Armored Core VI (Zero Punctuation) 

Where are the captions?

From one AC to another.

1:18 in regards to this the armored cores are smaller than the length of a f22 jet

impressiv you nailed the core reason in engeneering why nobody builds mechs that have legs or more then 2, why build a mech when you could build a tank... :D just slap some wheels on it or chain and it ready to go

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It's for the advertisers, not the kids.

@@vallejomach6721 Those advertisers can slob on my ublock.

That app is curated for predators, not kids

@@vallejomach6721 Do advertisers not advertise on TV shows with swearing?

​@vallejomach6721 ... the unnerving explicit, and painfully ai voiced ads are worried about a guy who says a mean word?

There's a lot of things 500 tanks can't do. Like take Avdiivka. 🏳

​@@Doodlesthegreat Based. 👌

​@@Doodlesthegreatwanna bet?

There are only two situations I know of where giant robots would be a better choice than tanks and armored core world seems to not be one of them.

@@antediluvianatheist5262 Thanks for the most "12-year old at the playground response" possible. I am dasted by your impeccable logic and yield access to the teeter-totter. Now if you excuse me, the lunch lady said there's mac-n-cheese today and I want to be there before they run out of the bits with crust on them.

The surge might be a good runner up

The fact it's not "never seen" is the funny bit for me XD

You know what they say: If everyone around you is an impalement weirdo, maybe the impalement weirdo is you.

You are going to want to upgrade from the appliance grade Breville to the machine grade Gaggia Evo Pro for better stats.

@@tony-_-_-441 You, Mr. Joker, owe me a cup of cofee, a screen cleaner and a new keyboard!

I'm a bit shocked that they'd develop the game like that but I suppose that modern hardware is powerful enough at this point. Reminds me of how someone ripped those strange almost NURB-y models from Garten of Banban and found that they all had obscene polygon counts.

@@puffleperson Do remember that scale does not equal polygon count. At the distance you'd be viewing the models from they wouldn't need a huge level of detail (even though the model is *very* detailed), so they could use a relatively low poly count model at a huge scale and just use the same sorts of level of detail tricks as you get closer/further from parts of it. Still, the scale of the things in AC6 along with how good everything looks is still a technical marvel.

Keep in mind scale is just a number that says how many meters an arbitrary in-game unit is. For simplicity's sake most developers set it so one meter in-game is one meter IRL, since it lets them use IRL references more easily.

@@KyteM Of course. What I'm getting at is that if you upload an Armored Core model into Elden Ring, it comes out at the appropriate scale. The giant robot is actually a giant robot and not a person-sized robot in a tiny set. It gives you a rare opportunity to experience the scale of the things you fight in AC as a person on the ground would see them, and that's amazing to me. The strider boss is 5 kilometers long, so it's very impressive to look at while standing on the ground in the Lands Between, stretching all the way from Castle Morne to the Erdtree.

@@kevingriffith6011 And AC6 does do this, the helicopter enemies are about the size of an actual helicopter compared to the tarnished, but they are very low poly and have almost no texturing

The joys of customization are many in this game… and all without the need to spend $5 a pop for each color you want or $19.99 for the DLC with the strictly better gear. It’s all part of the base game… It’s kind of sad that I genuinely feel that this is both a major differentiator and selling point for this game in today’s market.

So much this. My new save file, I've been using gradually smaller and smaller guns on lighter and lighter frames with no OS tuning. I've gotten really good with the sampus and six pack missiles, to the point where I can't beat the final final final boss because it's tuned for... Well, tuning, and having more ammo than the sampus got. And I've been playing AC's below 61k total weight so long I've forgotten how to play a big boy, so I'm kinda stuck lmao

So true, I found it really weird when I heard from most people that the miniguns and heavy frames were easy mode on most bosses. I could swear I broke the game using light frame, dual pistols for stagger and later on a shotgun with the tiny laser knife. I dont think I died more than once to any boss besides the true ending boss when I got the laser dagger.

dual miniguns and songbirds work incredibly well, but to get the most out of them you want to use Tetra legs to sustainably hover which most people leave out mentioning@@denodagor

@@denodagor I feel you on the laser dagger. I use a super lightweight build with the base 4 pack missiles and either the Ludlow or Needle gun with the laser dagger and the only boss I have difficulty with on that build is the furnace, but even then that is more so just an inconveniance. After 3 playthroughs and 70 hours, this game is just one big skill ceiling that never seems to stop

The massive orbital laser is literally as big as The Lands Between. Like, as big as the entire map, yes the whole fucking think.

