[AC6] V.IV Rusty - 'Steel Haze (Rusted Pride)' MV [CC Lyrics] 

Interesting, I found that image on twitter so I guess it's legit. Hard to wrap my head around some of those still. The first official line has so many syllables compared to what I hear.

standing in the cold place def doesnt fit aswel as rubicon cries. the other I can see

@@galax12370 Yeah I have to agree with that, in the new song Steel Haze (where truths meet) you can hear the official lyrics a lot clearer. I struggle to hear "standing in" and if I do it either sounds like one word, and doesn't help the audio for song a bit to loud at certain sections.

@@longbread9560 I listened to that specific version thank you for that. idk what version is the first or "original" but it doesnt really matter this tune vibe is unmatched

Vinyl?

I would point out you do some REALLY evil things in the game’s first half. I think it’s more apt to say that Rusty is the classic Gundam hero while you’re playing a Gundam villain.

We are the protagonist but Rusty is the Hero of the story

That part. Somehow From Software does it again. Champions

our ac is just an extension of our self

Ace Combat prepared that feeling for me long ago. The sister series to Armored Core has always been Ace Combat. Look up videos of Solo Wing Pixy, to see the character that FromSoft drew from for Rusty. c:

Honestly props to tbe voice actors, every single bit of emotion was shown through their voices and nothing else, they fuckin nailed it

​@@Weyland_Punanimission based sorties with briefings given on what you're going to do beforehand, combat with a heavy emphasis on mastering movement in a 3 dimensional space, radio chatter being one of the main ways the story is told/attachment is built to characters, and there is a bit of a general overlap between fans of mecha games and other vehicular games just bc of the customization and aesthetic and stuff

I honestly screamed when he said that, I miss my buddy

😭😭😭😭 fly high buddy, fly high over Rubicon...

And it's Walter 😢

Walter: lol, lmao even

@@MaidenlessScrubif he hadn't taken out the entire Arquebus fleet solo and wasn't snuck up on, Walter wouldn't have stood a chance. Walter is bitch made.

I've played the story numerous times already and never noticed that detail. Always learning something new

Another cool thing is that his first insignia has the guitar pick shaped background Arquebus uses. His second insignia has the rectangle background that the Rubicon Liberation Front uses.

And I put him down

​@hayaokakizaki4463 He died as a Freeman instead of a corporate slave

​@@tottalynotimportant6224I guess you could say we Hunted Down the Freeman.

Oh Fromsoft knew what they are doing. Geniuses.

Actually genius

*dies of peak fiction*

Fun fact - this dumb myth is not confirmed.

@@Alen725I mean we do lead people in one ending using our raven name to get people to help so people are following us

Well the interesting thing about rusty is if you look at his lore he’s basically a Gundam MC.

The ALBA set is designed by the Gundam EXIA architect

@@mujiha stop spreading misinformation thats ebikawa not yanase

@@TrevTheMan00 and if anyone wants a little (maybe insignificantly little) bit of proof that he’s a Gundam MC, in the duel between 621 and Ortus Rusty, he’s literally hardcoded to assault boost straight towards you anime style at the start of the encounter

@@Sky_darts yep and its a great way to start the fight you both smash into each other back off a little but and then the fight begins.

Goosebumps

You flew just out of reach… buddy

Every 'I won't' from him gave me goosebumps, and this last one gave me the most of all. A great running theme and fantastic way to tell us a lot about his character in a very simple way. And it sets up him engaging terminal armour (The ONLY enemy AC in the main story to use it) and making an already intense fight even more so, especially if you're out of repair kits and low on health.

'I won't stop', huh? Where did I heard that before? :3

@@chaosgreyblood ur uncle

I played through the game 7 times before, with tears in my eyes, I loaded up and then s-ranked Intercept The Redguns. Even though he dies anyway, something about me being the cause was so unsettling I always avoided it until then. When he died, and his AC finally went silent, I thought to myself: "Sorry, Michigan. No more field trips for me...Gun 13, sounding off." I so desperately wish there was a route where you save Michigan against Rusty and Arquebus. I would have 100% gone down that route so fast. He's by far my fav char next to Ayre, followed closely by Walter.

