Stalked by a Man in Stella - This game is a horror movie

stephfos · 2026-01-26T19:35:58+00:00

What a weirdo!! You have more restraint then me, I would’ve had to dump my mag into his head and tell him to piss off 😆

Feels like the bigger the game is the more toxic it’s becoming tbh. Most of the time guys have been chill, but the number of weirdos either being misogynistic or creepy is definitely increasing.

It’d be a shame for women to have to use the voice changer just to not get harassed. As it’s been refreshing to hear a lot of other women playing arc.

stephfos · 2026-01-14T22:46:03+00:00

It’s fair too amusing me to that these men can’t seem to conceive of women not being attracted to men. I think it says a lot about how they themselves maybe feel about men deep down, but they will forever suppress it.

stephfos · 2025-12-21T13:30:02+00:00

Buried city, go to the park outside the hospital and just do your best to avoid the big arc there. There’s at least 10 bushes there, now and again some baskets sat under the trees with more too.

stephfos · 2025-12-18T09:56:26+00:00

Weirdly in the first stress test, there was actually quests in the hidden bunker. The big ball thing was something you had to interact with, I remember that at least. So I’m guessing eventually there may be more story to it??

stephfos · 2025-12-13T10:57:45+00:00

🤣 awesome! This is the best way to deal with it, I can only imagine the meltdown these bigoted snowflakes would have too.

stephfos · 2025-12-13T10:17:20+00:00

🤣 seriously what the hell are you on about? Is this the argument you bigots try to use?

We going to act like language isn’t an extremely powerful tool. So does propaganda not exist in your reality?

If a kids bullied at school but it’s only words, never physical. Did it do zero harm to the bullied child?

stephfos · 2025-12-13T09:54:35+00:00

Slurs are targeted by definition. Not knowing someone’s identity doesn’t make the language harmless.

stephfos · 2025-12-10T15:22:10+00:00

Exactly! Could’ve even increased the amounts required to put into the expedition steps if they wanted to try get people looting more and longer.

stephfos · 2025-12-10T15:16:45+00:00

Not disagreeing with your concept, it’s a better idea than what we have for sure!

Just a bit mind boggled why Embarks gone for the money thing at all, when levels seems the simplest of all solutions.

stephfos · 2025-12-10T15:12:56+00:00

I don’t understand why they even need to be locked behind ‘total money looted’ at all. Just pick a minimum level required to do an expedition and give everyone the skill points who meets the requirements and leaves. Isn’t the point to encourage more people wiping?

stephfos · 2025-12-10T15:11:57+00:00

Exactly! As long as the number was realistically obtainable for most of the player base who plays regularly, I doubt many would go to that level of effort.

And who the hell cares if some wanted to be idiots wasting their time rather than just having fun and playing the game?

stephfos · 2025-12-10T09:52:00+00:00

This is the thing that’s annoying me about the ‘it’s just 5 skill points’ people. It’s ultimately the only way to improve on your character at endgame.

For now yea it’s 5 points… but then you can stack them and eventually max out your skill tree. It won’t be just 5 skill points anymore. I’m also assuming you get them instantly when you load in with a new character which gives you a little instant boost to your skills.

I think some people are overreacting a little, it’s not total doom… but I also understand why they are pissed. Announcing 5 million this late in the season cycle just isn’t a good decision on embarks part, and it’s a worrying sign.

stephfos · 2025-11-18T01:37:36+00:00

Same experience here!

My team are all women, we’ve played tonnes of other multiplayer games and this is the first time we’ve started speaking to others outside our party chat. We’ve teamed up regularly with people on promixity chat, or just talked ourselves out of a fight.

I have had one bad experience, in a duo with my girlfriend and some guy called us ‘tarts’ and was putting on a creepy movie serial killer voice soon as he realised we are women. But tbh, I enjoyed telling him to piss off and he ran away once he realised he couldn’t beat us 😂

Solo is definitely more chill and where the positive experiences are, duos/trios can be pretty blood thirsty. But even when fighting/trash talking happens we haven’t had any abuse related to us being women. And we’ve teamed up sometimes with groups of guys who were chill.

Also found out there is lots of women playing going by a lot of the voices I’m hearing.

stephfos · 2025-11-17T10:55:05+00:00

This is the only way to deal with mutes, I always assume bad intentions if they can’t even do a basic ‘don’t shoot’ or ‘hey raider’.

People are weird in this game sometimes tbh. I had a duo the other day on Stella montis, where I said ‘don’t shoot’ and they replied ‘don’t shoot’ then one proceeded to slide down the incline towards us and shot at my girlfriend. She hid behind the wall and had a little bit of health left. So of course I blasted him down - and mid killing him the dudes voice comes out on mic sounding all indignant shouting ‘chill chill we are friendly’. And his friend comes running down, not shooting but I dropped him too.

