Armored Core General!

[polar osprey]

kick it a bit as a treat

[radiant birch]

bonk

(NG++ spoilers) ||ngl i was relieved when i didn't have to fight Ibis again for Alea Iacta Est||

||it's great because Snail stabbing you in the back is such a huge "oh shit" moment in the other two routes and then ALLMIND is just like "here's where he's hiding. go murk him"||

[soft ermine]

i never had issues with either of the defense missions i mainly just found them kinda boring

[polar osprey]

fought Ibis again with shadowplay on just to see how it went and i won again

though it was by far my worst fight so far

a win is a win tho

[soft ermine]

one thing to note about that mission

several combat logs are under the bridge

each one of the wheels have one

[polar osprey]

huh

[soft ermine]

plus i think 2 other mechs

[polar osprey]

those wheels kinda suck to fight tho

[soft ermine]

yeah its better to just bombard them with explosives

and bad cook

what i did was clear them all out then went to the Ibs check point purpofully died to ibs then changed my gear to beat ibis

for the defense missions you do want range, and assult boost

[lapis shuttle]

Its very much a build thing I think. I got a ton of success with the plasma cannon shoulders and the deployable shield core power for the mines

[soft ermine]

oh the mines just always got though for me

[lapis shuttle]

And being a light build in general, a heavier build with shorter range weapons'll probably have a hellish time

[soft ermine]

but it didnt matter because i had the full shield up when it poped up

[frank pivot]

I've decided to make my current run No Shop Purchases, No Deaths, All Combat Logs, so I'm nervous for ibis

[soft ermine]

prettymuch other then a few scatches all my damage comes the suicide drones

[polar osprey]

ok got the mission done

i still hate it

switched to 12 missiles which prolly didn't change much

watched an S-rank someone did of the mission to see what i could do better

[eager vector]

@frank pivot you got a clip?

[keen hedge]

I know there's a few videos of beating the whole game with 'em, right? I think someone on pilotnet managed too :|a

[polar osprey]

ohhh man

decision time

||do i finish Walters plan and destroy the coral, or follow Ayre's path and assassinate Carla||

[soft ermine]

you can do the other path in ng+

[swift nacelle]

I recommend ||destroying the coral for your first run||

[polar osprey]

gonna do ||the Carla assassination then i suppose, i feel like attempting to save the coral is a more humanitarian thing to do||

[swift nacelle]

NG+ has some changes that fit the ||save the coral|| route a bit more

[polar osprey]

huh

interesting

i guess i can switch it up

[soft ermine]

going though ng+ is decently faster then ng

[polar osprey]

i'll heed your advice then

[soft ermine]

Theres only i think 2 missions i think are harder in ng+

by a decent measure

[polar osprey]

||sorry Ayre but we're doing it Carlas way||

||feelsbadman||

[wooden nimbus]

Oh I time traveled but my trick for the "waves of goons attack the tower" mission is ||to spend the whole thing on the opposite end of the map intercepting everything and then let it just tank the high speed flyers||

It is not a good strategy

But I hate the mission enough to not care

[polar osprey]

||"Chatty" Stick 😔 ||

||oh wow, "Chatty" was an AI!||

||that's interesting||

[wooden nimbus]

||I just like how all their nicknames except Carla are jokes||

[polar osprey]

||yeah it's cool||

[wooden nimbus]

I also love being a ten meter tall robot

[polar osprey]

i have still yet to find a match for dualie machine guns and quick rocket pods

kinda want to try PvP but at the same time i know i'm gonna get rocked

[serene kettle]

yeah it was easy for my main playthroughs but when I tried it with Redfin later it was actually pretty goddamn hard

mostly because Redfin's equipment loadout is coral missiles, the oscillator, and Dizzy.

just have to boost kick all the chaff

that mission was one of the more pain in the ass S-ranks though

[soft ermine]

i usally used this or something close to this
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/193358059517509634/1189337322718756945/image.png?ex=65b040b2&is=659dcbb2&hm=d9dc6c8678b401fc87916b85674b11249bcb56e5c147fbe191385de353e6260e&

[serene kettle]

a tip: save the turret defenses you can turn on for about the 3 minute mark, when snipers start showing up

[frank pivot]

Which mission?

[serene kettle]

they'll last longer that way and managing the lanes alone is way easier than managing the lanes + snipers

[frank pivot]

Xylem defense? What's giving you problems?

[serene kettle]

and the snipers do a lot of damage if they get any shots off

[frank pivot]

I actually didn't clip that one because I did it first try. OH I HAVE AN IDEA

Maybe watch your radar ring a bunch more!

It's great, you won't ever miss enemy blobs that way

[wooden nimbus]

Me refusing to look down ever

I miss bringing the unarmed mech into fights and forcing people to catch hands. That was a weirdly viable approach

At least in unranked

[serene kettle]

Lumberjack's primary armament is the chainsaw, but it's paired with a fist instead of a mainhand gun or anything

it turns out comboing a fist stagger into a chainsaw is very nearly a true combo (you can still miss or they can pulse armor out of it)

and missing with the fist leaves you way less vulnerable than missing with double trouble

[soft ermine]

Im not even sure what id name mine at all

[wooden nimbus]

FoxMech

Lemme eyeball that thing up there

[soft ermine]

thats not the current versino of that kinda setup

this is more to daate

[wooden nimbus]

Oooh

I only know what to call mine because I'm cringe and had a theme

[soft ermine]

the only thing i can really think of is thats its white, and im consnatly pushing it to its limits cause its very light

Arctic limit,Winter limit

[wooden nimbus]

Pilot is Fenrir so names like GLEIPNIR, ÓBUNDINN, GARM etc just came off of the whole "spooky Norse doomsday wolf" theme

[wooden nimbus]

Polar Vortex

[soft ermine]

it was fun beating ibis with this setup

well a very simlar steup

[radiant birch]

Update from ranked: dual earshots fun

Team matchmaking takes a lot longer than single matchmaking, which makes sense but also rah

[frank pivot]

i love dual melee haha

so long as you learn how to do the inputs that's an actual combo

works on all the ACs in campaign mode too!

the hardest part is not getting your brain wires crossed as to what weapon you want to hit with

[wooden nimbus]

Playing the Defend the Dam Complex mission because it's fun. This MT pilot managed to survive fighting all three of them alongside me (sorry for choppy screenshot).

Someone get this pilot an AC.

[serene kettle]

the hero we needed

fun fact, in the final Ch4 mission of NG++, any remaining MT opposition will stand down and go nonhostile immediately when you ||take out snail and iguazu||, if they somehow survive the battle

[wooden nimbus]

I want to recruit MT pilots and have a gang ;-;

[lapis shuttle]

Difference between arquebus and balam mts :v

[wooden nimbus]

MT lookin ass built on the fly

[radiant birch]

difference is that Balam MT pilots actually like their commander

[frank pivot]

if you play the basho set with the lammergeier head

you basically have the flattest, most MT build possible aesthetically XD

[urban knoll]

Making an Arms Fort for a boss fight to throw at my players is making me giggle inside

[waxen nest]

👀 big

[waxen nest]

is it gonna be sectioned? Like the maps are on the Arms Fort and the weakpoints are 'units'?