Fancy gizmo

Too bad he hit the ground too hard

@@user-tq1zj2pq7zMEAN OLD MICHIGAN DIED OF A BAD FALL!

Ayre is my brain wife ❤

And that friend is the only one who calls 621 a person.

ayre exists too, technically@@_VISKAR_ 3rd ending best ending.

@@DauntlessChaos Yeah, she acknowledges him plenty. But technically she calls him Raven most the time though. Not sure if it's on purpose, but it seems like the whole cast either calls him some form of Animal (Dog, Raven, Vermin, Hound...) or an Object (Gun 13, 621, etc), with Rusty being the one exception. I don't think Ayre means it in a degrading way, but it's just an interesting theme the story has.

​@@_VISKAR_she said the reason she likes the name Raven is because of what it represents, the freedom to make choices that can change the world, so I believe that she uses it for its representation because that's what she sees with in us. Also Raven has been a long standing name in the franchise, so I personally wouldn't have it any other way. I may also overlook somethings when it comes to Ayre, cause in the end she's our schitzo coral waifu and her voice lines are cute and adorkable but maybe I'm just biased towards her

@@DauntlessChaosan army of unmanned killer robots who live for the thrill of the fight is better than liberation?

I'd agree with you but in Liberator ending, Walter says some really heavy stuff

@@tokiwartooth4239 man, all the endings hit hard

Thats what made it hurt more in fires of raven when you had to stomp him then ayre back to back the two who believe in us the most i wasnt to attached to walter till the very end of liberation of rubicon after destroying him i loved carla but i just couldnt bring myself to kill rusty on my first play through to bad he fucking disappears and is never heard from again after snail belteus fight

​@@ticcitoby5501I'm like 90% sure he gets killed by Walter

@Kingcobra4835 that's a bit upsetting if walter did kill rusty, considering he made me feel bad for fighting and beating him with that whole you found a friend shit i swear the only ending that walter and carla live through is the fires of raven its upsetting

Yup. Masterful work. He's easily a top FromSoftware character in a field of greats.

This. Fromsoft are masters of "less is more" when it comes to dialogue

What's worse is what the hell happened to him in NG+++ cause after you fight him he just disappeared

@@kentanakamura89Except for being mentioned by O’Keefe when you eliminate him in the ALLMIND path. It’s left ambiguous as to what exactly happened to him. “See you in the other side, Rusty.”

wahhhhhhhhh haaaaa wahhhhhhh :((((((((

After learning about him being a double agent im kinda curious what his intentions were in wallclimber considering snail said something about him being pretty eager, why would he want to wipe out his own base

@@SnakeEater776he said Rusty had been ‘equally brazen of late’, which is Snail’s way of saying ‘he’s been an uppity little bitch’, so doubtless he was being unwilling to carry out operations against the RLF - or at least unwilling to commit as many war crimes as Arquebus probably wanted him to be.

@@mirchiamemeina1524 fair enough, guess i misread it a bit, honestly had a theory that snails reinforcement order was complete BS and it was just to leave you with the jug so youd die and eventually the RLF would win, not expecting that you would take it down by yourself. But rusty would never do that tbh

​@@SnakeEater776Rusty litterly sends you a message at the end of the mission saying just that. There were no reinforcements coming at all for Raven. They were waiting for them to weaken the wall enough for vespers elites to move in. But because raven did so well and even destroyed the heavy units for them they couldn't ignore it.

@@kentanakamura89 you clearly didnt read my comment properly, i knew about the vespers plan, what im saying is (in a theory i dont believe) rusty dipped so the juggernaut would kill you but not for arquebus, but instead for the RLF so they had somewhat a chance of fending off the vespers. Also the reinforcements i mentioned were the rlf reinforcements that rusty goes to kill midway through jug, not arquebus

"I WON'T STOP! I'll chase the clouds from over Rubicon...ONLY I CAN FLY HIGH ENOUGH!"

