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>>564086376agreed, not sure why they changed it, I guess they want trials to be about competing with other players, when it seems most people are like "this is the endgame stuff you do for a chance at blueprints"
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>>564086602I just did my 3 star on buried city night raid, the amount of arc camping supply drops was incredible and I had two separate matches with drop activations that looked active that wouldn't activate. Got a volcano for the troubles though, wish it was a bp instead.
>>564087775yea I got fucked up because some of the new turrets area placed aimed directly at the call stationsdied and had to bring smoke grenades the next timehavent had the lights bug out on me, but I did get a station where if you spammed Interact, it would fire off a second one, which was nice
>Daredevil 2>Trying to stay in 2x so I get Hotshot tomorrow>Play for 5 hours just doing trials>#9 with 44k pointsWith my luck some retards will drop me off 2x by tomorrow morning. The call supplies trial is just as aids as the disarming mines one.Can I still rank up next week? I just need Hotshot so I can get the red biker outfit.
>>564088060>#9 with 44k pointsSkill issue, you can get ~50k on lightning alone
>>564088281Literally how? I was running around outside the entire round with only 3 mins left, and still I only managed 22k. Where lightning hits is pure RNG.
>>564088390NTA but I did mine without a shield>>564088060yes it might actually be easier to try and +1 promote into hot shot, instead of maintaining the rank, but not sureI did that last season and somehow worked outanother tip is trying to wait until later in the week to get a (hopefully) easier leaderboard, since it only places you when you (and anyone else) extracts with any amount of points
>>564088390>>564090929my inventorybasically just got hit by lightning 1 at a time mostly the whole match and just full healed before getting hit again
>>564091325also I took my shield off once I got in the raid
>>564087674I hate it
>>564090929I waited until Thursday this time and it wasn't really enough. I might wait until Sunday this time. I'm burned out from trying to get 2x anyway.>>564091325Still I dunno how you got hit so many times. I'd run around outside the whole round and there's many times where there's zero lightning around.Either way it's fine, I'm over it. Hopefully I manage to get x2, but if not then I'll do x1 next week.
>>564093876I think some spots just have higher density of lightningI see a lot of people doing the top of spaceport tower, if you have someone else there, theres more of a chance of lightning popping upI did mine in the middle of bluegate with all those cars, I also tried to force the lightning near me by>harvest great mullien>move a bit so i cancel animation>repeat until lightning appears>lightning appeared on top of me multiple timesI've seen some people spam breaching the probes at the top of spaceport tower to do the same thing, but the breaches run out(also that could just be complete confirmation bias, and lightning would have spawned there anyway)good luck either wayOH also remember the last week of trials is 2 days longernext weeks trials will end on the 28th not the 26th
Easier to maintain hotshot rank or get a last week promotion to hotshot?
>>564094560not sure this seasonbut last season it was like thatI was stuck in DDIII for the longest time and got a +1 promotion right at the endwhile hearing horror stories of people competing with 200k score hot shots trying to keep their rankseems like some DD people kind of just accept, "Ok I'm a daredevil"unless they're one of those>yea I'm going to double or triple promote into hot shit >:)
>>564094779currently my leaderboard pool seems quite weak, only needing 35k in DD3 to promote, but have no idea if staying in HS will be sweaty as fuckThink I'll take my chance with promoting and trying to keep HS for a week
>>564095634same my Hot Shot pool isn't too bad when I start later in the weekI'm not too worried, since I'm pretty good at arc probe trial >>564087674I usually get a decent score on the blue gate one tooreally dont want to farm snitch scanners in spaceport walls
>>564095634here is the top of the depromotes of my hot shot pool, so it might still be considered sweatyI joined on thusday or friday I'm pretty sure
>>564096051I think damaging flying arc on close scrutiny would be pretty decent for the spaceport one, Jupiter and wolfpacks for all the vaporizers and shit that spawn
>>564096675I guess that wont be too bad, but that means other people might possibly get a high score on that trial without trying, but definitely keeping that in mind, I got decent score on the buried city trial doing that
>>564096828you could be right about people accidentally doing it, but I think the fomo of the project expiring will force everyone to keep rushing the assessors as usual and trying to dodge the arc
>>564097023I'm sure starting later in the week will help too
>>564088390it's controllable to an extent, try to find a relatively enclosed small open space, the closer to PoIs or center of map the betterI did it in/near rocket assembly on spaceport, the lightning was literally targeting me through the holes in the roof
abmm is aidspeople are praising the game for not having pve only lobbies but with the lowest aggression, the lobbies literally are just pve only. I wish I could at least set a minimum threshold so I can stay in mixed without killing hapless retards and likewise I wish I could get out of shoot on sight lobbies without literally just letting them kill youthere are a million problems with this shitty system but at the very least your aggression should not increase when you kill someone who shot first because with how it works now you will naturally climb to shoot on sight just by consistently fighting back against people who start shit
>>564097440>abmm is aidstry telling that to the carebear faggots, the only thing they care about is "it feel good"
>>564097440how it was explained to me, is that there is no self-defense in swedenif someone is robbing your house you're supposed to let them do it, the alternative is losing your life, so you should be grateful Muhammad didn't kill you, and if you shoot him, you're actually evil, didn't you read the news that guns are bad?, retard, guns are evil period, shooting one makes you evil. Muhammed doesn't have a gun, even if he did, you think its ok to KILL a person?
>>564097440>there are a million problems with this shitty system>makes noobs complacent>creates alternative (more aids) scarcity>discourages competition>speeds up progression for no reason>invalidates half the equipment>fucks up the genre economy (no gear sink)>etc etcit truly is aids
>struck by lightning 20 times>21st kills meI hate this game
>>564086493Is it possible to triple or quadruple promote into Hot shot? What's the most ranks you can skip at once?
>>564101484I don't think quadruple is a thingheres the wiki page for it, if you wanted to check it out yourselfhttps://arcraiders.wiki/wiki/Trialsnear the bottom it shows all the possibilities
>>5641014841-2-3-x promotion
>>564101484Max you can get is 3, game will show you how many you're qualifying for under raider > trials > leaderboads
Bettina buffs on the 28th, I am coping and hoping
>>564106972what could they do to buff itI tried it on Matriarch to strip its armor on its legs and felt like it was taking forever, and just switched to my anvilthe thing eats up so much ammo too, before I knew it I had like 1 stack leftsuch a dumb gun right now
>>564087674>april 20 - 28whens the expedition again?
>>564104743>>564101770>>564101765ok I did enough to stay in daredevil 1. Haven't done any trials all season. Will try to 3x promote into hot shot next week.>>564107148Was it level 4 with attachments? It stripes pieces off faster than anvil in my experience. It shoots as fast as you want but yeah I need maybe 10 boxes of ammo for it.
>>564107148Honestly I don't even know because the Anvil and Renegade exist, I see a lot of people asking for it to become a DMR It's just laughable that a heavy ammo weapon does 14 damage per shot
>>564107437Expedition window is on the 28th to may 3rd
>>564107764oh neat, they don't overlap
>>564106972why buff a purple weapon when expeditions start and no one can even use it
>>564107665maybe its unfair in pvpin my mind it should have a slightly higher fire rate than the anvil and same damage as anvil and ferrobut i guess that sounds really OP, an anvil you don't have to reload for like 20 shots
>>564107882thats also the day Riven Tides map is released, so it will likely be a bigger patch
>>564107148the fire rate and ammo consumption is just way too high to be worthwhile. if they lowered the fire rate and upped the damage so it had the same exact dps, it might actually become usable. also a slight buff to bullet velocity so it doesn't need a fucking extended barrel to feel usable would be nice
>>564107909it's dogshit in pvp as well, much more valuable to land a single hard hitting headshot than to spray at a guy already rolling after the first 2 shots of bettina.
>>564108721making it a heavy full auto rifle would be nice
Gonna start my 2nd reset with a snaphook, deadline, bobcat, and tac 3 healing bp. Never played with the light weapons.
