Been a while since I played it but S-ranked it first try with my old build

I think the mission is pretty basic, only the HC can be tough. The shield is a bitch, but you can get around it with a fast AC or just hit through it with pulse weapons. The pulse blade in particular is handy

I'd have to try those missions on the newer patches. You could tell me what mission it is and I could go test something out, that'd make it easier to give feedback

But yeah, VI feels kinda limited in what you can improve in a build, it's difficult to just tell people how to play the game imo

There was one guy I had maybe 3 or 4 matches against which were very even, somehow he was really difficult to hit. One thing I dislike about VI is that it doesn't give projectile speed values in the assembly menu, I wonder if it even has any or if everything moves at the same speed? Doubt it

Still have no idea what could've been better in most of my losses, but funny how I saw the mistakes the enemies made when they lost to me

Well, went back, fixed one weapon from my build and faced people who are worse than I am and now I got from Unranked to Rank D

If this is a natural state for a person to be in I really want to know what kind of a shitty task these brains evolved for because I can see zero practical use in modern society for this wreck

And if I ever dare to complain about it I either get someone else's self-esteem problems projected onto me or told to go to a therapist. If a therapist could help me at this point I'd have figured it out myself already

And if I find anything I like nobody fucking wants to play it with me because you can't install it with two clicks or it doesn't have lootboxes to keep your monkey brain occupied or it's just otherwise weird and obtuse

But it doesn't have a challenge that asks you to master more so you don't really walk into this wall, but PvP does that and now I'm a bit pissed at the game despite liking it so much for its campaign

I can only hope a sequel does more with it

The more I think about how to customize my AC the more I'm frustrated with how much 6 condences mechanics and dynamics together. I don't know where to take anything. I had some of that in the single-player but when it came time to just finish the game and S-rank anything it was easy to be efficient

Looking at a few videos on YT, people seem to be using auto-aim a lot more. Why not, it instantly turns you around and the AC is always facing the enemy so there's no animation delay in shots

Maybe I should get into the 4th gen community and see if I can get anywhere in the PvP there. At least I'd have some idea of what my mistakes are, and probably even get feedback

I dunno if I'll bother to return, this is massive scrub whining for sure but I also can't tell where I can improve. I swapped my build over from a close range machine gunner because it's just suicide especially with latency involved, but a safer medium range build isn't doing me any favors either

The last match I had some guy just threw a shitton of coral missiles at me that deal like 2000 damage if they hit, and I can't outrun them, unless I had turned around and assault boosted away I guess. Turning a back to your enemy and spending all your EN because of one weapon doesn't feel smart tho

I kinda get the frustration older fans have with the game because the pre-4th gen controls meant there's a lot of skill involved in just moving, that hasn't really translated over to 6th gen, and I wish I could just have that kind of gameplay instead

Third, I have no idea how I'm supposed to pilot this thing. Dodging heavy shots and missiles is obvious but what else is there, I can move up and down a bit but eh. I didn't realize how sad it is that you can't fire while QBing in this game either until playing multiplayer

Second thing I dislike is how I can't hit shit whether I use manual or auto aim and I frankly have no idea which one I'm supposed to be using. All info I can easily find online is from two years ago and people throwing assumptions around. It's difficult to gauge the difference by myself

One big part is the big latency involved, I don't even seem to get matches from Europe or have to wait for long

Capitalism is so ass

At this rate within the month I'll be digging through snow to find herbs to mill into inks or something to get this shit done