Previous: >>546585121 (Mistitled as #24, but it was #25)North Line Update has arrived - New Map Stella Montishttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9JeiBAAey4https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVfTtOrRuFU>Newshttps://arcraiders.com/en/news/duo-and-store-updatehttps://arcraiders.com/en/news/north-line-update>Resourceshttps://arcraiders.com/en/newshttps://metaforge.app/arc-raiders/maphttps://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19IQX87jrhY-Sg41a2lm5lKrVJzwwc21gzF5i9SRnhM4/edit?gid=0#gid=0Check the bottom of the docs!
>>546707126I don't doubt that, but that same player (and you) will eventually run across someone who is in a rough spot being chased by ARC or they're looting in an area where you were first, and maybe you just got ratted last round and you're kind of mad about it, and you'll gun them down cold-blooded and take their loot. It will eventually happen. Because it's a game, and because it's human natureAnd then that player will angrily tell you to fuck yourself on voice comms, and tell you that the community is "nice" and you should feel bad for killing him
*mutilates your rooster's cloaca*What's the best gun for killing players?
Why is everyone calling it VOIP? It's Voice Chat, Prox Chat, Proximity Chat. Why do zoomies and alphies just craft new useless terms. Stop using their nonsense.
>>546707474VOIP was a thing long before zoomers were even born, anon.
>DON'T SHOOT>HI RAIDER
>>546589069>nor do i have the stomach to inflict the pain of losing stuff on someone that doesn't shoot firstGot this game yesterday and follow the same policy, but some of the most fun moments I had were with players just opening fire on me, whether win or lose. Even campers are fun and make it tense to loot in one of the more trafficed spots. personally, I was thankful for being presented with PvP without having to feel like an asshole for it. It was a bit boring in the lower level matches, were everyone is still scared of Arc and defaults to friendly. I think it might change to being KOS when Arc is not around and the other player isn't explicitely friendly though.
90% of the time when i shoot first is because im trying to do my feats
>>546707474>VOIP>Zoomer slangPeak ragebait
>>546707714They need to add more hairstyles all around. Everybody with a female is using the French braids. The hipster in me had to use the pixie cut.
>>546707829Lemme shoot on your feets, anon.
Stella needs to have something done about the spawns. Right now you can get into your raid and if it's a fresh instance, run like 10 seconds away from where you spawned and camp, in a few minutes someone will spawn in the same place and you just gun them down, it's ridiculous
i dont even knockout or loot players in solo queue
I like to extract camp with jolts and trigger nades but I don't finish people off, I just think it's funny watching a very heated engagement between other squads and then getting blown up on the way out
Really starting to not enjoy the game anymore.
>>546707146almost never kos solo; a friendly pve 'carebear'. i just like collecting LOOT and fucking about.https://streamable.com/9irfdp(clip from an ~hour ago that no one clicked)
I poopsocked too hard bros i'm 70 hours in and really running out of shit to do
I'm here for the vg cooomer lobbies where we sext each other in voice with our big booty latinas
>>546708007sybau faggot ahh nigger
>>546708120Cool
Why are streamers always looting batteries I dont get it.Just for med shields? You can buy 3 a day from the shop and can buy batteries from celeste.How many fucking med shields do these people need
>>546707080I’ve never loved and hated a game like this
>bring Arc killing gear to do Matriarch on Spaceport with the intention of helping like every other Matriarch round>random dude in the Departure Building suggests to me and other random guy that we should third party and kill everyone else fighting the Matriarch>go along with it and murder at least 4 other raiders>eventually get separated from them in the chaos and get to the last elevator with only a few minutes to spareI'm not gonna lie, being evil was actually kinda fun
>>546708175I'm a potato nigger
>>546708120Just give it time. Its a fad.
>my honest reaction to dying to a RAT
>>546708129Im not clicking that
>>546708365I'm just tired of getting randomly KOS'd and losing progress. Such a waste of time.
>>546708293
Light shield>med shield>heavy shield
>>546707714Think fast ho
>>546708340>i'm muslimi just said that
>>546707714DON'T SHOOT, WANNA TEAM UP?!
>>546708129GIRL?!
>tfw freekit enjoyer
I've never been shot by anyone using an actual loadout. I just now realized it's all been free kits. Is the gear fear that real?
>>546708456okay but copy and paste it into the url
how do i use these
>"Hey, don't shoot!">I don't shoot>Get shotIs this what being a cop feels like?
>>546708887Eventually you come to realize you have too much shit in your stash and at this rate its stupid to not use it. Especially when you can always get by with a Ferro/Kettle/Stitcher.
>>546708887Everyone that kills me gets 3 free purples I've died hundreds of times
>>546707413You are retarded because my response is nothing like your example. The op said there's only 2 types. Not that Most are these 2 types. Besides even if we sometimes kill someone that doesn't mean that we often do not.
>>546708887It's not fear, really, just the path of least resistance. In most cases victory is decided not by who has the better gear but who gets the drop on the other guy, so why bother risking ~50k in gear when you can mop up with a stitcher almost as easily? Plus it's way easier from an inventory management perspective, just queue up again with another free kit and the game will automatically dump all your shit into your stash for you.It's a problem, honestly.
>>546708462So kill them first
>>546708129>literally run up to scoop up whatever was left of a fight>"wtf what a faggot"kek
>>546708887I used to have gear fear, then I realized in EFT that I may as well just sell the shit if I have no intention of ever risking it in a raid. It's really pointless to have it all if it's never going out again.
>>546708887The new map especially is just too luck based on if you die or not, you kill one guy you could potentially have 3+ people on your ass within 15-20 seconds
>>546709206has to be
>whoever shoots first always wins in a 1v1 therefore this game will inevitably devolve into rat cityThen make a bro with another solo and always be in 2v1s?
anyone want to fuck around in trios? down for free kits or geared loadouts. I'm also very quiet except for callouts and I dont bitch and moan when we die.
I didn't shoot a guy on sight earlier and told him to follow me so we could loot a bastion I killed and extract with my raider hatch key and he told me it was a nice surprise to meet someone like me. It felt good bros. Maybe we can fight off the rat menace little by little.
>92 hours played>17/74 blueprintslol, lmao even.the drop rate on this is so fucking abysmal
>>546709619Im going to extract camp 5 people to make up for this good interaction
>>546709445They're going to add a craftable item that completely negates the first shot from another player once per raid. Only equippable in a safe bag slot
>>546708887The people with good gear are actually progressing and killing ARCs and being contributing members of society.PvP negroids are scum sucking pieces of shit who die 10 times in a row and have pathetic stashes
>>546709619Sometimes i team up to help random raiders who are getting attacked by arcs. Sometimes i fuck them up because i want whatever they have.You gotta mix up things. People who are always friendly are lame and retarded. People who always KOS are retarded sociopaths.
>slinking in traffic checkpoint on blue gate checking busses>all the way inside near the rear most bus>hear the bastion near the entrance lighting someone up>go see whats going on>it has him pinned behind a car>I start shooting its weak spots>a hornet flies in an aggros on me>Im hiding inside an armored car>its about to shock me>it gets shot from up on the catwalk above>the three of us finish off the bastion>make small talk>each loot it in peace>slink away in seperate directions peacefullynice
>>546709674Yeah but once you're done, you're done for good unless you prestige or whatever.
This game is a CPUslutStop using my CPU, I need it for something else
>>546709858I run purples only and all I do is PVP. I usually try and bait people and see if they attack me first and then me Jamal and D'quarius push those niggas wigs back
>>546709858Become robust so you can stop malding about lowly rats
>>546709965A KOSratNIGGER could never understand that this feels much better than being a fucking RAT. Even then I'm still always on guard with people around. I shan't ever pit my weapon away
>stella montis is just Tarkov's Labsnot sure what I expected, but that wasn't it
>>546709674No the drop rate is really good. For like 20 of the blueprints.You just get the same fucking ones all the time.
>>546709203click on the ones that go towards security breach
>>546710184only blueprints I have even worth a dam are suppressor tier 2 and the Jupiter.
Do you ever wonder how often someone is watching you and just never engages and let's you fuck off? I do, because I do it all the time to other people.
>>546709965I love this shit
how do you assault a trapped zip line with enemy firing down it? I die by the time I hit the top. Just no way to fight it?
Damn, Voltedge is actually not bad when you take all the stupid electric garbage off
>>546710164You didn't expect a mountain research facility to be labs? what
this game really is just an engine for weird player interactions i feel. The closest comparison i can think of is Trouble in Terrorist Town but with more structure and wrapped around extraction game mechanics.
Is this game cinematic in the same way Helldivers 2 is?
>>546710016I actually have a fair amount of success fending off rats, im just telling it like it is
>>546710689i had no idea what it was supposed to be, i followed zero news of this game, just heard there was a new map
is there a headglitch? Enemy can shoot from the ledge without exposing any part of their bodyIs that a cheat? I should see something but I just see bullets coming down
>>546710805I've personally never played a game like it. The other people make it feel like every moment matters. I can't remember the last time I used a mic so much on a game.
>>546707417tempest
I LOVE BLUE GATE
>>546709238This is the real reason I don't wear my good shit. I forget that shits even in there. Hell, the only pink gun I've found so far I was black out drunk when I got it lol, no idea where it came from. But if I die it's because some camping rat fuck hiding in a random bathroom stall magdumped me in the asshole. And now that faggot has good gear.
>>546711112headshots bro or just use a shotgun
>>546711112The thing with a rat is he never stops ratting because to him it is the natural response. Meaning the rat will eventually bite off more than it can chew, and become another Floyd statistic. Your gear has made it around to 100 different People by now.
testing annex is good for workbench mats
>get downed>guy gets close>filled with rage>high pitch squeal over mic>it was loud enough to make him hesitate and stop tying to punch me for a few seconds>regains composure and punches meworth it
>>546710541You assault it by dying like a bitch and trying to hide your body before your killer makes his way over to it.
>>546711020SO FUCKING MUCH
>>546711275Thanks bro that helps a lot!
>>546711308Annex is a death trap, that building sucks and that extract sucks even worse.
>watched a YouTube short of a guy faking his death with a flare to get the jump on a rat >watched a YouTube short of a guy getting downed and yelling "yeah hes over here in front of me, get him!" lying that he was with someone so he could get away through a Raider hatch while the rat fled back to reposition for another raider that didn't exist I'm starting to realize rats are retarded. Even youtubers dog on these fags
Man the first few hours of the new map's release was some of the best gaming I've had in a long time, now its just deathmatch
>>546711302Unless he's one of the rats with 2 brain cells who then finds a friendly to get his greasy ass back home safely.
>>546711546Yes, it's a death trap. That's why you make it a trap that you control. Almost every section of the building has only two exit/entry points, so throw down a shock mine and keep it in sight. Blow away anyone who trips it. Extract somewhere else, or bring a key and run across the lake to the hatch there.
All of the maps are great in this game and the gunplay is great and the game runs great and it is great. Embark mogged the AAA industry
>>546710184I have gotten the bettina BP like 8 times now, i am 90% sure the game is bugged and whenever its supposed to drop a pink weapon if just gives you that pile of crap instead
Do any of the quests require you to kill a leaper?
>>546711757I saw one vid where other devs are mad that Embark made them look bad with their good game
Humans made the ARCs right? Their engineering isn't remotely alien enough
>>546711827yes there is one
WHY CAN'T I REARRANGE THE WORKBENCHES, WHY DO THEY LOCK TO THE ORDER THAT THEY WERE CRAFTED AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAI WANT TO HAVE IT IN A SPECIFIC ORDER AND I CANTI AM GOING TO COMPLETE THE EXPEDITION SPECIFICALLY BECAUSE OF THIS
>implying you need anything more>>546710571the glove tech actually looks neat though
>>546711827You need it's parts for a bench upgrade. They're easy to kill anyways and a total blast to fight.
>>546711991>he doesn't know>>546711909anon your game lore?
>I'm not liking this game anymoreInstant seething from the anons. What causes this?
>>546712036Any tips? Do they have weak spots I should aim for?
>>546711757The fact it runs so well on UE5 is incredible.Also, the only thing I sorta dislike about the game is that unless you're running a purple shield you can still basically get insta-killed by some faggot with a crappy SMG
>Aim (Hold)>no Aim (Toggle)Why does it even specify (Hold)
just found out you can stick players with the snap blast grenade>>546711757would be very surprised if this doesn't win GOTY for best multiplayer at the VGAs even with the ML voice acting nontroversy critics are trying to force. At an 87 Metacritic Score it's literally the highest rated multiplayer shooter in a decade.
>>546711564I love when you survive the initiation strong enough to immediately start blasting shots off back at them. You can see the panic taking hold of them in real time.
>jogging through Stella Montis with a cheap loadout and a toro>looking for my usual loot route>me and a rando spot each other across a dark hallway>emote "don't shoot" and "hey raider" a few times, even call out to him in prox>rando doesn't respond, just shuffles left and right awkwardly with his ferro out>notice he's wearing black and orange jacket with the sheisty>cobain and down him immediately>suddenly his mic starts working as he groans "come on, really man?">say nothing, KO, and take his shitNever relax. If you want to have a little wholesome chungus friendly interaction, at least communicate.
>>546709206It's probably what being a good-goy golem fighting sandniggers for Israel while bound by rules of engagement feels like.
>>546712223because braindead retards from other games assume it's a toggle
>>546712376>best multiplayer It wins by default for being a game that is so intrinsically tied fo being a multi-player experience without it being your typical TDM game mode slop
>>546712459no because many other games it is far simpler to toggle than to hold. I use both depending on game
>>546712139>everyones aggro now, fun while it lastedAlso don't understand this. Game is still pretty much just like it was on launch in my experience, 75%+ of my interactions are friendly and I team up like half of my raids. And there have been people saying this since day 2.
>>546708887I don't think that it's actually gear fear. I think niggers just realized that they don't need to give a fuck about playing well with a freekit. They can just run up on someone and start blasting, or pretend to be friendly before acting like a nigger. Such retarded tactics might actually fail enough for them to go negative if they were running even green augments, but with freekits they don't need to take any care. Just rush into a match and find the first opportunity to be a nigger. Embark needs to gut the freekits. Either with a timer or by hamstringing them with hairpin/rattlers.
Some people that play this game in pubs aren't right in the head I had some crybaby screaming at me over looting an arc we both downed
Average Stella spawn, getting shot by a Ferro literally 4 seconds into the raid
i prefer freekits in pvp because it feels that much better winning a fight with dogshit gear against a dude with a renegade and heavy shield
>have to deliver burletta>spawns me across town>get shot 2 minutes later
>>546712750Idk if anyone noticed, but i think they made rattler spawns more likelyWhile before i would get the rattler once every few other matches, now i ve been getting it 3-4 times in a row, then i get another gray, then its back to rattlers
>>546712415>ferrofag shoots me in the back while I'm dispatching some arc>fuck it, immediately start firing off kettle shots back at him>he just starts visible scrambling>fireball was chasing me so I thought I'll take him up there, maybe if I die the fireball will finish him off>without healing I had enough time to run around to the ramp up to him dinging shots along the way (he didn't land a single other shot in these ~15 seconds and I was wide open)>tfw realize there's a tiny ledge up between me and him>was probably 2 rounds away from killing him when the fireball caught up and roasted my butt cheeksI'll probably remember this shameful L until the day I die. Should have just kept running around on the ground, but hindsight and all that.