>dropped to rank 37 hot shotDO ITDEMOTE MECOME ONNN
>>564113607Only light weapons worth using are Bobcat strictly for pvp and Burletta which is a free blueprint from a whoresmith quest.
>>564113607I still need to find survivor and medium gun parts before reset hits. what's the best way to farm them? naked runs on stella night raid?
I don't have an alt account and it sounds like I would need a second pc or console just to do that, and the only friend I have that plays Arc is also doing the expedition.Looks like I'm doing a full wipe with no mule for spare blueprints.
They're STILL giving lame fucking variants of that skin for the expedition reward? Their downfall is their own fault. I'll check back in summer to see if they give us some skin.
>>564115105Feel free to never come back.
>>564115403Look into sunken cost fallacy and save yourself some time.
>>564115621That's not an argument and I don't have sunk cost, I basically just got here.
>>564115105expedition reward is primarily for skill points, stash space and a reason to keep playing the gamethis genre without resets gets pointless and lame as shit
>>564115105The hell you care about a skin for?
>>564115105surely the next expedition will be a new skin?
>>564114189Yea I ended up buying a 2nd account and had to set up my old PC, currently waiting for steamdecks to be available againIf you had something really important I could store it my alt account, but I get any hesitation to trust some random fucko from 4chan
>>564115105this 3rd expedition is the final varientthey said 4th is the start of a new outfit, seems theyll do that every 3 expeditions>>564116435Correct, that was stated in their announcement blog thing
>>564116603>store it my alt accounstore it on my alt account*
dead game
>>564123767I hope so, I was in like 6th place for a 2x promotion
>still rank 37shitI'm going to have to maintain hot shot
if I use my equalizer is someone going to steal it?
>>564127449I wi- no you'll be safe.
Rank 3 in daredevil 3.. just have to maintain hotshot next week for the skin.
>>564134075I hope hotshot isn't super sweaty to maintain rank>>564087674apparently these are the trials, and they look kind of farmable for points
>>564134075>I hope hotshot isn't super sweaty to maintain rankI think you just have to be in the top 70% and the bottom 30% gets demoted. I'm not to sure.. I skipped the first 2 trials.
>>564123767Hey man, we told you not to buy marathon, but you didn't listen.
>>564115105You'll still need 4 expeditions for the new skin. The more you wait, the father behind you fall.
>>564138556or you could just farm the decks for raider tokens in your first 60 hours of play time and redeem a paid skin that looks better for free
Nice of them to give away the new trial skin for nothing.
>>564087674Need to do fireflies on spaceport ems. Tunnels with strangers should be easy enough. Damage queens or Matriarch should be a layup with wolfpacks and hullcrackers deadlines and snaphook. Could probably do arc probes, fireflies, and dsstroy flying arc inside walls on spaceport ems.I just hate how the skin looks like the tits are baked into the outfit.
Oh wow there's not cantina fomo. I guess it doesn't make sense to make a cosmetic limited to only 1000 people. Never seen anyone in the cantina rewards.
How does the pvp thing work anyway? Do you get to choose? If you kill someone trying to kill you does the game punish you?
I'm rank 9 with 61.7k points, and cutoff rank (30th) for promotion is 34k. Safe to assume I'm clear to promote in Trials from here? I know some people grind out last minute, but an over 20 placement gap with 1.5 hours left to go isn't gonna get stolen so easily...right?
>>564141783The game features ABMM (Agression-Based MatchMaking). While there are no true friendly/PvE or aggro/PvP lobbies (and thus cannot choose), you are more frequently grouped with people with similar amounts of evaluated aggression. How they evaluate aggression is not stated, but it's clear that attacking enemy players affects your PVP karma. Mind you, a person who is usually friendly could switch up any time, and vice-versa.>If you kill someone trying to kill you does the game punish you?Some people allege so anecdotally that it's the case, but I don't buy it. Frankly, the uncertainty is supposed to be part of the appeal of the game. You shouldn't ever feel perfectly safe and care free when playing the game. It adds tension that otherwise does not exist, whether in a pure PvE or pure PvP experience.
There is so much shooting right now on Spaceport because it's hidden bunker for an extra 10 minutes of x2 trial farming.
Noice. Now I just need to maintain my rank and red biker outfit is mine.
>>564152375Nice, I also got 9th and back up to Hotshot on my leaderboard. I just hope competition his week won't be such a pain since everyone in Hotshot wants to maintain for the red moto outfit. Some of the active trials look like a pain in the ass too.
>>564152881I just wonder when should I start working on the trials to avoid getting in with all the sweats. Sunday?
>>564152965The sweats always start earlier in the week. You can try to play later in the week at odd hours to catch weaker leaderboards, but I'd caution you against doing it too late if you're doing the expedition. We don't know how much damage will be needed to earn the skill points yet, and it'll need to be completed within the five day window. So, you'll be pinched for time if you do.
>>564153731The expedition window opens up on the 28th though? Trials will be over by then.
>>564153909Yeah, I got the calendar mixed up. Sunday is fine. You honestly don't need to wait that long imo, just the first few days usually clears out the rowdiest players.
>been in chungurtha lobbies all day>the kind where people offer blueprints at extraction and tell people they can have loot>even people giving away keys and key rooms>the kind where everyone works together during scrutiny with killsquads and smoking the assessor for each other>see current trials rolled over while playing a different game>get on>decide to roll with a real loadout for once since expedition is coming and its the final trial week>Spaceport Scrutiny>going well enough>Vaporizers getting vaporized by gigarape deathteam>in the corner of my eye I see someone get killed by a rat whos using a silencer and blaze grenades to be sneaky>rat the rat when he tries to extract and call him an alabama nigger>back to safe loadouts>still in chungurthaThere is 100% some bullshit with loadout value and you cant convince me otherwise.
>>564138712>paid skin that looks better>he doesn't know...
>>564156340pretty sure the game has layers to what lobies you can have, you might've be in one where there was a PVPer on it or something and you didn't cross with him
>>564152375>>564152881hope this week isnt too sweaty
When is the final week of the expedition? I didn't see dates posted just the whole "Damage required" situation.
>>564162634it says it in the bloglast day is the 28thsign up for the expedition is 28th to may 3rd
>>564158681I feel since the last update there has definitely been an uptick in PVP players in my lobbies. (I haven't killed anyone this expedition.)They always rush to the same spots too. >Water treatment and Control Tower lobby on Dam. >The western security tower that overlooks the extraction with the buses or the long underground tunnel on Spaceport.>The Lobby or Medbay on Stella.>The tunnels on Spaceport.
>>564158681>>564162989its boththeres been many stories of>make good loadout>get killed after 50+ friendly matchespeople theorize there is some sort of value based matchmakingthe solution I've done, is play with my expensive loadout, but run straight for extract or a hatch, find a safe spot to hide and try to let the timer go down as much as possible>no shots fired>no shots fired at me>decent amount of time logged in a matchseems to put me back into friendly matches where its just other people with hullcrackers or whateverother thing is, this happened the last 2 expeditions also, it's returners (you can usually tell because they are wearing Ryder outfit still) and probably just people bored
"I was checking one of the buildings when something passed overhead. Just a shadow. Slow, deliberate. By the time I got outside I'd lost it. I just want it on record before anything else happens."- Latest "Scout Report"
>>564165139Must've been the wind
>>564164439There for sure is some sort of ABMM 'reset' if you don't play for awhile. It's also really easy to spot the PVPers because they always wear an edgelord skin (Ryder, any generic 'military' skin, any skin with a bandana for their face) and use a Torrente. Absolutely no one is bringing a Torrente into chungartha for fun.
>>564165561I haven't run into torrentes, usually its some freekitbut I do run away from any player using a skin with a balaklava
>>564165561>any skin with a bandanaI'm pretty passive, it's not my fault the raider faces are busted
>>564127449Depends on your matching. in my lobbies no one would usually.
>do great in pvp trio>solo freenigger perfectly runs into a blindspot>all headshots, kills entire team with 1.5 mags of kettle>check steam profile>profile literally doesn't existcool.
