THIS *CANT* BE HOW ARMORED CORE 6 ENDS...

[@tezyrix]

FYI (no spoil) NG+ is about making the other decisions from your NG playthrough and get the second ending. NG++ is even more different, by introducing whole new missions and the story diverges heavely (the 3rd ending is considered to be the "true" ending).

[@Claayh]

@@tezyrix I CANT WAIT, Currently on ng+ rn so ull be seeing that up soon!!

[@roninsghost108]

​@Claayh it doesn't necessarily force you to pick the other ending. Before starting ng+ I'd suggest making a note or word doc of what decision missions you picked and then choose the other options when it's time. Only way to fully unlock all the missions

[@Claayh]

@@roninsghost108 ahhh that is a very good idea thank you!!

[@Ghorda9]

@@Claayh that's not strictly necessary, the most important decisions are all in the last chapter and they're pretty obvious, it's just ng++ where there's more to it. How ever the ingame choices are important but also obvious because you didn't get these last ng thoe they don't contribute to the ending just gives you new missions.

[@cireoath336]

For context for the Walter Fight, Arquebus messed with Walter and forced him to fight you. Basically mind control or brainwash, but Walter was resisting the effects to stop himself from killing you.

[@Claayh]

@@cireoath336 AAAAA THAT MAKES IT SO MUCH WORSE WTF

[@cireoath336]

@ You can tell they way he was talking, switching to him actually talking to talking like he is following orders. The saddest part about this is that if you heard this dialogue, Walter had planned to give 621 his humanity back by undoing the surgery once the “mission” was over. This is what they mean when you heard one of the Vespers say “Re-Education”.

[@Claayh]

@@cireoath336 WHAT NOO 😭

[@Herr_Gamer]

@@Claayhwant me to make it worse? In a datalog, it’s implied they experimented on Walter as a sort of AI-human hybrid and sealed him in the machine, removing his limbs and much of his torso. A datalog relating to the post C-weapon incorporation in Arquebus ends with the line «keep the torso intact next time», talking about the pilot. The HAL unit Walter pilots was not intended to be piloted by humans

[@Claayh]

@@Herr_Gamer WHAT, I heard that line but never knew what it meant 😭😭

[@Jusuff]

Walter's boss fight is so heartbreaking. He is brainwashed by Arquebus to fight you but you can hear him trying to break out of it. They give him some sort of coral augmentation which means he can hear Ayre in the final fight and finally understands who you have been communicating with all this time and that coral is actually sentient. He sounds so proud of you before he dies. Also, quick tip on the Moonlight: Use the uncharged attack. This fires two smaller blade waves. It is a quicker attack and a more reliable way to inflict damage.

[@Claayh]

It made it so much worse when he was so understanding during the fight 😭😭

[@AeroWraith901]

Destroy the Drive block is hands down my favorite mission. Rolling through enemies with best buddy Rusty, dunking on an old boss with him, then dunking on Snail and hearing that funny as hell scream, the MUSIC(which btw would recommend looking up Steel Haze Where Truths Meet, great version of that track released by FromSoft). Such a good mission

[@Claayh]

@AeroWraith901 I will happily look that up ty! Absolutely it's one of the best missions I've played so far hands down

[@cireoath336]

The theme that plays when you were with Rusty is called Steel Haze (Rusted Pride). When other theme you listened were mostly atmospheric or the sense of danger. Rusty’s theme remains the most emotional and epic music to listen to. And it has actual lyrics that is very symbolic with the story.

[@Claayh]

@@cireoath336 I love that wtg

[@Ghostly3011]

One tip I haven’t seen in the comments; the reason you run out of ammo so often is because you’re wasting a decent bit. All weapons have their own effective ranges. Attempting to use them beyond this effective range results in your shots ricocheting, or bouncing off, causing minimal damage and no impact. _Generally,_ kinetic weapons will have lower range than energy or explosive weaponry.

[@Claayh]

@Ghostly3011 ooooh okay that makes more sense thank you man!

