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Isn't there a DS version due out soon?
No. Nothing has been confirmed attributing to an Armored Core for the DS.Red13utterfly 5:20, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] What's a Poke of Doom?
Someone is using specific jargon without further explaining. (see Fan Classifications, Ninja). So, what's that move? Kobayen 19:42, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
- The poke of doom is what happens when you use a laser blade on a quad or tank. The laser blades do damage intermittently throughout their swing, 4 times if I recall correctly. With other leg types, the blade is swung so it only inflicts its damage at most 2 times. However, tanks and quads use a "poke" motion so if used properly the blade will hit with all 4, doing immense damage. When used with arms that have high energy supply and a powerful blade(the MOONLIGHT is typical), it is capable of annihilating light ACs in a single poke. A similar manuever is also typical on tanks. They equip an overboost core and design it to be able to inflict a massive amount of damage from several weapons simultaneously. Then they OB at their opponent until they are touching them and fire.--Soban 17:17, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Fan classifications
- This section is entirely original research. I'm removing it. Reliable sources are required for such things. Wickethewok 14:26, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] New parts in AC4 and abilities?
So I gather most of us have seen the new trailer videos (probably the streaming one) for AC4. Here's what I noticed:
Its all about that nice new flagship mech, the one with the "angel wing" look. It apparently reenters the atmosphere from orbit and uses some special and freaking huge extension boosters to brake its final touchdown from orbit, then drops them. This AC obviously is made of all new parts. From the looks of it, it is a medium-heavy to heavy weight AC. And its flying around like a light plane with its boosters.
This display of sustained boosting flight at a rather high altitude, combined with a few frames of footage of the front of the core when powering down the boosters, suggests a new core type, not just a new core model. When the booster was powering down, large pieces on the front of the core retracted and closed up. I'm guessing there's a new "aerial" or "jet powered" or "sustained flight" etc class of core. The flight mode is probably a special funciton of the core activated with the R3 button. I guess the AC was packing a good generator and radiator combination, but the new core type/boost flight system must have excellent cooling parameters, or else they've relaxed some of the parameters on boosting flight throughout the whole game. It looks like it could sustain flight nearly indefinitely, or at least much much longer than the best heavy biped setup with, for example, the GULL booster in AC: Nexus.
Next: the angel wings. At first I thought they were the special flight-enabling back parts. But no... they're just a DUAL BACK PART of SIX ENERGY CANNONS... oh-kay... which it fired in mid air while boosting ... oh-kay ... in addition to use of the spherical energy shield at high altitude in mid air. Generator/cooling stats system must be different here!
Finally, its other non-energy weapon looks roughly like a regular rifle, but apparently has the attack power of a sniper rifle and the firing rate of a machine gun. And can also be used as a missile intercept system ...? Given the energy drain of sustained boosting and giant back laser cannons, I'd want to pack something ballistic too... its just that all this put together seems very... broken, compared to the restrictiveness of prior AC games.
If From decided to make the game more "fun", then I'm all for it. I'm just afraid that AC will end up being just one of the harder bosses, and is probably just another CPU-only overweight, OP-I fat bastard. Eh, what can you do? Its Armored Core ...
[edit] OP-Intenfier section edit
I am editting the first few sentence of this paragraph:
Since the removal of PLUS and OP-I in later games, players had to improvise using other optional parts and using various equipment to "imitate" the enhanced abilities. As for being overweight, it is possible to go beyond weight limits, but the increased weight will slow down an AC's speed greatly, depending on the distance from those limits. It is best to stay near or far below the weight limits for the best performance of the AC.
Whether the player has to improve or not is irrelevant. This part of the paragraph is not entirely netrual, and alludes to much into "OP-Intensify limits your playing ability," which is not an acceptable clause in wikipedia. Red13utterfly 9:16PM, 6 December 2006
[edit] Left Arm Part Section
This area seems a little biased to me..."It's also quite possible to lock-on to 2 enemies at a time. The benefits of ranged weapons have made blades nearly obsolete, but not useless."
1- I don't recall being able to lock onto 2 enemies at once with anything other than missles in any game in the series.
2-Because of the placement of controls (both fire buttons and the boost are on triggers), it typically requires more dexterity to wield two guns at once (as opposed to 1 gun and a laserblade), especially if a person is using different weapons (ex- shotgun and machine gun), which can result in players standing still to try and use both weapons effectively.
3-While it is noted that blades only work at close range, it is not mentioned that most AC's boost forward a bit when before the blade is swung, closing the distance between it and it's target.
Or... maybe I don't know what on earth I'm talking about. Either way, could someone check this?
168.170.197.140 13:11, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
It sounds a bit funny fuck me as well. Clean it up a bit, but for blading is involved? In the older Armored Cores, you do dash forward when blading on the ground. I don't know about AC4: Red13utterfly
Alright, I'll try to make it more neutral since no one else has done anything, wish me luck. 24.58.114.90 02:11, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
Gah, I'm not very good at this... the article should also mention the ability to (at least in earlier games) to fire an energy wave from a laserblade, increasing it's attack range (but from what I've seen the damage dealt is decreased.) could someone with an ounce of skill add that in somewhere? 24.58.114.90 02:23, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Quadrupedal Spiders
Spiders have 8 legs. Please change the description for 'four legs' in this article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.197.50.67 (talk) 08:31, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
