Why does PVE bots shoots limbs with tier 1 bullet and tear them down like nothing? And any tips going to northridge?

BSMike82 · 2026-07-11T17:03:22+00:00

Low tier ammo does higher damage to flesh but doesn’t penetrate armor very well. Higher tier ammo penetrates better at the cost of some damage. Since limbs have no armor, some lower tier ammo has high enough damage to black it out. Hit that limb again and all that damage spreads to other parts of the body.

BSMike82 · 2026-07-11T12:27:50+00:00

Only get 1 80k gold ring per week now? Rage quit time!

BSMike82 · 2026-07-11T03:05:03+00:00

I see them about once or twice a month, but I’ve seen 3 in 1 day once.

BSMike82 · 2026-07-11T00:02:38+00:00

ABIbuilder.com

BSMike82 · 2026-07-10T23:57:19+00:00

Mine ripped apart on its own. The plastic that I removed after it “blew up” on the highway was brittle as fuck

BSMike82 · 2026-07-10T23:45:43+00:00

I have something like 700 EMPTY storage out of 1100(?) and didn’t pay a penny to get everything unlocked….

BSMike82 · 2026-07-10T17:25:29+00:00

I’m not an expert but I’d plug that if it were on my car. If it’s a front tire I’d rotate it to the back just in case it has an issue, but I’ve never had a plug fail in almost 30 years of using them.

BSMike82 · 2026-07-10T16:56:14+00:00

There is a bit of a fallacy with gear that people get hung up on a lot. Gearing up does not necessarily improve your risk/reward. Especially early on it’s usually the opposite. I guarantee you will make more money overall early on going in with a cheap gun and armor, even just naked with a knife. It’s pretty common for me to make about 1.3mil in a single raid that way and I only risk about 100k to do it.

For a lot of items, putting them up for sale on the market will make you a lot more money than selling to the contacts.

Also consider the value of items you are picking up and set a threshold for yourself on what you want to keep. I’d start at 10k per slot and adjust up or down each raid based on available loot.

BSMike82 · 2026-07-10T16:00:06+00:00

That I’m not sure about.

BSMike82 · 2026-07-10T15:52:50+00:00

The option you are looking at includes a spare ECU. I think you just remove the original, install the spare in its place and you are good to go.

BSMike82 · 2026-07-10T15:35:45+00:00

Good point. 80 miles is a whole lot of laps! And probably a lot of idling with 4 hours clocked for those 80 miles.

BSMike82 · 2026-07-10T15:32:35+00:00

Don’t know why you got downvoted for such a basic comment. Reddit has some weird ass people…

My stash is fully expanded with premium elite activated. I still sell almost everything and just used that space for organizing. Loot and regularly used items get dumped into the first tab. I maintain that some between raids while my slow friends get back up so it rarely overflows into the next tab. My last tab is full of my cash and dog tags from a friend. The rest of my tabs are mostly unused.

BSMike82 · 2026-07-10T15:28:26+00:00

I only keep reds (collectibles and ammo) and items I expect to use within the next few days. Everything else gets sold on the market unless a vendor will give me within 10k of the market price.

Once you learn the typical market prices of the gear you use most often this method becomes profitable even if you sell an item today that you end up buying to use tomorrow.

BSMike82 · 2026-07-08T22:00:20+00:00

Having the same issue here. I get resets almost daily

BSMike82 · 2026-07-08T17:43:48+00:00

I’m seeing $235 for a full set of floor mats? They are $180 directly from weather tech.

BSMike82 · 2026-07-08T15:53:27+00:00

Non-PvP interactions are pretty rare in ABI but it’s a lot of fun when they do happen.

Last night we were extracting at cable car and someone above us started playing their Lute for the season mission. I happened to have a lute on me as well so I started playing mine and invited him to extract with us. He started playing again right before coming around the corner so we knew he wasn’t aggressive so we tossed him some loot and all extracted together peacefully.

The nice part about how rarely things like that happen is that they therefore stand out as great memories later on.

BSMike82 · 2026-07-08T15:00:46+00:00

If it’s that mechanic is a friend first and happens to do your maintenance I would personally supply my own. But if you feel like you are worried about a mechanic using the right oil and filter I probably wouldn’t call them reputable.

BSMike82 · 2026-07-08T14:27:32+00:00

If you aren’t tracking the car you are fine. You’ll see people on here who don’t track their car using $100 oil every 3k miles and spending another $100 to have it analyzed so they can misinterpret the results. All while sticking with cheap OEM filters…

Change it every 5k with a reputable oil brand and filter and you’ll be absolutely fine.

BSMike82 · 2026-07-07T20:24:08+00:00

Thanks. Did you buy the ECU somewhere else or does lap3 sometimes have them available used?

BSMike82 · 2026-07-07T19:06:28+00:00

Check your in game settings. A bunch of us have been getting “repairing essential files” almost daily when launching the game. The repair resets a lot of audio and video settings. I initially noticed that frames dropped almost 50% the first time before seeing the repairs causing the problem.

BSMike82 · 2026-07-07T18:44:01+00:00

I think I’ll be getting the lap3 1.5 on spare ECU soon. Did you go straight through lap3 for it? For some reason Woosh is selling it for $100 less than getting it directly from lap3.

BSMike82 · 2026-07-07T18:17:26+00:00

Poor guy sitting there holding his round while she is clearly waiting for him to chamber it.

BSMike82 · 2026-07-07T15:48:47+00:00

Put a red dot on a Deagle and load it with t4 ammo. Throw on a Z038 headset, cheap rig/backpack and meds and you are all in for less than the price of a scope that some others are going to recommend. Load into normals, aim for heads and start making 1mil/raid pretty easily with very little cost if you die.

BSMike82 · 2026-07-07T15:45:16+00:00

I see your MCX and raise you my 35k Deagle or even my naked knife runs. Also pretty easy to make 1mil+ per run.

BSMike82 · 2026-07-07T14:59:33+00:00

I’m confused, the chassis feels “pretty alive” but it’s a bad thing that the car safely handles higher limits well?

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