/acg/ - Armored Core General: National Dismantlement Wa Edition

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

OST of the thread:
youtube.com/watch?v=Jf0VlrNpixw

Newbie FAQ:
Is there a new Armored core?
Yes it was confirmed by Miyazaki on Sept, 21st to be a Reboot of the franchise: kotaku.com/miyazaki-gives-clear-answers-on-the-future-of-dark-soul-1786887531

What AC game should I start with?
There's a great infographic (which I would post here if I had it, someone give me a link) but most players recommend Armored Core 2 or 3 for old style games, and Armored Core For Answer or Verdict Day for multiplayer.

BEFORE YOU PROCEED LISTEN TO OUR THEME SONG!!!
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AC pastebin: pastebin.com/z1bJS9gF
Read that if you have any questions. If the pastebin doesn't answer whatever question you may have feel free to ask us in the thread.

/acg/'s partially complete recommendation pastebin:
pastebin.com/Wjv8sukr

Steam: steamcommunity.com/groups/armoredcorevg

/acg/ PLAYS

SCRIMMS
>I'm a rolling thunder, a pouring rain

SUNDAY NIGHT FOR ANSWER
>I'm coming on like a huricane

SATURDAY AFTERNOON VERDICT DAY
>My lightning's flashing across the sky

Official Strategy guide PDFs for 2, 3, and Nexus :
emuparadise.me/magazine-comic-guide-scans/Armored_Core_2_Another_Age_Prima_Official_eGuide/1833
emuparadise.me/magazine-comic-guide-scans/Armored_Core_3_Prima_Official_eGuide/1635
emuparadise.me/magazine-comic-guide-scans/Armored_Core_Nexus_Prima_Official_eGuide/2226

AC related cover music: ripped from niconico by risto
mega.nz/#!j1l03AjA!beyftPD1gLIsymJC2gdmHpUecO4JHGbg6KdFQNS7htI

Understanding Last Raven technical stuff.
pastebin.com/RfbVYwwr

AC Webm collection download.
dropbox.com/s/eh12d8bhn4o5t3p/AC Webm.rar?dl=0#

Other urls found in this thread:

youtube.com/watch?v=dYBgvavUD0U
youtube.com/watch?v=JMsZnatvOYI
politifact.com/truth-o-meter/lists/people/comparing-hillary-clinton-donald-trump-truth-o-met/
static.images.publisher.attn.com/sites/default/files/blog_who_lies_more.jpg
twitter.com/AnonBabble

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>We actually made GA America Great Again
>The arms fort Great Wall is actually going to be constructed in real life

So now how are we gonna make Omer and the Union pay for it?

congrats?

By forcing them to hire expensive mercs like Strayed in order to counter it.

Isn't Roadie rather expensive himself?

Dump the entire folder, boyo. Now's the most appropriate time.
>thread OST
>Sunrise
That depends on who you ask, really.

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I couldn't decide which hat looked better on this one.

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Who do you think cleaned up the remnants of Rayleonard? The League's gonna pay its dues, or else get a face full of NEW SUNSHINE.

Is Donald Trump going to repopulate INT?

Definitely the camo.
Not even the supposed meme magic /pol/ and /s4s/ so strongly believe in can do that.

Bump.

Will Trump give us AC6?

What kind of AC would Trump use?

Brb replacing Hitler with Donald Trump on my leg shield so I'll be protected by the new God-Emperor

All hail Trump, he'll make cinnamon cat girls real.

Which is the best Armored Core game for the PSP and beginners? Armored Core 3 seemed like a good place to start, but has really bad reviews.

GAN02-NEW-SUNSHINE

AC 3 on PSP is a nice place to start, default controls are shit although you can change them.

Don't believe reviews, make your own opinion.

is it too late to aim for the plat for verdict day? i haven't played an ac game since project phantasma and i have the itch

Was expecting a shitty answer.
Thanks from a canuck

Any titles available that are available on PC that match the customization, aesthetic, gameplay, or some combination thereof of ACVD?

Emulated versions of earlier Armored Core games?
Formula Front isn't very fun until you've got some experience with the series, so go with user and go 3 -> Silent Line -> Last Raven
But you really should consider the PS2 versions.
No, but getting those boss trophies can be a pain.

i'm up for a challenge i'm just not up for not being able to complete the plat. thanks, user

Challenge is only part of the problem.
99% of the time, you have very little control over which bosses are available to fight. You won't get to choose the boss you get. You can influence the odds and you can exit the briefing screen to try again, but sometimes the game just doesn't cooperate.
If you ever run into players, you can't exit that briefing screen, so that was a waste of six box runs.
You also more or less need players for almost all of them. If you're good enough at the game, you can theoretically solo all of them, but I honestly don't see that happening on two of them, three more are crapshoots to try and solo, and one just takes a lot of skill and the right setup (and even then, if you screw up the approach you're done).
I'd say logistics is your biggest threat here. Getting players to help out, ideally three others. Getting players that actually know how to run these bosses. Not running into other players when you're trying to get bosses. Trying to estimate when boss rush is so you can get the most work done. It's all very bothersome.

