Armored Core Lore: The Story of Armored Core Nexus

[@RayShadow278]

"Since it seems only a few Ravens have this" Cut to Last Raven where everybody and their grandma has OP-INTENSIFY except for the Raven lol

[@armoredcorelore]

They missed the karasawa goodie bag give away too, i think they just have the worst luck. Mind you with all these ravens having op intensify it makes sense then why then when one is lost its such a big deal.

[@halosammy14]

Nexus in a nutshell: Established companies bully a promising startup and get everyone killed.

[@armoredcorelore]

Yep that is pretty much it.

[@LunaPPK]

also nexus in a nutshell: raven and the others in SL should have listened to the IBUS unit and went the F home

[@PinkTuskedMammoth]

Fromsoftwares obsession with giant bugs will never cease to amaze me in these games... It will be Armored Core 9 and we will STILL see giant insects or arachnids of some sort show up... hell this most recent time were meal worms lol!

[@armoredcorelore]

They do love thier giant bugs or strange creatures. Not that i mind as it a nice break from killing mts and armored cores all the time.

[@ACFoxeye]

All my Ravens hate Mirage.

[@bladeazuma]

What the hell jack

[@meeirudayo7270]

What Mirage have done to a raven is unacceptable.

[@armoredcorelore]

and that story will soon come too.

[@chaosakazero]

I've never seen them

[@ericvash9960]

On that we can agree.

[@watcherman222]

I had no idea there was a huge time skip between Silent Line and Nexus. And a bit of trivia, Genobee's name is actually a mistranslation of "Zinovie" and it is implied that he has some sort of connection with Last Raven's Zinaida.

[@TKUltra971]

Me either, i always thought they all kinda happened around the same time in the ps2 era

[@MarkizenBlast]

Was close enough to her (at least from Zinaida's perspective, probably role model for her, or even actual mentor/father figure?) that she mercilessly hunted Mollycoddle who not only was a wimp but had the audacity to copy Genobee's/Zinovie's AC and emblem for personal use.

[@RayShadow278]

Remember there being a theory that Zinaida's true identity is Agraya from Nexus

[@justsomeguywithlasereyes9920]

So Zinaida IS Agraya then. Both names starting with "Zin" is a dead giveaway.

[@armoredcorelore]

You know i think I'll have a look into this as the perfect guide still calls then Genobee and Agraya. It should be fun and well i think i can find a Japanese copy on ebay.

[@__Xeese]

35:20 Wait, the Unmanned Suicide Weapons bombed the surface for 6 MONTHS??That’s wild, I thought it lasted a day tops lol I’m mixed on this game, but it absolutely has its merits. OST rocks, and it lets us see the corporations reach a breaking point first hand. Such an awesome ending, and a great set up for my favorite game in the series :)

[@armoredcorelore]

So say the timeline in the armored core 10 complete works, must have been hell.

[@Tokumastu1]

Outside of the PS1 era my time with AC has been all over the place jumping from one entry to another in no order and even skipping some entries. But when I played Nexus and recognized that so called "Mysterious AC" at the end, a fight or flight response was triggered. Seeing the apocalyptic ending also made me reflect on what Nine Ball said in Master of Arena and how they were meant to guide and protect humanity. We bring another great destruction and the one standing in the way of that calamity was Nine Ball carrying out their directive to the bitter end.

[@armoredcorelore]

Yes humanity is bound to bring about its own death and so they will always need a guiding hand to ensure the world they all like so much is safe. Its weird really isn't it as nineball and all the other ai where doing a good job, they kept balance and only started to fail either due to a fault or when humanity wanted more freedom. Which as you said always seem to lead to them ruining the place they seem to want to protect.

[@VanguardCommanderAC]

What I love about Nexus is the replay value. You can choose different "paths" and the world report would sometimes reflect it. Also In your first fight Against Genobee if you beat while heavy damaged he would praise your skills.

[@armoredcorelore]

I admit i do love the fact a player can lose and the game goes go.

