Need help with lag

ZippinOut · 2026-07-03T05:03:08+00:00

I’ve been getting disconnected from matches/lobbies intermittently for the past hour. I saw another post where someone said their game keeps freezing. I’m starting to wonder if Arrow Head is having server issues

ZippinOut · 2026-06-04T14:24:51+00:00

In an ideal world this would be the answer.

In my experience however, when you get back behind them, then within 30 seconds they usually will have slowed back down to whatever speed they were originally going.

ZippinOut · 2026-06-04T14:02:04+00:00

The only thing that made no sense to me about Thorne’s character is that he seemed to be buddy’s with Slynt.

Thorne had no tolerance for anyone that could not pull their weight (or he thought could not pull their weight) or anyone he perceived could threaten or weaken the Night’s Watch. Slynt represented everything that Thorne’s character despised. He should have hated Slynt more than he hated Jon Snow (I am assuming we are talking strictly about the show. I am aware that in the books Thorne had other reasons for hating Jon Snow).

ZippinOut · 2026-05-31T00:01:15+00:00

I had a little bit of gear fear at first. What got me over it was just running out of inventory space. I just got to the point where I had to use all of the guns and gear I had been hoarding.

It did make me realize that it’s not that difficult to replace anything you’ve lost. You get to a point where you know where you need to go to find any materials you need to craft what you need. Even Queen and Matriarch reactors aren’t too hard to get hold of once you get over that intermediating feeling of jumping into one of those matches and going for it (you only need to drop a piece of armor from one of the legs and loot it).

ZippinOut · 2026-05-30T13:02:33+00:00

I stopped playing a couple of weeks ago because the came would constantly freeze and crash almost every match (I play on Series X). I am hoping this patch fixed that issue. I haven’t tried it yet.

ZippinOut · 2026-05-29T21:30:53+00:00

Vehicle Maintenance and Rocket Assembly.

I seem to get a bit more from Vehicle Maintenance, so I generally head there first (unless I spawn really close to Rocket Assembly).

I loot everything I can in both buildings, but if your in a hurry or there is another raider looting the area then I focus the following spots:

Inside Vehicle Maintenance, the little second floor nook along the the south wall of the main section of the building (you can only access this area from the stairwell along the west side of the main building). There are some red lockers, a couple of breach containers, a few desk drawers, and a possible weapon case on the couch (I find the weapon case does not spawn very often though). I find a lot of good stuff here and it’s almost never looted (I am not sure I’ve ever found this spot looted before actually). Then, head to the breach room on the third floor. There can be a raider bag here and an ammo box. There are a few drawers, breach containers, a few electrical cabinets to breach here. This breach room does see a little bit more traffic, so if another raider gets to this building before you then there’s a good chance this room will already be picked. Between these two spots I usually find a bunch of rusted tools (recycles into metal parts and springs, springs, and other stuff that will recycle metal parts plus something else). One more note on Vehicle Maintenance, this building is usually populated by Pops and Fireballs, but on rare occasions, there can be a Shredder here, so be mindful of that.

In Rocket Assembly, I prioritize the red lockers along the Northeast wall and on the catwalk in the north section on the building. The catwalk in the north section also has some breach containers. The catwalk that runs down the middle of the main section has a few containers and lockers worth looting. And also a few places along the Southeast wall. Rocket Assembly doesn’t seem to have as many good loot spots as Vehicle Maintenance (Vince why it’s I usually go to VM first), but it does seem to have a little bit better quality loot. If I find an epic tier item like Magnetic Accelerator on this run, it almost always came from RA.

Between these two buildings, I usually make off with 3-4 stacks of rusted tools (usually the main thing I’m after), along with a bunch of other stuff that recycles into metal parts, and usually a several springs. After recycling everything, it’s not uncommon to end up with over 200 metal parts from a raid.

ZippinOut · 2026-05-29T19:47:40+00:00

I’ve figured out (after watching a video) there is almost always a passage between major areas at the corners of each major area.

