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They don't want you to know this but the power rod room in dam battlegrounds on hurricane has 4 wolfpacks in it every time

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>peanut not even playing a full night of arc, despite the new update being only a day old
>peanut switching to marathon tomorrow

>>558614328
i guess i'll switch to marathon too since i'm a bungulator and i do whatever peanut does

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>>558614914
based and nut pilled

>>558614328
>peanut switching to marathon tomorrow
Every streamer will be playing Marathon tomorrow. It's basic streamer meta to play THE NEW THING when it comes out, and go back to your bread and butter when it falls off (or stick with it if it's popular).

Should rename this general
/marg/ - Marathon and Arc Raiders General

>our biggest competition is coming out soon, what should we do to retain the playerbase?
>mass pve nerfs, a wasp that shoots fire and a surveyor with a pop inside, a map condition that constantly drains shields and... beards
>yes, this will surely retain our playerbase and keep them from switching to our competition

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Just give me a giant wasp helicopter boss you dumb swedes. You know theyre gonna do it. Just hit the scale up button.

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Why would they add beards when mustaches/clean-shaven are the new meta?

>>558616305
does marathon not have a general lmao

I am losing my fucking mind, all raider caches I find are fucking already looted. HOW?

>>558619000
degenerate naked runners ruin the game for everyone

>>558619000
yea, everyone playing the new patch and reddit and youtubers already making threads and videos about how good the loot is
can't wait to not be able to loot a single one before they nerf it

>>558619000
this is likely the only time some people are getting some of the rare weapons, like I'm hearing people getting tempest blueprints

how are you supposed to kill a comet

I have seen so much whining and complaining about the newest update and I think it’s lost on players how much this game has dropped since its release.
This game has been out for 4 months and we have gotten so many additions.
>3 decks
>Almost 2 expeditions
>Stella Montis
>Shredders
>Matriarch
>Comets
>Fireflies
>Cold snap
>Hurricane
>Bird city
>Aphelion
>Augments
>All the patches
I’m sure I’m missing things but you get the point.

This game was $40. Nobody is forcing you to play.

>>558620004
which reddit thread did you copy this post from?

>>558620004
aphelion is new?
lmfao

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>the new trials outfit is a pallet swap of Celeste's cool motorbike getup

man, fuck you embark i dont want to do Trials again

>>558620004
This is an insanely well made game full of stuff to do getting content patches faster than most $70 plus tip games and all the faggots can only cry and cry

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anyone got a Safekeeper blueprint? I can trade you Survivor plus deadline, wolfpack or ven blueprint

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>>558622349
unless they change it the red one is hot shot, the main color seems to be rookie II
I'm guessing that color is for Daredevil I-III
thats if they don't change it once the rewards are finalized in a few days

I don't feel like farming again either, I can accept not having the red outfit if trials are super sweaty again, though there were some leaked trials that might be capped and less farmable
>search container in medical in Stella Montis trial
>can search already looted containers

>search containers under Spaceport trial
>same thing

>get hit by lightning trial
I guess thats still "farmable" but it's not as extreme as like the wasp trial or something

>>558622964
whats with this stupid company and putting the most iconic best outfits behind weird retarded pricing schemes. The G-Suit being exclusive to a 60 dollar preorder will forever be thee worst offender by far.

>>558620004
>decks
Who cares
>2 expeditions
Who cares? They set the date on it, it's not like they are actually working on something for it. It could have happened every week or every 6 months
>stella/shredders/matriarch
All cut content that was clearly intended for release but not finished on time
>comets/fireflies
Literally the most boring new arc they could have possibly invented. "Hornet but fireball" and "Pop but outside" aren't really highlights.
>cold snap/hurricane
Literally just weather effects with some tweaked loot tables and stupid gay shit like snowballs. It isn't really any content. It's not a new map, it's not a progression system, it's not important, and it's appeal wears off after a day or two.
>bird city
Even less effort than weather. It was retarded.
>aphelion
Again cut content see above and for all intents and purposes it's useless as both a pve and pvp weapon
>augments
With boring effects that still are worse than survivor. They really couldn't even let the gun slot just be a safe pocket so you can use a gun and not drop it on death?
>all the patches
Oh you mean like the patch where the entire notes was "Kettle nerfed and trigger nades barely nerfed"? Or do you mean the patch where they claimed to fix keyrooms and then people still broke in? Or do you mean the patch where they claimed to fix out of bounds glitches, but they didn't and left a zipline in stella montis for another month? Or do you mean the patch where they fixed the zipline and said out of bounds was gone, but everyone still got out of bounds in every other area?

I'll give it to them that the shrouded sky patch was on the right track with balance. I'll even say hurricane is okay. Having new arc, even if they are uninspired and lame is also a good thing as well. This feels like the first real patch and it still feels sort of underbaked, especially for a game that has massive glaring issues and has a "10 year plan" but is still bleeding players and about to bleed more tomorrow.

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>>558623128
that one isnt purchasable, its from trials, but yea idk what they are thinking with exclusive outfits, unless in 2 years they restart the cycle of leaderboard rewards, just kind of sucks for people who like them and miss out when this is supposed to be a casual game
its a little better than last season at least, you could only get all 3 outfit colors if you got Cantina Legend
though the colors were dog shit
if the leaks are right, then all you have to do is just stay on any leaderboard above rookie II all season and you'll get the Black/Yellow version

>>558623727
They will probably have old skins available via some legacy content reruns like the Finals does with old battle passes

>>558623442
>>cold snap/hurricane
>Literally just weather effects with some tweaked loot tables and stupid gay shit like snowballs. It isn't really any content. It's not a new map, it's not a progression system, it's not important, and it's appeal wears off after a day or two.
This is honestly the biggest thing for me. People praising these modes like they are god's gift to humanity are so fucking dumb. I used to spend a lot of time modding STALKER and playing STALKER mods. You could implement a weather mod with cool ass effects that could dynamically move anomalies and radiation patches around the zone with cold/heat features and even weird effects that hurt your HP in like a few days of "work" as a solo "developer"
Being impressed by something that can be done with Screen space shaders and a few lines of code is so sad.

