pvefags got what they wished for but not what they wanted

>>3078312
Speak for yourself I wanted this.

the bantam and the new dmr are fun and good for what they are.
the new tether gun seems to be dogshit against the bully as it immediately snaps off the tether 90% of the time. ive heard its better against flying arc though.

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>>3078299
This can be avoided by just playing normal mode. PvE mode a shit.
t. carebear

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I play in carebear lobbies, and although I had my fun in PvE mode trying out all the legendary weapons, I'm not sure if it's the right call to make it a separate mode. I think maybe a PvE map condition that's frequent and alternates between all the maps might be the best middle ground without splitting the playerbase.

>>3078981
They should separate pve and the regular mode and remove abmm. Also make it so less people and spawning doesnt start until 10 mind into a raid and only freekits spawn.

>>3078981
>without splitting the playerbase.
But the player base is already split. The PVE mode just makes it so that rats can't game ABMM anymore.

>>3079042
>the game was already almost ruined so it's okay we ruin it completely
separate stashes and remove ABMM
everyone wins

>>3079047
Alternative suggestion: same stashes and ABMM also stays
Furthermore everyone who bought the DLC gets to vote on new features.

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glorious

>I dont think you people understand this pve mode is so bad for the game, you're not even having fun, you NEED pvp to have fun in pve
reddit is projecting hard today

>PvE toggle on. Play guitar, take pictures, say hi to raiders. Have fun.
>PvE toggle off. Get loot, be sneaky, maybe get into a fight. Have fun.
I love vidya gaem.

>>3079388
yea the game even still feels the same, I completely forgot about it the last few days and nothing stood out as weird in my regular matches

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>>3079378
kek

someone posted this on >reddit with the title
>"Rates use words to trick humans, you cant trust a word they say"
and some pvptard replied and said
>The problem is that you also use words.

>>3079042
>The PVE mode just makes it so that rats can't game ABMM anymore.
Not a problem if you're not an idiot and have situational awareness.
>Serves him right, he trusted a raider!

>>3078488
Tether gun is for pvp, disguised as a pve tool.

pvp players
>pve players are so entitled by begging the devs to change the game
also pvp players
>REMOVE PVE RIGHT NOW I DONT EVEN WANT THIS TEST TO HAPPEN
>LISTEN TO ME AND CATER TO ME EMBARK NOT THOSE GUYS

>me when i make up scenarios to affirm my retarded opinions

>only I'm allowed to have fun shitposting
pvpfags are so sensitive

Thoughts on Bantam vs big arc? Anvil was my economy boss slayer but now it's rng

dead game, should've known better than giving your money to the woke EA jew

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Well, it happened
>be in Stella loading bay
>fuck up my jump and land in the middle
>get mowed down by bastion
>it aggros on me for 5 fucking minutes even when not moving
>actually starts climbing directly on top of me and spinning to show dominance
>someone finally shoots it and distracts it
>start crawling to the exit by the stairs
>see some guy lurking
>appears to have no interest in defibbing me (no one defibs in PvE)
>throws up a barricade in front of the exit
>somehow gets the bastion to get an angle on me and finishes me off

Yeah I am never playing this faggotry mode again, and if it comes permanently and ruins regular lobbies I will stop playing entirely. I would rather be killed buy some faggot hiding in the shadows with a torrente. If you want my 50k loadout, you have to commit to killing me. The only way this pussy shit would stop is if you can not loot bodies in PvE unless the person is on your squad.

Other encounters with these cowardly degenerates
>waiting for the train with 6 other people
>one of them is an annoying 10 year old who wont stop talking. whatever
>another guy says I will use your IP address to come find you and touch you
>talking about his balls dropping
>mfw

>be in Stella sandbox control room getting batteries
>2 retards come in with pissed off shredder
>they both have guns
>one guy jumps out the window, the other one gets downed
>manage to kill the shredder but nearly die
>find the crawler and res him
>rather than a thank you, she says in a strangely manly female voice "good boy!"
>mfw

>getting bullrushed for 2 minutes straight while trying to exfil using the terminal
>have to stand there and wait for time to run out
>this happens more often than not

My conclusion is people need to be under threat of violence for them to act right.

>>3079740
why are your matches so bad
mine have been completely normal

I guess there is GBMM, griefing based matchmaking

>>3079740
Lmao get fucked welcome to arc raiders year 2

>>3079740
>My conclusion is people need to be under threat of violence for them to act right.
Do you think plebbitors will learn from this experience that people only act right when in fear of being shot by their peers for acting retarded?

>>3079729
what big arc? id rather use an anvil.

>>3079793
>guess there is GBMM, griefing based matchmaking
lmao people are having wild stories. my games have been normal too.

weird so many people are going
>you HAVE to have PvP to have PvE be enjoyable
while tons of people disagree

>>3080707
p sure lots of pvers are coming to the same conclusion that the devs did in 2k23

>>3080707
It's rats who hate pve people having fun.

>>3079740
>My conclusion is people need to be under threat of violence for them to act right.
you should have realized this when police started wearing bodycams

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>Someone shoots at me in PvE
>Chase them until I bull rush them
>Turn around to leave
>They shoot me again
>Chase them for almost a minute until I knock them back again
>They run away
Getting my bull mask in the next pass level, then the mere sight of me will strike fear into those dweebs.

>>3079793
That is the only time I was downed in PvE and I was pretty sure I was fucked. In normal lobbies I could have been knocked but also a high likelihood of getting defibbed or at least left alone to crawl to extract.
>>3080172
No idea. They blame every negative interaction on some seething PvP player bogeyman.
>>3081127
I'm aware of how things work. I was just surprised on how many wholesome chungus PvE enjoyers are actually rancid people.

People who are friendly in normal lobbies are actually friendly. Friendly people in PvE are only so because they are forced to be, and their true nature shows when they manipulate the system to kill you in a roundabout way.

t. 1k+ hours and 20 knocks

>>3080729
This is where the Arc community being too stupid to understand the term rat gets confusing. Because rats in every other extraction shooter skulk around stealing loot from under other players. They rarely engage in PvP. If anything disabling PvP allows these motherfuckers to hop into your loot room and steal right in front of your face.

