Armored Core: Snow of Cosmo Fantasy

We should probably try finding Clownpierce at some point.

We know she went down, but I hope she didn't die trying to help us out.
 
"Target verified. Proceeding with mission. This ends little Fairy."
Ah fuck, it's Nine Ball adjacent.
Welp, asking Clowpierce to take aggro did not go well. Then again, given how they apparently had backup, I don't think it would have ended any other way.
Yeah, Raven was playing around. Both stated in story and rather obvious in it's actions. I'm just wondering if we really are the only survivors or not.
Yuuka? Maybe? I suppose having a possibly-influential/strong backer isn't the worst thing in the world, even if she doesn't truly care about us specifically.
I feel this Yuuka could be strongly Walter coded, but that's only a hunch. Either way, she's a powerful patron to have. Hopefully we can get on her good side, but if she doesn't have one we'd better oroce useful.
We should probably try finding Clownpierce at some point.

We know she went down, but I hope she didn't die trying to help us out.
As above, I'm not sure how dead her or Daiyousei. That's kinda the fairy's big thing in Touhou, not staying dead. Whether they'll be happy to see us is another question.


[X] Customize AC

Can't just build any old machine for what we're doing.
 
Garage 1.0
[AC Customization]

{Current AC: ???}
{Type: Gunner}
Right Arm Weapon: Kinetic Heavy Machine Gun
Left Arm Weapon: Kinetic Heavy Machine Gun
Right Shoulder Weapon: B200 Spread Bazooka
Left Shoulder Weapon: B200 Spread Bazooka
Key Equipment: Pulse Protection
Available AC frames listed below.

[] Fast Lightweight Frame {Standard}
[] Heavyweight Tank Frame {Standard}
[] Heavyweight Quad Airborne Frame {Standard}
[] Mediumweight Frame {Standard}

Select Weapons to Equip
Right Arm Weapons:

[] Kinetic Handgun {Kinetic} {Standard} [Compatible with all Frames]
[] 404 Machine Pistol {Kinetic} {Standard} [Compatible with all Frames]
[] Frost Piercer Explosive Cannon {Explosive} {Standard} [Compatible with Medium and Heavy Frames]
[] Blue Light-700 Energy Rifle {Laser} [Compatible with all Frames]
[] Corn Cob Cluster Missile Launcher {Explosive} [Compatible with all Frames]
[] Kinetic Heavy Machine Gun {Kinetic} {Standard} [Compatible with Medium and Heavy Frames]
Left Arm Weapons:
[] Kinetic Handgun {Kinetic} {Standard} [Compatible with all Frames]
[] 404 Machine Pistol {Kinetic} {Standard} [Compatible with all Frames]
[] Frost Piercer Explosive Cannon {Explosive} {Standard} [Compatible with Medium and Heavy Frames]
[] Blue Light-700 Energy Rifle {Laser} [Compatible with all Frames]
[] ARMA Pulse Sword {Laser} {Standard} [Compatible with all Frames except Heavy Tank Threads]
[] Kinetic Heavy Machine Gun {Kinetic} {Standard} [Compatible with Medium and Heavy Frames]
Right Shoulder Weapons:
[] B200 Spread Bazooka {Explosive} {Standard} [Compatible with Medium and Heavy Frames]
[] Pillbox-835 Vertical Missile {Explosive} {Standard} [Compatible with all Frames]
[] Shoulder Mounted Pulse Emitters {Pulse} {Standard} [Compatible with all Frames]
[] Sidewinder Shoulder Mounted Heavy Rifle {Laser} {Standard} [Compatible with Heavy Frames only}
Left Shoulder Weapons:
[] B200 Spread Bazooka {Explosive} {Standard} [Compatible with Medium and Heavy Frames]
[] Pillbox-835 Vertical Missile {Explosive} {Standard} [Compatible with all Frames]
[] Shoulder Mounted Pulse Emitters {Pulse} {Standard} [Compatible with all Frames]
[] Sidewinder Shoulder Mounted Heavy Rifle {Laser} {Standard} [Compatible with Heavy Frames only}

Key Equipment Available:
[] Assault Armour: Overload your core and unleash a devastating explosive force that will destroy smaller foes and damage stronger ones.
[] Pulse Protection: A static dome shaped Barrier on your position impervious to enemy gunfire and most energy weaponry.
[] Terminal Armour: Upon taking severe damage, coat yourself in a powerful barrier which will render you invincible to most attacks upon being struck. Lasts for a few seconds.
[] Pulse Armour: Create a barrier to surround oneself and defend against enemy fire from afar. Provides decent close range defenses as well.
 
