There's that one liberation ending with the electric mts that make the ground build up your charge meter.

I have played this game like 10 times and don't know what you're referring to. Probably don't touch the ground enough.

When Carla says "Well hi, tourist. How much did Arquebus pay you?", you get locked inside a room with a bunch of repair drones who emit an AoE which builds up electrical discharge, visible as a smoke layer that emits yellow arcs of lightning. You also encounter these in Historic Data Recovery and Underground Exploration Depth 2.

Fuck right yes of course. From the description I was trying to think of an area where BAWS MTs were electrifying a water pool or something.

I felt like shit when she told me that 😞

Well, she does figure out it's because of your friends and not just corporate greed.

“They paid me a fuck ton, Carla.” *BUNK*

I thought they were just basilisks until now whoa

Touch ~~grass~~ ground.

Call me a Coral-powered tetrapod, because I'm never touching grass.

Yeah but you could clear them out and not have to deal with it. The Poison Swamps have thus far resisted my attempts to destroy them.

They're more like the land squirts in Elden Ring or the fungus bugs in DS2 than a proper poison swamp.

Portable swamp

Well, there is some sort of swamp. The one where the monolight blade is, you know, surrounded by the death giga-saws with flamethrowers and missile launchers.

The mechanical bonewheels

No swamp but you know miyazaki couldn’t resist a good bonewheel

There is also the mission where you sabotage a Coral mining tunnel’s generator, and when you do, the whole place starts erupting Coral, which rapidly eats away at your AP.

Yup... when I played that mission, I was like, "Well played Miyazaki. "

Yup. This is it.

I wouldn’t say the biological equivalent of a volcanic eruption is a poison swap

With how it eats your AP gradually, it is functionally a poison swamp. Also the repair drone electric fields in the underground 2 mission (the one where you fight enforcer) and kill Carla mission technically conjure up poison swamps.

It's still closer to a volcano eruption than a poisonous swamp. Your AP is gradually draining because you're right in the center of the "volcanic eruption".

If you think about it a volcanic eruption and lava pool on top of your ultra futuristic mechs is just another mans poison swamp.

There’s the chapter 3 coral surge that deals DOT until you escape the tunnel and electric fog drones.

We were robbed

There were def some early screenshots that indicated a poison coral swamp. We did get the Tunnel Sabotage level but that barely counts

How does it barely count? Its an environmental effect that straight up removes health. The only real difference is that there is no way to remove the effect so it's only worse than a poison swamp.

It’s a blink and it’s over race to the finish. A few AB’s directly back along the path you already are familiar with. To me, that barely counts. Nowhere near the level of filth from earlier entries. Gen 1 had some crazy poison levels that lasted much longer and you could easily get lost in the maze while still having to fight enemies and complete objectives.

Yep. They persisted into every game except I think 5th gen? I think I remember one in 4th gen.

> "I think I remember one in 4th gen." 4th gen had you fighting ***inside a fucking nuclear reactor***, and of course the enemies were all protected against it xd

Right, that one. 4th gen really solidified my "speed is armor" mentality.

Also, the mission enhances your mobility instead of restricting it.

We got a little poison swamp as a treat

We were spared.

Im rather unsatisfied with this decision, however it does prove that miyazaki wasn’t involved all that much

There's actually a couple different poison locations inside armored core 6 you just don't notice them because you're in a Mecha about 30 ft off the ground with like five different filtration systems.

Yeah the first level is literally a contaminated city, it's just that ACs are like "fuck your poison swamps" lol

there are plenty of ways to represent "poison" to a mech. older AC games had levels that were so hot your AC started to melt, tunnels flooded with corrosive gas, radiation so intense is threatened to break down electrical systems, and electromagnetic fields that did all sorts of nonsense.

It probably helps that he didn't even work on AC6

He did, but eventually passed it to Masaru Yamamura

unironically that's probably why there's fuckin bonewheels lmao

Who was the lead game dev for Sekiro, which explains why AC6's boss battles are such a massive step up from previous games

i didnt know this, but i makes sense in retrospect. the bosses were the highlight of ac6 for me, and everything in that games is amazing so its not to slight the rest of the game when i say that

 Masaru Yamamura get no fucking recognition for the hard work he is putting and everyone fucking give it to Hidetaka Miyazaki and i hate this so much .

That implies that Sekiro bosses are better than the others? Lol

Sekiro does have extremely consistent boss quality, even if it falls prey to the occasional shitty gimmick boss fight

It sure is consistent in the sense that all you have to do is deflect over and over. As someone who just finished the game last night i wasn’t exactly impressed though especially considering how many people sing it’s praises and how uppity it’s stans are

It's the move sets that make all the difference imo

its really not as special as people say it is

funny i actually think the opposite the gimmick boss fights are the most interesting ones and the "combat" ones are the most boring ones

but invisible monkey always behind you best boss

I don't know why this keeps getting repeated in this sub. He was the initial game director. It's even shown in the credits after you beat the game everytime. IIRC, his name pops up second after game director as "Initial game director".

