Armored Core General: Eight Ball edition

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For all newcomers, Armored Core and all JP mecha discussion here. You are welcome to shill western stuff with JP influence.

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What's your control scheme in AC2 friendo? Not going default can help

Also, coming from 1st gen AC2 is much slower. The arena battles are kind of a snoozefest compared to the hectik shit in MoA

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>not playing 2 with the default controls

So what's wrong with Aldnoah.Zero? I remember there being a fair bit of negativity towards it when it was new.

I dunno. I thought it was pretty good, personally. Cool mechs, interesting fights, tolerable characters, and amazing OST from the man, Sawano.

Only thing I didn't care for was the main character, and how much of an emotionless Gary Sue he was.

Haven't finished S2. S1 was neat, it's basically supah robo vs real bots. The main char is autism incarnate though. The real robot design is a bit baffling with all the wings and shit, but well at the end of the day it's a "real robot". Give it a watch. Can't vouch for S2. It was going well but as I said I haven't finished yet and I think there's the downfall.

Yeah, I'm having the same issues with the lead guy. At least his sister, the grizzled war vet, and the StuCo president make up for it.
>you will never take mecha combat as part of your high school curriculum

Watch Fafner for similar storyline. Much much better IMO. If you can't find I can upload the first season on mega.

Nope.

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SNFA on today rite?

>What's your name?
>Nina Klein
>Klein
That has to be on purpose.

8:00 PM EST I'll be hosting.

Survive till SNFA, please.

Give me an idea for some dank OC

Come on!

What combat styles do you guys enjoy? Fast blader types? Heavy hitters, or somewhere in between?

Can't do, nothing can disturb my sleep today. In fact it would be great if SNFA could be earlier.

Wat. Unless Leos Klein is kawaii, I don't see the connection. It's sarcasm right?

Slug shot on your enemy's face is very satisfying

Bump.

But user I hafta stay up till 1 am to get an hour of play.
Can't it start like an hour earlier?
None work for me really.

If it could start 2-3 hours earlier I'd play more too.

Bump.

Sorry going to join at half hour earliest

SNFA is up, come play.

Bump.

Are there any videos from SNFA, just so I know what I'm missing out on?

>all your wins were following PQ's tactics
>yet AC mostly just paperweights
I most likely ain't returning for night, thanks though
How do you build your ACs for handling multiple guys.

Also how come team battles never are a thing? Sad thing that support NEXTs never get used. Unless its kill normals.

youtu.be/p7-Yzs3w46w
Only if I wasn't so lazy to upload more, soon when I get more time on hand.

You don't, you just hope that dishonorable ravens like GILVER don't ambush you while you're fighting someone.

>needing honour
Well this only confirms my idea of waiting it out until everyone is weakened.
But nothing does enough damage.

It's more likely that you're just not connecting with enough of your weapons.

>start an engagement
>Roap spawns directly next to me
>we're both heavies
>neither of us shoot, just stare at each other
>reach an unspoken truce among us heavies and fly away to the other two people fighting
>a few second later start getting shot in the back
>it's Roap
What the fuck man, did you think this is Dark Souls or something?

>trusting heavies
They are generally GA scum. Or Sick twisted TORUS Bastards. Maybe Aldra somethings.

>GA scum
Apologize to her.

Useless escort. Japanese business man was better one in all three missions.
>1.15 QB chain
>kills most of the fodder in Richmond
>can take down two Sol Dios Orbits

THE ABSOLUTE MADMAN

I uh, didn't feel this "unspoken truce" or anything like that, sorry.

Also, the GAN 2 NEW SUNSHINE is classified as middleweight.

First season is actually sort of a ripoff of AC2. Then it just gets shitty with villain-of-the-week and magical technology pulled out of it. It gets really autistic and special snowflake.

*teleports behind you*
*taste my moonlight bish*
*kills you*

I've always favored midweights with high powered weapons, like a bazooka or a sniper rifle, with the rest of the AC built around supporting that single weapon.

Seems the best of both worlds as long as you have enough ammo.

Currently uploading tonight's gameplay, should be done in two hours...

>not *quickboosts behind you*
Come on guy step it up

Have you ever considered making some webms? They're pretty much nonexistant for Armored Core.

Bump.

Not enough time to go through all those footage by myself. perhaps someone can?

I aint downloading all that shit.

So, how do i make the NEW SUNSHINE decent?

Tried sticking to GA only parts but, well, they sorta suck to me.

Bump.

It depends on who you're fighting, but definitely put a railgun on the back as well as pic related missile system. Also try using the middleweight TORUS generator, with max output and capacity, and the Judith booster as your main booster. Aside from that, you'll need to either figure out better combinations for yourself or from other people. Energy management is key with heavies.

It's fun to find shitty AC schematics on google images.

Maybe it's an AC4 schematic?

...I guess that doesn't make it much better anyway.

nah that's FA

It's 4. FA doesn't point out specific parts and lacks the graphs.
Put it on there anyway, my collection of illegally downloaded cartoons is quite lacking.

>remake Supplice in FA
>use my regular aaliyah tuning settings that have shitloads of points in QB thrust and max generator stats that uses like 400 frs
>its still super fucking slow and bulky feeling to pilot
Jesus man, I had to re-rune my stats for all points into thrust to even make it break 1200 kilometers.

Alright, i equipped what you recommended.