>>564176884Probably Epic account
>>564182552no the account exists, the profile doesn'tafaik this shit is the leftovers of extremely old accounts that existed long before the profile page didit's extremely unbelievable that i see this shit every time i get killed in a sus/obvious way, so these must be hacked accounts sold in bulk to cheaters
>>564183070Damn that's crazy.
yes
Arc Raiders lead says the Skill Tree will see “significant changes ”to “better serve the game” that exists now and years into the futurehttps://frvr.com/blog/arc-raiders-lead-skill-tree-significant-changes-better-serve-the-game/
>>564196323please be a rework and not a microbuff to garbage
>>564196323Virgin Vatkins is a hack, I highly doubt they have anything substantial in storeIf anything it's going to be a sidegrade to what we have now, or just a straight downgrade
>>564196323nice
>>564196323They've mentioned this before. They plan both reworks and tweaks, but how it'll look is anyone's guess. I do understand that they don't intend for skill points to accrue endlessly...or rather, that players should never be able to fully complete all skill trees. Embark is pretty competent with this kind of thing anyway, as their work in The Finals over the years has shown, so it should turn out okay.The biggest issue I see, and what I hope they fix, is how many of the skills are arguably 'filler' or don't offer any practical change. It's nice that the guys in charge of it are noting that same pain point.
>>5641963232 more weeks
>>564165561I've tried the Canto and it makes me want to use the Torrente instead because the recoil is a motherfucker on Canto.
I should be able to do this after maxing out the movement tree.https://youtu.be/OrnjuYDUHM0?si=qc6pClSp6_Pooqvm
>want to play>dont want to get on the sweaty leaderboards accidentally
>>564198547>Tfw no jump height-boosting skill>Tfw no crazy (brief) wall-running>Tfw no ability to swing from rope between platformsThis game would reach crackhead levels of movement porn if they did shit like that. Though, I also like that the game is grounded in a sense too.
>>564199359It's the last week who cares.
>>564199371in some of the alpha videos raiders used to have jet boots and stuff
>>564199589I want to keep Hot Shoteven though I got here without trying, knowing my luck, everyone will want to maintain their hot shot too
>>564199371I think having higher jumping and being able to wall jump and wall run isnt too wacky, I mean people do that in real life and if you max out the movement tree, that is the equivalent of doing parkour irl. Why not, it'd be hella cool.
>Embark told the Guardian that about 30% of players are mostly interested in the cooperative aspects of the game; another 30% focus on the player-versus-player action; and the remaining 40% enjoy a mix of both. Those playing solo are generally more friendly, while those who group up into squads of three are more interested in firefights.https://www.theguardian.com/games/2026/apr/15/arc-raiders-players-stopped-shooting-started-talking?CMP=bsky_gu&utm_medium=#Echobox=1776244825A lot of people actually partake in pure pvp, about as much as those that do pure pve it seems.
>>564200537>Those playing solo are generally more friendly, while those who group up into squads of three are more interested in firefights.This could be told by literally anyone who's actually played the game and not seen statistics.
https://youtu.be/aKcEcwDHNaM?si=b6HDB3mIkPJll6_0l0000l
>>564200537>Solo PvE and chill>Trio for PvP and killWhat's so hard to understand?
how well does Equalizer do for the matriarch trial?
Holy shit opening probes SUCKS
I want to play Arc Raiders but I also don't want to accidently place in a bracket this early and wind up sweating to keep top 70.
>I want to play Arc Raiders but I don't want to accidentally do thing I need to do anyways.
>>564206703same boat bro>>564207049there is a point where some of the trials are unfun farmable sdhitlike spaceport walls one is probably being taken over by the guys who spawn snitch scanners the whole match
>>564207674I mean I did just get a godly spawn on the Spaceport Harvester where I was already within distance to start shooting it, but yeah immediately after spaceport rolled over into bunker people were spamming snitch scanners and aggroing snitches across the map just to spawn more. And then Scrutiny was the next event and it invalidated that through sheer spam of big boys.
>>564207049The common knowledge is that the sweatiest players start grinding as soon as the new trials week opens, so if you want to get placed in an easy 100 player leaderboard you start midway through the week or later.Last week I placed on Thursday and only needed 40k points to get my Hotshot promo, so I'm going to do the same again to keep it. Obviously I'm going to do whatever it takes to keep my rank, I always do, but if there's a chance I can avoid having to farm Snitches, I will take it.
>>564208105sheeeeeshglad I have an alt accountjust going for 4k for eachcause I'll be pissed if my alt gets hot shot and my main doesnt
>>564210031nevermind my leaderboard filled out and for some reason nobody is doing trials in DDIIIguess I'll just wait until more people compete for the top 30 if they even do
>>564210548I think almost everyone is in Hot Shot
>>564199371>all the crackhead moves use 50% of your staminai'm ready to inject myself with 10 stacks of adreno shots
>fail to extract because of the drawn out falling over animation flinging you 20 feet
reddit wants the devs to make the survivor kit its own green perk
>>564211021way too strong to be a perk
>>564210896>get shot on a roof>tumble down in an exaggerated quadruple barrel rollkino
>>564211072swap it with that flyswatter perk thats uselessboom
>>564211021>>564211193if there was an "absolute" keynode that needs like 45+ skillpoints investment, then maybe?
>>56421125337 green shit is pretty good, but I guess the new meta is that nobody goes for security breach anymore, every locker I found is always lcoked, while everything around it is looted
this is making me nervous for the Hot Shot leaderboards if DDIII is this casual on the first day
>>564211358nah, people do crawl stuff for ~30 skillpoints, just adding 8 for a PERMANENT survivor is overkill, needs to be one of those "you can pick only one tree to fully max" things
>>564211463
>>564214008whats the demoted looking like
>>564214905
>>564215292thats not so bad
>Damage Queens or Matriarchs>notice I'm not seeing the Trials card at the end of the match after doing Matriarch damageThe Swedes have done it again, Matriarchs don't count despite it saying they do.
>>564086493Is this enough to guarantee my 3x promotion into hot shot
>>564220335possiblybut you have to remember there is still like 8 days to this shit
>>564220335Go into EMS and open the damaged arc probes, they are pretty common and spawn in clusters of 2-3, 3 will get you 3 stars easy and you just wander around for like 10k points
how the fuck are you supposed to do the matriarch trialI guess go to OCE? and hope nobody fights it all match
>>564224919>MatriarchYou don't.
>>564225383you can, if you're the guy from earlier your game might be bugged or somethingI just did my trial on Matriarch blue gate for 1000 ptsif you're just making a joke, then yea, i guess1 star is all I'm going to get
I wonder what the outfit for next season of trials is, hope I don't have to put in any effort again
already kind of bored and might just say fuck it and get on the hot shot leaderboard
>>564230905Might as well. Then you'll get the red variant of the new motorcycle outfit.
>>564231336technically I'm already on itI just don't want to compete with sweats, but I don't really have anything else to do
>load into matriarch late>guy gives me his equalizer at extractYOOOOO
>>564233452>got 3* next matchseems like unless you go for the deadline method, shooting the bottom section of the matriarch and hitting multiple parts with the hullcracker seems to rack up score
>scratch my balls all week>log in at the last couple hour of hours to do a trial >double promotion into hotshotgood ol' reliable
>>564236221yea but I want to play the game during the week
>>564236262I'm just biding my time for the update at this point. Shame I worked my ass off getting those coins which have been now rendered useless because they decided to change the criteria right before the season ends
>>564234608I guess hullcracker method seems to workthis was queen on harvester
>>564238402My game literally will not update my Harvester/Queen damage score or even tell me if I'm close to personal best or not. And yeah Hullcracker on the base the legs attach to can get up to like 2000 damage a reload.
>>564238543you've restarted? that's really fucking weird
>>564238706Twice. It's really odd because it updates other trials. Got 3 star and then it just locked me out of it.
>>564238706restarted your game*
>>564238784thats really weird, I've had it happen where it lags and wont count trials during the match, but it always end up updating post matchfucking embark
how are those hot shot leaderboards looking now after a few hours
are the skins you earn from end of season trials rank permanent or do you have to keep up with the rank to keep using the skin?
