Highlights
- Armored Core 6 introduces an expansive customization system that allows fans to create and share their mech designs with others, resulting in hundreds of unique creations.
- Fans of the game have used the customization mechanics to pay tribute to other popular media, creating mechs inspired by characters from Final Fantasy 7, The Simpsons, and even Kirby.
- The Armored Core 6 community is full of creative and inspired designs, with mechs based on Voltron, Venom, and the Gundam franchise, among others, circulating online for players to discover.
Armored Core 6: Fires of Rubicon revives the classic series' robust customization mechanics and evolves it for the modern generation. While players experience the tutorial and opening missions with a pre-determined build, Armored Core 6 allows fans to buy new parts from the corporations from whom they've completed certain missions. The title also allows fans to create custom colors and unique icons, and share them with other players online. Though many fans have leveraged this expansive customization to overcome Armored Core 6's tough-as-nails boss battles, others have used it to create wild and wacky tributes to their franchises and characters. The game's fans have created thousands of unique creations, with some even proving useful in combat, but a few stand out as the wildest Armored Core 6 fan mechs built so far.
After nearly a decade out of the spotlight, Armored Core 6 reintroduces gamers to one of FromSoftware’s oldest properties. The title features a wide range of quality-of-life updates, including an expansive customization system that allows fans to create and share their mech designs with others. Fans have quickly rallied around this system, using it to pay tribute to other popular media. Recently, a group of fans used it for a more serious purpose, using Armored Core 6's customization to assign a logo and call sign to an unfortunate NPC. However, it is custom mech designs that have truly taken off.
The Cloud Strife Mech
Reddit user BusterSwordd recently shared their unique creation, an Armored Core 6 mech based on Final Fantasy 7's Cloud. Thanks to a truly inspired paint job, the mech resembles how long-time Final Fantasy fans recall the character appearing in the original PlayStation title. Brandishing a large sword and trademark spiky hair, the mech's design is surprisingly effective. According to the Reddit post, users who play on the PlayStation platform can access the design using the share ID AF02AMV37BSP.
The h0m3-R Mech
Another truly wild mech comes from Armored Core 6 player BlackTemplarKNB, who took their love of The Simpsons to the next level. The player took to Armored Core 6's subreddit to share their Homer Simpson-inspired AC, titled h0m3-R. The mech boasts a massive body, which utilizes the title's deep color customization. However, the best part is the head, which is comically small, but packs in a lot of details. BlackTemplarKNB used the game’s custom decal creator to give h0m3-R his iconic round eyes and bearded mouth, bringing the mech character to life, while eliciting the character's humorous charm.
The Kirby Mech
Perhaps the simplest and most canonically possible custom creation comes from Japanese Twitter user oyaji93, whose mech pays tribute to one of gaming's most popular and heroic post-apocalyptic freedom fighters, Kirby. The mech is trademark Kirby-pink, with red accents, and features the character's adorable face on the top of the chest armor, reflecting how Kirby's face is in the middle of his body. The user states that they were inspired by the concept of Kirby inhaling an Armored Core, but players were quick to point out that the character had been featured in a post-apocalyptic mech title before, Kirby: Planet Robobot. For all fans know, this very mech could be featured in the next Kirby title, and, if so, it would actually fit right into the series' incredibly dark lore.
Armored Core 6 fans are a creative group, and there are far more wild and inspired creations for players to discover online, should they wish. Armored Core mechs based on Voltron, Venom, the Gundam franchise, and common farming equipment are just a few of the popular designs circulating within the community and their download codes can usually be found on the title's subreddit, as well as their creators' Twitter, or X, profiles. While Armored Core 6 features a challenging and militaristic mode, its fans have used its customization mechanics as a platform for infusing a dose of creative expression, bringing just a touch of light to the harsh and frenetic battlefields of Rubicon 3.
Armored Core 6 is available now for PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X|S.
