Armored Core Lore: Can you beat armored core as White Queen

[@theedgypenguin4083]

Wake up 621, Armoredcorelore uploaded a new video.

[@armoredcorelore]

Just don't tell allmind.

[@SmugLookingBarrel]

I mean it is pretty fitting that the White Queen was helped out by a Bishop

[@armoredcorelore]

Oh it is.

[@azurespectrum1985]

The irony of this build is that in the 5th and 6th gen AC games, this build is decent since the additional weight freed from not using back weapons increase movement speed. Older games fixed movement on legs/thrusters so the incentive was to pack as much as the legs can carry without going overweight. Cheers, I missed out on playing the psx armored cores, they look interesting!

[@felipeguedescampos851]

I wouldn't say it's good on 6th gen, because most of the time, it's better to have 4 weapons, and you can even use weight control if one of the weapons becomes useless. Also using only one weapon to deal with enemies at a distance would drain its ammo very fast Edit: the only situations I can think where it's good to use only 2 weapons is 2 LRBs or 2 KSRV with 20b generator

[@ktvx.94]

While it's true that you can fire all 4 weapons at once unlike in previous gens, there's some nuance to it that doesn't always make it the best choice. Even then you have the punch so you _can_ make niche builds that don't use all weapons and you would get a benefit from it.

[@Toshinben]

PSX AC games were good. Each gen has its own flavor. I've played all besides 6 and Formula Front, and Project Phantasma, and the only genuinely bad ones were 9 Breaker (repetitive, boring tasks), and 5 (movement that was impractically clunky even by AC standards). Worth watching a playthrough of the AC1 generation. Playing might be frustrating. Mobility was very clunky with the engine; there was no boost-hopping. Parts were so unbalanced that many were absolutely useless (chaff launchers, most non-missile back weapons). There was a lot of save scumming - the KARASAW (Karasawa, but there weren't enough characters for the whole name) is the only weapon pickup in the entire series I know of that you could accidentally blow up. Oh, and touching your feet in deep water in gen 1 and 2 - without hover legs - was enough to instantly fail a mission - you couldn't boost out of the water like in gen 3 and beyond.

[@azurespectrum1985]

@@Toshinben Thanks, I didn't know that gen 1 and 2 had waterfall traps

[@DudeMcPunchy]

seeing those parts together is just painful, all heavy EN draining parts with a bad generator, then energy weapons. This guy was set up for failure.

[@armoredcorelore]

And boy was it annoying to pilot.

[@sawysauce1256]

I like how it looks though honestly

[@Rocklow31]

I really appreciate the weird old design philosophy that fromsoft used to design their old npc ACs. There was a certain balance they had designing ACs that fit a niche for either firepower or style. Taking only a laser rifle and laser blade was certainly something I would have thought was a good idea as a kid because it looked cool. Throwing practicality out the window in favor of the rule of cool felt pretty doable in this game for a large portion of the game.

[@Echo_419]

Something something wake up, new Armored Core Lore video! Alright, now to actually watch the video.

[@armoredcorelore]

Ha ha like it.

[@ACFoxeye]

The head, legs and arms of White Queen's AC are available in the PSP games as legacy parts if you ever wanted to make a third-gen version of Checkmate II. In any event, I always figured this Raven was the type to favor Arena fights over standard mercenary work. His character art strikes me as a flashy guy.

[@DeathMetalThrasher]

I wonder if you can beat last Raven as Checkmate II 🤔

[@armoredcorelore]

Neat and i get where your coming from. He does seem the type to put on a show rather then get the job done.

[@armoredcorelore]

If anyone would like to do this feel free. I would not be able to stand the defeats over and over again.

[@DeathMetalThrasher]

@@armoredcorelore I'll try to, I'll most likely not enjoy it though lol If I ever do, I'll record a walkthrough of one of the paths. No way in hell I'm replaying it 6 times just to do every alternate path. That would be torture.

[@armoredcorelore]

@@DeathMetalThrasher Ha ha i get that.

[@love_ark]

I see you really embraced the challenge of producing this content for us. I can't wait to see the next challenge you set for yourself! ^-^

[@armoredcorelore]

I admit i am trying something new with the channel, after all there is only so much lore.

