Armored Core 6 confirms release date, shows first gameplay

Elden Ring developer FromSoftware’s revival of the Armored Core franchise launches this summer time. The most recent trailer for Armored Core 6: Fires of Rubicon confirms an Aug. 25 launch date for the sport, whereas additionally displaying off first gameplay and cryptically teasing its story.

An official description of that story makes every part a lot clearer. Right here’s the setup for Armored Core 6: Fires of Rubicon, from writer Bandai Namco:

A mysterious new substance referred to as “Coral” was found on the distant planet, Rubicon 3. As an power supply, this substance was anticipated to dramatically advance humanity’s technological and communications capabilities. As a substitute, it brought about a disaster that engulfed the planet and the encompassing stars in flames and storms, forming a Burning Star System. Virtually half a century later, Coral has resurfaced on Rubicon 3, a planet now contaminated and sealed off by the disaster. Further-terrestrial companies and resistance teams combat over management of the substance. The participant infiltrates Rubicon as an impartial mercenary and finds themselves in a wrestle over the substance with the companies and different factions.

Armored Core 6: Fires of Rubicon was formally unveiled in December. The developer guarantees that the brand new Armored Core gained’t simply be a Soulsborne sport with mecha. FromSoftware president Hidetaka Miyazaki stated final 12 months that his firm is taking “a great take a look at the core idea of Armored Core and what made that collection particular,” making use of its current sport improvement expertise and “reexamining it along with these core ideas of Armored Core.”

Bandai Namco says gamers will management “extremely cellular and extremely customisable mechas” in Armored Core 6. The sport’s “fast-paced battles” can solely be overcome, the writer stated, by “grasp[ing] quickly altering fight distances, utilizing the setting for protecting cowl, and omni-directional battles to beat difficult enemies and conditions.”

Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice director Masaru Yamamura is helming the brand new Armored Core. He says Armored Core 6 “share[s] the identical essence of battle resembling aggressive, velocity change and action-oriented preventing” with FromSoft’s samurai-action sport.

Armored Core 6: Fires of Rubicon is coming to PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Home windows PC (through Steam), Xbox One, and Xbox Sequence X.