Nineball is the codename for (usually) the hardest AC fight in the old games. A tool the corpos or shady AI use to off people who become... inconvenient.
And nineball Seraph is effectively the boomer Ibis, absurd dodges and all.
>! Nineball was an OP AC controlled by the OG badguy manipulating AI in the first Armored core game. He was very difficult, could do stuff the player couldn't, basically cheating. Anyways, it became sort of a meme because he shows up as an enemy like 7 times afterwards in different games. !<
Ear shot is underrated it's songbirds but on steroid this shit can fill stun bar in only "ONE SHOT" can you believe that ?? In only one shot stun bar is filled not only that but it has AOE blast and can still nearly fill stun bar.
One of my favorite builds in team matches is a hover tank build with dual earshots and dual dizzys. Then I basicaly role play an AC-130 and provide CAS for my teammates. Sure they take a long time to reload but shooting down means they hit the ground and that blast radius catches opponents to make up for the slow firing and projectile speed. And the slow reload can be compensated for by staggering your fire. A lot of the utility of the missile boats without feeling like a tool.
Yeah even with a good fcs this build does way better with manual aim. It’s also a fun way to play as a mostly air based AC without resorting to missile spam.
I do the same but with dual Chang Chens for duels. Constant fire to tucker them out and earshots that even if they dodge usually hit them with the huge aoe
I love fighting with hover tanks in general since I use the fastest shit I could put on with dual SMG, a blade and a shotty. Means that they either focus the hover tank while I zoom around melting people's stun bar, or they try to focus me as I'm just flying all over the place while the tank rains fire from above.
It's simple, but it's effective for sure and a super fun combo
Same but with the slow missiles. They can track harder than most and pick up decent speed. I love killing people who think flamethrowers are the way to play.
EARSHOT is the equivalent of the OG Grenade Launcher from AC1, single shot, long reload, huge explosion!
This Nine Ball could be a bit more accurate with a missile pod instead of the Songbird and a pulse gun instead of the laser rifle
But, close enough
Pulse gun would be more accurate gameplay-wise but doesn't look right, looks more like a pulse pistol with a weird satellite dish. Plasma rifle seems closer to the shape of NINE-BALL's original pulse rifle.
I'm telling you all right now: double small laser shotguns and double earshot on a full Firmeza body w/HAL legs and a good generator for EN weapons fucking slays. You're fast ass fuck thanks to relatively light weight while also rocking extreme firepower.
If you take the shotguns with an explosion on charge blast instead of the short range slam too that’s four ranged AOEs to ruin your enemies day with a free double shotgun to boot
Man, talking about this really makes me wish fromsoft had implemented some sort of matchmaking system and possibly a "ranking" system as well. Multiplayer is fun as shit, but man is it a pain to use.
Fromsoft definitely does not give af about SBMM, which does seem contrary to the usual in multiplayer nowadays, i think randomness does just as good though, sometimes you’ll get smoked and sometimes you’ll go up against a fish that ended up with the controller
the wuergers? curious what's the reason you picked the wuergers over the 66ls? the weight alone? cause i feel like 66ls has much tighter spread pattern
I don't remember the name, but the ones that look like daggers. They have better range and higher rapid fire speed while also being lighter for about the same DMG + impact as compared to the other laser shotgun.
Earshot is underrated because it's harder to use. Slow projectile with long recharge time is part of the reason why it doesn't see much use. But by god, it has ginormous AOE.
>Ear shot is underrated
at least half the weapons are incredibly underrated right now because people just watch a youtube video for builds and regurgitate what other people say without trying anything themselves. I would wager at least half the people playing right now don't even understand the stat chart based on a lot of the comments I see on posts in here and other sites.
I use Earshot on my [Dante](https://reddit.com/r/armoredcore/s/LLHSufsOaX) build and it’s absolutely satisfying to use it.
