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the New Map is a blast, full underground massive bunker, though people are in full hugbox "never shoot anyone" mode there for now.

I think stalking the halls and blowing people up with timed bombs will be good once that phase is over.
 
How would be the game for someone who usually stays away from MP shooters ? Watched a bit of Sequisha playing, and I am a bit curious about the game. Surprised that it's not F2P. Is there a good progression with weapons ? Are there Skill trees or other systems ? How's the shooting and how obnoxious is the TTK ?
 
I Know 孤独のせい said:
How would be the game for someone who usually stays away from MP shooters ? Watched a bit of Sequisha playing, and I am a bit curious about the game. Surprised that it's not F2P. Is there a good progression with weapons ? Are there Skill trees or other systems ? How's the shooting and how obnoxious is the TTK ?
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game is way too high quality to be F2P.
Weapons work like this, White to green to blue to purple to yellow "grade" weapons, but this doesn't mean a White weapon is bad, it means its limited in some way, and is easier to craft and upgrade, so a Ferro is a single shot rifle that you reload on every bullet, and can two tap head shot players, however, a Blue weapon, the Renegade, is a Cowboy Rifle that reloads faster but does slightly less damage than the Ferro, overall its a better gun, but it isn't leagues better, especially in peakaboo situations
while higher grade weapons are way better due to better handling/reloading, the TTK doesn't really exponentially increase, weapon mods are just flat better as they go up, though, some of the Purple and Yellow mods alter how the guns work in some way, usually a drawback too though.

there is a skill tree but its mostly ease of use/mobility things, like looting faster, using up less stamina while doing this or that, more stamina, nothing to do with DPS or broken shit.

the TTK is somewhat low, a shotgun being the fastest in the game but you can't one tap with literally anything.
 
If I find a good deal on the game, maybe with the Black Friday deals going on, an am strongly considering just giving it a go.
 
I kind of hated this game at first because I wasn't actually doing anything, but I've grown to enjoy the chill of it. I still think they need to up the amount of players on the maps though. The only time I really find a actual person to shoot is at extracts.
 
Big Green said:
I kind of hated this game at first because I wasn't actually doing anything, but I've grown to enjoy the chill of it. I still think they need to up the amount of players on the maps though. The only time I really find a actual person to shoot is at extracts.
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Go to the high value loot areas. I've been hitting Hydroponics on Dam for the weekly challenge and I've had to shoot my way out every time.
 
Big Green said:
I kind of hated this game at first because I wasn't actually doing anything, but I've grown to enjoy the chill of it. I still think they need to up the amount of players on the maps though. The only time I really find a actual person to shoot is at extracts.
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Big Green said:
Yeah we ran Stella Montis for the first time tonight, I take back what I said. I'd like to keep the do nothing runs as a option.
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Lol.
Stella Montis will completely remove any problem you have with loneliness, just go to the Mechanical area and you'll find a swamp of Free Load out "Shoot on Sight" niggas, ready to be a pain in your ass, always stalk/stealth through that area if you want the high amount of magnets or purple mechanical rarities for the pickings.
 
The Grognard said:
Arc Raiders is clearly designed so that people who have employment or families can also enjoy the game. The choice should be easy.
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I fail to see how its that different from tarkov in that sense. If you're not autistically playing the game you're going to be behind just as much as you would be in tarkov, try hards will grind and get a ton of good gear they can use to be better than you in pvp. Time to kill is longer so having a better weapon and gear matters more, unlike tarkov where you can one shot headshot someone with full kit with a basic pistol. I've heard this take a lot but nobody has been able to explain what actually makes arc better if you have less time, seems to me like this is some sponsored youtuber slop marketing(although it seems to be working so maybe tarkov should take notes). Almost every multiplayer game you play will take about 20 - 40 minutes per game and tarkov and arc are no different from each other in that regard.

Maybe the infinite free load out kits make it a little easier but if you were on a time crunch like that you probably only had time for a aingle scav run in tarkov anyways so the cooldown is meaningless.

IMO theres a lot better reasons to pick arc over tarkov, like the compelling AI enemies, much better sound design, squad play quality of life like pinging and a map, and lack of obvious cheaters. Only things tarkov really has on arc raiders is the pvp, which has been ruined by cheating, the loot variety, which arc will likely catch up to over time, and the "realism" mechanics like medical status and reloading mags, which some people will like and others will not.
Zenos Yae Viator said:
you'll find a swamp of Free Load out "Shoot on Sight" niggas, ready to be a pain in your ass
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Dealing with the free loadouters has been the most frustrating thing in the game for me. Nothing more annoying than spending 5 minutes and a bunch of grenades to kill another group only to get nothing. At least the hatchet runners in tarkov didn't pose any threat to you.
 
A Log in D Tractor 2 said:
I fail to see how its that different from tarkov in that sense.
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I can get into a raid in a free loadout, fill my inventory with stuff you need to make slightly better gear and get out in about the time it takes to load into a single scav raid in Tarkov, along with being able to complete quests in case I happen to spawn near them. I don't have to worry about losing a lot of progress to a head-eyes-M80 within 30 seconds of the round starting because I spawned close to DongFeng8888 with the world's most blatant aimbot-radar combo. People actually bother to use their microphones to conduct diplomacy at times and might even not be on kill-everything-on-sight mood in case gunfire attracts enemies. I'm also pretty certain the hit detection and netcode in this game are better than in Tarkov.
 
Snagged this in the apartments today, never shoved something up my ass so fast before.
I'd still rather have the medium gun parts blueprint though

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Zenos Yae Viator said:
the game turns us all into John Carpenter's The Thing.

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It really does too.

There are games where I'll snake 4-5 people, even up to the extraction.
Like, if I hear a lift being called, I'll run up and if there's only 1 guy around I'll just wait until the lift is open and let the other guy start the extraction, then I'll just light'em up and take their shit before extracting.
It's gotta be unbearable. It's also the reason that if I'm extracting for upgrades or a quest or just anything important, I make sure to be alone lmfao.
 
I see so many people on Twitter whining how they will start shooting on sight because they often get shot first when they were trying to be friendly.

95% of these situations wouldn't happen if they just stopped trying to go up and make friends with strangers, seriously.
Just avoid other people like the plague, that's what is the biggest fun of the game for me.

Not knowing if the other guy will shoot me, but I try to stay safe by assuming they will always shoot me so I try to stay quiet and navigate silently if I hear anybody else.
85% of the time, this game is basically a stealth game for me. And it is much more fun this way.

Genuinely feels like many people who play this are just too low IQ to get it.
 
People are overly friendly if anything. Solos are basically a big circle jerk on most maps. Personally I find it so easy to fill my inventory that pvp just doesn’t feel like a good risk/reward ratio a lot of the time. Realistically I’m going to trade out two or three items looting a kill and if I die I lose everything.

My big complaint now are quests not just pointing me directly to what it wants me to do.
 
There isn’t much incentive to PvP in solo besides the grief. You can’t carry much by yourself and if there is anything good on them it’s probably in their safe pocket
 
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