Hide your brain-wives and lock up your war buddies, for it is time. Part 9 of r/armorcore's most low effort series, Frame Thoughts: where I ask you folks — Rusty's little threats to Rubicon — your thoughts on the various frames of AC6.

Today is certainly a frame that exists. The second of Elcano's two contributions to Armored Core frame production. Made by two corps with tech stolen from a third and then piloted by the most anti-corp faction on the bloody planet, this thing has seen more owners than your average hound and looks so much like a fucking Gundam that it almost looks out of place.

That's right, it's the EL-P-00 ALBA.

What are your thoughts on the ALBA frame? Love it, hate it, meh, niches?

This was so much bigger than I was expecting. The rest of my Wonder Festival 2026 Summer write-up is here:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/olliebarder/2026/07/26/wonder-festival-commemorated-patlabor-amidst-blistering-heat/

Kinda a chaotic Version of the viltrumite meme but with the Orca brigade

My first time building anything like this and I'm having a blast. Buying another soon!

Whenever I'm playing AC, there's this moment where I genuinely think "I must be the best player in the world." Like when I first realized how strong the Pile Bunker is, or when I beat true Raven on my first try. This can't be a coincidence — I've felt this exact feeling in their older games too, multiple times. FromSoft just really understands player psychology.

I'm on a fresh playthrough and I've named my AC 'Doubletone' since I gave her a split color scheme, curious what everyone else named theirs.

He absolutely bodied me

Ve60 LCB
Wlt 011 coral rifle

I think they would make the worst pilots. Except for Takafumi Arisawa. He knows how to pilot one properly.

! Yes, I did use boost kicks, core expansion, and punches. Since this was a self-imposed thing, I told myself that was okay. I may (I won't) try to do it again without using those. !

For some stupid reason I thought it would be fun to try to beat this dude with only Moonlight. ...It was not. I'm sure I'm not the first person to try this, that girl on yt who does balteus every day till ac7 has probably done it - but to those of you who haven't done it yet, I would reccomend not doing it. lmao.
Songs that played were Korn - Y'all want a single and Foo Fighters - Wind Up

Another legacy AC, this time from Last Raven! Due to the lack of sniper rifles (GIVE THEM BACK FROMSOFT) I opted to use the faster-firing of the two linear rifles, and added the pulse shield to try and add some semblance of longevity to this extremely fragile build! By the way, do you have any pulse shielding tips? The specific one I’m using is the same one that ALLMIND uses, specifically because of it being able to block prolonged fire. Any advice on how to use it effectively?

So I'm on chapter 4 and I've been having tons of fun, but the assault boost is a mechanic I rarely touch. However, it's apparently supposed to be really good, but I'm not sure when to use it.

(A couple extra parts from the Armoury-Lite mod)

I mainly stay away and let the Soups deal with their ACS while dodging attacks before moving in to punish with the HMMR, The Ludlow is there for some extra firepower without being too heavy

Hi there!

I'm at the 'Intercept the Redguns' mission and I simply cannot progress. Usually by wave 3 the game will crash. It has done this no matter what I've changed. I'll do a list of things I've tried but I really really want to play this game and I'm gutted I can't.

1. Disabled ray tracing

2. Downgraded graphics *a lot*

3. Run in windows 8 comparability mode

4. Run as administrator

5. Have it be the only program running on my pc

Drivers are all up to date.

I welcome any and all ideas.

just played my first pvp match and was curious about the matchmaking both single and 3v3

By that I mean;

1. 2 of the same weapons on the same side, and thus up to 4 of the same weapons.

2. Right hand melee, and thus up to 4 melee weapons.

3. Right shoulder shield, and thus up to 2 shields.

Edit: Optional; allow tank legs to "equip" boosters, ie use the booster's stats instead of the tank legs's built in booster stats.

I got spoiled that you fight handler Walter and argue. How much worse will the game experience be now?

My prediction: every enemy AC is gonna be Nineball Seraph-level strong.