KNIGHT 34 - REAPER returns me to A Rank / ARMORED CORE 6: FIRES OF RUBICON

Hello Ravens one and all! I've mostly been on hiatus recently due to significant changes in my personal life, most for the better which is great. Unfortunately, I haven't had much time to hang with my boys, so I've just been hopping on for increments at a time to just hit ranked while feeling out one of my newest TreadKnights! With that said, I am proud to introduce KNIGHT 34 - REAPER! This brutal machine was an idea of mine for a while now, and I was more than pleased to see it mostly worked! Funnily enough, I didn't run into many meta builds on this particular adventure through ranked, so I didn't get to show off many fights against dual zimms and linear rifle kites. One absolutely toyed with me for that matter as you will see. I also lost a few other fights HARD like against this one double KRSV/FASAN tank which was rough, but oh well. Also had a cool amount of close matches too! All in all, it was a fun climb, which I haven't had in a good while now! The build started off using nachtreiher arms with a talbot FCS and VE-20B generator to max out the energy damage on the pulse cannon. I've been wanting to use nacht arms on a tank for a long while now, and at first, it seemed to work nicely. However, I quickly realized there was an increase of people who tried to stay out of my range. That wasn't fun so I wanted to use a WLT FCS, but that turned out horrible on nacht arms, even with consistent soft-locking. So I switched the arms to ALBAs and back to a Talbot FCS and saw an immediate increase in reliability. That said, I still was running into people trying to stay out of my range, and that was becoming maddening. Not to mention, my energy efficiency was NOT doing enough for me. So for the first time, I put a VE-20A in one of my tanks! And BOOM, a spike in neutral boost speed, an increase in energy efficiency and some still nicely boosted energy firearm spec later, and my climb sped up! In the end, I made it to A-Rank on a solid note, and was afterwards VERY proud of my technological terror. I hope you enjoy watching the journey I took! It was one hell of a trek! Shoutout to scented-orphan8 and iam_SENNTYA on PSN for letting me see some sweet chainsaw builds! And thanks to all the people who showed me unique builds!