Arc Raiders

Mao

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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 what you get the xp. I get far more xp on free loadouts opening everything than I do killing a boss or doing the harvester. Just go in with nothing and open it all. If you have a decent weapon add a couple extra XP from killing the smaller flyers and you can get over 15k XP per run casually. More if you really grind it.
 
Cybsled

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Droigan said:
Watched the end of Shrouds last stream. Exactly what you said. He has all items, stash is loaded with all the best gear, full of purple shields, all quests done (only like 60ish, most give "useless" rewards as he states). The last two raids were queen which I think is the "hardest" Arc boss in the game currently.

First raid - They pulled, killed queen fairly easily. Team of 3, all had wolf grenades and the gun that does massive damage to Arcs. Once killed, they were swarmed by 3, perhaps 4 teams of 3. Fought and killed all of them. They even waited until past 18 minutes to do the final pull and kill.

Second raid - "Lets go in and kill people fighting the boss" was the plan. They found the queen, waited until it was nearly dead while others fought it. "Helped" in the last minute as it exploded, killed team who went to loot it, looted the queen and left.

Though he said the parts are useless because the legendary guns it creates are not good. They're just filling up my inventory! (they don't stack either).

So game is finished for the people who have no lifed it, they kill for fun and the ones they fight are (unless geared) fodder compared to the best/purple loadouts. Itemization is not in place for keeping up grinding either. And while you can do that quest to "end" your character, why? For some cosmetics? You get no new skills or items, so it's basically just doing a new run towards the end game where Arcs drop items to craft weapons worse than the ones you used to kill them (weapons are "better" but not in terms of power compared to investment).
Just do runs with worse gear, and it'll be the same as if you did the event to end your character. It's not like a wipe where everyone is on the same level, you're only "gimping" yourself, so no real difference than having your own challenges like "oh I am going to start runs with no gear and see what I can do!"

Game is already a massive success, but I think they'll need to add more stuff, and quick, to get longevity. Which Shroud at least was somewhat skeptical about since he said that while playing the Tech test 2 (test around 5 months ago) it was said (not by devs but community) that it was around 35-40% of the game. So there would be "much" more. Now it was apparent that it featured like 80+% of the full game. So not much content at all has been added since then. So dev speed doesn't seem fast.
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The Queen guns aren’t bad, they’re just anti-Arc guns like hullcracker. For PvP they aren’t great.

I get the feeling more content is done but the devs are drip feeding it to keep players engaged. We’re getting a new map and quests and items this month
 
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Sludig

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gauze said:
I didn't mean to put upgrade haha, but yeah.

As far as blueprint dupes, they're 5k credits.. which I guess isn't much when you can't stack it but I frequently have em on me to sell via security container // key room runs for selling.
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The discord or where you doing this?
 
gauze

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Sludig said:
The discord or where you doing this?
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Are you talking about the loot runs? If I don't have any keys, I just slam the outer drawbridge area of the south dam for loot, which has two breach rooms between the down ramps and one of which has 2 security containers... It's almost exclusively player loot; nades gun heals ammo.. If I spawn anywhere near that north to east quadrant, I b-line it there. It's where I farmed during the server slam but I didn't have the security breach talent at the time. I genuinely don't think I have ever seen it hit. Just east of it, at the red lakes there is the hatch exit that is a slide down and run across away.. with two normal extracts relatively close.

I've yet to fully explore other options, I know spaceport has those viewing area's around the launch pad that are breach doors but its more obnoxious to run in and run out.. same to be said with Blue Gate. Buried City, yesterday me and a couple friends started burning our keys for there and it was pretty meh but I haven't found a room yet that is as good. I want to say most blue and up keys have atleast one security container.

I haven't looked at the FoH discord, but I can pay attention more and pop in if you want to run your keys and get into those security containers. Someone had a video on it at the end of the weekend and was constantly getting blues/purples.. but as of Monday, I started seeing like Lv2 white/greens.. so i'm not sure if its ninja nerfed.. but either way I can just throw you out whatevers in there.

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theres also this, i haven't really looked at it for loot runs as i'm just kinda running around exploring rather than trying to do a sorta mephisto run simulator.. i just use it to explain to people portions of the map for their tasks.. which also seems to have its own key which is nice.
 
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Sludig

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gauze said:
Are you talking about the loot runs? If I don't have any keys, I just slam the outer drawbridge area of the south dam for loot, which has two breach rooms between the down ramps and one of which has 2 security containers... It's almost exclusively player loot; nades gun heals ammo.. If I spawn anywhere near that north to east quadrant, I b-line it there. It's where I farmed during the server slam but I didn't have the security breach talent at the time. I genuinely don't think I have ever seen it hit. Just east of it, at the red lakes there is the hatch exit that is a slide down and run across away.. with two normal extracts relatively close.

I've yet to fully explore other options, I know spaceport has those viewing area's around the launch pad that are breach doors but its more obnoxious to run in and run out.. same to be said with Blue Gate. Buried City, yesterday me and a couple friends started burning our keys for there and it was pretty meh but I haven't found a room yet that is as good. I want to say most blue and up keys have atleast one security container.

I haven't looked at the FoH discord, but I can pay attention more and pop in if you want to run your keys and get into those security containers. Someone had a video on it at the end of the weekend and was constantly getting blues/purples.. but as of Monday, I started seeing like Lv2 white/greens.. so i'm not sure if its ninja nerfed.. but either way I can just throw you out whatevers in there.

