DAEMON X MACHINA

DAEMON X MACHINA
Developer: Marvelous FIRST Studio Publishers: Nintendo, Marvelous Inc., XSEED Games Platforms: Nintendo Switch, Windows Released internationally: September 13, 2019 (Switch), February 13, 2020 (Windows) This game has unused enemies. This game has unused graphics. This game has unused models. This game has unused music. This game has regional differences. This game has revisional differences.

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Once upon a time in the far future, there was superpowered Moon-oil, and there were robots. Developed as a spiritual successor to the Armored Core series, with influences from many other games, the game was well regarded by many mecha and action game fans. Unfortunately, the mecha game curse struck again, and overall poor sales have left the franchise with an uncertain future. Also, ice cream.

Subpages and PROTOTYPE MISSIONS

Demo Thumbnails In an alternate reality where you're just too lazy to play the game.

Unused Audio

Several unused music pieces and sound effects exist within the game's files.

Prototype Battle Music

Within the \Audio\ProtoTest directory, several early audio files are present, including "battle2" and "battle3". Battle2 (below) appears to be a very early test track, whereas Battle3 contains less than a second of silence.

Unknown Sound Files

In the same directory, three sound files are present. The nature of these sound files is unknown, but they likely belonged to an early cinematic, or were used in test animations. Co000 000RL

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Unused Textures

Early Dialogue Portraits

Unknown Character Portraits

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  Very early character in an unknown suit.

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  Uniquely strange early character.

Two unknown characters exist, each in their own folder, stored with other very early dialogue portraits. The second is quite notable, as nothing with even a passing resemblance exists or can be created in-game.

Early Reclaimer Renders

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  Guns Empress

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  Rose Queen

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  Crown Princess

These early dialogue portraits provide a good look at early reclaimer models. Immediately apparent is the changes to members of Panzer Crown. These renders were made when Guns Empress was still red-headed, as shown in many pieces of concept art. More interestingly, Rose Queen and Crown Princess used placeholder models based on Guns Empress' model.

Regret also received some minor changes between this build and release, most notably a significant difference in visor transparency.

The last render with any notable changes is Nameless, who's face is drastically less defined than others. Thankfully, in later versions of DAEMON X MACHINA, Nameless bears significantly less resemblance to a potato.

Early Briefing Images

An overhead shot of Grace City found with very early briefing backgrounds.

Prototype Oval Designs

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  A very early version of Oval, lacking significant sections of land to the East and West.

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  A revision, more stylized but still lacking those regions.

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  A later prototype of Oval, this time with geography similar to that of the final game.

Inaccessible Decals & Patterns

Unused Number Decals

Unused Graffiti

Inaccessible Patterns

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  Inaccessbile "Hex Camo" variant used by Bishop.

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  Unused "Field Camo" variant.

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  Unused "Tiger Camo" variant.

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  Unused "Rough Camo" variant (based on "Rough Camo: 1").

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  Inaccessible "Woodland Camo" variant used by varous members of Bullet Works.

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  Inaccessible "Metal" variant used by Knight.

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  Unused "Woodland Camo" variant (possibly color-corrected in-engine for Crimson Lord).

Test Patterns

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  Test pattern inspired by U.S. Woodland Camouflage "M81".

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  Ditto, but desaturated and lightened.

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  Unknown desaturated camouflage pattern.

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  Test pattern inspired by MARPAT Woodland.

Unused Models

An early blockout of the HAW-R03 Grim Reaper III used for tests.

An unused body modification for the head region.

An unused "wide" variant of the basic Energy Blade model.

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  Red Walker Bomber

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  Slay Dog Bomber

Unused Bomber variants for the Red Walker and Slay Dog. These are referenced in the official Sourcebook, but never appear in-game.

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  Interior View

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  Exterior View

A long hallway hidden behind the door of the hangar. As the door never opens under any circumstances, the hall goes unused.

Unused Animations

Hangar Dog

Hangar Dog has two unused attack animations, both consisting of a short lunge with several snapping bites. Additionally, Hangar Dog's Sit emote seems to be salvaged from a now-incomplete set of scrapped crawling animations. Finally, Hangar Dog's Play Dead emote is labeled just like any normal death animation. It's possible that at one point, Hangar Dog had some role in gameplay.

Oddities

German Localization Mistakes

The German version incorrectly uses French screenshots in some tutorial images.