[urban knoll]

Pretty much

I'm using stationary NPCs as defense turrets on the Arms Fort that the players need to take out

They do have 2 battleship support due to their actions in the last session

So I'm having the main cannons of the Arms Fort be a map hazard where they need to get out of the firing lines of the main cannons as the Arms Fort fire at their battleship support

They will mostly deal with one side of the Arms Fort because I still want them to play the approach towards it

After the VOB section of course

[waxen nest]

oooooh

[polar osprey]

||RUSTYYYYYYYYYY 😭 ||

||these space missions are sick as FUCK holy shit||

||damn, Ayre got hands||

[serene kettle]

||...Raven...||

[polar osprey]

||bro she is kicking my fucking ass||

||i can't dodge all this laser spam shit||

[serene kettle]

||It definitely takes some dodginess, though tbh it's not that different from the earlier IBIS fight. Some people do struggle a lot with Ayre though.||

[polar osprey]

||also i keep trying to counter melee her with my kick but it does not work||

[polar osprey]

||i fucking dogwalked Ibis ngl but Ayre is kicking my shit in||

[serene kettle]

||oh yeah her melee attack is punishable but good luck doing it with a kick||

[polar osprey]

||the only way i've figured out how to dodge her sword is to dodge backwards||

[cursive agate]

||Staying too far results in non-stop drones for the most part.||

[polar osprey]

||got her ass, finally, that was hard as fuck||

||The Fires of Raven huh...||

@soft ermine finished the main story

[soft ermine]

https://old.reddit.com/r/armoredcore/comments/16ad9gx/a_tentative_guide_to_decisions_and_endings_in/

[polar osprey]

ty

[frank pivot]

one billion years into ac6 and i have finally got a ve-20b laser midweight biped that i enjoy both in terms of aesthetics and functionality

the uh, baaaaarely squeeking out 3000 EN is not the best but it could be way worse

and you still technically have missiles and melee, even though the arms have 79 melee spec lol

[inland sluice]

Armocor

[eager vector]

sick

[wooden nimbus]

Zio Matrix lookin ass (compliment)

[serene kettle]

I can only read Zio Matrix in the Emeraude Contact's hilarious voice

[eager vector]

lmaooo god

I should replay ac2

[serene kettle]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pX8aD62D_Wc

the briefings kill me every time

(if you haven't played AC2, watch the first minute of this video. Please. It's so good. I don't know what accent they told the voice actor to do, but my guess is "all of them")

[polar osprey]

(Crossposting from #876910634091053076 ) tfw Armored Core

[wooden nimbus]

Ooooh

[final monolith]

When you realize you can rotate heads to put decals on other sides of it

It was probably always there but for some reason I just found out today

Brb gonna paint my Shade Eye visor

[final monolith]

also linear rifle tetrapods seem really cool with their "not stopping after firing charge shot" thing, how common are they?

[radiant birch]

like in PVP?

i have one that runs dual curtises. it does alright, i wouldn't say it's smashing the meta or anything

[polar osprey]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwAQs1OgF-0

lore accurate 621

[frank pivot]

Speaking of

https://youtu.be/JUR5-MM-ZAk?si=q9xQVV0Q9EeGqPE7

[polar osprey]

how the fuck do i kill ||Iguazu and Volta at the dam in ng+||

i HATE ||duo fights||

fuck it

Moneywaster Spec time

[quasi copper]

try fighting one at a time

don't give up, skeleton!

[polar osprey]

the other one keeps coming and interfering

[serene kettle]

my advice: ||Go after Iguazu first. He's a lot more mobile than volta, and also a lot easier to beat down quickly. Volta will have a harder time reaching you before you can take down Iguazu than vice versa. If Volta does join the melee while Iguazu is still up, retreat; if you cover ground with them both pursuing you, Iguazu will pursue more aggressively and put distance between the two of them. There's also a Heavy BAWS Tetrapod MT that becomes friendly when you ally with the rubiconians squirreled away at the top of a dam off to the right, and it's strong enough to be helpful if you can lead them to it.||

[polar osprey]

i did moneywaster and just melted them

[serene kettle]

lol if it works

[quasi copper]

I know, "try fighting one at a time" is a classic Dark Souls form letter

[polar osprey]

nobody is a match for 4 miniguns

[serene kettle]

yet to meet a man who can outsmart boolet

[polar osprey]

🙏

[soft ermine]

my plan was just to oneshot ignazu

with the piledriver

It does enough damage in one hit to take him down before he reaches the hp heal threashhold

[serene kettle]

lol

Iguazu just isn't that dangerous unless he's allowed to play skirmisher for Volta and harass you from the sidelines.

Volta, on the other hand, is a brick shithouse

[soft ermine]

thats more of the issue is both atacking me

my thought is since igansu is alot weaker hp its easier for me to to just burst him down vs volta

[quasi copper]

Volta is a beast

[polar osprey]

ok i officially despise all defence missions in this game

fucking bullshit

||if you are at the extraction zone, keep moving, don't fucking stay still while they deploy an AC to fight me, keep fucking going||

[radiant birch]

Oh that fucking mission

I still haven't gotten the combat logs bc ||the fucking helicopter crumples like tissue paper if I'm not there keeping attackers off it every single moment so I can't go hunting||

[polar osprey]

||THERE'S COMBAT LOGS IN THIS MISSION||

FUCK

[radiant birch]

If you want advice, ||a good multi-lock capacity is helpful--a dual ten-cell missile build got me through by wiping out entire waves of MTs in one salvo||

[polar osprey]

and now, perhaps my least favourite mission in the game

Investigate BAWS Arsenal No.2

[modern hornet]

Just murder everything well before ||the helicopter gets close enough for them to target it on the way to the 1st and/or 2nd objective, then go a bit to the side to nuke the Tetrapod.|| That's how I did the log for that mission.

[polar osprey]

yeah investigate baws arsenal is actually my least favourite mission in this game

bad mission

just unenjoyable gimmick

[serene kettle]

It's one of the hardest S-ranks too.

[eager vector]

Idk I like it

[serene kettle]

I do like it

It's actually way easier if you still have the starting head equipped

[polar osprey]

the stupid scan thing is absolutely useless every time i've tried it

[serene kettle]

because the starting head actually has the fastest ping cooldown stat

Really? I scan all the time

or at least I did before I memorized every mission layout oops

[eager vector]

I think S rank only took me an attempt or two- I was running laser lance and I knew to bring a good scan head

[polar osprey]

literally not gotten any use out of scan for this mission in any of the times i've tried it

it does absolutely nothing

[serene kettle]

are you using a head with terrible scan range or something?

[polar osprey]

Melander

[eager vector]

getting close to them reveals them, so a melee build that stunlocks them works great

[polar osprey]

using the Pale Painter so it'd be the Melander head

[serene kettle]

tbh my S-rank strat for BAWS Arsenal was just knowing all their hiding places already and oneshotting them with double Cheese Sticks (stun needles)

[soft ermine]

yeah that one is wierd

[serene kettle]

no wasted time, just instant death before they're even done unfolding

[soft ermine]

its easy to s rank it once you find the secret hidden one

[polar osprey]

the Pale Painter build

[cursive agate]

I've used the max scan arquebus head (VE-44B) for BAWS Arsenal S rank because of massive reach + long scan duration, recharges before the duration runs out too. (700m, 18 sec duration, 4.8 sec recharge)

Melander head has pretty underwhelming scan stats (310m range, 4.8 sec duration, 4.2 sec recharge).
I've heard (and noticed) Scanning is more of a cone shape than radial burst.

[quasi copper]

BAWS Arsenal is just annoying to high-rank in because of how fast you have to go

[serene kettle]

yeah the S-rank is just hard because of a really tight time limit

like, if any enemy gets to teleport you've probably wasted too much time already

[polar osprey]

that sounds like a massive pain

[cursive agate]

It's a really unusually tight requirement compared to most other missions. ||1x Earshot blowing away ghosts with 1 hit saves a lot of hassle.||

[polar osprey]

L bozo

[polar osprey]

holy SHIT

I JUST COUNTER KICKED A MELEE ATTACK

lets fucking go

THE DREAM LIVES

bro pulled a sword on me and i jumped the swing and just dropkicked the bastard

[brittle flare]

time to try again

[eager vector]

hell yeah how far did you get the first time?