[@KaikuPen]

Replaying this game a few years ago, I actually paid attention to the emails and I was surprised to realize that the inciting incident can be interpreted as the biggest corporation getting jealous that a rich startup is choosing to do business' with its lesser rivals instead of them, because Kisaragi and Crest have more expertise in environmental research, and cheap MT/industrial production respectively. With the the resulting 4-way conflict nearly ending all human civilization. Nexus gets allot of bad rep these days for its gameplay, but its premise is one of my favorite's in the series.

[@meeirudayo7270]

Same here. I like the premise

[@armoredcorelore]

Pretty much.

[@rafaelacielo3948]

Basically good concept bad execution

[@Jaeger_Bishop]

I often found myself deliberately throwing missions that force me to attack Navis. However, with only 1 outcome in this game being allowed, it doesn't matter if you try to side with one corporation or another. It's friggin annoying, but I guess that's the doomsday plot in a nutshell.

[@armoredcorelore]

I think that is sadly the life the raven, loyal to no one and always having to take on the task others do not want too even if it makes them look like the bad person. However maybe AC6 will offer some loyal endings, i hope so.

[@drwilyecoyote5357]

I tried this as well, if we get a remake i want a alternate ending where you save navis.

[@TheDarkkilla12]

Even though timeline wise it’s pretty much the second to last game in the series, i think Nexus is a good starter Armored Core purely based on control scheme and play. Especially if you want to jump to Last Raven.

[@armoredcorelore]

Yeah i can agree with that.

[@uzukiaizeni9948]

Finally one of the Armored core lore I wanting to understand about all of this incident that led to the raven tragic ends.

[@armoredcorelore]

Hope this video helped then as well we'll be covering more of Gen 3 before i tackle SL.

[@chillzaa99]

Everytime the "OHHHHH...." notes hit, it give me chills to my spine.

[@armoredcorelore]

It does right, glad its not only me.

[@jessehutchings]

I really appreciate these breakdowns as often in the midst of playing the games it's hard to keep track of all the story developments (which you can hear a lot of people reference when complaining the games have no story when in fact they do but the story isn't told in conventional ways)

[@armoredcorelore]

Thank you its nice to hear this. Yes ac does like to sometime tell it's story in strange way, but the thing i like about nexus is that the story can be read if the player wishes to look at the mail, if not then they can get the basics of the story but not the meat of it.

[@TheSpectralFX]

Man seeing all these other ravens in the comments not getting it. Just follow the money, it always lead you to better fights in the end. Nothing else matters.

[@armoredcorelore]

Spoken like a professional mercenary. As for me, but the lore! Ha ha.

[@seihai-kun6726]

Aka "Prelude to Peak Fiction." Looking forward to your Last Raven video 👍👍

[@armoredcorelore]

Thank and ahh yes the last raven movie ha ha.

[@lloyd011721]

i like nexus, but it always felt like it should have a branching story where your choices actually affected things... im so glad they did that for last raven. it was very annoying that i couldnt side with navis against mirage

[@armoredcorelore]

It is a shame , which is why i hope we get some what if story lines in ac6. Even if they are short, i think it be cool.

[@signalhunter2290]

Thus begins the end of a era, perhaps Navis knew about how dangerous these lost technology were and wanted nothing but to keep the corporations from getting their hands on this, thus forcing hands to be drawn. It comes to me that unlike other corporations, Navis actually does care for the wellbeing of citizens and possibly the world around them, why would they hire the Raven to protect a convoy of citizens even with the assumption that high ranking officials were among them, why would they call for one last request to destroy a uncontrollable MT that would probably cause havoc instead of just watching it rampage through their former territory. Perhaps Navis knew of the dangers of the lost technology, perhaps...they knew of the old world and refused to let history be repeated again and fought for the sake of the world they live in. But all is for naught.

[@armoredcorelore]

Its very possible maybe there was a human behind Navis who let slip about this new resource or more likely a spy within the corporation leaked it and thus began the Mirage goal of obtaining something they did not have. Still as one raven said relics of the the past won't bring humanity a better future.

[@meeirudayo7270]

@@armoredcorelore Genobee quote, ""The relics of the past... they will never bring mankind prosperity."

