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| Otsdarva | |
| General information | |
| Japanese name | オッツダルヴァ (Ottsudaruvua) |
| Other names | Maximilian Thermidor |
| Classification | Human |
| Gender | Male |
| Affiliation and military information | |
| Affiliation | Collared, Omer Science Technology (formerly Rayleonard), ORCA |
| Occupation | Lynx |
| Rank | Collared: Rank 1 |
| Craft | NEXT Stasis |
| Eras present | Economic War |
| Real world information | |
| Appearances | Armored Core: For Answer, Armored Core: A New Order of "NEXT", Armored Core Designs 4 & for Answer |
| Voice actor | English: Kyle Hebert,[1] Japanese: Junichi Suwabe |
Otsdarva is a Lynx working for Omer Science Technology during the Economic War. A combat genius, he is the company's trump card and Collared's top-ranked Lynx.
Information[]
Serving as Collared's top Lynx pilot, he has had considerable experience on the battlefield and this very clearly shows since his second appearance in the mission Defeat White Glint. During either this mission or Defend Line Ark, his NEXT ends up sinking into the ocean due to a disabled main booster and is presumed to be KIA. It is later revealed in the final missions down the ORCA and Destruction paths that Otsdarva had faked his death and assumed the role of Maximilian Thermidor. Whether this was intentional or not, The League's leadership is also leading ORCA.
Quotes[]
"Clear Former Chinese Shanghai"[]
| Condition | English | Japanese | Audio |
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| Start of mission, second line | "Ready to go yet? Don't get too nervous now. I'm not babysitting you on this operation." | "準備できているな? 貴様. まあ、精々気張ることだな. 尻拭いなど、あまり趣味じゃない" ("You ready to go? Well, you better do your absolute best. Things like babysitting aren't my hobby.") | (English) |
| First contact with enemy 051AO80-AKs | "Hah, frontal shielding..." | "前面のみのシールドとはな" | (English) |
| Stasis makes contact with enemy Giga Base | "This thing is rusted to the core... I'm amazed it's still alive and kicking." | "脳みそまでカビたか. それでよく生きられたものだ" | (English) |
| Mission accomplished with the player NEXT's AP higher than 50% | "Looks like mission accomplished. Well, it is what it is." | "ミッション完了か. まあ、ありじゃないか、貴様" ("Mission accomplished, huh. Well, you're not bad.") | (English) |
| Mission accomplished with the player NEXT's AP between at least 50% and higher than 10% | "Hmph. So that's it huh. Worthless foes and useless allies. What a farce." | "これで終わりか. 下らない敵と、下らない味方. まるでファルスだ" | (English) |
| Mission accomplished with the player NEXT's AP at 10% and lower | "Mission complete' huh. I'd rather go solo than cooperate with the likes of you." | "コンプリートか. それにしても・・・まるで空気だな、貴様は" ("'Mission complete', huh. That said... It's as if you weren't even there.") | (English) |
| Stasis' AP falls to 50% | "What, are you enjoying the view or something? This is Stasis. I'm out of here. What a waste of time." | "何をちんたらやっている・・・ステイシス、帰還するぞ. 時間の無駄だ" | (English) |
| The player is defeated while Stasis is still fighting | "Are they still manufacturing these Normals? What is this, a museum? How quaint, you call yourself a Lynx." | "ノーマル程度に遅れをとるとはな. リンクスを名乗るなよ、貴様" ("To think you would fall against mere Normals. Don't you dare call yourself a Lynx.") | (English) |
"Defeat White Glint"[]
| Condition | English | Japanese | Audio |
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| NPC line after opening cutscene | "Hmph. So it's Fiona Jarnefeldt. What right have you to speak? You who brought down Anatolia!" | "フン、フィオナ・イェルネフェルトか. アナトリア失陥の元凶が、何を偉そうに" ("Hmph, so it's Fiona Jarnefeldt. What are you acting high and mighty for, you who caused the fall of Anatolia?") | - |
| - | "You can fight, I'll give you that. All those fancy aerial maneuvers won't save you." | "いけるな?貴様. まあ、空気で構わんがな" ("You good to go? Well, I won't mind if you stay out of my way, though.") | - |
| - | "White Glint... all those silly legends. They die today. I've surpassed you, and now I'll prove it." | "ホワイト・グリント・･・大袈裟な伝説も、今日で終わりだ. 進化の現実ってやつを教えてやる" ("White Glint... Those exaggerated legends ends today. I'll show you what the 'reality of evolution' means.") | - |
| White Glint's AP falls to 50% | "Main booster malfunction?! Is that what you were aiming for? I've hit the water! Boosters won't engage! Hull breach? Damn it, I'm taking on water! No! I can't go down here! Not now!" | "メインブースタがイカれただと! 狙ったか、ホワイト・グリント! よりによって海上で・･・クッ、ダメだ、飛べん! ・・･浸水だと? 馬鹿な、これが私の最期と言うか! 認めん、認められるか、こんなこと" ("Main booster malfunctioning!? So that's what you were aiming, White Glint! And at sea, of all places... Tch, no good, it won't fly! Hull breach? Impossible, are you saying this is how I meet my end!? Unacceptable, I won't accept something like this...!") | - |
