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Nerf Raiders
Chart from previous thread on durability/ammo eff changes.
>pvptard sees a group of arc>ignore it>start shooting the first player they see a mile away>get swarmed by the arc because they never shoot arc in their lives>DUDE WTF TOO MANY ARC WTF EMBARK SHIT MAPthe game is pvpvE. not every map is dam where there are only 2 wasps covering the entire map.
>>565460779>buff shields (increase TTK, buff arc damage to compensate)>make arc less cheesable by walls (some flying arc already go into some buildings, more of that)>rework nades (esp triggers)>fix durability discrepancies in rare weapons (buff canto/rene, nerf venny)>give canto the betty treatment (lower ROF, more damage; the ammo efficiency is atrocious right now)>probably nerf hullcracker a bit (its still busted)>buff barricades (breach from front to destroy for more noise and protection)These are the first things that come up for me.>>5654613461. Jupiter deals PIERCING damage ignoring ALL armor plating, meaning you can damage every ARC part on the way of the shot including the core, thus stacking damage (you can expect ~x2-3 damage on average depending on your lineups).2. Jupiter isn't good in PvP, you pvplet, it can suffice in a pinch but a rene/osprey will always beat it.3. Aphelion is not ammo efficient at all compared to other legendaries see chart above
>>565462659you can easily order a single member of your team to just get a hullcracker alongside a universal weapon like a tempest, problem solved
Thoughts?
>>565463334I like it. Didn't buy it though.
>>565462683Nah people are sleeping on it. Whats the go to weapon now, renegades for long range and osprey but the Aphelion can can deal with Arc unlike the Dolabra and is good at pvp unlike the Jupiter so it plays both roles very well too. High damage, good range, can 3 shot blue shields, hitscan weapon. Insane durability compared to the Osprey and Renegade. I never said Jupiter was good at PvP only that the Aphelion had 5 shots per mag like the Jupiter and that the Aphelion is good at both sides, unlike the Dolabra which is so shit at shooting down Arc.
>Been playing basically nothing but Riven Tides since the update>Everyone groups up against the ARC there to farm damage>Go to Buried City to look for the red coral necklaces because I'm done with the boat event and damage shit>Watch two people duke it out around a destroyed Bastion from a roof high up>Think I'll just revive the guy who got downed after the other one leaves>He KO's himThat was unusual to witness after countless of PvE raids.
>>565463878Imagine if they knew there was an anime posting tranny nearby they could've taken their pent up frustrations out on instead
>>565463757the main deterrent is the cost, the gun isn't bad by any means but it also needs attachments and costs a matriarch core instead of a queen
700mb update on steam, what's in it?
>>565462683I really don't want them to mess with the hullcracker. At the moment taking down the large Arc is already a HUGE chore and the legendary PVE items take too many resources and suck at their job.
>>565465309nevermind
>>565463334I like it but I don't like it as an arc raiders skin.Too Tarkov coded, doesn't vibe with the 1970s retro futurism aesthetic of Arc Raiders. Somehow I'm supposed to believe this skin is a product of the same culture that created the cosmo, the torpedo, and sforza skins. I see that skin and all I can think is "I'd rather be playing Call of Duty". Not too crazy about the new blind spotskin either for the same reasons. Its cool but it just looks too war on terror operator themed.
>ITT: shitter opinions as revealed by their lack of high level game knowledgeThey will reveal themselves constantly below... They have so much time to post, because they don't actually play the game.
>>565464181>Imagine if they knew there was an anime posting tranny nearby they could've taken their pent up frustrations out on insteadl-lewd...
>>565465523>The shit carpenter blames his toolsGit gud. The game is actually too easy, and you have a debilitating skill issue. Now ask me for webms.
>>565463334I like it, but I assume literally everyone will have it since it's so tacticool. I would rather peacock with something special.
>>565465645Tacticool will always make sense in the universe. Do you think police and military are wearing clown outfits like the raiders are? No. They are wearing typical military-like attire. Having a couple of more military themed skins is fine.
>>565465523hullcracker is objectively the most OP pve tool in the game by a large margin and the only reason jupiter comes close is because it has range.
What are you supposed to do with those Turbine things?Do they drop good loot? Do they shoot back?I plinked a few bullets into one on Tides but nothing happened.
>saw people saying that if you split stacks of your items the game makes it all one stack again when somebody loots your body >stopped doing it after a patch to annoy pvp players since it allegedly doesn't work >see pic related Good to know that people were lying. Probably seething too. That's why they spread their lies to stop people from doing it
>>565468523jupiter or double deadline to the roofarmor is too heavy to really bother with stripping itor you can just wait till it lands and unload into the exposed canisters
>>565468608kek
Does the damage for the expedition count from when you're level 1?
>>565469548It counts all the damage that you've done since the last expedition. That's why so many people all done with it already
>>565470441Dealing damage was a great change, yes? More incentive to spend your money, more incentive to fight arc with people, so more incentive to use your rare gear.
If I go to Riventide with a Hullcracker am I going to get ratted? I keep dying in that place because it has insane amounts of Arc
Do PvE trios and duos exist?
