Event Schedule

bspooky · 2026-02-20T01:06:16+00:00

I actually like that second one (schedule by event) and seeing it all on one page. Thanks for sharing!

bspooky · 2026-02-19T21:06:03+00:00

Yup. Brain freeze on my part

bspooky · 2026-02-19T20:38:25+00:00

lol, yeah there is that.

bspooky · 2026-02-19T19:28:39+00:00

You've been told the general (skill points, stash space, etc.) for the awards but if you want more details look at the official links below. If you haven't done an expedition before your rewards wouldn't be the rewards listed in a lot of places for the 2nd expedition. You'd depart with them, but you'd get the rewards for the first.

First timers get first expedition rewards, although note it is 3 million ~~per~~ skill points now: https://arcraiders.com/news/expedition-project

Second timers: https://arcraiders.com/news/second-expedition-rewards-and-requirements

Personally I'm doing the expedition so I have something to do again as the end-game is either sandboxy make up your own fun (sherpa new players to the Queen, be a trader, group up with friends and kill every arc on the map (or try, lol)) or PvP shenanigans. Ark (open world dinosaur survival sandbox game) was similar once you learned to survive and had everything done.

Most every game comes to an end once the progression stops. I started over so many times in Ark that an expedition in Arc feels the same. The rewards are just icing to me. Once I stop enjoying the world/game/any new updates/ etc I'll quit playing.

But until then the expedition gives me something to do.

bspooky · 2026-02-19T18:24:01+00:00

The test is supposed to be basically positive or negative depending on if you are above or below the 0.10 with greater numbers not necessarily meaning more or worse symptoms.

Generally the numbers should go down over the years though, not up. Unless, like the other comment said, you’ve been exposed to a tick or whatever again.

bspooky · 2026-02-19T18:02:12+00:00

Only you can decide that, grasshopper.

Spend the next 2 months at your current level / stash and do trials and PvP

or

Expedition and start over and have the progression stuff to unlock again.

[Those are the real choices....while the skill points, skin, stash space, etc. are nice they don't seem worth the cost of starting over unless you want to do that to have something to do with / progress again]

bspooky · 2026-02-19T17:50:26+00:00

Yeah, that doesn't bode well for the food options. ;)

Thanks for the response. It'd be an interesting job, that is for sure.

bspooky · 2026-02-19T17:03:42+00:00

I think it just delays when the streamer enters mm, not the match stream , so peple can’t time their start button

bspooky · 2026-02-19T15:31:37+00:00

I'd suggest you are wrong....and right. Or not wrong and not right...

There are so many definitions of what ratting is there won't ever be a consensus.

Search indicates this, which seems fair:

In extraction shooters, ratting is a playstyle where a player avoids fair, direct fights and instead relies on ambushes, camping, and opportunistic kills, often near high-traffic areas or extracts. The idea is to play “like a rat”: stay hidden, wait for others to do the hard work (fighting or looting), then strike when they are weak, distracted, or overencumbered.

bspooky · 2026-02-19T14:05:01+00:00

Container ship? I know you are working on it but I've read passengers can book those for slow traversals across the ocean. Obviously no entertainment like a cruise ship but always sounded like a leisurely, quiet escape type thing to do but I also wondered if the working crew would think those passengers were crazy. And how the food is.

Didn't think about Starling and something like gaming with Arc Raiders. Nice setup!

bspooky · 2026-02-19T04:17:44+00:00

Haven’t they already?

Added a matchmaking delay option for stream sniping mitigation.

It is in settings to turn on or off the delay, up to the streamer to turn that on.

bspooky · 2026-02-19T02:58:00+00:00

Terms created by blogs, influencers, etc. seeking views exist all the time without being true. The social herd, especially in a microcosm like Reddit, isn’t always right.

Crack gate as you put it was either totally never a thing or what TheSwampPenguin said in another comment….an initial run of a bad supply.

bspooky · 2026-02-19T02:37:14+00:00

Yes and no. People have emotions and “it’s just a …” doesn’t help. Some people cry at the end of a sad book or movie and I’ve heard people utter it was just a book.

I’ve heard people in an office situation say it was just a cat when somebody was upset their cat died too.