New arc idea

Blacky - think shredder but would move around and try to punch u until u drop
Zoomer - very mobile quadpedaled arc that would try to sting u with stamina draining concoction
Unc Destroyer - bastion but with cannon that would shoot anti tank shells, would say "2 hours a day? really?" upon downing a raider
Poppo - would dimension leap and steal most precious item (weapons included) from you and despawn
Chad - would invade discussion on steam forum and call a nigger people that would bitch about firefly and comet being not original enough
Breaker - tick but adult man sized, also would jump on the back instead of face
Swede - hacked android that would bitch and moan and pray in hebrew all match

also surveyor can now erect legs and sit on you

The hurricane is so fucking cool, glad its permanent

>>558624943
you aren't allowed to like the new content or consider it content, pvpjeets said so

people having trouble with money must be retarded or something, I've been fucking around all day and accidentally made another million

>>558625216
I saw a post recently of some guy sharing he had 30 mil and half the replies were people having a meltdown saying it was impossible without duping

>>558624231
It's a good way to get alot of milage out of some admittedly well designed maps and the shaders aren't that bad. The only really poorly designed modifier is Night because it's easily beaten by turning the gamma up on your display.

>>558619000
>all raider caches I find are fucking already looted
grow some thick dark skin and shoot people, take everything you want

>>558625094
>you aren't allowed to like the new content or consider it content, pvpjeets said so
but the pvpjeet loves the hurricane he camps in it

>>558625216
>do one stella montis
>leave with 150k and another 250k of batteries
>hit 3 million in 2 days of casually playing
>stash full of blue and purple mods and bobcats and have optimized runs
>look over at the discord and reddit
>every single person is struggling to extract with anything more than 4 seeds a level 2 stitcher and a single bandage
>watching pvptards battling to the death for 28 minutes in trios to leave with less than they came in with trying to catch up

>>558625742
>but the pvpjeet loves the hurricane
Yes he does!

https://streamable.com/utemxq

>>558625794
I went through stella montis medical and every container was open but nothing was actually looted or taken, maybe batteries or chemicals, but I filled up on blue junk

The problem with the Il Toro is that it has the same animation canceling issues the shotguns had in The Finals that eventually got patched by making the pumping action mandatory and not skippable. Toro isn't powerful because of it's 2 tap potential it's powerful because because able to animation cancel the pump by rolling makes the gun freakishly mobile.

>>558626229
>because able to animation cancel the pump by rolling makes the gun freakishly mobile.
Shoot from 20M away, let em roll around and miss their shots in panic.
I prefer shooting from 30-35, sweet spot, every "reactive" twitch-shooter starts missing, because you're a small set of pixels on his screen.

>>558626058
Because nearly everyone who plays this game fucking sucks at it and has no idea how to create value in their runs

Look at almost every single complaint with this game and realize there's a solution already for it in game that they were too stupid and lazy to think of

I'm so tired of seeing faggots fighting over metal parts and rattlers at spawn trying to say that springs are hard to find or whatever noob retarded shit they're saying

>>558626842
I watched a more casual streamer play the game, and they basically went to every container and salvaged everything in it until their inventory was full
I guess a lot of people don't know in round salvaging is worse than out of round salvaging, or that the items have more value if you sell them unsalvaged

>>558625581
I don't have a problem with their existence at all. But the game's claim to having content can't be "2 shaders with health effects" it just feels lazy and normies dont seem to understand it. I wish we had more of them and I wish we had more 2x events up at once or at least every map that doesn't have a 2x event should have a sub event (ie: lush blooms). It feels shitty to login and realize only 1 2x event and nothing else is up for like an hour and a half.

>>558626229
there are a lot of problems with the toro

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*activates cloak just to look cool*

I'm coming for you, hurricane boys

>>558626229
I mean not rolling is faster, it's just the roll makes you unpredictable and harder to hit.

>>558626842
Nothing is hard to find, it just feels like a tedious and menial chore to find springs. If you have a hefty amount of weapons that all need to be repaired, upgraded, and given attachments you can chew through like 500 springs easily. But to get 500 it's going to take hours and hours of runs. I can find like 2 stacks of springs and maybe some things that can recycle into springs if I really try, but that requires me to be in a chungartha lobby, get good rng on ground loot so I get springs instead of batteries or air freshener, spawned at 29 minutes, and hope i'm in an okay spawn. I think my most springs in a raid was like 47 and that was a whole 30 minute round and I ate through them in seconds.

>>558625216
One weekend in January, I grinded out 5mil in like 4 hours just by going to Stella Runs as a carebear. There was only one time I was killed; the rest was just going to Medical and/or Assembly and vacuuming up any Exodus loot.

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>>558627958
Cool story bro

>>558626229
they'll probably fix that, the seem to want to stop the snaphook cancelling

has anyone checked on the marketplace fags who were hoarding tempest bps?

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>>558633004
still seems kind of high, not sure if it was higher before, though if it was rare that surivover (1200 seeds average) then value probably went down

unless you mean real cash, I dont know those sites

>>558633302
>rare that
rarer than*

>Actually have a mythical item that's so rare everyone jerks off over it
>Make it commonplace
Making loot matter so little wouldn't be as huge of a deal if the gameplay wasn't so shallow, but it is. What the fuck are these devs doing

>>558633302
Think it used to be 3000 seeds

>>558633785
oh damn, thats a drop

>>558633552
you people will complain about literally fucking everything, won't you?