>>565471675Until one of them has a negative thought, yes. That is all it takes. Someone with a mean bone
>>565471347If you're in the real pve lobbies no ive seen people whip out their hullcrackers and gold guns in that lobby
>>565471675Don't care >Teammates steal your kills, damage, loot etc.There's no benefit to duos or trios unless you're a shitter and need people to constantly revive you and can't kill anything on your own
it is really amazing how every item embark introduced has been a huge flopno wonder people have been bored of the game theyve been playing with the same items since launch outside of meta weapons being nerfed
>>565471347Arguably depends mostly on the kind of karma/lobbies you're running. I intentionally pushed my matchmaking karma to majority friendly, and I was able to run a duo alongside tons of random friendly teams. I defibbed 3 randoms, and both me and my teammate were defibbed once each. I had a jupiter and plenty of ammo too. If you're worried, consider using a safekeeper augment if you can.>>565471675Yeah, but it's not like some people won't switch up if the opportunity arises. It also depends on the individual karma of each player. For example, I play with a guy who I'm usually doing friendly PvE with lately, and I have been doing the same, but if we were to queue with a guy who does almost exclusively PVP and has 1000s of knocks, then we'll be likely to be pulled into aggressive or at the very minimum mixed aggression lobbies.
>>565473514Does overall knocks matter or just your recent behavior?
all the augs addedflopall the grenades addedflopall the guns addedflopall the meme itemsflopnot one item that makes someone want to chase it outside the novelty factor nobody will go into next wipe thinking about how they need to get the apfaileon or dolaflop or the keepflop augmentall flops
>>565473924What about all the new Arc?
>>565474121yuuuuge flops
>>565473747Recent behavior mostly. While Embark isn't fully clear on all aspects of ABMM, they have disclosed that individual matches don't affect it immediately. Rather, it's about your behavior over a series of recent matches rather than total stats. In my experience, as well as what I've heard online, it'll noticeably shift after about five matches of mostly 'good' behavior when coming from full PVP kill-on-sight lobbies. Mind you, that isn't getting friendlies, but mixed (or at least guarded but not instantly aggressive) players.I don't buy the "just free kit and surrender 1,000 times" meme. I've done it, and it does fuck all imo. What I did to get friendlier lobbies recently was just run free kits and go straight to the extract while avoiding all player activity and conflict (maybe looting a thing here and there along the way). That very clearly got me into friendlier lobbies, even if it took some time.
>>565474545Being around other players without engaging in combat and defibbing/healing other players seems to boost your karma quite a bit as well.
i don't understand how a paranoid schizophrenic can spend this much time and effort talking to himself. i can't imagine how miserable his life is
>>565476990The irony being that you have responded to no one, and no one knows what the fuck you're talking about
meds, schizo
>>565474545>I don't buy the "just free kit and surrender 1,000 times" meme. I've done it, and it does fuck all imo.I'm almost positive they patched that a few updates ago, so people claiming it are giving away that they don't play the game, in fact, I had the opposite happen>suicide a few times while trading blueprints to my alt that doesn't even play the game>go back to play on main>suddenly my solo lobbies are mixed
>>565479293Unironically a good change consider rat FUCKS were trying to abuse the system to get ez kills on PvEbuddies
>>565479659yep, I've only run into obviously bad PvPers who got there from losing too much, or what looks like a returner in the Ryder outfit
I can't kill a Turbine solo with a Hullcracker, not enough time if I have to hide every 10 seconds because of the thunder.
>>565481432>not enough time if I have to hide every 10 seconds because of the thunder.you can dodge it if you time it right, no need to hide.
>>565481432either stay out of range or get really good coveranother anon said its like a leaper, where it looks dangerous, but you can actually fight one out in the open if you know what you're doing
meds
no
>>565481432That's lightning
>>565493302kek
>>565493302Yes
where pink boats?
>>565495219sniff
Do turbines spawn during close scrutiny?
>>565495219I find them everywhere except industrial containers. I've found too many of them and started selling them like common trinkets. Same with yellow boats.
Why do YOU prefer friendly lobbies?
>>565500308because the ambusher advantage in solo pvp is aids
>>565462683>>565463757apheliion deals a ton of damage in pvp. Jupiter seems to do a lot on head shots
>want to farm batteries>evidently best place is in stella>go in with barebones because I know someone will want to kill me even in a carebear lobby>proven right in the first 5 minutes>bring my niggamelta 5000, aka torrente and go again>now actually afraid of dying, not because I care about my gun, but because I hate the idea of rewarding someone with a gun they'd wantI wouldn't even be mad if a Arc killed me and I lost it all, but the thought of giving some pvpgger something they would want angers me.
>>565495219got mine from the stupid beachcombing or just laying around i think
>>565500975gear fear is retarded in general, but gear fear literal days from a wipe? are you retarded?
Why are seeds so valuable? Has Celeste not figured out that if you grow plants from seeds you get more seeds back?
>>565501184I'm not afraid of losing my gear, I don't want to reward some pvpgger. There's a difference. If I fell to my death, I wouldn't be mad. If I died to an Arc, I wouldn't be mad. If I gave some pvpgger something they'd actually want? I'd be mad. There's zero fear to it.>>565502630Because, since they are just seeds, they could grown near anything, it's a gamble. Why would you want to grow more of a useless plant you already grew? Plus, who knows if they even know how to cross pollinate plants in this future.
>>565502630ingame no ideaoutgame they're used for trading
>interact with every container in arrival and depature on space port>51k exp>equals 51 points for the event>you need 3150idk if I want to do this on my alt, but I guess I have nothing else to do for 10 days until my main account can finally expedition
>>565503208yup they really want you to grind out those boats
>>565503312I only found 1 green boat during that toomaybe I have to spam Riven Tides
>new breakthrough where AI uses less memory>RAM manufacturers lose 10% value on their stockSTEAMDECK SOON
>finally get to 30k arc damage>feel like giving upThis is fucking awful bros.
