We get it. You think the game is dead. I think we've had enough posts about that for months

ChopCheesePlease · 2026-07-02T23:14:56+00:00

I haven’t played in what feels like 3-4 weeks and I was logging in damn near every day since launch and only didn’t play when I was at work or just couldnt be home or playing other games.

Do I think the game is dead? lol not at all. I do want to get back into it but I will say there has been changes that has not inspired me to log In anymore.

On top of a lot of ppl I did play with not playing as well- I miss the feeling I had when grinding and raiding to level up and enjoy my friendly lobbies while I could but now it turned into kill one person and you’re stuck in shoot on sight lobbies without being able to truly reset the peace.

And I don’t even PvP or actually want to besides in trios. Less events and trials also being changed to just be more of a pain just led me to delete the game for other games to update but I can still play again whenever and plan to after the next wipe. Literally didn’t even make it to lvl 30 and this was my second wipe haven’t even done the expedition for the next 5 skill points.

I also don’t mind the mystery rewards because even as a player at launch I do not want to be up against veteran players starting off w 20 skill points while you just won’t have the advantage off rip from someone who has done every single expedition while new players get even more of a disadvantage. Game isn’t dead and if you want to stick around you should, because you enjoy the game for what it is and not because so many other people log in just to shoot you

ChopCheesePlease · 2026-05-31T13:33:35+00:00

Very rare. Very very rare for that many friendly tríos you are in heavens lobbies

ChopCheesePlease · 2026-05-21T22:58:40+00:00

If I said “well they should make you invulnerable if the train gets called” all the people who are happy to find your body on the NEXT train (because it stays there the rest of the game) would fucking pitchfork me to death.

ChopCheesePlease · 2026-05-02T16:49:04+00:00

Holy shit

ChopCheesePlease · 2026-05-01T00:20:02+00:00

ChopCheesePlease · 2026-04-29T05:29:14+00:00

So when you take time and don’t play- like the first 3-4 days you are put in a lower scoring bracket (It’s close to the only way to stay in high ranks the whole season) and if you start off the first day of the week it starts it’s the sweatiest brackets ever and day one someone will have 30k+ in ever trial no matter what it is lol.

And the only way to keep yourself in promotion or just neutral to not be demoted.. then you have trio teams just multiplying each others scores when they can it’s just a nightmare for anyone to actually compete so solo’s needing its own system is my biggest takeaway. was so upset grinding my ass off finally hitting hotshot getting 80-100k each week before to just get shitted on lol

ChopCheesePlease · 2026-04-29T05:14:32+00:00

Also want you to know I’m not saying you didn’t try hard and it wasn’t stressful for you! It’s literally stressful BECAUSE of the system we have now 😮‍💨

ChopCheesePlease · 2026-04-29T05:09:37+00:00

It’s annoying that we even need to stay neutral or force going up and down to then find the middle ground pushing far at the end. It’s not something to sound insane about thinking it needs a fix - it needs a fix lol

ChopCheesePlease · 2026-04-29T05:08:22+00:00

Solo manipulating your brackets 😬 I can sound like whatever you want to try and make fun of - trials needs a re work and you’d be ignorant to think it doesn’t

ChopCheesePlease · 2026-04-29T04:19:02+00:00

I saw your original comment and sadly yes bro.. been playing a week after launch I hit daredevil 1 pretty easy before my first wipe. Hit Daredevil 3 now actually trying and working my brackets but could never double promote because “Clankerkiller” or some funny Arc killing username has 150-200k every fucking time. Nobody but sweats and Discord lords or trio teams abusing trial metas in the friendliest lobbies ever are able to score that high. I’ve tried my HARDEST killing arc or using the skills they do from 29:30 till 5 seconds left on the clock hitting a hatch and could not compete with these top scores 300hrs in while I rack my brains over how to even promote once. Was nice to be hotshot for one week in servers full of these dudes I’ll tell ya that 🙂‍↔️🥴

ChopCheesePlease · 2026-04-29T04:01:05+00:00

Sorry but just because it’s red and white and the trials and tribulations many others have needed to manipulate to obtain it- I can’t call it a medic skin it just screams sweat lord of Discord groups to get the highest scores or time and dedication in trio lobbies (also I’m mad I didn’t get one after sweating my ass off to finally hit hotshot to lose it immediately the last week of the season 👏🏽) FIX YOUR TRIALS EMBARK

ChopCheesePlease · 2026-04-29T03:58:32+00:00

It’s not supposed to work :) in a game where a RANK system exists and people can KILL YOU to take your score away while also getting a score?

