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Okay okay I’ve seen AGE now, have a Gundam Legilis

The triple cannons are meant to emulate how powerful the tail cannon is

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Also! Got a tad bit bored of my WHIRLIGIG’s normal colors, so I made her some alt ones!

My favorite’s that third pallet, she looks so handsome <3

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Mechs, in general, do *not* inject pilots with enough pleasure stims to put them on the edge of climax. That would be unhealthy, dangerously distracting, and mech pilots *already* are known to struggle with addiction, neaural-link related neaurological diseases, and trauma, no need to make their lives even *worse* after the war with a *litteral addiction to killing people*

Mindfucker Georg, who killdozered' a construction mech while replacing half her bloodstream with dopamine and drugs, is a statistical outlier and should not have been counted-

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4th gen armored core is the true embodiment of "If I can tell what is happening on my screen. I'm not going fast enough" and I love it for that.

all the armored core 6 mechsploitation "my mech is my real body" people should play 4th gen armored core because the pilots literally have their nervous systems linked to their mechs and control the mechs via that, the mechs are so godlike that calling it "real robot" feels wrong even though it is technically accurate, and there's a mission in for answer where someone calls you "lapdog" as you commit the worst attrocity in human history while ethereal music blasts in the background

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Some of my thoughts on this too (mainly focusing on Ayre):

1: You did imply this, but Ayre only "backstabs you" when you decide to genocide her entire species, with everyone on Rubicon as probable collateral. She has EVERY reason to fight you, and she and her species have as much of a right to live as you do, which I personally feel is something a lot of people ignore. It's unreasonable to expect her to lay down and die.

2: Ayre doesn't really pull any manipulation tactics on you (at least to my knowledge), I think the only time she lies is when she states she's Rubiconian, which while true, she does neglect to mention that she's coral not a human. I understand not really trusting the voice in your head but Ayre isn't trying to manipulate you.

3: Expanding on 1 a little here. Ayre (at least from my limited memory) is the one giving you mostly RLF jobs (that Walter did not approve of beforehand) that you have the choice not to take. She never complains (to my knowledge) if you don't take them. The only time where she even visibly has a reaction to you not taking a job from her is when you try to, once again, GENOCIDE HER ENTIRE SPECIES.

4: I've seen a post (that i can no longer find so I can't really confirm if this is a hallucination tbh) say that Coral Release is a hivemind thing when it... isn't. That was Allmind's version of Coral Release, and nothing in the actual ending cutscene even hints that that is what happened. I think if it was, that would've been something we were told or shown in some way, but the only thing we are told is that the coral has been "disseminated across the stars" now. Plus I think it being that simple as being a coral hivemind misses the point of the ending. Part of the point for that ending is going past the point of no return. Of making a decision and not fully understanding what will happen afterward. Of crossing the rubicon. Hell, thee ending translates from latin into "The Die is Cast", the entire planet is named Rubicon (i.e the Rubicon River), not to mention many areas and pilots being named after a bunch of Roman shit. So much of the game is building up to that and the answer being "coral hivemind" cheapens that in my opinion.

Was this a good addition to the post? I don't really know, I didn't slept last night so maybe this is entirely incomprehensible, but still.

While I do feel like a lot of people simplify Ayre and view her as more morally pure than she actually is, I also think any read of her that has her not care about Raven or just be manipulative is just... not paying attention to the story. Especially the story of Alea Iacta Est. I think if you only do the first two endings I can get why someone could speculate that about Ayre, but with that one she is clearly very uncertain about siding with Allmind all the way up to the O'Keefe mission. She wants Raven to make the choice because she does not know if it is right to do but she trusts Raven.