>>565505781only 35 more bastions for 100k
>>565502762I really need to start ratting whenever I end up in carebear to make faggots like you cry.
What's that website people use to upload mp4 files anonymously? I just had the most fucked spawn you will ever see and someone needs to see the shit that just happened
>>565506241gofile
>>565506241catboxstreamable maybe
>>565506165Enjoy my Ferro 4 or Anvil 3 then champ, it's all yours.>>565506241https://catbox.moe/
>>565505957>only 35 more bastions for 100k
>>565505957I just kill stuff and I'm on the final stretch to 100k.
>>565506307>>565506241>>565506323https://streamable.com/jak9z9WHAT THE FUCK
>>565506789>streamable
>>565506926>>565506789https://files.catbox.moe/77poxh.mp4
>>565507227Alright that was breddy gud
>>565507227lmao
>>565507227you said something about gustaf in chat didn't you
>>565506789>>565507227>shield recharge before healing>running with gun out the entire time>running out into the open instead of staying by the buildings to break LoS and deaggroso this is the power of consolefags...
>>565507227what the fuck lmao
>>565507227what I would have done>dodge leap away from leaper through>trick comet into blowing up in the building while I take the doorway for cover>die to the firefly
>>565508984>>565508540Haven't played in over a month. I'm rusty. All I wanted was a coffee pot for my Expedition
>They’re scared of making items overpowered and end up making them nearly useless insteadhttps://youtube.com/shorts/nww0uH9yyyA?si=_uxymr_PxvQ8PJop
The stone cold truth that no one wants to hear is that the durability nerf had to happen. Embark has all the data, millions of players worth of stashes to glance at to make decisions. Players are still hoarding guns like fucking mad even after the expedition change, and will continue to do so after the wipe. They want you to see that 0/130 gun and have to make a decision. Before, there was no decision. You simply repair the gun because it will get you like 3+ juicy raids if you do. Now, you might consider scrapping to gun, because you have plenty more, and maintaining it is going to be expensive.Also, white rarity guns had no business being as reliable in a long raid as they were. Their place in the game should be an option for a guy who's down on his luck and really needs some stacks of rubber and metal.
>>565509427it happens broI was joking I'd end up dying to the firefly too
>>565509575*scrapping the gun
>>565509575cool story bro
yeah fuck this game, you faggots have fun with apocalypse inflation simulator
>>565506323I don’t care about the loot. I’ll enjoy your tears since by your own admission it makes you mad.
>>565509575people can only do this because of weapon part blueprints. Without them many of the guns will be literally unmaintainable.
>>565510907Dying with good loot that pvpggers get makes me displeased. Dying with a Ferro 4 or Anvil 3 does nothing to me. Also, a negative emotion to something doesn't make it anger automatically. If you yourself killed me next match and posted screenshots here, it would do nothing to me.
>>565509575You and that other bitch can kill yourselves
>>565462365i tried out marathon and it was my first extraction shooter. i kinda like it but the playerbase is falling off a cliff. is it too late to get this game?
>>565511254no, the only thing you’ve missed out on is 3 expeditions
>>565511254If you enjoy swedish developers patching all the fun out of a game go for it
>>565510907>crawling to extract>some guy snipes a few shots at me and kills me>get his name>invite him to party>he accepts>ask him why he killed me>BECAUSE I WANTED THE LOOT LMAO>oh ok thats cool>I WAS WITH THE WHOLE LOBBY AND THEY WATCHED ME KILL YOU LMAO>AND THEY DIDNT EVEN DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT>thats cool, they're probably avoiding the pvp lobbies>ALSO I DIDNT EVEN LOOT YOU I KILLED YOU FOR FUN>I LET ONE OF THE PUSSYS LOOT YOU LOL>oh ok, I had a bunch of stuff I was handing out for the expedition, so he's probably happy(at that point everyone still thought you needed cash for the expedition)>he leaves the party
>>565509575The guns I hoard and don't shoot have one specific use, they are attachment holders to save space. I'm fine with repair increases, but to compensate this they should make the light, medium and heavy parts a baseline BP that comes with a certain level of workshop. Being forced to repair more is fine, but make the repairs accessable.
>>565511172anvil doesn't require heavy parts to repair at least (don't give them ideas) but the renegade just chows down on medium parts
>>565509575Are you retarded? What fucking clown world do you live in?>yeah bro let me dismantle one of my upgraded weapons that's oh so expensive to repair yikesy wikesy!>now I can repair a different one once (1 time) and have it break 1/2 through the next match if I need to shoot anything bigger than a firefly>god forbid you make the mistake of using something that melts in your hands in real-time like the nerfed renegadeMy shit hasn't even approached the "broken shit in the stash" singularity of the apparently impoverished megashitters who need to dismantle broken stuff.
>>565511687It doesn't require heavy gun parts, but it is probably the most metal heavy weapon in the game. It no longer makes sense to take an anvil in to kill lots of arc. You might as well just bring in a bettina for that now.
>>565511515>make the repairs accessibleThe amount of bitching in this general is so unreal I could throw up. You want gun part blue prints? Do the events. They give one out every time. If embark starts catering to these pussies, the game's going to turn to shit. The changes were necessary, git gud or uninstall.
>>565511515How could they possibly make the repairs more accessible? The gun part BPs are in every drop pool.They could sell them in the gun shop at some "Fuck you go find the BP" price like 10k per, but that would just cause more bitching and moaning, I anticipate.
