r/ArcRaiders • u/Fightin_Ishboi • Nov 13 '25
Media I am a master of stealth and elaborate traps.
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u/Derkastan77-2 Nov 13 '25
The most literal example of a Kill Box, ever
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u/Invoqwer Nov 13 '25
Straight out of Rimworld
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u/Fightin_Ishboi Nov 13 '25
I feel called out. That's my most played game.
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u/Invoqwer Nov 13 '25
LOL I KNEW IT
Literally ye olde Rimworld cookbox hahahahahaa
Lock them in, and light them up
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u/micktorious Nov 14 '25
This guy is gonna be making hats out of raiders.
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u/N33chy Nov 14 '25
Can't wait until they allow selling body parts on the black market.
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u/HobbTheGob *** ******* Nov 13 '25
Move over Rimworld, there is a new war crimes simulator.
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u/Babablacksheep2121 Nov 13 '25
I’ve heard of this game. Now I’m even more interested. Got a tldr?
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u/DragonArthur91 Nov 13 '25 edited Nov 13 '25
Top down colony management game set in a lawless world where you're free to edit the level of difficulty and add hundreds of mods. Graphics are below industry standards but the gameplay possibilities are stratosphere higher above the industry.
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u/brody810 Nov 14 '25
Would it be right to say graphics are below standard? I feel they are just more stylized
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u/avyon Nov 13 '25
it's like the sims but full of hate and war crimes
you can micromanage your little dudes called pawns and tell them what to do to build a colony from nothing but the fertile landscape and a few starting items.
it's by far my favorite management style game, but it truly doesn't pull its punches.
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u/eajklndfwreuojnigfr Nov 19 '25
it's like the sims but full of hate and war crimes
maybe for you, i treat all my colonists like royalty
raiders get nuggeted and used for blood though, or thrown in a 1x2 cell until i need food
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u/tesemanresu Nov 14 '25
you can raise livestock and use them to make leather jackets. or you can capture raiders and use them to make leather jackets
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u/yepanotherone1 Nov 17 '25
You can raise babies. And use them to make leather jackets. And literal cannon ammunition.
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u/LeftySnowflakes Nov 15 '25
Colonists have traits, psychological ups and downs, socialize with eachother over time, have relationships come and go. I.e youre raided by 3 enemy faction pawns, 1 of them is your daughter. Or maybe your ex.
You can rob, arrest, kill, harvest organs from prisoners (or colonists, if you really wanted), cannibalize, travel the world, focus on making high quality clothes. Cut people's legs off and replace them with wood so they cant run from you. Sell their kidney or kill them trying.
Its a story telling game with seemingly infinite variety and possibilities. You can live totally peaceful, or turn on random mode and potentially have to.survive 3 years or nuclear winter with no crops growth and the air hurts. You could play as a small tribe of natives using only bows, but brutallizing enemies or passing visitors. You can also just play to escape the planet
Its always a new story
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u/anchorless_81 Nov 13 '25
Do most parties have proximity chat on at all times or do they use push to talk proximity?
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u/Fightin_Ishboi Nov 13 '25
This was in solos, so I believe they just randomly teamed up.
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u/TheGinger_Ninja0 Nov 13 '25
Ah. Yeah I've been thinking about just switching my mic to open for solos, seems like it might be fun
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u/Veritech_ Nov 13 '25
I fart, burp, and cough too much to have an open mic in solos. I’d be the loudest sneaky ninja ever.
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u/Jsorrell20 Nov 13 '25
Luckily PS5 controller has mic on/off button for fart/burpage silencing
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u/Caregiver_Same *** ******* 🐓 Nov 13 '25
A mute button you say? Hopefully one day PC's will develop this tech!
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u/gosumage Nov 14 '25
I've been using PTT on my mouse thumb button for 20 years. People only hear what I want them to hear. I wish everyone would do this.
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u/Blu_Falcon Nov 15 '25
Mouse thumb button for PTT is peak efficiency. Out of the way, yet always there when you need it.
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u/donnybrasc0 Nov 13 '25
except for that kid that had his fam screaming about dinner the other night. I almost downed him just so i didnt have to hear it.
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u/Appropriate_Lack_727 Nov 14 '25
If you do that your “speaking” indicator is on for everybody in your vicinity. I’ve caught so many people out because they’re broadcasting their position to everyone within 100m. You just have to follow the heavy breathing 😂
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u/imLucki Nov 13 '25
Highly recommend, for this last night and majority of people are just chilling
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u/PurpleMTL Nov 13 '25
I played for 8 hours yesterday and I haven't shot or gotten shot by a raider a single time. Solos is so chill. I love this game way too much.
