ARC Raiders

[Conack]

That could work, but we just all shot one of the two front propellers from miles away and it falls without shooting a single rocket.

 

[RogueTr00per]

That could work, but we just all shot one of the two front propellers from miles away and it falls without shooting a single rocket.

Oh brilliant!

It seems I'm being placed in only friendly raids now, if this aggression based matchmaking really is a thing. PvE is now so much easier, a random gave me 2 bastion cells and wished me a Merry Xmas, then minutes later a group were attacking a bastion and didn't even bother to loot it, I contributed at the tail-end and dealt the killing blow and then picked up another 4 bastion cells.

 

[RazedInBlack]

That could work, but we just all shot one of the two front propellers from miles away and it falls without shooting a single rocket.

On which map is that? Buried City is too much closed off for sniping.

 

[RazedInBlack]

Oh brilliant!

It seems I'm being placed in only friendly raids now, if this aggression based matchmaking really is a thing. PvE is now so much easier, a random gave me 2 bastion cells and wished me a Merry Xmas, then minutes later a group were attacking a bastion and didn't even bother to loot it, I contributed at the tail-end and dealt the killing blow and then picked up another 4 bastion cells.

Behavioral matchmaking is definitely a thing, I always get friendly lobbies.

I tried this reverse-exfil camping, throwing glow sticks around the extraction point and firecrackers on a night raid on Blue Gate. Raider loved it

 

[Conack]

On which map is that? Buried City is too much closed off for sniping.

Blue gate is the easiest to snipe them with the large open valley.

 

[RazedInBlack]

Blue gate is the easiest to snipe them with the large open valley.

Ah yes that makes sense

 

[Carl_Johnson]

I haven't played in a few days. I really need them to add keyboard and mouse support for console. I suck at using a controller to aim.

 

[RogueTr00per]

I fell prey to an interesting tactic by an extract camper on my last game for boxing day. With 14 minutes to go in the raid I was extracting via the western metro and (unbeknownst to me) the camper in question (SteamId: Blighteous) must have been using a photoelectric cloak on the other side of the tracks because his side was swarming with pops and fireballs.

So there's me like a brightspark thinking when the doors open I will throw a lure grenade to keep all the Arc busy on the other side of the tracks while I hit the button to leave. All this did was help him take me out without Arc breathing down his back :/ In the 2nd screenshot attached/below as I enter the doors on my side I throw the lure grenade the fireball is going for him as he's deactivated his cloak. In the 3rd screenshot he's destroyed the fireball, he reloads and in the 4th screenshot he's coming through the doors to unload on me.

He mag dumps on me (I think with a highly modded burletta 4) and I had no chance to fight back. I say to him 'Come on dude...' and whilst feigning a knock out he stops and heads over to the console to let us leave and wishes me GG's I can only think he was doing it for one of his daily feats or for the challenge of it.

In hindsight if I had been more observant and ready for anything I might have caught a clue that the signs were there when the Arc weren't interested in me before I even threw the lure grenade.

 

[Carl_Johnson]

I fell prey to an interesting tactic by an extract camper on my last game for boxing day. With 14 minutes to go in the raid I was extracting via the western metro and (unbeknownst to me) the camper in question (SteamId: Blighteous) must have been using a photoelectric cloak on the other side of the tracks because his side was swarming with pops and fireballs.

So there's me like a brightspark thinking when the doors open I will throw a lure grenade to keep all the Arc busy on the other side of the tracks while I hit the button to leave. All this did was help him take me out without Arc breathing down his back :/ In the 2nd screenshot attached/below as I enter the doors on my side I throw the lure grenade the fireball is going for him as he's deactivated his cloak. In the 3rd screenshot he's destroyed the fireball, he reloads and in the 4th screenshot he's coming through the doors to unload on me.

He mag dumps on me (I think with a highly modded burletta 4) and I had no chance to fight back. I say to him 'Come on dude...' and whilst feigning a knock out he stops and heads over to the console to let us leave and wishes me GG's I can only think he was doing it for one of his daily feats or for the challenge of it.

In hindsight if I had been more observant and ready for anything I might have caught a clue that the signs were there when the Arc weren't interested in me before I even threw the lure grenade.

Happy he let you make it back to Speranza alive boet!

 

[RazedInBlack]

300+ Hours . . .

