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Stayin' Alive Edition
>News & updates
https://arcraiders.com/en/news/
>Resources
Items
https://arcforge.org/
Skill Tree Builder
https://arcskilltree.com/
Interactive Maps
https://metaforge.app/arc-raiders/map
Event Timers
https://metaforge.app/arc-raiders/event-timers
Key Card locations
https://imgur.com/a/s9YtLXR
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>>562533898
wonder how much they're worth
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not bad I guess
seems to be getting lower
wonder if they'll add more ways to get it since its just a blue weapon
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>>562531456
>shit durability
>shit ammo economy
>shit damage
>shit rof
>shit recoil
>shit dispersion
>shit ergonomics
>does ONE thing MILDLY better than other PvE weapons
>other PvE weapons can achieve the same effect by shooting 1 extra bullet
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just tried it
it's going to the stash until they buff it
back to tempest it is
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>>562532713
No way.
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>guy gets downed after looting the assesor
>he asks if I have a defib and say no
>dies while cursing and I take all his shit
>mfw I had 3 defibs
Sorry man but those Matrix parts are a bitch to get
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rocketeers have always been the most cancer least fun trash thing ever put in any video game and every single patch they manage to make this fucking thing worse and i cant understand why
>we buffed this guy so now it properly targets you through walls and shoots you without vision
>we increased its spawns and aoe sizes and barrages so you cant dodge it anymore
>we made it even louder so it just deafens everything else about the game
>we made it even more aggressive so it just sits on you for 5 minutes with its ESP wall hacks even if you have a cloak or throw a lure grenade away
>we nerfed wolfpacks so you cant even deal with them anymore
>we nerfed every single possible way to deal with this and keep making it more dangerous and buggy every patch
this single enemy is making me hate this game
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>>562566705
they work, but you have to have at least a single braincell to understand that if you throw it too close or in the open it's gonna get nuked and won't do much, and it you throw it too far it's gonna be ignored
ideally you throw it close to the arc and behind cover that can still be reached making the arc route around it
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>suppressive fire/location memory for AI exists
>WAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH WALLHACKSSS
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LOL
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>>562569090
yea I hope they dont go that way, but so far I'm liking the changes
>THE HULLCRACKER WAS NERFED
no it was too strong, its pretty great now
>THEY NERFED WOLFPACKS THESE DEVS ARE KILLING THE FUN IN THE GAME
no wolfpack was too strong for the cost, I could make 15 of them in like 2 of my oil runs
now you actually have to kill a rocketeer, and other arc too, since everyone was just relying on throwing 2-3 wolfpacks
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>>562573826
I would easily do the expedition if I could keep my blueprints.
They should make it so that the blueprints are locked (for those that did the expedition) till specific levels. Rares unlock level 20, epics level 35-40 and legendaries around level 50.
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Just finished a run where I was last sliver of health, got the return screen, but showed me walking out with nothing/saying I was knocked out. Have the inventory
Does the game just give it to the player in these split second situations?
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>>562574310
bps become useless either way for people doing expeditions
best case scenario you could probably do some extra investments to keep no more than 5 bps, but then again people will probably overpick certain ones reducing the demand for them even more
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>>562574310
bps are worthless anyways even while doing expeditions you just feed that shit to the "Provisions" section anyways or sell them for raw value. The only thing that sucks is like losing a few attachment bps like silencers.
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>>562583170
pretty sure 3-4
might be 3 because I think my plan is to make my alt eat one and make a couple survivors and just pass them to my main, and see how long I can do the expedition without eating the blueprint so I can hold onto them longer
I got one as a trial reward at the beginning of this expedition and lasted like 2 weeks with it before losing it and then just trading a blueprint from my alt
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>>562568554
>niggers like you is why we can't have good PvE games
Nice PvE you got there, bub
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>>562585471
>It’s just a gear check for smokes and lures- if they even decide to work. Loot is crapola. No other raiders around in the area to help
Can buy smokes daily and lures are a BP like 5 quests in. Plus the cloak is a quest item, im certain of it. If not, I am sure it comes already learned and all you need is a level 3 bench.
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>>562586430
I don't need to, I'm targeting PvE lobbies. I will lower my agression rank for hours. Then, I will target friendly solos, who want to extract. The people who actually desire to exfil, that's who I'm gonna kill.
I don't give a fuck about pvpers
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>>562593780
You do that, tough guy, and I'll shoot you in the back(no homo)
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>>562567214
no you can see them shooting the wall where you are even if you're moving back and forth
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>>562629589
meant to reply to >>562629528 lol
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its medium ammo time
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This dude has some crazy projections
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>>562647832
Hurricane caches
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It's kinda different and meta changing in its own way. It's the in-between of the Stitcher and Bobcat to encourage freegros to actually build a kit and since it takes medium ammo you can run it with a Renegade with 400 ammo and have your long and medium/short range fully covered with one ammo type.
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the fun ends here
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>just outgunned a canto IV with a tempest II
>camper peaked through pharmacia on buried city and thought he could quickly kill me as I was on the roof directly adjacent
>ended up killing him and getting away with barely 5% hp
I did mostly get headshots but I still expected more of the weapon.
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>>562666865
I did see one post saying that a lot of the data is probably coming from cheaters using it
It's deadly in pvp if you land headshots, and cheaters are the ones who can do that with ease
Otherwise it seems like the average player tries it out against ARC and is like
>well this thing fucking sucks
or uses it in pvp
>this thing only works in close quarters and I have like 6 other guns I could use that are better
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>>562667070
how in the fuck is it doing well in datasheets? it loses to the twice nerfed venny both in stats and cost, for fucks sake
and that's on top of horrendous recoil/dispersion with the bottom 2 ammo economy in the game
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>>562669928
>chart made post venny nerf, before toro nerf
i mean, it's not a big difference, but at the same time there are weapons that are clearly superior to the bettina
the "cheater stats" don't line up, it doesn't make any fucking sense
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>>562670462
Part of the PvP in the game is getting the drop on people are knowing when to push
Cheaters even have that stuff covored
>can see where people are through walls
>can see when someone is holding heals and going to use them
On spreadsheets yea, it wouldn't make sense, but that's basically considering a perfect scenario where both people start shooting each other at the same time, not one guy playing normally with a chance to make mistakes vs another guy playing with a bot that aims for your head every time no matter what
but I could be completely wrong, I'm just going off a post I read forever ago, and that nobody legitimate is using the bettina, pretty sure there was a post in this thread where anon was like
>tried the bettina
>this shit is sucks
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>10 rounds in a row
>no PvP
>hmm let's take an anvil IV, wait I don't have the BP
>have some kind of weird feeling that somebody will kill me next round
>let's take something else instead
>kill a vaporizer
>get killed from behind
Odd that I saw it coming
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>Aaaaa
>AaAAAAA
>ha
>ha
>aaAAAAAAAAAA
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>tfw finally found the smoke grenade blueprint on Friday night
Fucking FINALLY. It eluded me for way too long.