>>565512359>You want gun part blue prints? Do the eventthat's one of 3. the most important is medium parts. if you don't get medium parts you are locked out from maintaining the bulk of the weapons in the game>The changes were necessarywhat the fuck are you talking about? the durability was fine since launch
>>565512754fuck off shitter
>>565512697>The gun part BPs are in every drop pool.The pools are random as fuck, faggot. I have been farming BPs for weeks to mule for wipe and still haven't found all 3. With how important gun parts are they should be guaranteed from quests.
>>565512967you have no argument. do you get paid to post here by embark?
The problem with coming into an established hardcore genre and making it ultra-accessible, is that your new demographic will endlessly moan like a bitch with a stubbed toe every time you change something. They contribute nothing beyond singing with the choir, and if the choir is review bombing, you can bet your ass he's at his keyboard, updating his Steam review until his face turns pink. (Never mind the header that says he has 80 hours in-game since launch, he has a job and kids, you know?)
>>565514062>make the game worse for no reason>people complainhow could this happen????
>>565512314To repair anvil 435 metal15 rubber5 simple gun partsTo repair bettina 442 metal18 rubber6 springs12 simple gun partsFor that you get about 60% more damage from the bettina per repairYou can also figure you're spending twice as many shots to do the same damage with the bettina so you're also paying about 130 metal and 87 chemicals in ammo tax per repairBut you can buy ammo for credits so its not as important
>>565514238>worse for no reasontake a deep breath shitterget the fuck overor uninstallembark hasn't rolled any of their changes back - because they fucking work and have numbers that you can't wrap your shitter head around.
>>565514832No, the game was better before and is worse now so I think I'm going to keep complaining and "review bombing" since it seems to upset you a lot for some reason.
>>565514832>get the fuck overesl
>>565507227Holy fucking lmao.... kekOUTFUCKINGPLAYED
>>565514832>shitterfaster durability burn doesn’t actually make the game harder or more interesting, it just makes it more tedious
>>565505957>>565505781I took a day off when the patch dropped and it did it one day. I don't get it. Just kill enemies. Not only the big ones. I see a lot of people NOT killing flying stuff, but it adds up.
>>565505781deadlines and hullcrackers are your friend
>>565508540>>shield recharge before healingCountless retards do this. Every clip showing somebody who survives any damage. Fucking idiots.
>>565509575Correct. The game was unplayably bad before this change. Why did we even play it?
>>565505781shoot at matriarch/queen/turbine at long range with jupiterez
>>565515649yea I don't get it
>>565516053what if i only have dolabras and aphelions?
>>565516310use the aphelon to get queen cores and make a jupiter
>>565516310Buy light grenades and healing items and damage yourself then.
>>565509575What’s funny is that the durability nerf will likely have an inverse effect. If people can’t maintain the weapons, they will just hoard them even more and instead opt to use trash commons that are cheap to make and maintain rather than pull from more precious reserves.
>almost done with 3* turbine trial>not in a good spot>should probably get to extract>move to extract>avoid a leaper and a vaporizer>cool 3 minutes left>looking for where the turbine went>find it>asshole calls in the extract>all of a sudden 4 hornets and fireflies on me>also a rocketeer>and 2 vaporizers>and a bastion>say fuck it and jump off the tower I was on and I'll crawl to extract>this fucking retard leaves without meluckily I had survivor but god damn it what a fuckign asshole
agghh no my stitcher 3 and anvil 2 need to be able to solve the entire game and last forever fuck actually using the other guns
I dont have the other guns you fucking faggot
Embark's compromise in regard to wipes has poisoned every attempt they've made to adjust the item economy before it's further ruined.They should just do actual full wipes instead and have the dad gamers suck it up and retire.
agghh no my strawmans need to be able to solve my entire argument and always work fuck using actual thought
>wtf they want me to stop using free or almost free shit with zero risk and actually make and use stronger guns nooooo
they should just make you craft each bullet one by one, its not realistic
>stronger gun>it's actually weaker
We've heard your response to the update loud and clear raiders, effective immediately we'll be increasing the burn rate on restorative items. The more you use them, the less they recover. We hope this change inspires you to reconsider turning the game on.
>>565521189totally true sister i only see people fighting vaporizers using anvil 1s and not hullcracker 4s
>>565521016oh, was that their master plan? because before the patch I used to use renegades all the time but after the patch they use so many fucking medium gun parts and advanced mechanical that I've started using rat ass kettles and ferros instead because I am sick of the repair costsbravo embark
>>565521546YOURE SUPPOSED TO USE YOUR BETTINA CHUD STOP USING WHITE GUNS
>>565521524what kind of fucking retard wastes the materials upgrading hullcrackers?
>>565521546>used the renegadeno you didn't, otherwise embark would have had the numbers to see the cost of the impact this change would make, take your performative bullshit somewhere else
>>565521546Bettina? Hullcracker? Vulcano weak spots? The update is doing its job precisely, its forcing you to use your whole inventory instead of using one renegade for the whole 60 days
>USE WORSE GUNS CHUD RESPECT THE PURPLE>NO DONT USE THE BLUES GREENS AND WHITES EVEN IF THEY ARE BETTER>THE UPDOOT WAS SUPPOSED TO DO ITS JOB WHY ARENT YOU USING YOUR PURPLES
>>565521731I fully upgrade my hullcrackers.
