Armored Core Lore: Handler Walter
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- Опубліковано 26 кві 2024
- He is the handler of hounds, a man of many secrets and a member of the overseers who skills have given him a life of woe, terror and power. This is the history of handler walter.
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FatBrett has another wonderful video on Walter, but he’s quite possibly the best written character in Fromsoft history
He's quite possibly the written character in FromSoft history. (JK)
Was gonna mention FatBrett, but damn glad to see others bringing him up.
I would agree 100 per cent.
FatBrett fans know what's up.
@armoredcorelore you should do vid with him. I think you two would make an incredible piece.
Coral, its worth a *** ton.
*621 pulls out the "Bad Cook" flamethrower.*
The "look at you 621, you found a friend" line is so profound to me. The whole time Walter is seen doing deeds for some so-called "friend," only for you to later learn said friend does not exist. And it's just code for him to achieve things for his own agenda and vision.
So when Walter says 621 found a friend, he's not just referring to Ayre if even at all. He's referring to the fact 621 found his independence. That he is free from corporations, handlers, etc, and can be his own being. He's basically telling 621 that he made it.
I do also want to mention Walters frame & internals are far from bad. In a vacuum, NGI booster & generator are both among the best in the game. just a bit unwieldy due to how Coral generators work. And his legs, core, and head are all perfectly solid parts only outclassed by the absolute best.
And altogether, his legs & Head make up for the core's subpar stability so his stability & defences are perfectly serviceable for his speed relative to other ACs in the story. Hal core in particular is excellent with NGI generator as they reduce EN downtimes significantly. His average lateral speed is on the slow side, but his vertical speed is solid and he has fantastic burst mobility between the booster's high assault boost speed and generators massive capacity. Compared to other ACs in the story he's got a super solid frame & internals, at least when fighting bosses and other ACs.
I feel like someone just out lored me ha ha.
I liked that walters logo on the first time we saw looked like his holding chains of hounds or like a man holding the strings whereas after through gameplay it somewhat looked like his grasping his old comrades dog tags like holding/carrying their dreams and up side down triangle looked like its pointing to his goal
Like it, like it.
The hand is also a mannequin hand- almost puppet like- if you look close enough.
I have to sing the praises of Walter's voice actor Patrick Seitz, the amount of wait he can carry on a few words is really impressive . Granted I know him best as Colonel Dan Eagleman from Guilty Crown.
High praise indeed. He played the character very well and i don't think anyone else could have done it better.
Dio Brando too
I know him as Ragna the Blood Edge from BlazBlue.
_meanwhile, in Why I Salty's series of AC6 voiceover videos this man sends 621 out to_
1: Find out why kids love the taste of Cinnamon Toast Crunch
2: Kill some racist ghosts rather than accept whatever hamfisted job offer they were planning on giving the good Handler and 621
3: Destroy that _one_ McDonalds on Rubicon that never gets your orders (and by extension _his_ orders) right
4: Work with Rusty, resident humongous Gundam nerd in this version of Rubicon
5: Watch a movie so he can get some alone time with Carla
and ultimately: Get jobs to pay him back for using his credit card to buy a coral-powered gynoid body for Ayre. Some jobs of which involve counter-sabotage missions performed on Handy Manny and Bob the Builder, each trying to outdo the other when building Rubicon new orphanages, each apparently unaware 621 has accepted coin from them both.
it's all absurd and I'm still amused at the memories and whatever methods Salty used to get the voices right
I believe Walter may have fought in the Jupiter Wars. As we know Michigan did as well, and Walter seems very familiar with him as if they've known eachother for a long time. It would also explain his skill as an AC pilot.
It certainly would. And what i would give to have a com or even a dlc just to have give this some evidence.
@@armoredcorelore
One thing Im still confused about though, is how Walter got that AC. It seems like it, or at least sone parts of it, were made for him. I say this because of the "WLT" in their names.
