How To Master Energy Management in (Armored-Core 6) 

Hope this vid was helpful, good luck out there Ravens :)

Energy firearm specialization also determines the time it take to charge a shot with a energy firearm

Post-energy supply recovery is also an important stat on a generator, as it determines how much starting energy is refilled after recovery starts when you have none (which is what the coral gens are specialized in capitalising on, for example), since even ic recovery start takes six years, if it gives almost the entire bar back it when doing so it can be useful despite that

Energy also recharges much slower while your feet are in the air. If you are not too high from the ground, it is worth to touching down for a sec to take advantage of faster recharge rate.

This has honestly been the most helpful video ever for helping me learn how to build. I had a feeling infinite flight could be pulled off, I just couldn’t figure it out without the coral generators.

This is the best guide on AC Energy usage and Generators/Cores in RU-vid. You show the information you convey directly to the viewer without any frills or hassles. Short, sweet and efficient. Epic.

I'm a vet myself (last raven on the psp was what I used to play alot) and I never dove this deep into understanding - now elden ring got me into understanding builds and I'm playing ACVI and now I watch these type of videos religiously - I love how you break this stuff down with the visuals of what you're talking about. Great content bro and I'm so glad armored core is back😭

1:59 Output is the amount of gear you can equip to your AC. What you're talking about here is supply efficiency which is based on the difference between Energy Output, and the actual energy load of your AC.

This may help some of the math heads out there, but there is a simple equation you can use to find out the duration or number of boosts you have on one charge. For energy output and consumption rating, it's in Units Per Second. Well say G is generator capacity. C is the energy consumption of boosting action, Vertical, AB, or QB. D is the duration you can boost in seconds, or number of quick boosts you have (same equation). A note for QB, be sure to use the AC spec not the booster itself. D= G ÷ C Using my AC as an example, my generator VP-20C has a capacity (G) of 2720 My ALULA Booster has an EN consumption of 760 Vertical 435 AB QB is Based at 690, but core adjusted it to 510, so we'll use that. VB 2720 ÷ 760 = 3.5 seconds AB 2720 ÷ 435 = 6.2 seconds QB 2720 ÷ 510 = 5 boosts with some energy remaining. 6 with fully drain. I can't say I discovered this, I adopted and reversed an existing equation from earlier games. If you got this far, I hope it helps.

I just finished the game yesterday and watching this video make me realize that I had no clue what I was doing the whole time.

This has opened my eyes to SO MUCH that has been wrong or wonky with my builds. I knew about most of these stats from having (I thought) carefully gone over all of them with the contextual description tool, but I'd never truly grasped how they worked together. I really just used the energy output stuff to determine how much weaponry/parts I could stack on one AC. Thank you so, so much!

I'm a bit surprised this video didn't go into detail about specific gennies and their quirks. I just wanna say, Y'ALL. DON'T SLEEP ON THE YABA. Since it got buffed, it now allows you to Du some really funny stuff with light builds, and is amazing for infinite flight. Don't sleep on it. Look at the Yaba

It's so funny finding your page AGAIN. I was watching some of your armored core content and I was like "Why does this guy sound so damn familiar?" He's the guy who showed me the best FBX export settings for Blender lol!

You forgot to cover post supply recovery, which is the amount you initially recover after your supply recovery cooldown. It’s also worth noting that your supply recovery starts your recharge automatically. So if your supply recovery is faster than your EN recharge, you’ll actually start recovering energy faster and more efficiently by gen busting

It's SO good to see AC1/2 rules of flight still applying.

That was the most comprehensive video I have ever seen and not to mention I'm just getting through the first part of the missions before you even get to all that when you get your ID and all that

Im grateful that Chrigght encouraged me to use math in AC6, his explanation however involves intricate details and computations Your explanation however excells with the help of Visual Aid, makes it easier for me to understand how each specs function

Damn it bro… every video I gotta go revamp all my builds and make a new one or 2. Thank you. Thank you very much.

