Arc Raiders

Why would you ever do more than 1-2 at a time for stuff you care about lmao

Just asking to get ganked

Such bountiful stella even on daytime.

OU Ariakas said:

We need to get a group together to help protect the transfers

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You on? Want to get some BP's for yourself and hold a few of mine? DM a player code for steam or arc

ronne For BP's of course, though right now I'm trying to offload my epic weapons so someone can enjoy them.

Adebisi said:

I got 4 mil. They better not do this grind again. So meaningless and arbitrary. The last part of the expedition already had a grind!

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Did almost 3 million over the course of this week, if drop rates stay the same everyone should progress quicker and 5 million will be cake over 2 months until next.

Managed to get my buddy to 5M when he started at ~1.7M at the start of the week. I ended up tossing him a bunch of high level weapons via a hatch transfer to get the last 250k or so but otherwise things went pretty smooth just grinding it out.

First game post-reset, killed a Bastion at level 0. EZ gaem.

Edit, link broke
Lol

Picked this up on Saturday, have played a decent amount. Think I'm up to level 10 or so. Definitely having fun, I like the pace of this a lot more than what we had in Warzone's DMZ.

Kinda lost on all this discussion about getting to 5 million. Google says if you have 5 million worth of stuff you get 5 extra skill points when you create a new character. But that raises the question (for me), why do you need another character? Is it so you can have 5 more skill points than others, and therefore be stronger? Or do you do this again with second character and then your next one starts with 10 extra points, ad nauseum?

Valorath said:

Picked this up on Saturday, have played a decent amount. Think I'm up to level 10 or so. Definitely having fun, I like the pace of this a lot more than what we had in Warzone's DMZ.

Kinda lost on all this discussion about getting to 5 million. Google says if you have 5 million worth of stuff you get 5 extra skill points when you create a new character. But that raises the question (for me), why do you need another character? Is it so you can have 5 more skill points than others, and therefore be stronger? Or do you do this again with second character and then your next one starts with 10 extra points, ad nauseum?

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After a certain point you've 'done everything' in the game. You've pretty much maxed everything out and there really isn't that much left to do. Most extraction shooters handle this by doing character wipes in seasons. After a certain point, all progress is reset and you start over from zero.

Arc Raiders is taking a slightly different approach. You complete the 'Expedition project' and then save up 5mil worth of money and assets and during certain windows they open up the option to send your raider 'on the expedition'. This works as a character reset, setting you back to level zero with just starting gear. No stations, no blueprints etc. Its a way to keep the game 'fresh' so to speak.

To help incentivize the resets, they've offered some temporary and permanent benefits. Doing the first reset (there has only been one so far) gets you a cosmetic outfit, some temporary boosts in XP gain, weapon repair benefits, and what is eyed as the most beneficial one, 5 permanent skill points added to your character. Eventually if you keep doing resets some of the buffs will stack and you'll be able to have enough bonus skill points to unlock the entire skill tree. In theory. (We're still on the first reset, so stuff might change)

So you don't just make a new character, you do the expedition and opt in to the reset. They have made it optional, unlike a number of other extraction shooters in order to allow people who haven't finished the grind the ability to forgo the reset and keep grinding until they are ready.

All in all its not a bad system, but imo what it is really doing is just masking how little content there actually is in game outside of shooting other people. I reset this cycle, mostly cause there was nothing else to do and no reason not to.

Valorath said:

why do you need another character? Is it so you can have 5 more skill points than others, and therefore be stronger? Or do you do this again with second character and then your next one starts with 10 extra points, ad nauseum?

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Yeah, think of it as a prestige system. Once you unlock everything the game can get boring. You build up a type of caravan with a ton of supplies/cash while you play and every two months you have the option to send your character off into the sunset for permanent (and temporary) bonuses for your next character, which stack each time as you assumed.

As an example I only had an extra 1.8 million before the deadline so I only got one extra skill point. However, I also got another 12 permanent stash slots, and those things add up every time you do it. So I still think it was worth it because 90% of my gameplay isn't using high end items anyway. Resetting isn't that big of a deal, especially when you still have maps unlocked and you know where to go for schloot.

And this is why Id rather naked run then free run.

Got a 2nd aphelion next run if anyone wants to trade ;p