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>>558634665
>you people will complain
No. We always listen, hunt and camp.
>Economy
>Loot
>Meta
Does not matter.

Friend to no one, prey to no one, predator to all

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>>558635546
cringe

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>>558635862

>>558634665
I'm a bad guy for wanting loot to matter in an extraction shooter? Don't get me wrong I don't want gear locked behind 1/20000 odds bps or some shit but BPs were the only cool loot we actually had, now there is literally nothing

You know what would make this game better, hero abilities like invisibility, glowing shields, and deployable drones.

And for no reason at all, spikey spears and shoulder cannons.

>>558612621
not sure if I like this

>>558635546
You when you walk into the kindergarten

There's no reason why this game cannot be run soloplayer offline or co-op with privately run/rented servers.
Tarkov tore off some of the worse players in their lobbies by nering hatchet runners via bot aggro, splintering off the hardcore pvpers ino arena and casual pve into 'offline' and its ridiculous hackers can actually get into their pve lobbies.

Finally getting some good looking outfits but they need the breasts removed from the normal maps. Wide shoulders fucking up the women body type and baked in gyno breasts and wide hips making the men look faggy.

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Defibs and sterilizers. She must be a medic.

>>558639494
>There's no reason why this game cannot be run soloplayer offline or co-op with privately run/rented servers.

Embark spending a fortune on servers to run the constant serverside physics simulation that runs the AI would be prohibitively expensive for 99% of hobbyists.

>>558636919
>the tempest BP I found in a trash can (after googling its drop conditions) made me feel like a special boy but now ANYONE can get it!
get the fuck over it loser

>peanut playing some shit indie game instead of our game
WTF

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>kill one person in a friendly lobby
>Next game is an endless stream of the shittiest pvp players on earth
Hard to resist the urge to rack up kills, but PVE players bring in such nice loot

Holy fuck I want the expedition to come already I am so bored

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Huueheheh huehue Hahah heeehehe

>>558640821
like 3 more days

>>558640821
Take your Bobcat and Snap Hook to Stella Montis and kill everything that moves

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Looking like a goof without the beard
340 more creds to go

>>558641543
thats a cool look

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>>558641892
Thanks. Torn between that and hobo Todd Howard. Still need the beard for the both of them

>>558639017
>kindergarten
I was biting other kids and got kicked out. But I was normal in highschool. Now am enjoying Arc Raiders!

balance changes would have been great if they nerfed toro too all they did was cement it as best pvp gun

Toro doesn't work at 35M, it's the second best, behind Rattler IV>>558642560

>>558642917
Most hotspots are enclosed, most fights are gonna be close range but yes you still do need some kind of very long range option (Toro is unironically effective even at like 30m with choke)

They really are missing an opportunity to utilize some of the higher level ARC drops that aren't used for anything at all. Right now the cost on Deadlines is so jank and a knee jerk response to unemployed sweatlords stacking 30 Wolfpacks and obliterating trials. What they don't realize is that they've designed their trials to basically force players to do this and instead of changing the problem they just made it more tedious for the unemployed sweatlords to grind out the 240 Wolfpacks a week they need to try and get leaderboards. I know this because I am one of the unemployed sweatlords and this change just makes the game more grindy instead of interesting.

They should just make a new item with ARC Coolant and use that with 10 Seeker Grenades to craft a Wolfpack so it still requires more materials than before and still thematically fits. But the real core of the problem is that trials need to be overhauled because we're still going to have to grind these fucking Wolfpacks to brute force the numbers needed.

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Usually fading from black screen while your character can take active isn't an issue, except when you reconnect to a match from network issues and ticks rape my face.

>>558643298
they probably will, I'm expecting pops to be used for seeker nades, and a bunch of other annoying shit if anything becomes too cheesable

>>558617624
they had one on /vm/ but it died afaik

>>558643298
there were some unique trials that got datamined that didnt seem that farmable
>get hit by lighting
>loot containers in stella medical
>loot containers in underground area of spaceport

>>558643973
Getting hit by lighting would be grueling and farmable RNG.

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>>558644474
yea, but maybe they are just trying to stop trials like wasp farming
but who knows

Is it just me or does it feel like there's a lot more aggressive players on hurricane maps, even in supposedly friendly lobbies?

>>558644705
my friendly lobbies have been cool
but I did have a bunch of hostile players after patch this morning and just had to extract safely a bunch

I noticed you can use the spotter arc part to track people but how does it work?

Autists that farm trials deserve to do good, not everyone should be able to get a high score. The issue is trios abusing the system, which is such a simple fix but they refuse to implement it for some fucking reason

If they keep ABMM I suggest they at least make it harder to metagame the matchmaking. Instead of 1 kill landing you in ratkanda, make it like 5 kills and tie it with how aggressive the player seems to be acting. Chungarthians should 100% be able to cap a faggot who runs into their key rooms to steal any loot they can. Same with PvPers, they shouldn't be able to just run in naked and suicide a bunch to get to chungartha. They should have to come in an actual loadout and either safely extract without killing anyone 5 games in a row or die to another player without fighting back 5 games in a row. And no a looting mk 1 with no utility and a hairpin1 doesn't count as a "full loadout" it should be tied to value or something.

Have consequences again and make it more difficult for fags to just metagame for free.

>>558644814
havent tried it
but guessing like seeker grenade?

>>558645073
they did remove suiciding affecting your matchmaking, so probably trying to work on it

>>558645073
Unless they provide incentive for PvP gaming the matchmaking shouldn't be difficult, if there are gonna be freefarm lobbies everyone should be able to access them, the rat issue isn't even from PvPers "invading" chungartha it's generally just that rats are so dogshit at PvP they accidentally end up there. If the matchmaking is designed in such a way to "punish" players for aggressive behavior it should only be for players that act like absolute niggers, put all the rats in one lobby for example

does hurricane give the same amount of caches as uncovered caches?

