Unused and special equipment 

Maybe the legs were originally going to be the part of Michigans AC, but then he wouldn't be the "hell on four legs"

the tetrapod legs he uses are also called "verrill" so do they also have the 1100 id or is it just the head

To me it looked sort of like Arquebus made reverse joint legs based on Sol 644 (the fires of raven final boss). Balam usually has a more angular style so it is odd that they share an ID with the verril head. Maybe the verril head was also an older version of the same model as those legs, but got repurposed? Also, a Balam kinetic shield that just has a bunch of AP to equip in a hand slot would be interesting, especially if it also gives boosts to the kinetic/explosive/energy defensive stats while active.

@@bred223 They're 1410, which itself corresponds to an unused torso part we don't have the model for.

The Verrill set is very similar to the Kazaur set: only the legs and head are available.

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need more boulets need more boulets bigger wapons bigger wapons

@@edgargad2941😂

pair with the sword or bunker and become Melee Tarnished Chad

I want to go full Amuro from Gundam and be able to chuck the shield at someone to crush their cockpit

Ah yes…Fromsoft…fill me with Verdict Day’s nostalgia please

The HC in Eliminate Enforcement Squads does have a shield bash, so maybe you are not far off

Same The pca gets them in their supposedly cutting edge machines Y do ac only get pulse? Seems like a downgrade But could make for some fun builds

Fr it is actually perfect lobby music

I actually parked my 100% save at NG+++ Grid 086 so I can hear it all the time while making new ACs for PVP

I cant unhear it but its not unpleasant

Feels like I'm going crazy, pretty great tbh

Same

I mean I think anybody would love a actual shield instead of just pulse shileds

Only if I can brace a giant cannon on it and open fire.

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What is Gundam?

When you realize how raven's "activating combat mode" animation before she fights you is just the animation that head does in the actual gameplay (dk if while scanning, locking on or smth else) it really makes you want a free look in real time to see those details

​@@elGonhoit does it when you activate your expansion

@@user-lv8dn8gw9zAnd when Assault Boosting

​@@user-lv8dn8gw9zWhen you Assault Boost as well

The Shade Eye visor flips down whenever you use Target Assist/hard lock.

It's got the clapping asscheeks.

or a cosmetic cause hot damn.. it looks cool

For sure. I actually like seeing just how beat up my AC is in cutscenes when I know I've taken a lot of damage and used all my repair kits. It hits home just how damaging fighting really is to the AC.

I'd love to go for an Undead AC sort of look

​@@SolaScientiait actually does this already by downgrading the wear pattern on your AC. I always use a more pristine finish so my machine usually looks worn after a mission.

@@edgargad2941 That's what I was referring to by liking how worn my AC looks in cutscenes. I don't add any weathering to my AC in the design section.

Imo it's all but guaranteed we get PCA parts eventually if they add DLC, they're the only "tech palette" we don't get in vanilla (they're gonna give us Coral tech but not PCA parts? cmon, that's an obvious gap to fill). I'm hoping for BALAM's answer to ADD as well, we don't have a Heavy Burst Rifle or a Burst Cannon (shoulder-mounted equivalent) in-game yet and those are some pretty noticeable gaps in the game's arsenal, just as a couple examples.

@@Supercohboy LCs, HCs, and EKDROMOI are significantly larger than an AC, and their weapons are bigger as well. It doesn’t make sense how they’d be usable.

While I definitely wouldn't mind parts with the design language of the PCA, especially the ekdromoi, it kind of seems implied in game that the PCA considers itself above the corporations that make AC parts, and even above ACs in general since they don't field any and are consistently surprised when one beats their hardware. Seems like they'd like to do everything in house, and playing nice with corporation compatible hardware isn't really their whole deal. We might get something, but I'd be amazed if it was more than just one set, especially considering how few parts we got as is. These parts and a DLC in general feel about as guaranteed as one about tomoe did in sekiro.

I guess the Arquebus ADD parts are supposed to be the player-accessible version of PCA tech, with Arquebus seizing the PCA's technology and making their own stuff based on it. Though that doesn't get us the cool EKDROMOI lance and sallet helm, so it's a bit unsatisfying.

