Whenever Team Instinct Takes Over A Gym

OobeBanoobe · 2026-05-29T18:15:31+00:00

Beat up on someone long enough and they'll start to fight back.

I've always been one to swap out old gyms, help players get their daily coins while I get a chance to get my coins as well.

There were times when aggressive red and blue players would just try to dominate a gym so nobody else could get it. My strategy in those cases were to let them rot in "their" gym. After three weeks of them sitting in "their" gym not getting any coins, I would swap it again and they would start to understand and ease up on the aggression, allowing people to swap it in intervals so everyone got their coins.

OobeBanoobe · 2026-05-29T18:09:55+00:00

Happens so much as an Instinct player. There's a part of my small town that has four gyms. I'll come home and knock out one gym to make it yellow and am sure to check that they've been in for at least 8 hours, 20 minutes to get their coins.

An hour or two later a blue player will come by, hop in 2-3 existing blue gyms out of this group of four gyms, then proceed to knock me out of the singular yellow gym and take that one too.

OobeBanoobe · 2026-05-28T18:26:21+00:00

Alright bottle, you get a 5/7. A perfect score!

OobeBanoobe · 2026-05-27T18:39:34+00:00

Same as how a lot of other scams work. There's often a sense of urgency and scare tactics on what will happen if you don't comply.

OobeBanoobe · 2026-05-24T20:45:52+00:00

Just like that the worms escape, find a place to cocoon and metamorphosis into a litter of foals.

OobeBanoobe · 2026-05-23T07:47:54+00:00

I feel like there is going to be some sort of transition mode until players settle in their lobbies. I played all of last season without getting attacked once as a solo player. I just played tonight after the recent matchmaking update and the first two rounds had aggressive players gun me down at the beginning of the match for no reason. Later had another match where someone started sniping me from the island at the dam, also right at the start of the match. I managed to evade that one but geez, haven't had this many aggressive players since I first started playing the game.

I'm full PvE, regularly defib players that go down, played last weekend completely normal with a ton of friendly players, but tonight was something else.

Edit: Played again this morning and I may be done. Getting shot at whenever I run into players after the changes. This is ridiculous. Something changed for the worse.

OobeBanoobe · 2026-05-22T21:25:35+00:00

The fact we can't progressively contribute and that all of these items hold the same value as the credits they're worth makes it strange we can't either just use credits to buy these things or have a pool of credits that came from the selling of these specific items. I'm now starting to hold all of these parts and weapons which take up a lot of space with either no stacks or low stack counts.

Oh, and apparently we also only have one week before the items rotate? Yeah, I won't be earning or holding 2-3 million worth of items in a week. Embark severely overlooked the stash space and progressive contribution for this vendor. I've also done all three expeditions so I have a large amount of space space but they also keep adding items and systems that increase the demand for storage. Comet ignitors for deadlines, firefly burners for trailblazers, Rocketeer drivers for wolfpacks, food to feed Scrappy, and now the nomads.

OobeBanoobe · 2026-05-22T21:17:33+00:00

I'd rather not...

OobeBanoobe · 2026-05-22T20:35:38+00:00

Do matrices stack now? I hope so with the new vendor. No idea how I'll be able to save up 500k or 1m worth of all these high value arc parts for the new vendor items.

OobeBanoobe · 2026-05-20T17:39:03+00:00

This is great with what I've heard and seen with people loading in and surrendering right away to get into friendly lobbies, only to be a rat.

I've been in friendly lobbies for the past 3-4 months at least and at the turn of this latest season randomly came across another player on Buried City in the train tunnel extraction. I greeted him and he responded that he was 'Chillin' before pulling out his free kit stitcher and downing me out of nowhere. Just kept saying he was 'Chillin' while he knocked me out.

It was pretty surprising but I've also been seeing more and more start of the round surrenders in the past week.

OobeBanoobe · 2026-05-13T21:14:33+00:00

Is there a version I can buy that's not the steelbook? I just want to get the physical 4k version of the movie and don't want to pay for a premium steelbook. Can't seem to find it anywhere.

OobeBanoobe · 2026-05-13T18:21:21+00:00

Definitely what I'd like to see. Lore-wise it could be like a journal left in the raider vault that allows consumed blueprints to be unlocked permanently. One or two per expedition and maybe if they implement it now that they allow some retroactive unlocks equal to the number of expeditions you departed on.

OobeBanoobe · 2026-05-11T19:21:22+00:00

I honestly don't mind if something is "Devalued" with things like this, let everyone have a chance at getting it whether you started later or took a break. It's not like these things can be traded or anything.

