy umbra]

if night includes 3 in the morning

[distant raft]

Then go outside

It does not

[gloomy umbra]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. NOT OUTSIDE

[gloomy umbra]

uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...... well..... I went to bed at 3 and woke up at 10

so

[gloomy umbra]

||okay lore wise this is super cool, Im helping allmind get better, and improve itself. thats awesome. its totally going to stab me in the back with my own pilot data later but ya know, whatever.||

[gloomy umbra]

@split stream since i know you asked this earlier, NG+ seems to have no scaling increases what so ever.

[split stream]

Good

[regal flower]

Fighting the ||Ibis|| is so annoying

[gloomy umbra]

hell its not even actually an option, upon reaching the credits you just loop back around to the first mission after you crash onto rubicon

[gloomy umbra]

it is quite a pain

I reccomend shotguns

specifically the 100 meter ones.

trust me

[regal flower]

I was so close

[gloomy umbra]

unless I find some fancy new fangled parts that change everything..... I think my general use build is finished..... which is kind of sad.

although who knows what the later missions will bring

oh?! OH?!

WELL THEN

awww..... its not a lot of anything

did technially beef up BEHEMOTH a bit though

otherwise, not so much

[regal flower]

Well, I suppose I should kill|| Carla||

At least I would if I wasn't boiling

[gloomy umbra]

Pnaaaad, you should give context, not just black out a tiny fraction of the sentance

mission numbers exist

use them

[regal flower]

You know that's the other option

[gloomy umbra]

for your crimes against proper spoiler forms, I give you the worst punishment I can possibly do. I am removing your Flagg status.

suffer.

your fate has been sealed.

[astral cliff]

ugh, I'm gonna try issue a refund. I got filtered by balteus and fighting him is making me mad enough that the game is not good for my mental health.

[gloomy umbra]

Im sorry you did not enjoy, may your refund be swift and given.

[astral cliff]

hopefully...

GMG's refund policy is shit but I'm hoping I can get it via paypal

[gloomy umbra]

[regal flower]

Noooooooo

[quiet root]

https://tenor.com/view/seal-dgaf-seal-with-it-gif-7886518

[gloomy umbra]

I give you all, BEHEMOTH. that which sits at the edge of possiblity.

NG+ things ||theres one set of arenas left, this message has been changing ever so slightly each time I complete one of its "analysis" arenas, I got a bad feeling about this, on the other hand, I did just get the Raven helmet, so ya know, its probably fine.||

||ravens helm choice..... kinda sucks..... I was hoping it was going to be some top of the line uber helmet but no..... its actually just worse than the helm Ive been using since chapter 3.||

welp, Ive got literally every OS thing now.

so thats cool

Im as effective with everything again.

so even though now that songbirds are once again almost objectively better as a follow up attack, Im sticking with the worm killer, because Ive grown to really like it.

[tranquil magnet]

I’ve been deliberately varying my build so far
Trying to avoid getting stuck in using the same weapons for every build

I’m at the second or third to last mission of the first play through though
||and “infinite energy” sounds like it’ll be a time||

[gloomy umbra]

||its, its fun. real fun.||

||but considering its been 40 minutes Im assuming you've now encountered the downside to that mission. have fun killing one of your few friends!||

[gloomy umbra]

I just like finding the things I enjoy that are also good, and using them.

which leads me to my current build of, AR, Moonlight, Wormkiller, Sextouple plas rockets.

set em up with the plas rockets, with the AR constantly going off to make sure their stagger doesnt go down, moonlight to harrass them occationally or follow up, and wormkiller for big hits or to get some extra stagger in.

it is rare to find an enemy that can effectively dodge the wormkiller at medium range

its projectile speed is insane

I do wonder what the PvP scene looks like though.

Im guessing a lot of ultra light shotgun builds.

I personally wonder what my ACs weight class is considered though, because I personally think of it as medium weight.... but given the amount of heavy duty armor Im using its probably considered heavy.

[gloomy umbra]

@regal flower chapter 5 thingies ||Paters lines are REALLY different, instead of snail ordering leathal force in self defense, Pater just says to kill us. also he refers to himself as V. V instead of V. VIII which I think is cool. small details like that are just so lovely.||

||snail REALLY wanted us reducated, Pater just wants us dead.||

[regal flower]

Huh

Did you already make it to Chapter 5 in NG+?