But Walter was sent to the Jupiter colonies as a child. How would he have been able to keep that AC around? Or perhaps it was kept on Rubicon and he simply remembered where to find it when he eventually returned.
@@goosemanVEVO My understanding is that the reason he has the AC is that since Arquebus found the coral research lab after the ibis series fight. They came into possession of the AC that was most likely kept in storage there. Then since they captured Walter and "reeducated" him. They then forced him into the AC to do their dirty work because of his familiarity with coral. Now the reason why the parts of the AC have the WLT in the name. I think it is reasonable to assume that the AC may have been around for a while. Seeing as how Walter was very close to the primier researchers at the lab. It may not be too far off to suggest that whoever was responsible for building it named the parts after Walter. He was close to nagai, and Walter's father was a huge player at the institute after all. So yeah he didn't "keep" the AC. It isn't his AC. It was an institute prototype that Arquebus found at the institute and forced Walter to pilot. All of the parts reference the institute. IB obviously stands for Ibis, NGI seems like it stands for Nagai, and WLT is Walter.
@@goosemanVEVO This a good question. And chewbacchunks does makes some very good answers. In truth the game never really states anything about this, it is very likely he was forced into the hal by arquebus.
As for how he had it in the all mind ending. Well since 621 disappeared and was causing chaos it very possible the overseer group took the ac from the corporation as 621 and all mind was wreaking the corp.
11:37 Walter said,"Wait, that's the Institute Machine! No!". It indicated he was killed by SOL 644. Mind Gamma might just be for the intro of the main show when SOL 644 appears
Very true. But i am only going off what i see in the cut scene only as from did not let us see the fight. Which would have been awesome.
I wouldn't be too surprised if MIND GAMMA and SOL 644 were fighting simultaneously against Walter and Carla. Though, Iguazu could only control one at a time, so it might be a stretch. Perhaps ALLMIND controlled SOL 644 independently, relying on surprise and technological advantage to quickly kill either Carla or Walter before their superior skill poses a threat, with Iguazu handling the other in MIND GAMMA.
ACL has some lore for you, 621.
Aye told him not to listen ha ha.
You say that it requires very careful energy management, but...
See, that's the thing with the Coral generators.
They work _very_ differently from (almost) all other Generators.
Their recharge delay is quite long, and their recharge slow.
But they've got very short post-depletion recovery, and _extremely_ high post-recovery charge; well more than half the bar in the AORTA, and almost the _entire_ bar in the case of the NGI-000.
This puts you in the unusual situation where you _want_ to completely deplete your EN bar if you feel you need to recover quickly. You do need to manage the moment of vulnerability this entails, but the instant it's done, you're back up and running.
This makes them brilliant for Tetrapod craft, since you can not only essentially ignore your EN bar, but actually _want_ it to entirely deplete.
That said, they require a highly counterintuitive energy-management style that's _completely_ different to what the other Generators do, and for a lot of players this feels wrong.
And that is why i am always happy to read such comment. I am not the best at understanding these parts, so having others with the knowledge is not only helpful to me, but other who watch the video too.
Might suited for VE-42B too, as it will give the player time to recover
glory to handler walter
Glory to the hound master.
Someone at FromSoftware must be a huge fan of Bryan Cranston given that Cranstons’s most iconic characters are named here
Walter White (Breaking Bad)
Hal Wilkerson (Malcolm in the Middle)
Interesting stuff
Ah the memoires of Malcolm in the middle.
Our beloved Hal
Handler Walter really was just a good man in a bad situation. ACVI really tugged at my heart strings.
It does have some good heart pulling moments. Chatty death being one for me, it so well voiced acted.
@@armoredcorelore Chatty deserved better.
Yes he did.
I love this game so much. Learning more about the world is so fun
you know me i do love a bit of lore.
the more mid the mech the more skilled the pilot.. neat..
Neat indeed.
Been a while since ive been immersed into the AC world, this is a great topic to come back through
I hope you enjoy.
I'm glad you found a friend and posted this .
