balam propaganda Edition

>New Player Guide
https://pastebin.com/5xEAybEC
>Artbooks, music and emulation resources
https://pastebin.com/jxij0dxe
>The link for the ACV xenia tutorial
https://pastes.io/s7kp1uu925
>ACVD-friendly Xenia link
https://dropmefiles.com/PS3lr
>Pre setup emulator and dlc pack for ACVD rpcs3
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZFV1bGCueYRVPJDaaPE6lzei6RSaqSIg
>also look here
https://desuarchive.org/m/thread/23006355/#23018278

https://sys.4chan.org/derefer?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdrive.google.com%2Ffile%2Fd%2F1yJYBcLu7mp-KCq1Mv5Bpnw0YYzP9KVML%2Fview
>Models for all Gen 1 parts
https://www.mediafire.com/file/9hbws4b1a99n7yk/epic_gen1_models%252Bcowboy_hat.zip/file (keep in mind i didn't double check this one when anon posted it sorry if it's dolphin porn)
>Website
https://www.armoredcore.net/
>Steam Page
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1888160/ARMORED_CORE_VI_FIRES_OF_RUBICON/
>Emblem Editor Decals
https://files.catbox.moe/lwp114.png
>AC6 Part Spreadsheet
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YLPD_x-NSLkOPQJUR-WHoHipE4UI01Nz

Other News:
>Latest AC6 Patch (1.09)
https://en.bandainamcoent.eu/armored-core/news/armored-core-vi-fires-of-rubicon-patch-notes-109
https://pastebin.com/QnC90hDz
>Pre-orders are up for the Squenix Structure Arts AC1/2 kits
https://x.com/SQEX_MD_GOODS/status/1924649806980628666
>all generation 1 AC games are getting ported to PS Classics on PS5

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>>23395048 (OP)
also additionally if you have new links to put in the OP pasta please reply to >>23395048 (OP) to make it easier to find

>>23395048 (OP)
>>all generation 1 AC games are getting ported to PS Classics on PS5
Why the fuck can't they do this with the PS2 ones?

>>23395307
Shit takes time, yo.

>>23395307
Aren't the publishing rights for those games in limbo because of the way Agetec kicked the bucket? 4th gen's a can of worms too with Sega publishing 4 and Ubisoft publishing 4A.

>>23395314
I find that difficult to believe, honestly.
>>23395315
>Aren't the publishing rights for those games in limbo because of the way Agetec kicked the bucket?
No, considering MoA was put on the PS5 just fine and it was also published by Agetec. This suggests that when Agetec beefed it, FROM inherited the rights to all those games meaning the PS2 generation is free game for re-release. Yes, the PS3 titles are going to be a crapshoot if they ever try what with Sega and Ubisoft being involved on top of Bamco but my concern is the PS2 titles currently.

Yano I would like it if the old gen came to Steam

Do you guys know anything about the ttrpg? Like how does it play?

>>23395740
Its just dungeons and dragons but mecha. You could literally just copy a dnd rulebook and edit it to be on Rubicon or just use an AI for that.

dafeng numba wan

ARGBUZZZ

>>23395881
>dafeng numba wan
Yeah my ass. They can't even make a back unit gatling cannon that doesn't suck balls. Dafeng? More like Dafuck.

>>23395931
>Dafeng? More like Dafuck
i wish

>Replaying ACFA for the first time in like a decade idk
>Defend Anti-Satellite Cannons
>Spank Lilium's ass
>Wong-Shao Long considers this mission failure and leaves
>My consort, Neo Nidus, says "You'd best turn tail and run, Wong Shao-Lung. The battlefield is not a place for scheming old men."
>Hey wait a fucking minute
>"old men"
>Go back and check his ORCA profile again
>This elder LYNX has deep connections to former Akvavit, and is one of the original five. Renowned for his extremely high AMS compatibility and clever tactics, his experimental, TORUS developed craft is equipped with a fearsome assault cannon.
>"elder LYNX"
This mother fucker is also old and he's dogging on Wong for being old? What the fuck? Is this just bad Ubisoft translation again like how White Glint's profile calls him a "she"?

>>23395945
Dunno maybe he was including himself in that line also damn what a emblem he has.

