u/TomatilloNo2822

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I try to keep those loadouts under $300, and able to be run at any level, even off a fresh prestige.

Idc if the mods don't like it, I'm sick of grinding for dozens of hours in a 40 dollar video game to get gear I should have unlocked 200+ hours of play ago in any game not made by greedy fucks

Not breaking any rules by posting this

I have over 500 hours and still don't have everything unlocked despite being pretty religious about clearing PoIs and having previous 'help'. I bought a $40 title not a gacha game, I want to actually use the cool gear

They are just there to grub you and leech off of the loot you spent resources for, kill them. The fact that this isn't just standard practice and some white knights will defend them is absurd

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Heard a lot of moaning and kept my lips sealed

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fuckin hate this map

There are hundreds of ways to play Arc Raiders, and I think I've just discovered my favorite.

What I'll do is I'll go into matches like Closed Scrutiny or Queen events w/ nothing but a tier 1 kit and a stitcher, but the kicker? I'm not gonna kill anybody.

Equip a snaphook in my safe pocket (you'll soon see why), a couple bandages and shields in case arc hit me, and a ton of stamina shots. Drop into a match and just find someone, anyone who's running solid gear. I'm generally in pretty cooperative lobbies, so it's not likely that people will shoot me on sight, and very likely they'll be running at least one purple weapon.

Then, I do the typical "gank" approach, put my gun down, sprint full tilt at the person in question, pull out my stitcher w/ its glorious level 1 attachments, but then? Nothing. I just follow them. Really, really closely.

Everywhere they go, everywhere they loot, I'm right behind them, watching.

If the lobby is friendly, they'll feel compelled to let you live, they don't want to hurt their MMR, and they certainly don't want to get dogpiled by the whole server if they kill you near a group, so they let you live.

But often, they're REAL vocal about it. You can get some crazy good reactions from people without harming a single hair on their head, make them practically shake w/ paranoia as they call out to everyone that you're sketch, and people will just shake their heads and ask why they want you killed so badly.

And if someone DOES kill you? So what? You lost nothing, you were never joining for loot.

The snaphook is to follow anyone who thinks they can escape you with elevation.

Was wondering if anyone else had noticed this, but the voices of the people you come across in game tend to match the relative aggression of the server. Friendlier lobbies tend to have more rural/southern/midwestern accents, generally older people, while the most aggressive lobbies tend to feature younger-sounding people with urban-focused accents (like LA/chicago/new york/some other big city ig). I see WAY more teens and children when the matches are more aggressive.

People's tone is also just a lot different. People in friendlier lobbies are warmer and a little less excitable, but people in aggro lobbies tend to be a lot louder and more excitable.

but I've noticed a more interesting trend when I'm pingponging from hostile to friendly matchmaking. Right when I start seeing neutral interactions from players, I'll run into people of all ages, but everyone's just very reserved and sounds kind of untrustworthy. The people who aren't reserved sound almost excited to meet you, and always have their eyes locked on you. This is what I call the "gate to valhalla", between the PvP focused and PvE focused matchmaking. Everyone is suspicious as fuck, and doing the same thing as you are. It's so obvious that all of these people are actively fighting the impulse to put one in your skull, and their voices reflect it.

People in these gateway lobbies also tend to sound a little brainrotted, if you know you know.

Matchmaking doesn't reflect the quality of a person's character, obviously, but I think it does highlight how different age and social groups prioritize different things in games

Or even 'mixed' lobbies tbh.

I'm ok with PvP and not knowing who you can trust, but lately I've just been paired against some of the worst people the human race has to offer and I'd like a break from the CBT. Sick of getting jumped and having to fight 3-4 third parties just to leave the area after surviving the first fight, and half of the people I die to in PvP having no steam community profile set up. PvP doesn't feel rewarding if your reward is having to fight 3 other people hiding in bushes waiting for you to be weakened or looking away, and basically every PoI has a stitcher camper in a dark corner.

Y'all must really have absolutely nothing going on in your lives if you spend your free time bitching and moaning about "people have bad opinion me no like ab the game I tied my whole identity to"

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