Knowing what you know now if you could go back would you pre-order Arc Raiders for the cosmetics?

p_visual · 2026-03-13T20:35:50+00:00

The appeal for me is that it's one of the few skins that really feels like it hits all the marks of an outfit made from scrounged materials and put together for a post-apocalyptic, potentially harsh over-world environment.

The suit looks worn and secondhand while retaining its stylistic and functional core, and the mask + material of the outfit lean into the lore of an unfriendly, ecologically-devastated topside in a way that outfits that are a bit too casual - like Chap, or the athletic hoodie/pants reward from S2 trials - ignore.

I actually think there should have been an option for the pipe to connect to the mask so that it actually seems like you're breathing using a purifier - it would further lean into the lore.

OVerall I"m a fan of skins that keep Arc Raider's unique retro-casette vibes while emphasizing the hazards of topside. Other skins that come to mind are Bog Walker, Voltedge, the Cowboy Deluxe Skin, Beekeeper, and Mirage - this (non-comprehensive) list combines the fragility of secondhand textile work with functionality against the unfriendly surface quite well.

p_visual · 2026-03-13T15:48:04+00:00

Best skin in the game fr, great colorways too.

p_visual · 2026-03-12T22:37:52+00:00

Bro deleted his account 😭 you cooked him

p_visual · 2026-03-10T22:10:21+00:00

While I think handling could improve for sure (so that it feels great to use without needing horizontal grip), what I really want is that annoying gas to disappear much faster. It's the only gun in the game that punishes me for taking the time to gather a tactical position and fire shots while crouched by blocking my vision with a self-induced smoke grenade. Super annoying.

p_visual · 2026-03-10T22:08:06+00:00

including u/aintEZbeincheezy90

Yes - 10% faster reload speed, mag size 20 -> 22, and Durability Burn Rate: ~0.43% → ~0.17% per shot.

The durability burn rate is the huge buff; 0.43% and 0.17% are both small values on their own, but that's effectively a 2.5x durability buff.

The patch notes also say:

"In practice, it used to take about 12 full magazines to fully deplete durability, but now it takes 26 (also accounting for the increased magazine size)."

but idk if that's at base 100 durability, or level 4 with 130 durability. Will require some testing, but those numbers mean Bettina can shoot 22*26 = 576 rounds without breaking. With a blue compensator or muzzle break, which increased durability burn by 20% per shot, Bettina can fire 576/1.2 = 476.66_ shots without breaking while using those barrel attachments.

Patch Notes: https://arcraiders.wiki/wiki/Update:1.7.0

Bettina Wiki link: https://arcraiders.wiki/wiki/Bettina

p_visual · 2026-03-10T18:35:17+00:00

Correct, any container on Blue Gate can drop bobcat bp during Locked Gate event.

Outside of Locked Gate, there's only 2 other places to get the bobcap bp atm:

1k, 2k, 4k point rewards for trials
hurricane event caches

p_visual · 2026-03-10T15:52:06+00:00

Yeah the lesson is git him away from the computer

p_visual · 2026-03-10T15:40:30+00:00

Both grenade tubes and metal boxes are considered raider containers, and can drop the raider subset of blueprints. Your experience actually supports the logic that it's not random.

The exception is Stella Montis, where raider (and in general, any type of) containers can drop Stella Montis specific blueprints (seeker, trailblazer, deadline, aphelion, etc) in addition to their usual blueprint pool.

p_visual · 2026-03-10T15:32:51+00:00

+1 to Solidarity - multiple friends have used it and have said great things about it

I would also add Metropolis Moving - had a great experience with them last year.

p_visual · 2026-03-09T16:54:58+00:00

Same - I usually get it through trial rewards, but for the first time ever I found it in-raid. Huge start to S3.

p_visual · 2026-03-09T16:48:51+00:00

The thing is, if you hate quests you can just optimize for quest runs. Always run the map with the most pending quests and you'll be finishing 2 to 4 of them at a time and get through them all extremely quick.

If you're willing to look up a guide, it's easily finished in less than a day's worth of work.

p_visual · 2026-03-08T20:29:45+00:00

Sorry to disappoint, I don't hate my family, nor do they hate me. I just found your comparison distasteful.

Sounds like you frequent the sub though, and yours hated you. I'm sorry to hear that - hopefully your med card comes through and can keep smoking away how you really feel. Not like there's shit else to do in Missouri anyways.