>>23395931
>SHAO-WEI
>bad
that thing is a cheat code for insuring that your stagger will never fall off even against the most rat like kites, you ding them with one bullet and you reset their stagger cooldown for at least 7 seconds. stagger punish dps isn't too shabby either and unlike HU-BEN the recoil is actually controllable so you can use non spray and pray weapons as well.

>>23396237
>that thing is a cheat code for insuring that your stagger will never fall off even against the most rat like kites, you ding them with one bullet and you reset their stagger cooldown for at least 7 seconds.
Or you could you know, grab a LUDLOW or ETSUJIN and do the same job for much less fucking burden. The SHAO-WEI is ass, ASS.

>Called the "SAMPAGUITA" in ACFA
>Wikis and tons of online resources state it was called the "IBLIS" in AC4
>Replay AC4 and unlock it
>Actually called the "EURYALE"
>No online resources anywhere call it by the "EURYALE" by my own eye
>Straight pull up an AI chatbot and tell it to scour the web for any pages calling this the "EURYALE"
>Zero fucking hits, bot insists it's the "IBLIS" and my own searches confirm this
Am I having a fucking stroke? Why does everywhere online call this shotgun the "IBLIS" when it is not called that in the fucking game? Even the image I pulled for this from the wiki calls it the fucking IBLIS. I'm so fucking confused, where does this "IBLIS" name come from? Why does no where call it by it's actual fucking name?

>>23396360
>Am I having a fucking stroke?
i cannot confirm or deny since i have little knowledge on gen4 but it does sound like you're having a stroke

>>23396360
you are bad at using google I typed 'euryale armored core' and this was one of the first few hits

>>23396360
i believe AC4 had two different localizations
that or it might be a difference from the language version you're looking at

>>23396360
>>23396376
>>23396385
>>23396403
I have the answer for all of you. On launch, this weapon was in fact called the IBLIS. However, it was quickly changed in an early patch alongside it's little brother the SHAITAN, the HOLOFERNES parts, and the entire SALAF frame. These all got switched quickly, likely a push by Sega to avoid pissing people off with cultural or religious naming (I mean the SHAITAN sounded hilariously close to SATAN for fucks sake). The original names stuck for a lot of online resources as a result.

>>23396408
Soccer moms ruin shit once again. Thanks anon.

What if instead of repair kits

>>23396408
>I mean the SHAITAN sounded hilariously close to SATAN for fucks sake
wait until you find out it's literally the arabic word for satan

>>23396411
My headcanon is that the repair kits are comprised of small nanomachine repair drones.

>>23396408
oh it's still called holofernes on my copy
weird
is that where "KRAKEN" comes from?

>>23396415
I think having a bigger, flying support/repair drone would be cool. It could have it's own simple customization.

>>23396413
I mean sure, it is, but the average suburban Karen who'd get pissy about this shit wouldn't know that. It sounding like Satan is enough to set them off.
>>23396418
Correct, HOLOFERNES stuff was all renamed Kraken.
>oh it's still called holofernes on my copy
weird
Some regions might not have gotten the patch. Are you a euro perhaps? Or is your version completely unpatched?

Bazookas are fucking STUPID in the 1.6 patch of AC4. Nothing else can even compete what the fuck.

Anyone else really hate having to unlock or find parts in AC games? Been playing these for over 20 years now and I've never been a fan of that aspect of the games. In other games unlockables are typically "unlockable" because they are better than the regular stuff meriting earning them. However in AC games this falls flat on it's ass because outside of special cases like the MOONLIGHT or KARASAWA unlockable parts typically aren't any better than the regular ones. All this does is prevent you from building a specific AC you want to try until a later point in the game or the very fucking end of it or worse, several god damn playthroughs in (yeah fuck AC6 for that one).

Hot take, everything should be in the shop at the very start of every AC game and instead of forcing you to play through the game to unlock more stuff parts should cost more to keep up with credit flow from missions (arena matches shouldn't award credits either). This would give you something visible and tangible to work towards rather than not even knowing something exists unless you stumble on it or look up a fucking guide and would enhance the "paycheck to paycheck" mercenary roleplay. Which on that note it's really jarring that I'm supposed to be a Raven but the shop all Ravens are supposed to be using doesn't even sell all the parts by default which is even stupider when you consider there's always ACs running around with parts that aren't in the shop by default. Did these fuckers blow up a convoy they were supposed to be guarding to steal the same part too? Or do a mission in the exact same dam and find the same hidden part inexplicably sitting in a random location? I dunno it's just silly. If they want unlockables you can use, stuff like tuning currency like gen 4 had with FRS memory would work a lot better.

