At first blush, it mainly seems intended to give some flow to the boss fights, but it could have some interesting implications for player-versus-player battles.

Armored Core VI takes what was already there and makes it more overtly video game-y, altering the rhythm of the combat in the process. In Armored Core V, simply getting shot by a high impact weapon was often enough to freeze you in your tracks. A stagger gauge builds as you strike more powerful foes until they are incapacitated, whereupon you can do large amounts of damage with your melee weapon.Īrmored Core VI’s stagger mechanics is being hailed as a new feature by FromSoftware, but longtime fans have been managing their mech’s stability since time immemorial. You strafe and dodge boost around shots, with an energy shield available to defend against the attacks that get through, then return the favor with a hail of missiles and gunfire. Completing a mission - Armored Core VI is mission-based rather than open world - earns you money to buy parts that can be used to upgrade your mech.Ĭombat is a strategic series of attacks and counterattacks. Success is predicated on managing such disparate elements as heat dissipation and energy generation to create a mech that can take on all comers. The AC shown has a gun in one hand, an energy sword in the other, and missiles on both shoulders. The demo shown at Summer Game Fest had the essential DNA of the series, down to the grim industrial megastructures and the emphasis on energy management, and many of the demo's crucial elements will be familiar to longtime fans of the series.

In short, it's definitely more Armored Core, and frankly, I couldn't be happier. “So we wanted to take the assembly aspect, assembling and customizing your own mech - your AC - and then being able to exact a high level of control over the assembled mech…we wanted to take those two core concepts and reexamine those in our modern environment.” “The essential direction of was to go back and take a good look at the core concept of Armored Core and what made that series special,' FromSoftware's Hidetaka Miyazaki told us in an interview last year.

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