It took them a long time to fix some very glaring balance issues which pushed a lot of people away.

Are you planning to play the multiplayer much?
The single-player stuff is fine, it's just that the game is more than a year old. People finished it.

You've got 20-60 hours of single player stuff depending on if you like it enough to do NG+ or not. I've literally never played the multiplayer and I feel like the game was worth it for me.

It is a singleplayer game. Don't worry about player count. Many ppl are simply done playing by now. Also online was/is ass, which is half down to netcode, and half how bland their idea of pvp ended up being. The co-op mod is a lot of fun though, which also includes pvp but does it much better. It was made by the same ppl as the elden ring seamless co-op mod and it has a discord server for organizing squads.

PvE: You are only allowed to have one save file.
PvP: It's just bad.

Originally posted by D. Flame:

PvE: You are only allowed to have one save file.
PvP: It's just bad.

Why would you need more than one save file?

Not everything is a live service, player count over a year after release for a single player game means basically nothing

Originally posted by Syzygy PT2:

Originally posted by D. Flame:

PvE: You are only allowed to have one save file.
PvP: It's just bad.

Why would you need more than one save file?

Same reason you would want to replay any game

Originally posted by Syzygy PT2:

Originally posted by D. Flame:

PvE: You are only allowed to have one save file.
PvP: It's just bad.

Why would you need more than one save file?

Maybe there is a significant portion of the player base that wants to redo the game from a zero point, be it for speed running or just experimenting/funsies.

Without, y-know, having to sacrifice their main save's progress -which affects PvP viability.

BANDAI did a good job ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ with FROM on this one between the single save state and requiring the EAC program that ♥♥♥♥♥ with the net code stability.

Armored Core (and mecha in general) is very niche. Before the Souls series, Japan had a modest following for AC and a microscopic following outside of Japan (compared to other genres/franchises). In fact, the following for AC was so small that most people in the community kinda knew each other on a screen-name/gamertag basis (which I'm kinda starting to see now with open custom rooms).

I would say that the current player count is indeed higher than what we had pre-Souls era Armored Core, and though that might seem low imagine it being even smaller. Until FROM does an update that actually adds something to the game (parts/DLC) we won't see a large spike in players again for a while. Once DxM2, Mecha Break and other games hit Steam that will be an even harder hit to AC6's numbers, especially if FROM decides to go silent about AC for a while.

It got very respectable Steam-wise, in comparison to the western equivalent i.e. Mechwarrior.

We ACfans are lean and mean a business!

Originally posted by Zany Fish:

Originally posted by Syzygy PT2:

Why would you need more than one save file?

Maybe there is a significant portion of the player base that wants to redo the game from a zero point, be it for speed running or just experimenting/funsies.

Without, y-know, having to sacrifice their main save's progress -which affects PvP viability.

BANDAI did a good job ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ with FROM on this one between the single save state and requiring the EAC program that ♥♥♥♥♥ with the net code stability.

Make free steam account and put it on a family, so it can access all your games.

boom.

OR just copy the file in C:\Users\[Your PC Username]\AppData\Roaming\ArmoredCore6 and save it somewhere else.

IMo it's the price. I feel like the game has been out for a bit, they should drop the price a little to try and get some fresh blood in. I believe they have only offered 1 or 2 discounts on steam so far.

Originally posted by Syzygy PT2:

Originally posted by Zany Fish:

Maybe there is a significant portion of the player base that wants to redo the game from a zero point, be it for speed running or just experimenting/funsies.

Without, y-know, having to sacrifice their main save's progress -which affects PvP viability.

BANDAI did a good job ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ with FROM on this one between the single save state and requiring the EAC program that ♥♥♥♥♥ with the net code stability.

Make free steam account and put it on a family, so it can access all your games.

boom.

OR just copy the file in C:\Users\[Your PC Username]\AppData\Roaming\ArmoredCore6 and save it somewhere else.

This, I always keep multiple save files. One for my vanilla save (which I no longer use) and three saves for my modded game. A 100% completion save, a solo campaign save which I restart every so often, and a campaign save for doing a fresh run with other people.

2k current players isn't bad at all. I even get random team ranked matches!

Originally posted by D. Flame:

Originally posted by Syzygy PT2:

Why would you need more than one save file?

Same reason you would want to replay any game

Then just back up your first game file, and then start again. Do you really game on a PC and not know how to use a PC?