[TAS] Armored Core: Master of Arena - Top 10 

Even just a few of the Human PLUS enhancements would have made this little exhibition end a lot more quickly. Nineball doing this stuff in its AC would end the Raven's Nest and the Corporations in a few days!

Now Im really curious to see how the TAS would fair against nineball

@@crambob1370 I'm curious as well to see this

@@crambob1370 Now you can, in Brookman's TAS! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-dj8_C1yRzUw.html

It's an abuse of three of the game's mechanics that allowed me to do this. The first being a very strange behavior (probably a bug) that causes most of the game's weaponry's projectiles to only register a hit if the projectile would *still* be hitting the target one frame after the projectile registers a collision. The Japanese community calls this phenomenon "axis" weapons. This makes the projectiles easier to dodge because effectively I just needed to be out of the way of the bullet after it had already hit me. The second mechanic being abused here is movement behavior for very fast legs that for some reason lets you change your strafing vector instantly as long as you time the movement change shortly after you start moving. Repeating this causes you to move back and forth much faster than you are supposed to be able to. And finally, this is sort of an extension of the second property, but because the game's weapons are fired predicatively (via the FCS), if you are able to time your direction changes just before the opponent fires, the opponent's FCS will not be able to account for the change. All three combined with TASing superpowers and you can dodge bullets!

@@GreenZinfidel that is such a weird sciencey anime character answer i love it

@@ethankraus8529 Haha now that you mention it, it does sound like an anime monologue.

@@ethankraus8529 how else would they explain it lol

@@GreenZinfidel you're like the overpowered anime MC

Yeah same, the PS2-era ACs are where it's at IMO, but the gameplay in these classics still holds up pretty well.

Thanks! It's my favorite color scheme. I use it in all of the AC games

One day maybe! I've got other huge projects that are keeping me busy at the moment though.

I have no idea how I never noticed that before either! ACs look to be like... 10 feet tall maybe in that stage? It might have been a "concept" stage where the ACs are meant to be smaller robots or something, but I also wouldn't be surprised to find out that a map developer just got the scale wrong or something and From said "eh, fuck it, put it in anyway"

​@@GreenZinfidel I love this stage though. The variety of the stages (and ACs too) is part of what I love most about that game.. it was vivid, colorful and full of personality, especially with all the bizarro equipment and all the arena / mech designs. I had played project phantasma on repeat for probably a month previous to that, so I was already starving for new AC experiences when that game dropped. I feel like the rest of the series after AC3 really drops off in the personality department, the stages especially are pretty drab. Anyway I really enjoyed the vid, thanks.

I think that stage is a bit of a gag. It's clearly supposed to be like a wild west, "take ten paces then turn" sort of level. You start back-to-back, and it's full of classic spaghetti western set pieces. I think the devs were just having some fun.

Theres also a mission map where the cars are big

Feels like the Western Arena is a purpose-built location for AC Combat, sponsored by someone who has a taste in what remains of Spaghetti Westerns. We Dimmadon't call that the Dimmadome, however.

Ah yes, Armored Core 3; Training Exercise

S ranking that misaon made me feel like a man

Very interesting! I did not know that the CPU was programmed to do that. If I had know that when making this TAS, I might have incorporated strategies to take advantage of that programming to make a fool out of the opponents.

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Boop 🐄

It's now the only game I really care about for 2023.

It's like I'm reading my opponents' minds!

Yes, this is a TAS.

That build was was mostly just for aesthetics, but it's one of the most armored "light" builds you can make so it ends up being viable for casual play. I always pick the parking garage when I'm up against a reverse-joint because they are so irritating to track in the sky the whole fight!

Yes, very hate that reverse joint , thanks for bring back my good old memories ,haha 🤣🤣

When you land an aerial laser sword strike, you get a bonus multiplier to damage of 2x to 4x. The Moonlight already does an absurd amount of damage so it only takes a few hits.

@@GreenZinfidel I am assuming due to hitting the head.

@@RippahRooJizah That definitely could have been the idea behind the mechanic. I actually reversed some of the game's code using Ghidra to investigate this (for a TAS) and the game only checks that you are in the air, and the distance to the enemy at the time of activation to calculate a bonus. Closer is a bigger bonus. There's another thing that can happen though where your laser sword can hit multiple times very quickly (happens more frequently with quad-legs poke of doom) but I never figured out how that happens.

@@GreenZinfidel Interesting. I heard a while back that headshots with a sword do loads of extra damage, but I guess that wasn't entirely accurate.

It's a TAS

[TAS] means Tool-Assisted Speedrun

@@GreenZinfidel gotcha

You can download the movie here: tasvideos.org/userfiles/info/62708704588144436 . It's savestate-anchored, so you can just play the movie to load the state, stop the movie, then go and save the game and you'll have your save file.