Why i REGRET buying Armored Core 6

So I've been playing Armored Core 6 for a

few hours now. Just after it came out, I

bought it and decided to give it a try.

And I haven't really played Armored Core

games before, so this is actually my first

time playing an Armored Core game. And

it's probably going to be the last time I

play an Armored Core game ever again

because, oh my God, this game is so

frustrating to play. So the game starts

off pretty easy doing the tutorial

missions and just destroying everything

that you come across, and you feel like a

god in the beginning of the game. And it

was fun and everything messing around with

the customization and making my own mech

and choosing the paint colors and choosing

the loadout. And I think it is kind of

cool how you can choose all the different

parts of the mech, like the legs and the

head and arms and the chest. And there's

lots of different weapons to choose and

pick from. But the difficulty ramping in

this game is just so stupid. So you start

off being really powerful and just

destroying everything, and then suddenly

the game throws at you this massive boss,

which took me several attempts to take

down. I realized I couldn't actually take

this thing down unless I was playing very

carefully and I was hiding and dodging.

And it took several attempts to finally

take down this boss, and now I'm stuck on

another boss. So the annoying thing about

this game is the game is incredibly easy

when you're not fighting bosses. When

you're just fighting the normal enemies,

that you can just one-two shot them and

they're very easy and there's no

challenge. But then you get a boss thrown

at you, and I swear to God, I've been

stuck on this one boss called Baltius for

like 5 hours now, and I just— oh my God,

I cannot take him down, and I've tried

everything. I'm starting to feel like I

regret buying this game now because I've

just been bashing my head against this one

boss and there's not really much you can

do. So in Elden Ring, if you get stuck on

a boss and you really don't feel like you

could beat it, you could just go level up,

grind some levels, get more powerful, and

then come back to the boss later and the

boss will be easier because now you've

leveled up and you've got some new

abilities and you've got better weapons.

But you can't really do that in this game

because there's no leveling up. So in

order to try and beat this boss, I decided

to quit the mission and replay some other

missions and try to save up some money so

I can buy all the stuff in the shop. And I

bought all the stuff in the shop And I've

got all the different weapons and I tried

all the different weapon combinations and

it's not really helping. I'm still stuck

because I'm still the same kind of power

level that I was before I gave up on the

boss. If you do the arena battles, you get

these little chip things that allow you to

upgrade your mech by tiny percentage

points, like increase energy damage or

kinetic damage or missile damage done by

2% or 4%, or increase damage mitigation

by 2% or 4%, or you get these little

unlocks like your mech can now do a kick

or you can do a quick turn, and these are

cool and everything, but they're not

really helping me defeat this boss. As far

as I know, you can't really get elixirs or

potions or little temporary buffs that

could help you out. Also, apart from the

difficulty with the bosses, the game feels

extremely linear and the graphics of the

levels don't really look that great. If

you're just like zooming around blowing

stuff up, you won't really notice, but if

you take your time to kind of stop or walk

very slowly and look at the landscape and

the objects on the level, then they don't

really look very impressive, especially

around the buildings. The resolution and

textures of the buildings don't really

look very good. Take for example this

city. This is probably one of the most

bland, boring, uninspired looking cities

I've ever seen in a video game. Even in

games like The Sims or SimCity, they had

more interesting looking cities than this.

This is just like gray concrete blocks.

