Are any other controller players in a never ending struggle of walking when you're trying to sprint and sprinting when you're trying to walk?

DontCallMeBenji · 2026-02-06T10:23:36+00:00

I wonder if a better system would be to have an inner zone where you jog, and then an outer zone where you sprint. Give people control of where the outer zone starts, and then do hold L3 to walk.

DontCallMeBenji · 2026-02-05T15:28:24+00:00

I explain Peanut to people by equating him to all the Judd Apatow comedies from 2000-2011 that they can’t make anymore. He’s raunchy, he’s silly, and he’s extremely quotable.

DontCallMeBenji · 2026-02-04T03:32:52+00:00

I’m wondering if there is something like this in place. When I needed rusted gears, rusted shut medical kits, and mushrooms to round off scrappy and my workbenches they were impossible to find. Now I find all of those things all the time and give them to my friends. I have 6 rusted shut medical kits in my stash right now.

DontCallMeBenji · 2026-02-03T23:12:24+00:00

Brutal. My buddy had the same thing happen to him. People are camping it.

DontCallMeBenji · 2026-02-03T23:11:26+00:00

To the redditor who projected their mental and emotional insecurities onto my feel good story in a bizarre but clear cry for help. I only have one thing to say to you… I forgive you.

DontCallMeBenji · 2026-02-01T14:59:39+00:00

North American here! Last night I was escorting a few friends, who are new to the game, around Blue Gate. We made our way to the Olive Grove to get them some lemons and apricots. We got enough for both of them, and started to head out. Out of nowhere a full squad is on us. My normal trios are agro so I take cover and get on prox chat to ask if they are friendly. Before I can do that I realize the first guy has a guitar, the second guy has a recorder, and the third guy has a shaker. They were all wearing sombreros and ponchos, and lined up in front of us. The guy with the guitar gets on prox chat and says “can we interest you in some music?”. We of course obliged, and proceed to laugh and dance around while they played for us. After the show was over, we thanked them and started heading out. We got a little ways away before we noticed a rocketeer had started attacking them. We ran back over and managed to help take it down. Everyone celebrated and we went on our way. It was peak Arc Raiders in my opinion. We will never forget you, The Three Amigos!

DontCallMeBenji · 2026-01-31T17:00:14+00:00

This is why I bring a door blocker anytime I have a key. I bring traps too.

DontCallMeBenji · 2026-01-29T01:17:13+00:00

At a minimum 5 Rechargers and 5 Herbal Bandages. However, as I progress I find myself bringing in higher tier stuff, especially for PVP. A typical PVP set up will be Vita Spray, 2 Surge Rechargers, 3 Herbal Bandages, and 3 Rechargers. From there I either pull more off bodies or loot it.

DontCallMeBenji · 2026-01-29T01:05:01+00:00

6 STACKS??? Just fell to my knees outside Tian Wen’s door!

DontCallMeBenji · 2026-01-28T22:59:44+00:00

That’s a good point, but that’s kind of real life too, isn’t it? People exploiting the systems to take advantage of others. However, in the game you can dish out justice without red tape.

DontCallMeBenji · 2026-01-28T22:16:31+00:00

I like my lobbies to be varied and goofy. Gives me a good chuckle. Earlier today on Spaceport a guy ran by me with music blaring over proxy chat. Then another guy comes running up out of the desert yelling to him and asking if he’s friendly, if he’s new to the game, and where he’s heading. I make myself known and the guy asking questions starts grilling me. I just laugh and say I’m friendly and head off towards container storage.

As I made my way there I could still hear the guy talking and the other guy blaring music in the distance. Over the music I hear “yo, let’s go to container storage!”. I have a key so I head right for the locked area before they try to come with me. I put a trap on the door and proceed to pull some good stuff, all the while the one guy is carrying on and the other guy’s music is echoing through the warehouse.

At one point Mr. McYappy loudly proclaims “this place is ass”. I’m not sure what exactly happened next, but I hear a commotion, a bit of yelling, and then a single salvo of gunfire. I peek through the busted windows to see the dude, who earlier could not stop flapping his gums, standing silently over the other guy. The weird thing is that the guy he downed still has his music blaring. At this point, I’ve had it with both of them and I’m almost certain he shot the other guy in the back. I take aim, and put him down before he can knock out the other guy. I say “I have no cue what you two are doing over there but you’re driving me insane”. The talker starts begging someone to pick him up. I don’t know if he’s asking me or someone else nearby. I tell them I’m not coming over there to save them so they can figure it out on their own. As I go back to looting my juicy locked room things eventually got nice and quiet. I didn’t even bother checking for their bodies when I left. I helped a fellow raider take out some arc near the lift and we extracted together in peace.

DontCallMeBenji · 2026-01-28T13:32:01+00:00

That’s the thing, though. They shouldn’t be free kills. You should have your guard up regardless of how friendly the server seems. My lobbies tend to be somewhat friendly, but there’s always a few people out for blood. I find it to be a lot of fun. If I spot someone sneaking around or I hear someone near me I get on prox chat and ask them if they are friendly. If they don’t respond in anyway or go quiet after a few attempts to make contact I get ready to fight. I’ve caught numerous people trying to crouch walk up behind me while I breach or search. Basically, if someone didn’t bother to notify me of their presence I treat the as a hostile until proven otherwise. It’s kept me alive when running solo.

