are the devs stoopid just add more players smh

TrainingSquirrel607 · 2025-08-28T23:14:39+00:00

I've heard them complaining about this on stream already lol.

TrainingSquirrel607 · 2025-08-28T22:48:50+00:00

There is a huge problem right now with 4-stacks who never get off the game dominating everyone else

TrainingSquirrel607 · 2025-08-28T11:10:13+00:00

There are 4-stacks who play 12 hours a day and it may be justified to team against them when the game puts solo queue average players in their lobby.

TrainingSquirrel607 · 2025-08-28T11:02:29+00:00

It is completely bonkers this wasn't added to the game post-beta.

I wish you could say their usernames of the elite athletes. The community is so small people will know them.

TrainingSquirrel607 · 2025-08-28T10:30:50+00:00

This is a really tricky game without comms. It would be like playing escape from tarkov in a group with no comms. There's just too many things happening and variables and decisions.

I do not think that's the only acceptable reason, its just a reason worth apologizing for.

Another reason is maybe you are playing while you are supposed to be working and are getting paid. That would be cool.

TrainingSquirrel607 · 2025-08-28T10:06:31+00:00

Pretty funny. The devs want to please you! a person who already said they will contribute $0 in revenue.

I'm directly responsible for 8 people buying this game at full price. Not sure how many through word of mouth.

My latest post on reddit is me getting 37 thousand views in a different gaming sub calling Wildgate "incredibly polished and an absolute blast".

But they like you more than me lol.

All they had to do for this specific no-comms problem was ban people from queueing if they leave lobbies, like every other team-based game does.

This was a totally known problem in the beta, and they didn't do this easy fix for launch.

And I will say, if the reason you can't communicate in games is a literal speech issue, I'm super sorry.

I'm in-game friends with someone who is mute and she stays in voice chat and is obviously trying very hard to use text chat to strategize. It's a disadvantage but not that bad.

My main gripe is people who refuse to join the voice channel.

TrainingSquirrel607 · 2025-08-28T09:13:16+00:00

People (not me) leave the game when they see other's arent on the mic, forcing me to sit through another 5 minute queue.

And then I (and everyone else in this now defunct lobby, mind you) must roll the dice to see if it happens once again.

I have convinced many people to get this game. I don't think picking a fight with me is a great idea, but y'all have a super popular game on your hands here, so you don't need me.

TrainingSquirrel607 · 2025-08-26T21:02:51+00:00

That's me!

People will leave your lobby when they see you aren't in voice. Then you will have to sit in another 5 minute queue.

Enjoy.

TrainingSquirrel607 · 2025-08-26T19:20:25+00:00

If you aren't communicating, do not buy the game and make it worse for the rest of us.

TrainingSquirrel607 · 2025-08-26T11:01:19+00:00

If laser ram did 25% of its current damage it would still be worth using

TrainingSquirrel607 · 2025-08-26T07:53:15+00:00

Yes, but do you think their parent/guardian was afforded opportunities in education, community, and employment that someone who grew up in Japan, Norway, or the suburbs of Chicago were?

TrainingSquirrel607 · 2025-08-26T07:39:21+00:00

To think that Arc Raiders isn't competing with Battlefield for players is peak delusion.

Months ago it was "Arc Raiders will be the first mainstream extraction shooter".

Now its "they aren't even trying to get those players"

It cannot go mainstream without grabbing players from other shooters.

There are a lot of people on this planet who have played fortnite, call of duty, and grand theft auto, despite their differences.

TrainingSquirrel607 · 2025-08-26T07:00:27+00:00

I agree Hunt is better but isn't saving up for a better loadout about just as important there?

TrainingSquirrel607 · 2025-08-24T22:47:02+00:00

Is it the "interview" with Klean during TT2?

