/acg/ - Armored Core General: Explosive Edition

Is it true that the next Armoured Core is coming to PC/Steam?

>>158312664
No.

You think the new AC will be Ac5 style or Ac4/old style or another reworking of everything?

>>158318881
Crossing my fingers for something close to 5th gen.
Dreaming of another complete rebuild from the ground up.
Expecting a return to 4th gen, because basedMiyazaki.

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Is Chromehounds even worth getting now that the servers are down?

>>158350734
No, the singleplayer is basically a long tutorial for the online, withouth servers is just a good memorie for the ones that play it.

>>158350734
Sometimes I cant belive a japanese company made a design like that one, is soo western.

>>158255921
>ur triggerd
You're getting awfully defensive there m8. I'm the first poster, and I don't remember writing anything that warrants that annoying passive-aggressive meme response.

On topic, AC is a game about mechs with limitations like Energy, weight, heat etc. It also doesn't promote long swordfight encounters but focuses on shootouts, movement and creating opportunities for big burst damage in it's melee play. Taking cues from ZoE would be a mistake, because ZoE does not have any customization focus or even a limitation on your movement. It's a completely different kind of mech game in both the robots it features and it's playstyle. Again, don't get me wrong, Zone of the Enders is good. But it's like saying Arma should take cues from something like TF2 for it's next installment.
I felt like stabilizers and tuning were mostly a mistake too. I wouldn't care about stabilizers much honestly, if what they do is either limited to weight balance or they're cosmetic. The main problem with them is that they didn't really have drawbacks. They were nothing more than busywork that you would put on mechs after the design is done. If, instead, they had a drawback like increased en consumption and weight or worse handling, they would be an interesting gameplay element. That way the player is rewarded for taking mech balance into account and it gives lightweights with light weapons an edge, but it also lets more unusual designs exist at the cost of having to have better en management/piloting foresight to make them work.
Adding something just because it's cool usually doesn't really make a game better. Adding something like blade clashes is not really important one way or the other, I just feel like it wouldn't fit. And adding a fleshed-out melee system like ZoE does, with counters that are initiated by pressing a button, would shift the game's focus away from total player control towards more of a cinematic style. And that's just not what Armored Core is.

Char limit

>>158312664
Where the hell did you hear that?

No rumors are ever true unless they are confirmed by From themselves.

>>158376446
Where is that from?

>>158379357
AC4, you fight them in the same mission where you fight those prototype NEXTs.

>>158380731
I think it's a testament to how bad AC4/FA's MTs were and how easy the game was that I don't recognize/remember any of these.

>>158312664

There's rumors that the Nintendo Switch will be getting something. It might be Armored Core. If From doesn't want to forward development costs, we could be looking at a Bayonetta 2 scenario (aka a good game on some shady underpowered hardware) So be ready for that scenario.

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>>158386409
>Nintendo paying FROM to make a exclusive Armored Core for them

For the love of everthing that is good, please dont, my bet they are paying them for a Nintendo exclusive souls game.

>>158386409
>>158386857

That is highly unlikely. It's far more likely that Bandai Namco made a deal with Nintendo, and dragged From along to say "me too" but not actually develop a game.

If (and I mean IF) From does make a switch game, it's either going to have to be a Dark/ Demon Souls port (like Skyrim Special Edition) OR a unique/bespoke game just for that system.

Considering that the 3 games they're developing are a Souls game (PC, too new/high requirement to work on the Switch) an AC reboot, and something "totally different" I'm going to say that if any game is coming out for the Switch, it's most likely something totally different.

>>158387364
>Bandai Namco made a deal with Nintendo, and dragged From along to say "me too"

Isnt Kadokawa the new master of FROM?

>>158387364
>>158386857
>>158386409

That, and they also started working on AC a long time before the switch was even announced, so any AC game on the switch will have to have been developed as a launch title well beforehand, and it's very unlikely that From (a company that has not developed any nintendo games aside from monster hunter diaries) would be chosen for that.

>>158387665
Kadokawa OWNS From, but doesn't yet PUBLISH their games. Bandai Namco or Sony still has publishing rights for most From titles.

It's possible that Kadokawa would publish From games in Japan, but seeing as Kadokawa has no distribution network in the US/EU, it's likely that Bandai or Sony will still be needed to publish the games.

>>158358094
>>158361438
you're the hero this general doesn't deserve
>>158372669
nice man
i wish i wasn't so busy these days, i'd love to make new art
>>158387364
i agree with this person
i'm really getting curious as to what it'll be titled though. somehow i doubt it will be "armored core 6", i don't think AC has a lot of brand power left so it'd make more sense to start fresh with something new - something FROM is now known to be good at.
oh and i'll be disappointed as heck if it's just called ARMORED CORE, i fucking hate it when they do that shit

>>158389831
It's being called, explicitly, an AC "Reboot"

So I would expect it to be simply titled "Armored Core", or have a new play on 'core' like "Machine Core".

It might be called Armored Core: Something, but regardless, there is a high chance they are dropping the numerical titles, and going back to a totally new scheme.

>>158389831
Thanks Canada. Crits appreciated. The pen I used for the thicker lines was kinda leaky, and I'd rather have used a gray copic instead of hatching. I also really should have planned shading better.

I kinda wanna try doing a mech the way you did em, in complete black except for lit surfaces.

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>>158389831
Thank you for the compliment.

I played the first AC, its expansion, and stopped there. What did I miss?

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>>158387364

>AC reboot

inb4 edgy protagonist who can't go 5 seconds without telling someone to "fuck off".

>>158391181
Slightly but not really in order:

Hover legs
Heat mechanics
Dual wielding
Proper Distance
Limiter release
A pretty fucking hard game
A reboot
Sanic Speed
Terrible netcode
Another reboot
Walljumping
Hover instead of flight
Comparatively okay netcode
Lots of Karasawas being overpowered pieces of shit

>>158391181
Oh and part breakage

>>158386409
Armored Core for 3DS

>>158389831
>>158389997
They're not going to drop the Armored Core name.

Also if they miss the chance to flip the 6 around to a 9 and make that game be the missing link between VD and gen 1 AC I will be sorely disappointed.

>>158386409
You heard it here first.
Lost Kingdoms 3

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I hope AC6 blends 4th and 5th gen designs into something like pic related.

>>158405302
As long as the designs mesh well from each individual part I don't mind.

I did like the little touches like explosive reactive armor.on the legs for V/VD

>>158405302
Ugh, no. The proportions on that AC are awful, it's incredibly ugly.

Best looking ACs were AC2 era, with SOME AC4 ACs looking okay. ACV is honestly really ugly with the exception of a few parts (like everything on Blue Magnolia).

>>158408223
I like it. It has too much stuff on there, with the wep arms and hangers, but I like the flat angles on the design.

>>158408223
Zio Matrix promo mech and Alliyah 4 lyfe

>>158412381
Enjoy being easily penetrated by hot thick loads of lead.

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>>158430938

>>158440924
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxMdFMJdeYg

>>158415549
What does that have to do with anything
Are you implying your mech game isn't realistic enough in it's armor plating

>>158440924

>a Raiden train

Would've been cool. Like a harder Great Wall.

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FOCUS! Your thread's in bad shape!

>>158405302
This AC is bad for the same reason Lahire looks so ugly. The legs are MASSIVE and weirdly positioned on this vertical hip, super fat and uncomfortable. The core is tiny and pointy, too small to look like it can hold any weight, and the arms are ATTACHED TO ITS FUCKING BACK.

Otherwise it's just literally ACV parts, just twisted out of proportion to look ridiculous.