Armored Core Lore: Armored Core Cockpits

It is time to look inside the cockpits of armored cores throughout AC history. Be warned though ACL has never said cockpit so much in his life and hopes no one else has too in their life.

[bradleyhicks]

Typical Mobile Suit Cockpit:
Airbag pilot suit
Inertia dampeners
Design infrastructure based on momentum
360 degree display for optimal combat awareness
Visual comms display
Emergency eject mechanism

Typical Armored Core Cockpit:
Pilot - Alive (Optional)

[nizalmuhammad]

Some fans have theory AC 4 cockpit don't have monitor, the LYNX visibility is like VR camera and their nervous system is connected on their neck pilot

[MechaBorne]

It's criminal that my gaming chair isn't shaped like this

[ДмитрийЗаруйкин]

I have a tiny headcanon that in AC6 the Ephemera's cockpit is just a metal chair with a laptop stuffed into the core somewhere between the electronics and pipes

[thorinth]

In AC6, on quite a few cores, you can see a roughly sphere shaped module a little larger than a human under the gaps of armor plates. To name the sets that have these cockpits:
Alba
Melander
Melander C3
Mind Alpha
XC2000
CS5000
HAL 826

The rest are either too bulky to have an exposed cockpit module or too skinny and require special shapes for cockpits.

[Phos]

The trailer for that Amazon show, “Secret Level”, we see a bit of the inside of an AC. That show doesn’t seem to follow any timeline in particular so it’s either its own thing or a sneak peek at 7th gen

[albertwesker]

I think the details within the cockpit in the AC Secret Level episode is amazing. It kinda gives the idea of how an AC motion tracts some of the pilots movement (like the head) when they are looking around via the projector screen.

It would make sense in the context of Gen 6 since we can freely look around during combat.

In all honesty I love that episode. Simple, fun and to the point with regards to marketing AC to audiences.

[Человек-Вархаммер]

About AC6. In game there are several times mentioned about "feeling an AC like your body" and stuff like that. Also look how 6 gen ACs moove, their movement is rather human-like. So I think those ACs are controled with some sort of nerve connection. Even non-augmented humans like Freud could do that I think.

[alternative]

I like to think that AC6 cockpits is the best for both worlds depending on how they value pilots, some are made expensive that are close to having a 360 panoramic cockpits, some are made with just Basic cockpit but get's the job done, while others like Handler Walter and the RRI uses a more taboo approached with coffin like cockpit with the bare minimum that link their mind to the machine to see and move.
edit: in the end, it's always about the skills of the pilot to get the job done.

[apocalypticsurvivor]

I always figured ac cockpits were just a more cramped movile suit cockpit, nothing like a 360 degree panoramic cockpit like what the unicorn has, more like a zaku or gm cockpit, two levers three pedals 3-5 monitors and like a million buttons that no one knows what they do

[hijous]

finally, a telling of a lore accurate ac cockpit

[doomzilla]

When they said the AC are armored coffins, it lives up to the reputation for those who are careless and those who falls within the heat of battle . For the NEXTS i can see they might use a neural interface, the AMS for them to fully utilize the full capability of their mechs. Within the battlefield, it's up to the RAVEN to survive the brutality of combat and live to fight another day.

[Gabrhil]

After watching your Core Concept video, I really love how the Core is basically just a car built to be fitted with arms and legs instead of wheels. I think that's what really makes AC designs stand-out from other familiar mecha designs

[MechaCoreKnight]

As for NEXT, could be possible that the cockpit is actually not directly connected to the core and connected through a very miniaturized seismic dampeners used for earthquakes, except these were more "reactionary" hence a more sudden and erratic shift on tempo of boosts, is not enough for the system to dampen the g-forces.

Now this is where AMS or the direct nervous system connection comes into place, if the pilot has thoughts of about to use quickboosts, the system would read it and make appropriate motions and direction of the dampeners before the pilot could physical motions of pressing the button for quickboosts.

It could also be possible that the dampeners aren't the real life modern ones, and are actually the very precise electromagnetic kind where the cockpit is technically levitating.

[TheRoyalSkies]

Excellent video! For the Armored Core 6 cockpit, I'd just like to add that if you do the math with the scale and size of the Lammergeier core. It's too small for a pilot to be sitting down. Which means very likely pilots in AC6 are lying down the same way we saw in the trailer directly plugged into the AC controlling it with their brain -

[DeathMetalThrasher]

In AC2 during the intro cutscene and the beginning of the first mission, we get a glimpse inside the cockpit of an AC. More specifically the monitors and hud displays inside them.

[hdgdjgsgfj]

Ever since getting introduced to the series, I've been wondering how the cockpit looked like. Thank you for this video.

[joerogers]

Are we gonna talk about how in the ac3 intro video it shows a dude just typing on a keyboard? Lol thats cockpit cannon

[chillzaa]

If you thing AC is too dangerous to pliot, wait until you see the Knightmare Frame in Code Geass.

[ACFoxeye]

This video was a treasure trove of vital details for lore hounds like us.