[X] Plan Core Theory
-[X] AC Name proposal ( Frigid Crow )
—[x] Mediumweight Frame {Standard}
—-[x] Kinetic Heavy Machine Gun
—--[x] ARMA Pulse Sword {Laser} {Standard}
—-—[x] B200 Spread Bazooka {Explosive}
—-—--[x] Shoulder Mounted Pulse Emitters {Pulse} {Standard}
——-—-[x] Pulse Armour: Create a barrier to surround oneself and defend against enemy fire from afar. Provides decent close range defenses as well.

A Mid to Close
range Bruiser AC, still abit agile still abit tough, machine gun for most things, pulse blade for setting up stagger and dealing with pulse defenses, and a bazooka for big damage once they're staggered, and the Pulse Emitters as a defensive, a classic all arounder.
 
Alright, since we can be a bit in depth...

[X] Freezer Burn
-[X] Mediumweight Frame {Standard}
-[X] 404 Machine Pistol {Kinetic} {Standard}
-[X] ARMA Pulse Sword {Laser} {Standard}
-[X] B200 Spread Bazooka {Explosive} {Standard}
-[X] Pillbox-835 Vertical Missile {Explosive} {Standard}
-[X] Assault Armour: Overload your core and unleash a devastating explosive force that will destroy smaller foes and damage stronger ones.

Mid weight biped for just a good bit of anything goes and an okay kick. A machine pistol to keep up the presser and for MTs/Light Weapons, Pulse Sword for pulse barriers and other idiots that think they're clever for bringing a sword to a gun fight. We keep a bazooka on a shoulder to punish anyone that doesn't dodge good, while the vertical missile are another way to keep the pressure up, and to punish anyone not paying attention. Plus a guided weapon is useful early on.

Now Assault Armour. If this was AC6, I'd actually advocate for terminal armor. Five seconds of invulnerability isn't long, but it's forever in a match. But this is a quest, and it's Cirno. We need to take something aggressive. And it's good for taking out groups or again, punishing melee users.
 
. A machine pistol to keep up the presser a
I would argue against the Machine Pistol, Historically in Armored core, the Pistols don't have the damage or ammo capacity to truly be worth it, the Heavy Machine Gun can accomplish much the same roll with more ammo and damage, if being abit heavier, but the AC we're on can handle it.
 
I would argue against the Machine Pistol, Historically in Armored core, the Pistols don't have the damage or ammo capacity to truly be worth it, the Heavy Machine Gun can accomplish much the same roll with more ammo and damage, if being abit heavier, but the AC we're on can handle it.
It's not about the damage, it's about building up stun with a solid spray.
 
[X] Freezer Burn
-[X] Mediumweight Frame {Standard}
-[X] 404 Machine Pistol {Kinetic} {Standard}
-[X] ARMA Pulse Sword {Laser} {Standard}
-[X] B200 Spread Bazooka {Explosive} {Standard}
-[X] Pillbox-835 Vertical Missile {Explosive} {Standard}
-[X] Assault Armour: Overload your core and unleash a devastating explosive force that will destroy smaller foes and damage stronger ones.
 
Since it's winning, can someone explain the upsides of Plan Freezer Burn against Plan Core Theory?

Cause I don't really understand the whole background about the equipment.

Edit:
Mostly just not understanding what Freezer Burn is trying to go for. It sounds like it's trying to focus on countering to my understanding.

Plus, why does a pistol have more stun and spray than a machine gun?
 
