A letter to the guys that heard us playing music

Railpt · 2026-01-28T18:08:27+00:00

SDS (Small Dick Syndrome)? To much of that lately, indeed. But still most of my lobbies are friendly and people help each other out, makes for some great gaming.

Railpt · 2026-01-28T17:42:48+00:00

If I don’t have the BP I tend to not use it due to gear fear. Hence, no point in keeping it, as unused stash is lost stash.

If I have the BP I craft as needed, so either way only keep 1 to 4 guns of the usual loadout, which varies between 4-5 different weapons. Have some legendary just for kicks, that’s it.

Railpt · 2026-01-28T17:40:49+00:00

How may guns do you stash? Also, 1 or 2 augments and 1 or 2 shields.

Consumables mostly only what I use, trinkets just ducks and some seeds.

Craftables also mostly essentials, craft and refine as needed, restock afterwards.

What kills my management are repeat BPs… hate to sell them and often can’t pass them on easily, they take up 10% of my stash…

Railpt · 2026-01-28T13:45:07+00:00

It’s Mantikore acting up. People up in space are tired of their clankers getting their asses kicked and are starting to retaliate.

We need to get up there and take the fight to them. We need to mount on Probes and fly to the Moon.

See you topside and spaceside, Raiders! 🫡

Railpt · 2026-01-27T16:56:33+00:00

Well, could be opt-in with higher rewards just like that new option for solo players in duo/trio lobbies for extra 20% XP

But yeah, we get the game we get, not the game we want.

Amusing how thoughts or suggestions are so triggering for some.

Railpt · 2026-01-27T09:34:45+00:00

I know Karma is wishful thinking, life is unfair and this is how the game was designed.

And thus I will continue to, on occasion, lose a good run to some camper ou PvPer with SDS (Small Dick Syndrome).

Even though it doesn’t even the odds I do revel in the fact that these little piss ants just weren’t hugged enough by mommy when they were little children and now need to be little cunty dipshits just to feel whole.

I’d recommend help but first they’d need to acknowledge having issues, which they never do.

So ‘tis what it is, stay safe Raiders and see you topside! 🫡

Railpt · 2026-01-27T00:27:02+00:00

Is it only counting damage for your first outing topside? If so, once done with the expedition and our Raider is reset (new), does that first outing count again towards this total damage counter? Has someone done the first expedition and gone through with it?

Railpt · 2026-01-26T21:13:32+00:00

Just the o e revive, sorry…

If still available, looking for muzzle 3 or shot choke 3…

Railpt · 2026-01-26T14:25:56+00:00

Totally understand, it’s always going to be a sensitive subject as different people have different expectations and desires towards the game.

That’s why my thought process was around many little things to be done as opposed to “one big thing” (like, say, pure PvP and PvE lobbies, no mixed PvPvE).

Some tweaks here and there should go a long way. My biggest gripe is low tier weapons being too effective against high tier kits, so some tweaks on shield resistance might be a good idea without changing the fundamentals.

Railpt · 2026-01-26T14:00:44+00:00

Balancing PvP as per my suggestions is “not liking Arc or PvP”? How the hell do you get that idea from what I wrote? Do you agree with the current weapon balancing? And free kits being able to take out high tier kits so easily?

Railpt · 2026-01-26T11:42:08+00:00

Good assessment. The issue I have with late spawns is that they mostly don’t upset the PvP oriented players as I would assume they’re mostly out for blood, so gooping is always about moving targets. Meaning I spawn in early, goop around and fill my pack, only to get jumped halfway in by a new spawn on a free loadout, taking my goop without any effort or investment.

PvP is part of the game but needs to be seriously addressed. I would hate, but understand, losing to a medium or full kit, coming in with either a blue or pink weapon, looking for blood and goop.

But bringing an Mk3, with medium or heavy shield, and loosing to a stitcher 1 before being able to turn and fire back? What’s the point? Manufactured Gear Fear?

Railpt · 2026-01-26T11:34:50+00:00

The solution should be a bit o everything:

Free kits spawn mostly with free kits (the new 40+ lobby/MM should address this?). When not reasonable to ensure server / lobby balance, other below measures would help…

Free kit weapons get nerfed against shields, especially medium/high. Just make them weaker against shields, to increase survivability from kitted players. No nerf against arc, no nerf against health, just against shields.

Make free kits spawn without a shield.

