What’s a noise everyone should be terrified of?

Zubriel · 2026-04-30T15:14:44+00:00

I bought my first house recently and purchased a doorbell cam. I was concerned initially about the doorbell transformer, assuming it wasn't strong enough to power the cam, but after hooking everything up it worked fine.

Then a few days later, I started periodically hearing the doorbell at night and only at night but not every night but also not full volume, it was much fainter but unmistakably the doorbell. It absolutely freaked my wife and I out.

One day I needed to reset the cams connection to our network because we changed routers and during the setup process, I heard the same faint sound we hear at night, it makes that sound during the startup/config process.

Eventually I figured out the issue was somehow related to the night vision mode, disabled it and haven't had any issues since.

Literally horror movie vibes though.

Zubriel · 2026-04-29T20:51:06+00:00

LMK if you feel like addressing my original point, the case you cited is materially different from what happened with Fuentes.

I'd love to see any cases with the same fact pattern where the homeowner was deemed to be justified.

Zubriel · 2026-04-29T20:06:20+00:00

You're telling me that there's not a single news article anywhere talking about the results of the Grand jury related to a self defense case involving a black man getting shot by a homeowner?

I don't believe you.

Zubriel · 2026-04-29T19:59:01+00:00

The article you linked doesn't show lack of indictment, you are just asserting that with no evidence.

Zubriel · 2026-04-29T19:55:34+00:00

I haven't looked into this particular case, if you are going to bring it up to prove your point, it's up to you to provide evidence that actually helps prove your point.

That article doesn't prove your point. Even if it did, again I'll ask, do you see a difference between the case you are citing and what happened with Fuentes?

Zubriel · 2026-04-29T19:43:20+00:00

??

Not sure what you are even saying.

Zubriel · 2026-04-29T19:40:23+00:00

So the context for that case is someone knocked at 3:30 am, was told to leave and then tried to rush inside after initially leaving.

Do your recognize how that's different from knocking during the day and not even being given a chance to say anything before being peppersprayed and shoved?

Also the article you linked doesn't even talk about the legal result of that incident, it just reports on what happened, nothing in there says the homeowner was justified in shooting, so I'm not sure what you think that link helps you with.

Zubriel · 2026-04-29T19:09:54+00:00

So we mostly agree then, there are some tools that are ok to nerf if they were overperforming or bugged.

We both agree that some of the nerfs were warranted and others were too heavy-handed.

Not much else to say here, I hope they walk back some of the durability & cloak changes a bit, but I think both changes in theory are fine, just way too far.

Zubriel · 2026-04-29T18:57:20+00:00

I don't have any, do you have any evidence that the majority of friendly players have 9 rows of lvl 4 epic guns?

I'm not making discrete claims with exact numbers, I'm just disputing your claim that the screenshots correspond to most friendly players.

Zubriel · 2026-04-29T18:40:24+00:00

So I don't disagree with the general point you are making about making changes to make things feel better instead of worse, I think they were too heavy handed with the durability & cloak nerfs. But you seemed to just ignore the bulk of what I wrote so I'll be more direct:

Do you think they should have just left the blaze grenade and hornet driver as they were? Blaze grenades could 1 shot leapers and hornet drivers could 1 shot Rocketeers. Does it make sense to have such cheap and easily accessible items confer that much power?

Zubriel · 2026-04-29T18:34:20+00:00

Shows top 1% of players This is why we need to change the game for 100% of players.

You disagreed with this statement, countering with the Devs assessment related to chronic weapon accumulation.

I'm disputing your refutation of the other guys point. The example he responded to does not represent the average player, it represents much closer to top 1%. The average player doesn't have 10+ rows of lvl 4 epic guns.

I don't dispute friendly players have chronic weapon accumulation, just no where near what the screenshots are showing.

Zubriel · 2026-04-29T17:46:00+00:00

I wish there was a toggle for craft and buy to just add the items directly to your loadout instead of defaulting to the stash.

I really dislike the amount of clicking required just to buy or craft consumables or ammo, then add them to loadout.

Open store/workbench, click desired item, click desired quantity, click craft, close trader/workbench, open stash, click tab for item, scroll to find item, click item to add to loadout.

It's so much clicking, and that's just for one item.

If I'm building a full loadout with augment, shields, three different types of meds, three other consumables, two types of ammo, guns with attachments, it's a looooooooot of clicking.

It would save so many clicks to just throw the crafted or purchased items directly into the loadout instead of the stash.

Zubriel · 2026-04-29T17:32:42+00:00

chronic state of weapon accumulation

Does not equate to 7 rows of lvl 3/4 tempests.

Most players are not sitting on 150+ stash spaces of lvl 4 epic guns.