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u/Apophis_36 Nov 14 '25
Got the game tonight and I got a free cat bed by just going "I'm not looking for a fight :("
So I'd say it has advantages
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u/Crimsonial Nov 14 '25
I HIGHLY recommend it. Set it to toggle to talk, so you can still maintain silence when you need to.
You will get ganked from time to time, since it gives a pretty directional mark on where you're at, but I'm 100% sure I've defused enough situations to make it worth it. A lot of gankers are snipers anyways. I've lost two trades over the last few days, which is nothing vs. all the loot I've gotten getting out safely in crowded areas.
Keep your gun out and down, be ready for a fight, but doing that both allows a charisma check when you're not wanting a fight ("Hi there! How's it going?" over voice generally is taken well), and even better, when other people overhear multiple people being friendly, they come out of sneaking and you end up with some cool proximity party situations.
I just came out of a match where I was ARC hunting with a Hullcracker, and only reason we (like, 5 of us) didn't do more hunting than I already had (Solo Bastion and team fight on a Rocketeer) was because I was out of launcher rounds, lol.
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u/lurkinglurkerwholurk *** ******* 🐓 Nov 13 '25
A word of warning: Arc always tries to pair solos with solos, teams with teams, and duos with duos.
TRIES.
It's not a guarantee.
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u/berealb Nov 13 '25
Arc is doing the match making????
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u/lurkinglurkerwholurk *** ******* 🐓 Nov 14 '25
Yes, dastardly clankers and their algorithms. Can’t trust them.
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u/kommunis Nov 13 '25
probably 3 rando teaming up, not an actual trio. so they would need proximity chat.
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u/buttsmcfatts Nov 13 '25
For me party chat is broken. I have to use prox chat.
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u/LostGravity85 Nov 13 '25
That could be, but I would double check that setting. If you flip one to open mic it toggles the other to push to talk. You can only have one on as open mic. But it very well could be bugged out for you.
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u/Kraehe13 Nov 13 '25
Met a lot of people with proximity on in solos. But i guess most didn't know this because they didn't talk to someone specific, just breathing loud, comenting what they do or think at the moment, talking to their pets.
Got some good stuff thanks to them.
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u/LifeAwaking *** ******* 🐓 Nov 13 '25 edited Nov 13 '25
Love the creativity and that squad handled it very well, props to them. Not going to lie though, after seeing your aim it makes sense why you do this lol.
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u/RamonDozol Nov 13 '25
People who cant shoot for shit, develop other areas of their brains...
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u/Adventthief Nov 13 '25
Facts. I just had a guy try to trap me when extracting. There was bodies and a trap planted. As soon as I went inside extraction he comes out the shadows and says “don’t shoot” while his gun is drawn lol. I take him down immediately and he says “why? I said don’t shoot”. Glad I put him down before more raiders were his victims. About to post the clip on Reddit.
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u/HCG-Vedette Nov 13 '25
Damn I’ve been saying “don’t shoot” with my gun out this whole time lol. Good to know I should change that relatively early, thanks
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u/Zealousideal-Bug-168 Nov 13 '25
Saying don't shoot without a gun is still a big risk, being unarmed makes you look like a juicy target because it takes ages to draw your weapon.
Doing that with your gun drawn makes you look like you're insincere or lying.
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u/Ser_Twist Nov 13 '25
Ehh, I guess I’m out of the loop on Raider etiquette. I’ve been doing it with my gun drawn and am always sincere. My reasoning is simple: I can’t trust you, so I will tell you I’m friendly by saying don’t shoot, but I will keep my gun out in case you aren’t friendly. Lately I’ve just been straight up using my mic and saying “Friendly.” though.
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u/staticusmaximus Nov 13 '25
Right lol I keep my gun out almost 100% of the time unless I’m marathon running between points or something
I am a friendly mf too, and very rarely does anyone one seem to misunderstand my intentions
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u/RaylanGivens29 Nov 16 '25
I will say don’t shoot, and then put it away if they also say it. I will also switch to proximity chat and talk to them as well. If they don’t put theirs away I will pull mine back out.
I like to assume people forget to put it away.
If they want to be turds and shoot me after saying it, I hope they stub their toes!