[unkempt bolt]

AGDQ doing an AC6 speedrun right now, in case it interests folks: https://m.twitch.tv/gamesdonequick

[frank pivot]

two crashes in a row lol

i hope they fix it

raine has been pretty cool

i still think they should be running nachtreiher instead of tian-qiang lol

for the head

cuz the stability is SO bad

and if you stagger once that's a pretty big timeloss

[cursive agate]

Oh jeez, 200-ish Stability difference between Tian-Qiang and Nach heads.

[frank pivot]

hey the strat works xD

badcooks + ve-20c diffusers = poggers dps

[brittle flare]

oh uh

just past balteus

(pre patch btw i was goated)

[final monolith]

today is Friday

[quasi copper]

in California

[past silo]

mfw the last thing I see is a retrowave screensaver

[quasi copper]

shot him dead with a laser pistol, last thing he saw was a retrowave Windows Vista screensaver, and I let the archangels take 'em

[polar osprey]

could be worse

the last thing people see when i am around in AC6 is Anti-camo killing them with bright pink guns

Balteus getting kicked to death by the Anti-camo

dripped out in the most garish purple of all time to make it hard to look at

ineffectual against AI but works great against people

[eager vector]

updated HYPERPOP paint job btw

[polar osprey]

that's rly cool

[eager vector]

should have named it with a CMYK pun….

[fierce laurel]

Today is Friday in California! Post shooteing Iguazu!

[radiant birch]

AC NAME: TOTAL LIFE OBLITERATION

...I don't know if that actually meets the character limit on AC names but can you imagine how metal

[final monolith]

SHOOT!

[final monolith]

TAK (Total ACS Kill)

(uses a Laser Lance to build stagger and then unleashes the triple barrels)

This is TAK.

[final monolith]

btw can anyone recommend a better color scheme for this load-bearing boi

[eager vector]

yea

almost anything 😎👍

[final monolith]

the ephemera chest is the only thing that can support the six-barrels

[eager vector]

running 20-c? Or b?

[final monolith]

20-c

[eager vector]

@final monolith is there a vibe you’re going for with the color scheme

[final monolith]

for Tak I want to give it like an old superweapon vibe

like something that got dug out of a hole, refitted, and then put back to work committing heresies

[polar osprey]

can't WAIT to unlock those shoulder weapons

[eager vector]

basho recoil control is terrible, you might wanna go shotgun over the ludlow

@final monolith maybe something like this?

it’s a little more milsim

[final monolith]

yea something like that

[eager vector]

you could up the weathering too

[polar osprey]

max weathering would probably give more of the vibe you are looking for

[frank pivot]

has this pca drone always been here?

it's destroyable but

it doesn't do anything i don't think?

maybe it's a spotter for the missiles?

[quasi copper]

whaddafaack

[serene kettle]

Huh, weird

I don't remember seeing that in the mission either

[surreal tundra]

||TBF you can eventually get better than the corpo slave thing I think lmao||

Ocellus+Basho arms basically cancels out the horrendous firearm spec entirely at close range-
which is my favourite range for melee shenanigans lmao,

dang XD
Wait were they using truenos?

[inland sluice]

Dunno

[surreal tundra]

it's pretty great at in PvE's 1v1s/a lot of the bossfights- someone said the AI doesn't quite know how to dodge the trail and far as I've experienced that's been kinda true,

is Snailteus that hard with loader4?

[surreal tundra]

fair enough,

I can't quite remember if you just had to clear it 1 way through-
Or if you can get less than S-rank for like, going with a heavier or otherwise more expensive loadout,

[surreal tundra]

oh the lil babby halping you XDDD

[surreal tundra]

oh that's gonna be big mzxncc

[surreal tundra]

ohohohooooooo my goddess that sounds amazing mznxcvx

[surreal tundra]

Peil

[surreal tundra]

yeah once I got used to dodging them they never really stayed that big of a problem since I run melee so much, outside of the Xylem mission where the buildings can block me

[frank pivot]

Give it a shot and see. Now i'd say it usually takes me 2-3 tries to do, with OS tuning on, but no expansion. The first time, I did it with OS tuning and assault armor, and it took me 29 hours of attempts

By the time i was done i had internalized that i was vermin 😂

[wooden nimbus]

A very helpful babu, that

[surreal tundra]

yeeeeee

[surreal tundra]

yeeeikes,
I guess he's a lot easier with slightly different loadouts,

[eager vector]

Snailteus took me a lot of tries my first time with my lance+pb TJ

[quasi gulch]

that is beautiful!

[urban knoll]

https://vxtwitter.com/marvel_tonton/status/1729047405096788335?t=qi8_LG7FQcqmC4c4CFnxHQ&s=19
Gundam Seed opening but all the characters are ACs

[frank pivot]

that looks like it was hella fun to make

[urban knoll]

After doing a session with it, I need to add a round limit. 😓

They had a Saladin and just straight up sieged the Arms Fort

Was hoping the damage output of it would force players to play fast

[polar osprey]

i find the ||Allmind Integration things really funny because Allmind is like "we are constantly powering up our AI powered death machines to beat you" and then i fight them and literally all of them get owned by me, the dipshit who uses dual machine guns and dual 6 piece rocket pods and just holds down the trigger on all my weapons when fighting||

||who would win, the most advanced super AI battle bot or some dipshit m1+w spammer||

[polar osprey]

Iguazu is such a rat

[polar osprey]

triple laser cannons are cool but i can't fit anything else on with them so i will try some other stuff

[frank pivot]

What's like, the best way to permanently save and archive long streams?

[polar osprey]

going to try a dual melee build

ok pairing laser lance and piledriver is massive damage, but the range on piledriver is so pitiful i will try something else

[polar osprey]

got my newest AC desgin completed, i call it Double Sunrise

dual melee spec

testing out my AC's in missions and arena rn

[eager vector]

no basho?

[polar osprey]

nah

am using Basho on the Good Hunter tho

[eager vector]

The trick is to slide in with the pb

[polar osprey]

pb?

[eager vector]

pilebunker

[polar osprey]

ah

i've taken to pairing the laser lance with the dual blade thing

[eager vector]

that absolutely works too

[polar osprey]

ok the Good Hunter is super fucking fast

gonna see if i can find some better options for the back weapons

eyeing those back mounted drones that send out drones to hover around the enemy

been testing my AC's with the vesper ambush mission as well as against Freud in the arena

yeah these things i think will be good

[polar osprey]

gonna try doing the g1 michigan mission using Good Hunter

[eager vector]

Can’t run out of ammo with a sword

[polar osprey]

yeah like i thought

bringing the short range 1v1 light mech build to the endurance mission was a stupid fucking idea

[eager vector]

lol

It’s doable

https://youtu.be/_vGNA49shRk?si=oge0z-L8QZdjclEB

[polar osprey]

sure but i'm not that good

do i try Slow Cooker or do i just go with Pale Painter

i think i'll try Slow Cooker

Slow Cooker killed Michigan but didn't have enough hp to take out the remaining mt's and tetrapod

not enjoying this mission at all

definitely going to rank on my list of least favourites

[cursive agate]

I think it's a lot more build dependent than most other missions because of the enemy density and pacing.

