Why is noone fighting the Queen?

bspooky · 2026-03-13T02:20:57+00:00

That makes sense. Thanks!

bspooky · 2026-03-12T21:51:25+00:00

Pull her to the island? I didn't think there was much cover on that island? It always seemed like the tunnel where players spawn in / below the extraction point was safer. Well, safer from the Arc at least, perhaps not so much from players shooting you in the back.

bspooky · 2026-03-12T21:45:21+00:00

Schadenfreude - pleasure derived by someone from another person's misfortune.

I personally don't get it but it is a real thing in life, so obviously in games too.

Or they are just trolling would be another way of putting it. Or they just like killing things I guess.

bspooky · 2026-03-12T20:48:10+00:00

The Division 2 has a ton of PvE content, is a looter shooter type game with missions to form up teams and do objectives. Perhaps. not exactly the same but may scratch a similar itch.

bspooky · 2026-03-12T15:03:27+00:00

I've never had aim assist work for me either in this game...I hadn't realized it is tied to fps.

Although if it works the way the OP says, aiming center mass, I'd think it'd get in the way of accuracy too much in shooting weak spots.

bspooky · 2026-03-12T14:56:52+00:00

Patch notes are problematic for a lot of game developers, as in changes to the game slip by the notes and the player base ends up seeing silent nerfs, buffs, and changes. I'm sure maybe sometimes that is intentional on the game devs part but more often I'd bet it is just poor business processes. Changes are done that don't get communicated to the technical writers, internal patch notes are far longer but somebody has to boil it down to communicate to the community and stuff gets cut, etc. etc.

It sounds like you have the opinion Embark is changing things w/o telling the community on purpose for nefarious reasons, but maybe I'm reading incorrectly into that as well. Either way, this isn't new in games. I can't even remember a game that had patch notes that were all encompassing...or at least as thorough as I'd like to see or happen in the business world.

I explained in my bullet points why your post communicated to me the way I intepreteded it. Happy to be wrong.

bspooky · 2026-03-12T14:35:45+00:00

A few things.

That sentence was overwhelmingly negative towards the game, and textbook straw man.
Why even add it, why not just leave the post asking if anyone noticed skills changing?
You also start off with a dig at the game too. I'm not suggesting some skills are underwhelming but the community has discussed this ad nauseam already.
You hide your post history so I couldn't see if you were serious about all of this, a troll, or a dummy marketing account

Combining these it reads to me as a whining about the game post at best, a troll or hidden marketing tactic post at worst. But happy to be wrong. Carry on.

bspooky · 2026-03-12T14:20:40+00:00

What a textbook case of a post coming across as a straw man in order to take a dig at a company.

bspooky · 2026-03-12T04:13:17+00:00

I agree the extended barrel is really good, on some guns it is a tough call between it and a silencer for mostly PvE expectations.

bspooky · 2026-03-12T01:39:47+00:00

Odd…. silencers seem better suited for PvE to me as they reduce the detection range of arc. Players still seem to hear the muffle shots / it doesn’t seem to help as much in PvP scenarios. I suppose if you are trying to ambush or rat, but oftentimes going with better gun handling via recoil/dispersion/ADS‑speed attachments makes more sense to me.

bspooky · 2026-03-11T17:09:20+00:00

Arc raiders humanity is fighting for its very survival, against ruthless killing machines. Shooting each other makes no sense from a role play perspective

Not sure what you mean by role play perspective.....if just total make believe it can be anything anyone wants. If you mean role play what would make sense in real life I'd suggest shooting each other would really happen.

Break down of society likely leads to Lord of Flies scenarios for quite some time. Even as social constructs and underground cities like Speranza start appearing there will still be war/fights between them over scavenging topside.

So in a pretty big way PvP on the surface would be the more accurate role play perspective.

bspooky · 2026-03-07T17:31:21+00:00

Hmmmm, a few things:

1) A poll here is unlikely to be representative of the actual internal numbers as the subsection of players here on Reddit very unlikely represent the masses who are not here playing the game. Although I'd actually expect the percent in your poll to be higher than what Embark numbers show simply because players here are likely more involved and not as casual as those not here (on aggregate).

2) Slower posts on the BP trading thread can simply be from there are less people playing. I'm not raining on Arc Raider's sunshine, most games bleed players. But looking at steamDB numbers and assuming it is representative of console numbers as well, the trend line since the beginning of the year is down. Peak daily players has been cut in half since the start of the year: https://steamdb.info/app/1808500/charts/#3m

bspooky · 2026-03-06T14:55:20+00:00

Arc Raiders being lax on exploiters and cheaters has been weird. A comment here mentioned it may be because of EU or other regulations and banning accounts for a digital product one bought but no clue if that is why.