>patch winners are
>equalizer
>aphelion
>il toro
>maybe bettina/anvil
>everything else is dogshit or has no amps at all
semi auto hairpin is neat though, but that's about it.

>>3081893
I like the explosive kettle

>>3081903
I'd just use a hullcracker at that point
how is it in pvp though?

pve mode when
there are so many areas I have never been able to explore in my 300h or playing this game at launch because of backstabbing faggots

>>3081730
alright I'll assume your not coming at this in bad faith
those arent "pve friendlies" those are pvp players getting access to "friendly" lobbies and not being able to shoot people

>>3082026
this
>get downed in PvE
>3 fags in those PvP skins start throwing snitch scanners and lures
>guy in regular outfit runs up and defibs me and walks away with photocloak

>>3081796
Nice try rat.

>>3081796
It's slang. Even for normal words definitions change over time and context. ARC is quite different from other extraction shooters, I'm not surprised rat has a different meaning.

>>3082026
There is no reason for a pvp player to not farm a little in pve sometimes. It actually just reveals how large the toxic pvper section of the playerbase is.

>3 guys go down to turbine in PvE mode
>see their flares
>run to them
>"No please bro, dont do this..."
>start defibbing them
>"holy shit bro, thank you so much"

>>3081911
Better but nothing stellar

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>Full Carriga outfit
>Bull rush people at random
>They shoot at me
>Chase them with unlimited sprint until I bull rush them again
This is way more fun than PvP.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPe4snCQHGQ
>the loot for fully completing the frigate is THIS bad
>you need MMO-tier levels of knowledge, ammo, heals, and coordination to complete it
>clearly designed for PVE only, becomes literally impossible if people stop working together
>can't do it on the PVE mode
>they worked on this for six months and released it in this state
scathing indictment of swedish "people"

Why is this thread on /vm/, again? For months I thought nobody cared enough to make threads on /vg/ anymore, and only a few days ago I discovered they moved to /vm/. No wonder it's fucking dead in here.

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3 turbines down
2 to go

>>3084428
probably should have made a new general with the PvE test, but our general is so slow because there is nothing to goon and shitpost about, the most we get is some schizo funposting about being a hostile pvp player, and he doesnt get many replies anymore

when our thread was on /vg/ it would just get deleted because we dont "bump" the thread since it would be like 50 posts of "bump" in a row before someone says something of substance

AND because of both of those things, our general got deleted multiple times because gachafags NEED to make their general at 750 or they'll die, theres a few generals like that where they could keep posting and their thread wouldnt hit page 10 for like 1500+ posts, but people need to get that red number off their screen

>>3084353
the devs dont understand basic game design
>hard thing should equal big loot

>>3084353
its doable with a team of 3, streamers seem to think
>oh we just kill everyone first and then do the frigate
also Valliate that pro trials guy, did it "solo" technically just needed like 1-2 random to breach stuff near the end, his vid was pretty cool
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dQKAFryhtI

>>3084428
>No wonder it's fucking dead in here.
it was pretty dead when it was on /vg/ outside of bumps and obvious troll posts

ohhh so thats why all the pvpfags are trying to sabotage pve mode
>Well, get used to it, because if PvE mode is implemented there's nothing Embark can do to srop this.
they're retarded

pve is so nice, I might never go back to normal lobbies if they release it

>>3081893
What's up with the il toro? I got the bp on my first match back so its my economy gun now that anvil's blue.

>get downed in PvE
>2 guys in pvp outfits escort me to the extract
how nice, I even said "thanks guys, everyone is so friendly in this game"
they kept trying to stand in my way and drop those red gas canisters, but I just kept crawling around them and made it out

>>3084979
slug amp toro 2-pumps medium shields center mass

>>3085253
Pretty neat, probably not going to amp guns out right away but I'll have to try it.

What about instead of a pve toggle it was a pvp toggle?

>>3085338
game would have been more successful

I still think about that dev saying he picks the bantam over the anvil

>>3078312
Pve got what they wanted
Pvpbrownoids got mad and threw a tantrum
I hope Elon buys embark and shuts down the game
Itd be the only honorable thing to do

>>3083251
>lose your good shit in pvp
>go to pve to farm up a new build
Why are pvp babies mad that there now exists a method to quickly ensure they can go back to pvp with their preferred loadout?

>decide to bring key to Emperor finally
>spawn 900m from it and have to hide from the cold for 5 fucking minutes
>finally get there but its open already
>fuck it, go in just so I can learn it and finish the quest
>make it to final room
>12 niggers jump in through the window and loot everything
>everyone bullrushing
>get very little loot but I didn't use my key so don't care
>feel bad for the guys that used their key and got nothing
>other than that really enjoyed it
How would you fix this room so people can't get in that way? Not really sure other than Arc be in there already and the door doesn't open (have to use side exit to escape). Will wait to hear some interesting stories from regular lobbies.
Oh and if you have bull rush learned you need to immediately kill yourself

>>3086595
gun + m1

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neat

>>3086506
they lied about being pvpve players, they dont actually pve
saw a clip earlier of some guy blocking off a hatch with a barricade and killing 2 people, and it was some kid going
>DUDE COME ON I PAID FOR THIS

>>3086595
probably meant to be part pvp, but idk, maybe making it a fall that you need the descender for but you cant snaphook up to

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>spending hours grinding Redirection and surveyors to get that Emp Key BP
>Hurricane on Blue Gate
>Booking it to RR to scour the breach and battery rooms
>It's_fucking_nothing.jpeg
>Hear rumor of someone finding one in a cupboard in the Village
>Book it there as fast as I can
>Searching through every nook and cranny I can for this fucking thing
>Hear a raider slowly walking around upstairs
>He goes "What's up, bro?"
>"What's good. I'm chillin'"
>"Whatchu lookin for?
>"Just that Emp Key BP, it's a real bitch to find"
>"Oh! I've got one right now."
>Fuck_that_shit.png
>He runs down the stairs and my Anvil's drawn on him
>"Don't fuck around bro, don't mess with me like that"
>He actually drops the BP
>His_smile_and_optimism_RESTORED.jpeg
If you're out there bro, you're the fucking shit. If I ever find that Bobcat BP, you're the first to get it.