>>546711991anon. One of the few things that you keep during a wipe are your workbenches. They get reset to level 1 though. This also kind of pisses me off. I'd like to rearrange things too. Or at least we should have shortcuts to the different crafting benches.
>>546712773Pubs as in fill squad? If so I don't doubt it, what a miserable experience to subject yourself to when solos is right there
>>546713224Yes I play exclusively with randoms that have no friends
>>546712898Nothing more fun that going in with a FK(or a completely empty inv if you want the challenge) and building your kit as you go along, killing suckers and looting their corpses for good gear
its always the guys in boba fett armor being complete kos faggots
>Dude with a kettle 4 sneak on me in a somewhat big loot room>Fight him for a while, find him a bit shady, decide to leave and go loot 300m away for safety>Loot a drawer, suddenly hear a nade thrown in my room>It's the same exact guy>Private profile, last VAC ban 210 days agoAre we in that phase of multiplayer already, it's only been two weeks
So we can all agree that they need to make weapon balance changes, and make it so rats deal half and take double damage from custom kits, right?Because seriously, kinda makes no sense to invalidate the whole gameplay loop when 280/280 stashed player going in with a kit will *always* be at a disadvantage to a Stitcher 1?
>>546712898You say that as if the gear matters even half as much as being the guy that shoots first.
please let me use these for something. even if it's 50 tokens per 1000 creds or something
>>546713679probably used for the next battlepass
>>546713412Same but at least in solos finding that other friendless nerd means you're 2v1ing every encounter (any other group probably wants to group up). In fill squad you're in a pub when there are premades afoot.
>>546713590Should clarify, I meant free kits not rats but you see where I could get confused
>>546713590or just make it so we dont drop our fuckin loadoutsi can part with a shield but a load out too? yeah why even have a fuckin loadout with safe pockets if it goes away too?
What if they made it so free kits can't deal or take damage from or to other players
>>546713679Embark has a really funny policy about giving players points that no longer serve any use lol.>>546713723they will not be used on the next BP they're likely to be reset to null.
>>546713590Just add a grey tier of shield with 20hpNerf the T1 version of grey wepStop spawning freekits with utility items and nadesProblem solved
I got kosd a few times, then I slaughtered everyone for 2 games and felt pretty bad about it so I stopped KOSing.I haven't been attacked once since then. I always have good positioning so that if someone does see me, it's very clear to them that I would buttfuck them if they attacked.
>>546713881in fairness, you'll spend probably 4k of those next season when new stuff to unlock gets added
>>546713881>they will not be used on the next BPWTF
>>546713590What are you talking about?You are losing to free kits when you have good shields and weapons? Do you suck?
i reported an xbox player in the other category >he backstabbed methink that will get things done around here
>>546714002There's barely any difference between high tier gear and low tier gear, unless you're using Venators4If you cant kill people with free kit you fucking suck
>>546713590>So we can all agree that they need to make weapon balance changes,I don't see how anyone can defend the current state of balance. Especially when greyshit like the stitcher is so neck-in-neck with stuff like the bobcat. Sure, ultimately the top dogs are things like the venator, but I honestly think that there should be a larger power gap. In particular heavier shields should be more impactful.>and make it so rats deal half and take double damage from custom kits, right?Making improved shields worth a damn would go a long way towards creating a power gap between rats and custom kits. If we're going to have some grey weapons be powerful and competitive with the rare stuff, then freekits shouldn't have access to them. No stitchers for the freekits. Just hairpins and rattlers. I think an argument can also be made for freekits to have a grey-tier of shield or no shield at all. A distinctive freekit uniform so that everyone knows that they're a freekit would also be an improvement.
>>546713590I think the freekit hate is just unwaranted. I run cheap custom kits and make more than enough in resources to sustain it. I would have to perpetually fuck up for like a week straight to have any need to run a free kit. I kindof like the idea, running free kit is a proverty run meant to get you back on your feet, not turn higher profits. But I don't think it would accomplish much. You'd still be getting killed by stitcherfags in green shields.
>>546714002High tier gear only gives you a slight-moderate advantage in pvp, and IMO that's exactly how it should be. Two players of equal skill, the one with better gear will win. But it doesn't give you a free win against any nigga running greys.
>>546714189i do ferro/snitcher 1s with 5 bandages and shield recharges.basic ass shit so freekits aren't really any different from itpeople starting out aren't ever going to compete with the people runnin full loadout kits on dam. they probably knew this would be a problem for casuals thats why the guns are the way they are
Smoke bombs my beloved, it's gonna be hard to lose it when I prestige next monthAlso I met that exact guy in the first minute, could have murked him with ease but decided to spare him and he knows it, what a fucking rat
>>546714189Just check the fucking stats of the players that randomly try to KOS in solo mode. They don't have the highest success rate but they're fucking legion. Just constantly fucking with you. You need to repulse them every time. One of them just needs to get lucky once.
>>546714189The problem I have is killing a free kit and getting practically nothing back from it. If they spent their shield recharge even a wasp kill is more rewarding sometimes. They throw themselves at you like kamikaze bombers and in the best case scenario wear down your run. Free kits don't behave like poorfags looking to get a break, they're immune to the normal rules of the game.
>>546714152>>546714391People need to learn about bringing the right weapon for the job.
>>546714546>People need to learn about bringing the right weapon for the job.Aka run Venator4 all fucking day?
>>546714189greys in general are too powerful. sure does it suck when a guy has a BiS setup but higher tiers NEED to have a clear and distinct advantage otherwise, whats the fucking point of even using them when i can craft grey crap that shits all over the most expensive stuff? it destroys any sense of progression.
>>546714462bro the panic roll. this isn't dark souls
I tried going to blue dam just now with ferros and heavy ammo but everyone's a free loadout pussy who doesnt want to anger the queen.
ok sell me on this game, why are we playing it
something needs done about ttk in this game shields are basically worthless and it's often just a case of whoever shoots first wins. a lot of times if you try and fall back to recover/figure out where they are there's not enough time to do anything meaningful because they're just gonna push on you before you can do anything
>>546714002Look man step outta your disengenuous bait persona for 4chan points for 2 seconds and consider the actual point of this game's existence, the charm of it.Player interaction and gear progression. If the person who>doesn't interact with other players>is using base, free gearIs at an advantage because>their gear is no different AND OFTEN BETTER (Stitcher is better than Torrente, Anvil, Bettina, Osprey, Tempest, etc.)>they don't try and interact they just kosThen there's no reason to play anymore bye byeYes, the devs should cater to making gear make you better, "skill-based" gameplay can be found better in hundreds of other active multiplayer shooters.
>>546714594>runs venator5 all day>complain about free kit ferros
>>546714497how do you even see someones stats?
>>546714694Their gear isn't better lmao unless you are retarded. They only get tier 1 shields and gear packages and cheap nades.
I'm going to try to get some olives on blue gate. I'm just gonna try bringing a rattler 4 to see if an upgraded one is any decent for dealing with the odd hornet. Wish me luck.
>>546714663That shit worked, rolling is actually great for protecting your headAlso he has a Renegade and I'm in open field, not much else I can do
>>546714694they need a mode where its free kits only
>>546714634It's at a weird spot. The level 1 no upgrade greys require you to reload at least once to kill a single wasp. If they become any weaker newbies won't be able to even start making progress OR be taught to fear every encounter and learn to be the worst rats known to man.
>>546714894could probably split balance. have the weapon deal less/more to player/arcs
>>546714401Agreed, but I don't think it's an idea born out of accessibility, exclusively. Other games (The Cycle is what's given me this take), the vertical progression was very real and uncapped. If you had the highest tier guns and armor you were a god against anyone running the tier 1-2 shit. And it was gay as fuck, and that game died. For multiple reasons, but that was certainly one of them.IMO this is something the extraction shooter devs are trying to "solve": making higher tier gear desirable enough to seek out and feel excited when they find it, but not so much that A) wipes are devastating and B) there is just no chance for people with shit gear against you. And B is a bigger problem in this genre, because the longer an extraction shooter goes without a total wipe, the more ubiquitous high tier gear becomes, and the shittier the experience gets for literally anyone picking up the game. I think the devs have found a promising balance in this game.
>>546714719That's kinda my point anon, most people dont actually run Ven4 all day, but more budget loadouts like green shield+anvil, which make perfectly killable by people who just click free loadout and spawn with a stitcher/ferro, green shield, and a few nades
>>546714790You know the little end-of-mission screen where it draws your route on the map? If you click on the little events where you took damage, it will show you who shot and with what weapon. You can look at their steam profile too. You'll notice that a lot of the naked aggression is coming from freekit level 1 greys. Often played by euros.The people downplaying the freekit problem are like people trying to downplay the advent of drone warfare just because shit like tomahawk cruise missiles are better. No shit the $$$$$$ cruise missile is "better" but there are legions of fucking drones out there.
>>546715123>eurosoh fuck i forgot i need to make this american servers only. thanks for reminding me
>>546714497I'm not agruing against the rat's presence brother. Just that basic bitch kits and *free kits* are almost exactly the same in cost. If you flood the free kit basement with water, they will simply move to the first floor.
>>546714814>They only get tier 1 shieldsYou don't seem to be aware the difference between a tier 1 and tier 3 shield is only a couple of bullets. Tier 1 shield might unironically be BiS lacking the movement penalty.
>>546714894> The level 1 no upgrade greys require you to reload at least once to kill a single wasp. Not if you play smart and take down the rotors.
>>546715058what they could have done is free kits only on the starting level(dam now in this case unless they can change it later)and if you wanted to do other levels you had to bring your own shit.me and my friends who just started playin did stella mortis last night for fun and we knew that area was for people already bringing their own shit.
>>546715196What about a minimum gear value to enter maps other than the first two? Free kits only on able to go to dam?
>>546714862I think a mix of slides and dodges might be more effective. Especially if the dodge changes direction from the slide.
does the first green skill mean anything if you are already runnin light shields? or does it make you faster as well past that?
>>546715367Woah woah woah son, I am a cheap fuck. Let's not talk crazy now.
>spawn in naked>cram 6 apricots up my ass>dieThe things I do for cock
>>546715406I like slide shenanigans in general but not in that situation, he's right in my back with a renegade, sliding away give massive head exposure and he's using a 2 headshots to kill gun
>>546715443it pretty much does nothing no matter what shields you're using
I'm level 10 and I'm considering selling my entire inventory to max out stash slots and just free kit slumming my way up the levels. I haven't pulled any crazy good loot and I'm planning on keeping quest items but I'm sick of rearranging my inventory. I think this will help me raid more intentionally instead of just grabbing everything I see
>place new 1000 damage mine 5 feet from new Arc shredder>it survives>not even on fire or smoking even
>>546711564>Get into a fight because I spooked a dude>Get 3rd partied by a rat>1st guy leaves, I fight the rat, predictably he's trash>Kill him, another dude shows, tell him over voice I just downed him>Retarded rat thinks I died or something and goes: "DO YOU HAVE A DEFIB HE JUST KILLED ME">Find his corpse crawled off into a bush in a cornerRat is the perfect name for these pathetic fucks
>>546716116That's how you do it. Keep olives, pears, light bulbs, and cat beds. You'll be set.
does looting the surveyor vault in the quest count for everyone in your party?
>>546710805>>546710960I feel the same, it's like a psychiatric evaluation. How people respond in game is exactly how people would if this was real life, you are either normal, retarded or a piece of shit. Especially with the shoot on sight, people weren't that way at first but learned that if they don't do it first someone else will, so the pieces of shit's behavior turns the normal people into pieces of shit as well. It's a whole cycle and it's interesting watching it evolve as more people play. >>546710439I do it too, it's funny to see what people do. Never thought about if someone was watching me tho lol
>>546716385I think it does if theyre close enough at least it felt like anytime one of my group was split they had to come do quest steps themselves but when they were near they got credit when others did it
the constant steam profile posting here is exactly the kind of reason why i'm wary about playing these games. I don't want to be on some schizos shit list stalking my profile just because I engaged in some pvp
>>546715205A couple of hits shout be more than enough for you to win an encounter. What do you want to be totally invincible to people with shit gear?You can deal marginally higher damage and take marginally more damage. If thats not enough for you to win its a skill issue.
>>546716116yeah man just sell everything except medical items or items used to craft medical stuff. later on theres items you will want to hoard but at that level you can pretty much just sell it all
>>546716490thanks bud i guess you can just drop it from your inventory and let someone pick it up too
>>546714462>when I prestige next monthno one is really going to do this for some shitty cosmetic right
>>546714820I found three olives and a lot of lemons. Garbage rattler IV was ok at killing individual arc.
what is the best map and why is it Spaceport?
>>546716506>What do you want to be totally invincible to people with shit gear?No we want the gear to actually matter>skill issue.See that's the thing about the genre, it's not all about skill, people invest a certain amount of gear with the expectation that will give them an advantage somehowIf any retard can just get a free kit and be perfectly pvp-viable then the entire gameplay loop is fucked
i need some fuckin lemons
>>546716506If both parties are shooting each other on sight as if this was cawodooty, sure. But it makes almost no difference if they engage first.
>>546716506the difference should be at minimum 25% better. as it is, i cant even say it is even 1% better.
>>546714820>the odd hornetI got KOS'd by players more than ARC over those fucking olives.
>>546716780>>546716685Go to bluegate and look for olives. You'll find lemons.Posted the wrong screenshot. But yeah, there are a bunch of lemon trees on the north side of the village.
>>546715324Not a terrible idea, but it still doesn't fix the problem. In the rat's utter genius it doesn't realize the low cost of a 1-gun grey custom kit, and the value of a safe pocket. I'm more frugal than my poverty-raised czech grandfather (who now has millions in the bank and it's all going to gay kids in Botswana, fuck you grandad), and once I realized how utterly cheap running custom grey kits were I never looked back. The rats are only running free kits because they literally don't know how cheap that safe pocket is. However,>>546714534^^ In writing that post I realize this change also might assist in the problem you're talking about. It forces them to face the fact that there's more to gain when you have something to lose. And once you're paying, you might upgrade that gun a little bit to make your chances better. You might do some looting on your way to your little gay ass camping spot, since you've already broken the barrier of having something to lose. Shit, on the next raid you might even bring your blue shield. Or that venator you got off that guy. Alright I might be on team make free shits shitter now.
