Armored Core 6 isn’t Elden Ring with mechs, FromSoftware says

Elden Ring Sekiro: Shadows Die TwiceFromSoftware has created a brand new Armored Core video game that will deliver mech-based combat and challenge. However, the developers are behind it. Fires of Rubicon: Armored Core 6 say their revival of the franchise isn’t simply a “Soulsborne” game in heavy metal clothing.

Hidetaka Miyazaki from FromSoftware told IGN that his company doesn’t want to do direct Armored Core 6’s mechanics toward Soulsborne-type gameplay — the type of gameplay established in 2009 by Demon’s SoulsIt has been refined for more than 10 years. Dark Souls, BloodborneAnd, lastly, Elden Ring. Instead, Miyazaki said, FromSoftware is taking “ a good look at the core concept of Armored Core and what made that series special” and applying its recent game development experience and “reexamining it together with those core concepts of Armored Core.”

In other words, Miyazaki told IGN, the Armored Core games’ mech assembly and the freedom of “adjusting each individual part” of your mech — which will determine just how well your AC performs in battles — will still be present in Armored Core 6.

Sekiro: Shadows Die TwiceMasaru Yamamura, director of the Armored Core is telling IGN that the game’s samurai action will be helmed by him. Armored Core 6 “share the same essence of battle such as aggressive, speed change and action-oriented fighting.” Players will break enemy mechs posture, he said, letting them strike with critical hits.

“This is the starting point for the slow and fast speed change of the battle, and when combined with long-range firefighting and close-range melee combat, the enemy and his machine engage each other violently, creating a more aggressive and dynamic battle that only mechas can engage in,” Yamamura explained.

Armored Core 6’s will focus on single-player for its story mode, Yamamura said, but there will be some sort of multiplayer element. “Dynamic and intense boss battles” will be the highlight of the game, Yamamura said.

FromSoftware, publisher Bandai Namco confirmed last week that they will be relaunching the Armored Core franchise during The Game Awards 2022. But Armored Core 6’s existence had leaked months earlier, with images and a game description that promised a “third-person shooter mecha action title that lets you move around an overwhelmingly scaled map that represents a unique sci-fi world with dynamic mech action” and “fierce battles both long and short range using guns and blades.”

Fires of Rubicon: Armored Core 6In 2023, the PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5 and Xbox One will all be available on Windows PCs, Xbox One, Xbox Series X, Xbox One, Xbox One and PlayStation 4.