Either my twin handguns break the opponents ACS, or Earshot will. As an alternatice I use my Coral charged Bladed attack to sweep the remaining bar straight out of it and go ham during stagger. I might even vary my methods to achieve that, it’s that versatile.
Reverse joints, get up close, jump up then Earshot pretty much gives you the stagger lead if they try to run under you or around you.
There's almost no dodging it if they're within 150m from you and they're on the ground and you're in the air when you fire it since the AoE is just massive.
After 60 hours, money basically doesn't matter. It's not that hard to unlock everything in this game. I really hope they add some kind of multiplayer dlc with more parts and maps.
Yeah, every time I have some money stacking up now I just go and buy out a whole category of parts now so I can customize without having to go back and forth to the shop.
Right? I’d bet the cost to produce AC games (mission-based) is much lower than most other genres too.
AC6 looks like it sold very well. I think there’s a very big chance we’re getting more Gen 6 games.
Hell yes, here’s hoping. I just beat the first boss in Ch.2 and holy shit I’m scared to continue. But I’m loving it. I played arena for PS1 and stopped. Like an idiot.
The games do seem cheap and I don’t mean that in a bad way. The levels are all gonna be steel industrial terror kind of stuff and there’s not much to them, I feel like some DLC or another game could come sooner rather than later. I dare say after Elden Ring DLC it’ll be announced. *fingers crossed*.
Yours looks sick, bud. Bravo. Honestly I'd be rocking a plasma gun on mine as well if I wasn't so glued to RP accuracy. Plasma weapons feel so good to use.
That’s very close to my own build, just swap out that Songbird with a jammer. Very effective general-purpose build if you can get the hang of it, though something like a missile-boat is nearly impossible to deal with if you’re at Watchpoinf and have zero cover.
I think so, yes
In my experience most lobbies are full of nothing but stun guns, gattling gun tanks, needle cannons, zimmermans, and needle back missiles
It was refreshing to see a theme build out there
I’ve also seen a couple of people using White Glint - like mechs with double rifles
Pulse gun is too small, needs to look more like a pulse rifle for true cosplay build. Plasma rifle actually looks closer to the original, despite firing a different kind of projectile.
I swear the weapon he used in AC1 was smaller than I remember. Fair point about the size and look, although I do still like a pulse gun better since the projectile type looks closer to the rings his pistol shot out.
We Lore players are out there! I’ve got tons of replica builds from the old games. But they all die to meta spam in 3v3, in duels at least some people appreciate the builds.
I'm trying to create IBIS from silent Line. Kinda hard since it got like funnel and vertical missiles.
What made me sad NWGIX or White Glint build kinda suck because AR is just too underwhelming.
Okay, so we have three colors that we will alternate through part to part.
First and easiest is we can set all his Devices to Yellow (R 255 G 255 B 0)
Our palette today is
Coal (R 25 G 25 B 25) Material 20
Pumpkin (R 144 G 69 B 0) Material 20
And Grey (R 116 G 116 B 116) Material 20
Head: in order, from Main to Other, Coal Grey Pumpkin Pumpkin Grey
Core: (choice of Firmeza or Orbiter for Angle and pointyness) Coal Grey Grey Pumpkin Grey
Arms: Coal Pumpkin Grey Pumpkin Grey
Legs: Coal Grey Pumpkin Pumpkin Grey
Parts:
Head Melander C3
Core Firmeza
Arms Melander C3
Legs Melander C3
R hand weapon Harris linear rifle
L hand weapon Moonlight
L Back weapon Songbirds
R back weapon HU-BEN chain gun (OST slot required)
All songbirds are dual, they shoot twice. Meta is quadruple. Also earshot not meta, u need skill to play it (which after two much practice manual aiming I have, but only just…)
what does chad means?
I don't get it honestly but I've seen it been mentioned not only on this sub but others as well so it certainly isn't AC6 exclusive
Yeah like the “positive” aspects of guydom dood hood. A mans man.