We fly high

Blaidd as well

​@@saileshsingh9374all the wolf characters really, sif too

And just like both games, you can spare them

​@@ezoni8438you can spare him?

@@noofthecorn3380 not blaidd but Solaire and Rusty you can, Rusty may die anyways though.

I want to believe you’re right. I DESPERATELY want you to be right. But the fact that, fully charged, the oscillator beam hits so many times, and Rusty being exhausted…😢

@@AzureGhidorah Still too little damage to break terminal armor which also resets stagger so he could get away!

The entire way escaping an AC works is so inconsistent in the game and feels limp writing wise. Cause in a narrative like a TV show/movie you can show it making sense in game it's scripted per encounter so it frequently makes no sense why one character can escape while another can't. If I wipe a suit by firing a fully charge plasma/laser blast no pilot is surviving the explosion. It's part of the issue with this situation, there's no good reason Rusty can't survive that encounter, at the same time there's no proof he does hence we assume he dies (probably does) though it's a universe building problem cause there's no good reason to explain why he's dead. All the reasons you listed are valid, in a similar note how the hell doesn't swinbourne escape for example?

​@@GWalsh-on5xj I'd reason it out that Rusty already has an exit strategy that he's utilized before and prepared to use again. Swinburne on the other hand had already spent his expansion and wasn't really prepared to escape because he thought he could bribe you.

I 100% agree. Just because he got shot down don't mean that he's dead. In my own headcannon he survived

Damn, and here i though that only could decide the destiny of Rubicon or the human race as a whole. Oh, and i murdered the MC, oopsy

@@ShirakiAkarin you dont decide shit you listen to the voice in your head.

@@netherlim i decide if i want to kill that voice or force others to hear voices. I also decided that i wanted to kill Rusty.

Rusty is the hero of Rubicon and the people on it, that is a fact that can not be denied However, we have a role that is much bigger, given the dose of Coral that allows us to fight and move as we do (even able to go toe to toe against the Ibis core, the originator of the fires), our destiny is to save the entire universe! ...and we failed What a familiar story...

@@lazyer0511 yeah i was more making fun of Rusty being called the "protagonist". Also, i doubt we have the "destiny to save the universe" but rather the oportunity of changing the course of humanity's fate, for better or worse with any of the three endings depending how you look at it. At the end of the day, we are just a really good AC pilot in the right moment at the right time.

In his 2nd AC his emblem has the muzzle removed 😭

Thought I beat him first try, then he does this anime bullshit. At that moment, I knew he was the MC. Dude just willed his AC to not explode and wombo combod me.

@@alastor8091 yeah, the first ending i got was the liberator ending, so i only realized this was HIS theme when i went back for the fires of raven ending. the song fading out as you kill V.II snail balteaus only stops when rusty gets shot down over the comms as well.

@@Shinofeya Feels like it could apply to both Raven and Rusty since it always plays when both of them are around.

Wonder how he felt about Rusty.

He maybe found his wolf pack​@@Laikafan02

but he fails

@@axeloth But he fails...

Ele lembra muito o Pixy de ACZ.

So... have you found a reason to fight yet?... buddy

@@SnakeEater776This is what V2 is for.

Nice find.