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just bring a photoelectric cloak with you on all maps, it's what I've done since launch and they're cheap to make
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>>562695304
Feels pretty damn good to have a enough doe and risk assessment to roll with a hullcracker sooner and sooner after expedition. I often have zero chemicals and crude explosives from all the ammo though.
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>2 Vaporizers aggro on some guys at the Assessor on dam seeing if it's been looted dry by nakeds
>down them because they are in the middle of the water with no cover
>both instantly switch aggro to me, 75~ meters away watching the shitshow mostly behind cover just using my osprey to watch
>hound me and ignore the other 2 people
>go down
>they start hounding the guy with a hullcracker
>he surrenders behind cover so that the last guy can get his defibs
>vaporizers zoom over and flank the cover to start hounding that final guy too
>after mission report
>Feedback popup
>Deslike
>"explain"
>enemy AI
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Thank god it's over
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these dont seem that fun
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>>562692060
I found 1 (only one) in the first season and I dont remember where
I found 1 (one) in Spaceport at the very end of the second season after searching literally months for it everywhere without luck
This season I found 2 (two) in Spaceport without much effort
Something is very fucked with the Smoke Grenade blueprint but Spaceport seems to do the trick for now
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>>562711747
I ended on 60 somehow
but took this after I started
so whenever that is
probably more chance the later you wait if you really care about that
I know a few people who wait until the last day each week
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Fresh, new map. We're gonna have a lot of fun together. You, and me.
Of course I'm not interested in the new robot, I'm just gonna stalk you in random places. When you believe you're alone, that's when I'll attack you.
And you can't even fight back, because I have the best gear and heals.
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Very interesting, we get to swim, like in Uncharted, Last of Us, and Red Dead?
Sony movie game bros, we're winning with Arc
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>>562629528
Marathon has a real endgame, nothing to discuss here.
It's a solved game that look a sharp drop (relative to the launch ccu) because there's not much to do or discuss about.
Patches and nerfs are shit, and ragebaiting about ABMM is about the only thing gaining traction
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>don't care about trial rewards this season
>accidentally reach hot shot farming trials for blueprints
Anyways, does anyone use an alt for keeping blueprints they like? I'm getting ready for my 2nd expedition but I just got my first bobcat bp.
I've got an alt account on my steamdeck that I used to transfer blueprints my 1st expedition. I'm realizing I could just lvl 3 my alts benches and use that as my main accounts arms dealer. Anyone else doing something similar?
Part of me thinks it might be a pain giving the alt materials, but that can't be worse than losing your favorite blueprints every 60 days, can it?
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>>562732403
yea I'm considering something similar, just keep the alt at 0 expeditions, feed it every blueprint once, I can just send my main supplies when I need it
otherwise I just give myself the blueprints I want
>survivor
>seeker nade
>silencer II
I seem to be able to get everything else through the shop and I dont pvp
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>>562733624
Reminds me I need to farm blue gate / stella for survivor
>>562734071
fair, it's also not too terrible turning the pc and deck on at the same time to lobby up and transfer if I have the materials ready to go on the main
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Hope new map is very pretty and relaxing. Tired of ugly maps, like Stella and Dam
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>>562732403
>Anyways, does anyone use an alt for keeping blueprints they like? I'm getting ready for my 2nd expedition but I just got my first bobcat bp.
Idk, that seems so lame to me. The whole point is to grind up again, and its a bit of fun doing that. Instantly giving yourself the most important item in the game takes away a bit of fun.
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>>562736983
>lame
Fair, I don't think any of the blueprints really gave me that much of an edge outside of the ammo mags. The shop's daily 3 anvil's and 3 il toros are more than enough to solo the expedition pages and $3m requirement.
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>>562744149
And you can kind of treat it as a way to explore all the different augs. Maybe this wipe you find the combat instead of the survivor. Or you find one of the tactical ones. Maybe the flanking and roll with whatever you get. That way, you roll with whatever pink aug the RNG simulator spits out at you instead of losing your hair trying to do naked night runs for 8 hours straight or eliminating the fun of searching entirely by gifting it to yourself.
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>aimkeys team throws tnades that insta-nuke a team of three with no possible reaction from the enemy team
very cool
i remember one of the CM's or maybe a dev in the discord replying to someone about tnades after the nerf
>what tnades? but we already nerfed them.
you dont even have to play the game to see tnades are still OP, just watch any top pvp streamer and you tell me with a straight face that tnades are in a good spot.
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>>562729532
just saw a tik tok saying something about swimming combat
people are really convinced theres going to be swimming when theres been no indication of it
maybe theres some stupid short I missed
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finally tomorrow the one good skin will release, assuming they dont fuck up the bottom half. it is funny how butthurt reddit is about the SWAT skin.
>NUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU IT DOESNT FIT IN THE GAMES LORE!!!!!!!!
as if all military or cop attire was taken by the arc when they left. if anything there should be way more cop and military attire being scavenged. why would people take the fucking sweat pants and booty tight pants but not the military pants and combat boots?
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>>562782356
I mean Dolabra
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>>562783620
Not my problem.
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>>562784198
>you can cheat as long as I can continue pressing E on container
That wasn't on my bingo. It is now.
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>>562784646
>dude makes up shit about how cheating is prevalent in pve lobbies (or will be if pvp dies to cheaters)
>saying I don't care means I'm okay with cheaters
Please kill yourselves.
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>>562784894
I was the original anon you responded to I only replied twice, dunno about these other anons lol but yeah I quit Tarkov after starting it in alpha and somewhere around the latest city map and fell for their pipe dream of all the maps being connected which Arc Raiders has a more realistic goal of copying.
Very educational on Russian culture during those many hours and history. Incompetent jank is all I see of that game now.
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>>562785774
Tarkov had moments where more than half of your raid were cheaters, with more than 3/4ths of those being silent RMT looters that basically globally lowered loot availability, especially rare items.
ABMM helps currently, as they are contained to high-rating lobbies, for the most part, but if the competition there gets tight it's only logical that they will spread of try to find alternative methods.
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anyone else getting placed in ultraviolence sweat lobbies who feel like they don't belong there?
my trio just plays to see where the round goes without any real plan or great gear, but we're now only seeing
>Canto IV Venator IV Vulcano IV Trigger Nade x36
and even when we win an engagement we just get mopped up by the rest of the lobby
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Weird got knocked off a zip line and died to a zap bot buy a raider defibbed me. Saw a flare go up and went to help but a random guy shot at me with a silenced renegade. Weird that there was a pvp nigger in my lobby. I just turned around and went to my key room and left.