[polar osprey]

didn't particularly enjoy that

ended the mission by beating a tetrapod to death with my fists at half health because literally all of my ammo was depleted

[polar osprey]

Prolly yeah

time to fight buddy

gonna try using Double Sunrise for this one

[past silo]

ever since learning that "buddy" was picked due to difficulty translating the original term I've been reading it like I'm in darkplace

[polar osprey]

darkplace?

also what was the original term

[past silo]

something more along the lines of comrade

[past silo]

https://tenor.com/view/darkplace-buddies-best_buddies-matt_berry-leo-gif-21643050

[swift nacelle]

Not even a good rat, he doesn’t know how to charge his linear rifle

[past silo]

it's a joke show that's fully on youtube

[polar osprey]

ahhh i see

lets see how well buddy does against Double Sunrise

||"hate to say it but, Rubicon still needs me... so buddy, who needs you?" well, Ayre mostly, maybe Walter and Carla?||

||ARE YOU KIDDING ME, I HAVE TO FIGHT FLATWELL AS WELL THIS TIME||

well shame on me for bringing a fucking dueling build i guess

jfc i try to have a nice fight with my buddy and i get stabbed in the back

Pale Painter does the job as per usual

[eager vector]

“you should tailor your builds for each mission each time you are defeated,” I say, knowing full well that I brute forced almost every mission in the game with the exact same loadout

[polar osprey]

so true bestie

look Pale Painters conceptual loadout has not changed throughout TWO playthroughs of the game

quick dual missile pods and twin machine guns

that's it

nothing special, just reliable shit

[eager vector]

Bisexual Lightning’s loadout is a lot more stagger>punish

[polar osprey]

Based

Based

Mine is literally just

"Hold the triggers in, shoot missiles when available"

[polar osprey]

||"i've never seen something move that fast, they must have finished work on BALTEUS" i do NOT like the sound of that||

[polar osprey]

alright

did the Liberator of Rubicon ending

[swift nacelle]

WOOO

[swift nacelle]

||Killing Snail was fun wasn't it||

[polar osprey]

really fun

also

||i now have the option to ESCORT the mining rig||

i assume that if i ||pick all the options i have not seen previously available that i will get the third ending||

||i uh, i think it's too late...||

||i really don't think i can do much about this||

[eager vector]

escort it!!!!!

you’re gonna hate this mission lmao

or your missiles might carry you through

[polar osprey]

it was not fun

you were right on the money

||Kate Markson huh, she's in a ALLMIND AC||

||she is definitely working for ALLMIND somehow||

going to finish up the third campaign then do loghunt and see if i have any mission items i need to pick up

[soft ermine]

make sure to do the extra arena stuff before you get to the end

[swift nacelle]

he hehehe

[eager vector]

( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[polar osprey]

i will

i always do Arena stuff as soon as it unlocks

[wooden nimbus]

Me forcing the campaign to succumb to my mech instead of building to the mission

Punching my way through a certain fight because I didn't bring enough ammo to play Hundred Man Slayer

[polar osprey]

bullied the absolute hell out of the pca spider

Wait...

||ALLMIND has access to the Steel Haze Ortus specs THIS EARLY!?!?!?||

[soft ermine]

||one thing i wonder is where the rubiconinan and corporation mechs come from, tester is from the early mission test pilot||

[wooden nimbus]

||Rubi and corpo I'm pretty sure are composites of the dead mechs littering the fields||

Mostly a guess based on what I've seen

[eager vector]

they’re just a mishmash of parts manufactured on rubicon or by the big corps respectively

[polar osprey]

||just beat up Walters mech in the Arena, and fought Father Dolmayan||

[surreal tundra]

Mrrp,
Oof
Fair enough
Maybe like, some kinda retreating death/damage zone? As more and more shells bombard them?

[frank pivot]

This is completely off topic but from the way you type i assume you have actual cat ears

Like not a headband but growing out of your head

😂

(Complimentary)

[surreal tundra]

Lmao jznsnd
All dragons are cats
So-
Yes, probs
I wish

[surreal tundra]

pats?

[frank pivot]

pats.

[surreal tundra]

headpats

[frank pivot]

https://tenor.com/view/miss-kobayashi-dragon-maid-s-kobayashi-headpat-ilulu-anime-gif-22585851

[surreal tundra]

Mrrrrr~

[surreal tundra]

Do you actually end up seeing/fighting them in any of the missions? Kinda forgot honestly

[eager vector]

No

[hot cape]

Found something rather interesting today: Replayed the NG+ Mission ||Defend the Dam Complex||, and it seems like there's new dialogue in it...

[polar osprey]

did the ||missions fighting Chartreuse and King again, used Cost&Benefit to just destroy them cause fighting them legit with Raven as reinforcements is just annoying||

[radiant birch]

||yeah i had to swap out my missile pods for dual songbirds for that fight. if you don't destroy at least one of them before Raven shows up then you're just fucked||

[quasi copper]

playing a little bit lame is required for those dudes

[radiant birch]

first time beating them definitely involved the charged pile bunker

[polar osprey]

Cost&Benefit is my "kill it" build

quad gatlings :)

[radiant birch]

ah, cost for benefit. i get it 😄

[serene kettle]

I use that mission as a quick testrun for pvp mechs just to get a feel for how they perform against some enemy ACs in quick succession.

at this point butchering ||Chartreuse|| in about two seconds is a rite of passage

bear witness

[polar osprey]

did the ||coral transport denial mission||

let through ||3 transports 😔 ||

[serene kettle]

enough to win

[polar osprey]

yes

indeed

[serene kettle]

you only need perfect for the S-rank

[polar osprey]

true

[soft ermine]

ugh really you need perfect for s rank

i wish you could get ranks whe ni do a mission for the first time cause i did get all of them

[polar osprey]

Also uh

||Kate is DEFINITELY ALLMIND's alt-account||

||ALLMIND's fascimile human for PR reasons||

now for one of my least favourite missions

depths 1

[serene kettle]

||I heard she has an eight pack||

It's also a reference to AC1 master of arena, which had your operator's name as ||Lana Nielsen (who turned out to be Nineball trolling you)||

[polar osprey]

lmao

||hnnnng the final ALLMIND Arena against Ayre, she's too cute 😭 ||

||oh fuck, coral sword||

[swift nacelle]

||ALLMIND's sexy humansona||

[polar osprey]

i still have some improvement skill wise but i'd say i am pretty pleased about how good i have gotten

[polar osprey]

||she really has to be, considering Ayre literally couldn't find any info on her||

||i trust Ayre's info gathering skills||

||plus she has like, low-key access to ALLMIND's files and shit||

[swift nacelle]

||ALLMIND deciding to pretend to be a flirty human pilot for fun||

[serene kettle]

||Haha I do not know what you are talking about, ALLMIND is a simple computer system for mercenaries. Mercenaries like me, Kate Markson. My hobbies include making ATP and stuffing food in my face orifice.||

[polar osprey]

||average mercenary behaviour||

there is something powerful about playing Free Bird while just fucking shit up in AC6

||"ALLMIND is certain of your success" well thank you||

[polar osprey]

damn

my fight with Rusty was too big for discord 😔

(fought him while blasting the solo from Freebird

||gods damn it, Iguazu interrupted me killing Snail and i lost cause i can't fucking deal with both of the bastards at once||

got em the second time around

||ALLMIND totally set that bullshit up||

||oh shit, this is different||

||ooooh, they've made it seem like i am KIA, nice||

||"Without their leadership, the corporations are powerless. A chain made of human links is powerless" thanks for the uh, insight, ALLMIND||

||wtf, ALLMIND put me in fucking stasis? well shit||

||oh shit i'm in the Xylem, and on my way to a satellite huh||

||OH SHIT, IS THIS THE BIG STATION THAT SHOW ME DOWN AT THE BEGINNING?||

||OH FUCK ALLMIND KNOWS ABOUT AYRE||

[radiant birch]

||I KNOW RIGHT!||

||literally the biggest jumpscare from ALLMIND was just it saying "Ayre."||

[polar osprey]

alright so

say hello to MY final mission upgrade

||Rusty had Steel Haze Ortus||

and i have Pale Painter Ruber

[radiant birch]

fuck their shit up

[polar osprey]

they think THEY are the only ones who get to do a final fight upgrade?

