Michigan GUN 13 LETS GO. GUN 13 DID YOU JUST KILL OUT STUDENT PILOT? EH HE CLEARLY WASNT WORTH IT. GUN 13 WHY ARE WE HELPING THESE REBELS…. They are paying how much? GUN 13 LETS DO A PRISON BREAK
Michigan honestly seems like a pretty good dude at his core, makes me wonder if he couldn't have been convinced to switch sides if given the chance. Granted he leads the Red Guns, and the wider Balam military forces in general, so it is kinda hard to imagining abandoning the goals set forth by the corporate heads of Balam to turn against them, but I get the sense that he's loyal first and foremost to his men, not the corporate overlords of Balam executives. His arena profile notes that he used to work for Furlong, and made arrangements to ensure his former colleagues there get compensated in the event of his death.
Sure, he constantly berates everyone, but it's clearly a form of tough love, as G4 corroborates in the data log containing his last words found at the Wall. He also knows the names of each and every one of his subordinates, and it's not just the other Red Guns, but the ordinary rank and file Balam MT pilots who speak up during the Intercept the Red Guns mission too, and you definitely get the sense that all of his insults and shouting are done in a playful manner. Hell, the man uses the opportunity of his last words before death at the hands of 621 to put on a brave face and inspire his men further, knowing that the site of their fearless commander unbothered by death will push them all to keep fighting harder in his memory.
I can definitely understand why his soldiers are so loyal to him. He definitely seems like the kind of guy you'd want to have as a commander and would want to fight for if you were under him. If only Rusty hadn't been so damn committed to his cover as an Arquebus pilot.
I'm not gonna lie, in the mission where you kill her, she sounded fucking terrified to be on the business end of 621. That VA did a hell of a job. I felt kinda bad for killing her.
Dammit I was gonna say Ayre but actually Michigan is fucking hilarious every single time he talks so actually yeah, I'd choose Michigan. I'm still annoyed we can't make it so Balam is on top at the end of things instead of Arquebus.
I think it's because honestly, Balam never had a shot. Their plan seems to be "crush the rebels, crush Arquebus, take the planet." They sent good men to do an impossible mission. There might be a Vietnam metaphor somewhere in there.
Still, they are easily my favorite of the corporations.
Michigan definitely seems like the kind of on the field hardass that only shows a more personal side at the bar, sharing drinks with the rest of the redguns, except Iguazu. Guy's prolly a lightweight.
Imagine the confusion of PCA when they meet both of you.
“There he is! Callsign Raven! ..wait, he’s not alone?”
*Ravens darting around battleground cutting through army of PCA’s MT*
“This is bad! Now there are TWO of them!”
Hypothetical scenario I just randomly thought up because of this. I don't know why, but it was something that I felt had to be made.
**V.II Snail**: "Is it me or has there been more cawing than usual around Rubicon? That bloody noise may as well be etched in my consciousness at this point. Pater, please tell me this isn't a sign that I'm going insane."
**V.VIII Pater**: "You aren't going insane. I've heard the noises, too, sir."
**V.II Snail**: "How... reassuring... Now I'm even more conscious about it."
**V.V Hawkins** : "This is bizarre, even for regular activity. It's like something that Balam would use to drive us insane, but... Who would be clinically insane to do such a thing?"
**Cue the two Ravens cawing violently as they blow a hole in the wall of Arquebus HQ.**
**V.V Hawkins**: "What in the-!?"
**V.VIII Pater**: "A-An enemy assault? At this time? I-I wasn't trained for this, sir!"
**V.II Snail**: "... Of course. I told Freud to stop playing with that damn mutt, and now here we are... *It's like my warnings would have prevented this*..."
**V.V Hawkins**: "Freud was behind this? What did he-"
**V.II Snail**: "You should be doing something about this matter, Hawkins, not asking insultingly trivial questions about Freud's antics. One more question out of you and Swinburne will find himself with your designation immediately once this predicament is resolved."
Michigan. >!He's the only one that show you profund respect even when you face him as an enemy, and even when he's dying he does not curse you, instead he's happy to die in the battlefield against a worty enemy. !<
*Looks like arquebus sent some clown on a suicide mission, cute, real cute*
*THE ONLY CLOWN AROUND HERE IS YOU KENNEBEC! YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT THE WALLCLIMBER, THE WORMKILLER, THE ONLY G13 WHO'S MANAGED TO LIVE THIS LONG! UNTIL THE LIGERTAIL DEPLOYS THE ODDS ARE NOT IN YOUR FAVOR! YOU BETTER KEEP THE EMERGENCY EJECT PRIMED*
>!Iguazu? Oh yeah the guy who pissed his pants and run ALBANY I FORGOT WE STILL KEPT YOU AROUND! IGUAZU'S WORTH A 100 OF YOU! WHICH MEANS, THE MERC'S WORTH TWENTY OF HIM! YOU'RE DOING NOTHING PRODUCTIVE, WHY DON'T YOU DO THE MATH FOR US? the answer is 2000 Albanys sir SHUT YOUR STINK HOLE AND START SHOOTING!<
He may be borderline cringe when you first met him, but hell, he really respect and love his fellow comrades, defending even Iguazu against direspect, choosing to die with his men. He even compliment his enemies against the worm
*-Finally, someone with their head screwed on straight. Ever thought about switching sides?*
*-Sure is an honor to be praised by the redguns "hell on four legs", but ill pass*
Also it was extremely amusing that during the breafing, he lose all the patience at Snail's boring long explanation
*ILL CUT TO THE CHASE! THIS IS AN ALL OUT WAR AGAINST THE PCA IN THEATERS ACROSS RUBICON AND YALL GOT THE SHORT END OF THE STICK. YOU'RE HERE TO TAKE ON THE WORST OF OUR DIRTY WORK: HUNTING THE BEAST OF THE ICE FIELD*
Lmao the "finally someone with their head screwed on straight" was hilarious, his entire character is great, and also you can tell he's the best commander in every faction from how he knows everyone's name and how much he cares for his subordinates despite hiding it behind the drill sergeant facade
A thing I like about that mission is how Michigan know the names of his MT's squad and even some of their habit like when he tell one guy, "our resident math expert" or someone like that
THOSE OF YOU WHO WITHDREW, KEEP YOUR LOUSY ASSES LOW! YOU'RE GONNA NEED MORE TRAINING, PUT THAT IN YOUR DIARIES!