>>23396532
No. I like discovering new gun :)

>>23396419
I mean, they could just bring back EO as a utility slot you could just put extra orbital drones in. Floating guns, repair bots, ecm emitters, nanomachines farting out optical camo particles or whatever else.

>>23396532
It's just videogames being videogames. Although AA, I think, had the whole parts roster unlocked in the shop by default.

>>23396563
If they added an auxiliary slot with an option that heals your fucking AC it'd have to heal so little nobody would use it or else EVERYONE would use it.
>>23396572
>Although AA, I think, had the whole parts roster unlocked in the shop by default.
It absolutely does not. There's a ton of parts in AA you have to play the game to unlock.

>>23396574
>There's a ton of parts in AA you have to play the game to unlock.
Do you? I originally played the european version (better known as the one that didn't allow save importing from 2 because they had different publishers or some other such bullshit) and it had Karasawa (which you have to unlock in 2) in the store right from the beginning, which was pretty much the only thing I cared about at the time.

>>23396584
Yes, I think the sawa is in the shop by default but many weapons aren't. The cover AC's rifle for example you need to clear all the missions in one area to unlock, same goes for the head the red AC uses in the opening video. Every area in the game awards a part once you've finished every mission it has to offer.

I think combat system revolution in AC6 wasn't done with intent of "soulsifying" the franchise but rather trying to make combat as flashy and violenet as it always was in CGI opening movies/trailers.
It wasn't done perfectly but I applaud their effort nevertheless

>>23396617
I personally agree with this take. I don't consider AC6 combat perfect by any means, but I do find it the most fun and most dynamic of any AC gen. As a kid playing this series I always wanted to be able to do the types of cool shit that happened in the CGI openings and in mecha anime and shit and no AC game ever let me get anywhere near that until AC6. Closest was ACFA, but ACFA was just so blistering fast you felt like it was dynamic. It wasn't actually letting you do any dynamic things such as combos or cool finishers, you were just abusing the shit out of speed and the adrenaline rush from that scratched the itch a bit. Here's hoping that whenever AC7 comes around they take this a step further.

Anyone got a link to the BGM from this ACLR trailer?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPsaXk0TkNA&pp=ygUfQXJtb3JlZCBjb3JlIGxhc3QgcmF2ZW4gdHJhb2xlcg%3D%3D
I found it like a year ago and lost it. It kills me because this track goes fucking hard and I really miss listening to it with other AC bangers.

Just built this, dear God those ankle joints are a joke.
>slight bit of pressure
>whole foot falls off

>>23396532
I don't mind it when I at least have options, but it fucking sucks when the only types of weapons you have fun with are gated. That's more of a universal game problem though.

>>23396617
It was about making the combat reactive instead of active.

>>23396903
>AC5 and ACVD
>"very fast"
What the fuck is he talking about? Gen 5 was much slower than gen 6.

>>23396862
GLORIOUS SCHNEIDER TECHNOLOGY

>>23396862
>>23396970
>Schneider intentionally gave it shitty ankles to that next time Arquebus will let them just make it legless
>Also didn't want the LAMMER to have arms at all
These fuckers really just want to make jets.

>>23396963
>dis ranigga didnt optimize his wallhop/scanmode swap skills
lol
lmao even

>>23396993
Even doing that shit it was way slower than AC6 dude.

>>23396963
https://youtu.be/72CCLDfhz3k?si=g3Yb0fFHxdxdMoii
5th gen has much higher bursts of speed.

Crest forever all mirage niggers die

>>23397149
They can both get fucked. In fact every corporation that isn't Rayleonard can go fuck itself. They are all selfish and greedy save for Rayleonard who actively realized what was happening and tried to save humanity.

>>23396729
https://youtu.be/55fPbOwmGYg?si=R-Ho-gTpd5pV93YM&t=368

>>23397154
>They are all selfish and greedy
And fucking insane too. Remember that Murakumo nearly caused a second Great Destruction by taking control of "Justice" near the end of the first AC game, just so they won't lose.

