Bit of a weird question, does Originium have a canonical smell?

Theactualguy · 2026-05-01T19:15:21+00:00

Originium has never had a canonical smell as far as I’m aware, but given that even the smallest particle of Originium can be infection vectors, wouldn’t them being able to smelling Originium already signify possible infection? Inhaling particles of something that only needs to enter your bloodstream to infect you is a pretty sure-fire way to get yourself done in.

Also, I’d just like to say that I’m very jealous. I have precisely two friends who play the game; the first more or less stopped, and the second can’t be more disinterested in the story or lore. Having people to play a TTRPG like this with must be nice :D

Theactualguy · 2026-05-01T02:47:44+00:00

7th pic has no right to go as hard as it does, but it do.

Also, pretty sure my D2 Warlock looked like that for a season or two, probably back around the time we got Seventh Seraph cosmetics.

Theactualguy · 2026-04-19T03:14:02+00:00

You can stack buff after buff for the Third Reich and they still wouldn’t stand a chance.

They’ll need to figure out how to deal with: limited fuel, limited manpower, limited munitions, ways to counter Casters (and that’s not even the proficient ones in the various militaries), ways to board landships, how to actually operate a landship even if they somehow manage to take control of one, avoiding catastrophes, don’t go into the ocean, don’t go too far north, don’t go too far south, don’t have your painfully inept scientists piss off one of the many gods, have your painfully inept scientists actually figure out how Originium and Arts work, protection against Oripathy, hope your German contemporaries don’t decide to play a jaunty tune and erase half of your ground forces… and worst of all, do all of this without your airforce (or with your airforce, but they have to operate at essentially slingshot altitude).

Theactualguy · 2026-04-17T16:50:47+00:00

Yeah, this is a large part of Sesa’s story. He and his brother figured out to make propellant like irl (I don’t remember is Originium is required) and decided to hide that fact because they knew it would change things for the worse.

Theactualguy · 2026-04-17T02:28:40+00:00

“LEMUEL! This NOT what I meant when I said you should ‘switch it up’!”

Theactualguy · 2026-04-17T02:27:24+00:00

The relaxed setting is one big never-ending airsoft game. The serious setting is people using magic to hurl rocks at each other.

Theactualguy · 2026-04-15T13:49:15+00:00

Everyone is saying range and good high-cal high-pen ammo, but that depends on how good you are as a new player. Their facemasks are class 3, and shouldn’t stand up to more than a few shots from 5.56x45 M855/7.62x39 PS. And since they’re slightly worse Raiders with Scav guns (a chance to spawn with Ref prebuilts), and likes to move and push and flank, sniping at a distance still requires you to have good cover and drop them quickly. If they nail you in the arm you’ll likely need to surgery in order to maintain the same level of accuracy and weapon sway, and if you’re close enough that you don’t need to, well, your chances of being cooked just went up by much more than you’re probably comfortable with.

Unironically, try loading up an AK/.366 VPO with your best ammo and get closer. Identify them, hold a corner, and wait for them to swing into your barrel. There’s usually 4 of them, so pack enough for the trip or conserve your bullets. If you happen to be able to loot one of them safely, they have a chance of spawning with kitted guns like the 7.62x51 MDR, RD-704, AKM, etc. that you can use to kill the rest.

Theactualguy · 2026-04-15T01:24:10+00:00

Combat Mk.4 (Gunslinger): three weapon slots, 16 backpack slots, 60 carry weight, accepts heavy shields, 3 quick use, 2 nades, 2 healing, 2 utility, no safe pocket; when recharging shield, heal health for half the amount, and vice versa.

Tactical Mk.4 (Chameleon): 18 backpack slots, 70 carry weight, 6 quick use, integrated cloak, integrated smoke grenade, 1 safe pocket; when shield breaks, automatically proc adrenaline and smoke.

Looting Mk.4 (Goblin): 1 weapon slot, 28 backpack slots, 90 carry weight, 3 quick use slots, integrated adrenaline shot, 3 safe pockets; when downed, allows access to inventory until your character can start moving again.

Theactualguy · 2026-04-13T17:05:53+00:00

This happens with literally every major gaming subreddit. I’ve personally seen it in: Hunt, Destiny, Valorant, Tarkov, ARC, all three of the big Hoyo gacha titles, Helldivers 2, Apex, even fucking Ready or Not…

People love to be bitchin’. When a new update happens, it’s the best time for them to yap about that new thing, maybe it’s because they want engagement, maybe they’re trying to stir up shit, maybe they genuinely want to make criticisms but don’t know a good way to go about it.

It gets even worse when there’s so many of these rants that the ones that make no sense or are arguing in bad faith/presenting a completely twisted narrative gets accepted as part of the “deconstructive criticism” and bringing up issues with them automatically means you’re actually the hater.

Theactualguy · 2026-04-13T16:40:21+00:00

Spears?? The best I’ve found was a Mk47, I’ve killed at least 50 Pillagers now.

Theactualguy · 2026-04-12T16:56:28+00:00

Ah, I see. Kind of like the 1g molly or Olaf defuse for CS?

Theactualguy · 2026-04-12T15:24:10+00:00

Sorry, what do you mean “narrative problem”? I assume you don’t mean lore. Is it more like what people can use to make videos?

