Armored Core 6’s multiplayer has a feature Elden Ring sorely needs

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Armored Core 6 is right around the corner, but FromSoftware is remaining tightlipped about what we can expect from the robot game. The Dark Souls, Bloodborne, and Elden Ring maker is adding an Armored Core 6 multiplayer to the game, and it’s going to be quite different to the Souls-like genre when the Armored Core 6 release date finally arrives.

Armored Core 6 has seen FromSoftware be quite secretive with reveals, only recently releasing a story trailer to help us theorize about the world and characters, and the multiplayer portion of the mecha game is no exception. It even turns out that Armored Core 6 has a feature very similar to one from Warhammer 40k, and it’s suitably grim.

So if you’ve been asking yourself “Does Armored Core 6 have multiplayer?” then, FromSoftware has already confirmed that it does, but we’ve been told basically nothing, until now. Considering that Elden Ring “changed” FromSoftware, I really don’t quite know what to expect with AC6, especially the multiplayer portion.

It looks like physical boxes for Armored Core 6 have been spotted in Japan and shared online, giving us our first bit of information about the game’s online modes.

Armored Core 6 multiplayer will support up to six online players, which likely means we’ll be seeing three v three online matches and potentially free for all games with all our customized mechas. I’m waiting for the Fashion Core community to take off though, with everyone parading their outlandish robots around the battlefield, if I’m honest.

According to a rough machine translation of the box art, highlighted by Reddit user EntertainmentMission, the Japanese reads: “Up to six players are supported to compete in multiplayer, up to nine players are supported including