It’s hours into the occasions of Armored Core 6: Fires of Rubicon earlier than you are feeling a way of heat. Until the mission “Operation Wallclimber,” you’re nothing however a quantity, nothing however a employed gun on the different finish of barked orders.
In the chilly metal storage that is your private home on the desolate planet of Rubicon, you’re known as “dog,” “hound,” and “merc.” Even extra dehumanizing nicknames await you later. The closest identities that your character, C4-621, has previous to “Operation Wallclimber” are “Raven,” the identification you’ve stolen, and “Gun 13,” a designation foisted upon you after you killed the man who would’ve used that identify.
But all the things modifications when Rusty of the Vespers arrives and calls you “buddy.”
[Ed. note: This story contains spoilers for Armored Core 6.]
Rusty is Armored Core 6’s most crush-worthy AC pilot. He’s effortlessly cool, and he’s launched with applicable panache: At the Wall, Rusty swoops in using his Steel Haze mech, and the digital camera pans up his spindly Nachtreiher AC legs to showcase his emblem, a muzzled wolf. Unlike the remainder of the sport’s characters, Rusty treats you with respect and camaraderie in your first battle collectively — throughout which he additionally genuinely appears involved about your well-being. Afterward, he shares personal particulars about that mission as a warning about the companies’ intentions for you, making Rusty the first character on Rubicon who appears reliable.
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Image: FromSoftware/Bandai Namco
Whatever spectacular feat you pull off in Armored Core 6, regardless of what number of slo-mo exploding boss battles you stroll away from, none of it should match the earned coolness of Rusty saying “I won’t miss” earlier than he skewers your shared opponent with a railgun throughout the battle in opposition to the Ice Worm.
Is it any marvel, then, that gamers have fallen in love with Rusty, envisioning him as a dashing, rebellious pilot? We by no means really see Rusty’s face in Armored Core 6, however each piece of fan artwork of the man inside Steel Haze appears to be like, to me anyway, 100% correct.
FromSoftware’s dialogue for Rusty is crafted to make you fall in love with him. He boosts you up (“Walter knows how to pick ’em”; “Glad you’re on my side”; “Stay cool, buddy”) and offers you one thing to aspire to.
“There’s no graver threat than power without purpose,” Rusty tells you throughout a mission through which he’s tasked with disposing of 621 beneath the command of his company handlers at Arquebus. While Handler Walter can compel the participant to carry out missions for his shoppers, and Ayre can nudge them towards doing the proper factor, it’s Rusty who affords 621 a path towards redemption, towards that “purpose,” towards one thing extra than simply one other job. In the chilly, callous world of Armored Core 6, that’s a uniquely humanizing factor.
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Image: FromSoftware/Bandai Namco
It’s not till a lot later in the sport, when the actuality of two AC pilots working for competing pursuits involves a head, that Rusty’s true significance — and true intentions — emerge. Throughout Armored Core 6’s story, these intentions are telegraphed in dialogue and fight logs. Like different FromSoftware video games, Rusty’s position on this story isn’t clear at first, however it’s in the end revealed that he’s a undercover agent working for the Rubicon Liberation Front.
Near the finish of the sport, when Rusty reappears in a brand new mech, reborn as Steel Haze Ortus, he bears a distinct emblem. The wolf is unmasked this time, and relying on sure mission selections and which playthrough gamers are on, they’ll both combat him or combat alongside him as soon as extra, with the power of the Rubiconian resistance behind Rusty and 621.
Rusty’s destiny at the finish of the sport is unclear, accurately for a person of his cool issue. But no matter whether or not Rusty survives the occasions of Armored Core 6, he’s the one who walks away clear. He’s the hero of this story — not only for his convictions and actions, however for remodeling the participant right into a hero, too.
Stay cool, Rusty.
It’s hours into the occasions of Armored Core 6: Fires of Rubicon earlier than you are feeling a way of heat. Until the mission “Operation Wallclimber,” you’re nothing however a quantity, nothing however a employed gun on the different finish of barked orders.
In the chilly metal storage that is your private home on the desolate planet of Rubicon, you’re known as “dog,” “hound,” and “merc.” Even extra dehumanizing nicknames await you later. The closest identities that your character, C4-621, has previous to “Operation Wallclimber” are “Raven,” the identification you’ve stolen, and “Gun 13,” a designation foisted upon you after you killed the man who would’ve used that identify.
But all the things modifications when Rusty of the Vespers arrives and calls you “buddy.”
[Ed. note: This story contains spoilers for Armored Core 6.]
Rusty is Armored Core 6’s most crush-worthy AC pilot. He’s effortlessly cool, and he’s launched with applicable panache: At the Wall, Rusty swoops in using his Steel Haze mech, and the digital camera pans up his spindly Nachtreiher AC legs to showcase his emblem, a muzzled wolf. Unlike the remainder of the sport’s characters, Rusty treats you with respect and camaraderie in your first battle collectively — throughout which he additionally genuinely appears involved about your well-being. Afterward, he shares personal particulars about that mission as a warning about the companies’ intentions for you, making Rusty the first character on Rubicon who appears reliable.
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24906323/rusty_v_juggernaut.jpg?resize=1920%2C1080&ssl=1)
Image: FromSoftware/Bandai Namco
Whatever spectacular feat you pull off in Armored Core 6, regardless of what number of slo-mo exploding boss battles you stroll away from, none of it should match the earned coolness of Rusty saying “I won’t miss” earlier than he skewers your shared opponent with a railgun throughout the battle in opposition to the Ice Worm.
Is it any marvel, then, that gamers have fallen in love with Rusty, envisioning him as a dashing, rebellious pilot? We by no means really see Rusty’s face in Armored Core 6, however each piece of fan artwork of the man inside Steel Haze appears to be like, to me anyway, 100% correct.
FromSoftware’s dialogue for Rusty is crafted to make you fall in love with him. He boosts you up (“Walter knows how to pick ’em”; “Glad you’re on my side”; “Stay cool, buddy”) and offers you one thing to aspire to.
“There’s no graver threat than power without purpose,” Rusty tells you throughout a mission through which he’s tasked with disposing of 621 beneath the command of his company handlers at Arquebus. While Handler Walter can compel the participant to carry out missions for his shoppers, and Ayre can nudge them towards doing the proper factor, it’s Rusty who affords 621 a path towards redemption, towards that “purpose,” towards one thing extra than simply one other job. In the chilly, callous world of Armored Core 6, that’s a uniquely humanizing factor.
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Image: FromSoftware/Bandai Namco
It’s not till a lot later in the sport, when the actuality of two AC pilots working for competing pursuits involves a head, that Rusty’s true significance — and true intentions — emerge. Throughout Armored Core 6’s story, these intentions are telegraphed in dialogue and fight logs. Like different FromSoftware video games, Rusty’s position on this story isn’t clear at first, however it’s in the end revealed that he’s a undercover agent working for the Rubicon Liberation Front.
Near the finish of the sport, when Rusty reappears in a brand new mech, reborn as Steel Haze Ortus, he bears a distinct emblem. The wolf is unmasked this time, and relying on sure mission selections and which playthrough gamers are on, they’ll both combat him or combat alongside him as soon as extra, with the power of the Rubiconian resistance behind Rusty and 621.
Rusty’s destiny at the finish of the sport is unclear, accurately for a person of his cool issue. But no matter whether or not Rusty survives the occasions of Armored Core 6, he’s the one who walks away clear. He’s the hero of this story — not only for his convictions and actions, however for remodeling the participant right into a hero, too.
Stay cool, Rusty.
It’s hours into the occasions of Armored Core 6: Fires of Rubicon earlier than you are feeling a way of heat. Until the mission “Operation Wallclimber,” you’re nothing however a quantity, nothing however a employed gun on the different finish of barked orders.
In the chilly metal storage that is your private home on the desolate planet of Rubicon, you’re known as “dog,” “hound,” and “merc.” Even extra dehumanizing nicknames await you later. The closest identities that your character, C4-621, has previous to “Operation Wallclimber” are “Raven,” the identification you’ve stolen, and “Gun 13,” a designation foisted upon you after you killed the man who would’ve used that identify.
But all the things modifications when Rusty of the Vespers arrives and calls you “buddy.”
[Ed. note: This story contains spoilers for Armored Core 6.]
Rusty is Armored Core 6’s most crush-worthy AC pilot. He’s effortlessly cool, and he’s launched with applicable panache: At the Wall, Rusty swoops in using his Steel Haze mech, and the digital camera pans up his spindly Nachtreiher AC legs to showcase his emblem, a muzzled wolf. Unlike the remainder of the sport’s characters, Rusty treats you with respect and camaraderie in your first battle collectively — throughout which he additionally genuinely appears involved about your well-being. Afterward, he shares personal particulars about that mission as a warning about the companies’ intentions for you, making Rusty the first character on Rubicon who appears reliable.
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24906323/rusty_v_juggernaut.jpg?resize=1920%2C1080&ssl=1)
Image: FromSoftware/Bandai Namco
Whatever spectacular feat you pull off in Armored Core 6, regardless of what number of slo-mo exploding boss battles you stroll away from, none of it should match the earned coolness of Rusty saying “I won’t miss” earlier than he skewers your shared opponent with a railgun throughout the battle in opposition to the Ice Worm.
Is it any marvel, then, that gamers have fallen in love with Rusty, envisioning him as a dashing, rebellious pilot? We by no means really see Rusty’s face in Armored Core 6, however each piece of fan artwork of the man inside Steel Haze appears to be like, to me anyway, 100% correct.
FromSoftware’s dialogue for Rusty is crafted to make you fall in love with him. He boosts you up (“Walter knows how to pick ’em”; “Glad you’re on my side”; “Stay cool, buddy”) and offers you one thing to aspire to.
“There’s no graver threat than power without purpose,” Rusty tells you throughout a mission through which he’s tasked with disposing of 621 beneath the command of his company handlers at Arquebus. While Handler Walter can compel the participant to carry out missions for his shoppers, and Ayre can nudge them towards doing the proper factor, it’s Rusty who affords 621 a path towards redemption, towards that “purpose,” towards one thing extra than simply one other job. In the chilly, callous world of Armored Core 6, that’s a uniquely humanizing factor.
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24906324/rusty_ortus.jpg?resize=1920%2C1080&ssl=1)
Image: FromSoftware/Bandai Namco
It’s not till a lot later in the sport, when the actuality of two AC pilots working for competing pursuits involves a head, that Rusty’s true significance — and true intentions — emerge. Throughout Armored Core 6’s story, these intentions are telegraphed in dialogue and fight logs. Like different FromSoftware video games, Rusty’s position on this story isn’t clear at first, however it’s in the end revealed that he’s a undercover agent working for the Rubicon Liberation Front.
Near the finish of the sport, when Rusty reappears in a brand new mech, reborn as Steel Haze Ortus, he bears a distinct emblem. The wolf is unmasked this time, and relying on sure mission selections and which playthrough gamers are on, they’ll both combat him or combat alongside him as soon as extra, with the power of the Rubiconian resistance behind Rusty and 621.
Rusty’s destiny at the finish of the sport is unclear, accurately for a person of his cool issue. But no matter whether or not Rusty survives the occasions of Armored Core 6, he’s the one who walks away clear. He’s the hero of this story — not only for his convictions and actions, however for remodeling the participant right into a hero, too.
Stay cool, Rusty.
It’s hours into the occasions of Armored Core 6: Fires of Rubicon earlier than you are feeling a way of heat. Until the mission “Operation Wallclimber,” you’re nothing however a quantity, nothing however a employed gun on the different finish of barked orders.
In the chilly metal storage that is your private home on the desolate planet of Rubicon, you’re known as “dog,” “hound,” and “merc.” Even extra dehumanizing nicknames await you later. The closest identities that your character, C4-621, has previous to “Operation Wallclimber” are “Raven,” the identification you’ve stolen, and “Gun 13,” a designation foisted upon you after you killed the man who would’ve used that identify.
But all the things modifications when Rusty of the Vespers arrives and calls you “buddy.”
[Ed. note: This story contains spoilers for Armored Core 6.]
Rusty is Armored Core 6’s most crush-worthy AC pilot. He’s effortlessly cool, and he’s launched with applicable panache: At the Wall, Rusty swoops in using his Steel Haze mech, and the digital camera pans up his spindly Nachtreiher AC legs to showcase his emblem, a muzzled wolf. Unlike the remainder of the sport’s characters, Rusty treats you with respect and camaraderie in your first battle collectively — throughout which he additionally genuinely appears involved about your well-being. Afterward, he shares personal particulars about that mission as a warning about the companies’ intentions for you, making Rusty the first character on Rubicon who appears reliable.
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24906323/rusty_v_juggernaut.jpg?resize=1920%2C1080&ssl=1)
Image: FromSoftware/Bandai Namco
Whatever spectacular feat you pull off in Armored Core 6, regardless of what number of slo-mo exploding boss battles you stroll away from, none of it should match the earned coolness of Rusty saying “I won’t miss” earlier than he skewers your shared opponent with a railgun throughout the battle in opposition to the Ice Worm.
Is it any marvel, then, that gamers have fallen in love with Rusty, envisioning him as a dashing, rebellious pilot? We by no means really see Rusty’s face in Armored Core 6, however each piece of fan artwork of the man inside Steel Haze appears to be like, to me anyway, 100% correct.
FromSoftware’s dialogue for Rusty is crafted to make you fall in love with him. He boosts you up (“Walter knows how to pick ’em”; “Glad you’re on my side”; “Stay cool, buddy”) and offers you one thing to aspire to.
“There’s no graver threat than power without purpose,” Rusty tells you throughout a mission through which he’s tasked with disposing of 621 beneath the command of his company handlers at Arquebus. While Handler Walter can compel the participant to carry out missions for his shoppers, and Ayre can nudge them towards doing the proper factor, it’s Rusty who affords 621 a path towards redemption, towards that “purpose,” towards one thing extra than simply one other job. In the chilly, callous world of Armored Core 6, that’s a uniquely humanizing factor.
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24906324/rusty_ortus.jpg?resize=1920%2C1080&ssl=1)
Image: FromSoftware/Bandai Namco
It’s not till a lot later in the sport, when the actuality of two AC pilots working for competing pursuits involves a head, that Rusty’s true significance — and true intentions — emerge. Throughout Armored Core 6’s story, these intentions are telegraphed in dialogue and fight logs. Like different FromSoftware video games, Rusty’s position on this story isn’t clear at first, however it’s in the end revealed that he’s a undercover agent working for the Rubicon Liberation Front.
Near the finish of the sport, when Rusty reappears in a brand new mech, reborn as Steel Haze Ortus, he bears a distinct emblem. The wolf is unmasked this time, and relying on sure mission selections and which playthrough gamers are on, they’ll both combat him or combat alongside him as soon as extra, with the power of the Rubiconian resistance behind Rusty and 621.
Rusty’s destiny at the finish of the sport is unclear, accurately for a person of his cool issue. But no matter whether or not Rusty survives the occasions of Armored Core 6, he’s the one who walks away clear. He’s the hero of this story — not only for his convictions and actions, however for remodeling the participant right into a hero, too.
Stay cool, Rusty.