[@Sorain1]

Got to admit, the twist ending to Nexus absolutely stuck with me. That fade to black with the low armor warning and the slowly fading sounds of the weapons exploding as the world is devastated either because you failed... or because some nutcase at Navis tricked the Raven into setting off the ancient weapons to bring everyone down with Navis. The thought I got suckered into unleashing those weapons has never really left me. Not because anything really suggests it other than how the intrusion is only detected after you break the systems and the Unknown AC's destruction sets off the (mini) apocalypse. Great exploration of the setup for the stage of Last Raven, really looking forward to your video on that!

[@armoredcorelore]

I have to agree before i even started writing the script for this video i knew the ending and i remember it so well too. It is just one of ending in games that sticks with you i guess and ah yes the last raven movie, its going to be fun and hard work.

[@Teixas666]

i wouldnt say Navis tricked us...more in the lines of they didnt understand what was stored in that facility. the implicaiton being that facility being what we later known in Last Raven as the "Internecine" that upon activation realised it was intruded into and effectively " freaked out" causing to deploy all of its defenses and " sanitizing the area" by means of saturation bombardement and deploying the unknown unit to dea lwith the intruder(heavily implied ot be the Prototype of what we later Call "Pulverizers")

[@meeirudayo7270]

My first AC game, Nexus. Without it, I will never got into this franchise. In this entry, it just another work for a raven taking on a mission for a salary. Corporation still never change.

[@armoredcorelore]

So true no matter the name, Corporations in AC never change.

[@Pathfinder118]

Ahh nexus, not my first but one of my favorite armored cores. I can't wait for you to cover the AMEDA's and the Last Raven, so we can get a vid on the demolisher weapons. Also please if you have enough stuff do a video on the unkown weapons, they are such an interesting part of the lore! Keep it up AClore!

[@armoredcorelore]

Thank you for your kind support and ah last raven is going to be a big one. I will do my best.

[@TKUltra971]

Armored Core lore guy with more Armored Core lore?! Hold on, gonna need a refill of Orange Juice on ice for this one...

[@armoredcorelore]

While your going that way can i get a cup too?

[@pigpenlordofdirt]

Im late to these videos but i just started AC6 and i needed a huge lore dump like this. Thank you for your hard work. This is truly an amazing universe

[@armoredcorelore]

Thank you for the kind words and i hope to see you around fellow raven.

[@pigpenlordofdirt]

@@armoredcorelore this all really puts into persepctive the opening scene where the modified human reference is and the ID that you have to get being a Raven ID, not to mention the instant aggression on the ground along with the corporate ID that gets tossed aside. So much information in that first mission that can be glossed over if you dont know the history

[@armoredcorelore]

@@pigpenlordofdirt Oh you can find hints about past games all the time.

[@viper_4115]

You're a legend for making these videos. Even if I'm a year late. Thank you.

[@armoredcorelore]

Thank you for the very kind praise. Honestly i am just glad to read people are enjoying these videos =)

[@azeria1]

I liked how ravens ark decayed as the game went on with its internal corruption and back hand dealings unlike silent line were they brought the corps together

[@armoredcorelore]

Global cortex certainly had a better grip on its role then again maybe Raven's ark would have gone under the radar too if Jack O had not look into the belly of the beast.

[@Shattered_Skies]

I think the format of daily reports + mails they used to explain Nexus' story is the best in the series. It is a great way to cram together all necessary information to understand the plot and give a clearer picture of the whole conflict without relying on other source material. I didn' get lost while playing it and I felt like I was part of an ever-evolving battlefield. Sometimes I wish they stuck with this method in the 4th generation, as I find it to have the most interesting lore, although it's very poorly explained in-game. I could only comprehend it after making a table with all missions and events and who-did-what, etc. PD: I plan to publish this table when I finish it, but need more sources to cross-check information. Any help is much appreciated!

[@armoredcorelore]

It is a pretty neat system and hey if you need help just give me a shout and I'll do what i can.