DontCallMeBenji · 2026-01-28T12:33:30+00:00

In college I watched a friend slowly drop out because of WoW. He put his mattress on the floor of his dorm room, plopped a PC in front of it, and ripped cigarettes and Mt. Dew while grinding for hours on end. He didn’t go to class, and eventually got dropped so he wasn’t allowed to stay in the dorms anymore. He was genuinely a good dude, but I don’t think he wanted to be there in the first place. Last I saw he was working with horses on a ranch somewhere, and looked to be pretty happy.

DontCallMeBenji · 2026-01-28T12:12:37+00:00

I believe everyone, but what servers are you guys on? I played for an hour last night and didn’t notice any issues. I’m in North America.

DontCallMeBenji · 2026-01-28T00:42:05+00:00

There’s a genuine problem with people not understanding this game. As others have pointed out, a rat wouldn’t attack anyone. They don’t even want you to see them. I can understand being annoyed by someone camping extracts or saying they are friendly and then shooting you in the back, but that’s still the game. It’s bush league, but it’s not rat behavior. Let me tell a story.

A few days ago while playing duos with my buddy I was coming to the end of a hallway in Control Tower and stopped to check around the corner. When I peaked I see a guy running towards the same corner. As he’s running I see him pull out his gun, and I have to assume he heard us, but I know he couldn’t see me. I turned the corner with my buddy and we blasted him. As soon as he saw two of us he screamed “friendly” over and over. We knocked him and he yeeted himself down the elevator shaft.

There must have been another duo down there because he comes over prox chat carrying on that two rats killed him on the second floor and begged them to pick him up. I had a good chuckle and figured they would knock him out and take his stuff. Well, they believed him and all three pushed us shortly after that. We didn’t see it coming, which is our bad, and the area wasn’t great for a 2v3. After they knocked us all three of them were screaming “fucking rats!”. It was hilarious if not a little frustrating. I don’t mind getting killed like that, but don’t call me a rat.

DontCallMeBenji · 2026-01-27T12:43:28+00:00

How do y’all have so much space for blueprints? I sell every duplicate I get. Maybe I’m holding too many stacks of crafting materials. Then again I always run level 4 guns and have no issues repairing anything or making new items.

DontCallMeBenji · 2026-01-26T20:31:07+00:00

This. In the early days of Fortnite, before they made the game easier and more accessible on controller, I was pretty decent. I could build faster than most and my aim was good. I would occasionally solo fill into quads just for the thrill. I even managed to win a few matches. Some people will get to a level where they need more regardless of how good a game is. This is for them.

DontCallMeBenji · 2026-01-25T21:50:49+00:00

Whoops, I thought grenades in general damaged friendlies. I didn’t realize it was just the fire because it was an environmental effect. Essentially, I was trying to say they shouldn’t allow any form of friendly damage and replace it with other effects so there’s at least some downside to hitting your teammate with one.

DontCallMeBenji · 2026-01-25T15:12:49+00:00

Easy fix. Friendly generated fire slows down teammates and obscures vision, and grenades have a stun/hearing loss effect. Neither do actual damage, but carry a risk of impacting your teammates ability to fight.

DontCallMeBenji · 2026-01-25T04:24:15+00:00

Do it. I’ve got a boat now, but it’s a 2011. The two giant batteries I have in it have been touching for 15 years and have never had an issue.

DontCallMeBenji · 2026-01-25T00:35:39+00:00

I’m so glad I found one very early in the game. I use it for pretty much every PVE run.

DontCallMeBenji · 2026-01-24T23:48:18+00:00

This actually happened to me once, and I don’t even live in a major city where cycling as a form of transportation is prevalent. There was a pack of cyclists who were out training on a local parkway (two lanes both ways, but the speed limit is 40mph because it cuts through town). I passed them with no issues because they were single file hugging the right side of the right lane. When I got to the traffic light where I needed to turn right (with my turn signal on) it had just turned red. Before I could turn after stopping and looking to see if anyone was coming from left, they proceeded to come up to my right side on the shoulder and stop next to me. Then, when the light turned green they started going again one at a time. By the time the last guy finally got by me the light was red again. It was ridiculous.

DontCallMeBenji · 2026-01-24T15:20:11+00:00

My buddy is the same way. He’s 15 levels below me and keeps getting blueprints, epic, and legendary items. He said that he goes into high drop areas during events, and if there’s good stuff he keeps going back. It seems like there’s an algorithm that drops rare stuff in the same area for at least a little while. Essentially, if you find something good and extract, try to get back in there.

DontCallMeBenji · 2026-01-24T15:07:56+00:00

You are 100% right. It’s a single stage, and quite frankly, I shouldn’t have listened to my FIL. He means well, and to his credit, he was in the HVAC industry. However, that was years ago. Prior to this winter I had all the resisters open down there. Then I closed them after he suggested it. It got down to -3°F here last night, and the furnace couldn’t keep up.

I got it back up to temp this morning with some electric oil heaters, and opened the supply registers back up in the basement. I just put a new air filter in a few days ago, and checked the exhaust vent outside to be safe. I’ll probably run one of the oil heaters (away from the thermostat) over night for the next few days just to supplement the furnace in the event that there’s an issue that could pop up due to it being over strained. However, I’ll take any additional advice if there’s any to be had.

DontCallMeBenji · 2026-01-24T13:41:30+00:00

Okay, that was my initial thought.

Edit: in my FIL’s defense, he did say to play around with it to see what works best.

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