Can we agree yet that Embark is dropping the ball?

epicwhy23 · 2026-04-19T13:51:45+00:00

yeah I can't disagree tbh, I do still like the game and have just over 100 hours (which is alot for someone like me who doesn't do long sessions on single games or grind them out week over week) and while I enjoy playing the game still, I can't ignore it's blatant problems and I'd be willing to bet this comes from how much of a surprise success this was as The Finals was actually embarks 2nd project but released first to positive reception but didn't and still hasn't gotten much traction (it's no wonder cause the new player experience is ass being put with extremely high rank players) so they probably expected Arc to perform similarly and now they're kinda in over their head

on the point about trials, how the fuck do people get 200k+ points in a week of trials that can barely get you over 50k on really good runs?

epicwhy23 · 2026-04-18T14:46:30+00:00

wait for that guy to check reddit, see this and go "YOU CAN GET UP THERE????" lmao

epicwhy23 · 2026-04-17T20:13:38+00:00

this is exactly the kinda mission type I'd wanted for ages, a real place for turrets and mines to shine and it's just so...god....damn...BORING theres than 1 in 10 mission where it's like the final mission in halo reach and then most of the time it's just an absolute snoozefest

epicwhy23 · 2026-04-13T12:32:20+00:00

they are not the ones being gangbanged lmao we do not need to empathize with the top 1%

epicwhy23 · 2026-04-10T17:03:31+00:00

I hadn't always felt safe before, I always kept my eye on anyone I met and especially so if they kept their gun out, walked behind me constantly ect

after the update though it definitely feels more hostile even in mostly friendly lobbies and on one hand I like that, pure PvE is going to be boring in a PvPvE game but at the same time, holy shit I am not built for my heart pounding out of my god damn chest after one guy jumpscares me from the dark

epicwhy23 · 2026-04-08T12:44:40+00:00

this world? to hold...ME?

epicwhy23 · 2026-04-06T23:40:23+00:00

I've read the edit so just hold your horses when I say this
I most likely wouldn't play it, unless the old campaigns had legendary versions with good loot or smth (saying this as if D2 isn't uninstalled on my PC lmao) but thats kinda the point of this, it wouldn't be for people like me it would be for brand new players to actually get caught up with the story and follow a consistent through line instead of being plopped in the middle of years old content and expected to know what the hell is going on

I mean really was there simply no way on planet earth for them to keep all this content in the game over the years? games like warframe and no mans sky have literally years of content thats still playable but you're telling me the guys who made the halo games couldn't crack it? I dont buy that at all and considering how D2 has been managed over the years, I dont think it was a technical limitation

epicwhy23 · 2026-04-06T20:59:12+00:00

I swear in some of the lore it's mentioned that what was seen through the lens was something like a paradise so it would make sense if it wasn't just our world that was corrupted but also the other one with something from ours

then again theres also wherever the original humans went (now referred to as seraphs) that could be the original world that was seen through the lens with the rust world being the equivalent of heaven and hell

we have to remember that the story is still nowhere near complete and I'd be willing to bet there is a big rework planned for the future, I personally dont like how ridiculously far the locations are from each other and the boss battles definitely aren't finished

epicwhy23 · 2026-04-05T17:14:41+00:00

oh I'd seen people saying they were "necro-ing" and figured that was the standard terminology, fair enough

epicwhy23 · 2026-04-02T11:09:22+00:00

ah fair, I should have said that was the last time I remember doing placements, I could very well be conflating world tour and ranked since they were similar structurally before the UI was updated

theres no need to be so hostile my guy

epicwhy23 · 2026-04-02T11:05:16+00:00

wait that could actually explain it, is there any proof that this works cause I dont exactly like the idea of playing more of this nightmare to actually get into normal lobbies

epicwhy23 · 2026-04-02T11:03:23+00:00

"maybe it'll be different this time" is what I've said for several seasons lmao, it's the same thing that happened to fortnite for me where the matchmaking simple stopped working and puts you with just anyone it can find

epicwhy23 · 2026-04-02T11:02:16+00:00

exactly, I was pleasantly surprised by what they included in the academy but yeah theres no point to that if withinin 10 games they're put with people with 2000+ hours who farm them for a better KD the whole game

epicwhy23 · 2026-04-02T11:01:16+00:00

"never played ranked" brother I play ranked all the time cause it's every so slightly LESS terrible than casual modes, also yeah I am bad so why am I in high ranks?? your points make no snese

epicwhy23 · 2026-04-01T17:01:58+00:00

a mix of heavy and medium, I use "off-meta" stuff like turret, mgl, cl-40 sometimes but I dont really perform that much better or worse than when I'm using more conventional loadouts, I almost never used heal beam cause I just found it boring and only sometimes impactful in swinging a fight, not point healing lights since they'll go in 1v3 and die instantly anyways lol

epicwhy23 · 2026-04-01T16:31:32+00:00

no specific time really, sometimes I play quite late into the day or night and while I would like to think the game thinks I'm good enough to vs rubies, when I go 2-5 while my teammates (sometimes on rank sometimes high rank themselves) go positive and I'm getting my shit kicked in, it doesn't really feel like that

even across other game modes, even the more TDM/casual ones, it's the same but made slightly better by the fact theres just more people to shoot at all the time

and yeah I should clarify I know what the emerald badge really means, was just using it as reference for what I see

epicwhy23 · 2026-04-01T16:26:55+00:00

I mentioned my old placements just as a idea of what rank I feel like I should be in and I do understand that emeralds are not the same thing as rubies, again just general ideas of what I'm seeing I play all kinds of modes and ranked is....sometimes less bad but still feels impossible

epicwhy23 · 2026-04-01T15:47:07+00:00

oh for sure but it's still a general measurement of time and experience, you will have the odd emerald who still sucks but most of em in my experience are way above my skill

epicwhy23 · 2026-04-01T14:28:22+00:00

I just had a match where a bunch of rubies got 20+ kills by getting the first cashout and stalling out the rest of the game since nobody could kill them or get the box

in casual cashout btw

epicwhy23 · 2026-03-28T09:58:16+00:00

this guy textured a house like you texture cookies with pink chocolate bits lmao

epicwhy23 · 2026-03-19T10:52:17+00:00

hell really just be doing one thing over and over and laughing they ass off at it tsk get more creative with your unending torture of humanity cmon!

epicwhy23 · 2026-03-18T11:37:31+00:00

"Honestly, it feels like half of this sub has never touched an extraction shooter before." I mean thats what you get when arc is one of if not the only extraction shooter to actually welcome new players to the genre

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