9 Ball, Patches, or both?

[Muse Snooze]

Who's getting a comeback?

[Algester]

patches is a given 9ball... not sure, even ACV has some vague references on him like how the foundation man is an AI and ends up fighting you as an transforming ..... ball bird thing, nothing mich in VD other than fighting a jury rigged white glint

[✨Hot Soup✨]

9 Breaker for sure

[AC_R4VN]

It would neat for FROM to have references to past mechs from the series like they did with Another Age or Last Raven. Well have to see what the endgame/newgame+ holds.

[frowningmirror]

9 Ball and White Glint are by far the most famous ACs. Patches has only appeared in one armored core game, I think Miyazaki pushed the rest of fromsoft to include him.

[Nersius]

Hopefully we get a lot of the big-name former players as post-game optional bosses at the very least.

Don't want the devs to shoehorn in fan favourites if it makes the game worse, but I am still hoping they're in here.

[Algester]

do take note patches is in Master of Arena's EX arena piloting Parsec so Patches' history in fromsoft is as gaggier as the Moonlight and Karasawa

[Ku-Joe(White Glint)]

It may just be anxiety, but the moment I first saw that red glow.... I ..... all I could see was 9ball, and it terrified me.....

[DrWilyeCoyote]

Originally posted by Muse Snooze:

Who's getting a comeback?

I'd love to see 9-ball and zinaida come back. make zinaida an optional boss and REALLY give the new blood a warm welcome.

[Horse Glue™]

9-ball was the main antagonist of Master of Arena, was he not? The red suit with the mega bazooka?

[Muse Snooze]

Originally posted by Rum Ham:

9-ball was the main antagonist of Master of Arena, was he not? The red suit with the mega bazooka?

AC1, was also the main fixture there actually.

[Crown]

Raven is getting a comeback. The pilot from the original AC. Anyone remember what would happen when you died during the major missions?

[Muse Snooze]

Originally posted by Crown:

Raven is getting a comeback. The pilot from the original AC. Anyone remember what would happen when you died during the major missions?

everyone that pilots an AC is generically called a Raven.

[Digital Fulcrum]

If Nine Ball comes back, its not the same guy. That poor guy got super messed up, then gets shot down by the hands of a Raven pilot.

[Nine-Ball]

Sumika. She's in 2 generations already. She makes a good controller.

[AkumaOuja]

Originally posted by Algester:

patches is a given 9ball... not sure, even ACV has some vague references on him like how the foundation man is an AI and ends up fighting you as an transforming ..... ball bird thing, nothing mich in VD other than fighting a jury rigged white glint

The Reaper Squad/Death God Unit are all black/red and the guy piloting the remanufactured White Glint is an AI upload when he uses that, much like the dude from V who was a direct reference to Nineball.

For more fun, the drone weapons you fight are a reference to the Disorder units from 2, further fueling the idea that actually maybe there really *hasn't* ever been a timeline reboot.