>>564086376
agreed, 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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sooon

>>564086602
I 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.

>>564087775
yea I got fucked up because some of the new turrets area placed aimed directly at the call stations
died and had to bring smoke grenades the next time
havent 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

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>Daredevil 2
>Trying to stay in 2x so I get Hotshot tomorrow
>Play for 5 hours just doing trials
>#9 with 44k points
With 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 points
Skill issue, you can get ~50k on lightning alone

>>564088281
Literally 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.

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>>564088390
NTA but I did mine without a shield
>>564088060
yes it might actually be easier to try and +1 promote into hot shot, instead of maintaining the rank, but not sure
I did that last season and somehow worked out

another 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

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>>564088390
>>564090929
my inventory
basically just got hit by lightning 1 at a time mostly the whole match and just full healed before getting hit again

>>564091325
also I took my shield off once I got in the raid

>>564087674
I hate it

>>564090929
I 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.
>>564091325
Still 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.

>>564093876
I think some spots just have higher density of lightning

I 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 up

I 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 times
I'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 way
OH also remember the last week of trials is 2 days longer
next weeks trials will end on the 28th not the 26th

Easier to maintain hotshot rank or get a last week promotion to hotshot?

>>564094560
not sure this season
but last season it was like that
I was stuck in DDIII for the longest time and got a +1 promotion right at the end
while hearing horror stories of people competing with 200k score hot shots trying to keep their rank
seems 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 >:)

>>564094779
currently 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 fuck

Think I'll take my chance with promoting and trying to keep HS for a week

>>564095634
same my Hot Shot pool isn't too bad when I start later in the week
I'm not too worried, since I'm pretty good at arc probe trial >>564087674
I usually get a decent score on the blue gate one too
really dont want to farm snitch scanners in spaceport walls

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>>564095634
here is the top of the depromotes of my hot shot pool, so it might still be considered sweaty
I joined on thusday or friday I'm pretty sure

>>564096051
I 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

>>564096675
I 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

>>564096828
you 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

>>564097023
I'm sure starting later in the week will help too

>>564088390
it's controllable to an extent, try to find a relatively enclosed small open space, the closer to PoIs or center of map the better
I did it in/near rocket assembly on spaceport, the lightning was literally targeting me through the holes in the roof

abmm is aids

people 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 you

there 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 aids
try telling that to the carebear faggots, the only thing they care about is "it feel good"

>>564097440
how it was explained to me, is that there is no self-defense in sweden
if 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 etc
it truly is aids

>struck by lightning 20 times
>21st kills me
I hate this game

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>>564086493
Is it possible to triple or quadruple promote into Hot shot? What's the most ranks you can skip at once?

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>>564101484
I don't think quadruple is a thing
heres the wiki page for it, if you wanted to check it out yourself
https://arcraiders.wiki/wiki/Trials
near the bottom it shows all the possibilities

>>564101484
1-2-3-x promotion

>>564101484
Max 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

>>564106972
what could they do to buff it

I tried it on Matriarch to strip its armor on its legs and felt like it was taking forever, and just switched to my anvil
the thing eats up so much ammo too, before I knew it I had like 1 stack left
such a dumb gun right now

>>564087674
>april 20 - 28
whens the expedition again?

>>564104743
>>564101770
>>564101765
ok 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.

>>564107148
Was 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.

>>564107148
Honestly 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

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>>564107437
Expedition window is on the 28th to may 3rd

>>564107764
oh neat, they don't overlap

>>564106972
why buff a purple weapon when expeditions start and no one can even use it

>>564107665
maybe its unfair in pvp
in my mind it should have a slightly higher fire rate than the anvil and same damage as anvil and ferro
but i guess that sounds really OP, an anvil you don't have to reload for like 20 shots

>>564107882
thats also the day Riven Tides map is released, so it will likely be a bigger patch

>>564107148
the 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

>>564107909
it'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.

>>564108721
making 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 shot
DO IT
DEMOTE ME
COME ONNN

>>564113607
Only light weapons worth using are Bobcat strictly for pvp and Burletta which is a free blueprint from a whoresmith quest.

