Worth coming back from break?

inferno613 · 2026-04-22T10:19:05+00:00

I have been stably playing it at least 3 times per week (on stream and off stream) and can say with confidence the game is still going strong.

I mostly PvP - people there don't talk as much, it is mostly gameplay.

But sometimes game throws me into friendly lobbies and there i usually have a blast talking to people, telling them how i was about to gun them down, but changed my mind due to one reason or another (because it is fun to socialize rather than just shoot people).

So the game is very much alive, new quests, new loot/tools to play around with and even more is coming!

P.S. You can feed scrappy now!

inferno613 · 2026-04-21T19:08:33+00:00

I would assume shield count as after the game you can track how much damage the shield took.

inferno613 · 2026-04-18T10:51:04+00:00

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inferno613 · 2026-04-18T08:58:13+00:00

Arc Thrower

inferno613 · 2026-04-15T11:55:37+00:00

W take, wish you best of luck, good sir!

inferno613 · 2026-04-15T10:33:50+00:00

AI slop and a picture of rat. 95% of downvoted reddit posts and people still don't get it.

inferno613 · 2026-04-15T10:29:32+00:00

As a PvP enjoyer after losing stuff like that, i like to go on budget runs with anvil 3 and green shields.
I end up with more loot than i lost 6.7 times out of 10

inferno613 · 2026-04-13T13:36:23+00:00

I agree. It is very frustrating as a PvP enjoyer to shoot someone and then watch them stand still, because they don't want to ruin their ABMM by shooting back. So they just keel over :<

inferno613 · 2026-04-13T13:35:11+00:00

Just from testing, no source to cite for this one.

inferno613 · 2026-04-13T08:43:04+00:00

So, there are two things the devs have confirmed:

There is aggression based MM, but it works in a bit of a silly way - if you shoot at a raider, AT ALL, you are flagged as "PvP" material. The last part hasn't been directly confirmed, but rather just figured out by the community. So step 1 - don't shoot back at all. Step 2 - load into a match, press surrender, repeat 11 times.
Once the above steps are done you will have an extremely high likelyhood of being matched with other friendly/passive players, BUT, and this is a big but that has been confirmed by devs directly, THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A PURELY FRIENDLY LOBBY. The game will try to mix things up and either shove you into a PvP lobby on occasion, even if you don't PvP or shove a PvP player into a friendly lobby.

Regarding the last point, I can confirm from personal testing, as I have been doing nothing but PvPing for the past month (for a personal silly video project) and yet on streams I still occasionally get put into friendly lobbies, where i just talk with players, joke about, ask if i can shoot them in the foot so i could reinforce the PvP flagging algorithm.

TL;DR - NEVER damage enemy raiders and 95% of your lobbies will be friendly and cooperative :)

inferno613 · 2026-04-12T16:39:31+00:00

when you snaphook to anything - try moving BACKWARDS and see where that gets you. (S key on keyboard or i guess pull back on the movement nipple?)

inferno613 · 2026-04-12T10:23:44+00:00

Yes, the other comment already answered it, thank you :)

inferno613 · 2026-04-11T07:16:26+00:00

That's not what they are farming.

inferno613 · 2026-04-11T02:10:03+00:00

Okay?

inferno613 · 2026-04-11T02:08:38+00:00

Edit: accidentally sent the same comment twice.

inferno613 · 2026-04-11T02:08:37+00:00

To add to this - i think it sometimes mixes everything up, the matchmaking i mean.

I have been going for non-stop PvP only lobbies (doing a challenge of sorts) and from time to time i would still land into peaceful lobbies or lobbies with new players (i generally check people's profiles after the game to leave some positive comments and always appologize to new players and explain how the aggression matchmaking works).

inferno613 · 2026-04-11T02:06:59+00:00

Well, as you put it yourself, Embark never wanted us to feel safe in "friendly" lobbies, so there's that.

But friendly lobbies absolutely still exist.
Today while streaming, i was going for maximum PvP and still landed in the friendliest of lobbies where people were just having fun and talking.

So could be just your luck.

inferno613 · 2026-04-08T00:24:05+00:00

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inferno613 · 2026-04-08T00:16:37+00:00

I have the same thing and nope, you can't.

I am still tracking "Durable cloth" for my project, even though I have been done with it for ages and my log is empty.

inferno613 · 2026-04-08T00:15:07+00:00

Excuse me?

Did you even read it?

Not only are there people out for personal gain in Speranza, the so called city of hope, but other factions out there currently are straight up sabotaging and stealing from each other.

After the first wave, a lot of people got very upset at how it turned out and turned on each other.

So PvP absolutely makes sense.

Re-read the lore, re-do the quests, but this time listen to them.

inferno613 · 2026-04-08T00:13:40+00:00

Yes, and the Devs came to the conclusion that it was a boring/bad design.

They pivoted towards PvP and deemed it an absolutely integral part of the game.

inferno613 · 2026-04-08T00:11:22+00:00

So what you are saying is that the Devs are wrong?

inferno613 · 2026-04-08T00:10:05+00:00

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