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Can't believe I downloaded 16 gb to sign up for Expedition, auto-buy a deck, play 2 games and fight the 2 new arc which are dumb as shit, and then immediately log off with no intention of playing again any time soon.

Hopefully Marathon rules (shant be buying it) just so it'll light a fire under Embark's ass, they haven't given us anything worthwhile since Stella.

>usually run a medium ammo gun + shotgun combo
Fireflies are a pain in the ass.

>>558645901
too poor to make grenades?

>>558646028
I should...

>Matriarch Lobby
>all white voices so far
>guy named Two_Rats shouts there's a rat who shot him in the back
>everyone pauses the boss fight to assess
>raider flare pops as the mob singles out the guy
>indian starts monotonely saying the other guy is lying
>"why you believe him huh?"
>freekit
I really couldn't guess a guy named Two_Rats would be honest about getting hit in the back but I believe him.

Are outfits in this game purposefully ugly or what?
I get that it's post apoc and they're throwing together whatever they could find, but why does nearly every outfit have ridiculous looking pants?

Ex: an outfit has an okay looking coat, normal looking boots, a hat (hit or miss either something ok or odd) and then leggings for pants instead of idk jeans or joggers. Why? Does someone on the dev team have a fetish for skin tight pants?

Or is it just me? I've only been playing for a few days, looked through the char customization menu and there's about 3 decent looking skins, the rest is hot garbage.

>>558647343
I think they finally ran out of ugly outfits, the latest like 4 we've seen have been designed pretty nice

>>558616305
unironically
or just pivot into an extraction shooters general seeing as this general is dead anyway

>>558647343
alot of outfits are blatantly made for women bodies, regardless what body type you chose

>>558647343
this game is woke shit

>>558645251
>put all the rats in one lobby for example
I like the idea of putting all free kit tards in one lobby against the matriarch or queen. Have fun, you freeloaders.

the game should randomly spawn a matriarch and have it roam around the map
>why
funny

>reverse boosting until the expedition window closes
>running around with free kits missing all my shots
>finally in retard lobbies where people don't roll or run and forget to reload
funnier than I expected. No mics or emotes either. Too stupid for that as well, you have to pull up an emote wheel, imagine knowing how to do that. It's not exclusively pve, because being extremely bad at the game=/=pve players. Most of them still shoot at you every now and then, they can't kill you. So whatever.

>>558648173
he didn't like that post

>>558648702
Why not play cooperatively?

What's the lore behind arcs, what are they and why do they attack Earth?

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>>558648821

>>558648883
There's nothing concrete about who built them or why they attack people, some theorize it was sent by the people that went on the Exodus to clean up the unwashed masses left on earth

>>558648883
It's not earth. Aliens (the humanoids that you're playing) are invading a robot planet

>>558648093
Go woke go broke

>>558647778
marathon might flop so may as well wait and see

>>558649158
Was the map nuking not explained either? They wipe everything yet you can still choose the same "nuked" map to deploy on. I was initially under the impression they'd go the Helldivers 2 route and make maps procedurally generated, so that'd at least fit.

Also what about knocked out raiders that remain on the surface, does someone come out to gather them up and heal once inside the underground city? I assume lore wise they never die and only go uncon.

>>558648605
it should have more than one spawn or move around the map, otherwise you're just fucked on spawn

then again some players will probably cry they spawn outside the wall on spaceport

>>558649529
The "nuke" is theorized to be a King mech, theres similar "nukes" in the trailer, and then a queen sized mech comes of the smoke

probably a future update

>>558649529
>Was the map nuking not explained either?
i guess the idea was to make a map inaccessible for a limited time but they decided to cut that out
>Also what about knocked out raiders that remain on the surface, does someone come out to gather them up and heal once inside the underground city? I assume lore wise they never die and only go uncon.
that's just game mechanics

>>558648883
lots of theories. Aliens, Rogue AI, weapons used by wealthy off-worlders.

>>558649529
Is it a nuke? I know what happens when the timer runs out. I just think that they're lazy and all of this doesn't fit together because they rushed development. Rushing everything to release it before gta 6 comes out. That was before gta 6 got delayed again. The people over the radio talk about some giant arc enemy appearing. Comes in 5 minutes or whatever.

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>>558649529
>Was the map nuking not explained either
The orbiter is blowing up the surface to keep the humans underground

the raiders getting knocked out is the hardest thing to justify, obviously they're filled up with bullet holes and there are no jannies going topside to save people. In the tutorial you simply get up and walk away after being shot in the back and robbed, limping back to Speranza. For all intents and purposes, (>>You) live and walk away but everyone else is stone dead.

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>>558648883
>whyte peypo get tired of shitskins and go to the moon
>create robots to harvest resources on earth
>shitskins left behind attack arc while theyre harvesting for moon people
>since us whites have a little thing called empathy, arcs only shoot to down so they can continue their resource harvesting

>>558650312
So everyone that's playable is non-white? A game for non-whites then. Stay exclusively in the lore and on the moon.
jej

>>558650312
So when I PvP I'm doing good for white people by infighting with my fellow shitskins? Wtf PvP is based as fuck

>>558650312
That's why indians love to play this game on PC. Makes a lot of sense

>>558648821
I am. I'm in lobbies with absolutely retarded people. Who don't know what co-op is.
>Something is moving on my screen, let's shoot it
I've seen how they try to kill birds and tumbleweeds.
It's amazing.