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>>562787654
if you've ever walked into a room to find just 1 or 2 open loot containers, it's because a player with ESP stole all the blueprints to sell on a 3rd-party marketplace. PvE servers are the place to do this because you can steal shit under other player's noses with no consequences or risk.
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Again, I rarely encounter this shit. The original comment that sparked this was someone complaining about hackers, reasonably assumed to be talking about in pvp. Not my problem.
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>doing matriarch in friendly lobbies.
>never use the equalizer so bring it out
>some retard makes a beeline at me and runs through my beam
>I'm now in sus lobbies all day despite the fact that I've healed many people
>how many sus lobbies do I need to be in before I can use my new Dolabra safely
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They need to either split PvP and PvE or get rid of ABMM. I am tired of getting shot while in a "friendly lobby", it would be better if it was truly random so everyone played more intelligently, including myself.
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genuinely staggered by how retarded these takes are
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>>562797704
getting iced in "friendly lobbies" is 100% a skill issue. develop a survival instinct instead of demanding that the game be lowered to your own level of personal stupidity
the TTK is already glacially long compared to contemporary shooters and making it even longer would make fights feel like shit.
>but I die too fast
another skill issue
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>>562798208
As long as you're not given a near-guaranteed action even if you fumble in the hardest possible way, then the whole gameplay ALWAYS devolves into infofagging and stealth, especially so in solos.
If I can't deploy utility in a firefight without initiative before getting glassed this faggotry will never change.
Like duh, you can just play around information LIKE EVERY FUCKING SHOOTER EVER, instead of making something more than that.
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Just how shit your aim is?
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>Just how shit your aim is?
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>>562798579
>the whole gameplay ALWAYS devolves into infofagging and stealth
>this faggotry will never change.
because that's what the game is, jackass. go play something else.
also
>infofagging
100% cope for just being stupid
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Cheaters are not a PvPjeet problem.
PvPjeets use a Cronus device with a script, they go to sleep, while their character runs around, and dies, without dealing damage to players.
This cheat device plays the game for you, lowers ABMM to a minimum. You wake up, and get all the delicious Chungus lobbies.
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>Rape chunguses at extract
>Run cronus script
>Go to sleep
>Wake up
>More chungus lobbies to rape
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>>562796402
i had to slime someone out.
>use key on key room at top of dam tower
>barricade it
>set up multiple mines
>retard opens it
>he somehow doesn't instantly die
>run out and slime him
>tell him not to open others key rooms dirty rat
>place more mines before looting him
>he has hullycaker 4, tons of seeker nades and t nades, snaphook, blue bandaids, anvil with anvil splitter, photo cloak, survivor aug, and surprisingly a vaporizer regulator.
WHY on earth would you open my key room if you're already so geared? You see the damn barricade or door blockers and you think its a good idea to risk it all? If you open my key room after all of the warning signs I am killing you 100%. One of us is dying 100%.
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>>562799365
I found this
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Pb3JX-_l6us
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Friendlies often get upset that "the vibe is ruined" or "there's a rat", and will shoot back.
Bingo, their account is ruined. Now they have an aggression rank. If you ever scratched a player with your bullet or melee(!), you will never escape Ratkanda.
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>>562799369
you're a faggot, because we actually agree with each other but you still wanted to pick a fight. it's clear that the context of the discussion is revolving around solo play and that no particular set of balance changes is going to make everyone happy; so, if a person doesn't like the way the game is, they should just leave instead of eternally kvetching on /vg/
>>562798992
longer TTK will not increase combat depth. Longer TTK just turns combat into a gear check instead of a skill check.
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>>562798208
Why should abmm exist then? To me it's the devs not having confidence in their pvpve design and this is an easy out. Why would they implement a system that lets you increase likeliness of one game type or another? Just let it be always pvpve and the player can't make any assumptions. Either that or nut up and split the game types. I know it's always pvpve but abmm causes players to assume they are in one or the other and the system is easily manipulated by fags
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>longer TTK will not increase combat depth. Longer TTK just turns combat into a gear check instead of a skill check.
First of all, we are in a fucking extraction shooter. You know, where loot and gear is the center of the game?
Second, your ambush/info advantage doesn't go away, it simply stops being a win button. A guy that's dead can't do things to increase the complexity of the encounter because he's... dead.
I am expecting an initiative back and fourth as it happens in trios, but in solos, yet that's never going to happen when death is just a headshot and a half away, and utility is almost never used because just shooting is far more efficient.
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>>562800032
A guy ran through my equalizer beam for a second and I'm sent into pvp sus lobbies
>>562800171
bro shut up. either be friendly in the friendly neighborhood servers or have fun in the call of dooty lobbies
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>>562800171
>Just let it be always pvpve and the player can't make any assumptions
>I know it's always pvpve but abmm causes players to assume they are in one or the other
do you even read the shit you write? is this a symptom of the literacy crisis?
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>>562800545
>A guy ran through my equalizer beam for a second and I'm sent into pvp sus lobbies
Based, I always run in front of dudes who are shooting Arc, making sure I get hit. Hullcracker does nothing tho, which is unfortunate.
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>>562800545
>either be friendly in the friendly neighborhood servers or have fun in the call of dooty lobbies
I'm always in minimum ABMM, friendly lobbies. Always killing a dude who wants to extract.
I will not let the game "send me' to cowadooty lobbies.
I will reverse boost my account.
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>>562800545
I do play in friendly only lobbies exclusively. And when I get shot while I am busy fighting arc or doing trials I get pissed off because there is no reason I should be paired with a kos pvper. The abmm doesn't work and I don't see a reason for it to exist.
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>>562800615
My bad it was poorly worded. I'm trying to say abmm is a half assed way to appease pve players and it gives a false sense of safety. It implies that you will get a certain lobby based on your behavior but it's not really true. I have 400 hours with like 15 kills so you know I pve only. I'm just getting tired of feeling like abmm failed when I get kos'd. Just chilling with other guys talking when a minute later some fuck with a vent iv kills me.
Love the game but maybe it's not for me
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>try to get the vaporizer trial
>3 other guys nearby
>We all hide in one small building and shoot at it
>I'm always the guy in the back getting annoyed by idiots just running in front of me
>Enough of this
>I will walk in front of people and they will have to watch out and not shoot me
>walk into crossfire 3 times
>survive
>Get 3 stars
Lmao, into the pvp mines you go.
