I like it more than Marathon.
Why's that?
>>735002914It's fun.also people are more often to do funny or cool things
>>735002934*are more likely to dowrote that like a tard
>>735002934I'm a pvp enjoyer so Marathon is the game for me
>>735002871I don't see the appeal. You just walk around and collect junk until you encounter a player and have a wholesome 100 chungus gamer moment where you talk and don't kill each other. Especially DayZ for zoomers.
>>735002991I'm also a PvP enthusiast, and I like Arc Raiders PvP more. I enjoy the fights more, and I realized there is more room for mind games and social manipulation that makes it more novel too. Marathon is just kos, and Arc Raiders has that and more, on top of better gameplay in my subjective opinion, so I prefer it.The server slam did not offer me anything nearly as engrossing, matches feel very straightforward do contract kill people etc.I just like it more than Marathon.
>>735003141There's goals you do with that junk, and quests, and benches to upgrade, and projects to fulfillBut what I like about Arc more than Marathon is that most of what you get might look like junk, but unlike Marathon, 98% of it is used to craft, or is turned into crafting materials for gadgets, guns, and trinkets you can use in the sandboxso everything you pick up is useful, or straight up valuable for $ so you can get permanent upgrades when you do the expedition wipe.
>>735003267no reset is stupid, you'll get bored and then when you stop being terrible you'll play tarkov
>>735004151But you do reset, I did my first a couple weeks ago, idk what you meanI do agree however, it's fun to reset or else it'd be boring after a while. Doing so in Arc permanently gives you more skill points, which is pretty nice.
>/v/tard prefers the casual game that is safe from being called out by the current echo chamberno shit
>>735002934I will never get tired of just loading into Stella and going nuts and every player I see cause for whatever reason Stella Montis players are just built like psychopaths and will choose violence at first sight so it's always fun to try pray on them while you know they're doing the same to you. Also fuck those cowards that only attack PVE players. PVP is only fun when you're fighting other PVP players.>>735003141Shoot them in the face
>>735004151Also there's more to like about Arc RaidersIn terms of skill etc. I'm High rank in every PvP game I play, it's not an issue of being terrible, tarkov doesn't interest me and it's a washed game with no flair other than gun autism I don't care about.Killing the Colossus sized robots is more fun>>735004351I prefer good games, I ain't no casul lil' nigga
>>735004368I'm seen chungus stella lobbies when you're in chungartha queue and you're just doing trials, but Rape Stella lobbies are the bestExcept loading bay- getting caught there can be hell. Lobby and medical are kino
>>735004373The game really needs more ultra giga nigger death robots. Even Matriarchs are easy now.
I like marathon a lot more for some reason. Arc Raiders never really did anything for me.
>>735004425I'm really fuckin' hyped for the giga-nigger rape bot they plan on introducing next month, along with new map, guns and loot I presume.I'm also anxiously waiting the new Arc they're adding... my guess is next week, not this week.I'm betting on it being a medium sized ground or air arc. There was a leak of anotehr rollerbot and a new Rocketeer style flier with what looks like a Sniper cannon, could be fun if it's the latter, or something else entirely (picrel, had to dig for it)
>>735004519What's your some reason? I played it, and it was really fucking boring 90% of the time with annoying ttk (that I abused by killing everyone with headshots even with basic nigger starting pistol). There was nothing outside of my contract and exploring and shooting that was particularly of note to me.
The Bungulator
>>735004659Also the fucking abysmal UI that had items that share the same icon but actually do different things or effectsThey seriously need to fix that pronto, it's obnoxious.My sister who actually plays hardcore games says she gave it a try at a friends house, and even she said the UI was bad unprompted and wasn't about it.
>>735002934people became KoS niggers after the launch week. that’s when I quit
>>735004737Well you clearly haven't played anytime recentlyif you're friendly enough, after a while, you can be chill friendly lobbies if you hate KOSniggers that bad
>>735004676Isn't this guy just a shill who plays whatever he's paid most to play
LMAO there's some literal who gook extraction shooter having a playtest right now and it already passed Marathon
>>735004836he 100% is>shat on his fanbase for trashing marathon>instantly stops playing marathon the moment #ad ends
>>735004894>nakwon
>>735004894Just checked this out, looks fucking awfulfunny it has half of what marathon has tho
>>735002871Arc Raiders never piqued my interest because I didn't like its aesthetic. I'm kind of done with the generic modern to sci-fi shooters. It either needed to be something visually unusual like Marathon is or fantasy/magitech.
>>735007093I feel you, but for what arc raiders wanted to do with its enemies, how the react and behave, I think it fits.The psuedo sleek modern look of the bots fits really well with how they move and behave- the Ai trained 'teach a thing to walk' realism is scaryas for the retro hi-tech 70s shit? ehh not so much, but I think it all fits what the game wants to do, and the environments themselves are quite pretty and the game runs well (on linux!)
>>735002871I love how all the shitposting about these games on /v/ highlighted all the problems in a different genre: PvP MMOs>PvE carebears who only want to watch meaningless numbers go up>PvP cowards who only want to fight PvErs instead of other PvPers, and want to grief people out of their own game and ruin it>complaints about how PvP games with gear or number differences don't work and are unfair>debates that the unfairness is what makes it immersive and fun (it's basically like IRL)>probably more shit I'm forgettingCan a PvPvE game EVER work?Do people really have to move from game to game or server to server as the previous one inevitably dies?
I played the closed betas of Arc and thought it was ass so I never botheredAlso played the Marathon betas and suprise suprise, it's also ass
>>735007886PvPs, especially recently, have demonstrated that players will bitch and whine about unfairness when their "fairness" is being put in a pubstomp lobby where only THEY are pubstomped but can't get over the fact that they'll get pubstomped toowhich in turn makes them go to ranked modes and expect fairness when there is none to be found from a balancing angle and they'll cry for that. People want SBMM, they just don't want them to be told about it.