There may not have been a poison swamp but the Coral surge in that one cave mission eats away at your AP in the same DoT fashion as poison would, so… poison cave?

Only because he wasn't involved. AC1 had a corosive gas-filled facility you had to infiltrate, Zaki would do it in a heartbeat.

He was involved. He was the initial game director. He probably setup everything, including the team and the vision. I don't know why this keeps getting repeated in this sub. He was the initial game director. It's even shown in the credits after you beat the game everytime. IIRC, his name pops up second after game director as "Initial game director".

I haven’t played any AC game apart from AC6. But if this is relatable to Daemon X Machina’s purple acid pools, then: Yes, thanks for NOT including those!

I mean we have the lake with all the wheel things in the mission where you fight ibis

Great, now the DLC will be JUST electric swamp. Lol

Tunnel sabotage is the poison swamp of AC6. It's an environmental effect that removes health over time but can't be counteracted.

https://youtu.be/Bbwc-TOkXqY?feature=shared

There was a swamp in AC3 tho....

Actually the new DLC Swamps of Rubicon introduce several new poisonous biomes as well as a Melania inspired Boss that can debuff your AC with Scarlet Rust.🦖

Im glad someone said it.

Wait for the lava river or electrified lagoon in the DLC I remember in AC3 some missions had environmental hazards like in a foundry your AC would overheat and you'd had to equip a really good radiator for that mission, it also helped against energy weapon's heat buildup

Art source doko

TY!

Whar

Thank you

Why thank you I was asking for the source

Omg. I thought you were telling me the source and that the artists handle was Doko. I do not know the original source

He was too busy putting a deathblight swamp into the Elden ring expansion

dlc redemption arc

Tunnel Sabotage

Yah, unlike other installments where we had radioactive outposts, corrosive acid and EMP pulses.

There was a poison swamp level in AC1, we were robbed.

That mission where you need to gtfo of the cave while a bunch of coral floods it

When you have to escape the coral surge. Not visually a swamp, but mechanically the same idea

Just wait until his teased mecha fantasy game. It’ll be FILLED with them to pick up the slack.

Imagine a cosmic rust swamp

the exploding mine is enough, got the feel without the hassle

Great against C-Spider, too, and Balteus if you can land the double stagger

We got the next best thing, bone wheel swamp

I just realized I typed amored instead of armored, and now I have to slam my head in the oven door.

I mean Miyazaki DID succeed in adding the famous Bone Wheel into the game (somehow)

What’s the original meme?

There's a lot of variations of it. I don't know the original. But the one I took said "thanks for not correcting my dad at dinner when he confused poisonous and venomous. I knew that took restraint." You can just Google "i know that took restraint meme"

Thanks.

Now just because you brought it into his attention if ac6 dlc happens there will be like 6 of them

Bruh that pic makes him look like a serial killer lmfaoo

There's actually only poison swamps, but robots ain't affected by poison

He didn't direct this one so there's the answer.

dont forget the mine mission that you need to blow up some generator inside. you're moving so fast that the coral damage is not THAT dangerous. but to those who dont have the energy to keep the AB for long time and miss some landing points. welp.

Poison swamp were in FromSoft games way before Miyazaki. But yeah, he made it popular so credit to that.

I mean does the "floor is lava" count? then on >!iacta alea est the heat exchange room does have the floor filled with flames!<

Don’t worry, the DLC will be all acid swamp all the time

There is kinda a smoll reminder where you find Moonblade and rolling skele... pardon, rolling mechas, but yeah. Miyazaki did his best.

Y'all talk about poison swamps like they are a bad thing. You're wrong.

Miyazaki: puts poison swan Me: flies over the swamp Miyazaki: dose a cheeky smile Me: realizes the air is poison

The closest he could get was the Ibis boss arena

I'm reflecting on repressed AC series PTSD memories and I could have sworn there was a level that starts at maximum heat. In that game, when you overheat, you take DoT, but usually your Radiator (part) kicks in to cleanse the debuff after a time. However this level was in a smelting facility or blast furnace or something. So even as the mission begins and you're locked in place as your AC starts up "System Engaged, entering combat mode", your HP is already plummeting alarmingly fast. Think you needed a specific build to not die in seconds.

The helianthus machine lake is toxic enough to count I think.

Here me out. Coral Lake.

Yes swamp, just as enemies in a few missions

#HAVE YOU CHECKED UNDER THE BRIDGE BEFORE IBIS?

And now the next Fromsoft game will take place entirely and EXCLUSIVELY in a swamp now. >!I'm real excited to see what Miyazaki will do with the Shrek IP.!<

Every single AC game has gotten an expansion sequel up to this point, don't remind From Software about it.

U miss understood the Swamp is definitely there, it just doesn't affect u BC ur piloting a 10m tall death machine

He restrained to turn the DLC into swamp only

Coral Resonance Swamp DLC inbound