It’s hours into the occasions of Armored Core 6: Fires of Rubicon earlier than you are feeling a way of heat. Until the mission “Operation Wallclimber,” you’re nothing however a quantity, nothing however a employed gun on the different finish of barked orders.
In the chilly metal storage that is your private home on the desolate planet of Rubicon, you’re known as “dog,” “hound,” and “merc.” Even extra dehumanizing nicknames await you later. The closest identities that your character, C4-621, has previous to “Operation Wallclimber” are “Raven,” the identification you’ve stolen, and “Gun 13,” a designation foisted upon you after you killed the man who would’ve used that identify.
But all the things modifications when Rusty of the Vespers arrives and calls you “buddy.”
[Ed. note: This story contains spoilers for Armored Core 6.]
Rusty is Armored Core 6’s most crush-worthy AC pilot. He’s effortlessly cool, and he’s launched with applicable panache: At the Wall, Rusty swoops in using his Steel Haze mech, and the digital camera pans up his spindly Nachtreiher AC legs to showcase his emblem, a muzzled wolf. Unlike the remainder of the sport’s characters, Rusty treats you with respect and camaraderie in your first battle collectively — throughout which he additionally genuinely appears involved about your well-being. Afterward, he shares personal particulars about that mission as a warning about the companies’ intentions for you, making Rusty the first character on Rubicon who appears reliable.
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24906323/rusty_v_juggernaut.jpg?resize=1920%2C1080&ssl=1)
Image: FromSoftware/Bandai Namco
Whatever spectacular feat you pull off in Armored Core 6, regardless of what number of slo-mo exploding boss battles you stroll away from, none of it should match the earned coolness of Rusty saying “I won’t miss” earlier than he skewers your shared opponent with a railgun throughout the battle in opposition to the Ice Worm.
Is it any marvel, then, that gamers have fallen in love with Rusty, envisioning him as a dashing, rebellious pilot? We by no means really see Rusty’s face in Armored Core 6, however each piece of fan artwork of the man inside Steel Haze appears to be like, to me anyway, 100% correct.
FromSoftware’s dialogue for Rusty is crafted to make you fall in love with him. He boosts you up (“Walter knows how to pick ’em”; “Glad you’re on my side”; “Stay cool, buddy”) and offers you one thing to aspire to.
“There’s no graver threat than power without purpose,” Rusty tells you throughout a mission through which he’s tasked with disposing of 621 beneath the command of his company handlers at Arquebus. While Handler Walter can compel the participant to carry out missions for his shoppers, and Ayre can nudge them towards doing the proper factor, it’s Rusty who affords 621 a path towards redemption, towards that “purpose,” towards one thing extra than simply one other job. In the chilly, callous world of Armored Core 6, that’s a uniquely humanizing factor.
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24906324/rusty_ortus.jpg?resize=1920%2C1080&ssl=1)
Image: FromSoftware/Bandai Namco
It’s not till a lot later in the sport, when the actuality of two AC pilots working for competing pursuits involves a head, that Rusty’s true significance — and true intentions — emerge. Throughout Armored Core 6’s story, these intentions are telegraphed in dialogue and fight logs. Like different FromSoftware video games, Rusty’s position on this story isn’t clear at first, however it’s in the end revealed that he’s a undercover agent working for the Rubicon Liberation Front.
Near the finish of the sport, when Rusty reappears in a brand new mech, reborn as Steel Haze Ortus, he bears a distinct emblem. The wolf is unmasked this time, and relying on sure mission selections and which playthrough gamers are on, they’ll both combat him or combat alongside him as soon as extra, with the power of the Rubiconian resistance behind Rusty and 621.
Rusty’s destiny at the finish of the sport is unclear, accurately for a person of his cool issue. But no matter whether or not Rusty survives the occasions of Armored Core 6, he’s the one who walks away clear. He’s the hero of this story — not only for his convictions and actions, however for remodeling the participant right into a hero, too.
Stay cool, Rusty.
It’s hours into the occasions of Armored Core 6: Fires of Rubicon earlier than you are feeling a way of heat. Until the mission “Operation Wallclimber,” you’re nothing however a quantity, nothing however a employed gun on the different finish of barked orders.
In the chilly metal storage that is your private home on the desolate planet of Rubicon, you’re known as “dog,” “hound,” and “merc.” Even extra dehumanizing nicknames await you later. The closest identities that your character, C4-621, has previous to “Operation Wallclimber” are “Raven,” the identification you’ve stolen, and “Gun 13,” a designation foisted upon you after you killed the man who would’ve used that identify.
But all the things modifications when Rusty of the Vespers arrives and calls you “buddy.”
[Ed. note: This story contains spoilers for Armored Core 6.]
Rusty is Armored Core 6’s most crush-worthy AC pilot. He’s effortlessly cool, and he’s launched with applicable panache: At the Wall, Rusty swoops in using his Steel Haze mech, and the digital camera pans up his spindly Nachtreiher AC legs to showcase his emblem, a muzzled wolf. Unlike the remainder of the sport’s characters, Rusty treats you with respect and camaraderie in your first battle collectively — throughout which he additionally genuinely appears involved about your well-being. Afterward, he shares personal particulars about that mission as a warning about the companies’ intentions for you, making Rusty the first character on Rubicon who appears reliable.
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24906323/rusty_v_juggernaut.jpg?resize=1920%2C1080&ssl=1)
Image: FromSoftware/Bandai Namco
Whatever spectacular feat you pull off in Armored Core 6, regardless of what number of slo-mo exploding boss battles you stroll away from, none of it should match the earned coolness of Rusty saying “I won’t miss” earlier than he skewers your shared opponent with a railgun throughout the battle in opposition to the Ice Worm.
Is it any marvel, then, that gamers have fallen in love with Rusty, envisioning him as a dashing, rebellious pilot? We by no means really see Rusty’s face in Armored Core 6, however each piece of fan artwork of the man inside Steel Haze appears to be like, to me anyway, 100% correct.
FromSoftware’s dialogue for Rusty is crafted to make you fall in love with him. He boosts you up (“Walter knows how to pick ’em”; “Glad you’re on my side”; “Stay cool, buddy”) and offers you one thing to aspire to.
“There’s no graver threat than power without purpose,” Rusty tells you throughout a mission through which he’s tasked with disposing of 621 beneath the command of his company handlers at Arquebus. While Handler Walter can compel the participant to carry out missions for his shoppers, and Ayre can nudge them towards doing the proper factor, it’s Rusty who affords 621 a path towards redemption, towards that “purpose,” towards one thing extra than simply one other job. In the chilly, callous world of Armored Core 6, that’s a uniquely humanizing factor.
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24906324/rusty_ortus.jpg?resize=1920%2C1080&ssl=1)
Image: FromSoftware/Bandai Namco
It’s not till a lot later in the sport, when the actuality of two AC pilots working for competing pursuits involves a head, that Rusty’s true significance — and true intentions — emerge. Throughout Armored Core 6’s story, these intentions are telegraphed in dialogue and fight logs. Like different FromSoftware video games, Rusty’s position on this story isn’t clear at first, however it’s in the end revealed that he’s a undercover agent working for the Rubicon Liberation Front.
Near the finish of the sport, when Rusty reappears in a brand new mech, reborn as Steel Haze Ortus, he bears a distinct emblem. The wolf is unmasked this time, and relying on sure mission selections and which playthrough gamers are on, they’ll both combat him or combat alongside him as soon as extra, with the power of the Rubiconian resistance behind Rusty and 621.
Rusty’s destiny at the finish of the sport is unclear, accurately for a person of his cool issue. But no matter whether or not Rusty survives the occasions of Armored Core 6, he’s the one who walks away clear. He’s the hero of this story — not only for his convictions and actions, however for remodeling the participant right into a hero, too.
Stay cool, Rusty.
It’s hours into the occasions of Armored Core 6: Fires of Rubicon earlier than you are feeling a way of heat. Until the mission “Operation Wallclimber,” you’re nothing however a quantity, nothing however a employed gun on the different finish of barked orders.
In the chilly metal storage that is your private home on the desolate planet of Rubicon, you’re known as “dog,” “hound,” and “merc.” Even extra dehumanizing nicknames await you later. The closest identities that your character, C4-621, has previous to “Operation Wallclimber” are “Raven,” the identification you’ve stolen, and “Gun 13,” a designation foisted upon you after you killed the man who would’ve used that identify.
But all the things modifications when Rusty of the Vespers arrives and calls you “buddy.”
[Ed. note: This story contains spoilers for Armored Core 6.]
Rusty is Armored Core 6’s most crush-worthy AC pilot. He’s effortlessly cool, and he’s launched with applicable panache: At the Wall, Rusty swoops in using his Steel Haze mech, and the digital camera pans up his spindly Nachtreiher AC legs to showcase his emblem, a muzzled wolf. Unlike the remainder of the sport’s characters, Rusty treats you with respect and camaraderie in your first battle collectively — throughout which he additionally genuinely appears involved about your well-being. Afterward, he shares personal particulars about that mission as a warning about the companies’ intentions for you, making Rusty the first character on Rubicon who appears reliable.
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24906323/rusty_v_juggernaut.jpg?resize=1920%2C1080&ssl=1)
Image: FromSoftware/Bandai Namco
Whatever spectacular feat you pull off in Armored Core 6, regardless of what number of slo-mo exploding boss battles you stroll away from, none of it should match the earned coolness of Rusty saying “I won’t miss” earlier than he skewers your shared opponent with a railgun throughout the battle in opposition to the Ice Worm.
Is it any marvel, then, that gamers have fallen in love with Rusty, envisioning him as a dashing, rebellious pilot? We by no means really see Rusty’s face in Armored Core 6, however each piece of fan artwork of the man inside Steel Haze appears to be like, to me anyway, 100% correct.
FromSoftware’s dialogue for Rusty is crafted to make you fall in love with him. He boosts you up (“Walter knows how to pick ’em”; “Glad you’re on my side”; “Stay cool, buddy”) and offers you one thing to aspire to.
“There’s no graver threat than power without purpose,” Rusty tells you throughout a mission through which he’s tasked with disposing of 621 beneath the command of his company handlers at Arquebus. While Handler Walter can compel the participant to carry out missions for his shoppers, and Ayre can nudge them towards doing the proper factor, it’s Rusty who affords 621 a path towards redemption, towards that “purpose,” towards one thing extra than simply one other job. In the chilly, callous world of Armored Core 6, that’s a uniquely humanizing factor.
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24906324/rusty_ortus.jpg?resize=1920%2C1080&ssl=1)
Image: FromSoftware/Bandai Namco
It’s not till a lot later in the sport, when the actuality of two AC pilots working for competing pursuits involves a head, that Rusty’s true significance — and true intentions — emerge. Throughout Armored Core 6’s story, these intentions are telegraphed in dialogue and fight logs. Like different FromSoftware video games, Rusty’s position on this story isn’t clear at first, however it’s in the end revealed that he’s a undercover agent working for the Rubicon Liberation Front.
Near the finish of the sport, when Rusty reappears in a brand new mech, reborn as Steel Haze Ortus, he bears a distinct emblem. The wolf is unmasked this time, and relying on sure mission selections and which playthrough gamers are on, they’ll both combat him or combat alongside him as soon as extra, with the power of the Rubiconian resistance behind Rusty and 621.
Rusty’s destiny at the finish of the sport is unclear, accurately for a person of his cool issue. But no matter whether or not Rusty survives the occasions of Armored Core 6, he’s the one who walks away clear. He’s the hero of this story — not only for his convictions and actions, however for remodeling the participant right into a hero, too.
Stay cool, Rusty.
It’s hours into the occasions of Armored Core 6: Fires of Rubicon earlier than you are feeling a way of heat. Until the mission “Operation Wallclimber,” you’re nothing however a quantity, nothing however a employed gun on the different finish of barked orders.
In the chilly metal storage that is your private home on the desolate planet of Rubicon, you’re known as “dog,” “hound,” and “merc.” Even extra dehumanizing nicknames await you later. The closest identities that your character, C4-621, has previous to “Operation Wallclimber” are “Raven,” the identification you’ve stolen, and “Gun 13,” a designation foisted upon you after you killed the man who would’ve used that identify.
But all the things modifications when Rusty of the Vespers arrives and calls you “buddy.”
[Ed. note: This story contains spoilers for Armored Core 6.]
Rusty is Armored Core 6’s most crush-worthy AC pilot. He’s effortlessly cool, and he’s launched with applicable panache: At the Wall, Rusty swoops in using his Steel Haze mech, and the digital camera pans up his spindly Nachtreiher AC legs to showcase his emblem, a muzzled wolf. Unlike the remainder of the sport’s characters, Rusty treats you with respect and camaraderie in your first battle collectively — throughout which he additionally genuinely appears involved about your well-being. Afterward, he shares personal particulars about that mission as a warning about the companies’ intentions for you, making Rusty the first character on Rubicon who appears reliable.
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Image: FromSoftware/Bandai Namco
Whatever spectacular feat you pull off in Armored Core 6, regardless of what number of slo-mo exploding boss battles you stroll away from, none of it should match the earned coolness of Rusty saying “I won’t miss” earlier than he skewers your shared opponent with a railgun throughout the battle in opposition to the Ice Worm.
Is it any marvel, then, that gamers have fallen in love with Rusty, envisioning him as a dashing, rebellious pilot? We by no means really see Rusty’s face in Armored Core 6, however each piece of fan artwork of the man inside Steel Haze appears to be like, to me anyway, 100% correct.
FromSoftware’s dialogue for Rusty is crafted to make you fall in love with him. He boosts you up (“Walter knows how to pick ’em”; “Glad you’re on my side”; “Stay cool, buddy”) and offers you one thing to aspire to.
“There’s no graver threat than power without purpose,” Rusty tells you throughout a mission through which he’s tasked with disposing of 621 beneath the command of his company handlers at Arquebus. While Handler Walter can compel the participant to carry out missions for his shoppers, and Ayre can nudge them towards doing the proper factor, it’s Rusty who affords 621 a path towards redemption, towards that “purpose,” towards one thing extra than simply one other job. In the chilly, callous world of Armored Core 6, that’s a uniquely humanizing factor.
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Image: FromSoftware/Bandai Namco
It’s not till a lot later in the sport, when the actuality of two AC pilots working for competing pursuits involves a head, that Rusty’s true significance — and true intentions — emerge. Throughout Armored Core 6’s story, these intentions are telegraphed in dialogue and fight logs. Like different FromSoftware video games, Rusty’s position on this story isn’t clear at first, however it’s in the end revealed that he’s a undercover agent working for the Rubicon Liberation Front.
Near the finish of the sport, when Rusty reappears in a brand new mech, reborn as Steel Haze Ortus, he bears a distinct emblem. The wolf is unmasked this time, and relying on sure mission selections and which playthrough gamers are on, they’ll both combat him or combat alongside him as soon as extra, with the power of the Rubiconian resistance behind Rusty and 621.
Rusty’s destiny at the finish of the sport is unclear, accurately for a person of his cool issue. But no matter whether or not Rusty survives the occasions of Armored Core 6, he’s the one who walks away clear. He’s the hero of this story — not only for his convictions and actions, however for remodeling the participant right into a hero, too.
Stay cool, Rusty.