fuck no

it's my time

[polar osprey]

on my fuck their shit up era

[polar osprey]

||HOLY SHIT, IT'S AYRE IN HER OWN AC, THAT'S SO FUCKING HYPE||

ok uh

that did not go well

this build doesn't exactly have uh, the most ammo

[soft ermine]

i do not like that boss fight at all

[polar osprey]

it really needs a resupply before the fight proper

[soft ermine]

or just not even have a first phase

[polar osprey]

yeah

[soft ermine]

same thing with nameless king

[polar osprey]

this is going to be tricky to do

[eager vector]

Ignore the adds

both the dummy ACs in phase 1 and the spiders

[polar osprey]

wait i don't have to kill the adds?

that makes it, not easier

but at least easier on the ammo count

[eager vector]

yeah the adds automatically despawn on phase change

[stuck surge]

You can still run out of ammo if you don't make your shots count 😆

[eager vector]

absolutely, the boss proper has a lot of hp

[polar osprey]

yeah but if i just have to fight the main AC's

i should be fine

[soft ermine]

The attache are good for ammo

[polar osprey]

i can't believe ||that fucking clown Iguazu is the final boss essentially||

||ALLMIND must have been drinking the fucking stupid juice to give Iguazu full control over its final super duper AC of doom||

[eager vector]

it wasn’t so much given as taken

[polar osprey]

to be fair, ||ALLMIND fairly explicitly puts Iguazu in charge of it, and then loses control||

ok the boosters i tried using suck ass

they are so fucking slow

i wanted them for efficiency but it's actually just not worth it cause it takes like 5 whole fucking seconds between uses

ok yeah switching boosters to a quicker use one immediately made it ten times easier

||i keep getting tripped up by the big fucking melee attack, i need to learn how to dodge the different versions of it||

[swift nacelle]

||Turns out when you assimilate a dumbass, you become more of a dumbass||

[soft ermine]

its hard to dodge but what i did that sometimes worked is just assualt boost out of there to get away from the full combo

[polar osprey]

If one hit gwtsoff the rest of the combo just kinda hitsand my healthbar just vanishes

I think i just need to dodge backwards for the swipe and for the big overhead i need to dodge towards him

[soft ermine]

which of the cores do you use?

or pulse thingies

[polar osprey]

Lemme grab the build

[soft ermine]

i mean the thing on the very bottom terminal,assault,shield thing

[polar osprey]

Was gonna use Ludlows but i REALLY needed the ammo count

[polar osprey]

The one that saves you at 1 hp

It's the only one i've used all game

[soft ermine]

I would recomend giving assault a try it does heavy stablity damage if it hits the target

i used it in that fight to interrupt the melee combo once

or maybe twice i dont recall

[polar osprey]

Interesting

[serene kettle]

it's objectively one of the funniest things FROM's ever done

[polar osprey]

Is there an option to have hardlock on by default

Cause having to turn it on again everytime i redo this mission is incredibly obnoxious

[serene kettle]

It's like if in Elden Ring, you walked into the final boss room to ||watch the Bell Bearing Hunter gutting Radagon and turn toward you, but with additional salty gamer lines. The Elden Beast shouts encouragement at him and he just keeps screaming at it to shut up and quit backseating.||

[polar osprey]

Yeah lmao

[soft ermine]

one thing things i had to do to beat that fight was to try very hard to keep hardlock on for the first part of the fight

cause it was the only way to make that part end fast

[serene kettle]

the last phase is definitely the hardest part of the fight imo

I found the first phases to be pretty consistent

I do rec assault armor though just because it's fun

[soft ermine]

I just think the first phase is the same as nameless king phase 1

[serene kettle]

but also good

[serene kettle]

Pure suffering where you're battling the camera instead of the boss?

I hated nameless king

Did not get the hype

[soft ermine]

i mean it still kinda has that with the 4 BLACK allies while also fighting 1 strong BLACK ac in an arena that is very DARK

[serene kettle]

that boss fight for me was about 100 attempts of camera fuckery followed by first trying the second phase

[polar osprey]

Nameless King was not that hard imo, but also it's just not a fun fight

like objectively phase 1 is absolutely not fun

[soft ermine]

nameless king is one of the perfect examples of how fromsoftware often ruins good fight by slaping a 2nd phase on it

[polar osprey]

for my money, both the difficulty and enjoyment aspects of that boss were waaaaay overhyped

[soft ermine]

I think if you removed phase 1 of nameless king it would have been one of the best

[polar osprey]

also straight up do not have a fucking clue why NK keeps getting mentioned when Iudex and Gael exist

ok

i know i've said this a lot

but this might ACTUALLY be my least favourite mission in the entire game

[soft ermine]

another thing that was very useful for me was using the same melee rusty uses while its staggered for heavy damage

also songbird spam

[radiant birch]

what wound up working for me was jumping over the horizontal swipes and quick-boosting sideways for the vertical swipe/thrust

dodging backward i found to be iffy as the attacks have more forward range than you're expecting

/slash i kinda feel like they rubber-band to your ACs position when initiating

[polar osprey]

this is going to drive me insane

[radiant birch]

it legitimately took me 90 minutes to beat them

admittedly without optimizing my build

but phase 1 was a cakewalk, it was phase 2 and especially phase 2.5 that gave me a lot of trouble

it got to the point where i'd just restart if i had to use a repair kit in phase 1 because i knew i'd need as much AP in reserve as possible for the final leg

[soft ermine]

phase 2 was the easiest of the 3 phases for me

[polar osprey]

i'm so close to just trying to use Cost&Benefit

[radiant birch]

my build for that fight was 2x6 missile pods, ludlow, and coral rifle

not the hardest-hitting build ever, but you get some good damage with the coral rifle especially on stagger

[polar osprey]

i've been running dual machine guns and missile pods all game

[soft ermine]

i think maybe you should look into some sort of stagger punish

[polar osprey]

i think i might dislike this fight so much it actually is going to impact my rating of the game

[radiant birch]

Ludlows actually have some pretty decent stagger punish

[polar osprey]

like i was thinking it was like a 9-10/10 until this fight

[radiant birch]

It's not the giant delete hit of the pile bunker but you can rack up some damage if you dump a mag into a staggered enemy

[soft ermine]

i tried the pilebunker on that fight i could just never land it so i swaped to rusty's sword and just used the triple lights on it as my stagger punish

it was a pretty big help

[polar osprey]

got his ass

switched to Cost&Benefit

fuck that entire thing

[radiant birch]

Dakka is the answer

[polar osprey]

i genuinely think that was awful and i think this game is worse for this being in it

[soft ermine]

my hottake is fromsoft is incapable of making a good multi healthbar fight or 2v1 fight anymore

[polar osprey]

finished the game

kinda feel good but gods i hate that final fight so much i honestly just don't even feel that good about it rn

kinda want to 100% the game, but i also don't really feel like trying to do every mission S rank

[soft ermine]

yeah s rank doesnt feel worth it

i think al ot of people got them also back before a lot of the crazy stuff got nerfed

[polar osprey]

i really just don't want to do all the S-ranks

it's going to be miserable and make me enjoy the game less i think

[radiant birch]

Hard same

[polar osprey]

i already am feeling not happy after that final fight

[soft ermine]

I did some s ranking while trying to get the money to buy all parts

[eager vector]

wanna see a video of @frank pivot doing that fight with the starter AC

[polar osprey]

sure

i imagine that wasn't particularly fun

[eager vector]

I think they had a blast

lemme find it

why is it so hard to search forum threads on mobile

[polar osprey]

mobile app dogshit

[eager vector]

https://youtu.be/MJbHNhvOdTE?si=MMw_OBeBzKaqOA-8

there’s another one where they don’t use a repair and I think have no os tuning

it’s better I’ll link it when I can

[radiant birch]

I love how people will play a Fromsoft game and then go "but what if this was even harder'

[frank pivot]

https://youtu.be/5L_EwrlHYz4?si=lD7d4RUJ2ub3HpcS

Woop is the GOAT of allmind

[eager vector]

thank you!

