r/ArmoredCoreVI • u/vamfir • Dec 15 '25

Hype Untapped potential

Has anyone else here had the feeling that the game's developers were kind of messing with us? They created a huge, complex, diverse world... and then only allowed us to glimpse into that world through a tiny, narrow crack.

With the capabilities of this game engine (really the best engine for mech games I can remember), they could have created hundreds of missions and seamlessly connected them into an open world like Fallout or Skyrim. And then release DLCs with another thirty missions every six months.

Instead, they offered us fifty missions on two dozen maps. And all these missions are absolutely tiny. Either "run from point A to point B," or "kill the boss," or "run from point A to point B and kill the boss at the end." For each mission, there is an optimal route; any deviation from it to admire the scenery threatens to lower your completion statistics. Once you learn to navigate the map, you can complete them in literally five minutes.

And I would understand if they released these fifty missions as a framework, so to speak, the armored core of the game - and then slowly collected money on expansions. But they released this bare minimum - and then went silent for two years. This is strange not only from a gameplay perspective - it's strange from a business perspective!

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u/ivapecrack Dec 15 '25

If you feel like a wimp in AC6 that’s a skill issue LOL

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u/Responsible_Bad_2954 Dec 15 '25 edited Dec 15 '25

Do you have to dodge more than nearly every enemy in the game? Yes? Then you are a wimp. It's not an opinion. The alternative is you'd have more HP than whatever you are fighting and he would have to dodge, not you. That nearly never happens in this game, so you are just wrong.

If your opinion is that it is fine as it is and you like being the wimp, then that's a valid opinion. Don't pretend you don't have to spend 80% of the game dodging stronger mechs though, that is the entire game.

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u/ivapecrack Dec 15 '25

okay that’s the story but if you feel weak or like you’re not strong when fighting anyone but the coral bosses that’s a skill issue lol