>>558648821
after my matchmaking "reset" with the patch I was doing spaceport and someone shoots in front of me and misses, I hide behind a crate and the guy starts running over
but this is spaceport trench so he's like taking a good minute to go down the trench and back up to try and find me
I moved maybe like 20 feet to my left and hid behind a different crate, and he actually runs up and starts looking for me around the 1 crate, long enough where I considered just running away, but I tapped him with my anvil a few tmies and then just left him to bleed

I love the bug that makes everyone's mic sounds like absolute garbage.
Played an entire match yesterday with a guy on open mic that was breathing HARD and I couldn't even focus on the game, felt like I got teamed up with fucking Bane. Dude straight up sounded like he was struggling just from sitting on his puter.

Also what's up with so many browns in this game? I could swear that like 90% of the time someone's on comms it's some arab dude preaching to Allah or whatever, it's mad. I'm from EU, sure, but why the fuck the only people I hear are either kids or middle aged arab men?

They've said they also look at skill. If you don't go down ever except getting shot by other players after 20 successful runs. You're in lobbies where people clean up all the high loot areas and kill all arc in 5 minutes.
This tard lobbies are way better for future trials. I'll do this from now. Takes just as long as trying to get it to PvE lobbies.

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Bros what if marathon does really well and makes our game obsolete?

>>558653924
if anything it would be good competition, arc seems to be focusing on the pve, while marathon is focused on pvp

>>558653924
Marathon will be a better game simply because it's an FPS and not third-person cheese that kneecaps the skill ceiling.

>>558653924
It’s frustrating, because the environment aesthetics in ARC are great, but the third person camera and slow movement make for low skill-gap boring pvp. Meanwhile Marathon is first-person and fast paced with solid gunplay, but it’s ugly as sin.

>>558655371
you would have loved the FPS hack we had for a few days
https://www.reddit.com/r/ArcRaiders/comments/1q89t5e/i_tried_arc_raiders_in_first_person/

>>558625794
>watching pvptards battling to the death for 28 minutes in trios to leave with less than they came in with trying to catch up
Do they not like.... fight FOR a loot spot? They just shoot for the sake of it?
I PvP with my trio on stella and we fight for assembly/medical and regularly come out with 120k+ loot each (considering ~40-50k loadouts).

>>558635460
It's the feeder hunter who thinks he's an irl predator (he probably is) cringe posting again.

>>558625216
I've seen multiple people cry about the expedition here in this very general and how they struggle to reach 3m. Most of them pvp tards. No need to go to reddit or discord

>>558655727
Would've made for a cool game mode

>Get spotted by Rocketeer
>Die
Great game

>>558658384
throw smokes

>>558659068
>smoke
Useless against arc enemies.

>>558659068
Smokes are for before youre detected.
>>558659909
Throw lures noob lol.

>>558658384
your cloak, retard?

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>update

>>558660980
>he's using smoke and lures to destroy rocketeers
imagine pretending to play this game in such an obviously fake manner
Everyone believes your pathetic larp, buddy.
lmfao

>>558655951
>leave with less than they came in with
So what? Oh no, the humanity.

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Well, today marks the culmination of 240 hours of gameplay, and I cant help but feel a little emotional about it.

That's every blueprint in the game. It took a dozen hours of trading to get the final 20, but I'm glad it's done.

I really hope we get a substantial game update in the future, because only two being added since I started playing in December seems like a pretty terrible pace...I would really like to see kinetic converters get added.

>We know the torro is OP but we still need more DATA before we can do anything about it.
I hate these stat-sheet nerds balancing. How about you play the damn game. Is it seriously okay for a shotgun to two pump people 30m out? How is that fun where Torro is a must have in the second weapon slot? You dont need 12 months of data, 5 research surveys and a scientific research team to realize that is not good balance.

>>558664529
i've yet to find the safekeeper augment

>>558665039
I don't have any more trader secrets to hide, so I'm gonna share my augment BP route with you.

Go to Dam Battlegrounds, Testing Annex (Medical Facility inside of it). The containers there spawn Augments/Med BPs like crazy, and you can get up to 5 augments an hour doing it.

Just go in naked and run straight there. I got 2 safekeepers and 2 revivals doing that.

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*nervous gulp*

>>558665379
>Dam Battlegrounds, Testing Annex
oh i know thats a good spot, i got a Survivor from a regular raid

>>558665476
I don't think Marathon is going to be the slam dunk people think it is. The question of if your fellow raider is friendly or not adds a lot of depth or Arc Raiders, where as Marathon is going to be a straight up PvP sweatfest.

>>558665846
>The question of if your fellow raider is friendly or not adds a lot of depth or Arc Raiders
I would agree if ABMM wasn't a thing

>>558666337
Every extraction shooter without it turns into KoS. Ive had far more tense situations in Arc than Tarkov where people dont even give you the opportunity to be backstabbing most of the time because its KoS 99% of the time.

>>558666684
It's too easy to go between 2 extremes, which makes the game boring. Even more so for duos/trios.
ABMM needs to be much smoother, and there need to be more incentives to cooperate to offset PvP. The new puzzle on dam is while technically great, still basically undoable unless you're classified as a shitter by the system (and the loot sucks desu).

>>558665029
games went from hiring autistic testers to relying on machine learning and data tech to do it instead, as well as OBT/OAT crap allowing shitters to have a say in it.

>>558666951
Yeah but at least there are options to go to in the first place. Every other game, no such option exists, its always PvP KoS lobbies. Thats it. Buddying up is so rare, meanwhile at least in Arc I've been able to go to mixed lobbies, friendly or regular ol KoS lobbies. Other games like to pretend there is that tension but in reality its not there because it would always be in your best interest to shoot first.

>>558667346
TTK needs to be longer (to allow people time for negotiation) and loot needs to be locked and contested for with either ARC, other players or puzzles.
It's a step in the right direction, here's hoping that this one puzzle isn't an offshoot.

>>558667526
>TTK needs to be longer (to allow people time for negotiation)
lol

>>558667586
Ambush tactics are prevalent and reduce possible interactions between players as well as the opportunity to turn fights.
Pretending to be retarded... or?

