A Low Poly Robot

Chaos 0.8 and 0.9

Oh nice, the Mechanical Guidance book did have artwork of them!

Mission briefing

A weird, lanky machine is shown Radio: "The test MT you'll fight is completely automated. There's no need to be timid. Give it all you've got."

Combat with Chaos

Chaos exploding.

CHAOS!!!! Weird unmanned weapon, it's a huge favorite of mine with AC1 designs just because what a weirdo! Both the 0.8 and the 0.9 I'll run into later are fun...

Current AC. A simple build with a karasawa, the starting beam blade, some fast legs, light arms, and a funny radar head

Old favorite head, now sold to the store

Oh forgot to show but swapped to the radar head. Again visually the starting GRY-NX head is my favorite, but!!! I wanted to do something different with the build this time around...

Wildcat attacking us

Wildcat quickly exploding after a few shots from the Karasawa

Anyway I took guarding the freight train instead lol. Which has a different kind of evil going on with Murakumo, though more subtle. Poor Wildcat.

Though I will say holy shit the Karasawa, a reputation well earned.

"We want you to wreak havoc on Gal City. The job is simple. Just attack the urban area and fire at will at any attractive target."

"If one finds oneself in danger, one who does not have the power to resist must depend on someone else. If you have the power, come to us at Chrome."

"You have 3 minutes for tactical operations. Staying any longer is useless. If you stay too long, we don't know what sort of trouble will happen."

"Your pay will be determined based on the results. Simply put, the more you destroy, the higher your pay. Good luck."

Speaking of pretty directly evil missions, lol thanks Chrome.

Karasawa energy rifle on the ground

Gen 1 Karasawa... I've never really tried it since I'm always using quad legs, so this'll be fun...

Fukuchi credit in lower right

Fukuchi credit in lower right

Fukuchi Credit on vertical far right, below the red info box

Let me know if you happen to remember! I'm really curious honestly just because again, a decent chunk of the black and white art I have lists Fukuchi on their pages. Here's a few more:

I think you're right now that I'm digging around. I can't find easy credits however, while I can find examples of Fukuchi contributing to helping w/ like, models and such of the Niki Vashmarl (such as the Mo Craft resin kit) I don't see him listed as the original designer

Various designs with Fukuchi credited

Various designs with Fukuchi credited

Various designs with Fukuchi credited

Various designs with Fukuchi credited

Wait really? Most of the designs I had art of listed Fukuchi as the designer if they listed any designer at all (as can be seen in these ones, 福地 仁) , so I assumed Fukuchi was the primary designer?

"Several civilian vehicles remain in the garage. Damages to the vehicles will be deducted from your pay. Sorry, but we've got budget problems too. Good luck."

Shooting a funny little security MT

Closer view of one of the security MTs

Many funny little MTs grouped together at the end of the hall

Got distracted model building again and now suddenly it's 3am. But. I am not yet sleepy. More fighting funny little guys.

I did unfortunately tear up one of the shield decals (ironically the one I thought would be the most foolproof lmao), so I applied more damage there just to make the shield look, well, damaged. I'll do more weathering tomorrow for both the shield and the rest of the body in general.

Boosting through the sewers

Got distracted building but now I have to wait on paint to dry so back at it again

Loot Drops After Defeating Me:
Plastic Nubs (Common)

-Can of Pepsi (Common)

-Random AoZ Kit (Uncommon)

-S&B Golden Curry Mix Block (Uncommon)

-Strange Octahedron (Rare, Cursed)

-External Drive Containing 1.44 TB of Mecha Artwork, Videos, and Other Ephemera (Steal Only)

Niki Vashmarl Head

Humble start of the Niki Vashmarl, I love this head though my camera hates attempting to focus on it while it's sat on my desk lol

Yo!!!!! This friend rules

It's so good!!! And yeah the thing with going back is realizing just how fully formed the ideas already were. It makes you kinda miss an era where From managed to release 14 of these games across 3 console generations in a little more than a decade....

The actual core of this mission is just 'Don't Fire Your Weapon' since most of the areas are full of generators that will chain reaction explode if you do. You just gotta surgically remove the targets with the laser blade, at least that's how I've always done it. I like the generators sparking...

Honestly these robot workers running amok really don't seem very threatening... they are kinda cute. Ah well.

I wanna lay down in a big glass tunnel like this with the machine rotating around me....

Menu screen

Close up of the WG-AR1000, its metal looking heat scorched

Minor detail to fixate on but I love the heat scorched metal look of the machine gun's texture here....

Zooming around a tunnel on my quad legs

Anyway weeeee I have quad legs set up... I might force myself to try some other ones since I ALWAYS go quad leg.... but wanted to at least for a little bit, I especially enjoy them in Gen 1 even if using them means I've never really enjoyed the joy of Gen 1 Karasawa

Oh yeah for sure, you have more than enough health and ammo, but it's still a funny thing to throw a player in retrospect. I know in that era people actually read instruction booklets generally, but given how modern games go I still appreciate it just throwing you in there

ADMITTEDLY this is always why I found going into debt to force Human Plus mode kinda difficult lol, I know you can specifically set up to have it happen but honestly I'm not that patient I just wanna play the game, as nice as the Human Plus benefits are (plus I'd have to do it 6 times...)

Anyway these early missions are mostly me just kinda firing a machine gun around corners and being relatively safe to accumulate funds.

The beauty of AC economy is buy and sell prices are the same and so you really get to experiment w/ parts if you're okay sitting in menus for a bit

Shop description claims: "This rocket has the greatest firepower of any single weapon."

lmao I forgot that the rocket hidden at the very start of the Striking Workers mission is one of the stronger ones...

Also I may have sold my radar, missiles, and regular rifle to grab the machine gun seen in the prior mission...

Worker MT, modified with a large set of cannons next to the cockpit canopy

Large crane vehicle with a cannon fit to the end of the crane arm

Anyway I will say the worker MT is cool. Also shout outs to the funny crane with a gun attached to the end of it

"Workers in the Avalon Valley development area, demonstrating for better working conditions, have taken over the "Doan Bridge".

They have erected a barricade on the bridge and completely halted traffic. There is no sign of their giving in to the Guards. They persist in demanding to see the HQ.

We told them that we have no time to deal with such trifling matters, but they don't seem to understand.

Anyway, we can't leave this as is. In a drawn-out battle, collateral damage would become a problem, so forcibly eliminate them now.

Meanwhile, Chrome's mission briefing

Which you know. Given that we joined Giant Robot Mercenary Company it makes sense the only people hiring us would be like this.

Requester: Zam City Guard Advance: 0 C Upon Success: 14000 C

"You are to eliminate a group of illegal squatters at an abandoned factory on the east side of the City. They profess to be radicals opposed to area redevelopment."

"But they are still citizens, so from the standpoint of the Guard, we cannot use force. If they are left as is, there is a risk of affecting the progress of the plan."

"There is no need for restraint. We want you to firmly teach them the rules of society."

Oh right sorry it's not between the two evil corporations, it's between the cops and one of the two evil corporations lmao

Initial AC1 missions: Eliminate Squatters Elminate Strikers

Well. Time to pick which holly jolly mission the evil corporations wanna hire us for lmao.