Every time I remember Dunkey’s review remarking that Elden Ring is BEEG, then I look at the scale of these places and I think “Wow, the lands between are…tiny.” I also think how cool it would be to walk around in Xylem or Grid 135 or the strider as a whole quest line in a game of human scale

An average AC is as big as Radahn

All this is true, and yet it doesn't "feel" like it is. Which is, honestly, more important. The biggest gripe I have about the game is jumping your 20 meter tall, who knows how many toned, mech off a skyscraper onto the concrete below, barely causes a slight puff of dust and no impact.

Lmao imagine walking into an elden ring area in a mech. Margit starts whining at you and you casually level a giant laser at him and blow a crater out from under his feet just for intimidation.

Sometimes it nice to have big force of destruction fight each other with explosions

I literally listened to Chicks Dig Giant Robots for 3 months before release in anticipation

Mechs pretty much are a power trip. Doesn't matter if they're viable or not.

But giant robots killed Grandma!

yathze critiquing robots is stupid with equally dumb stuff happening all over the gaming space really@@brodriguez11000

Nah you know scrublord used the prepatch zimmy timmys 😂

I mean it's a solid all arounder

@@n0r8u The weapons are in the game If they didn’t want you using them they wouldn’t add them Besides, a Shinobi would know the difference between Honor and Victory

my heavy all-purpose mech uses a combo of gatling, earshot, vertical 8s and pile bunker and is all-in-all very satisfying to win fights with, since they all link nicely into each other (gatling for sustained stagger bar fill, earshot for stagger pop, missiles and bunk for direct damage), my first NG win being a pile bunk was super satisfying

@@n0r8u look, I accidentally discovered that Double Zimmy and Double Stunny are pretty damn strong so I played it like that with Heavy Quad-Legs for the rest of the game. Not my fault its inside the game :x

It made me think of Pikmin.

That reminded me of the boxart to Army Men: Air Attack. Just replace the funny green plastic men with mechs, and it's that.

The galaxy has not forgotten the cookout of Ibis

Smaller in scale, but all subsequent battles in UC definitely became more destructive.

@@boshwa20 I sincerely disagree, you can't say the OYW was less destructive when it's causalities was HALF OF HUMAN RACE

@@Rendo86 I guess you're right. I just finished Zeta, but it feels like post OYW has led to more chaos

@@boshwa20 fair I see your point. Origin makes it pretty clear how destructive it gets. It gives you idea of how horrific Zabis where Dozle is describe operation british to Romba Ral and having him give a dead serious "NO I will be a part of this." and walking out with Dozle screaming at him. also gl with double zeta

Most of that boils down to MS tech getting better while tanks and aircraft stagnated due to the fact an MS could fill both roles by the time of Zeta.

I feel like this somehow ends in a vault full of possibly sentient tigers. Or the Cat from Red Dwarf.

Doesn’t really exist anymore, but Yahtzee would have been around in the 80s/90s when it was at its visitor-trapping peak

Cruel and unusual punishment, surely

Imagine if you will, a reverse-flow Fibonacci Spiral where if you take ANY TURN WHATSOEVER, it will only redirect you back to the center of mass that you seek escape from. But also, none of the main roads are straightforward and will *also* curve your outward direction, so that to leave the town going North, you'll have to begin your journey by heading South and continuing until that road fully 180s it's way outside of the one-way street territory, and weblike structure of side streets that again, are unidirectional leading you only back towards the center.

@@TonyTheTGR I read that in Rod Serling's voice. *cue _Twilight Zone_ music.