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>>558667867
>he doesn't know
Everyone is getting ready to run

>>558667978
how much until slam?

>>558667726
people don't engage ambush tactics because of the TTK, people engage in ambush tactics because that's the best way to fight, period. and doubling the TTK from 1 second to 2 seconds isn't going to engender "negotiation"; that just lets people shout
>BRO I SAID FRIENDLY
twice before flaring instead of once

>>558668027
Right now if you come over

>enter plaza rosa
>hear someone behind me
>post up and get ready
>dude turns the corner
>down him
>two other people come in and all work together to kill me
>no words spoken at all, or any explanation for what just happened
very strange

>>558668125
Negotiations or ambushes only happen from a position of advantage, if people are tougher and they can retaliate, there are more opportunities for negotiation and less for ambushing; it also gives you an option to escape more consistently seeking help elsewhere against the perpetrator.
It's not a "fix", but it's a step towards that.

>>558653924
I pre-ordered marathon and whatever goofy collectors edition it had, but I'll still be doing expeditions in arc raiders.

>>558653924
I think Arc needs content besides gay leaderboards and weather modifiers to have any longevity. I don't like Bungie or the shit they make but they are pretty good at keeping people on the hamster wheel long term

I am seeing a lot more weapon variety, outside the torro, now that the venny and greys were nerfed. Lots more blues and pinks in use where their counterparts were nerfed.
Now only the torro and trig needs a nerf so the vulcano can see use.

>>558658384
there actually is a strategy, someone posted it here, and even watched that fag "Gaming Merchant" do it

basically listen to the audio queues and qhen a rocketeer goes to fire, go 90 degrees and run that way, he avoided 2 rocketeer doing multiple triple bombs doing this, the whole time I'm going, "dude get to cover, are you retarded?"

let me see if I can find the clip

>>558653924
Won't. It's manufactured hype right now. Bungie lies abound

>>558655165
Hackers will fuck your ass harder in fps. A benefit 3rd person gives for extraction shooters

>>558655371
The skill gap in arc is when you run into hacker lobbies after pvping

>>558658384
>>558670983
https://litter.catbox.moe/ykl9qv.webm

>>558671765
Lack of a skill issue presented, in /arg/ of all places? Impossible.
Only confirms that this general is frequented by absolute shitters.

>>558670623
>I am seeing a lot more weapon variety
that's mostly because of the imminent expedition.
I think weapons need to have their crafting hassle reduced to get people to bring more interesting loadouts. Frankly I think the I-II-III-IV system could be removed with no negative impact on the game

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>>558670623
It think it was a well deserved nerf to common guns. There was little incentive to bring your gucci gear into a match if you're getting rekt with a rattler / stitcher IV. Only thing I could ask for at this point is to slightly buff medium and heavy shields, and a PvP dedicated "Thunderdome" mode with some kind of team deathmatch, and I'm good desu.

>>558665476
that's maratroon cope

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Browns moving to Marathon is a good thing, i hope they stay there

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>>558673525
Sister...

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>check tempest
>price slashed in half again

>>558674037
buy high, sell low

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rats ruined this game for me, i'm done

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are you guys actually taking your shields off in the hurricane? I did that for exactly one round before deciding it was a bad idea

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>prioritize patching the snap cancel
>pulling out quick use items is still buggy
great !

>>558675594
only if i'm going in sneaky beaky like, re-shield if entering a hot zone or near an extract

>>558675594
>are you guys actually taking your shields off in the hurricane?
For hiding, yes. After the flares you gotta charge it quickly, in case someone else is coming.

>>558675594
nah I'm scared of comets

>>558675594
yeah, the hurricane does so little damage to it anyway, its better to be prepared with a shield with like 3 charge take off, than die in 0.3 seconds shieldless.

>>558673668
This reminds me of when I used to pubstomp in paladins. I made a console account just for fun, and I still dominated every single game as the flying rocket dragon. It's really cute that these guys think they're on our level.
>>558674037
Who the fuck is buying blueprints four days before expedition?

>>558675846
players not doing the expedition
and people with 2nd account bank alts

>>558675846
>Who the fuck is buying blueprints four days before expedition?
savvy investors, obviously. Once the expedition hits the price will moon.

>>558675846
>our level.
If we can't see through walls, our level doesn't matter, compadre

>>558675846
See>>558673960
People are still buying this game. I know that you're retarded. But not everyone buys games on release date and not everyone is doing the expedition.

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>>558676302
Turn on crossplay then lil buddy

>>558676302
>>558676460
can you not, we're happy in our friendly lobbies while all you pcfags shoot each other up with cheats and mouse aim

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>spawn into stella with a tempest ready to kill
>kill a guy
>hes pissed
>cant find more people
>extract
>some guy with no gun suddenly pops in front of me
>we talk
>i just give him the tempest for fun and we extract together
im a chungkandan agent of chaos

>>558676696
I'm just saying it's rather suggestive that the person who claims to be just as good as or better than pc players, refuses to use crossplay. It almost sounds like someone talking shit without the ability to back it up.

>>558676460
>Turn on crossplay then
On this game I did. On CoD and BF6 I won't.
Console lobbies on Arc are full of shotgun campers

>>558676960
Pc players cheat. Have fun "playing" this game

>>558677106
See you in hell sweetheart

>>558676696
Really baffles me why people like this bought an extraction shooter where people are given carte blanche to kill and loot each other. It's like moving to africa and then complaining about all the niggers. Actually I've seen a few videos of black people wanting to retvrn to their homeland, who complain about africa and leave after a few months.

>>558677106
>Pc players cheat
They don't if you reverse boost every 2 hours. Only the "top 20% PvP" rank has cheater lobbies.

