Bandai Namco and developer FromSoftware have launched a 12-minute gameplay preview video for the upcoming motion recreation Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon. The narrated video reveals a number of cutscenes, voice traces, fight sections, phases, gameplay components, and extra. Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon will launch on August 25 for PlayStation 5, Xbox Collection X/S, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC through Steam.
“Because the video showcases, success in Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon will come from tinkering with extremely customizable mech builds, a signature characteristic of the sequence, and studying the proper methods and strategies comparable to staggering enemies with the proper weapons, combining ranged and melee assaults, and taking each benefit in battle.”
Interact in Excessive-Velocity Mech Fight
These whose main expertise with FromSoftware comes from video games like Bloodborne or Elden Ring is perhaps interested in what to anticipate from Armored Core VI.
You play an augmented mercenary piloting an enormous, customizable mech. But whereas the tempo and construction of mech-piloting motion basically differ from different video games within the studio’s catalog, gamers can relaxation assured that the sleek, responsive controls they’ve come to anticipate in FromSoftware video games remains to be right here–simply in a distinct context. Suppose big, closely outfitted robots with the flexibility to zip round throughout floor and air, reacting at lightning-fast speeds to assaults and threats whereas attempting to one-up harmful foes with much more firepower at their disposal.
Rubicon, the Ruined Planet
Armored Core VI is a brand new story that takes place on the planet Rubicon, the place a strong vitality supply known as “Coral” has been found. However this isn’t stuff that appears fairly in aquariums–Coral is extraordinarily unstable, and it’s already brought on an enormous catastrophe that almost turned all of Rubicon to ash a few years prior. However these futuristic megacorps simply can’t resist the siren tune of Coral and proceed to conflict for it to today.
The assorted areas of Rubicon are stuffed with contrasts, because the hollowed-out industrial ruins from the aforementioned catastrophe smolder beneath a shiny shell of state-of-the-art mining constructs encasing the planet.
“It’s an intricate and multi-layered world, brimming with mega-structures and massive underground amenities constructed by its former inhabitants. These constructions cowl a planetary floor wracked with excessive chilly and contamination within the aftermath of the good catastrophe, and the participant can be exploring these numerous environments as they proceed,” says recreation director Masaru Yamamura.
The expansive environments will ship an unimaginable sense of scale, sustaining the standard we’ve come to anticipate from FromSoftware’s world-design maestros. And together with your Armored Core’s (AC for brief) superior motion expertise, you’ll be capable to discover these giant, open areas to your coronary heart’s content material. You’ll be encountering a number of totally different surroundings and goals as you advance by way of the sport’s mission-based development construction (like earlier entries).
“There can be missions the place you’re combating throughout sweeping battlefields–very combat-oriented,” Yamamura explains. “However you’ll generally be recovering knowledge logs from wreckage and doing different aspect goals too.”