>>3086741
Yeah I found mine in Dam Apartments during EMS. People should be looking in residential containers during 2x events. I would wait a bit to use your key until all the exploits are fixed.

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hooray

>>3087196
not wasiing my bully fragmenters

>>3087196
>using the Bully Fragmenter
oh no
>Go after a Bully with 2 randoms
>after a couple minutes It goes down
>8 people show up to loot
It's gonna get way worse now, I imagine

>Quit playing because I was sick of getting ratted as I never participate in PvP activities
Decide to come back because of PvE mode
>Love my first few games, not having to worry getting shot at
>Nobody greats each other
>Letting downed players die to get their gear
>Getting bullrushed from containers
>Kept prisoner in a shelter with 1 player on the stairs, 1 in the door blocking my escape
>Approach and greet a random player to give away a spare Anvil blueprint I found. He sounds like a preteen kid who tells me to shut the fuck up
>Caught in a blizzard, run to shelter with 5 ARC surrounding it. "ahh doesn't matter, i'll be save inside", they closed the door, I get shot and downed. They come out to watch me die
I've learned my lesson. I'm back to PvP carebear lobbies

>go to the pool every day
>splash around with my fellow poolgoers
>sometimes I get splashed in the eyes but that's rare since everyone in the shallow end agrees it's a dick move
>the hardcore splashers have their own special deep end pool and we never meet
>just having fun splashing around in the pool
>some guy starts crying he paid for a pool membership but is too scared to swim
>we all tell him the water's not that deep and he can easily walk around in the shallow end
>he says no it's impossible and starts crying louder
>finally the pool devs drain all the water out of our pool
>crying guy is happy now he can play in the pool
>just trying to have fun walking around in the empty pool
An ARC Raiders tale.

https://youtu.be/qRb60z8eI4o?si=hkDSyr0fZrBor0C6

>>3088304
Funniest shit I've seen in a good long while in Arc Raiders fucking lol.

>guy tries putting a pulse mine on the flying platform up to the frigate
>disarm it and kill him
>I am now rewarded with rat pvp cheater hell lobbies for not wanting to die to some retard
great system Embark, ABMM really works well

why dont the retards just copy the chink solution to pve/ ratting?

just had someone literally just walk into me to push me off wtf?
is this some kind of glitch?
I've never experienced another raider pushing another one (without bull rush that is)

>>3088421
probably wouldnt work in NA

>>3088460
I saw one guy walking around with no animations, guesing its some cheat engine thing but they wouldnt usually use that feature since they pvp

>>3088486
if it works on the worst playerbase known to man it will work on mutts

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woohoo

Frigate is such a joke
>load up with a 100k loadout
>get on top of it
>full of naked or poverty kits
>leave
>re queue
>same thing again
>repeat
great game design Embark

>dance with someone at the extract
>thy suddenly stop
>"Man you got some cool weapons, can I have one?"
>emote "no"
>extract shows up
>so does a hornet
>start killing the hornet
>he starts trying to bully shove me and get his by it
>he pushes me out of the way and takes the hit and goes down
>turn my mic on
>"holy shit you saved me, thank you so much, lets get out of here friend"
>for some reason he doesnt reply now

this is too much progress now, if expeditions reset any of this stuff, even less people are going to do them

I guess expeditions will just be a inventory wipe type prestige system, because I doubt anyone wants to go through RNG hell again to get their items they need

>>3089600
yeah dont know how they recover from this. theyd need to give me 2000 space bucks if they want me to wipe.

>>3089674
I guess they have to consider real rewards, like permanent blueprints, I guess I can see the devs being like
>well your workbenches reset and you have to farm frigate and emperor again, isnt that cool?

>>3089600
>>3089674
>>3089687
I don't think Expeditions can work with this much progression in the game
>upgrade your stash
>find all bps again
>build and upgrade your workshops
>unlock and upgrade Outpost
>build Outpost room
>find Outpost bps
>build Outpost furniture
>unlock and upgrade research table
>collect research points
>do Emperor and Frigate for research materials
>do challenges for amped guns upgrades
>amp your guns
there is far too much to do now, and especially if you are to cram all that into just 2 months
players would burn out after like the first Expedition
if they can iron out the kinks with the Frigate, it will serve as enough of a resource sink for the game to not need wipes

>>3089732
I'm guesing it would be longer than 2 months but it doesnt feel like it would be worth it
does Tarkov do that? just reset all progress completely? including quests and their version of outpost?

>>3089743
I don't know how Tarkov does it now but back when I played it, it reset all quests and it's hideout yeah
Tarkov also has those shitty RPG stats like your health, stamina, recoil control whatever that gets reset too
I think the biggest difference is that most of Tarkov's progression isn't behind a bunch of RNG (especially thanks to the Flea Market)
ARC Raiders is like a slot machine compared to Tarkov

>>3089768
I got so lucky on the frigate thing, I have no idea how I'd be able to do that again
otherwise I see a streamer trio wipe everyone out so they are free to loot the ship, I guess thats how embark expects people to play, like how you can just wait at the exit of Emperer to try and kill the people who did it

>>3089784
I got my Frigate thing thanks to a guy who found one but had already got his, so I could have it
it's really annoying how they lock progression behind just getting lucky

>>3089743
Tarkow wipe everything, quest and outpost included
But tarkov is basically cyber-CBT, I dont think that's the vibe embark are going for

>>3089797
I still have to get theemprer thing, but luckily I hve the blueprint to make keys

how did I get the blueprint? killing a random surveyor

>>3089732
and of course all assuming they dont add in any more stuff to grind. it would be a nightmare. at the minimum wipes would need to be every 6 months, coinciding with the major updates.