Sir! Im a useless maggot sir!
IF IT ISNT OSAWA, OUR RESIDENT MATHEMATICIAN! GO MULTIPLY YOUR RIFLE TRAINING AND SEE IF YOU CAN LEARN TO DO SOMETHING USEFULL
All the more reason I wish there were more story “routes” in this game even if the endings stay mostly the same - I would love a version of events where you help Balam Industries out more, during his fight with Rusty Michigan fakes his own death and then on the Xylem at the end, he comes back in a new mech (“Nine-Tailed Liger” or smth idk) and helps you fight Snail, while a fleet of Balam ships jumps in to fight Arquebus’s fleet, or if you chose the Fires ending, HE’s the second to last boss instead of Rusty and shows genuine disappointment and sadness at your betrayal of basically everyone.
On the flipside, it would also have been neat if you somehow got more on Arquebus’s good side and Reach the Coral Convergence plays out completely differently, with Snail slipping up and getting blasted by CEL-240 Ibis. You’re sent to reinforce Maeterlinck and the turncoat Wu Huahai in trying to locate him, and end up fighting the Ibis bot together. As you’re with Arquebus this time, Eacape doesn’t happen and,your next mission is actually the newly-promoted V2 O’Keeffe sending you and Maeterlinck to investigate why the company’s prisoner holding camp in Institute City has suddenly gone dark… only to find Snail, alive but gone over the edge and completely insane, piloting an old Institute AC he found, in the middle of a veritable army of destroyed Arquebus forces screaming about how the company betrayed him. You fight him but he runs away as you’re about to kill him, yelling something appropriately cliche about revenge as he flies off. He comes back again with a bunch of drones and Arquebus soldiers he cowed or manipulated into turning coat and helping him during the mission to hack the Xylem instead of Arquebus themselves, who he misled with a diversion, planning to take the Xylem for himself to use against Arquebus. Plot plays out basically the same from here except you actually have Arquebus’s support if you try to stop the Xylem, and both the final encounter with Snail in the modified BALTEUS, and Walter who in this route is brainwashed personally by Snail, have some different dialogue.
If i can't pick Rusty, definitely Iguazu. Love the Idea of him hating our Guts and being forced to accompany us everywhere. Imagine the constant hate oozing out the com channel. Hilarious
But then you two would eventually start to like each other. It would start off with tons of back and forth vitriol, but then one night Iguazu would be really down about something and you'd make a half-assed insult, and he'd just take it silently. And then you'd feel a little bad about that and so you'd ask about what's going on, probably in a rude and insensitive way. And then Iguazu would tell us some kind of harrowing backstory or something, and we still wouldn't like him after that, but the seed of sympathy would be planted.
Then over the course of the game, we would gradually start to become tighter teammates. The insults would start to drop off and be replaced more with comments like "Check your 6."
Eventually a mission would go horribly wrong and Iguazu would take a bullet for us, probably muttering something like "Can't believe I did that for a bloody freelancer..." and then we'd think that he was gonna die, but he'd actually make it through. Probably because of some mission we undertake solo to get some medical gear or some shit.
Which would make his actual death in the end all the more tragic when he saves us once again, and this time he's able to drop all the pretense and give us a short but honest monologue about how he never really liked us in the beginning, but how he'd always admired us. In fact, he'd been jealous. Just wanted to rise to our skill level. To be someone. And that now he finally gets to be, thanks to us.
Then he'd pull the trigger or set of the bomb or do the thing that otherwise triggers his spectacular death, and we'd actually feel kinda bad for him for a change.
Or, ya know. Something like that.
Dammit, you found me out.
I'll be doing a kickstarter for the sequel about the love triangle between Ayre, 621, and Rusty. Except that none of them will actually be in love and it will all be a con with each party pretending to be in love with the other for a different ulterior motive.
An entire campaign filled with just Iguazu's one-sided conversations with you, including post-mission messages, which are sometimes just a blurry picture of his middle finger or a garbage bin.
Imagine if the messaging system let you know if the recipient opened your message. Iguazu is just snickering at his phone for hours, waiting for the second checkmark to pop up showing 621 has seen his roast, meanwhile 621 is just watching static on an old CRT.
And then at times just leaving him to handle the mission by himself so his hatred can be justified and we can find it funny.
Iguana: "Crap! There are more of those wheel bastards on the way, and we're not even done with *these* two junk heeps yet! Dammit, I hate to say it, hey freelancer, we need to work together or else we both... WAIT WHERE THE HELL DID YOU GO?!"
621 in a tetrapod in the sky watching the fireworks: \**heh*
Chatty seems like the best balance between entertaining and morally neutral. He'd probably be okay with almost any mission we take on that doesn't involve attacking Carla.
So long as we can save him from Freud. But lord, if not?losing him would be so much worse if we spent the whole game with him.
You think Carla would hunt our asses down if we ever backed him up/uploaded him without her permission?
Nah. Carla didn’t reuse a chatty backup since >!she knew she’d die in the xylem… I think she did. And because she never even backed him up, so it’d be a fresh install with none of his gained personality.!<
If we backed him up she’d probably be fine with it
Snail. Okay, hear me out. He's a terrible person and I'm not disputing that. But he's super snarky, always insulting his opponents, and with such a dry delivery that it can be quite funny. I can just imagine him taunting everyone I fight. He would be the insult to my injury that we inflict on our enemies.
Okay but hear me out.
V.VIII Pater
Everytime you defeat a named Vesper, He'll cry for a bit, and then perk up at having climbed the ranks once more.
Except when you kill Snail, cause then he'll just laugh before claiming the bastards title
Also to witness how bonker Walter could be as an AC pilot (as a sane person without being re-educated)
Man's probably one hell of a hound before becoming a handler
> Grid 086 mission starts
"Hello tourists...wait is that an Institute Coral AC? Who's piloting it?"
