Armored Core 6 players claim devs lied about making \u201cArmored Souls\u201d FromSoftwareIn a departure from recent Souls games, FromSoftware has released Armored Core 6 \u2013 a natural continuation of one of the company\u2019s most popular franchises. However, some long-time fans feel it relies too heavily on Souls mechanics that the devs have become so renowned for in the last decade. Armored Core 6 has been long overdue, but it\u2019s finally here. It\u2019s been exactly 10 years since Armored Core: Verdict Day was released, and the wait is over. FromSoftware has returned to the franchise that helped build the studio\u2019s reputation. Little else needs to be said about the impact and success of the Souls genre. Bloodborne, Sekiro, and Elden Ring are some of the most revered titles in recent memory. Yet, many still yearned for a new AC game. Those wishes have been granted thanks to Armored Core 6: Fires of Rubicon. The game is certainly satisfying the craving of many who have been campaigning for a new entry. Its mech-massacring mayhem isn\u2019t sitting well with everyone though. Criticism is being directed toward the game for maybe not distancing itself from recent Souls games enough. Fans claim \u201cFromSoftware lied through their teeth\u201d about Armored Core 6 As it stands, Armored Core 6 has an impressive 84% positive review rating on Steam. This is based on over 4,000 reviews and the player base is largely enjoying the title. According to Reddit user ChaotixEDm though, not everyone is happy. \u201c50% of the bad reviews on Steam are because people can\u2019t beat the tutorial boss.\u201d One user replied saying: \u201cThere is still a huge learning curve for me or maybe it\u2019s because I don\u2019t want to spend money on gear just yet because I don\u2019t know what to start with, but giving a game a bad review over a difficult boss is just childish.\u201d The game\u2019s first level does indeed feature a boss \u2013 the AH12 HC Helicopter \u2013 and it certainly will test players \u2013 in the way that Wo Long\u2019s tutorial boss did. Here\u2019s an example of one such Steam review based on the first boss, courtesy of Steam user Vexlar: \u201cGameplay just feels meh. The gunplay doesn\u2019t feel impactful, the mech is kinda floaty, combat flow feels weird with pew pew pause-like game loop. Most things are just one shot then suddenly you\u2019re against a bullet sponge in the sky, and to do any real damage you need to melee. So you fly into its face swing then pause, again weird combat flow, in this boss fight it will also go out of bounds so you have to just eat its shots whilst it comes back into the fighting ring to build stagger bar, melee again rinse repeat.\u201d One Steam review said: \u201cFromSoft devs lied through their teeth when they said it wasn\u2019t gonna be Armored Souls. Longer review: I am having fun with most of the game, but the boss fights are pretty trash.\u201d Another user also blamed the Souls influence for alleged shortcomings: \u201cI\u2019ve been a big fan of Armored Core since the second game. I\u2019ve played up to \u2018For Answer\u2019 and \u2018V\u2019 and I have to say going into this game I was really excited to have another Armored Core game to play. Sadly, if that is what you are looking for this isn\u2019t it. This is just Sekiro with an Armored Core paint job, and it suffers for it in my opinion.\u201d The talk of difficulty is a constant topic in gaming \u2013 especially in Armored Core 6. If you fancy playing something alongside AC6 or want a different experience entirely, here are five other titles you should check out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Armored Core 6 players claim devs lied about making \u201cArmored Souls\u201d FromSoftwareIn a departure from recent Souls games, FromSoftware has released Armored Core 6 \u2013 a natural continuation of one of the company\u2019s most popular franchises. However, some long-time fans feel it relies too heavily on Souls mechanics that the devs have become so renowned […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}