>>564113607
I 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.

>>564115105
Feel free to never come back.

>>564115403
Look into sunken cost fallacy and save yourself some time.

>>564115621
That's not an argument and I don't have sunk cost, I basically just got here.

>>564115105
expedition reward is primarily for skill points, stash space and a reason to keep playing the game

this genre without resets gets pointless and lame as shit

>>564115105
The hell you care about a skin for?

>>564115105
surely the next expedition will be a new skin?

>>564114189
Yea I ended up buying a 2nd account and had to set up my old PC, currently waiting for steamdecks to be available again
If you had something really important I could store it my alt account, but I get any hesitation to trust some random fucko from 4chan

>>564115105
this 3rd expedition is the final varient
they said 4th is the start of a new outfit, seems theyll do that every 3 expeditions
>>564116435
Correct, that was stated in their announcement blog thing

>>564116603
>store it my alt accoun
store it on my alt account*

dead game

>>564123767
I hope so, I was in like 6th place for a 2x promotion

>still rank 37
shit
I'm going to have to maintain hot shot

if I use my equalizer is someone going to steal it?

>>564127449
I wi- no you'll be safe.

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Rank 3 in daredevil 3.. just have to maintain hotshot next week for the skin.

>>564134075
I hope hotshot isn't super sweaty to maintain rank
>>564087674
apparently these are the trials, and they look kind of farmable for points

>>564134075
>I hope hotshot isn't super sweaty to maintain rank
I 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.

>>564123767
Hey man, we told you not to buy marathon, but you didn't listen.

>>564115105
You'll still need 4 expeditions for the new skin. The more you wait, the father behind you fall.

>>564138556
or 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.

>>564087674
Need 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?

>>564141783
The 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.

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Noice. Now I just need to maintain my rank and red biker outfit is mine.

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>>564152375
Nice, 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.

>>564152881
I just wonder when should I start working on the trials to avoid getting in with all the sweats. Sunday?

>>564152965
The 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.

>>564153731
The expedition window opens up on the 28th though? Trials will be over by then.

>>564153909
Yeah, 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 chungurtha
There is 100% some bullshit with loadout value and you cant convince me otherwise.

>>564138712
>paid skin that looks better
>he doesn't know...

>>564156340
pretty 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

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>>564152375
>>564152881
hope 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.

>>564162634
it says it in the blog
last day is the 28th
sign up for the expedition is 28th to may 3rd

>>564158681
I 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
>>564162989
its both
theres been many stories of
>make good loadout
>get killed after 50+ friendly matches
people theorize there is some sort of value based matchmaking
the 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 match
seems to put me back into friendly matches where its just other people with hullcrackers or whatever

other 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"

>>564165139
Must've been the wind

>>564164439
There 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.

>>564165561
I haven't run into torrentes, usually its some freekit
but I do run away from any player using a skin with a balaklava

>>564165561
>any skin with a bandana
I'm pretty passive, it's not my fault the raider faces are busted

>>564127449
Depends 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 exist
cool.

>>564176884
Probably Epic account

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>>564182552
no the account exists, the profile doesn't
afaik this shit is the leftovers of extremely old accounts that existed long before the profile page did
it'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

>>564183070
Damn 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 future
https://frvr.com/blog/arc-raiders-lead-skill-tree-significant-changes-better-serve-the-game/

>>564196323
please be a rework and not a microbuff to garbage

>>564196323
Virgin Vatkins is a hack, I highly doubt they have anything substantial in store
If anything it's going to be a sidegrade to what we have now, or just a straight downgrade

>>564196323
nice

>>564196323
They'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.

>>564196323
2 more weeks

>>564165561
I'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

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>>564198547
>Tfw no jump height-boosting skill
>Tfw no crazy (brief) wall-running
>Tfw no ability to swing from rope between platforms
This 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.

>>564199359
It's the last week who cares.

