Gave it a go on Saturday, ended up playing for 5 hours straight. Very nice introduction to the extraction genre, especially since I have mostly fallen off of PvP games. Ended up preordering because I definitely want to keep playing.
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RogueTr00per
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Perhaps these hardcore players encountered are veterans from the full test server experience held a while ago. They would then know how best to kit up and best strategies for taking out fellow humans.
I think only by day three of this server slam event did we realize we needed to upgrade weapons and items more, and I only realized how much junk could be sold off to get currency to use for said upgrades.
Running on poverty spec equipment builds definitely decreases ones survival chances, but also the mindset and strategy going into each deployment needs to be a focused one. Hesitation gets one killed, but so does being too eager to engage in PvP (when you don't know the full threat a seemingly weaker party or individual might represent).
Conack
Expert Member
Our group of 3 did pretty well overall and we enjoyed the free weekend.
What I dislike about the game:
Wokeness vibes
EU latency against enemy snipers sucks as a few times I was peek-sniped by and enemy behind a pillar where his bullet would hit me while he's already back behind his pillar and I behind mine.
What I like about the game:
Possible danger around every corner.
Very well optimized and good looking graphics.
What I dislike about the game:
Wokeness vibes
EU latency against enemy snipers sucks as a few times I was peek-sniped by and enemy behind a pillar where his bullet would hit me while he's already back behind his pillar and I behind mine.
What I like about the game:
Possible danger around every corner.
Very well optimized and good looking graphics.
RogueTr00per
Honorary Master
How did you find close up combat? Our group didn't play together consistently enough and the few encounters we did have we got wiped, and I can only wonder if it was ping to blame with two of us being ZA based and the third friend being EU based.
We needed more time to get used to the combat and we just weren't online at the same time enough to get in that practice time.
I'm wondering how successful as a strategy it might be for some missions where the group goes in purely trying to scavenge and avoid conflict, on such missions don't go in too geared up as you wouldn't want to lose too much if dying, but if one gets into PvP skirmishes the team might be doomed to get the short end of the stick due to being out-gunned.
Then in other missions one goes in fully kitted out and looking for a fight, winning PvP encounters should yield a lot of loot from the bested players. Of course this is going to be a lottery in and of itself because there is always going to be a better skilled and equipped enemy team that one might encounter from time to time (if not more often than not!).
In terms of wokeness, one of our friends was messing around with his characters look
Conack
Expert Member
How did you find close up combat? Our group didn't play together consistently enough and the few encounters we did have we got wiped, and I can only wonder if it was ping to blame with two of us being ZA based and the third friend being EU based.
We needed more time to get used to the combat and we just weren't online at the same time enough to get in that practice time.
I'm wondering how successful as a strategy it might be for some missions where the group goes in purely trying to scavenge and avoid conflict, on such missions don't go in too geared up as you wouldn't want to lose too much if dying, but if one gets into PvP skirmishes the team might be doomed to get the short end of the stick due to being out-gunned.
Then in other missions one goes in fully kitted out and looking for a fight, winning PvP encounters should yield a lot of loot from the bested players. Of course this is going to be a lottery in and of itself because there is always going to be a better skilled and equipped enemy team that one might encounter from time to time (if not more often than not!).
In terms of wokeness, one of our friends was messing around with his characters look
Fights where one could flank or catch the enemy off-guard in buildings / close-up, we won most of the time. (We have some very sneaky players too)
Encounters from far away (sniper on a rooftop or fighting from behind cover) we lost for the most part. They would almost always hit first.
I don't see us getting SA servers, so one will have to adapt your strategy to engage fights wisely considering your latency disadvantage.
Using grenades and other "Quick slot items" is forgotten by most as the vast majority of players just shoot, so there's some low-hanging fruit things one can do to be "better than the average".
All 3 of us in the squad have that combo of face and hair.How did you find close up combat? Our group didn't play together consistently enough and the few encounters we did have we got wiped, and I can only wonder if it was ping to blame with two of us being ZA based and the third friend being EU based.
We needed more time to get used to the combat and we just weren't online at the same time enough to get in that practice time.
I'm wondering how successful as a strategy it might be for some missions where the group goes in purely trying to scavenge and avoid conflict, on such missions don't go in too geared up as you wouldn't want to lose too much if dying, but if one gets into PvP skirmishes the team might be doomed to get the short end of the stick due to being out-gunned.
Then in other missions one goes in fully kitted out and looking for a fight, winning PvP encounters should yield a lot of loot from the bested players. Of course this is going to be a lottery in and of itself because there is always going to be a better skilled and equipped enemy team that one might encounter from time to time (if not more often than not!).
In terms of wokeness, one of our friends was messing around with his characters look
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Conack
Expert Member
I saw a thread on X with this pic:
Which is pretty much exactly the face my character started off with when I opened character creation screen.
After fooling around to try get a non-trans looking char, our team launched the first match and we saw everyone ended up choosing the Old man as that was the only "manly" looking character.
No beards though
Which is pretty much exactly the face my character started off with when I opened character creation screen.
After fooling around to try get a non-trans looking char, our team launched the first match and we saw everyone ended up choosing the Old man as that was the only "manly" looking character.
No beards though
Conack
Expert Member
Cheaper than Steam.
Apparently ZA's price for Arc Raiders is one of the highest in the world comparatively.
RogueTr00per
Honorary Master
Yeah I sort of complained on X about the ZA pricing being expensive for us but nothing will come of it, its too close to launch now
but also even if they adjusted ZA pricing, I wonder how would it be handled for people who already bought the game on the ZA store, would that even be possible to do partial refunds, I'm guessing not.I'll probably end up funding my purchase with Steam vouchers bought with eBucks and that way it won't sting so much.
edit: I am also toying with the idea of upgrading to an RTX 5070 Ti in order to get the game 'free' but it's more of a want than a need as I have an RTX 3080 currently.
Conack
Expert Member
Really looking forward to this while BF6 goes back on the stove.
RogueTr00per
Honorary Master
Are you going deluxe or standard version?
Sucks that we are paying such an inflated price, converted to USD just shy of $43 currently for the base version on ZA Steam Store.
Conack
Expert Member
No chance of me going for the deluxe version since I don't care for cosmetics at all.
It's slightly cheaper at G2a as posted earlier, but they said you only receive the key on launch day (the 30th), so no pre-loading.
RogueTr00per
Honorary Master
I'm hearing that the preloads are starting today and that it's under 30gb in terms of the download size.
Conack
Expert Member
RogueTr00per
Honorary Master
My friend in the EU got the deluxe version with his RTX 5070 Ti and last I heard (at 4pm) his pre-download was 80% done.
RogueTr00per
Honorary Master
Valve suggested regional pricing for ZA is R330, were paying way too much for this game here 
RogueTr00per
Honorary Master
Same
Conack
Expert Member
Had a few matches and already made new friends. Good fun!