You forgot to mention Post Supply Recovery, but for simplicity's sake. It's the initial amount of recovered energy once supply recovery starts kicking in after getting COMPLETELY DRAINED. This is one of the reasons why Coral Generator can sustain your flight despite having ungodly amounts of weight load, because the amount of post supply it gives is throught the roof. The trade off for it though is that supply recovery takes a while to kick in. It is also best paired with Alba Core because it speeds up the post supply recovery.

Thank you so much for the quality of your videos, it's very helpful! I'd really like to see a series on Maya and Marmoset Toolbag 4, thank you.

Nice video Hustler One :P informative However, there were a couple of things you missed that could be helpful. The core's Generator Output Adjust effects how much your "EN output" is (your total possible EN load.) It doesn't specifically affect how fast your energy recovers after the supply comes in (which is nitpicking, because the difference between your EN Output and Total EN Load will determine this and increasing your EN output could determine it if you dont just use the extta EN output to slap on more energy hungry parts, which is why this distinction is important) Next thing, there is actually a stat you can look at in your AC specs to determine what your recharge speed will look like. It's called "EN Supply Efficiency" (which is kind of confusing because your core has a stat called "EN Supply Adjust" that does not influence this stat whatsoever, it instead affects "EN Recharge Delay") However, you kind of have to play with it in testing because while higher is obviously better, there's not an obvious correlation between the number and perfirmance (like you can see with some stats just being a percentage modifier) The nice thing is that all of these are accurately described in the tool tips if you look at contextual help and at least on the surface looking at the stats it appears to work the way the tool tips say it does. So far the effects work as expected in game too.

I used the core, booster and generator you had in the end of the video and I beat the true final boss of the game 2nd try, I was having trouble with him since he's always teleporting high up. Had no clue what I was missing out on.

this is wild i was just playing with these mechanics this week, but of course you've gone and inspired me to go back to the drawing board with some new ideas. never actually knew what the en recharge stat did!

You did a really good job with this, your videos have been very helpful and informative. I’ve been playing since AC2 and inherently understand some of these mechanics but you do a great job of breaking down why they work.

concise, easy to understand and straight to the point.

Yours explanations and examples are really clear and well demonstrated. You are a really good teacher in my opinion. Thanks for those videos.

You get a like just for the best/worst comparisons! Saves me the load screens 😂

This series of videos has helped me immensely. While I have been improving in other areas, my energy management has been terrible, and I didn't know why. This video has answered all of those questions. Thanks a heap!

Thanks so much for making this video. I'm a veteran, but never got energy management down.

Love the nineball build. I was running a similar setup in PVP for a while and it was a blast.

Great videos man. I was oblivious to those mechanics and don't have time to spend and test/learn but I'm enjoying the game. Thank you :D

This was very enlightening, I'll propably return to this video for refreshers on AC building. Kudos (:

Double check the thumbnail "INIFINITE" 👍 Nice demos of what each stat means. For S-ranking and pure speed I use the full Nachtreiher frame with Shade Eye head (for style) with Alula booster and NGI 000 generator. Allows for 9 quickboosts with 0.35s cooldown. Weapons are dual Haldeman and dual GU-Q1 Pulse guns giving me: Supply Efficiency 5483, EN Output 3949 so I can happily red line my generator, wait a few seconds and the bar is near instantly full again. An important aspect I think you missed for energy management is having the right booster and FCS too, especially if you're wanting to be in the air a lot. Gridwalker booster has massive upward thrust but QB cooldown is 0.70s which maybe too slow for some people. If I changed from my current FCS to the WLT001 - that's an EN Load increase of 254 points which translates to losing over 1000 in EN Supply Efficiency overall (slower EN refill if I don't deplete all energy. Definitely worth checking all aspects of your AC when tweaking for optimal energy use and testing 1 component at a time rather than making lots of changes at once.