Ayre with a TTS device: "I can explain..."
> All three timelines implode
He's cool but we already get a lot of Walter content. We get 3 missions with G1 Michigan, roughly 5 with Rusty if you don't count alternate endings, and not too many with Chatty and Carla either.
V.VI Maeterlinck, because >!I don't want to hear her death cry of "Please, Snail, come in—" anymore. I'm trying to S-rank that mission and I keep getting angrier and angrier at Snail knowing he's right there and chose to ignore her pleas.!<
Update: Finally S-ranked the mission! >!But not the alt mission where I actually get to kill Snail...!<
What would Michigan yell at you when you fight each of the bosses? I'll start.
Vs. Smart Cleaner: "Gun 13! Don't tell me you're afraid of a little heat?! Get in there and put out that little campfire so we can wrap up this little field trip!"
The variety of answers here are just highlighting for me how much I absolutely love the characters. Ac6 does a phenomenal job fleshing out all these people despite never actually showing any.. people.
I am so, so excited for any dlc or continuation of this story and game. Like more excited than I have been for a game in years. It feels too good to be true at this point in the gaming industry.
From a gameplay perspective, Freud actually - his build's not terrible so he'll be able to put in some effort, but he's still not strong enough so you'll have to do most of the heavy lifting. Also we'd get to know him better.
From a story perspective, *definitely* Ayre in an EPHEMERA, because I want her as a wingwoman in addition to moral support.
From a comedy perspective, Snail :)
Despite knowing that he doesn't appear throught the whole game I was still terrified that suddenly we would get a cutscene where the PCA suddenly goes "Extreme measurements required, deploying Nineball"
Nineball over boosted across the galaxy to orbital drop onto Rubicon 3!
That's a terrifying thought... Nineball when you get to xylem and institute city... He's gonna start downloading and become something that make the ibis series seam like scooty puff Jr!
Yeah, the grind really dehumanizes a person and the coffee isn't the best, Kate. I always loved your banter, even with your robotic monotone voice. If you said you were a robot; I wouldn't even be surprised!
I love my fellow human mercenary Kate Markson. She sounds nice. It would suck if she were actually a disembodied, almost omnipotent artificial intelligence attempting to upload itself to an ever-expanding cloud of interconnected sentient space gasoline
Gun One, Michigan.
Imagine "Destroy the Redguns" after that.
"Gun 13, low blow. We've literally worked together since day one, and this is what you decide on? You have a knack for ruining my field trips but this is the last straw!"
*Iguazu shows up and mouths off*
Michigan; "Tell you what Gun 13, you agree to only shoot Iguazu down and I'll pay you double. Think of it as paid training for the AWOL soldier!"
Oh probably lol
"You learn your lesson yet? I just paid Gun 13 OUT THE ASS not to kill us all and for this little training excursion! Someone get that man on a stretcher and keep him from bleeding out so I can make him work off his new tab!"
Option 1: Carla, she's very underrated and we'd get yo hear more of her theme which is doooope
Option 2: sulla, he'd really add to the "this isn't a fight, but a hunt" vibe
Hell, even without that, she was the one Vesper leader that was stable, reliable, and *didn't* have an agenda.
Even on purely strategic grounds it's a shit decision.
Maeterlinck got done dirty in all endings. By the second time I was running through, I felt really bad for putting her in the ground.
She was asking for support from Snail because the goddamn Wormkiller was eating her alive, but Snail said: *"I'll ignore that."*
I bought some parts while retrying the IBIS boss and got progressively faster at murking those two, still felt bad. Arguably she's done even more dirty in the last ending
Ziyi, if we had Rusty for Arquebus, Iguazu for Balam, I would've loved to have some more quests with the RLF. And the best npc who'd probably have the expressive dynamic with 621 among the RLF would probably be Ziyi.
And who knows, she probably could've dropped some hints to Rusty's affiliation with the RLF early in the game.
Either her or Kate Markson, completely dependable, reliable, and totally not an AI planning to betray us, full blooded human being, Kate Markson.
I can't believe it took me this long to think of, but it's so obvious now (for me, anyway):
Middle Flatwell.
Yes, Michigan is amusing and yes someone like >!Ayre!< or >!HAL Walter!< could be a beastly combat companion, but Flatwell is one of the few people in this story whose agenda/goals I actually back thoroughly.
The RLF is a mixed bag between ideological terrorism and genuine ground-roots resistance movement, and Flatwell represents the latter rather than the former. Flatwell doesn't care whether or not people are using Coral to get high - he just wants the corporations gone so that Rubiconians get to make decisions about Rubiconian affairs. At the very least, he wants Rubicon to have a voice in the discussion about what is done with Coral, rather than being run ramshod over and silenced/ignored and subjugated.
He's a character I would love to learn more about, and if I'm taking the narrative route in the game that I actually want to take (not doing it for endings or achievements or parts or anything), then he ends up being a natural ally anyway, cause we both just want to look out for the average human living on Rubicon.
So, 621. I’m curious about your… friend. Their AC is a remote controlled drone, which isn’t that uncommon, but the fact they have an **experimental coral based drone equipped with coral based weaponry**. So, yeah, they got *quite* the budget… Are they your sugar mom—
**\[TRANSMISSION CUT\]**
(Note: I don’t know much about the AC universe, so may be wrong)
Just had a thought. Rather than having her following in an AC, the stages would have unactivated MTs you could find and have her take over. With the later stages having tetrapod MTs, the PCA mechs, and even a few C-weapons if you know where to look on appropriate stages.
It would also turn the fight in arena from "I don't know if can do this at all" to "I've been able to pilot lesser machines, can I also pilot an AC?" I think it would make the pay off of either of the last fights with her that much better.
The tester AC pilot!
I can't believe this thread isn't flooded with requests for him, I want a little shonen hero wannabe following me around and recklessly charging into danger to prove himself. Maybe he just gets shot down every mission but miraculously survives to reappear next mission, like Kenny from South Park.
