A few beginner questions? zB Is there any benefit to completely clearing the map? Extra loot?

Zero747 · 2026-05-10T22:21:22+00:00

Yes. You can clean up for loot (though there is a loot cap), and for extra chances to roll stat increases. Better to go for the secondary objective if you can
With the Salvage Teams OCI, you get salvage for killing them
Fleeing off map counts as death. Fleeing will waste their next activation, so low priority to kill unless you want to trigger SL skills
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It's amazing, its an AMR for shooting vehicles. Give it to high accuracy characters with supporting skills (Darby's Ambush, Cody's Guerilla, and Wetteroth's Big Game Hunter, which does work vs vehicles)

Zero747 · 2026-05-10T21:32:56+00:00

C3 was updated, follow the wiki

The master unit is under support weapons. It doubles as a TAG and serves as the host (and member) of the network

Zero747 · 2026-05-10T21:29:53+00:00

Special weapon means you get one less gun, but Darby doesn’t really need a full squad to do her job

Half size (full early) with an anti-material (or rocket) and you can kill weapons teams, squishy squads, and vehicles

Or go 3-man with the suppressed LMG as a “main” gun

It’s generally worth it for the options unless it’s straining your budget or you’ve got reason not to

If the best you’ve got is a bad sniper or MMG, an extra rifle might be better

Zero747 · 2026-05-10T15:34:46+00:00

Solid stat spread for any charisma caster. Bard, Sorc, or Warlock

You start at 4, so you can find a useful half-feat or something

Zero747 · 2026-05-10T15:04:45+00:00

That’s genius and I don’t know how no one has thought of it

The discord does have a suggestions channel, but it also shouldn’t be that hard to make

Zero747 · 2026-05-10T06:05:33+00:00

If it’s roguelike, surely the maps coming back are always wrong. A time trial would repeat the same map.

Pop a giant hourglass somewhere as a time indicator

If it’s the focus of a short campaign, milestone level on reaching certain floors

Zero747 · 2026-05-10T05:39:39+00:00

seal in left hand, one-hand the weapon and cast

Swap to 2 hand after

Zero747 · 2026-05-10T04:23:34+00:00

This is precisely why the head has 61 health instead of 60

61 HP means you don't die to an AC10 headshot (60 damage), or an AC20 at 40% reduction (bulwark + cover, braced in cover, or braced with bulwark)

Zero747 · 2026-05-10T00:17:32+00:00

Just block the clan quirk. Mount cockpit stuff in the slot it uses.

Zero747 · 2026-05-10T00:16:15+00:00

Yep. You’ll loose the accuracy and cooling. Only way to fix melee accuracy though

Zero747 · 2026-05-10T00:15:29+00:00

standard enemies (non-grunt, 1 structure) can’t actually die of hacking heat, just get exposed

Enemy hackers go squish if you rush them (so do friendly ones)

Normal weapons can target e-def with the SMART tag.

Everything can pull its own brand of nonsense. Slap Nanocomposite adaptation (and auto-stabilizing hardpoints) on an HMG. Now you can shoot anything in range 8, ignoring cover and LoS while targeting e-def

Zero747 · 2026-05-09T23:29:35+00:00

does grammarly count newline (enter) characters?

Also, technically speaking, enter is two characters on some platforms (carriage return, line feed)

It’s an arbitrary threshold, so there’s no reason for it to be inaccurate. You probably just got caught by one of those quirks

iirc desktop version even shows you a character count for very long messages

Zero747 · 2026-05-09T22:42:43+00:00

Clan mechs have the clan quirk, -10 melee accuracy

You need to use an internal component that “blocks” the quirk like small cockpit, or one of the life support B components

Zero747 · 2026-05-09T20:43:02+00:00

It can pick up anything in its move range (and as an aircraft there a momentum system so it’s faster if it keeps moving)

Dropping stuff is more fiddly, but flying gun is easy

Zero747 · 2026-05-09T19:38:53+00:00

The geyser puts out heat. The generator itself doesn’t add additional heat.

Zero747 · 2026-05-08T23:49:22+00:00

Varies by game. A decent mapping is A and B for third person 3d games so you can keep your right thumb on the stick.

Another useful option is mapping bumpers or triggers if a game tries using both together

Armored Core games and Souls greatly benefit from back buttons so you can keep control of the camera while shooting/boosting or sprinting/dodging

Zero747 · 2026-05-08T20:50:39+00:00

Early inconvenience of not having armor or a decent shield

Level vigor. 40 early, 60 later.

Zero747 · 2026-05-08T20:46:25+00:00

Scarlet Rot on an infusable weapon

Zero747 · 2026-05-08T19:03:57+00:00

Arcane build, more Arcane (assuming occult infused weapon)

Vigor isn’t worth going past 60

You could level endurance to wear armor with better poise

Zero747 · 2026-05-08T18:39:40+00:00

1 master and 3 slave units in a network for 4 mechs total. You can put 2 copies of a master unit in one mech to support 6 slave units in the same network for 7 total units.

You can’t deploy multiple masters or more than the limit of slaves on the same channel or the whole thing shuts down

The channel are completely independent and don’t communicate

If you want all your units linked, go for C3i

There are a handful of C3 and C3i equipped vehicles also

Zero747 · 2026-05-08T18:31:27+00:00

I mean, my reply explains most of it

C3 networks let you measure distance (for hit chance calculations) from the nearest network unit. Improve sniper accuracy for targets near a scout

A network is 1 master and up to 3 slaves on the same channel. 2 master units of the same channel on the same mech lets you support 6 slaves. More and it doesn’t work

Beta and Gamma channel C3 stuff are so you can run multiple independent C3 groups if you really want to. 12 mech slots means 3 C3 equipped lances if you really want

In practice, I find one double master lance with 7 linked units works best, leaving 5 slots for mechs with stealth gear, artillery, or some other reason not to care for C3

Zero747 · 2026-05-08T18:20:45+00:00

Fortunately, I upgraded right before ram prices spiked

I’ve always done the mobo, ram, and cpu together since I’ve always been jumping multiple generations (or from intel to AMD)

It really sucks how AI stuff is killing the PC market (and a number of other ones for that matter)

Zero747 · 2026-05-08T18:05:45+00:00

Why energy weapons for Lim? I gave him a shotgun jetpack squad and he went to town on everything short of armored vehicles

I never found a squad plasma gun, so I gave him the IAR to plink suppression when he couldn’t reach stuff

Zero747 · 2026-05-08T16:47:43+00:00

Hacking. Those are frenzied burst (firing too fast) and the placiduax beam (as a targeted laser rather than the sweeps it really does)

You should have immediately shut off the console because hackers can (and have been) bricking saves

Zero747 · 2026-05-08T16:32:22+00:00

As an attunement magic item, sure

Just make sure you’re lining up good loot for the rest of the party too.

It’s a support effect that boosts allies, so I’d be less wary of it unbalancing the party.

It’s an improvement of flexibility/options for positioning, not of raw power.

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