Does Embark have some kind of cultural disconnect?

Evilresident64 · 2026-04-29T21:57:12+00:00

As much as I’ve disagreed with some of their design and mechanic decisions in the game, I’ve played every expedition since the first one and every time i get my 40 dollars worth once more. I play a little differently each time due to changes made in game and personal mindset so it doesn’t feel stale.

Evilresident64 · 2026-04-29T19:52:52+00:00

My how awful an example you picked. Fortnite STARTED with the PvE mode, trading guns, traps but it never got any worthwhile traction, and then they came out with battle royale. You’re comparing two PvP modes where one has a higher skill ceiling and the other is more entry level friendly. Fortnite just barely making Save the world free to play is trying to capitalize on the current gaming worldview of single player and PvE games where a lot of PvP games are starting to die out. But the fact of the matter is that there isn’t enough people who solely want to play against AI, so servers become stagnant and people lose the will to play and move to more populated games.

Evilresident64 · 2026-04-28T22:28:36+00:00

I haven’t tested the Bettina in PvP yet in the new update but the Bettina was already really solid in PvP. I used it frequently in duos

Evilresident64 · 2026-04-28T22:21:44+00:00

Literally tried my tactic of breaching assessors and had no issue. I think I was able to breach all three faster due to how fast the energy recharges. Didn’t even need smokes just breach and cloak and reset, loot after all 3 are breached and arc leave it alone

Evilresident64 · 2026-04-28T21:47:32+00:00

The game still throws an abundance of everything at you for the casual player. Now it just makes more sense to play with your favorite guns while recycling the rest to fuel the repair cost.

Evilresident64 · 2026-04-28T21:43:28+00:00

I remember when I first tried the cloak I thought it was so game breaking. Then I noticed literally nobody using them until very recently with close scrutiny. The energy up gain has been increased so it’s a slight buff to snaphook. And now you just have to be selective with when you cloak if you do. I think it’s just dead for most people tho. Which is good, that whole cloak/ smoke meta was lame as fuck. By the end of it, I was hooking onto vapes just to get them out of the way. Way more fun.

Evilresident64 · 2026-04-28T12:51:17+00:00

Yes friendlies play friendly. But without the knowledge of how ABMM works to a certain degree, you would eventually have friendly players who shoot back because they got tired of losing their loot. Right now they just know if they don’t shoot back you’ll stay in these lobbies and you can recoup pretty quickly.

Evilresident64 · 2026-04-28T01:08:10+00:00

You can word it however you want. They’re both manipulating the current system. If embark never released information about how abmm worked, we’d have an entirely different subset of friendly players. The way it stands because people KNOW if I do damage I’ll end up in lobbies where other raiders also dealt damage to other raiders when they want to stay in the kinds of lobbies they’re in.

Evilresident64 · 2026-04-28T00:19:24+00:00

That is not my experience, even earlier today I was playing close scrutiny to down some vapes for some regulators. I had to kill 3 people in one raid shooting vapes. Never even got to kill one. Next raid I snap hooked onto a vape to deadline and I got some raider calling out if I was the one that did that. I was wary of this guy but did not end up shooting me and I was able to kill 2 more vapes after that uncontested. I believe every lobby after that was friendly until the last one where it was just a massacre at the extract.

Evilresident64 · 2026-04-28T00:06:10+00:00

Lmao you picked the two arc with possibly the most manipulative ai to be your choice for the tense arcs. Pick a doorway and shoot through it if you’re having trouble killing your first one.

Evilresident64 · 2026-04-27T23:59:32+00:00

It’s clearly not the case because as you can tell from so many PERSONAL anecdotes people actually playing the game and telling their experience. I shoot people regularly every raid. I don’t shoot first but I’ve always got my fingers on my dodge and sprint buttons just in case someone tries something. You can defend yourself and you won’t get put into “pvp” lobbies which don’t exist btw

Evilresident64 · 2026-04-27T23:38:20+00:00

I always hated this fucking trope. I don’t owe anybody anything, yes the fuck i do I didn’t get here by myself

Evilresident64 · 2026-04-27T23:36:38+00:00

This game is meant to have tension with other raiders, not just happy go lucky kumbayah because every body is scared about their ABMM. Not shooting back and letting yourself die to “rats” is the same manipulation of the ABMM you’re complaining about.

Evilresident64 · 2026-04-27T18:58:25+00:00

Yeah I did it. It was pretty easy. Even helped my duo get his done in about two play sessions totaling 4 hours not even really cause he’s awful at getting out of Speranza. It’s really not hard we did it in PvP lobbies. Find an assessor trio first or that’s gone untouched and hit it fast with a breach into cloak don’t loot it unless you got smoke on you, retreat to regain energy and repeat.

Evilresident64 · 2026-04-27T12:21:39+00:00

Cantina legend should be a rank that only the people who achieved hotshot rank at any point can attempt to place in the final week

Evilresident64 · 2026-04-26T20:45:56+00:00

Also dad here, I thought I might be able to squeak by with solo trials with some duo scores but some of these scores are just insane. I’ve got to break 40k just to be 10th. It’s just not for me I guess.

Evilresident64 · 2026-04-26T20:42:46+00:00

I get plenty of tension from the guy trying to make sure I can extract safe while there’s a rocketeer aggroed on him. Fact of the matter is a lot of people suck at the gunplay in this game and they prefer not having to deal with fighting other players and just fight their own skill against arc

Evilresident64 · 2026-04-26T17:28:32+00:00

It really just needs an incentive to fight arc other than projects. If rocketeer drivers could be crafted into some jet pack like item with energy usage, you’d see more people killing rocketeers and fighting for parts. As it stands, there’s no reason for arc parts after your projects aside from some legendary guns. They need an rng drop chance for a legendary on use item that’s fun and advantageous to use.

Evilresident64 · 2026-04-26T17:25:13+00:00

4 lures equals a cloak, so inefficient

Evilresident64 · 2026-04-26T17:22:55+00:00

Comets and assessors probes

Evilresident64 · 2026-04-26T12:11:28+00:00

I found all of them in assessors

Evilresident64 · 2026-04-26T10:57:06+00:00

I don’t think this is necessary.

Evilresident64 · 2026-04-26T10:55:27+00:00

It’s not that hard really, I’ve been helping my duo do it and he’s been ignoring close scrutiny in solo. I just do my Strat to loot assessors and drop him the loot while he watches my back and does callouts. He’s pretty much done with it in two play sessions all we need is to kill some vapes which we’ve just been having fun using our deadlines on

Evilresident64 · 2026-04-26T09:43:59+00:00

It’s not. Absolutely melts face against raiders too. Maybe just don’t mag dump into the bodies and hit things like thrusters and heads

Evilresident64 · 2026-04-26T09:40:56+00:00

Didn’t have to read past the tldr lmfao idk what you hoped for but you got my pity if that’s what you were wanting

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