This is what it's like to play Armored Core VI | The Chill Zone Reacts

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[@randalthevandal4170]

This franchise is Goated and its return will be Glorious

[@The_Shaggy]

This gives me “our fight will be legendary” vibes and I love it

[@hammerfallprotocol]

I think that there's also one element that Vaati might have left out, the Ultimate Weapons/Overed Weapons system from ACV & Verdict Day. As you see, one of the (supposedly) boss AC in the trailer is utilizing the massive rings of missile around the mech, which is almost similar to the "Legion Pulse" ultimate weapon. The UW in a sense, is essentially a big "Fuck you" weapons that will, in most case, one shot you enemy, whether it's an AC or not, with a tradeoff of being so powerful is that the moment you activate it, the system goes absolutely haywire, the generator threatens to shut down and the whole mech starts shaking, because of its sheer power. Some examples of UW includes: - You like rail guns? How about a very big railcannon that can one shot your enemy from a distance, with complementary energy pack? The downside, of course, being the fact that the gun is so big and heavy that you need to be stationary to fire it. - In case that you wanted to completely delete someone off the surface, how about the Giga-Missile? That able to assemble and fire a compact ICBM on-site to obliterate your enemies? Also watch for that generator output, just a single rocket is enough to overload and leave your AC vulnerable to attacks. - Craving that "Texas Chainsaw Massacre"? How about six of them, extra-large and flaming hot chainsaw, attached to the spinning drill piece? And don't worry about your left arm weapon, you probably won't be needing it anyway, just rip it out and replacing it with this monster of a weapon, and start grindin' em good with the aptly-named "Grind Blade"

[@Maverick2736]

Not to mention you also need to go through a lengthy transformation sequence that disables your weapons and screws with your HUD, followed by a *_very short_* active time frame in which you can actually aim and fire the Ultimate/Overed weapon once, maybe twice if your build is really specialized for it, before your AC nopes out of it for the remainder of the mission to avoid a catastrophic system/engine failure, leaving the massive weapon stuck to your AC and adding dead weight to it because they're so jury-rigged to the chassis and engine that you cannot purge them. They're genuinely really sick, though, even with all those limitations. I hope they add them back into AC6.

[@hiddenmaster6062]

But we don't know if the Overed Weapons are in AC6 this time. Which they're likely not. They were first shown and focused on in AC5's announcement trailer, but about a year later when they started showing more, any and all direction that they seemed to had, especially on the OWs were removed or down-played to obscurity in the very game that introduced them. So much it's no wonder why only a select few heads, most of which are from the very first head's family, can transform when using OWs. It's no why only the Grind Blade takes off your left arm while the others do not. And it's no wonder why Verdict didn't add to this outside of adding a new blade OW. For them to have the OWs again for players to use in light of all of this? There's no way.

[@b.e.wooten]

It’s confirmed that there’s no OW. The focus will be on combinations of weapons.

[@Kaimax61]

As a guy who played AC since the PS2, it's hella weird looking at the reaction of current gamers to the franchise... - Fromsoft is moving to a new genre... when ironically it's the 6th game not counting the spinoffs - Does it play like a souls game? - The DARK SOULS OF MECH GAMES ----------------- Now if Fromsoftware will consider making a new ACE or a new Metal Wolf game it would be perfect.

[@Krystalmyth]

The next huge hype release from them would be releasing a new first person King's Field game. It would melt minds.

[@1wayroad935]

I hope that there will be cameos from old Super Bosses in the game. I'd love to fight the Nineball Seraph and die to it a hundred times in a new game. Also very excited to see how the Moonlight Sword will look here and if Human Plus will be a thing again.

[@movespammerguyteam7colors]

There were multiple ways to operate a Gundam throughout the multiple series. G Gundam had motion capture controls where the pilot moves their body and the machine copies it, there are the manual airplane like controls, there is the psychoframes which mix the airplane like controls with a telepathic interface, and there is the direct nervous system connected controls. I would prefer and recommend a remote controlled machine where I am not physically in the mech.