It’s hours into the occasions of Armored Core 6: Fires of Rubicon earlier than you are feeling a way of heat. Until the mission “Operation Wallclimber,” you’re nothing however a quantity, nothing however a employed gun on the different finish of barked orders.
In the chilly metal storage that is your private home on the desolate planet of Rubicon, you’re known as “dog,” “hound,” and “merc.” Even extra dehumanizing nicknames await you later. The closest identities that your character, C4-621, has previous to “Operation Wallclimber” are “Raven,” the identification you’ve stolen, and “Gun 13,” a designation foisted upon you after you killed the man who would’ve used that identify.
But all the things modifications when Rusty of the Vespers arrives and calls you “buddy.”
[Ed. note: This story contains spoilers for Armored Core 6.]
Rusty is Armored Core 6’s most crush-worthy AC pilot. He’s effortlessly cool, and he’s launched with applicable panache: At the Wall, Rusty swoops in using his Steel Haze mech, and the digital camera pans up his spindly Nachtreiher AC legs to showcase his emblem, a muzzled wolf. Unlike the remainder of the sport’s characters, Rusty treats you with respect and camaraderie in your first battle collectively — throughout which he additionally genuinely appears involved about your well-being. Afterward, he shares personal particulars about that mission as a warning about the companies’ intentions for you, making Rusty the first character on Rubicon who appears reliable.
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24906323/rusty_v_juggernaut.jpg?resize=1920%2C1080&ssl=1)
Image: FromSoftware/Bandai Namco
Whatever spectacular feat you pull off in Armored Core 6, regardless of what number of slo-mo exploding boss battles you stroll away from, none of it should match the earned coolness of Rusty saying “I won’t miss” earlier than he skewers your shared opponent with a railgun throughout the battle in opposition to the Ice Worm.
Is it any marvel, then, that gamers have fallen in love with Rusty, envisioning him as a dashing, rebellious pilot? We by no means really see Rusty’s face in Armored Core 6, however each piece of fan artwork of the man inside Steel Haze appears to be like, to me anyway, 100% correct.
FromSoftware’s dialogue for Rusty is crafted to make you fall in love with him. He boosts you up (“Walter knows how to pick ’em”; “Glad you’re on my side”; “Stay cool, buddy”) and offers you one thing to aspire to.
“There’s no graver threat than power without purpose,” Rusty tells you throughout a mission through which he’s tasked with disposing of 621 beneath the command of his company handlers at Arquebus. While Handler Walter can compel the participant to carry out missions for his shoppers, and Ayre can nudge them towards doing the proper factor, it’s Rusty who affords 621 a path towards redemption, towards that “purpose,” towards one thing extra than simply one other job. In the chilly, callous world of Armored Core 6, that’s a uniquely humanizing factor.
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24906324/rusty_ortus.jpg?resize=1920%2C1080&ssl=1)
Image: FromSoftware/Bandai Namco
It’s not till a lot later in the sport, when the actuality of two AC pilots working for competing pursuits involves a head, that Rusty’s true significance — and true intentions — emerge. Throughout Armored Core 6’s story, these intentions are telegraphed in dialogue and fight logs. Like different FromSoftware video games, Rusty’s position on this story isn’t clear at first, however it’s in the end revealed that he’s a undercover agent working for the Rubicon Liberation Front.
Near the finish of the sport, when Rusty reappears in a brand new mech, reborn as Steel Haze Ortus, he bears a distinct emblem. The wolf is unmasked this time, and relying on sure mission selections and which playthrough gamers are on, they’ll both combat him or combat alongside him as soon as extra, with the power of the Rubiconian resistance behind Rusty and 621.
Rusty’s destiny at the finish of the sport is unclear, accurately for a person of his cool issue. But no matter whether or not Rusty survives the occasions of Armored Core 6, he’s the one who walks away clear. He’s the hero of this story — not only for his convictions and actions, however for remodeling the participant right into a hero, too.
Stay cool, Rusty.
It’s hours into the occasions of Armored Core 6: Fires of Rubicon earlier than you are feeling a way of heat. Until the mission “Operation Wallclimber,” you’re nothing however a quantity, nothing however a employed gun on the different finish of barked orders.
In the chilly metal storage that is your private home on the desolate planet of Rubicon, you’re known as “dog,” “hound,” and “merc.” Even extra dehumanizing nicknames await you later. The closest identities that your character, C4-621, has previous to “Operation Wallclimber” are “Raven,” the identification you’ve stolen, and “Gun 13,” a designation foisted upon you after you killed the man who would’ve used that identify.
But all the things modifications when Rusty of the Vespers arrives and calls you “buddy.”
[Ed. note: This story contains spoilers for Armored Core 6.]
Rusty is Armored Core 6’s most crush-worthy AC pilot. He’s effortlessly cool, and he’s launched with applicable panache: At the Wall, Rusty swoops in using his Steel Haze mech, and the digital camera pans up his spindly Nachtreiher AC legs to showcase his emblem, a muzzled wolf. Unlike the remainder of the sport’s characters, Rusty treats you with respect and camaraderie in your first battle collectively — throughout which he additionally genuinely appears involved about your well-being. Afterward, he shares personal particulars about that mission as a warning about the companies’ intentions for you, making Rusty the first character on Rubicon who appears reliable.
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24906323/rusty_v_juggernaut.jpg?resize=1920%2C1080&ssl=1)
Image: FromSoftware/Bandai Namco
Whatever spectacular feat you pull off in Armored Core 6, regardless of what number of slo-mo exploding boss battles you stroll away from, none of it should match the earned coolness of Rusty saying “I won’t miss” earlier than he skewers your shared opponent with a railgun throughout the battle in opposition to the Ice Worm.
Is it any marvel, then, that gamers have fallen in love with Rusty, envisioning him as a dashing, rebellious pilot? We by no means really see Rusty’s face in Armored Core 6, however each piece of fan artwork of the man inside Steel Haze appears to be like, to me anyway, 100% correct.
FromSoftware’s dialogue for Rusty is crafted to make you fall in love with him. He boosts you up (“Walter knows how to pick ’em”; “Glad you’re on my side”; “Stay cool, buddy”) and offers you one thing to aspire to.
“There’s no graver threat than power without purpose,” Rusty tells you throughout a mission through which he’s tasked with disposing of 621 beneath the command of his company handlers at Arquebus. While Handler Walter can compel the participant to carry out missions for his shoppers, and Ayre can nudge them towards doing the proper factor, it’s Rusty who affords 621 a path towards redemption, towards that “purpose,” towards one thing extra than simply one other job. In the chilly, callous world of Armored Core 6, that’s a uniquely humanizing factor.
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24906324/rusty_ortus.jpg?resize=1920%2C1080&ssl=1)
Image: FromSoftware/Bandai Namco
It’s not till a lot later in the sport, when the actuality of two AC pilots working for competing pursuits involves a head, that Rusty’s true significance — and true intentions — emerge. Throughout Armored Core 6’s story, these intentions are telegraphed in dialogue and fight logs. Like different FromSoftware video games, Rusty’s position on this story isn’t clear at first, however it’s in the end revealed that he’s a undercover agent working for the Rubicon Liberation Front.
Near the finish of the sport, when Rusty reappears in a brand new mech, reborn as Steel Haze Ortus, he bears a distinct emblem. The wolf is unmasked this time, and relying on sure mission selections and which playthrough gamers are on, they’ll both combat him or combat alongside him as soon as extra, with the power of the Rubiconian resistance behind Rusty and 621.
Rusty’s destiny at the finish of the sport is unclear, accurately for a person of his cool issue. But no matter whether or not Rusty survives the occasions of Armored Core 6, he’s the one who walks away clear. He’s the hero of this story — not only for his convictions and actions, however for remodeling the participant right into a hero, too.
Stay cool, Rusty.
It’s hours into the occasions of Armored Core 6: Fires of Rubicon earlier than you are feeling a way of heat. Until the mission “Operation Wallclimber,” you’re nothing however a quantity, nothing however a employed gun on the different finish of barked orders.
In the chilly metal storage that is your private home on the desolate planet of Rubicon, you’re known as “dog,” “hound,” and “merc.” Even extra dehumanizing nicknames await you later. The closest identities that your character, C4-621, has previous to “Operation Wallclimber” are “Raven,” the identification you’ve stolen, and “Gun 13,” a designation foisted upon you after you killed the man who would’ve used that identify.
But all the things modifications when Rusty of the Vespers arrives and calls you “buddy.”
[Ed. note: This story contains spoilers for Armored Core 6.]
Rusty is Armored Core 6’s most crush-worthy AC pilot. He’s effortlessly cool, and he’s launched with applicable panache: At the Wall, Rusty swoops in using his Steel Haze mech, and the digital camera pans up his spindly Nachtreiher AC legs to showcase his emblem, a muzzled wolf. Unlike the remainder of the sport’s characters, Rusty treats you with respect and camaraderie in your first battle collectively — throughout which he additionally genuinely appears involved about your well-being. Afterward, he shares personal particulars about that mission as a warning about the companies’ intentions for you, making Rusty the first character on Rubicon who appears reliable.
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24906323/rusty_v_juggernaut.jpg?resize=1920%2C1080&ssl=1)
Image: FromSoftware/Bandai Namco
Whatever spectacular feat you pull off in Armored Core 6, regardless of what number of slo-mo exploding boss battles you stroll away from, none of it should match the earned coolness of Rusty saying “I won’t miss” earlier than he skewers your shared opponent with a railgun throughout the battle in opposition to the Ice Worm.
Is it any marvel, then, that gamers have fallen in love with Rusty, envisioning him as a dashing, rebellious pilot? We by no means really see Rusty’s face in Armored Core 6, however each piece of fan artwork of the man inside Steel Haze appears to be like, to me anyway, 100% correct.
FromSoftware’s dialogue for Rusty is crafted to make you fall in love with him. He boosts you up (“Walter knows how to pick ’em”; “Glad you’re on my side”; “Stay cool, buddy”) and offers you one thing to aspire to.
“There’s no graver threat than power without purpose,” Rusty tells you throughout a mission through which he’s tasked with disposing of 621 beneath the command of his company handlers at Arquebus. While Handler Walter can compel the participant to carry out missions for his shoppers, and Ayre can nudge them towards doing the proper factor, it’s Rusty who affords 621 a path towards redemption, towards that “purpose,” towards one thing extra than simply one other job. In the chilly, callous world of Armored Core 6, that’s a uniquely humanizing factor.
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24906324/rusty_ortus.jpg?resize=1920%2C1080&ssl=1)
Image: FromSoftware/Bandai Namco
It’s not till a lot later in the sport, when the actuality of two AC pilots working for competing pursuits involves a head, that Rusty’s true significance — and true intentions — emerge. Throughout Armored Core 6’s story, these intentions are telegraphed in dialogue and fight logs. Like different FromSoftware video games, Rusty’s position on this story isn’t clear at first, however it’s in the end revealed that he’s a undercover agent working for the Rubicon Liberation Front.
Near the finish of the sport, when Rusty reappears in a brand new mech, reborn as Steel Haze Ortus, he bears a distinct emblem. The wolf is unmasked this time, and relying on sure mission selections and which playthrough gamers are on, they’ll both combat him or combat alongside him as soon as extra, with the power of the Rubiconian resistance behind Rusty and 621.
Rusty’s destiny at the finish of the sport is unclear, accurately for a person of his cool issue. But no matter whether or not Rusty survives the occasions of Armored Core 6, he’s the one who walks away clear. He’s the hero of this story — not only for his convictions and actions, however for remodeling the participant right into a hero, too.
Stay cool, Rusty.
It’s hours into the occasions of Armored Core 6: Fires of Rubicon earlier than you are feeling a way of heat. Until the mission “Operation Wallclimber,” you’re nothing however a quantity, nothing however a employed gun on the different finish of barked orders.
In the chilly metal storage that is your private home on the desolate planet of Rubicon, you’re known as “dog,” “hound,” and “merc.” Even extra dehumanizing nicknames await you later. The closest identities that your character, C4-621, has previous to “Operation Wallclimber” are “Raven,” the identification you’ve stolen, and “Gun 13,” a designation foisted upon you after you killed the man who would’ve used that identify.
But all the things modifications when Rusty of the Vespers arrives and calls you “buddy.”
[Ed. note: This story contains spoilers for Armored Core 6.]
Rusty is Armored Core 6’s most crush-worthy AC pilot. He’s effortlessly cool, and he’s launched with applicable panache: At the Wall, Rusty swoops in using his Steel Haze mech, and the digital camera pans up his spindly Nachtreiher AC legs to showcase his emblem, a muzzled wolf. Unlike the remainder of the sport’s characters, Rusty treats you with respect and camaraderie in your first battle collectively — throughout which he additionally genuinely appears involved about your well-being. Afterward, he shares personal particulars about that mission as a warning about the companies’ intentions for you, making Rusty the first character on Rubicon who appears reliable.
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24906323/rusty_v_juggernaut.jpg?resize=1920%2C1080&ssl=1)
Image: FromSoftware/Bandai Namco
Whatever spectacular feat you pull off in Armored Core 6, regardless of what number of slo-mo exploding boss battles you stroll away from, none of it should match the earned coolness of Rusty saying “I won’t miss” earlier than he skewers your shared opponent with a railgun throughout the battle in opposition to the Ice Worm.
Is it any marvel, then, that gamers have fallen in love with Rusty, envisioning him as a dashing, rebellious pilot? We by no means really see Rusty’s face in Armored Core 6, however each piece of fan artwork of the man inside Steel Haze appears to be like, to me anyway, 100% correct.
FromSoftware’s dialogue for Rusty is crafted to make you fall in love with him. He boosts you up (“Walter knows how to pick ’em”; “Glad you’re on my side”; “Stay cool, buddy”) and offers you one thing to aspire to.
“There’s no graver threat than power without purpose,” Rusty tells you throughout a mission through which he’s tasked with disposing of 621 beneath the command of his company handlers at Arquebus. While Handler Walter can compel the participant to carry out missions for his shoppers, and Ayre can nudge them towards doing the proper factor, it’s Rusty who affords 621 a path towards redemption, towards that “purpose,” towards one thing extra than simply one other job. In the chilly, callous world of Armored Core 6, that’s a uniquely humanizing factor.
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24906324/rusty_ortus.jpg?resize=1920%2C1080&ssl=1)
Image: FromSoftware/Bandai Namco
It’s not till a lot later in the sport, when the actuality of two AC pilots working for competing pursuits involves a head, that Rusty’s true significance — and true intentions — emerge. Throughout Armored Core 6’s story, these intentions are telegraphed in dialogue and fight logs. Like different FromSoftware video games, Rusty’s position on this story isn’t clear at first, however it’s in the end revealed that he’s a undercover agent working for the Rubicon Liberation Front.
Near the finish of the sport, when Rusty reappears in a brand new mech, reborn as Steel Haze Ortus, he bears a distinct emblem. The wolf is unmasked this time, and relying on sure mission selections and which playthrough gamers are on, they’ll both combat him or combat alongside him as soon as extra, with the power of the Rubiconian resistance behind Rusty and 621.
Rusty’s destiny at the finish of the sport is unclear, accurately for a person of his cool issue. But no matter whether or not Rusty survives the occasions of Armored Core 6, he’s the one who walks away clear. He’s the hero of this story — not only for his convictions and actions, however for remodeling the participant right into a hero, too.
