Not that I can recall. Most screwovers in AC the player actively deals with is just taking a mission that turns out to be a setup and fighting your way out of the ambush and such.
I think supposedly the organizations backing whatever the mercs are called for any given installment are able to push on a level of neutrality from the corps, it seems to be they have a near monoply on talent. And I’d imagine on the unseen support end of things whoever is actually doing the work on your ACs probably goes over shit with a fine toothed comb to deal with any backdoors and such.
The closest you’ll get is some missions might be much more difficult depending on your setup, but that’s purely on a practical basis, like a mission defending an offshore platform leaves you little room to move with normal legs and taking a dive is a failure, but hover legs let you move over the water freely, or a facility penetration ends up being especially long and you end up out of ammo before its over and you have to start over bringing a setup with more/higher ammo capacity guns or extended magazines. Another Age even had a mission or two unbeatable depending on setup, I remember one had massive jumps over gorges and you simply couldn’t make them without a setup with high jump capability.
In general AC just kinda ignores stuff on the player’s end for the game’s sake. Like Human+, which basically gives you cheats when you lose the game by acquiring massive debt, you get a cinematic of an operation, the implications being that you’ve sold yourself for these experiments that give you these abilities. And in many games you see the occasional company merc who story wise are implied to be modified (as opposed to ones that obviously use the cheat abilities but with no story mention are probably just meant to be harder opponents) and that’s why they’re in whatever company’s pocket, but the player can just run through as normal.
Yeah that’s Nexus, and it’s the only one.
Closest might be Front Mission Evolved. But I have never heard much good about FME, though I haven’t played it myself. Like even if someone isn’t talking bad about they aren’t really praising it, either.
