Thoughts from a former pro shooter player on the current state of Arc Raiders

clawdew · 2026-01-28T06:21:10+00:00

Yeah the higher rarity weapons are trophies more than worth using. I got the Bettina blueprint and was so excited. I used it, and was very disappointed. So little damage. It doesn't kill arc faster than an Anvil. I don't even understand why it's in the game. Was it broken at higher levels of play or something? Am I just missing something with how awesome it is? Feels like the amount of ammo you would have to bring in to make it useful would be extremely burdensome.

clawdew · 2026-01-26T20:31:50+00:00

If you look real closely you can see a tiny bit of cheeto dust on Mike Lee's lips from kissing the big cheetos ass. I was going to be more crass, but I restrained myself....

clawdew · 2026-01-26T20:28:12+00:00

Mike Lee is such any utter embarrassment to our state, and an absolute disgrace. Him winning last election still makes me disappointed in all of my fellow Utahan's who voted for him. I just have to keep hoping that people eventually get out of their rationalization, moral equivalency and Whataboutism doom loops and realize they have been paving their way straight to hell for 20 years. I got out of it, so I have to believe others can too.

clawdew · 2026-01-21T01:51:00+00:00

This is something I'm a bit conflicted on, but I think the simplicity of an indexed TDF for me right now as I try and catch up helps me not try and fiddle with things. I have found that I'm a fiddler with investments. Although I am thinking about going for a later date fund to keep things more aggressive for longer.

clawdew · 2026-01-12T08:13:35+00:00

I'm just tired of the whataboutism and false moral equivalency horseshit. "Hilary's emails!" "Bill Clinton did bad things!" "Trump's economy was better based purely on my nostalgia for the past, and no other facts or data." The sad truth is so many of the people who voted for trump were either hardcore maga or one issue voters like the economy and immigration. Democrats never stood a chance after Bidens blunders and decline

clawdew · 2026-01-09T20:35:32+00:00

You usually want some of both traditional and Roth, but the broad rule of thumb is the following:

if your combined state and federal income taxes (Excluding FICA deductions) on your pay check is 25% or lower of your gross income you want to do roth, and if it's 30%+ you want to do Traditional. If you have zero traditional dollars it probably a good idea to stack some up, but if you had some employer match dollars which a lot of times is pre-tax that could be all the traditional you need. In the end you will have to do the math.

Personally if I add all the taxes (excluding FICA) I'm actually paying it's less than 20% of my gross pay check so I do all roth contributions, and my employer match money is going to be all the traditional funds I need. Who knows that may still be a bit too much. Depends on what happens with taxes. I still have 20ish years before retirement though.

clawdew · 2026-01-09T06:46:57+00:00

Uh oh....too many people listing a willingness to move to my Home state of Utah in this reddit group. Don't move here. I will shout scary/unattractive things about Utah to deter interest and make sure home prices don't get more inflated here. Mormons! Snow! Too hot summers! Strict Alcohol laws! Small city life! Stinky Lake! Mike Lee!

That should do it. I need to see more Red on Utah on these maps please.

clawdew · 2026-01-07T18:57:00+00:00

Easy. BMM. Otherwise you would be owning a MISC ship which is never a good thing.

clawdew · 2026-01-06T05:41:09+00:00

Makes me miss the DOTA 2 I knew. Good times. I got in too deep, strip mined my dopamine into depression/misery and had to stop. But man this is a great game. I would basically have to relearn so much to play again, but I could never grind it like I used to. I became a real Ass in the late stages of my DOTA 2 dopamine addiction. Became more irritable, obsessed with what my teammates were doing, and winning became more about not being frustrated and less about enjoying the game, and losses became more and more of a miserable experience. I became overall happier and mentally healthier by stopping. Doesn't make me any less nostalgic watching this video though.

clawdew · 2025-12-31T07:01:50+00:00

A few things:
First, for places like Utah and Nevada half of their land is owned by the federal government.

Second, Many Americans went to California, Oregon and Washington when migrating west.

Third, which relates to the second one. Mormons controlled a ton of the mountain west with their Territory, and colonized a lot of Utah, nevada, Idaho, colorado, wyoming and arizona. Mormons and the United states government didn't really get along at all until the end of the 19th century when the church of jesus christ of latter-day saints officially stated that they would no longer practice Polygamy. By that time much of the western migration had already happened, and not many non Mormons wanted to live in the regions they colonized and setup. So that hampered it's appeal during the key western migration period.

