Development on Armored Core 6: Fires of Rubicon is being led by game director Masaru Yamamura, who previously served as the main combat designer on Sekiro: Shadows Twice, an infamously aggressive action-RPG in the From Software library. Will Armored Core 6 inherit any of the technical DNA of that game, which has a distinctive feel when compared to games like Dark Souls, Bloodborne, or Elden Ring? According to Yamamura, while some elements of From Software’s Souls-like formula are present in the new Armored Core, it’s the “highly dynamic and aggressive combat” of Sekiro that lives on in a sequel where corporations and private military companies battle each other in all-out mechanized warfare.”