@polar osprey this is the one

[polar osprey]

Ty

Very strongly considering if it'll be worth S-ranking AC6, cause the achievement you get for doing it is easily going to be the only achievemwent i'm going to be missing if i continue playing

Going to suck seeing it sit with one achievement barring me from completion, but doing everything S-rank might honestly suck more

[frank pivot]

If you don't mind playing an OP build it's not too bad

[polar osprey]

oh i would absolutely not do it without an OP build

there is absolutely no honor in this

Pale Painter and Pale Painter Ruber are good

but not that good

[frank pivot]

I recommend the zimmpanzee

It's literally the easiest thing ever to use

Assault boost until you're in 130 or closer. Zimm. Lcb. Zimm. Lcb. Zimm. Lcb.

[polar osprey]

Sounds good

Gonna finish up Loghunt and farming Coam for all the rest of the shop items first tho

Feeling a bit better about how i ||killed ALLMIND Iguazu||

Got his ass with by far the stupidest build i have

[ember carbon]

The only mission that will require something different in my experience is the ||Ice Worm|| due to how the fight is speed is less important than minimal damage taken

[polar osprey]

Interesting

I think the only mission i remember i have S-rank on is the ||Ibis|| mission

[swift nacelle]

I remember accidentally S Ranking Defend the Spaceport while experimenting with a build

[ember carbon]

Most S-Ranks are relatively easy in my experience as long as you focus on getting the objective done and aren’t taking a ton of damage

[eager vector]

Being able to let go of the urge to get 100% if you’re not enjoying the process is a very valuable ability

I have a couple thousand hours across DS1 and DS2, but DS3 is and will always be at like 75% completion because I wasn’t enjoying replaying it and was certainly not gonna grind out all the covenant drops.

[polar osprey]

Yeah, i had a lot of fun with the game andwith how much the ||ALLMIND boss fight|| tarnished my experience i think it might just be better to leave it

[serene kettle]

Yeah most S-ranks you'll probably get first try with the skills you've built over the course of playing through NG++

there are a couple real bastard missions though

BAWS Arsenal is one of the worst, for example, just because the speed requirement is so tight.

[soft ermine]

i did it first try when i found out about the hidden one that doenst attack you

[polar osprey]

Fuck Baws arsenal as a mission entirely

Also i am sadge that i didn't get to have my moment with Pale Painter Ruber

Went through all the trouble of making a sick asf AC as an upgrade to my normal one and then the final boss ended up being what it is 😔

[soft ermine]

yeah thats how i felt about chapter 5 in general

[polar osprey]

Was so fucking hype for a sick as hell final fight with ||ALLMIND|| and i did not get that

They were so close to greatness and yet so far

[serene kettle]

aw I liked the final boss fight

[polar osprey]

Keep thinking that the ||ALLMIND fight could have been another Slave Knight Gael||

And it wasn't

[serene kettle]

The only part that really frustrated me was the last phase and solely on me being really bad at dodging a certain attack

[polar osprey]

It was the most miserable part of the entire game for me

Completely ruined the finale of my AC6 experience

[serene kettle]

Huh. How'd you feel about the last phase? No adds, just aggression.

Easily the hardest part of the fight

[polar osprey]

The thing is

IF the two other phases hadn't been what they were

It might have been fine

I compared it to Gael for a reason, i think they have kind of a similar fight structure

But those two first phases having adds and everything just makes it miserable

Someone earlier compared it to the first phase of Nameless King

Which i think is apt to describe how i feel about it

Completely bogs the fight down with superfluous shit that makes the rest of the fight which is theorerically good, not good

[soft ermine]

that would be me that compared it to nameless king

[polar osprey]

Every time i lost was almost exclusively down to the first two phases draining my resources down to the point i couldn't deal with the third phase in any decent manner

[soft ermine]

for me it was phase 1 that annoyed me

[polar osprey]

And it was just fucking miserable trying to learn to dodge the third phase attacks when i had to go through the first two phases to try

It made me not want to play

Which is the biggest sin a fight like that can commit imo

[soft ermine]

phase 1 is the only time in the entire game me not being able to properly hardlock caused issues

[polar osprey]

I didn't even want to try because it did not feel rewarding at all

Unlike say, to compare with other Fromsoft bosses, Gael or Iudex Gundyr or even Malenia

It felt rewarding to keep fighting them, i learned bit by bit what to do

With ||ALLMIND|| i just hoped i wouldn't get bogged down by adds in 1st phase, tried to not get hit with any of the big attacks in second phase, then got stomped in third phase cause i barely had anything left to survive with to try to leatn something

[soft ermine]

I think what helps with Malenia vs other multi phase bosses is maleina has a fairly low hp pool compare to most

[polar osprey]

Gael was masterful as a ostensible three phaser, he was incredibly fun to fight

I felt like i could really learn his moves and progress through the fight

[eager vector]

Those arms are pretty terrible for ludlows

you want recoil control

[polar osprey]

They have good weapon specialization which is why i've been using them

I'm very much a midrange fighter so hitting things hasn't oft been a problem

Pale Painter Ruber is also an adaption of this AC, the original Pale Painter

[eager vector]

if youre using machine guns at midrange with low recoil control then a LOT of your shots are going wide and/or ricocheting

firearm spec doesn’t help reduce the reticle bloom from rapid fire weapons

[polar osprey]

I can switch out the arms for something with more recoil control on the Ruber

It's an upgrade to Pale Painter anyway and the only part i want to specifically keep is the upgraded Melander head

[serene kettle]

We have definitely had this exact conversation already vis a vis smgs and recoil control

[polar osprey]

I do recall talking about it

Never was a problem on the Pale Painter so i assumed Ruber would be fine as well

But i'm down to make improvents so i might as well change the arms on Ruber

[eager vector]

It was just as much of a problem on pale painter as well, is the thing

you beat ac6 with the training weights on

[polar osprey]

Oh

Really?

Is it that bad?

[eager vector]

If you were staying at midrange yeah

against large slow targets at close range the lack of recoil control probably wouldn’t be too bad

[polar osprey]

What counts at midrange

[eager vector]

like 200+

[polar osprey]

Oh then i was not midrange i think, that's a way higher scale than i thought

[cursive agate]

In-game, mid-range counts as 130m to 260m I think (according to FCS stats)

[soft ermine]

yeah

i use the attache generally if i use machinegun due ot lower recoil and high ammo

[polar osprey]

Then i was on the close range side i think

Jeez, 200 is quite far

[eager vector]

oh yeah I was way off haha

[polar osprey]

i don't like, rush the enemy constantly

[eager vector]

forgot how the numbers work

[polar osprey]

but i try to be close cause it hits better

[serene kettle]

Oh yeah, it's probably hitting better because of the recoil, haha

[polar osprey]

probably XD

[soft ermine]

this was the heavy loadout i had

[polar osprey]

i'll record a quick arena match with the Pale Painter so you can see what i mean

[soft ermine]

and this is my favorite

[polar osprey]

this should give you a good idea of my combat style

[serene kettle]

yeah you're getting considerable recoil bloom at midrange

though up close definitely melting stuff just fine

[polar osprey]

ok going to switch to the mind alpha arms since they the best recoil control to weight distro that Ruber can handle without being overburdened

[river junco]

I think as with all From stuff the boss difficulty is very personal cause once I figured out you don’t actually have to fight the Ads it was a hard but fair fight