>>546716706NTA but imo freekits should have reduced damage against shields. half the problem is that you can just magdump a stitcher/rattler/kettle and one ferro shot decimates a light shield (which if you're running looter aug it's all you can use) and it's most of the reason why fights feel so one sided against free kits
>>546716959That's why I'm bringing dogshit. The olives, if I find any, go into my ass. I also have a stupid daily to damage arc with medium weapons and I don't feel like bringing something good. Although I probably should just bring an arpegio instead.
>>546716780Just wait for a lush bloom then go basket hunting. Youll get like 10+ of every fruit.
>>546716706Why would anyone listen to you when you Tarkov fags kill every other game with gear? Shut the fuck up and git gud.
the spawns also exacerbate the freekit issues. continously filling in the lobby non-stop until 15-17 mins means its just always better to slam free kits because you know your guns have a 75% chance of being just as competitive at no downtime. hell even if they limited the freekit to rattler and limited their spawns, even they they can just easily afford a stitcher + ferro, at least that time having to go through the menus and manually craft it puts a LITTLE fear into their gear because if they die, theyll have to do it all over again. if they can simply slam the free kit button until eventually they gamba spawn their way to a looted up guy 17 mins into a raid, they win.
>>546716506Anon I've been telling you the whole thread now, people want a break from e-peen jerking about skill. That's soo last decade, because the secret is out that no one (especially not women) gives a fuck about your video game skills unless you're a streamer, and to be honest, skill is just something you're born with.t. only ever played video games in free time my entire life and still bad
Night raid on Stella Montis should be something like "high security" where the lights are dim and reddish and there's just more danger.
>>546717125Why would anyone listen to you when you dont seem to enjoy or even understand the core concept of an extract shooterThere's a bunch of game right up your alley too, CS, Apex, Valorant come to mind
>>546717220Nobody really cares about skill if you're a streamer either. They care about your ability to be charismatic and interact with chat.
>>546717294Theres already a dark variant with red flood lights everywhere oddly it spawns a weird lootable in the seed vault that blares a strange siren and contains and il toro? Unless thats not related at all
>>546716959That place is a god damn snipers delight. Dark windows and doorways around the whole area. I saw people complaining about Buried City during the first few days, and honestly that quest to feed the cock was the most fun I've had playing this game. Nobody had enough time to pvp when there were arc swarming the whole area every time one due tried to go grab an apricot. I'm on mic constantly and didn't even have to bother, everyone was just in survival mode.
>>546717340Well, there's a charisma/skill see-saw. With a handicap stepstool under the charisma dude's side of the plank.
>>546717394but is it the map condition or just like loading onto every other normal map with weather condition like rain.
>>546717337Because what I like has let this game hit 400k players, and Tarkovfags have a dead game that is never going to see 1.0
I got addicted to this game pretty fast. I'm halfway through finishing my caravan before I asked myself "Why am I doing this?" and I have no answer. Is the expedition/caravan thing worth completing? I've already got humidifiers stocked and all.
>>546717631Probably weather it does make the map significantly darker though with much less lights working. Arc presence was basically the same though
>get shot point blank from some faggot with an Anvil IV sitting in a bush at extract after waiting for an ARC to pass byFucking finally, I think that finally shattered the addiction for me. Back to CS2 I go
>>546717736Yeah, I was thinking of a map condition where you get increased loot.
>play with randoms >no one talks>no call outs>teammates go down 15 minutes into raid>NOW they start talking>but its on proxy chat and they dont know how to talk in squad chatmultiplayer games never fail to disappoint
Anons I'm not finding any blueprints besides the occasional light stick and I'm losing motivation to play>load into night / thunderstorm map>mk2 looting, anvil>run to nearest red/yellow area>loot every container >click every blue item and occasional purple into my inventory>run to extract>occasionally lose my kit to a pvper shooting me in the back>repeatI'm just so tired boss. 60 hours, no wolfpack, no anvil, no venator, and they expect me to repeat this process after the expedition? For fucking what? 5 skill points and (probably) 5 inventory slots? Why is the fucking drop rate of blue prints so low? In a game with no "official" trading? Blueprints should be that annoying shit, where you wonder: "why the fuck are there blueprints everywhere"? Like what do they expect by making them unreasonably rare? That a guy who has found nothing but the blaze nade blueprint, runs around like a god damn pyromaniac? No weapon to speak of, but 20 molotovs in his fucking inventory? Fuck I can't even upgrade my anvils because heavy gunparts is another blueprint I don't have.
I just think the Bogwalker set is neat because it makes me feel like a kitted up LEGO minifig. Same reason I'm thinking of getting the Driftcoat and Luna sets.
>>546717697>Because what I like has let this game hit 400k playersYou're delusional if you think strong infinite freekits is what's made the game successful>But tarko-Tarkov scaving is even more overpowered and the game is less successful, thank you for making that argument for me
>>546717709I dont think it will be worth wiping.>5 skills pointsThe skills are so pathetic that 5 skill points are meaningless>Extra Stash SpaceWont matter since you will have no reason to hoard crafting materials because your benches are already upgraded>Exclusive CosmeticGuaranteed to be ugly as fuck like everything else
>>546717895>Wont matter since you will have no reason to hoard crafting materials because your benches are already upgradedDon't the benches get downgraded back to level 1?
>>546717802Bro stay here, no reason to fuck up the good retards playing CS2 with your dogshit perception.
got my venny bp today
>everyone loves venatorIs it as good against arc as the Anvil, or do people like it because it shreds in pvp? I'm an anvil fag, it's not bad in PvP, but unwieldy, when you actually have to get quick shots off.
>>546718215with II-III ammo mod, yeah. It's just an all rounder
>>546718215They love it because it destroy everything in PvP to an absurd degree, stella montis and mantikor are nothing but venator spamAnvil isnt as good but is still solid, it's in the top 3 wep for sure
>>546717895The cosmetic is the only thing driving me so far and them being so shy about showing it, while also giving us fucking balding head and shit jumpsuit as our starter cosmetics, is making me really not wanna let go of my blueprints. Bummer.
>>546718109Let's go faggot
>>546717982>Don't the benches get downgraded back to level 1?I think he is saying hoard space is useless because once you relevel the benches, why would anyone need more hoard space?
>Trio, spawn in at Stella Mortis>Immediately hear footsteps>Friend immediately opens fire out the door at another group.>Friend tries to throw grenade, but it bounces off an invisible wall in the corner.>Continue to trade fire with these people for a while before friend closes the door and we start patching up.>"Don't you guys have another way out? What are doing?">Friend shouts "WE DON'T ACTUALLY...">"Hmmm~....">Hear a trap get placed and dumb giggling.>Friend opens door, gets shocked and killed>Me and other friend down two guys before I get downed>Everybody kind of just chats for a bit before we dieWell that was a thing. Why did I not freekit...
>>546718215it has one of the highest theoretical TTKs in the game that isnt named Torrente. It falls off a cliff hard if you dont land all headshots.
Lower level anvils actually lose pretty hard even if you get the first shot off, if the other person reacts fast and sprays you
Are you me? Those, the green Torpedo, and the Valente are all that really interest me.
Anyone with a vita spray bp want to trade for wolfpack + anvil?
>>546717895Benches reset to 1, but I'm with you. You lose>blueprintsThis one is a kick in the nuts. You know how rock hard my cock got when I got that anvil BP? I'm not giving that up for 5 skill points, no way, fag! >lose all levelsAlso annoying, it takes like 50 levels to get all the "good" skills, why set myself back on that?I might do it for character inventory slots (+ weight limit). Because when being a PvEfag, that would make running a medium shield less punishing. I would ABSOLUTELY do it, if they said: "Hey, your second weapon slot is now a safe slot". Like fuck, I found a good weapon I can't BP, and now I can bring it on a raid without having to worry that some fag will rip it from my cold dead hands? Sign me the fuck up. I can be a full PvEfag, and equip a Hullbreaker every raid and don't have to worry about feeding it to a freekit shitter? I would reset my account in a heartbeat for that. But extra skill points? You could give me 50 extra skill points and I'd ask you what the fuck you expect me to do with them? Skill wasp melee damage? Get points into "chance to get field craft items from raider caches"? For erasing a fucking hundred hours of progress? Lmao, how about you fuck yourself, and I keep all my good shit, and you keep your fucking 5 pity skill points and inventory slots. I'm probably still gonna do it and feel like a retard for doing it, but the fuck else you gonna do in this game? PvPmax and become part of the reason it's getting more annoying to play?
>>546717819>silent teammates go down>"oh shit get me up quick">400m awayWhat do they expect?
How would you fix expeditions, /arg/? Cause this is dogshit lmao
>>546719362Just don't do it then chud. Don't play the game.
>>546719362I'm having a really hard time deciding whether I want to wipe for the first one or not, just to have others be the guinea pigs
>>546719489for me it depends on the cosmetic we get
>>546719258>would ABSOLUTELY do it, if they said: "Hey, your second weapon slot is now a safe slot".This is actually a good way to offset the bp loss for sure. Someone send this shit to those fucking retard swedes
>>546719362this will be reset>workshopthis will be kept>unlocked workshop stationslul wut
>>546719535Same. And it's looking like Nexo-I mean Embark is giving keeping all the good skins for the shop, so I'm not THAT hopeful.
I kinda want to prestige just for the fun of it, it'd be fun to re-experience the progressionBut the blueprint shit is definitely worryingI'm not sure if I want to keep all of them because I want shit to grindBut I also dont want to grind every single one of themAlso, there's gonna be a real possibility of people using account who dont wipe to transfer over extra blueprints to their prestige accounts, shit is gonna be sweaty
>>546719362Seems fine to me.
just looted a tempest off someone i killed we are so back rrat bwos
>>546719662blueprint reset is necessary otherwise people would only ever run their favorite gun.
>>546719362The rewards have to be way better or they'll have to start enforcing full wipes even though they said they didn't want to. This isn't enough to incentivize most people to voluntarily wipe imo. A LOT is hinging on that cosmetic. If it's just some shit keychain, this is doomed. Not trading BP progress for that.
>>546719258I'm probably going to reset, and I fully expect this first reset to be a kick in the nuts. But I'm hoping that they realize their mistake and correct and that the short term kick in the nuts will be long term payoff by reset #2 or so. Or they don't and I just move on to the next game.
>>546719187Wish you'd asked this yesterday
>>546719258>the fuck else you gonna do in this game?At the very least try to complete your BP collection before you wipe
>>546719362If they made BPs more common and easy to find, then i might consider it, but seeing how rare they are and how i've sunk over 60 hours into the game by now and am not even halfway done with my BPs i think i'll ignore this mechanic
>>546719362see:>>546719258Potential worth it expedition rewards:>Safe gun slot>(maybe) Safe utility slot (I haven't used the fucking grapple gun once despite it being goated, because it's a pain to move it between QU and Ass>more character inventory + weight>Extremely buffed blueprint droprates>the ability to equip medium shields with looting augsMaybe better trader inventory, thanks to the expedition? Fucking something Like everyone said before: What the fuck are you gonna do with 5 more skill points? Show me a level 75 skill tree, and 5 points you could spend that would be worth the reset, and not just: "I guess I could max out sprint dodge roll distance".
>>546720243>maybe>maybe>maybeHow bout some fucking surety and nit conjecture?
>>546719943I did >>546579317
>>546720210there needs to be a path towards getting Blueprints that isn't pure RNG because there is already a blackmarket for them. Maybe some kind of gated reputation grind behind some kind of faction that takes certain resources. I dunno.
>>546720353wrong link, here's the right one: >>546604158
im going in
>>546720447>koses you from behind Nothin personnel kid
>>546720525doesnt matter, ill just drop right back in with the exact same loadout.t. richfag
Holy FUCK Stella Montis is just infested with free kitters with that stupid orange outfit and mask. I spawn in and some faggot opens the door down the hall and starts blasting at me. Then I saved a guy from one only to meet up with some friendlies. We kill a Shredder and a wasp only to get ambushed by a dude with the same outfit and a ven4. Is this some streamer meme outfit? Its ALWAYS the orange variation too.
>>546720447I will never enter a raid with less than 3 stacks of ammo unless it's a ferro/anvil
>>546720672for me, its the yellow one
>>546720326I maybe'd two things. 1: is the safe utility slot, which actually I'm literally just interested because of the snap hook, being the only valuable thing in that slot, so I don't know how much others would actually care, and the other was just a way to list another thing, where I wasn't fully sure if the reset would be worth it, depending on how good the post reset trader inventory becomes. Personally: I want the safe weapon spot. Make it so you need to bring 2 weapons for one slot to become safe, so people have to at least bring a sacrifice weapon in case they die.
The only green+ weapon I've collected that I've liked was the Anvil so far.Gear progression in this game, man. It might be the most dogshit and disappointing I've ever experienced.Fun game though.
>>546720378It feels like they took the complaints of Tarkov Chads with impenetrable armor and vaporizing ammo and went too far the opposite direction in Arc Raiders. Higher tier weapons and shields need to be near insurmountable for a gray gear to handle. You should be able to kill anyone by outplaying them, but it should be way harder the higher the gear disparity.
>>546720447Put the ammo in your safe pocket so when you inevitably get you with their own venator they dont get your ammo as well
>>546720672Stella Montis spawns are bad to the point of bugged. Freeking it is the way to go in it right now unless you need the safe pocket for something specific.
>>546720903can i use the ammo straight out of my ass?
>>546720890>>546720378Didn't mean to reply to you.
>>546720842I've got a Vulcano and it was fun to shoot, but too risky to bring, so I ended up putting it in my weapons project, lmao.
>no cheevo for maxing the chickenLame.
spacekino is on the menu in 4 minutes
>>546720890You should consider that the diablo colored loot is misleading. Its not a signifier of how much more powerful the gun is or the gun having higher DPS than grey/green/blue like in ARPGs or games that ape it like fortnite, it simply signifies how rare the gun is.
>>546720890I heard people say:>skill issue if you die to a freekitBut really, the biggest problem as a freekit is limited ammo, and limited healing items. If you catch anyone from behind, it's a free kill. It's not like the free-kit weapons are that much worse at killing than higher tier weapons. It's like fucking counter strike. Yeah a scout is worse than an AWP, but you can still fucking die to a scout.
For any comment saying the arc are too easy, I just had these faggot roller boys chase me through 500 buildings on buried city for 20 minutes after I encountered them. I love this game but also fuck those faggots.
does anyone have a spare BP for this one?
Why do people hate the Osprey so much.Its pretty funYeah its hard to get kills because people will duck into cover, but these giant maps are pretty fun to snipe people on
Do mines expire? What's stopping me from choosing a building and just littering it with booby traps for no reason than because I want to?
>>546719362this will be kept>100m freekit instakill zone
>>546721296Nah ARC are hard as fuck. People will just always say dumb shit to sound cool or whatever.
>>546721296how about killing them?
>>546719362>BP resetyeah im good. even though i have finished the project like a week ago already
>>546720964yes It pulls ammo out of your ass. Good tip too cause it denies the enemy ammo.
