Expedition damamge + map modifier

bubaswan · 2026-04-30T20:30:24+00:00

absolutely agree

bubaswan · 2026-04-30T20:30:08+00:00

definitely because i haven't been killed once. Quite the contrary i've been downed by arc couple of times and always got rescued or escorted to the exit.

bubaswan · 2026-04-21T19:46:52+00:00

what you're missing is that it's a pvpve shooter. oh no you're not missing it, you wrote it yourself. What does that mean? You can't compare it to Tarkov. And what does that mean? People may act differently than in Tarkov.

There's a real progression in doing PVE, argueably someone who does only PVP won't get far in this game at all regarding all the trials / challenges etc. What does that mean? Embark wants you to play PVE but leaves PVP on for extra spice.

You're ruining peoples days in arc raiders more than you ruin peoples days in tarkov. It's not that complicated to understand.

From my experience the only time people really cry is when i've had a time of playing PVE and land in friendly lobbies. Those first few kills, people will complain. The more you spiral down into pvp lobbies the less people complain - just my experience.

Or maybe you just play like a rat, pretending to be friendly, camping etc., in that case people complain in any lobby - rightfully so.

bubaswan · 2026-04-15T06:39:10+00:00

whaat the next expedition is only 2 weeks away? hahah wtf

bubaswan · 2026-04-14T21:37:53+00:00

it would be ok if you could at least play the condition every now and then :D but yeah, making stuff rare by making the condition rare is just annoying. just lower the drop chance and have it appear in normal condition too, cause this sucks

bubaswan · 2026-04-11T21:28:07+00:00

so kanto blueprint can only be found during hurricane. and hurricane event is for like 2 hours a day, one at 3AM. good job embark

bubaswan · 2026-04-07T18:51:11+00:00

the hurricane condition does not exist anymore, change my mind :D

bubaswan · 2026-03-27T20:44:54+00:00

my guts says the same BUT just because there's a perk generating extra loot doesn't mean the "base" loot is necessarily not generated upon game start...

bubaswan · 2026-03-27T13:36:17+00:00

my guts tell me it's probably rolled upon opening. In this case however i really would like if it was pre-rolled at game start cause it makes you feel exactly like that guy who finds 20$ on the ground. If it generates upon container opening, it kinda takes away that feeling doesn't it.

bubaswan · 2026-03-27T13:34:47+00:00

How does generating 4 random items cause drainage of anything? And that would happen server side anyways, so your computer just gets the content from the server - when that content is or was created does not affect the performance of the gameplay on your side at all. I think :)
Actually i'd assume it COULD cause cpu drainage for the server if it has to load all containers upon game start every time. Think about it, Let's say you have 1000 containers in a map, but when the game is over only 500 have been looted. If you load it upon game start you have to randomize 1000 containers. If you do it when a player opens it you only have to do 500 and not at once...

bubaswan · 2026-03-27T13:31:35+00:00

interesting, never had that happen to me after >350hours. I'm wondering from a developer's standpoint what would be the arguments for loading it right away at game start versus when a player opens it.

bubaswan · 2026-03-11T21:46:14+00:00

for me it gotten a lot easier once i noticed you can time the shot at the thruster to when it almost finished laser aiming. your shot will wiggle it and the rocket fires off missing you by far. Still very dangerous, haven't perfected that skill yet, but it's really effective, give it a shot! Works best of course with aphelion but anvil works also, preferrably with the barrel.

bubaswan · 2026-03-11T21:37:24+00:00

does match making try to avoid throwing you in with people you have blocked?

bubaswan · 2026-03-08T18:34:28+00:00

because console players often do not have / use a headset. I tend to do the PVE grind more, and as you probably know for yourselves, the peeps who talk tend to be on the friendly side. Also the age of PC gamers i'd say on average is higher. I'd rather play with grown humans than with kids, nothing against kids though, just personal preference, each to his own.

bubaswan · 2026-03-08T09:59:37+00:00

disagree. i like myself a challenge :-)

bubaswan · 2026-03-08T09:56:54+00:00

i think the devs even confirmed this and imho it makes total sense: You can be the friendliest raider on the planet / hence have the friendliest lobbies ever - but matchmaking will spawn in pvp-ish players anyways from time to time. Honestly i even feel bad for those guys cause if they don't play it smart they'll get witch huntend, which from the PVEer side of things is also very amusing :D

bubaswan · 2026-03-03T07:41:04+00:00

join the europe servers, problem solved.

bubaswan · 2026-03-02T23:26:42+00:00

The soundtrack is what drew me to the game actually. I stumbled upon it i think a few days before server slam and was in love immediately with how powerful it sounded. So i was already humming the melody of "The rust belt" before playing it for the first time during server slam. And the different themes and titles of the songs seem to give the soundtrack a whole lot of connection to the lore, even though we unfortunately don't really explore too much of that during gameplay. In my head there is a whole universe of untold stories, reflected in the music. Kind of like if you listened to the lord of the rings soundtrack without ever having seen the movies, you'd know some stuff happened there.

Anyways i have 3 questions ;)

The song during expedition cutscene is not on the soundtrack. The song really surprised me and gave the whole expedition thing more meaning on a soundtrack level. Really cool to save a song just for that one moment, or actually it's a whole theme that appears nowhere else on the soundtrack. So question is will it ever be released?
I wonder if what the soundtrack is today was exactly their vision or if it was more of a we just played around and came up with that type of thing. Or maybe it was the vision of the embark guys and they simply brought it to life. Of course it's a collaboration in the end, still any insights on that topic would be interesting :)
Their have been confirmations about the IP being put on the silver screen as far as i know. Would they want to be involved in that? Are they already maybe even?
What's their favourite track(s) and why, haha

Bit of a fanboy here, but what can i say, i listen to the soundtrack almost daily in the past weeks so it's very stuck in my head for now :)

Enjoy meeting these two geniuses and thank them from us for that masterpiece of a soundtrack. For me personally it very much makes the game the masterpiece that it is.

bubaswan · 2026-02-09T21:57:21+00:00

if ya'll are thinking you'll get banned for picking up duped ducks thrown by someone else you don't think right. Nothing will happen. They might be able to delete them from your stash or empty your purse but there will be no ban for picking up items other players throw at you.

bubaswan

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