I think the difficulty is so well done, too. It's not uncommon to run up against a boss fight that you aren't configured well for. Might lose a couple times, have to pivot your mech, study the boss mechanics a bit, then succeed. Difficult enough to challenge you, but not so difficult you get hard stuck. Just great stuff.

@@Spo8 So many times I've died to a boss four or five times, than I change my build at bit and beat it on the very next try (something that Yahtzee didn't seem to want to do for whatever reason? I mean that's a game mechanic he just ignored)

@@nisnast he’s not a tinkering kind of guy, is my guess. He ones that one good build and just run it to the end. Meanwhile, I haven’t stopped making builds.

Ooh, thank you! Very insidious 😔

Been part of the formula since day one… never hurt that you got back all of what you invested into parts neither… usually to change builds mid game for modern RPGs would end you up running into red… AC eliminates that problem allowing for quick and easy changes to the core setup of your mech… go from rolling fortress to zippy hit and run glass cannon in a matter of minutes

Or a healthy balance of them, so you can use the melee weapons to help you conserve ammo. It can also be used as a gap closer if you know how to do melee cancel. The most incredible thing with the assembly is that you can build some incredibly unique builds with unique mechanics, like high energy weapon specialization generator builds that dish out tons of damage using super fast charging energy weapons, or using hovering tetrapods to use weapons like the Taiyangshou and HMMR without being rooted to the spot. There's so much potential out there.

someone needs to release a game call 'Aggravated Capybara'

Mid roll 4 life

My final build in this game was some of the heaviest legs (to the point the AC doesn't even walk anymore, just hovers), a laser lance, a big laser rifle and two big shoulder laser shotguns, I couldn't out maneuver most bosses but that didn't matter cause I had enough AP and defense to tank most of their attacks and enough firepower to stagger them into submission.

the Ice Worm is both my favourite boss and favourite boss music

The background synth riffs in that track are whitehot. I love it so much

* Barely hearable though the static * ...It's all or nothing * Soundtrack, time and hearts stops for a second * The spectacle is something else in this game, yeah

The final boss track for either endings is fantastic. My favorite track is the 1st fight against Balteus. The Ice Worm is also a really well made set-piece. Fromsoft has been a lot better with doing spectacle fights since Sekiro.

@@danyf7429"I won't miss."

No. Don’t you even joke about that

​@@parmesanzero7678Why not?

the humour has fallen off a cliff. way less speed, bite, and ultimately, laughs :(

@@RunningRugby4 everyone’s a critic

Censorship is not a good thing boo op

Legs could be explained as just making easier for a pilot to interface with it if full body control is a thing, legs may not be efficient, but we understand how they work

Mobile Suits were developed to fight in space and proved to be effective against Federation's big spaceships due to having similar firepower, but much higher manoeuvrability as well as for being able to get in close, where it was hard to shoot them down and destroy ships with melee armaments. Later they were adapted to Earth environment, but to much less success, which lead to the development of gliders, mobile armours and eventually transforming mobile suits.

Simple. Legs make for good use in maneuvering when it comes to space. Why waste fuel for more thrusters when you can just use the heavy limbs to move and swim through space. Why put so many fine tune parts in a complicated clamp locking mechanism to land when you can just magnetically plop on a surface and walk. Plus your standing hirer than a squat tank and can fully view a landscape. More mobility in running and jumping without the need of finding some ramp. The uses go on.

I like how you call them disembodied waveforms when a couple are quite literally disembodied waveforms

And when the waves roll in to cover me in shame I avoid another sign of the efforts made in vain I am just another ripple in the current of an age Another crossed out name on another wrinkled page

You don't hear Asheron's Call call-outs very often, even if it was the best MMO of its era. They just failed to slap a scantily dressed female character on the box to grab people's attention.

I just screenshotted that callout and posted it to friends with the text holy shit I've never seen an Asheron's Call callout. Man it was fun doing low level pvp on darktide or playing my ogmage...

I read that wrong and saw smelly fish and fondling granny 🤣🤣🤣

leafcull nostalgia station checking in

The Paralympics Wheelchair reigns supreme.

​@@LordofBaysEurobeat songs constantly play in my head when I use the damned things

"I have yet to meet one who can outsmart boolet."

