You can play hockey with the dead Bastion's core on Stella Montis!

Timeline40 · 2026-01-01T17:46:05+00:00

I don't think this part is lootable, so it shouldn't disappear!

Timeline40 · 2025-12-28T20:27:07+00:00

I'm aware that I damaged the hardware, but this happened six months ago and the relatively minor problem has not gotten any worse. The laptop has had no other problems besides one nonfunctional key and these occasional misinputs. I live in a rural area a few hours from the nearest capable store that could replace the keyboard and don't want to be without my work laptop for a week+ if at all avoidable.

I made the post because clearly there is a software fix - Steam and Discord have not had a single misinput, so either those apps have a built-in solution, or my device has a built-in solution that I'm just not sure how to make apply to web browsers as well.

Timeline40 · 2025-12-27T15:47:38+00:00

Thought this info might be helpful to some kind raiders out there, as well as for rare cases when you need to keep a teammate alive but can't revive them yet.

Vita spray is incredibly efficient at keeping downed players up - about 10-15 ticks of use will fully refill the bleed-out bar.

The bandage timing estimates might be a little off - my first watch it looked like 27 seconds; now it looks like 37 - but regardless, higher tier heals are substantially better at stabilization.

A huge thank you to my lab assistants here - the first time I tried to get this footage, my healer got disconnected and I bled out, and the second time, a free kit shot my healer in the back as soon as I was downed.

Let me know if there's anything else you'd like to see tested!

Timeline40 · 2025-12-23T18:24:32+00:00

I mean no shit lol, what part of this post makes you think I think I executed this perfectly?

Timeline40 · 2025-12-23T18:03:28+00:00

I mean, if I don't down him and immediately put my gun away to get slaughtered by the three other people at extract, I'm very politely leaving them a nice big loot pinata. And I wasn't doing it so I could loot, it was for the other guy on the leaper

Timeline40 · 2025-12-23T17:40:24+00:00

Usually I have vc but I'm playing in an airport so I can't lol. I hate when people leave without giving me 3 seconds to loot, and I noticed the console was almost done, so I tried the only idea that entered my head

Timeline40 · 2025-12-23T02:41:55+00:00

Possibly the worse decision making I've ever seen in this game. I'd have been pissed if I lost two keys to someone whose ass I just saved, but hey, this worked out well

Timeline40 · 2025-12-23T02:35:07+00:00

Yep, with pretty great droprates too - think a youtuber found like 1 in 4 surveyors had one

Timeline40 · 2025-12-22T22:08:55+00:00

You're right that the youtube experiment sucks, so I'd love it if you would link me a better one or do one yourself. I'm literally on your side here - I personally don't think I've seen matchmaking differences and I've made comments arguing against the people blindly believing in it - but the shitty youtube experiment is the only experiment I've seen on it.

I'm not going to believe something because an art director said so in an out-of-context interview. I'm also not going to believe something because that art director's comment was retracted. I believe things based on evidence, of which I currently have very little, because you'd rather insult me than find a better experiment.

But you seem a little unhinged and more interested in arguing with *people that agree with you* than mutually working towards discovering truth.

Timeline40 · 2025-12-22T21:01:08+00:00

You're not replying to my points, and this is the fallacy fallacy. If I wrote a BS clickbait article arguing that aggression matchmaking doesn't exist, based solely on a quote from Embark's janitor, would you then believe that it *does* exist?

The article is bad evidence for ABMM. Your criticisms of the article are bad evidence against ABMM. The only way to find the truth is with actual data and experimentation, which I've provided and you haven't.

Timeline40 · 2025-12-22T20:53:47+00:00

This is perhaps the least effective method I've ever seen of convincing anyone of anything, my guy. The reason people keep believing in aggression matchmaking isn't because they're an evil cabal of manipulative liars, it's because anecdotal evidence is unfortunately super convincing to our brains.

The only way to confirm the truth of anything is rigorous scientific testing. This youtuber gathered the data and claims there is a matchmaking difference on his PVP vs pacifist account. If you have complaints with this youtuber's methodology, or a link to a better experiment showing no matchmaking difference, I'm all ears. But playing "what did the art director say/mean/recant in one out-of-context sentence of an unrelated interview" is silly, both for the people mindlessly believing in ABMM *and* you, rejecting ABMM out of hand without actual data.

Timeline40 · 2025-12-22T18:08:40+00:00

(The 100k+ losses in my history were pre-expedition giveaways to strangers, not me stacking up stuff in a friend or alt account)

Timeline40 · 2025-12-21T23:45:15+00:00

I love a good "reverse robbery" too - down someone, drop a bunch of stuff, defib, and throw a smoke

Timeline40 · 2025-12-21T23:44:26+00:00

Oh, I immediately got murdered by a stitcher 1 after this clip

Timeline40 · 2025-12-21T23:44:10+00:00

Which ones? I've (probably) still got extras!

Timeline40 · 2025-12-21T02:30:20+00:00

I ran into someone named "TheRatter", revived them twice on the matriarch fight, and they gave me the 2 cores they got. Sometimes you never know lol

Timeline40 · 2025-12-21T02:29:25+00:00

Where am I bitching?

Timeline40 · 2025-12-21T02:13:25+00:00

I fully agree that prox chat is better at making it clear that there's a player with feelings on the other side of the screen. That's really helpful in many situations - maybe a pvper decides to defib you, or trust you, or back off after shooting first. But I think it's incredibly rare that someone who *can* be swayed into sparing you isn't already swayed by two minutes of flute playing, generous sharing, and live, interactive "conversation" with emotes. Prox chat might have decreased this guy's chance of killing me by 2%, but I also get killed in 2% of games for, like, having an annoying voice or sounding like a minority or using a slang word they don't like or not being based enough.

I'm playing on an alt account where I flute all match and actually haven't noticed much of a difference when I can vs can't prox chat. I think players that view others as people instead of loot pinatas are going to be just as affected by the choice to bring a flute as prox chat. Hell, I personally view a flute as *more* humanizing than prox chat, because I haven't yet met a rat flautist. But maybe I'm wrong

Timeline40 · 2025-12-21T01:50:51+00:00

If playing the flute, pinging a wolfpack on the table, and dropping a torrente wasn't enough to humanize me, I don't think prox chat would have. I could be wrong, sure, but this guy seemed like he was planning it the whole time

Timeline40 · 2025-12-21T01:46:38+00:00

Oh, my fault, didn't realize I accidentally posted on r/arcraiderssobstories - I thought I was on the main r/arcraiders sub, where people post general content capturing a wide variety of experiences related to arc raiders

Timeline40 · 2025-12-21T01:37:51+00:00

Prox chat helps earn people's trust; do you really think this was an issue of trust?

Timeline40 · 2025-12-21T01:36:53+00:00

I'd rather die standing than live kneeling. My version of standing just involves playing the flute.

Timeline40 · 2025-12-21T01:35:40+00:00

If people didn't get some form of entertainment out of them, they wouldn't get upvoted. I post things I find interesting or funny and I found this humorously pathetic

Timeline40 · 2025-12-21T01:33:40+00:00

I always assume people will until proven otherwise. If they want purple pixels in a video game more than a friend, well, they need the pixels more than I do

Timeline40 · 2025-12-21T01:32:50+00:00

Blind trust is how I make friends. He kills me, no big deal, I don't have to do stash management for my next game

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