This video needs to get pushed for those new to 5th gen or didn't understand it when they played it back in the day.

We in here ravens

One thing I noticed playing AC V is that stability is EVERYTHING. If you haven’t, equip the skinny Easter island looking head with the oblong arms with the shoulders that jut out dramatically (they look like legos and have the highest stability) The combination of high firing stability parts increases the fire rate of your weapons like crazy. I was able to easily stun lock opponents with a dual shotgun combo, but it makes everything more effective.

5 tried to change and I still want them to go back to the 3 style but you know whatever

I personally liked ACV's pace better compared to VD but VD added some QoL stuff that I didnt liked in base V :/ one of them was RNG tuning as in you dont have complete control on how your weapons "grow" making them kinda like NFTs that you can sell to the market yeah.... cause thats "one of a kind" weapon in short for me ACV was the "over crrection" from did from AC4 especially for people who never experienced the older gens as ACV brings back the pace of gens 1-3 but here's the underlying concepts that ACV never presents to you its infact Chromehounds but in an AC skin this is very evident in verdict day

Armored Core V is just such an underrated gem in the series and I very much love this gen like a redheaded stepson who'd eventually one day become the main character of his own badass JRPG series by Nihon Falcom (Y's references ftw).

Hey there! Appreciate you doing a review for ACV. It’s rare for people to give it a second shot, and moreso while actually analyzing the bits of pieces of the game and design as most people just chose to straight bash it. It is definitely a shame that the servers went down so quick, as from a balance and gameplay perspective ACV was superior to VD in that respect and had a better vision of what 5th Gen should have been. Verdict Day is a better experience overall but gameplay was watered down and almost felt like it was taken in a completely different direction than V was. A lot of issues that the game has (beside the usual basic complaints about 5th Gen) is that FromSoftware has not fixed a lot of basic issues with the series. Menus are still hard to navigate. The game does a terrible job of showing and explaining the depth and complexity of gameplay, and crafting SP in a way that challenges the player to fully understand what they can do in the game. AIs are incredibly basic with only a few varied attack patterns, and can be defeated half the time with terrain (literally standing behind a building). These issues have been compounded with time: it’s one thing to have them in 1997 or 2005, but it’s another when the game is on its 14th iteration (in 2012-2013) and they still have not fixed these issues especially when the general bar far gaming has been raised significantly over time. Few notes: 00:26 - I'd say most people would agree Ninebreaker is more of a tutorial game rather than multiplayer based. It has 0 story and the main structure of the game is meant to "teach" you how to play it. On top of this, although you could online with the later 3rd Gen, it wasn't something the community ever used much, and honestly it wasn't really promoted as the main selling point for ACNB. 03:19 - I know what you’re trying to say here, but I feel like that’s not an ACV issue so much as just a general Armored Core issue. 10:01 - This is one of the few areas that V straight out beats Verdict Day - better map design. Too many of VD’s maps are small, or wide open areas with very little cover. V’s on the other hand tend to be larger scale, give you a good complement of large and small buildings and landscape variety which encourage better diversity in builds and attack formations. And this is despite V only having 8 maps. Abandoned Facility alone is better than 80% of VD’s 56 maps. 10:11 - This is one of the more subtle adjustments to how boosters works, and although most people don’t’ mention it, being able to turn off boosters gave you a lot of flexibility in your movement, particularly transitioning from one movement to another and also just being able to throw off your opponent’s lock. 11:08 - This is probably one of the BIGGEST issues with ACV and VD. Armored Core controls have never been amazing, but ACV is probably the first game where the controls are unnecessarily complex. If From had put walljumping and Hi boost on the shoulder or trigger, that probably would have solved the initial issues playing ACV that most people had. I played on PS3 and changed my default control setup after the ACV Beta test and it helped me so much. 11:47 - This is a perception issue more anything else. I say this a lot, but anyone who calls 5th Gen slow either only played for the first five minutes or are just parroting what other people say. As you noted, 5th Gen is built upon the framework of 4th Gen. The main difference here is that the barrier to achieving reasonable speeds is a higher skill ceiling because you MUST master all the movement options. In fairness most people who weren’t around during V’s online days won’t see that, but this games is as fast if not faster than 3rd Gen PVP (and I make this distinction of PVP because SP can be played at a fairly slow pace). I can’t tell you over the years how ridiculous people have been saying the game is as slow as (or slower) than Mechwarrior or Chromehounds. 12:54 - This is a big issue with 4th Gen that often gets overlooked. Because the game lives and breathes speeds, they had to make a lot of sacrifices when it came to mission variety and level design. This is why 90% of missions are in wide open spaces and the remaining 10% are in very weird small spaces. This unfortunately means you lose a lot of the subtlety and nuisances in design that older gens had. This is also a general issue with boss battles although there’s a few additional reasons. 13:00 -14:34 - I know you mentioned in this segment you couldn’t cut it out (don’t blame you), but a little bit better timing wouldn’t hurt so it doesn’t feel as awkward in the context of the rest of the video :P 16:50 - Agree about Chief. He was an amazing character and was criminally underused. Really wish he had been expanded upon. 20:18 - Last Ravens menu system and design was the pinnacle for AC. They should never have touched it after that. 20:47 - Note for the Ultimate weapons, only the Grind Blade results in you dropping a weapon (literally you lose the entire arm AND weapon). The only other exception is if you have cannon weapons equipped, in which case all cannon weapons are purged when using an Ultimate Weapon 25:51 - This is not quite correct. ACV was 99% multiplayer, whereas Verdict Day is a better experience overall. Conquest mode is simplified (easier to get in and out), and menus are generally better and organized better. Singleplayer is quite beefy with 100 misisons and subquests along with the Hardcore Modes and UNACs are offered as well, where players can create, upgrade, and train AI ACs to fight alongside them in story or fight against them (and they are not required for online). 27:26 - Do not apologize for it. Online PVP is a whole nother beast. I know people who played for 5+ years and still weren’t great at it. That being said, host of the people who have stuck around are fairly good at the game, and will cave in your skull within 10 seconds of the match starting. 28:05 - Also key thing to note about the Japanese PVP…them guys are vicious. There are more people, but on average there are much better players over there, and the very much play to win. 28:40 - This is half of what killed 5th Gen in general. So many people badmouthing and not willing to give the game a try. Or worse, echoing what other people said about the games even though they never played it themselves.

