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I am fairly bored with the game having completed all content except for the latest Live Event stuff, so I just pop in on occasion to shoot arcs with a sniper to get experience with bullet drop and travel time. Its not uncommon to have people come try and kill me, though usually I don't stay too...

Welp. Appears the new patch only had 3 quests in it. So much for that. While I was searching for the two quest items you need to find I started finding new stuff I hadn't seen before, so I got mildly excited that maybe there would be new quest lines and crafting. Nope. Least, not this...

Went into Stella Montis. Oddly, my spawn put me right on top of 2 other people, which is concerning. Fortunately it was solos and people were more interested in helping each other out and exploring than shooting each other so I survived spawning in. The new map is, as said above, an...

I have a sneaking suspicion that in their minds there are 'pvp guns' and 'pve guns' and they are not only balancing them with regards to pvp ttk, etc etc, but also trying to have a separation of what people use for pvp and what people use for pve. Most people seem to think the purple guns are...

Is this the one where they were all suing each other because Horizon Zero Dawn's people told the CN company to fuck off, or is this a different release? Just looked it up. That is 'Light of Motiram'. Makes a lil more sense why they rejected Tencent's offer if they were already doing deals...

So new patch dropped. They are 'unlocking' the new zone and promising new enemy types (two if I read the patch notes right, Matriarch and Shredder). However, they locked the new zone behind a 'community' project where we all have to donate a fucktonne of basic materials until we gather up...

I find it funny that everyone is all 'Game of the Year'. Maybe for this year, but by next year I'm curious how many people will still be playing.

Yeah. People have posted getting it in game and the shown the recipe. They could be lying of course, but I don't believe so.

Bettina, Anvil, Venator, Osprey (oh god the ospreys recently) and Torrenti for guns. I rarely see an Il Toro BP. I got the gun parts and those seem decently common. Supposedly depends on what you open, but I make a habit of opening all the drawers and lockers I can but yeah. There needs to...

I truthfully don't think you are missing much in the long run. I expect this game to burn brightly and then burn out. Unless they really keep up a good content release schedule the game quickly devolves into a 'well, what now?' bit where farming materials and guns is easy, especially with the...

If you can, save stacks of the high end trinkets cause the last stage of the expedition is to donate so much monetary value from each 'class' of item to the expedition. IIRC, its Weapons, Augments/shields/quick items, trinkets/nature/blueprints, and crafting material as the 4 categories.

I have 1 rusted gear. Was saving it for my friend but I think he's moved to another game. As to the hidden bunker, I was hoping it rotated, but the one time I got to it and it seems for you as well it was in the same place. To the SW of the map. On a night map you can actually look down...

Yeah. Seen Volcanic rocks a few times. On the SPaceport night map, w/sw of it (I'll get a more precise location later) there is a door to a bunker and if you go on top the mound you can look down in cause the roof is partly damaged. Haven't figured out how to get inside atm. I /think/ that...

Also coming to add that the late spawn in mechanic needs review. I'm now to the point of exploring for puzzles and hidden shit (looking for the underground bunker in spaceport currently.) and spawning in late pretty much means the sortie was pointless. Having half the map time already elapsed...

My new hot take with this game is the blueprint system seriously needs a review. I am at 100hrs in the game and I'm doing runs of raider caches, bags, grenade tubes, and security lockers and I have never seen a wolfpack blueprint. Wolfpacks trivialize a number of the 'mini bosses' like the...

I have heard some discussion back and forth on other forums on if doing the Expedition gave in game advantages wrt to skills or not, can confirm you can get up to 5 bonus skill points depending on value of the loot you have at the start of the expedition. No idea what that number scale looks...

The word that I heard is that with the end of the Ascian arc (Lol, they'll be back) and the beginning of Dawntrail they were going to let their understudies take more of a foreground role in writing and development of the game. This would give Ishikawa and company a break and see how the...

Yeah. I'm seeing constant 'network latency' warnings in the right side of my screen mid sortie now. It wasn't this bad before, but something is definitely going on making it even worse. Also... Security Breach perk is broken in a good/dumb way. Once you have it, just speed run the security...

Third person with low tick rate servers is going to be extremely tough to keep the hard core pvp'rs long term and frankly that might be the best for Arc Raiders. If you have seen the video of Shroud killing a group of 3 from the perspective of Shroud and then the people he killed you can see a...

I think the mixed hybrid of PvE with PvP extraction for cosmetics and other loot has a good future potential. Tarkov has added a pve mode, the Divisions PVE with the PVP extraction mode, and even the latest Mechabreak, a 'Overwatch' style mecha game that has an extraction mode for cosmetics and...

