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The endings toArmored Core 6do not disappoint. Each ending is packed with emotion, complexity, and enough gut-wrenching betrayal to hook Game of Thrones fans.
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Finding all three endings will require you to play through the game three different times. The first two playthroughs will have you witness the events of the Fires of Raven and Liberator of Rubicon. Once those have been completed (along with all alternate missions), you’ll get the chance to unlock the third ending titled Alea Iacta Est. Tread carefully, there are spoilers ahead in this guide.
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How To Get Fires Of Raven Ending
Required Mission To Choose:
Fires of Raven is considered the game’s ‘bad’ ending, but all things considered, it should be treated as more of an extreme ending than a bad one.
To get it, you’ll have to choose the “Intercept Corporate Forces” quest instead of eliminating Carla.Once you choose to intercept Corporate forces, you’ll be locked into the Fires of Raven ending.Afterward, you’ll have two more quests to do: “Breach the Karman Line” and “Shut Down the Closure Satellites.”
If you are tying to get the Liberator of Rubicon or Fires of Raven ending, no other decisions in the game will affect which ending you get except the one in chapter 5.
Story Consequences Of Fires Of Raven Ending
By choosing this ending,you are fulfilling the wishes of the Research Institute and Overseer.These factions were meant to observe the Coral and destroy it if the Coral ever grew beyond humanity’s ability to control it. The Fires of Ibis were the results of the first time Coral grew too quickly. Now that the Coral Convergence is happening, Overseer needs to set it all ablaze and burn the Coral out of existence once and for all.
In this ending, you ignite the Coral, burning Rubicon to ashes again and killing everything in the system. After losing hefty investments into Rubicon, the companies and the PCA abandon the planet, leaving it a lifeless husk with no hope of resettlement. However,Overseer’s mission is now complete, and the Coral will never pose a threat to anyone ever again.Your character, Raven, disappears in the fires. It’s left ambiguous whether you survive or not, and in a final message by Handler Walter, he hopes that you have found your freedom and achieve your true potential.
How To Get Liberator Of Rubicon Ending
The ‘Liberator of Rubicon’ ending is widely considered to be the game’s ‘good’ ending.
The only choice that matters for this ending will be at the very end of Chapter 5, where you’ll be given a decision between “Intercept Corporate forces” or “Eliminate ‘Cinder’ Carla.“Choose to “Eliminate ‘Cinder’ Carla” and you’ll be locked into the Liberator of Rubicon ending.After choosing that mission, you’ll have to complete two more missions: “Destroy the Drive Block” and “Bring Down The Xylem.”
Story Consequences Of Liberator Of Rubicon
You’ll save the planet of Rubicon, lead its citizens into a wide-spread revolt against the corporations, and rescue the Coral being contained by Arquebus.While you haven’t solved how exactly Coral and humanity will coexist together, you’ve at least given everyone a chance to try and figure it out for themselves, especially once the Coral convergence grows large enough to spread to other planets.
However, despite the dubious positives of this route, that doesn’t mean this ending lacks heartbreak. In typical FromSoft fashion, choosing to do the ‘good’ ending will also twist the emotional knife into your gut by betraying two people that have cared for you since the beginning.
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How To Get Alea Iacta Est Ending
This ending can only be achieved through NG++. If you are on NG+ you can only get the Fires of Raven or Liberator of Rubicon endings.
Required Missions To Choose:
Alea Iacta Est (or “the die is cast” in Latin) is the true ending to Armored Core 6. To get this ending,you must complete the alternate missions to each of your decisions and achieve both endings before the true ending’s path becomes available.For example, if you have a decision between eliminating the Red Guns or ambushing the Vespers, you need to complete both of them in previous runs to get the third option that leads to the true ending.
You’ll know the path to the true ending is available to you in Chapter 1 when the game introduces you to the decision between “Destroy the Weaponized Mining Ship” and the new mission, “Escort the Weaponized Mining Ship.“Choose “Destroy the Weaponized Mining Ship” and you’ll get started toward the third ending. After that, later in Chapter 1, you’ll be offered a mission called “Obstruct The Mandatory Inspection.”
Once you’ve completed these missions, proceed through the rest of the story. Choose any new missions that appear, or any mission offered by All Mind. You will be locked into the third ending after you complete the mission “Eliminate V.III.” After that, the only missions left are “MIA,” “Regain Control Of The Xylem,” and “Coral Release.”
If you need a rule of thumb of how to get the third ending, just follow this simple criteria:
Story Consequences Of Alea Iacta Est Ending
This is a complicated ending rife with ambiguity, so we’re going to go over what exactly happens.
First, Coral is spread through the galaxy, with Ayre and Raven also scattered to a different planet. The surrounding ACs around Raven are powered-up and glowing red, indicating that they’re now being controlled by Coral. On top of that, the stars above the planet are now a similar color to the Coral. Now that the Coral Release has been achieved, the future is now up in the air for what Ayre and Raven want to do.
However, how Ayre and Raven got there, the rising of the Coral-controlled ACs, and what all of this means is left extremely ambiguous. There are several theories being pitched by fans to figure out what exactly happens during this ending, but what we know is that All Mind was trying to bring everyone together by murdering them and uploading their consciousness into itself (as seen by the usage of Iguazu). Once that happens, Raven and Ayre would have to be killed, so they too can become part of All Mind and act as some form of trigger for the Coral Release event. To All Mind, the Coral Release would allow humanity and Coral to reach its full potential.
What follows is a combination of conjecture and what happens during the final fight. Take this with a grain of salt.
With All Mind’s defeat, Raven and Ayre alone trigger the Coral Release. The following dialogue suggests it’s Raven and Ayre in control of all this Coral since Ayre specifically says “we’re everywhere. Anywhere.” However, who exactly Ayre refers to when she says “we” is left ambiguous (meaning it could be Raven and herself, or the royal “we” when referring to Coral as a whole).
In addition, the ending concludes with Ayre saying “Main System: Activating Combat Mode.” There’s an implication here that Ayre now acts as the COMS for our AC, however, this can also be taken as a chilling nod to this ending’s namesake, Alea Iacta Est. This phrase usually means passing ‘the point of no return,’ but those words were also famously uttered by Julius Caesar as he crossed the Rubicon River and started a 4-year-long civil war. With the planet of Rubicon now left behind, and with the sentient Coral now inhabiting AC bodies capable of engaging in combat, the implication here is Raven, Ayre, and the Coral are going to war.