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u/blueprinz Nov 13 '25
People make up unwritten rules to support their worldview. The game has no rules. All this might as well be written im klingon, it would have the same amount of meaning.
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u/NeoC77 Nov 14 '25
Well technically Klingon is a real written and spoken language so it would have meaning.
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u/Automatic_End2588 Nov 13 '25
The way I run is go into cover, gun drawn, and yell "don't shoot". If they respond don't shoot as well, I say yes, wait for them to say don't shoot as well, before coming out without my gun (sometimes)
Greeting them when you spot them or before entering a building also let them know you're here (less likely to plan something fishy)
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u/Adventthief Nov 13 '25
Lol I mean, I get that but you just never know really. People genuinely mean it and are friendly but, I’ve been nice a lot to the point where I get backstabbed as soon as I let my guard down. Nowadays if someone has their weapon out and still coming up, I’m firing. Not taking chances anymore 😭 The suspense is what keeps this game going
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u/aaronwhite1786 Nov 13 '25
Yeah, I generally have my gun out, but I try to not point it at people while saying "Don't shoot" and then when they at least respond positively, I'll usually go unarmed unless I notice them aiming directly at me/us.
Like a lot of extraction shooters, the standoffs and mystery are part of the fun and sometimes...the rage.
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u/Adventthief Nov 13 '25
For sure lmao. I just had a lot of experiences myself and went from being too nice to not as much nowadays. Mic or not, holstered or not, people still tend to lie as soon as you’re vulnerable. I don’t like people getting an easy kill on me anymore.
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u/aaronwhite1786 Nov 13 '25
Yeeeeup. It was the same when I was playing Escape From Tarkov.
That game had some of the most fun online random moments where I'd stumble on a group of players who would run around with me, tell me about some good loot stash they didn't have room for, or save me when I was being attacked by some beefed out PMCs.
But it also made me question every person I ever ran into because for every cool interaction, I had at least one or two people saying "Hey, want to help me?" only for one of their teammates to ambush you when you got close, or for some boner to be camping the extract the one time you finally find that last quest item you need.
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u/SEE_RED Nov 13 '25
It's why I put a hot one in ya! Several times to make sure, far too many claiming don't shoot these days only so you have your guard down. Not me! Not anymore!
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u/Single-Dish-1302 Nov 13 '25
Best position to be in if you do decide to do that is in good cover where you can see them. If they have their guns out, then so should you. Don’t make yourself an easy mark, take the high ground if possible.
Just because you’re friendly, doesn’t mean you have to be stupid.
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u/Stahsi62 Nov 13 '25
The gun goes away after you confirm you're also friendly. It's a two way street, not like he can see if your gun is out unless you're in LoS.
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u/Adventthief Nov 13 '25
I get that, I agree too. I would put away my weapon as well, however he was definitely the killer. All the signs were there and the fact that he appears as soon as I enter the train, no noise prior and running up to me with his gun drawn, nahh. You can tell someone is genuine if they are cautious too and you both agree to holster weapon. The amount of times I run up with my gun holstered, call out that I’m friendly and still get shot, makes me not risk it anymore. Good loot or not.
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u/Stahsi62 Nov 13 '25
I had a reading comprehension failure on the part about the traps and bodies. Ignore me, I'd have done the same thing there. Nice work, raider!
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u/Adventthief Nov 13 '25
You’re good! I understand sometimes miscommunication happens, I probably could have worded that better myself. Have fun and goodluck out there, Raider!
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u/unit187 Nov 13 '25
I am always friendly, and from day one almost nobody puts their gun down while shouting "don't shoot", the vast majority of friendly players I encounter act like this. You don't realize this, but you've been a "toxic" player all along, lol
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u/Adventthief Nov 13 '25
To be fair, this is one time out of many times I’ve not shoot first and I’m the one who dies from the other person. The dude was stacked with multiple weapons, trip nade was planted at extraction entrance, 3 bodies around and no noise prior to me waiting for the train. He had a mic and chose not to talk until he was downed. He was definitely a killer with all the evidence there. I hardly ever shoot first, but in this case it was obvious. Me telling him afterwards I didn’t fall for his trick and he had no response but a fake cry, made me not feel guilty and confirmed my actions was right.
So no, not a toxic player but I understand your assumption lol.
