how does this compare to ZOE2

[Ashardalon]

trailer shows very little gameplay
the mechs are very pretty but how does it play

[Vagrant]

ZOE2 is one single mecha with sub-weapons.

AC is fully customizable mechs. Nuff said.

[Cookie]

Watch Armored Core: For Answer gameplay. It plays like that but slower.

[RetroNutcase]

Originally posted by Ashardalon:

trailer shows very little gameplay
the mechs are very pretty but how does it play

It doesn't compare at all. ZoE2 is basically a character action game except you're a flying mecha.

Armored Core is actual mechs, with weight. Where instead of swinging your melee weapon over and over, it's all about landing ONE good swing.

Customization is important, there's a ton of numbers that make up your mech stats and ALL of them are gonna matter. Tons of guns, hand held, shoulder mounted. Multiple leg types that give you various advantages such as more weight capacity or being able to better use certain weapon types, or give you better speed/mobility. Tons of parts for the other slots (Head, Core, Arms, backpack/booster, etc) that will all influence the performance of your machine.

That said, you'll definitely be fast, even faster if you build around mobility, but this isn't gonna be like ZoE where you're zipping between foes while rapidly comboing all of them. Like others have said, watch gameplay of other Armored Cores. Four Answer (AKA 4A) is a good one to look at for an idea of what to expect.

[DeltaLunar2]

Originally posted by RetroNutcase:

Originally posted by Ashardalon:

trailer shows very little gameplay
the mechs are very pretty but how does it play

Armored Core is actual mechs, with weight. Where instead of swinging your melee weapon over and over, it's all about landing ONE good swing.

Unrelated, but I find this funny because this is what people got on Daemon X Machina's melee combat for.

[REhorror]

It's more mecha and shootey than ZOE.

ZOE is unironically a beat em up/wrestling robot game.

[Dexaldem]

Originally posted by Ashardalon:

trailer shows very little gameplay
the mechs are very pretty but how does it play

They're completely different games with their only similarities being "Fast Mecha Action". I'd recommend looking up videos of Armored Core 3 and Armored Core: For Answer to get a better idea of what to expect as the pace of AC6 is expected to be somewhere between the two.

[k-ricks]

Zoe is slashy fly boy
Ac is shooty fly boy

[snakker]

It's probably going to be very different.

If you want to compare two games from the same era look up armored core 2 and the first zone of enders to get an idea

Armored core is all about customizing your mech to suit your playstyle, blow stuff up and survive, get new parts, keep customizing and so on.

That said, From has changed a lot, and quality of life changes, gameplay changes etc are probably going to make this much more accessible than previous titles that may seem a bit daunting. Or not lol, this is from software after all.

That said, I played the older titles and loved em. Am pretty excited to see the series coming back after so long. Really, mech games in general have been lacking

cheers