Stay cool, Rusty.
It’s hours into the occasions of Armored Core 6: Fires of Rubicon earlier than you are feeling a way of heat. Until the mission “Operation Wallclimber,” you’re nothing however a quantity, nothing however a employed gun on the different finish of barked orders.
In the chilly metal storage that is your private home on the desolate planet of Rubicon, you’re known as “dog,” “hound,” and “merc.” Even extra dehumanizing nicknames await you later. The closest identities that your character, C4-621, has previous to “Operation Wallclimber” are “Raven,” the identification you’ve stolen, and “Gun 13,” a designation foisted upon you after you killed the man who would’ve used that identify.
But all the things modifications when Rusty of the Vespers arrives and calls you “buddy.”
[Ed. note: This story contains spoilers for Armored Core 6.]
Rusty is Armored Core 6’s most crush-worthy AC pilot. He’s effortlessly cool, and he’s launched with applicable panache: At the Wall, Rusty swoops in using his Steel Haze mech, and the digital camera pans up his spindly Nachtreiher AC legs to showcase his emblem, a muzzled wolf. Unlike the remainder of the sport’s characters, Rusty treats you with respect and camaraderie in your first battle collectively — throughout which he additionally genuinely appears involved about your well-being. Afterward, he shares personal particulars about that mission as a warning about the companies’ intentions for you, making Rusty the first character on Rubicon who appears reliable.
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24906323/rusty_v_juggernaut.jpg?resize=1920%2C1080&ssl=1)
Image: FromSoftware/Bandai Namco
Whatever spectacular feat you pull off in Armored Core 6, regardless of what number of slo-mo exploding boss battles you stroll away from, none of it should match the earned coolness of Rusty saying “I won’t miss” earlier than he skewers your shared opponent with a railgun throughout the battle in opposition to the Ice Worm.
Is it any marvel, then, that gamers have fallen in love with Rusty, envisioning him as a dashing, rebellious pilot? We by no means really see Rusty’s face in Armored Core 6, however each piece of fan artwork of the man inside Steel Haze appears to be like, to me anyway, 100% correct.
FromSoftware’s dialogue for Rusty is crafted to make you fall in love with him. He boosts you up (“Walter knows how to pick ’em”; “Glad you’re on my side”; “Stay cool, buddy”) and offers you one thing to aspire to.
“There’s no graver threat than power without purpose,” Rusty tells you throughout a mission through which he’s tasked with disposing of 621 beneath the command of his company handlers at Arquebus. While Handler Walter can compel the participant to carry out missions for his shoppers, and Ayre can nudge them towards doing the proper factor, it’s Rusty who affords 621 a path towards redemption, towards that “purpose,” towards one thing extra than simply one other job. In the chilly, callous world of Armored Core 6, that’s a uniquely humanizing factor.
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24906324/rusty_ortus.jpg?resize=1920%2C1080&ssl=1)
Image: FromSoftware/Bandai Namco
It’s not till a lot later in the sport, when the actuality of two AC pilots working for competing pursuits involves a head, that Rusty’s true significance — and true intentions — emerge. Throughout Armored Core 6’s story, these intentions are telegraphed in dialogue and fight logs. Like different FromSoftware video games, Rusty’s position on this story isn’t clear at first, however it’s in the end revealed that he’s a undercover agent working for the Rubicon Liberation Front.
Near the finish of the sport, when Rusty reappears in a brand new mech, reborn as Steel Haze Ortus, he bears a distinct emblem. The wolf is unmasked this time, and relying on sure mission selections and which playthrough gamers are on, they’ll both combat him or combat alongside him as soon as extra, with the power of the Rubiconian resistance behind Rusty and 621.
Rusty’s destiny at the finish of the sport is unclear, accurately for a person of his cool issue. But no matter whether or not Rusty survives the occasions of Armored Core 6, he’s the one who walks away clear. He’s the hero of this story — not only for his convictions and actions, however for remodeling the participant right into a hero, too.
Stay cool, Rusty.
It’s hours into the occasions of Armored Core 6: Fires of Rubicon earlier than you are feeling a way of heat. Until the mission “Operation Wallclimber,” you’re nothing however a quantity, nothing however a employed gun on the different finish of barked orders.
In the chilly metal storage that is your private home on the desolate planet of Rubicon, you’re known as “dog,” “hound,” and “merc.” Even extra dehumanizing nicknames await you later. The closest identities that your character, C4-621, has previous to “Operation Wallclimber” are “Raven,” the identification you’ve stolen, and “Gun 13,” a designation foisted upon you after you killed the man who would’ve used that identify.
But all the things modifications when Rusty of the Vespers arrives and calls you “buddy.”
[Ed. note: This story contains spoilers for Armored Core 6.]
Rusty is Armored Core 6’s most crush-worthy AC pilot. He’s effortlessly cool, and he’s launched with applicable panache: At the Wall, Rusty swoops in using his Steel Haze mech, and the digital camera pans up his spindly Nachtreiher AC legs to showcase his emblem, a muzzled wolf. Unlike the remainder of the sport’s characters, Rusty treats you with respect and camaraderie in your first battle collectively — throughout which he additionally genuinely appears involved about your well-being. Afterward, he shares personal particulars about that mission as a warning about the companies’ intentions for you, making Rusty the first character on Rubicon who appears reliable.
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24906323/rusty_v_juggernaut.jpg?resize=1920%2C1080&ssl=1)
Image: FromSoftware/Bandai Namco
Whatever spectacular feat you pull off in Armored Core 6, regardless of what number of slo-mo exploding boss battles you stroll away from, none of it should match the earned coolness of Rusty saying “I won’t miss” earlier than he skewers your shared opponent with a railgun throughout the battle in opposition to the Ice Worm.
Is it any marvel, then, that gamers have fallen in love with Rusty, envisioning him as a dashing, rebellious pilot? We by no means really see Rusty’s face in Armored Core 6, however each piece of fan artwork of the man inside Steel Haze appears to be like, to me anyway, 100% correct.
FromSoftware’s dialogue for Rusty is crafted to make you fall in love with him. He boosts you up (“Walter knows how to pick ’em”; “Glad you’re on my side”; “Stay cool, buddy”) and offers you one thing to aspire to.
“There’s no graver threat than power without purpose,” Rusty tells you throughout a mission through which he’s tasked with disposing of 621 beneath the command of his company handlers at Arquebus. While Handler Walter can compel the participant to carry out missions for his shoppers, and Ayre can nudge them towards doing the proper factor, it’s Rusty who affords 621 a path towards redemption, towards that “purpose,” towards one thing extra than simply one other job. In the chilly, callous world of Armored Core 6, that’s a uniquely humanizing factor.
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24906324/rusty_ortus.jpg?resize=1920%2C1080&ssl=1)
Image: FromSoftware/Bandai Namco
It’s not till a lot later in the sport, when the actuality of two AC pilots working for competing pursuits involves a head, that Rusty’s true significance — and true intentions — emerge. Throughout Armored Core 6’s story, these intentions are telegraphed in dialogue and fight logs. Like different FromSoftware video games, Rusty’s position on this story isn’t clear at first, however it’s in the end revealed that he’s a undercover agent working for the Rubicon Liberation Front.
Near the finish of the sport, when Rusty reappears in a brand new mech, reborn as Steel Haze Ortus, he bears a distinct emblem. The wolf is unmasked this time, and relying on sure mission selections and which playthrough gamers are on, they’ll both combat him or combat alongside him as soon as extra, with the power of the Rubiconian resistance behind Rusty and 621.
Rusty’s destiny at the finish of the sport is unclear, accurately for a person of his cool issue. But no matter whether or not Rusty survives the occasions of Armored Core 6, he’s the one who walks away clear. He’s the hero of this story — not only for his convictions and actions, however for remodeling the participant right into a hero, too.
Stay cool, Rusty.
It’s hours into the occasions of Armored Core 6: Fires of Rubicon earlier than you are feeling a way of heat. Until the mission “Operation Wallclimber,” you’re nothing however a quantity, nothing however a employed gun on the different finish of barked orders.
In the chilly metal storage that is your private home on the desolate planet of Rubicon, you’re known as “dog,” “hound,” and “merc.” Even extra dehumanizing nicknames await you later. The closest identities that your character, C4-621, has previous to “Operation Wallclimber” are “Raven,” the identification you’ve stolen, and “Gun 13,” a designation foisted upon you after you killed the man who would’ve used that identify.
But all the things modifications when Rusty of the Vespers arrives and calls you “buddy.”
[Ed. note: This story contains spoilers for Armored Core 6.]
Rusty is Armored Core 6’s most crush-worthy AC pilot. He’s effortlessly cool, and he’s launched with applicable panache: At the Wall, Rusty swoops in using his Steel Haze mech, and the digital camera pans up his spindly Nachtreiher AC legs to showcase his emblem, a muzzled wolf. Unlike the remainder of the sport’s characters, Rusty treats you with respect and camaraderie in your first battle collectively — throughout which he additionally genuinely appears involved about your well-being. Afterward, he shares personal particulars about that mission as a warning about the companies’ intentions for you, making Rusty the first character on Rubicon who appears reliable.
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Image: FromSoftware/Bandai Namco
Whatever spectacular feat you pull off in Armored Core 6, regardless of what number of slo-mo exploding boss battles you stroll away from, none of it should match the earned coolness of Rusty saying “I won’t miss” earlier than he skewers your shared opponent with a railgun throughout the battle in opposition to the Ice Worm.
Is it any marvel, then, that gamers have fallen in love with Rusty, envisioning him as a dashing, rebellious pilot? We by no means really see Rusty’s face in Armored Core 6, however each piece of fan artwork of the man inside Steel Haze appears to be like, to me anyway, 100% correct.
FromSoftware’s dialogue for Rusty is crafted to make you fall in love with him. He boosts you up (“Walter knows how to pick ’em”; “Glad you’re on my side”; “Stay cool, buddy”) and offers you one thing to aspire to.
“There’s no graver threat than power without purpose,” Rusty tells you throughout a mission through which he’s tasked with disposing of 621 beneath the command of his company handlers at Arquebus. While Handler Walter can compel the participant to carry out missions for his shoppers, and Ayre can nudge them towards doing the proper factor, it’s Rusty who affords 621 a path towards redemption, towards that “purpose,” towards one thing extra than simply one other job. In the chilly, callous world of Armored Core 6, that’s a uniquely humanizing factor.
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Image: FromSoftware/Bandai Namco
It’s not till a lot later in the sport, when the actuality of two AC pilots working for competing pursuits involves a head, that Rusty’s true significance — and true intentions — emerge. Throughout Armored Core 6’s story, these intentions are telegraphed in dialogue and fight logs. Like different FromSoftware video games, Rusty’s position on this story isn’t clear at first, however it’s in the end revealed that he’s a undercover agent working for the Rubicon Liberation Front.
Near the finish of the sport, when Rusty reappears in a brand new mech, reborn as Steel Haze Ortus, he bears a distinct emblem. The wolf is unmasked this time, and relying on sure mission selections and which playthrough gamers are on, they’ll both combat him or combat alongside him as soon as extra, with the power of the Rubiconian resistance behind Rusty and 621.
Rusty’s destiny at the finish of the sport is unclear, accurately for a person of his cool issue. But no matter whether or not Rusty survives the occasions of Armored Core 6, he’s the one who walks away clear. He’s the hero of this story — not only for his convictions and actions, however for remodeling the participant right into a hero, too.
Stay cool, Rusty.
It’s hours into the occasions of Armored Core 6: Fires of Rubicon earlier than you are feeling a way of heat. Until the mission “Operation Wallclimber,” you’re nothing however a quantity, nothing however a employed gun on the different finish of barked orders.
In the chilly metal storage that is your private home on the desolate planet of Rubicon, you’re known as “dog,” “hound,” and “merc.” Even extra dehumanizing nicknames await you later. The closest identities that your character, C4-621, has previous to “Operation Wallclimber” are “Raven,” the identification you’ve stolen, and “Gun 13,” a designation foisted upon you after you killed the man who would’ve used that identify.
But all the things modifications when Rusty of the Vespers arrives and calls you “buddy.”
[Ed. note: This story contains spoilers for Armored Core 6.]
Rusty is Armored Core 6’s most crush-worthy AC pilot. He’s effortlessly cool, and he’s launched with applicable panache: At the Wall, Rusty swoops in using his Steel Haze mech, and the digital camera pans up his spindly Nachtreiher AC legs to showcase his emblem, a muzzled wolf. Unlike the remainder of the sport’s characters, Rusty treats you with respect and camaraderie in your first battle collectively — throughout which he additionally genuinely appears involved about your well-being. Afterward, he shares personal particulars about that mission as a warning about the companies’ intentions for you, making Rusty the first character on Rubicon who appears reliable.
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Image: FromSoftware/Bandai Namco
Whatever spectacular feat you pull off in Armored Core 6, regardless of what number of slo-mo exploding boss battles you stroll away from, none of it should match the earned coolness of Rusty saying “I won’t miss” earlier than he skewers your shared opponent with a railgun throughout the battle in opposition to the Ice Worm.
Is it any marvel, then, that gamers have fallen in love with Rusty, envisioning him as a dashing, rebellious pilot? We by no means really see Rusty’s face in Armored Core 6, however each piece of fan artwork of the man inside Steel Haze appears to be like, to me anyway, 100% correct.
FromSoftware’s dialogue for Rusty is crafted to make you fall in love with him. He boosts you up (“Walter knows how to pick ’em”; “Glad you’re on my side”; “Stay cool, buddy”) and offers you one thing to aspire to.
“There’s no graver threat than power without purpose,” Rusty tells you throughout a mission through which he’s tasked with disposing of 621 beneath the command of his company handlers at Arquebus. While Handler Walter can compel the participant to carry out missions for his shoppers, and Ayre can nudge them towards doing the proper factor, it’s Rusty who affords 621 a path towards redemption, towards that “purpose,” towards one thing extra than simply one other job. In the chilly, callous world of Armored Core 6, that’s a uniquely humanizing factor.
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Image: FromSoftware/Bandai Namco
It’s not till a lot later in the sport, when the actuality of two AC pilots working for competing pursuits involves a head, that Rusty’s true significance — and true intentions — emerge. Throughout Armored Core 6’s story, these intentions are telegraphed in dialogue and fight logs. Like different FromSoftware video games, Rusty’s position on this story isn’t clear at first, however it’s in the end revealed that he’s a undercover agent working for the Rubicon Liberation Front.
Near the finish of the sport, when Rusty reappears in a brand new mech, reborn as Steel Haze Ortus, he bears a distinct emblem. The wolf is unmasked this time, and relying on sure mission selections and which playthrough gamers are on, they’ll both combat him or combat alongside him as soon as extra, with the power of the Rubiconian resistance behind Rusty and 621.
Rusty’s destiny at the finish of the sport is unclear, accurately for a person of his cool issue. But no matter whether or not Rusty survives the occasions of Armored Core 6, he’s the one who walks away clear. He’s the hero of this story — not only for his convictions and actions, however for remodeling the participant right into a hero, too.
Stay cool, Rusty.