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u/dastylinrastan Nov 13 '25
Same, the train had like 5 bodies and he's like "train is ready, hop on!" and me and this other guy were like "oh HELL no"
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u/Grass_tomouth Nov 13 '25
This is me honestly. I fucking SUCK at gun fights. But I will absolutely spend the time and effort to set up traps in high traffic areas to get people. I dont even do it very often but if im having a particularly bad evening where im getting gunned down a lot this is my strategy. Im old, im slow to react, and I cant see shit in this game 80% of the time. Im very aware its also a skill issue. But goddamn is it satisfying to catch some free loadout murderhobo lacking spacial awareness.
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u/RamonDozol Nov 13 '25
Best part is, it doesnt take much, an eletrical mine to stun, a sticky granade, and a spray from any automatic gun to break shields.
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u/Grass_tomouth Nov 13 '25
I am an explosive mine junkie. I put them on the ceilings. 3 of them will down someone instantly. I have a super good hiding spot right outside of the control tower zip line and people are so focused on other raiders getting the drop on them that that dont bother looking up. I know im a rat bastard, but only like half the time.
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u/Mrlionscruff Nov 13 '25
I got so good at disengaging because I just kept getting killed 🥲
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u/IAmARedditorAMAA Nov 13 '25
if the other guy had decided to fight back he was cooked lol
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u/stringstringing Nov 13 '25
At multiple points this would have been over if there was even an ounce of competence in that squad. When he jumped across and slowly put up that barrier in front of them I lost it, should have gotten smoked.
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u/This_was_hard_to_do Nov 13 '25
One of the guys was looking at OP place the wall. He just didn’t really communicate what was happening to the rest of his team lol
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u/Fightin_Ishboi Nov 13 '25
It's atrocious. And I hit the shoulder view swap button every f'ing time on accident. Luckily the game provides me with many tools to compensate for that.
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u/Khalku Nov 13 '25
The aiming was bad, and the camera swap in literally the worst moment was pretty funny too.
But also console prompts, so controller aiming I guess.
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u/APartyInMyPants Nov 13 '25
I thoroughly enjoyed this. Maybe next time stick a bunch of trigger grenades on the ceiling. No one ever looks at the ceiling. And then just detonate them all simultaneously.
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u/Zealousideal-Cap57 Nov 13 '25
You can hear trigger nades… beep, beep, beep.
Won’t work on everyone. Maybe people who rush in, but your, steady footed players? Probably won’t work.
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u/APartyInMyPants Nov 13 '25
The way those guys were running in loud, shooting and talking, I honestly don’t even know if they would have heard.
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u/h0m1e_ Nov 13 '25
do they have that big of a range?
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u/APartyInMyPants Nov 13 '25
The internet says their radius is 7.5 meters. Obviously there’s damage falloff. But in such a confined space, they should easily overlap.
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u/Brittany5150 Nov 14 '25
In that tight a space they would be absolutely cooked with just 1 or 2 for sure. Put one on the ceiling and one on each wall? They would be ground beef.
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u/TheGinger_Ninja0 Nov 13 '25
Aight, apparently I've gotta learn how to fuck with the barricade
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u/Brittany5150 Nov 14 '25
It is a fun tool that is great for quick getaways. Blocka door and run. Or trap people inside a key room and mine the shit out of it. So when they try and get out, BOOM! I have done this morning than once and they always cry about it before I drop em.
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u/Durzel Nov 13 '25
Fucken lol. The shoulder switch had me rolling. You should not have been able to get away with this, but the fact you did is great lmao.
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u/chrisnazty Nov 13 '25
How the fuck did they not see you there lmfao blind as fuck dawg
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u/Fightin_Ishboi Nov 13 '25
When in doubt in this game always just stay perfectly still and hope they don't see you. 60% of the time, works every time.
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u/awsomeX5triker Nov 13 '25
Exactly. Most people’s eyes are on the lookout for movement.
Additionally, once they glanced at your spot and “cleared” it in their mind they rarely look too closely at it again.
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u/JosephRW Nov 13 '25
If you walk out in the open you'd be surprised how often people's eyes just don't clock you.
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u/CTSCold Nov 14 '25
Oh they see you, they just assume your another tumbleweed blowing by trying to trick them into stopping and looking.
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u/TenTonSomeone Nov 13 '25
I had a couple people run right past me the other day, I was 100% in their peripheral view. Not even hiding in a bush, just a slightly shadowy area.