>>564243483perm. imagine how awful itd be if youd have to keep doing trials?
>>564243483permanent, I have last seasons skin
>>564244058>last seasons skinpic?
>>564244194
>>564244194hot shot versionand the hat
Question: This was my first expedition, and I played completely passive for the entire thing, by which I mean I never did any pvp outside of returning fire after being attacked, and even then I only killed three people. Thinking of switching it up for next expedition, not to a shoot on sight situation but more of a mixed lobby sort. The only thing I don't understand is, how do pvpers get loot and keep it? Part of the problem in my mind is the guns, as most pvp centric guns are terrible at killing arc. Secondly, if killing will be a thing for me now, do people kill on sight if say you use a key card and are looting the room right as some random Jim shows up? I want to try pvp, but the learning curve seems very different from carebear lobbies. I doubt I will use my favorite gun much this next expedition, the hullcracker, because the gun makes such a distinct sound.
>>564248372Once you get into mixed lobbies it's not really going to be a situation where people are neutral towards each other instead of friendly in "PVE" lobbies. It's more like:>50% of the lobby is going to shoot you on sight>25% of the lobby is waiting for an excuse to shoot someone>25% will be passive, but measure you up and watch how you are acting>Extraction is even more dangerous than "PVP" lobbies
>play with gorillanigger pvp friend>usual "woe is me" about his matchmaking being so bad and he cant get pve shit done>proves why he has such bad matchmaking over the following few gamesI'm going to need to spoon this retard all of the matrix and regulators he's going to need for the project with no-kit asspockets. And recover my karmic matchmaking debt after the pile of bodies I was left standing on.
>>564244449>>564244373Damn kinda got screwed over because this seasons skin is so much better and didnt need hotshot to get.
>>564251317...Idk, maybe I will stick with care bear lobbies. I was hoping for a ratio of like, half the people would be into pvp, not everyone is into pvp just half of them will be sneaky about it.
>>564252229There's a very thin line between mixed and carebear lobbies that you can sort of ride where some pvp players will lurk. Where a couple people in a lobby are sus and will try to catch you lacking before anyone else notices what happened. That's probably the closest you will get to a mixed lobby. But Stella is like an on/off switch. If you are in Carebear matchmaking you will know, if you have any pvp karma at all it's going to be a war zone.
>>564252229it wildly depends on your aggression level
>first lobby friendly>second lobby friendly>third lobby freekit KOS niggerhorde conga-lining towards gunfire
>no update this week>not even a cosmetic release
>>564251827yea a lot of people complained last season
Any updates on how much damage we need to do?
>>564270374lmfao
>>564270374After christmas break
the project is going away next patchcheck your mail
>everyone claiming matchmaking is broken>pretty sure its just a ton of returners
>hot shot leaderboards are already filled with 6 digit scores
>he isn't waiting until the last hours of sunday to do his trialswhen are they going to redesign this shite system
>>564273142I am, just hearing what other players are running intoI'm bored though, so I might do it thursday or fridayor say fuck it and join todayalso there are 2 extra days to this trial just so you know, the final week always has 2 extra days, idk if that matters though, you'll probably still get an easy score
>>564273142>rewards are obtained by reaching a certain score, nothing too crazy, like 30k or something, per week>rewards are awarded at the end of the week, if you fail to get it then you have to do the 30k + however much you missed the previous week>let the placement shit remain as is for the cantina faggots fellate themselves overthere you go
All this game had to do was make good weapons feel good. Then they nerfed wolfpacks. Now your a tenth the size you were.
>>564273053I'm lucky only the top guy in mine has 100k, 110k+ score or something. Mine is just under 60k, but I'm 6th. Grinded with some buds in the night. Just hope not enough people will tryhard so I can take it easy for the rest of the week and keep Hotshot with ease without last minute panic.
>>564086493https://youtube.com/shorts/xZjpT_wkuLU?si=kz2EJ_R3-n6xj5a_
>>564276076>i can't spam 50 wolfpacks to invalidate all of pvewolfpacks didn't change mechanically, retard
https://frvr.com/blog/news/arc-raiders-lead-nothing-original-pve-game-still-exists-everything-built-in-the-last-year-of-development/>"the final gameplay loop was designed in just 12 months.">embark confirms they made the game in just a year>the reason everything feels half-baked and unfinished is because it is>we're effectively playing an early access game
>we fixed the double damage c4 exploit/bugno the fuck they didn't
>>564285273But you threw two? Wasn't the exploit that you threw one and it did the damage of two?
>>564291404I honestly have no idea, but it only works if the first C4 explodes while the second one is mid-air, if the second one sticks before that, it wont chain-explode. Seems like a half-fixed exploit of some kind.Either way this shit is unbalanced.
>>564291594>I honestly have no idea, but it only works if the first C4 explodes while the second one is mid-air, if the second one sticks before that, it wont chain-explode. Seems like a half-fixed exploit of some kind.>Either way this shit is unbalanced.Ah okay, yeah at the end of the day its bullshit.
>a Bastion is 5k pointshave fun fighting over who gets to do the most damage to ARCsurely they could have come up with something better than this
https://youtube.com/shorts/hZNILfoc8eo?si=kwj2PF3PTN0r1ktTYeah the damage required is a nothing burger, 20 Bastions basically. Extended the damage window by about two weeks too. So around 3 weeks to kill 20 Bastions.
>>564292228PvPvE chads win again
>>564292228>>564292261dogshit easy like expected
>>564292228>have fun fighting over who gets to do the most damage to ARCthat will be fun tho
>>564292667most people like always will leave maps early and you will get most of it to yourself
how much damage can be done in a queen lobby realistically?
>>564292865got 13k with snap/dead when it was a trial
>>564293217how many dead mines and did you damage any other arc outside the queen?
>>564272663>still no mail about weather monitoring project
>>5642933133 and no damage only counted for queen damage depending on how people play it just rotating on blue gate might be easier
>>564292865If you just want ARC damage matriarch is better because it shits out a bunch more
>>564292261>>564292228Self inflicted damage? I guess I have to try it out myself
>>564292228100k total or 195k total?
>>564283914>>we're effectively playing an early access gamealready kindof assumed this, so far the game is fun and only getting betterat least it has some sort of gameplay loop, can say that for these other early access titles that are like>umm we'll figure that out later>WHY ARENT YOU HAVING FUN>TELL US WHAT BUGS THERE ARE NOW
>>564292865not a lotbecause EVERYONE dies itfor the damage challenge, most people are going to treat it like a trial and go kill big arc solo
>>564297904probably 100k total
I think I'm going to get on the Hot Shot leaderboard, and just hope all the sweats are either on it already or waiting for later in the week
>>564301685I'll have to wait for the leaderboard to fill out and see how grindy people get
damn it
>>564285273https://youtube.com/shorts/MYmkzdeJljk?si=zeid9-1e1fqiOp2f
>>564305758>?si=kys
>>564305758kek
>>564305891It comes like thst faggot and it has nothing to do with you but me who is posting ithttps://youtube.com/shorts/MYmkzdeJljk
How are trials and expeditions looking raiders? I usually log on around Wednesday / Thursday to check them out and finish them Saturday / Sunday to monitor my placements. I have to maintain Hotshot this week.Can we start doing damage for the expeditions yet?
>>564307180>it has nothing to do with you but me who is posting itexactly, faggot.