[gloomy umbra]

yes

the game is quite short if you already have optimized builds

[regal flower]

I’m so behind

[gloomy umbra]

you arent

Im just a lunatic

also, reminder, I S ranked every mission before now, I know them fairly inside and out, you aren't behind, I just frontloaded enough that I was able to speedrun to the new stuff.

also also reminder: its second week of college for me. I have no actual commitments, so Ive been able to just play day in day out.

theres nothing due.

no big projects

nothin

[gloomy umbra]

I think this is the lowest ammount of money Ive gotten while S ranking a mission.

I mean base pay was nonexistant, but man, is that a low outcome

the first mission of the game, the bloody tutorial, pays better than that!

[gloomy umbra]

Chapter 5 final mission ||oh you have got to be kidding me. I THOUGHT HE WAS DEAD?! AND WHAT IS HE DOING INSIDE OF A C WEAPON FRAME?!||

||welp guess Ill never know. blew him the hell up. You'll be missed ol walty.||

||oh and he could hear Ayre and or see her at the end of it all. thats.... wacky. theres so much weird crap thats happened I don't even know anymore.||

||and for my troubles I got.... an Ibis C Weapon suit parts. thats.... huh.||

annnnd S ranked.

now all that remains is the NG++ stuff

and then Ill be..... done..... huh

well tonight I read book then sleep

how the hell do 11 achivements remain.

technically 10 given 1 is the "get every achivement" achivement.

all hidden

oh I see, most of them are "get all X"

and given that theres still one story path left, I have yet to get everything

[tranquil magnet]

(I am now going to actually do the mission
I have painted my mech black and red for the bad ending)

[tranquil magnet]

Question before I go into the last mission
can I still do replays of the ones from the first run
or should I pause and go get like combat logs and stuff I missed

[tranquil magnet]

Okay I got an answer from someone else
And did the thing

I'm a bit impressed that they have an ending that's both clearly the bad end and yet you and everyone else have genuine reasons to be acting as you are

[split stream]

Just means it's genuine, aye?

[gloomy umbra]

Yup

[gloomy umbra]

I considered doing that. Probably shoulda.

[gloomy umbra]

alright, back in it one last time, to get the bestestest ending.

[gloomy umbra]

uhhh alright NG++ first split choice mission ||so instead of us attacking the mining ship, TWO C WEAPONS SHOW UP. THEY THREW TWO WHOLE C WEAPONS AT THAT THING.||

||and given that its two whole C weapons, the ship is obvioiusly already destroyed by the time you get there.||

[distant raft]

Remember:No Russian

[gloomy umbra]

||oh and now WHEELS SHOW UP. what the hell is institute tech doing here. WHAT IS GOING ON.||

[gloomy umbra]

||and now there are MORE WHEELS AND MORE C WEAPONS. what the hell kind of deranged drunken encounter IS THIS||

[gloomy umbra]

that mission, actually was worse than some of the endgame missions I had to do on either side of the campaign

dear god

this third ending better be worth it

[distant raft]

it would be funny if you were just shot in the back

[gloomy umbra]

for those who wish to know ||in that mission your first opponents are 2 C weapons, very small ones, not all that bad, then four wheels come out to play, in an open enviorment, with no cover. fine enough if a bit annoying but THEN ON A TIMER, TWO MORE OF THE SAME C WEAPONS SHOW UP, AND THEN TWO MORE WHEELS. IN TOTAL, FOUR C WEAPONS, SIX WHEELS, IN ONE MISSION. WITH NO COVER.||

||my endgame builds struggled SIGNIFICANTLY with that, and its all because of the STUPID WHEELS HITBOXES. their attack patters are so god damned random, and then basically only when they are charging can you knock them down, but then when you knock one down theres still THREE OTHER WHEELS TO DEAL WITH AND AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA||

I hate that mission

I hate it.

Id honestly rather go through the emotional turmoil of the "bad" ending again.

[gloomy umbra]

and now S ranked, that mission is hell

The annoying thing is, I’m not sure how I did it. I mean, I have a vague concept, but it felt like a fugue. It just kinda…. Clicked, but I don’t know why or how.

[gloomy umbra]

man NG++ has some funky missions. I like it.

[split stream]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/865255630688354334/1146599407580631040/v0f044gc0000cjn72kbc77ubo5v714tg.mp4

[gloomy umbra]

YEEEEEEEEEES

I love this games customization

[regal flower]

||Carla|| is so difficult

[gloomy umbra]

Dude. Spoilers.

