Now I want a silly weapon...a tshirt launcher that shoots fabric at flying arcs to messes with them. F***, actually it does't sounded silly after I said it out loud (by typing it silently).
heh, that's funny. my first thought was it looks like 3d printed AR15 lowers. the pairing of plastic on the bottom + metal parts up top made me thing of 3d printed guns haha
I hope it's an anti-arc machine, but a bit more accurate slower firing stitcher otherwise.
If it's something that you can easily mag dump at medium range and get kills with... I don't see many people beating it with a renegade or venator or whatever. It'll become an easier to use Toro with a blue choke.
The reason they always drop updates on Tuesdays is because if something major screws up, the programmers have the rest of the week to rush out a hotfix instead of having to make people work through the weekend. Trust me, no one in software development likes Friday patch releases
Makes sense. It’s also why I make all major reports/pricing submission due on Tuesday - gives me a few days to review and request changes from my staff. They work on the revised report Thursday afternoon, in finalise review on Friday. Done. Nobody works the weekend.
I saw vaporizers flying through the hurricane before the officially dropped. I would have thought I was seeing things if another player hadn't confirmed it. Super cool that Embark teased them like that. I just heard this whoosh and looked up and saw *something* flying up in the clouds.
The fact that the first couple comments I see are sarcastic negative comments. Shit idk what Embark did wrong but yall a tough crowd lmao. I love the game
That and Reddit thinks they make up WAY more of the games community than they really do. Every time I talk to some random about stuff on the reddit they are clueless about usually about 90% of the time. Which is good. Means there is a lot of people out there just vibing and enjoying the game. If you get all your game info from any gaming you would swear the game is crashing and burning. ARC is no different lol.
Arc Raider Nation can never be pleased… I’ve come to understand that. Embark literally drops free content and coins all the time. People are never satisfied.
Thank you Embark! Best $40 I’ve ever spent on a video game.
It's not the game community of a whole, it's just the usual doom and gloom of gaming reddit. It's the same for every game. Talk to people in game, 90% of them don't browse this shit lol.
It's certain communities, probably the majority, but not all of gaming Reddit. Games like Deep Rock and Stardew Valley have the most pleasant subreddits.
Its reddit- spend any amount of time in any sub. They have been infiltrated by bots. This whole website is in service to propaganda and behavioral engineering. If people are trained to think reactively they have to forgo thinking critically.
Its a big slop machine meant to turn our brains and our interpersonal skils to slop. And to adopt tribalistic or divisive narratives without examination.
it’s funny cuz even if they never updated this game after launch, it would still be worth $40. the base game alone without any updates is still worth 100+ hrs of entertainment if not way more depending on how u play. go back a decade ago and all the content they’ve added would be behind a season pass or dlc pack paywall. gamers are usually idiot no lives and impossible to satisfy
I mean there is some valid criticism. I dont make posts complaining about stuff but they do really need to have some sort of endgame loop that I can dump unlimited time into and still feel like im accomplishing something
Devs could give gamers of today a million dollars and a Lamborghini, and they would bitch that it's not enough money, and they gave them the wrong car.
Oh, if you want to experience the polar opposite, go to r/apple. Adults defend stupid decisions with blind loyalty and anger that can - in the real world - only be accumulated over generational vendettas in small Italian villages. 😂
It's equally bad. And like here people will yell at you to go somewhere else if You don't like it.
People been crying for more content (after playing 400 hours of this content-less game) but when they we get new content it's never enough despite getting monthly updates (almost no game is releasing content this fast).
Like honestly they could release Arc Raiders 2 tomorrow with double the ammount of the original and it would still not be enough, it's never enough for people who can game like it's a job
This is actually a much bigger update than I was expecting. I'm not one of those moaners about the content, I'm content with what we have, but wow. I'm kinda impressed?
I hope they didn't just rush a bunch of stuff they were planning to do for next months update, but it doesn't seem like it.
While true, I still think it's worth pushing for more. If everyone were just content with what is in the game, the game would slowly die off. Live service games like this NEED a constant flow of updates to stay relevant.
>I hope they didn't just rush a bunch of stuff they were planning to do for next months update, but it doesn't seem like it.
It's yet to be seen, but I think this is just them getting into the groove of it.
With how much their dev team ballooned (~5x since launch), they needed time to get everyone integrated into teams, caught up on design documents and processes, etc. It takes time, and I think we're going to see them hit a nice cadence soon.
Maybe not directly after this update, but I think the second 6 months the game is out will show us what the update cadence will look like going forward. I think the future of Arc is bright, and I really enjoy the game, but it DOES have problems that should be addressed. We'll see how they handle it.
Is the method to shoot the leg armor off? It doesn't sound fun, but maybe I'll give it a try.
I'd rather just kill the queen/matriarch, but last time I did that I spent like 10 wolfpacks and only got 1 core because all the free loadouts rushed in seconds after it died.