Instead of 500 tanks, just have one really big tank.

Oh yeah, a light build, when properly used, can absolutely dance.

Those last missions in the original three for PS were always a huge step up in difficulty… had me raging as a kid who, for the most part, didn’t have trouble with most the rest of the game

Wait, what?

​@@starhammer5247Yahtzee left the escapist and started his own channel called Second Wind after the company did shady shit

Basically a sequel to Death Stranded?

Dark Souls and Shadow of the Colossus come to mind, a lot of the architecture being described as having apparently been built way above human scale.

There’s actually a special particle in the Gundam universe called the Minavosky particle whose properties explain why giant robots are necessary. It’s an excuse to have giant robots but it’s a realllllly well thought out excuse Which is the beautiful part to me.

That’s a fair point but a missile can’t dodge out of the way of other missiles, and can only be fired once assuming it hits a target.

​@@DeadpoolX9 just googled it and that was actually really cool science-fiction lore thanks a lot for sharing.

But what if, hear me out, you take those missiles, and put them on a giant robot?

It's kinda like watching a kung fu movie. To enjoy it, you just gotta accept in this universe that being really really good at martial arts lets you catch bullets and beat up the entire police force, or other crazy nonsense. To enjoy mecha stuff, you just have to accept that in this universe combat vehicles have to be dude-shaped to be worth a damn.

Even though i generally liked the game, this is something i do not understand. The characters are just bland single use props with no depth, because this game's way of telling its "story" does not facilitate any kind of meaningful characterisation. Making snarky remarks or showering you with mildly amusing insults is not "miles and miles better" than a proper story

​@@lred1383It is a proper story

@@lred1383 I'm sorry nobody has boobs for you to lust after, you may collect your free butthurt cream at any participating pharmacy.

​@@lred1383I'm pretty sure they do more than snarky remarks or praise. I find the story amazing, the fact they could convey so much character without showing their faces is pretty rad.

Yeah I'm not sure I agree with that criticism either. The characters and story are extremely well-done, in no small part due to the voice acting work. They're just delivered in a way that a lot of gamers don't expect these days, since there's hardly any cutscene. Obligatory "these reviewers would not survive an Ace Combat game."

Yeah and sometimes games don't need to be overcomplicated just to be super fun

I’m going for 100 percent completion since it’s not terribly long It’s really hard to shake off what I call the “fuck you” mode approach. Dual sting needles One Zimmerman with coral moonlight sword or just dual Zimmermans And then why the fuck would you need anything else? I’ll switch to gatlings if there’s ads I wanna take out but once you’ve discovered the “melt everything” build its hard to switch up the approach unless you really wanna go out of your way to try new things

This is how all of FromSofts games are. They are decent time wasters.

This, but it's fun enough that I'll certainly be back for another playthrough or two with some different builds for a bit more challenge. E.g. playing through with the starting build, or doing a super lightweight build. I already did a second round through NG with only melee, which was fun and challenging in ways I didn't expect.

see, this is how a normal person thinks. then there's the people (myself) that either live and breathe mech or just awakened their mech love thanks to this game.

Not really. In fantasy, most weird elements are introduced with magic, which by definition doesn't make sense. But the giant robots, that's supposed to be all human-made technology. Very advanced technology, but still.

Hey if you explained the science of the technology we have now to somebody just 200 years in the pasty it would seem highly futuristic or magical (there is a difference between the two but that's another topic) to them. And that's just 200 years. Can you imagine a space setting where traveling from the starts is common? Technology there would make modern NASA cream their pants

@DeadSparkMan my point is that its very picky to suddenly pick on the concept of mechs not making sense when it's the entire premise of a story

It comes down to suspension of disbelief. Fantasy suspends disbelief by saying "it's magic", mecha suspends disbelief by saying "it's advanced technology ". The problem for many, myself included, is that mechs don't make sense in their own context either. With the technology in AC6, you could equip the same firepower on several smaller, more mobile units that are hundreds of times more resource efficient, and also more robust because they don't have to account for collapsing under their own weight. This awareness unsuspends disbelief and makes it hard to take anything in it seriously. Fantasy can fall afoul of the same issues, like the famous "why didn't the griffins just fly the hobbits to Mount Doom" or the numerous issues with Harry Potter. But mecha are especially vulnearable to this

