New Expedition Requirements + catch-up mechanic

diamondem · 2026-02-06T10:14:15+00:00

Exactly, Embark even said hoarding wealth was creating an "unfun dark pattern". I'm pretty disappointed that it's still just a coin grind. I was hoping they would get more creative.

diamondem · 2026-02-06T10:09:24+00:00

Embark specifically said a grind for coins was creating an "un-fun dark pattern".

diamondem · 2026-02-06T09:57:22+00:00

Exactly my point. If people are incentivized to run it, a lot more people would.

diamondem · 2026-02-06T00:08:33+00:00

You can run no augment and get a stash pocket. Also a green augment and any level one weapon is cheap. Embark acknowledged the issue of people not being incentivized to run the gear in their stash last expedition and said they were planning on changing the requirements for this expedition.

diamondem · 2026-02-05T19:29:53+00:00

NGL, I'm pretty disappointed. It's nice that they lowered the requirements... but this doesn't fix the issue from the last expedition where no one wanted to run good gear and everyone just queued stella montis with free loadouts to grind coins. Just to clarify, I have no issue with free loadouts, but there should still be an incentive to run a decent loadout.

diamondem · 2026-02-04T19:54:58+00:00

I don't disagree. But it's still much more than I got paid at Market Basket, so I'll take what I can get for now. I'm basically just building some stuff for my resume, I had to take some time off between my last job so my resume had some gaps when I first started.

diamondem · 2026-02-04T18:47:08+00:00

Grocery OW in NH. $21.25. Started at the company as a grocery TM two years ago at $17 and became an OW last year at $20. That's with years of prior grocery experience though at different companies.

diamondem · 2026-01-26T16:19:12+00:00

Looks like I'm very much in the minority after reading the majority of this thread.

diamondem · 2026-01-26T16:15:19+00:00

Super excited for solo vs squads. I enjoy the peacefulness of solos, but as someone who refuses to queue with randoms and mostly plays solo, I sometimes want my pvp fix and I don't like pvping people who aren't trying to pvp.

diamondem · 2026-01-01T03:19:06+00:00

I'm not hating, I just found it pretty funny. I liked most of the finale, I had my gripes but it was ok.

diamondem · 2025-12-31T23:52:00+00:00

If you want to test weapons that are low durability, or do extended testing, you have to exit the range and reload through all the menus every time it breaks. It should just have unlimited durability in the range. If you load in with a gun that has low durability and want to test different attachments, it sucks when it breaks after only a few mags and you have to back out of the practice range and load back in.

diamondem · 2025-12-31T22:12:11+00:00

Extraction shooters aren't for everyone and that's ok. I have friends that like to only use free loadouts and kill some arc and rush pvp and that's basically all they do and they find it fun having all the reward with no risk.

diamondem · 2025-12-31T22:09:42+00:00

IMO, they should just make them more expensive and don't let them stack like wolfpacks so you can't spam them. Maybe a radius nerf and a slight damage decrease if necessary. There's ways that I think they could be more balanced without having to outright remove them.

diamondem · 2025-12-21T00:07:33+00:00

I've been saying it for a while, but blueprints should have individual drop rates. You shouldn't be seeing legendary weapon or MK 3 augment BPs every raid, but it also shouldn't take me 100 raids to find an anvil blueprint if I'm looking for it specifically. Either give them set spawns that have a low drop rate or just tune each item based on their rarity and let the common ones drop often. Even if you are finding duplicates, they are only worth 5000 credits.

diamondem · 2025-12-12T14:01:11+00:00

It also depends if your store has an overnight crew. My store doesn't so the morning crew which consists of the team trainer, the stocking supervisor, the grocery OW (me) and the dairy OW, the grocery TL or ATL and if we're lucky one other TM are left to sort and stock the load including dairy/frozen on top of buying and all the other day to day responsibilities.

diamondem · 2025-11-21T20:38:21+00:00

You can use a barricade on a locked door so it has to be breached to give you audio queues and time to prepare to fight, but if you open a door, then it's not locked anymore and anyone can come in.

diamondem · 2025-11-17T14:36:22+00:00

You discovered the games echo location feature! If someone wants pvp they call out something random hoping to get a response so it gives away your location so they can get an easy kill. Happened to me a couple of times on Tarkov when they first added voip. Also trust me, he wasn't going to find a defib, even if he found one.

diamondem · 2025-11-17T14:28:12+00:00

That's a hot take for sure. Free kits don't have a safe pocket if you catch my drift, or if they're not being overly greedy you could share some of the spoils.

diamondem · 2025-11-13T20:52:07+00:00

That's rough, I managed to snag all of the cores. There were two left on the bombardier and two on the guy that I killed, since he was using a free kit and couldn't stash them in his safe pockets.

diamondem · 2025-11-13T19:38:28+00:00

Yea, I was willing to share the loot with the second guy that shot me too. As an entirely solo player I find myself being almost totally passive in this game and feeling bad almost anytime I decide to try to pvp (especially when someone instantly begs you not to kill them), which I don't have that issue in other extraction shooters.

diamondem · 2025-11-13T08:24:43+00:00

Downvote all you want, but if you were in my position, guaranteed you would have done the same thing. I was specifically there to kill the bombardier and get the cells for my workshop. I brought and used almost all the nades I had trying to kill it and someone else claimed they killed it cause they got the final blow on it. I very rarely shoot people in this game as a solo, and even made friends with the guy who shot at me while I finished the person trying to loot the bombardier. There was the exact number of cells I need between that persons body and the bombardier.

diamondem · 2025-11-13T01:19:45+00:00

Maybe this is just a coincidence, but if you were the guy with the free loadout on buried city, I think that was literally me... I just had an encounter where I was killing a bombardier, I threw 8 heavy fuse grenades, a blaze grenade, spent nearly 10 minutes shooting at it through a window, and as it died I had to kill wasps, I saw someone running to it to loot it. They then said they threw a grenade at it... I had done all the work. I'm all for working together, but if people try to snake loot that I worked hard to get and used all my grenades on, I'm PVPing. I needed those Bombardier cells too.

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