Collared is never going to approve a single brick of that wall being paid for, since even if it was built it would just raise prices for all the AC parts when it drops the League currency from inflation.

Soon all those lynx who wanted the wall are going to end up without jobs and unable to pay their bills because they can't afford repair costs to their ACs anymore.

Arms forts were a mistake. Pax Economica was better.

I had heard that Veeky Forums had this dumb meme boner for trump but I thought AC fans were smart enough to avoid that.

The guy is fucking out of touch with reality. All the characters in AC games are too realistic to be comparable to him. Maybe he would be Killdozer.

AC3. Ignore reviews. Even the best reviews for AC are only 8/10 and a lot

AC3 is one of the best games on PS2, most of the PSP reviews are bad because of the limited controls and the fact that it's not much better than the PS2 version.

Crooked Omer detected. Get back to deleting parts lists and funding ORCA.

Actually, by checking territories and using defend/attack region settings you can narrow the bosses chance of getting the one you want very easily, by setting your territory to one you've already fought, and attacking a faction that has a territory with one you are fighting.

The only problem is when a) there are two territories you're attacking and verdict war is preferring the one with a boss you have already beaten and b) the territory you want to fight is already eliminated from the map, or is on your faction when the war starts. In those situations you have to wait a week for the next season.

If you get all the guesswork done right, it's possible to accomplish all 6 bosses in about 3 weeks if you plan accordingly, or merc with people on other factions.

If only memes could stop recessions and bombs. A bunch of angry midwest rust belt voters just fucked the US economy in the ass in hopes that they'll get better jobs

Don't blame the LYNX's just because they chose an all-American heavy model with bazookas and armor thicker than paper over Rayleonard-style rice rocket #4725813.

>tfw Freightener revolution is happening IRL
>LCC has been ousted from control and the Earth Government is scrambling for solutions
>Leon Klein wants to make Mars Great again

Pax Economica was a sham which no one could even hope to hold up after what happened to Rayleaonard.

Nah, I'm blaming all the average workers who supported Old King just because they thought that blowing up someone else's Cradle meant their would get a little nicer.

Now Old King and Strayed are running around Unopposed.

The only people who supported Old King were Liliana, and they were fighting because they wanted it to rain blood, not because they wanted to improve their lives.

>That depends on who you ask, really.

I put it more in the sense of "OST of the day" but since the thread can live for more than one day, I didnt think on anything better.

>cat girls

But I like awooo girls.

Stop shitposting about best boy.

When it was clear that we needed to change, we grabbed our guns and went to war. We saw insiders and outsiders, irregulars and dominants. Some of them were nice, and some of them scared us. Some of those ACs were built robust, but would never make it to the battlefield in one piece, and some of them were high tech but could crumble under pressure. So we made a decision.

We could have taken the corporate path, Supported Wynne D. and her attempts to shut down the rebellion against the establishment. We would have had to live with maintaining the status quo, keeping the cradles of the wealthy afloat in the sky. Slow, gradual change, and compromise on our demands for the greater good.

Or we could have taken the socialist rebellion, siding with Thermidor, an ex-establishment old leader with charisma and style. But he was too uncompromising, too good for this world, and was beaten down by the very establishment we wanted to change. He would never have survived on the inside, and we knew it, once we realized that he was really just Otsdarva after all.

So instead we chose the destruction path. We Chose Old King, we ignored his mission briefing, we ignored his insurgency. We even ignored the fact that we fought him before and won. We knew that it was fine, because we were in control. We had the power now, we had the best AC, we had the weapons, we were the #1 Lynx and no matter what, no one was going to stop us from deciding the fate of the corporations.

Because when we're playing the game, we imagine ourselves as Strayed, shooting down the cradles, then overcoming the establishment. Unlimited power, the ability to throw a firebomb into the lap of those who don't care about us.

Because we think we are the weapon. We think we are Strayed. We don't care what happens to the normals, because we're winners, tremendous winners who succeed at everything no matter what the other 'losers' say. Other LYNX and corporations are just pawns for us to play and the destroy when they stop listening to us.


But the fact is, none of us are the Lynx in that story.


We're the normals.


We're the ones who have to work on the battlefield are put in harms way when conflict arises. We can't sit in the cradles, we can't pilot the ACs, we don't have the power or wealth, and maybe we never will have it. We were so jealous of the wealthy in their cradles, that we forgot why humanity needed that peace. We turned to someone we didn't fully understand, a liar, a mad dog, a flip-flopping loudmouthed bigot that embodied everything we hated about the wealthy corporations. But we listened to him, because he promised to listen to us. He promised to make a world great again for the normals, no matter how nonsensical his plan was. We didn't mind that he lied so much, because at least we know they were obvious lies and not hidden ones. He lied and lied and lied and we didn't care, because Wynne D. was off on a righteous crusade and Therimidor was busy with his revolutionaries. They weren't paying attention the normals.