>>735007886Yeah this is why when people start giving Arc shit over these topics I just tune out.I think Arc itself is very fun at its core, starting from the enemies, the physics, even small things like being able to plsy kickball with a bastion core after killng it.The discourse is mired by retards on both sides it will never appease, but the game itself is so good all arc needs to do is keep being fun and adding more to the core game in the form things that add more dynamics, like trully massive robot raids. Keep doing what it does best, and people will still love it no matter how carebears or psychos feel.They talked about abmm more then they should, but the way they kinda let it sort itself out, and the game lets you have a range of lobbies to mess around in, REALLY makes it so that unlike any other game in the extract pvpve genre, there's always somewhere you can get comfortable if you just like playing the game.THAT is why Arc Raiders works. All its parts are fun and you both can and can't be certain how each match will go, but if you're tired of getting KOSed you can make it more reliable you wont and still just enjoy at your own pace.It only works bc at its core, fighting bots and going around is fun. the minute to minute is very actively engaging. They nailed it desu
After two Expeditions I realized that the gameplay loop is dogshit and that I'm basically playing a no-build Fortnite extraction shooter. The problem with Arc is that once the cracks show, they REALLY show, and it's hard to enjoy the game after that unless you're a mega autist. Still more fun overall than I had with the Marathon server slam at least, and by a longshot.
>>735008961Yeah but the cracks are ALL from people thinking too hard about the PvP, matchmaking etc.If you just like killing robots and meeting people, the game is pretty funI like trying to do trails and progress my quests and shit, I just like playing.When I feel like raping niggers I start gunning people down until I've had my fill and go back to chungus land
Also yeah, like I said it's just way more fun at its core than Marathon, like you said, by a LONG shot
>>735004421Did a game yesterday where it felt like literally everyone on the map ended up converging on lobby and about 8 different squads were battling it out
Well you certainly aren’t Shroud so that’s a plus. That guys shilling for Marathon now so you’ll have your work cut out for you
>14 mar 0200 UTC 59,357>14 mar 1000 UTC 25,102>15 mar 0200 UTC 58,729>15 mar 1000 UTC 26,537>daily high gets lower, daily low gets higherthey’re totally using bots for this shit, aren’t they
>>735004613>There was a leak of anotehr rollerbotoh come on how lazy are these swedes another fucking ball that rolls?
>>735010938>local retard doesn't know how timezones work
>>735002871I'm low Kirkenuinely hoping they slowly turn the game into co-op Shadow od the colossus gradually over time... which apparently was something the devs were literally aiming for at one point.
>>735008667Yeah. Playing Marathon, it honestly feels like a battle royale. You're not really encouraged to loot, the best option is to always kill the other team. In Arc, you get exp for opening containers, sometimes there are rare BPs in the most random containers. So you're always encouraged to open shit up whenever you come across anything. Not so in Marathon really unless it's a valuable loot area but otherwise the best way to advance is to kill other people.If not that, you're doing these mind-numbing fetch quests for the different factions that feel so awful to complete. Feels like a Korean MMO with how bad the grind is.
>>735004425This. Need more maps that are packed to the teeth with fuck huge bots instead of the occasional worry of a drone nat.
>>735011906You get faction XP for looting certain types of containers and killing certain types of NPCs.
>>735011592>midwit faggot doesn't understand global data taken over multiple days
>>735008961Season 1 I PVPd a lot since I still had buddies playing.Season 2 I apparently got too comfortable in PVE-cuckland. 2 kills in 47 hours, jesus christ.I'm done for now.
>>735013281No FUCKING way you went a whole season without killing more than 50 people broLike, I get it, I get sucked into the PvE chunguszone for hours at a time bc it feels good pulling in the FATTEST hauls, and stealing as many fucking mattriarch, queen, and mag accelerator stacks as possible over and over wracking up a mil in a day for the 3 milBUT LIKEI'm gonna get shot or get an itchy finger eventually. past hitting 3 mil and 100 guns I might as well use em and lose em anyway toward the end of expedition.
>>735015278honestly even if you're loaded and ready for the expedition already, doing trials is a FUCKING pain in KoSistan, losing your 24 minute streak of shooting wasps all round just to get knocked by a faggot who spent the entire round watching youtube waiting for something to enter his line of sight
>>735011906What do you mean your not encouraged to loot? The barter system is by far the best way to aquire gear since everything is so expensive if you are buying with credits and you need salvage to buy the faction upgrades. In arc you just level up and spend skill points so you can get by just doing raw pvp and looting guns to sell since everything revolves around stash value. You dont even need to upgrade your benches since cesfting is entirely optional. In marathon you "have" to get salvage to progress your player power.
>>735002871Active Matter > Arc > Tarkov > pubg black budget > Marathon
>>735002871What's the deal with the rainbow motif in Arc Raiders' artwork? Is it meant to appeal to Gen Xers who grew up with the Atari?
>>735015925raiders get around using subway tubes
>>735004836Yes actually
>>735015925they're the SMPTE color bars used to calibrate color and audio levels for tape recordings. Since this is is all retro-scifi like Alien and they use CRTs and play music on literal tape cassettes i would say yeah this is alot of Gen X nostalgia.
Yeah I really can't stand toxic PvP incel chuds, so ARC is great so I can do wholesome PvE with other Gamer Dads. I even joined reddit so we could talk more about it.
>>735002871>Dad RaidersThe ultimate game for Millennials past the age of 30+