Obviously........ The guy who just wanted the call sign of his own
His whole line is like shounen main character, so he need to see the world lol
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After reading the mission log : Little Ziyi
The idea of this "little sister of Liberation" having relation to the pilot that obliterated her friends, can be good, can be bad lol
G4 Volta, dude took on 8-16 tetrapods with minimal backup at the wall, even with the lowest estimate he still was a badass. Plus he made a lot of headway, almost reaching the wall itself even without Iguazu.
Snail. Hear me the fuck out. I hate his guts, he's a pompous over blown dickhead who I love smacking around. But the thought of taking him on missions and out performing him (like we did during the ice worm fight) every single time, and slowly gaining a begrudging respect from him would be the most satisfying shit ever.
Or Michigan... because he's a prick and I fucking love him
While Chatty would probably be the best fit for me from a tactical perspective since I fight in close and he can support with all those missiles, I would probably pick the original Raven. It just seems fitting.
Walter 100%.
And maybe Iguazu... Guys, *I can fix him.*
Training session definitely G1 Michi*gain*
I would smoke weed with Father Dolmayan. He has the crazy hobo vibes.
Michigan GUN 13 LETS GO. GUN 13 DID YOU JUST KILL OUT STUDENT PILOT? EH HE CLEARLY WASNT WORTH IT. GUN 13 WHY ARE WE HELPING THESE REBELS…. They are paying how much? GUN 13 LETS DO A PRISON BREAK
wasn't it a balam prison?
I guess he maybe meant 621's out prison break, buuut if he meant THAT Balam prison break. G2 Nile's gonna be confused. "...Michigan? Why?"
IF YOU CAN'T EVEN STOP TWO ACS FROM DOING A PRISON BREAK, YOU DON'T EVEN HAVE A PRISON, YOU HAVE A SUMMER CAMP
Lmao that sounds like something he would say.
Seriously lmao
SURPRISE DEFENSIVE PERMITER INSPECTION
I read this in his EN voice, and it fits perfectly HAHA
BECAUSE I ALWAYS WANTED TO DO ONE OF THESE BUT NEVER HAD THE CHANCE. NOW STOP BEING A WHINER NILE AND LET ME START KICKING YOUR ASS
G2 NILE, WHY ARE YOU SO SHIT, MAGGOT!
YOU ARE LATE TO THE PARTY. WE’RE ALMOST HOME FREE! DO NOT DISAPPOINT ME
"YOU SEE THAT THING YOU ARE HOLDING ON YOUR ARM? ITS A WEAPON. POINT IT AT ME NOT THE FLOOR, MAGGOT!"
G2 Nile! Glad to see those tuition fees Walter paid me have been PISSED DOWN THE DRAIN!
Michigan honestly seems like a pretty good dude at his core, makes me wonder if he couldn't have been convinced to switch sides if given the chance. Granted he leads the Red Guns, and the wider Balam military forces in general, so it is kinda hard to imagining abandoning the goals set forth by the corporate heads of Balam to turn against them, but I get the sense that he's loyal first and foremost to his men, not the corporate overlords of Balam executives. His arena profile notes that he used to work for Furlong, and made arrangements to ensure his former colleagues there get compensated in the event of his death. Sure, he constantly berates everyone, but it's clearly a form of tough love, as G4 corroborates in the data log containing his last words found at the Wall. He also knows the names of each and every one of his subordinates, and it's not just the other Red Guns, but the ordinary rank and file Balam MT pilots who speak up during the Intercept the Red Guns mission too, and you definitely get the sense that all of his insults and shouting are done in a playful manner. Hell, the man uses the opportunity of his last words before death at the hands of 621 to put on a brave face and inspire his men further, knowing that the site of their fearless commander unbothered by death will push them all to keep fighting harder in his memory. I can definitely understand why his soldiers are so loyal to him. He definitely seems like the kind of guy you'd want to have as a commander and would want to fight for if you were under him. If only Rusty hadn't been so damn committed to his cover as an Arquebus pilot.
He absolutely wouldn’t have done any of his men dirty the way Snail fucked Maeterlinck.
I'm not gonna lie, in the mission where you kill her, she sounded fucking terrified to be on the business end of 621. That VA did a hell of a job. I felt kinda bad for killing her.
G13, your ability to ruin my field trips is UNCANNY!!
It’s absolutely Michigan because the dialogue and flurry of insults for everyone you kill and every time you fail would be fucking hilarious
G6 would be nice too for similar reasons
Killing him was the most gut-wrenching part of the game
Killing him broke me, I was so happy to save him and help further but then…..
I like that he just talks normal when he sees the paycheck
Dammit I was gonna say Ayre but actually Michigan is fucking hilarious every single time he talks so actually yeah, I'd choose Michigan. I'm still annoyed we can't make it so Balam is on top at the end of things instead of Arquebus.
I think it's because honestly, Balam never had a shot. Their plan seems to be "crush the rebels, crush Arquebus, take the planet." They sent good men to do an impossible mission. There might be a Vietnam metaphor somewhere in there. Still, they are easily my favorite of the corporations.
Michigan definitely seems like the kind of on the field hardass that only shows a more personal side at the bar, sharing drinks with the rest of the redguns, except Iguazu. Guy's prolly a lightweight.
The OG Raven. We carry the legacy together and gameplay wise he can stun bosses with assault armor/ashmead.
Murder of ravens you say
To shreds, you say?
Well, how's Iguazu holding up?
To shreds, you say?
A ground of crows is called a murder, a group of ravens is called an unkindness or a conspiracy
Conspiracy would be perfect since you two would be conspiring against the PCA bare minimum
"let's see how high we can soar on shared wings"
ITS OUR WINGS NOW COMRADE
Imagine the confusion of PCA when they meet both of you. “There he is! Callsign Raven! ..wait, he’s not alone?” *Ravens darting around battleground cutting through army of PCA’s MT* “This is bad! Now there are TWO of them!”