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>blue gate scrutiny way earlier
>me and another guy sitting near that one extraction point on the hill above where the harvester spawns
>he's sounds sketchy but he's not acting sketchy
>couldn't care less with fresh-from-trader hullcracker and stitcher
>he keeps shooting Vaporizers with an Anvil to aggro over to us
>he lines up on the 5th one while looking off the cliff
>random fucking guy comes from nowhere and runs in front of him at the perfect time
>eats it to the head
>yells "YOU ARE GOING TO BRAZIL!"
Never going to experience this again and my dvr wasn't on.
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>>562789791
People just ignore a bunch of containers in Assembly because they aren't worth it. All of the carts have good shit in them. White medical-style carts, orange tool carts, and the little cubby carts. If you spawn in Assembly you just have free accesspvp willingto a bunch of epic items and blueprints. There is nothing worth breaching there.
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I breach them when I can it's just the time investment vs beelining all the carts or finding a raider bag that spawns there, before others get them or alerting players in pvp is a big gamble.
Bigger question is: Why does Stella have a random chance for a much darker nightraid without nightraid loot?
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What's the trick to downing Surveyors quickly? Me and two dudes got pinned down on Dam by two of those fuckers and a Rocketeer.
I kept doing damage and downed the Rocketeer but the time was running out to kill the last Surveyor and we had to extract, one dude disappeared, the other was still alive when I told him to follow me to the extract but he was too scared to leave, probably died with only 2 mins on the clock.
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I think you mean the vaporizer, surveyor is the metal ball dude, as for killing the vaporizer fast only with wolfpack you shot with a hullcracker for it to use the shield after the shield is off you use wolfpack and 2 hullcracker shots.
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like 7th total
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It's all outdated info like
>DID YOU KNOW YOU CAN EXTRACT WITH THEY KEY AND DO IT NEXT TIME
no you cant they fixed that weeks ago
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ok found them all
that wasn't too bad
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>check prices because I haven't gotten one this expedition
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basically this ends up being my problem
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shared with the snaphook for some reason
and I'm guessing any future tool that uses that "stamina" bar
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gingy sucks as a streamer
sorry its not arc raiders
but I started watching her because she seemed ok at this game
but not I'm watching her play rust and she has just been crying and arguing with chat for what seems like days now
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It is the ONLY way to get assessor parts. They're optional for any other use but there is only photo + smoke method to be the first to get those parts unless you do trios. No idea what slaughter is going on there. You could just hunt and kill some people and be done with that grind eventually.
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Newish player here of like, 16 days in. I'm finally getting around to doing the quests, but they are such a pain in the ass to do. Every quest is essentially go to a far east point on the map to touch a doo-hickey, now do you the very west point on the map to touch another doo-hickey in the same match or you have to do it again. Is it worth doing these?
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>>562906102
yea the later ones have decent blueprints
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>>562906991
Well shit. The quests wouldn't be so bad if they weren't the worst examples of boring fetch quests imaginable. Even spicing it up with something as simple as you go to breach a chest for the quest, and when you do a tick jumps out at you suddenly. Maybe I'll just turn on music while I grind them out. Is there a forced progression wipe coming up next month as well?
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>>562907453
the other good one is hullcracker
I think there is a guide to show which quests to do if there is only certain blueprints you want
I'd arguably say hullcracker is the best one, especially with the current event
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>Is there a forced progression wipe coming up next month as well?
oh didn't finish reading
but no, no forced wipes, there are optional wipes, but you never have to do them and you're not missing out on anything if you wanted to do it later
its almost more like "prestiging" your account
whenever you do the first "wipe" you do the same thing everyone else did and get the same rewards for doing it
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Finally forced to upgrade from my Dec 2024 Nvidia drivers, after avoiding having to do so through all of 2025 during Nvidia's driver shitstorm.
Now this game keeps fucking crashing. All the time. Consistently, every single raid, freezes up and crashes to desktop. I can boot the game back up and reconnect to match but I'm usually fucked.
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>>562917875
its changed this week so no idea
originally it was like 3am
then it was 7am
now its ???
because it was moved a whole day, but I think they mentioned this is their new weekly update schedule time
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>playing with pvp monkey friend again
>has the most ADHD level impulse control manageable
>sabotages himself and us at every opportunity "because it's fun"
>gets mad at the result and wonders why he can't get quests done and always gets third partied (their matchmaking)
At least playing with them doesn't seem to have as strong of an affect on my solo matchmaking compared to if I was this much of a braindead retard while solo.
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>>562927594
I feel bad for convincing 2 of my friends to drop $40 on it because they just want to shoot people. So now that I'm finally out of Baltimore and into care bear lobbies, I have to change the subject when they float the idea of hopping on to join me.
I would love to run Stella with them again, but fixing my matchmaking afterward just so I can accomplish goals solo without being hunted by everyone within earshot is such a colossal waste of my evening.
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>>562928212
I've never even been to Stella, because all I know about it is that it's the place you go to if you want to pvp. Is it like that even in the care bear lobbies? Only ever killed one person in this game, and that was after I warned them like, 3 times to fuck off or I would shoot back. They were a terrible shot.
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>>562928483
I'm the original anon and the best way to gauge your matchmaking is that you're in Detroit if you get shot every time you enter, and you're in the good goy PVE matchmaking if you only get shot 50% of the time.
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50% huh? Think I'll just skip Stella for now then. I don't even usually fight back, I'm pretty new but already I have a maxed stash that I am constantly fighting with keeping just under the limit and half a million credits, I'd rather replace what I have then fight people for it honestly. I think I have ultra good boy lobbies though, I've died to arc more than players, and I always bring in three defibs and use them when I can.
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>>562930431
Stella is THE ratnigger map. It has a bunch of blueprints specitically only available there (mostly all of the grenades/mines I think) so If you have wholesome chungus matchmaking normally you may probably still be fine.
But the hours you play will also have an effect on matchmaking just by availability of players.
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>>562849040
There's a retard who makes short YouTube guides and he cuts up his videos like a mongoloid. Cut every 2 seconds. Shows the map for one and a half split seconds. Very strange. Anybody pointing this out gets downvoted by his retarded fanbase.
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>Jupiter
How does one use the Jupiter effectively?
Every time I tried it it seemed middling and not worth its legendary status, but seeing how everyone says it's good I'm pretty sure I'm doing it wrong. I know it penetrates armor but the damage was meh nonetheless.
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>>562946848
so far using it the past day or so its ok
>1 shot wasp
>2 shot hornet
>2 shot firefly
might be 1 shot
my stupid ass was aiming for the rotors sometimes because I'm so used to regular guns
>2 shot surveyor
>9 shot rocketeer
not sure how many shots for Vaporizer, but if you're aiming for the core it feels pretty fast
kind of sucks for easy arc
like I could just pull out my anvil to deal with wasps
but seems great for big arc, havent tried it on Bastion
Bombadier I just rape with a hullcracker
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>>562953358
just looked again
apparently I joined today
and this was the score I ended up with
it is only going to get harder in the final weeks because you HAVE to keep your rank or compete with potentially even sweatier people trying to climb into the bracket in the final week or two
pic here>>562700798
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>>562945332
it's unironically too cool and too normal; I can't buy it because everyone else will have it.