Hello darkness my old friend.
This might be one of the most emotional stories in 6th gen. You've done it justice. I'm curious, would you ever be willing to do a supercut of your videos per game, for longform listening? I'd love to be able to put these on in the car during a drive. ❤
I can give it a go =)
Dang Walter is highly skilled to use those weapons efficiently!
He must be.
Been waiting for this one. Walter's such a fascinating character
He is and i hope i did his lore justice.
I wish we got a route where we got to fight the final boss with aire, walter & carla, and rusty. Kind of like how 4 and 4a did towards the middle or finale fight
That would be wicked!
Waltuh, we gotta let the last cinders burn waltuh
Fun times.
Lets learn about Wally!
621 they die first ha ha. You know i really would have like to hear Carla call him that.
The hal 826 when you use the shueld right and dance between weapon uses like you said, is however the single hardest hitting ac in the wntire game. You can do upwards 34,000ap damage in a single well timed 4 part combo with a kick into the rifle, kick, blade, charged shot, charge blade, kick and charge bomb simultaneously at the end. You can't build a single AC in the game that can survive that combo and if you get it off just right its impossible to escape due to readujusting manually with the kick. Also to get the charge blade off you have to manually offset yourself so the start of the blast from the blade is already on the slightly staggered ac so you have to break lock on.
This is why i like reading comments. I am not the best with crafts and how they work best. But the knowledge is out there and it not only helps me, but other would read it too.
Here for all the lore! Would love a SCHNEIDER video since they were not featured much in the Arquebus video
Its on my list to do =)
"Waltuh, put the Xylem away Waltuh. I am not fireing up Rubicon right now Waltuh."
I need another ending...
where we go with Rusty to fight the ships (we take the ones to the left and he the ones on the right) and on the return we get attacked by snail and walter and we 2v2
But then we need to run to stop allmind but walter is still alive and we leave it with Rusty and at that point we fight the same boss of the true ending with Aery in the second phase BUT in the first phase we get help fron Chatty, in the end Carla got the backup for him and his decision is to help us bc the last wish of Carla is for him to decide for himself his life (he will die in the first phase)
In the end we don't do the coral realease, we line up in the Liberator of Rubicon ending, we just stop Carla, Allmind and Snail
In this route allmind will still tell us the plan of snail to capture us but he escape and still get Walter
But this is rather the perfect ending, i guess games like this are so good bc, even with many endings, they all are so real and it's bc of this that we will dream of a better one, it's a good story when it leaves you with this sensation, it literally hit you
Very true. But from i will take that perfect ending dlc please.
Just had an idea. Vs. videos? 'Cause in my mind, the NEXTs of 4A are top tier. I can't imagine most of 'em losing to other mechs in the franchise.
Hmm something to think about.
Man i swear this is the second time i felt somekind of kinship between the protagonist and their operator first in the AC4 duology then in AC6, when i first played i thought it will be business like usuall an uncaring boss that in the end would betray you like the old series but i was wrong.
Hopefully if theres a DLC for AC6 it would be nice to see walter in his early years gatherin 621 predecessor.
That would be cool, hoping it would touch on the Jupiter war and the four islands too.
Great Job man! Love the lore, love the layout of the weapons!
Thank you for the kind words. They are a cool layout.
Replacing some of these Coral weapons with the Redshift one makes this craft a true foe to respect. And I wonder how this craft was supposed to prevent the Coral Collapse with it being influenced by the Coral, even though it was piloted by a human...?_?
As a guess here, i am thinking since most the other ibis weapons are controlled by coral that having a human inside this one means it can override that influence and with that perhaps move coral into contains to stop it gathering or allowing the coral to be burned as the ac flies through the moving coral.
@@armoredcorelore With that being said, Attack on Watchpoint, is it possible that was a container for gathering the coral into a controllable spot to stop the influence of coral gathering?_?
