FromSoftware’s Armored Core VI Gets Mech-Filled Gameplay Trailer & Release Date

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It wasn’t sufficient that Elden Ring cleaned up on the Game Awards in December 2022, as FromSoftware additionally used that occasion to point out off the sixth Armored Core, Fires of Rubicon. Nevertheless, the favored developer has been comparatively quiet concerning the mech recreation within the final 4 months. That has all modified at the moment with a model new trailer that reveals off gameplay and provides a launch date. Gamers can count on to get their fingers on Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon on Aug. 25, 2023.

Should you’ve been craving some mech-on-mech motion, the trailer undoubtedly delivers. Not solely can gamers count on to battle related fits, however there are many hints within the trailer to recommend we’ll be taking over machines that dwarf our personal hefty statures, too. The story appears to contain the participant borrowing a “Callsign” that isn’t theirs and utilizing it whereas exploring the planet Rubicon 3 as an unbiased mercenary. Judging by the trailer, Rubicon 3 is a reasonably dismal planet. There isn’t any flora or fauna to be discovered, simply miles of machines and industrial complexes.

Rubicon 3 wasn’t all the time this industrial wasteland, although. That’s owed to the substance referred to as Coral that was “anticipated to dramatically advance humanity’s technological and communications capabilities.” Nevertheless, Coral as an alternative triggered a large disaster that “engulfed the planet and the encompassing stars in flames and storms.” However now virtually 50 years later, knowledge reveals that Coral has reappeared on the planet. Although it has been sealed, off-planet companies need a style of what Coral can do and are keen to battle for it.

Fight received’t be gradual and methodical just like the final new FromSoftware titles. As an alternative, mechs are fast and fierce. Mechs will as soon as once more be customizable as nicely, so it is possible for you to to construct yours out nonetheless you would like. The one proven within the video was targeted largely on using verticality in fight, utilizing jet boosters to get into the air and rain down the destruction.

The final Armored Core recreation was Verdict Day which got here out in 2013 for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. Evidently, it’s been a very long time coming after skipping an entire technology. Although, technically, it solely skipped it a bit as Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon will probably be coming to the PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Collection X|S, and PC.