Armored Core veterans impressions on AC6 gameplay

[REhorror]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGtDR6xv16M&t=948s

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[Crown]

AC Vet? I'd rather go with Raven. But his enthusiasm and love for the game is heartfelt. I hope to play against him sometime.

[Blackmage]

This vet actually mostly agrees with him.

A lot of these changes are improvements, and will actually allow FromSoftware to make encounters more punishing. That's what we want.

My only complaint (I apologize if I sound like a broken record to some of you) is actually being able to shoot all 4 weapons (no weapon swapping) is going to make hard-lock pretty much mandatory for most people to play, because the boosting functions have to get shoved over to the face buttons. They tried this in AC4, and it didn't work because you couldn't turn and shoot at the same time.
Except now you can't turn and dodge or boost at the same time without hard-lock, which is probably actually worse. I do not like the idea of being forced to give up control on the direction my camera is pointing just so I can boost and dodge - and I don't think anyone should have to if they don't want. It's a viability issue that didn't have to exist if they'd just stuck with weapon swapping.
I remapped the controls in AC4, never touched the hard-lock, and played better for it. I'm going to do it again in AC6. If I end up being wrong about this, then I'm wrong, and I'll be happily surprised. This is just what I am expecting.

[SageJedai]

Originally posted by Blackmage:

This vet actually mostly agrees with him.

A lot of these changes are improvements, and will actually allow FromSoftware to make encounters more punishing. That's what we want.

My only complaint (I apologize if I sound like a broken record to some of you) is actually being able to shoot all 4 weapons (no weapon swapping) is going to make hard-lock pretty much mandatory for most people to play, because the boosting functions have to get shoved over to the face buttons. They tried this in AC4, and it didn't work because you couldn't turn and shoot at the same time.
Except now you can't turn and dodge or boost at the same time without hard-lock, which is probably actually worse. I do not like the idea of being forced to give up control on the direction my camera is pointing just so I can boost and dodge - and I don't think anyone should have to if they don't want. It's a viability issue that didn't have to exist if they'd just stuck with weapon swapping.
I remapped the controls in AC4, never touched the hard-lock, and played better for it. I'm going to do it again in AC6. If I end up being wrong about this, then I'm wrong, and I'll be happily surprised. This is just what I am expecting.

I agree with ya on both parts.But that turning instead of strafe(unless hard-locked) is going to drive me insane, I'm calling it now lol. Really hoping we can toggle camera controls, because the default just looks silly. Might be good for someone wanting to get some interesting cinematic shots? Apart from that, I don't see the reason for it. I wonder how this'll all work out since I really do plan on going at the game with dual flight sticks.

[Nine-Ball]

The only thing that bother me is the camera. This camera makes it seem less like your a pilot and more like every other 3rd person action game.

[Shun]

Originally posted by Nine-Ball:

The only thing that bother me is the camera. This camera makes it seem less like your a pilot and more like every other 3rd person action game.

I blame Armored Core 5 for this. For Answer and everything before had the AC in the center of the screen which felt 100 times better to me than 5's weird over the shoulder view.

[Steve]

Originally posted by REhorror:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGtDR6xv16M&t=948s

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Okay. So what? I didn't even watch it.

[TayDaVillain]

im just glad its not like anything AC4 and after, my least favorite part of the series.

[Deadkold]

I wasn't a fan of the new AC games (been playing AC since I was 9 years old) but I mean it doesn't look terrible /shrug

[BEEP!]

From what I played from the demo it felt just like a good modern AC game I wasn't disappointed one bit it was miles better than ACV & this whole it's just another souls like game couldn't be farther than the truth Zelda is about as much souls like as this game.

[REhorror]

Originally posted by 1080puktra:

From what I played from the demo it felt just like a good modern AC game I wasn't disappointed one bit it was miles better than ACV & this whole it's just another souls like game couldn't be farther than the truth Zelda is about as much souls like as this game.

Bazed.