Armored Core 5

**Insanecyclone** · 2012-02-14 19:23

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**Roundelk** · 2012-02-15 10:39

Originally Posted by Lucavi

That's probably because flight combat wasn't as predominant in the early ones. I mean, in the first three, the main "speedy" movement was boost hopping back and forth, which kinda looked like ice skating. Now you're essentially airborne for the entire time, and if you aren't, you're probably getting fucked up in the shoulder by someone who is constantly out of sight.

Kind of a late post but this isn't true maybe for AC1 series but not 2 or 3. In AC 1 you had to use low speed/low energy cost boosters to stay in the air for a long period of time but this made you a nice big target that can't move fast and thus get ass raped.

In AC2 series it was easy to build an AC that can last long periods of time and even forever with strong boosters and with the addition of Overboost made it easy to dodge attacks and rape people on the ground, you can even have powerful weapons and good protection(AP) I might add.

In AC3 series it was abit harder but still possible, you would be building an AC that would outlast your opponent with decent weaponry but it didn't matter because machine gun weapons blows anything up in this series. In all honesty I stoped playing and doing tournaments after AC3 Silent Line so I don't know what builds you could have done with those extra equipments later in this series.

I prefer the controls of the older series than these new ones and so do alot of hardcore AC players I know and was the biggest reason we didn't get so heavy into them, don't get me wrong I still played the shit out of them and still an AC fan and I don't think it was wrong for them to go in this direction and still getting AC5 Day 1.

**Ragnus** · 2012-02-15 10:47

I really don't want to fall into the AC trap again....

I played the hell out of AC2 and AC2: Another Age but lost it at AC3. The money payouts on starter missions in that game could barely cover the cost of solid weapons, let alone the 1000 round machine gun at 30 bucks a round. I was in the middle of some dam mission on an AC decked out entirely in energy weapons just to turn a profit after repairs and just kinda turned my PS2 off in the middle of play because it just wasn't fun anymore. =/

**Adajer** · 2012-02-15 15:43

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**Kiarax** · 2012-03-07 18:26

**Charismatic** · 2012-03-07 19:01

Originally Posted by Ragnus

I really don't want to fall into the AC trap again....

I played the hell out of AC2 and AC2: Another Age but lost it at AC3. The money payouts on starter missions in that game could barely cover the cost of solid weapons, let alone the 1000 round machine gun at 30 bucks a round. I was in the middle of some dam mission on an AC decked out entirely in energy weapons just to turn a profit after repairs and just kinda turned my PS2 off in the middle of play because it just wasn't fun anymore. =/

I dunno, I didn't have that issue with LR but I didn't play AC3

**Brill Weave** · 2012-03-07 20:58

Going to hold off for Hawken. Loved the first two AC's. Kind of lost touch with it after that. Always a ton of fun to play.

**Rokku** · 2012-03-20 11:38

Bump from the depths of gaming, but if anyone is running this on PS3, I have a team with a couple people that can be joined if you're interested. Just hit me up and I'll give you the info needed.

**Qeomash** · 2012-03-20 12:16

So, final verdict: PS3 or 360? Will be picking it up tomorrow, and friends and I are trying to decide which version to get.

**Rokku** · 2012-03-20 12:36

Originally Posted by Qeomash

So, final verdict: PS3 or 360? Will be picking it up tomorrow, and friends and I are trying to decide which version to get.

I don't know what that earlier comparison video was about, but it runs just fine on the PS3. It just requires a 3GB install, so you might have to clear out some space. It seems like there's a lot of activity on the map on the PS3 version already, and there's been no lack of people to merc out to or teams running territory missions, but I don't know what the scene is like on the 360. Seems like PS3 is probably a good bet though.

**Kisamoo** · 2012-03-20 19:47

Are servers down? or just me? Can't progress in story or buy parts...

**Insanecyclone** · 2012-03-20 20:41

You can't play SP because of the servers? That's real fucking neato bamco.

**Rokku** · 2012-03-20 20:46

They had server issues with the JP launch too, but given the track record of Japanese companies, online games and release dates, I'm not too surprised by all of it. And yeah, the game won't let you do much without being online, the store is connected to the servers so that people can't hack/dupe/save edit/whatever parts into their inventory, if you buy parts with the online portion off it'll force you to sell them off before reconnecting.

It's pretty dumb, but I guess it's kind of understandable? Either way, the servers having a shitty day isn't really helping anyone's ability to play.

**Qeomash** · 2012-03-21 00:27

Servers combined with JP, or are there US only ones?

**Rokku** · 2012-03-21 01:26

Originally Posted by Qeomash

Servers combined with JP, or are there US only ones?

It's not combined with JP, but I'm not sure if it's US only or US+EU.

**Qeomash** · 2012-03-23 23:27

Anyone else having issues where you'll log in but not see any of your teammates online? Keeps happening to my friends and I randomly.

**Rokku** · 2012-03-24 10:01

Originally Posted by Qeomash

Anyone else having issues where you'll log in but not see any of your teammates online? Keeps happening to my friends and I randomly.

Nope, haven't had any server or connection related issues since launch day.

**Kazen** · 2012-03-24 14:48

Does anyone else find weapons like sniper rifles awful in this game? It seems on even the best sniper rifle I get "Not Effective" when I use it on any AC. That isn't my main AC but I just made a sniper build to fuck around with.

**Rokku** · 2012-03-24 17:43

Originally Posted by Kazen

Does anyone else find weapons like sniper rifles awful in this game? It seems on even the best sniper rifle I get "Not Effective" when I use it on any AC. That isn't my main AC but I just made a sniper build to fuck around with.

It totally depends. The sniper cannons tear shit up, but different cores have varying defenses, and the sniper rifles are really impacted by optimal range. They can hit outside of what they should be able to, but do crazy reduced damage. Sniper cannons on the other hand have insane range and don't lose a whole lot of impact power over distance. TE seems to be one of those defenses that no one carries a lot of, but the weapons that use it are (for the most part) terribly inaccurate.

By the by, if anyone needs a team PS3 side, feel free to join Marauder Shields. Pretty small at present, but we're level 50+ as of last night, yadda yadda.

**Krazy** · 2012-03-24 17:51

Picked this up today and. . .I'm really not feeling it. Been playing AC since Master of Arena up until Last Raven and I don't know, this just feels like a step down. Single player has been completely terrible so far, I have absolutely no idea what the story's even about. I guess I'm shooting up the police, but why, I have no idea. The other ACs never had amazing stories or anything, but I at least knew what was going on when I was playing them.

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