It’s hours into the occasions of Armored Core 6: Fires of Rubicon earlier than you are feeling a way of heat. Until the mission “Operation Wallclimber,” you’re nothing however a quantity, nothing however a employed gun on the different finish of barked orders.
In the chilly metal storage that is your private home on the desolate planet of Rubicon, you’re known as “dog,” “hound,” and “merc.” Even extra dehumanizing nicknames await you later. The closest identities that your character, C4-621, has previous to “Operation Wallclimber” are “Raven,” the identification you’ve stolen, and “Gun 13,” a designation foisted upon you after you killed the man who would’ve used that identify.
But all the things modifications when Rusty of the Vespers arrives and calls you “buddy.”
[Ed. note: This story contains spoilers for Armored Core 6.]
Rusty is Armored Core 6’s most crush-worthy AC pilot. He’s effortlessly cool, and he’s launched with applicable panache: At the Wall, Rusty swoops in using his Steel Haze mech, and the digital camera pans up his spindly Nachtreiher AC legs to showcase his emblem, a muzzled wolf. Unlike the remainder of the sport’s characters, Rusty treats you with respect and camaraderie in your first battle collectively — throughout which he additionally genuinely appears involved about your well-being. Afterward, he shares personal particulars about that mission as a warning about the companies’ intentions for you, making Rusty the first character on Rubicon who appears reliable.
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Image: FromSoftware/Bandai Namco
Whatever spectacular feat you pull off in Armored Core 6, regardless of what number of slo-mo exploding boss battles you stroll away from, none of it should match the earned coolness of Rusty saying “I won’t miss” earlier than he skewers your shared opponent with a railgun throughout the battle in opposition to the Ice Worm.
Is it any marvel, then, that gamers have fallen in love with Rusty, envisioning him as a dashing, rebellious pilot? We by no means really see Rusty’s face in Armored Core 6, however each piece of fan artwork of the man inside Steel Haze appears to be like, to me anyway, 100% correct.
FromSoftware’s dialogue for Rusty is crafted to make you fall in love with him. He boosts you up (“Walter knows how to pick ’em”; “Glad you’re on my side”; “Stay cool, buddy”) and offers you one thing to aspire to.
“There’s no graver threat than power without purpose,” Rusty tells you throughout a mission through which he’s tasked with disposing of 621 beneath the command of his company handlers at Arquebus. While Handler Walter can compel the participant to carry out missions for his shoppers, and Ayre can nudge them towards doing the proper factor, it’s Rusty who affords 621 a path towards redemption, towards that “purpose,” towards one thing extra than simply one other job. In the chilly, callous world of Armored Core 6, that’s a uniquely humanizing factor.
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Image: FromSoftware/Bandai Namco
It’s not till a lot later in the sport, when the actuality of two AC pilots working for competing pursuits involves a head, that Rusty’s true significance — and true intentions — emerge. Throughout Armored Core 6’s story, these intentions are telegraphed in dialogue and fight logs. Like different FromSoftware video games, Rusty’s position on this story isn’t clear at first, however it’s in the end revealed that he’s a undercover agent working for the Rubicon Liberation Front.
Near the finish of the sport, when Rusty reappears in a brand new mech, reborn as Steel Haze Ortus, he bears a distinct emblem. The wolf is unmasked this time, and relying on sure mission selections and which playthrough gamers are on, they’ll both combat him or combat alongside him as soon as extra, with the power of the Rubiconian resistance behind Rusty and 621.
Rusty’s destiny at the finish of the sport is unclear, accurately for a person of his cool issue. But no matter whether or not Rusty survives the occasions of Armored Core 6, he’s the one who walks away clear. He’s the hero of this story — not only for his convictions and actions, however for remodeling the participant right into a hero, too.
Stay cool, Rusty.
It’s hours into the occasions of Armored Core 6: Fires of Rubicon earlier than you are feeling a way of heat. Until the mission “Operation Wallclimber,” you’re nothing however a quantity, nothing however a employed gun on the different finish of barked orders.
In the chilly metal storage that is your private home on the desolate planet of Rubicon, you’re known as “dog,” “hound,” and “merc.” Even extra dehumanizing nicknames await you later. The closest identities that your character, C4-621, has previous to “Operation Wallclimber” are “Raven,” the identification you’ve stolen, and “Gun 13,” a designation foisted upon you after you killed the man who would’ve used that identify.
But all the things modifications when Rusty of the Vespers arrives and calls you “buddy.”
[Ed. note: This story contains spoilers for Armored Core 6.]
Rusty is Armored Core 6’s most crush-worthy AC pilot. He’s effortlessly cool, and he’s launched with applicable panache: At the Wall, Rusty swoops in using his Steel Haze mech, and the digital camera pans up his spindly Nachtreiher AC legs to showcase his emblem, a muzzled wolf. Unlike the remainder of the sport’s characters, Rusty treats you with respect and camaraderie in your first battle collectively — throughout which he additionally genuinely appears involved about your well-being. Afterward, he shares personal particulars about that mission as a warning about the companies’ intentions for you, making Rusty the first character on Rubicon who appears reliable.
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Image: FromSoftware/Bandai Namco
Whatever spectacular feat you pull off in Armored Core 6, regardless of what number of slo-mo exploding boss battles you stroll away from, none of it should match the earned coolness of Rusty saying “I won’t miss” earlier than he skewers your shared opponent with a railgun throughout the battle in opposition to the Ice Worm.
Is it any marvel, then, that gamers have fallen in love with Rusty, envisioning him as a dashing, rebellious pilot? We by no means really see Rusty’s face in Armored Core 6, however each piece of fan artwork of the man inside Steel Haze appears to be like, to me anyway, 100% correct.
FromSoftware’s dialogue for Rusty is crafted to make you fall in love with him. He boosts you up (“Walter knows how to pick ’em”; “Glad you’re on my side”; “Stay cool, buddy”) and offers you one thing to aspire to.
“There’s no graver threat than power without purpose,” Rusty tells you throughout a mission through which he’s tasked with disposing of 621 beneath the command of his company handlers at Arquebus. While Handler Walter can compel the participant to carry out missions for his shoppers, and Ayre can nudge them towards doing the proper factor, it’s Rusty who affords 621 a path towards redemption, towards that “purpose,” towards one thing extra than simply one other job. In the chilly, callous world of Armored Core 6, that’s a uniquely humanizing factor.
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24906324/rusty_ortus.jpg?resize=1920%2C1080&ssl=1)
Image: FromSoftware/Bandai Namco
It’s not till a lot later in the sport, when the actuality of two AC pilots working for competing pursuits involves a head, that Rusty’s true significance — and true intentions — emerge. Throughout Armored Core 6’s story, these intentions are telegraphed in dialogue and fight logs. Like different FromSoftware video games, Rusty’s position on this story isn’t clear at first, however it’s in the end revealed that he’s a undercover agent working for the Rubicon Liberation Front.
Near the finish of the sport, when Rusty reappears in a brand new mech, reborn as Steel Haze Ortus, he bears a distinct emblem. The wolf is unmasked this time, and relying on sure mission selections and which playthrough gamers are on, they’ll both combat him or combat alongside him as soon as extra, with the power of the Rubiconian resistance behind Rusty and 621.
Rusty’s destiny at the finish of the sport is unclear, accurately for a person of his cool issue. But no matter whether or not Rusty survives the occasions of Armored Core 6, he’s the one who walks away clear. He’s the hero of this story — not only for his convictions and actions, however for remodeling the participant right into a hero, too.
Stay cool, Rusty.
It’s hours into the occasions of Armored Core 6: Fires of Rubicon earlier than you are feeling a way of heat. Until the mission “Operation Wallclimber,” you’re nothing however a quantity, nothing however a employed gun on the different finish of barked orders.
In the chilly metal storage that is your private home on the desolate planet of Rubicon, you’re known as “dog,” “hound,” and “merc.” Even extra dehumanizing nicknames await you later. The closest identities that your character, C4-621, has previous to “Operation Wallclimber” are “Raven,” the identification you’ve stolen, and “Gun 13,” a designation foisted upon you after you killed the man who would’ve used that identify.
But all the things modifications when Rusty of the Vespers arrives and calls you “buddy.”
[Ed. note: This story contains spoilers for Armored Core 6.]
Rusty is Armored Core 6’s most crush-worthy AC pilot. He’s effortlessly cool, and he’s launched with applicable panache: At the Wall, Rusty swoops in using his Steel Haze mech, and the digital camera pans up his spindly Nachtreiher AC legs to showcase his emblem, a muzzled wolf. Unlike the remainder of the sport’s characters, Rusty treats you with respect and camaraderie in your first battle collectively — throughout which he additionally genuinely appears involved about your well-being. Afterward, he shares personal particulars about that mission as a warning about the companies’ intentions for you, making Rusty the first character on Rubicon who appears reliable.
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24906323/rusty_v_juggernaut.jpg?resize=1920%2C1080&ssl=1)
Image: FromSoftware/Bandai Namco
Whatever spectacular feat you pull off in Armored Core 6, regardless of what number of slo-mo exploding boss battles you stroll away from, none of it should match the earned coolness of Rusty saying “I won’t miss” earlier than he skewers your shared opponent with a railgun throughout the battle in opposition to the Ice Worm.
Is it any marvel, then, that gamers have fallen in love with Rusty, envisioning him as a dashing, rebellious pilot? We by no means really see Rusty’s face in Armored Core 6, however each piece of fan artwork of the man inside Steel Haze appears to be like, to me anyway, 100% correct.
FromSoftware’s dialogue for Rusty is crafted to make you fall in love with him. He boosts you up (“Walter knows how to pick ’em”; “Glad you’re on my side”; “Stay cool, buddy”) and offers you one thing to aspire to.
“There’s no graver threat than power without purpose,” Rusty tells you throughout a mission through which he’s tasked with disposing of 621 beneath the command of his company handlers at Arquebus. While Handler Walter can compel the participant to carry out missions for his shoppers, and Ayre can nudge them towards doing the proper factor, it’s Rusty who affords 621 a path towards redemption, towards that “purpose,” towards one thing extra than simply one other job. In the chilly, callous world of Armored Core 6, that’s a uniquely humanizing factor.
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24906324/rusty_ortus.jpg?resize=1920%2C1080&ssl=1)
Image: FromSoftware/Bandai Namco
It’s not till a lot later in the sport, when the actuality of two AC pilots working for competing pursuits involves a head, that Rusty’s true significance — and true intentions — emerge. Throughout Armored Core 6’s story, these intentions are telegraphed in dialogue and fight logs. Like different FromSoftware video games, Rusty’s position on this story isn’t clear at first, however it’s in the end revealed that he’s a undercover agent working for the Rubicon Liberation Front.
Near the finish of the sport, when Rusty reappears in a brand new mech, reborn as Steel Haze Ortus, he bears a distinct emblem. The wolf is unmasked this time, and relying on sure mission selections and which playthrough gamers are on, they’ll both combat him or combat alongside him as soon as extra, with the power of the Rubiconian resistance behind Rusty and 621.
Rusty’s destiny at the finish of the sport is unclear, accurately for a person of his cool issue. But no matter whether or not Rusty survives the occasions of Armored Core 6, he’s the one who walks away clear. He’s the hero of this story — not only for his convictions and actions, however for remodeling the participant right into a hero, too.
Stay cool, Rusty.
It’s hours into the occasions of Armored Core 6: Fires of Rubicon earlier than you are feeling a way of heat. Until the mission “Operation Wallclimber,” you’re nothing however a quantity, nothing however a employed gun on the different finish of barked orders.
In the chilly metal storage that is your private home on the desolate planet of Rubicon, you’re known as “dog,” “hound,” and “merc.” Even extra dehumanizing nicknames await you later. The closest identities that your character, C4-621, has previous to “Operation Wallclimber” are “Raven,” the identification you’ve stolen, and “Gun 13,” a designation foisted upon you after you killed the man who would’ve used that identify.
But all the things modifications when Rusty of the Vespers arrives and calls you “buddy.”
[Ed. note: This story contains spoilers for Armored Core 6.]
Rusty is Armored Core 6’s most crush-worthy AC pilot. He’s effortlessly cool, and he’s launched with applicable panache: At the Wall, Rusty swoops in using his Steel Haze mech, and the digital camera pans up his spindly Nachtreiher AC legs to showcase his emblem, a muzzled wolf. Unlike the remainder of the sport’s characters, Rusty treats you with respect and camaraderie in your first battle collectively — throughout which he additionally genuinely appears involved about your well-being. Afterward, he shares personal particulars about that mission as a warning about the companies’ intentions for you, making Rusty the first character on Rubicon who appears reliable.
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24906323/rusty_v_juggernaut.jpg?resize=1920%2C1080&ssl=1)
Image: FromSoftware/Bandai Namco
Whatever spectacular feat you pull off in Armored Core 6, regardless of what number of slo-mo exploding boss battles you stroll away from, none of it should match the earned coolness of Rusty saying “I won’t miss” earlier than he skewers your shared opponent with a railgun throughout the battle in opposition to the Ice Worm.
Is it any marvel, then, that gamers have fallen in love with Rusty, envisioning him as a dashing, rebellious pilot? We by no means really see Rusty’s face in Armored Core 6, however each piece of fan artwork of the man inside Steel Haze appears to be like, to me anyway, 100% correct.
FromSoftware’s dialogue for Rusty is crafted to make you fall in love with him. He boosts you up (“Walter knows how to pick ’em”; “Glad you’re on my side”; “Stay cool, buddy”) and offers you one thing to aspire to.
“There’s no graver threat than power without purpose,” Rusty tells you throughout a mission through which he’s tasked with disposing of 621 beneath the command of his company handlers at Arquebus. While Handler Walter can compel the participant to carry out missions for his shoppers, and Ayre can nudge them towards doing the proper factor, it’s Rusty who affords 621 a path towards redemption, towards that “purpose,” towards one thing extra than simply one other job. In the chilly, callous world of Armored Core 6, that’s a uniquely humanizing factor.
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24906324/rusty_ortus.jpg?resize=1920%2C1080&ssl=1)
Image: FromSoftware/Bandai Namco
It’s not till a lot later in the sport, when the actuality of two AC pilots working for competing pursuits involves a head, that Rusty’s true significance — and true intentions — emerge. Throughout Armored Core 6’s story, these intentions are telegraphed in dialogue and fight logs. Like different FromSoftware video games, Rusty’s position on this story isn’t clear at first, however it’s in the end revealed that he’s a undercover agent working for the Rubicon Liberation Front.
Near the finish of the sport, when Rusty reappears in a brand new mech, reborn as Steel Haze Ortus, he bears a distinct emblem. The wolf is unmasked this time, and relying on sure mission selections and which playthrough gamers are on, they’ll both combat him or combat alongside him as soon as extra, with the power of the Rubiconian resistance behind Rusty and 621.
Rusty’s destiny at the finish of the sport is unclear, accurately for a person of his cool issue. But no matter whether or not Rusty survives the occasions of Armored Core 6, he’s the one who walks away clear. He’s the hero of this story — not only for his convictions and actions, however for remodeling the participant right into a hero, too.
Stay cool, Rusty.
It’s hours into the occasions of Armored Core 6: Fires of Rubicon earlier than you are feeling a way of heat. Until the mission “Operation Wallclimber,” you’re nothing however a quantity, nothing however a employed gun on the different finish of barked orders.
