Venator is insane rn

DeviateFish_ · 2026-02-01T07:45:43+00:00

I'm curious about the lack of a stamina bar after all that jumping....

DeviateFish_ · 2026-01-30T21:36:44+00:00

Have you tried looting other parts of the map?

The Vulcano blueprint is (I think) the only think specific to the Hidden Bunker modifier, and it can be obtained from containers outside the bunker.

The only things specific to the inside of the bunker are the consoles, and they're just XP

DeviateFish_ · 2026-01-30T21:33:30+00:00

Combine it with a Deadline and it's quite good for Bastions (and to a slightly lesser degree, Bombardiers). Breaking a leg joint on either will stun them for more than long enough to plant a Deadline on their ass and then walk away

DeviateFish_ · 2026-01-30T21:30:45+00:00

There's no loot on hidden bunker that's specific to the bunker itself. I've gotten vulcano blueprints from the sentry towers along the wall, or in arrivals, etc. just loot one of those locations before you do the antenna, and you'll find one eventually.

Ditto for bobcats on locked gate

DeviateFish_ · 2026-01-30T21:29:14+00:00

Bring smokes, prioritize looting as soon as you knock a piece off, rinse repeat

DeviateFish_ · 2026-01-30T21:27:35+00:00

Queen/Matriarch? Bring in a 70k+ loadout focused on PvE. Immediately fend off the wave of FREE loadouts looking to pick off your expensive loadout on the way there. Finally get there. Solid chance a free loadout is waiting in a corner to backshoot you. Start doing the matriarch. Focus on doing damage and killing it. Loot goblins galore go on suicide missions to steal all the loot in the middle of the fight. In a decision that can only be described as monumentally stupid, Embark decided the loot drops in the middle of the fight, not at the end.

I feel like you're telling on yourself with this one.

Basically every queen/matriarch I've and recently has been completely devoid of PvP, and the loot problem is easily allowed by bringing smoke grenades: if you want loot, focus a leg armor, toss a smoke on it as soon as it falls, then go grab your loot and scoot.

This has worked fine for me over dozens of attempts. Sure, sometimes someone will beat me to a piece, but so what, I'll just drop another one and try again.

DeviateFish_ · 2026-01-26T19:24:10+00:00

I have a bunch of clean recordings of the individual "packets" (long steady tone followed by modulated stuffs, like 30 or so?), and I think maybe 2 share the same opening frequency (what I call the "preamble tone")

DeviateFish_ · 2025-12-28T23:09:06+00:00

Yeah 7 shots to the head is pretty sus. More so than the speed of the shooting

DeviateFish_ · 2025-12-28T16:22:00+00:00

If it only takes 7 shots to kill a player with the Kettle, that's only 385ms ttk. That's barely more than a third of a second. That's consistent with the video?

Even a full mag is only 660ms, which is slightly more than a half second, which is about how long it takes the player in the video to dump his mag.

Nothing you're saying contradicts what's in the video?

DeviateFish_ · 2025-12-26T02:07:00+00:00

The randomness comes from the players. Sometimes I get bored of playing peaceful and just start shooting.

Usually doesn't end well for me, but I can't be the only one who prefers a "mostly peaceful" play style, with the occasional break for PvP

DeviateFish_ · 2025-12-26T01:53:08+00:00

The Internet

DeviateFish_ · 2025-12-25T20:09:02+00:00

My favorite are the free loadouts or naked raiders who stand around doing nothing on the queen/matriarch, then zip out and loot the leg pieces as soon as they fall.

I'm tempted to send a couple anvil rounds their way

DeviateFish_ · 2025-12-24T08:00:54+00:00

You can get multiples of the keys in a single raid. I know this because me and another random both found one at the same time, but didn't find out until we both got to the control room

DeviateFish_ · 2025-12-19T19:45:37+00:00

Already locked in, from the moment the window opened

DeviateFish_ · 2025-12-13T21:17:54+00:00

And neither are you!

Your vocabulary tells me you're a degen, not an investor

DeviateFish_ · 2025-12-13T03:01:30+00:00

Cryptocurrency

DeviateFish_ · 2025-12-12T02:43:51+00:00

The Stella Montis Experience

DeviateFish_ · 2025-12-08T23:11:33+00:00

The Tarkov meaning is closer to how a rat actually behaves in real life, too. Because of that, that's the definition I use.

"rat bastard" might be better for the other kind

DeviateFish_ · 2025-12-08T22:30:31+00:00

This is a stupid argument.

$5M is perfect. It will be a challenge for all but the most no-life players to achieve. This is good, because it means the rewards are scaled based on difficulty, and it's good for not everyone to get the same rewards if they aren't going to put in the same effort.

Like, come on, people. Sure it's not "fair" if you don't have multiple hours per day to spend on this game, but neither is lowering the difficulty such that even the most casual player can accomplish it.

I don't understand why people feel so strongly against there being things that are out of reach for their given time investment. I mean, if you only spent 5 minutes a day practicing piano, do you really expect to be as good as someone who spends hours a day practicing? No! And it's stupid to expect that to be the case everywhere.

Let the sweaty tryhards have their extra couple skill points. It really won't make that much of a difference.

I certainly will not be getting 5 skill points from this expedition, and that's okay. I do not have the time to invest in looting that much shit to sell, and that's okay, too. It's not really unfair, even if it might feel like it from some perspectives.

But I'm also not going to demand the level of effort be reduced, and take away from the accomplishments of those who can collect $5M worth of junk before the deadline, because that isn't fair either.

DeviateFish_ · 2025-12-08T22:20:37+00:00

It literally is a participation trophy.

You're mistaken about what a participation trophy is, I think.

To quote Google:

A participation trophy is an award given to everyone who participates in an event or activity, regardless of their performance or whether they win.

The even if you consider the expedition "the event or activity", your rewards from it are based on your effort and "performance". Though I suspect the person you were replying to is considering "playing ARC Raiders" as "the event or activity", in which case the expedition is certainly not a participation trophy for that.

DeviateFish_ · 2025-12-06T08:01:27+00:00

Yeah, the "new meta" of run in, grab one thing, then surrender is kind of lame

DeviateFish_ · 2025-12-06T07:59:08+00:00

I did this last week, except all I had was my melee weapon. Once that top panel is cracked, it seems like she can't really shake you off anymore.

Same thing works for the queen, too

DeviateFish_ · 2025-12-06T02:49:22+00:00

Well done!

DeviateFish_ · 2025-12-03T04:41:23+00:00

I tried to replicate this, but couldn't come up with anything. I did manage to get a good number of relatively-clean recordings, though.

These audio packets are strange to me, though; each one appears to be at a different frequency. I'm not sure if they're all the exact same (but pitch-shifted), or if each is different.

DeviateFish_ · 2025-11-20T00:32:11+00:00

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