[@mistermann4163]

From my experience with DXM I thought it was a okay game that just played like AC4 if it had a easy mode and more uplifting story. The story started to go sour for me when you fought a rouge pilot that went mad and feasted on the fallen so to speak. With the game taking control away from the character with a cutscene with two other pilots killing it for you while in game you were beating it's ass. Then there was the part where my immersion got broken when I had to fight another pilot who was stopping me from preventing another pilot from extracting data from a tower about herself. I got him down to 1% and he didn't just die to end the mission but I had to constantly fight him until a certain amount of time had gone by instead of beating him to progress the next cutscene. The worse was at the end with it forcing me to adapt to the final boss fight to build a entirely new mech despite the one I've been using 99% of the game not working on the final mission. And the fact that it gives you your only 2nd optional dialogue choice which doesn't matter because both endings might as well be the same with the only difference being what happens to your pilot. That's it, end of story, GG, go eat the frozen yogurt that gives you a sliver of a stat boost for your next battle so you can unlock the black market and get the cool boss themed weapons. Also do the online missions to get more exotic gear along with the dungeon crawler missions that don't really work with the mechs that well.

[@beatleboy3196]

My main issue with the "soulslike" term is that it seems to have no definitive meaning, its different per person. Vaati points out the combat but I've had some people completely leave that out of there description and they only bring up level design, death punishment or the difficulty as being what makes it a "soulslike". Of course there are people who say that it's all these aspects together that make a game "soulslike" and fair point yeah I agree, but I still from time to time see people that I feel are just cheery picking aspects of games that are similar just to call it a "soulslike". Some of the things that a lot of people point at being a "soulslike" aspect are found in other games and don't even originate from any Souls game either. I don't think I would dislike the term as much if it just had a solid meaning as to what the subgenre is as opposed to how poorly defined it is now to the point you can slap the label on anything, as long as you can pull enough minor similarities together and a good enough argument as to why it is "soulslike".

[@lostvayne9146]

People can paint broader and broader strokes to make their comparisons work. To the point where these very same strokes can be applied to more than just what their intended comparisons are. That is the problem with the "soulslike" term. "Fromsoft-like" is a far better term because its not specifying a game but its painting the overall design philosophy of the developers which resolves the issues of the nebulous nature of the "soulslike" term. a great example is with the IGN interview with the producer for armored core. He states that armored core follows "fromsofts design philosophy" and people took it as "souls-like" when it is just their philosophy that proliferates into all their products. 1. multilayered, intricate level design 2. observing telegraphed enemy patterns and producing solutions around them 3. Using ingenuity and creativity to overcome obstacles People say this is "soulslike" when any action game worth their salt should have this design philosophy in their mind. Particularly 2 and 3 is a fundamental for fighting/character action games while 1 and 3 being fundamental to most games. in the end all this back and forth concerning the term "souls-like" is really just saying if a game "feels" like a fromsoftware game. Does a game have that deliberate, meticulous design that fromsoft is known for. Its fromsofts design philosophy. Fromlike and not soulslike.

[@beatleboy3196]

@@lostvayne9146 Yes, Fromlike or just Fromsoft game works a lot better, kinda how when someone says Bethesda game you get this partial idea of what the game will be like.

[@sandeepkanwal9701]

@@beatleboy3196 So how about that, let soulslike term means fromlike or games similar to fromsoft games . Because from get this much fame due to darksouls(particularly darksoul one) . Which they will use to make other games too. Therefore as a tribute fromlike means soulslike(only as term).👍

[@beatleboy3196]

@@sandeepkanwal9701 No that's not really what I meant, fromlike is just better than labeling everything Fromsoft makes as a soulslike. Just because they gained a large fanbase due to soulslikes doesn't mean they have to just be the souls people. Fromsoft doesn't and shouldn't only make souls games and due to the term soulslike being very all over the place with each individual person I don't really like the term, fromlike is just a better way to refer to games made by Fromsoft in my opinion instead of lumping them all together as just souls games. I'm just gonna stick with Fromsoft game when talking about them myself honestly.