>>23396903
Call it what you want, the question is *why* they wanted it that way.
And imo it's because cinematics always portrayed "exchanging blows" combat and not "jets circling each other" combat. They felt like gameplay did not measure up to them.

>>23397277
literally the AC1 intro until anfang pulls out the nade launcher tho
the product is more like sword art online where the black zimmer man styles on everyone with their dual zimmermans, it's just missing the tentacle ntr subplot

>>23397287
As I said, I don't think they quite pulled it off yet. But I believe that's what they are striving towards.

>>23396617
AC6 is just an Armored Core game that speaks with the modern "gameplay language" of FromSoftware, which for the better or the worse has been "learn to roll until it's a dance" with some exceptions.
It's just the "gameplay language" in which they are fluent, that made them a central keypiece in the industry, and it is possibly also true that at this point they don't know if they can make a good game without it.
I agree with you that AC6 is not perfect gameplay wise and that hopefully next games will refine what was good and discard what was bad, but I don't agree with the idea that they did it for the sake of "getting closer to an ideal gameplay": it is way more the necessity on their end of find the right "declination" of a gameplay that is theirs, is loved by their fans, and they know how to make it works.

Are retard zoomer faggots still trying to claim quick boost is "le dork souls roll"

>>23397325
I don't believe "ideal gameplay" exists and I didn't say it. I believe they want to make gameplay feel and look a *certain* way, harkening more to how combat was portrayed in non-gameplay material (i.e. it's not completely alien to the series). You either like the direction or not, there is no objectively correct way.
And I don't think it'd be impossible for them to make a more "classic" AC, they understand the essence of it. But yeah it would be received by confused looks and head scratching (as AC arguably always was outside japan)

>>23397364
I could have chosen some better words to use, what I meant is that I don't think they wanted to veer the gameplay closer to the non-gameplay material but more that they wanted to find how to take the "reactive gameplay" of souls and put it into Armored Core, if anything because they know it works, how it works, and that it is appreciated. In a way I feel that going back to the "classic" gameplay would be like for them as exchanging a trusted toolbox for another one: you don't know the tools very well and you aren't even sure if you can do something as good as what you could do with the old toolbox.

I think the biggest failure of AC6's gameplay is quick turning, the length of the animation + bringing you to a dead stop makes its a pretty worthless addition, if not a suicidal one.

>>23397338
It's definitely worse in AC4/4A which is dominant in recent memory

>>23397405
removal of turn speeds was the best thing they ever did to the series.

>>23397411
This, I hope the game never goes back to clunky old gen shit.

>>23397407
AC4 came out before darksouls

>>23396563
Anon, we can't have options anymore. Think of the balancing (tm), you barbarian.

>>23397392
To me it seems they are using their new expertise to create a vision that had already existed for a long time. It's not like this is 1 to 1 Dark Souls but robot, far from it.

>>23397191
>Stuck combined with a bunch of other tracks
Lame. I suppose I can download the video and crop it out though. Thanks anon.

>>23397405
new era, new technology, new flexibility.
Get with the time, boomer

>>23397411
>>23397415
Based. AC has always been an anime mech simulator and anime mechs don't have to spend 10 minutes fucking turning around. Also I'm really fucking glad bunny hopping is dead, shit was so goofy.

>>23397564
bunny hopping is really strong in AC6 tho, but yeah the entire concept of AC's and why they are so powerful compared to say tanks and stuff is because they have full range of human movement and agility. taking forever to turn on the spot makes no sense from a lore perspective for AC's to move like cripples.

>>23396574
>If they added an auxiliary slot with an option that heals your fucking AC it'd have to heal so little nobody would use it or else EVERYONE would use it.
Then scratch that and add something like protective coating against a specific damage type that you choose before applying it. Front Mission 4 had something like that sprayed onto your units from a plane and I quite liked that mechanic.

>>23397807
That would be fine but outside of single player or if they added online PvE missions, it'd be worthless. It'd be the sort of thing you'd equip knowing what you're up against, which wouldn't work for PvP or even general use. No real point to bring a kinetic defense shield to a mission or PvP match when you could be facing zero kinetic weaponry, you know? Good addition, just a low priority imo compared to other options.