[regal flower]

Sorry too busy trying not to scream

Oh okay, Liberate Ending spoilers ||I guess Rusty was a Liberation Front spy the entire time???||

||This whole liberation thing is going better than I expected||

[tranquil magnet]

You need to specify which ending

there's a few

[regal flower]

||Feels like the Liberate ending is the one you're supposed to do second||

[gloomy umbra]

||yeah. Rusty is a lad.||

[gloomy umbra]

||ehhhh, debateable. Ayre gives a small schpeal post creds. Either can be done first I think. Either way have fun being evil and feeling terrible!||

||either way, all the endings, at least the two I’ve seen, actually make sense which is impressive. I feel awful in the evil one but…. It just makes sense why I did what I did.||

[regal flower]

||I thought there was a limit to how arrogant someone could be, Snail is proving me wrong||

[regal flower]

||But he's so difficult||

[regal flower]

I was so close

The pain

[regal flower]

Did the thing

||Poor Walter||

Time to do it all again

Wow it just throws you right back in huh? ||The after credits scene makes me glad I chose liberation first||

[gloomy umbra]

….. ||it’s literally balteus round 2. Just….. kill it. He barely put up a fight compared to normal balteus.||

||pair of worm killers + pair of long ranged shotguns and he melts.||

[dreamy light]

bruh people are throwin in the zimmerman meta

here i am doing a dual trigger laser pistol build

[gloomy umbra]

Look, I only use the shotguns for S ranking. My prefered build is a horrifying mid ranger.

once I finish the campaign and get all S ranks, and all the other stuff, Im gonna start trying PvP

see how well S ranking every mission compares to actual skill

also the counter to zimmermans is range, stay outside their prefered range of 108 meters, and they can't do anything but dink you. sure, assault boost exists, but that leaves you wide open to some nasty hits.

Ill get to properly testing my theory in PvP, but I have the honest belief that Zimmermans are a gimmick, only really useful against unthinking AI.

[gloomy umbra]

NG++ chapter 2 ||Ayre was able to decript some invise mechs coms, and apparently we're an impediment to the release project..... thats very interesting.||

[gloomy umbra]

NG++ arena ||allmind apparently has some super secret hidden arena battles. fun. Ayre gave me a backdoor in. time to wreak some havock.||

||allmind is collecting some weird data, something about "primary factor" and considering my run ins with that unregistered (as in not in the arena) lady who had allmind parts, Ive got suspicions.||

||NG++ is funky, weird, and I like it.||

..... the reward for beating one of the NG++ arenas ||its a dart launcher. you know, the thing I was begging for for most of my first playthrough? THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN NICE EARLIER.||

||a physical back wepaon that doesnt weigh half a ton. oh well.||

||it aint even a bad weapon, shame that now that I have all the upgrades I don't quite have a use for it. maybe for an arena build or something.||

[regal flower]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1071880005279285340/1146882504280784906/giszzizej8lb1.png

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1071880005279285340/1146882503928447148/wl877sp4e9lb1.png

[gloomy umbra]

heh. yeah

[gloomy umbra]

hm. yeah..... bad year to graduate.

[flint sedge]

found it again

[gloomy umbra]

those Zimmermans are nice. now watch as I dance around you at 200 meters and your little shotguns do nothing.

here, eat moonlight.

[gloomy umbra]

NG++ Creepy City Misison ||allmind.... what.... what are you doing here.... and.... liberation front in..... those were C weapon blasts.... what the hell is going on here.||

||thumb dolmyan can hear/see the coral like us..... god damn.....||

||or well, he could. confusing, will need to take midrange AC to hear full conversation next time.||

||allmind..... thinks the RLF is.... not the right thing? allmind.... why do you sound very human right now. with emotions. allmind.... what..... what the hell is going on. well, this just got way more confusing.||

||I wonder..... are those invis drones.... allminds?||

||dolmyan really did have something similar to what happened to us and Ayre, with a different mote of coral.... and was looking into something called release, so that he could preform symbiosys.... something that allmind doesn't approve of.... I..... theres a lot more at play here than either of the first two campaigns showed, and those already had a LOT at play.||

||oh I see, Thumb Dolmyan wants to STOP the release, what an asshole. well lets do the opposite of his wishes.||

||fun times to be had.||

[regal flower]

I probably shouldn't be having this much trouble with ||Volta and Iguazu|| in NG+

[gloomy umbra]

||probably not, but they’re a bit rough.||

[gloomy umbra]