[@Shattered_Skies]

@@armoredcorelore That's great to hear! I'm looking for any materials about the 4th gen universe in English or obscure fan translations (most I've found are in japanese). I'm particularly interested in finding information related to Eqbal and its allegiance to other companies during the events of AC4 (Eqbal appears to fight for and against different companies, but those companies are supposed to be allies). The AC wiki doesn't add much on that part of the company's history and I don't want to rush it and label it as independent. I feel like I'm missing a piece of the puzzle. Also, I'd like to know any sites like the AC subreddit for example where I can post the finished product so that it can reach as many people as possible in the community. This is a small effort to make the series more understandable for newcomers and veterans alike, and I feel very motivated now that the franchise is rising in popularity. Many thanks in advance to anyone willing to help! Edit: Just after writing this comment I've struck gold! Found a reddit post compiling a lot of official resources, though most are written in Japanese. Here's the link to the post: www.reddit.com/r/armoredcore/comments/phbn3a/armored_core_art_books_and_resources/

[@armoredcorelore]

@@Shattered_Skies Yep a good find, can confirm they hold information about the corporations as i have used some of the information from these books in my videos.

[@armoredcorelore]

@@Shattered_Skies Can confirm they do have good information as i have used the same books in my own videos. Oh and if you need a head start i went ahead and google translated some pages for Eqbal over on my reddit. www.reddit.com/user/Nicksgamebox18/comments/12bnnmx/eqbal_page_from_armored_core_4_designs_book/

[@Shattered_Skies]

@@armoredcorelore I think this is exactly what I was looking for. I really appreciate what you're doing! On a separate note, I've found an AC Nexus official artbook. I can't find the original poster rn (sorry!), but here's the link for anyone interested anyways: drive.google.com/drive/u/1/folders/1HysouF362PleQ9NJhHHt2QblwDXkCDhD

[@HunterForHire422]

During my armored core binge i couldn't bother to finish nexus so when starting last raven and seeing nexus summed up in the first 30 seconds really showed how little you need to actually play it. Especially when last raven never mentions Navis you can probably jump from silent line straight to LR with little confusion. "Oh yeah after silent line companies accidentally turned on some murder robots and everything sucked for awhile. Back to it then!"

[@armoredcorelore]

Yeah, but you do miss the finer details.

[@skylordianandy2644]

Oh wow so that's an everybody loses ending no matter what. That's both cool and awful at the same time.

[@armoredcorelore]

Yep fromsoftware writing ha ha.

[@bgonzales817]

I love nexus, finally updated controls

[@armoredcorelore]

I had fun plaything through it again for the video.

[@love_ark]

With all this lore you're dropping and myself being a current 5th gen RAVEN, I have more insight who or what those antomotons I fight are. Good job as always, your videos always have me glued like a History channel mystery. ^

[@armoredcorelore]

Thanks Love Ark and i know who to call if i need a 5th Gen raven then =)

[@nelsonpanagsagan2725]

My first hands-on AC game that I played, I had a brief experience and exposure of AC: Master of Arena only when playing split screen PvP with my brother when I was a kid. According to Ravens, I wasn't aware that Nexus is the easiest then I played Last Raven which is said to be the hardest among the series, ngl. Those titles are my personal favorites that I enjoyed, too bad I missed out AC4 and FA but played the (not so) AC: Verdict Day which is my least favorite.

[@armoredcorelore]

Both are good entries so i can understand why and well here's hoping ac6 can give everyone a game they can say yeah its a good game.

[@bombomos]

Is there a lore reason for all that damn heat??

[@armoredcorelore]

No but you could say they wanted to see the world burn....Still if i am allowed to out my theory hat on its possible the corporations are still testing some of these new products and well since many are mass produced there is nothing to say the raven are not getting the best.

[@RebelFNOS]

Y'know after playing AC6 watching the lore vids on the older games and seeing the older AC's feels weird particularly when i see parts that share similar visual designs and knowing that they may or may not be of the same timelines but the designs stayed somewhat the same

[@armoredcorelore]

Its true a lot of part do that same design feeling with a bit of a tweak. Ac6 was very noticeable with this as we have parts that look very much like parts from ac3 only changed a bit to not be a dead match. Its the same with storylines really there will always be a great destruction event to kick off a time line and usually ai plays a part in the story somewhere.

[@vitalevergreen139]

Unfortunately, He was not the last raven... Unless...

[@armoredcorelore]

Maybe..

[@RouterChain]

So,it is a prequel to AC: LR? I never played this one,so thanks for this video.

[@armoredcorelore]

Thank you for watching and well its is what lead to the events of last raven.

[@leoornstein3963]

Lmao alpha male Evengal.