My main two complaints with Gen 5 is the rock paper scissors of the armor def and weapon damage limiting what is useful because of player meta. And most importantly the movement. Not being able to freely gain altitude, but having to rely on the environment like some platformer... Those two things made me stop playing and go back to Gen 4. Though Gen 5 did add things I really enjoy. The garage customization was very welcome, the soundtrack is one of my favorites. The improved tracks from gen 4 hit the sweet spot.

Thanks for this review. I just wish there was a way I can play it on my pc (as far as I know the emulator is very laggy). When I was younger I bought this for fhe xbox of the time. Had to order the copy because it was not commonly sold at stores. Put it in my console and I encountered a game breaking bug in the 1st mission, so I never got a real chance to play this game. Its unfortunate too, because of its slower pace and more environmental interaction is why I wanted to play it soo much. I played 4 answer and the fast paced action didnt do it for me. Acv just seemed way more interesting then playing a constantly flying godmech of foranswer.

Great video

16:35 - Son of a bitch is that Wally Wingert reprising his role as The Riddler? XDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXD

I honestly thought I would die before I seen another armor core god is good😅😊❤

Played it today, the one thing I was scared about armored core was always the parts/shop menus. Oh god, I just wanna switch these out, why is the UI like that? 😮

Man, i remember when i first get into ac with 3rd gen. I like the gameplay, but the movement mechanics that mostly abuses bunny hoping is so boring for me i decided to look at 5th gen. And luckily 5th gen really fun for me to play, even though i was missing the most of the multiplayer part because im in emulator, luckily emulator development finally allows me to do some random multiplayer duels with my friend and we had a short match but it was a big blast.

Ah yes, ACV. I uh, 😅, mooded my PS3 to play the game. Same for all the games minus VD. Turns out it was really fun game to play for me and i enjoyed it a lot. Made a lot of progress in it more so than VD on my 360, my first AC game. I do like the designs that 5 gen did to help differentiate from its previous gens. Gameplay wasnt a huge bug for me. Even scan mode, while overwhelming with the data, can be ignore with a simple "scan = faster energy regen". The only thing to me, after playing the older games, I feel it was a let down to the ACV more so than VD is the lore. I had to watch Armoredcorelore video on ACV to know what is going on. The fact we didnt get emails or notifications, like in VD. Makes me wish it was in the game since it would have been helpful to know what is going. Like Story 00, you helped the police, Father, and the corporation to kill the resistance leader. And later on, you have Fran as your operator... who happens to be the daughter of the resistance leader. And Rosemary, who has a sister trying to kill her in, I think Order mission 50. This is due of an inheritance feud for their mom's organization and legacy. Or the Zodiacs, Men of Honor, or other ACs to fight like its in Arena. Would have been helpful if an email or notification tab was a thing, Fromsoft. And the other thing that still bizarre for me to understand is the retcon. Yea, you heard me. Retconing 5th gen to be a sequel to 4th gen. Since, as you know, the last boss of VD is a NEXT, and one of the online raid bosses is Spirit of Motherwill. Granted, both are nerf to accommodate the 5th gen gameplay. Which then lead the debate on which ending of FA is "canon". Which is a can of worms in it of itself. Sorry for the rambling. Either way, I enjoyed the video.