>>558677017
So you reply to arc raiders reddit threads about crossplay off being the best setting, every single one of your clips features horrible players who are either drunk or using a controller, but we're supposed to believe that you actually enabled crossplay for this game?
Do you just not post the times you get dumpstered by the average PC player?

>>558677271
>He doesn't know about people who are bad at the game and cheat and still suck at the game
Bless your heart

>>558677340
>about crossplay off being the best setting
That was my opinion 2 weeks ago, no? Kukuku

>>558677340
You found his old reddit posts and owned him so hard, stalker retard.

>/arg/ - Marathon Waiting Room #118

>>558678062
marathon has a general

>>558677271
Dying to cheaters still sucks. Have fun with your cheaters, pcfag

>>558678226
>plugs in mnk into xbox
nothing personnel

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How can PC counter this?

>>558678309
>Seeing through walls, aimbots, lag switches,vacuum hacks to pick up items across the map is just like mnk on Xbox

>>558678565
you are wildly overestimating cheater presence (especially due to ABMM), also kronus exists.
seeing the clips, you're never gonna see any of them

>>558677815
And no reply to why every one of your clips features the worst players imaginable. As if you're playing exclusively with consolesharts or something.

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Bro uses shotguns and nades, gets shit on with shotguns and nades, then thinks that's "meta".

I'm not gonna let someone shoot me first, or be in a spot for nades. That's a lot better.

>>558679325
>every one of your clips features the worst players imaginable
How many accounts do you have, have did you get into every clip

I wanna like this game but the gunfights pretty much boil down to "who can be the biggest faggot in this situation" or nade spam, or sometimes an ok fight but something on fun fair terms has happened like maybe 3 times.
What other games do you anons like? I think I'm done after this expedition, too much grinding, this game is for the unemployed, but hey hate the game not the player.

>>558678931
>still denying it
shitty players, turd worlders love hacks. have fun in your retarded lobbies, pcfag.
>they're only in the top 20% pvp lobbies
cope

Arc takes no skill, be it PC or console. Anyone checks dark corners. No one checks every random spot on the map.

(Except me, I sit anywhere and listen)

>try to get into the low skill lobbies
>still not there, but every match starts at 29:59 now
bad players get better spawns, the fuck? must be a player retention thing. those people probably stop playing the game altogether if they don't spawn at the beginning of the match

>>558679785
Maybe stop seething about pc for 5 seconds and you won't make hilarious ESL typos. Just a tip

To be honest, killing big Arc in PvE lobbies right now, takes more skill than killing a "cracked" solo PC player.
You just wait for the PvP guy and win.

Arc bots can fuck you up after you dump a ton of ammo. PvP players can't do anything. The skill gap is 0(zero)

>>558680617
That wasn't a typo, you took bait. Kukuku

>>558680617
>seething brown cries because of typos and grammar
Your brown
lmfao

>>558680848
>>558680927
>Samefagging
Yikes

>>558680571
bad players probably spend more time in maps. You get late spawns to fill in for players who have died or extracted.

>>558680571
I think its more that suiciding seems to not doing anything anymore, or way less than it did before
and when you are in friendly lobbies, you just play the whole match out anyway, there aren't going to be latespawns unless someone is going in and leaving in the first 13min
pvp lobbies, people die all the time and get replaced, or suicide for blueprints, or just suicide in general to try and get friendly lobbies

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Mhm mhm

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what does this mean? I don't get it

>>558681553
think about it for five fucking seconds, anon

>>558681553
idk remember where that is, but you can go below the value needed for skillpoints if you lose too much stuff

>>558681664
>>558681632
I have 7m raider coins..
I had 1 item in my safe pocket from a naked run, I died. My stash is full.
I have no idea which items this tooltip is talking about

>>558682048
Removing the item from my safe pocket removed that tool tip. Anyway.

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>>558682048
>I have no idea which items this tooltip is talking about
probably the one item in your inventory, dumbass

>>558641543
>>558642252
What a huge difference that beard makes. Finally some more masculine features, can hardly wait for more styles and types.

>>558647343
It's to humilate and shame you for playing. Every major game dev studio has to comply with certain things or else they are not allowed to succeed or continue.
Sweet Baby Inc etc even if some of the devs don't want to, its what they're told to do and what they will produce to keep their easy jobs.

>>558682257
Why is this stupid shit not showing up every time I make a load out, what? Does losing that stuff NOT lower the value of my expedition somehow? Asinine

>>558682429
it does it when you're managing your inventory after pressing "play"

>>558679325
Raz sucks, i agree. He should stop posting his clips

>>558682790
That didn't show up at that moment, what? I didn't hit play and was managing my inventory. I saw that tooltip, recyled 1 item and that's it. I didn't stop looking for a match, because I never hit play

>>558682324
>It's to humilate and shame you for playing.
no, it's because every outfit leans towards one gender or another while simultaneously needing to have broad sales appeal in order to move units. At the same time, they're all designed by swedish graphic artists trying to emulate 80s Italian film industry scifi props. this schizo conspiracy shit is tiresome

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IT'S SO FUCKING OVER
EVERYONE WENT TO MARATHON
NO ONE EVEN CARES ABOUT THE EXPEDITION
BUNGIE WON

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unc raiders is dying lmao 50k less players compared to yesterday same time

marathon will kill this asset flip for good

>>558683717
Bungie lost, Nintendo won and cat abusers making unfunny gifs won

ARC sissies... Marathon is doing numbers, is it over for us?

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>>558683968
nah they just pushed a new update for us

you have to remember the open beta started 45min ago, I am positive a lot of people are just going to quit the game after the easy as fuck tutorial and then finding out the game is purely a PvP mode

>>558628624
It was maybe like 5-6 hours probably. It's not hard at all.

