Developer Dark Souls FromSoftware is said to be working on a game in the Armored Core series. It will be a third-person sci-fi game, in which players control a mechanism. The information comes from a developer survey.
The game world was created by Hidetaka Miyazaki, creator of Souls Games, clear information Shared by Resetera user Red Liquorice. The promise of an “overwhelming game world”, with “dynamic mechanical action”. The game features long-range combat with guns, as well as close-range combat with swords and shields.
The user says he received a questionnaire from the developer with questions about the game, in which screenshots and two videos were shared as well as information. Shared screenshots are partially covered to hide watermarks back to the recipient. The videos were not made public, because Red Liquorice, according to its own statement, could not save them.
In the video, a boss fight was shown, which According to red licorice “very Souls-esque,” while the long-range combat reminds him of the Virtua On series. Based on the images in which the mechanics of the multiplayer can be seen, the user suspects that the game will have a cooperative function.
Armored Core is a series of mechanical action games, the first installment of which was released for the PlayStation in 1997 by FromSoftware. More than a dozen games have since appeared in the series, the last of which appeared in 2013. FromSoftware is also currently working on the rpg Elden Ring. It should be released on February 25.