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Last night of PvE before it's back to Chungartha.

i like pve
played on launch but quit because friendly lobbies got really boring but i didn't wanna shoot people to get into pvp lobbies for fear of having to listen to some pissypants dadgamer whine at me
now they're all in pve and i can actually play the video game

>>3090086
Piss poor attempt at trolling. You could always just shoot people in the extraction to get hostile lobbies.

another turbine down, one more to go
>>3090081
shit I better finish this challenge up

>like to turn on mgs music and just sneak about, using field crafting/distractions to avoid people
>stuck in carebear lobbies where I won’t get killed if I’m seen
>new PvE mode is so boring that makes it so there’s even less reason to play
If PvE is going to be a thing, the ABMM should be deleted.

>>3090840
down with both, both suck
although ABMM sorts cheaters, it could be at least heavily softened, shit's as rigid as a concrete slab

>>3090850
A toggle would be nice. I want to shoot back at people but I don’t want to club seals

>>3090853
>lets remove abmm
>lets make it a button
what's the fucking point then?

>>3089732
They're pretty smart pausing it to sort out what to do. I'm probably just not going to ever have amped guns because I enjoy the expedition 0 to 100 number go up loop.

what would the new expedition look like
>level reset
>inventory wipe

what the fuck do you put on an amped bettina? i don't feel it anons

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holy shit, I did it, I lost a jupiter staying until the last minute spamming shots into it, but worth it to be done with this challenge

NO FRIGATE IS UP??????? EMBAAAAAAAARK
That shit should always be up IMO

>>3092542
NA had one, phew

>>3092550
aaaaaand no one does the objective here either
I shouldn't be surprised

>>3092582
yea man its been like that
if you do queen/matriarch you know
>be killing the thing with like 5 other dudes
>whole time naked/freekits are runing around collecting the cores that drop from armor
>leaving only the ball left at the end
the update to make armor not drop cores and you have to kill the boss kind of worked out, still get people doing nothing who run to get loot, but at least you can focus on the fight before trying to loot
maybe theyll do something like that with the frigate if people figure out how to do it in solos

but right now the meta is to trio, kill all the other teams, then do the frigate with your bros

or be so charismastic you get the lobby to follow you around the ship and you basically do it yourself with a ton of firepower to take down arc and the engines

>>3093329
neat

thought it as neat seeing
>ABMM is killing the game, it needs to be removed
to
>actually PvE mode will kill the game, why not just play PvPvE it has ABMM

>>3093329
hmm i think its cool

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>>3093417
>>3093479
heres with all the toggles off

already missing that PvE toggle

I wanted to like Arc Raiders but most of the grind/upgrade reason is cosmetics and i don't give a shit about those
played about 60 hours and never changed from the default model

>>3093530
hoping thats a future update, I think there was something datamined about customization and mixing sets, but nothing announced officially

I played so much during the pve test
I'm going to stop playing now and hopefully that shows up in their data

>>3093329
Generic mid level zelda enemy.

https://arcraiders.com/news/speranza-security-recruitment
>That’s where you come in, Raider - join the Speranza Security team and lend your voice to the new Gondola extract!
>Send us a recording of your voice lines for a chance to be selected as a new Gondola operator, guiding frozen Raiders back to their warm home.
You! Yes you! You can now have your voice stolen by AI! Just send us a voice sample and we'll put you in the game! And feed it to our AI :^)

>>3093483
sexy ww1 babe

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DUDE
why the fuck do they keep putting useless shit in the trader, we had the anvil and hullcracker last week
fucking craft a grappling hook if you need one, should be added to the normal shop anyway

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just another frigate, the way it's meant to be played

>>3090864
>>3078846
>>3079585
>bohooo i can no longer instantly 100-to-0 players that would have never shot me first boohoo

>>3079047
a sensible approach

>>3085338
revolutionary

>grind and unlock all 5 Ermal vault slots
>put a survivor BP in each slot
>get home from work
>vault gone
>BPs gone
>no compensation for all the grinding it took to unlock the vaults

Every day I am reminded how incompetent these devs are. Unreal.

>>3095436
where are the books from, or are those also random drops from containers

>>3096078
ive seen the purple research arc parts shown in the picture from arc drops. mostly shredders.

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>>3095654

>>3095650
>>bohooo i can no longer instantly 100-to-0 players that would have never shot me first boohoo
I said I'm a carebear, I only shoot first if you're a thieving nigger. PvE mode makes friendly lobbies for normal queue worse or longer waits.

>>3096742
larp

>>3096758
In what way?

>>3096742
>queue worse or longer waits.
worked the same for me

>>3096826
Honeymoon period from the update, when things die down again it will be noticable. It's just math. If you remove a chunk of friendly players from the normal queue, times will be longer or have wider matches.

>the queue was worse
no it wasnt
>well it will be!

>>3096880
>semantics

>>3096894
>coping
if people like pve so much, they would not be playing right now. and when they fix the trolling aspects of it like collision and bull rush, the griefers will return to the regular lobbies too.

>>3096929
>if people like pve so much, they would not be playing right now
they aren't, because the test has been finished for days

>>3096574
>everyone buying vault slots to get free bronze statues that stack higher value that anything else and can be placed in your outpost

>>3097329
oh damn
thats smart

I feel so unmotivated without pve mode

I felt so unmotivated with pve mode

Man, I feel like a woman.

>>3096574
Yep, glad they addressed it. I can put the bronze statues towards extra inventory slots and hold on to the rest

So this has been my experience with friendly lobbies in the last few days:
>everyone prox chats, actually respond to your greeting
>hey you need this blueprint?
>hey where are you I got a defib
>guy asks for a heal so I bandage him and he gives me a guitar
>hey buddy what are you looking for?
>general chatting about quests etc. between people who aren't socially maladjusted
>you and another guy kill a big arc, and its the only two who loot it
>senses heightened because I know there is still a chance of getting shot

PvE:
>prox chat silence
>when someone does talk they sound like they have deep mental health problems. get fight or flight response from what they say
>no revives
>griefing/bull rush faggotry
>loot goblins everywhere
>boring
>generally hostile vibe

Interested to see where they go with this mode

>>3098859
my pve lobbies were mostly normal, maybe a team of griefers in each match watiing for someone to die to get their loot

>huh, energy ammo removed from the harvester
>it was a pve match
>less loot, like they said
>let's get some free energy ammo in this regular harvester
>they removed it
Nice.
I also like how you can put certain items into your outpost blocking other items, so that you can't select them anymore. Forcing you remove another item first if you want to select it again.
Really well done and they thought long and hard about this.
Loved hearing idiots announce that anybody who steps into their blaze grenade fire a rat.
It's your stupid research. Should've done it PvE lobbies like everybody else, slowpoke.