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>>558684165

>>558684536
>spoiled the patchwork outfit stuff early
>take it away and cuck the players who were rocking it
Bungie is going to end this game forever

>>558684771
Everyone keeps joking about this but I think marathon has a legit chance of killing this game

>>558684993
god I wish

>>558616796
Unironically I would love a flying fortress boss that is just a rocketeer-sized flyer with multiple wasps guns on it that track and fire at enemies independently of each other. Something that can either focus fire the fuck out of one player and shred them, or be attacking multiple raiders in different directions at once.

It would be an excellent addition to things like Matriarch fights, because it shines the most in fights against groups of players.

>>558684993
>t I think marathon has a legit chance of killing this game
play one match of marathon and this delusion will immediately leave your mind

>>558684993
everyone is losing their mind over how bad the open beta is right now

>>558685294
there is some UFO they seemed to have added
https://www.reddit.com/r/ArcRaiders/comments/1rf6ly1/ufo_spotted_on_buried_city/

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>>558684993
nah this shit sucks
I would rather play Apex instead of this bullshit

>>558684993
I unironically tried to give the game a chance and it feels like shit

>>558684993
Nah. Arc has way to strong and loyal of a playerbase at this point. Plus a lot of people will prefer it just because it is third person and they already have months invested into it.

I played 1 round of Marathon and it instantly made me appreciate ARC Raiders so much more
Like holy frick I don't think Marathon does anything interesting, and everything else is just worse in every way

im going to sink another 200 hours into arc doing the same thing ive done for the last 4 months
the 2 new arc keep it fresh enough

>>558686579
I felt like I was playing a game from like 5 years ago or something, major complaints were
>everything looks lootable
>nothing is lootable
>friends wipe out a bunch of robots but take a lot of damage
>nothing like health or shield rechargers drop
>forced to extract with all of us 1 shot

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just gave all my ducks to my friend to sell, rip. must've been like 14 stacks

>see 2 downed raiders during harvester, go to revive them
>one done, go to second
>NON NON HE IS LE RAT

>>558686917
Another victim of game development taking so long to complete that by the time you finish, whatever trend you were chasing has already passed you.

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>>558683968
they shouldnt have taken 2 months off for christmas

>>558686917
>>558688412
>marathon
>yea we're making a hero shooter
>oh wait, extraction shooters make more money?
>WERE MAKING AN EXTRACTION SHOOTER
>AND ITS HARDCORE FOR HARDCORE PLAYERS
>oh wait, arc raiders made a lot money?
>ACTUALLY WE ADDED SOLOS AND VOICE CHAT
>LOOK AT THIS VIDEO OF EVERYONE DANCING AT EXTRACT LOL...

someone please mod the game to make the ching chong tian wen cunt shut the fuck up

releasing a new extraction shooter after I have just ate my fill of extraction shooter is a poor choice. I need anotehr rpg now.

an extraction shooter just flew over my house

>>558689896
another extraction shooter? in this extraction shooter season?

>>558683257
>this schizo conspiracy shit is tiresome
Yeahh I doubted the epstein shit too a decade ago though. Strange deja vu writing this out though.

>>558684536
>>558684771
Was debating so much for expedition but that second patchwork evolved looks good enough to go for it now, glad to see it ingame instead of only promo images that could have hidden hotpants lol
Fannie pack would be awesome and funny now that I think about it.

>>558690253
>that second patchwork evolved looks good enough to go for it
the color that was in the promo shot looks good too, replaces the blue with orange

Is this the laugh at Bungie thread?

What is next months arc going to be?
Hard mode, swede designs only
>Hornet but ground
>Wasp but heavy armor plating

>>558645158
Really is that noted somewhere? Actually legit if there's less rats slipping through farming non aggro lobbies.

"arc raiders" is censored in game chat and gets ### ###### out

>arc raiders is censored in marathon

>>558691891
you can talk about marathon here my friend
>>558688576

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>>558691781
nothing noted
just personal stories from some people, I say maybe works less cause it seems to still work for some people

but my guess is they turned down the "weight" of how much dying <1min into a map weighs on your "karma"

>>558653924
>bungie game doing well in 202X
lol, lmao
genuinely don't care though
I still play helldivers2 sometimes
I will still play arcraiders sometimes

life goes on

>>558692034
HOLY RENT FREE KEK

https://youtube.com/shorts/SeloIBioTtg?si=oItqkEm2cgX2_8TA

We need Peanut to say this on his stream. Torro nerf when?

>>558692034
>genuinely trying out that game
>it just feels like complete dog shit
>watch some streamers
>"Yea I think I'm going back to arc raiders later boys"

>>558692325
>>watch some streamers
name one

>>558692418
Ninja

>>558692812
tbf isnt ninja fortnite/3pp shooter first dude?

bros I hope peanut doesn't spend too much time streaming this shit game or at least switches back to arc after a few hours

i know they paid him 6 figures for the private beta but holy shit this is not fun to watch

>>558692034
this cannot be fucking real

>>558693870
https://www.twitch.tv/lirik/clip/FriendlyEnchantingOpossumRalpherZ-HA7GJI8yzhJd3Uw9

its real, they probably think theyre being cheeky and fun but it comes across as real butthurt

>>558693708
>sucking e-nigger dick this hard
fuck off and kill yourself

>>558693708
he'll play a few rounds and see how unfun this is

at least in the private beta it was devs who are bad at the game and making the stream entertaining

can you imagine watching him get stream sniped

>>558694504
bro, our game is only successful because of people like him. show some respect.

>>558694504
I've filtered the phrase "gingy" and all of the peanut webms. it has greatly improved the quality of /arg/

>>558695185
you are not a developer of the game, it's not yours or mine or anyone in this thread's game

>still deepthroating e-nigger cock
streamers and the attention economy is what's killing gaming, fuck off and die in a ditch somewhere

>>558695673
good idea, thanks