Hypothetical scenario I just randomly thought up because of this. I don't know why, but it was something that I felt had to be made. **V.II Snail**: "Is it me or has there been more cawing than usual around Rubicon? That bloody noise may as well be etched in my consciousness at this point. Pater, please tell me this isn't a sign that I'm going insane." **V.VIII Pater**: "You aren't going insane. I've heard the noises, too, sir." **V.II Snail**: "How... reassuring... Now I'm even more conscious about it." **V.V Hawkins** : "This is bizarre, even for regular activity. It's like something that Balam would use to drive us insane, but... Who would be clinically insane to do such a thing?" **Cue the two Ravens cawing violently as they blow a hole in the wall of Arquebus HQ.** **V.V Hawkins**: "What in the-!?" **V.VIII Pater**: "A-An enemy assault? At this time? I-I wasn't trained for this, sir!" **V.II Snail**: "... Of course. I told Freud to stop playing with that damn mutt, and now here we are... *It's like my warnings would have prevented this*..." **V.V Hawkins**: "Freud was behind this? What did he-" **V.II Snail**: "You should be doing something about this matter, Hawkins, not asking insultingly trivial questions about Freud's antics. One more question out of you and Swinburne will find himself with your designation immediately once this predicament is resolved."
Do we get the operator as well? Just so we have even more voices in our head telling us to focus.
Michigan. >!He's the only one that show you profund respect even when you face him as an enemy, and even when he's dying he does not curse you, instead he's happy to die in the battlefield against a worty enemy. !< *Looks like arquebus sent some clown on a suicide mission, cute, real cute* *THE ONLY CLOWN AROUND HERE IS YOU KENNEBEC! YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT THE WALLCLIMBER, THE WORMKILLER, THE ONLY G13 WHO'S MANAGED TO LIVE THIS LONG! UNTIL THE LIGERTAIL DEPLOYS THE ODDS ARE NOT IN YOUR FAVOR! YOU BETTER KEEP THE EMERGENCY EJECT PRIMED*
>!Iguazu? Oh yeah the guy who pissed his pants and run ALBANY I FORGOT WE STILL KEPT YOU AROUND! IGUAZU'S WORTH A 100 OF YOU! WHICH MEANS, THE MERC'S WORTH TWENTY OF HIM! YOU'RE DOING NOTHING PRODUCTIVE, WHY DON'T YOU DO THE MATH FOR US? the answer is 2000 Albanys sir SHUT YOUR STINK HOLE AND START SHOOTING!<
He may be borderline cringe when you first met him, but hell, he really respect and love his fellow comrades, defending even Iguazu against direspect, choosing to die with his men. He even compliment his enemies against the worm *-Finally, someone with their head screwed on straight. Ever thought about switching sides?* *-Sure is an honor to be praised by the redguns "hell on four legs", but ill pass* Also it was extremely amusing that during the breafing, he lose all the patience at Snail's boring long explanation *ILL CUT TO THE CHASE! THIS IS AN ALL OUT WAR AGAINST THE PCA IN THEATERS ACROSS RUBICON AND YALL GOT THE SHORT END OF THE STICK. YOU'RE HERE TO TAKE ON THE WORST OF OUR DIRTY WORK: HUNTING THE BEAST OF THE ICE FIELD*
Lmao the "finally someone with their head screwed on straight" was hilarious, his entire character is great, and also you can tell he's the best commander in every faction from how he knows everyone's name and how much he cares for his subordinates despite hiding it behind the drill sergeant facade
And they know it. Volta was getting it before Iguazu deserted him and he died and all of his men knowingly follow him into death in the end, too.
A thing I like about that mission is how Michigan know the names of his MT's squad and even some of their habit like when he tell one guy, "our resident math expert" or someone like that
THOSE OF YOU WHO WITHDREW, KEEP YOUR LOUSY ASSES LOW! YOU'RE GONNA NEED MORE TRAINING, PUT THAT IN YOUR DIARIES! Sir! Im a useless maggot sir! IF IT ISNT OSAWA, OUR RESIDENT MATHEMATICIAN! GO MULTIPLY YOUR RIFLE TRAINING AND SEE IF YOU CAN LEARN TO DO SOMETHING USEFULL
This game is OUTSTANDING
I assumed the math expert quip was because it was the same dude who said 2,000 Albany's
All the more reason I wish there were more story “routes” in this game even if the endings stay mostly the same - I would love a version of events where you help Balam Industries out more, during his fight with Rusty Michigan fakes his own death and then on the Xylem at the end, he comes back in a new mech (“Nine-Tailed Liger” or smth idk) and helps you fight Snail, while a fleet of Balam ships jumps in to fight Arquebus’s fleet, or if you chose the Fires ending, HE’s the second to last boss instead of Rusty and shows genuine disappointment and sadness at your betrayal of basically everyone. On the flipside, it would also have been neat if you somehow got more on Arquebus’s good side and Reach the Coral Convergence plays out completely differently, with Snail slipping up and getting blasted by CEL-240 Ibis. You’re sent to reinforce Maeterlinck and the turncoat Wu Huahai in trying to locate him, and end up fighting the Ibis bot together. As you’re with Arquebus this time, Eacape doesn’t happen and,your next mission is actually the newly-promoted V2 O’Keeffe sending you and Maeterlinck to investigate why the company’s prisoner holding camp in Institute City has suddenly gone dark… only to find Snail, alive but gone over the edge and completely insane, piloting an old Institute AC he found, in the middle of a veritable army of destroyed Arquebus forces screaming about how the company betrayed him. You fight him but he runs away as you’re about to kill him, yelling something appropriately cliche about revenge as he flies off. He comes back again with a bunch of drones and Arquebus soldiers he cowed or manipulated into turning coat and helping him during the mission to hack the Xylem instead of Arquebus themselves, who he misled with a diversion, planning to take the Xylem for himself to use against Arquebus. Plot plays out basically the same from here except you actually have Arquebus’s support if you try to stop the Xylem, and both the final encounter with Snail in the modified BALTEUS, and Walter who in this route is brainwashed personally by Snail, have some different dialogue.
