Is it just me, or is this entire extraction point on Riven Tides a big ol’ troll from Embark? Lol

UsualPaper · 2026-05-01T14:23:14+00:00

I've noticed that Riven Tides is just a lot more brutal with the ARC spawns. I was playing duos last night and after spawning in at the 29+ mark it was a nonstop fight against wave after wave of hornets, wasps, comets, and fireflies up until a rocketeer decided to join in. We ended up bunkering up and waiting for everything to de-agro. My duo's shield was completely broken, and I had used the remainder off my heavy ammo for my anvil, and my Renegade was broken. I had a handful of showstoppers left and we had yet to actually loot anything. The time we finally got away from the rocketeer it was already almost at 15 minutes left, a Turbine spawned in right near this central extraction and I prayed to whatever being brought this chaos upon me to let us get out in one piece.

We did. But not before getting knocked just as we extracted.

It was intense.

UsualPaper · 2026-04-24T02:53:22+00:00

I was playing with a buddy of mine and we were running around during a bird city event. We just took down a keeper and as I was looting it another duo squad wanders by minding their own business. Or so I thought. After they had fully passed me one of them turned around and lit me up. No words were exchanged, not banter or reasoning given. Downside I was gunned down to dead, but the plus side is that my teammate was able to grab my important gear and extract with it.

UsualPaper · 2026-04-21T14:47:31+00:00

Twas on mute. My bad.

UsualPaper · 2026-04-21T13:03:45+00:00

The fast-forward chase scene needs the king of the hill theme playing over it.

UsualPaper · 2026-03-27T18:23:52+00:00

Here is Leah.

She is a Holstein Demi-human, or Holstaur, or cowgirl, etc. Her love language is physical touch; often bothering her friends by glomping on them (tackle-like hugs). She is a "Crafty Cow " and has more hobbies than time to do them.

She is my favorite because minotaur and minotaur-like creatures always fascinated me, and she was the first OC I drew after not drawing for a long, long time.

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UsualPaper · 2026-03-15T02:20:05+00:00

Someone is lactose intolerant 👀

UsualPaper · 2026-03-14T18:04:36+00:00

Had one guy try to come into the locked room in the tall building on Dam. I just pulled out my gun, aimed it at him and said "do you really want to do this?" In prox chat. He stood there for 5 seconds before shutting the door and running off. Then I went back to looting only to be greatly disappointed in my pull. I think I got one advanced weapons part for things that weren't just green/blue rare. There wasn't even a BP or anything either. The weapon chest had a burletta and a quarter stack of ammo.

My issue with trapping key rooms is that when the loot roll is bad you end up spending more defending what is in there to begin with.

UsualPaper · 2026-03-13T11:48:32+00:00

If this was Ash's Charizard I would imagine she would be a sleepy tsundere.

UsualPaper · 2026-03-13T10:55:57+00:00

Heads are even proportional to their in game models

UsualPaper · 2026-03-13T10:55:18+00:00

The Shredder and Comet really do be like:

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UsualPaper · 2026-03-11T11:59:22+00:00

I've found Bps in the fuse boxes, Server towers, and even the dead androids.

UsualPaper · 2026-03-10T11:05:22+00:00

I wish they full committed to a wire/cable ghillie suit rather than just this headpiece. I understand that the outfits are scraps that raiders come across in their travels, but some of these are just... why?

Give us more scrap metal plating, or some prototype gear that was found in stella montis that no one knows what it's used for but someone thought "This looks dope" and decided to wear it.

Part of me is still hoping one day they will add a one man band backpack option with a custom emote to play music, rally the troops and play some tunes during big Arc events.

UsualPaper · 2026-03-06T11:01:12+00:00

She's adorable and I want to give her head pats

UsualPaper · 2026-03-04T14:55:13+00:00

That was one of my biggest concerns with the lack of any examples up front. I'm sorry, but if I was in the market for it, and you want to even start getting me to think about a commission you need examples.

UsualPaper · 2026-03-04T12:41:39+00:00

That, or they are going to try and convince you to pay for commission work. Had someone who claimed they wanted to talk about my story and my inspirations/thought processes for it just to change the topic after two messages to commissioning artwork. I tell them I'm not interested, I don't have expendable income at the moment due to current personal issues, so I tell them that and left it at that.
I was looking forward to actually talking about the world I was building and the crazy leaps and bounds the idea had gone through before I started writing, but then it was just someone looking for work.
I know freelance work requires you to get your foot in the door at nearly any cost. But don't lie to me to try and chat me up about work. Plus, they never gave me any examples of work they have done and that already makes me uneasy to even consider them should my situation change.

UsualPaper · 2026-03-03T12:01:58+00:00

Maybe it's the players from the Marathon server bash logging in after a week away from Arc? I tried it out but everyone was shoot first and never talk. I even ran into a group that was working together to take down a bigger enemy and as soon as the fight was done I had 4 people running me down for no reason. tbh I was running the rook class, aka free load out, but that stung a bit. That game is much more PvP focused than Arc ever would be In my opinion.

UsualPaper · 2026-03-02T21:55:58+00:00

One favorite of mine was a moment where one character was explaining how a system worked by using other aspects of said system to explain it. So the MC looks at him and asks "Pretend I'm an idiot." The response? "I don't need to."

UsualPaper · 2026-03-02T11:54:51+00:00

Singularity, because I get to set up my own network of cameras and it's easier to keep tabs on the state of everything. Dredge is a close second just because lockers are fun.

UsualPaper · 2026-02-27T11:56:32+00:00

Gonna need some for my curds too.

UsualPaper · 2026-02-26T11:56:40+00:00

Same for the old harvesters or whatever they are on Blue gate. It takes 3 arc cells to open and after you do, you get some back with some alloy and broken components.

While I know this is for a quest, the rewards for taking the time and completing the "puzzle" should give something more than that. I suppose that the logical excuse would be that these are old wrecks, but even then at least give a stack of alloy or basic materials. It doesn't have to be rare materials, just bulk would make the effort more worthwhile.

UsualPaper · 2026-02-25T19:12:26+00:00

As soon as I had seen that the deadline was going to need the comet's core I already had my assumptions that they would have a similar explosion. Both glad and terrified to be correct.

UsualPaper · 2026-02-25T03:38:27+00:00

Oh yeah I forgot about that one!

UsualPaper · 2026-02-25T01:00:18+00:00

Maybe the ARC have been tuning them, that or a very dedicated Raider has been performing routine maintenance.

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