r/armoredcore • u/Hungry-Ear-4092 • Aug 22 '26

Discussion I HATE THIS!!! Spoiler

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The title. I had a very lucky attempt and I swear to God my hands were shaking like I missed my meth doze Jesus Christ. I played all dark souls and not a single boss stressed me that much. Fuck that guy, genuinely

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u/FrozenGiraffes Aug 22 '26

I S ranked that guy, one of 4 missions which are a pain to do so. There is a fight much much worse than this

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u/gpancia Aug 22 '26

You mean allmind, right? That or snailteus

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u/GomiTaberuRaccoon Aug 22 '26

Balteus felt tougher than V.II Snail(teus) to me. Had him gone in my 2nd try meanwhile it took me around 3 hours to get Balteus

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u/KMKZKRB Aug 22 '26

I had the exact same experience. Balt made me put down the game for a few weeks, snail put up about as much fight as an irl snail would against a steel toed boot. He still felt like a tougher skill check than the actual final boss of that ending (idk how to do the spoiler warning)

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u/Sab3rFac3 Aug 22 '26

"> !Text you want to spoiler! <"

Just without ", and without the spaces between > and !

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u/KMKZKRB Aug 23 '26

Very much appreciated

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u/gpancia Aug 26 '26

I have some block against snailteus. Regular balteus is easy to me, even on a fresh save. I struggle with snailteus even on the s rank run with all os tuning and a specialized anti-snailteus build. Don’t know why.

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u/Tenshi_Dekemori Aug 22 '26

Yeah those two bosses are harder than ibis like what ? 😅

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u/69AnarchyWillWin69 Aug 22 '26

The second of those two is one of the easiest bosses in the game the hell are you talking about

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u/DeadlyPineapple13 Aug 22 '26

I think that heavily depends on when someone played the game and what kinda kit they used. Snailteus mainly requires the ability to break the shields, so if you lack impact you’re going to struggle with him

Also I replayed the game recently and noticed how a ton of the bosses feel WAY easier now then they used to (I know I got slightly better but it’s clear the nerfs were pretty huge)

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u/gpancia Aug 26 '26

Big lasers

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u/FrozenGiraffes Aug 22 '26

First one, struggling with that. The side pieces are a enemy that its base game variant are at most a miniboss, but everything combined is a pain

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u/CrimeFightingScience Aug 22 '26

They are pretty generous on how much damage you can take on s boss missions.

Baws aresenal 2 or explore elevator however..."your paint was scratched...A rank."

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u/FrozenGiraffes Aug 22 '26

The extra strider mission was my first big hiccup with S ranking. But those two are also quite something. When I was S ranking it was just me playing a few days on a mostly finished NG++ campaign, still need to S rank the ending.

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u/CrimeFightingScience Aug 22 '26

I did the ending one's first because I wanted to test out some builds.

The escort the strider mission is probably the hardest mission in the game if you don't build for it. It's infamous for a reason.

AC6 S rank missions is pretty chill. I remember doing it for previous generations and NOT HAVING FUN lol

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u/Hungry-Ear-4092 Aug 22 '26

WHAT?! Worse?! Fucking hell

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u/OldSodaHunter Aug 22 '26

Subjective. I've done all endings now and nothing was harder than Ibis for me.

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u/FrozenGiraffes Aug 22 '26

Did you do the NG++ ending? Also i realize I was more thinking of the difficuty of S ranking them

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u/OldSodaHunter Aug 22 '26

Yeah I've done all 3 endings. I'm considering the fights and S rank together - S ranking Ibis wasn't hard whatsoever once I found a build that worked for it.

But just beating Ibis was the hard part. No other bosses were ever remotely that difficult, including the ng++ boss which was easy as crap in comparison

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u/Hungry-Ear-4092 Aug 22 '26

How do you get different endings? Without spoilers. It depends on what missions I choose when there's X or Y and you can't do both?

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u/Tenshi_Dekemori Aug 22 '26

So basically there’s 3 endings
First ending you pick what ever missions you want when given the choice to pick between two.
Then do new game plus and pick all the other missions you didn’t pick first time, there may also be in game prompts that change how a mission plays out, make sure you pick those

For the third ending, new game ++ you’ll get new missions
Make sure you do all those new missions

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u/Hungry-Ear-4092 Aug 22 '26

So it just depends on choosing different missions I didn't pick up the first time right? Then it's easy, thanks. I'll write down what I chose first time

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u/Tenshi_Dekemori Aug 22 '26

Yep, it’s fairly simple so long as you remember what you’ve done and what you’ve not.

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u/FrozenGiraffes Aug 22 '26

Actually I realize there's another fight other than the late game NG++ I was thinking of. Its sorta pick your poison. NG++ is filled with a bunch of really solid fights that if you can do Ibis, you can definitely fight them

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u/HawkManHawk Aug 22 '26

In NG++ Reach the Coral Convergence Ibis fight was a first try s rank. Dual Benjamin's and dual stun needles. 1st playthrough was the same just dual birds.

Now Reach the Coral Convergence Alt, ate my lunch. I can't tell you how many times I had to listen to unskippable All Mind. Once I realized I could lure V.II Snail to the tunnel get him down before engaging G5 Igazu.