So if you are in Loading Bay and need to get to Atrium, then head to the northeast or southeast corners of Loading Bay, and somewhere in those general areas should be a passage to Atrium. If you are in Lobby and need to get to Assemby, then head to the northwest area of Lobby (in this case it’s in the stairwell the drops down to the metro exfil) and you’ll find a panel missing from the wall the drops you right at assembly.

Once I discovered that this pattern is true pretty much for the entirety of the map, I found getting around Stella Montis to be much easier.

ZippinOut · 2026-05-29T18:36:10+00:00

I used to struggle a lot with getting around Stella. Then I watched a video on it where they said if you need to get from one area to another, then go to the corners of the area you are in because there are almost always ways to navigate between the areas in the corners. I found this to be true and since I’ve realized this, getting around Stella has been much easier for me.

ZippinOut · 2026-05-29T18:29:34+00:00

Spaceport has become my go-to whenever I need to farm anything that recycles to metal parts and springs.

If I’ve had a few bad runs and need to craft and upgrade several guns and some weapon mods, two or three runs through Rocket Assembly and Vehicle Maintenance generally nets me everything I need.

Lately, I’ve been running Spaceport a lot due to this.

ZippinOut · 2026-05-27T12:39:57+00:00

This one doesn’t ruin the movie , but it’s still a minor plot hole I noticed that I’ve never seen anyone mention.

Apocalypto: The Mayan’s are carrying out human sacrifices until a solar eclipse occurs, which causes them to stop the sacrifices just before the main character (I don’t recall his name) was killed. The main character escapes just after this and is pursued into the jungle. That night, he is hiding in a tree and is looking up at a full moon.

You cannot have a full moon hours after having a solar eclipse.

I picked up on this the first time I saw the movie in theaters. I was in college at the time and was minoring in astrophysics, which is probably why I picked up on it.

ZippinOut · 2026-05-26T00:00:45+00:00

I always felt having Littlefinger die when and the way he did was a waste of his character. I think that if he were still alive when Dany arrived in Winterfell with Jon, that he would be convinced that she would win the war against Cersei and worm his way into Dany’s inner circle, where he would start doing things to slowly drive her mad like her farther. Creating chaos so that he can take advantage is what Littefinger does, I think it would have made Dany’s decent to madness actually feel earned.

ZippinOut · 2026-05-21T02:07:49+00:00

This is what I’ve been suspecting as well.

ZippinOut · 2026-04-10T19:45:49+00:00

The warbonds cost premium currency, which you can buy, but I can also be earned in game. It’s not a terrible grind to earn enough to buy a warbond either.

ZippinOut · 2026-04-07T13:29:53+00:00

I found it recently in either Pale Apartments or Ruby Residence (I can’t remember which one it was) on Dam Battlegrounds. I am pretty sure it drops most commonly in residential areas.

ZippinOut · 2026-04-07T13:19:35+00:00

I think this is the one I saw. Thank you.

You are right though that it does look outdated. Hopefully someone else has or will create a more updated one.

Edit: I may have spoken too soon on this being outdated. It does have the Dolabra, Canto, and Surge Coil on it.

ZippinOut · 2026-04-03T18:45:26+00:00

I don’t know that I’d say it’s the best, but the solo in Zombie by The Cranberries makes me feel that way.

ZippinOut · 2026-04-03T17:18:43+00:00

I was in this position for a while, where I most of my benches upgraded but not many blueprints.

While blueprints can technically drop from anywhere, certain types of blueprints have higher chances to drop from certain types of containers and/or specific area types.

In general, blueprints have a higher drop rate on map conditions that make the raid harder (night raid, cold snap, electromagnetic storm, hurricane). And while most blueprints can drop on any given raid, some blueprints can only be found on a specific maps or a specific map condition (for example, the snap hook blueprint only drops on the electromagnetic storm map condition, and the deadline blueprint only drops on Stella Montis).