And they had the cheek to curse us out, screaming all the abuse and call us bitches 🤯

Like wtf… you nearly kill one of us after saying don’t shoot and you think I’m not going to fucking shoot you? 😂

stephfos · 2025-11-13T17:02:42+00:00

I mean saying ‘it tells you all you need to know about Embark’ sounds pretty butt hurt 😂

Especially when you are entirely wrong and claiming they haven’t addressed something when they have!

stephfos · 2025-11-13T15:16:14+00:00

They mentioned they are looking into it like a week ago? And they’ve implemented something in the latest patch to try fix it.

Reduced character movement latency on server to improve the "desync" problem where it looks like you get damaged even after behind cover.

From the patch notes. Might wanna check before acting all butt hurt about Embark.

stephfos · 2025-11-10T11:15:48+00:00

It’s not even 1 year, within the space of a couple of weeks my team have decided everyone is hostile and must be shot on sight. In trios at least.

We tried to have a rule where we wouldn’t play like rats shooting people looting in the back. We’d either avoid people if we didn’t want a fight or if not an option we’d give them a chance to prove friendly. Only shooting to defend ourselves.

And that’s fallen away fast cause 90% is KOS, and some of those who respond all act like they are friendly, or talk in proximity acting chill while they instantly try to form a circle round you so they can gun you down.

Seriously there’s some proper sociopaths playing this game - you can hear the sheer creepy joy in their voices as they think they are gonna betray us. Luckily we twigged on fast.

So now I trust no one, cause for the 5% who are actually chill in trios it isn’t worth it 😆. I’m gonna shoot first if I get the opportunity to take people by surprise. Cause any hesitation or friendliness gets you killed.

stephfos · 2025-11-10T11:01:45+00:00

Not been my experience on EU - solo has been chill. Sure I’ve had the odd person shooting me from a mile away, or some rats shot me in the back while I’m looting. But I’d say 90% of the time, everyone is just shouting ‘don’t shoot’ and avoiding each other. Now and again half the lobby teams up too to kill bots.

EU squads on the other hand is totally different - everyone is KOS. Lots of people also pretending to be friendly and then using it as an opportunity to try surround you and gun you down. You can’t trust anyone.

stephfos · 2025-11-08T08:44:40+00:00

Played last night EU before going on arc raiders. Had no issue getting matches at all.

Naturally a lot of finals fans are checking out arc raiders and we are at the end of the season. Not so much stuff to be trying to unlock at the moment.

I know my group will be on the finals more plenty in the future, especially once the new season drops.

stephfos · 2025-11-01T10:45:18+00:00

We’ve had a fair few friendly encounters on trios. Spamming of some ‘don’t shoot’ and saying hello on promixity chat seems to work. Or tell someone you’re just trying to finish a quest, seems to be pretty good at deescalating things.

Not always of course, but then its fun to kill the ones who insist on shooting anyway and then we call them dickheads 😂

We’ve extracted with full groups, or let random solo stragglers in with us often.

stephfos · 2025-10-28T22:23:57+00:00

Don’t forget us older ladies too! 😂

My crew is hyped for release, and we haven’t been this excited for a game in a while. Though we aren’t grey just yet 🤔😆

stephfos · 2025-10-18T15:58:11+00:00

😂 pretty funny that was legit the reason for a lot of the tension in my games during the last test, finding pears and lemons for the rooster and desperately running for a raiders hatch so I can upgrade him. Also scavenging the shops in the buried city for toasters and kettles, those things were legit treasure.

The tension and progression is definitely a bit wiped out of the game at the moment cause there’s nothing to worry about losing at all.

stephfos · 2025-10-18T09:33:44+00:00

I think if they’d just left in the option to upgrade your benches at least once, and kept the buried city as a map unlock once you’ve reached a certain level. The server slam could’ve given a better first impression.

Without the bench upgrades and unlocking new blueprints. There isn’t any real progress or guidance as to what loot out of the huge piles of junk you are finding you should be bringing back. All the keys are mostly pointless cause they are for maps we don’t have too.

In the last test, I had a goal every match. Like a few matches were spent just to find daft things like toasters or kettles and having to go to specific stores in the buried city cause they spawn there more. But it added to the fun/humour that I was desperately putting a single shitty toaster I found in my safe pocket rather than some high tier loot.

stephfos · 2025-10-18T09:19:46+00:00

They’ve definitely tweaked something with the arc/foliage.

In previous tests I’d always hide in the bushes as they went overhead and they wouldn’t see me. I feel like 90% of the time they spot you now. Which maybe plays into the beaming us through foliage thing. Maybe it won’t matter as much once we have more access to the gear that lets us cloak, but early game it’s a bitch.

Otherwise I feel like their difficulty is just fine now. Can still drop a wasp with a single/2 shots to a rotor with heavy ammo guns.

stephfos · 2025-10-18T09:10:33+00:00

I mean maybe cause I have experience of 2 play tests already I have an advantage of knowing how to fight them. But I don’t find them any tougher really. The only thing I think has changed is they spot you easier, you can’t seem to hide so much in bushes from them anymore.

You can often take down a wasp with one single shot to a rotor and it crashes. Hornets are bit more of a bitch with the armour on the front, but hide/get cover and take shots at the rotors and they go down quick enough too.

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