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Bettina is a fun pick for Queen/Matriarch because it chews off the armor very quickly.
I think those two are its only real use case at range because they're big enough targets you can reliably burst fire or even full auto if you want without missing too many shots. Trying to fight something like a Rocketeer fucking sucks, because of the bloom combined with low velocity.
If I wanted to buff it without touching its raw DPS I would do this:
>Reduce dispersion aka. bloom on the level of a Compensator 2
>~20% bullet velocity and range buff
>Burns significantly less durability. Like 66% less.
I don't know how to solve the ammo issue, but maybe start with making the gun feel like it's WORTH crafting 10 stacks of bullets for.
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What is the point of this damn thing?
>Combat MK2
>Except it carries less shit
>And it can only run lvl 1 shield
>And it's more expensive to craft
+1 keister I guess
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>>562970089
I think the Bettina just needs to be made a green/blue weapon. It clearly isn't going to become a meta pick, so why not just make it easier to come by? It might even help shove the meta CQB blasters down a little.
>>562970595
it's got infinite free defibs. Which is still a fucking terrible bonus, but ostensibly, it's why it exists.
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I had no idea it has built in defib. I was wondering why it was called "revival".
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>>562974314
oh yea
but it still feels kinda useless, I think its on a 30s cooldown too
I don't think I've ever run into a lobby where I used more than 3, but I guess its nice if you feel like only reviving people during queen or something
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>guy complaining that he opened 50 assessors and no Dolabra blueprint
>other guy said he got his on his first try and has just been helping others breach
>I somehow have gotten 2
Hope they let you work towards specific blueprints in the future, sucks to be locked out just because of RNG
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>you don't have a BP for an item
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>find the item itself
>reverse engineering personal project
>jam that shit with a bunch of other crap added on top (resource sink is good)
>BP comes out as you finish it
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>hear people shooting on Buried Shitty Night Raid
>leave with my duo
>think it's safe
>call the train
>doors open
>go in
>on the other side are the rats
>both waiting side by side at the door
>I immediately cut left but my duo didn't see and I couldn't say in time
>he goes down from a torrente
>I unload my sticher
>down one but didn't realize
>so still watch the door he's at
>other dude flanks me and kills me
Imagine waiting to shoot people immediately at the door. Also my fault for not smoking but I thought my duo had that covered. Fuckin rats man, I swear to god.
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Did they change Lure Grenades to just make them suicide buttons or something? I swear, every time I throw one there is a 0.10 second delay before every enemy in the vicinity is now aggroed on me and firing simultaneously. I threw one to distract a vaporizer and it just did a little spin in place and then immediately lasered me before my lure grenade had even *hit the ground*.
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I've had the same thing
I'm wonder if it's one of those
>my computer runs so well its making the lure grenades interact weird
or some freamerate shit, I'm losing my mind seeing people do clips of throwing them perfectly and saving their own ass, or somehow they throw it and I guess it landed perfectly in a bush to distract a bunch of arc for the longest time I've ever fucking seen instead of just shooting it out of the air
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Man, even making the wolfpack require rocketeer driver wasn't enough for them. Two wolfpacks doesn't even kill a Rocketeer anymore and vaporizers just zap them out of existence. These grenades are fucking worthless now.
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>2 mil inventory
>need another 2 mil to get the catch up points
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>>563011087
They're just for emergencies now
>>563011426
The new mode is great, just pick up all the extra arc shit
possibly fill your inventory with blues if you can
then just sell it all once your filled up and extract
repeat
lets you fight arc and make money, which is more fun than just running around looting imo
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What the fuck do I do with all these keys? I usually bring in two for a night raid, but the doors are open and looted 75% of the time when I get there, so they just go back in my pocket for the next raid but at this point I have 25ish keys in my stash and I can't use them fast enough before I get more. I can't stop picking them up either because I am a greedy nigger. Why can't this game have an in game auction house, I don't want to sell them to the vendor for 100 coins.
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>>563018619
I'd rather sell them for 100 credits than deal with a 3rd party site.
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How do I use them when the door is already open, retard?
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just bring them to any raid, not just night raids. if it's to the point where you're going to sell them, it's better to just use them regardless of loot value
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Turns out like 1 in 2 of the Arc Couriers have the Vaporizer part inside during the EM storm.
This is way fucking easier than parking inside a building and waiting for the ground to stop burning so I can take a shot.
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>>563044646
For me, I don't pvp and have started bringing a hullcracker or jupiter along with my anvil
so it just doesn't really fit in my kit
but I would probably use it if I used the Renegade more, and then kept that as my secondary for arc up close, I heard some pvpers are using that set up because its not bad for ammo, but no idea there, i just pve and usually go for the heavier stuff
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>>563044646
It feels fine as an upgrade to the stitcher but worse than the bobcat. which is a good thing but doesnt make it exciting this late into an expedition. The RNG aspect of hunting blueprints also kinda makes it retarded because day one expedition you can find a bobcat BP in some random trash can, thus invalidating the entire progression chain. That is kinda the down side to this RNG BP hunting, the progression gets a lot wonky and less clear.
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to add
I was just thinking, if they added this, maybe make it an expedition thing, like each expedition lets you get so many "blueprint slots"
that would incentivize casuals to keep playing the game and even do the expedition, and you could potentially have a "complete account" after so many expeditions
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>>563053739
You should try canto with anvil anon, I take the armor from leapers with anvil and then shred then with canto it kills then spectacularly fast and for stuff like bombardier that got no armor you can rape them, only flying stuff makes canto be completely shit for pve.
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>Mfw finally decide to bring a guitar topside after 150+ hours
>Mfw I find out they patched the original guitar songs out of the game
What the actual fuck is wrong with Swedish game developers? I thought it was just Arrowhead, are they all like this? Does it affect your enjoyment of the game at all if they're just going to keep doing petty shit like this?
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>>563071818
Anon, you are getting it wrong, it's just a lot of people that posts in this general are mediocre, not the guns.
Anvil is a very fun handcannon, equalizer rapes arcs, jupiter destroys any arc, the shotguns are strong op in pvp, even torrente people here thinks is a meme is hella op in a pvp fight, people in this general has hard time killing fucking vaporizers which you can kill in under a minute taking no damage this general is dead cause its full of no skill console tards.