In the chilly metal storage that is your private home on the desolate planet of Rubicon, you’re known as “dog,” “hound,” and “merc.” Even extra dehumanizing nicknames await you later. The closest identities that your character, C4-621, has previous to “Operation Wallclimber” are “Raven,” the identification you’ve stolen, and “Gun 13,” a designation foisted upon you after you killed the man who would’ve used that identify.
But all the things modifications when Rusty of the Vespers arrives and calls you “buddy.”
[Ed. note: This story contains spoilers for Armored Core 6.]
Rusty is Armored Core 6’s most crush-worthy AC pilot. He’s effortlessly cool, and he’s launched with applicable panache: At the Wall, Rusty swoops in using his Steel Haze mech, and the digital camera pans up his spindly Nachtreiher AC legs to showcase his emblem, a muzzled wolf. Unlike the remainder of the sport’s characters, Rusty treats you with respect and camaraderie in your first battle collectively — throughout which he additionally genuinely appears involved about your well-being. Afterward, he shares personal particulars about that mission as a warning about the companies’ intentions for you, making Rusty the first character on Rubicon who appears reliable.
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24906323/rusty_v_juggernaut.jpg?resize=1920%2C1080&ssl=1)
Image: FromSoftware/Bandai Namco
Whatever spectacular feat you pull off in Armored Core 6, regardless of what number of slo-mo exploding boss battles you stroll away from, none of it should match the earned coolness of Rusty saying “I won’t miss” earlier than he skewers your shared opponent with a railgun throughout the battle in opposition to the Ice Worm.
Is it any marvel, then, that gamers have fallen in love with Rusty, envisioning him as a dashing, rebellious pilot? We by no means really see Rusty’s face in Armored Core 6, however each piece of fan artwork of the man inside Steel Haze appears to be like, to me anyway, 100% correct.
FromSoftware’s dialogue for Rusty is crafted to make you fall in love with him. He boosts you up (“Walter knows how to pick ’em”; “Glad you’re on my side”; “Stay cool, buddy”) and offers you one thing to aspire to.
“There’s no graver threat than power without purpose,” Rusty tells you throughout a mission through which he’s tasked with disposing of 621 beneath the command of his company handlers at Arquebus. While Handler Walter can compel the participant to carry out missions for his shoppers, and Ayre can nudge them towards doing the proper factor, it’s Rusty who affords 621 a path towards redemption, towards that “purpose,” towards one thing extra than simply one other job. In the chilly, callous world of Armored Core 6, that’s a uniquely humanizing factor.
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24906324/rusty_ortus.jpg?resize=1920%2C1080&ssl=1)
Image: FromSoftware/Bandai Namco
It’s not till a lot later in the sport, when the actuality of two AC pilots working for competing pursuits involves a head, that Rusty’s true significance — and true intentions — emerge. Throughout Armored Core 6’s story, these intentions are telegraphed in dialogue and fight logs. Like different FromSoftware video games, Rusty’s position on this story isn’t clear at first, however it’s in the end revealed that he’s a undercover agent working for the Rubicon Liberation Front.
Near the finish of the sport, when Rusty reappears in a brand new mech, reborn as Steel Haze Ortus, he bears a distinct emblem. The wolf is unmasked this time, and relying on sure mission selections and which playthrough gamers are on, they’ll both combat him or combat alongside him as soon as extra, with the power of the Rubiconian resistance behind Rusty and 621.
Rusty’s destiny at the finish of the sport is unclear, accurately for a person of his cool issue. But no matter whether or not Rusty survives the occasions of Armored Core 6, he’s the one who walks away clear. He’s the hero of this story — not only for his convictions and actions, however for remodeling the participant right into a hero, too.
Stay cool, Rusty.
It’s hours into the occasions of Armored Core 6: Fires of Rubicon earlier than you are feeling a way of heat. Until the mission “Operation Wallclimber,” you’re nothing however a quantity, nothing however a employed gun on the different finish of barked orders.
In the chilly metal storage that is your private home on the desolate planet of Rubicon, you’re known as “dog,” “hound,” and “merc.” Even extra dehumanizing nicknames await you later. The closest identities that your character, C4-621, has previous to “Operation Wallclimber” are “Raven,” the identification you’ve stolen, and “Gun 13,” a designation foisted upon you after you killed the man who would’ve used that identify.
But all the things modifications when Rusty of the Vespers arrives and calls you “buddy.”
[Ed. note: This story contains spoilers for Armored Core 6.]
Rusty is Armored Core 6’s most crush-worthy AC pilot. He’s effortlessly cool, and he’s launched with applicable panache: At the Wall, Rusty swoops in using his Steel Haze mech, and the digital camera pans up his spindly Nachtreiher AC legs to showcase his emblem, a muzzled wolf. Unlike the remainder of the sport’s characters, Rusty treats you with respect and camaraderie in your first battle collectively — throughout which he additionally genuinely appears involved about your well-being. Afterward, he shares personal particulars about that mission as a warning about the companies’ intentions for you, making Rusty the first character on Rubicon who appears reliable.
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24906323/rusty_v_juggernaut.jpg?resize=1920%2C1080&ssl=1)
Image: FromSoftware/Bandai Namco
Whatever spectacular feat you pull off in Armored Core 6, regardless of what number of slo-mo exploding boss battles you stroll away from, none of it should match the earned coolness of Rusty saying “I won’t miss” earlier than he skewers your shared opponent with a railgun throughout the battle in opposition to the Ice Worm.
Is it any marvel, then, that gamers have fallen in love with Rusty, envisioning him as a dashing, rebellious pilot? We by no means really see Rusty’s face in Armored Core 6, however each piece of fan artwork of the man inside Steel Haze appears to be like, to me anyway, 100% correct.
FromSoftware’s dialogue for Rusty is crafted to make you fall in love with him. He boosts you up (“Walter knows how to pick ’em”; “Glad you’re on my side”; “Stay cool, buddy”) and offers you one thing to aspire to.
“There’s no graver threat than power without purpose,” Rusty tells you throughout a mission through which he’s tasked with disposing of 621 beneath the command of his company handlers at Arquebus. While Handler Walter can compel the participant to carry out missions for his shoppers, and Ayre can nudge them towards doing the proper factor, it’s Rusty who affords 621 a path towards redemption, towards that “purpose,” towards one thing extra than simply one other job. In the chilly, callous world of Armored Core 6, that’s a uniquely humanizing factor.
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Image: FromSoftware/Bandai Namco
It’s not till a lot later in the sport, when the actuality of two AC pilots working for competing pursuits involves a head, that Rusty’s true significance — and true intentions — emerge. Throughout Armored Core 6’s story, these intentions are telegraphed in dialogue and fight logs. Like different FromSoftware video games, Rusty’s position on this story isn’t clear at first, however it’s in the end revealed that he’s a undercover agent working for the Rubicon Liberation Front.
Near the finish of the sport, when Rusty reappears in a brand new mech, reborn as Steel Haze Ortus, he bears a distinct emblem. The wolf is unmasked this time, and relying on sure mission selections and which playthrough gamers are on, they’ll both combat him or combat alongside him as soon as extra, with the power of the Rubiconian resistance behind Rusty and 621.
Rusty’s destiny at the finish of the sport is unclear, accurately for a person of his cool issue. But no matter whether or not Rusty survives the occasions of Armored Core 6, he’s the one who walks away clear. He’s the hero of this story — not only for his convictions and actions, however for remodeling the participant right into a hero, too.
Stay cool, Rusty.
It’s hours into the occasions of Armored Core 6: Fires of Rubicon earlier than you are feeling a way of heat. Until the mission “Operation Wallclimber,” you’re nothing however a quantity, nothing however a employed gun on the different finish of barked orders.
In the chilly metal storage that is your private home on the desolate planet of Rubicon, you’re known as “dog,” “hound,” and “merc.” Even extra dehumanizing nicknames await you later. The closest identities that your character, C4-621, has previous to “Operation Wallclimber” are “Raven,” the identification you’ve stolen, and “Gun 13,” a designation foisted upon you after you killed the man who would’ve used that identify.
But all the things modifications when Rusty of the Vespers arrives and calls you “buddy.”
[Ed. note: This story contains spoilers for Armored Core 6.]
Rusty is Armored Core 6’s most crush-worthy AC pilot. He’s effortlessly cool, and he’s launched with applicable panache: At the Wall, Rusty swoops in using his Steel Haze mech, and the digital camera pans up his spindly Nachtreiher AC legs to showcase his emblem, a muzzled wolf. Unlike the remainder of the sport’s characters, Rusty treats you with respect and camaraderie in your first battle collectively — throughout which he additionally genuinely appears involved about your well-being. Afterward, he shares personal particulars about that mission as a warning about the companies’ intentions for you, making Rusty the first character on Rubicon who appears reliable.
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Image: FromSoftware/Bandai Namco
Whatever spectacular feat you pull off in Armored Core 6, regardless of what number of slo-mo exploding boss battles you stroll away from, none of it should match the earned coolness of Rusty saying “I won’t miss” earlier than he skewers your shared opponent with a railgun throughout the battle in opposition to the Ice Worm.
Is it any marvel, then, that gamers have fallen in love with Rusty, envisioning him as a dashing, rebellious pilot? We by no means really see Rusty’s face in Armored Core 6, however each piece of fan artwork of the man inside Steel Haze appears to be like, to me anyway, 100% correct.
FromSoftware’s dialogue for Rusty is crafted to make you fall in love with him. He boosts you up (“Walter knows how to pick ’em”; “Glad you’re on my side”; “Stay cool, buddy”) and offers you one thing to aspire to.
“There’s no graver threat than power without purpose,” Rusty tells you throughout a mission through which he’s tasked with disposing of 621 beneath the command of his company handlers at Arquebus. While Handler Walter can compel the participant to carry out missions for his shoppers, and Ayre can nudge them towards doing the proper factor, it’s Rusty who affords 621 a path towards redemption, towards that “purpose,” towards one thing extra than simply one other job. In the chilly, callous world of Armored Core 6, that’s a uniquely humanizing factor.
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24906324/rusty_ortus.jpg?resize=1920%2C1080&ssl=1)
Image: FromSoftware/Bandai Namco
It’s not till a lot later in the sport, when the actuality of two AC pilots working for competing pursuits involves a head, that Rusty’s true significance — and true intentions — emerge. Throughout Armored Core 6’s story, these intentions are telegraphed in dialogue and fight logs. Like different FromSoftware video games, Rusty’s position on this story isn’t clear at first, however it’s in the end revealed that he’s a undercover agent working for the Rubicon Liberation Front.
Near the finish of the sport, when Rusty reappears in a brand new mech, reborn as Steel Haze Ortus, he bears a distinct emblem. The wolf is unmasked this time, and relying on sure mission selections and which playthrough gamers are on, they’ll both combat him or combat alongside him as soon as extra, with the power of the Rubiconian resistance behind Rusty and 621.
Rusty’s destiny at the finish of the sport is unclear, accurately for a person of his cool issue. But no matter whether or not Rusty survives the occasions of Armored Core 6, he’s the one who walks away clear. He’s the hero of this story — not only for his convictions and actions, however for remodeling the participant right into a hero, too.
Stay cool, Rusty.
It’s hours into the occasions of Armored Core 6: Fires of Rubicon earlier than you are feeling a way of heat. Until the mission “Operation Wallclimber,” you’re nothing however a quantity, nothing however a employed gun on the different finish of barked orders.
In the chilly metal storage that is your private home on the desolate planet of Rubicon, you’re known as “dog,” “hound,” and “merc.” Even extra dehumanizing nicknames await you later. The closest identities that your character, C4-621, has previous to “Operation Wallclimber” are “Raven,” the identification you’ve stolen, and “Gun 13,” a designation foisted upon you after you killed the man who would’ve used that identify.
But all the things modifications when Rusty of the Vespers arrives and calls you “buddy.”
[Ed. note: This story contains spoilers for Armored Core 6.]
Rusty is Armored Core 6’s most crush-worthy AC pilot. He’s effortlessly cool, and he’s launched with applicable panache: At the Wall, Rusty swoops in using his Steel Haze mech, and the digital camera pans up his spindly Nachtreiher AC legs to showcase his emblem, a muzzled wolf. Unlike the remainder of the sport’s characters, Rusty treats you with respect and camaraderie in your first battle collectively — throughout which he additionally genuinely appears involved about your well-being. Afterward, he shares personal particulars about that mission as a warning about the companies’ intentions for you, making Rusty the first character on Rubicon who appears reliable.
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24906323/rusty_v_juggernaut.jpg?resize=1920%2C1080&ssl=1)
Image: FromSoftware/Bandai Namco
Whatever spectacular feat you pull off in Armored Core 6, regardless of what number of slo-mo exploding boss battles you stroll away from, none of it should match the earned coolness of Rusty saying “I won’t miss” earlier than he skewers your shared opponent with a railgun throughout the battle in opposition to the Ice Worm.
Is it any marvel, then, that gamers have fallen in love with Rusty, envisioning him as a dashing, rebellious pilot? We by no means really see Rusty’s face in Armored Core 6, however each piece of fan artwork of the man inside Steel Haze appears to be like, to me anyway, 100% correct.
FromSoftware’s dialogue for Rusty is crafted to make you fall in love with him. He boosts you up (“Walter knows how to pick ’em”; “Glad you’re on my side”; “Stay cool, buddy”) and offers you one thing to aspire to.
“There’s no graver threat than power without purpose,” Rusty tells you throughout a mission through which he’s tasked with disposing of 621 beneath the command of his company handlers at Arquebus. While Handler Walter can compel the participant to carry out missions for his shoppers, and Ayre can nudge them towards doing the proper factor, it’s Rusty who affords 621 a path towards redemption, towards that “purpose,” towards one thing extra than simply one other job. In the chilly, callous world of Armored Core 6, that’s a uniquely humanizing factor.
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24906324/rusty_ortus.jpg?resize=1920%2C1080&ssl=1)
Image: FromSoftware/Bandai Namco
It’s not till a lot later in the sport, when the actuality of two AC pilots working for competing pursuits involves a head, that Rusty’s true significance — and true intentions — emerge. Throughout Armored Core 6’s story, these intentions are telegraphed in dialogue and fight logs. Like different FromSoftware video games, Rusty’s position on this story isn’t clear at first, however it’s in the end revealed that he’s a undercover agent working for the Rubicon Liberation Front.
Near the finish of the sport, when Rusty reappears in a brand new mech, reborn as Steel Haze Ortus, he bears a distinct emblem. The wolf is unmasked this time, and relying on sure mission selections and which playthrough gamers are on, they’ll both combat him or combat alongside him as soon as extra, with the power of the Rubiconian resistance behind Rusty and 621.
Rusty’s destiny at the finish of the sport is unclear, accurately for a person of his cool issue. But no matter whether or not Rusty survives the occasions of Armored Core 6, he’s the one who walks away clear. He’s the hero of this story — not only for his convictions and actions, however for remodeling the participant right into a hero, too.
Stay cool, Rusty.
It’s hours into the occasions of Armored Core 6: Fires of Rubicon earlier than you are feeling a way of heat. Until the mission “Operation Wallclimber,” you’re nothing however a quantity, nothing however a employed gun on the different finish of barked orders.