Recently got into the model kits for Armored Core. Love the Nineball Saraph one but it felt like a lot of the pieces barely fit into their slots. How is the White Glint one for those who own it? As im looking to get that one next time it becomes available.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BL8QY7WVZE
Imagine this playing during Ocean crossing.

>>23398008
I'm a firm believer that they should have released a DLC pack that swapped the mid AC6 OST with classics from older gens.

>>23398008
I'm a firm believer that they should have released a DLC pack that swapped the mid AC6 OST with a version rerecorded by Hoshino's garage band.

>>23398094
You parody my post but I actually agree with you. I fucking love FreQuency.

>>23398122
Well, I'm just you but better.

>>23398126
Not with that shitbot you aren't

>>23398126
using cougar2 legs would be an improvement

>>23398126
>SAWA and ML
Boring as fuck build. Get some taste.

>>23398155
Post your LR build

>>23398292
Too lazy to pull it up and take a screenshot:
>light/mid biped
>Linear rifle R arm
>Bazooka L arm
>Single HARPY2 orbit on the back and relation missile extensions
>Shell EO core

>>23398126
>KARASAWA and quad lasers on those legs
Way to tell everyone you cheated the game to give you H+ and remove weight mechanics. Cringe as fuck bro.

Where do I tell my mech limits in AC2? It was pretty obvious in AC1 but I don't actually see it anywhere, just my total mech weight and the weight of each part. I thought it would be on the legs but I didn't see it unless they named it some other shit.

It is annoying in AC2 to check your current wgt/energy VS max wgt/energy. In AC1 it was just right on the front but it doesn't seem to be the case in AC2 I'm having to add it up manually.

>>23398320
Can't recall but AC2 in general is really poorly designed. Fun fact, there's a boost speed cap. Even if you equip stronger boosters or lighten your load, you won't go any faster than that number (I forget how high it is but this is VERY easy to test). This was fixed in Another Age, but the poor balance from AC2 unfortunately still lingers. Somehow gen 2 is the worst balanced gen of the lot. Making ACs in it is a truly awful experience even compared to gen 1.

>>23398351
Honestly I can deal with the goofy balance it is just the tedium of trying to figure out my current/cap for things. It may be somewhere and if it is I just can't really find it. I can't imagine people unironically just kept a notebook or notepad open and constantly did the math every few missions when tweaking just to figure out how much room they had to upgrade under their current legs/gen.

>>23398357
I'm pretty damn sure it's somewhere. I haven't replayed gen 2 in a year or so but any time I've played it I never needed to do math on my own or any such shenanigans. Though I also might have just not cared, if nothing lit up as "over the limit" I may have just said "good enough", dunno. Gen 2 is always just a "get through it stop" for me for the most part when replaying old gens. Don't get me wrong, AC2 has one of the coolest settings and lore in the series but the balance is ATROCIOUS, most missions are kinda lackluster, and AC2AA? Worst game in the entire series imo. I sometimes skip AC2AA altogether which is something I usually save for "fake" AC games like Formula Front and Ninebreaker, it's abhorrently bad. Truck through it though if this is your first time playing the series, gen 3 is kino. Fucking love Silent Line.

2002 Kenichiro Tsukuda interview.

>>23398398
>Tsukuda could be seen on the sidelines watching the competitors like a hawk, studying how they played.
Does this imply that the tournaments affected future sequel's game balance?

>>23398407
Considering how poorly balanced the oldgen games are I'm a bit doubtful. ACSL was much better balanced than Nexus for example.

>>23398407
They absolutely did. OP-I got removed from 3rd gen because tourneyfags bitched about it, so it doesn't transfer upwards to LR (and possibly Nexus, I never played that one)
and then subsequent games removed H+ for the player entirely while still giving NPCs those cheats or some equivalent to them, or in some cases just making them baseline features

>>23398958
>OP-I got removed from 3rd gen because tourneyfags bitched about it
Horse shit. Tourneys had banlists all the time (shit like the FINGER, etc). They didn't remove the OP-I because of balance, they removed it because they wanted the games to be harder. There's a reason they went out of their way to make ACLR the hardest game in the series and made ACNB just to fucking get people ready for it. Having the OP-I still around would have defeated that purpose entirely.