NG++ Arena fights ||I think Ive figured out what these fights are. Omega 1 was Rusty's final mech, Omega 2 is the wolf mech that Walter used..... is Omega 3 going to be..... Ayre? Its hard to say but this is very very interesting.||

||also this note is real creepy. walter was considered a second factor? but.... why.... and how. either way, this is going to be real easy. or at least it should be.||

||alright what the hell, thats.... an absolutely titanic step up from Walter. god damn.||

||Im going to need an actual AC for this, not SPEED DEMON.||

||okay actual mech made that real easy, now, how the hell does ALLMIND know about the only pilotable IBIS series craft.||

||and the reward was his really really cool gun. sweet.||

||two stage charge gun, with the second stage being a giant boss laser, very very cool. shame I have no use buuuut, still cool.||

post spaceport mission NG++ ||hey allmind what the hell are you.||

||allmind is just giving me missions now. by the nine.||

||this is real weird, real interesting, and real cool.||

||damn allmind is brutalist. but, it is trying to preform coral release so I mean, guess Ill help it.||

||I feel like allmind is more than just a support program for mercenaries. something, far more.||

||all of its parts are about reducing the seperation between pilot and machine, and is aiming to release coral seemingly into the universe itself, which would cause more instances like us and Ayre. either way, how long has ALLMIND had this agenda, and what started it.||

||OH AND KATE MARKSON IS BACK. HI KATE. SO YOU TOO WORK FOR ALLMIND. LIKE I CALLED IT.||

well that was a funky mission

[gloomy umbra]

NG++ Depth 2 ||well then, Iguazu wasn't here, but instead coldcall ambushing me, and now a resupply point.... I got a bad feeling about this.||

||and then there weren't any more suprises..... what?||

NG++ Arena ||its not ayre its instead.... the institute bot..... could that be..... is ALLMIND an institute program, and the thing that sent the institute bot after us when we blew up the laser grid?||

@regal flower I have found out why they called that boss what they did. the one we thought was misslabled? yeah, the answer is in NG++ Arena.

TLDR ||Ayre wants to pilot a mech and fight us in arena space for funzies||

NG++ Post Arena||.... redshift?! as in.... better moonlight?!||

[regal flower]

https://tenor.com/view/anya-forger-anime-star-eyes-suprised-excited-gif-26565507

[gloomy umbra]

and then also ||objectively better plasma rifle, but thats less interesting. it does a coral multi explosion. while cool, not as cool as RED MOONLIGHT||

[gloomy umbra]

comparison ||it doesnt even cost more. its just.... objectively better moonlight. well except charge attacks but.... were you really using those?||

[regal flower]

||I never use the charge attack, so I love it||

[gloomy umbra]

||yeah I used it maybe twice, but it was always just not great.||

||and I mean twice across the entire game, I do not like the idea of having to charge my melee only to then wiff. thats why I took moonlight to begin with, safer ranged attacks.||

the madness of NG++ continues in a very interesting way.

I really, honestly, reccomend people go for this ending.

once you have a proper build setup from your first run though, its not that much harder to do it 2 more times, wee bit time consuming yes, but not much harder.

Im not at the final end, but the breadcrumbs along the way, well, they are very interesting

theres very little I can say even in spoiler text without sounding like a lunatic, theres just, a lot of context. I need someone else to talk to this about. someone else who knows what I know.

[gloomy umbra]

NG++ end of chapter 4 ||holy crap allmind is terrifying and she's my favorite handler character. well I say she, I still have no idea if its anything other than a rogue AI program. also "support for all mercenaries" yeah sure, but some are absolutey more supported than others, case and point, this entire campaign.||

||oh my god, we killed so much of the chain of command (in both corporations, quite honestly they are completely crippled) that PATER IS V THREE||

||GO YOU PATER. NOW DIE SCUM! FOR ALLMIND!||

||oh damn. Im allmind admin now. cool. at least, I think thats what that means.||

||or no, allmind admined me out of existence, ah well, still, Im one of very few its seemingly done that for. the other being that strange Kate woman.||

||holy crap ALLMIND knows about ayre.... by the nine. I love this campaign.||

combat log rank 15 is max

just got an achive for it

[regal flower]

So you can see all the combat logs???