Epic guns are now impossible to loot by the way
I haven't seen a single blueprint all day
>>546721729i got my first blueprint in 3 days an hour ago
>>546721759Any pointers, or will I have to continue looting by volume
I found a venator bp in dam just now but I kept it in my bag rather than my safe pocket because I also found the last sentinel core I needed and I ended up losing it
>>546721446>ARC are hardThey really arentThe dangerous ones are too big to enter indoors(where all the good loot is) and the small ones can be one shot with a ferroThe only one who is dangerous is the shredder, but that only spawns on montisARC are easy to avoid once you figure out how they function and if you are that dumb, just bring a pacifierMost of my deaths are to my fellow players, not to the AI
>>546721843Map modifiers make a world of a difference. Whether it be Night Raid or Electrostorm. People are also more aggressive due to the heightened drop rates. Don't expect the same 'dont shoot' faggotry in a night raid.
once again asking if it's possible to sneak up to a bastion and plant a deadline on it without cloak
>>546722162Yes. It's extremely common to do, in fact. The biggest danger is you getting away in time before the mine kills you too.
>>546722162Treat it like having a 180° vision and be mindful of the constant turning it does. I tried sneaking to a bomb but even though that tiny vision cone is small as fuck it still saw me when it turned its flank.
>>546722115Electrostorm seems like a complete lie, I never see more containers or better loot
>>546721349who hates the osprey? everyone ive ever seen either is carrying one or clamors for it when the kill a person holding one
I should probably start using these
>>546722419yea, i went through like 30 and they never really felt wasted.
>>546722760Is just one can and no bandages enough as a solo? It's less total healing than a stack of greens, but I imagine I'll gank someone before it becomes a problem
does anyone have a medium mag blueprint laying around? or the tier three bandage blueprint?
>rusted shut medical kit>motorAnnoying but fine>bombardier cell>bastion cellUgggghhhh I wonder how many Hullcrackers I'm gonna lose getting KoS'd
>>546722823you want to use it with bandages, either for small amounts a bandage would be wasted on, or while the bandage is going
this nigger will shoot you in the back at extract
>>546722419>>546722760>>546722823Honestly Every healing item over green I've just thrown into the project. Most of the time green healing has been more than enough, because it tends to heal you just as full if you get away.
I just hit 20. Do you think that I can finish the expedition grind before the window closes?
>running out of chems>decide to dismantle some defibs since I just play solo>they contain mossthe fuck?
>>546723231>anime pictuteObviously
>>546722985Deadlines baby.
>>546708225jolt mines take batteries>greenie juice
>>546723790Eh I haven't even been to Stella Montis yet.
i need kettlefags to stop pretending they could ever stumble through a 1v5 (1v1v1v1v1) like this>https://streamable.com/jmchupnot shown: the 6th guy smoking me with a rattler 4 when i swapped to a fresh shield
>>546719280>GET ME UP>they are in the middle of fuckin nowhere in the open
I will do everything in my power to kill you at the easiest possible moment. I will -[retend to be friendly until you get distracted with a breach, then I'll gun you down before you can react. Or I'll extract with you and obliterate you while you're stuck in the terminal animation. Understand that you are nothing more than a moving pile of loot to me. But I'm not a bad guy. I thank you for your weapons as I would thank the Lord for a beautiful bounty at the dinner table.
>>546724124You can buy 3 a day from the grenade guy.
do i need wasp drivers for anything realy after the bench upgrades and that one odd quest?
playing trios is an exercise in futility. every fucking team i get paired with are the two biggest retards playing this game.the last team went down a rappel i told htem not to, got fucked up at the bottom, healed themselves and managed to get halfway back up the rappel before one of them knocked both of them off and they killed each other.
>>546724296Oh, nice. Haven't even looked. Thanks
>>546724132fag voice
>>546724296You can use them as grenades.
>>546724326Kek, meant for >>546724232
>>546724296They scrap down into electronics which is always nice
Well this was fun. I'm pretty sure it was quite a spectacle for the two other players nearby.I just wish you could ride it indefinitely. After a few seconds, it shakes you off, and chances are you'll die from fall damage.
>>546724330sorry i don't sound like your favorite streamer
please sirs WHERE ARE THE FUCKING RUSTY GEARS?
I'm drowning
>>546724849Check breachable walls. The rusty locker-looking panels. Picrel.
>>546724849hover over the item to see the area it drops in (mechanical? or if not industrial) and loot every container in those loot zones. it's that easy.
>>546724830you're even more of a fag for wishing you sounded like a streamer
>>546724849I've had some success farming them in the Scrap Yard, in the Dam Battlegrounds. Try breaching the large truck-like vehicles.
What is the string of numbers and letters at the bottom right of my screen?
>late spawn>on the wrong side of the fucking maplate spawns should be EXCLUSIVE to freeniggers.
I dunno man, Its been a long time since someone I saw tried to shoot me.I don't know how people are encountering hordes of freekit murderhobos. Maybe they are all dead by the time I come around I move pretty slow. I guess if I rushed the highest value area immediately at the round start I would encounter more.
>>546724132Oh no no no... Venator sisters... our response???
>>546725374I assume it's the world instance/lobby/whatever.
>>546725458I met one hostile players yesterday, and one today.People seem to be much more chill on the weekends.
>>546725112that's not what that means, salty low iq brownoid
>>546725458I havent been killed by another player in like 20 matches. People have taken pot shots at me but never fully committed.
Does anyone know why the intact ARC probes emit different colored lights?I assume it progresses from blue to yellow to red, then lifts off; but do the colors mean anything else beyond a rough timer before its departure?
>>546725513I have been playing mostly at the space center and the blue mountain. I think that all the murderhobos play at Dam and Buried City because there are noobs there and they haven't learned not to shoot everyone yet. I don't know if I got the names of those right but you know what I mean.
>>546719362This is a case of doing what others in the genre do and adopting it without thinking at all. It makes no sense to have resetting in Arc and there is nothing they can offer which would make it worth it.
>>546725458You probably live in a civilized country and get matched with them. Its a different story if you live in some shithole like Brazil.
>>546719362I don't understand, whats the point of this? Give up your entire stash and all your upgraded workstations for nothing?
it's kinda funny how people's brains short circuit when you pull out the melee on them instead of doing the awkward reload dance or switching to a secondary
>>546724914Sell that shit, nigga.
Why did they make medium and heavy shields utterly useless?
>>546725853Look, some people enjoy the grind for the grind.Don't try to rationalize it, this function's not meant for everyone.You also get a temporary buff out of it.
>>546725853>whats the point of this?Arc has no content, resetting is their desperate way to give the game its 'content'.
>>546725853it's completely option, what is there to get? you can collect every BP and have the perfect inventory full of Venator 4s forever, nobody is stopping you.
>>546719641You don't have to build the stations but you do have to upgrade them
>farming surveyors in daytime buried city>have my venator 4 and heavy shield because I'd rather not die to pvpniggers>hear someone running>orange ryder negress with afro>let em go>once they turn a corner I go my way and proceed to run>keep camera turned to where they were>they peek and shoot me>they run to a buried roof for cover>mow them the fuck down when they barely hit me>"it didn't have to be this way you know, I let you pass by without killing you" as I knock them outthey definitely killed someone as well, they had two shields on em and some garbo
>bastion in checkpoint>2 people die to it as we are fighting>I get it on fire>somebody else shows up with a wolfpack and finishes it>motherfucker now thinks he has claim to any of the loot>loot the cells fast after thanking him for saving my ass>tell him I dont need anything from it, he can have it all>sprint away before he realizes I took all the cellsfuck you
>>546725374>>546725492no, its a unique ID for your account. It is used in the case of you hacking or screen recording something bannable/whatever they can see which specific ID posted that content etc. many games have that feature.
>>546726123you can find shields as loot in raider stashes
I found an Osprey2. Never seen an Osprey.Does it drop people quick?
I normally just run ferro/anvil for ARC with stitcher/kettle for players.I will now take a renegade out, what should I keep for my secondary? A stitcher for close quarters? A ferro for ARC? Or something else?
>>546726398that's just the upgraded osprey, you can upgrade guns up to IV
>>546726398its very good. slow firing, but will absolutely ruin someones day
>>546726451But does it drop people quick? Do headshots even do more damage in this?
>>546726398It's powerful but rather impractical weapon.Nearly useless in close to mid range, which is where most gunfights happen.I've had an amazing time counter-sniping campers with it, though.
>>546726521it takes 2-3 shots to drop someone depending on their gear.I only use them in trios when you can actually have people covering you when you fire.
>>546726427Renegade is pretty good against ARC. I'd say have the secondary for close-range PvP. I myself use the shotgun.
>>546726427I always run a kettle IV or a Stitcher IV when using renegade. Renegade is good at all ranges except when you're on top of each other. Kettle and stitcher for finishing them off at close range after you've already hit them with the renegade.
>>546726427renegade is pretty good for arc and players honestly if you can land shots, the only downside is that like the Anvil it's a precision weapon and you will be punished for whiffing.
They should make free loadouts have different tiers and be upgradeable.Nerf the current free kits to have even less shit, then let you do donations like the expedition. 200k in weapons 200k in meds. Then you can have the current free loadouts.Make these noobs work a little.Then if you did an expedition the previous season, give another 500k meds 500k weapons donation for a slightly stronger free loadout. Maybe that ones daily limited or time gated
Every match I play on Stella Montis is full of gangs of solos just stomping around killing ARC. I dont mind it.What I do mind is the fact that I spawned, and was LITERALLY right in front of somebody
why do i never see anyone else using torrente in solos?
free kits should spawn with a grey shield
>>546726761I feel exactly the opposite. Anvil has shit accuracy, shit bullet velocity, shit kd between shots. Renegade is a lot easier for hitting arcs, bullets fly faster, shots are easier to land, reload is faster.
>>546727639it's shit 1v1
>>546727639stitcher does the same job but cheaper
>>546727619that hallway with the '2' in it, near lobby or something. i've had people spawn at the end of it while im looking at them
>>546727639Bad effective range, abysmal ammo consumption, loud as a motherfucker, terrible against ARC
>>546727669leading shots with anvil is pretty easy though, its basically a pocket 6 round ferro.
>>546727639too heavy
My fucking left nut for a mushroom.
>>546727448this. make it like Tarkov, build up rep or something so you get better freekits
>need fruits>buried city lush bloom event>LATE SPAWN FUCK NIGGERS FUCK SWEDEN>head to basket locations near my spawn point>THEY'RE ALL FUCKING LOOTED ALREADY>everything of note near me has been looted>extract with fuckallThis is not ok.
>>546727619webm related>spawn>move camera>someone walking right into me
>>546728012which fruits?
>>546728221Mushrooms, which are technically a fungus but you get the idea.
>>546725862killed a torrente/venator guy by doing this, unloaded my stitcher in him but he was still standing so I bum rushed his ass with the hammer and started flailing while he missed every shot
>>546728174yeah these devs clearly needed to nerf lockers because that was so clearly disrupting game balance.shitty spawns? nah thats fine.
>>546725862When you pull out the impact grenades and start shouting "MAGIC MISSILE!!!"
>>546728302can find those all over dam without the event
>>546728563You are misusing the phrase "all over". They're in several places, not "all over".
>>546728345it is strangely effective if only because it's really unpredictable. Most players forget that the melee actually does damage entirely, and has an overhead swing that does more damage than the sideswipe too.
WTB Looting Mk3 Survivor or Vita Spray BPs, trading for Wolfpack or Anvil BPs
>try minibg a bastion on buried city>lose two loadouts in a row before i even see one>mobbed by fucking hornets and wasps the first time>sentinel overlooking marano park, killed it, but got mogged by wasps the secondThe ARC are too fucking hard.Fuck I'd rather risk getting third partied and just roof snipe the one at Spaceport woth a Hullcracker at this point. Goddamn.
>>546728765nah, they are all over.can find them inside, outside, below ground, above ground.
i just kept turning raiders into gay raped slaves at stella montis with my vulcano 4 and purple shieldsmy fucking gooncannon (vulcano 4) was shooting that stinky stuff!
>>546726197its not a account ID its a session ID
>>546727619>>546728174Data? Sorry but do you have data to back up that claim? Months and months of data? No? Then stfu.
>>546728563>>546729370I tried searching dam just now. Spawned in with 17 minutes on the clock (FIX THIS SHIT). There was some kind of forest fire going on. I don't know if that negatively affects mushroom spawn rates because I didn't see shit in the swamp. I did find the corpse of a leaper at extraction, and I looted the sloppy seconds loot and also found that whoever looted it first abandoned the last comfortable pillow that I need. So now I just need the mushrooms and one more apricot.
yeah no losing your blueprints is way too much
>>546728174freenigs get what they deserve
Got a spare Vita BP if that anon wants to trade
>friends just have no survivor instinct at all>keep sprinting everywhere>pretty much cant fuckin see anything>dont ping>get mad at me when im always the one alive because i take cover and retreat
>finally after a week of playing I got an anvil bpnow we're gaymin
>>546730182Vita spray, not the shot right?
>>546729635that would make sense if it ever changed, but it doesnt. i've had the same ID the entire time, session IDs are common, this isnt one
I want to engage in the evils of PvP but I know in my heart I'm not built for it.
>Game literally rewards people for sitting in a corner and coming out last minute, whether its for pvp or pveWhy would anyone play this garbage? If you're active and actually play the game instead of sitting in a corner all match you at at a disadvantage, whats the design logic?
how much damage does an ofsprey do anyway? with and without a headshot?
>>546731019if you're worried about campers just use a hatch key, they're not expensive or difficult to make
>getting put through faggy humiliation rituals everytime your team gets downed by some people that unironically choose to use xbox squeaker voice changersya no thanks im going back to tarkov
anyone been inside yet?
>spawn naked for butt pocket>run to buried city hospital >walk between the raindrops and miss all the pops and am lootingbthe red lockers right beneath a turret>rat shows up>alerts turret >backs off>tries again>cant figure out how i got in the room>instead of shooting the turret or fucking off, he shoots me >a third guy walks in and gets lit up by the turretFucking people, man.>>546730481Yeah
the arpeggio kinda fucks when its upgraded ngl
Not a bad haul for going in naked maybe. Found two Cracked Bioscanners. Was hoping for a Rusted Medical Kit, though.
Nothing more fun than monologuing in prox chat while being in a skirmish
>"you body blocked me"Fuck off, you aren't the protagonist, have some situational awareness, and I'm doing all the work anyway
>>546731324>Yeahsweet, send me a friend request: Phil#7353
>>546707080How is HUNT Showdown compared to this game?Because I'm not a KOSnigger and that means I'm always at a disadvantage in PvP, and the TTK is like 1 second in ARC Raiders and everyone is starting to be a KOSnigger lately.