>>564283914We knew this since they dropped the documentary
>100k damageso just spam scrutiny. Easy
>>564308169I got bored and started fucking aroundI'll have to see how it looks after a few daysbut now since >reddit is posting about it, I wonder if tons of people are doing the whole>wait until later in the week methodespecially since this is the most important week
>>564308169>>564311482forgot picI do also strategize my placement a littlelike queuing for matriarch at x:30 for my placement so I'm likely to be placed with people accidentally getting on the leaderboard and extracting and not caring about score
Locked gate into EMS coming upthose are some big scores, also Hidden Bunkerthis is when the sweats come out>>564311658I'd check your leaderboard in a few hours, should give you a rough idea
So they can do it, why not do it for trials months ago? Fucking retards
>you get the drive jacket in the daredevil tier of the skinMan they really need to add mix & match for outfits
>>564312893I'm going for red helmet in the off chance they let you switch headgear. They really should aim for that as a minimum, who gives a fuck if it clips through a collar or two
>>564311482>>564311658I never check reddit, but this post got me to look. I don't know if I'm going to maintain Hotshot if I get 10 motherfuckers laying up 100k+ in my bracket like this
>>564312893>>564313705with that article earlier about this being an early access gameand their other game The Finals has amazing customizationI'm expecting a fashion update at some point
>>564314498you should be fine if you're already #1 with that score, but I'd check again in about 3 hours, when all the big farming conditions have gone by
>>564314505That would be one way for them to make more money. I want to mix a few pieces from my set, would definitely paypig for shit I like out of justification to support the devs, and be more active in trials for gear I could earn.They need outfit/gear loudouts too.
>>564314656That's a redditor's score, I was barely able to reach 45k last week with the lightning challenge. Ended 3rd on that, but I feel like maintaining Hotshot will be some bullshit if other players are gunning for the cosmetic.
>>564314976oh I seeyea hoping my leaderboard doesn't start getting too sweaty in the next few hours
>>564314656what do you mean by big farming conditions gone by, is that for the day or the week?
>>564316239hidden bunker for the spaceport damagegives you both an extra long timer and 2x
>>564316934ty anon, forgot about the extra time on hidden bunker
>>564316934Hidden Bunker for that? Why not just Scrutiny, no timer boost but you get tons of big stuff spawning and wandering around.
I've done like 3 hours of naked runs trying to find the fucking snowglobes for the expedition. Foud seven mixtapes but no snowglobes. Endless queueing, spawning in a bad place, surrenderring, queueing again, running somehwere, not finding it, surrendering again
>>564319431Why do you need snowglobes for the expedition?
>>564319534You need 3 of them for the last step of the project
>>564319431>>5643195343rd expedition maybe? I feel like space port departure building was good for that. Could have chatgpt search online and give you recommendations. That's been helpful for me.
>>56431913240min of snitch scanners
>>564315297ok post hidden bunker and locked gate arent so badI know I can get a high-ish score on EMS, so not too worriesI think I might be safe once I finish some of these other trials
>>564320340forgot pic
>>564320163They have a cooldown.
>>564319989I'm going to the recommendations, departure staff room, cultural archives, grandioso, r&a. I'm just not having any luck
>>564320653yea 30 seconds, which you can shoot other flying arc in that timer
>>564320780Post Hidden Bunker score.
>>564320753I usually get mine from lockers, so I just tried to focus lockersLike during bird city, I think its supposed to have increased trinket drops, I got 1 from that breach room
hello. hows the game nowadays?still a KOS nightmare?
>>564322230>still a KOS nightmare?stop being brown
>>564322230Did you stop playing after the first week or what
>>564322230You are the source of your problems.
>almost never do random duos anymore now that I've carefully sifted out a good group of randoms who actually play well as friends>accidentally have fill lobby on while doing a solo run hurricane>it's some kid who keeps making reddit-tier quips about everything >w/e I just need to get my trials finished here and then I'll ditch them>other guy is new and don't know how to play but chill >kid keeps running ahead of us into rooms, making a million quips>breach some arc because I usually do when I'm meandering>kid says "oh what's this then" and walks over to what I just breached and dogs it from under me in the span before I can search>w/e it's garbage anyway>some raiders are taking pot shots at us, unload my renegade into one and down them >newbie guy runs up and stitchers the other guy>only two people>kid runs up and immediately starts looting the person I just killed and bragging about all the good loot he stole >wait until we're waiting on extract>throw firebombs on him while he's tapping on computer>he screams and shouts at us>split his shit with newbieIt was sooooo fucking satisfying, I awakened a big evil within myself.
>>564320823I'm just saying the strat, last time I did "Flying arc in X" otherwise you end up with like 12k score because you're competing with other people to do damage
>>564322546no. the launch week was kino of the HIGHEST order.the weeks after were complete and utter dogshit.I quit when they screwed me over on my first expedition
I’m actually done with this game, it was fun at the start but now it’s just tedious. Everything’s become a chore, it’s fucking boring. What enrages me the most is the amount of time you have to spend to go back and forth between niggerlobbies and carebear lobbies. I don’t have two hours a day to do change that, why does trios even affect your behavior as a solo? It’s completely fucking retarded, they should have separated the scores. It just makes doing resource runs/trials a fucking chore because you have to spend two hours getting killed to make it to lobbies where people don’t camp extract or shoot you in the back. Piece of shit game, I uninstalled and I don’t think I’ll touch this garbage for a long time.
ok I made 25 wolfpacks and threw them all, got this score solodont tell reddit guys, they're all trying to use energy weapons still
>>564327875>"who threw all those wolfpacks">"me">"here you go"
Raiders, this is my 2nd expedition - do I need to do damage or get $3m credits?
>>564328247damage for current round of skill pointscredits for catch up if you didn't get the full amount on your previous expedition
>>564328405Thanks I'm cutting it close and that helps me figure out how much I can spend on trader deadlines, hullcrackers, and heals
>>564328781Mind you the catch up points are only available if you did the previous expedition (aka. Got wiped) but didn't get all 5 skill points.So there are no points to earn for that one expedition you didn't embark on.I don't think you were misunderstanding that part, just thought I'd add it in case someone read your post and >>564328405 and misunderstood.
alright how are your hot shot leaderboards lookingDam EMS is wrapping up
>>564331323I think I'm safeI got a pretty high score on probes and queen for soloerheard other people getting around 50k for blue gatebut I don't think I'm in a sweat leaderboard if I'm the guy in #`
>>564331576#1*
>extended the damage windowLETS GOOOOOO
>>564332152>100,000 damage is equivalent to 20 bastionsI'm ok with this>To put this into perspective, 100,000 damage is approximately equivalent to destroying 20 Bastions. We have tested these thresholds internally, and found that in a single, very good round, 8,000 - 10,000 damage was an achievable number.
forgot linkhttps://arcraiders.com/news/a-triumphant-exitits the same blog from before but they added the window extension and damage numbers needed
>>564314498how did you get 11k on queen/matriarch
>>564332780I threw 25 wolfpacks at the thing on Harvester, I didn't see any other arc around, and I know matriarch has its stupid ass shield, the queen doesn't, so pretty sure all my wolfpacks were direct hits with all 12 things
>>564332780I would have gotten 8k~ last night just shooting it with a hull cracker but that specific trial is bugged or something for me and it's not recording or keeping track of numbers anymore and stuck at 5k.
>>564332780>>564333006
>>564333465POV : Me on April 28th
>>564333551I've already got 8 new rocketeer drivers
>>564333158weird. I got 5k
>>564333158>>564333618I got 4k once yesterday, but now I'm only getting like 2k, I'm assuming cause other people are hopping on the trials now
>>5643336185k seems to be the best you can do if you're in a lobby where the Queen melts in the first 4 minutes. I kept trying for better scores and probably got like three or so scores better than 5k but realized they weren't tracking or updated on the trials page and stopped trying. Might have to ping support about it.
just stop being cucks and deadline the queen guys
>>564334004how do you get a lobby where nobody does queen
>>564334116pvp duo/trio
As long as I don't get deranked, I don't give a fuck about getting big meme numbers anymore.
>>564334264thats why I got high scores, so some guy cant derank meright now the demotion bracket is only 1 trial, but by the end of the week its usually ~30k pointswhich is like if you only put in the minimum effort for your trials
In retrospect I have a feeling my friend isn't going to be able to even do the expedition. I don't think he's even done the project for it actually and he griefs himself by making sure he has the most niggerlicious matchmaking possible and also only wants to play duo/trio which is proven to be more aggressive, so he can't get shit done anyways and barely tries.