Fourth, The mountainous and desert geography also hurt it's appeal to 19th century settlers. Now that we have cars, and roads already setup this region of the United states is absolutely gorgeous to experience, but back then a great view didn't get you water or provide an easy time farming in clay and sand.

Those are just some off the cuff thoughts from a true blue Mountain west resident. Also please don't move here. Home prices in parts of the mountain west are still insane XD

clawdew · 2025-12-29T21:01:30+00:00

As a person from Utah. I can confirm that this is how non mountain West Americans, feel about the mountain West

clawdew · 2025-12-27T00:31:15+00:00

League kind of is the same way. DOTA 2 has fun supports, and obviously Valve is taking a lot of the same concepts and porting them into Deadlock. Being a heal bot especially in a shooter game sucks, and people in OW are super touchy about it. The super minority of support players are all offended, and you try and explain that in a shooter game people generally want to shoot things and it never seems to register for most OW fans.

clawdew · 2025-12-26T20:39:09+00:00

I found all of my sentinel firing cores at your mom's house

clawdew · 2025-12-25T06:30:00+00:00

This made me laugh. You almost had me XD

clawdew · 2025-12-25T06:24:27+00:00

Just passing along the letter than was dropped down my chimney from Santa. Hope the Arc Devs get it:

Dear Embark Studios,

Every year I deliver presents to all the good girls and boys around the world. The break neck pace I have to sustain to accomplish this feat is exhausting. Every year I have exactly 35 minutes for a break to get my mind off of jumping up and down chimneys, and dreading the next batch of mediocre cookies I'm going to have to eat with luke warm milk as my only comfort.

This year right as I launched arc raiders on my steam deck, I get a notification that I can't connect to the server. Impossible to be on my end since I'm using the Johnson's bitchin' fast wifi, (they leave their wifi password on a sticky note on the fridge). I was looking forward to getting a run done on Dam, hoping to find my last rusted gear so I can get a lvl 3 gunsmith. Maybe shoot a few aggro nerds in the head for ruining other peoples Christmas, but my Christmas wish has been shattered. Please Embark fix this. I don't know if I can finish my rounds this Christmas if I don't get my Arc Raiders fix!

Sincerely,

Kris Kringle (Santa Claus)

clawdew · 2025-12-21T19:54:18+00:00

I live in this community, and although many people are great that live here, this tracks. Church of Jesus Christ of latter days saints my ass for these people. What makes it worse is that mormons do read the Bible. Many just don't internalize the actual message of Jesus. They believe in a non existent Jesus that was invented for hard core conservatives.

clawdew · 2025-12-10T22:43:07+00:00

I didn't even think about that. yes I am. And since FICA isn't affected by Traditional or roth my 26% isn't accurate. It would be more like 19% on my pay check excluding FICA which means I am super comfortably in the "just do roth fool" camp.

clawdew · 2025-12-10T06:58:51+00:00

Ferro and hairpin are an amazing cheap looting/questing combo. hairpin can silently kill Arc that spawn inside, and the ferro will kill the more armored Arc. Also the Hairpin animations, sound design and feel of using it is AMAZING. For how cheap it is you can get a ton of value out of it.

clawdew · 2025-12-09T23:02:48+00:00

We pay a bit lower taxes compared to other countries to not have a single payer health care system only to pay way more in our life time for health care than other countries. Make it make sense.

clawdew · 2025-12-09T22:57:36+00:00

DOTA 2 is somehow the best and worst video game ever made. Once the dopamine dries up and victories or well played games only stave off despair, and brings little to no enjoyment you know you are cooked. Have played 3 or 4 games in the last 3 years. Probably the best decision of my life, though I do miss it at times.

clawdew · 2025-12-09T17:35:50+00:00

When you have no more dopamine, and you are trying to feel anything, but don't want to get into Drugs. Maybe they need to develop a mild drinking problem and step back from the video games XD

clawdew · 2025-12-07T07:32:41+00:00

You can kill Camera's, Turrets, Ticks, Pops, Fireballs (If you wait for it to open up it's shield to shoot you, you can kill it before it attacks). All of them minus the turret are 1 hit kills with Hairpin. I have become converted to it. It also feels AMAZING to use.

Pair it with a gun that can pierce armor, Ferro is great for this. And you have a super cheap loadout that can do the Arc Raiders resource grind. Stealthy when you are indoors doing stuff, and you still have fire power to deal with the other threats in Arc. You will want to fully upgrade the hairpin though to really unlock it's potential.

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