I'm officially an Arc-aholic!

 

[RogueTr00per]

300+ Hours . . .

I'm officially an Arc-aholic!

214 hours here, I think one third of that time is sorting out inventory or when the game didn't stop running after exiting.

 

[RogueTr00per]

Sigh, one again being unobservant led to my death.

Going up Control Tower A6 on Spaceport to do the quest there, I used my key to get into the lift shaft, I barricaded the door I came in, as I'm going up the zipline I realised there's another key access door on the opposite side and that I perhaps I should have checked if it was open. It was indeed open and I was met with a very aggro Level 15 Polish player up top who had no hesitation in disposing of me at point blank with his Stitcher IV

 

[RazedInBlack]

Sigh, one again being unobservant led to my death.

Going up Control Tower A6 on Spaceport to do the quest there, I used my key to get into the lift shaft, I barricaded the door I came in, as I'm going up the zipline I realised there's another key access door on the opposite side and that I perhaps I should have checked if it was open. It was indeed open and I was met with a very aggro Level 15 Polish player up top who had no hesitation in disposing of me at point blank with his Stitcher IV

OMG! The exact same thing happened to me at Control Tower A6 a few days ago, the Matriach was aggro'ed and I couldn't hear anyone come up the elevator zipline, got shot in the back while looting. I'm most of the time in friendly lobbies but there's always that one player.

 

[RogueTr00per]

OMG! The exact same thing happened to me at Control Tower A6 a few days ago, the Matriach was aggro'ed and I couldn't hear anyone come up the elevator zipline, got shot in the back while looting. I'm most of the time in friendly lobbies but there's always that one player.

I've only used about five keys so far, have a pile saved up that are using too much stash space. So the last two keys I've been taking barricades and jolt mines to restrict access to others while I am looting. Only realizing now that there are more than one key access doors sometimes

I'm playing this game on slow mode compared to the guys that progress super fast. As one redditor commented, super fast progression means running into maps with little gear (free or naked loadouts) and assuming everyone is friendly, get that one special BP, and then run for exfil or just surrender and go again.

 

[RazedInBlack]

I've only used about five keys so far, have a pile saved up that are using too much stash space. So the last two keys I've been taking barricades and jolt mines to restrict access to others while I am looting. Only realizing now that there are more than one key access doors sometimes

I'm playing this game on slow mode compared to the guys that progress super fast. As one redditor commented, super fast progression means running into maps with little gear (free or naked loadouts) and assuming everyone is friendly, get that one special BP, and then run for exfil or just surrender and go again.

I think I've got around 42 BPs, found the Venator BP on a raider's catch on Blue Gate and still looking for the elusive Tempest one

 

[RogueTr00per]

I think I've got around 42 BPs, found the Venator BP on a raider's catch on Blue Gate and still looking for the elusive Tempest one

OK I need to actually check how many I have, I've not explored the stats pages much.

Finally got the 7th mushroom I needed for the cold snap project and snaphook reward.

During a cold snap map condition I went to that popular mushroom Spaceport location by the northeast quadrant of East Container Yard. I got there a bit late but it wasn't farmed yet, I suppose not many players are willing to risk their Raider freezing to death on the hope of getting some mushrooms. I only needed one but eleven were on the tree!

Now I just have 36 more candleberries to farm for the final raider token reward. I gave 25 candleberries to a friend as he was leaving overseas ten days ago and he wasn't able to find enough of them in time.

 

[RogueTr00per]

Some new update (Steam PC) was applied today but I can't find any official info on it.

 

[RazedInBlack]

Some new update was applied today but I can't find any official info on it.

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Is that on PC, because theres no update on PS5

 

[RogueTr00per]

Is that on PC, because theres no update on PS5

Yea, on Steam, PC.

Edit: Not sure if this is new or not, but my Looting Mk3 (Cautious) augment now has a pair of binoculars in a reserved augment slot, so the binoculars are in that slot permanently, they can't be removed/swapped out with anything else.




Edit2: Seems it might have been PC only, to remove the console access, etc...

 

[RogueTr00per]

Cold Snap event is now over but I somehow didn't realise the quests would disappear as well. I haven't logged on yet myself to confirm.

Edit: Looks like my in-progress cold snap quest is still there, I will have to complete it and see if the subsequent quests are there too.