>>23397564
>Glad bunnyhopping is dead
It really isn't. It's easily the strongest movement option for LWs and MWs now outside painful mechanics like ABing. I've won plenty of pvp matches (with friends, fuck ranked) by spamming b-hops and saving my EN for QBs. If anything, the EN management of AC6 encourages b-hopping.

Also fucking hate the removal of turn speed. Almost zero reason now to not mash AB in a HW constantly in pvp. Though in pve, there's few reasons to use anything but a LW, as a good majority of enemies still have turn speed, so you just hop over all of them and shoot them from behind. It's schizophrenic.

>>23399205
this
also having classic boost with the same key for boost and jump would mean better movement control and free up the face button it use fore something like internals part or flares or anything that might be added in an expension

I really like it when AC uses crazy sci-fi energy sources like Kojima and Coral, I really hope gen 7 if/when it comes continues this trend.

Also on that note, I remember a while back someone broke down the hypothetical science of Kojima through the lens of a nuclear physicist. It got saved as a screencap and occasionally posted here. Anyone have it?

>>23398958
Enemies have always cheated way more than just H+. You can do the early fight it 1 against the chick with an automatic grenade launcher and if her AI goes for it, she'll hit you so fast the knockback pins you against the skybox lol

>>23399675
Here you go

>>23399816
Anon you are a gem. Thank you.

>>23399867
Fuck Steven Universe

>>23399816
>thought this text and its addendum was a bit too edgy
>turns out it was written by a tranny
https://www.tumblr.com/osakanone/700704651701567489/kojima-particle-physics-part-1-what-are-they

>>23400045
Anonymous, try to separate creator from creation. Who gives a shit about who wrote the stuff if it’s fucking awesome?

>Post "Fuck Steven Universe"
>Immediate next post tries to shit up the thread
Fucking fine, it's an alright cartoon. I swear you SU faggots are everywhere
Anyone wanna talk about Elcano Foundry?

Beat Armored Core 2 finally. Had to restart my campaign twice and just started with the arena to grind up cash and whatnot for the campaign then rolled it over. Going to probably start AC2:AA later on. I hope I can blast through it if it lets me transfer over my completed save with all those mech parts.

>>23400045
Kys
>>23400030
You too

>>23400051
Calling someone a "gem" has nothing to do with that dumb ass show anon.

>>23400083
The poverty starting phase where you can choose to do missions for -200 dollars or grind out a bunch of seal clubbing for incredibly slow iterative earning in the early arena is the worst bit.

I'd like all the old ones more if I could just start a save with the first ten "pls genocide out factory workers!" missions already complete and I could just buy the decent starter stuff.

>>23400083
AC2 AA are the longest game of the franchise. Mainly because there's no clear story campaign.

TOO CLOSE!

queef

>>23400627
>Legs are vaginas
Anon I think you failed high school biology.

>>23400051
>"Hey Buddy. Is that your gun touching my leg or are you just happy to see me?"

If I was an AC pilot, I'd be like King. No modifications, just skill. Truuush

>>23400708
That's Freud you fucking moron. King is augmented. You're just showing you didn't even play this game for more than one run.

>>23400708

>>23400719
I got them confused, don't sperg out please.

>>23400751
Apologize, post your AC, and deal.

>>23400758
not apologizing, but check my ac

>>23400725
'Fuck off, we're full' personified.

>>23400776
>fuck off we're full
>go crash on the moon
honestly, easily in the top 3 4ch posts

>>23400779
What are the others in the top 3?

>>23400784
dunno, to be fair there's a lot of contestants

>>23400771
Nice tits bro

>>23400771
>Coral generator with EPHEMERA core
Nigga what the fuck are you doing. Coral generators need a core with good supply adjustment and that's one of the worst.

>Inb4 the new AC game is a rougelike.

>>23400965
>rouge

>>23400719
Anon, its been almost 2 years since AC6, you cant expect everyone to be autistically dedicated to lore for that long.

Everything is twisted

>>23401025
You, this world, all of it...

>>23400965
My money is on some kinda bagtle and royale

Armored Core Goes Open World!

