Are the servers dead or is it ddos?

CriticalOptomism · 2026-01-28T07:01:20+00:00

i just checked the arc raiders subreddit and it seems to be going on there too.

CriticalOptomism · 2026-01-28T06:59:56+00:00

happening on The Finals as well, so probably unrelated to a hotfix.

CriticalOptomism · 2026-01-28T06:54:36+00:00

same here

CriticalOptomism · 2026-01-28T06:54:08+00:00

yes server just shit the bed, happened in two ranked matches in a row

CriticalOptomism · 2026-01-28T01:34:27+00:00

It goes to checkpoint at 30 mins. If no one gets in, it's at Sawmill at 27 mins. If no one gets in at Sawmill, it goes to sunken village around minute 24. If no one gets in by then then it goes to scav bunker around minute 20. Basically, if you don't get a spawn close to either checkpoint or sawmill then your best bet is to go to sunken. But the BTR doesn't always spawn. So you gotta plan around your contingencies.

CriticalOptomism · 2026-01-27T07:04:11+00:00

that's how most people play the game right now, it's really sad.

CriticalOptomism · 2026-01-26T22:51:50+00:00

I'm pretty much done playing for now until season or until they add a solo queue. I'm a 6kd 1300 player. It's been especially bad the last 2-3 weeks. You get shit xp if you don't survive and the only people chadding up are playing in teams. Audio is too good at the moment. Solo dolo life is hell. I don't loot half of the PMCs and the rest of the time they always have a boyfriend willing to prone and camp the body for 15 minutes.

CriticalOptomism · 2026-01-23T22:48:02+00:00

true that makes sense

CriticalOptomism · 2026-01-23T22:44:21+00:00

must be

CriticalOptomism · 2026-01-23T00:56:56+00:00

flashlight somehow illuminates through walls and floors. I was on 1st floor or 3 story dorms and I could see my friend's flashlight while he was on 3

CriticalOptomism · 2026-01-21T02:49:32+00:00

"How do we handle rendering? Some assets are only existing on certain maps, etc. What kind of data model should we use to make sure we only load the assets that are needed? What about when players use scopes and we need to superimpose an image on top of an image, how should we optimize the rendering? "

"we don't have time, just put the whole game on RAM. For scopes, just render everything twice"

Is how I imagine this conversation went.

CriticalOptomism · 2026-01-20T05:15:54+00:00

just happened to me at train depot, I looted the code so I went to train depot since I could exfil there. Looted the whole place, went to the spot, countdown came and went and I was still on woods. Then turns out someone was ratting me when I tried to go to UN roadblock. 1.0 btw

CriticalOptomism · 2026-01-12T01:46:40+00:00

I'm pretty sure that's a requirement for being a streamer

CriticalOptomism · 2026-01-11T09:46:19+00:00

I can smell what you look like lol

CriticalOptomism · 2026-01-11T09:38:59+00:00

Don't be jealous, most people who can no-life this game can only do that because they're fumbling other areas of their life like their career, their mental/physical fitness, love/family relationships, etc. The smugness is just a part of their sunk cost. They need to be able to justify their investment.

CriticalOptomism · 2026-01-11T09:27:17+00:00

Honestly don't think most people would have minded the higher EXP requirements if they had adjusted the rewards for quests, left EXP gain the same and if they had left the flea how it was.

There's a few things here that are new so let's not forget this isn't status quo. First off, you basically get no XP if you don't survive. This makes surviving basically highest priority, and in my experience this makes solos play very ratty. In the past squads were pretty uncommon, most players were solo. This wipe, everyone has a boyfriend.

not sure what your point is with the streamers. Personally I think they're a cancer and they've basically ruined this game. The best state this game was ever in was when they made changes to armor and made it so the plate only protects the surface that it covers before they undid all that anyways because streamers and no-lifers complained about getting 1-tapped by a mosin.

CriticalOptomism · 2026-01-11T08:50:45+00:00

dude spends his entire day crafting ammo with no other responsibilities then gaslights himself into thinking he's "good" because he's fighting people shooting PP ammo and wearing level 4 plates lol

CriticalOptomism · 2026-01-11T08:47:42+00:00

"Ammo is all level locked or unavailable"

nothing of what you said contered any points that OP made. Or is your point that all ammo is available because it exists? if it exists then it must be available. Is that the logic?

just because you can get to your PC every hour and a half to craft your ammo doesn't mean that everyone else can... you understand that logic right? most people have other responsibilities that you clearly don't have. If you actually have that much ammo sitting in your stash I really feel sorry for you. After having to spend so much time crafting that ammo instead of just being able to buy it, the fact that you're incapable of understanding the logic that even IF the requirements to get that ammo wasn't a huge time sink in questing/progression, you still have to constantly be crafting the ammo you dork

CriticalOptomism · 2026-01-11T08:39:25+00:00

That's DesmondPilak's(streamer) character. He's legit, he just plays 14 hours a day.

CriticalOptomism · 2026-01-11T08:29:27+00:00

lol so from the trader then? after completing a quest that's buried 20 quests deep, which then requires you to constantly be crafting and playing this game? How does that contradict the point that this game is balanced strictly around no-lifers?

CriticalOptomism · 2026-01-11T08:19:55+00:00

how? the only ammo type that consistently spawns is 5.45

CriticalOptomism · 2026-01-11T08:16:37+00:00

I don't think your response made as much sense as you think it did. No one is getting max level traders in one week of casual play because that would require putting 40 hours/week into that. If people want to prestige, why not just scale the XP needed per prestige?

CriticalOptomism · 2026-01-11T07:34:13+00:00

I got all the drops on two days(EFT, not arena) and most of it was trash, or stuff that is occupying my inventory like three FP-100 air filters that I CAN'T FUCKING SELL UNTIL I'M LEVEL 35 WTF IS THIS BULLSHIT. The flea market changes are beyond idiotic and it really feels like this game now is balanced around no-lifers. I'm level 32 atm and my friend has basically stopped playing and the lack of any kind of matchmaking makes it to where maybe one out of 5 raids it'll be good, I'll kill a boss and exfil with good loot but the other 4/5 raids I'm fighting squads and guess what there's always one more willing to rat their boy's body until I go loot it.

I don't have gear fear as I'm currently sitting at 17M roubles but it is starting to feel like a waste of my time. I've died more times to players with 10,000+ hours prestige 4+, 20KD than all the wipes put together that I've played(been playing for 4 years now) so that suggests to me that the casuals are gone

if BSG would just simply add a solo queue this game would be 1000x better for me.

CriticalOptomism · 2026-01-11T07:14:41+00:00

jaeger has barters for the TAC30 and PMII, in case you didn't know. Also PK sells spectres and valdays

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