[@DFCMH]

"You must chosen something sacrificed something" -Rusty

[@lesslighter]

And borders we deleted were the friends we made along the way.... Buddy

[@Claayh]

@@DFCMH 😭😭

[@chewbacachunks8644]

The moonlight blade is so cool in this game. It's damage scales both with melee specialization on arms, and energy specialization on your generator. Use arms, and a gen with high specialization stats and you can get some nutty damage. The moonlight is the only melee weapon that also scales with energy spec. Oh and btw both the melee and energy specialization stats are calculated a little strange. A 100 stat is considered a 0% damage boost. So anything over 100 gets you a higher damage modifier, and anything under 100 gives you a negative damage modifier. Obviously melee spec only applies to melee weapons and energy spec only applies to energy weapons.

[@Claayh]

@chewbacachunks8644 damn okay ill try and note that for my next run ty!

[@lucassmith3790]

FYI Walter has been re-educated. Even through his torture/brainwashing, he still cared about his goals and you. I wish you had done the other ending first! It's not a big deal, but it makes this moment even more impactful.

[@Claayh]

@lucassmith3790 yeah I see ur point but it definitely still hurt to do this ending 😭 and dw ill be doing them all

[@hiddenmaster6062]

Rusty's dead. Walter killed him.

[@Claayh]

@@hiddenmaster6062 crying.

[@Naetheon]

Of the 3 endings, the third true ending is my favorite. Just you wait. The last boss is someone you won't expect at all

[@Claayh]

@Naetheon don't worry i promise I'll do them all on here ive been loving it

[@Iscreamaboutleeches]

I cried fighting Walter. It’s depressing as hell. I love it.

[@Claayh]

@@Iscreamaboutleeches REAL

[@aclassicusername2174]

The soundtrack for Armored Core 6 falls mostly in the hands of one Kota Hoshino, he's been doing the Soundtracks (or at least working on sound design) for FromSoft for over 20 years, and alongside his band FreQuency, he's been a major contributor to every AC game's soundtrack since AC1: Master of Arena. Please do yourself a favor if you end up falling in love with this series and checking out the Fourth Generation games (Armored Core 4 and Armored Core: For Answer) or, at the very least the soundtracks. Also, after you're done with NG++, please look up Armored Core 6 OST Disk 3, and give it a listen, it's alternate versions of old AC tracks as well as some remixes of some of the songs from base game that didn't make it in.

[@Claayh]

@aclassicusername2174 I will happily go back and look at some of the older games, maybe. Make a series of it, and yess ill keep that in mind for after I'm done with NG++ thank you!

[@vingerengaoma]

You should try out old gen if you're enjoying 6 armored core is a great piece of gaming history and deserves all the love it can get.

[@Claayh]

@@vingerengaoma yeah I'm definitely thinking about it ngl

[@ernestoperez8240]

The moonblade is basically a pulse weapon use it to destroy shields And the rapid double attacks are better than the charge attack.

[@the-nameless-dude]

Nope. The redshift is better than the moonlight in every single way if you use it with the normal two sweeps (Except the cooling). The moonlight's true power resides in it's charged sweep, dealing massive damage from a far. P.S. The moonlight is also the only melee? weapon to scale off of both Energy Firearm Spec of the generator and Melee Spec of the arm, where as the redshift only scales off of melee spec.

[@ernestoperez8240]

@the-nameless-dude Yes you are right but he was using the moonlight not the redshift And even if the charge attack of the Moonlight is better most of the time the double attacks are more reliable

[@Claayh]

@@ernestoperez8240 oooooh okay ty ty

[@Claayh]

@the-nameless-dude ooh that's interesting to know about its scaling

[@Cross-Out]

NGL, only reason I went with Carla was the hefty payout since I was buying tons of parts back then Still, killing Chatty was heartbreaking. He was the homie in Ice Worm, stuck around until the end and survived when Iguazu and Snail either left or were destroyed

[@Claayh]

@Cross-Out you are so fair for that, and yeah getting rid of chatty hurt..