ARC Raiders Interactive Maps | MetaForge

theres also this, i haven't really looked at it for loot runs as i'm just kinda running around exploring rather than trying to do a sorta mephisto run simulator.. i just use it to explain to people portions of the map for their tasks.. which also seems to have its own key which is nice.
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No selling to people
 
Cybsled

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gauze said:
Buried City, yesterday me and a couple friends started burning our keys for there and it was pretty meh but I haven't found a room yet that is as good. I want to say most blue and up keys have atleast one security container
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The LKV employee room key (in the space building in buried city) has great loot if you can get that key. Drop rate for the key is ass, though
 
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Sludig

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Lenas said:
Dunno where you got the notion he's selling anything to players. Blueprints sell for 5k credits. You know, right click -> "sell" ?
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I misread the security pocket as meaning he took in raid to sell. I've seen some trades attempted on the discord. Would be nice trade some blue prints for bastion cores etc
 
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Auction house would be cool here. Sludig Sludig has helped me out a few times (more than a few times) when we party up and he drops the item on the ground and I throw it in my safe spot) works well but limited to who you play with obviously.
 
Lenas

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Anybody looking for mushrooms, fuck the tree and pipe bullshit. Lush event on spaceport, run around the outskirts and find wicker baskets. I just left a solo run with mushrooms, prickly pears, olives, lemons and more after like 5 minutes. Chicken maxed.
 
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Adebisi

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It would be nice if there were some kinda skin you can unlock by having low player kills/damage relative to your play time. And take it away if you leave that ratio. Letting you easily ID players who might be more friendly

Maybe dumb?
 
Cinge

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Lenas said:
Anybody looking for mushrooms, fuck the tree and pipe bullshit. Lush event on spaceport, run around the outskirts and find wicker baskets. I just left a solo run with mushrooms, prickly pears, olives, lemons and more after like 5 minutes. Chicken maxed.
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Yeah I finished shrooms from lush event. Though I still went to dam, just so I could double dip. The dome swamp area had baskets and sometimes growing on trees, the floors or in that pool of water in the big building.

I am probably almost done. Ill work on benches to level 3 next(killing the bigger arcs) hopefully goes well, killing one seems to attract so much attention, then hordes of leeches all looting the multiple parts or just killing you to hopefully get the drops. And it takes a decent investment, it seems, in nades to kill them. Though I have 5 wolf nades, and it apparently just takes just 1 to kill a rocket guy.

I will just play BF6 if I want to shoot people and pvp.
 
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Mao

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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 go in a party queue its a straight up warzone. Early you could get away with some party casual play but more and more that shit is coming to an end. This is going the free load out too. We're not on maps with good gear either, so its not like its kitted out parties looking for fights, just people with ferro/stitchers combos sniping and rushing. Nor are we a pvp heavy, or even pvp oriented group so we shouldn't be in a 'pvp' lobby either. This is going to make it tougher to play with more casual friends who aren't down to get in a gun fight every time.
 
Cybsled

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That is driven by players. I have to imagine pacifist runs in groups are a much smaller minority than pacifist runs in solos.
 
Araxen

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Mao said:
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 go in a party queue its a straight up warzone. Early you could get away with some party casual play but more and more that shit is coming to an end. This is going the free load out too. We're not on maps with good gear either, so its not like its kitted out parties looking for fights, just people with ferro/stitchers combos sniping and rushing. Nor are we a pvp heavy, or even pvp oriented group so we shouldn't be in a 'pvp' lobby either. This is going to make it tougher to play with more casual friends who aren't down to get in a gun fight every time.
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There was a vocal minority on the Steam forums for the game that want a PVE mode. Tarkov did it so I'm not sure why they couldn't do it for this one. I personally believe there is ton of money to be made from a PVE extractor.
 
Sludig

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Lenas said:
Anybody looking for mushrooms, fuck the tree and pipe bullshit. Lush event on spaceport, run around the outskirts and find wicker baskets. I just left a solo run with mushrooms, prickly pears, olives, lemons and more after like 5 minutes. Chicken maxed.
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Lots of places, I've found a few 100% basket places on dam, and plentiful hard spawns as well around wreckage in the south. At this point chicken far easier than some of these other items yuou have to find.
 
Sludig

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Cinge said:
Yeah I finished shrooms from lush event. Though I still went to dam, just so I could double dip. The dome swamp area had baskets and sometimes growing on trees, the floors or in that pool of water in the big building.

I am probably almost done. Ill work on benches to level 3 next(killing the bigger arcs) hopefully goes well, killing one seems to attract so much attention, then hordes of leeches all looting the multiple parts or just killing you to hopefully get the drops. And it takes a decent investment, it seems, in nades to kill them. Though I have 5 wolf nades, and it apparently just takes just 1 to kill a rocket guy.

I will just play BF6 if I want to shoot people and pvp.
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Throw it to one side a bit so the flechetes all hit the same 1-2 engines, usually needs some follow up damage.
 
Sludig

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Need god damn surveyers and one shows up at extract 3 mins till end of map with a rocketeer right over head. Cheeky cunt.
 
Mao

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Sludig said:
Need god damn surveyers and one shows up at extract 3 mins till end of map with a rocketeer right over head. Cheeky cunt.
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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.
 
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