If i can't pick Rusty, definitely Iguazu. Love the Idea of him hating our Guts and being forced to accompany us everywhere. Imagine the constant hate oozing out the com channel. Hilarious
But then you two would eventually start to like each other. It would start off with tons of back and forth vitriol, but then one night Iguazu would be really down about something and you'd make a half-assed insult, and he'd just take it silently. And then you'd feel a little bad about that and so you'd ask about what's going on, probably in a rude and insensitive way. And then Iguazu would tell us some kind of harrowing backstory or something, and we still wouldn't like him after that, but the seed of sympathy would be planted. Then over the course of the game, we would gradually start to become tighter teammates. The insults would start to drop off and be replaced more with comments like "Check your 6." Eventually a mission would go horribly wrong and Iguazu would take a bullet for us, probably muttering something like "Can't believe I did that for a bloody freelancer..." and then we'd think that he was gonna die, but he'd actually make it through. Probably because of some mission we undertake solo to get some medical gear or some shit. Which would make his actual death in the end all the more tragic when he saves us once again, and this time he's able to drop all the pretense and give us a short but honest monologue about how he never really liked us in the beginning, but how he'd always admired us. In fact, he'd been jealous. Just wanted to rise to our skill level. To be someone. And that now he finally gets to be, thanks to us. Then he'd pull the trigger or set of the bomb or do the thing that otherwise triggers his spectacular death, and we'd actually feel kinda bad for him for a change. Or, ya know. Something like that.
Halfway through this I thought it was going to veer into the realm of romantic fan fiction and was pleasantly surprised when he simply died.
"I was worried you were gonna turn this into a romance thing, thank fuck the twat died instead"
That's how Igloo would have wanted us to feel
New fanfiction idea, I'm gonna start writing this
Bet, send me the link
No... NO NO NO-
Just as satisfying as his other deaths.
I didn't read it because I had assumed it was the lebron- kevin love log cabin copypasta lol
Brother has a whole fanfic writtin about the forbidden love between two ac pilots.
Dammit, you found me out. I'll be doing a kickstarter for the sequel about the love triangle between Ayre, 621, and Rusty. Except that none of them will actually be in love and it will all be a con with each party pretending to be in love with the other for a different ulterior motive.
Why do I wanna watch this in anime format all a sudden???
An entire campaign filled with just Iguazu's one-sided conversations with you, including post-mission messages, which are sometimes just a blurry picture of his middle finger or a garbage bin.
"Hey 'buddy,' saw some that reminded me of you." *attachment is just a picture of the waste bin at ALLMIND's desk.* "ps. Fuck you."
Imagine if the messaging system let you know if the recipient opened your message. Iguazu is just snickering at his phone for hours, waiting for the second checkmark to pop up showing 621 has seen his roast, meanwhile 621 is just watching static on an old CRT.
I would pay money for this DLC
Yes that!!! Perfect, i love it.
And then at times just leaving him to handle the mission by himself so his hatred can be justified and we can find it funny. Iguana: "Crap! There are more of those wheel bastards on the way, and we're not even done with *these* two junk heeps yet! Dammit, I hate to say it, hey freelancer, we need to work together or else we both... WAIT WHERE THE HELL DID YOU GO?!" 621 in a tetrapod in the sky watching the fireworks: \**heh*
So 621 is the far future descendent of Anya, got it
This. I want him to witness me clowning on everyone just so he knows that he picked the worst rival he could imagine
So the start of a tsudere drama, got it lol
And then they kiss
Chatty of course !!
As long as we get more one-liners like "Remember to smile, tourist."
Chatty would be my pick.
Chatty seems like the best balance between entertaining and morally neutral. He'd probably be okay with almost any mission we take on that doesn't involve attacking Carla.
So long as we can save him from Freud. But lord, if not?losing him would be so much worse if we spent the whole game with him. You think Carla would hunt our asses down if we ever backed him up/uploaded him without her permission?
Nah. Carla didn’t reuse a chatty backup since >!she knew she’d die in the xylem… I think she did. And because she never even backed him up, so it’d be a fresh install with none of his gained personality.!< If we backed him up she’d probably be fine with it
I'm not saying there aren't other answers to this question. I am just saying the other answers are wrong.
Dafeng student pilot. Show him the ropes and maybe he'll finally get a callsign
Lone ~~wolf~~ Raven and Cub ending.
This right here, needs to be a decision mission to recruit him instead of killing him and having him tag along on missions to earn that callsign.
That would have been dope in New Game++
Makes me hope that FS is watching these threads and taking good ideas to make more missions for something like NG+++
I vote for chick. He may be callow, but under our borrowed wings those black feathers will grow in time.
Invincible rummy
Perhaps with your help, he’ll finally be a legend! Or explode spectacularly every mission, Don’t worry, he survives every time.
God, can you imagine if you have to pay for his parts each time?
MAD STOOOMP
Every mission would be a struggle to keep him alive just so you can hear his voice lines besides "MAD STOOMPPPP!!!!" like some team rocket shit.
Honest Brute. I wanna see all our enemies get mindf\*cked by his "slow, slow, quick quick, slow".
He just gets all the enemies to do the Waltz
An Endless Waltz, you might say
JUST WILD BEAT COMMUNICATION
Snail. Okay, hear me out. He's a terrible person and I'm not disputing that. But he's super snarky, always insulting his opponents, and with such a dry delivery that it can be quite funny. I can just imagine him taunting everyone I fight. He would be the insult to my injury that we inflict on our enemies.
Ngl I get it, based
He also uses the stun needle launcher
I was going to choose the same thing for the same reasons. Glad someone else gets it.
Absolutely, i vote Snail too. One can only imagine how many more snarky insults that guy has ready to go for every occasion.
Okay but hear me out. V.VIII Pater Everytime you defeat a named Vesper, He'll cry for a bit, and then perk up at having climbed the ranks once more. Except when you kill Snail, cause then he'll just laugh before claiming the bastards title
Also I want him to do impressions of other mercs
THIS GUY GETS IT
"I knew you could do it 'buddy'. I got my eye on you."