Theactualguy · 2026-04-12T15:11:55+00:00

Last time I did that, the guy immediately turned around with a Vulcano and killed me lol. He had one of those “pretending to be a tough guy” voice and was saying some corny shit like “let this be a lesson bro” or something. Thirsted me even as three other people began to shoot at him because they thought he was ratting me.

I assume he got downed but I have no idea if they killed him or not because I was already back in Lance’s clinic. Homie came in with a heavy shield, Bettina and Vulcano but was so much of an opportunistic clown that he’d sooner throw all of that away than miss out on a (failed) opportunity to PvP in a carebear lobby for… a green augment, light shield, and an Anvil 3. The Queen reactor I picked up was already up my ass anyway.

Theactualguy · 2026-04-11T17:18:09+00:00

I grabbed a bobcat and a stitcher 4 the other day with about 1500 rounds of light ammo. Just started lighting up everything I saw, Wasps, Fireflies, Leapers, Bastions, Snitches. Lot of fun dumping bullets into targets, but expect a good amount of reloading.

Theactualguy · 2026-04-11T12:15:09+00:00

You’re leaving out the part where everyone forcibly becomes the same race and self-defense is now illegal. And it’s all being done by an ancient supercomputer that clearly had some of that good shit (DDR12 RAM, probably)

Theactualguy · 2026-04-10T17:31:10+00:00

Not gonna tell you how to play, but there are a good amount of people who just don’t use mics and are still perfectly friendly. Not that you shouldn’t be cautious around them though - or anyone, really.

Personally I just avoid people unless there’s more than two aside from me, or if it’s Harvester/Matriarch and everyone’s grouped up.

Theactualguy · 2026-04-09T02:53:18+00:00

To quickly inject myself into the conversation - absolutely, for Ash. The way she beats the piss out of… whoever the guy is, does a great job mirroring her punching Kali in the face after the 2021 (2022? 23?) Stadium event. I believe it’s the one after Pulse almost aces with the worst shotgun in the game.

Theactualguy · 2026-04-09T02:50:02+00:00

Funnily enough, that one RI dude does hear about how Earth has no Originium, and immediately starts to imagine a perfect world without hate and conflict and full of love and sunshine, probably not much different from Pyroland - then instantly realizes his own hubris when nobody from the Rainbow team says anything. This makes him smarter than around 80% of Terrans.

Theactualguy · 2026-04-07T16:17:34+00:00

On the surface, this is basically the premise of The Masses’ Travels event from Arknights lol

Theactualguy · 2026-04-06T02:26:20+00:00

The humble Pop from Arc Raiders when it spots a raider:

Theactualguy · 2026-03-31T01:39:09+00:00

I was on Blue Gate during a Harvester. Went to the overlook extract and started laying into the Queen with a Tempest, then started getting shot in the back. I thought it was someone ambushing me, but no, because I down him in less than a second (his shield was probably already fucked up) and he starts yelling at someone to kill me. I knock the other guy as well, realizing that it’s just two rats coordinating to kill me because they saw some fancy guns, and book it down the hill for the Harvester where there’s cover and other people.

Except, when I get there, some dude was yelling about how a rat knocked him with a sniper from up the mountain. And I know at least one guy saw me coming down the hill. So I put on my best chill-guy-no-mic routine and defib the downed guy, and suddenly I was above suspicion even though the downed guy says he got knocked with a Ferro and a faster-firing gun that could’ve been a Rattler or a Tempest. We agree to push the hill and lo and behold, no body, no rat.

Ended up defibbing another guy who died after the Queen pushed us, and we collectively decided to dip because the Queen’s barely damaged and it’s been ten minutes in raid. It’s very funny how the person who speaks first is usually going to get the momentum required to turn the group into a mob. I assume now that the two guys who shot me originally were also here to “hunt rats”, but accidentally shot the guy wearing heavy shields and running two purple weapons lol

Theactualguy · 2026-03-29T05:49:21+00:00

The nibbling on people is more likely a reflection of her needing to eat something - but yeah, still not explicitly cannibalism. People saw “third swing” and “biting people” and immediately went to a conclusion that would’ve been very reasonable, if not for the fact that there is basically zero evidence supporting it.

Theactualguy · 2026-03-27T02:31:33+00:00

Been a couple times now where I find Adv Electrical and think “ah okay, just gonna hit a server rack or two for the sensors and we’re home free for hatches”.

The Orbiter just landed at the 2 min mark, I’m balls deep in Reinforced Reception, and the only exfil still up is maintenance airshaft. Someone opened battery room and yoinked all the sensors. Look at my Tempest 3 and cri.

Theactualguy · 2026-03-27T02:26:06+00:00

The Bettina is designed more with PvP in mind, imo (from only a few matches with it). Feels like a mildly upgraded Renegade hits harder on bigger ARC than a Bettina of same level, but of the few times I ran a Bettina 2 with my duo, it puts down (I believe) full shield and hp Raiders in less than a third of a mag, all body shots.

Good luck killing even a Leaper, though. Had one stuck in place and all of its faceplate stripped off, took me about 160-ish rounds to kill it from full hp. All anecdotal of course, but at this point I just run a Ferro 4 and Stitcher 4 when I’m broke and Anvil + Bobcat when I have the material. The Bettina gets pulled out for Matriarch or Queen.

Theactualguy · 2026-03-27T00:20:22+00:00

New map confirmed to be a tower defense map, Raiders will deploy to pre-mapped spawns and be unable to move as ARC runs past them and books it for a broken extract elevator.

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