>>564334552you can easily play the entire game in pvp lobbies if you just stop holding W like a retard
>>564334628Guess what he can't do?
>>564334552unless its something he's ready to sit down and get downyea he's fucked, theres a lot of annoying shit in the expeditionand thats leaving out step 5 which is like 1.5mil? worth of stuff like weapons, crafting mats, healing crap
>>564334692my condolences anon
>>564334958>get downget done*
just got this in the mail
>>564334986What, don't you want to watch your friend run past containers and 50/50 loot anything directly on his path, forget basic medical stuff, and ask for ammo after taking potshots at every single player he sees for 20 minutes?
>>564336002usually those I just call those types of people braindead faggots and they automatically filter themselves from my life because I'm "mean".
What final tier abilities in the tree are actually worth using besides security breach? I heard back on your feet is complete dogshit. I kind of want to go for flyswatter + sky clearing swing unironically and somehow make it work with the snaphook. I've killed a fair amount of rocketeers and vaporizers with snaphook + deadline already. It'd be cool if melee could actually do substantial damage to them.
>>564336164>flyswatter + sky clearing swing unironicallyrepent before disappointment behests your poor soulmobility keynodes are the best alternative there is, spring has some nice uses for crazy flanks or mobility but you actually have to learn the map to make use of itvaults on vaults is just free staminathe mine disarming keynode also has uses, but we are not in a trap meta so it's not really important
>>564336164also the skilltree was teased to get some form of a rework/tweaks on an interview, so just wait for the update on 28th
>>564336935I think that article was just talking about eventuallydid it say theres updates the 28th?
>>564336629Yeah, I thought it would be shit, I just kind of wanted to try to make it work somehow.>mobility keynodes are the best alternative there isProblem is virtually the entire right hand side of mobility seems like trash and a massive waste of points to reach that point though. I guess it's back to security breach then.
>>564336629>the mine disarming keynode also has usesAn opportunity where you would not only encounter a mine, but also prefer disarming it over just shooting it sounds niche as hell.
>>564336935>also the skilltree was teased to get some form of a rework/tweaks on an interview,yeah bro it took them six months to nerf a single shotgun. its gonna take them at least two years to rework the whole damn skill tree.
>>564337060>Problem is virtually the entire right hand side of mobility seems like trash and a massive waste of points to reach that point though.if you got +10 points from expeditions then it's manageable, otherwise yeah
>>564337060>>564338295this
>>564338449>no DBNO nodes>no weapon weight node>no extra roll on shield breakjust ditch the mobility tree atp, keynodes are a meme anyways
>>564339267I don't pvp, so its not needed for me, but they are good, I'm going for those for my next expeditions
can I get a qrd on if gentle pressure is shit or actually secretly decent
>>564339527its alrightgood use of the points because sometimes it helps being just out of range of some arc hearing you breach a probe if you do that a bunch
>>564339527reduces audio range by ~4m per level and makes it quieter by a couple decibelsconsidering that the base sound range for breaching is ~105m it's not that much, it's probably meant more for you to hear your surroundings while you breach, not to be stealthy.
>>564339358>I don't pvp90% of the skill tree is useless for you in that case, why do you even bother asking those questions?
>>564340223I'm not the other anon, I just posted in reply to the guy saying 2 expeditions helps with the yellow tree >>564338449
>>564340326if you don't pvp you pick the basic stamina setup and whatever mix of perks gets you to SB, everything else is "flavour" at best.in case of PvP, you'd probably avoid the final keynodes altogether to grab all of the important perks after the first sets of keynodes, like this (+3 points to wherever you want, probably calming stroll)
>>564340675might try that next expeditionI'm kind of used to vaults on vaults on vaults
fuck it. this is what I'm going for on reset. survival is filled with good perks even if you're not going for breach, so I might as well go for breach anyway
>>564340926I like breach whenever I'm low on weapon parts, can run a maps breach lockers and make it out with an inventory full of games and weapon parts to salvage
>>564341028springs and weapon parts are the only things I ever find myself short on so it just seems like a no brainer
>>564340926>raider scrapsdoes basically nothing, the loot pool is borrowed from the in-round craftingi'll probably be going for picrel if no tweaks happen
>>564341465how helpful is that sturdy ankles, do you notice it? might do something similar
>>564341604~3% fall damage resistance per pointready to roll is nice to have a point or two in as it makes the skill check window massive, almost impossible to miss
>>564341465>the loot pool is borrowed from the in-round craftingso what? a chance for free rechargers, herbals and hatch keys sounds great. I do low risk runs all the time just for fun where I come in with a hairpin, a couple rags and arc power cells
>>564341809>almost impossible to missIt's already almost impossible to miss by default though. I already never miss it.
>>564341857in-round crafting, not tinkerer, i have personally never seen a herbal/key drop from a raider container ever when using that perkmost of those types of containers also drop bandages/chargers so it's hard to tell when the fuck the perk is even workingit's basically useless and a waste of points>>564341990with just 3 points i can hold alt the moment my feet leave ground, so I don't even have to think about it, just a good thing to have for combat situations when your attention might slip
can run around with my guitar and nobody thinks>I NEED THAT TO SELL FOR THE EXPEDITION
>>564342206>a raider containerit's not strictly raider containers, it applies to all general containers even though it says otherwise. I don't know what the % drop rates are but it's definitely not a bad perk.
holy shit
>>564342516>it applies to all general containersthe fuck do you mean by "general", if you mean medbags, nade tubes, ammo crates and backpacks then yeah those are all raider containersfor other containers i call 200% bullshit
>>564342603hotshot?
>>564343143yea
>>564343207thats crazy. I have Monday off so I'm not going to touch the game until Sunday and grind Monday too. Hopefully I'm put in a somewhat noob leaderboard.
>>564343337yea I'm wondering if the new strategy for sweats besides day1 joining, is to try and wait later in the week now, since everyone talks about itmight have just got luckyanother thing was I picked a time when only martriarch was up, so it was only going to pair me with people doing that trial and extractingcould see it being worse if joined during hidden bunker or blue gate
>>564342893>the fuck do you mean by "general"containers that do not have a specific loot flag, so usually the generic breachable boxes you can find almost everywhere, but I think many of them have flags if they're found in industrial, etcI can't verify that that's accurate though. I just remember reading it somewhere a while ago.
>>564343573ah, those onesall of them have bandages/chargers/ammo in the loot pool, so again, it's hard to tell when the perk is even working in the first place.also there's like ~10-15 generic containers i know in the whole game, so it's not really worthwhile either way
>>564343143the demotes currentlyif you were curious
if I did decide to do mobility, I don't know what to put my last two points into.
>>564344435
>>564344532does going from 3 to 5 really make that huge of a difference though? I feel like 3 is enough to just give me a little boost so I can always sprinting dodge or whatever
>>564339267if you just PvE with a survivor, those green crawling perks dont do too muchthe yellow crawling is more important for speed, but I heard the green ones let you crawl for longer distance, which is ok if you get downed far away from a hatch or extract a lot
>>564344680gives you a bit more sprinting room, but there isn't really a great place to put the 2 points inmaybe looters luck for the 10% chance to double reveal?>>564344850then just stop having a skill issue, the entire tree is useless besides stamina perks and security breach if you PvE
>>564343493>>564344274nice should be manageable
>>564345282yea I'm not too worried, even if a bunch of people suddenly feel like going for cantina, I don't think 60 people are going to go for 100k+ scores
dude, half of these perks are just shit and there isn't really any way around it.flyswatter should make melee kills on pops and whatnot become silent or something
>>564346230yep need like 2 more expeditions after this one and I got all the basic perks everyone usesafter that its just filling out the tree
reminder to get your antenna project done
>>564346670such a shame we lost the technology to put a timer on the project like they had for candleberriesmaybe one day the dev who knows how to do that will come back from christmas break
>>564347427I think they said the next ones will have one
>>564346230They announced one of these days that they're reworking the whole skill tree
This is my Hotshot leaderboard (pos 11 in yellow). Lowest score at position 60 is currently is 9,847. What is my "getting fucked" probability looking like, lads?