​ @adreamer5920 Yeah it's picky but it's also fun to revolve your head around how it could make sense, depending on the fiction. Like Evangelion gives you a neat justification as they're more like giant cyborgs that have the capacity to generate an AT-Field. In the case of Armored Core tho, the sheer size and versatility of mechas make up for a pretty decent justification in the lore and the infrastructures you're presented. They're a perfect compromise between speed, mobility and firepower on what is a basically 3-Dimensional battlefield, and their anthropomorphic features actually makes them relevant because they're heavily adaptable whether the tactical context they're involved in is large-scale, medium-scale, aerial, terrestrial or even exo-atmospheric. Like, Good luck conducting the Underground Exploration mission with regular units when the topology is completely unfit for tanks, and way too cramped to fit in fighter jets without crashing a whole squadron into the walls. They make sense because the infrastructures of the game make them relevant.

I have seen some people complain or be baffled by the fact that most of the explorable areas in AC6 have big enough doorways and interiors to support the giant mechs, but people rarely seem to take into consideration that with a society that has been using giant mechs so much for so many things, it makes sense to build the scale to allow them. Particularly since the game doesn't take place on Earth, so there's no structures from before mechs were a thing. It does make it hard to get a sense of scale at times, but it also fits from a worldbuilding perspective.

Ngl the old ego got a nice boost seeing people complaining about certain bosses and enemies while I'm like "OH! You struggled against THAT enemy? I didn't even remember it!"

I could not agree more. I didn't even know what frigging helicopter people were on about without specifically searching for it You'd think the "just shove the building-sized laser sword that one shots enemies up its arse" strategy would have occurred to more people

It's quite obvious to anyone who thinks a bit about what they're doing, when they play the first level. You quickly notice just which of your weapons has the most damage potential - sword > missiles > rifle. This means that if you want to kill something with a lot of AP, you have to hit it constantly with all of your weapons, especially the hardest hitting one, and ideally when the thing is staggered. I saw the helicopter, hit it with missiles and rifle rounds while slipping between buildings, and noticed I did no damage. In the end, despite trying to boost up to hit with the sword, I ran out of missile ammo and ended up getting exploded. Then I realized the best way to get to the guy was to just assault boost from below the damn thing and never stay in front of it where it can rain hell down. Just repeatedly assault boosting up, sword, and then back down again to cooldown and all the while hammering it with the other weapons to build up stagger.

By that definition, is dying in a cave in Minecraft a soulslike now too ?

Minecraft was the first soulslike 🤡

@@mi_15 not really, because it goes away after like 10 minutes, and there's no checkpoint system at all. So fucking fine, there need to be bonfires too. (Also xp in minecraft is basically worthless after you've made your single set of giga OP gear, which has basically been the issue with Minecraft all along- they just made it so instead of grinding for iron armor to become an unkillable god it's grinding for the most overpowered enchantments)

I define a souls like approach as the opposite of button mashing. The stamina bar and commitment to completing animations means you have to make your inputs count otherwise you’d just buffer like 8 useless moves like panic rolling off a cliff. That’s what defines soulslikes to me. AC6, Bloodborne, and Sekiro ARE more button mashy due to the accelerated pace but you will get checked hard for mashing. That’s what defines soulslikes to me. It drops the pace, raises the stakes, and makes you play carefully for your satisfaction of mastery over the game. Like shit the deflect timing in Sekiro isn’t even that bad compared to something like high level DDR, touhou etc but it’s so intimidating and the stakes are so high that you hesitate. It’s like really good Doom Metal or Black Sabbath like that.

@@setiem13 Everquest was the first soulslike.

You're not the only one. My only goal in life is to survive long enough to sign up for some augmented human shenanigans.

