#chromehounds

[elliotthecrow]

High key hoping that the success of AC6 makes FromSoft realize mecha is popular again and they can finally remaster or sequel Chromehounds, complete with the Neroimus War online 3-way battle campaign.

I want fully modular mecha again.

Yes I'm aware M.A.V exists but the studio is so small and it's been a decade in development, plus the discord and forums are so dead it won't be as populated as a FS game.

[redphienix]

I wonder what the modern consensus would be for Chromehounds if it came out today.

Like genuinely, I'm curious how that would pan out in a few key ways.

'From' is like 900,000,000% more famous and obsessed over than they were in 2006. For reference this is THREE YEARS before Demon's Souls. Immediate adoption based entirely on name recognition is highly likely, a vastly LARGER audience is guaranteed at day 1. Beyond that? Curious.

The internet and how gamers interact with information about games has evolved since 2006- gone are the days of months passing before someone figures out what a stat means, between data miners, obsessive testers, youtube guides, and how LARGE an audience day 1 would expect to experience- the evolving meta and evolving understanding of how to play the game would be vastly different than what we experienced in 2006

Appreciation for "Different" games has arguably risen in recent years with the caveat that you (for some dumb reason) usually need a big dev name attached for people to allow the game to be different. It's 'From'. People would "allow" it to be different. But the ways in which Chromehounds is different is... substantial.

Would Chromehounds be shunned for its lack of speed? With the recent explosive popularity of Armored Core 6 it's likely many would shun it, just as they did at launch, for being different in this specific way- but would the exponentially higher initial audience counter-act this loss?

How many people would make videos trying to dig into Chromehounds as if it's a souls game

Would people become half as obsessed as I am about the modular mech building gameplay? It's literally 300x more extensive and interesting than anything Armored Core has EVER done but it's in a game that's slower pace and was banished to an exclusivity deal on 360 before 'From' had a substantial audience- who's to say.

Would either 'From', via creative developing, or the player base itself enact an 'honor rule' in regards to Comms? Would it become an afterthought feature like it did when Parties were added to xbox or would it become a respected part of the gameplay loop? I personally "assume" that From would like, simplify/buff commander by letting everyone see the detailed radar if a commander exists- so actual voice comms wouldn't matter like the OG but comms would still matter. IDK.

I miss chromehounds still. It's been nearly 2 decades. I miss it.

[unnounblr]

From Software had Framegride (Frameglide? Flamegride? It was Japan only, and Japanese doesn't have the letter "l" so), Chromehounds, Murakumo: Renegade Mech Pursuit, Another Century's Episode, and while they didn't make the original Steel Battalion, they did make Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor, the 360 Kinect game.

From Software used to have a lot of mech games.

I'm going to be honest: Up until just now I thought Metal Wolf Chaos and Armored Core were the same series. I guess a company can have multiple mech games or whatever

[is-the-battlemech-cool-or-not]

Pile Bunker:

In game terms, the Pile Bunker can be mounted by Battlemechs and IndustrialMechs on the arms. Each arm can only carry one Pile Bunker. The Pile Bunker weighs one ton per every twenty tons the 'Mech weighs, plus two. The Pile Bunker takes up a number of critical slots equal to one per every twenty tons the 'Mech weighs, rounded up, plus one. It inflicts one point of damage for every five tons the 'Mech weighs. When punching with a Pile Bunker, the user can choose to fire the pile, expending one shot of ammunition (5 ammo per ton) and generating 5 heat, scoring a critical on the location hit with a -2 modifier. In addition, if armor remains after an attack where the Pile Bunker has been fired, roll for a second critical hit with a -2 modifier. For each critical dealt, also deal one point of internal damage to that location. A Pile Bunker that hits an unarmored location has the usual chance for inflicting critical hits. The Pile Bunker may be used as a standard melee weapon without firing, though it loses all effects related to criticals.

(based off of the general idea of an Armored Core/Chromehounds style pile bunker weapon)

[notabrobro]

Playing AC6 reminded me of a team-based pvp mech game I used to play on 360 called Chromehounds

Which turns out to be a FromSoftware game, of course

[forthoutoffive]

Blinx the time sweeper and Voodoo Vince are the first to come to mind despite not having played them outside of my older brother renting them when I was like 6.

Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Boltswas for some reason the first one I knew for sure was an Xbox exclusive that I'd played.

Gears of war 2&3, Chromehounds, Kameo and Bloodwake are also exclusives that I'd played and thought of, but I had to double check to make sure they were exclusives.

Ultimate gamer challenge

Name an Xbox-exclusive game that isn't Halo or Starfield.

[shin-hero-buster]

Top eight mecha games?

EIGHT?

uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh alright in no particulate order

Super Robot Wars 30 Armored Core For Answer Chromehounds S.L.A.I. Steel Lancer Arena International Super Robot Wars J Liberation Maiden Armongus Core VI Strike Suit Zero

i'm sure there are other i would have picked if i could remember them offhand, and there are some i havent gotten to play yet that would win out slots on here but yeah

[cerastes]

What about my boy Chromehounds?

Oh yeah Chromehounds, too, I didn't have a 360 so I didn't play that one, slipped me mind.

[maximuswolf]

Does anyone remember playing Chromehounds?

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[bkfisher]

I just saw this on steam yesterday and I couldn't be more excited. It looks like the love child of Sea of Thieves and Chromehounds. I've requested beta access 🤞 but I very much look forward to the development either way!

SAND is a desert-punk base-building FPS with walking ships in a sea of sand!

Read More & Sign Up For The Beta (Steam)

[redphienix]

magic word that makes soulsborne obsessed from-fans do extensive research into hidden From Software gem "Chromehounds" to the point of becoming obsessed with this game they literally can't play today because 90% of the content is unobtainable without the online servers.

And then they, I don't know, spread the vibe until enough people ask From and they finally remake it or make a sequel or buy the rights and re-release it on PC or something.

[mamabedlamvt]

HEY HEY CHROMEHOUNDS, WE'RE BACK IN NIGHT CITY FLATLINING GONKS! [Cyberpunk 2077 2.0]

[captainmdhridoyhossain-blog]

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[frogblast-the-ventcore]

I think for some it is the intimacy, for others it's the "fuck yeah" factor, and for still more it's both, or neither/something different.

Personally I'm 100% on the "fuck yeah cool robots" side of things.

It's why I like very grounded things like BT and Chromehounds over less realistically-treated stuff. I don't get any mileage out of connection with a 'Mech. To me it's solely a cool looking weapons platform to smite bad people with.

So a setting where there's little to no emphasis on the intimacy aspects and all on the "this is a tool of war" aspect definitely is more up my wheelhouse.

no one wants to hear it but you could replace all posts about the intimacy of piloting a mech with "I'm touch starved" and it'd be more honest

[kalki-maitreya]

"ChromeHound." #IWasATeenageFrankenstein https://www.instagram.com/p/CnfrqYILeTk/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=