I’d imagine physical shields would offer full protection, but be limited by their own health pool, which would be cool

Speed holes.

They look dual zimmerman sized 😈

Taken from a gun turret maybe?

So, PCA HC run?

like gundam intentend

Bring physical blades back like the vendetta weapon arm and murakumo in verdict day

​@@cardinal2921there is still the pile bunker.

Same! I finally finished my NG++ the other night and have done all 3 endings and all missions. I've never worried about trying to get the platinum for most games (usually isn't worth the effort, imo), but I'm damn sure going to try to S-rank all the missions. I normally play for just an hour or 2 at a time before needing to take a break, even for games I love like Bloodborne and DS3. Not so with this one. I spent probably close to 5 hours playing it nearly nonstop on 2 occasions. The second time I actually had a sore neck and shoulders and had to not do any gaming for a day or two to recover (age + bad posture can be thanked for that one). I love it so much. I think once I platinum the game, if I can with the S-rank challenge, I might start a completely new game and play it in Japanese with English subtitles for a change of pace. It's such an addicting game in all the best ways.

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They already said no DLC as it takes to long to develope

​@@-pressxtostart-damn that's a shame, guess we'll have to wait til the next game

@@-pressxtostart- b., but,.., 4answer.,,.,. and.,., and verdict day.,,. please,..,

@@-pressxtostart- Link please.

Yeah, that's one of the few things that annoys me of this game. I wanna make a chicken AC.

They look like fat Tellus legs from AC4A.

@@edgargad2941 Come to think of it, they do, yes. The flaps just caught my attention the most.

Considering how strong Pulse Armor is in PvP, and how meta-defining shields were back in ACVD, I think we're a bit better off without them unless the balancing is handled very well.

​@@TroidHunter that's my theory too. 1.0 AC6 was a very heavy favored game. Imagine if tetras could have had two stun needles and still shield

there should be some kind of accessories to change up charge speeds, recovery times, damage resistances, etc. that would be good. still can't think of a lore accurate way to implement transmog

It does have that very smooth aesthetic which the pca have as well. I think they might be pca legs with just balam placeholder numbers. It wouldn't be far fech to see those come back and maybe as a new category of legs. Flight legs or hover legs similar to snails

The boss in the second level of Watchpoint Alpha?

@@ALLMINDmercenarysupportsystem yup.

I gotta say, there are some tracks in Elden Ring especially that not only became repetitive, but there's that one theme, maybe in Caelid (not sure, maybe also Limgrave) where there's this EAR PIERCING high pitch noise, worse than the oracles. AC6 has one of those too, I think during allmind related missions, but it's a little lower and less frequent but also all other tracks are SO GOOD. It's cool, it's lowkey, it's got some recongizable ones and it allows for "modern" sounding tracks that didn't have a place in Dark Souls and the rest. Made rerunning the game much easier on the ears.

@@SaladDongs well, everything in Caelid is painful, seems fitting lol

I wish they added Balteus parts too.

There's always 5th gen

So you're saying if someone spent enough time to fix that, it's possible to decal it?

@@eis6570 I guess, assuming it is a UV issue. Looking back on this comment though, messed up UVs aren't the only reason a bug like this might happen, just the most likely as UV data basically informs the renderer about the relative angles and positions of each polygon for the purpose of shading and texturing, so screwed up UV maps are the #1 reason a texture can look distorted. But yes, the part is entirely salvageable, it would just take some work, maybe a lot of work. Keep in mind the extent of my expertise is that I make 3D models for fun.(and for use in a game project but that's going to be in dev hell for a decade more)

Said mech must also have Zullie’s Dark Souls/Elden Ring character piloting it from the inside too, lol.

I think it's just probably that they couldn't make it function in time before the release. And Fromsoft doesn't let it go to waste anyways, as unused assets are mostly refurbished and used for their future titles. So who knows, they might use these parts for future AC games if there are any.

Most creative works have some form of cut content, video games just have a special relationship with it because you can't hack the pages of a book to make it tell you the different drafts the author wrote.