[@RippahRooJizah]

@@beatleboy3196 As far as Soulslike goes, as far as From is concerned, I only use it for the Souls titles, Elden Ring, and Bloodborne. People have called Sekiro a soulslike but it kinda befuddles me that people will ignore large chunks of what the other soulslike games do that Sekiro doesn't, but then say stuff like "fire based checkpoints and it's hard and the levels of interconnected. Soulslike!" That said, as a whole I'm not going to boil it all down to "Fromlike" and would rather just say Fromsoft design philosophies. It's longer, but I know how to type and I'd rather specifically acknowledge that it's something Fromsoft is known for rather than implying it's some sort of genre.

[@TheTrveMothlord]

Vaati fails to admit his thumbnail for the last video said "Armored souls" lol This video is fantastic but he definitely contributed to the misunderstanding that has gone on in the discussion about what AC6 will be.

[@BigFry9591]

Vaati said that AC6 WILL be a souls-like game, instead of it just having elements of it. That was just not true. XD

[@YukitoOnline]

Here I am. Ready to laugh maniacally when the Newcomers see their "EXPENSES" report~🤣 I love Armored Core, especially Gen 3 and 4. Also fuck Gen 5.

[@Quadrolithium]

I felt that. I repeatedly do easy missions to farm money so I can go full unga bunga in the next one.

[@bvc5320]

5 had it good points... But yeah it had a lot of bad points. Happy for the return to form + bringing all the cool stuff that was mixed in with the bad of 5.

[@RippahRooJizah]

Gen 5 was pretty good, though. Felt more like an Armored Core game at heart than Gen 4. Not that I hate Gen 4 (although vanilla 4 is probably my least favorite AC game outside of Ninebreaker), I just think a lot of people don't give V/VD a chance because it wasn't Gen 4.

[@YukitoOnline]

@@RippahRooJizah It was a downgrade compared to Gen 4 From it's slower combat to messy UI to unnecessary parts balancing to lack of build customization. People don't give it a chance because it failed to attract even GEN 2 players. GEN 5 has lots of flaws that would turn people away from it. If it's actually good, then we'd be seeing more content from it, but alas there's barely any content. Since GEN 5 main focus was too much (way too much than needed) on multiplayer.

[@RippahRooJizah]

​@@YukitoOnline I wouldn't consider Gen V a downgrade compared to Gen 4. In fact some individual aspects was an upgrade, or at least returning to core mechanics Gen 4 either lacked or had less of. The slower combat added a lot to what Gen V could do. As for lack of build customization... I'm not sure I follow. I'm not sure how you got that out of Gen V compared to 4. Are you just referring to V and not VD? I also don't know what you mean by "If it's actually good, then we'd be seeing more content from it, but alas there's barely any content." We're talking about old games, and Gen V still had more content than Gen 4. Especially VD. Yes, Gen V had a focus on multiplayer. Some problems related to servers aside... how is that a major issue outside of just preference? Gen V certainly had its flaws, just like other gens had their flaws. I've seen people bash Gen 4 for what it did, even to this day. And while I do like Gen 4, it just isn't as strong as AC games as Gen V was for me. Gen 4's speed focus can be fun but it lacked the depth Gen V offered. I also don't get the whole Gen 2 thing, Gen V is the second fastest Gen under 4.

[@kinghash29]

There were points in the games where tread legs were one of the only ways you could get certain heavy weapons like grenade launchers to fire while on the move without some sort of human + upgrade or cheat codes. If you needed to bring a LOT of firepower to a fight and absolutely needed some movement to keep the target in your sights, you picked treads.

[@armoredshrek4754]

Glad to see the love for armoredcore

[@kielsambajon3416]

always nice to watch and hangout at The Chill Zone. have fun always, boss. 👍

[@fernandozavaletabustos205]

For newcomers and veterans who have nor played any of the games in a while: If you want to get / remember what this series is about (regarding narrative topics, setting, look and feel and style), I recommend watching "The Armored Core series - A Newcomer's Journey" from the Writing for games channel.