[gloomy umbra]

see?

if you mean every mission that has a combat log yes?

the final reward was:

which is ||a slow one combo blade, that if you charge does a massive sweeping laser beam.||

[gloomy umbra]

but long story short, you want all of them, you have to do NG++

NG++ second to last or last mission, unclear ||it would appear, that the pilotable IBIS AC is walters own AC. thats his AC. of choice. which is insane. dear god. no wonder he calls us hounds. the mans own AC is a giant wereworlf ibis weapon thingy.||

||I mean thats what seemingly is being shown, Ill get confirmation when I go to kill him in a bit I think.||

[regal flower]

||Sad, wish you didn't have to kill him||

[gloomy umbra]

||yeah that IS his AC, also allmind is using pilot data of all 6 vespers to hound Carla and Walter at the same time. not 6 split between them, I mean Carla is fighting off 6 Vesper coppies, and Walter is fighting off 6 vesper coppies. holy crap.||

[gloomy umbra]

||I mean Overseer is literally trying to do the exact opposite of what Im trying to do.||

||oh also ALLMIND faked our death, and walter knows thats complete nonsense. I mean, the mans right, but man is it gonna suck when I have to reveal myself.||

||oh no he already knows. welp.||

THERE WAS A HIDDEN PART CHEST HERE?!

OH GOD..... HOW MANY HAVE I MISSED IN THE ALT MISSIONS?!

||also yes, those invis mechs were ALLMINDs||

[regal flower]

The guide says there aren't any, so ... whelp

[gloomy umbra]

||okay so I dont have to kill walter or carla this time. I only have to kill chatty. this is going to hurt.||

[gloomy umbra]

yeah and we both know the guides havent gotten to NG++ properly yet.

[regal flower]

||Hopefully Chatty can just move on to a new body ... hopefully||

[gloomy umbra]

||oh yeah they dead.||

[gloomy umbra]

||so.... about that.... uh..... do you not remember that Carla never backed him up.||

||ever?||

||pnad the mans dead. again. this is the third time Ive had to see him die.||

||IN NONE OF THE CAMPAIGNS DOES CHATTY LIVE.||

[regal flower]

Haven't gotten to that yet

[gloomy umbra]

huh

welp

now you know

oops

[regal flower]

Then how did he get into the ||Xylem||

[gloomy umbra]

||transfer, not backup. I killed him by basically alt F4ing all of xylem||

||meaning mans super dead.||

new part unlock. very shiny.

its.... ||thats the 360 shield. holy crap. you have to beat the game twice, for the best shield. now thats dirty.||

[regal flower]

Shiny

[gloomy umbra]

||also its pure reaction, so no holding, but, still fun.||

[regal flower]

The guide I'm using still hasn't added the collectible in Mission 21

[gloomy umbra]

yeah, they're all really not in a great state

give it a few weeks..... which I dont want to wait for

supposedly people have gotten the all achivements achivement, emaning people have found everything on their own, but still

ope yeah nows the final mission time

woo!

still, if thats the final mission..... well I hope it gives me the last bits Im missing.

Ive got 5 achivements left

[tranquil magnet]

Once you finish you can probably look up a parts list and just Google the specific ones you’re missing

[gloomy umbra]

probably

likely the best idea

maybe someones made a nice spreadsheet already

NG++ Final mission ||IGUAZU?! is.... is this related to the buzzing he was always complaining about? how the hell do you JOIN an AI? I just... what the hell. (yes it was G5s voice, combined with allmind) either way, I HELPED YOU ASSHOLES. welp. tis a shame but, blood for the blood god.||

||oh, it has to.... kill us and make us.... join it to trigger coral release.... what? alright. this. this is gettin weird. funky, and neat.||

||oh thats why its called ALLMIND. it can fuse minds to it. or something. also Ayre is a C wave mutation, meaning.... not all coral are.... like her. interesting. funky. neato.||

||Tag team battle with Ayre vs a giant pissed off ALLGUAZU. well then, its time for a bloodbath. partical bath? whatever. BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOOOOOOOOD!||

||OH SWEET JESUS THERES A SEA SPIDER HERE TOO.||

||wait.... Iguazu's ear rinning.... was AYRE?! well then. neato.||

||correction correction. there are TWO sea spiders.||

[regal flower]

I realized what ||Walter's IBIS legs remind me of, they're WHITE GLINT LEGS||

[gloomy umbra]

||jesus christ Iguazu just silenced Ayre, he did some weird resonaty nonsense.||

||this fight is mental, I love it.||

yeah alright, I need.... a boss killing build.

lets try the basic shotgun monster, and evolve from there.

shotgun monster will work well, if I can remember how to dodge

all hail the mighty shotgun monster.

