Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon by Raine_BT in  

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While I would have rather seen a straight new game run, any Armored Core at GDQ is a win to me

Zullie the Witch's videos about the scale of AC6 models are great. The mining ship is so huge it crosses the entire Elden Ring map. The grubs are like the size of a few bosses.

Sad to see the crashes derail at the start but the runner finished strong. Very enjoyable to watch live. Will definitely be checking out more AC runs in the future.

"Technically, it is a Soulsborne.." Why do i hear grinding teeth?

Having a roboticist and space scientist on the couch was an awesome idea! Great and entertaining run despite the unfortunate tech issues!

"We are trying to fly a nuclear-powered octocopter on Saturn's moon Titan" is the coolest sentence I've ever heard. 1:21:00

The commentary for this run was amazing - especially in terms of how it covered gameplay, strategies, story, and even science lol. I don't think I've seen a run's commentary really go into the game from so many angles. They went from explaining categories, to mech builds, to faction explanations, to the real-life robot equivalents of different enemy designs. Love it!

this is the first GDQ i've watched start to finish. will forever be my goty 2023

The talk added sooooo much to the stream, first time I've enjoyed a stream this much

Some MTs are piloted and some unpiloted MTs. most you fight are likely piloted as many autonomous MTs are specifically mentioned to be so at some point and there is a fair amount of radio chatter from presumably the pilots. Killing MTs instead of michigan first in destroy the redguns even cuts radio chatter and you can cut off dialogue in the balteus mission when finishing off the MTs. Related note the enforcer is part of PCA defenses, it may contain institute tech but the complete lack of coral implies PCA if anything.

Concerning all the megastructure and space stuff, they clearly have some cheap, plentiful building material stringer and lighter than nanotubes or titanium. With that, armored cores that can shrug off bazookas, self supporting megastructures in a grid over the planet, and bulk orbital lift all become much easier.

What a game. Thanks GDQ!

The vascular plant was not upgraded it was raised into position and repaired. Months passed when raven was held captive. Now as for why months passed while *all mind* is *keeping us safe* thats a good question. Maybe it was simply raised and in a minimally functional state thanks to allminds prepwork. I am not sure.

You've earned my respect. Experiencing all of those technical issues in front of a live crowd and jumping straight back into the run. Well done.

Honestly pretty bummed at the stability issues brought in by playing on a patch before these crashes were fixed. Would rather have seen a proper story mode run. Honestly even the runner played the wrong mission in order a few times. The strats and setups were cool to see at least.

Michigan was amazing

the host was insane! so funny

I feel bad for the way Edge exited, but I am glad G&S gave him a good walkout

lol why is everyone in the comments complaining about something? Incredible run, incredible commentary. Watched a few of Onecardinals videos months ago. When I saw AC6 was on here I was hoping he was gonna be playing but very cool to have the surprise of him on commentary!

You have to turn off Ray Tracing to make it more stable

The MT discussion is silly because we ASSUME it is Muscle tracer because that was the canon term before but we have had nothing define the term in AC6. a term we also don't have explicitly defined is LC and HC which the PCA uses, which I think the consensus is that it is light and heavy cavalry. They do use more AI themselves (Balteus is AI based.) and have an AI we don't know anything about yet besides they run simulations like allmind (who is an AI) does. Later the discussion on AI, AI was the previous age of warfare within the setting before ACs supplanted them with the augmentation. I can't remember the number of generations but there is certainly more than 2, the player is like 4th generation or at least certainly the last coral based augmentation(this is why the player is valid candidate for the 'true ending' and can talk to Ayre). generations of augmentation after the player character's is no longer based on coral, the unobtainium. It is also pretty canon that being augmented makes the subject unable to function in anything but an armored core, later generations getting better at not disabling the subject. The latest generations having the least side effects. Something about it being a metaphor that that the augmented are stripped of their humanity to be made into a weapon, an object with one purpose. Without agency you only may deal in violence. THEMES. You're only fighting to be able to regain your humanity by having the augmentation undone. At least the stated goal. :P

39:29 Yeah if Cortana was made of like a substance that you could put in an engine tank but you could also eat then yeah ...so Coral is just self-aware corn then?

Regarding what 'MTs' mean, going back to the original AC1 games I'm pretty sure it was said it stands for 'Muscle Trainer'. I don't know what the name means other than it could be a Trainer for pilots seeking to become AC pilots. Speaking of which, an even lesser known fact is that Armored Core units are technically called 'AMTs', or 'Armored Muscle Trainers'. I guess it's because they use heavier armor plating and defenses or whatever. Who knows. How and why the nickname 'Armored Core' came about is part of the lore I can't recall.

I've done many runs of this game, but I have never had AC6 crash. It's always been super stable for me

This has never happened: 15 minute fix is a first I've seen.

Sick run I hope gdq does ac6 more often

The crashing really sucked the momentum of the run, I hope they get another chance in the future

Casually Balteus took me maybe an hour with attempts? Even after in NG= while it wasn't an issue, it would still be a 5m fight or so and to see it melt like that was cathartic.

I am REALLY sad this was a ng+ run. would have LOVED to see a full new run. especially to get new people into the game. Also I would have loved to see actual live patch strats, not just the broken weapons we had in the beginning... I LOVE AC, pls bring back a real run next time around!

michigan did a great job

22:59 *bonk*

“Umm soo fighting on a satellite? Yeah… a few questions come to mind heh. Gravity much? I mean like come on. I don’t say I’m an expert at physics or anything but you don’t have to be Carl Sagan to think, why aren’t we flying off into space? I don’t know, maybe ACs get gravity boots when they graduate raven college or something 😂 either way it’s a big oversight by Miyazaki. And they call this the “real robot” genre! I have some RU-vid videos about space time I could recommend him if I ever meet him in person.”

I just finished my NG++ playthrough of this game, and PMC's pronunciation of "Balam" is driving me bonkers. Also, this is what you get for running on unstable PC ports instead of on console like god intended. >_>

So you can do speed runs on new game Plus?

Anyone know what build he's using in this?

lost judgement on the desktop??

Why wouldn't they reset the timer after the early crash?

Un combusted coral can be hard to see when not on coral, or to some extent it is either to see, implied at minimum. Further more coral can be kinda super combustable or something. Like once you do manage to reach their activation energy, which to be fair is rather high, its explosion is ridiculous for their quantity. Thus why it can be a threat an entire sector of space which is what destroy the generator was demonstrating. A chain reaction occured causing all coral in the area to detonate. It also could be that the generator was powering an observation station like the one you destroyed to bond with ayre in the first place.

I have to disagree when they called this a Souls-like. While it uses the same engine as Elden Ring and has tonal similarities to other Fromsoftware games, mechanically there is nothing about this that is specific to Souls games. Just being made by Fromsoftware also doesn't make it Soulslike.

Don't see much of a point of speed running NG+ with an earlier patch to be able to have OP stuff...

No, "technically" it's not a soulsborne, not every FS is this kind of game. Nice run though.