Armored Core 6: How Many Chapters and Missions Are There?

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Armored Core 6 unfold over the course of several chapters, each of which features numerous missions for players to complete. As fans work through this content, they may begin to have questions about their position within the game's story. This guide is here to attempt to address those questions by providing details on the chapters and missions in Armored Core 6.

Armored Core 6: How Many Chapters

Armored Core 6 features five chapters, which players should expect to complete in around 20 hours during a first playthrough. That said, there are reasons to work through those five chapters a second and third time, and mech video game fans will get a better understanding of those reasons in the following section.

Armored Core 6: How Many Missions

There are a total of 58 missions in Armored Core 6, though players will not be able to see them all the first time through the game. Indeed, there are several points at which fans of action video games must select their next mission, and the unselected missions will not be accessible during that playthrough. For full clarity, players will start encountering these "Decision Missions" upon reaching Chapter 3, and they will complete 37 missions by the time that they reach the end of the game.

Additionally, there are a handful of missions in Armored Core 6 that are exclusive to NG+ and NG++ playthroughs. As such, fans that want to see absolutely everything that the game has to offer should be prepared to complete it three times.

Armored Core 6: Mission List

For those Armored Core 6 players that would like a more comprehensive understanding of the game's missions, a complete list can be found below. This mission list is organized by chapter, and the aforementioned Decision Missions have been indicated.

Chapter 1

Illegal Entry
Destroy Artillery Installations
Grid 135 Cleanup
Destroy the Transport Helicopters
Destroy the Tester AC
Attack the Dam Complex
Destroy the Weaponized Mining Ship
Operation Wallclimber
Retrieve Combat Logs
Investigate BAWS Arsenal No. 2
Attack the Watchpoint

Chapter 2

Infiltrate Grid 086
Eliminate the Doser Faction
Ocean Crossing

Chapter 3

Steal the Survey Data
Attack the Refueling Base
Eliminate V.VII
Tunnel Sabotage
Survey the Uninhabited Floating City
Heavy Missile Launch Support
Eliminate the Enforcement Squads | Destroy the Special Forces Craft (Decision Mission)
Attack the Old Spaceport
Eliminate “Honest” Brute
Defend the Old Spaceport
Historic Data Recovery
Destroy the Ice Worm

Chapter 4

Underground Exploration – Depth 1
Underground Exploration – Depth 2
Underground Exploration – Depth 3
Intercept the Redguns | Ambush the Vespers (Decision Mission)
Unknown Territory Survey
Reach the Coral Convergence

Chapter 5

Escape
Take the Uninhabited Floating City
Intercept the Corporate Forces | Eliminate “Cinder” Carla (Decision Mission)
Breach the Karman Line | Destroy the Drive Block (Determined by Preceding Decision Mission)
Shut Down the Closure Satellites | Bring Down the Xylem (Determined by Preceding Decision Mission)