ACV General Discussion

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I recently updated my ACV Setup Guide topic and added me doing a playthrough of the ACV demo mission where I get all the subquests done but two. A third one is greyed out, but that's the Speed Kill B subquest, which is buggy. It randomly doesn't count itself at times. All you have to do is blow up the AC in the middle of mission quickly and you should get it, though the cutscene that starts immediately afterwards where he runs away bugs it out a good portion of the time.

JP ACV Demo - Story Mission Playthrough



EDIT: I forgot to mention I also did an AC Showcase of my ACs in the demo as well as a LW Bipedal Gameplay Showcase on Justin.TV. Mind you it was streamed, so the quality is lower than normal. It should still help showcase just how LWs move and play, though. Also take note that this LW is at its absolute max in weight and I even had to give up on equipping recon units (which are how you scan stuff through buildings/radar) so I lost track of my target a few times more than I normally would. Weight caps in ACV are serious business and you can't carry much on bipedals, especially LWs.

Here's the link to the video if any of you want to watch it.

ACV Demo - Niji's AC Showcase + LW Biped Play

Thanks for putting your translation guides up when we needed them the most lol, and how did it go for you btw? (ah wth you played the beta anyway)

I was busy playing with the people from ACO. It was a blast though. Not to mention for a demo, it can get pretty immersive, given that you can just get your base handed at any moment if your team has one.



One of my experiences so far on the multiplayer demo:

Two days ago, I logged the fuck in around 3-5am JST. From what it seems, a lifebar of our territory had been cut down by 90% when I checked it. I was the only member online, and didn't know how to recruit mercenaries. So I went off to get more details by myself, and then I suddenly became a lone operator with my AC on standby.

It felt really tense as how I just sat there on standby-operator mode at the Buried Facility, waiting to repel against invaders. Alone.

After about 5 seconds, alarms were set out, and there I went on to focus on the game instead. A single invader showed up; a HW biped AC appeared on the my (operator) radar, which was trying to do a quick sweep desperately so I deployed my AC. I crushed the guy because I had all damage attributes and he wasn't aiming for me, just rushing towards other commodities to keep pummeling the base to the ground... and filling up that damn paycheck.

I felt relieved that I was able to repel it, but then after about a few seconds of going back to standby mode at the same place, two more ACs have appaeared. I knew I'd be fucked this time, but I had no choice anyway and wanted to see if I can pull it off and became a little cocky. One was another HW biped with two Sentry Gun-deploying weapons on hand, and a RJ sniper that looked like Sight Hawk. Only now did they remind me of the LR duo.

The time limit is 10 mins, and they were destroying a bunch of other stuff again. I already knew what they were up to; the fat guy will destroy stuff while the RJ will keep me from his fat lover. I was almost able to destroy this fat guy (10% AP left) while dodging the other fucker's stream of sniper rifles and battle rifles + missiles, but of course I got hit a few times; the fat one also had those sentry guns. Not to mention I just couldn't seem to hit that RJ whenever it boosted upwards, causing some of my shells to miss while being sure that I hit him. Must be either my or his connection.

I kept hiding and using guerilla tactics against the duo and putting some recon drones just to make sure no one's stalking me, but I still had the feeling that the RJ had an idea on my current position, which was indeed true anyway. Had to take advantage of the buildings to take cover until I saw from what seemed to be a bulky AC QBing on land, I then charged, then set off another barrage of my own.

I couldn't reach the fat guy anymore when he glided away from me, with the RJ blocking my path before I could do so. I was also running out of ammo except for the laser rifle, but I couldn't charge and shoot it without getting interrupted, because I was getting an unending barrage of missiles from sentries and random, quick projectiles from that RJ, forcing me to stick to scan mode and waste his ammo. I finally got tired and just got the fuck out and charged teh lazzor, which then resulted me on having about 800 AP remaining. I then tried to shoot back whilst backpedalling from that RJ, thinking that my lazzor could hit him from long range, which was a bad idea to begin with. He has a sniper rifle LOL.

I finally assploded, but I saw the RJ's AC burning for some reason while boosting. Did I almost get him too? I checked the replay and found out that I wasn't even able to reduce its AP down to 50%. I wanted a more detailed replay, but only the operator's view was available. I wanted to save it too, but there wasn't an option to iirc.

The fight lasted for 5.5 minutes and I finally went full yaranaika because it all happened too intense and fast for me.

The next thing I knew, the base is gone... and then the cavalry arrives! Too late though. I had to explain what happened, like a man caught cheating on his wife. Hahah. Good times, I guess.

^ TL;DR I got attacked and there's lag, and more importantly, tactics!

For a demo it sure had a lot of content, too bad I wasn't able to play the 'boss' missions.