| The player is defeated while Stasis is still fighting | "What garbage. You're not even worth my time." | - | - |
"Defend Line Ark"[]
| Condition | English | Japanese | Audio |
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| Opening cutscene, first line | "Those slimy politicians, with all of their empty calls to arms. 'In the name of liberty.' I'll sink the whole lot of you to the bottom of the ocean. You ready, Fragile?" | "政治屋ども. リベルタリア気取りも今日までだな. 貴様らには水底が似合いだ. いけるな?フラジール" | - |
| Opening cutscene, third line | "Hmph. Good to hear. Move out" | "フン・･・それはよかった. じゃ、いこうか" | - |
| Otsdarva is defeated | "What?! The main boosters have cut out! Damn it, I'm sinking! I can't go down like this!" | "クッ、メインブースタが完全に逝ってやがる. ダメだ、沈んでいく・・・こんなものが私の最期か・・・" | - |
| The player NEXT's AP falls to 60% | "Are you lost out there or something? Rookie Lynx. You bore me." | - | - |
| The player is defeated by Otsdarva | "Got some rust in your joints? Or are you just a third-rate Lynx?" | - | - |
| Condition | English | Japanese | Audio |
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| Opening cutscene, first line | "Those slimy politicians, with all of their empty calls to arms. "In the name of liberty." I'll sink the whole lot of you to the bottom of the ocean. You ready, Fragile?" | "政治屋ども. リベルタリア気取りも今日までだな. 貴様らには水底が似合いだ. いけるな?フラジール" | - |
| Opening cutscene, third line | "Hmph. Good to hear. Move out" | "フン・･・それはよかった. じゃ、いこうか" | - |
| The player NEXT's AP falls to 60% | "Are you lost out there or something? Rookie Lynx. You bore me." | - | - |
| The player is defeated by Otsdarva | "Got some rust in your joints? Or are you just a third-rate Lynx?" | - | - |
"Attack on Arteria Cranium" (Hard Mode)[]
| Condition | English | Japanese | Audio |
|---|---|---|---|
| First contact with Stasis | "The man called Thermidor has already passed. The man standing before you is Rank 1, Otsdarva." | "テルミドールは既に死んだ. ここにいるのは、ランク1、オッツダルヴァだ" (Terumidōru wa sudeni shinda. Koko ni iru no wa, ranku ichi, Ottsudaruba da) | - |
| The player is defeated by Otsdarva | "You call yourself an ORCA now? You're getting ambitious. Leave the rest to them." | - | - |
"Occupation of Arteria Carpals"[]
| Condition | English | Japanese | Audio |
|---|---|---|---|
| NPC line after Roadie's | "Maybe it's just an animal. Can it even understand what we're saying?" | "所詮は獣だ. 人の言葉も解さんだろう" ("It's just an animal after all. Surely it won't understand human language.") | - |
| The player is defeated by Otsdarva | "You reap what you sow. This is for sullying ORCA's name!" | - | - |
NEXT Stasis[]
Piloted by Otsdarva; formerly associated with Rayleonard, the Omer made TYPE-LAHIRE NEXT is equipped with parts that have a fair resemblance to that of Zanni's NEXT, Roughcut, in armament. With an overall intermediate to high performance, the blue and grey Stasis stands firm for its position as the rank 1 NEXT.
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Gameplay[]
Otsdarva is an Armored Core: For Answer NPC. He first appears in "Clear Former Chinese Shanghai" as an optional partner taking 60% of the mission reward. Later on in Chapter 2, the player (pilot of the NEXT Strayed) must side with either the League in "Defeat White Glint" or with Line Ark in "Defend Line Ark." If the player helps the League, then Stasis and Strayed will have a 2-on-1 battle against White Glint until Stasis apparently falls to White Glint in a scripted event, leaving Strayed to complete the mission alone. In "Defend Line Ark," on the other hand, Stasis is instead joined by Fragile in a 2-on-2 battle against White Glint and Strayed. Otsdarva disappears afterwards in both outcomes, faking his demise to return to ORCA as its leader, Maximillian Thermidor.[2]
He is also the final opponent for Collared Order Matches. The rewards for defeating him are 200,000C, his emblem, the CR-LAHIRE-OPT01 and CR-LAHIRE-OPT02 stabilizers, 15 units of FRS memory, and the schematic for Stasis.
Order Match profile[]
Formerly from Rayleonard, this is Omer's trump card. His home is the battlefield, where he developed ingenious battle strategies. His mid-range attack style ignores all limitations of his LAHIRE frame, evidence of his estrangement from Omer.[3] |
Partner profile[]
Undoubtedly Collared's most powerful NEXT.[4] |
Strategy[]
The following information is "gray area" content — it may not be completely factual, and/or falls under YMMV territory.