[@armoredcorelore]

He was much cooler in nexus.

[@debbiebost5139]

I got a question for you who would win in a fight the villkiss from cross ange rondo of angel and dragon or white glint

[@armoredcorelore]

This seems like one question that could land me in very hot water. However for fun and with very little knowledge on Cross Ange Rondo from the Cross ange fandom wiki, let's be honest it has a lot more on offer then most nexts. This of course if the right pilot with the ring, song and blood. With its self repair ability which a next can not do once an arms gone that's it, different modes for super speed and all out attack mode again a next is only as good as it pilot there is no power up button, a sword which if strong enough to cut through dragon scale and navel vessels then i think it would be strong enough to cut through a next primal armour and armour, an assault rifle with grenade launcher which again seem to be designed to take out dragons of various sizes but since these dragons seem to have magic power i guess they would go through primal armour. Meanwhile we have White glint, very fast but not time breaking fast, He is an elite pilot having known to fight off four nexts at once and force his next to come back for round 2. But then i guess we're crossing into the line of fandoms here and what's the skill difference between a pilot from Cross ange then armored core? Is she the best they have or is she one of these rookie pilots who get stronger to the point she becomes the best? If so when do the two meet when they are both in thier prime or when both are rookies? Its a fun question and really i think again with my limited knowledge that the worlds are a little too different for a fair match up as self repairing machines and time-travelling powers is not really something a next pilot could compete with.

[@debbiebost5139]

@@armoredcorelore yes but no pilot of any ragna mail can ever match the skill of an ai especially if that ai is nine ball

[@chaosakazero]

Excellent timing

[@armoredcorelore]

Thank you.

[@cmoneytheman]

It's strange how this looks worst with its textures yet this is sharper than 3 And 3 has worst textures than 2 which is odd since 3 came out after I have been playing this series on pcsx2 in 5k and it's very sharp I like it and the effects look really good wish it was a textures mod

[@armoredcorelore]

Ah i think its the joys of the emulation, sometimes the older game look better then the newer one and sometimes they just don't work at all look at ac4 for a long time there was an error to do with not being able to display the paint of the next so everyone was using this red pixeled looking next. Texture mods would be nice, but i think it would a lot of work.

[@VengeanceMkII]

Nexus was a real experience, and the controls were neat but damn why did they have to give thrusters heat!? As this was before online patching the game felt so unbalanced ahh! Still it was a fun ride.

[@armoredcorelore]

It was a change i think many though was a bit nah. Still as you say fun time.

[@N-cromancer]

So is mirage first gen enhanced or second?

[@Blahblahblah28504]

No corporations were saints in this game, but Mirage were particularly a-holes in this game. But who are we to question their actions? We're Ravens after all. We take advantage of that struggle.

[@armoredcorelore]

Yes they are/ But your right we're raven we're here just for the glory and cash. Politics is not our game, but we sure do get work from it.

[@truly-oni3945]

When you realize the controller was right

[@armoredcorelore]

The only way to save mankind is to kill it.

[@richardavelino7383]

Out of all our pilots, the Nexus one deserves to be in hell the most. Also, why is Nineball back???

[@armoredcorelore]

Yes the nineball is a famous translation error as it should be named unknown.

[@kevingame3198]

I hope you do the story of armored core formula front in the future but skip ninebreaker straight to last raven

[@armoredcorelore]

Ah ACFF is my favourite of the series, however i do plan after some more videos to hit Last raven. I might leave formula front when i finish the 5th gen as something light hearted after the heavy lore of 5th gen.

[@kevingame3198]

@@armoredcorelore oh I tought you gonna do ac formula front to last raven before 5th Gen ac

[@armoredcorelore]

@@kevingame3198 No as much as i love FF, i want to cover last raven and fifth gen before i talk about the spin offs ac games.

[@kevingame3198]

@@armoredcorelore got ya I'm excited whats in store for last raven

[@armoredcorelore]

@@kevingame3198 Thank you for understanding and oh i have a plan.

[@blagojpejov4155]

Nice work man

[@armoredcorelore]

Thank you.

[@drwilyecoyote5357]

ahh yeahhhh, my favorite gen 3 game.

[@armoredcorelore]

It was fun to playthrough again.