>>546731873Hunt is expressly KoS, and it has inbuilt wallhacks
buff loot pools and nerf free loadouts, every match is just devolving into unga bunga 3rd 4th and 5th partying
>>546731873its an extraction shooter without loot, try division if you want a strictly 3rd person pve game
>>546731873I never got into Hunt because for some god awful reason the developers decided that your crosshair shouldn't be in the center of your screen, and they had a massive stick up their asses with the notion that this was a good idea and that we shouldn't have the option to put it back in the center of the screen like God intended. I don't know if they ever caved on that point or not.
Does the harvester always give the same BP? I did it twice now, and it was the same 2 yellow guns bps.
>>546731697lmao I thought you were gonna hatch too so I didn't know if you got shot or what. That startled me.Thanks a bunch anon. Gonna pay it forward.
>>546732180No worries lol, thanks again
>ive been trashing arc motion coresWhoops
>>546732160How do you do harvester and all those big arc kills solo without getting killed?
>>546731019>i haven't played this game but i want to cry about itman get a life lol touch some grass, have sex, stop wasting your time
Kettle 4 is good
>>546733174TTK across the board is a little too fast for my liking.
>>546730515it does change every round
>>546732951kill them first
>>546732951>use photoelectric cloakThat's it
>>546732506Motion cores are a diamond dozenI'd rather keep my stacks of seeds
>>546707714What the fuck my friends character looks exactly like that except he uses blond hair
>>546733501>>546733572Alright, any suggestions on what the most relatively safe map to kill bastions on would be?
>get three stars on hidden bunker >try and exfil>magically spotted by wasps and hornets from across the map who also pull a bombardier ...Okay. So how are you suposed to finish the event?Also, it seemed fucking boring.>wait around at a console and kill the occasional Fireball ad infinitumI'm clearly missing things. Right?
Surely I can just recycle this purple loot and it won't be used for anything specific.
wtf do i DO with all these coins
>>546733789do you need help with it? I can help you get one if you need it
FINALLY found my last Rusted Gear. Of course after spending 3-4 hours breaching cars, busses and other shit and finding nothing 99% of the time, I find a Rusted Gear in some random breechable in Stella Montis. I salvaged it obviously.
>>546733789to kill a bastion or bombardier just throw three blaze nades at it and hide while it burns to death, map probably doesn't matter
>>546732951Just ignore them. They are at best a mediocre audio alarm for you. Just run from a direction where the queen is not looking, once you are in any entrance, you are basically completely secure. Once inside, you don't even need any ammo, only agains rats who will come and try to grab gibsmedats silently, or try to kill you. The yellow things on the walls are doable with the pick.
>squad filling the new map to see what it's like>matched with Russians>they are angry within legitimately 5 seconds of the game starting cyka blyat>rushes a gunfight>goes down>we lose>dead within 2 minutesi hate them so fucking much
Just had another "community" bunker run, and encountered 3 separate people, who were obviously non-friendly and tried to aggro groups of 3-4 people at the same time. What is the point, do they really think they can survive a 3v1?
>>546734192games kind of boring if you just quest and do dumb shit. genuinely dont understand how people focus so hard on questing. The rewards are dogshit across the board. trios 24/7 for chaos and the occasional quest.
>>546717853>heavy gunparts is another blueprint I don't have.I just buy em off celeste
>nnnOOooooo why are you SHOOTING me im FRIENDLY stooooooop
>>546726123The niggers always self identify
Would a repeatable quest that awards a singular Equalizer or Jupiter for killing Queen/Matriarch make more people join help with those, dissuading backstabbing people or is it just me coping?
>>546734396>spend time doing quest>get jupiter>get killed by someone with an osprey 200m away trying to kill queen>give up on trying to kill queen entirelyI can see that happening to 95% of the playerbase
>>546734454yeah but isn't that greed of getting that weapon a good incentive
>>546734297I finally got to play some proper trios tonight, and dear Lord was it fun. Actually being able to take advantage of defibrillators and team overwatch tactics makes this game truly shine. I was enjoying the hell out of solos, but being able to squad up makes the game infinitely better. Are all squad lobbies so sweaty? I don't mind, but emergent squad gameplay would be nice. It's weird that the only place you can find more than 3 people willing to work together is in solo queue.
>spend tons of time and effort leveling and questing and blueprint hunting>spend tons of resources for the Expedition>you lose everything and gain only FIVE more skill points>no idea how much more inventory but unless it doubles your shit then its absolutely fucking uselesswhy did the swedes think this was a good idea?I have yet to find someone who had even half the total BPs yet and 5 more skill points is a fucking joke.
>>546734628I'm only doing it if there's a permanent limited outfit that is fucking awesome
>>546734610I have only played trios since launch with the exception of 6 solo matches that I was freekitting and was killed within the first 60 seconds of spawning all 6 times.Trios is KOS, with very little variation. I've had maybe 4 total times that another team didnt gun us down and I'm confident the only reason they didnt is we had better weapons and they had something that wasnt in a butt pocket that they wanted to keep. do not try to make friends with other teams in trios, its a trap, or you've already lost the upper hand.
how often do you think they need to do a full reset?
>>546734749never?freekits are decent and getting full blue kit only takes a minimal amount of effort. Full blue kit can dunk on 99% of lobbies anyways depending on your skill and you can get all that at level 2 for the most part. I've killed hundreds upon hundreds of people at this point and I've found someone carrying purple gear like 10 times total. purple shit is too rare and blue shit is good enough. a reset would accomplish nothing except make your playerbase give up entirely when they have to find every BP again
>>546734749never the gear diff isnt big enough to warrant it
Yeah I'm not gonna bother with the expedition unless you get some awesome outfit that would make everyone jelly. But that might not be enough because you lose all your BPs. You get the Hullcracker ammo BP from the quests but I refuse to redo them a second time. The rewards are usually mediocre and consist of loot you'd find in the overworld anyway.They should address the freeshitter plague and let us keep BPs. Also yeah maybe add quests to kill the Queen/Matriarch because there's no reason to bother AFAIK.
>>546734920lol you dont need bps faggot
Just had 2 good sniper duels in a match. Extracted sad I didnt kill anyone we just kept pot shotting and repositioning then they both ran.Then I checked the end screen and remembered I killed 2 people in between those fights.Just completely forgot I even killed 2 people because they were short ass whoopings. Thats all of you who die to me. Dont even remember you existed. Scrubs.
>>546735059Maybe explain yourself instead of sounding like a Discordnigger.
Maybe its just because I'm still fairly early in the game or that I'm simply insane, but I have actually really enjoyed doing the quests. Not so much the quests themselves that is, but just having some other goals or objectives on the maps. Reasons to go certain places other than because specific loot types spawn there.The magic will probably wear off eventually but its nice while it lasts.
>>546735180>ferro>stitcher w/ ext magggez
I find that the loading bay area in the new map is pretty good for screws, just open up all the greenish boxes in the cargo containers
>>546733928I need a bunch for one of one of the bench upgrades, but I'm also a stinky little south east asian so I doubt people here will wanna play with me because of ping, but I'd also like to learn how to do it to be self sufficient>>546734010>>546734069Thank you, I'll try these, well killing the bastion and bombardiers first
>>546734903it will be once the top dogs have enough wealth to be fully pinked out with 20 fuze grenades every round
>>546735567that's no screw I've ever seen
>>546735209The "in one round" objective quests with items you need to bring back are absolute aids. As if trying to survive ARC and KoSniggers wasn't enough, you'd fail the quest if you didn't extract with the quest item. I finished all the quests except the Stella Montis ones and I'll never wanna redo them again, so if you don't keep BPs I'll never reset as some quests give BPs. Most important BP from those is launcher ammo.
>>546735724Ah, yeah, I've only done one of those so far and it mercifully went quick and quietly. Like I said I'm sure something will come by and burst my bubble eventually.
>finished all the quests>done expedition>finished the deckthere's nothing left to do. im not farming for bps thats too boring. i tried ratting but that only fun for a little bit. looting is pointless as money has no value. i guess this game is over for me until a big update.
Deck and live event completed. Give more unlocks, Embark.
>>546735695I haven't slept pls forgive
>haha dude what if we spawned a guy 10 feet away from you as soon as you knock out the raider youre currently fightingwhy would they ever think this was a good idea? limit freeshitters to late spawns.only two spawn time, at mins 21 and 15.less spawn campers since the freeshitters cant play with the big boysfreeshitters would be forced to play the map when they spawn in since most people who originally started the lobby will be dead or gone by 21 mins. they can pick up the remains until they can make their own kit.
>>546735679pink means nothing its barely better, saying you lost because they had pinks is cope
>>546735862play trios. its the most fun mode.I just loot enough shit to sustain whatever guns and attachments im using or challenge myself to kill at least 3 people with guns i've picked up in the match I do it almost every time
>>546735862kill big arc, that's the main focus. Of course niggers will backstab you but...
>>546736430One explosion and the entire map full of browns immediately starts running at you with their Ferros and Stitchers.
they need to massively increase BP drop. the autistic community will be the only people who get all 74 of them and im sure only a handful will get there. going fucking days without finding shit whilst looting several thousand containers per day is not going to keep anyone in this player base entertained.
I hate accidentally queuing these pve events and killing some kid and he starts crying.Thanks for the hullbreaker buddy I didnt ask for this either
>>546736567
I've been having perfectly friendly EU lobbies with crossplay off, and the first time I bring a Hullcracker to Spaceport I get shot from 3 different roofs around the Bastion. Fuck this game sometimes.
>>546736567>he made me do it by existing in front of me!
Am I missing something or does the game actually just bug out sometimes?Cant you always reload while sprinting? I just had the reload pause while I was sprinting mid fight and it fucked me over hard. I kept restarting the reload and it paused everytime I started sprinting again though it seemed intentional
>>546736548yep, you need to find a good spot and barricade, lock + mine yourself in before you attempt the queen
>>546736945It probably varies by gun type
>>546736889well i kill them then realize the events on after I loot their hullbreaker and then it justifies their previous crying but its too late
Throwing snitch scanners at unsuspecting people feels a lot more cruel and sad when you're solo>on arrival building rooftop>hear someone fighting arc below me, trapped in a bus against a wasp and hornet>throw 6 scanners all around the bus and pull out my cloak>guy is fighting hard silently>he starts making a run for the extract near the launch tower>snipe him in the back of the head with my osprey>he goes down>feel like a horrible human bean>go to look for more people to throw scanners at>see the guy must have survivor mk3 because he manages to open the extract and didn't die while waiting for the elevator>snipe him again while he's using the terminal to get to speranza>watch as his lifeless corpse slumps against the terminal>feel even worse about myself>jump off the arrival building and sudoku to pay for my sins
>>546736945yes you can reload while sprinting but it will pause if you do something like vaulting, looting, or opening a door
>>546737262still going to hell
>>546737262I don't get you people. Why do you do nigger things, if you do not enjoy them?
>streaming game to my russian friend>talking to two randoms trying to find some kosnigger who whiffed all his shots on me>guy nonchalantly walks from a corner and says hi>friend tells me that's the nigger>blast him>it was the right guy>How did you know?>"He's polish"slavs are a strange people
>>546737393well your friend is russian, poles and russians hate each other with a passion
>trios>freekit>get several kills with a 10 round cap Rattler>dunk on a handful of others that fuck off>always extract>trios>no freekit, full blue kit>get teamed up with mouthbreathing niggers that cant coordinate any sort of teamwork to save their literal lives>get killed every single time because 3v1 is almost impossible.
>>546737383Because it was done to me anon. Blood must be paid for the pain I've had. If I could guarantee to bully the fuck out of the last person to burn me I would, but too many players in the game I don't think I've ever ran into the same steam name twice.
>>546736430i dont see the point. killing big arcs isn't hard, you just need the right equipment. rocketeer = 1 wolfpack. bastion/bomba = 1 deadline. queen and matriach is more a matter of not getting niggered in the back rather than any actual interesting boss fight mechanic. and not like you can use their loot for anything since yellow guns are trash and aphelion is nowhere to be found.
>>546736885only bring it during matriarch event, no one will bat an eye
>>546737606>i dont see the point.because killing Queen/Matriarch is fun, you know, the point of playing video games.>matter of not getting niggered in the backyes and it's harder than it sounds.
>>546737348Well i wasnt doing any of that.I was sprinting back and forth to cover both angles around the object we were fighting on while reloading.Except my reloading was paused
>only way to hurt your teammates is indirectly like with mines>still not a single group put together on /vg/Why is everyone afraid of trios?
>>546736945the worst bug is the one where your sprint key sticks when you start looting somethingtrying to be sneaky when you hear footsteps mid search and end up standing and sprinting
>>546737678Clicked a mouse button at all? Aiming and M1 both cancel it as well. Dodge rolling too. Only thing is sprint and slide.
>>546737697I like carebear fun solos, pvp is boring
>>546737697id rather play with my friends
>>546737580What I am saying is, it does not seem like you had fun. Doing unfun things does not sound fun.
>>546737645Yeah just did. People were too busy with the Matriarch I guess. I just wanna get all my workshops to level 3.
>>546737697teaming up with people on /vg/ is always terrible. everyone assumes right of the bat the person they are joining is insane and then treats almost every interaction very guardedly. It then just builds tension the entire time you play that someone just ends up blocking someone and leaving without saying anything. I'm also kind of picky about who I play with because I am extremely introverted and only really talk about callouts or trying to provide info on item locations or whatever and I cant fucking stand yappers. nothing makes me seethe more than someone in my party just going on and on about fucking nothing or commenting on every little thing that is happening
>>546738917Well I thought it would be fun and then I killed the guy out of spite. Turns out it wasn't so fun. Since pvp is optional, it feels hard to be the person who shoots first, but in this game if you don't shoot first you get fucked.
they really fucking missed the mark with outfits. I appreciate the soviet/east yurop retro-futurism but all the outfits look so fucking retarded and gay. The color choices are even worse.Would be infinitely better if you could just mix and match outfits or colors.I'd like to see how many outfits they sold outside of the ones paid for by buying the more expensive version of the game.I've seen like maybe 3 different outfits in the wild outside of the easily unlockable free ones.
>>546739494It's especially hard to justify when cheap budget kits are so good, apart from wolfpacks and hullcrackers for big pve threats you just don't need gear in this game
There was so much shit goin on I never even bothered looking at trials.Just looked now. Had no idea how they worked and thought I could knock them out whenever. Did not realize I was fucking over my rank by skipping weeks
>>546739674my ranked is fucked anyway, I am in an absolute sweatfest of a bracket, lowest double promotion is 55k points
I got 1500 free tokens but I'm holding out on buying the Torpedo set because what if they release a better set in 5 days?
new busted shotgun meta
>>546740652Doing it as fast as the guy who made that twitter post was doing it while sliding and jumping around makes me think he was using macros like a faggot.
>>546740652why can't retards stop exploiting?Does the win matter to them so much they can't stop cheating?