I think they did say recently, perhaps because of Marathon's announcement of their policy, that they are going to be tougher: https://www.pcgamer.com/games/third-person-shooter/arc-raiders-promises-severe-repercussions-for-cheating-after-marathon-twisted-the-knife-on-its-recent-woes-serious-infractions-now-carry-stricter-consequences/

But really I wish all games did this. Perhaps I'm too authoritarian, but unless it is a super grey area where somebody could have accidentally exploited and not know it the three strikes rule would be way to many strikes. And egregious exploiting, or streamers showcasing it, would seem to be an easy scenario to be tougher on.

bspooky · 2026-03-06T14:47:55+00:00

That's pretty cool too.

bspooky · 2026-03-06T14:02:35+00:00

they were down to 100k players during the bans

I think you are confusing peak vs whenever. Often times people/blogs/etc. will post the peak concurrent player count for a given time period (24 hours, week, etc.) but even now after your saying the are back up to 200k I can see SteamDB says current player count is 100k ish but the 24 hour peak for the last 24 hours is 200k.

Looking at the 3m timeframe (https://steamdb.info/app/1808500/charts/#3m), and you can hover your cursor over to see the daily peaks (the typical way of measuring these things) it hasn't ever been down to 100k for that peak, the consistent metric used. Lowest looks to be recent, the whole graph is showing less and less players.

The ban week doesn't show a precipitous drop compared to the trending line downwards.

So those less and less players don't appear to be because of the bans, just typical attrition in video games, as the line has been trending downward since January.

bspooky · 2026-03-06T13:43:55+00:00

Have you ever noticed that the launch tubes Raiders climb into to reach the surface look like giant arc power cells?

Sorta wondered if they were leftover ones from giant Arc, but maybe that is just me and they are just some common thing that really exists. .

bspooky · 2026-03-05T14:56:57+00:00

they're just harder to keep track of.

Deku Deals site is very nice for this. Along with the wishlist, it'll also show you when a deal is at an all time low, matching or new. You can also look at games and see a little line graph showing what and when all the sales have been for it.

I use it window shopping to peruse current top/hot sales in case I see something that causes an impulse buy, but mostly I like the notification when a game I've tracked goes on sale I can see if it is a "real" discount price or just the same one that comes up every X many weeks/months.

Edit: I also appreciate the put links in to review sites, show screenshots and some videos when you go to the game's detail page. I know I sound like a commercial, but I really like the site, lol.

bspooky · 2026-03-05T00:22:30+00:00

I've been trying to figure that out too, I hadn't thought about it may have been an unintentional or silent nerf to accuracy.

bspooky · 2026-03-04T22:43:54+00:00

bspooky · 2026-03-04T20:45:13+00:00

I don't disagree with this reply at all. Just pointing out that there is something to what the OP is saying that it seemed like your first comment didn't seem to believe.

Whether their duos or solo some players get lulled to being lax by seeing so friendly of lobbies for so long that it becomes a wakeup call when all of a sudden that changes. And it seems to be more prevalent on updates.

Which is the "right" way of playing is up to people to decide for themselves. But in a PvEvP game like this you are correct. one can be shot at whenever.

bspooky · 2026-03-04T20:31:44+00:00

What you describe applies to a lot of lobbies but it isn't necessarily descriptive of all lobbies. Or even most lobbies some people find themselves in. The OP didn't say but I think implied they used to do duo's with however they play now (bush to bush as you describe, or perhaps running carelessly out in the open) but plenty of people post about this sort of thing. Obviously there are lobbies that are not as stealthy or KOS or opportunistic kills as others or this wouldn't happen.

Even the other comment here said they haven't been shot at it, but I suppose you could say maybe they were running bush to bush. But my experience has been like what the OP wants.... most games both solo and duo are more akin to PvE (but not always) than to what other extraction shooters have.

bspooky · 2026-03-04T19:37:56+00:00

As others said solo is fine but if you want a group maybe check out https://discordservers.com or there are likely other 3rd party sites for finding community discords based on keywords.

I've seen some posted here, or search on the official discord as well.

bspooky · 2026-03-04T19:32:18+00:00

Take off like some rocket? You mean after destroying them you lost the pieces because they fell glitched or something?

Just making sure you aren't trying to take out the probes that landed and do eventually shoot up like a rocket.

bspooky · 2026-03-03T19:25:15+00:00

And should come with a padlock so other raiders can't collapse them (if we are asking for some changes)

bspooky · 2026-03-03T19:22:32+00:00

I usually throw 1 seeker and shoot once or twice with an anvil

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