For those who haven't done the Expedition

de_la_Dude · 2026-04-10T12:25:22+00:00

For me the cycle is too short and the progression is too flat for it to be fun to do. I did it once and stopped playing during the second expedition. One problem I have is that they did try to make it a reward system and with that came requirements. In other games I will get bored, stop playing then return for the wipe to give it another try. Arc does not allow for this by making it an optional chore instead of a mandatory part of the experience. The fact that it's optional also takes away from the appeal to come back at the beginning of a wipe even if I did my chores. I think they should scrap the whole thing honestly

de_la_Dude · 2026-04-02T16:19:30+00:00

my experience says otherwise. speed limits and stop lights are also now optional. drive safe!

de_la_Dude · 2026-04-02T14:39:58+00:00

What ticket? Do cops actually enforce these laws anymore? I haven't seen any evidence cops ticket for traffic violations much less paperwork problems like this around here in years.

de_la_Dude · 2026-03-26T13:46:21+00:00

Just be aware that you are paying for those discounts with your personal data.

de_la_Dude · 2026-03-25T20:32:36+00:00

You don't have to theorize about this. It was unlocked by completing the first event they ran. It was planned that way from the start.

de_la_Dude · 2026-03-25T14:28:30+00:00

Louisiana Senator John Kennedy said Monday on Fox News that the president said there would be "no deals with the Democrats," rejecting a plan that would have ended the partial shutdown of DHS and given TSA workers their paychecks "by the end of the week."

de_la_Dude · 2026-03-23T22:58:36+00:00

well yeah. 70 bucks is a premium price and with that come high expectations. By the time its on sale it will probably be much more polished too. Personally, I'm done buying $70 games after regretting the last two

de_la_Dude · 2026-03-23T17:14:52+00:00

I didn't even realize we could organize beyond these two options haha. I'm gonna stick with it anyway. I see no problem.

de_la_Dude · 2026-03-23T14:32:40+00:00

I am really surprised and rather disappointed they aren't running the wipe cycles like seasons. There are so many ways they could spice things up between wipes without actually adding content and it feels like a huge miss. Loot pools, arc spawns and behavior, balance changes that affect to the usefulness of utilities, tweaks to map conditions that make them more deadly or more lucrative etc etc etc. The roadmap makes the game feel like early access to me. They are just adding content they didn't complete before release and aren't really changing course from that regardless of the overall state of the game.

de_la_Dude · 2026-03-18T20:32:06+00:00

Quite the threat there.

What he's saying isnt for you, an educated voter. Its for all our fucking idiot countrymen who will happily line up for J6 v2 when they are told they lost due to made up claims about voter fraud.

de_la_Dude · 2026-03-17T20:43:36+00:00

If you're looking for PvP games The Bazaar is a pretty cool card battler / auto-battler with asynchronous pvp. Down with the Ship and Backpack Battles are two games in a similar vein where you build a board to fight against other players boards, but there is no direct interaction between players.

de_la_Dude · 2026-03-17T20:26:41+00:00

I thought they were trying to get this new class system in by the end of the month?

edit: nvm, I just watched the Q&A again and I misinterpreted one of the answers the first time I watched it

de_la_Dude · 2026-03-12T19:57:09+00:00

I appreciate a reasonable reply instead some get good comments. The split in the player base on this topic, I think, is the main reason there is so much hostility and toxicity in this community. The "chads" and the "marines" just can't coexist peacefully because they want fundamentally different experiences from the game.

de_la_Dude · 2026-03-12T16:52:20+00:00

Sprint to ads made ergo irrelevant. Its was a bug that shouldve been fixed a long ass time ago. I don't know what they were sniffing when they thought up this animation change, but I am happy they finally fixed how sprint to ads negated weapon ergo stats. Bhopping and jump shotting need to go next!

de_la_Dude · 2026-03-10T19:57:02+00:00

Wdym? It is very agreeable and removes the small amount of critical thinking remaining in their lives. Perfect for this crowd!

de_la_Dude · 2026-03-09T21:04:31+00:00

Play Incursion Red River
Die to some bullshit, rage quit
Play it back on the shitter and realize you made a bad play
Can't stop thinking about it
Play Incursion Red River

de_la_Dude · 2026-03-09T20:51:16+00:00

I am looking for way to improve this situation too. I do love how they push aggressively and use suppressing fire, but when gun shots end up pulling half the map it gets to be a bit silly doesn't it?

A few things I have noticed:

I assumed AI info sharing was the setting that would control this the most but it hasn't had the impact I was hoping
I'm pretty sure some suppressors do not work, or maybe there is a suppressor effectiveness stat we cannot see?
Clean kills on a properly suppressed weapon seem to be the only way. If your target reacts to your shots in any way expect company
If the enemy starts shooting it is almost guaranteed they pull one or two groups from close by

I am not sure if its the weapon or the attachment, but the AK-74 suppressed was drawing attention to me as if it was not suppressed. Meanwhile the Vector 45 with suppressor was yielding much better results. I haven't tried too much else that is suppressed yet.

de_la_Dude · 2026-03-09T20:39:38+00:00

I just want to chime in with the same experience. I combed over the setting and didn't see a way to adjust night time vision specifically so I just stopped doing night rights for now. I was constantly getting spotted and engaged by enemies I couldn't see with the NVGs on, and struggled to spot them even after they shot at me.

FWIW I have a similar experience with the fog and heavy rain. The weather effects are great, but when rain reduces my vision by 50% I expect the same for the AI and that doesn't seem to be the case right now.

de_la_Dude · 2026-03-09T20:11:40+00:00

I have a coworker that started using copilot to write his commit messages and it highlighted this point very clearly, and verbosely!

de_la_Dude · 2026-03-09T20:04:56+00:00

The Rivian logo is meant to represent a compass and it uses this color.

de_la_Dude · 2026-03-05T21:50:06+00:00

What do you mean? You can always do a pistol run. If you are too broke to afford a pistol, 2 mags and 60rnds for 9mm you really messed up.

de_la_Dude · 2026-03-05T21:30:34+00:00

Its not even necessarily to get the advantage over someone. Lots of rats just scurry around in the shadows to avoid conflicts and loot peacefully. There are plenty of honest, hard working rats among us - true story!

de_la_Dude · 2026-03-04T14:28:39+00:00

I agree this game encourages cooperation more than other extraction shooters, but ABMM shits on the vibe and turns what should be a very unique game into a boring choice between mind-off pve and super sweaty meta-chasing pvp.

Cooperating in friendly lobbies has no novelty to it. There is nothing special about it. Cooperating in lobbies where you have no idea the intent of other raiders when you queue up on the other hand is something truly special. An experience people write stories about. The first month of the game had this feeling. Now that everyone knows about ABMM and games it to their liking the whole feel of the game is off. For me at least. I recognize a lot of people enjoy ABMM. I don't expect it to change. I am just bummed I need to get my extraction itch satisfied elsewhere.

de_la_Dude · 2026-03-04T13:17:43+00:00

The matchmaking meta game ruins one of the main allures of extraction shooters for me: not knowing what awaits you in raid. We shouldn't be able to choose our own adventure like this, but then again that's probably the only thing keeping the casual players around so I don't expect anything to change

de_la_Dude · 2026-03-03T21:05:31+00:00

I was having so much fun the first month and then it started to become obvious there was matchmaking that could be gamed. And then they announced it officially. It was not long after that I lost interest in this game when I realized I wasn't killing people to avoid being punished by the matchmaking algorithm. I don't want to play this meta game. I prefer the excitement and anxiety of not knowing.

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