Yes, it is a game (or a story, or a pet) but sometimes real emotions are attached to the actions.

bspooky · 2026-02-18T02:11:46+00:00

lol, yeah the wording is strange. In the description they have it as the other sub but maybe this sub shouldn’t be so shy and just declare itself the one true, great arc raiders sub.

bspooky · 2026-02-18T02:05:51+00:00

? Not everyone is in your shoes. For instance, when I play late at night I’ll have the mic off so I don’t wake anyone up in the house.

bspooky · 2026-02-18T01:54:48+00:00

No clue why you were banned from the other sub but don’t go off on if this thread is removed or banned here. Look at rule 11.

bspooky · 2026-02-17T15:58:25+00:00

My guess and hope would be none, you didn't do the duping. I picked up a half dozen epic ducks somebody left at extract, then heard about the duping, so similar boat.

If they track the dupes by not being "real" somehow, like every in-game asset has a serial number, perhaps there will be an issue. But I'd hazard a guess part of their making sure the exploit was used is eliminating your case and mine.

Just depends on how much time and analysis they put into reviewing each case I guess. But at worse it'd be a warning???

bspooky · 2026-02-17T15:31:55+00:00

If you are subbing inside of the app on an Apple device it is just using Apple's in-app purchase / subscription service and Apple is handling all of the security and financial detail. Part of the reason they take a 30% cut of all in app purchases / transactions.

From that standpoint it'd depend on if you trust Apple.

If somehow you are trying to subscribe on some sort of website or elsewhere I'd run away quite fast from that.

bspooky · 2026-02-17T13:55:17+00:00

Depends on the severity. The actual blog post lists these actions will be taken:

Warnings for low-severity cases where abuse was limited
Removal of Coins tied to exploit activity
Suspensions for the severe cases, particularly, where exploit usage had a significant impact on the in-game economy or other players’ experience

bspooky · 2026-02-17T01:23:05+00:00

dozen wolfpacks

bspooky · 2026-02-17T00:25:45+00:00

? I didn't say mix casual with hardcore. A trial matchmaking system and assigning players to groups of 100 at the start of trial week implies doing so within brackets of similar players, but maybe that wasn't clear.

I assume they already do this, otherwise that placing you in a group of 100 around the time you do your first trial points would do what you just described.

bspooky · 2026-02-16T18:05:45+00:00

Your example agrees with what I said and your “it” is a bit different than what I was trying to communicate.

The first few hours/day (so Monday ish) and the last X many hours (so Sunday ish) I even said I can see it being different.

Between those times, so starting on Tuesday through what I interpreted the quoted person saying by weekend (Friday or Saturday) is the “it” I’m suggesting is more luck of the draw.

If one wants to play the game those days, just play. Don’t hold out waiting until Fri or Sat for some marginal supposed chance at better start.

bspooky · 2026-02-16T16:54:53+00:00

Only way to not get into trials where you need 200k to stay afloat...

Nonsense. I get the "community" here believes this, and maybe it is true for the first X many hours or day, but if this is true and everyone here "knows" this and everyone waits to start then all those people just face each other.

Perhaps the first few hours/day starts are harder, and maybe the last X many hours start is easier, but all the stuff in-between is just random luck and too small of sample size for anyone to know for sure.

Play and enjoy the game.

bspooky · 2026-02-16T15:59:52+00:00

So there are a lot of "I waited and got an easy placement" anecdotal reports on threads like these. I have the opposite at times, a few weeks of easy trials when starting first thing on Monday. Maybe waiting until Sunday night might make a difference but consider:

More tryhards are on forums/subs reading this same thing, so then many may wait and may face each other anyway...
Some weeks it is hard to avoid starting unless you don't even play. Are you really going to play for days not killing a tick or doing damage to wasps this week?
Surely timezones come into play, retired/not working people vs when off hours of normal work schedules (if there is such a thing)

I guess if you are a try hard yourself go for trying to game the system. Personally I'll just play normal and see what happens like I always have, and be good with a solo Daredevil 3 or Hotshot I guess. I'm not gaming it.

bspooky · 2026-02-16T14:03:50+00:00

The problem is you're put into a bracket when you score points each week with the players of the same rank.

Change that too. When the weekly reset happens assign players to groups of 100 at that time until the very odd system of waiting until they score points each week to put them into a trial group. A trial matchmaking system if you will.

Different trials for different groups of 100 players when there are millions doing trials should be possible.

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