If you need the surveyor vaults, I have 2 on hand I don't need and can just go into a raid with them in my prison pocket and swap them over to you.

You probably know this already, but look for the blue beam going up into the sky. I didn't realize this at first until a friend pointed it out to me and hunting them has been much easier since.

One thing of this game that is quickly starting to ruin it for me, is you can not play casually with friends. At least not in the lobbies we are getting. Just want to farm, shoot the shit with some friends on discord? Duo and farm some exp or mats so you can BS while you play? Nope. If you...

Also, the best way to level is not to go in with good kit. You get XP for each thing you open. Go in with basic bitch or even freebie kit and just open lockers all day. 200xp per 'scavenge' and most all containers. Even empty ones your friend already looted. First time you open it no matter...

I am one of those 100hrs (88 actually) goblins. I have a fucking weakness for extraction shooters and I don't think Arc Raiders is the best on its gun mechanics and audio, but I at this point believe a lot of it is on purpose and I think it makes the skill cap less of a gulf. Good shooter...

That is one of the dangers of this game and shows a little of the Looter shooter nature in its bones. When all you have are 3 man teams and you start fighting off bosses that make noise and draw a lot of attention, its not going to be long before you have people staking out the boss fights...

Did the harvester puzzle with a friend. Went in solo to work on getting what the idea is and its pretty simple but solo there is zero margin for error. We went back as a duo and completed in in trash gear and got 3x gold blueprints. Jupiterx2 and Equalizer. They both require a Queen Core to...

Finished all the quests. There was actually a bit more quest content than I was expected. None of it was revolutionary but they did have quite a bit more that should keep the average player occupied for awhile. They also end with a small cutscene that hints at something big coming. Not much...

Oddly, you have found the secret sauce but I don't think you realize it yet. Extraction shooters, imo, are all about risk management and kitting out for the mission. It feels counter intuitive to not use your best gear all the time cause 'well, if I get in a fight I want my best stuff.' For...

Also. I have 2x Anvil BPs, 3x Bettina BPs, and a Torrente BP as spares if anyone wants them. Most all my friend group has them now and they're just sitting in my inventory cause I feel like selling them is wasteful if someone needs them.

Synduality had issues. A lot of them actually. The game was released in a weird state. They had the game 'finished' but chose to slow roll maps and quests in stages to try and time gate content and gear with monthly unlocks or some shit. However the game economy was balanced around the full...

My favorite for this was Synduality. It is an anime mecha extraction shooter from Bandai based on some franchise that had a tv show, books, models, etc, and they finally released the game. One of the big draws of the game is your copilot is an anime waifu (or husbando if thats your thing) that...

The trick with extraction shooters is not to use your best gear for normal work. Its counter intuitive, especially if you are coming out of the MMO space. Purples are always better, right? Not in extraction shooters. Its about economy and only taking what you need for your mission so you...

Specifically referring to positional audio? The Cycle: Frontier, which was exceptional. The Battlefield games gave me more positional audio information than Arc Raiders. My most common squad partner says he prefers Counterstrike and Hunt: Showdowns, though I do not play either. Again, I am...

Did some audio testing with a friend of mine who is way more into audio engineering than I am and he told me they do 'panning' but not 'phasing.'. IE, they do direction and volume, but they do not do a 'time' of arrival variation. There are small audio clues that people pick up on in real life...

Extraction shooters are very niche and rarely last long before hitting end of service because of this. People either hate losing their stuff and quit, or they finish grinding out the quests and upgrades and there is nothing to do other than kill other players. Which.... pushes more players to...

So I find this interesting. Couple things real quick to help clarify. You talk about picking out loud noises like the elevators, caches, and tagging things for your team, as well as PTT prox chat. First the Prox chat and tagging. Both of these have existed for a long time. Tagging has been...

The game paradoxically seems very technically polished but also very mid for me. The graphics look decent. Not amazing, but I'm not playing on a high end machine atm either so it might be better with better hardware. Character customization is pretty bad, almost laughably so. Its not super...

I would actually bet there is a fair few elements of truth in it. I don't know how many of you grew up in sorta poor, white trash towns but this 100% fits with all the stupid townie drama I had growing up in highschool and shit. Small insular community that is kinda shitty and incestuous...

I have been semi casually looking for a program or app that takes real maps or images and converts them to old D&D style hexmaps? Something like taking a satellite image and converting it to the Mystara style maps. I don't think its possible, given that terrain and satellite maps do not show...