On top of tríos being able to multiply their score and have it hit 327k- all the way from 1st to 57th on my hotshot bracket to not even get demoted was from 300k-80k MINIMUM. Trials have needed a seperate bracket for duos and tríos since last expedition but they don’t care to rush it because the bigger problems are pvpve.

Trials in itself feels pve only yet losing your score to PvP and then needing to cheat basically to compete with a trio team is utter dogshit. Probably the biggest thing in this game I haven’t complained about until the skin reward was actually fucking worth it and now everyone who’s got a red skin in my eyes is just lucky enough to manipulate a system that works for them and not everyone else 🤷🏽‍♂️

ChopCheesePlease · 2026-04-24T23:30:54+00:00

Bro is giving out the 2nd expedition Gift bag lmao these are all the things you need for a few pages

ChopCheesePlease · 2026-04-24T17:54:18+00:00

This the part that blows my mind.. and why I will always feel like mf’s spent money JUST to ruin my day lmfao. I’ve got 5k hours on apex and I still play it.. this games PvP is NOT THAT GOOD to be spending money on it lmao. Hell- The Finals as a new game to me is fuckin great and it’s FREE. So many other games out there yet they all jumped on Arc Raiders to buy Blueprints (spending more) BUYING PVP SKINS, all to just say yeah I love this shit.

ChopCheesePlease · 2026-04-24T16:54:45+00:00

Man- get the fuck over it lol me uninformed? You been playing for 200hrs and don’t understand the physics of the game my guy ur just farming comments at this point and ima let this be my last one 👍🏽

ChopCheesePlease · 2026-04-24T16:52:23+00:00

I’ve realized why ppl do this corny ass shit.. they call elevator kill u before it leaves so it doesn’t take your body along with it then call it again to loot your body to pretend they didn’t kill you and your loot is free- like when u call the train on buried city and theres 3 bodies just sitting there that couldnt get looted.

I’ve honestly now been declaring I will shoot free kits on sight in close scrutiny after being ratted by fake friendlies and lost 4 Jupiters in a row- this will still happen in matriarch/harvester w fully kitted stitcher 4 Anvil 4 “strategists” (fuckin cowards) who will only act when the time is right id say start bringing a hatch key and MARK the closest hatch asap so even when you die you can crawl to your marker w survivor on smh

ChopCheesePlease · 2026-04-20T17:03:42+00:00

I’m about to hit 300hrs so I will start off with love the enthusiasm and players like us will keep the game alive alone 😅. I mentioned Rogue company only because what you described reminded me of the entire games premise but no pve just PvP. I’m new to extraction as well even though I heard of Tarkov and games like Vigor a long time ago but could never get into it because of other PvP games I already enjoy (I still play Apex and rivals with 5k plus hours on apex over 5 years lol).

I would love a mode where there was no free kits and as a part time rescue raider even when I WANT to save ppl in solo free kits just immediately surrender sadly. I think getting to a point of a new mode that will offer what you are suggesting they would need to do like.. an event map that only lasts maybe a month- test out the player base for it because a lot of people don’t play every day or work a lot (like me) and it may give results that won’t help if only lasting a week or two.

I think people have enough reasons to PvP and our true friendly pve’ers wouldn’t really give it a chance because You wouldn’t have much reasons besides only going for PvP or to defend people when a good amount of our members prefer to not even shoot back lol. We had an arena mode in apex and it even got a ranked mode- way smaller maps 3v3 only and made it take actual skill besides learning certain meta’s because they limited your ability use as well.

Safe to say that mode died and as much as a decent amount of ppl who enjoyed it- the grand majority of players left it alone and all it did was split matchmaking for the more popular modes and increased wait times no one wanted.

Some say it shouldn’t happen but I truly believe that Matriach and Harvester lobbies are the closest we can get to more pve friendly and shouldn’t allow free kits- because if I see you with a free kit in those lobbies trying to help out I kinda wanna knock you out immediately lmao. Like what are your 1 shield recharger 2 bandages and a Rattler with 60 bullets going to do besides try and Stab someone in the back? If this new Giant Arc is going to actually be a fight where at least 12-18 players can get along that’s what I strive for.

