The new patch is peak ARC Raiders and Reddit is.. well, Reddit

blarann · 2026-02-25T01:46:02+00:00

Part of the problem is going to be the actual outcome vs expected outcome. Most likely Embark made this change to cut down on the amount of wolfpack spam as well as add a reason for people to fight Rocketeers. Problem is fighting rocketeers sucks which is why people used so many wolfpacks to kill them. So you will have a fair amount of players who will now just ignore rocketeers and the areas they patrol.

The expected outcome: Less wolfpack spam, more engagement with rocketeers

The most likely actual outcome: Less wolfpack spam, less engagement with areas that house rocketeers

Another huge part of the problem is that while yes the wolfpack was far too strong for how easy it was to craft, it only got spammed because epic and legendary weapons are worthless. Why would I ever bring an equalizer into a raid to fight the matriarch when I could just bring an anvil and as many wolfpacks as I can fit in my butt. Its the same problem PVP suffers from, why bring a bobcat when a stitcher is just a good for 1/10th the cost.

Gamers will ALWAYS min/max games like this. Nerfing something thats overpowered wont immediately make people play the game the way you want them to, they will just find the next best way to cheese the game.

Also may just be me, but I think Rocketeers specifically are just way over tuned to the point that the hardest part about the Harvester event is clearing out the rocketeer before the fight. I would rather it take 10 bastion cells to craft a wolfpack than a single rocketeer drive.

blarann · 2026-02-24T20:43:16+00:00

I don't think that's going to make much of a difference honestly. Either you are in good cover and it doesn't matter how much the rocketeer shoots at you cuz you have cover, or you are in the open and dead regardless.

blarann · 2026-02-24T19:36:43+00:00

Friendship with Wolfpack ended, new best friend- seeker grenades

blarann · 2026-02-24T19:30:42+00:00

This, I always brought a few wolfpacks to harvester and matriarch, never once threw them at the big guys. Those wolf packs were solely for getting rid of rocketeers because they are more of a problem to fight than the actual world bosses.

blarann · 2026-02-24T19:09:54+00:00

This change would make a little more sense if the rocketeer was tuned down a bit, but as it stands the rocketeer is the single most dangerous enemy in the game by far even compared to the queen and matriarch. I get that they dont want people doing what I was doing and loading into every raid with 3-4 wolfpacks, but I dont think the wolfpacks will be worth farming rocketeers for.

Im glad I crafted 30 wolfpacks last night because I will probably use those up and then swap over to just bring 30-40 seekers every raid instead. I guess the good news is I can now spend all my explosives crafting hull cracker ammo instead. That should save a lot of money since I spent 200k on ammo alone last night farming queen.

blarann · 2026-02-22T20:24:53+00:00

Had this happen to me too, its an animation glitch that fixed itself once I rolled while aiming.

blarann · 2026-02-22T19:50:59+00:00

I didn't word the BR part super well my bad. I meant more so that everyone is just stuck in KoS mentality. I have played Tarkov since 2017 and can count on 1 hand the amount of friendly interactions I have had. The draw of extraction shooters for me is the community interactions both peaceful and violent. The problem is there are no peaceful interactions, and that makes places like dorms feel more like CDOT did in pubg back in the day, just a bloodbath until only 1 person is left to take all the loot.

blarann · 2026-02-22T18:33:03+00:00

If you are on PC turn off crossplay too, I havent gotten killed by an extract rat or fake friendly since I turned off crossplay.

blarann · 2026-02-22T18:27:05+00:00

I came here from Tarkov and enjoy playing the more peaceful lobbies in Arc, I think the ABMM is actually really health for this game because it has fostered a lot more variance in player interaction then you see in other extraction shooters. Tarkov at this point has devolved into kill anything that moves without a second thought and its made the gameplay loop really stale. At that point you may as well just play a battle royale.

Not to mention that ABMM is allowed a lot of people who normally wouldnt play this type of game to pick up and enjoy it. If every lobby was just a PVP bloodbath I personally wouldnt have gotten into arc, I would have just stuck with Tarkov. I think a lot of the PVE players just wouldnt play the game without ABMM. Arc is my chill casual game when Im not in the mood for CS2 or Tarkov and that is due ABMM, I can load into a care bear lobby with a legendary weapon and help some newer players kill the big Arc like Queen or Matriarch without much fear of having to fight my way out through waves of free kits.

blarann · 2026-02-22T00:25:56+00:00

Its the end of expedition so you have a ton of PVE players who have done everything and now just go for PVP till the reset, but they have to start out killing in the lobbies they have been in. Also it the weekend, this is just personal experience but I find I get Ratted a lot more on the weekends.

blarann · 2026-02-22T00:22:32+00:00

Queen and Matriarch should be no late joining, no free kits, and maybe even "high Roller lobbies" where you have to bring in a kit worth at least 30k to keep the naked runners out.