[@trance9872]

You're gonna do the endings in the same order as me. Have fun with NG+ and aiming for the second ending!

[@Claayh]

@@trance9872 ayyyy thate pretty cool

[@cireoath336]

There are no chests in this final chapter, just Combat Logs.

[@Claayh]

@@cireoath336 OOH okay that makes sense thank you

[@maxrobbins5448]

Watching this video hurt me so much. My fight with Walter was rlly short so I didn’t get to hear all the heart wrenching dialogue.

[@Claayh]

@maxrobbins5448 play it again and try it hurt you in real time! (Its such a good fight)

[@DFCMH]

Schneider AC is likely Rusty old AC STEEL HAZE because it use NACHTREIHER frame that develops by Schneider . Btw Rusty is RLF

[@Claayh]

@@DFCMH WHAT NO DONT SAY THAT 😭

[@DFCMH]

​@@Claayh Wait you never read arena profile?

[@Claayh]

@DFCMH I read some of them but i also have memory issues so I don't always remember 😭

[@TellusDFP]

in the ng+ if you choose to stay with Carla's plan instead of helping Ayre in the Xylen, you will unlock the second ending

[@Claayh]

@@TellusDFP oooh okay thank you!!

[@mihirdeshmukh7270]

Please keep uploading until new game ++ really enjoyed watching different build you use for the fights.

[@Claayh]

@mihirdeshmukh7270 hell yeah man aslong as ppl keep enjoying the content ill keep posting it!

[@Constantine212]

Etsujins with pb in a lightweight really do wonders very good play

[@Claayh]

@@Constantine212 ty man!!

[@Teveren666]

I recently did a second full play through (of NG, NG+, and NG++) except I turned the dialogue to Japanese with subtitles. In the after credits scene of this ending, I'm pretty sure I heard Ayre call you "anata". Which is most commonly used, though not always, by married couples to address one another. Make of that what you will! 😄

[@Claayh]

@@Teveren666 THATS SO CUTE WTH

[@roninsghost108]

There is alternate dialogue in the following mission if you choose to ignore snail in the eliminate carla

[@Claayh]

@@roninsghost108 OOOH I might try that next time, even tho I do love killing him hehe

[@roninsghost108]

​@@Claayhkilling snail is always a fun past time

[@roninsghost108]

Also, make a note of how rusty flys in fromnthe right during the Liberator ending. It'll make sense when you get one of the others. There's a screenplay tactics used very effectively

[@roninsghost108]

Another tip, after a failed charged or normal melee attack, quick boost and swap your shoulder. It's a good habit to pick up and will help with pvp if you choose to partake in that madness

[@Claayh]

​@@roninsghost108oooh okay thank you!!😊

[@Herr_Gamer]

«This can’t be how it ends» well… good news

[@Claayh]

@@Herr_Gamer HAHA I'm looking forward to all the endings on my other playthroughs

[@sirfijoe450]

I dig your build.

[@Claayh]

@@sirfijoe450 ty!

[@kalelson8861]

Just wait til you get to the 2nd ending my guy. Gg tho good fights Edit: snail killed rusty, you see walters AC in the cutscene after Coral Convergence mission. It's one of two ACs arquebus finds in institute City.

[@Gredal_]

?? Since when did Snail kill Rusty? Rusty was taken out by something mid comms, and the most probable culprit was Walter.

[@Claayh]

@@kalelson8861 NOOOO :(

[@Claayh]

@Gredal_ either way RIP Rusty, we love you

[@Gredal_]

@@Claayh Buddy got off screened. Big sadge. Enjoy the next 2 endings. They're quite the roller coaster.

[@adamblakeslee5301]

You've got 2 more endings but they aren't going to give you closure. Armored Core doesn't do happy endings, just less sad endings.