When I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me.

i mean kinda? AC6 and other popular mech franchises like Gundam also play around a lot with how dehumanising that process is. 621 isn't treated like an immortal god, she's a component in a tool used for killing. literally everyone in the game except Ayre and Rusty call you some variation of dog or vermin because they literally do not see you as human. AC6 feels awesome to play, but i'm not sure i'd describe it as a power fantasy

"Face the coin? yeah I love that song!"

@@MANTISxB Can you explain "Core Theory" to me? AC6 ofhandedly references it, and of course I can see the megastructures made of clearly superlight, superstrong, and no doubt dirt cheap metal that explains why ACs have so many Armor points. But Why is a Cataphract special forces tank with a AC core stuck to the front of it better than the same tank without the AC and a thick front plate like the Juggernaut on top of The Wall?

@@rakaydosdraj8405 "Looks like the desingers never expected a frontal assault" he has 2 explosive miniguns with 2 miniguns attached to each plataform(the missiles and the laser shotgun one) so going in would be crazy for most pilots making it deadlier than jugg, the juggernaut power was being on top of the wall(you can see him during the mission while crossing the city)and assisting with heavy artillery he wasnt a menace of his own but the city, turrents and a bunch of MTs comed into play(lore wise climbing the wall was an impossible odds by the mercs and corps bcs everything there wass full of troops)but he lacked the structure and components to deal with 1 ACs thanks to the big exposed back probably the fact that is made with RLF stuff didnt help, cataphract compensates his weakness by having his MT pilot move a lot and drift using the tank wheels cover him while turning in his second phase making him a really good ground fighter unlike juggernaut (btw i was searching references of this dude 3d model and the MT alone is twice almost 3 the AC loader 4 height so he is very buff and armored) the PCA was experimenting with their cutting edge technology using special MTs to cover special combat things(Balteus, HCs and LCs are special MTs with fancy stuff into them) if cataphract wasnt using a MT with a pilot then wouldnt have the same control on the tank with those crazy moves also rule of cool works here too😂😵621 is rreally op too

boingy legs are so much fun. They're also hilariously useful in PVP for getting out of the crosshairs of "I need every shotgun ever made" builds.

@@ShuRugal I don't do PvP, but I can see speed being very important. I run with almost entirely energy weapons. Although I'm very fond of the Soup missiles, lol. Shotguns are too slow for my tastes.

Liberator of Rubicon is the emotionally affected I’ve been by a game in a long time.

@@DeadpoolX9 Same. I mean, fighting Ayre was rough, but fighting a Walter who'd been screwed up by Arquebus absolutely broke me. I was in tears when fighting him, but then really broke down when I "won". I'm glad I didn't fight him in Alea Iacta Est, but I was so mad at ALLMIND for "taking care" of them. Walter just can't win no matter the ending and I hate that.

You mean the one way track to getting access to the game’s most broken feature… Human Plus

@@jzpowell2108 Oh my god... I just realized how we can get hard mode in AC6... removing Augmentations!

Well usually you want to look out for games with good reviews so finding a good game is exciting. If you like a game and the funny man who is a picky gamer likes the game then 🎉

Especially after not liking the game in the past, which I heard he said.

Yahtz is unequivocally an eloquent wordsmith who can make ya chuckle with some of his more outlandish sayings

I was also reminded of Nier when playing it, nice to see a developer other than Yoko Taro use this concept

It's awesome how stuff like The Last of Us broke people's brains so now "a great story" in a game is just shuffling people from A to B to the next cutscene can play. AC6 actually communicates its narrative in really innovative ways that interface with the gameplay in a way a non-interactive medium couldn't do, but because its not spoon-feeding you everything the story gets dismissed out of hand

Us mech gamers have been starving, we’ll take almost anything. When the game is legitimately good we feast.

@@yoloman3607 We really are; I was playing Daemon x Machina up until AC's release, basically

I would like some build tips

@@funybirbman3813 Sorry I took a while to get back to you man, so what kind are you going for? I know thats a big question because there are even types of mech that dont even seem like an option at first; like I have a guy thats really slow with heavy armor but he has a unique booster with crazy Assault Boost, so you use it to always stay close to enemies with close range weapons and kicking (which does more the heavier you are). So if you've got a weird build in mind I'm here for it too