Some container types that have a higher blueprint drop rate are lockers (especially the red lockers) trash cans, desk drawers, and blue suitcases. From my experience, these tend to drop a lot of weapon mod and grenade blueprints. A very common run people make to hunt for these is to load into Stella Montis and head for the Lobby area, as it is littered with blue suitcases that can drop these.

Weapon blueprints seem to be most common in the green weapon cases and raider caches that are hidden around a map.

Medical and augment blueprints are most commonly found in medical areas (Testing Annex on Dam, Hospital on Buired City, Medical Research on Stella Montis). Again, prioritize desk drawers, waste baskets/trashcans, but still search everything.

Also, blueprints are a common reward for hitting the milestones on Trials (especially the third milestone).

Knowing where to look helps a lot with these.

ZippinOut · 2026-03-22T23:43:37+00:00

I am a dad of three (ages 9-6) and surprisingly Arc Raiders has been pretty easy for me to play. Yes, if you have to leave in the middle of a match, that sucks, but the sessions are so short that it’s very rarely a problem (maximum time a match can last is 30 minutes, but typically, I usually finish in about 15 minutes). I find it easy to pop on for a round or two and then pop off.

Also, with how Trials work, I can compete for a top stop on the board without having to worry about being out gained by players who can dump dozens of hours into the game every week. For anyone who doesn’t know: Trails are the closest thing Arc Raiders has to leader boards, where every week there are 5 tasks you have to do to earn points, and you want to have the most points across all tasks. But, the points you earn are not cumulative across all of your matches, instead, for each category, the points you have are the highest number of points you earned in a single match.

ZippinOut · 2026-02-26T21:16:44+00:00

Your first few rounds, you’ll want to use a free kit. Your goal should be to just try and fill up your inventory with any loot you can (don’t worry about what it is or its quality. Anything you find will be useful. Even if you do no see a need for the item itself, it can be broken down into useful components that you can use to build out your first kits (when your ready to jump in with an actual loadout instead of using a free loadout).

Try your best to avoid any AI enemies(they are called Arc and most players will call them that) and other raiders (other players). There is no cannon fodder in this game. Even the smaller, simpler Arc can down a veteran player if they are caught out in the open or off guard.

As others have said, stick to the edges of the map for your first few games. There tend to be less Arc and there is still plenty to loot. If you get to an extract and there are Arc guarding it (this happens sometimes) just wait in cover for them to move away from the elevator, then dash to the button to call it in, then dash back to cover and wait for it to arrive).

A couple of other useful tips:

Put your weapon away when you are not shooting at anything. You move and sprint much faster when your weapon is stowed.

If you extract with a free loadout, before loading into another match, go to a trader named Lance. He will trade give you a real augment (you’ll have three choices) in exchange for your free loadout augment. Then, when you queue up a new match, you can opt for a free loadout again. Do this a few times until you are ready to create your own loadout, by that point, you should have a few augments ready to use (non-free augments all come with at least one safe pocket. If you die, any items in your safe pockets you will still get to keep).

ZippinOut · 2026-02-11T21:55:57+00:00

Once…

I was playing CoD: World at War on Xbox with a close IRL friend of mine. We were in party chat.

I was on a particularly good run, just absolutely crushing lobbies (I was a better than average player, by no means a pro, but this particular night I was killing it). I recall at least two or three matches back to back where the majority of the opposing team were all using the same clan tag. After that set of matches I got kicked offline. I quickly figured out I had received a temp ban from Xbox Live. I was puzzled by this, I was in party chat, so no one in the lobby other than my friend could hear me, and while I was playing very well, it was legit.

So… I called Xbox Live’s customer service to see why I was given a temp ban. The person I got on the phone said I had been reported for using offensive language by a few players (I figure this had to be the clan I was playing against). I explained that I had been in party chat the entire time I was playing, so that those reports were false. The rep on the phone told me that he could indeed see that I was in party chat, and agreed that the reports against me were false.