[polar osprey]

ok i've tried some stuff to make Ruber's build fit my playstyle a bit better

trying out the tweaked build

i think it's working quite well

tried switching out the FCS i had which maximized my mid range assisst for one that has really good missile lock instead

idk if that's a worthwhile trade tho

[eager vector]

for a single target you might wanna switch to explosive missiles if you can fit them

that looks better tho

[polar osprey]

i can fit dual 4-piece explosive missiles

which should be fine

how's this?

i think it's a lot better

surprisingly the kikaku boosters turned out to work pretty well with my playstyle based on how this is going

[radiant birch]

Missile lock reduces your lock-on time proportionally. So if your missiles already lock on quickly (like under a second) it's better to prioritize target tracking

Lock correction is good for weapons with long lock times like the Trueno or Aurora

[eager vector]

Yeah those missiles are working great with your build. I’d recommend swapping out kikaku though, if you’re not using melee they don’t really offer anything that other boosters don’t do better

[surreal vine]

I am an Alula booster enjoyer™️, at least for most lighter-weight builds

QBing around hard enough to g-loc up my pilot is not a solution, it's a question and the answer is yes

[polar osprey]

I just want a booster that is as efficient and quick reload one

[eager vector]

Then you need to look at your booster’s ideal weight and your mech’s total weight

My guess is NGI 001 will be the best fit

[polar osprey]

will try NGI 001

this is looking pretty swell

[eager vector]

very nice

[polar osprey]

pretty pleased with it

this is supposed to be my equivalent to ||Rusty and his Steel Haze Ortus|| so i really wanted to get it built as good as i could

[polar osprey]

updated the Good Hunter a bit also

[polar osprey]

say hello to my newest creation, Nuclear Whiplash!

[soft ermine]

those arms are very melee focused if i recall

[polar osprey]

yes

yes they are

Nuclear Whiplash was built for one thing, and one thing only

Speed

[quasi copper]

are those Basho or Jailbreak arms

[polar osprey]

whatever weighs the least

wiki says Jailbreak weighs less

so Jailbreak

[polar osprey]

Nuclear Neckbreaker has like 6k health or smthn

but it goes so fucking fast

[final monolith]

So close to getting the Alba

[frank pivot]

If you use the Ocellus fcs your arms firearm spec barely matters. It barely matters in general, but ocellus is so strong lol

[final monolith]

||Too bad I have to kill buddy boy and the lady in my head||

[frank pivot]

Enjoy the mechanically most fun final boss 😄

[polar osprey]

Nuclear Whiplash has almost 400 speed

i think it's like 399-398

[final monolith]

||I'm sorry Rusty||

[polar osprey]

||Rusty old chum, it's time to die||

[final monolith]

||but my Everest cosplay NEEDS the Alba legs||

[eager vector]

@frank pivot more importantly basho and jailbreak both have shit recoil control iirc

[polar osprey]

Basho is good for melee iirc

[frank pivot]

Yeah, but with vientos, the only arms that can control them are really bulky

[polar osprey]

i use them for Good Hunter

since it uses melee

[frank pivot]

So it's like, basho is the top meta pick with vientos and ocellus. The recoil doesn't matter very much with close range, high velocity guns like the vientos. And then you get max melee damage. And the firearm spec has less than 2% tracking speed influence i think

[polar osprey]

i'm actually really pleased with Nuclear Whiplash

i don't think it's necessarily good at all

but it's fucking fast

[eager vector]

the build in question is using Ludlows

[frank pivot]

Ohhhh right

I actually don't know how much recoil control ludlows require

Never really used them

HAL could maybe do it?

[soft ermine]

im a big fan of the laser pistol

[polar osprey]

i've got Ludlows on Pale Painter Ruber and Nuclear Whiplash

haven't used either of them much really

[radiant birch]

Apparently the Basho arms have good defenses too, or so I'm told

I don't use them because I think they're ugly 😛

[soft ermine]

are the wrecker arms the worst arms?

[radiant birch]

Or not so much ugly as, don't fit visually with a majority of the other pieces

[soft ermine]

wait i just thought of something they would probally be good for the hand missles

[frank pivot]

B O X

They look pretty good with Melander (not C3) and Minda Alpha

Also look okay with alba core thanks to the boxy shoulders

Alba core / verril head / basho arms looks pretty dope

[frank pivot]

Honestly they feel pretty bad. Bad for melee, awkward aesthetically, bad defenses, heavy

Good AP and explosive defense though

[soft ermine]

yeah i was thinking their only thing i coudl think of was the missles weapon where the defense stats are the only thing that probally matter

[frank pivot]

Yup. But then basho is super light, ultra low drain, and packs a TON of AP

So usually basho gets used on missile builds

In uh, pvp

[radiant birch]

In PVE: fashion core

[polar osprey]

trueeee

[polar osprey]

lets GOOOOOOOO

the dream is real

https://tenor.com/view/beautiful-amazing-so-beautiful-it-is-what-it-is-gif-22558916

[radiant birch]

Gotta go fast

[polar osprey]

Speed, at all costs

This is what the AC:FA players would have wanted for us

[radiant birch]

I think my ultralight build wound up being something like dual vientos+dual stun guns?

[polar osprey]

Fair

[radiant birch]

Surprisingly nasty

[polar osprey]

I compromised on speed minutely by not grabbing the heavy boosters because i wanted Nuclear Whiplash to be at least theoretically viable

But hey, it literally beat #1 in the arena so it has to be decent

Kind of a meme build but it can kill things

Also for lore i imagine it's got like, radium or something mixed into its paint as opposed to it being a radiactive powered nightmare like a NEXT

[final monolith]

I also love putting the tiniest cores on the THICCEST legs

and vice versa

[final monolith]

||its karman line breaching time||

||Pilebunker FINISH||

[final monolith]

they do go pretty darn well with the melander torsos

AC6 cosplay for a lancer campaign

[eager vector]

the 3 quick boost per en bad dream…..

[frank pivot]

Haha, i also used ac6 to make my picture for a Beam Saber campaign

[frank pivot]

THUNDERCLAP mostly to make jokes

[final monolith]

why doesn't AC6 have actual physical handheld weapons

gah

[soft ermine]

arent the guns hand held?

[eager vector]

no like melee weapons

pile bunker and chainsaw count imo

oh I guess they’re not handheld

Yeah I’d like a hammer

[frank pivot]

Yeah it's always been the aesthetic i guess

I want just a physical sword T_T

[eager vector]

true

[frank pivot]

Or like one of the PCA heat hawks

[radiant birch]

okay yeah fair does, that's a good look

[polar osprey]

It was the fastest most consistent generator i could get

Not many consecutive boosts but it regens extremely fast so if you just pace boosts it's fine

[polar osprey]

went back to ||ALLMIND|| again with Rubers new upgraded form and things went a bit better

ammo is still an issue though

keep running out of ammo just before i can kill

alright beat the fight with Ruber

still don't like it but i don't feel as mad about it i think

💀

[iron quarry]

iguazu gets his fade ran by 621 every day of the week

Also

The pest of rubicon who stirred the cinders fucking explodes

[polar osprey]

https://tenor.com/view/packwatch-ripbozo-pitalonzo-alex-lafreniere-alex-iafreniere-gif-18890780

[polar osprey]

i beat ||Allmind|| and ||Ayre|| on S-rank, surprisingly ||Handler Walter|| is the only one i'm sitting at A-rank for

[iron quarry]

Snail is suffering from a chronic skill issue

[polar osprey]

Snail deserves it

almost as much as Iguazu

[iron quarry]

RJ laser lance + laser slicer worked pretty well for me when it comes to beating the breaks off waltuh

[polar osprey]

i'm just going to practice with Ruber until i get S-rank i think

maybe i'll go back to Pale Painter since it's the AC i am most familiar with piloting

[iron quarry]

That’d probably do you better then one of my designs because of the familiarity of the craft and your ability to better work within its limitations

[polar osprey]

yeah

i'm really happy with how they both turned out honestly

i should mention that Pale Painter Ruber is my equivalent to ||Ruty's Steel Haze Ortus||

(Pale Painter is the first pic and Ruber is the second one)

Rly proud of how they turned out

[radiant birch]

they look really damn cool

i should put some time into actually decorating my builds

never had patience for more than a color scheme and maybe one or two small decals

[polar osprey]

thank!