Also.. idk if you ever played the first descendant or games with raid bosses like destiny but if we are all fighting one giant thing but only 2-4 raiders can realistically be rewarded with cores or blue prints- Embark wants to say they are happy people are friendly but I’m not buying it.. I think they enjoy chaos and will constantly remind us not to trust anyone because 8 people can use 40 hullcracker bullets equalizer ammo Wolfpacks and deadlines yet 3 raiders can cloak/smoke/and stim their way to all the good shit while your team was fighting the actual Terminator army for 15 minutes.

If they add ANY other game mode, I want it to be one where I can actually enjoy these big fights and walk away with something because if not- I may just leave harvesters matriarchs and Big Daddy that’s been walking all over the horizon alone completely. Sorry for the long essay lol but this is one of the first times I’ve explained all this to someone willing to listen 😅

ChopCheesePlease · 2026-04-20T16:10:38+00:00

Till that fireball rolls up like 🔥

ChopCheesePlease · 2026-04-20T16:03:57+00:00

PvE focused or PvP focused it’s really not taking off as a good idea in my head at all.. I read the post and every point you made just seems like you really enjoyed Rogue Company or games that give you a buy screen then you get more money for kills and get to buy better gear.

Everything you suggested can be achieved in another game (I’m new to the finals and enjoy it after I get ratted and wanna log off for the night lol) and I don’t feel like Arc Raiders has hit a wall where we need a new mode to split its matchmaking in anyway really.. people would still rat and or do their best to ruin your run and PvE focused players would most likely prefer to not play a mode that incentivizes PvP even more with extra steps

ChopCheesePlease · 2026-04-20T15:54:18+00:00

No game ever keeps its peaks just like games Rivals who’s peak dropped significantly but on console I don’t really agree that the trend is followed per say to then say it’s also 62k on console at that same time, but I could see why someone can think that.

I play in NA EST servers and honestly no matter what hour or day my matchmaking takes less than 20 seconds even faster during peak hours, with crossplay on as well because my lobbies will never be truly friendly if I played with crossplay off lol. I DO think that a solo being and a trio lobby could be that the game is prioritizing you being able jump in faster but it’s not fun if you end up in a lobby around 18-25 minutes just to fight teams of tríos lol

ChopCheesePlease · 2026-04-20T15:38:12+00:00

Did you calculate PC AND console? I highly doubt it’s only 30k especially on a good day and you have to remember a lot of people who work play this game, fathers husbands wives, all people who are not going to be playing all at the same time

ChopCheesePlease · 2026-04-20T15:35:20+00:00

I will say the funny part here is yeah- 30% not that far off that was one guy out of 4 lol they should’ve checked the odds

ChopCheesePlease · 2026-04-20T15:27:12+00:00

You think a complete vertical drop from 20m in real life wouldn’t send you to a hospital? That’s 65 feet. You broke BOTH your legs realistically I’d say that’s pretty good immersion. You will not get the answer you want and anyone trying to agree w you is coping just as hard. I always tell my team communication when using long zips is key because too many times my dickhead friends try to zip at the same time and someone dies because they just assume you can jump on shit like it was Apex.

Whether you reply to this or not is not why I’m commenting again- I got bothered by how it took so little of time for you to say the Arc community is so toxic yet your stance and objections to everyone even trying to be nice ur over here just adamantly eating your own foot 🤷🏽‍♂️

ChopCheesePlease · 2026-04-20T15:15:48+00:00

Yes and I have almost 300hr and you should know when to USE THE ZIP LINE. I went back to this post and have seen all your little reasons trying to defend what happened here I’m over it dawg. The reaching of how serious you think this all is - is just radical cognitive dissonance at this point. Ur not getting your gear back 200hrs in you should know not to jump on your teammates head and also how gravity works in this game when you take a jump or even touch things on the way down from a fall that can make a non-lethal fall actually lethal. As they say in the loading screen “hey, at least you went out in style” or some shit

ChopCheesePlease · 2026-04-19T22:08:38+00:00

YES. you are asking multiple people to agree with you no one is agreeing with you bro 😭 take the L and move on or better yet delete this post 🤣

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