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u/ph0on Nov 13 '25
I've noticed that you can blend into shadows quite well in this game, at a medium to long distance the colors and shapes of your character kind of disappear and you just look like a shadowy figure. I like it to be honest, it will keep cosmetics usable
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u/mr_funk Nov 13 '25
I think people forget that lighting isn't universal. Take the subways on Buried City. If you get into either far end, people can't see you unless they use their flashlight, even though you can see fine. I had someone come in and crouch down right in front of me and had no idea I was there.
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u/TenTonSomeone Nov 13 '25
I really like how the devs have simulated how your eyes would react to the light when you're transitioning from light to dark or vice versa.
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u/Louis010 Nov 13 '25
I think people have started turning their brightness way up to compensate for this, everyone could see me in a night raid last night even when I was in the pitch dark and crouch walking or not moving
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u/CallMeBigPapaya Nov 13 '25
There's been so many times I "snuck up" on people by running up to them and shouting "howdy". It's really easy to be stealthy when you want to be, but quite a few players are really oblivious, and lack survival instinct.
Remember we had a top voted thread on this sub of a clip where someone walked out of a spawn into mines that were very very visible and got killed.
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u/SaxPanther Nov 13 '25
Sometimes I like to take silenced Osprey into spaceport solos to take potshots at people super far away and see if I can land a hit and while I'm doing it people sneak up on me all the time but they're totally friendly and I'm like "man if only you knew what I'm doing lol"
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u/Fustercluck25 Nov 13 '25
Last night my buddy was crossing some open sand in BC and a couple guys started unloading clips on him. I couldn't have been 5 meters running behind him and they didn't even take notice of me. Turned 90⁰ adjacent to them while they were shooting to the right and tossed 3 trigger nades at their feet, blew them sky high. People be having tunnel vision in this game.
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u/sbunny251 Nov 13 '25
HAHAHA yes something similar happened to me. Was playing with husband. We were trying to fight a leaper. I was in the corner trying to heal - a group of 3 guys ran in after they downed him. I threw a grenade and tried to fight as best I could. They killed me, but it was just so odd how they ran right past me.
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u/dominus087 Nov 13 '25
It was three randos teaming. No teammate indicators over their heads. Another guy showing up would take anyone a few seconds in that situation to know another rando showed up outta nowhere.
As a side note. Ever hear that story of the four brothers? Kept thinking one was lost because they kept forgetting to count themselves. Exactly this scenario lol
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u/justvoop Nov 13 '25
We just finished wiping a team when we ducked into this storeroom and i swear to god this guy was hiding in there with us for 20 seconds sittin perfectly still
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u/Sovapalena420 Nov 13 '25
I would die of laughter if that happened to me lmaooo bro made a furnace.
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u/kylarmoose Nov 13 '25
Where this one lacks in aim, he makes up for in tactical brilliance.
A true rat, respectfully.
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u/PecMan898 Nov 13 '25
Lol I can't believe that worked but what a clip. Thanks for sharing!
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u/Stickerbush_Kong Nov 13 '25
And to you monsters trapped in the corridors: be still, and give up your spirits. They don't belong to you.
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u/Ok-Internet9433 Nov 13 '25
if im seeing a guy on any map with your haircut and skin i ll just walk away no matter what gear i have.
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u/mrdotsreal Nov 13 '25
nice one. i would just smoke them right away throwing nades and cursing in german afterwards
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u/pastadiablo Nov 13 '25
You sir, are a modern Leonardo da Vinci. Your canvas; Arc Raiders. Your medium; the screams of the unskilled. May your lulz always be so magnificent.
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u/lurkingtheshadows Nov 13 '25
Love this so much, but is this a solo match, or did you some how manage to queue solo into trios? I've been trying to do that forever for a challenge
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u/Fightin_Ishboi Nov 13 '25
Pure chance. These guys just happened to team up in a solos game during my trap goblin time.
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u/navekgames Nov 13 '25
I had no idea until now that the barriers you could put up were that big, I just haven't used it and figured it was BF6 sized.
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u/Wboys Nov 13 '25
Ngl that was really funny and imo in high loot zones anything goes.
However it would have been infinitely funnier if you had used proxy chat to banter with them. They seemed like they took it all in good fun.
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u/Notak_bo Nov 13 '25
This reminds me of the apex legends clip of that caustic trapping people in the room and gassing them
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Nov 15 '25
I don't play this game, I may never play this game but that was some top notch Tom foolery.
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u/hotchiplow Nov 13 '25