>>565522018the only thing the update has done is made be burn out and stop playing. between the stupid fucking boat grind, the 100k damage requirement juke when the menu said VALUE and the durability nerfs across all weapons, I dread the idea of even launching the game. it's become too much of a chore
agh i need to try now instead of freekitting stella montis 24/7 its too hard now
>>565522018>force me to use my whole inventory>by leaving it in the stash and pulling out cheap garbage
holy shitdo not underestimate hornet/firefly combo, and then I swear they call in a wasp friend
>>565522458what are you talking about? free kitting is better than ever
oh this explains a lot all of you only extract 1 out of 5 times and use only stitchers with free kits which is why you never have components or an inventorygood thing the game isnt balanced around the bottom 1% of iq players like you
>solo the turbine>ants come out of the buildings and steal my shit>hear "don't worry bro I got your core here"t-thanks bro
>>565522018The only thing that has compelled me to use my weapons has been the need to make space for blueprints to mule over after wipe and the wipe itself happening.If I wanted to maintain stash value now, the last thing I would be doing would be using valuable weapons. Now I just want to hoard them even more and also hoard more materials needed to repair them without ever actually using them on the off chance that I did decide to use them (something that now is less likely to happen anyway). This has been the hoard everything and only use grey pieces of shit patch.
>>565463334good-looking skin that all the boring dudes already own
>>565523585My survival rate is probably above 90% and I don't play in carebear lobbies. My stash value + coins is like 8 million. I'm still more inclined to use greys than I ever have before since the launch of the fucking game. Making something more precious does not make anyone want to use it more. It makes them want to use it less. This is common sense.
>>565523596so kill them?
>>565505781>confirm expedition: 11 days away!>>>zero reason to play until thenthis part also sucksjust let me fucking leave embark. goddamn
>>565524349he saved the core for me anon
>>565524409blame the carebears and dads who didnt want to use their expensive weapons to deal 100k damage in five days
PEANUT IS STREAMING
>>565523596I duo'd it with someone and let him loot it all, I got super lucky and killed one when they first showed up and nobody knew what the fuck was going on
You dont understand, embark had to inflate wolfpacks and launcher ammo. Wolfpacks were a crutch and it was too easy to make ammo, everyone knows its time to git gud.You don't understand, venator needed a 50% damage reduction. Since you got too good, it only makes sense we reduce explosion damage while making it more expensive to buy and craft. Git gud.You dont understand, embark needed to remove pvp feats. Git gud somewhere else.You don't understand, embark needed to nerf the Kettle and Trigger nades - they were just killing way more than they should be killing so you'll have to just git gud.You don't understand, embark needed to nerf the stitcher because freekits were just able to get too much done, whenever they got one. And not enough people got the hint last time around, so embark needed to nerf kettle, venator, and inflate the cost of explosives again so you just gotta git gud.You don't understand, embark needed to nerf the il toro because you can't just do that much damage at close range, my bobcat is purple for fucks sake - and you were getting too much money whenever you found a legendary gun blueprint by crafting ammo, so you're just going to have to git gud.You don't understand, embark just has to nerf 60% of the weapon pool because it would be too hard for them to buff the other 40%, have some respect for their time. They also need to make every gun you find worse, it just doesn't make sense they were so durable before. Embark's also starting to think you're not paying your explosives tax, so you're just going to have to git gud and eat this photoelectric cloak ability reduction of 75%.You don't understand, embark needs to buff the purple and gold gunsYou don't understand, the playercount dropping has nothing to do with how embark is managing the game.
>>565525097this but unironically
>>565525097whocaresI'm not a redditor, they will not listen to my opinions here
>haven't seen a necklace in 10 runsAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
>>565525097i agree with all of those with 0 irony though>the playercount droppingit'd be doing that either way
>>565525097>unironically defending the torro and trigger metaholy crutch baby it wasnt fun to have everyone running a two tapping torro, inb4 im a shitter, even all the top pvp players called that meta aids because it was. everyone running the torro and venator was lame.want to know why the game is doing badly? instead of adding cool new guns that do badass shit, they add in a fucking meme flag and a dorito arc that has one attack.
>>565525323red coral?I got mine from bird city, and that breach room under the highwayso I just spent a few matches checking that room and the chimneys
>>565524797I can't even continue the birdcage quest because it has blueprints that I don't want to wasteliterally disincentivized from playing the game at allmy life is so fucking hard urgh
>>565525097They nerfed the shit out of the most accessible parts of their game while buffing the rng side. They should have kept the pvp feats.
>>565525515you could still play and get exp for the eventbut I get what you mean
>>565525442>trigger metathey have literally nerfed every single gun in the game before they have actually meaningfully nerfed trigger nades lmao
Alright faggots YOU are now the head developer for Arc RaidersYou have an unlimited supply of cocaine and money and a hundred Swedish yes men vibe coders at the readyWhat is YOUR spiciest and shittiest ideas for the game? It doesn't need to be GOOD since none of your ideas are good>comets now explode into a bunch of ticks>quadripedal arc that sprints at you and takes you down like an attack dog>cantina legend now only gives a special colored flare when you die or kill someone>craftable defibs mid match>augment that makes knockouts silent if you are using a hairpin or suppressor>metal gear sahelanthropus>environmental hazards like self destruct sequences in stella montis or low orbital lasers/nukes in spaceport>snap hooks can be used to descend/rappel down>another queen/matriarch spawns at 20 minutes>skill that restores health upon breaching something>skill that restores health upon melee attacking>advanced arc power cells can be used mid match for shield that heals twice as much and as fast as a normal recharger but decays quickly
>>565527816faction teamplay based on what skin you're wearing>raiders>cultists>mercenariesteam shields prevent friendly fire. but you can still kill friendlies by taking off your shield.