[@Nicholas-nu9jx]

Honestly armor core before 4th gen games are more grimdark than 40K

[@armoredcorelore]

They certainly are and i love it ha ha. Mind you give me another formula front ac game and i am golden.

[@Bojack1135]

Was brought here by the for answer retrospective video EDIT: from Above Average Gaming

[@armoredcorelore]

Ah well Above Average Gaming has done some super videos on the AC series and i should thank you for giving my video a chance.

[@armoredcorelore]

@@cm54387 Already being worked on, just replayed the game over to capture the footage needed.

[@codysherman8809]

Yes! Thank you sir

[@armoredcorelore]

Thank you for watching and commenting.

[@preheatx]

I really had a hard time getting into Nexus and Last Raven. Something about them just didn't seem to be as fun as the earlier titles

[@armoredcorelore]

That's fair and i think the nice thing about ac is that we have this wide range of different games which allows as many people as possible to be able to find the one's they really like or dislike.

[@meeirudayo7270]

FROMSOFTWARE unbalance/balance those 2 game too much

[@Teixas666]

Nexus was a huge divider on its features because of its changes. notably the changes ot the heat mechanic is what caused the most gripe, followed by the nerfs ot automatic weapons that stemmed from how broken they were in SL

[@DeathMetalThrasher]

They changed nearly all the stats of the parts and made heat mechanics annoying. Last Raven reduced the heat thankfully, I like the part disabling/destruction system it introduced too. Although, I wish they didn't make all hover legs as delicate as paper mache lol I really like Last Raven over Nexus though. The replay value is great, it's challenging and there's so many ac parts to play around with (especially if you have the PSP version).

[@avva4090]

Too bad Rimfire didnt live long enough to have a child and name them Centerfire 😞

[@armoredcorelore]

You let me down fromsoftware we could of had a family video! ha ha.

[@andrewrogers3067]

What was going on in that outro?

[@armoredcorelore]

The preview or the end itself? As with the preview i tried something new, i was bored and well i think I'll just stick to a simple picture of what's next ha ha.

[@null8036]

The only thing i disliked from this game is the absence of the great and mighty red-mark 1000-ammo machine gun. but hey atleast i can have dual-machine gun

[@armoredcorelore]

And as we know duel machine gun makes a happy raven.

[@wannabkain4400]

It’s a real shame I can’t play nexus as it’s not on the vita store

[@armoredcorelore]

Ah bummer sorry to hear that. Its why fromsoftware should consider putting the title on a store front should AC6 do well. It would allow people a modern way to experience the game if they can't or don't want to emulate.

[@wannabkain4400]

@@armoredcorelore would be really nice if they did the in thing atm and a sort of “legacy collection”. Like bundle the timelines together like Capcom does and Konami. Hopefully AC6 sells well and makes them consider this.

[@armoredcorelore]

@@wannabkain4400 Crossing fingers and if no i shall write them a strong worded letter =).

[@aggelosaggelos5696]

sounds better than last raven

[@armoredcorelore]

Well this is what lead up to last raven. It was a case of corporations playing with things they should not be.

[@aggelosaggelos5696]

@armoredcorelore no yeah i know,but the story feels better...or maybe zinaida gave me ptsd

[@armoredcorelore]

Me too. Zinaida is one reason i was happy to be done with LR lore video.

[@starrynightorion6364]

YES! NEXUS!

[@armoredcorelore]

=)

[@OlExtraRegularBass]

I wish you didn't have that accent cuz I'm too stupid to be entertained by your reading, I just think my doctor's chewing me out.

[@armoredcorelore]

Well that is something new.

[@OlExtraRegularBass]

@@armoredcorelore I suck.

[@MrHolmesjustin66]

I personally think FROMSOFTWARE should remake PS2 armored core games 🫡

[@armoredcorelore]

I mean remakes of them all would be nice. However maybe they want to see how well AC6 does before making further plans.

[@kevingame3198]

@@armoredcorelore given from software track record with their past few releases, Elden ring sekerio shadows die twice they have been on the roll for the past decade since dark souls 1 in 2011

[@gundamdude8351]

Remake from a time timeline based collection would actually be critical so people can follow the lore of certain timeline on there liking