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>>563081553
that's true, but it doesn't mean that some weapons are mediocre on top of the players. most things are fine as they are though.
bettina is just atrocious in comparison to every other weapon outside of ONE VERY SPECIFIC role which can be disregarded by meta weapons anyways
canto is just a stitcher+ with the most horrendous ammo econ in the game
equalizer is just a bettina+ (no i'm, not taking it back, jupiter is 3 times better for the same cost)
aphelion is too expensive to be a battle rifle with no scope
anyways my tldr is in picrel
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>sold all my Exodus modules
>last tier in trophy project asks for modules
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Equalizer now do well against vaporizers still not strong against other stuff tho.
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nvm it's gonna be all right
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>3 mil inv
now I'm in catch up territory. Honestly after this I am NEVER doing expedition again.
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oh yea I'm probably fucked this week
(as it should be, I barely grind, idk why I'm even in hotshot)
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probably wont try for a higher score than this
enough people should farm to kick me out of hotshot but who knows
the bottom of the leaderboard has 22 people who have <4k score, meaning they extracted without finishing a trial
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>night raid spaceport
>loot entire red building by myself plus a security locker
>this is the best I could manage
t-thanks
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>in true chungartha
>haven't seen a rat in like 50 or 75 raids if not more
>queue stella day raid
>pitch black version
>super quiet, only come across one or two players and they're friendly enough
>listening to podcast while looking for keys inside the security area
>take fire from above on the staircase
>run out and through the tiny opening by the breachable door to lobby
>collect myself and call him a faggot rat
>jump down to metro
>land between the containers and he can't find me
>hear him run off
>couldn't see what he looks like since it was pitch black
>wait a couple minutes and call the train
>as the train is arrives a dude in the luna skin comes in front of the containers looking left and right constantly seeming pretty on edge
>doesn't seem to notice me at all
>ask if he's friendly
>still no acknowledgement
>k den
>run onto train and see him follow me and he looks behind himself so I relax a bit figuring he just wants to leave
>start typing to extract
>another dude comes around asking if we're friendly
>at the same time the luna guy shoots me in the back
>yell out the spacesuit dude is NOT friendly
>blast his ass with my fully decked out canto
>third party comes into train
>tell him I'm the friendly one with the mohawk
>other dude downs me to play it safe, understandably
>he tells us to chill
>turn to see luna starting extraction
Wish I could've knocked him out or gotten a chance to mock him for being so shit at the game with all the advantages he had on me. Checked the player interations tab and only two people shot me, so the spacesuit dude was in fact the original rat at least.
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>statistically more likely to be brown
What's the logic for this, anon?
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>>563150961
My point is you're a moron for saying "statistically more likely" when that's literally not the case. Maybe if you said "there's a good chance" which I'd agree 40% is a good chance, but not statistically more likely.
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>>563151361
So you are just retarded, got it.
>White alone, not Hispanic or Latino, percent
>57.5%
https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/US/PST045224
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>>563151601
Check any crime database for mugshots and witness the most asian/gringo looking motherfuckers be classified as "non-hispanic white".
The only concern here could be "the databases are different", whereas there's not really much reason for it to not be unified in that manner. If the classifications are made at birth based on parents instead, it merely means that the stats are lagging behind for a generation.
You're throwing around gov stats like they're gospel, fucking retard.
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>>563151961
It's the census versus random police departments my guy. The pics you're talking about do not say "non-hispanic white" they just say "white" which is what the problem is. Please feel free to provide some examples to support your claim, retardnigger.
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>>563152479
You've encouraged me to do some mutt research on how it is conducted, and I can confidently say that census race stats are to be, largely, ignored or taken with a pile of salt, because they are... self reported.
The stats are a social representation of who the people think they are, not anything beyond that.
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>>563153813
Do you seriously expect a peak example of a melting pot, a race-mixing haven, a place of cultural clashes and constant inner turmoil to have sane self-reporting practices when there's not even the slightest social barrier for defining outsiders?
You're insane.
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>mutt
I never understood this, do you yuros think the race stats are for individual makeup, so the average person is 60% white, 20% black, 20% asian or whatever? That must have been how the term came to be.
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>specific blueprints
After doing an expedition every time, I finally found a barricade, door blocker, and smoke grenade bp. I have never seen these before. I'm not sure if I want to deal with finding another looting Aug either.
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>>563011087
>Two wolfpacks doesn't even kill a Rocketeer anymore
since when? I thought something was weird. I hit a rocketeer with a few hullcracker shots and threw a wolfpack expected it to die but it just triple barrage me and killed me instead
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>>563179452
if you really want to strip boss armour to loot, take a bettina 1 and throw it away in the same match because it's probably gonna be broken anyways
jupiter deals with any light to medium arc multiple times better, on greater ranges, with less needed precision.
if you want to kill a boss, use deadlines and stop being a retard about it
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right but its more about other people getting there first and scooping it up. the vaporisors was the easiest part, they spawn every match and it was a matter of killing them. assessors felt like luck of the draw.
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>>563188447
I've kind of figured out
let the first one come in, doesn't really matter, some guys can get those if they really want, sometimes its just freekits grabbing the assessor matrix and dying so its whatever
if I'm near the second when it comes in, then i'll try if nobody is there
otherwise I just wait in the middle of the map until the next one spawns
or I just wait for a 3rd 4th etc
eventually one flies down near me, i don't try to run across the map every time one spawns
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I'll probably do this one and then see how far I get for the next one
got enough skillpoints to mostly get me everything I want at the moment, might need like 1 more expedition to try and get Loaded Arms perk in green to save even more weight
but I got work coming up so probably will be one of those "gamer dad" types
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only for you stink rats, for me it's a fun place walk by and interact with people, yesterday we were a team of 20+ people in a solo match all instantly killing vaporizers, there was so many people in our group we couldn't all use the extract and had some guys wait for another later.
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>nessidoes gets banned for 30 days for being a pvp rat in chungartha, killing a woman
deserved. he wouldnt dare do that to gingy
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It hasn't been nearly as bad as I thought but yeah I'm done with expeditions after I catch up this season
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After nearly a year since launch, Funcom is finally admitting the players of Dune Awakening wanted PvE and not PvP.
Embark has taken the right steps with ABBM, but will they ever bite the bullet and embrace PvE-first?
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>>563210290
nigger, the PvEfags ruined that game by whining to get free high-tier zone resources thus flooding the economy and making any form of engagement with the gear useless because there was no material sink
fuck off
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>>563212742
I have no idea what this is referring to, didn't play HD2 and don't care about HD2. I have a great time in my PvE lobbies and if a faggot like you slips in they get curbstomped like I wrote here: >>563148862
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>>563207046
>gingy currently being groomed by a troon in rust
You gotta save her bro, save our girl before its too late.
