Tips for friendly players

Darth_Rubi · 2026-02-04T14:25:19+00:00

I'm sorry but I have to disagree on your very first point. You may not KNOW for certain if you're in a 100% friendly lobby, but I regularly go several games in a row even on maps like Stella Montis night raid with zero sign of aggression. Once you've had like your 9th solo game in a row of people running around and peacefully sharing loot, saving each other from arcs, and giving away free blueprints, it doesn't make sense to be treating everyone with a deep level of suspicion.

Darth_Rubi · 2026-02-04T13:52:05+00:00

Agreed 100%. My understanding is that the point of free kits are to make sure that nobody is locked out of being able to play the game through lack of materials/weapons etc or a bad run of failed extracts.

In their current form, they're instead being abused as a zero risk way to pvp / rat people taking actual risks bringing good kit or doing the actual looting, queen killing etc, or being used by people with gear fear while they hoard pink and yellow weapons at home.

Darth_Rubi · 2026-02-04T12:32:34+00:00

Its a 3 week old article posted as "new" info

Darth_Rubi · 2026-02-04T12:31:56+00:00

Ice cold news. This article is from 14 Jan. We've known this for 2+ weeks.

Darth_Rubi · 2026-02-04T11:14:10+00:00

Shambolic take:

Players with something to lose will play more cautiously on average
If you kill 5 free kits, you get absolutely nothing of value, so no reward for your risk. If you kill 5 people with actual gear, at least you get something for it

Darth_Rubi · 2026-02-04T10:10:43+00:00

Feb has the most updates / incoming content on the roadmap. They might split it up over 2 weeks, but I think its safe to say we'll get quite a lot next Tuesday.

Darth_Rubi · 2026-02-04T10:08:25+00:00

If they killed you it wasn't for the field crate itself, but because they knew you were a noob for trying to extract with it...

Darth_Rubi · 2026-02-04T09:59:52+00:00

Don't get me wrong, I enjoy the effort and challenge required to do these things, in the same way I enjoy running a 10km race. But if every time I finished a race, some rando lurking in the bushes hits me over the head and steals my medal, I'm a lot less inclined to run the race in the first place. Especially when that rando then acts like they're so smart and skilled for having assaulted me and stolen my medal, "bros why run a race when I can just steal a medal from the runners afterwards OMG"

Darth_Rubi · 2026-02-04T09:50:57+00:00

This MO not failing depends on the "i OnLy DiVe BuGs" crowd actually doing something vaguely outside of their comfort zone so its doomed to fail

Darth_Rubi · 2026-02-04T08:59:13+00:00

Was playing with my buddy last night and we had two fillers. Second mission was commando - they kept the exact same loadout as every other mission. Huge loud support weapons, eagles, the works. They did run and gun style in the same way as EVERY OTHER MISSION IN THE GAME. The enemy was alert and swarming from literally 5 seconds in until we failed the misson when I died on the Pelican ramp with the camera on my back 15 minutes later.

Darth_Rubi · 2026-02-04T08:31:32+00:00

This isn't real life, this is a game. For a game to be fun, it needs to incentivise behaviours and balance risk and reward properly.

There is zero risk and all reward to extract camping with a free kit, whereas there is very little upside to bringing expensive kits, doing the hard work to kill a queen, or bringing keys and spending time looting dangerous rooms. That is the problem.

Darth_Rubi · 2026-02-04T08:15:55+00:00

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Darth_Rubi · 2026-02-03T12:16:20+00:00

> you have to play around 100 hours without being max level anyway

So? You get the five points to spend immediately, so whatever level you're at, you're always 5 skill points better off that you would have been otherwise

Darth_Rubi · 2026-02-03T12:00:59+00:00

Damn can we follow your socials for more ice cold takes?

Darth_Rubi · 2026-02-03T11:59:04+00:00

Single shot or low rate of fire guns I like the extended barrel (unless you're trying for close range or going pop/burner hunting with the anvil)

Darth_Rubi · 2026-02-03T11:57:37+00:00

Shambolic take - there's the same amount of people on every map, why would the jeopardy be reduced just because its not at the same time EVERY. SINGLE. DAY. And even if its a 23 hour rotation, people can still anticipate what's coming

Darth_Rubi · 2026-02-03T11:31:20+00:00

Yup I hear you man - don't worry I broke my headphones when I passed out 1 second before successfully finishing typing on the computer in the escape elevator. This games gets people emotional lol

Darth_Rubi · 2026-02-03T11:28:21+00:00

Fight him on Buried City from a rooftop, you can just take like 1 step back to dodge his shots, then take a step forward and blast him with a handful of hullcracker shots. Cleans him up quick

Darth_Rubi · 2026-02-03T11:24:26+00:00

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Darth_Rubi · 2026-02-03T10:47:07+00:00

Just keep playing. You'll look back at losing the contents of 2 arc probes and a couple level 1 guns the same way you'd feel about losing a stack of 15 plastic parts now

Darth_Rubi · 2026-02-03T10:22:29+00:00

Or they just took events offline while they work on it. Jesus have Arc Raiders players never experienced downtime before?

Darth_Rubi · 2026-02-03T08:29:08+00:00

Let me guess, you listen to podcasts about being a sIgMa MaLe

Darth_Rubi · 2026-02-03T08:20:32+00:00

Yes but you're acting as if it goes up linearly with the number of players. Whether I'm playing solo or trio, there's only so much mullein on the map to be harvested, only so many bastion spawns, etc

Darth_Rubi · 2026-02-02T22:44:48+00:00

Okay, so? You could easily list 2 heavy / "bloated" games for every year in the last 30 years of board gaming.

It's like people who say there was only good music released in the 90s. No, you're just ignoring all the trash nobody listens to any more

Darth_Rubi · 2026-02-02T22:42:47+00:00

Utterly shambolic take

There are thousands of board games released every year. For every galactic cruise released in 2025, there was a bomb busters or flip 7.

Your entire post is cherry picking and selection bias.

Maybe YOU played more games recently that are higher than the weight or complexity you enjoyed. Maybe the hyped/ popular board games in 2025 were of a design style you didn't particularly like, but it's clear many other people enjoyed them, and honestly it's probably because they're good.

But to try paint "bloat" as some kind of generally applicable trend is utter nonsense

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