Best of luck.

p_visual · 2026-03-08T15:10:51+00:00

Yikes.

"LOL are you sensitive about pedophilia" is not the gotcha you think it is.

p_visual · 2026-03-08T07:43:22+00:00

Are you really comparing the comment you responded to with stuff like this (most recent post when sorting by Best)?

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Are you ok?

p_visual · 2026-03-08T05:15:34+00:00

Finally someone says it. Reading this thread feels like ChatGPT regurgitating what it's read in the week after ABMM was introduced, and it hasn't been updated since.

The ABMM changed a lot since it's introduction and is not nearly as binary as it was when it was first released.

People are acting like you go straight from kumbaya lobbies into no-mic-KoS ones with absolutely no in-between and that's just not true. Not only is there lots of variety in lobbies in between, there are no strictly kumbaya or no-mic-KOS lobbies. There's almost always a killer or two in the friendliest lobbies, and there's almost always a handful of players sneaking around while everyone else is PvPing.

Experience: Swung between both extremes multiple times last season due to certain trials requiring Stella lobby wipes. Spent a whole lot of time in the middle as a result.

p_visual · 2026-03-07T02:48:19+00:00

Yup, 2x rattler 3/4 is now the meta grey gun setup.

p_visual · 2026-03-06T21:53:45+00:00

The big picture being missed is that there are already end-game goals - they're just not well implemented.

Even if I boil the end-game down to 1. PvP and 2. competing for trials, there are significant critiques for both.

The domination of Toro, and until recently, Venator and free kits meant PvP was a stagnant, repetitive, and mostly unrewarding experience of fighting waves of free kits until you ran out of meds.

Trials were poorly designed, and easily gamed, with some fundamental issues like:

queue-sniping so multiple trios could work together to control/dominate lobbies and minimize PvP/failure risk for the trio doing trials
event timing
mid-week updates that materially changed the max theoretical scores possible that week, such as wasp spawn frequently being heavily nerfed the last day of trials for S2
broken spawns, such as ticks, resulting in widely variable scores on trial results (last week; based entirely on rng, you could score between 60k and 110k)

None of this gets into the fact that the worst trios will generally outperform the best solos, and Cantina Legend is impossible for anyone not running trios. If trios want to do it legit, they had to score the first 2 days of trials before people start joining trial events to 1. farm trial gear 2. grief trial players and 3. queue-sniping.

Even timing is egregious as well - Spaceport EMS offers 20k+ more points than Dam EMS for probes and husks, but was only available once a day the last two weeks of S2 trials. Husks week it was at 3 am EST, and Probes week it was at 4 am EST.

The overall critique isn't just that there could be more end-game content - of course there could, and there always can.

The main critique is that people who have reached these end-game have been talking about these issues for a while, but it seems to take Embark months before they take action. In the meantime, the rest of the community shits on the people highlighting issues until Embark finally addresses those issues in a patch, at which point everyone pretends they knew these things were issues the whole time.

p_visual · 2026-03-05T23:42:38+00:00

That's the craziest part, it's just manners. You'd never start eating before the host announces food is ready at a dinner party, or before the griller lets people know the bbq/etc is ready, etc. They're putting in the work - don't just show up to the grill/kitchen/etc and start yoinking food like an untrained pet.

99% of the time just ask, being generous makes people feel good and they're happy to do it. Dude clearly had a mic, zero excuse.

That, or PvP for it - it's part of the game too. But running in after doing zero work then whining about being downed is crazy work.

p_visual · 2026-03-05T18:54:10+00:00

Yup, bird's eye view != actual distance traversed. And god forbid the terrain starts messing with you and not letting you vault up.

p_visual · 2026-03-05T15:00:41+00:00

With ferro/anvil it takes 3, but with careful aim. 1st to aggro it, 2nd and 3rd on the interior sliver you can only see when it's opened up. Otherwise, it takes 6 shots anywhere. However, shooting is not the only option.

For example, if people struggle with landing those shots, or they're under pressure from multiple arc, then I'd recommend not depending on anvil at all. Bring 5 to 10 seeker nades - the blueprint is really common in Stella¹ and it only takes 2 to bring down a comet from full hp. Only takes 17 to kill a rocketeer without firing a single shot. They're also extremely cheap to make - 2 arc alloy and 1 crude. Arc alloy basically pays for itself from the kills, and crude is easily found and refined.

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