I made a sort of nuzlock guide if anyone has thoughts

[hobobishop]

I love this game and series with all my being. I'd really like some thoughts on it if yall get the chance to look at my guide.

[hobobishop]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3450968327

[Elimm]

By 25 os upgrades you mean 25 OST Chips or 25 upgrade levels? That can be a lot of change.
Also is there any limitation on builds? As we know some builds are just THAT powerful.

[Call Sign: Raven]

Honestly, if you just want to do Nuzlock, the rules are pretty simple if you want to convert it from Pokemon.

Back up your save, just in case you want to revert.

Start a new game.

No OS upgrades, but you can purchase new equipment. Only use Loader 4's body parts.

Now, depending on how hard you want to go:

1) You can use all 4 available weapon slots. The first weapon you buy for each arm or shoulder slot is what you can use throughout the run. If you die on a mission, you have to remove one of those weapons permanently, and you cannot replace the weapon with a new one. Try to beat the game like this without the OS upgrades. If you run out of weapons, run is over.

or

2) No healing allowed. If you die, run is over, start a fresh save

Shoot, now I wanna do it lmao

[hobobishop]

Originally posted by Elimm:

By 25 os upgrades you mean 25 OST Chips or 25 upgrade levels? That can be a lot of change.
Also is there any limitation on builds? As we know some builds are just THAT powerful.

I am not sure yet, I was hoping for more people to try to give me some ideas, and I meant 25 upgrades total out of the 50 you can get.

[hobobishop]

Originally posted by Call Sign: Raven:

Honestly, if you just want to do Nuzlock, the rules are pretty simple if you want to convert it from Pokemon.

Back up your save, just in case you want to revert.

Start a new game.

No OS upgrades, but you can purchase new equipment. Only use Loader 4's body parts.

Now, depending on how hard you want to go:

1) You can use all 4 available weapon slots. The first weapon you buy for each arm or shoulder slot is what you can use throughout the run. If you die on a mission, you have to remove one of those weapons permanently, and you cannot replace the weapon with a new one. Try to beat the game like this without the OS upgrades. If you run out of weapons, run is over.

or

2) No healing allowed. If you die, run is over, start a fresh save

Shoot, now I wanna do it lmao

A) I am not good enough to do either of those yet

2) I don't want to do exactly a nuzlock because the point of that is to become emotionally attached to your meat shields along the way and it is much more random

[hobobishop]

the point was to get incrementally better and start a discussion, not to simplify

[hobobishop]

Originally posted by Elimm:

By 25 os upgrades you mean 25 OST Chips or 25 upgrade levels? That can be a lot of change.
Also is there any limitation on builds? As we know some builds are just THAT powerful.

A long time ago I wanted to hold tournaments to gather data on builds, if I could get that to happen then maybe this whole challenge thing would work better. Personally I can't figure out what makes a build broken for the PVE because I still struggle with a lot of the late game bosses. Also working on S ranks rn

[hobobishop]

Originally posted by Call Sign: Raven:

Honestly, if you just want to do Nuzlock, the rules are pretty simple if you want to convert it from Pokemon.

Back up your save, just in case you want to revert.

Start a new game.

No OS upgrades, but you can purchase new equipment. Only use Loader 4's body parts.

Now, depending on how hard you want to go:

1) You can use all 4 available weapon slots. The first weapon you buy for each arm or shoulder slot is what you can use throughout the run. If you die on a mission, you have to remove one of those weapons permanently, and you cannot replace the weapon with a new one. Try to beat the game like this without the OS upgrades. If you run out of weapons, run is over.

or

2) No healing allowed. If you die, run is over, start a fresh save

Shoot, now I wanna do it lmao

Oh you know what you could do? Put parts on a dice table and roll for what you can build.

[hobobishop]

Then it would be kinda like you get parts randomly so that when you lose a part it's gone forever but also like you don't get to just make whatever you want.

[Elimm]

Originally posted by hobobishop:

Then it would be kinda like you get parts randomly so that when you lose a part it's gone forever but also like you don't get to just make whatever you want.

There is a "roguelike-ish" game rule design for AC6, somewhere on Youtube, and man that's an ordeal.