Nabeshima said the team had to change quite a few things around to get the entire game online, and unlike past games in the series, the single-player story mode is online as well as the competitive modes – thus the full game is online all the time.

Online in the past translated into versus play, and while Armored Core V still maintains this style of play, From Software wants the player to “live in the game’s online space, not just play against one another,” by encouraging players to form teams online so they may share rewards, victories and defeats.