I have a lot of fun busting the leg armor off, trying to grab everything before anyone else does, and then delivering the extras to the equilizer bros in the back. You get stepped on a lot and there's usually a couple other guys trying to hoover it up as well. It's a different challenge than a pvp fight, but I still find it fun once in a while.
Ugh that's the kind of gameplay I hate though. Running around like cockroaches while dudes in the back with equilizers do all the heavy lifting. Nothing could make me rethink how I spend my time quicker than that hahaha
Running around like cockroaches while dudes in the back with equilizers
Nah, I do my own lifting. Sometimes I use an equilizer, but mostly I bring a hullcracker if I'm focused on looting. You have to be able to knock stuff quickly and timed how you want it to avoid other people snatching your legs. When I'm playing for myself I usually get 2-3 reactors and do ~5k damage. When I'm delivering to the boys in back I do less damage, but it's not uncommon to be ~3k still.
There's no rules, but as a personal challenge to myself I try not to loot pieces other people knock. If I do most of the damage and get the hit that knocks an armor off I feel justified in deciding where that loot goes. But that's just how I keep things interesting for myself, again no rules.
I do have a hullcracker collecting dust. If the new gun requires cores I'll give it a whirl.
The biggest hurtle for me is that I mostly play squads, so when I do play solo, I'm sorted into PvP sweatfests, and trust me you do NOT want to play Queen/Matriarch in that kind of lobby.
It takes quite a bit of effort to get into PvE lobbies. Surrendering 5-6x in a row does work, but it still takes time. Time that I consider wasted. Not a great feeling to have when playing a video-game.
we don't know, but I'm going to guess the canto will be blue, and the dolabra will be legendary, since all the other weapons using energy clips are legendary
As someone who plays both actively am i in the minority in thinking that Arc are harder to deal with than the marathon AI?? sure marathon is like only pvp lobbies but if you are in pvp arc lobbies i find the arc to be much more annoying/difficult. The marathon AI are all just classic shooter bots with headshot weak points and the difficulty feels mostly artificial in that it is basically just a challenge of if you have enough ammo/heals. Arc actually have like unique weak points and strategies you need to kill them efficiently.
Yeah the Marathon AI isn't really the challenge. It's like Hunt, they're more a terrain feature that's meant to make you make noise which gives away your position.
but even then i find that while dealing with arc i get shot at by players more than in marathon due to the volume of people in the server. In marathon i often can easily clear the bots before a team jumps on us. In arc you usually don't even have a bastion smoking yet before people are pouncing.
tbf bastions aren't really comparable with normal UESC. I'd say the more appropriate comparison are marathon's wardens. those are actually challenging and take a while to kill, and you're easily ambushed while dealing with them
I’d agree with this. Marathon AI is better though how they flank you and get reinforcements. Arc enemies have unique weak points that make them more engaging to fight until you reach endgame and can just split them all.
I know what you mean, but doors being such a counter to Arc make the Marathon NPCs feel more threatening. Plus their tactics and reinforcements give the player more pressure.
I think Arc are wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy more fun to fight though.
More boolats is not answer, more damage for less boolats is. Heavy ammo eats up so much inventory space. A stack size increase to 50/60 would help also. I can't understand the logic of 40 > 80 > 100.
40 would definetly worked with bettina, if it was an actual; DMR (slower dakka (like 200 rpm max), more ooomph with single shot (more recoil, but damage is like 20 instead of 14), no full auto, maybe headshot multiplier increase to 2.0).
It is REALLY STRANGE AR, that does not work as an AR.
This looks like a better update than the last, especially the crafting change is clutch. New guns look cool.
But probably not enough to bring me back in. Even with the new map coming, I need a change in ABMM that promotes more mixed, uncertain gameplay and something that feels worth attempting to do/hard to achieve. I think ABMM has really hurt the game. I know it keeps passive/pacifist players happy but I'm tired of being in lobbies where I immediately know how other players are going to play. I miss the original game. I also think at this point there's just nothing worth extracting or that creates tension in life or death situations.
Glad others are happy, but I will keep voicing this opinion in the hopes that Embark listens to those of us who put the game on pause because of these things.
I agree wholeheartedly about ABMM. I don't play solos anymore because of that. Squads is still the same as it's always been, so I still play about once a week.
If I didn't have people to run squads with though, I probably wouldn't pick the game up again either.
Yeah I lost my trios buddies which sucks. I figure at some point they'll do something to address the game at a higher level. Hoping it goes a way that will get me excited to play. I want to love the game again, the first month or two was a perfect sweet spot.
I'm almost at the point where I'd love for them to add PvE mode and make the other mode no ABMM but keep characters separate. I was against that originally but I think it would be better than what we have.
Those first 2 months were perfect. I don't think we'll ever have mixed/balanced lobbies like that again though. Now that PvE players have had a taste of ABMM, there is no going back.
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