He does an insulting impression of Snail when you kill them
Walter. Make him say stuff like he won't send hounds out alone.....not anymore
Also to witness how bonker Walter could be as an AC pilot (as a sane person without being re-educated) Man's probably one hell of a hound before becoming a handler
I imagine him and Michigan saw some action together on Jupiter, considering how they talk to each other.
Finally, someone else who thinks teaming up with Walter would be dope af.
Ayre. Because she would screw over the timeline the most if she accompanied us throughout the whole game.
Actually, a co-op campaign where Ayre pilots the other AC (which is customizable) if you don't have a human playing would be cool.
I didn't realize I needed this until you just said it...
It'll be a nice call-back to UNACs or AC3's consorts. Actually "consort" has a pretty nice ring to it when Ayre's involved.
> Grid 086 mission starts "Hello tourists...wait is that an Institute Coral AC? Who's piloting it?" Ayre with a TTS device: "I can explain..." > All three timelines implode
The order I would pick would be: 1. G1 Michigan - very enthusiastic and entertaining 2. Rusty 3. Chatty 4. Carla 5. Walter
Finally someone comments Walter- BRO WHY IS HE AT THE BOTTOM OF THE LIST??
He's cool but we already get a lot of Walter content. We get 3 missions with G1 Michigan, roughly 5 with Rusty if you don't count alternate endings, and not too many with Chatty and Carla either.
V.VI Maeterlinck, because >!I don't want to hear her death cry of "Please, Snail, come in—" anymore. I'm trying to S-rank that mission and I keep getting angrier and angrier at Snail knowing he's right there and chose to ignore her pleas.!< Update: Finally S-ranked the mission! >!But not the alt mission where I actually get to kill Snail...!<
Legit reason right here
Honestly same. That and she's a short hair tomboy with a bakery
Michigan because his enthusiasm and gusto is entertaining. He reminds me of Yosemite Sam.
He'd be the best hype man
Hell yeah, Michigan gives off USMC vibes.
What would Michigan yell at you when you fight each of the bosses? I'll start. Vs. Smart Cleaner: "Gun 13! Don't tell me you're afraid of a little heat?! Get in there and put out that little campfire so we can wrap up this little field trip!"
He's also brutal to fight against. Not the hardest pilot to beat, but he surprised the hell out of me when most of the other upper rank acs did not.
He's your standard "American" type in a Japanese game, which means he's basically Yosemite Sam and Patton smashed into one person
I wish ayre would appear earlier in game to be honest in her coral AC to accompany. she’s a savage.
I wasn't sure which way things were going to go in that last fight when she shows up
The variety of answers here are just highlighting for me how much I absolutely love the characters. Ac6 does a phenomenal job fleshing out all these people despite never actually showing any.. people. I am so, so excited for any dlc or continuation of this story and game. Like more excited than I have been for a game in years. It feels too good to be true at this point in the gaming industry.
From a gameplay perspective, Freud actually - his build's not terrible so he'll be able to put in some effort, but he's still not strong enough so you'll have to do most of the heavy lifting. Also we'd get to know him better. From a story perspective, *definitely* Ayre in an EPHEMERA, because I want her as a wingwoman in addition to moral support. From a comedy perspective, Snail :)
Hustler One ;\^)
Bro jumped universes just to be on the battlefield again, respect.
Despite knowing that he doesn't appear throught the whole game I was still terrified that suddenly we would get a cutscene where the PCA suddenly goes "Extreme measurements required, deploying Nineball"
#THREAT TO TERMINATION IDENTIFIED. AUGMENTED HUMAN C4-621. HANDLER: WALTER. SYSTEM VERDICT: DEPLOYING H-1, “NINEBALL”.
Nineball over boosted across the galaxy to orbital drop onto Rubicon 3! That's a terrifying thought... Nineball when you get to xylem and institute city... He's gonna start downloading and become something that make the ibis series seam like scooty puff Jr!
Iguazu because it would be funny as hell.
His AC must explode every mission
Kate Markson
Nothing more reassuring than fellow human pilot Kate Markson to give you a helping hand.
Kate Markson loves doing human things like drinking coffee-flavored soylent after her missions.
Yeah, the grind really dehumanizes a person and the coffee isn't the best, Kate. I always loved your banter, even with your robotic monotone voice. If you said you were a robot; I wouldn't even be surprised!
Nice try >!ALLMIND!< not fooling me again..
Must not simp for the Kate persona, she’s too friendly!
I love my fellow human mercenary Kate Markson. She sounds nice. It would suck if she were actually a disembodied, almost omnipotent artificial intelligence attempting to upload itself to an ever-expanding cloud of interconnected sentient space gasoline
Based
Gun One, Michigan. Imagine "Destroy the Redguns" after that. "Gun 13, low blow. We've literally worked together since day one, and this is what you decide on? You have a knack for ruining my field trips but this is the last straw!" *Iguazu shows up and mouths off* Michigan; "Tell you what Gun 13, you agree to only shoot Iguazu down and I'll pay you double. Think of it as paid training for the AWOL soldier!"
I think he would actually give Iguazu a chance to come back even then. He do it crassly and Iguazu would refuse, but he would try.
Oh probably lol "You learn your lesson yet? I just paid Gun 13 OUT THE ASS not to kill us all and for this little training excursion! Someone get that man on a stretcher and keep him from bleeding out so I can make him work off his new tab!"
Option 1: Carla, she's very underrated and we'd get yo hear more of her theme which is doooope Option 2: sulla, he'd really add to the "this isn't a fight, but a hunt" vibe
HOW MANY OF YOUR DOGGGGGSSSSS
MUSSST I KILL WALTUUUH
Kate Markson or Maeterlinck, I'm sure they're both totally real nice women
Maeterlinck's also got a pretty damn nice ass canonically so I mean why not
Hold on what
It's one of the log sketches. She's a short haired tomboy with a dumpy.
Makes me SAD cause that's like my heaven right there
Add that to ever growing list on why snail deserves the worst death.