14:05 I’ve noticed that people in the lower ranks of PvP tend to use this a.c without much change to its build. It’s a good build. But it’s incredibly easy to stagger. It didn’t stand a chance against an optimized lightweight build I made. But the potential it has can’t be ignored. I do want to see if I can make it fit my playstyle more. It’s quite interesting.
I hope you a manage too, i am not really into the pvp side of armored core. However i know there is a lot of talent there that can make crafts like hal really work well.
Walter is one of three of my favourite characters in AC6,only ALLMIND and Ayre being higher. Thanks for making this video,liked it. Also may I ask: will there be any chance of compilation videos for each timeline?
I will do my best to make it happen.
I really think you should get a permanent DVD or Blu-ray set made with every video on it individually.
I'd definitely buy it.
Ha ha i mean i like the idea. But i think i would need to up my quality a lot for a DVD release.
@@armoredcorelore I mean.... You're quality is already good enough. You ever seen how basic the Criterion Collection is? Literally the same in most ways as the direct to DVD budget bin titles from 70s backwards. Not much special, but endorsed because of clout.
I've watched loads of criterion and I can tell you... It's never a bad idea to start skipping UA-cam and making a budget from something that's harder to copy and steal.
@@VaporRonin Ofh that bad already huh. Sad times.
@@armoredcorelore LOL
I don't know why but I always thought that 617 and 621 was the same pilot
There was a lot of speculation about what happened to 617 like they become raven. So maybe that had something to do with it.
I have the AC6 Pilot's Manual (that isn't actually a guide, completely) - I wonder if there is any additional information in that? It has some pages with lore, I'll have to check it out for you. Love the video, obviously. I just thought of that though.
Its worth a look Nova, granted i got the pilot manual next to me right now. But i might have missed something as things have been busy around here.
So im guessing that 618 was killed by Sulla...
I mean Sulla says he thinks he did. "Was it 618 I killed last? He was good, but he had nothing on this one."
Cool Video! I think Walter's AC is good, but not easy to pilot.
Can you do one on Allmind next? I know nothing of its/her origins and still don't fully understand the Alea Iacta Est ending.
I can try my best, you know me i will try to cover everything.
Ah yes lore on patch the good lucky
Hey man, such a really great video your job is so amazing.
But something I really cant understand in the lore is, how the armored core games connect to eat other?And like in AC1 we had a timeline based on years, we still have this timeline?
Well as you said we had the first ac time line named From 2 Great Wars from ac1 all the way to armored core 2 another age. This is the end of the first time line and a new one would be created using the same ED date system to cover AC3 till last raven named theFrom the Domination of AI.
But AC3 is considered a reboot of the series so while they share the same year system name in thier timeline ED, there is no connections between the two.
Armored core 4 till armored core verdict day is another new timeline with not links to the past two. However the time measurement in ac4 and for answer is done by calendar mouths while in AC5 and ACVD they are measured in era 's such as the old era, pollution era etc.
And Ac6 is another brand new timeline as we know with an interview with the games director, who said the game is a new world with no links to previous titles.
I hope this helps and happy to answer any questions.
@@armoredcorelore Thank you man:)
No problem. Always happy to talk lore.
I really dont agree with whats said here about the Coral Missile, he misses the fact that it fires off a cluster of smaller projectiles that will cause massive ACS overload when they hit, also ive used it on faster mechs to a fairly successful degree so i dont agree with it only being used on slower mechs
And that is good, i am not really the best with weapons and how to best use them. So i appreciate those with a better understanding of such topics to speak up.
@@armoredcorelore 😅 i play this game way too often nowadays im practically addicted to it
Got A Job For You 621 nice work on this video man
Thank you.
❤ can you do lore on Ayre ?
Already on my list to do.
@@armoredcorelore 😁✊yay
Daddy!
Back in the box ha ha.
Is Walter the same voice actor as endeavour from my hero academia?
From a quick goggle search it seems so.
@@armoredcorelore brilliant now I can ad endeavour voice lines to the Walter boss fight