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>>563217112
>a simple junction is too much for his single braincell
oh boy
it's essentially a "how good you are at pvp" slider that gradually resets to some neutral value, there's really nothing more to it.
at some specific points you start to meet more of X, that's it.
I am currently in friendly trio lobbies because I'm with 2 of my PvE buds (yes you can get reverse boosted by allies)
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>>563217867
that's no narrative, you're just trying to delude things into existence
does my "headcanon" conflict with your gameplay realities? no it does not, you're addiing "muh true" just to feel good about it.
kys
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>>563218024
>you're just trying to delude things into existence
What exactly am I deluding? You saying chungartha doesn't exist when it's a fucking made up word for PvE lobbies when myself and others have posted about how we're in PvE lobbies is fucking moronic.
No one knows how ABBM truly works except Embark, so you talking about how it's actually PvP skill based is just made up shit, aka headcanon.
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>>563219024
you absolute nigger, I said that there's no special "true" chungartha, PvE servers exist
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>NOOO YOU CANT FIGURE OUT SHIT ON YOUR OWN YOU NEED A DEV STATEMENT
meanwhile
>shoot people
>get put into pvp lobbies
>shoot a lot of people, wipe lobbies
>get put into cheater lobbies
>shoot people sometimes
>get put into sus lobbies
>die like a faggot 20 times over
>get put into sissy lobbies
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>>563220449
What the fuck do you think I mean when I say true chungartha? Some special queue embark made only for carebears? No man, I'm just saying very deep into PvE lobbies because I'm always healing and defibbing people or passing out shit I don't need. What the flying fuck do you think I'm talking about?
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>>563220774
>What the flying fuck do you think I'm talking about?
Some amount of pveniggers were swearing by their balls that there's some "special queue for retards".
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That's basically a reduction of how the system works.
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>>563231054
it needs a specific build, stable stock 3 + compensator 2/3
when you have that you get pinpoint accuracy on every shot
if you have any amount of peek cover you can rape anyone for free as long as you're not within 10-15m of them
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>>563231874
Not necessarily, no. You don't get non-verbal signals in fucking TEXT.
So for example if you pretend to be retarded it's the same as being retarded because I've got neither time nor information not interest in dissecting near-esoteric bullshit from an oddly placed comma or some other shit.
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>>563208856
>expeditions after I catch up
This catch up mechanism is making me not want to do the expeditions if I can just catch up anyway later. I'm also tired of hunting for bps and now I have some rare ones like smoke grenades and barricades.
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The only BPs not worth losing are Survivor (don't have it so no loss) and imo Canto because it's just such aids to get. Think I'm just going to get my friend to hold a few BPs for me after expedition and then I'll have lost nothing of real value.
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>>563306831
I died to a tnadefor the first time yesterday, i was basically one shotted by it. I thought that it was perhaps a bit too strong.
What kind of cheaters are you talking about here? Wall hacks?
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>>563306965
are you retarded?
>>563307189
the damage is a bit too much yeah, as I've said before
aimbotters, for the most part, wall hacks too i guess, if the guy is braindead enough (they usually are)
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You know, I used to rage at the people who shoot me in the back when I'm basically a carebear who just wants to loot some materials so he can craft his favorite stuff and get queen reactors and kill matriarch.
But there's always people who ruin that for me and I get mad and tell them to kill themselves. But now I realize, this is needless attachment to the material, and I can confidently queue knowing that if a rat kills me when I allow him to loot the rest of my key room, I will not be mad, I will simply laugh at them for being stuck in the cycle of rebirth.
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>>563307913
I used to get mad too
now I usually craft 3-5 kits in advance and just keep them in storage
that way when it does happen i go past the screen with his username really fast and my schizo brain doesn't try to harass him
I put on my new kit and am immediately put into friendly lobbies and kind of forget it happened
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>me and other guy go down
>I have survivor
>he doesn't
>I try calling out if anyone has a defib
>random raider comes by
>explain the situation
>"Heres the problem, I have no defib"
>other guy explains "I have a hullcracker and some ammo and stuff, take it and defib my friend"
>he surrenders
>guy just standing there like an idiot
>"He said you can loot him and defib me, he has a hullcracker IV and stuff on him if you want to-"
>CHILL DUDE 1 THING AT A TIME 1 THING AT A TIME
>"ye sure"
>got survivor so I'm not worried
>takes his sweet ass time looting my buddy I just met
>finally stops looting and walks over to me like he's playing on controller with one fucking hand
>revives me
>"Thanks bro, I'm gonna extract, good luck raider"
>yea good luck
>go hit the button
>curious if that buddy had anything on him
>go check his body
>Hullcracker IV is still there
>and the ammo
>only a couple slots missing
>possibly rocketeer drivers?
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>>563319348
Storytime posts?
>dam in the hallway by the drop to the controlled acces area
>say howdy to a guy fighting a fireball
>head to the little cubby area to loot before going for the loot downed arc trial
>guy fighting fireball is shot in the back by a dude with a anvil in the hallway
>comes crawling over asking for a defib, tell him to wait until I dealt with the guy shooting
>hit him 2 times with burletta
>he throws a flame nade into the doorway, misses me
>then anvil dude runs into the flames and kills himself
>starts talking about good game and how he got outplayed
>"dude you walked into your own flames and killed yourself"
>hes dead
>meanwhile the first guy is dead as well cause he dropped down the elevator
At the end of it Im just standing there with 2 guys who kinda just killed themselves.
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I think I am finally bored of this game. Assessor missions weren't really worth it and the only thing I still want to do is my second expedition for which I already have over three million. Once that is done I might play it occassionally if someone asks me to.
But at 270 hours of playtime I definitely got my 35€ worth of entertainment out of it. Even bought the latest swat skin to support the game. Did a good job of entertaining me.
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How the FUCK are you suppose to get 18 of the purple mats? I get 1 every 6 rounds. I can get Vaporizers now problem it's the fucking
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>>563327937
I'm not sure. Hell Let Loose Vietnam sounds interesting but won't come out for a while. Will probably play Pragmata. Or restart Monster Hunter Wilds (was too complicated for me).
Any suggestions, friend?
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>>563328529
I have done all that and still need 17. They see through the smoke everytime it seems.
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>>563328258
get there first and have smokes
I feel like its super easy
if you aren't there first get prepared to run to the next one
in friendly lobbies a lot of people finished their assessors so the whole lobby will go around killing the arc because they need vaporizer cores
usually I see this on Spaceport and Blue Gate, sometimes Buried City
Dam usually has people scared of doing it, or doing it naked, or not enough smokes, and the guy dies and everyone extracts, so if you plan your smokes and have a cloak, I've looted a whole assessor to myself, which was like 7 assessor things
2 in 2
3 in 1
and extracted
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>>563328954
I found I have to throw one at the bottom of the ramp, go up the ramp, then throw another and that seems to work, but yea sometimes the arc see right through it, I assume they locked onto you and are kind of assuming where you are, like the bastion and vaporizer and bombadier do
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>>563328373
None of those are my type of games.
