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Armored Core 6 - Chapter 1 Final Boss (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Posting here since a bunch of Hexbearinians talked about playing the game.

Chapter 1 spoiler

What loadout do you use against Balteus?

I went with:

reverse joint legs
left: laser blade and plasma blade (weapon bay OS upgrade)
right: starter assult rifle and plasma gun (weapon bay)
FCS and thrusters that are unlocked in the training missions

My man Balteus is nutting and busting missiles everywhere. I found normal biped legs unplayable in this fight. Being airborne helps a lot against him plus his plasma shield makes you need to stick close to him. So I thought reverse joints were the only viable option here.

I didn't see much use out of the assault rifle. The plasma gun though seems essential for breaking the plasma shield. I used that plus the melee weapons to break the shield.

While selecting two melee weapons on the left side, I was a bit conflicted. It seemed mad but at the same time it made sense to me. My strategy then was to try and stay close to the enemy. Whittle down the shield with plasma gun and melee weapons. When the shield is about to go down, make sure melee weapons are ready. As soon as it goes down, dish out as much damage as possible with the melee weapons. Repeat.

For the second phase I ended up being lucky mostly. I was jumping around frantically and was somehow able to avoid most of the laser sword attacks.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Phase 2 kept kicking the shit out of my ultralight so I switched to super heavy tank w/ double Grenade launcher & shoulder energy lazer

I do not look forward to s ranking that mission later

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I tried heavy tank with double shotgun and double laser rifle (the hand ones equipped to the back with the weapon bay) and found it subpar. I was able to bumtush Sulla with this but breaking the boss' plasma shield was too big an ask. Will try it with rocket launchers and the enery lasers.

Honestly I think ultralight is very good against this boss. I just beat it again with the aforementioned reverse joint build and I am not playing very well. For his second phase, a youtuber called ongbal recently uploaded a video of his fight against this boss. He is an epic gamer. In the second phase he uses distance (the g*mer term is "spacing" I think) to avoid the fire attacks. You can watch the video for help with strategy in case you are interested. He uses a normal biped build but I think the fundamentals should be the same.