>>564199371
in some of the alpha videos raiders used to have jet boots and stuff

>>564199589
I want to keep Hot Shot
even though I got here without trying, knowing my luck, everyone will want to maintain their hot shot too

>>564199371
I 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=1776244825

A 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_0

l0000l

>>564200537
>Solo PvE and chill
>Trio for PvP and kill
What's so hard to understand?

how well does Equalizer do for the matriarch trial?

Holy shit opening probes SUCKS

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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.

>>564206703
same boat bro
>>564207049
there is a point where some of the trials are unfun farmable sdhit
like spaceport walls one is probably being taken over by the guys who spawn snitch scanners the whole match

>>564207674
I 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.

>>564207049
The 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.

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>>564208105
sheeeeesh
glad I have an alt account
just going for 4k for each
cause I'll be pissed if my alt gets hot shot and my main doesnt

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>>564210031
nevermind my leaderboard filled out and for some reason nobody is doing trials in DDIII
guess I'll just wait until more people compete for the top 30 if they even do

>>564210548
I think almost everyone is in Hot Shot

>>564199371
>all the crackhead moves use 50% of your stamina
i'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

>>564211021
way too strong to be a perk

>>564210896
>get shot on a roof
>tumble down in an exaggerated quadruple barrel roll
kino

>>564211072
swap it with that flyswatter perk thats useless
boom

>>564211021
>>564211193
if there was an "absolute" keynode that needs like 45+ skillpoints investment, then maybe?

>>564211253
37 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

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this is making me nervous for the Hot Shot leaderboards if DDIII is this casual on the first day

>>564211358
nah, 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

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>>564211463

>>564214008
whats the demoted looking like

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>>564214905

>>564215292
thats not so bad

>Damage Queens or Matriarchs
>notice I'm not seeing the Trials card at the end of the match after doing Matriarch damage
The Swedes have done it again, Matriarchs don't count despite it saying they do.

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>>564086493
Is this enough to guarantee my 3x promotion into hot shot

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>>564220335
possibly
but you have to remember there is still like 8 days to this shit

>>564220335
Go 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 trial
I guess go to OCE? and hope nobody fights it all match

>>564224919
>Matriarch
You don't.

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>>564225383
you can, if you're the guy from earlier your game might be bugged or something
I just did my trial on Matriarch blue gate for 1000 pts
if 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

>>564230905
Might as well. Then you'll get the red variant of the new motorcycle outfit.

>>564231336
technically I'm already on it
I 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 extract
YOOOOO

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>>564233452
>got 3* next match
seems 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

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>scratch my balls all week
>log in at the last couple hour of hours to do a trial
>double promotion into hotshot
good ol' reliable

>>564236221
yea but I want to play the game during the week

>>564236262
I'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

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>>564234608
I guess hullcracker method seems to work
this was queen on harvester

>>564238402
My 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.

>>564238543
you've restarted? that's really fucking weird

>>564238706
Twice. It's really odd because it updates other trials. Got 3 star and then it just locked me out of it.

>>564238706
restarted your game*

>>564238784
thats really weird, I've had it happen where it lags and wont count trials during the match, but it always end up updating post match
fucking 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?

>>564243483
perm. imagine how awful itd be if youd have to keep doing trials?

>>564243483
permanent, I have last seasons skin

>>564244058
>last seasons skin
pic?

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>>564244194
hot shot version
and 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.

>>564248372
Once 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 games
I'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
>>564244373
Damn 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.

>>564252229
There'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.

>>564252229
it 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

>>564251827
yea a lot of people complained last season

Any updates on how much damage we need to do?

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>>564270374
lmfao

>>564270374
After christmas break

the project is going away next patch
check 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 trials
when are they going to redesign this shite system

>>564273142
I am, just hearing what other players are running into
I'm bored though, so I might do it thursday or friday
or say fuck it and join today

also 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 over
there 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.

>>564273053
I'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.

>>564086493
https://youtube.com/shorts/xZjpT_wkuLU?si=kz2EJ_R3-n6xj5a_