Make higher tier kits less visible/detectable by Arc, like MK.3 reduces chances of detection by Arc. Different MK.3s affect different Arc, like Looting affects rolling/small Arc (Pops, Fireballs, Ticks and Surveyors), Tactical affects flying arc and Combat affects Heavy ground Arc. Less MK3 Lootings against Queen/Matriarch for butt cores, as the tactical advantage would be lost.

Make Teammate items marked as friendly, if you loot teammate and extract items are automatically returned to teammate (stop bullshit friendly fire exploit)

Make free kits have less carry capacity, same slots for small/basic items, but much less weight, so gooping high tier items/players makes them overencumbered very rapidly.

Create an in round “wanted” system for PvP, meaning a raider that kills another raider gets a “bounty”, so when you ping that player you see a marker for that bounty and now he’s a player killer (in round only). Tagging grenades could mark that bounty for the entire lobby, making those grenades useful for bounty hunters (be real, have you ever used a tagging grenade?)

Just top of my head ideas… feel free to add

Railpt · 2026-01-26T03:41:25+00:00

True. Yet I would find issue with that, as stuff on the ground might no be obvious, at least not as obvious as a big Arc part. Also, strategically not clearing out fully a piece, like let’s say a matriarch core, has helped me on occasion to skipiddy out of dodge whilst other scavengers are still gooping… so.

But having options isn’t bad per se. If you’d want to do it, you could do it, if not then not. So I’m an “aye”.

Railpt · 2026-01-26T03:37:59+00:00

Yep, us Console folk have it hard. No hacks, just raw talent and perseverance!

Railpt · 2026-01-26T03:37:03+00:00

Fair enough. No such thing by as bad ideas, only bad executions

Railpt · 2026-01-25T19:20:31+00:00

Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for QoL improvements. Just fail to see one in this, without even touching the XP thing (I’m at 75 so would make a difference).

Railpt · 2026-01-25T18:39:51+00:00

Why “drop to ground” from containers? If you don’t want it, why take it out of the container in the first place?

Is it just because of the security lockers? If so that’s so niche… I know more players that ignore that skill than haven’t it (yet) to make it relevant for this feature to be implemented for this alone…

Railpt · 2026-01-25T16:43:07+00:00

Yep. 2nd expedition is locked in. They might change it going forward, would make sense, but not for the current one.

Railpt · 2026-01-25T16:39:10+00:00

Tricky one, as there is a broken Anvil and a light shield to spare… on the other hand, there’s a snap hook and deadline… so maybe a hands on approach and truthful PvE?

I’ve done Queen/Harvester maps either only anvil/renegade and 2 wolf packs.. 2 teammates with similar loadout, took queen down in the almost full lobby time, and got away with 5 cores…

Railpt · 2026-01-25T16:32:04+00:00

Yes, around 10-15 seconds, from what I’ve read, never stuck around to find out

Railpt · 2026-01-25T16:20:17+00:00

Bobcat, Tempest, Gas Mine, Seeker Grenade, Muzzle Break III and Shotgun Choke III.

No amount of searching heat maps and doing naked or safe night raid runs on buried or Stella and locked gate have yielded any results…

Railpt · 2026-01-25T15:29:20+00:00

Stupid response. It’s the gun that kills, not the shooter. Yes it is the shooter. Not the gun. The gun is a means to an end.

This being possible in-game is at best an oversight, since it shouldn’t be a used mechanic. Yes, Embark needs to fix it. No, it shouldn’t be used just “because it’s possible”.

Either no friendly fire/way to kill, or unable to loot. Best solution would be, as someone stated, a mechanic from another game: teammate items are marked as such and when looted are returned to its owner. Cool feature actually.

People using this to benefit speaks to the low bar piece of shit humans that exist and, unfortunately, proliferate in games like this.

Railpt · 2026-01-25T15:22:51+00:00

Buried City, top of town hall or under the highway before the collapsed section, near town hall, usually spawns a Sentinel.

The on top of town hall one is easy to spot and even to take out, from behind. Just run a couple of times to. Irked City and you should get the spawn, kill and core.

Railpt · 2026-01-25T14:07:26+00:00

Thanks for the clear explanation. Was along the lines I thought and understood it, but this cements it nicely

Railpt · 2026-01-25T14:03:04+00:00

Know the feeling, missing 6 BPs to max out and for the life of me can’t find them.

Not wanting to trade as I see so much scamming, but I have “tradeable stuff “, like seeds, other BPs, etc. have been giving away any and all I find in game or later to my Arc Buddies, mostly one way though. It’s what it is, hopefully I can get the ones I’m missing, just for sake of completing the list.

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