>>565516576at some point it has to be the retard's problem, all these changes push you to make better weapons, if it still doesn't work... the gear fear might be unfixable for those cunts
>>565529441it's not about gear fear. it's about the tedium of amassing resources to repair, and the blues, greens and commons ARE the better weapons most of the time regardless
>>565529673>greens and commons ARE the better weapons most of the time regardlessyou are fucking retarded
>>565525323I have two I don't need, want them?
>>565529768You can't reason with these literal subhumansLet them have their stitcher 1 battles forever against fireflies or against other freekitters while we actually play the game with Bettinas
>>565529987fixed feels on bettina currently, but it's far from the worst gun in the game now
>>565530312>fixedmixed*
>>565529987If it comes down to pvp, I would take a stitcher IV with an extended mag III over a fully kitted post-buff bettina any day. If it comes down to pve I'd still rather have an anvil. Your bettina is only good for dying with so I can extract with more earnings.
>>565530491bettina is slightly below tempest for TTK while being adequate against arc and having more range than tempest, it's a gun for a team setting.>faggot still lives in the stitcher meta patchlol
>>565530491lmao the bobcat would beam you from 30m out while the bloom on the stitcher rapes your ass and the vulcano would shred you up close
>>565530491Stitcher is not even better than a Canto while the Renegade mogs the Anvil.
yuge improvement
>>565535401what map??
>>565535401Nice, dam? Ive been doing that since it allegedly has more supply spawns
>>565539570>>565539608buried city actually, and one of them bugged out and let me call in two drops
>>565539969Kick ass, blessed. Wouldn't expect buried city, that map was a bitch to me for another supply drop trial.
>>565539969I've had that happen to me too, hit a 5000 once on buried city as well. Gonna try that too thanks. That would have been a sick score to hit on a last push to CL
dogshit game
>>565543848what is it this time?
>last call for extraction>see guy on ground in front of button>elevator comes and is open>20 seconds left on clock after waiting for the bullshit to de-aggro>expect guy to be picked clean>untouched>ooooo>freekit>damn>has turbine compressor>DAMN
>>565544250they spawn in couriers, it's stupid
>>565525097all of these are good changesmaybe r*ddit is more your speed, champ
>>565546449yeah just nerf everything stupid bitch
>>565546498>nerf bad, no nerf, only buff!!!top kek
The game being nothing but il toros running at each other after spamming 20 trigger nades is fucking retarded and if you want that kind of retarded monkey gameplay forever you are a literal animalAw yeah instantly dying to a two tap venator with zero counterplay this is peak!!People not even thinking about or engaging with enemies to just throw 30 wolfpacks at wasps is exactly how we want our game played!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeUuvVsYsBM(mood in Speranza)
>>565548165>just throw 30 wolfpacks at wasps is exactly how we want our game played>the devs casually having multiple trials that encourage wolfpack spamming for ease and efficiency
>>565554014>wolfpacks>efficiencyThat would be hullcracker, ya twat.
>>565554014yea the rocketeer change was good, now you have to actually try to farm them
I like how the game's subreddit is infinite "gamers are the most entitled people ever, I'm having a blast" posts whenever people criticize the game. No wonder it went from like 4M to about 860k. Bunch of braindead glazers.
>>565546498yesif something needs a nerf, you nerf itthat's how game balance works
I guess I can take a week off now.
>>565463878I would bend you over>>565464181I would bend her(male) over
>>565547991>buff bad, no buff, only nerf!!!top bitch
>>565561809Nerf the whole game? Nerf 60% of the weapons that players will be exposed to instead of making the shitty 40% that some players won't even find better?Yeah bro I love making shit worse over the course of a year. Embark glazers are something else.
I dunno if I'll even bother with the next expedition. This will be my third. Just mindlessly running around damaging ARC with a Hullcracker and/or collecting loot value is boring. I don't PvP so I don't even know how much I'm getting out of having a bajillion skill points. I only do expeditions so I have something to do in the game. The latest update was kinda lackluster though and made me a bit pessimistic about the game, and I've been playing since day 1.
>>565570227I want to go for cantina legend, so the repair buffs and stuff like that will be nice to have, but I feel your pain. I think the trials system will drive me short term - ranked placement based on curated weekly tasks is something I can't recall from other games, especially shooters. I think what I enjoyed most about expeditioning was trying new loadouts, but each update feels like "welcome back, everything you have access to is worse, more expensive, and harder to maintain with no immediate payoff."
>>565569280oh no, you can buff shit, it's (you) who has been buck broken by nerfs
>>565572268I already farmed trials last season because I wanted the red biker outfit. Now that I have it, I'm kinda burnt out. This time around I'll be content maintaining Daredevil 1-2. I've also been trying new loadouts because I don't need to worry about stash value. I'm already kinda over it because many weapons aren't really useful for PvE. For example Torrente, Bobcat and Vulcano. Maybe I'll run my 28k Tempest just to experience something a bit different.
>>565573782That was a good one to go for since it was a solid color and wasn't locked to trio cheesing Cantina Legends. I got pinched by a firefly, hornet, and pulled nearby swarms while trying to extract on Riven Tides with a blue silencer on my Tempest. It was neat to play with, but I would have preferred damage buffs to purple / gold vs durability -5% and -10% durability increases. I'm in 2x at the moment and feel safer with a green tac aug and lvl 2 anvil.
>>565575748>damage buffs to purple / goldthat would of been disastrous for PvP side of things
>>565575892>no buffs! only nerfs!kek, increase it arc side then
>>565576267are you retarded?
>>565576490If you dont want to get shit on stop begging for it
>>565576638what the fuck are you talking about schizo?