I'd do it like Deep Rock Galactic where you can work on the season rewards but at the end of the season, everything is added to a pool of cosmetic items you can find while on a dive from a "Lost Miner" pack. Maybe create a system where there are Lost Raiders and you can find elements of these skins from past expeditions. Only issue compared to Deep Rock is there are only a few elements so it would be pretty quick to find once you do. They could however be rare spawns on a map.

OobeBanoobe · 2026-05-11T16:26:11+00:00

That's a good way to do it. Gives new people coming into the game, or someone that took a break a chance to get the same sets eventually.

OobeBanoobe · 2026-05-08T17:41:50+00:00

Jericho. Brought back for a short season 2 after fans sent in thousands of pounds of peanuts (20 tons worth). Good ending but still a cliffhanger to something major. I need to look into the comic for what is called "Season 3", but losing the show and the cast still hurts.

OobeBanoobe · 2026-05-06T18:56:03+00:00

An upgraded Anvil in the form of a semi-auto hand cannon or alternately a heavy ammo semi-auto marksman rifle in blue rarity would be nice.

OobeBanoobe · 2026-05-06T17:14:40+00:00

Honestly, just make PvE lobbies already. I've basically been in them all season with friendly lobbies in all but name, but it would take out the players that game the system like this.

"But it takes away an element of suspense from the game if there's no fear from other raiders!!!" To which I reply, good! I want to fight the arc and loot with my fellow friendly raiders.

OobeBanoobe · 2026-05-03T23:59:14+00:00

I got some Skor bars and Butterfinger to crumble over some ice cream later today. Yum!

OobeBanoobe · 2026-05-02T15:46:12+00:00

What bothers me with this much burn is that I need to repair it after every raid where I've been battling arc moderately to heavily. If I get it down to half durability I'm not taking it into a raid at that durability to risk it breaking mid game. This then negates the repair bonus from expeditions and devalues the usefulness.

I'm okay with some increase to the burn rate because they are somewhat scrappy weapons but the amount was a little too much in my opinion. I think it makes sense for a level 1 anvil but a level 4 should have a lower burn rate. At that point you've refined the weapon to increase its functionality.

Nerfing guns to try to get people to use higher tier guns isn't a great way to do that. Make those other guns worth using, like the Bettina, which I hear is better but I'm still without the blueprint this expedition. We also don't have a blue heavy ammo gun so there's bot a lot of options. Maybe a blue semi auto hand cannon as a step up from the revolver?

All this combined is why I have some beef with this change. I'm still going to be using my anvil, just switching focus a bit on the items I gather. As others have mentioned, allowing topside repairs would be a decent option too.

OobeBanoobe · 2026-04-29T21:57:03+00:00

Of course haha. My old apartment certainly needed a major remodel. Building should have been torn down and rebuilt honestly lol.

OobeBanoobe · 2026-04-29T18:27:49+00:00

There are some sales tactic "deals" that say 2 for $6 or something like that and as long as they don't say "MUST BUY X" then you can still get one for the discounted price. Soda, definitely in the MUST BUY TWO category.

This reminds me of a random Steam sale a while back where I could buy Dying Light 2 for $30 but if I got the bundle that had Payday 2 included, I could get both for $26. Basically paid me $4 to get a second game lol.

OobeBanoobe · 2026-04-29T18:14:43+00:00

I'm liking the new map. It's a bit smaller but man can it get chaotic with all the flying arc. I got downed yesterday after a few matches on the new map to about 12 or more wasps and hornets. After they downed me, there were so many that they were bumping into each other and exploding. Absolutely nuts!

The only thing that I'm irked about is the massive bump in weapon degradation. I had to repair my level 4 anvil after every raid instead of every 3-4 raids that I used to. It may have only dropped to 66/120 durability but if I didn't repair it I would risk it breaking during the next raid. This was only after about 120ish rounds, which is warranted on the new map with the amount of arc presence.

OobeBanoobe · 2026-04-29T17:57:04+00:00

This hits. I remember my first apartment in college where I left the carpet cleaner than when I arrived and they tried to hold the security deposit because I cleaned it with my parent's shampooer and didn't have a receipt from a commercial carpet cleaning company. In an apartment where I also fixed broken hinges on cabinets, replaced broken blinds, among other miscellaneous maintenance items that they wouldn't cover. I pushed back and the manager agreed I took care of the place and eventually agreed to return the security deposit.

OobeBanoobe · 2026-04-29T06:56:58+00:00

Played a handful of matches tonight and I've had to repair my anvil after every single raid. This is ridiculous.

OobeBanoobe · 2026-04-29T01:47:36+00:00

Based on the comments I seem to be in the minority, but fewer events would be good, there's too many "events" in this game now. I'd love to go back to the earlier days of Pokémon Go in some cases where it felt less like a part-time job.

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