Armored Core 6: Beating Defend the Dam Complex with LOADER 4, No OS Tuning Or Repair Kits

Credit for routing this out initially goes to CattuDoggu in his own LOADER 4 run:    • Can You Beat Armored Core 6 with Load...  

I use his “defeat in detail” strategy here. My contribution was realizing it’s possible to semi-consistently kill Raven before he can use a repair kit by abusing his AI: He’ll prioritize QBing out of a missile attack above repairing, so if you time it exactly right and stagger him at his ~60% health mark, you can Pulse Blade him, launch missiles, then finish him off with the Turner while he’s trying to dodge.

Since Raven’s chip damage was the main source of unavoidable damage in CattuDoggu’s run, I figured that, with some practice against Chartreuse, it might be possible to never repair at all if I could do everything exactly right. Many, many attempts later—made worse by how inconsistent killing King is, as quite often Chartreuse will show up in less than 20 seconds, before it’s at all possible to kill him, and ruin my fun—I finally managed it.

If you’re curious, that cut you see at the 1:53 mark is me pausing for thirty seconds or so to take some deep breaths, since everything up to that point was pretty much perfect, one of those one-in-a-thousand runs, and no way was I going to squander it by choking against Chartreuse again.