That is super interesting! I love that theory but I’m not sure why Walter or rusty wouldn’t have some kind of insinuation of knowing each other. Edit: also I can’t find anything about 617 being missing

TLDR: Rusty does not know 621. Rusty knew Raven, the license that we stole at the beginning of the game. 617 is dead. 621 is basically the last “Hound” Walter has, arguably as a last “Hail Mary” to complete the mission. Major spoilers, NG++, mild speculation Rusty likely knew Branch’s Raven, and likely fought together as part of Branch’s operation of breaking into Rubicon. Allmind controls the Rubicon Liberation Front through Father Dolmayan, which Rusty was loyal to, and later planted into the Vespers. Allmind also hired the Branch mercenaries to break into Rubicon from the outside, which allowed for the corporations to also break past the blockade by the PCA. I find it hard to believe Branch would have been able to do it alone, so I suspect that Allmind used both the Rubicon Liberation Front and Handler Walter as well as Branch to breach into Rubicon III. This then allows for the corporations can come in and consolidate the coral for the convergence. The mission we see with 617, 619 and 620 in the story trailer is probably from the time they are trying to break the PCA’s blockade. However, since all of them were lost despite completing the mission, Walter has to go back to square one and acquire 621, which from the doctor’s comments is likely a lower quality candidate than 617. This also helps explain Rusty's confusion as to why Raven is with Handler Walter now when you first meet him at the wall.

In the True Ending, you don’t kill any of them.

@@nocount7517 forget to add this part lol: Before you make any decision, remember the following rules: 1. killing them wouldn't make them to hate you, instead they still love you and respect your decision. 2.If You decide not to kill anyone, an AI demon will decide for you. Killing every one in the world by imprison their soul into a war machine for eternity, including you and your waifu's soul as a punishment.

​@@chjam4554such is the punishment of inaction, peak fiction

@@nocount7517 But that doesn't mean they all survive, regardless.

だがレイヴンという自由の名を持つ621より高く飛ぶことはなかった…それ故に主人公なり得なかったのだ。

企業という名の口枷を外しても、自由にはなれなかったか…

@@user-kotori14610結局枷を外して狼は鳥にはなれないんだな

ONLY WE CAN FLY HIGH ENOUGH

Wow that was a banger! Great job! Glad this helped ya out, and thanks for sharing!

Yup that's what brought me here! Great job, both of you!

Fire edit bro all i have to say is "MINE IS THE DRILL THAT WILL PIERCE THE HEAVENS PIIILLLEEEEE BUNKEERRRRRRRR!"

Your cover fucking rocks dude nice work.

I thought I recognized the name, I fucking love your synth cover of Mogh!

In that ending Walter says that right after killing Rusty….. how ironic

Good luck! His AC loadouts are pretty rough for some bosses. Was trying some Ch. 5 fights with Ortus and it was a pretty hard challenge.

rusty's ac will take skills to get the hang of it, quiet an interesting playstyle as my main is a semi speed mech too. One thing for sure, if you are abit used to his ac, its an AC killer for sure, i used it on pvp sometimes n its doing very damn good surprisingly

I wouldn't call that issue tho

@@nachalnik5738 def is, would dark souls 3 have been any worse thematically if there was an avenue where gael beats you, a cutscene proceeds where he delivers the dark soul to his niece and the painted world is created... Creating this threshold where beating gael 1st try is a requirement to achieve the current ending where you deliver the dark soul.

And depressing in the Fires of Raven ending

​@@DragonessYTI hate that Ending tbh

All of them are depressing 😭

Like that one guy said: "When the RLF and rusty came, and we busted out xylem, i felt like a fucking hero"

Hmm you might be onto something. Now I'm thinking even another possibility could be "I can fight" as well. "I take flight" could be the winner though. Time go listen a bunch later.

@@_VISKAR_ Im leaning towards “I take flight” since the lyrics follow it up with “over land and the mountains”

@@Lemon_SorbetYep agreed. I just made the updates. Thanks for contributing!

I also think there's something different at the beginning that links the first two lines together. I was starting to hear it as: Rubicon cries, "Welcome home" But part of me thinks it is an odd pairing. However there's a pattern for every other pair of lines being a combined phrase. So still pondering the accuracy there.

@@_VISKAR_ It could be anything, really. Kota Hoshino has always been one to make lyrics slightly nonsensical and sound like different words, but always words that easily fit the song. He really likes different interpretations

And then it turned out that... he was wrong. RIP.