So often I feel like the take that Ayre is "manipulative" just boils down to, Ayre feels emotions and expresses them. I also think we should remember that Raven is not a total blank slate with zero character traits. It is made clear they have some things they care about like Walter, Ayre, Carla, Chatty. And achieving symbiosis is a thing they choose to pursue over and over and over despite having the choice to back out so many times on the Alea Iacta Est route. Ayre even keeps bringing up that if they commit to it Allmind wont let them back out later. She brings that up. So the reading that she is manipulating Raven to achieve coral release is pretty weird. Especially since Ayre clearly did not even know about it until about the same time Raven did (which is a bit before Allmind approaches them about it to be clear, so it is not just Allmind either).

The game also very heavily frames Alea Iacta Est as the one where Raven does follow their own will throughout. Both the other two endings ends with Walter or Ayre respectively expressing support for Raven to choose what they want. Now that means what they want aligns with what Ayre wants, which supports the "our shared dream!" line in fires of raven I think. On Fires Raven just decided their loyalty to Walter outweighed everything else (which is why they are still a "dog" as Freud suggests during the fight instead of a "scavenger bird"). Whereas liberator has Raven become a symbol for freedom, and I do think that route is more in line with what Raven believes is right (since you are so often given the choice of siding with the RLF despite that being less pragmatic than siding with the corps) but that is also not really Raven pursuing their own goals. That is putting that on hold to protect the coral because they care about Ayre.

Both those routes a choice is still made, but it is only on Alea Iacta Est where Raven has a clear goal that they are pursuing that was not given to them by someone else (Allmind only approaches about coral release after Raven and Ayre have already began looking into how to achieve symbiosis).

Anyway back to how Ayre gets judged unfairly.

Other characters do worse things and do worse things to Raven specifically that they do not get judged much for. Rusty tries to murder Raven despite Flatwell telling him not to for rather flimsy reasoning, he tries it regardless of earlier choices by Raven. Even if Raven has always sided with the RLF Rusty tries to kill them. Yet not a single person judges Rusty for this (out of universe, in universe Flatwell seems pretty annoyed by it but he chooses to fight alongside Rusty). While Ayre turning on Raven in the route where they try to destroy her entire species means Ayre is a backstabber who never cared in the first place apparently. I think this one really stands out to me because of just how much literally nobody judges Rusty for that. He realises Snail was trying to get him and Raven killed, his cover is totally blown probably. So he has no real reason why he has to fight Raven beyond "they might be a threat". Which depending on earlier choices is an insane position to take. I think it makes sense for Rusty to do this and the story would be less interesting if he did not, but it is him being kind of bone headed.

I would also like to point out how characters consistently has zero respect for Raven's agency or choices and will assume the worst of them regardless of player choice a lot of the time. With Walter and Ayre being the main exceptions to this.

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pics of my second NEXT 'Highspeeda'. i mostly use this one for arena battles and not any missions.

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look at my mercenary division dawggg im gonna die

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Brought some of my Gundam in ACVI builds to Iguazu! Only the Kämpfer and the Z’Gok could beat her in full, oddly enough. I mean, the Z’Gok kinda makes sense, its offensive options work exactly the same as my WHIRLIGIG, but the Kämpfer was a surprise

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I like to think everybody just refers to 621 as they in AC6 cause 621 just never says anything on voice and never turns on their camera so the characters just have no way of inferring gender whatsoever and have to make do. Like even when you accept missions and answer questions you're just sending discord messages like

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Made a sticker to celebrate 100% achievements

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Uh oh...

Why is it always the egg hunts that go crazy with their mission names? Management want to tell us something?

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LOVE punting these little cunts into the abyss

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Brought some of my Gundam in ACVI builds to Iguazu! Only the Kämpfer and the Z’Gok could beat her in full, oddly enough. I mean, the Z’Gok kinda makes sense, its offensive options work exactly the same as my WHIRLIGIG, but the Kämpfer was a surprise

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@bexleytychus this is what we mean by shipping 621 right

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"Alea Iacta Est "

don't forget that this was already out with a HD alt and timelapse on my patreon!

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Dakar Rally Mech

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balteus.