I'll just go back to playing older console systems and programming shit with LLMs I guess unless something that fancies me comes out.
I was counting on Marathon but it turned into a dud and I don't like the direction the game took compared to the betas.
And there's always Arc Raiders updates coming.
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>>563330572
Dam at the water extract
>>563330480
I hope the next Arc update is good. I just lost interest for now. Marathon sucks ass.
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Forgot to quote whoops >>563330572
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It's finally over...
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>>563335321
soon for me
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>>563337939
Ohhhh, so when you do it, it doesn't instantly wipe your guy?
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>>563339298
pretty much
heard theres some changes for expedition 3 but no info yet
hope its something to do with keeping blueprints
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Every time I watch some pvpnigger on youtube they always showcase they have 0 game knowledge outside of killing people
>cries about being poor, doesn't loot anything except broken slop from dead raiders
>uses a key on a day raid, cries how bad and useless the keys are
>queues into solo vs trios, cries about trios instantly killing him
>cries about Arc being drawn to them instead of the guy with a silencer he's shooting at
>cries about too many Arc on the map getting in the way of PvP
Total pvpnigger death desu
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>>563339804
A lot of normies in this game are complete retards
>hullcracker too strong
>gets nerfed so its more balanced
>"OMG GUYS HULLCRACKER IS USELESS NOW DONT USE IT"
>literally nothing changes
>months later
>assessor event with tons of arc
>"OMG GUYS USE THE HULLCRACKER ITS SO GOOD"
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>>563341049
It's a good to remind you the differences between the good and bad matchmaking, because the instant you queue into trios as a solo you ARE going to get shot on sight no matter what. I've had 1 (one) game where I've queued into trios with no loadout and came up behind a group as they were finishing looting a place, watched them, and then 2 started talking to me while the 3rd shot me in the back of the head. I knew this was going to happen I just wanted to see how long it would take.
My many-times-over proven theory is the moment you queue for a team, every stranger instantly becomes a rat in waiting, and the behavior of all these teams treating each other like rats ends up in a confirmation bias loop. Just like how even solo's if you get into Rat matchmaking complaining about rats as you rat someone.
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What if instead of having to burn mats to repair your gun after every raid, you had to perform standard weapon maintenance to keep it from jamming/exploding.
And it was this realistic, 10-step process that took 5-10 minutes between raids involving disassembly, cleaning it, oiling it, reassembly, then like making love to it or whatever. And despite being a well thought out mechanic, everyone got sick of the chore by day 3 and then begged for the old repair system.
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What is the incentive to push Hotshot right now instead of hanging here for 2 more weeks and then sprinting the last mile for the finish, exactly as I did last season?
I might get promo'd anyway just for doing 3 stars, kek.
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>>563363680
I still hold onto nice dupe prints in case my friend hops back on (he won't)
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>Last extract make it with 5 seconds left push the button
>Hear someone being chased by hornet and two wasps
>Throw seeker taking out wasps
>Trying to shoot down hornet
>You friendly? You friendly?
>Elevator opens start to back in while still shooting hornet
>Get shot in the back and downed
>Sorry guy you didnt respond had to make sure
Ah yes let me risk my loot by saving your ass just to kill you with literally no time left to even loot your body if I did
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>>563349252
Faggot, you're ousting yourself as the same type of nigger you're crying about.
Solo vs Trios have an ABMM curve skewed towards friendly lobbies because of a low matchmaking pool, it literally takes you 1 death to be back in sus lobbies and 2 to make it to friendly lobbies.
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I never shoot anyone, even if they shoot me I just try to convincen them to stop. Yet for someone reason I keep getting matched with rats who shoot me in the back while I'm looting. And it really is starting to piss me off.
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>>563361668
that is the >reddit strat
and it works
just have to be careful when you join the leaderboard because more people might be thinking the same thing this season
>>563363680
I bought a second account to just learn all my blueprints and hold onto extras when I finish doing the expedition on my mai
>>563393694
yea true
>>563399241
if EU I hear thats more common
if NA then idk, I have been shot in the back more recently, but since i don't fight back, I'm immediately shoved into retard lobbies (full friendly lobbies)
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>>563361668
wonder if i should drop rank the next two weeks
and then double promote
my unintentionally strategy is playing on my second account and not worrying about the leaderboard, and then joining the leaderboard on my main account when theres like 3 days left
doesn't seem to work when the season is close to ending, but that double promote from DDII strat works
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>someone extracting
>run into their extract while they're typing
>flash my light a couple times behind him to show I'm not hostile
>"Rude, you didn't even ask if you extract with me?"
and then in another match
>"is it ok if I extract with you?
>yea of course
do people really ask each other to extract
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>>563401425
I'm in EU. I also hesitate to call people spiritually jewish niggers when they do it because idk if you can get banned for voicechat.
>>563401454
124 hours.
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>>563402168
>fucking around with the jupiter killing vaporizers for people who need cores
>I'm finished and just need arc metal for cash
>put myself back into hotshot
oops
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in case someone is interested about durability of some weapons (most spreadsheeds dont have this data for some reason)
dolabra - 242 shots; 0.4132% per shot; 31 clips
jupiter - 126 shots; 0.7936% per shot; 26 clips
aphelion - 1009 shots; 0.0991% per shot; 101 clip
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PSA: purple keyrooms are not a meme
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>>563418727
Night raid Stella archives
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>>563425031
glad they're worth it now
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>>563425635
I've been doing keyrooms this whole week grinding for the expedition and so far I've found the same amount of loot during night raids. Hell, most of the time I've gotten more security lockers inside during regular raids
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>looting that one room in the spaceport container storage
>guy notices I beat him to it and commits suicide
>he was fully kitted
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nah was his ah-hah moment when i stopped playing the game
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that wasnt too bad
and I have a bunch of fruit still
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I have my own loadout. No free kits. I run with hull cracker too and still get sent to 18 mins.
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>>563384694
Just got mine after doing 3+ hours of naked runs straight to Reinforced Reception. Never did a naked run to farm a BP before, the first 3 minutes are a fucking bloodbath. Really sharpened up my pvp skills. Most fun I've had in the game so far.
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>ask if he's friendly
>still no acknowledgement
>k den
LOL. Why didn't you shoot him on site? 99% of times where I was killed in this game was by a no-mic player.
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