[@Claayh]

@@adamblakeslee5301 DAMMIT

[@notimportant768]

With the moon light double tapping for punish instead of charging can be recommended damage wise. Or maybe thats redshift Surprised you haven't done any kicking. Its very useful.

[@Claayh]

@notimportant768 I keep forgetting kicking is a thing I'm ngl 😭😭 and oooh okay ill give that a test thank you!!

[@notimportant768]

​​​@@Claayh yeah part of moonlight's strength is how it can punish at a distance. Theres no melee hitbox its all in the projectile so if you have an opportunity swap double tap. As for kicking it does good stagger, good damage on punish, and extends staggers like a few other things do. Assault boost, its pretty good. There are a lot of stats and it can take a bit to put them all together in your head.

[@notimportant768]

​@@Claayh walter was brainwashed by the arquebus. Like they tried to do with you. If it werent for that *and* you going against what he wanted yo do, he wouldn't have tried to kill you.

[@Claayh]

@notimportant768 okay ill try and keep that in mind for this playthrough, I really appreciate the tips thought keep em coming i need it 😭😭

[@lesslighter]

@@Claayh moonlight also takes both melee perf on the arms and en weapon spec from your generator into consideration (1.06 or 1.07 update?)

[@Plus_Escapee]

You don't happen to play Luke Yui's coop mod? That AC looks familiar. Either way, cool video.

[@Claayh]

@Plus_Escapee nah I'm sorry man this is my first ever time playing the game i didn't even know that was a mod (might try it out now tho), but my ac is based of off a popular old anime about mechs so it will probably be a popular choice, sorry man but glad u like the vid♡

[@bingoose5295]

just wait until he finds out the ac6 dlc will be announced tmrw. i hope ur ready to grind out the other two endings before the dlc launches

[@Claayh]

@@bingoose5295 I will have no life.

[@Dracodeus]

ending 1 of 3.

[@dagonofthedepths]

Yeah that made me feel bad too. Walter was a man that really sacrificed his own heart to fulfill his dead comrade's dreams and to end up like that, that sucks. Even in the end he's fighting his reprogramming as much as he's fighting you. Also, kind of why I think there is an issue with this ending (not spoiling the other ones just in context with this). Walter feared exponential growth. So, sorry for the math but if we assume Rubicion-3 is the same size of the Earth (about 12,000km diameter), it looks like the Fires of Ibis covered about half the distance to the moon so 260,000km. What if that never happened and Coral was allowed to double? Then double again? The whole Coral thing can be a galaxy ending event given time and the 2 people that both had the knowledge and motivation to stop it was Carla and Walter and they are dead. So yeah given how pessimistic you are you just doomed the galaxy. Or on the optimistic side, Ayre found a way and you saved it. Really depends on how you look at it and I don't think we'll know until they drop DLC. They never really explain this in the main game, it's more cool background stuff that flushes out the world, but the Jupiter War which Michigan was a part of was between Balam and Furlong Dynamics. Furlong Dynamics lost the war so when the whole Rubicon conflict took off they choose to stay out of it and instead decided to weaken both Balam and Arquebus in hopes both companies will weaken each other. To that end they and the RLF's other major supporter, Elcano Foundry helped design STEEL HAZE ORTUS for Rusty. Feel like it's cool there is this whole narrative 621 never interacts with. Makes the world feel so much bigger.

[@Claayh]

@dagonofthedepths I really do hope they drop dlc and explain all the endings, or atleast the ending u chose influences the dlc story in some way yk? Also I really appreciate u not spoiling

[@dagonofthedepths]

@@Claayh Well they 100% wont explain anything they're From Soft. But they have never failed to make a follow up game or DLC for a major series. Just........if you get to new game++ I'll tell you why i'm mad lol. Not at the game but at a character in it. Even the Jupiter War thing is reading a lot of hidden lore and piecing things together. Like looking at RLF ACs and noticing they only use parts from 2 companies.