Probably should also mention that Recovery Supply determines how much energy you get back on recover from empty, aka the entire selling point of coral generators that isn’t just flat capacity

Once again, great video I am new to AC. So all of this is awesome for me. I have just been Wanderin through the game.

For some reason you left out of the picture the fact that "EN output" is directly responsible for your"EN load", and how many hefty parts you generally can equip on your mech before you reach the energy shortfall threshold.

As an old raven who never really goes to flight in old AC game and just bunny hops in AC1-LR and chaining quick boost in 4-4A (haven't play 5th gen) the Nachtreiher is the ideal core part for me. You got massive boost speed, make dodging way easier, and because I'm mainly close to the ground (never goes beyond jump height except against some bosses) the energy recovery isn't that bad. I'm also mainly using kinetic weapon with low energy drain to help even more with recovery).

Everything here is functional so it's great but, no output is what let's you use items. It's like load but for energy. The quickness to recharge that you are talking about that you can indeed observe in this video? Thats supply efficiency and you can see it when you open the expanded stats view. It's on the right side of the screen about in the middle of the stats chart. But like I said, the advice given here is totally functional. When you do what is proscribed in this video, that number shoots through the roof. Also, I'm not smart, I just watched cright. A youtuber who figured out all of the stats.

You won here, I subbed after seeing this and look forward to learning from you- thank you sensei.

Your total energy outtake for your parts also really applys to your maximum output. Say you have the same generator with 4000 compacity, but you have a bunch of really heavy and EN consuming parts overall youll have less EN to work with despite having a huge compacity. Thats where you see some people make the mistake of having something with low capacity, and they then load it full of parts that take alot on EN and then wonder why they can't stay in the air longer then 6 seconds and are constently out of EN

You are blowing my mind right now dude..... I think I love you

Discovered this 7days ago or so, what a difference the knowledge make! Switching generators and understanding it helped me substancialy!

It's important to note that the timer which recharges your energy only starts when all actions that cause interruptions cease. NOT when it is done using energy. So got a quick boost lasting half a second? That half second counts. Melee while redlined? Have fun with that........

After finishing AC6, I went back to the old games - beginning with AC2. After stumbling through the controls and wildly different playstyle of the older mechs (Not being able to roller-skate around took some getting used to, bunny hopping is fun though), it helped a lot with refining my abilities in the newest game. I didn't transfer much of the AC design stuff over in my mind though, so this has been an extremely helpful video.

The low ceiling makes it hard to show your point at the end, but yes if you AB as straight up as you can with that setup you can gain 2 or three times the height than you lose when you run out of EN and are waiting for the supply recovery to kick in again allowing you to tap jump a few times before having to AB again to stay in the air, also tapping jump at the last second of an AB before you run out of EN will maintain your momentum so you will keep ascending for a little while you wait on supply recovery

The amount of detail the put into combat is insane

You ravens sure knows how to give us new hounds knowledge

You missed one stat: Post recovery supply is how much EN you get back after draining it all. This is what makes the coral gens good, since they give you 90% back after full depletion. at the drawback of a slowass recovery time.

I believe the 3 stats of the core is in percentage. Default 100% will mean the actual stated performance from the generator. >100% will improve the generator's performance accordingly, and likewise

Been just playing and tryna figure it out as I go. 3/4 of the way thru the game and I've only bought one Generator because I was overwhelmed with the info. Makes sense now.

