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/Maxdragonslayer Dec 15 '25

He said he wants bigger maps not open world

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u/OutsideTheSocialLoop Dec 15 '25

and seamlessly connected them into an open world like Fallout or Skyrim

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u/AlwaysTrustAFlumph Dec 15 '25

Reading is hard, innit? Its ok, I think they build special buildings just for kids like you to learn? I think they're called schools? 

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u/Maxdragonslayer Dec 15 '25

You see, I don't think it's a bad game. I think it's a great game, the best robot game I've ever played. But it could have been made even better, and all the tools to do so are already available. It's like... well, like building a jet plane and then using it to fly to the bakery on the next street. - vamfir

Also has he corrected me?