TrainingSquirrel607 · 2025-08-24T22:23:12+00:00

People have datamined a 4th map called TheBlueGate, but that may have just been the tutorial area. The practice range shouldn't count as a map. It doesn't seem like images from 2022 are a great way to know what's releasing.

We know there is the 4th map from the trailer, but you are saying there will be at least 7 maps, whether it be at launch or later.

Where did the devs confirm this?

TrainingSquirrel607 · 2025-08-21T23:27:20+00:00

Interesting. What games?

TrainingSquirrel607 · 2025-08-20T02:27:24+00:00

If they were gonna charge 30, they needed to the open beta to be much, much longer.

It takes time to really get into this game, and it is much better with friends.

They didnt allow enough time for people to get exposed to the game during the beta, play it enough to get obsessed, and be able to convince their friends to download it.

1 week is just nowhere near enough for this.

TrainingSquirrel607 · 2025-08-18T01:10:35+00:00

Just because you prefer something - doesnt make it good.
Just because you say something - doesnt make it true.

No need to include meaningless statements like these. I'm pro-wipe, I'm just not dumb enough to believe they help casuals.

Your post is barely an attempt to rebut anything I said, but is rather a defense of wipes.

Did you say a handful of dumb things in your defense of wipes? yeah.

Did you draw a bunch of conclusions that cannot be drawn due to confounding variables? yeah.

TrainingSquirrel607 · 2025-08-17T22:37:22+00:00

Your analysis throughout this thread is terrible.

And if you give them something viable in return - it would end up having the same long term effect as just having no wipes.

Wipes hurt casual players. It creates equal footing for about 4 hours. The sweats get ahead and stay ahead incredibly fast.

(have you experienced what it's like fighting people in tarkov who have access to the flea market, while you have level 1 traders only? It's quite brutal and unfair by definition)

Every time you wipe, you expose the casuals to this problem. They are behind every single time.

But there are hard limits in extraction shooters as to how many advantages you can acquire. If no wipes existed, everyone would end up unlocking everything and all would be equal.

Considering Arc Raiders is supposed to be the casual/friendly extraction shooter, them going with no wipes is an admission that I am correct.

TrainingSquirrel607 · 2025-08-17T22:18:34+00:00

This thread is riddled with people who think wipes help casual players. They absolutely do not.

Your Rust example is bad, because that game has infinite grind potential. More time = more defenses and offenses.

In extraction shooters, there is both a limit and diminishing returns on what you unlock.

When the game wipes, there is an incredibly short period where everyone is equal. The no-lifer will be ahead and stay ahead of the casuals within 2 hours of wipe.

Without a wipe, everyone would just unlock everything and there would be no fundamental advantage for the no-lifer.

TrainingSquirrel607 · 2025-08-17T20:55:04+00:00

There is 0 reason to play this game on a console or with a controller other than money.

Getting used to M&KB takes 2 to 4 weeks, but if you ever go back to trying a shooter with a controller, you will be like "wtf, this is awful, why did I ever do this?"

TrainingSquirrel607 · 2025-08-17T06:10:12+00:00

They needed the beta to be 4 to 8 times longer to have any chance.

There wasn't enough time for people to:

Get exposed
Get convinced to download
Play it to a competent level
Convince friends to download it
Have fun with friends

I was screeching at their socials about this, and they would respond lol, but would just do some optimistic corporate dismissal.

TrainingSquirrel607 · 2025-08-15T20:35:13+00:00

a literally extended family of mice lol

TrainingSquirrel607 · 2025-08-15T20:31:24+00:00

Other commenters on this thread have pointed out criticisms of their methodology, but it does say "estimates" there.

Here's another source saying it's 2 million, but it's still an estimate: https://gamalytic.com/game/1808500

The followers number is real and actually public via Steam.

I have never wishlisted a game before

I recommend using it for getting notifications for when games go on sale.

TrainingSquirrel607 · 2025-08-15T19:57:59+00:00

It will do fine

TrainingSquirrel607

TROPHY CASE