In the chilly metal storage that is your private home on the desolate planet of Rubicon, you’re known as “dog,” “hound,” and “merc.” Even extra dehumanizing nicknames await you later. The closest identities that your character, C4-621, has previous to “Operation Wallclimber” are “Raven,” the identification you’ve stolen, and “Gun 13,” a designation foisted upon you after you killed the man who would’ve used that identify.
But all the things modifications when Rusty of the Vespers arrives and calls you “buddy.”
[Ed. note: This story contains spoilers for Armored Core 6.]
Rusty is Armored Core 6’s most crush-worthy AC pilot. He’s effortlessly cool, and he’s launched with applicable panache: At the Wall, Rusty swoops in using his Steel Haze mech, and the digital camera pans up his spindly Nachtreiher AC legs to showcase his emblem, a muzzled wolf. Unlike the remainder of the sport’s characters, Rusty treats you with respect and camaraderie in your first battle collectively — throughout which he additionally genuinely appears involved about your well-being. Afterward, he shares personal particulars about that mission as a warning about the companies’ intentions for you, making Rusty the first character on Rubicon who appears reliable.
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24906323/rusty_v_juggernaut.jpg?resize=1920%2C1080&ssl=1)
Image: FromSoftware/Bandai Namco
Whatever spectacular feat you pull off in Armored Core 6, regardless of what number of slo-mo exploding boss battles you stroll away from, none of it should match the earned coolness of Rusty saying “I won’t miss” earlier than he skewers your shared opponent with a railgun throughout the battle in opposition to the Ice Worm.
Is it any marvel, then, that gamers have fallen in love with Rusty, envisioning him as a dashing, rebellious pilot? We by no means really see Rusty’s face in Armored Core 6, however each piece of fan artwork of the man inside Steel Haze appears to be like, to me anyway, 100% correct.
FromSoftware’s dialogue for Rusty is crafted to make you fall in love with him. He boosts you up (“Walter knows how to pick ’em”; “Glad you’re on my side”; “Stay cool, buddy”) and offers you one thing to aspire to.
“There’s no graver threat than power without purpose,” Rusty tells you throughout a mission through which he’s tasked with disposing of 621 beneath the command of his company handlers at Arquebus. While Handler Walter can compel the participant to carry out missions for his shoppers, and Ayre can nudge them towards doing the proper factor, it’s Rusty who affords 621 a path towards redemption, towards that “purpose,” towards one thing extra than simply one other job. In the chilly, callous world of Armored Core 6, that’s a uniquely humanizing factor.
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24906324/rusty_ortus.jpg?resize=1920%2C1080&ssl=1)
Image: FromSoftware/Bandai Namco
It’s not till a lot later in the sport, when the actuality of two AC pilots working for competing pursuits involves a head, that Rusty’s true significance — and true intentions — emerge. Throughout Armored Core 6’s story, these intentions are telegraphed in dialogue and fight logs. Like different FromSoftware video games, Rusty’s position on this story isn’t clear at first, however it’s in the end revealed that he’s a undercover agent working for the Rubicon Liberation Front.
Near the finish of the sport, when Rusty reappears in a brand new mech, reborn as Steel Haze Ortus, he bears a distinct emblem. The wolf is unmasked this time, and relying on sure mission selections and which playthrough gamers are on, they’ll both combat him or combat alongside him as soon as extra, with the power of the Rubiconian resistance behind Rusty and 621.
Rusty’s destiny at the finish of the sport is unclear, accurately for a person of his cool issue. But no matter whether or not Rusty survives the occasions of Armored Core 6, he’s the one who walks away clear. He’s the hero of this story — not only for his convictions and actions, however for remodeling the participant right into a hero, too.
Stay cool, Rusty.
It’s hours into the occasions of Armored Core 6: Fires of Rubicon earlier than you are feeling a way of heat. Until the mission “Operation Wallclimber,” you’re nothing however a quantity, nothing however a employed gun on the different finish of barked orders.
In the chilly metal storage that is your private home on the desolate planet of Rubicon, you’re known as “dog,” “hound,” and “merc.” Even extra dehumanizing nicknames await you later. The closest identities that your character, C4-621, has previous to “Operation Wallclimber” are “Raven,” the identification you’ve stolen, and “Gun 13,” a designation foisted upon you after you killed the man who would’ve used that identify.
But all the things modifications when Rusty of the Vespers arrives and calls you “buddy.”
[Ed. note: This story contains spoilers for Armored Core 6.]
Rusty is Armored Core 6’s most crush-worthy AC pilot. He’s effortlessly cool, and he’s launched with applicable panache: At the Wall, Rusty swoops in using his Steel Haze mech, and the digital camera pans up his spindly Nachtreiher AC legs to showcase his emblem, a muzzled wolf. Unlike the remainder of the sport’s characters, Rusty treats you with respect and camaraderie in your first battle collectively — throughout which he additionally genuinely appears involved about your well-being. Afterward, he shares personal particulars about that mission as a warning about the companies’ intentions for you, making Rusty the first character on Rubicon who appears reliable.
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24906323/rusty_v_juggernaut.jpg?resize=1920%2C1080&ssl=1)
Image: FromSoftware/Bandai Namco
Whatever spectacular feat you pull off in Armored Core 6, regardless of what number of slo-mo exploding boss battles you stroll away from, none of it should match the earned coolness of Rusty saying “I won’t miss” earlier than he skewers your shared opponent with a railgun throughout the battle in opposition to the Ice Worm.
Is it any marvel, then, that gamers have fallen in love with Rusty, envisioning him as a dashing, rebellious pilot? We by no means really see Rusty’s face in Armored Core 6, however each piece of fan artwork of the man inside Steel Haze appears to be like, to me anyway, 100% correct.
FromSoftware’s dialogue for Rusty is crafted to make you fall in love with him. He boosts you up (“Walter knows how to pick ’em”; “Glad you’re on my side”; “Stay cool, buddy”) and offers you one thing to aspire to.
“There’s no graver threat than power without purpose,” Rusty tells you throughout a mission through which he’s tasked with disposing of 621 beneath the command of his company handlers at Arquebus. While Handler Walter can compel the participant to carry out missions for his shoppers, and Ayre can nudge them towards doing the proper factor, it’s Rusty who affords 621 a path towards redemption, towards that “purpose,” towards one thing extra than simply one other job. In the chilly, callous world of Armored Core 6, that’s a uniquely humanizing factor.
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24906324/rusty_ortus.jpg?resize=1920%2C1080&ssl=1)
Image: FromSoftware/Bandai Namco
It’s not till a lot later in the sport, when the actuality of two AC pilots working for competing pursuits involves a head, that Rusty’s true significance — and true intentions — emerge. Throughout Armored Core 6’s story, these intentions are telegraphed in dialogue and fight logs. Like different FromSoftware video games, Rusty’s position on this story isn’t clear at first, however it’s in the end revealed that he’s a undercover agent working for the Rubicon Liberation Front.
Near the finish of the sport, when Rusty reappears in a brand new mech, reborn as Steel Haze Ortus, he bears a distinct emblem. The wolf is unmasked this time, and relying on sure mission selections and which playthrough gamers are on, they’ll both combat him or combat alongside him as soon as extra, with the power of the Rubiconian resistance behind Rusty and 621.
Rusty’s destiny at the finish of the sport is unclear, accurately for a person of his cool issue. But no matter whether or not Rusty survives the occasions of Armored Core 6, he’s the one who walks away clear. He’s the hero of this story — not only for his convictions and actions, however for remodeling the participant right into a hero, too.
Stay cool, Rusty.
It’s hours into the occasions of Armored Core 6: Fires of Rubicon earlier than you are feeling a way of heat. Until the mission “Operation Wallclimber,” you’re nothing however a quantity, nothing however a employed gun on the different finish of barked orders.
In the chilly metal storage that is your private home on the desolate planet of Rubicon, you’re known as “dog,” “hound,” and “merc.” Even extra dehumanizing nicknames await you later. The closest identities that your character, C4-621, has previous to “Operation Wallclimber” are “Raven,” the identification you’ve stolen, and “Gun 13,” a designation foisted upon you after you killed the man who would’ve used that identify.
But all the things modifications when Rusty of the Vespers arrives and calls you “buddy.”
[Ed. note: This story contains spoilers for Armored Core 6.]
Rusty is Armored Core 6’s most crush-worthy AC pilot. He’s effortlessly cool, and he’s launched with applicable panache: At the Wall, Rusty swoops in using his Steel Haze mech, and the digital camera pans up his spindly Nachtreiher AC legs to showcase his emblem, a muzzled wolf. Unlike the remainder of the sport’s characters, Rusty treats you with respect and camaraderie in your first battle collectively — throughout which he additionally genuinely appears involved about your well-being. Afterward, he shares personal particulars about that mission as a warning about the companies’ intentions for you, making Rusty the first character on Rubicon who appears reliable.
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24906323/rusty_v_juggernaut.jpg?resize=1920%2C1080&ssl=1)
Image: FromSoftware/Bandai Namco
Whatever spectacular feat you pull off in Armored Core 6, regardless of what number of slo-mo exploding boss battles you stroll away from, none of it should match the earned coolness of Rusty saying “I won’t miss” earlier than he skewers your shared opponent with a railgun throughout the battle in opposition to the Ice Worm.
Is it any marvel, then, that gamers have fallen in love with Rusty, envisioning him as a dashing, rebellious pilot? We by no means really see Rusty’s face in Armored Core 6, however each piece of fan artwork of the man inside Steel Haze appears to be like, to me anyway, 100% correct.
FromSoftware’s dialogue for Rusty is crafted to make you fall in love with him. He boosts you up (“Walter knows how to pick ’em”; “Glad you’re on my side”; “Stay cool, buddy”) and offers you one thing to aspire to.
“There’s no graver threat than power without purpose,” Rusty tells you throughout a mission through which he’s tasked with disposing of 621 beneath the command of his company handlers at Arquebus. While Handler Walter can compel the participant to carry out missions for his shoppers, and Ayre can nudge them towards doing the proper factor, it’s Rusty who affords 621 a path towards redemption, towards that “purpose,” towards one thing extra than simply one other job. In the chilly, callous world of Armored Core 6, that’s a uniquely humanizing factor.
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24906324/rusty_ortus.jpg?resize=1920%2C1080&ssl=1)
Image: FromSoftware/Bandai Namco
It’s not till a lot later in the sport, when the actuality of two AC pilots working for competing pursuits involves a head, that Rusty’s true significance — and true intentions — emerge. Throughout Armored Core 6’s story, these intentions are telegraphed in dialogue and fight logs. Like different FromSoftware video games, Rusty’s position on this story isn’t clear at first, however it’s in the end revealed that he’s a undercover agent working for the Rubicon Liberation Front.
Near the finish of the sport, when Rusty reappears in a brand new mech, reborn as Steel Haze Ortus, he bears a distinct emblem. The wolf is unmasked this time, and relying on sure mission selections and which playthrough gamers are on, they’ll both combat him or combat alongside him as soon as extra, with the power of the Rubiconian resistance behind Rusty and 621.
Rusty’s destiny at the finish of the sport is unclear, accurately for a person of his cool issue. But no matter whether or not Rusty survives the occasions of Armored Core 6, he’s the one who walks away clear. He’s the hero of this story — not only for his convictions and actions, however for remodeling the participant right into a hero, too.
Stay cool, Rusty.
It’s hours into the occasions of Armored Core 6: Fires of Rubicon earlier than you are feeling a way of heat. Until the mission “Operation Wallclimber,” you’re nothing however a quantity, nothing however a employed gun on the different finish of barked orders.
In the chilly metal storage that is your private home on the desolate planet of Rubicon, you’re known as “dog,” “hound,” and “merc.” Even extra dehumanizing nicknames await you later. The closest identities that your character, C4-621, has previous to “Operation Wallclimber” are “Raven,” the identification you’ve stolen, and “Gun 13,” a designation foisted upon you after you killed the man who would’ve used that identify.
But all the things modifications when Rusty of the Vespers arrives and calls you “buddy.”
[Ed. note: This story contains spoilers for Armored Core 6.]
Rusty is Armored Core 6’s most crush-worthy AC pilot. He’s effortlessly cool, and he’s launched with applicable panache: At the Wall, Rusty swoops in using his Steel Haze mech, and the digital camera pans up his spindly Nachtreiher AC legs to showcase his emblem, a muzzled wolf. Unlike the remainder of the sport’s characters, Rusty treats you with respect and camaraderie in your first battle collectively — throughout which he additionally genuinely appears involved about your well-being. Afterward, he shares personal particulars about that mission as a warning about the companies’ intentions for you, making Rusty the first character on Rubicon who appears reliable.
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24906323/rusty_v_juggernaut.jpg?resize=1920%2C1080&ssl=1)
Image: FromSoftware/Bandai Namco
Whatever spectacular feat you pull off in Armored Core 6, regardless of what number of slo-mo exploding boss battles you stroll away from, none of it should match the earned coolness of Rusty saying “I won’t miss” earlier than he skewers your shared opponent with a railgun throughout the battle in opposition to the Ice Worm.
Is it any marvel, then, that gamers have fallen in love with Rusty, envisioning him as a dashing, rebellious pilot? We by no means really see Rusty’s face in Armored Core 6, however each piece of fan artwork of the man inside Steel Haze appears to be like, to me anyway, 100% correct.
FromSoftware’s dialogue for Rusty is crafted to make you fall in love with him. He boosts you up (“Walter knows how to pick ’em”; “Glad you’re on my side”; “Stay cool, buddy”) and offers you one thing to aspire to.
“There’s no graver threat than power without purpose,” Rusty tells you throughout a mission through which he’s tasked with disposing of 621 beneath the command of his company handlers at Arquebus. While Handler Walter can compel the participant to carry out missions for his shoppers, and Ayre can nudge them towards doing the proper factor, it’s Rusty who affords 621 a path towards redemption, towards that “purpose,” towards one thing extra than simply one other job. In the chilly, callous world of Armored Core 6, that’s a uniquely humanizing factor.
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24906324/rusty_ortus.jpg?resize=1920%2C1080&ssl=1)
Image: FromSoftware/Bandai Namco
It’s not till a lot later in the sport, when the actuality of two AC pilots working for competing pursuits involves a head, that Rusty’s true significance — and true intentions — emerge. Throughout Armored Core 6’s story, these intentions are telegraphed in dialogue and fight logs. Like different FromSoftware video games, Rusty’s position on this story isn’t clear at first, however it’s in the end revealed that he’s a undercover agent working for the Rubicon Liberation Front.
Near the finish of the sport, when Rusty reappears in a brand new mech, reborn as Steel Haze Ortus, he bears a distinct emblem. The wolf is unmasked this time, and relying on sure mission selections and which playthrough gamers are on, they’ll both combat him or combat alongside him as soon as extra, with the power of the Rubiconian resistance behind Rusty and 621.
Rusty’s destiny at the finish of the sport is unclear, accurately for a person of his cool issue. But no matter whether or not Rusty survives the occasions of Armored Core 6, he’s the one who walks away clear. He’s the hero of this story — not only for his convictions and actions, however for remodeling the participant right into a hero, too.
Stay cool, Rusty.
