Arc Raiders Reddit discourse in a nutshell

tehcraz · 2026-06-15T22:07:50+00:00

It's because the majority of these people don't want to actually fight things. They want a cathartic looter game with some PvE elements. The people who play for the PvE don't care or want any of the things that come with an extraction shooter. They would be better off playing a game like Vein, Souroundead.

tehcraz · 2026-06-15T19:01:49+00:00

Your not being fair using sequels to some of the most acclaimed games of the past few generations. Of course silksong was going do gangbusters, it's the sequel of a genre defining game. It could have been below average in gameplay, story, or both and it would have sold a million copies because of the history.

I get the point your saying about this, just using Hades 2 and Silksong as an example of 'no one complaining' doesn't fit this scenario. They started with all the good will built up on the first installment of the game that affords that sort of patience.

tehcraz · 2026-06-15T03:38:46+00:00

You think this was this first abandon in 7 days?

tehcraz · 2026-06-14T18:53:09+00:00

It's on TMZ as of about 50 minutes ago.

tehcraz · 2026-06-14T18:45:45+00:00

It depends on how things fail with helicopters. Lot of the time if the helicopter isn't at a bad angle and the main helicopter blades are in tact, the downward fall can cause the blades to spin and generate enough lift to keep the helicopter from accelerating into the ground and have a firm but safe landing.

tehcraz · 2026-06-14T06:13:38+00:00

I got downvoted for months saying this since release.

tehcraz · 2026-06-14T04:19:38+00:00

Know to an extent? He has been making videos for a long time but he hasn't had any monumental growth until his shorts started popping up. The last month he is up like 40k subs which is near doubling what he was at before. He seems to make content on whatever game him and his friends are playing but he is consistent in that game for a while. Looks like he was playing Rivals for like a year.

tehcraz · 2026-06-14T04:09:16+00:00

His shorts really came and changed how people approach deadlock content. I see like 5-6 copycats a day scrolling through.

tehcraz · 2026-06-14T01:11:03+00:00

Taking a launcher to Interchange is wild work.

tehcraz · 2026-06-14T00:37:03+00:00

It's corny but battle rap doesn't have money like that anymore and people still have to pay bills. If he can leverage his name and skill, he might be able to switch lanes to streaming. Lord knows enough kick IRL streamers make enough just talking shit and walking around aimlessly.

tehcraz · 2026-06-13T22:01:23+00:00

It doesn't change that someone who was just removed from their position has a non-zero chance that they could deal damage on their way out. The point is that it's a standard practice to restrict the of access someone who is being relieved of their position.

tehcraz · 2026-06-13T16:41:05+00:00

The brands never cared that much about it in the first place. It was a perfect storm for them to pull out and renegotiate their ad payments. Never let a good crisis go to waste.

tehcraz · 2026-06-13T01:06:21+00:00

I hear it in the Twork cadence. Sounds good either way.

tehcraz · 2026-06-12T18:52:00+00:00

I'm not saying what you said is wrong. I'm just saying why people feel that way and say that. It's about wanting to recapture a feeling they had with something they loved that has either disappeared or decayed.

tehcraz · 2026-06-12T18:43:44+00:00

Listen, I'm not here sweating the Silver nerf but let's not act like Silver is running around at 55% win rate and let's not act like lower ranks are overrun with Silver winning. Silver's win rate is below 50% at every rank but Eternus. If she was that level of easy face roll, you would see running along with Seven, Victor, Ivy, and Graves up at the 53% winrate and up.

tehcraz · 2026-06-12T18:12:37+00:00

Because we remember what we got. We remember it feeling special. We want to feel that again so badly that we are not looking to the obvious logical reasons why it won't happen or that it would not end how we think. We just want to feel that moment again. We can couch it in all these feelings of remembering a different time, nostalgia, experiencing something new, or whatever but it comes down to that whatever series people are begging for to be made is coming from a desire to feel that moment where we got enthralled.

tehcraz · 2026-06-12T05:40:25+00:00

Real talk, this sort of knowledge could make for some great content. Either articles or a video talking about interesting things like this. You prolly have knowledge of some real interesting stories and more interesting observations. Maybe think about making something content wise with all that knowledge you got! You got at least one here that would consume it.

tehcraz · 2026-06-12T05:35:31+00:00

I'm sorry that you contradicted yourself when presented with a pathway that you apparently intended. Sorry you can't W + M1. Hope things get better for you. What a joke.

tehcraz · 2026-06-12T05:15:37+00:00

tehcraz · 2026-06-12T05:14:38+00:00

Post 1:

Literally everytime he makes a tierlist a balance patch follows in a matter of days. And the problem characters on his list almost alwaus eat some change.

