Six Things I Wish I Knew Before Playing ‘Armored Core VI’

Forbes Innovation Games Six Things I Wish I Knew Before Playing ‘Armored Core VI’ Ollie Barder Contributor Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. I cover gaming in Japan as well as the pop-culture here. Following Aug 24, 2023, 10:48pm EDT | Press play to listen to this article! Got it! Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin ‘Armored Core VI’ has some interesting things tucked away.

Ollie Barder With Armored Core VI finally released, I thought I would share some of my tips for those looking to play the game and aren’t sure where to start. Shoulder Shields Are Very Helpful When You Are Starting Out These are updated in Armored Core VI and can actually block out a lot of damage. If you are a new player, you may want to try and use one.

Energy Shields Are Vulnerbale To Pulse Weapons Some enemies can use spherical energy shields that need to be depleted before you do damage to them. Pulse weapons are good are wearing those down pretty quickly. Spend Your OS Chips On Damage And Defense Modifiers Seriously, this makes a big difference to how much damage you can deal and mitigating a lot of damage.

Like the classic Optional Parts setup from the older Armored Core games, you can reassign your OS Chips in OS Tuning as well. Although this time it costs a chunk of cash to do so. Training Missions Give Some Decent Parts Early On Do all the training missions from the start.

You get some decent parts that you will use throughout the campaign and they actually give some helpful advice too. MORE FOR YOU Destiny 2’s Season Of The Witch Is Starting Off Very Strong I Cannot Overstate How Insane Cyberpunk 2077 s Upcoming Changes Are New Escape From Tarkov Teaser Revealed As Arena Shown At Gamescom Replaying Missions Helps Build Up Cash For Buying Parts If you are stuck with a mission and don’t have the right parts or weapons to take it on, try replaying a previous mission. The cash you get from that can give you more funds to buy the parts you need.

Plasma Missiles Are Very Handy These are energy missiles that do a minor area effect explosion on contact. As most enemies are vulnerable to energy type attacks, plasma missiles are great at doing damage. My personal recommendation would be to use the vertical plasma missiles, unless you are in an enclosed space and regular missiles (that fire forward rather than up) are more suitable.

One final thing is to avoid using Repair Kits unless you really have to. These will lower your mission rank when you replay a mission and can become a crutch early on. You always get a resupply before a boss fight, so pace yourself and use those instead.

Armored Core VI is now available on PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One and PC. If you are at all curious about the game, then feel free to read my review . Follow me on Twitter , Facebook and YouTube .

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