IB-01: CEL 240 was sick as shit. Really wish more fights in Armored Core were like that. The worm was great. Carla's giant mining, saw robot was great. Falling down the shaft and dodging the giant laser my kinda cool. Honestly, anything other than fighting other ACs is pretty interesting this game. A lot of people seem to think my problem with this game is the difficulty. (To be fair, that was half my post, so I get the misunderstanding.) I've played every Souls game except Bloodborne and DS3. I came here explicitly for the difficulty. My problem boils down to every Fight (especially against ACs) feeling too similar / just not terribly interesting. Strafe, missile, strafe missile, (with some variance in positioning depending on if you're fighting a faster AC or a heavier one.) Spam until they die. Whoever dodges slightly better wins.

I assumed this was more complicated than it is, which lead to confusion about how I was progressing skill-wise. It felt hard to learn, but no, it's pretty simple. I assume there's a decent amount of nuance to it in PvP, but talking base game stuff here, you can get away with the same strategy so often that some parts become kinda boring. Kind of exactly like Character Fights in other Souls games. You know, those scripted invasions that are usually pretty easy because the AI is terrible? Yeah, it's like that.

All that said, I've loved the environments and sense of scale this game has. And the story's been kind of interesting from the start. It's keeping me going. Fingers crossed I don't actually have to kill Rusty. He's too much of a bro. (I did beat him already, of course.)