It looks so bland and dull. I remember

playing mech games as a teenager, like 15

years ago, and I swear, even though those

games are really old, playing on the PS2

or the PS1, I swear they had like little

people on the ground running away and you

could squish them. Why can't this game

have stuff like that? You know, like

little people running away, or maybe when

you blow up an enemy mech, they eject the

pilot and he shoots up into the sky and

lands falling with a parachute. This game

doesn't really seem to pay any attention

to little details like that, which I find

kind of disappointing. It seems like

they've just focused purely on the

gameplay mechanics and making sure the

gameplay is good, which is great and

everything because the gameplay is

definitely the most important thing when

it comes to video games because that's

what you're playing. But it would be nice

if they put some effort into the little

details and the little touches, like

seeing some human beings running around in

fear from this massive giant mech that's

about to destroy everything. Would be

pretty cool. I don't like the lock-on

system or the camera. It's kind of

annoying. The camera doesn't seem to stick

with the enemy. Maybe I've got the

targeting system messed up or something,

but I swear I've tried clicking on the

right thumbstick button multiple times to

switch the locking system, and it seems to

be the same almost every time. When I'm

trying to aim at this boss, the camera

just seems to flip all over the place,

and there's been several times where I

don't actually know where the boss is and

he's like right above me, or he's just

zoomed behind me. And the camera does a

really bad job at tracking where the

bosses are going, especially if they're

very fast-moving, quick-paced bosses like

this one. Also, this weird thing happens

where some of the weapons don't really

have much ammunition, like the pistols,

for example. I'm using them here, and I

just ran out of bullets during the boss

fight, and then I had to use my fists to

punch the boss, which wasn't very good. I

don't understand why. Most of the weapons

have loads of ammunition, and you never

run out of ammunition. But some of them,

like the pistol and the assault rifle,

you can run out of ammunition. And as far

as I know, I've never seen ways to pick up

ammunition in the game apart from when you

get a supply drop. I just don't see the

point of having limited ammunition,

because when you run out of ammunition,

then you just end up having to use your

fists, and it's kind of stupid. You're

kind of stuck, and it just makes it so you

can't really use that weapon because it's

not very efficient if it's just going to

run out of ammunition very quickly. So I

feel like the gameplay loop is kind of

linear. You just do these missions that

take about 10-15 minutes maybe to

complete. Some missions are really short,

like they only take 5 minutes. One of them

you have to run around collecting data

points from wreckages, and that mission

has a timer, so it's only about 4 minutes.

And then you finish it and you only get

like 80,000 money or credits, whatever

it's called. And I just feel like the

missions are not very interesting. It's

either just kill a load of stuff, blow up

this turret, and then head to the main

boss. And then you're done within maybe 10

minutes. And then you get kicked back to

the menu systems where you have to like

upgrade your mech, buy some new parts,

mess around with your mech customization,

and then head out to do a new mission, or

a sortie as it likes to call them. And

then maybe you get stuck on the boss like

I am, then you just end up doing replays

of older missions to try and unlock new

stuff that could help you become more

powerful, that could help you defeat the

boss. But then it just feels like you're

just doing these missions over and over

again to try and increase your

performance, your rank, and try to save up

money so you can buy everything from the

shop. And it just feels like a very linear

experience, unlike games like Elden Ring

where there was a big open world and it

felt like it was a very dynamic game and

very in-depth game, whereas this game

seems kind of basic, kind of shallow,

just like a dumb shooter. The combat is

quite fun. I quite enjoy dodging around

and blowing stuff up with my weapons and

experimenting with different weapon

loadouts, and experimenting with different

loadouts is quite interesting. For

example, you can get an upgrade where you

can put your hand weapons on your

shoulders, and I thought you could like

equip 4 assault rifles or 4 shotguns to

your shoulders and your arms and use them

all at the same time, but you can't. The

weapons on your shoulders are only there

so you can switch them out between your

hands. You can't shoot 4 weapons at the

same time unless it's a missile launcher

on the shoulders. But there are cool

things you can do with the mech that

enables you to customize your playstyle,

which I do appreciate. But it just seems

kind of shallow and not very deep

customization. Like, there's quite a few

weapons, but most of them suck, and you're

probably just going to stick to one or two

weapons which are the best ones or your

favorite ones. And there's not really ways

you can like create a build, or there's no

talent tree. There's no kind of— this game

could have been so much better if it had

like a big talent tree or skill tree like

in Diablo or Cyberpunk. They have great

talent trees. It would have been so cool

if you could do more customization with

your mech, not just the visuals. Like,

you can customize your colors on the mech

to great detail. Instead of that, I would

have preferred it if you could customize

your fighting style to a very precise

amount with talent trees and skills and

being able to upgrade the weapons with

scopes and attachments and different stuff

like that. I feel like at the moment the

customization level of this game is very

basic and needs a lot more work to be

done. So I am kind of enjoying the game,

but I'm very frustrated and annoyed with

it right now because I'm super stuck on

this boss. And I don't know if this game

is worth buying or recommendable at this

point. I would have to give it a 6.2 out