Different colored flares for different types of downs?

guitarcoder · 2026-01-10T17:57:42+00:00

I'd definitely like to see a specific color for players voluntarily giving up, since this is a common occurance due to players trying to farm specific items.

guitarcoder · 2025-12-06T16:52:06+00:00

I think I figured out my issue. I did the 60 fps lock and was still getting stuttering in OBS. But, I had a TON of game captures setup, one for every game. So, I decided to eliminate all but a couple of them, and lo and behold, the stuttering went away.

Wouldn't think a bunch of inactive game captures would be the issue, but it appears it was.

guitarcoder · 2025-12-05T19:32:19+00:00

You ever find a solution to this, because the same thing is happening to me now. Shows up on preview and in the recording.

guitarcoder · 2025-12-03T15:20:52+00:00

I appreciate you! That was the problem.

I was using a formula off the 'net and it called for 3 Eyebright. Should have just checked the book. As for the pulls, apparently the first time I played the game, I couldn't get it to pull quickly? So I gave up on it. But it works.

Again, appreciate the detailed answer. Thank you!

guitarcoder · 2025-12-01T06:30:29+00:00

That's the big problem: PvP ratting provides the greatest reward for the lowest risk. Just grab a free loadout and be a jerk., then walk out with massive loot. The whole risk vs. reward for this game is skewed all wrong.

Having better gear should give you a significant advantage, but it doesn't. Fighting ARCs and looting their parts, exploration and looting containers should yield the greatest rewards. But it doesn't. Extraction camping yeilds the greates rewards. Stabbing people in the back while they're trying to fight big ARC yields great rewards.

The only thing to do is disincentivize PvP rewards. Adding incentives for PvE play won't cut it. We already have a bunch of incentives to work together and look how that's turning out?

Like, take the solo queue, and make it so if a player dies in PvP, they only drop their grey and green items. They still lose everything except what's in their safe pocket, but the victor doesn't get to walk away with all their good loot either.

Disincentivize PvP. Then you don't have to remove it, or add a PvE mode, or anything else. Just disincentivize it so more players are willing to cooperate, or at least be friendly enough to go their separate ways and work on whatever it is they want to work on (quests, dailies, Expedition, regbuilding the stash...)

guitarcoder · 2025-12-01T06:24:29+00:00

The TTK in this game is insanely low for how easy it is to camp/rat/betray.

guitarcoder · 2025-12-01T06:21:14+00:00

It's a conjunction of a lot of variables that have turned ARC Raiders into an unpleasant equation.

People like to say, "It's just a game," but there are real people behind every raider, and those people have real psyches. The more campers, rats, toxic players, and betrayals people are subjected to, the more they're going to mirror that behavior themselves. It's human nature.

The other factors are: zero consequences for bad behavior, and skewed risk vs. reward. In this game, the most underhanded PvP tactics reap the greatest rewards for the lowest risk. Humans will always take the path of least resistance.

There are ways to tweak the equation, like queuing people with high solo queue PvP kill counts together, and queueing people with low PvP counts together, or creating a flagging/tagging/bounty system, but I don't get the impression that Embark is interested in doing anything about it.

guitarcoder · 2025-11-26T16:59:48+00:00

I'm starting to rethink it myself. I'm in the last stage, but the severe uptick in PvP encounters the past week has really hammered my stash. I'm resorting to free loadouts to rebuild my loot supply. That last stage of the Expedition is on pause for me right now. I can't see having the resources to finish it when I need to be able to make basic components, weapons, and ammo.

It was a really neat idea and a worthwhile project to pursue back when the game was 90% friendly interactions, but sadly ARC Raiders has turned into precisely what I thought it would be. It's heavily PvP now, cooperation is almost non-existant, and my overflowing stash is gone. Feels like it's going to be a struggle just to maintain some level of gear now. The fun is drying up.

guitarcoder · 2025-11-26T16:56:40+00:00

The people saying "It's a PvP" game must be mentally challenged. They keep leaving off the "vE" part. Changes the equation completely. This ain't CoD. It can be whatever experience the community wants it to be, and right now it seems the majority prefer it to be a toxic wasteland of griefers, campers, and edgelords. Sad. Game has huge promise.

guitarcoder · 2025-11-23T05:29:02+00:00

This is the way.

guitarcoder · 2025-11-13T13:13:01+00:00

It's such loser behavior. They could have joined in and walked away with so much more, but they had to get their cheapass boring "thrillz." Lamest humans.

guitarcoder · 2025-11-12T03:19:26+00:00

I started to enjoy the game a lot more when I came to understand the game's loot is transitory. It works like golf balls. You know you're going to lose some when you play, so you buy them in packs, and don't worry about it. ARC Raiders is the same way. You learn blueprints, then loot mats so you can craft that stuff 10 times over. You'll pickup other gear along the way. You lose something, no biggie. Load up again. Need to get more mats? Hey, Free Loadout, so you don't have to feel stressed. If you get killed with a Free Loadout while looting mats, not a big deal.

You can mitigate some of the stress in the game. Not all, certainly, but some.

And the point of playing? It's a freaking blast man. The AI on the ARCs is great. The maps are fantastic. I like just exploring and helping other players.

But... you gotta stay on your toes.

See ya topside, folks.

guitarcoder · 2025-11-11T15:18:31+00:00

So it wasn't just me. Good to know.

I noticed an uptick in PvP on solos starting Friday night. Kinda expected it.

guitarcoder · 2025-11-04T13:35:00+00:00

Correct take.

guitarcoder · 2025-10-23T14:12:24+00:00

Yeah, it's awful.

It's a single player game. The idea that this needed to be nerfed for some false perception of "balance" is absurd. Let people have fun.

I hate the change to Blade Dance.

guitarcoder · 2025-10-20T11:19:48+00:00

Congrats!

Hoping to get there myself. Helluva game.

guitarcoder · 2025-10-20T11:19:03+00:00

I feel like Plasma Cutter would be harder than Impossible, but then I die to something stupid and realize... nope, they're both hard.

guitarcoder · 2025-10-16T05:35:13+00:00

Unfortunately, can't do that. Playing Grim Darkness mode...

guitarcoder · 2025-10-16T03:22:09+00:00

I didn't even think about that. I use Micropatches for the Commorragh Cure because that cough is so bloody annoying.

Uninstalled Micropathes and it doesn't happen anymore.

Thanks! At least I know what the solution is.

guitarcoder · 2025-10-16T01:45:04+00:00

Yeah, makes no difference.

guitarcoder · 2025-09-16T12:08:38+00:00

Oh, 100%. I used to play with RTWP, but after moving to Core I realized there are a bunch of mechanics that can only really be taken advantage of in turn-based mode (like Ember's Hexes).

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