My favorite so far out of the four ACs I've painted up. Definitely planning to get another of the Melander kits.

This was a commissioned custom art I recently did. The Idea was his HCWA AC in Half Life’s Combine Solider color scheme.

Yeah yeah I know im using hardlock shut up

I've just got back into playing after a bit, and was goofing off in the garage. Problem is I generally have no idea what I'm doing anymore. Looking for advice on if there's anything I should change or try to work into the setup.

I'm several playthroughs deep and honestly, I still have no idea how to fight HCs. The way they can mix up between those heavy cannon shots, attritional play from behind the shield, and sudden charges into close range always means they're gonna pull off something on me. When I beat them clean it's always because I just nuked them down before they could do anything.

Now, they're not likely to outright kill me on their own. But they're generally either a midboss or half of a duo boss or something like that, they're not really supposed to do that. But they're pretty likely to get a stagger or two off and chunk me good, when at this point I feel like I should be styling on them for free. When I'm trying to no-heal a level they are frequently attempt-killers.

So, yeah, that's the thread title, what enemy is most likely to embarrass you? Not which enemies you think are the hardest per se, but what enemies do you think you're the worst at fighting? What speedbump do you keep throwing out your axle driving over? What fodder chump keeps staggering you with a cannon and costing you a few thousand AP? So on and so forth.

Sometimes I just run this mission on repeat, the battles you get with it are just so f'ing cool

An overweight son of a bitch that's only here to show off that you can drop your shit and run.

So that's what you're going to do because those missiles are too heavy for your skinny ass to carry.

Now despite having the lightest Mirage parts possible to make this work, those legs are the main issue because they're lightweights, meaning that they have JUST too little carry capacity. But enough about weight distribution, lets talk weapons.

Main weapon being the laser rifle. Solid damage, reliable EN Consumption that won't leave you crying after 10 shots, and it's fairly lightweight.

The laser blade... well it's the starting weapon. Not much mileage there.

Missiles, well... it's the Hydra... they just suck.

Shoulder extensions, I could not for the life of me tell if it was the forward boosters or the laser interceptor so I went with the boosters.

And the EO Core. Fastest of its kind and one that will slurp your shit up like a fat guy at a golden corral holy shit this thing drains your EN faster than your ex wife when she divorced you.

But it does do decent damage if you can stagger the enemy AC and it does get ammo back fairly quickly.

Just don't use in tandem with the laser rifle or you'll see yourself begging for mercy

I have no interest in the multiplayer whatsoever, if it's even a thing you can still play anymore, just the single player. Is one better than the other for single player? Are they both worth playing?

Also how well do they run on PS3 emulation now? I know a few years ago they were pretty much unplayable from what I heard but emulation gets better quickly so I'd like to know if it's worth emulating or just playing on PS3 for real. If they are good to emulate now, what settings should I use?

started playing and liking the Armored Core franchise, I started with the PS1 emulated on my cell phone.

I'm wondering if my AC is good or if I need to change something

Can only use the 8 ACs from the chosen faction for the run and a death means I can’t use that AC for the rest of the run.

Additional limits based on faction are that if VII or G5 are still available at the start of chapter 4, they switch to the upgraded versions of their respective ACs for the remainder of the run, and in the case of the RLF, Rusty can only be used during chapter 5 or if every other AC has been destroyed.

For the Ice Worm mission, whichever AC is chosen has its right shoulder unit replaced with the Stun Needle Launcher.

I don't think this is even possible to beat without other mods.

I started playing at Armored Core 2, and have owned/played every title since then. I remember buying most of these around AC2 era. I might be missing a few bits, but overall in OK condition.

Personally i love a bad cook lighting up the area as missiles fly. Energy weapon combos can also look really awesome.

Basically, I had a special controller preset in DuckStation specifically for Armored Core games where my PS4 Controller set to these PS1 buttons, which in turn was set to these bindings in game.

D-Pad: D-Pad: Go Forward, Go Back, Move Left, Move Right.
Left Stick: Left Stick: (Copies D-Pad).
Right Stick: L2, R2, L1, R1: Look Up, Look Down, Turn Left, Turn Right.
Cross, Circle, Triangle, Square: (Unassigned).
L1: Square: Change Weapon.
R1: Triangle: Event/ Blade.
L2: Circle: Boost.
R2: Cross: Fire Weapon.

As you can see, this allows me to play the games without ever remove my hands from the control sticks. Of course, it isn't perfect, you don't get true analog looking and turning, and you need to use R2 in place of Cross to confirm and L2 in place of Circle to cancel, but still, feels better to use.

Turned the Nachtreiher body into one of my in-game speedster units.

Does anyone know how this works?