>>564353269ur good
>>564353301Hell yeah. We're gonna look so good in our red moto fits, anon.
>>564353269not likely unless some youtuber makes a video showing how to get high scores easilybut remember there is still a week left
>>564322230>UPDATEjust played 4 matches and every single one was as KOS as ever.no emotes, no voice coms, nothing. just kill on sight.into the trash it goes
>>564354717Works on my machine
>>564354717you cant shoot back
>>564354717>pvers don't even know how their own retard containment works
>pve>retard containmentrumao
>>564355456i am looking forward to your mental breakdown when you get shot in the back once in a blue moon
>>564355612That doesn't happen because I'm the one who shoots people in the back. Keep projecting or coping or whatever you're doing right now.
>>564355660>tries to act tuff
>have to wait 2 years before ram prices go down and I can buy a steam deckfuck ai
got it on my main account too without realizingglad I don't have to work on that anymore
Is Heroic Leap still practically useless?
>>5643577920.1m per point, so... yes.
>>564358382Thanks, dodging it.
>>564355456You're brown.
no
>play with friend again after a while of just doing solos>his genuine mental retardation makes me want to quit Arc just so I never have to play it with him againpic related is him if he isn't third-partying a fight or randomly trying to randomly shoot people that aren't even within a reasonable range to loot
>play windrose>don't have to put up with anarchotyrannyPvE is what Arc Raiders is missing.
bros how do i get not shit at pvpi had 1 run tonight where i cleared lobby and every single other run out of like 10 was just death
This will be my tree with the +15 skill pointshttps://metaforge.app/arc-raiders/skill-builder/share/FCjOdW9-FkfbU~Y-FltFNWY?expedition=15
The AI is so fucking gay and retarded now did they change it since I last played? You trigger anything like a car alarm that attracts arc and they glue themselves to you and abuse omnipresence trying to get """real""" aggro to attack you.
>>564371964>flyswatterjustify it right now
>>564372370it costs 1 point
>>564372503>1it costs 37 in the worst tree
>wake up>still in firstlets go
100 hours in, I still don't understand how in the eyes of devs would it hurt this game if there was abundance of loot, or at least abundance of guns. The last weapon BP I got was like 50h ago, and since then it's all been dupes, and I have like half of them at this point. And I don't need to tell you about the shitty gun drops you get from the ground. I've been sitting on like 20 blue and purple keys for no good reason and finally decided to use them all after the last patch. Not a single drop of those new guns. I mostly play on chungus servers but been engaging in some PVP for the past couple of days and none of the players I killed had a new gun on them either. Like it's such a basic gamedev thing for the live service games that you make sure that your players actually get to enjoy the shiny new thing you put in for a while, then you can nerf it and/or adjust spawnrates, but apparently the geniuses behind this game missed the memo.
>>564382812I completely forgot they added new guns, I haven't used any of them.
>>564380739hey, that's hopefully a good sign
Does the expedition occur for everyone at the same time? Or once you've completed your 100k damage you can just choose to start it?
>>564399797>Does the expedition occur for everyone at the same time?Thats a good question. I don't want to wait until May 18th because the shitters couldn't do 100k damage.
>>564372553security breaches are a crutch
>>564398217yea I just keep checking whern I got free timeglad I don't have to worryHidden BunkerLocked GateEMStriple threat coming up, so I'll see how hard people grind thosedemotions are <6.5k at the moment
>>564399797if its like other expeditions, you have to wait the whole window
hey raider
Queen or matriarch better for damage?
>>564411280I did queen because her shield doesn't go up to stop you from doing damage >>564333465but I heard the shield is good if you're planning on snaphook and deadline, because it protects you from people not in the shield and shooting at the bossnot sure personally, seems to depend on your strategy
>arc raiders was pretty cool>you could tell what everything was, from loot to guns>try marathon demo>the loot makes no fucking sense>the weapons look weird, am i holding a pistol or smg?>arc raiders live and maraton is slowly dying
>>564410521>IT'S MA'AM
Yeah, I totally want to talk about marathon in the arc raiders general.Fucking pathetic loser.lmao
>>564413512yea that bothered me too
>>564413512>>you could tell what everything was, from loot to gunsIt took me 50+ hours to figure out and somewhat memorize what all the million types of meaningless junk do in this game. From what I can tell, the loot in Marathon is more meaningful overall in it than in Arc, and there's no shortage of guns either. Weird esthetics is not why it's dying lol.
>switched to disgusting male from cute female skin>get shot at significantly lessCan you incels heck off and let me enjoy my cutie in peace?
>>564413512the only thing I have trouble with in Arc Raidersis Power Bank vs Blue Bandage
>>564414748>From what I can tell, the loot in Marathon is more meaningful overall in it than in Arc,Not at all. The loot in Arc is always meaningful because of the crafting system, outside of shit like trinkets. Whether you're level 75 or level 1, you will always need basic mats to craft shit which means every single thing will always have a use. In other extraction shooters, not just Marathon, at a certain point you stop picking stuff up because you dont need it at all once you used it for a quest or faction upgrade.
https://youtube.com/shorts/YxIIDWZbrYo?si=i1fDCE4_E44vLS6s
>locked gate almost over and my Hot Shot leaderboard isn't really movingguess I'm safegood luck with your guys leaderboards
>>564430687Gg, hopefully the line for demotion stays around 6k
>>564432579its around 8k nowand 2 people just passed mebut that seems fine
>>564429438every time
>get 3 stars on probe trial finally during storm>do a key while I'm at it>get a metric fuckton of guns and pink gear>run for extract >take out bombadier with some people on the way>fuckton of bombadier parts>almost at extract >fucking firefly super speeds at me>fuck fuck fuck>run inside building >thing fucking outpaces me inside before I can close door>run outside and close door on it with like 4 hp left>rocketeer appeared out of nowhere and instalocks and kills me >call elevator from downed>almost there>fucking doors finally open have maybe 2 seconds of life left to get out >lightning hits me and kills me Is it weird and paranoid that I KNEW this would happen the second I finished doing the probe trials, I knew some stupid bullshit would end me
>Played too early this week, hit Hotshot last rotation>Trials seemed fine, was position 6 with around 60k points, think I'll be okay>Day or two after, check ranks>Position 16, bunch of sweatlords ranging from 60-152k>Lowest is 16k and climbingAnons, please let this nightmare end. I just want to wear my red motorcycle outfit and chill...
>>564429438>load up freekit on close scrutiny>zap smoke grenade casualsgamer time
>bring vulcano IV with all blue gear and a kinetic converter to test it out>trios and friends all gooped up>get buttfucked by two teams, one camping the jump to lobby from assembly and the other team hiding near the hatch at assembly>didn't even get a chance to try my vulcano because I got instantly downedi fucking abhor this game
>>564440526post trial scoresmaybe you can get some big points still
I did trials at the perfect time or somethingI cannot get high scores on fireflies or enemies in spaceport walls, EVERYONE is doing them
>>564445747Nothing exceptional, some with okay scores. I don't have the lobbies to do pure PvE boss shit like queen/matriarchs without getting ganked by several rat parties. Spawns for shit like fireflies is a pain to handle.At least I'm sure I could get way more points from having a trio to do Spaceport's Damage flying ARC thing (that was a side effect of hunting Fireflies), just need the right event and timing I guess. Could maybe get probes over 20k if I can get a team to hit more of them in a single run, but that feels less useful for my score. I just want a better score so I can not think about some animals running me out of the top 60. I'll have to hit the official Discord or something.
>>564447828You can definitely do better for flying arc and fireflies but that's going to be hard to do with so much competition right now.I have room to get more for locked gate containers myself but it's just annoying and time dependant on people getting the fucking codes quickly.