Excellent video, thank you for explaining it in such an easy way to understand

My nigga THANK YOU for this video. I been playin armored core since ps1 and even i was confused at how the specs work in this game

Thanks for making this. Energy management is key, now of course the weapons and maneuvers are important, but as Ravens I like to think we "perch" (I'll fight for the pun) We go for high ground and stay airborne. It's the freedom to maneuver that I go for. I want surplus air time. I want surplus energy in my combat style. Blinking red is for if I literally HAVE to redline, if I hear that doopdoopdoop I know I just pushed my AC TO THE MAX. i don't want to hear it if i'm just dodging stray fire. That means I'm bad

Thanks I didn’t know energy weapons could have that effect.

great content with AC6 as always! hopefully this teaches new players how to get past the Filter

I didnt realise there were different stats for energy recovery speed from empty vs normal. The stats on my most used generators were about the same

on one hand i felt like you didn't tell me anything that i didn't know already, but on the other hand did this excellent video sum up and illustrate how these values on the parts affect flight and the AC overall

Coral generators might take 17 years to restart but you can do red lightning explosion with them, and that more than compensates all drawbacks.

I equipped the coral core and tried killing the bonewheel at the swamp wondering wtf RECOVER then got wheeled out of existence

Holy thank u, ur vid on how lock on works helped a lot 2

GREAT explanation!! Much appreciated.

Your missing the key element of the coral generators, the flame color is cool and matches the coral weapons.

Love your nineball build

I had run different generators for a while to try and see what worked, but everything except the coral generators had me forever in the bottom third of energy. I’ll have to try again with this in mind.

Great video man! Thank you!!

Yooooo holy fuckin shit. Your videos are some of the best help tutorials for this game ive come across. Thank you very much for your wisdom boss. 🙏

Can you teach us how to avoid missiles perfectly?

0:57 lol.... even when it doesnt redline the whole bar still comes back in an instant

That coral generator lets you fly forever like a gundam

the sad part is this seems to just work best with lightweight aperitifs, since being directly above someone else and further away makes it harder for both to land shots (unless aoe) and they have extremely low EN load

Thanks for dunking in the Dosers

Yet another wonderful tutorial! Would you consider sharing your build code on description or on patreon?

This was fantastic

You miss a thing. About charging weapons. With some setup you recharge really slowly or not attack if you are charging a weapon.

You should share some builds that can be considered “competitive”

VE20B is a hell of a drug.

I probably learned all this before even play the game.. 😂

Watch game mechanic explanations before playing ❌ Watch game mechanic explanations after 100% game ✅

Great video! Since we are talking about air-stall, my question is: does the weight of AC affect its falling speed? and What can we do to control/alter falling speed (other than thrusting upwards, obviously)?

can you do a break down on what the resistance values mean? what's the difference between 1000 anti-energy defense vs 1300 etc. awesome vid as usual

The Ling Tai would be the best generator in AC6 if it wasn't handicapped with a low capacity

great video!

In practice, it appears there is a different recharge attribute not shown to us for the "Red Zone"; not empty. It appears they are different. I dont think the core adjustment is applied when in the red. It seems its always best to either stay out of red, or empty it entirely. At least, until we can figure out how to manipulate the red zone.

There is a reason that flight core was literally the only core to get nerfed in the game apparently.

I thought supply rate wasn't tied to surplus energy output any more, and just designed my ACs with EN cost as close to the output line as possible. I'll have to leave some surplus.

i just use the coral gen cause it has the coolest booster effect

Am old school but I dint have the Patience to learn this thanks and love the paints code for this ?

But fashion……😆

I like your 9 ball build haha.

Nice AC.

Good old Spreadsheet Core...

back then OP-I is the solution 😅

Thank you for the informative video. However! Give us the deets man! the names !!! As I understood: 20D generator, ephemera core and low EN load (especially from weapons) ?

Amazing video yet again! But i have a question- how can you telç what cores were or werent design for flight??

What is the last build combo you use for infinite flight?

Does energy firearm spec also affect shoulder energy weapons?

Me just slaping anything until it not overburdened or over en cap

How do you know which AC is designed for flight. ?

I think the linking of cores with energy management in terms of their stats is probably why I'm not enjoying the build system as much as previous titles. Its a lot less flexible, and this is made worse by a lower part count in this game. It tends to feel stifling and confining, rather than empowering and expressive.

Energy at 30%