So we gave Strayed to Old King. We wanted to see what he would do with that power. We sat in our little GA03-SOLARWIND normals proudly while the most powerful weapon in the world ran unopposed.

We forgot that we're cannon fodder, and we just gave Old King the cannon. Let's pray that before 120 million rain from the sky, we set our differences aside and send the 5 Lynx to stop him. Let's pray for answer.

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>mfw they wanted Bernard & Felix to join the European Interior Union
>mfw GA America elects a conservative ceo who won't bend to Omer's puppet league
>mfw Line Ark's political infrastructure implodes because they allowed too many criminals in their territory

wait, who is line ark?

A city of malcontents in Australia who would rather have democracy than corporate rule.

Tunisia?
That's not what I was getting at, boyo.
Yes, but that's still very little control. There's also the occasional issue of emergency sightings.

>That's not what I was getting at, boyo.

Oh, my bad.

Then what piece of music of the whole serie can "represent" /acg/? At least in your opinion Ahab senpai.

Cripes, I'll give you a hint.
Less than half of the States thinks it's a Sunrise. The rest think it's a Sunset.

youtube.com/watch?v=dYBgvavUD0U

night /acg/

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One of you hikkos better grab this.

You and your cryptic puzzles. I bet you got it from that made up Sun Zoo guy.

So deep. Leave

Nothing screams America like a VTF+Autocannon tank.

Dude's got a point though, anti-establishment is fine and all but we gotta live with the consequences that we did it by backing a raving lunatic with the highest unfavorability and most lies per minute of any politician in modern history. He's an Old King.

and all those fucking memes aren't going to change that

Doesn't really matter. Let it burn. I want Old King to blow up every cradle in the sky. Let's see society continue to be decadent and ignorant when they're crashing and burning. Even the Dark Raven and Nineball himself will cower.

LET IT BURN

>Society decadent and ignorant
>is part of society
>let's burn down society
>is part of society

fucking irregulars

Come back.

Morning /acg/

youtube.com/watch?v=JMsZnatvOYI

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>most lies per minute
That would be Clinton. Jesus Christ stop being melodramatic and acting like this election is the end of the world, Trump isn't the fucking antichrist just cause CNN said so.

Can we talk about giant robots now?

What kind of AC will Trump use?

bumo

Survive.

bump.

bump.

It needs to have a Makibashira mdl. 3, because HIGH ENERGY.
Other than that, I'm stumped. Can't be arsed to hop on to see what the most expensive weapons are.

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bump.

Just remembered I wanted to call my amped PG LBP Jeb Bush. Not like it matters anymore.

politifact.com/truth-o-meter/lists/people/comparing-hillary-clinton-donald-trump-truth-o-met/

static.images.publisher.attn.com/sites/default/files/blog_who_lies_more.jpg

I mean, I'm not trying to incite political arguments here, but if you're gonna spout blatant bullshit then you're gonna get facts thrown in your face.

This reminds me of the lightweight from Armored Core 2: Another Age. It would make for a cool 3rd gen AC. In fact, it actually looks like something you COULD build in 3rd gen. Shotgun + Nymph + high accuracy missiles + rifle.

There we go.

Bumping with RAGE AND PTSD......

>Omer's puppet league

You mean that thing which was keeping human civilization alive?

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What is even the point of reverse legs?

Jumping ability and looking cool.

What is even the point of you?
Yeah, Omer, the ones chiefly responsible for humanity's near-extinction.

I was talking about the League. Fuck Omer, they should have become the next Rayleonard.

Ah, I see where I messed up. Let me start over.
Yeah, LORC, that thing consisting of all the entities responsible for humanity's near-extinction.

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Birds have them. and Ravens are birds.

#checkmate

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Why wasn't Line Ark destroyed at the beginning of the game? White Glint was out on another mission. With this information on hand Line Ark should have turned to nothingness.

I think the briefing mentioned that they were trying to force Line Ark back to the negotiating table with a show of force, so the objective wasn't to destroy them at all.

Also, if they straight up destroy Line Ark but not White Glint, there's no guarantee Anatolia's Merc won't go full Strayed and just start blowing up cradles in retaliation. They had to destroy both the HQ and White Glint in a single battle to feel safe.

Blah, if they don't want to negotiate then they've already given their answer. Destroying them was the best choice.

Oh crap, that's it.
North Korea.

Line ark's MT defenses were destroyed, but not the facility itself. It was a warning.

>Have to opportunity to take over or destroy an entire military
>Don't
Where are all the mad man when you need them?

I knew this was going to happen

>Fuck Omer, they should have become the next Rayleonard.

I like imagine that before escaping to space, the rest of companies decide to blame OMER for everthing and attack their HQ, towers and any facility of relevance, destroying them and killing its members before leaving earth for good, prefering no to deal with them in their voyage through space.

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