[@TheSizNation]

Patches is a multiversal threat!

[@involuntaryanalysis]

He really isn't, he's somehow WAY less threatening in a mech.

[@EinherjarV]

Yes Daemon x Machina was a great stopgap for armored core and very anime. It was made buy a lot of people who worked on AC. Kawamori is a goat who worked multiple AC series, designed the mechs for Macross, , vision of escaflowne, Eureka seven, and he even designed Optimus prime

[@Mylesthemyth]

Never beat an armored core but played a bit of the first one wayyy back. My recent new love for all things fromsoft has me very excited for AC6, Stagger system alone makes me intrigued for the overused "soulslike" playstyle, but i'm all for it!

[@IRUKANJI]

Back in the day you could equip an extension part for 90 degree turns and it made heavy ACs with high powered weapons like the Karasawa or bazookas.

[@KenVermette]

"I can't wait to obliterate Patches" ... ... Watch him exclusively be a terrible ally.

[@jmssun]

12:55 that pronunciation of Wuo Long is great 😮

[@bombomos]

Ill say this. DMX is a watered down armored core with bullet sponge enemies. Trust me it would be better to play some Armored Core games, like 3, Last Raven, and AC 4 - FA

[@nemesisundead83]

Front Mission is the game series that lead me to Armored Core granted that game is turned based but you have the ability to customize your team do team combos and AC 1 felt so much like that game series cept you can control one mech

[@NinjaJerky]

In AC for Answer you can quick boost to a 180 you just have to do some chain boosts to get the momentum then end with the 180 boost.

[@involuntaryanalysis]

With tuning, and sufficiently powerful side boosters, it'll just work from a stand still. For light to mid weight I recommend either the 03 AALIYAH, or HOLOFERNES, for heavy ARGYROS.

[@involuntaryanalysis]

We'll see the Souls DNA in this instalment of AC in the boss fights, beyond that, any similarities will be what AC DNA Souls games already shared in common.

[@randalthevandal4170]

Vaati was partially right in his OG video The only thing he got wrong genuinly wrong was his belief that AC6 will play like the Souls Games Besides that he was right about Fromsoft learning and using Their experience with the Souls games to improve the Bosses and The Melee Combat

[@Mr-Lister]

I feel like, as one of the few people alive who played Zone of the Enders, that AC6 looks like boosting will look a lot like dashing in Z.O.E.

[@involuntaryanalysis]

As someone that has played both ZoE, and AC4A, I can tell you AC4A did it a LOT better.

[@RippahRooJizah]

@involuntaryanalysis Not so much better moreso what Gen 4 did better suited it's boost speeds. ZoE2 doesn't have the wide open areas of AC4/FA.

[@augustinejohnson450]

As someone who played over 100hrs in ac4answer it has stagger. You can stun fragile with his own back weapon set. I used to use ogoto's as a stagger setup for my Kojima missles on enemy next's. Hell snipers can stagger some of the lighter nexts in one shot. For the last mission with old king on the hard difficulty I used a tank legs the most powerful generator and good boosters with 6 gatling guns to win. Which is pure cheese mind you. Looking forward to this game cause I played ac4answer on both pc and xbox360. Xbox360 coming first and when I wanted to play it again using an emulator on pc. Emulator just isn't the same. The frustration of trying to get it to work and some of the compromises I had to make just to get it to run make me wish my copy still worked. Ac4answer was pure crack and I loved every second of it. It gave me something that my other favorite game syndicate (2012) did not. The option to become the menace at the expense of personal relationships.

[@augustinejohnson450]

I completely forgot... ALL HAIL OLD KING. Beware his lapdog.

[@involuntaryanalysis]

No cheesing that mission is using dual canopis laser rifles to clip through the wall. Personally, I used a build designed specifically to abuse the sh*t out of assault armor.

[@augustinejohnson450]

@@involuntaryanalysis i had zero idea that was a an abuse abusable glitch. Assault armor never really grabbed me. Kojima missles though... tasty.