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Adhoc vote count started by AnonymousRabbit on Dec 30, 2024 at 4:56 AM, finished with 9 posts and 5 votes.

  • [X] Plan Core Theory
    -[X] AC Name proposal ( Frigid Crow )
    —[x] Mediumweight Frame {Standard}
    —-[x] Kinetic Heavy Machine Gun
    —--[x] ARMA Pulse Sword {Laser} {Standard}
    —-—[x] B200 Spread Bazooka {Explosive}
    —-—--[x] Shoulder Mounted Pulse Emitters {Pulse} {Standard}
    ——-—-[x] Pulse Armour: Create a barrier to surround oneself and defend against enemy fire from afar. Provides decent close range defenses as well.
    [X] Freezer Burn
    -[X] Mediumweight Frame {Standard}
    -[X] 404 Machine Pistol {Kinetic} {Standard}
    -[X] ARMA Pulse Sword {Laser} {Standard}
    -[X] B200 Spread Bazooka {Explosive} {Standard}
    -[X] Pillbox-835 Vertical Missile {Explosive} {Standard}
    -[X] Assault Armour: Overload your core and unleash a devastating explosive force that will destroy smaller foes and damage stronger ones.
    [X] Freezer Burn


Votes closed
 
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[] Freezer Burn

"Time to wake up, Ice Fairy."

You opened your eyes fighting off the haze of sleep. Drugs were pumped into your system to get you operational, feeling the distant dreams you clung to become nothing more than a fog in your memories. A gasped filled your cockpit as you started breathing deeply, your head hanging low as you grit your teeth.

Your augments responded to your machine booting up as well. Your senses heightened, your nerves were on fire, the Armored Core you resided within answering your routine diagnostics. Then the questions bubbled to the surface of your mind, through the numbing routine.

How long were you out? Where were you now? What was going on?

Then you recalled the voice. It was your Handler.

"Did you have a good sleep? I hope you did. We have a job for you."

"Brief me," you replied as you raised your head as the cameras outside your machine fed straight into your augments. What your AC saw, you saw, the link between you both stronger than ever.

The Gardener, as she called herself, seemed happy that you were finally responsive, "It's been 36 days into our contract and you've excelled so far in your probationary period. This will be your final test. Our liason from the Yakumo foundation has directly handed this job for us. The local criminal syndicate of 66-G has acquired several salvages of Psyche Transports and have been caught intending to sell it to the corporations. You're to destroy those transports and eliminate any hostile force in your way."

"And then you'll tell me where the Raven is?" You asked her as you glared at the window display of the Gardener's insignia.

A Sunflower.

"Do this mission and I'll point you directly to the Raven. Remember the contract."

You were a dog on a tight leash and brought to heel by a promise.

The gates to the back of your transport opened, revealing the morning sun rising in the distance. The lights around your AC turned from red to green as the latches keeping you stable had released you.

Pushing your controls forward, your AC's headlights turned on and you were sent careening towards the earth, thousands of feet from the air.

Your display quickly provided you with the necessary information as you charted your flight path. The information of your enemies were already marked on your map, some several kilometers east from where you were. Your thrusters roared to life and you were flung towards your destination.

It was cold. Snow seemed to be present within the operation area. It provided you with some comfort as you made your descent. You felt your machine rattle as you gained speed, trailing an orange flame through the skies as you dived.

It shouldn't take you more than a minute. In fact, you could see the enemy base now. From a distance you fired off your scanning drones and received information almost immediately. It was a mountainside fortress, heavy artillery mounted on reinforced walls and several dozen MT's patrolling the area.

You flew towards your enemies with the force of a meteor, crushing an MT underfoot as you heard their comms start bustling with activity.

"ENEMY ATTACK! A SINGLE AC!"

"Just one? Which corporation sent it! Verify our contacts! MT's head out to intercept, get the HCs up and running!"

You landed on some poor fool and used their body as a makeshift board to slide across the ground. You turned and fired your missiles into the air having locked on to several MTs before you assault boosted into another MT and drove your heavy leg into it's frame.