[polar osprey]

that's fair

the one thing i just did for all of my builds was add my crest to them

i have one version for each of my AC's, including a modified version of the original one for Ruber

which has the coral stain on it

by far my most Decaled AC aside from Ruber is Nuclear Whiplash

[iron quarry]

Those looks baller as shit

[radiant birch]

my most decaled AC actually got its name from the decals--since the color scheme i went with happened to match the Celestial Mechanics (from Heaven Will Be Mine) and Celestial Being (from Gundam 00) emblems, i slapped them on and named it CELESTIAL VISITOR

[polar osprey]

thanks!

it's my Mercenary emblem

i customized it with the colours of each AC i have

[wooden nimbus]

I need to re decal Gleipnir not that it is in its new shape

And I have to decide if I wanna keep using the arrows and stripes or do something else

[polar osprey]

just a fun little detail that all my AC's have

since all the other characters in the game have a special decal i made one for myself as well

[wooden nimbus]

Nice

[wooden nimbus]

I revised the Fenrir Logo a while back

[eager vector]

I have something kinda similar- my own emblem that I use, it was a pain in the ass to make

lemme see if i can find good pics

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/479676186549682186/1156073375358259220/IMG_0050.jpg?ex=65c1aabb&is=65af35bb&hm=81404e9f43e795945cf76a8f60be5fd15444b0505109c653b6f094eff0933fe5&

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/479676186549682186/1155938488252903476/IMG_0049.png?ex=65c12d1b&is=65aeb81b&hm=a93536beabe5064906004f0b3d8a3395c890731c1afc08a6a6b190549baeaa38&

[sharp canopy]

oh holy shit that gradient AC is so cool

the purple/pink

[eager vector]

Thank you! That’s BISEXUAL LIGHTNING

[sharp canopy]

hahaha I love the name, that rules

[polar osprey]

maaaan

i need so much freakin money to buy all the items in the shop i have left

also need to collect the last loghunts

and i'm missing one of the coral items i think

[soft ermine]

its probally form log hunt

[polar osprey]

nah

i had one left that i hadn't picked up from one of the NG++ missions

ok i should have all mission items now

just got 23 back weapons left to buy and then the last Loghunt item

[eager vector]

S rank the missions that you enjoy and you’ll have that money in no time

[polar osprey]

true

[polar osprey]

trying to do loghunt

stuck on the stupid mission with the hack bots and iguazu

apparently i don't get the logs unless i do the whole mission without dying which is annoying as hell

just gonna bring Cost&Benefit

Igauzu is such a rat

[polar osprey]

very nice

very nice indeed

[eager vector]

nice!

[radiant birch]

still haven't finished my loghunts

my two remaining missions with combat logs are the helicopter escort mission and fucking Ibis

neither of which i'm especially motivated to revisit xP

[eager vector]

have you tried laser lance on ibis

[serene kettle]

IBIS goes a lot quicker if you bring the cheese sticks and realize that it does a whole threat display thing at the beginning of the battle without dodging

you can open up with two stun needles to insta-stagger it and take off like a third of its healthbar, and then launch whatever else you have to pretty much skip phase 1

[polar osprey]

obtained all weapon parts

lovely

currently extremely annoyed that achievements are hidden so i can't see which ones i am missing

[serene kettle]

The Escort one is obnoxious to loghunt for though - the loghunt target is a random tetrapod squirreled away on a hidden ridge in a mission that is difficult to spend time searching, to say the least.

[eager vector]

https://youtu.be/PhuvOFHRGoo?si=A9ZoK8PZI_j4mbMr

https://youtu.be/MulZAPDOrzE?si=ZGfzcUQ88tIKj2gl

[radiant birch]

dual zim + dual stun needle has been my go-to setup for ibis

[soft ermine]

my trick for ibis is to just get all the combat logs using songbirds and flamethrowers

[radiant birch]

i know how to fight it, it's just not a process i especially enjoy

[soft ermine]

then use the checkpoint to get my ibs killing equipment

[serene kettle]

that's fair

[polar osprey]

i've used dual machine guns and rocket pods for Ibis

it's a decently fun fight

i've never really had any problems with it

[serene kettle]

I got all the combat logs in IBIS mission the first time I did it because it's all before the checkpoint and I didn't want to come back lol

[eager vector]

ibis took me six attempts

only saw the second phase twice

[polar osprey]

i first tried Ibis with Pale Painter

[radiant birch]

i actually didn't have a lot of trouble with Ibis in NG+ (though admittedly i was using a specifically crafted cheese build)

[polar osprey]

lot of maniacally jumping around

[soft ermine]

i think balteus and ibis are the only bosses that took me 10+ tries before chapter 10

[radiant birch]

but i don't think i've ever gotten over how it took me 2+ hours to beat it the first time around

[polar osprey]

ironically i beat both Balteus and Ibis on the first try

which i was not expecting to happen

[radiant birch]

i had nearly the perfect first-time Ibis experience, which was "oh my god it's down, i can't believe it, did i actually manage to beat it my first what the absolute hell do you mean it's getting back up--"

[polar osprey]

the Sister Friede moment

[serene kettle]

When I fought Friede I deadass started walking away to get more coffee the first time

[polar osprey]

LMAO

[serene kettle]

"Titanite slab, nice! Coffee coffee coffee"

[eager vector]

you can see in that video where I paused bc I was so shocked that the first phase went so perfectly

balteus took me a lot of tries

[radiant birch]

i think my roadblock bosses were Balteus (NG), NIGHTFALL Raven (NG), Ibis (NG), Volta + Iguazu (NG+ and NG++), and Branch (NG++)

there might have been others but those are the ones i remember right now

Sea Spider didn't bother me much, funnily enough. possibly because i was using the pile bunker

and same for NG+ branch

[eager vector]

I didn’t learn that trying to move the camera manually broke hardlock until well after balty

That really made things difficult for me

[polar osprey]

ok it seems the only missions i am missing are Internal Parts collector, Asset Holder and The Perfect Mercenary

[eager vector]

https://youtu.be/q3uY_GsbvS4?si=ojb6Ku0fJDlP1ZrX my first balty clear is super tense it’s by far my fav clip

[polar osprey]

now i just need to figure out what fucking internal part i am missing

since i have cleared out the shop

[radiant birch]

do you have both coral generators?

[polar osprey]

yes

[soft ermine]

for me it was mainly just balt,ibis, and the chapter 5 non standard ac bosses

[serene kettle]

it was firmly just Balt/Sea Spider/IBIS for me

none of the Ch5 bosses gave me super serial trubs

[soft ermine]

spider was i think third try

[serene kettle]

I think only the NG++ one took more than 3 tries

and it was more like 5

[eager vector]

my one wish for AC6 well before any trailers came out was for melee to be good and for specifically pilebunkers to be good

so I did not unequip the pilebunker

so I didn’t struggle too much once I had it

[soft ermine]

i think if i didnt mess up weapon bay swaping and dodged the batlus aoe i could have beaten him first try

[polar osprey]

i didn't really do much with melee

tbh

[soft ermine]

its really strong

[polar osprey]

did not do anything with shields either

[soft ermine]

theres only one time i found them useful

[eager vector]

melee is so so fun

I still haven’t fucked with shields

[soft ermine]

making depths 1 easy

[polar osprey]

seems i am missing an FCS part

[soft ermine]

or was it 2