>>546740630same, was going to buy driftcoat but I kind of want the one in the middle picrel from the trailer 2 weeks ago>one on the left only released like a few days agomaybe its coming soon, plus the hooded outfit on the right seems interesting too
every time I think I'm just going to do a quest with a free loadout I end up looting a random box and finding a blue print, just got silencer 2 from a gas station
>>546740837Imo from these 3 the Torpedo looks the best. The right skin looks like some shit I see on BF6.
I just realized there's a furry skin in the trailer, too - they're going to make so much mtx money.
FUCK YOU BLOODY SCRAPPY BASTARD
>>546740985
>>546740985where, post right now
>>546740652>>546740716>>546740829also works with other oneshot weapons like hullcracker and anvil
>>546740985>>546741132that's a fox pelt hat bro
>>546741132>birdsucks, forest fox would be better
Big ARC should be more spread out across the map, or at least there should be 2-3 more of the same kind. It's annoying when the whole lobby is trying to kill the same Bastion and you end up in the crossfire.
>>546707714>its literally my raiderlmfao
>>546741561nigga there is like 3-4 of the same kind around the map, you just suck at finding them
>>546741561actually fighting over arc is the fun part of the game
for me, it's the bog rat
>>546741680No? There's only 1 of each, if at all.>>546741813I disagree.
>>546741921wrong
>>546741567>>546707714nice shock collar slut
I'm still wearing the basic skin 50 hours in feigning I have anything on me of value.
>Doing a quest objective>Bump into some dork in a building, tell him I'm friendly since we're both obviously using free kits and I can't be bothered>Just silently follows me from room to room flicking his flashlight at me while I'm questing>Tell him to fuck off>He doesn't>Complete objective, tell him that it's right there just in case he's also there for it>He clearly isn't, just keeps following me as I leave the building>Finally lose patience and dome him with a ferro then beat him to death with my hammer while he scrambles>"KILL THIS GUY KILL HIM HE'S KOS KOS NOT FRIENDLY" with the female voice changer on because apparently he found his push-to-talk key at last>Only response is some black guy way off in the distance telling him to shut the fuck up, barely audibleThis isn't the first time something like this has happened. Why are they like this?
>go to buried city>go be a rat in western metro>plan the ambush>5man comes down>Blaze Grenades 4x go out>down 2, get capped>"HUMM KITTEN, PUT IT IN MY ASS"> die immediatelytoday was good day
>>546742171if you look like you have nothing to lose, that makes you a threat
>>546742012those are their potential spawn points
>shoot guy in the head>regret it>don't shoot emtoe>sorry emote>he doesn't shoot backhappened quite a few timesI'm surprised
>>546742297I literally fought bastion in 3 different spots on spaceport, all within 30 seconds. Shut the fuck up and play the game
>>546742336I like how most people are nice and not looking for conflict in this game, its so refreshing
>>546708129Man my hands got sweaty. Well played bratan, pretty impressive. Did they have any good shit? Also agree on downing all of them.
I need to kill Leapers and an Arc Surveyor. Best maps for this?
>>546708129LMFAOfuck those guysyou never walk openly to someone like that without going "hey don't shoot" or something first>you are such a fucking faggot>get some situational awareness you dumb faggot fucklmao
I've been warned of people with this skin being KoS shitters. Just sprayed one of those in Stella. Sorry but I'm not taking my chances.
so before i click buy, how many runs do you guys do a night? does everyone have the same goal? like is it just guns and gear and skins but it feels real nice to play?
>Die>Spend 3 minutes remaking kitWhere's the custom loadout option
>>546743928Yeah it's pretty annoying fiddling when I have everything made I just need my loadout to auto-fill itself.
I shoot everyone I see on sight because I'm too shy to talk to people and just using emotes is awkward
>>546708129>stella>friendlyyeah haha no
https://streamable.com/r3lx3j
>>546739569i bought deluxe edition and bought only the haircuts. I agree that the outfits are not very interesting right now. The big problem i see also is that, as in many games, i think most people will go towards "camouflage" outfits, or stuff that can blend in the landscape, nobody wants to go wander in a bright orange cosmonaut suit.
I still love scavenging stuff alone at night.The atmosphere never gets old
>>546743298Stella Montis
I notice alot of youtubers use the circle with a dot reticle that has noticeable bloom. Is that better than default?
I just hoard stuff in my stash because I can't be arsed learning anything
>>546745209if you use anvil its way better, the default crosshairs on ferro and anvil are trash
>>546745209Just use it and find out???
>people not playing with the dot on screen at all timesI think people forget you can hipfire in this game. That shit is a godsend in Helldivers 2 as well
g suit actually looks good with everything on it, idc about the all black gimp suit version. still wouldn't pay $20 for it
Can I get banned for calling Rats the gamer word?
>>546740652What am i looking at?
i just went with a hullcracker and deadline mine for a first time to hunt some big arcs and was killed in first 3 minutes by hornet and two wasps, can someone just kill me IRL i dont deserve to live.
>>546746103How did you die to those when you had a hullcracker?
>>546746235I thought i could do them with anvil (which usually worked), but was cornered, zapped and fucked.
Nobody is friendly anymore
Lost almost 100k in gear in back-to-back rounds because of a dealing with a hornet + 2 wasps. The 2nd time I spawned in a house in the middle of bumfuck nowhere right below a Hornet. Even with a silenced Anvil, I made enough noise to alert some roaming KOSfaggot.I'm just going to start crafting lure grenades because this shit is silly.
>>546736124I love this idea. It even makes sense from a lore perspective. Why would EBT kitters get first dibs on going topside? They should late spawn almost exclusively. This would even work mechanically. Rats will fight over scraps once the tax paying citizens have had their way with the map, and if you get greedy and stick around to loot or rat yourself, you have to contend with the EBT kitters who have nothing to lose and all your shit to gain. This would take the freerats off all the key cards and hatches for at least 10 precious nog free minutes. What else? I guess just make stitcher green so it actually costs something and that's like 80% of the ratting solved. Pareto would be proud.
>>546735263based
>>546736124>>546746545this is a horrible idea since late spawns leaves you no choice to kos and extract camp people who have looted everything and are now leavingfriggers have been solved long ago>rattler 1 only>no quick use items>forced identifiable uniform
>>546746739>forced identifiable uniformNever happening in a game that makes most of its money selling cosmetics.
>>546746862why not? theres no logic in your statement
>>546746739There's something funny about you flinging this suggestion out five times in every thread and then insisting that you "solved" the issue "long ago".
>>546747042>everybody agrees>must be samefaggingthis solution has been around for so long now, you can't expect it not to spread when its this correct
>>546746739>rename the rattler to the ratter>stick the freeniggers in neon yellow jumpsuits with rat-like gas masks>have the masks cause a constant loud breathing effect, because fuck emThe retarded Swedes will never be based enough to do this.
where do u find bps lol havent seen one in like 4 days
>>546747315they give us real players literal orange jumpsuits and wagecuck safety vests as cosmetics, yellow isnt really out there
>>546743928hopefully they're working on it, they seem like cool devs that would add that
>>546746235>>546746103 We're so back. Not sure why i brought the hullcracker along, deadline mine oneshotted him. That mine is OP as fuark if u ask me and only costs 6k if i remember correctly.
>>546745464you payed 20$ for 2400 coins the costumes were bonus
>>546747906I paid $20 to support a game that isn't dogshit and runs well on UE5
Your thoughts on a feature where your character engages in a dialogue whenever there is another player nearby. Camping or sneaking or approaching to make engagements more fair?>Heads up… got trouble>we’re not alone….>We’re being followed>Coming up on unknown hostile>I see you, yeah, I see you
>>546745464in other words, pay $20 to open this door to the outfitno.
>>546734308Yeah but they come with a daily cooldown.
>>546748043what was the $40 for?
>>546748062>just give everyone random spotting because uhhhh i dont like dying or something
>>546748174Not so much random spotting more like you’re given the option to heed the warning or not
whats the best talent tree to go down, post yours bros i need to copy someones
>>546724132That was pretty rad, that's like what, half a lobby dead in the same room? Is the loot so good in the security area?
I noticed people really do consider that black and orange outfit with the balaclava to be a ratnigger outfit
>>546748463If I see a free cosmetic I assume you're a rat.
>>546748463i played it unknowingly before and kept getting shot at by people for no reasonthen i changed it, went to random trios and matched with the most obnoxious 2 spics in the exact same outfit, cartoonishly spamming words in spanish and cackling for like 3 minutes at spawn before running into the first team we saw and immediately shooting and dying to them.
>>546748085>>546747906
>>546748587"Free" in a p2p game.
>>546748730Your point?
>>546714686>shields are basically worthless and it's often just a case of whoever shoots first wins^This.It's killing all the fun if you're a decent person and not a fucking rat kike.
>>546748840 There are no free cosmetics? You get them in a bundle with game which costs 40 USD?
>>546748350I just got 75 the other day>purplemy essentials>orangewhat I would take points OUT of if I could go back>greenwhat I would put those points into>yellownice but if you revolve your gameplay around them you'll be caught in a loop. really handy when you're freekitting though, just too easy to be dependent on and saps fun from the game.
>>546749105You are fucking stupid don't reply to me.
>>546735862how about get a job
>>546746518how do u see this
I want a new knockout animation of kicking a ratigger onto his back and slowly crushing his larynx with my boot while the rats hands make a feeble attempt to push the leg away until they finally have no fight left
>>546749182What do you use the fieldcrafting for? I would say I used it 2-3 times at level 60 at this point, to create a couple of additional adrenaline shots.
>>546749190You never worked in trades, son? You kinda sound like you're upset kiddo...
>>546749423>I want a new knockout animationGuaranteed to be a cosmetic later on or Embark hate money
just got this sweet new gun to never bring in with me in case i lose it
finally
>>546749489field crafting is huge for matriarch, if I can't afford enough gear I just bring a stack of rubber and pick up arc power cells and make myself rechargers.the additional crafting allows you to make traps and raider hatch keys in game which have been clutch.
>>546742146>shock collar made of wasp partsunf
>your stash is full>no you can't move items from your stash into your inventory to make space in the stash
Is this the most popular extraction shooter of all time? How did it mog Tarkov?
Do you think hackers have some sort of script that shows them who's worth killing for their shit on the map? It might be confirmation bias, but whenever the most valuable thing I had on me was a level 2-4 anvil, I got left the fuck alone. But when I brought a hullcracker, or put that cool high level silencer on my anvil that I found, suddenly people hone in on me. It's like they can smell that I have rare shit on me.
>>546751604>How did it mog Tarkov?By casualizing the genre to the point that the average normgroid can enjoy it.ArcRaiders : Tarkov :: WoW : Everquest/Ultima
>running to test annex>go inside>hear someone call extract>flare noise>run outside>don't see anyone and extract open>decide to leave because hornets>guy crawling>im getting harrassed by hornets>guy doesn't even think to call extract>just keeps following me as im dodging hornets
>>546751604the people who play tarkov all hate it and have stockholm syndrome, and 30% of its playerbase use hacks, it was never going to "kill arc raiders" thats an out of touch meme from /v/ posters who know nothing about either game or the genre as a whole. tarkov isn't even marketed and people have always known about it but it doesn't appeal to new players because of its reputation of nolife sweats and its hackers
>>546751604Tarkov is ran by retarded devs and people got tired of their shitArc raider basically took their basic formula, refined it and made it casual accessibleI honestly dont think I'll ever play EFT again
>>546751809>WoW : Everquest/Ultimawow has a extraction game mode wtf lol
>>546752046Are you actually retarded anon?
We are conducting research bros and the research says console players are more likely to be less educated, more aggressive, and less cordial human beans. More research is needed shit the numbers do not lie. Do not play with console players they're more likely to murder you.
>>546752304whenever I look at post game results and I got shot randomly by someone, most of the time it's a console player with a ferro 1
>>546752304How would you get this data?
>>546751809>EverquestI still seethe
>>546752304I play pc duo with a ps5babby and 99% of our encounters are friendlyOnly time I ever died was to a polski on steam
Duo lobbies seem to be less populated
>>546752756I suspect they tweaked the amount of players per raid recently, shit feel much more breathable somehow
>>546749182Why does no one take Minesweeper for 1 (one) skill point?
>>546753103The only mines you'd be defusing would be placed by extremely stupid people.
>>546753103I do
>load up for bombardier farms>minute 18>nothing on the map except rocketeer and leaper>fine go grind recources instead>as i breach another car i hear snitch flying around only it wasnt a snitch but a spotter and i was already marked>got knocked out by: Bombardier fucking EMBARK fix your fucking SOUND you degenerate TRANNIES! You can't just spawn a 20tones robot 50 metres away as quiet as a toddler's fart!
>>546749258raider>codex>player stats>right side of the screen
If the reward for wiping isn't the coolest outfit I have ever seen or like 1000 premium currency or something I'm not doing it
stella montis is incredibly easy XP I'm getting like half a level per run just tapping every container I walk past
>>546752304due to purely economic factors, of course
>>546754270If you were raised in a trailer park what kind of person would you turn out to be? Better or worse than what you are now? Would you even be you? Can you grasp that concept? What did you eat for breakfast? What if you didn't eat breakfast?
>>546752304how can you tell which platform they are on
>>546753103usually well placed mines will be in positions you can't see/look at closely enough so its kind of pointless
>>546754638Have someone play only console, have someone play only PC. Then have far more players test and control for variables like "is my voice fucking annoying do I sound sketchy?" Am I playing a girl or male character? Am I walking with my gun? Where did I meet them? What did I say? Emotes or voice? Variables
>>546754501It was a joke that flew over your head. It's common to try and downplay etnicity by saying "they are the way they are only due to economic factors":
>>546754704This guy gets it. You aren't defusing mines at the top of a door or zipline shaft. You'll be dead by the time you slow walk into the door from the people watching.
I defused a lot of trap quietly and it netted me a win several times>But it only work against stupid people!The game had 700k concurrent players, you'll see a lot of these
>people complaining of stella montis spawnsfirst time?
>>546755213Stella is worse than factory, hell it's worse than labThe player density in this game is actually fucking crazy
>>546755343>spot a guy at the start of match>he says hi>say hi back>he was actually saying hi to another guy around the corner>2 more guys pop out of shadows to say hi>hear a muffled hi from the ceilingStella Montis is like that myth of always being within 10 feet of a spider.
Should I start using my keys?
>>546755598nah
>need Bastion, Bombardier and Leaper cores>don't wanna bring Hullcracker into normal lobbies because I already lost 2 todayWat do?
Gotta play with shotgun glitchers now anvil too report those fuckers
>>546755529kek I saw a similar experience but with multiple people using voip, can be confusing and or awkward as fuck
>>546742181Kek>Blue Gate>Some huge fiesta with like 6 Raiders happening while a Leaper goes rampant>See three of them split>Dont know who is shooting who, or why>One guy gets knocked>I down the one who killed him from range>Faggot with the voice changer on, he's non-stop 24/7 yapping into the mic trying to call out my position while I fight the third dude>Running out of ammo and shields, just decide to bail>As im leaving the tranny dude is still yapping and the third guy goes "GOD DAMN SHUT THE FUCK UP"Lmfao.