[@Jusuff]

I wanna believe the Liberator ending leads to the same thing (SPOILERS) that happens in NG++

[@dagonofthedepths]

@@Jusuff if it does I'd be mad lol but really I don't think that would work given another's faction's goals

[@Claayh]

@@dagonofthedepths oooh okay

[@gypsybiswa]

There are three endings for the game And the 3rd is a ng+3 Exclusive ending I hope that you can do all of them!

[@Claayh]

@@gypsybiswa ME TOO

[@Hero_Lancelot]

This is only one of the endings man. Time to go around and get the other ending. 👀

[@Claayh]

@Hero_Lancelot nearly done ng+ 👀

[@mothmist]

Was hoping you'd get this ending first!! It's got the easiest final boss out of all of them

[@Claayh]

@mothmist I LOVED THIS ENDING IM NGL, it's so cinematic and I loved that final fight, I can't wait to get all the other endings now and have a good toy w the builds!!

[@mothmist]

@@Claayh The mission where Rusty returns.. I haven't forgotten that feeling. Greatest moments in gaming right there

[@Claayh]

@@mothmist REALLL I was so happy he wasn't gone

[@mothmist]

@@Claayh and we never *see* what happened to him so I choose to believe he went on to live a long and happy life

[@notimportant768]

​@@Claayh yeah, and the thing is it hit harder when you realise if walter wasnt both brainwashed by arquebus and you werent going against what he came here to do, he wouldn't have fought you.

[@Grim_Unhinged]

I’m sitting here the entire time Wondering why you were using Moonlight like its a Close Range Weapon with a Long range Charge, the entire weapon is a Long Range Weapon. Like in the Carla fight when you kept trying to charge it I’m like “Bro you don’t have time for that go for the quick Slash, and Dash”

[@Claayh]

@Grim_Unhinged yeah but I'm a little slow sometimes okay 😭

[@zOMGGaiaOnline]

man I still think letting players destroy xylem on base playthrough was a flop considering what the leadups are like in ng+/++. It makes the choice fall flat on its face given the opened routes and endings of NG+/++ have the better payoffs for it.

[@Claayh]

@zOMGGaiaOnline i mean I think it Just makes people more curious about the other endings tbh

[@Akimory91]

Is it normal difficulty or hardcore? SPOILER: 3rd Ending is the TRUE ENDING, however, it is a more like a *BEEP*. 😂 (Sorry, don't wanna spoil it for you, but enjoy.) 👌

[@Claayh]

@Akimory91 normal for my first playthrough! (And tysm for no spoilers)

[@PartnerBot2007]

New game+

[@_nichole_]

Bro only played one of three endings

[@Claayh]

@_nichole_ that's why I'm doing multiple playthroughs

[@tedtarrant7375]

Weenus :)

[@Claayh]

agreeable

[@banx757]

So, FYI, Walter was captured and reprogrammed to pilot that final AC for Arquebus. Which is what they were gonna do to you when they captured you in the last vid. On his way to face you, he kills Rusty (off-screen). I beat this game a year ago and chose the same ending you chose. Not gonna lie, watching your playthrough is making me want to play the game again to unlock those endings. As you said, in NG+ and NG++, you unlock new enemies, missions, and bosses, and in your shop, you have access to Coral-based energy equipment and weapons. Also, there are 3 endings to this game; you have to get the first two endings to unlock the 3rd. My progression through the FromSoftware series has been Elden Ring, Bloodborne, Sekiro, Demon Souls, and Armored Core 6. Right now, I'm finishing up Dark Souls 1 Remastered. I'm two bosses away from finishing that game, and in case you're wondering, I already beat the Artorias of the Abyss DLC (fuck that dragon). When I finish that, I might take to the skies as Raven again.

[@Claayh]

@banx757 IM SO SAD ABT WALTER NOW 😭😭 also I'm so happy that my videos are making u want to play the game again that's exactly why I make them

[@banx757]

@@Claayh Have you heard about the animated short for Armored Core staring Keanu Reeves?

[@-m3x1]

It’s not

[@Claayh]

@@-m3x1 👀