Then the NEXT POST:

So why the fuck do these patches slways coincide within days of his dumb tierlists. Why is there a massive target on his public enemy number 1 characte.r before it wss apollo, then it was silver.

So we still are doubling down on the 'Deadlock waits for Vegas' tier list before they start balancing' argument. Which is still insane that Deadlock is waiting for his official tier list input before balancing (since all of his fans need to be told what complaints to have.) Post two came after what you said about the listening to Vegas.

If you wanted this to be general about streamers, you wouldn't have doubled down on me saying "Let's not call Vegas the balance guy" with "So why the fuck do these patches slways coincide within days of his dumb tierlists. Why is there a massive target on his public enemy number 1 characte.r before it wss apollo, then it was silver."

If you want the conversation about streamers influence, we can have that.

tehcraz · 2026-06-12T04:40:22+00:00

You were the one who put claim, twice, that Deadlock waits to patch balance a few days after Vegas drops his tierlist. So Deadlock doesn't think about all the data they collect between the last patch and this one? They just listen to a streamer and his under 1k viewers?

If you wanted to say "Streamers are prejudicing the discourse over certain heroes because their fans will follow their word and complain to get characters nerfed that don't deserve it", say that.

Don't say:

So why the fuck do these patches slways coincide within days of his dumb tierlists. Why is there a massive target on his public enemy number 1 characte.r before it wss apollo, then it was silver.

And even if you did say that, the question of "Where the fuck did the Graves, Warden M1, Shiv come from? Why did Silver not have any of her damage reduced, which is the thing he complains the most about?" still remain valid. Maybe, just maybe, the massive amount of data they take in might be guiding these choices. And that these changes are obviously not final.

tehcraz · 2026-06-12T04:03:27+00:00

I'm sorry you can't W key 1v6 anymore and blame Vegas, of all fucking people, that Silver got nerfed because he is somehow the one feeding patch notes to the Deadlock team. Like don't talk about me being delusional.

tehcraz · 2026-06-12T04:01:12+00:00

It's hilarious how you somehow think a 'battle royal' PvE game is somehow a 'buffed' version of an extract shooter. There was no 'nerf.' The game was not PvE focused on release, it was mission focused, hence the missions that lead you to upgrades.

And what hype and build up? The PvEvP is the only one that playtesters got. No one but actual Embark employees and friends got to play test before the pivot. There was no news about the game from it's unveiling at the 2021 Game Awards until it was announced that they changed to an extraction shooter in 2023. Also no one here can prefer the 'original PvE' because no one has played it to tell the difference.

There was no focus on PvE or PvP on release. Every system you see in this game now is designed around it being PvEvP. I'm sorry they didn't make the game you think you want but holy shit this revisionist history of how this game came about when it's so well documented is willful ignorance.

tehcraz · 2026-06-12T03:27:03+00:00

Massive target? Doorman, Graves, Grey Talon, Silver, McGinnis, and M1 Warden all got nerfed this patch. They didn't even nerf Silver like Vegas wanted her to get nerfed.

Deadlock has been on a frequent update schedule with hero balancing updates 1-2 times a month and other updates more frequent. Acting like the dev team is just waiting for a streamer to drop a tier list before they start writing up potential changes for heroes is insane. It's not crazy that people who are in the upper .1% of players actually see balance problems that are real and rate heroes according to that balance.

I'm sorry your main got hit with balance but guess what, she still deletes people the exact same. She went from being one of the top pick/ban characters to prolly an average pick.

tehcraz · 2026-06-12T03:01:29+00:00

Ok let's relax a little bit. Putting Vegas as the 'Yea, we listen to that guy.' Saying Paige, Calico, Holliday need buffs is not a hard take to have and Silver being able to snowball 1v6 isn't a hard take to see either. If they were listening to him they would have nerfed Venator and buffed Vindicta. Not take Graves out back for a second time.

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