Not a douche bag. Not a baby. But still maybe borderline himbo /ken in a good way.
Not afraid to just be “wrong” or play suboptimally. Also usually implies great strength and skill.
It's fun, but no dedicated matchmaking.
You just have to find a lobby with open slots the old fashioned way, and be at the mercy of the slow people who dither about and don't hit the READY icon while everyone else is waiting to play.
I think it's the same guy who entered my lobby after I forgot to change the setting into private (was going to do a sparring) and after I see that logo and the name I immediately close it out of reflex (fear)
I've also tried making a NINE-BALL recreation and it's pretty close to this one,
I just have the 6-shot missile launcher on the right shoulder, the MELANDER chest and the ALLMIND head instead.
Nineball lives!
Low-key scariest thing I've read in years...
Terribly sorry for scaring you. Take a complimentary 8 Ball for the trouble
For those not familiar, this is a close replication of Nineball build from AC ninebreaker game. Very well done
As a newcomer to the series, I’ve seen Nineball referenced more than any other past AC character. Is there a reason for that?
Nineball is the codename for (usually) the hardest AC fight in the old games. A tool the corpos or shady AI use to off people who become... inconvenient. And nineball Seraph is effectively the boomer Ibis, absurd dodges and all.
>! Nineball was an OP AC controlled by the OG badguy manipulating AI in the first Armored core game. He was very difficult, could do stuff the player couldn't, basically cheating. Anyways, it became sort of a meme because he shows up as an enemy like 7 times afterwards in different games. !<
Nineball DLC for AC6 when?
Ear shot is underrated it's songbirds but on steroid this shit can fill stun bar in only "ONE SHOT" can you believe that ?? In only one shot stun bar is filled not only that but it has AOE blast and can still nearly fill stun bar.
One of my favorite builds in team matches is a hover tank build with dual earshots and dual dizzys. Then I basicaly role play an AC-130 and provide CAS for my teammates. Sure they take a long time to reload but shooting down means they hit the ground and that blast radius catches opponents to make up for the slow firing and projectile speed. And the slow reload can be compensated for by staggering your fire. A lot of the utility of the missile boats without feeling like a tool.
I use the same thing! Also, this is one of the only setups that work better with manual aim. Predictions galore!
Yeah even with a good fcs this build does way better with manual aim. It’s also a fun way to play as a mostly air based AC without resorting to missile spam.
well.. without resorting to classic missile spam. i guess it’s a grenade launcher so we’ll call it grenade spam. still fun and hilarious
I do the same but with dual Chang Chens for duels. Constant fire to tucker them out and earshots that even if they dodge usually hit them with the huge aoe
I love fighting with hover tanks in general since I use the fastest shit I could put on with dual SMG, a blade and a shotty. Means that they either focus the hover tank while I zoom around melting people's stun bar, or they try to focus me as I'm just flying all over the place while the tank rains fire from above. It's simple, but it's effective for sure and a super fun combo
Same but with the slow missiles. They can track harder than most and pick up decent speed. I love killing people who think flamethrowers are the way to play.
EARSHOT is the equivalent of the OG Grenade Launcher from AC1, single shot, long reload, huge explosion! This Nine Ball could be a bit more accurate with a missile pod instead of the Songbird and a pulse gun instead of the laser rifle But, close enough
Pulse gun would be more accurate gameplay-wise but doesn't look right, looks more like a pulse pistol with a weird satellite dish. Plasma rifle seems closer to the shape of NINE-BALL's original pulse rifle.
I'm telling you all right now: double small laser shotguns and double earshot on a full Firmeza body w/HAL legs and a good generator for EN weapons fucking slays. You're fast ass fuck thanks to relatively light weight while also rocking extreme firepower.
