Armored Core 6 gets ranked matchmaking and a leaderboard in patch 1.05

FromSoftware’s Armored Core 6: Fires of Rubicon has been out since August, but apparently, during all this time, there hasn’t been a way to prove how muscular your mech is. That changes tomorrow (December 19) because ranked matchmaking and leaderboards are coming aboard patch 1.05.

That’s it, that’s all I’ve got. I don’t even have patch note for you. Instead, I’m just going to wheel in the TV, put the trailer on, and take a nap while the class is distracted.

To reiterate what the trailer said, you should:

1. Conquer new PVP maps.
2. Personalize your nameplate.
3. Ascend the leaderboards.
4. Dominate in ranked matchmaking.

I think those last two are backward.

In addition to the new ranking and leaderboards, you’ll also be getting some new mech parts and maps to use them in.

I haven’t gotten around to playing Armored Core 6. I feel like it came and went pretty quickly. One moment, everyone was writing about how 1997’s Armored Core was actually really good and maybe also had shades of Dark Souls in there. The next, we’ve moved on to the next thing. All I know is that I hesitated on picking a bunch of the series’ games up from my local game store, Armored Core 6 was announced, and then suddenly, all those games were gone. Let that be a lesson to you: always buy things.

Armored Core 6 is available on PS4, PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC. Patch 1.05 arrives on December 19, 2023.