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Mission icon ACVI Destroy the Special Forces Craft
"Destroy the Special Forces Craft"
General information
Client Rubicon Liberation Front
Stage Old Bertram Spaceport Environs
Reward COAM
Music "Unbreakable"
Real world information
Game ARMORED CORE VI FIRES OF RUBICON

"Destroy the Special Forces Craft" is a Chapter 3 mission in ARMORED CORE VI FIRES OF RUBICON. It appears as a decision mission alongside Eliminate the Enforcement Squads.

In-game information[]

Combat zone: Central Ice Field - Old Bertram Spaceport Environs

Objective: Destroy Enemy Craft
Reward: 300,000 COAM
Details:

  • Destroy the Planetary Closure Administration Special Forces craft CATAPHRACT


Walkthrough[]

This mission is a duel between the player and the AAS02: CATAPHRACT, set in a wide open ice-field with little in the way of cover or significant terrain features. As such, mobility is the name of the game as the CATAPHRACT will try and use its surprising speed to protect its weakspot, which is the MT hanging off the front of its body in-between the two tracks.

Unusually enough, a moving CATAPHRACT does not deal significant damage when it crashes into the player's AC, and even when it accelerates to full speed if the player is in front of the MT unit their AC only takes minimal damage as the CATAPHRACT clips over them. This can be used to the player's advantage by sticking in front of the CATAPHRACT: the forward treads will stop the player's AC from being thrown away by sidewards movement as the CATAPHRACT moves, allowing the player to dish out as much damage as possible against the control MT without needing to focus on movement, and because the player is directly in front of the MT they'll be well within the dead zone of the CATAPHRACT's weapons. Once the CATAPHRACT initiates its fast charge and clips away from the player, try to chase them down again and stick to their front.

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Trivia[]

  • The ARMORED CORE VI Story Trailer oddly enough provides a clue as to how to more easily defeat the CATAPHRACT ingame, namely by sticking to the frontal MT and firing weapons at point-blank range.

References[]

Missions in ARMORED CORE VI FIRES OF RUBICON
Chapter 1 "Illegal Entry" • "Destroy Artillery Installations" • "Grid 135 Cleanup" • "Destroy the Transport Helicopters" • "Destroy the Tester AC" • "Attack the Dam Complex" • "Destroy the Weaponized Mining Ship" • "Escort the Weaponized Mining Ship"(NG++) • "Operation Wallclimber" • "Retrieve Combat Logs" • "Prisoner Rescue"(NG+) • "Investigate BAWS Arsenal No. 2" • "Obstruct the Mandatory Inspection"(NG++) • "Attack the Watchpoint"
Chapter 2 "Infiltrate Grid 086" • "Eliminate the Doser Faction" • "Stop the Secret Data Breach"(NG+) • "Ocean Crossing"
Chapter 3 "Steal the Survey Data" • "Attack the Refueling Base" • "Eliminate V.VII" • "Tunnel Sabotage" • "Prevent Corporate Salvage of New Tech"(NG+) • "Survey the Uninhabited Floating City" • "Heavy Missile Launch Support" • "Eliminate the Enforcement Squads" • "Destroy the Special Forces Craft" • "Attack the Old Spaceport" • "Eliminate 'Honest' Brute" • "Defend the Old Spaceport" • "Defend the Dam Complex"(NG+) • "Historic Data Recovery" • "Coral Export Denial"(NG++) • "Destroy the Ice Worm"
Chapter 4 "Underground Exploration - Depth 1" • "Underground Exploration - Depth 2" • "Underground Exploration - Depth 3" • "Intercept the Redguns" • "Ambush the Vespers" • "Eliminate V.III"(NG++) • "Unknown Territory Survey" • "Reach the Coral Convergence"
Chapter 5 "Escape" • "Take the Uninhabited Floating City"
Fires of Raven path: "Intercept the Corporate Forces" • "Breach the Kármán Line" • "Shut Down the Closure Satellites"
Liberator of Rubicon path: "Eliminate 'Cinder' Carla" • "Destroy the Drive Block" • "Bring Down the Xylem"
Alea Iacta Est path:(NG++) "MIA" • "Regain Control of the Xylem" • "Coral Release"
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