Definitely need a blue Anvil
>>565578874>every rare gun is using medium ammoosprey should be heavy ammo tbf
>>565462539Thank you math anon.
Workshop should be a menu option when you hit tab in speranza or the manage loadout screens before queueing a match
>>565578956I can see that, could use that for a purple sniper but then every rare gun still uses medium
>>565579508osprey has an almost anomalous ammo efficiency compared to everything in the game so losing 20 bullets per stack for heavy pen would be a big buffalso venator should probably be light ammo and actually use 2 bullets per shot with an increased base mag size (also the lifetime durability is higher than any non-legendary in the game so adjust that too)
>>565580358Good ideas, but I want them to leave venator alone for a but. I want to try out that flanking augment next expedition and pistols keep getting slapped.
>>565582569every augment besides survivor and in some niche use cases safekeeper is worthless, 3 safe pockets on top of near-top of the line stats across the board is overpowered as hellpistols already have big agility stats so the extra 0.25s you save on weapon swap time feels nice, but not enough to cover for every other downside (esp not having medium shields)also it's not that you really need to weave your weapons constantly, you swap only if you're changing your engagement range
I was bored so I was watching the Turbine move around the map and zapping everyone.
Yo what the fuck is up with that Arc board room meeting building next to the extract on Riventide? There's like 20 pops, fireballs, and comets chilling in there. What the fuck?
>>565586514Sounds like a good spot for the search arc parts trial
>>565583605>Mk.3 augment>Light shield only
Before the expedition I'm breaking down all my blues, then upgrading and transferring all my purple/gold weapons to my alt and back since they're so good now. Also transferring bench upgrades with an anvil, seeker, and wolfpack. Deadline, snaphook, and vita spray bp too. Hitting Buried City hospital rooftops at level 1.
>>565587091it's fine to have an mk3 with light shields but the bonuses need to be appropriate, 33% faster unholster times with questionable inventory stats is not enough.in general augments need buffs to be a more defining part of the kit in combat, and not just determining your logistics.same should happen with perks, they should be more powerful but restrictive in choices.
>>565590898feels good manwish I found more wolfpack blueprints to trade myself
>>565583605looting augs should get 3 pockets and light shieldstactical augs should get 2 safe pockets and medium shieldscombat augs should get 1 safe pocket and heavy shields>flanking should be tactical>defensive should be combat>safekeeper should be combatI'll die on this hill
>>565593574they said they are working on an overhaul
Flanking makes more sense as a light shield augment if it were stronger at its purpose and more role-defining like letting you run x% faster and x% more silently with a handgun equipped.Making all the looting augments 3 safe pockets is crazy though because Cautious is still useless. Unless you change it some shit like completely free adrenaline shots it will always be inferior to Survivor.
When's the new roadmap
>>565593574no augment should have 3 safepockets, unless there's some massive tradeoff like 12 max inventory slotsalso hybrid augments are fine, your suggestion is rigid garbage with no variance inside the classes.
>>565594139im guerssing after aexpedition
>>565586514they see me rollin
new trials skin looks sick, but is there a reason to grind them for 8 straight weeks? Embark did fuck-all to balance the ranking systems, trios are still above all
>>565583605tactical mk3 defensive is the best augment in the game imo and no one ever seems to talk about it
>>565604314nah just make sure you're in daredevil by the last week and then promote to hotshot by not scoring trials points until the last daybecause everyone knows peak gameplay is where you're actively incentivized not to play the game
>>565604804>because everyone knows peak gameplay is where you're actively incentivized not to play the gamethat’s the entire gamelike blueprint rewards from projects that don’t reset on wipe. gee, guess I won’t play the game until then
>someone shoots at turbine>turbine instantly kills him>explain to him how the turbine works>dont shoot it while its in the air and shoot it when its on the ground>if you shoot it in the air it will instantly kill you and reset its flight cycle>defib him>he instantly shoots it again and dies againi fucking cant man im just going to start killing everyone who shoots at the fucking thing if they dont have a jupiter
>>565604791>tactical mk3 defensive is the best augment in the game imo and no one ever seems to talk about itbecause no safe pockets and limited weight compared to the survivor but I really like using that one over the survivor too. its just nice having a free surge charger.
>>565605260Thats the boring way to fight the Turbine though. It's like staying inside to fight a leaper, sure it's optimal but boring. It is more fun to nut up and dodge those lightning strikes like a man.
>>565593574>looting augs should get 3 pockets and light shieldsno, how about you kill yourself
>>565605632I don't care if it's boring I'm trying to max score my trials stop being a nuisance
>>565606064>survivor shouldn't be nerfedimagine thinking this, as you do
survivor is too gooddefensive is bordering on too goodevery other augment is too bad
>>565610183What I'm saying is that no lvl 3 augment should only have light shield as an option
>>565610579you can use a tactical or combat aug if you don't like it>but I'll miss out on a pocketboo hoo nigga
>>565610384tactical medical is almost S-tier
>>565605073>that’s the entire gameyou're right. if you're a passive player you get put into PvE lobies where literally nothing happens
>>565611001>tactical medical is almost S-tierbecause of its extra slots? shame about the shitty ability.
>thought about booting up game>boot game>realize i hate crafting, but i guess they addressed it>realize that it's a pain in the dick to get a 50/50 pve pvp lobby, it's either carebears or bloodbathshmm
>>565612821>realize that it's a pain in the dick to get a 50/50 pve pvp lobby, it's either carebears or bloodbathsi hate this shit
I've played like 10 Riven Tides games, including 5 beach combing, looting tennis courts and hotel or storage containers (depending which side I spawn on) and have not found one fucking pink boat. This shit is not fun.