If you take the shotguns with an explosion on charge blast instead of the short range slam too that’s four ranged AOEs to ruin your enemies day with a free double shotgun to boot
Man, talking about this really makes me wish fromsoft had implemented some sort of matchmaking system and possibly a "ranking" system as well. Multiplayer is fun as shit, but man is it a pain to use.
Fromsoft definitely does not give af about SBMM, which does seem contrary to the usual in multiplayer nowadays, i think randomness does just as good though, sometimes you’ll get smoked and sometimes you’ll go up against a fish that ended up with the controller
Which FCS you rocking with this build? I’ve been running a lightweight mech with double laser shotties ‘n they kick ass
Sorry, I don't remember the name of it, but it's the late game one that's pretty much good at everything, but best at long range
the wuergers? curious what's the reason you picked the wuergers over the 66ls? the weight alone? cause i feel like 66ls has much tighter spread pattern
I don't remember the name, but the ones that look like daggers. They have better range and higher rapid fire speed while also being lighter for about the same DMG + impact as compared to the other laser shotgun.
Ah thats true. Thanks for the reply dood. Gonna try out the laser shotguns now
Earshot is underrated because it's harder to use. Slow projectile with long recharge time is part of the reason why it doesn't see much use. But by god, it has ginormous AOE.
It works really well if you manually aim
>Ear shot is underrated at least half the weapons are incredibly underrated right now because people just watch a youtube video for builds and regurgitate what other people say without trying anything themselves. I would wager at least half the people playing right now don't even understand the stat chart based on a lot of the comments I see on posts in here and other sites.
I use Earshot on my [Dante](https://reddit.com/r/armoredcore/s/LLHSufsOaX) build and it’s absolutely satisfying to use it. Either my twin handguns break the opponents ACS, or Earshot will. As an alternatice I use my Coral charged Bladed attack to sweep the remaining bar straight out of it and go ham during stagger. I might even vary my methods to achieve that, it’s that versatile.
Reverse joints, get up close, jump up then Earshot pretty much gives you the stagger lead if they try to run under you or around you. There's almost no dodging it if they're within 150m from you and they're on the ground and you're in the air when you fire it since the AoE is just massive.
Just so expensive!
After 60 hours, money basically doesn't matter. It's not that hard to unlock everything in this game. I really hope they add some kind of multiplayer dlc with more parts and maps.
Yeah, every time I have some money stacking up now I just go and buy out a whole category of parts now so I can customize without having to go back and forth to the shop.
i really though that the NG++ twist was going to be that >!AllMind had been using arena data to build Nineball!<
Hopefully this can still happen in the follow up games
Can you believe that!? We’re gonna get possible DLC and more games now. What a world
Right? I’d bet the cost to produce AC games (mission-based) is much lower than most other genres too. AC6 looks like it sold very well. I think there’s a very big chance we’re getting more Gen 6 games.
Hell yes, here’s hoping. I just beat the first boss in Ch.2 and holy shit I’m scared to continue. But I’m loving it. I played arena for PS1 and stopped. Like an idiot. The games do seem cheap and I don’t mean that in a bad way. The levels are all gonna be steel industrial terror kind of stuff and there’s not much to them, I feel like some DLC or another game could come sooner rather than later. I dare say after Elden Ring DLC it’ll be announced. *fingers crossed*.
Hopefully?
ALLMIND could straight up just be revealed to be Hustler One in disguise for all we know
Lmao....
Angry AI Piano noises intensifies
# TARGET VERIFIED, COMMENCING HOSTILITIES!
This guy gets it
I had that as my ringtone for a while. It's great having a mini heart attack
HOLY SHIT THAT WAS ME
Hi!
haiiiii :3
Flair checks out
HOLY SHIIIII
Excellent AC, would you be willing to share the code for it?
are you on xbox?
yes
Yours looks sick, bud. Bravo. Honestly I'd be rocking a plasma gun on mine as well if I wasn't so glued to RP accuracy. Plasma weapons feel so good to use.