[regal flower]

Found a different guide, it shows missions I didn't get in NG+

I'm concerned

[gloomy umbra]

roll the dice ending: ||are we sure this is the good ending? because thats a literal black hole of coral.||

||I think this is overall.... probably a fine ending? I wouldn't call it the BEST ending, but its certainly better than I thought it was going to be. either way, lovely lovely game, now I need my achivements.||

||for rolling the dice, coral is now everywhere, and well, its time for us and Ayre to take on the new universe as we want.||

...... yeah Im gonna need to go achivement hunting I think.

from the credits OST, Im pretty certain the game considers this the bestest ending, I think of it as a solid neutral path, which I like.

locking it behind 2 NG+s though, was a bit much.

[regal flower]

||It's not a good or bad ending, it's the True ending||

[gloomy umbra]

||I consider True endings, bestest endings, where things work out for the most people, we just caused a universe spanning and forever expanding apocalypse.||

||Im not saying thats good or bad, I consider it a solid middle ground between the options we had, and they played it well, I just thing 2 whole NG+s was a bit much||

[regal flower]

I think you're forgetting this is a Fromsoft game

[gloomy umbra]

Im not

[regal flower]

This is a trend for them

[gloomy umbra]

the true endings in those games were always "please for the love of god put out the fire, theres a lot more horrible things that happen if you relink it"

call it a dissagrement in perspective.

walter you have no god damned idea.

welp

theres one last S rank to grab

overall, I love this game to bits, but once again, last time Ill say it, locking the endings behind replaying the ENTIRE GAME with very slight changes, gets grating.

which, sure, there are slight dialogue changes along the way, and some different missions, but it gets tiring.

and now Im a perfect merc

and Im still missing 2 hidden achivements ARE YOU KIDDING ME

well one has to be getting all weapons.... but the other.....

finding all hidden crates?

[regal flower]

Do you know what White Glint is?

[gloomy umbra]

no

wait yes

just didnt know that was its name

okay I figured it out

theres an achivement for collecting all weapons

AND an achivement for collecting all parts

so I just need to figure out what weapon Im apparenlty missing.

[regal flower]

Always wanted to play Armored Core For Answer

[gloomy umbra]

and found a complete weapon list

alright, time to get COMPARING

okay I seemingly have every arm weapon.

so then..... a shoulder weapon

alright according to the internet Im missing nothing.

which as we all know is a blatant lie.

so what am I missing.

oh thank god someone made a spreadsheet

it was a missile launcher from the mission that nobody lists as having hidden parts

[regal flower]

Not quite the same, but very similar

[gloomy umbra]

very

annnnd thats everything.

woo.

I dont have an addiction that would be rediculous

my only wish, was that there were more AR options.

as in traditional ARs, not the weird burst ones.

because seriously theres about 7 different types of boom boom, and only 4 ARs, 2 of which are burst, 1 of which isn't even automatic.

[regal flower]

You did it, you Armored Cored

[gloomy umbra]

A warning to you all doing NG++

those arena fights eventually go away, for some reason.

do them when they show up, which you probably were going to do anyways, Im just warning you.

you have been warned.

..... wait .1% of players have S ranked everything..... but .3% have the "get every achivement" achivement?

oh wait its steam doing the weird thingy again

nevermind

the weird thingy where it shows the wrong percentages on the post game summary, but the right ones in the actual achivement pannel

love when it does that

[regal flower]

Here’s a question: How popular has Armored Core 6 been? Can we expect more installments in the series?

[tranquil magnet]

Fromsoft's second biggest release after elden ring I think

please give more

I do think DLC is likely the format makes it so much easier than even dark souls to give dlc

"A pack of missions, bosses, arena fights, and parts" there's your dlc

[distant raft]

Bandai namco stated they wanted to turn it back into a franchise

[tranquil magnet]

Good

[dreamy light]

AC6, first one ive played but gawd damn is is fun

[flint sedge]

Tenno SCHOOM

[gloomy umbra]

God damnit

[gloomy umbra]

Oh yeah!

Woooooo!

[tranquil magnet]

In chapter 3 of NG+
||“Hmmm, I wonder where the “defend the spaceport” mission is this run, I don’t remember this dam mission-“
“Ohhhhhhhhh”||
The devs really did say "git gud" in ng+ huh

[dreamy light]

just got onto first NG+

||did fires or raven first lmao time to try to other endings||

[gloomy umbra]

Yeahhhhh

Wait for NG++ though.

That’s when they start kicking you while you’re down.