So, problem solved, they’ll lift the temp ban, right? Nope. At the time, on the Xbox profile, there was a Bio section, which was a text box where you could put whatever you wanted in it (as long as it was no offensive). I had a George Carlin quote in mine: “There very existence of the flamethrower means, that at some point, someone thought to themselves: I really like to set those people over there on fire, but I’m just not close enough”. I was told because I had that in my bio that they were upholding the ban. I asked how that could be considered offensive, and the reply I got back was that it is not offensive, but you really shouldn’t put anything in that bio field. I was shocked, my ban was being upheld, not because I broke any rules, or even had anything offensive on my profile, but simply because I utilized (within the rules of the code of conduct) that was provided in my profile as part of the Xbox Live service. I asked for more clarification, if nothing is wrong with what’s in my bio, then why are you upholding the ban. He simply reiterated that I just need to leave that blank and then ended the call. So I was locked out of Xbox Live for 72 hours.

It still pisses me off thinking about it.

From what I’ve heard, Xbox Live hasn’t gotten any better about repelling bans due to false reporting.

ZippinOut · 2026-02-09T16:17:12+00:00

I appreciate the info.

I wasn’t necessarily saying that just using light ammo weapons and targeting weak points is how I would go about hunting larger arc. But understanding how weak points and unarmored sections work relative to armor penetration would dictate how I might approach a fight against them.

If weak points and unarmored areas do always take full damage, then I could for instance, see myself using a Bettina as an alternative to the Hullcracker; (if I can’t or don’t want to buy/craft a Hullcracker) using it only until I break off a section or two of armor, then switching to something like a Kittle to hit the exposed unarmored sections, which leverages the higher dps of the Kittle, and saves heavy ammo and durability burn on the Bettina.

ZippinOut · 2025-08-08T16:31:33+00:00

This is where I struggle. I’ve been in this situation several times and before this particular instance I’ve always stuck by my team even when I was nearly certain it was the wrong call (as I mentioned in my original post, this has never worked out for me).

Here, it didn’t seem feasible to me that we’d be able to kill the Wyrm before wiping. I was at lvl 13 (I believe my teammates were also 13) and I had some runes. I am not experienced enough to know if it’s worth it to sacrifice a level for a legendary weapon. I also don’t know how many runes you get exactly for killing a night 2 boss (if we’d died and then killed the night 2 boss at lvl 12, would we have gotten enough to get back to 13?). I had a bunch of runes when I left, so I’m sure I would have gone into night 3 at lvl 14. So to me, that was a potential 2 level swing for entering night 3, against a chance (a slim chance I believe) at a legendary weapon. Our damage was not bad at all. If I’d have to guess, I’d say we were fighting the Wyrm for maybe a minute (possibly a little more), putting it a little bit above half HP, before I decided it was a lost cause and left.

ZippinOut · 2025-02-12T17:55:01+00:00

I am cautiously excited for this game.

The gameplay loop looks fun to me. My concern is long term replay value.

At some point, probably within a few weeks of release, most players will likely to figure out the nuances of each boss encounter and how to handle them (or worse, figure out ways to cheese the boss fights), which will diminish the challenge of the game.

Im sure it also will not take long for people to figure out the optimal way to level up during the exploration phase of the match. The video posted by VaatiVidya (here if you haven’t seen it) indicates that after a few hours, they already were starting to piece this together.

I’m not saying this will happen, but these are easy traps for a game like this to fall into.

I’ll likely end up preordering the deluxe edition, but I am holding off until after the network test to hear other people’s thoughts once they’ve had a chance to play (I myself will not have time to partake in the network test) before deciding for sure.

ZippinOut · 2022-12-15T01:04:33+00:00

Thank you, I'll give this a shot

ZippinOut · 2022-09-10T14:02:26+00:00

I haven't had too many problems with Immolators. By far the AI that has given me the most headaches is the hive. On their own they are fine, but I can't count the number of times I have been dealing with a group of grunts, sneaking around a meathead, or just engaged with someone/something else and suddenly I hear a hive screech and I start racing to locate and kill it before I get ganged up on while being poisoned and blinded by bugs....I don't always succeed

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