It’s hours into the occasions of Armored Core 6: Fires of Rubicon earlier than you are feeling a way of heat. Until the mission “Operation Wallclimber,” you’re nothing however a quantity, nothing however a employed gun on the different finish of barked orders.
In the chilly metal storage that is your private home on the desolate planet of Rubicon, you’re known as “dog,” “hound,” and “merc.” Even extra dehumanizing nicknames await you later. The closest identities that your character, C4-621, has previous to “Operation Wallclimber” are “Raven,” the identification you’ve stolen, and “Gun 13,” a designation foisted upon you after you killed the man who would’ve used that identify.
But all the things modifications when Rusty of the Vespers arrives and calls you “buddy.”
[Ed. note: This story contains spoilers for Armored Core 6.]
Rusty is Armored Core 6’s most crush-worthy AC pilot. He’s effortlessly cool, and he’s launched with applicable panache: At the Wall, Rusty swoops in using his Steel Haze mech, and the digital camera pans up his spindly Nachtreiher AC legs to showcase his emblem, a muzzled wolf. Unlike the remainder of the sport’s characters, Rusty treats you with respect and camaraderie in your first battle collectively — throughout which he additionally genuinely appears involved about your well-being. Afterward, he shares personal particulars about that mission as a warning about the companies’ intentions for you, making Rusty the first character on Rubicon who appears reliable.
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24906323/rusty_v_juggernaut.jpg?resize=1920%2C1080&ssl=1)
Image: FromSoftware/Bandai Namco
Whatever spectacular feat you pull off in Armored Core 6, regardless of what number of slo-mo exploding boss battles you stroll away from, none of it should match the earned coolness of Rusty saying “I won’t miss” earlier than he skewers your shared opponent with a railgun throughout the battle in opposition to the Ice Worm.
Is it any marvel, then, that gamers have fallen in love with Rusty, envisioning him as a dashing, rebellious pilot? We by no means really see Rusty’s face in Armored Core 6, however each piece of fan artwork of the man inside Steel Haze appears to be like, to me anyway, 100% correct.
FromSoftware’s dialogue for Rusty is crafted to make you fall in love with him. He boosts you up (“Walter knows how to pick ’em”; “Glad you’re on my side”; “Stay cool, buddy”) and offers you one thing to aspire to.
“There’s no graver threat than power without purpose,” Rusty tells you throughout a mission through which he’s tasked with disposing of 621 beneath the command of his company handlers at Arquebus. While Handler Walter can compel the participant to carry out missions for his shoppers, and Ayre can nudge them towards doing the proper factor, it’s Rusty who affords 621 a path towards redemption, towards that “purpose,” towards one thing extra than simply one other job. In the chilly, callous world of Armored Core 6, that’s a uniquely humanizing factor.
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Image: FromSoftware/Bandai Namco
It’s not till a lot later in the sport, when the actuality of two AC pilots working for competing pursuits involves a head, that Rusty’s true significance — and true intentions — emerge. Throughout Armored Core 6’s story, these intentions are telegraphed in dialogue and fight logs. Like different FromSoftware video games, Rusty’s position on this story isn’t clear at first, however it’s in the end revealed that he’s a undercover agent working for the Rubicon Liberation Front.
Near the finish of the sport, when Rusty reappears in a brand new mech, reborn as Steel Haze Ortus, he bears a distinct emblem. The wolf is unmasked this time, and relying on sure mission selections and which playthrough gamers are on, they’ll both combat him or combat alongside him as soon as extra, with the power of the Rubiconian resistance behind Rusty and 621.
Rusty’s destiny at the finish of the sport is unclear, accurately for a person of his cool issue. But no matter whether or not Rusty survives the occasions of Armored Core 6, he’s the one who walks away clear. He’s the hero of this story — not only for his convictions and actions, however for remodeling the participant right into a hero, too.
Stay cool, Rusty.
It’s hours into the occasions of Armored Core 6: Fires of Rubicon earlier than you are feeling a way of heat. Until the mission “Operation Wallclimber,” you’re nothing however a quantity, nothing however a employed gun on the different finish of barked orders.
In the chilly metal storage that is your private home on the desolate planet of Rubicon, you’re known as “dog,” “hound,” and “merc.” Even extra dehumanizing nicknames await you later. The closest identities that your character, C4-621, has previous to “Operation Wallclimber” are “Raven,” the identification you’ve stolen, and “Gun 13,” a designation foisted upon you after you killed the man who would’ve used that identify.
But all the things modifications when Rusty of the Vespers arrives and calls you “buddy.”
[Ed. note: This story contains spoilers for Armored Core 6.]
Rusty is Armored Core 6’s most crush-worthy AC pilot. He’s effortlessly cool, and he’s launched with applicable panache: At the Wall, Rusty swoops in using his Steel Haze mech, and the digital camera pans up his spindly Nachtreiher AC legs to showcase his emblem, a muzzled wolf. Unlike the remainder of the sport’s characters, Rusty treats you with respect and camaraderie in your first battle collectively — throughout which he additionally genuinely appears involved about your well-being. Afterward, he shares personal particulars about that mission as a warning about the companies’ intentions for you, making Rusty the first character on Rubicon who appears reliable.
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Image: FromSoftware/Bandai Namco
Whatever spectacular feat you pull off in Armored Core 6, regardless of what number of slo-mo exploding boss battles you stroll away from, none of it should match the earned coolness of Rusty saying “I won’t miss” earlier than he skewers your shared opponent with a railgun throughout the battle in opposition to the Ice Worm.
Is it any marvel, then, that gamers have fallen in love with Rusty, envisioning him as a dashing, rebellious pilot? We by no means really see Rusty’s face in Armored Core 6, however each piece of fan artwork of the man inside Steel Haze appears to be like, to me anyway, 100% correct.
FromSoftware’s dialogue for Rusty is crafted to make you fall in love with him. He boosts you up (“Walter knows how to pick ’em”; “Glad you’re on my side”; “Stay cool, buddy”) and offers you one thing to aspire to.
“There’s no graver threat than power without purpose,” Rusty tells you throughout a mission through which he’s tasked with disposing of 621 beneath the command of his company handlers at Arquebus. While Handler Walter can compel the participant to carry out missions for his shoppers, and Ayre can nudge them towards doing the proper factor, it’s Rusty who affords 621 a path towards redemption, towards that “purpose,” towards one thing extra than simply one other job. In the chilly, callous world of Armored Core 6, that’s a uniquely humanizing factor.
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24906324/rusty_ortus.jpg?resize=1920%2C1080&ssl=1)
Image: FromSoftware/Bandai Namco
It’s not till a lot later in the sport, when the actuality of two AC pilots working for competing pursuits involves a head, that Rusty’s true significance — and true intentions — emerge. Throughout Armored Core 6’s story, these intentions are telegraphed in dialogue and fight logs. Like different FromSoftware video games, Rusty’s position on this story isn’t clear at first, however it’s in the end revealed that he’s a undercover agent working for the Rubicon Liberation Front.
Near the finish of the sport, when Rusty reappears in a brand new mech, reborn as Steel Haze Ortus, he bears a distinct emblem. The wolf is unmasked this time, and relying on sure mission selections and which playthrough gamers are on, they’ll both combat him or combat alongside him as soon as extra, with the power of the Rubiconian resistance behind Rusty and 621.
Rusty’s destiny at the finish of the sport is unclear, accurately for a person of his cool issue. But no matter whether or not Rusty survives the occasions of Armored Core 6, he’s the one who walks away clear. He’s the hero of this story — not only for his convictions and actions, however for remodeling the participant right into a hero, too.
Stay cool, Rusty.
It’s hours into the occasions of Armored Core 6: Fires of Rubicon earlier than you are feeling a way of heat. Until the mission “Operation Wallclimber,” you’re nothing however a quantity, nothing however a employed gun on the different finish of barked orders.
In the chilly metal storage that is your private home on the desolate planet of Rubicon, you’re known as “dog,” “hound,” and “merc.” Even extra dehumanizing nicknames await you later. The closest identities that your character, C4-621, has previous to “Operation Wallclimber” are “Raven,” the identification you’ve stolen, and “Gun 13,” a designation foisted upon you after you killed the man who would’ve used that identify.
But all the things modifications when Rusty of the Vespers arrives and calls you “buddy.”
[Ed. note: This story contains spoilers for Armored Core 6.]
Rusty is Armored Core 6’s most crush-worthy AC pilot. He’s effortlessly cool, and he’s launched with applicable panache: At the Wall, Rusty swoops in using his Steel Haze mech, and the digital camera pans up his spindly Nachtreiher AC legs to showcase his emblem, a muzzled wolf. Unlike the remainder of the sport’s characters, Rusty treats you with respect and camaraderie in your first battle collectively — throughout which he additionally genuinely appears involved about your well-being. Afterward, he shares personal particulars about that mission as a warning about the companies’ intentions for you, making Rusty the first character on Rubicon who appears reliable.
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24906323/rusty_v_juggernaut.jpg?resize=1920%2C1080&ssl=1)
Image: FromSoftware/Bandai Namco
Whatever spectacular feat you pull off in Armored Core 6, regardless of what number of slo-mo exploding boss battles you stroll away from, none of it should match the earned coolness of Rusty saying “I won’t miss” earlier than he skewers your shared opponent with a railgun throughout the battle in opposition to the Ice Worm.
Is it any marvel, then, that gamers have fallen in love with Rusty, envisioning him as a dashing, rebellious pilot? We by no means really see Rusty’s face in Armored Core 6, however each piece of fan artwork of the man inside Steel Haze appears to be like, to me anyway, 100% correct.
FromSoftware’s dialogue for Rusty is crafted to make you fall in love with him. He boosts you up (“Walter knows how to pick ’em”; “Glad you’re on my side”; “Stay cool, buddy”) and offers you one thing to aspire to.
“There’s no graver threat than power without purpose,” Rusty tells you throughout a mission through which he’s tasked with disposing of 621 beneath the command of his company handlers at Arquebus. While Handler Walter can compel the participant to carry out missions for his shoppers, and Ayre can nudge them towards doing the proper factor, it’s Rusty who affords 621 a path towards redemption, towards that “purpose,” towards one thing extra than simply one other job. In the chilly, callous world of Armored Core 6, that’s a uniquely humanizing factor.
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24906324/rusty_ortus.jpg?resize=1920%2C1080&ssl=1)
Image: FromSoftware/Bandai Namco
It’s not till a lot later in the sport, when the actuality of two AC pilots working for competing pursuits involves a head, that Rusty’s true significance — and true intentions — emerge. Throughout Armored Core 6’s story, these intentions are telegraphed in dialogue and fight logs. Like different FromSoftware video games, Rusty’s position on this story isn’t clear at first, however it’s in the end revealed that he’s a undercover agent working for the Rubicon Liberation Front.
Near the finish of the sport, when Rusty reappears in a brand new mech, reborn as Steel Haze Ortus, he bears a distinct emblem. The wolf is unmasked this time, and relying on sure mission selections and which playthrough gamers are on, they’ll both combat him or combat alongside him as soon as extra, with the power of the Rubiconian resistance behind Rusty and 621.
Rusty’s destiny at the finish of the sport is unclear, accurately for a person of his cool issue. But no matter whether or not Rusty survives the occasions of Armored Core 6, he’s the one who walks away clear. He’s the hero of this story — not only for his convictions and actions, however for remodeling the participant right into a hero, too.
Stay cool, Rusty.
It’s hours into the occasions of Armored Core 6: Fires of Rubicon earlier than you are feeling a way of heat. Until the mission “Operation Wallclimber,” you’re nothing however a quantity, nothing however a employed gun on the different finish of barked orders.
In the chilly metal storage that is your private home on the desolate planet of Rubicon, you’re known as “dog,” “hound,” and “merc.” Even extra dehumanizing nicknames await you later. The closest identities that your character, C4-621, has previous to “Operation Wallclimber” are “Raven,” the identification you’ve stolen, and “Gun 13,” a designation foisted upon you after you killed the man who would’ve used that identify.
But all the things modifications when Rusty of the Vespers arrives and calls you “buddy.”
[Ed. note: This story contains spoilers for Armored Core 6.]
Rusty is Armored Core 6’s most crush-worthy AC pilot. He’s effortlessly cool, and he’s launched with applicable panache: At the Wall, Rusty swoops in using his Steel Haze mech, and the digital camera pans up his spindly Nachtreiher AC legs to showcase his emblem, a muzzled wolf. Unlike the remainder of the sport’s characters, Rusty treats you with respect and camaraderie in your first battle collectively — throughout which he additionally genuinely appears involved about your well-being. Afterward, he shares personal particulars about that mission as a warning about the companies’ intentions for you, making Rusty the first character on Rubicon who appears reliable.
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24906323/rusty_v_juggernaut.jpg?resize=1920%2C1080&ssl=1)
Image: FromSoftware/Bandai Namco
Whatever spectacular feat you pull off in Armored Core 6, regardless of what number of slo-mo exploding boss battles you stroll away from, none of it should match the earned coolness of Rusty saying “I won’t miss” earlier than he skewers your shared opponent with a railgun throughout the battle in opposition to the Ice Worm.
Is it any marvel, then, that gamers have fallen in love with Rusty, envisioning him as a dashing, rebellious pilot? We by no means really see Rusty’s face in Armored Core 6, however each piece of fan artwork of the man inside Steel Haze appears to be like, to me anyway, 100% correct.
FromSoftware’s dialogue for Rusty is crafted to make you fall in love with him. He boosts you up (“Walter knows how to pick ’em”; “Glad you’re on my side”; “Stay cool, buddy”) and offers you one thing to aspire to.
“There’s no graver threat than power without purpose,” Rusty tells you throughout a mission through which he’s tasked with disposing of 621 beneath the command of his company handlers at Arquebus. While Handler Walter can compel the participant to carry out missions for his shoppers, and Ayre can nudge them towards doing the proper factor, it’s Rusty who affords 621 a path towards redemption, towards that “purpose,” towards one thing extra than simply one other job. In the chilly, callous world of Armored Core 6, that’s a uniquely humanizing factor.
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24906324/rusty_ortus.jpg?resize=1920%2C1080&ssl=1)
Image: FromSoftware/Bandai Namco
It’s not till a lot later in the sport, when the actuality of two AC pilots working for competing pursuits involves a head, that Rusty’s true significance — and true intentions — emerge. Throughout Armored Core 6’s story, these intentions are telegraphed in dialogue and fight logs. Like different FromSoftware video games, Rusty’s position on this story isn’t clear at first, however it’s in the end revealed that he’s a undercover agent working for the Rubicon Liberation Front.
Near the finish of the sport, when Rusty reappears in a brand new mech, reborn as Steel Haze Ortus, he bears a distinct emblem. The wolf is unmasked this time, and relying on sure mission selections and which playthrough gamers are on, they’ll both combat him or combat alongside him as soon as extra, with the power of the Rubiconian resistance behind Rusty and 621.
Rusty’s destiny at the finish of the sport is unclear, accurately for a person of his cool issue. But no matter whether or not Rusty survives the occasions of Armored Core 6, he’s the one who walks away clear. He’s the hero of this story — not only for his convictions and actions, however for remodeling the participant right into a hero, too.
Stay cool, Rusty.
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