[@love_ark]

@@armoredcorelore Yep, I can understand it. I'm retraining the algorithm for my channel, currently. >_

[@ecchi12]

Man you are THE AC FAN, great work. Love your stuff as always❤

[@armoredcorelore]

Thank you for your kind words.

[@atlantiswolf]

So I don't know if you know this or if anyones told you, but in Worker Bot Removal, you don't want to shoot the Worker Bots with any ranged weapons. You're not hitting the generator with your shots or splash damage, ranged attacks cause the bots to explode. You're supposed to carefully maneuver yourself so you can hit them with your sword without slashing a generator.

[@armoredcorelore]

I have had been told quite a few tactics, not that I mind hearing more as I started my ac journey with ac2. So I am still getting to grips with the ps1 game and how the work. I appreciate this advice and will try it on my next run.

[@wisemanrusty1305]

and i thought my AC designs were garbage yeesh, how did he manage to beat anyone in that tin can?

[@armoredcorelore]

Somehow he did and become rank 10.

[@metalwolfzx]

To quote G4 Volta "It's barely different than an MT."

[@DeathMetalThrasher]

This is a very shitty build. Definitely a challenge to beat the game with.

[@armoredcorelore]

Credit where due though White queen and checkmate 2 did complete 45 out of 47 missions. It was so close and yet so far.

[@Euphoria0011]

The coverage on the older games is my favorite 🔥

[@armoredcorelore]

Well i have covered the newer game a lot, so I'm going to be hoping between the older games for a bit.

[@Toshinben]

To be fair, I think most builds can't beat AC1. The final mission has so much firepower coming at you, so many GP-ACs (general purpose Armored Cores) and high end MTs, and requires so much boosting I think most builds will inherently fail at dealing with one of those 3 challenges. Come to think of it, I don't know if ANY of the ranked ACs could beat the game. Most have very little ammo, and many of them rely on H-Plus to be usable: Valkyrie, Boss Savage, Dynamitable, 9-Ball. Don't you have to destroy the floating mines in the first part of the mission in order for the way forward to unlock? RIP blade builds.

[@DeathMetalThrasher]

Eh, I've beaten that mission with varied builds. However, most of the time I ignore the 2 nine ball acs

[@armoredcorelore]

There really is so much being thrown at the player and well to be honest i only managed to get through the first door by killing all the foes, Granted it has been quite a while since i last play the og armoured core, but i will keep playing with the build in my free time to see.

[@Driftking305forlife]

Damn this is epic please do all the other Ravens.

[@armoredcorelore]

I will do my best too.

[@clickbaitable6320]

The first gen games look so unapologetically cruel to your credits for any mistakes. I want to play them absolutely lovely video as always and thank you for responding on the May Greenfield build video

[@discipleofsound4565]

The cool thing about AC1 is that failure actually helps you. The more Human Plus augments you get (every time you go 50k credits in debt, you get one), the more bonuses you get, i.e free radar, better EN efficiency, etc.

[@armoredcorelore]

It so is and thank you. I did answer your comment right, i swear did.

[@discipleofsound4565]

>Can't beat Destroy Floating Mines I couldn't beat it without save scumming through the platforming section, so I can't even blame the build

[@armoredcorelore]

All done some saving scumming on that bit. Especially in a tank build.

[@metalwolfzx]

The lockbox was painful to look at, and its energy problems didn't help anything either..... 0:24 Am I the only one who thinks the supposed pilot of this AC looks like Sanji from One Piece!? There's a Raven named "Masquerade" in Master of Arena's second disc who pilots an AC very similar to White Queen's... (The only difference is the leg parts he uses, alongside possessing Human+ abilities)

[@Toshinben]

So smol!

[@armoredcorelore]

Well i hope he cooks, better then he fights.

[@KeiNova]

So much Armoredcorelore - so little time.

[@armoredcorelore]

Ha ha well even i take breaks. Nothing like a good cup of tea and some sd gundam to relax the lore brain.

[@bgonzales817]

Do wildcat aka the red AC. Practice the blade waves

[@armoredcorelore]

Practise make perfect. I don't want too ha ha.

[@bgonzales817]

@@armoredcorelore It's so difficult to get the timing right in AC 1 and phantasma lol.

[@blumiu2426]

I'm getting into these videos. Hope to see more.

[@armoredcorelore]

Will do.