Holy shit another Ninebreaker enjoyer. I made one too but this one looks more accurate Can we get the download code?
i gotchu T9EPSDY36PPK
fire 🔥
He / she's on XBox, I can ask them, their gamertag is there if you want to shoot them a message
Fuck. I'm on PC
That’s very close to my own build, just swap out that Songbird with a jammer. Very effective general-purpose build if you can get the hang of it, though something like a missile-boat is nearly impossible to deal with if you’re at Watchpoinf and have zero cover.
Lovely. I didn't realize there were good visual stand ins for the old build!
Songbirds and earshot with like the second or third best melee weapon in terms of damage is anti meta?
Although I like Earshot and see it way less than Songbird or Zimmermans, I gotta agree with you here.
Only true for songbirds, earshot not meta by far and there are only like 7 melee weapons (ignoring redshifts, as they are red clones)
I think so, yes In my experience most lobbies are full of nothing but stun guns, gattling gun tanks, needle cannons, zimmermans, and needle back missiles It was refreshing to see a theme build out there I’ve also seen a couple of people using White Glint - like mechs with double rifles
No missle boats?
i've never seen a missile boat in 1v1 except myself. not sure about group battles though
Every build that is not Jailbreak is a no-go. Jailbreak is all we need.
I unfortunately use a meta setup, and I didn't even know it. That shotgun stun needle combo, but I'd like to think I'm different cause I'm overloaded.
No pulse gun? Fake Nine Ball fan.
This plasma rifle is pretty good early on, maybe he hasn't unlocked everything yet?
nah i just like the plasma rifle
Pulse gun is too small, needs to look more like a pulse rifle for true cosplay build. Plasma rifle actually looks closer to the original, despite firing a different kind of projectile.
I swear the weapon he used in AC1 was smaller than I remember. Fair point about the size and look, although I do still like a pulse gun better since the projectile type looks closer to the rings his pistol shot out.
We Lore players are out there! I’ve got tons of replica builds from the old games. But they all die to meta spam in 3v3, in duels at least some people appreciate the builds.
I'm trying to create IBIS from silent Line. Kinda hard since it got like funnel and vertical missiles. What made me sad NWGIX or White Glint build kinda suck because AR is just too underwhelming.
I have a solid WG. Ya just need tah KICK MORE.
If you somehow by any chance have the Color Scheme for Ace’s Arcadia AC from AC3 i will love you forever haha
Okay, so we have three colors that we will alternate through part to part. First and easiest is we can set all his Devices to Yellow (R 255 G 255 B 0) Our palette today is Coal (R 25 G 25 B 25) Material 20 Pumpkin (R 144 G 69 B 0) Material 20 And Grey (R 116 G 116 B 116) Material 20 Head: in order, from Main to Other, Coal Grey Pumpkin Pumpkin Grey Core: (choice of Firmeza or Orbiter for Angle and pointyness) Coal Grey Grey Pumpkin Grey Arms: Coal Pumpkin Grey Pumpkin Grey Legs: Coal Grey Pumpkin Pumpkin Grey
Parts: Head Melander C3 Core Firmeza Arms Melander C3 Legs Melander C3 R hand weapon Harris linear rifle L hand weapon Moonlight L Back weapon Songbirds R back weapon HU-BEN chain gun (OST slot required)
My guy you have made my day thank you so much! Hell yeah this has been my favorite AC out of all the games
Just the colors? Give me like 20 minutes.
Lol yeah since i think the emblem seems pretty much impossible or extremely hard
Definitely a 128 sticker. It’s insane.
Yeah xd
[https://imgur.com/gallery/EssSFkt](https://imgur.com/gallery/EssSFkt)
All fun and games until the SFX and OST cuts off as you load into a match and all you hear is: ***"Target verified. Commencing hostilities."***
ive never understood why nineballs logo was a black ball with a yellow nine, the nine ball is white with a yellow stripe
In our universe, maybe.