>>564447828could get more on arc probes if you know the spawns/routethis was Dam EMSheard people getting 70ki on spaceport, obviously don't have to go that hard, but it's a way to possibly increase your score
>>564447980>that's going to be hard to do with so much competition right now.Yeah. I suppose you really just need a group that's ready to PVP and show domain dominance while you pop flying arc. I did the same challenge on Spaceport last season on the top floor of one of the buildings (not roof mind you). Maybe easier to set for a team in three days or so? Idk if it'll be more chill by then or worse from people getting more desperate for score.>locked gate containersI think I did electro storm or night raid Blue Gate for my score. Reception's tunnels give you tons of good score (and you can do the key room too), plus obviously the rest of the inner tunnels. I could have gotten some extra score if I could hit a bit more of the front of the tunnels, but I'm content with what I got (especially since extract campers tried and died trying to hold the last extract hostage).>>564448117That's damn impressive, mogs my score. Honestly, the most annoying thing outside potential spawns is just people. I got that score with just a duo and struggling to hit the map without aggro nutheads bleeding out from the center.
Firefly trial is fucking ass. The spawn pool is so diluted since they were added.
>>564449235I just tried twice and could not find anymeanwhile this guy somehow got a map basically to himselfhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNMc6Py5Z9I
>>564449235>32k probesdid you do a 2x modifier or just the increased probe spawns one?
>>564449235I fucking hate fireflies>>564449587my guess is electro storm for 2x and increased rate, but I dont know if ems is rotating this week
>>564449235It was dogshit for me too, even on Spaceport with 2x multiplier. I have no idea how the guy in anon's video posted a bit ago got that many to spawn. I guess the dudes who got 150k on my leaderboard must have pulled shit like that.
>>564449693funny site says this for ems
>>564449587EMS Dam, but had pretty bad luck. EMS Spaceport is better
>>564444639>playing stella for anything other than loot goblin pve modestella pvp is fucking aids. just people waiting to 3rd party.
>>564449235if you care about queen triala shitton of wolfpacks seemingly does a lot of damage while being able to mostly avoid her>>564333465
>>564449235>>564450018forgot to say I got 10k from 25 wolfpacksso probably dont need that many if you just want to 3*
I wonder what next seasons outfit is going to beHope its bad
>>564452507junkyard clown suit
>new map in a couple of days>almost no marketing at alleven shrouded skies had a lot of videos leading up to it
>>564461868still about a week to go
I'm at daredevil I with 65k points. Is that enough to reach hotshot or am I fucked?
>>564462587well it's the final week and a triple promotion is your only chance
>>564462587depends on your leaderboard bro
Can you do the expedition just by doing damage this time or do you still have to collect all that bullshit first?
>>564462739>>564462782my leaderboard is very not-tryhard. I think I'll be ok
>>564462912yes you have to do the project part
>>564461868they had the email thing i guess
>>564462912collect all the bullshit then do the damage
>>564463895I'm signed up for the newsletter but I didn't get anything lmao, their shit's busted
I can't tell if I'm the incompetent asshole here or if I'm the only dude willing to communicate shit. Just lay it on me anons.>3v3 confrontation on Stella>Call out intel, we fight, normal shit>One teammate goes down after fighting in the open hallway (no cover)>I go to res him>I forgot my defibs somehow, but res anyway and we lock him back.That was a fuck-up in prep on my part for sure, and I'll own up to it.>All 3 of the enemy trio dead>Don't want us to get ganked, so I announce I'm going to barricade the hallway>No response.We had three other doorways to move through anyway, so I wanted to prevent us from getting shot through the long hall>I announce my intent to barricade the hall off so we can stay safe and possibly loot our kills quickly>No response until well after I've done it, chiding me for "locking us in">I deconstruct my barricades since he complained>Shortly after say I'm intending to put a door blocker on the spot the enemies just came out of earlier, do it>No response, nobody says what they're doing or if they don't want it>Just then notice the resurrected guy is pushing through Lobby to fight a fucking team and said nothing>The other guy is trailing a little further behind him>Resd guy says I fucked them, they keep fighting, third goes down and the fiery resd guy is still fighting, low or whatever>I remove the door blocker and support the guy>He's fighting one, goes down>Shredder around fucking each group, I rush forward and pump two players down>Last player hiding behind a pillar, and shredder comes behind and melts the rest of my healthIt's not like they don't have mics or are taciturn. It isn't like they aren't able to communicate either, as they've done in raids in the past. Just no comms except late complaints. It felt like I was getting all the focus of the blame, and yet they're giving me the comms and energy of random fills. Maybe they were in a shit mood or something, I don't know. I didn't have fun. We stopped early.
I FUCKED UP I DIDNT REALIZE THE SEASON ENDS IN LESS THAN A WEEK AND I FELL TO WILDCARD 3. I REALLY WANTED TO END IN HOTSHOT FOR THE RED VARIANT. FUUUUUUCK!
>>564470925https://youtu.be/qQzdAsjWGPg
>>564470968what other songs give this kinda feel?
>>564470925its over
>if you get caught healing or looting you're basically dead meatThis game is so ass for PvP, and I'm a PvE player. There is zero time or window to react to someone shooting you inadvertently.
If you don't finish a project before the season ends, do you get the materials back?
>>564475872lolconsider yourself lucky you even have a warning
Should I get my trials placement or keep waiting?
i'm going to miss my ducks...
>Hidden Bunker time>load in with nothing but healing stuff because I already got my points and I know other people are going to be doing it>personally don't give a fuck either>guy goes down on departure building roof while using snitch scanners>find his zipline on the other side of building, run across roof with adreneline>res him with apparently pixels to spare>tell him he should at least be using survivor if he's going to be in such niche spots>mobility tech off the roof>he goes down again 20 seconds later>roll my eyes>go around the entire building again, zipline up, run even further across the roof to res him>he appears to have gone afksome time passes>realize that he must have actually alt-f4 ragequit because his shield appears to be broken, he kept dying, and someone else was shooting his snitch scanner spawns>alt-f4 doesn't usually autokill you btw since it thinks it's a game crash and will typically allow you to rejoin>wait another few minutes>another guy dies nearby so I swipe his guns and come back (Anvil4 and Tempest2)>"You will refund my defib">lure wasp over to kill him>check body>holy moly>get a guy to come over because it's literally too much for me to carry>offer him everything he wants after I already took the guns>he takes 2 or 3 wolfpacks, a cloak, and the energy ammo>leave at last extraction with the guy>pic related is what I tookbtw the ragequitter was using Cautious and sounded like a stoner
>>564479469>he doesn't have a duck mule
>>564482380I'd say you gave the downed dudes too much time and leniency (your time and effort are worth more), but maybe your lobbies are that sickeningly friendly if you're just trading loot like trading cards.
>>564476037not sure, leaderboards seem mixed lately because a lot of sweats might be planning the same thingand my demotes are like thisbut some other anon posted that their demotes are quickly filling up with higher scores
>>564488040forgot pic
>Probe trial>EMS every 6 hoursThanks Swedeshits
>log off yesterday, hotshot leaderboard was fine, not too sweaty>log on today, two duo faggots at 160k each and demotion is at 30k pointsHow, why?
https://youtube.com/shorts/Wan_fvFNWlo?si=krheQk7IEz4SBYKZ
is it too early to start doing the trials if I dont want to sweatI want to freaking play the game but the system is putting me off
>>564502762that lightstick tech is pretty smart
>>564502762goodness gracious brown people are annoying.
>>564502762I've watched more Fade than I've watched the nut, whenever he throws a glowstick and it works i kek
I think the trick to starting later in the week is that you have less opportunities to increase your trial score, so you have to log in with your gear ready to fuck - or farm materials you need without getting placed on a board.
>>564503634I haard its hit or missI timed joining my leaderboard when almost no trial maps were going and only matriarchso I might have got lucky>>564512917I think because more people caught on and its the final week everyone is going hard for iteven >reddit is talking about>yea obviously you start later in the week for easy scoresthats when you know even the normalfags are doing itI joined tuesday at like x:30 in the middle of blue gate matriarch, and it seemed to give me an easier leaderboard compared to joining during>Hidden Bunker>Locked Gate>EMSwhich are all known for farmingfor reference my demotions are like <10k right now, which is really good for me
Who the fuck actually watches other people play games?