>>546755996>glitching through locked doors took a week to fixhope you got a lot o shotguns
I saw 3 people trying to roll through a door. Really wanted to throw a high fuzz grenades at them but didn't know if that would get the job done.
>>546755915use wolfpacks instead, you can put one in your safepocket and only lose 1 if you do die
>>546756114I love triggering little babies like you with the voice changer. You guys always get nasally and upset when you get told off.
>>546755598its always worth carrying a raider key in your ass unless you're joining a night raidfind something more valuable? swap em then use the key to fuck offdidn't find anything valuable? you can keep searching until the last couple of minutes since you have a free-escape cardthey're dirt cheap to craft as well
>>546756239Fuck off dead yapping faggot lmfao
>>546745464You can't get it anymore, it was pre-order only.But I almost regret it, the gimp suit version is Stalker as fuck
>>546756292Thinking of taking a hatch key and one of the other keys to go loot some shit. My stash is constantly 280/280 and it's getting annoying.
>>546745464being able to still see the face through the mask ruins it for me. need my face covered properly
>>546756357I read this in a whiny nasal voice
>>546755598some guy showed me how to get into locked door and now i just hold onto my keys til its patched
>>546755915for bastions and bombardiers just play buried shitty and take a couple of blaze grenade stacksthen COORDINATE OVER VOICE with the other people who are also farming those arcsthere's a fairly good chance you'll be able to get the cores you need without issue, and having several other people around makes it less likely for ganks to happen for leapers take the same kit to dam and just let them burn to death while you chill inside a building, there's almost always a couple that spawn>>546756415I hate the overly-restrictive stash spacewe should have way more storage available for crafting ingredients and shit like ammoit's fine if augs/weapons/meds are limited
>>546756239You love it when people think you're an annoying tranny? Ok?
>>546755598nah 90% of the time they're contested by sweats and the high value loot is always guns so who cares
>>546756840Uhoh stinky boy seethe
>>546756773space isn't really the issue it's the stack sizes for most items, I can understand restricting them in a raid but once you put your wolfpacks in storage why can't they stack at all?
Should I keep carrying two guns? I main a Ferro against arcs, but always keep a Sticher to blow a quick load on shitters trying to get the drop on me. Gets abit expensive when losing several rounds in a row though, just running one not upgraded gun + Augment is basically a free loadout in comparison.Whats a good allrounder grey gun taht remains viable in close quarters, Kettle?
All's left are apricots and mushrooms
>>546754839nta, but why do you think it flew over his head? He answered exactly to what you referred to.
>>546757445space can refer to both slots and stacksizeboth need increased in the stashit makes perfect sense I can only store ~3 of a given special arc part in the same pouch in my backpackit makes no sense that I can't have bins and shenves and more bins and more shelves or a storage locker or something in speranza to keep a fuckton more of them aroundI'm constantly capped out on space, and that's after aggressively keeping ALL of my non-purple crafting materials at a max of 2 stacks, only having a few guns, not keeping any ammo, etcit's retarded >>546757653always carry a gun good against arc, and a gun good against peoplesometimes they can overlap, in which case just double up on ammoferro/stitcher is the go-to poorfag loadout for a reasonanvil/stitcher when you're consistently coming back from runs
>matched with a torrente player on Stella>he legitmately mows down an entire squad with one magi dream to be this powerful. give me the damn blueprint already
>>546755213In the first minute I played Stellq, I ran into a rail that stuck me in place and then a fucking fire ball torched me to death for 15 seconds. I hate that place.
>>546756226it would tip them off before it detonated
>>546758015what you got to trade? I'm holding onto one copy for a friend but found a spare literally last match would prefer blaze/wolfpack BPs or good augment BPs
vita spray bp when...
>>546757817Well then it flew over my head
>>546734628It is a joke and IMO the only reason to do it is to pray that it pays off in the long run after buffs to reset bonuses and skill tree balancing.
>>546758871I've only got a triggernade and an osprey im afraid
>>546758871Is there a meta for finding blueprints? Should I be speccing into that lucky skill?
Is this any good?
>>546760574deals +20% damage if all proj. hit
>>546760574effectively turns it into a shotgunyou decide whether that's good or bad>>546760346special events + high value areas, supposedly the loot scale is also increased in rooms that require "effort" to get into, whether that's a key or breaching or parkourI have not been particularly lucky myself though, that list is all I've found across ~50hrs of playtime
>matched with a great squad>three extracts in a row bring tons of good stuff>finally get the courage to bring heavy shields and all my best shit for round #4>get triple fucked by arc and two teams at once and die without firing my guncruel game
Just going to hold off on spending any tokens, see what they bring up
>queue Stella montis >gunned down 44 seconds into the roundFun and engaging
I haven't played since I started at the start of last week, how much did I miss?
You really need to do something about the Venator — it’s getting very serious. Now that the game has been out for a while, everyone on YouTube or through friends knows that the Venator is broken. It can kill any shield tier player in a second or even less. I have multiple clips of myself dying faster than human reaction time. I’m sure this isn’t intended, especially since you’ve said in the past that you want fights to last longer.Right now, the Venator makes the game feel like playing Battlefield on hardcore mode — I die in 0.3 seconds. And since everyone knows how strong it is, the meta basically feels like Arc: Venator. In a 1v1 scenario, either you have a Venator and you stand a chance, or you don’t and you die. It completely overshadows every other weapon.Honestly, it makes me want to quit the game every time I craft high-budget gear and end up in a high-gear lobby. I only see Venators. You really need to fix this. If I feel this way, I’m sure a lot of other players do too.You should consider reducing the headshot damage, because the headshot multiplier on the Venator is simply too strong and creates an extremely low time-to-kill. The gun is way too simple and way too rewarding for how easy it is to use. For example, a lower-tier, similar weapon like the Burletta feels more in line with your design philosophy. With the Burletta, you actually have to land almost a full clip to kill someone, or break shields with something like a Ferro first. That makes the fights interesting and skill-based.But the Venator isn’t like that — you just run at people and shoot. You don’t need to break shields, you don’t need to think, and you don’t need technique like you do with other weapons.I really hope you’re working on a patch soon, because I’m seeing a lot of players talking about Venator 4, and it’s getting pretty alarming for the state of the game.
>>546761963I know it's a reddit post but he's rightExcept for the part where he's asking for lower headshot damage, just remove the +firerate of the gun and make it actually consume two ammo per shots
>>546761835read OP
So why do raiders shoot eachother again?
>>546761963opinionated ramble take, less likely to be listened to but this redditor is taken by emotion
>>546761739You need to use social deduction tactics on stellamong us. Always be loud on the mic following someone around at a secure distance. Run away and call for help if they turn on you. In the first 10 minutes the map is too densely populated to get away with killing anyone for long.
>>546762367I need to finance my booze and hookers and there's not enough for everyone.
>>546760574I haven't heard a single person say its good
>>546762367why do people shoot each other? deep when you think about it......
>need a blueprint to make smokesoh okay then i guess mini smokes are the right way to go until i get the bp->need a blueprint to make mini smokes??????????what the fuck is this?
vita spray > vita shot/blue bandage > herbal bandage> bandage
>>546762367Because Raiders either go out topside to make their fortune, or to help rebuild society. The former do so by hunting ARCs, gathering supplies, or just like the IRL rats in game, take advantage of other people
>>546762095To me the real issue is how unbalanced the risk is for a PvP guy vs a PvE guy. PvE kit is really fucking expensive, PvP kit is really fucking not.In PvP you can really blow someone up with a minimum equipment set of all cheap items. white weapons, green shield, it's fine. Your only job is to sneak up on people and get them while they're not looking. PvE fags, what are they to do? They can't bring just a ferro and some impact nades to fight anything above a rocketeer. So you're hosed you HAVE to take a risk bringing "the good shit". For PvP, the most expensive thing you bring is a venator if you're fancy, but a white weapon will do. You CAN do a fancy loadout full of stun mines, and whatnot, but why bother? All you need is someone extracting and shoot them in the back.
Merchants should give urgent quests that are only up for like 30-45minutes and randomly appear through out the week. If you manage to get what they need in time (you can never stock up on these items, have to be freshly extracted) then you get some kind of affinity with them and get temporary discounts.
>>546763014Gets even better: >you DON'T need a blueprint to make an augment that auto deploys a smoke grenadeNow make that make sense.
>>546763059I prefer herbal bandages over blue. Cheaper to make, stack higher, and blues are often overkill. Though vita spray is cheap as hell once you get the blueprint so now I bring it and craft bandages on the way.
>>546763296they need to add something that will force everyone to do Queen/Matriarch
>>546762367Oi! Geezers need excitement
>>546763296all they need to do is make the freekit a rattler 1 no nades and uniformed
I got a quest for the EMP trap, and I finally managed to find it, but how do I disable it? There are generators around, which make the same buzzing sound, but there's no interaction prompt, and they don't break when I hit or shoot them. Do I have to bring some sort of EMP grenade or something?
>>546764264I think it's press button in the antenna, then find the generator, then find the antenna again
>>546764378I ran back to the antenna again at some point, but there was interaction prompt there either. And approaching the generators didn't complete anything on the quest list either, so I dunno. I had to retreat with like less than 2 minutes left. Probably was the last player on the map.
>Queen on Blue Gate>figure it's safe enough to bring a Hullcracker and hunt some Leapers or some shit>manage to spawn super close to that village and kill one>almost as soon as I finish looting, some nigger misses me with a FerroShould I just not bring Hullcrackers into lobbies on the weekend? These guys are radicalizing me and I might just start shooting randoms with a Ferro too.
are you guys going to prestige?
>>546763993Then instead of getting shitted on by freekitters, you're getting shit on by people just crafting level 4 ferros and going in with a loadout that costs about as much as you get from scrappy for playing the round. Right now, if I wanted to do a full PvE loadout, I could do that maybe... 5 times? 5 times and then I start to have to take lesser shit, won't be able to afford fully upgraded gear any more. However: if I wanted to do a PvP kit, I could do that cheap. I could easily craft 50 or more, just throwing them at enemies, and as long as I manage to extract like... every 3 rounds? I come out net positive.And I honestly don't know what to do about it. How do you make it so that players with a 75k inventory aren't just free loot pinatas for players with a 3k inventory? Hell, even if you somehow run out of metal, a ferro costs 1.4k from Tian. That's literally 1 blue item extracted. It's almost impossible to run out of cheap pvp gear, because the game is (rightfully) designed to let you be able to keep playing if you lose everything, and sadly the minimum viable equipment for pvp is "literally anything". It's not like World of Warcraft, where someone with white items, can hit someone in raid purples for 15 minutes and not hurt them meaningfully.
>>546762367The lore reason is either settling grudges from below or gang rivalry. Raiders aren't all the same faction apparently.
>>546765032Yes and I’ll be mad that I lost my beautiful collection of blueprints. I bet I’ll never find even half of them ever again
anyone have two cooling fans? I'll give you 10 x surge chargers for them
>>546765032Having to do those dogshit quests would make me rope, so no.
>>546763296I bring a ferro 4 with a few boxes of heavy ammo for pve.
>>546765032Not the first time at least. I dont even have half the blueprints yet.
>>546765429visit the new map. countless fans per run basically
>>546765693In which area?
>>546765528When I say "PvE" I don't mean "run into the building and be a loot goblin" I'd do that with a ferro and little else, too. I'm talking about "taking down big arc bosses".
Killed my first bastion today. Completely solo'd it, too, and even got to loot it 100%.
Tian wen my mommy issues schizo gf
>>546764948it doesn't matter, game is getting brownified and niggerified. It will only get worse
>>546766730turn off crossplay
Dudes saying that gear difference isn't that big simply aren't running into the heavy shield venator IV fuze squads. As soon as you get run over by that shit you'll understand that your cheapskate sticher II loadout has given you a sense of false confidence
>>546752304>See this>turn off crossplay>instantly get KoS'd by a freekit kettleniggerdidn't work.
>>546766884n?
>>546765748I'm Talking about Bastions and Rocketeers. You probably aren't going to solo a queen or Matriarch no matter what you bring anyway. But you can contribute with a ferro 4 and 3 to 6 boxes of heavy ammo.
lol. lmao. rofl even.
>>546766954>1-2 more shots to kill at best>no discernible difference in TTK if you're raping their foreheadthe horrorfuze nades are insane though. through it on a corner and push up and you completely reverse the "defender/attacker" situation
>>546766954we unironically have the data and its at most 2 bullet shots for the purple shields.
>tarkov has 250k viewers on twitch all of a suddenlmao all numbers are fake these days
>>546766989237 ps5 player encounters, 172 PC player encounters, over 84 and 51 rounds respectively>>5467672601.0 just hit and also there's a drop campaign for it
I have a ton of blue crafting materials and gadgets, but my benches aren't high enough level to craft anything with them. And even if I could, I feel I'd just lose everything to a rat. I don't want to stop hoarding, but I'm forced to...
>>546767260arc has definitely been a disaster for that game
>>546767462I am thankful for the stash cap getting rid of my hoard brainworms and just using stuff.
>>546767320Tarkov has NEVER had these numbers before, 250K is fucking insane for any game that's not like league or some other big event
>>546767690I think it's believable, considering it was released on Steam. A lot of new players.
>>546766954Yup. Never once have I been ratted on and died without being able to fight back, and I run medium shields 90% of the time.
>>546765032Yes. Im PVE and its my overall goal. Im casual, but I think I can still make it. I need to be able to flex the cosmetic so everyone knows Im OG. I have the discord backpack and bobblehead but thats probably only noticed by whatever rat is shooting me in the back of the head.
>>546746739>this is a horrible idea since late spawns leaves you no choice to kos and extract camp people who have looted everything and are now leavingnot at 21 mins everyone will be gone by then. and if you decide to stay until 21 mins at least you know what to expect. they rat because they spawn at a weird time of they JUST missed the time to loot all the good places but still enough time to catch someone worthy at extract.at 21 mins, most of the lobby has left, the only people coming in now are other freeshitters. so the incentive to extract camp is less because at best youre only going to get another freeshitter with green loot or blue mats anybody can get by searching their spawn location.besides, who cares if freeshitters extract camp each other?
why the fuck cant you load your gun before queuing?
>>546768005You start the match with weapons fully loaded, what's the issue here?
>>546767690if i'm not mistaken, yes it has? the stats i can see from different sources shows it peaking at similar (or greater) numbers multiple times in the past, especially around 2021/2022 when it blew up particularly during drop campaigns
More like Dumbkov lol.
What's the difference between "dispersion" and "recoil" muzzle mods?