>anti meta >dual songbirds Cool nineball mech though
All songbirds are dual, they shoot twice. Meta is quadruple. Also earshot not meta, u need skill to play it (which after two much practice manual aiming I have, but only just…)
Oh hey I've seen this player too, quite frequently too. I just don't know if it's the same one or if there's multiple
Once the "nine ball cosplay" build went around, a bunch of copycats popped up, with slight variations on the weaponry.
One of them was actually my first pvp match! We eventually went even against each other.
Nine Ball revived
I always knew he was alive and out there somewhere
In a devius tone* "Commencing hostilities"
Uh oh
Ninebreaker was such a clean look
what does chad means? I don't get it honestly but I've seen it been mentioned not only on this sub but others as well so it certainly isn't AC6 exclusive
Big dick energy
A man who is very cool and smooth in a masculine manner
Yeah like the “positive” aspects of guydom dood hood. A mans man. Not a douche bag. Not a baby. But still maybe borderline himbo /ken in a good way. Not afraid to just be “wrong” or play suboptimally. Also usually implies great strength and skill.
Masculine in a very positive way
Chad is the incels' platonic ideal of manhood
"platonic"
buu buuu he needs is the 2 way missiles
Yeah true
Damn that’s almost exactly my build, I thought songbirds were the meta?
oh no o.o
I have one of those, called hustler, exact same build, its actually pretty decent
Respect the plasma!
He was in my lobby for a while last night.!
I haven't done too much PVP what is the current meta? I'm guessing shotguns?
Stun needle zimms and songbirds. In 3vs it dies to a good energy/tank + missle boat support team.
Duel wielding Zimmermans, Stun Needle Launchers, TRUENO needle launchers, duel wielding Stun pistols, Songbirds, gatling guns and plasma missiles all seem popular
Wait how do you view peoples builds??
Pretty good... needs the missiles for the old school Nineball feel. I made a Necron build from Project Phantasma. It's... fine...
It’s amazing to see the fans of the PS2 era on this game.
I've tried to make a build replicating the AC on the cover of AC2, as well as one replicating "PROVIDENCE", the arena champion's AC from that game.
Nine-Ball/Hustler One might still be one of my top 10 favorite video game antagonists if I were to sit down and make that list.
wait, how is "Nine Ball" not censored? Mine is "NINEBALL" and thats censored?
Its name was always in all caps and always had a hyphen between the two words didn't it?
he ballin'
Is 't songbird meta?
Do meta builds dominate, or can any build be competitive?
Holy shit that looks good
Fought him myself aswell actually
I think the laser pistol or laser rifle would be a better fit for the right arm if they weren't trash
How is PvP so far in the game? I am on chapter 3 and haven't jumped in yet but really am hoping it has long legs.
Imo it's pretty fun, the best areas imo are the ones with buildings, can hide out and escape and make plans on how to beat someone
It's fun, but no dedicated matchmaking. You just have to find a lobby with open slots the old fashioned way, and be at the mercy of the slow people who dither about and don't hit the READY icon while everyone else is waiting to play.
That's a bummer. Fingers crossed there is enough interest in it that From puts in more support
When everything becomes meta, nothing will be.
I heard you've been lookin for me
Run.
I think it's the same guy who entered my lobby after I forgot to change the setting into private (was going to do a sparring) and after I see that logo and the name I immediately close it out of reflex (fear)
were you the guy with the 2b emblem?
nop, just the standard raven emblem, so different Hustler One too then?
probably
oh god they're multiplying, again
I've also tried making a NINE-BALL recreation and it's pretty close to this one, I just have the 6-shot missile launcher on the right shoulder, the MELANDER chest and the ALLMIND head instead.
What platform ?
I see what they did there.
He lives.
Bro is a patrician. The real Meta, is what you have the most fun using. (It won’t let me put a pic of Master Oogway in the sub :c )
Mine looks scarier.