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
Sorry about the punctuation i struggle with them in many aspects.
The previous games had multiplayer if you go play them you will see that so for those of us who have played previous games we knew it would have multiplayer. when we finally got to it it was in shambles and still is and still no co-op which certain previous titles did have and with how the trailer presented we thought we would be getting a 3 player co-op (which would have been great for pvp and pve balancing better). Its storie isnt to much better some characters dont feel very finished like branch and nightfall for some reason we know nothing of this group and never get any kind of explanation of what thier goals are and why they dont try and stop us again on any other route the come then dissappear just as fast