I added the SAMPAGUITA shotgun and 051ANNR rifle as well as boosters that focus on saving energy.

>sampaguita
Shotguns aren't gonna be much use to you unless you're going fast. Really fast. And GA isn't known for fast.

Now for your viewing pleasure its tonight's SNFA in full length..
youtu.be/Npbm5St9WUw

Replace the shotgun immediately. It is absolutely pointless.

Nade launchers will do that to ya

When I say energy management, I'm not saying equip exclusively low-impact boosters. Manage your energy while fighting, don't just spam dodge right and left simultaneously. For example, I wouldn't recommend using interior or rosenthal boosters on the sides, because dodging with them is horrible.

One of these days, I gotta get on 4A with /acg/ for SNFA. Maybe once I'm done sucking at it?

Such a weak excuse and why would you let something so trivial stop you from having fun. Get that 442 FRS and embrace your fall into KOJIMA's grace.

Screw that, just go. At least you'll never get killed by rockets twice in the same night.
Unlike some people.
>villain-of-the-week
Ah geez. Well, hopefully it's bearable because this is really rad so far.

>weak excuse
>Screw that, just go.
Fair enough. You guys will probably start seeing me come around in a few weeks, then. Have internet issues at the moment, sadly, which makes doing anything more intensive than Youtube a bit sketchy. But, that will all be fixed next month. Until then, I should probably finish grinding out that FRS.

Redoing all the FA missions on ps3 is going to be annoying. I'm going to have to get all my tuning memory back but at least then I'll finally be ready to join in on SNFA.

Really? I found it useful on my Heavyquad legs against laser blade users.

Gotcha.

>a broken truce and heavy back stabbings between brothers

I swear i was unaware of this truce!

How's activity looking on VD these days? I see cheng is throwing another tournament and I think I might join. Any of you dudes gonna also join? Might be fun.
Maybe.
Possibly.
Hopefully.
I might hop on VD every now and then to get back into the groove of things.

Also, I hope you fags have been doing well. Hopefully you guys haven't been shitposting too much without me since I've been gone.

Bump.

>shitty
No, that's style.
Appreciate that find Royal gold and purple colour, with lightweight ability and two grenades. You are not a man of fine taste.
Could've won if I didn't have connection issues. I blame FROM.

Bump.

Bump.

How do I beat tank ACs with a laser blade in PvE?
They have this uncanny ability to perform boost charges that oneshot my LWB, and every swing I take with the low interval blade takes 5k AP at most.
By the way, is it me or are shields really OP? they can make S ranks a breeze, since their AP loss doesn't count towards the total it's free 5-7k damage you can take.

Bemp

Get on you fag, we need a consistent fourth player.
Or a consistent third player to hang out with Sandstorm and Urist while I'm not around.
We lost a few games yesterday primarily because we can't make Cyrano not run into all four of them and die.
For starters, laser blades aren't going to hit tanks as hard because of the naturally high TE defense. If you really want to crack a tank with laser blades, you should be looking at dual 3-0-0 Moonlights.
That said, try to broadside them. Attacking from the front leaves you open to getting tank kicked and attacking from the back leaves you slightly less open to getting tank kicked.

Bumpity.

Survive

No, that AC is shitty in that it's terrible for combat. Think about all of the possibilities before posting.

Please I'm not serious
But stye>viability. If all the Chinese stop motion pictures have said, it's the pilots skill, right?
...Right?

Hey Sabbath, can you trade me the first AC you use in the SNFA video?

What team are you guys on? VG? I think I'm still on dead game. How often do you guys get on to play?

Laser blade users should be the least of your problems, since there's only one person here that uses them frequently.

There's a certain way to time your attacks where you can cancel the swing animation with a quickboost and keep moving rather than being locked into standing still and swinging. I haven't played in a while so I don't know how to really describe it, but if you mess around with it in practice mode you'll see what I mean. Basically if you master that, it improves your chances of blading and boosting out before you get kicked.

Up

Villain of the week isn't bad since they all have interesting gimmicks and the autism strategies are quite cool.

I'll upload aome of them so you can check it out. They are in .avi cause I dl a loong time ago and havent updated because Geneon licensed it and nobody will touch that.

Bump.

How did the SNFA turn out fellas?

Same as always for me, be the first one to be easily taken down.

How do you S-rank Motherwell hard and sol dios land crab hard?
Should hide more my man.

Bump.

Happens alot to me. That's why I equip a high velocity overboost in my AC.

Sol Dios can be s ranked by just hitting the land crab body with piledrivers. It dies immediately and the cannons die too.

WHAT.

Just hit it with piledrivers senpai.

You mean this whole time, i only had to take the Land Crab down instead of attacking the Sol Dios cannons THEN LC?

FUCK.

That's interesting.
I was using moonlights and I lost health for some reason hitting cannons, kojima?
I generally used grenades, but too much ammo.
Guys boost a lot too but sure I'll attempt piles.
But I hit land crab, it explodes but the cannons keep chasing me. Unless it wasn't hard enough.

Also this is super important and I forgot to mention it. You have to hit the land crab while the cannons are still docked or just taking off. Otherwise it wont work.

You have to kill the Land Crab before the Sol Dios cannons launch, doing it with MOONLIGHTs is easier.

>AC2
>get mail regarding my arena rank
>mentions AC part gift
>nothing new in my garage

Am I missing something?