AC3 Silent Line Questions

[icepurple]

I just imported a save into AC3SL, and I noticed there are less parts avilable in the shop. Is that because I am supposed to beat the entire campaign in AC3 first?

p.s. I never played this title before.

[EmptySoul01]

Parts get added to the shop as you progress the game its normal for armored core series.

[icepurple]

In AC3, I've cleared only 12 missions and about 10 in the arena. And
right from the start there are many more parts available in the AC3 shop.
That's why I got this doubt.

[EmptySoul01]

You get messages from the Mail telling you parts get added to the shop just keep playing and you see it.

[icepurple]

Is there a way to use R3 stick as camera up/down instead of R2 L2? I did look at controller mapping but didn't help.

[Aldain]

Originally posted by icepurple:

Is there a way to use R3 stick as camera up/down instead of R2 L2? I did look at controller mapping but didn't help.

No, not unless you're on an emulator and can fully rebind things.

It wasn't until Nexus that Fromsoft learned how to use two sticks as a control schema sadly.

[icepurple]

Originally posted by Aldain:

Originally posted by icepurple:

Is there a way to use R3 stick as camera up/down instead of R2 L2? I did look at controller mapping but didn't help.

No, not unless you're on an emulator and can fully rebind things.

It wasn't until Nexus that Fromsoft learned how to use two sticks as a control schema sadly.

I'm actually on emulator, I'll look there. Too bad FS took so long to implement that, it feels so unnatural using r2/l2 for camera after so many years playing with R3/L3 sticks.

[Dexaldem]

Originally posted by Aldain:

Originally posted by icepurple:

Is there a way to use R3 stick as camera up/down instead of R2 L2? I did look at controller mapping but didn't help.

No, not unless you're on an emulator and can fully rebind things.

It wasn't until Nexus that Fromsoft learned how to use two sticks as a control schema sadly.

Yeah, about that... ACs 1 through 3 and all their spin-offs used Tank Controls at the time. They didn't move to analog until AC4, I believe. I COULD be wrong, but I'm pretty certain.

[icepurple]

Yeah, that's why I did try to move right away to Ac3SL, hoping there were the L3/R3 sticks for camera on that one. So be it, I'll have to train a bunch of muscle memory.

[Aldain]

Originally posted by icepurple:

Yeah, that's why I did try to move right away to Ac3SL, hoping there were the L3/R3 sticks for camera on that one. So be it, I'll have to train a bunch of muscle memory.

Well if you're going through the series I can say that Nexus being next will be a breath of fresh air...though after Nexus is Last Raven and...that's a mixed bag, mostly with some of the "difficulty" design choices they made.

A lot of people *$&% on Nexus but personally I don't see why, but then again I'm also the guy who enjoys the 4th and 5th gens as much as most of the preceding ones so maybe I'm not a good metric to go by.

[The Raving Dragon]

check the controller plugin in epsx2 change the dpad controls to r3

[DrWilyeCoyote]

Originally posted by Dexaldem:

Originally posted by Aldain:

No, not unless you're on an emulator and can fully rebind things.

It wasn't until Nexus that Fromsoft learned how to use two sticks as a control schema sadly.

Yeah, about that... ACs 1 through 3 and all their spin-offs used Tank Controls at the time. They didn't move to analog until AC4, I believe. I COULD be wrong, but I'm pretty certain.

wrong. dual sticks started at armored core 3 nexus and was also in armored core 3 nine breaker and armored core 3 last raven(the game that concluded generation 3 of armored core)

[Aldain]

Originally posted by DrWilyeCoyote:

Originally posted by Dexaldem:

Yeah, about that... ACs 1 through 3 and all their spin-offs used Tank Controls at the time. They didn't move to analog until AC4, I believe. I COULD be wrong, but I'm pretty certain.

wrong. dual sticks started at armored core 3 nexus and was also in armored core 3 nine breaker and armored core 3 last raven(the game that concluded generation 3 of armored core)

Uh, none of those games are part of 3 just for the sake of clarification, they're just using a lot of the same engine.

...Also I forgot about Nine Breaker somehow, thanks for the reminder.

[MS-06S ZAKU II]

If you import a save into SL, you get all the parts you have already purchased or unlocked with you, but I don't think it affects what's in the parts shop. So you'd have to play SL to unlock the full store for SL. The best thing to do is complete 3 and get every single damn part from 3 before you load up into SL.

[DrWilyeCoyote]

Originally posted by Aldain:

Originally posted by DrWilyeCoyote:

wrong. dual sticks started at armored core 3 nexus and was also in armored core 3 nine breaker and armored core 3 last raven(the game that concluded generation 3 of armored core)

Uh, none of those games are part of 3 just for the sake of clarification, they're just using a lot of the same engine.

...Also I forgot about Nine Breaker somehow, thanks for the reminder.

yes they are, full title of each is Armored core 3: nexus, Armored core 3 Nine Breaker, armored core 3 last raven, they all follow the same timeline started with armored core 3. get a better bait troll.

[icepurple]

Originally posted by MS-06S ZAKU II:

If you import a save into SL, you get all the parts you have already purchased or unlocked with you, but I don't think it affects what's in the parts shop. So you'd have to play SL to unlock the full store for SL. The best thing to do is complete 3 and get every single damn part from 3 before you load up into SL.

Yeah, that was the logic assumption.

Having played only AC1 and 2, back in the days of ps1-2 I'm kinda seeing TODAY plenty of QoL changes needed in the game. For example, in every mission you go in a bit blind, and never really sure which configuration of the AC is best suitable for that mission. And this leads to a ton of save and reload, buy and sell parts, for each mission, making the progress kind of frustrating after a while.

Credits earned, seem pretty unbalanced too. My AC is using laser weapons to remove the cost of ammo, and skipping back missiles for the same reason. With 9000 AP, ending a mission with about 4900, i basically broke even with AC repairs. Not really satisfying outcome that keeps me wanting to go next, even knowing that I played fairly decently.

I probably could improve the score, but how many attempts is going to take to find the right balance? I'd say credits and parts are too tight in Ac3. Making missions more of grind rather than enjoy it.

Yes, the mission briefing can give you some hints of what may be better suited, but I still find it lacking of info to determinate the best or even right set up.

Farming arena ranks gives so little credits in return too.

Even with getting S rank in AC test right from start, you are still very tight with the parts you can combine each and every mission.

I wonder if in the next games any of these issues were addressed by FS.