NG+ too easy?

[Seleck]

I'm I missing something? basically the same missions with better weapons and upgrades so every fight is trivial now?

Balteus the bane of my existence first time around, now is no more harder than a tetrapod, I can't wait to squash the sea spider like a bug i guess...

[魔装機神 Psybuster]

There's a couple missions with some changes, like being able to betray G4 and 5 on the Dam assault mission, but otherwise it looks to be a chance to try the missions you refused last time to see the other ending, and then the third run has more new missions and a third ending unlocked.

[Aldain]

Kind of the intent, it does throw some harder alternate missions at you here and there though.

But much like every AC game, NG+ is always easier due to having an expanded toolset.

[BookItFaster]

Its kinda boring, and to get access to coral weapons and items you need to beat it 3 times at that point its just a lot of work and repetitive. Im on new game plus right now 2nd time playing. Trying to get one chapter done a day because well i play video games and thats what we do. Test weapons and strats have fun with it.

[Chibi310]

Welcome to Armored Core, lol, the game doesn't work like a Dark Souls game, the franchise never did. You just got better and kept all your equipment. There is a Harder mode, or should be (Haven't beaten the game yet, but I've played every one of the games), go to replay Mission and you can now select their Hard Mode variants. This is usually unlocked in NG+.

[Almost Aragorn]

You are a lot more talented at the game than you were in the first 2-3 hours. :)

[smokratez]

I feel kind of bad for the devs, that they had to dumb every thing down this much.

[Oobaneko]

Imho, gatekeeping true ending behind NG++ and throw at your face really lazy and awful designed boss is really bad thing.

[hakabata]

Not just better armed but more experienced. Should be more easier in NG++.

[BKo]

NG++ is for the story and new missions, not the challenge of missions you already solved.

[魔装機神 Psybuster]

Personally, I've been trying to take on missions with builds that seem more fun to me that I didn't use much in the first run through, and it's pretty entertaining, manages to bring up the tension again of ducking behind cover, poking out to fire off a charged Linear Rifle shot, or scanning to track enemies on a rooftop to unleash vertical missiles on them.

[Seleck]

Originally posted by 魔装機神 Psybuster:

Personally, I've been trying to take on missions with builds that seem more fun to me that I didn't use much in the first run through, and it's pretty entertaining, manages to bring up the tension again of ducking behind cover, poking out to fire off a charged Linear Rifle shot, or scanning to track enemies on a rooftop to unleash vertical missiles on them.

That may be the way of going about it, trying new builds, like the arena builds, or tetrapod legs that I never found the taste for

[Ethanelephants]

i played a different build on each run, that shook it up a lot

[k-ricks]

if you want it harder just lower your build

[The Snacrifice]

Originally posted by Seleck:

I'm I missing something? basically the same missions with better weapons and upgrades so every fight is trivial now?

NG+ isn't to make the game harder, it's so you can replay the game with all the parts and make different decisions to get the second ending.. THen you get NG++ to get the third ending.

[魔装機神 Psybuster]

Originally posted by Seleck:

That may be the way of going about it, trying new builds, like the arena builds, or tetrapod legs that I never found the taste for

4 leggers get a lot more fun when you realize that the recoil absorption makes it possible to use charged Linear Rifles without stopping to fire them.