>nobody doing the matriarch
>bastion on my ass
>might as well kill it before I leave
>use a wolfpack and a bunch of seekers
>rocketeer aggro
>cloak
>loot goblin doing his work
>try to loot
>No bastion cores left
>loot goblin still there
>Kill him and get 4 bastion cores
Man, killing somebody while he's looting is so easy. Is that what those pvptards brag about?
LMAO
Thanks for reading my blog

>>3095318
Anvil and hullcracker are permanently in the nomad shop now after they removed it from the gun shop. Read the patch notes.

>>3100307
I dont read patchnotes, but I guess thats cool

>>3089732
Yup. I won't do another expedition if it means losing everything again. That outpost stuff is a ridiculous grind. Same as the research shit.
I guess I'll turn it on every once in a while for an event or new map.

>epic arc loot can't be used with the nomad shop
>blue and green arc loot as well sometimes
>they forgot to add the new arc loot from the skulker and bully as currency in the nomad shop
Embarrassing

>riven tides
>southern extract
>trying to do the light grenade research
>bombardier right next to me
>I start attacking it
>a guy with an osprey starts shooting in my direction
>call the elevator
>run inside
>two others join in the elevator
>one guy drops a blueprint
>drop 1 stack of light grenades to pick it up
>the other guy picks up the grenades and starts throwing it at us

>>3095436
I've done it maybe 10 times and got the frigate thing after doing a couple of naked runs. What an event.
Now I need to get the emperor thing and then I'm almost done with all the new content. Killing 5 turbines will suck the most and amplifying whatever the fuck and using it.

there's supposedly a new survey being sent out in emails
I haven't gotten anything, but maybe someone here has?
could anyone tell us what's in it

>>3100502
same here
actually killing 5 turbines wasnt too bad, I probably made it harder because i just wanted to at least deadline them 1-2 times

Some of the lines of dialogue are so badly written. Could they change those instead of changing the face of that npc and record new shitty music?
The matriarch and harvester events have some of the worst ones when the match starts.
I'm muting my game every time and wait 15 seconds before I unmute. It's unbearably retarded
Or maybe a toggle to shut those assholes up? Same thing in the shop menu.

Just dropped a big sour dookie

>muffuggn bix nood
>wtf?
>forgot to change my servers and i'm still in NA
kek

>>3100936
turn crossplay off and you'll get less niggers, not many play on pc

>>3101608
crossplay was off on pc when that happened. So you're wrong, you n-word.

>>3101656
You can say the nigger word on 4chan. Yes it happens but I said less niggers, not none.

I think I finally want to play the game again, still miss pve mode

>buy 2 vault slots
>get refunded next week
sweet

>see guy trap 6 shredders in that one room
>throws the bully thing
>only get 2700 points
skipping that shit

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>>3105448
is security breach even worth it?

>>3105522
if you do a lot of pve sure, gives tons of free wolfpacks

>>3105522
nta but I like it for weapon parts

>>3105522
it's like 4 points extra to the best skill branch in the game so why the fuck not?

>>3105787
>it's like 4 points extra to the best skill branch in the game so why the fuck not?
yellow tree?

>>3105910
NTA but you can get breach plus all the good perks including a capstone in yellow

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>>3105522
Wolfpacks and guns. Hell yah, fuck yah.

>"omg embark has a new project coming out, theres a trailer for it for the 27th"

>look it up
>
https://www.reddit.com/r/ArcRaiders/comments/1xdi6a2/embark_new_project_coming_souls_offering_raider/

bruh, thats just a stupid arc raiders project

>>3107216
oh boy I can't wait for 5 more random trinkets to enter the loot tables forever

Finally maxed out all my benches. Now all that remains is doing the quests and preparing for my third and final expedtion to get the last 5 skill points.

>>3107233
the top liked comments are making fun of that kek
>Hand over 6000 shoes for an Anvil 1

Arc Raiders raiders should have legendary augments, I feel like the dropped the ball not including any for this update. I feel like it would be fun to have a Shani Security augment where if a raider is killing players or profiled as aggressive enters within a certain range from you, she warns you over the radio.

There could be a Tian Wen augment that gives you ammo safe pockets, and makes ammo and mods weigh "0" in safe pockets and weapon slots.

I'd fuck with a Celeste Gathering augment, could have the most safe pockets + inventory in the game but it automatically breaks items down into your inventory. Would obviously synergize with that max recycle perk.

An Ermal Augment could be cool, maybe you trade for it from him and it'll let you carry a certain percentage more of items in each slot.

>>3108787
probably saving it for next 6 month update

>>3108787
Waiting for an augment rework before releasing more would be my guess.

the grappling hook is so much darn fun

I'm glad normalfagsthink survivor sucks now, maybe they wont touch it
>its impossible to get out of panola pass with survivor, they completely nerfed it and its useles now
yea haha, so hard haha

>>3113133
You can use survivor to crawl to extract and on the pikmin rockets what are you talking about?

>>3113427
I'll explain the joke
my post was clearly making fun of normalfags who think its impossible and agreeing with them so they dont nerf the kit

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>>3113459
Frigate would never.

>>3113619
yea it was emperor which is more fun for some reason

all these amplified guns sound like they suck (if you amplify the hullcracker, it gets weaker bullet velocity, completely screwing up your muscle memory), with the only upgrade being the rascal

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>>3086741
>unable to get BP during PVE.
>Redirection- cannot loot fast enough
>on way out to reset again. Anon asks if I need emperors BP.
>hell yah!
>drops bp for me, says he looted 2 last round.
>I offer him furniture BP for outpost he didnt have.
>extract out.
Thanks again anon. Really kind!

