Armored Core 6 is a beautiful game made to look even better with the best graphics settings. And just like all the games that came before it, Armored Core 6 requires you to choose between prioritizing frame rate or prioritizing quality. So, should you choose frame rate or quality in Armored Core 6?
Note: Having the best graphics settings in Armored Core 6 is important, but so is knowing how to manually reload.
How to change graphics settings in Armored Core 6
While you’ll absolutely have more Armored Core 6 graphics setting options on PC, if you’re enjoying AC6 on console, then you need to pick to either prioritize frame rate or prioritize quality.
It doesn’t matter the game – I’m in the camp of always recommending prioritizing frame rate over quality. While quality makes your image look sharper, if you don’t pick frame rate on consoles, you’ll be stuck with 30 frames per second which makes the image look bad no matter what. Plus, the game already looks amazing without prioritizing quality.
Picking frame rate is especially important in a game like Armored Core 6. This game is extremely fast-paced, so you’ll need every frame you can get to keep up with the action.
Oddly enough, I don’t remember the game prompting you to pick frame rate or quality. At any point, you can press start to pull up the settings menu. From here, navigate to “Graphics Settings” and scroll to “Performance Settings.” Here, you’ll select to prioritize frame rate or prioritize quality, and I highly recommend prioritizing frame rate.
Even if you aren’t the type to notice frame rates, the jump from 30 frames per second to 60 frames per second will be noticeable in Armored Core 6 because of its breakneck speed. I think the game looks pretty enough without prioritizing quality, but you’re free to experiment yourself. Play a mission prioritizing quality and see how it feels and then a mission prioritizing frame rate. After your experiment, decide which one you’ll stick with.
After finding the perfect graphics setting for you, you might want to learn the best strategy to beat HC Helicopter, the first boss in AC6.