[gloomy umbra]

||there were no winners of the coral war.||

[pulsar oak]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vO2SOqO7cs

[gloomy umbra]

god damnit zullie

[regal flower]

https://www.tumblr.com/nimrod-labhradha/727496910859091968/some-of-these-post-mission-calls-are-really

[tranquil magnet]

NG+ finished
||I am very sorry Walter you don't get to finish your dialogue when a pilebunker kills you before you can use a repair kit||

[gloomy umbra]

||embarassing. Although personally I just shotgunned wormkillered him.||

||have fun in ++!||

[spiral blaze]

Alright then put a tarnished in armored core

Gotta keep the balence

[gloomy umbra]

I mean your pilot can be anything

Just pretend they are a tarnished.

[regal flower]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1071880005279285340/1148472362778501212/20230830_213249.jpg

[gloomy umbra]

DA FUNG.

I love G6 and Michigan.

||I miss them dearly.||

[regal flower]

https://www.tumblr.com/improbablynothere/727597900203474944

[split stream]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/326960525126926338/1148448017595240500/FB_IMG_1693495838355.png

[gloomy umbra]

pfffffffffffffffffft

[spiral blaze]

By kanikama25

[regal flower]

?

[gloomy umbra]

Slow slow quick quick slow is what the insane guy says. The mission you do for Carla to get the worm killer.

He repeats it like a mantra. For some reason.

But Ayre becoming the true waifu she was always meant to be, 10/10.

[gloomy umbra]

It’s actually never explained beyond “he’s a sociopath (more than usual) and insane”

Do seriously none of you remember in mission dialogue?

Here’s another ya’ll get to hear on repeat if you reach NG++ ||hold the line, we are coral warriors! Aaaaaaa!||

[regal flower]

I know that, but why would it be stuck in 621’s head?

[tranquil magnet]

It’s annoying

I didn’t give him time for it by NG++ it was slash slash crunch with moonlight and a pilebunker

[gloomy umbra]

I just had the audio muted for most of NG++

[tranquil magnet]

That’s a different kind of unhinged

Also https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/711076228446027807/1149182627266441216/image.png

Fighting the final boss was pain I always got through phase 1 and 2 no problem but then phase 3 went hyperaggressive and I simply ceased existing
So out of frustration I switched to a suicidal lightweight point blank range build and stabbed it until it stayed down while completely ignoring the adds

[gloomy umbra]

Yeah so uhhhh ||Ayre fully distracts the sea spiders. They’re set pieces.||

But congrats!

Now S rank it.

Also because I find it neat, that endings name roughly translates to “roll the dice”

Considering what you did to get there and what happens after, pretty damn fitting.

[tranquil magnet]

||You’d think so!
No they absolutely can attack you and their beams have big aoes||

[gloomy umbra]

||look I dont know what happened for you, but through literally all of my attempts fighting that boss, doing it again for fun, and S ranking the lad, they not ONCE damaged me.||

||I do not know what I did differently than you. I am sorry for your suffering.||

[tranquil magnet]

||Its not that Ayre takes all their attention just that her weapons are really good at staggering them I think
So it’s just luck that they managed to land an actual attack||

[gloomy umbra]

||huh. funky. alright then.||

||all I know is that I liked refering to the boss as ALLGUAZU and that he is really whiny. also he hurt Ayre, meaning he had to die a horrific and painful death.||

||nobody hurts Ayre and lives.||

[tranquil magnet]

||of course, a violent demise is the only appropriate response||

[gloomy umbra]

||indeed.||

[regal flower]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1071880005279285340/1149584367258185768/xtNTM4j.png

[flint sedge]

Someone made a human form for Allmind
Then someone made it into a VRChat model
AND the Va for Allmind approves.
https://vxtwitter.com/han_meg_han/status/1700122757223330259

[regal flower]

Uh, okay?

[gloomy umbra]

But….. we don’t even know what Allmind remotely would theoretically look like. We don’t know what ANYONE looks like.

[flint sedge]

you think that stops artists?
https://twitter.com/las91214/status/1699062758585844007

LAS91214 (@las91214)

ALLMIND
#ARMOREDCOREVI
#ArmoredCore6
#アーマードコア

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Twitter · Sep 5, 2023, 2:11 PM

[gloomy umbra]

I’d like them to see reason and stop making generic horny office women.

There’s not even any blue on her! That’s the one thing that’s consistent with allmind! BLUE!

[regal flower]

Straight people are weird

[distant raft]

we like dem titties

[regal flower]

Weird

[tranquil magnet]

No lesbians are on this too

[tranquil magnet]

This is the world's least surprising thing

It just means they can go wild with making a design inspired by their emblem, voice, and personality :P

Basically everyone who shows up in more than one mission has one or two fan designs by now

[gloomy umbra]

....... I still dont like this.