>>3114457
love this game sometimes
I've been doing the emperor and people have it already open and are just sitting at the first hydra, I'll be like
>this your emp key?
>"yes"
>drop them my unused one
>wait
>they pick it up and say "thanks bro"
>pull out my snaphook
>fly past the hydra and start completing the puzzle

tfw been neglecting arc in favor or battlehounds...

>>3114644
in favor of*

>>3114644
por favor senor

>do emperor run
>seems like a new guy
>give him some tips as were running through
>drops me a emp key at the end
nice

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>>3114521
If we ever meet up you can complete mine. I really enjoy when players help other players in this game.

What is the useless outpost room with no storage?

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just got an amplified bettina and amplified hullcracker from guys that died to the crusher wall

>help someone with a turbine
>they needed the last hit
damn

>>3113930
emperor
>can be done solo
>adventure through a dungeon
>varied traps and complex map
frigate
>6 rocketeers, 4 vaporizers, 30 fireflys, 20 wasps, and 6 hydra
>and you got 2 people with a anvil and 1 guy with a hullcracker to try and coordinate with
>AND the rewards are worse
Maybe if the cargo hold was better but as it is frigate blows.

>>3116395
the loot for these should be switched. you invest 500k into a frigate run and get rewarded with belly button lint and a chewed up gum wrapper. meanwhile you bypass all obstacles with a snaphook in the emperor and get rewarded with a million orange loot.

>be me
>on locked gate in reinforced reception
>some spastic retard surrenders next to me
>everyone else in the area now believes I killed a guy
>actually have to kill like 4 dudes just to get out of there
yeah, thanks fucktards, and ABMM would have wanted me to just take my "punishment", so now I'm going to be stuck in the pvp hellscape thanks to these dumbasses and this shit matchmaking system

>>3117783
LITERALLY the next locked gate raid I get shot at as soon as I see another player
ABMM is such SHIT
and unsurprisingly no one in the lobby was trying to get it done, the first guy who shot at me just started shooting me out of nowhere in an open field
I got away and against my better judgement I thought I'd continue trying to collect all the codes for the gate
but no, of course there is a guy CAMPING the reinforced reception printer, so I die as I genuinely didn't think someone would just be sitting there in the dark, waiting

>>3117783
>>some spastic retard surrenders next to me
he's running to reinforced reception to get the survivor blueprint and then suicide if he gets it or not
>everyone trying to kill me now
use your mic and explain
>>3117839
>pvp hellhole lobbies
yea because the game thought you killed 4 people for no reason man
you'll probably have to play quiet and carefully for some matches, maybe even bring in a hatch key if you can, since those pvpguys love to camp or run to extracts for free loot

>>3117783
so you're saying you shot first...

>>3117865
>>3117885
I didn't actually
the first guy who saw me next to the dudes corpse just instantly opened fire on me with my back turned
so I had to run away, and suddenly I've got everyone down there after me
You're not going to reason with people who believe you just killed another player, especially when their first response is to just open fire immediately

>>3117896
>Lobby willing to spill first blood
You weren't in chungus you dirty rat

>>3117896
Defending yourself doesn't affect your ABMM

>>3117783
>and this shit matchmaking system
as opposed to there being no ABMM and 99% of lobbies being KoS? get some cheap kits for some raids and suck it up jesus christ.

>>3117997
it 100% does

>>3118331
that was patched out
or you're a moron and think "defending yourself" doesnt just mean if you get shot first
like that one redditard

>guy comes into my keyroom
>blast him and knock him out
>suddenly in pvp lobbies
wtf bros, I was "defending" my keyroom

>>3118359
nah I tried it last week and moved from carebear to kos lobbies within one match
it was also some freenig trying to kill me with a fucking rattler, honestly these faggots shouldnt affect matchmaking at all

>>3118378
are you not NA?
not an insult, maybe its different in other regions, havent had some freenig try to nig me in forever and I'm on NA
I'm also on PC, no idea if consolefags are like that

>>3118149
I shouldn't have to perform the humiliation ritual of dying over and over to faggots just because a couple of guys forced me to kill them

>>3118378
>nah I tried it last week and moved from carebear to kos lobbies within one match
I've had a freekit try to kill me and my lobbies never changed. I call bullshit.

>>3118331
I mean you can see the patch notes that say otherwise, and plenty of anons here telling you from personal experience. If they missed their shots it doesn't count, maybe that's what happened

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>>3118444
Embark confirmed that players defending themselves (not shooting first) abmm is not impacted.

>>3118416
NTA but listen here nigger, without ABMM you'd get killed way more fucking often than you do now. And if you're one of the people wanting PvE mode you'll just get griefed way worse than normal matches as shown with how people acted before. Plus you can't kill ninja looters, so enjoy your zero loot.

>be me
>into the bowels of the emperor
>some literal retard walks in front of my Anvil, almost gets his head blown off
>can't patch him up, need to kill the hydra
>ANOTHER FAG RUNS PAST AND COPS ANOTHER BULLET
IM SHOOTING THE FUCKING HYDRA YOU FUCKING NIGGERS, CAN YOU NOT SEE WHERE YOU'RE WALKING YOU DUMB CUNTS!

>>3118564
if its that first hydra, most people learned you can just walk past it
the other hydras people usually ignore

>>3118544
my issue is not dying, it's the retarded gymnastics that ABMM puts players through and how it gets gamed
I want the raw and organic emergent player experience, not something dreamed up by a shitty ass algorithm that works against natural player behavior

>>3118796
nta but time and time again, natural player behavior turns lobbies into KOS hell holes because you literally cant trust anyone, and if they shoot you first and are ready to kill you, you just lose

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Had to put down another retard today. Told him taking loot from ARC you didn't kill was a good way to get shot. Told him to leave and he shook his head lmao.

