I've talked about this before, but the way Armored Core 6 handles the camera makes strafing pretty annoying on softlock. The AC will change its orientation to match your movement direction if you aren't firing your weapons or in hard lock. You can somewhat mimic old gen style movement... where your AC always looks where you are pointing your camera if you hold a back weapon down. The constant shifting does also negatively impact softlock and just feels like punishing the player for taking manual control of something that used to be a fundamental skill. I really wish the next Armored Core would just revert camera behavior to how it's always been in previous AC games (mech ALWAYS looks where you point the camera).show more

I think there should be an option to swap between the different types of cameras methods. One for OldGen type, one for NewGen type

I just hope they ditch the hard-lock again. It may be fine for newcomers. It may ruin the learning curve of newcomers too. I think it adds nothing but also see it is kind of neccesary with how many buttons (on controller) are tied up thanks to how some actions are split now.

@Etheox They can just make the camera system like ace combat or war thunder Where there are 2 way you can look around There are active camera Where whatever you look ac will try to face that direction Like old school ac

I always believed there should be a Halo/War Thunder esque thing instead where the mech is always turning to face where you are looking, in conjunction with the classic locked over the shoulder style as another option. That way Turn Speed can be viable for PC as well as Consoles.

That's one of a reasons why i hate ac6, but thankfully it can be fixed with mods quite easy, allow you to align AC with view direction in a softlock mode and perform strafe without that issues

Through modding, it's possible to make the AC always face forward during softlock by taking the component from back and hold/charge weapons that forces the AC to face forward in SL and putting it in the head or core part so that it's perpetual.

From a tactical standpoint it also doesn't make sense that you would turn away from the direction you are looking. Why expose your boosters to a possible threat you are monitoring when your machine is perfectly capable of moving in all directions at full speed as is? 🤔

i think a seperate setting would help a lot. There are people who dont mind the camera switching from side to side. Do the Souls series have the same camera thing too?

I like how it is. I can get a good look at my AC at any time I want! Sure its annoying sometimes but at least for me its negligible.

I really wonder if it would be possible to mod in the old camera style

Wish they'd just do away with the ac6 style entierly.