[@involuntaryanalysis]

@@augustinejohnson450 Assault armor is usually treated like a last ditch effort, but when you combine 03 AALIYAH and White Glint with some fine tuning, a X sobrero overboost, Argyros generator, and dual PA chargers on the back, you can spam assault armor every 5 seconds.

[@augustinejohnson450]

@@involuntaryanalysis holy shit. You are an assault armor wizard.

[@wallacejohnson6846]

They fixed the gameplay and balance the speed. Making the experience simpler

[@InternetSupervillain]

Damned cool visual style. Had to be said.

[@nemesisundead83]

To be truly honest I haven't anything about the garage and that's what I really want to see I don't care about game play I wanna see some customization

[@Upsilon1984]

Titanfall 2 is the only mech game I've played.

[@Cheerful_Bliss]

One day id love to see a mech game that can emulate the spastastic speeds of a Trans Am boosted gundam,

[@RippahRooJizah]

So, For Answer?

[@shadowfox1609]

I still don't think that is a jump pad, the Devs said depending on how you build your AC you can get an insane vertical jump.

[@RippahRooJizah]

Likely referring to Reverse Joint legs, since that had traditionally be one of those leg's traits as having the highest jumps.

[@rabidshell]

I've never played a AC game before and tbh I'm koocked on this one

[@stardustdragonx3612]

Just because the developer say that we're gonna. Take what we learn from our previous games and implemented into the new one doesn't mean it. Have to be? Mechanics some people seem to forget that developers work on game engines and as they get more experience with it. They end up learning new things that they're able to do.

[@frankderksen9536]

I think its gonna be exteel 2.0 and yes im happy with that cause exteel was the best pvp mech game ever

[@knowahnosenothing4862]

Trying to place old mates accent mix British/German/French/Jamaican ?

[@TheChillzoneX]

Haha, Close Replace Jamaican with Danish and you've got it

[@dashiellruiz6996]

Idk if long wided atracks r souls like.. more like upped robo action like the gundam vs games.

[@ihatecabbage7270]

What he said is really true. In all the Armored Core series, you really do messed up stuff in game like killing protestors who hijack worker MTs, destroying civilian infrastructures and releasing rogue weapons cause they paid well and always sent my corporation you work more of. This game series has always about being professional or question is doing the wrong stuff for money worth it? Or you can ignore morality and start blasting as they scream in fear and panic, desperately fight you off in their more inferior MTs. Later missions is more about the corporation betrays you and sent in other ACs to get rid of you, but ended up failing and you retaliated and get paid by others to screw their business over and wipe out that said corperation. In the end, the world is falling and business is BOOMING.

[@Krystalmyth]

Daemon X Machina is noooothing like Armored Core lol

[@zefellowbud5970]

id say ace combat is actually much better with its story telling with how they handle radiochatter

[@acceptablecasualty5319]

Emulate Armored Core Nine Breaker.

[@Kurotaisa]

"the most anime-like Armored Core experience" And Armored core is *already* hella anime lol

[@OrdemDoGraveto]

I'll hate it. I was hoping for a slower gameplay like the first games I loved so much =/

[@ChubbsMcgoo]

Compares Armored Core to souls Immediately stopped watching I hate souls babies. FROMSOFT has always had tells for their bosses and even enemeies. AC1 and Metalwolf were no exceptions. If you were an actual fan of Fromsoft you'd play more Fromsoft games not just souls games. And AC4 has a blade mechanic similar to AC6 . You could even do an X slash but using both blades together along with the quick turn.

[@stardustdragonx3612]

In previous armorcore games you did have a stagger mechanic, there was a couple of big heavy guns that people don't normally use that can stagger enemies and certain back shotguns can stagger people if you hit them up close, so it's not new. There was also two long range sniper that can stun people.

[@stardustdragonx3612]

I like Vaati but yeah, he does have a bit of an ego when it comes to games from fromsoft and mechanics. That's exactly why he's getting defensive because he's usually not wrong but now that he is wrong he got to defend himself. Developers getting more efficient with the game engines that they use allows them to produce newer ideas in mechanics.