The Enormous Boss of Armored Core 6: A Landmark in Elden Ring's World Map

 

The Enormous Boss of Armored Core 6: A Landmark in Elden Ring's World Map

The imposing late-game boss in Armored Core 6, known as the Ice Worm, stands as a colossal adversary, utterly dwarfing the player character. This sheer enormity draws parallels with past FromSoftware game bosses, such as Sekiro's Great Serpent or the memorable Ceaseless Discharge from Dark Souls. However, thanks to the meticulous observations of renowned FromSoftware dataminer, Zullie the Witch, it becomes evident that the Ice Worm eclipses them all in sheer size.

As Zullie has previously revealed, Elden Ring and Armored Core 6 share not only the same game engine but also consistent scaling for their in-game models. This means that Armored Core 6's towering mechs are genuinely colossal when compared to the world around them. Placing an Armored Core unit within the vast landscapes of Elden Ring reveals that it would easily measure up to a towering 10 meters in height compared to everything else in the game. Consequently, introducing Armored Core 6's colossal Ice Worm into this more compact universe yields truly astonishing results.

To put it into perspective, if you were to lay the Ice Worm in a straight line, it would stretch from the First Step grace site to Castle Morne on the Weeping Peninsula, which is a whole zone apart. It's a creature of such immense proportions that you could practically use it as a highway to traverse the landscape. Even one of the Tarnished, the protagonist of Elden Ring, barely reaches the size of the Ice Worm's formidable spiked teeth, which it employs to tunnel through the ground.

In retrospect, it's intriguing to contemplate what might have unfolded if Augmented Human C4-621, Callsign: Raven, had been present during The Shattering in Elden Ring. Most of the imposing demigods in the game would scarcely reach an average Armored Core's shin, and Raven has vanquished foes the size of entire cities.

It's akin to pitting Goku against a daycare center. "My name is Malenia, Blade of Miquella?" Well, here are two VP-66L Laser Shotguns, each longer than you are tall. Notorious figures like Mohg, The Lord of Blood, would be dispatched with ease by a single volley from the Songbirds shoulder mortar. Even the unfathomably ancient eldritch horror, The Elden Beast, would find itself bewildered when confronted with a PB-033M Pile Bunker.