Strengths: As his rank suggests, he is a skilled opponent and good at taking advantage of Stasis's strengths. You will face him in the mission "Defend Line Ark", "Attack Arteria Cranium (hard mode) and "Occupation Aeteria Carpals". His strategy is to outmaneuver the opponents and shoot them apart while they can't shoot back.
In his Left hand, he has equipped an ER-0705, a powerful mid-range laser bazooka with impressive attack power and stunning rate of fire. In his Right hand, an assault rifle type AR-0700, gives him a reliable secondary weapon with moderate rate of fire, average power and good Anti-PA abilities.
Sometimes he will take Stasis away from the hotspot and use its back-mounted missile launcher, type MP-0901, a weapon that launches 4 accurate and mobile missiles vertically.
He will then run down to hit the target when it tries to evade the missiles, either way, the one he's aiming for is either going to get hit by the missiles, a high power laser round and a burst from his assault Rifle, or all three, in the worst case maybe even an AA attack. The best thing to do is to OB away or use flares while constantly keeping an eye on Stasis's movement. He can inflict a lot of pain if you don't take him down quickly, so in essence, the battle will always be a damage race.
Weaknesses: Otsdarva is Rank 1 for a reason, he is very good at dodging, almost no weapons can hit him when he's in the QB rave mood. HOWEVER, these intense QB sequences does deplete Stasis's energy reserves quite quickly, and he will occasionally fall to the ground/water after boosting around a lot, that's the GO. As Stasis's vertical EN cost is just above the NEXT's recharge rate, his boosters will use up all new energy preventing QB, while the boosters also keeps his speed of decent slow. Missile weaponry is useful to distract Otsdarva to deplete Stasis's EN, due to their low damage, one should not use them to damage him while he falls.
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Main Strategy: Due to his light armor and their large blast radius, grenades are efficient at close range (150-250 metres) after using machine guns to deplete his PA, preferably while he is still working to get away from your missiles, bazookas are also great against him while he falls, especially the shotgun ones retrieved from Wonderful Body (Don Colonel ) as their total damage allows them to do more damage per round than any other solid shell weapon.
Energy based weapons are not advised due to their either good PA penetration but relatively low damage, high damage and good penetration, outweighed by low velocity as well as low ammo count, or their great damage and incredible PA attenuation, which is outweighed by their high weight and generally extreme EN requirements, which will make it impossible for the player to keep up with Stasis in a speed race that Otsdarva will force the player into.
If the player still wants to beat him with EN weaponry, the best choice might be the ER-0705 laser bazooka due to its (for an EN weapon) low EN use and weight compared to power, as well as quick re-fire rate, allowing a lot of damage to be inflicted within a short period of time. The best thing to do might actually be to enter the Design option and copy Stasis, then switch the main and back boosters to the Latona ones, while grabbing some of the PA tune points and put them where deemed useful.
To make it simple, get Stasis's EN low using light missiles, deplete its PA with machine guns and then make full use of the situation by blowing it sky high using light grenades or other high powered weaponry.
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- Both Stasis and Themidor's NEXT, Unsung use the ER-O705 energy rifle on the L arm unit and the MP-O901 PM missile launcher on the R Back unit.
- Preview versions of Stasis use Omer's RDF-O200 radar whereas the final in-game model uses the Interior Union's RD03-PANDORA.
- Otsdarva is featured as an antagonist in all three paths.
- Stasis is one of several Armored Cores to have been made into a Kotobukiya model kit.
- Otsdarva means 28 in Georgian language.
- Maximilien Robespierre (who's the basis for Maximilian Thermidor's name) was executed on 28 July (10 Thermidor) .
Appearances[]
- Armored Core: For Answer
- Order Match: Collared - Rank 01
- Mission: "Clear Former Chinese Shanghai"
- Mission: "Defeat White Glint"
- Mission: "Defend Line Ark"
- Mission: "Attack on Arteria Cranium" (Hard Mode)
- Mission: "Occupation of Arteria Carpals"
- Armored Core: A New Order of "NEXT"
- Armored Core Designs 4 & for Answer
References[]
- ↑ Kyle Hebert's website (defunct)
- ↑ Armored Core: For Answer, Mission: "Defeat White Glint" debriefing
- ↑ Armored Core: For Answer, Order Match: Collared Rank 1
- ↑ Armored Core: For Answer, Mission: "Clear Former Chinese Shanghai" Stasis partner profile
External links[]
Speculation[]
The following information is "gray area" content — it may not be completely factual, and/or falls under YMMV territory.
- Otsdarva may have been the inspiration for Ostrava of Boletaria in FROM Software's other game, Demon Souls.
- Otsdarva and Stasis were not found when searching at the place they were seen go down at Line Ark, suggesting that he faked the booster malfunction in order to secretly return to ORCA.
- Being an Omer unit, the early version of Stasis's use of an RDF-O200 instead of an RD03-PANDORA is a questionable part choice, although the mention of "estrangement from Omer" is thought to be an explanation to this.
- Stasis was originally suppose to enter the Arteria Cranium after the defeat of the two NEXTs, making his appearance similiar to Celo after 00-ARETHA's defeat.