>>565615008beach combing and looting dug up suitcases is the easiest way
I wish you could CHOOSE to spawn late because I'm trying to farm Turbines and I keep getting in at 30 minutes because I have a full inventory and I have to wait 16 minutes every fucking time
>>565615494Either join as a free kit and rat the hell out of those cores or just open couriers
>>565615846NTA but both of those options are unfun. hell, fighting the turbines is also unfunthis is the least fun patch ever
>>565610384I've never seen a survivor aug. It would be my luck to catch one or a bp and embark snuffs it out.I actually wouldn't mind embark nerfing the fuck out of everything so people quit and I have more of a chance at cantina legend. I keep adapting anyways.
where are the pink ships?
>>565616483in the open on shelves and consoles
>>565616483inside containters
>>565615494Setup a half decent kit and then head to any place that drops consumables to farm for turbine fight. At least thats what I've been doing.
>>565610183survivor was already nerfed sweaty
>>565615008I've found yellow boats in the cultural archives.Just loot the wooden containers.
When this expedition leaves there's going to be a big lore/quest update tied to it in regards to the noises getting closer.
>halfway done on my alttrying to find boats is boring
>>565637210
>there's nothing but garbage hereArc Raiders since January
I had fun with the bettina buff but it still goes through ammo like crazy, two hundred heavy rounds should last me a round. back to my trusty venator
>>565637505are players still sniping his lobbies until he plays some other game?
>>565637852his stupid ass keeps playing on random other servers like asia, and then the lobby is completely dead, because he thinks people are going to stream snipe him, when I don't think anyone has in the 3 months since he stopped playing
>>565635310you know this how?
>>565637995>ecause he thinks people are going to stream snipe himhe just got stream sniped right now.nick mercs and symphunny got matched together 3 times last week within a couple hours. so its even easier for stream snipers to snipe streamers now than before with the lower player count.
>>565639238I have my sources.
>peanut cant handle the arc anymore
>>565641509Peanut is an ungrateful streamer and doesn't understand, the devs NEED to nerf everything. Buffing purples and golds would have been, ugh, just too much.
>>565635310who cares about quests. i just want them to add in one good item that is chase worthy. enough of the useless and mid items.
Hey Raiders, my neighbor plays this game really annoyingly. I can hear him shouting like an absolute moron. he's constantly on comm chat making stupid fucking quips and sounds and he's really fucking annoying, he glorifies that POS BurntPeanut. Help a brother out. Get him chat banned so he shuts the fuck up. He's also habitually tallking shit, being racist, and homophobic. Work your magic my guys.Idk his embark ID but he goes by KimJongUn, he posts on tiktok too.
Expedition damage done.Project done.600 more event points till finished.
rachetta outfit sucks, the colors are all over the place
>>565604791no it's not, having your 6th utility slot locked to a double-pump healing item that has a cooldown of 120 and only 1 active charge per time (especially considering that you don't really need to double pump medium shields) is worse than having a flexible deployable slotthe only saving grace is the fact that it's regenerating.if heavy shields weren't complete ass i would probably reconsider but right now nothing comes even close to survivor.
>>565652595>that you don't really need to double pump medium shieldswhy not they still take two shield chargers to go from 0 to 100 same as a heavy
>>5656535822 green chargers, charging once with a blue charger gives you 50 which is enough to gain an extra breakpoint against heavy hitters weapons, against automatics and shotguns a missing 20 won't really do much.if you're out of combat you can either grab an arc power cell along the way or just bring a pair of greens in your superior 3 ass pockets and top up to full whenever you have time
I wanted to play Arc today but my friend bought me Enshrouded and it's the most crusty, poorly optimized, just not fun thing I've played in a good while. That was the hot shit for a while?Now I'm free for Arc but I'm in the "everyone is a nigger" hours of matchmaking and not the 50/50.
>>565655290>loot wooden crates on stella near the hatch>some fucker falls down from archives>stands menacingly near one of the support beams, obviously still visible>he's there for like 20+ seconds, completely immobile>i'm watching him all this time>he unholsters his weapon>immediately unload my burletta into his ass on reaction>have to do solo pvp raids for a whileabmm is the most dogshit invention ever the only purpose of which is to keep carefags engaged due to them having a skill issue
>turn the corner on my way to hatch key extract and run into someone who's also trying to hatch key extract>I turn around and signal "don't shoot">"ayo bruh we got a rat over here bruh thinks he's tryna rat bruh yo dindu nuffin bix nood" This game has a serious nigger problem. Also every time I die to someone who is blatantly cheating/hacking/using macros, they're arab or some other sort of brownoid. Shameful community, clearly all the Whites have abandoned this sinking ship
>>565658574just shoot him then
>load in on riven tides>make my way to the beach >have my innocent eyes assaulted with two surveyors in the middle of making a baby comet right there on the beachdont these arc have any shame?
You are going for the big bunda army raider outfit aren't you anon.
>>565658574How do you do fellow whites
>>565665626oh fuck yeah now I absolutely am
>>565463878>Everyone groups up against the ARC there to farm damageI just went for Queens or Matriarchs and had my damage quota filled after two days.
>>565610384Aggressor augment is doable imo.
>>565665626Waiting on a crusader fit
>>565649124Does everyone have a mule or what? I'm not finishing the boat thing on purpose to get the BP.
>>565688189After the expedition, I mean