>>23400965
>>23401059
I'm so fucking tired of pvp slop and friends slop.

has armored core ever referenced a real life religion?

>>23400965
I wouldn't mind something more like ACVD's mp again where it was mostly coop focused and there was also a persistent metagame that the coop interacted with

I'm guessing these consorts of just paying money out of my contract to hire help (lmao even) but I'm wondering if there is actual story or something worth delving into this for? I'm new to AC3 and was totally taken back by this odd mechanic. Like would these guys get better if I keep hiring one and he hires me to help him in missions or something wild? I know its a ps2 game but it doesn't hurt to ask anyway.

>>23401438
It's just a system to help you if you're shit. There's no other benefit.

>>23401438
It always just seemed like a waste of money to me, and it's a shame because it's such a fun gimmick and some of the designs are so cool.

Pretty sure there's not really anything to it. Some get better mechs later but it doesn't follow your actions or affect the story or anything.

>>23401422
No. Closest we ever got was AC5 and Father but he was more of a dictator than a religious figure.

>>23401496
>>23401497
What a wasted opportunity, although the game is under 1gb on the ps2 I can't fault it for not adding in some deeper system. That being said holy fuck this mission, I love these little guys. Like mech fairies.

>>23401515
AC3 is the easiest game in the series even ignoring the consorts, but it has some fun missions the sewer one is nightmare fuel. ACSL is the real party of gen 3 though so look forward to that.

Whoops, forgot to post the mecha fairies.

>>23401422
uh, probably that one GA pilot in base AC4. there's also several pilots with religious names and emblems in AC games before 4 but nothing in the flavor text

>>23401087
>friends slop
?

>>23401587
Games you can't play without friends. C'mon anon keep up.

Are light mechs suppose to fucking suck? You don't get enough speed to justify being made of glass and can't carry shit. How do you make light mechs work in these games? It seems like the enemies can turn at twice the rate I can at max turn rate with all the bells and whistles I just don't get what it wants me to do.

>>23401592
How was I supposed to figure that out when I not only didn't play a single Mario Kart game but never even touched any multiplayer only games? My only point of reference was a "Nintendo Switch is a home for Mario and friends (or whatever)!" ad I've seen next to a tram stop.

>>23401615
learn to use the advanced maneuvers in your game
bhop in first gen
overboost modulation in second and third gen
idunno about fourth gen
glide boost and boost drive in fifth gen
AB shuffle and uh, unironically elevator kiting in sixth gen
lightweights are generally better at these than the other AC weight classes

>>23401632
Because it's a very common term nowadays, anon. Are you literally never online or something?

>>23401644
>idunno about fourth gen
Learning how to quick turn, second stage and chainboosting.

>>23401644
With tank legs in AC6 you have to shuffle to not be a sitting duck, so you have to learn to do it even for heavyweights

>>23400965
You’re getting an extraction game ala Tarkov and you’re gonna like it.

>>23401644
>bhop in first gen
Wiggles in oldgen aswell
https://youtu.be/dY-p2voi0vc?si=vt0AsiaPGBonD2ZD
^
This should be pinned imo.

>>23401650
>Are you literally never online or something?
I'm online right now, does that count?

>>23401592
Nightreign solo was fun actually, but clearly From doesn't understand that you need more randomization for roguelikes to work so I don't have a lot of hope for rogueac if it ever happens.

>>23396621
>dynamic things such as combos or cool finishers
those are the least dynamic things in practically any videogame
...except maybe god hand

>>23401522
why does your game ui look fuzzy as all hell?

>>23402074
x3 internal upscaling + widescreen patch.

>>23402110
yeah, but it should still not be that fuzzy. maybe im just misremembering since its been a while since i played. have you tried going into the Upscale Fixes tab, and setting Round Sprite to half, and checking Align Sprite and Merge Sprite?

>>23401984
Wrong

>>23402074
I dont think it looks bad

>>23401066
Please let ther never be an open world AC. I hope the AC community is more resilient than the Souls community and gatekeeps this locust swarm of "gamers" denying Bamco any potential revenue and make homogenization unprofitable.

>>23402251
fixed cutscenes are not dynamic.

>>23402990
Okay? And? Combos and finishers in AC aren't fucking cutscenes. You've defeated your own argument.