>>3118848
nice one phil

>>3118796
>I want the raw and organic emergent player experience, not something dreamed up by a shitty ass algorithm that works against natural player behavior
if you want KoS lobbies just start blasting people you tard

Riventide normal I pulled the following BPs:
Powered Descender
Crash Mat
White Flag

>>3119268
Damn all garbage.

Shinyatheninja dropped the evidence that Aimkey was cheating.

debating whether or not to waste some bully fragmenters to 3star that trial

>>3120050
I threw three at a bombadier and wasted 3 other ones, I only got 1200 points, guess that ones for the trios

>>3118848
Phil, you killed Celeste. What a little loot slut.

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>>3119954
Yah, true. I was surprised at the large concentration on a normal map.

>>3120795
Good, bitch was ugly before and after the makeover

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Im normally in Chungartha lobbies because I don’t usually have anything to gain from PVP. Been trying to do Emperor for hours the last few days but get bad spawns, or die to bullshit like bad snaphook grabs. Last game of the night, im kitted as fuck for another attempt. Spawn in fairly close and meet another guy who is down to run Emperor. We get to the opened hatch at like 28 min and some guy rushed in to the new Emperor dungeon like 1 minute into a match and managed to immediately set up a ton of mines and barricades, several mines on the elevator as well. it was so excessive compared to previous lobbies. Me and 2 other guys caught up to him on voice chat and said “dude whats with the traps asshole you cant carry all this loot out yourself anyway” he said “fuck you it’s my key eat shit” and wouldnt budge. We said the key is easy to make stop being a whiney bitch etc, he keep jeering us. So we decided to wait for him to finish the dungeon and we would jump him. Climbed the Emperor, then sprung in as soon as the loot room opened, I toss showstoppers and run in and gunned him down. Dude was kitted to the gills, had an Amplified Hullcracker and Amplified Kettle. He was cussing us out on voice comms I told him he was a selfish cunt and deserved to die. It was just me and one other at that point, (I already trusted him because I had shot him earlier thinking he was the asshole, he talked me down and I healed him, he never shot back.) Homie looted with me, found an Emperor module which I gave him a wolfpack for, and I was able to then upgrade my gun bench then finally amplify like a dozen of my weapons and complete the Emperor quest. Made even better because asshole had an Alabama retard type accent and said he would report me for exploiting. I never do a rat playstyle but this was soooo worth it.

I am looking forward to some mixed lobbies for a bit

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>>3120986
You are brown, are you not. Disgusting brown behavior.

https://arcraiders.com/news/live-update-2-3-0

>>3121674
>an actual non-meme heavy shield buff
hory shieeet

>>3121717
they said the buffed durability for frozen trails too

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oh joy more random junk to dilute the loot pool

>buy 2 vault slots after hearing the announcement
>they didnt get refunded
damn

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>>3121838
with everything "off"

>>3121736
that's a meme buff thou

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>>3121796
guess the trader had to reset

>>3120986
based

>guy makes a post called "Guide" for the new project
>look inside
>its just pictures of each step of the project
>something you can literally do yourself

>comment saying "We have very different definitions of the word Guide"
my brother

>>3121845
looks cool

>>3121674
>nerfed emperor loot
>frigate loot buffed(but only at the very end)
So overall nerf right?

>>3122500
>>nerfed emperor loot
only the stuff leading up to the main room.

>Reduced the drop chance of the Emperor Key blueprint from Redirection pods, and added a small chance to find ARC parts and high-tier ARC loot to compensate.
but why?

>>3122573
gotta stretch out those 6 months of no content

>>3122500
I think they just nerfed the early shit near the beginning, the end is still pretty nice
>>3122573
idk, I feel so lucky I got that
>stupid blueprint
>frigate inductor
>emperor inductor
before all these changes

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>>3121536
white as the sun actually. Most of my raids I am helping people find shit or teaching them how to assemble emperor keys, get quests done, etc. but I like killing greedy asshole redneck jabba the hutts (he had a fat voice)

I hate change. It makes me uncomfortable. Also without expedition I have no checklist to mindlessly grind for so see yin 6 months or something.

>>3122651
I still have quests to do
I dont really like the amplified weapons, as a pvefag, the amplified hullcracker sucks unless you just amplify it for the cool reload, and a lot of fguns are like that for some reason, I guess its balance but its like
>here amplify this gun
>actually its a side grade or it would be too OP
>oh btw you have to farm the emperor if you want to repair it, we actually lied that you could repair weapons normally and just lose access to the amplified part

>>3122573
normal swedish retardation

>>3121674
>still no reversal on anything from the triple snaphook nerf
I HATE SWEDEN I HATE SWEDEN I HATE SWEDEN I HATE SWEDEN I HATE SWEDEN I HATE SWEDEN I HATE SWEDEN

https://youtu.be/iI6cuCic6Ao

good video
basically no good reason to do the new activities. even if you wanted to do them, design of the new activities incentivise people ratting and freekitting it up and not actually engaging with the activity ie standing by the emperor door or looting the outside containers in the frigate with no need to actually finish it

>>3123446
Why bother playing? To have fun.
Why bother NOT ratting? I'm not a nigger.

>>3123446
how old is this video, because they patched emperor and frigate this morning

as for the whole people being rats, yea I think that's part of the game philosophy, otherwise why wouldnt they put an extract right inside the emperor when you complete
>b-b-but that map has g-g-gondolas
yea like the fucking devs of the game cant put in a hatch in there

its way more likely that if you are in pvp lobbies, you are supposed to fight other players to keep your shit, keeping with the theme of an extraction shoter

as for frigate no idea how to incentivize that, the patch mentioned removing all the rare stuff from the easy to get to spots, so now its just going to be if people learn to work together to actually try and complete it

took a step in the right direction with the patch today, but people killing you is just going to happen in this kind of game, maybe if they include frigate in pve, pve emperer was alright

do people actually complete the frigate now or is it still hobo land?