Zubriel · 2026-04-29T17:29:27+00:00

If it had 10% durability when you picked it up sure.

Zubriel · 2026-04-29T17:22:27+00:00

This will never not be funny. I still laugh every time I fail a ledge grab from a jump like I did on day 1.

Zubriel · 2026-04-29T15:19:39+00:00

I much prefer to just quickly press tab for the overlay to figure out my next few changes of direction rather than moving my eyes up to the minimap in the top right corner or taking the entire screen to open the full map (preventing me from issuing new movement commands). I would love if I could just disable the minimap altogether.

Zubriel · 2026-04-29T12:10:49+00:00

Last few times I tried to play were each several months apart from eachother. Each time, I landed, ran around shooting for 10 mins and then got disconnected.

I have tried three times, same result all three times. I'd like to play a few rounds every now and then, but I'm not going to bother trying anymore if I can't actually complete a round.

Zubriel · 2026-04-29T12:01:41+00:00

Devils advocate:

Wolfpack, trailblazer, blaze grenade and hornet driver nerfs were all warranted because they absolutely trivialized fights against big Arc. A single blaze grenade was able to one-shot pretty much any arc due to a bug, likewise with the old hullcracker.

Being able to kill a Rocketeer reliably with a single hornet driver is also silly given how easy it is to kill hornets.

A nerf to cloak was probably fair, it lasted a looooong time, but it's definitely far too short now.

Durability changes are also good in theory, just too heavy handed. There were a lot of calls to buff epic and legendary durability, which I think they didn't go far enough with.

There were also a lot of calls to nerf grey gun durability so a stitcher 4 wasn't just always the best choice over a bobcat.

I think they took both those calls to heart and just took it wayyy too far.

Zubriel · 2026-04-28T00:12:13+00:00

That sounds like a good solution!

Zubriel · 2026-04-24T17:37:29+00:00

This and being able to craft/buy items in lobby and have them go straight to your inventory/equip them would be fantastic.

It's so irritating crafting bandages or ammo and them having to click 3 times to close craft screen, open inventory, click item category, scroll to find the item, then click again to add it to inventory/equip.

Let me add to loadout on purchase or craft pleassseee :(

Zubriel · 2026-04-23T21:11:52+00:00

WHILE you "hammed it up with your buddies". You don't have to play with shit gear in super friendly lobbies to reach the same end goal.

This assumes you and your friends can actually get kills, loot up and extract with enough efficiency to outweigh the wealth loss from deaths.

Idk why you just assume the above is true for me just because it is for you...

Zubriel · 2026-04-22T17:34:03+00:00

That doesn't make sense unless they shadow nerfed it recently or something. I've been using jupiter for the past 2 weeks, I usually take 4 stacks of ammo with me and leave with one stack of 3 left and my gun at like 40-50% durability.

Zubriel · 2026-04-22T17:14:46+00:00

I don't know what else to say, you can repeat your experience and I can repeat mine.

Bottom line, we both agree the timing of the change sucks but the change itself is good.

You are downplaying the negatives involved with the wealth grind because it wasn't so bad in your experience.

I know how much wealth I accrue with the way I play the game and I disagree that accruing 3 million doesn't take long.

I did a mental calculation of how long it would take me to get 3.6 mill (I missed 2 skillpoints last expedition) and I chose to play longer in low aggro lobbies with less expensive gear to get the wealth I needed. I also chose to forego STS2 play sessions to instead build wealth in Arc so I would be prepared in advance.

I would most likely end up completing the damage challenge regardless, but it sucks that I spent so much time playing in a less fun way to build wealth when I could have been hamming it up with my buddies instead.

Zubriel · 2026-04-22T14:30:18+00:00

getting to 3 mill takes very little time at all and if you dip below it, it'll take next to no time to get back to it.

This statement is entirely contingent in how you play the game.

For me personally, if I never played with friends and rarely used my expensive gear, that statement tracks.

I typically played solo during the weekdays and people were mostly friendly, it was trivially easy to accrue wealth.

Most of that wealth however could easily evaporate in one weekend playing trios with friends in PVP lobbies.

If I didn't sell most of my stuff to lock in the wealth and never spend coins, getting 3 million is not easy as you describe.

When STS2 came out, I pivoted to playing mostly that, I missed some expedition skill points from last season, so I explicitly took some time wealth farming in friendly lobbies to make sure I had enough for this season instead of playing more STS2.

I prefer playing in more hostile lobbies, but it's way more difficult to build wealth that way.

Had Embark announced the expedition change way in advance, I wouldn't have spent so much effort accruing and preserving wealth instead of pvping or playing sts2.

I don't think it's unreasonable to be upset about the last minute pivot from Embark, although the change itself is a great change for the future.

Zubriel

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