I think its rediculous.

[tranquil magnet]

Well that's you but people are enjoying themselves :P

[gloomy umbra]

Enjoying, or pleasuring?

[tranquil magnet]

Mostly the former from the art I see

People like doing fanart
The game doesn't give them character designs so the artists get creative
It's really not weird

[gloomy umbra]

alright

if you says so

[tranquil magnet]

https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fmy-interpretation-of-some-of-the-armored-core-6-characters-v0-56c7qclwe2nb1.jpg%3Fs%3D262658e14285bdcc0d725a6c9373b45384ca1048

[split stream]

https://twitter.com/mustakro/status/1699851398198743402

Mustakro🐀 (OPEN commissions) (@mustakro)

It's him, it's John Armored Core in Cuphead/Rubberhose style!

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1119

Twitter · Sep 7, 2023, 6:25 PM

[tranquil magnet]

https://twitter.com/las91214/status/1700893967641190640?s=20

LAS91214 (@las91214)

What about you?Buddy
#ARMOREDCOREVI
#ArmoredCore6
#アーマードコア

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Retweets

638

Twitter · Sep 10, 2023, 3:28 PM

[gloomy umbra]

And then he died because ||I betrayed my waifu to potentially save the universe||

Also again, that man is literally just the guy from ace combat zero.

https://youtu.be/Ox4VsczS-6Q?t=975

[regal flower]

Still need to come back and finish this

I’m like halfway to the ||true ending, I’m in the middle of NG+||

[tranquil magnet]

Update happened
A few bosses got nerfed and a bunch of machine guns and assault rifles got buffed

[spiral blaze]

Nice

[weary kayak]

it'd be nice if there was a non sketchy site hosting the patch notes

rather it would be nice if googling for the patch notes, the steam page itself was in the results

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1888160?updates=true&emclan=103582791472836796&emgid=3691318004412827951

||

MAJOR ITEMS INCLUDED IN THE LATEST UPDATE:

BALANCE ADJUSTMENTS

• Weapon Unit balance adjustments:
  MA-J-200 RANSETSU-RF: Increased attack power/rate of fire, decreased reload time.
  LR-036 CURTIS: Increased attack power, decreased reload time.
  RF-024 TURNER: Increased attack power/projectile speed, decreased reload time.
  RF-025 SCUDDER: Increased attack power/projectile speed, decreased reload time.
  MA-J-201 RANSETSU-AR: Increased attack power/projectile speed, decreased reload time.
  MG-014 LUDLOW: Increased attack power/total rounds/projectile speed, decreased recoil and reload time.
  DF-MG-02 CHANG-CHEN: Increased attack power/total rounds/projectile speed, decreased reload time.
  MA-E-210 ETSUJIN: Increased attack power/total rounds/projectile speed, decreased reload time.

• Adjusted certain attacks performed by the enemy units AAP07: BALTEUS, IA-13: SEA SPIDER and IB-01: CEL240.

BUG FIXES

• Fixed a bug that prevented certain weapons from dealing damage to the boss of the mission “Destroy the Weaponized Mining Ship”.
• Fixed a bug that caused the boss of the mission “Prevent Corporate Salvage of New Tech” to be unable to detect the player.
• Fixed a bug that caused certain enemies to not be displayed correctly during the mission “Survey the Uninhabited Floating City”.
• Fixed a bug that caused certain enemies and background objects to be displayed incorrectly during the mission “Attack the Old Spaceport”.
• Fixed a bug that caused vertical missiles and certain coral weapons to deal unintended amounts of damage.
• Improved camera controls when spectating online arena battles.
• Fixed a bug that caused the punch animation to not be displayed correctly on the opponent’s screen during online arena battles.
• Other bug fixes.
• Fixed the text displayed onscreen after selecting “Quit Game” from the System Menu on the title screen.
• Fixed a bug causing certain bosses to be rendered incorrectly.

The version number of this update shown at the lower right corner of the Title Screen will be as follows:

App Ver. 22
Regulation Ver. 1.02.1
||

[gloomy umbra]

Im glad my bois the assault rifles got straight upsides.

also bosses easier. well then. its a shame I already DID ALL OF THEM.

[tranquil magnet]

The machine guns and ars might actually be usable now

[gloomy umbra]

They were usable!

My main build used the ARs. They work lovely.