Why are we taking about Tarkov in an ARC thread
>Queue match>get put right next to place I wanna loot>check time>19 mins left>it's of course ransacked>check for leftovers>just trash>check out 2 other places>ransacked>fuck it, 10mins left, lets go extract.>See fucking nothing>hear detection beep>a hornet and a wasp>not a big deal>doesn't fucking die>the hornet stuns me out of aroll>the wasp hoses me down>loot nothing and die to the fucking easiest, simplest, dumbest enemies in the game this side of pops. Fucking hate this game sometimes.
>>546765032Without question. The treadmill keeps the game from getting too stale and I'm not dependent on blueprints. Extra stash space is the only bonus I'm really interested in but that's nice too.
hey can we atleast NOT be friendly on stella montis. stop giving me shameful "really?" when i knock you out. I've being PVEfarming for my cock and benches past 20 levels, let me finally have some fun.
So was this event essentially a 2nd free battle pass kek
>>546768953Recoil is recoil (the shit you control with your mouse) while dispersion is about how much your accuracy blooms and how quickly it recovers. recoil isnt bad in this game so compensator is better on nearly every gun
>>546769061but I'm still finishing my quests. go in squads if you want a Death match
>Go to Buried City for some plants>Guy kills a Bastion and tells me to go for it>Drop down and talk to him>"Yeah man I'm on a free kit just vibing, you can have it">He runs off>Leave with my plants and 5 cells
>>546768953Dispersion means how close your bullets hit to the dead center of your crosshairs.Less dispersion = more accurate shots
>>546769223>how much your accuracy bloomsOh, yeah, that's the only thing to care about.
it's harder than i expected to stick those Deadlines to bastions.
>>546769585I gave up on that and just wolfpack'd my first bastion once and finished with hullcracker clip.
>>546769356He should have shot you in the head you weeb faggot
>Try to do anything serious or contested>Killed by Venator4Maybe I'll check out Tarkov 1.0 after all
>>546769585If you manage to get on top of one, it's easy.Getting there is the hard part.
I got security breach literally the day they nerfed it and the only thing I've gotten from the lockers are tier 2 guns and ammo.
I'm trying to kill leapers to upgrade my workbench so that I can start making those photovoltaic cloaks. I don't have any fucking blaze grenades or the blueprint. I don't really want to waste wolfpacks on them since I'd like to save those for rocketeer kills. I did just recently hit 20 and unlock the hullbreaker. For those of you who have used the hullbreaker, approximately how much ammo would be a comfortable sum for killing a leaper?
>>546770294Fuck off did they really right before I could get it?
>>546724914where do you farm your mechanical components for upgrading all of these?
>Kill 3 people in a row in solos on new map>4th guy shows up and finally finishes me off>as I'm down a 5th guy shows up and kills him>meaning I would have had to kill 5 guys in a rowThis shit is unplayable
>>546765065thats why you also buff higher level gear, especially shields and augments
>>546770004seethe
>>546770297like 10-15 shots maxor you could sneak onto one and stick a landmine on his ass
>>546770294>some ultra sweats popsocked to the one capstone that does something and are making some $$$NERF IT NOW>weapon balance is utter dogshit for this genre and freeniggers are burning the cityTime for a government mandated vacation.>>546770368They nerfed it earlier this week. It's still the best capstone by virtue of the other capstones doing nothing.
>>546770297You can collect fireball burners instead of blaze grenades. They have a smaller radius but I believe fire does the same damage regardless of source.>>546770430It's secretly a pve map because as enticing as pvp may seem it's a death sentence.
Found a damaged Surveyor. It didn't drop vaults but it dropped this, neat ig.
Fuck anon I have a real motivation problem. I haven't found a BP in over 20 hours of night/lighting play, not even a duplicate any more. I just keep throwing my kit away at pvp moments, and it feels like all I'm doing right now is looting for EXP and expedition.
>>546770446>or you could sneak onto one and stick a landmine on his assI considered that, but since I don't have a cloak then I just know that the fucker will tackle men and then explode.
>>546770591Do these things drop blueprints often? I might need to go on a surveyor hunt.
>>546770631I have the same problem, cant find shitStarting to wonder if they really want BP to reset with expeditions
>>546770631what are you actually doing? because if you're not doing stuff that can reward bp's you're obviously not going to find it, go loot raider caches and high loot areas. i used to find a bp in every other instance of raider cache event loot route on dam.
>>546770631Go round-up newbies with a mic and give them grenades to take on their first big arc. Give people some heavy ammo and ferros and throw 6 stitchers into one area. I'm just fucking around at this point.
>>546770802Dunno. It's only my second time killing one. The first one I got gave me like 4 vaults. This one gave 0 but BPs are more useful anyway as I've done that quest already.
>>546770026Tarkov is even worse
>>546770297>>546770446>>546770659hullcracker is a trap because it takes too long and people will just rat you knowing exactly what you're doing and where, only wolfpacks are usable now since blaze grenades are also weaker (apparently the pre-update damage was a bug). maybe the lure grenade works with the deadline mines, i haven't tried it yet. t. like to kill fatties
>>546770802I just killed one for the quest and got a blueprint on my first kill
>>546771340>maybe the lure grenade works with the deadline mines, i haven't tried it yet. They won't, not against bastion atleast. He just shoots it in 1 second and proceeds to rape you. Speaking from experience.
>>546771657yeah i expected that, but it probably works for the bombardier and leaper, atleast leaper seems pretty dumb and blind compared to the fatsos.
>not one bp in 5 dayskill me
>>546770859>you're not doing stuff that can reward bpThe fuck you on about? Blueprints can spawn in literally any container. I got BPs, and purple items from the square ass breachable boxes that are everywhere. People have been recommending red lockers for BP farm. Unless you're just shooting down arc EVERYTHING rewards BPs, the droprate is just ass. There's no actual bp farm.
>>546771657>>546771889also just to be sure, i dont mean to throw the lure onto the mine, but throw the lure to distract and then place the mine onto the arc. lure nades just draw their fire
>>546771931You're not alone brother.
>>546748062No
Can you actually put a mine on Leapers? I tried but it didn't give me a prompt on any point of its body from what I could see.
Buried City is probably the best place to farm bastions. Lots of balconies and low roofs you can use to jump on them.
>>546772035Showstopper is probably better for that purpose.
>>546772003i rarely got shit from containers, night raid or loot zone or not, i almost always get bp's from raider caches on dam, have you ever done that red lakes route from north-east to south-east? you might be looting the wrong stuff too, not like catching enough of those cases and bags and just looting drawers and shit instead.
>>546752046Holy fuck man
>>546772109yeah i saw a clip of a dude planting the mine on the back right side of a leaperand then the leaper kamikaze'd the dude with his own mine
>>546772201im gonna try that later.
>>546772109yes, but you don't need to do all that - lead one to a doorway and just place it right there
>>546771340>>546771657the key is to throw the mines indoors/behind cover so they can't destroy it. All you need is for it to be within distance
>>546772203>Raider caches If I'm gonna have to go around finding raider caches which potentially have been looted already I'm gonna mcfucking kill myself. These bastards can be so difficult to find, specially when it's loud and you can't hear the sound very well.If farming these little shits is the best way to get BPs I'm quitting the fucking game. Who the fuck wants to play truffle pig simulator?>and just looting drawers and shit instead.SUPPOSEDLY it's apparently "just as good", and I gotta be honest, everything I have ever found has come from shit random containers like that. Man that's what I hate about games like this. It's not: "go place, loot place, extract" it's "become retardedly autistic and memorize very specific spawns of very specific contaienrs which have a 5% higher chance to drop X item" fuck. Why make it like that? Why's that always the design?
>>546772914the lure nades*
>>546771340are blaze nades no longer viable against bastions and bombardiers? I need my damn bench upgrades
>>546770213I jumped onto a bombardier and he started spinning like a top and he almost didn't let me get off in time.
Do electrified husks have Leaper cores? I just need 2 to upgrade my workshop and going around with the Hullcracker has been spotty. I could just do it tomorrow when all the normies go to work/school though.
>>546773281Never found a leaper core in one of those.
>Guy camping with an Anvil ambushes me>Try to flank him>Takes me literally 5 minutes because of the Dams weird entrances/exits>Have killed like 4 ARCs and looted a bunch of shit along the way>Get to where I thought he was>He's still there, crouched in a dark corner, hasnt moved at allDo people have fun doing this shit? Wtf
>>546772993they do way less damage now
>finally have all workbenches upgraded to level 3now the blueprint grind truly beginsand I can dump a bunch of these bullshit components
>>546773638Yeah, they do.
hidden bunk dunk time, hopefully no rats.
>>546772942i dont have the pic so ill draw the route out myself, the pain is waiting for the event, though you can also go into other maps and try it yourself with the map toggling on raider caches. this place basically never gets looted and you sometimes spawn exactly on that spot north. caches also spawn without the event but way less of them
>Kind of want to play some this morning>Have never done solo and never want to>Only friend who is currently awake or around and is playing is one who literally always shoots people the second he sees them, always chases any gun fire he hears, has some autistic turbo bloodlust and then gets annoyed when he dies.
>>546773991cant believe people really thought there was some hidden puzzle for bunker and it was just a shitty event after all
>>546773638I've been trying to beat this into my friends heads: moving the fuck on is overpowered. the best offensive play you can make in 99% of situations is to go somewhere else. People have been conditioned to hide the instant they hear something to try and set up an ambush. A lot of them don't even know the maps that well. There's a good chance they'll sprint into whichever building you've moved on to after they sit around the corner waiting for 5 minutes, and you'll have an easy opportunity to blast them while they've got their guard down.This isn't apex, pushing is suicide if you don't get the advantage before they're aware of you.
>>546773281I found a Leaper core in one of those. But one of us only tells lies and one only tells the truth.>>546773545
>>546774042>>546772203Wish shit like big ARC, raider caches, weapon crates etc. had completely random spawns instead of having set spawns.
>>546774451>>Have never done solo and never want toWhat are you, some kind of retard?
>a Leaper fell into the underground access by Testing Annex and killed itself >didn't even need to use my Hullcracker
>>546773281It's possible, but anything above blue is gonna be a reeeeeal low drop chance in the breachable free available enemies. Do you have a level 4 anvil? Leapers are pretty easy to kill. If you don't have an anvil literally a level 4 ferro will do. Bring like 80 ammo or so, and 3 of those flaming grenades that flamers drop. It's been nerfed but it's still pretty free, easy damage. I found 2 spots on dam that are pretty easy. During the day, open the northern most door at Electrical Substation, and then go north to the extraction point, there's either a leaper or a rocketeer there to patrol. (I think that's how it works, only ever seen one or the other). If it's a leaper, shoot it and pull it to the open door, then just keep pinging it with your ferro while occasionally throwing a fire grenade. Takes a couple minutes but it's easy and cheap. No Idea how many shots it takes if you don't have fire grenades. Second spot I like is red lakes at night, near the dam there a bit of fallen rubble that has a weapons case (just filter for weapons case on metaforge, it's the only one in red lake), sometimes there's a leaper patrolling there at night, same dealio, shoot at him, and then bother him to death. It's literally idiot proof, as proven by the fact that I did it multiple times and I'm incompetent as shit.
>>546774451>Have never done solo and never want tohuhis this out of fear, or...? it's really not bad. take some free kits if you have queer fear
>>546774638I saw a Snitch crash into a building earlier.
Are Hidden Bunkers typically friendly?
>>546774042Yeah I actually did that for a while. Never found much useful shit, and in my opinion: What's the fucking point if you can't find blueprints in normal containers?
>>546774451Damn you are a faggot
>>546774559I only got this game to play it with a couple other friends (not said bloodlusting turboautist). Why would I?>>546774679It doesn't really sound fun to me, is all. I guess if I was intent on grinding materials more, but I haven't really felt that incentive with this game.
>>546774650I got Hullcrackers but it's just easier to get cores from husks if possible. Leapers die to like 5 shots from that but the downside is sometimes people are around. A guy tried to snipe me earlier after I finished looting one.
>keys burning space>don't want to use them because of niggers exploiting into locked areas, and getting jumped after I waste a keywhy the FUCK is the stash so goddamned small in a game about collecting loot with a billion different materials and equipment and consumables
>>546774042Based minds think alike. This is usually my route as well. Nice to see confirmation that the one swamp spawn has fuck all.
>>546775001its to force you to not horde endless amounts of shit and just keep what you need. i like it if im being honest.
>>546775001>why the FUCK is the stash so goddamned small in a game about collecting loot with a billion different materials and equipment and consumablesTHISits really fucking annoyingand then I go and salvage or sell a bunch of shitAND OH GUES WHATTHAT WAS ACTUALLY A RARE ITEM YOU NEEDED TO UPGRADE SOME DUMB SHITgo farm 25 new ones buddy
>>546775001> Fill stash> Go pvp and have fun> die a lot> stash empty
>>546775001I've been holding on to mine as well. For what its worth though, my friends been spending his and we still haven't ran into any incidents where that glitch had seemingly been exploited.>>546774864Why?
>thought to myself today that I havent been extract betrayed yet>notice a flare go up in the distance before I call extract>this guy comes running up using kid voice says hold extract>I know hes about to pull some shit and he fires on me>says "yeah knock me out you ni-" as I land the punchkek finally I run into people that want to pvp
>>546774814I only did it once and like 8 of us worked together to complete it.
>>546774890>Bring Hullcracker>get sniped atThat's why I think the PvP balance in this game is fucked. You want to bring big fuckoff epic guns to fight arc, but now you have to worry if it's worth risking your potentially irreplacable gun to some freeshitter with a ferro and a dream?
>>546775001Go try and do Queen/MatriarchYour stash will be empty real quick due to ratniggers
>>546775001if you have a gear problem it's because you're not using it. and you can literally make new tier 4 pvp kits with just the shit you get from scrappy anyways.
>>546775381Would be nice if there were alternate knockout animations aside from punching them in the head.
>>546775545game badly needs blood and gore. every shooting game should at least have blood and blood splatters.
>>546775404Pretty much. It's funny how you could have the best gear in the game, but you could easily die to a Ferro. My current loadout is a Ferro 4 and nothing else. Thinking of sniping people as well because I'm annoyed.
>>546775404>and a dream?a dream? more like a certainty.
Why is Stella Montis completely dark sometimes? Is that a night mode test?
limit reached, new thread >>546776245>>546776245>>546776245
>>546775545I dont really mind the current system, most people just shoot you at range anyways. and Isis executions wouldn't really fit the tone of the game.
>>546776670mixing it up a bit with a pistol whip would be nice
>doing Hidden Bunker>got a squad of like 10 people >I'm the only one with ziplines>I set one up to get on the north tower for the last satellite >sort of botched it and you need to vault to not fall>I get it on the first try >raider falls>raider falls>flare>flare>set up a better one from the roof>people get on the botched one again >fall>fall>flare >flareSorry bros. They couldn't hear me on the roof saying not to take the first one