Jerking your controls, your machine turned and drew it's machine pistol, shredding through the choppers flying towards you as the bullets tore through the buildings behind them.

An alarm rang to your left and you dashed to evade a wall mounted cannon's blast. You responded by kneeling and firing your spread bazooka from your shoulder, covering it in explosions that tore it apart.

More alarms rang and you were forced to move, evading several missiles from a truck before you started shooting them with your machine pistol. Buildings burned and MTs' exploded as you kicked off the ground and fired your missiles into several targets before you bombarded the base entrance with your bazooka.

"Providing you with the location of your mark."

You turned your head to where the Gardener was directing you before you activated your thrusters and started making your way. Several MT's got in your way but you charged through them, knocking them down with a swipe of your arm or crushing them underfoot with sheer force.

"There should be 5 Transports. Eliminate them."

You crested a hill a were airborne as you saw the transports just waiting under you. You locked on to three and fired your missiles before diving towards the fourth and firing your primary gun. The people screamed as they fled your presence before an alarm rang and forced you to move away again.

Turning, you came upon a tetrapod HC, heavily armored and covered in pulse shielding. It's main cannon was gathering energy and released a blast your way.

You evaded the blast and were about to fire your gun, only for a piercing light to knock it out of your hand. It slammed into the ground, grinding an unlucky human under it's sheer size and weight.

Turning your head, you saw four more HCs come down, all of them surrounding you.

"You're surrounded. Play it smart."

Then the enemies began talking with their guns trained at you.

"This ends here! Surrender now or we will shoot! Deactivate your Armored Core and step out of the cockpit!"

Bastards...

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[] Break through the encirclement and start using your sword.
[] Pop your flare and fly upwards, bombard them with your cluster bombs from the sky.
[] Activate your Assault Armor...
 
Since it's winning, can someone explain the upsides of Plan Freezer Burn against Plan Core Theory?

Cause I don't really understand the whole background about the equipment.

Edit:
Mostly just not understanding what Freezer Burn is trying to go for. It sounds like it's trying to focus on countering to my understanding.

Plus, why does a pistol have more stun and spray than a machine gun?
Basically, when compared to an Armored Core, most things are target practice. Killing them is a matter of efficiency, because in the games you have limited ammo, and every shot is deducted from your pay. Bullets and missles aren't free. So you usually have a weapon that can kill things cheaply.

The real threats are heavy units, HCs, some LCs, and other ACs. And these units have a stun gage, which usually but not always builds faster when hit with high fire rate weapon, and those usually do low direct damage.

As for the heavy machine gun being worse for that then a machine pistol, that's because the heavy weapon deals more direct damage, so has lower stun damage.
"Do this mission and I'll point you directly to the Raven. Remember the contract."
Being given her current location means little if we can't get to her. Our Gardner going to make us work for this long as she wants.

[X] Activate your Assault Armor...
-[X] Any survivors, finish them off with the sword.
 
Assault Armor seems like overkill, we just need to clear the field initially so we can focus on the tetrapod.

[X] Pop your flare and fly upwards, bombard them with your cluster bombs from the sky.
 
Annoyed that my build didn't go through but there's always next time as more parts become available

[X] Activate your Assault Armor...
-[X] Any survivors, finish them off with the sword.
 
[X] Pop your flare and fly upwards, bombard them with your cluster bombs from the sky.
 
[] Pop your flare and fly upwards, bombard them with your cluster bombs from the sky.

Going with this for now. How many times can we use Assault Armor?

Edit:
[X] Activate your Assault Armor...
-[X] Any survivors, finish them off with the sword.
 
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I must advise against holding on to the Assault Armor. Being surrounded by something like LCs is exactly why we brought it along. Plus we can use it three times. The flare is only good for their missles, if they have any, they've got plenty of other guns.
 
Alright fair, with three uses it's not a bad call.

[X] Activate your Assault Armor...
-[X] Any survivors, finish them off with the sword.
 
[X] Activate your Assault Armor...
-[X] Any survivors, finish them off with the sword.
 
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