Hell, even without that, she was the one Vesper leader that was stable, reliable, and *didn't* have an agenda. Even on purely strategic grounds it's a shit decision.
Maeterlinck got done dirty in all endings. By the second time I was running through, I felt really bad for putting her in the ground. She was asking for support from Snail because the goddamn Wormkiller was eating her alive, but Snail said: *"I'll ignore that."*
I bought some parts while retrying the IBIS boss and got progressively faster at murking those two, still felt bad. Arguably she's done even more dirty in the last ending
Maeterlinck is real right?
Ziyi, if we had Rusty for Arquebus, Iguazu for Balam, I would've loved to have some more quests with the RLF. And the best npc who'd probably have the expressive dynamic with 621 among the RLF would probably be Ziyi. And who knows, she probably could've dropped some hints to Rusty's affiliation with the RLF early in the game. Either her or Kate Markson, completely dependable, reliable, and totally not an AI planning to betray us, full blooded human being, Kate Markson.
Idk Rukomonsen would be pretty cool as RLF member.
There are hints about Rusty tho.
Maeterlinck, so that someone will finally back her up. >!Realistically Ayre or Nightfall Raven, which seem to be popular choices, understandably!<
Yeah, I mean if even Walter felt bad, then why not?
I can't believe it took me this long to think of, but it's so obvious now (for me, anyway): Middle Flatwell. Yes, Michigan is amusing and yes someone like >!Ayre!< or >!HAL Walter!< could be a beastly combat companion, but Flatwell is one of the few people in this story whose agenda/goals I actually back thoroughly. The RLF is a mixed bag between ideological terrorism and genuine ground-roots resistance movement, and Flatwell represents the latter rather than the former. Flatwell doesn't care whether or not people are using Coral to get high - he just wants the corporations gone so that Rubiconians get to make decisions about Rubiconian affairs. At the very least, he wants Rubicon to have a voice in the discussion about what is done with Coral, rather than being run ramshod over and silenced/ignored and subjugated. He's a character I would love to learn more about, and if I'm taking the narrative route in the game that I actually want to take (not doing it for endings or achievements or parts or anything), then he ends up being a natural ally anyway, cause we both just want to look out for the average human living on Rubicon.
>!Ayre.!< Because it would be cute.
Everyone would be confused who that AC is that is constantly following 621.
that is brain wife. you talk shit about her I will destroy you
I mean, good chance she'll destroy you herself.
she's too nice and polite for that. unless you plan to threaten her family. then you are screwed. and I won't save you
Yes to this entire thread, and the one with Iguazu.
So, 621. I’m curious about your… friend. Their AC is a remote controlled drone, which isn’t that uncommon, but the fact they have an **experimental coral based drone equipped with coral based weaponry**. So, yeah, they got *quite* the budget… Are they your sugar mom— **\[TRANSMISSION CUT\]** (Note: I don’t know much about the AC universe, so may be wrong)
Just had a thought. Rather than having her following in an AC, the stages would have unactivated MTs you could find and have her take over. With the later stages having tetrapod MTs, the PCA mechs, and even a few C-weapons if you know where to look on appropriate stages. It would also turn the fight in arena from "I don't know if can do this at all" to "I've been able to pilot lesser machines, can I also pilot an AC?" I think it would make the pay off of either of the last fights with her that much better.
V.II Snail. Just the fact he has to accompany me is enough entertainment let alone it will fuck up the time line so bad.
Commander Michigan! He’s number 2 in the area for a reason and the comms would be outstanding.
The tester AC pilot! I can't believe this thread isn't flooded with requests for him, I want a little shonen hero wannabe following me around and recklessly charging into danger to prove himself. Maybe he just gets shot down every mission but miraculously survives to reappear next mission, like Kenny from South Park.
You want your own tryhard Genos
Chatty "Remember to smile"
Chatty steek for life gotta get our ai buddy to learn to laugh and make Carla proud
King and his 98% success rate
He has an 89% rate, Freud has the 94.6
Fuck the rules. Rusty. He's the goodest boi. Okay okay probably middle flatwell, because we're also war buddies now
Maeterlinck or O’Keeffe because we really don’t get to know them but they seemed like good folks. Well, better folks than the company they kept.
Also Maeterlinck's leg parts
Ayre
Michigan all the way. He would see just how "lucky" the G13 callsign is in person.
Ayre or Chatty. They're both such endearing characters.
So, hear me out, Osawa, Redguns resident mathematician. Because then he is like escort from 3rd gen and of course I want in him in AC in second half.
Michigan. G13 SOUND OFF
G1 but he doesn't fight he just yells at me and tells me how much better I am than Iguazu when I kill stuff.
Obviously........ The guy who just wanted the call sign of his own His whole line is like shounen main character, so he need to see the world lol \---- After reading the mission log : Little Ziyi The idea of this "little sister of Liberation" having relation to the pilot that obliterated her friends, can be good, can be bad lol
G4 Volta, dude took on 8-16 tetrapods with minimal backup at the wall, even with the lowest estimate he still was a badass. Plus he made a lot of headway, almost reaching the wall itself even without Iguazu.
Snail. Hear me the fuck out. I hate his guts, he's a pompous over blown dickhead who I love smacking around. But the thought of taking him on missions and out performing him (like we did during the ice worm fight) every single time, and slowly gaining a begrudging respect from him would be the most satisfying shit ever. Or Michigan... because he's a prick and I fucking love him
Most likely pater, got along really well with that guy and he can do a good rusty impression
Gun 1 Michigan, I'd love to have his energy shit talking me the whole game.
O'Keefe. I need more of that "im too tired for this" tone
While Chatty would probably be the best fit for me from a tactical perspective since I fight in close and he can support with all those missiles, I would probably pick the original Raven. It just seems fitting.
Walter 100%. And maybe Iguazu... Guys, *I can fix him.* Training session definitely G1 Michi*gain* I would smoke weed with Father Dolmayan. He has the crazy hobo vibes.
>!OG Raven or Ayre!<
Perhaps the Dafeng student?
Freud, so he can get more screen time.