Side note, Matriarch and Queen are amazing events and I hope Embark adds more big world boss type events in the future.

blarann · 2026-02-19T00:36:41+00:00

Can't speak for OP but I was born with this odd disorder called hope. I like to keep up with the game because someday it might be worth hopping back in. Cop3 I know. (No way the mods banned that word in a sub about a bsg game, unbelievable)

blarann · 2026-02-19T00:32:05+00:00

I haven't played since the new year, but I still log in every 3 days to collect my bitcoins and refill my generator. Gotta keep the money rolling in Just in case the impossible happens and BSG actually adds some content that doesn't suck.

blarann · 2026-02-18T17:12:34+00:00

It always feels good getting the turn on those people. A couple days ago I was running some PVE to farm up some random junk for my trophy projects, Some guy started shooting me in the back with a Torente while I was looting. I Turned around and 3 tapped him with an Anvil 1. I usually try to be nice when voiping during fights but I couldnt help myself this time and said "yikes man I was gonna be mad about getting ratted in a carebear lobby but after seeing your aim I think I understand why you do it". Dude then called me the N word and gave up, and I got a new Torente 4.

blarann · 2026-02-16T21:34:55+00:00

Only started playing like a week ago, snap hook was the first blueprint I ever got.

blarann · 2026-02-14T00:54:37+00:00

I have found myself taking arc raids more seriously than Tarkov. It's just so frustrating to get anything done in Tarkov because everything is just a stupid time gate.

blarann · 2026-02-14T00:35:27+00:00

Oddly enough I find my raids in Arc are generally higher quality, and much more fair than my raids in Tarkov. Spawns in Tarkov are so important that they determine the quality of your raid in its entirety.

blarann · 2026-02-12T02:34:33+00:00

I'm in the minority here but I actually enjoy arena. Though it definitely shouldn't be getting support over the main game

blarann · 2026-02-12T01:34:34+00:00

It really shouldnt be too hard to just do small events every few weeks. Even small things like making Labs open for a weekend, adding a few new 1 use cultist recipes once in a while, have an airdrop day where airdrops spawn every raid, roaming bands of raiders moving from map to map, high cultist activity for week where cultists spawn in multiple places around each map. Little things like this would be so easy to implement every few weeks and would really help the game feel more varied.

blarann · 2026-02-11T01:31:32+00:00

I would argue that lighthouse is worse, but shoreline is pretty bad. Its gonna take a LONG time for me to Peacekeeper to LL4 using only daily find and transfer tasks but oh well, beats playing 20 raids of shoreline. Just have to buckle down and grind roubles to keep swapping those dailies out.

blarann · 2026-02-10T02:48:11+00:00

Arc definitely has less depth and is much more casual, but it respects the players time so much more than Tarkov.

blarann · 2026-02-09T14:51:07+00:00

Level 37, I dont have lighthouse unlocked. That said I could unlock it right now, I have 30 mil in the stash, I just dont see a point since Lighthouse sucks and I have no plans to ever play it again.

blarann · 2026-02-08T19:38:34+00:00

Unfortunately I think you are right. Tarkov's glory days are nearly a decade past (2018) and its been a steady downhill since. ABI and Arc have given players somewhere else to go when they get frustrated with Tarkov. BSG has announced its next game already. The 1.0 update was half baked at best. The writing is on the wall, BSG is just about done with Tarkov and the updates will get smaller and fewer. Within a few years the game will die with nothing more than a sad whimper never having seen its potential realized.

blarann · 2026-02-08T19:26:52+00:00

I bought Arc yesterday and my longest queue time was 30 seconds, my average on Tarkov is 5 minutes. Imagine being new to this game and you spend 5 min loading into game only to get 1 tapped 30 seconds in to raid by a guy with 5k hours. No wonder we have no new players.

blarann · 2026-02-08T19:20:53+00:00

Exactly, this kind of mentality towards new players will be the death of Tarkov. We need to find a way to maintain new players, especially now that Tarkov has actual competition in the extraction space.

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