>>3123446
>>3123548
>2 days ago
technically outdated, so dont feel like watching

but if he's just complaining about assholes trying to camp your extract and people not doing the frigate and emperor, not really much you can do besides pvp them off of you
and just accept some of their game design is to get you to pvp to keep your loot, thats how emperor felt, everyime I watch a frigate run its like 4 guys looting the whole thing themselves and leaving casually

>>3123565
frigate update was only today and not everyone reads patchnotes, so might take a week for the dickheads (naked runniers) to figure out they're wasting their time

>>3123548
sure you can never stop ratting but they can make it a little more difficult for people to stop being freekitters completely cirumventing the entire challenge.
the devs understood this with the queen legs, cores less likely to drop from armor parts and the actual legs need to be destroyed now. does that stop freebums no but it at least makes it a little harder for them to steal away the cores. this entire incetive angle also applies to emperor vs frigate. why bother doing the frigate when you can do some stupid obstacle course with a snap hook (or wait by the door) and get 10x the loot and 100x less effort? its just retarded design choice that i think they do because they dont want to alienate the dad gamers.

>>3123664
yea it will be interesting to see if the update today helps
also that buff to purple shields, that should help some against frekits

as for the loot distribution, i think the frigate is more for knowledge, but thats just from seeing people pulling out those gold knowledge books at the end of frigate, and I havent found those in emperor

to be honest, the whole amplified weapon system feels like shit, this stuff isnt used at all if you arent at "endgame" and if you are, then what, you're just sitting there running emperor over and over again to have materials to repair your amplified weapon that you can use for like 2 matches

I guess they are supposed to be trial tools? cause they're not needed for emperor, maybe frigate? and then a lot of the upgrades are just side-grades, not actually improving the gun too much

some notable ones for me are
>reloading 2 bullets at a time renegade
>mag reload hullcracker
still have to try
>amplified anvil
and
>amplified osprey
everything else sounds like a bad upgrade (single fire bettina) or used for pvp

>>3123446
yeah the whole amplification system is retarded and feels like its made for some pve mode

>>3123676
>>3123768
Amplified guns are ridiculously effective in pvp

>>3123782
thats cool for pvpbros
some of the guns do seem cool, but i only fight arc

>>3122569
>nerfed 60% of the stuff
>didnt buff the last 40%
Thats called a nerf. Glad I abused the exploit before they patched it, which seems to be a trend with this game. Abuse the cheats, exploits and bad design then laugh as it gets nerfed.

>>3123937
if you abused the exploit then what does it matter that they nerfed the crates leading up to the main room?

>>3124122
It doesnt for me, cause I got mine. Also the exploit got patched, friendly heads up.

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bobcat nerf when?

I have found every trinket 5 times over and not one fuckin dead flowers

>>3125124
the headshot modifiers in this game are... too much
in every game actually, especially if they call it casual
doesn't BF have it at like 1.35x?

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Killed a rat who lured someone pretending to be friendly.

>looting in the offices of the railway station
>two raiders outside
>Yooo bro what gun is that? What gun is that?
>*rattler dump*
>pop fzzooo

Waited a minute, then ran downstairs and Venator’d, then finished him with an impact grenade when he hid in a doorway

>brooo why’d you do that
Sucks to be you rat
>freekit

Im the sheriff round these parts

>playing last night
>reading the new update between games
>emperor key bp drop rate will be reduced
>go to pendola
>do a redirection
>get the bp and extract
>game then updates
Thanks for the heads up Embark, fucking nerds

should arc have wipes?

>>3125519
it should have a faster gear turnout, but the bitchmade wont allow it

>>3123676
> There is no incentive in the endgame, I'm doing the most challenging shit in the game and there's no cool shit to reward me for it.
>- Here, have these weapon amps.
>- Ugh, what for? This stuff isnt used at all if you arent at "endgame", and if you are then you're already doing those missions you are doing.

You just want more progression, in a game that already has too much progression.

Like 90% of complains ITT become meaningless if you just do the maps and modifiers yo like doing instead of optimooozing your goop per hour in Excel like it's your job.

>>3125821
>Like 90% of complains ITT become meaningless
dude we're just a bunch of chuds wasting time posting on 4chan, its not that serious, redditors are the ones who are demanding shit

>>3125821
it's not a question of progression, it's a question of it being too fast with nearly no losses so people burn out faster
there's no pacing to anything in this game

>>3125963
>it's not a question of progression
It is, in the sense of you being unsatisfied with more activities without appropriate special rewards, and with more special rewards without appropriate more challenging activities to apply them to.

>it's a question of it being too fast with nearly no losses so people burn out faster
It is true that in AR you can get all the shit relatively quickly if you what you're doing. But it is just plainly completely wrong that dragging it out would make anyone burn out slower on the game. It's not just a personal vibe take - we have dats on EFT, which does take an absolute shitton of playtime to get into endgame content, and we know for a fact that people burn out way worse on EFT. Amazingly, forcing people to play game in just one (often deliberately limited and unpleasant) way just to maybe gain access to playing it in a somewhat decent way 150+ hours down the line is fundamentally quite exhausting.

Extraction shooters are by design not suited for a directed progression. They are not RPGs, they are first and foremost sessions shooters, with loot and NPCs serving as incentives and modulators of emergent of emergent gameplay (situations that happen because of loot, gear and ARC, that would not happen sans the extraction system). If you think there is, then you don't play the game for the game - your gameplay is the stash. There is no real road from A to B in the nature of the gameplay, the only way to make such a road is to artificially gate shit for no reason other than dragging it out. That does not compliment the gameplay, and only makes it extremely tedious. You could just as well say that CS2 has no pace.

One could argue that gating makes sense in the vein of not overwhelming nooks with too much content, but even in that sense - I believe that even AR is actually too slow, with workshop improvements serving as pointless bloat. It would be better with even less "pacing" elements.

>>3126253
>1k hours to get your bearings vs doing endgame content on day 2
not even remotely comparable, retard.

>your gameplay is the stash.
yes, but considering that nobody experiences losses (because abmm/pve/general ease of aquisition) people just end up hoarding shit and then leaving when the stash is full