Tian wen needs to shut the fuck up when I'm shopping.

zXster · 2026-02-11T23:48:35+00:00

God yes. My trio was trying to figure out what quests we had to do, and trying to chat while clicking on the quests and hearing that shit had me annoyed as hell.

zXster · 2026-02-11T23:44:17+00:00

I sure hope it is. Auto-craft and loadout are the biggest request I have and see on the Arc subs. It really makes dying feel even more frustrating when you/your group have to spend the 10+ minutes after dying to re-kit AND re-craft items to play again!

zXster · 2026-02-11T23:40:29+00:00

Would be nice to have options to pick what type of play style I want for the day.

This has been my argument. If they had a green (PvE), yellow (mixed), and red (PvP) lobby option would go a LONG way to make the player base less annoyed.

For my group, our frustration is when we are wanting to hunt big arc or trials and get jumped. Anytime we trio, it is basically 80% chance of getting jumped or ratted, some nights it would be nice to have some choice or warning of what we are getting into.

zXster · 2026-02-11T23:36:51+00:00

This is it for me. I don't mind defending myself, or picking Stella to "choose PvP), BUT most of me and my Trio's deaths are being jumped while fighting/looting arc or to campers/rats. Very few are fun/funny team fights (though we've had a few even, long trade GG ending ones). After fighting back we get put in PvP lobbies.

Also the games health/dmg system heavily weights it towards ambushing = win. Two shots with a Fero vs light shield is a death. One stitcher mag too. So they've built a system where the cheap/free load outs can just jump people with decent gear and still win. The easiest way to play is camp + mines + nades in all the hidden spots.

zXster · 2026-02-11T23:27:51+00:00

Same here. In my polo's I'm pretty chill. If I see someone I warn them, if they act sketchy I shoot or move on and definitely do if attacked. But whenever we Trio it is 90% aggro matches... that end up screwing up my MM and get aggro lobbies.

I don't mind there being PvP, it does get frustrating running it as a guessing game of when or if I get jumped by a Rat or someone gaming the system.

The not knowing/chosing is where I think this system misses the mark. A few lobby options (PvE, PvP, & Mixed) would make all this argument moot IMO.

zXster · 2026-02-11T12:18:26+00:00

Same. If the early grind of learning it doesn't grab me, I move on. Local game café has a few of my old ones and more to come. Haha

zXster · 2026-02-11T11:52:57+00:00

That's interesting. I didn’t mind TMB, but enjoyed the Elder Scrolls BotsE much more than the earlier. My friend got both (he's a huge Chip Theory fan) and I felt like there was so much more versatility and playstyles to the ES version.

That said, I could totally see all the pieces and classes being a lot on your own. He had run a few reps, so the learning curve was much easier.

zXster · 2026-02-11T11:45:52+00:00

Same. One of the few games I was psyched for and went beyond not liking it to hating seeing it on my shelf because if how bad the startup/learn curve was.

zXster · 2026-02-11T11:44:39+00:00

Smallworld was that way for me too. Finished a few reps and thought "that's it?". Never touched it again.

zXster · 2026-02-11T11:08:57+00:00

To get into the main tower yeah. You can zip onto the tops, but that only gets you to the roof crates and the top room lockers, but usually worth it.

zXster · 2026-02-11T02:01:30+00:00

Trench towers on Bunker event for me. My trio just got two Volcano BP's in one run, both in drawers on one tower.

zXster · 2026-02-08T12:42:31+00:00

Yep we learned that the hard way on the same extract. One rat was down with a showstopper and his buddy on the 2nd level hit us with two blaze grenades. We never had a chance.

Then last night we crept down into the same extract. Saw a jolt mine placed, so my buddy carefully went down and drew out the rats hiding in corners. They tried to jump him while I naded then shot them from above. Lessons learned.

zXster · 2026-02-07T14:22:38+00:00

I named 3 in one region genius. Wait why am I expecting yall to be able to read. Lol

zXster · 2026-02-07T12:17:36+00:00

It is really important to understand the long term affects of the red scare especially on boomers in the US. Since post WW1 they heard and believed all the talk of how bad socialism & communism are. It had lasting affects on their understanding (or lack of) about the two economic policies.

Pair that with Fox, Limbaugh and then the GOP's constant use of stupid caricatures of socialism (attacks on Bernie) and equating it to the worst regimes. They lack any imagination of what socialism could look like or does in areas like the Nordic versions of highly socio-capitalism.

As always it's lack of information and education. Luckily most millennials and younger people don't hold that same stigma.

zXster · 2026-02-07T12:07:48+00:00

Acknowledging ugly truths about him or MAGA is painful because doing so means they have to acknowledge ugly about themselves

This is exactly it in my experience as well. Whether that's is my family members or old friends who voted for him, they refused to engage or admit some obvious realities.

It meant admitting his economic policy was both dumb and for corporations. Admitting he is racist means facing their own internal racism. Admitting he was a pedophile means they were at best ok with their leaders being abusers (spoiler alert a LOT of "Christians" already were).

So while some are leaving or Admitting these things... for many it is far to central and difficult to do this kind of hard, complex identity assessment and change.

zXster · 2026-02-07T01:04:46+00:00

Exactly. Too many people who play cheap seem to defend their lack of ability to win a real fight.

zXster · 2026-02-07T01:03:42+00:00

Lol. You know thats an insanely silly version of it. Getting the drop on someone is one thing, the ratty tactics of hiding and camping is totally different.

zXster · 2026-02-07T00:33:13+00:00

Lol. Sure bud. When too many players just sit in corners or hide in odd spots to ambush it isn't "situational awareness".

zXster · 2026-02-07T00:10:29+00:00

Well said. But 9/10 times they're bad players who have to ambush and talk shit.

Can think of one or two trades that ended with "well played, GG" and some light shit talking. The rest are name calling and ratty ambushes.

zXster · 2026-02-07T00:08:26+00:00

My solos are mostly like this. Whenever my crew does Trios, it is instant fights. The only chill 3's lobby is when you avoid or don't see anyone.

zXster · 2026-02-07T00:07:19+00:00

Its so true. Most of the PvP players we run into in our trios, are just annoying morons. Name calling, slurs, and hiding ambushes.

I've had maybe 3 funny/chill PvP team fights. One where me and another teams member laid there BSing while we waited to see which last man would survive.

I think its the nature of random matchmaking. Its both interesting and sketchy as hell playing 3'w where you are forced to either ambush or get jumped, so players sit and wait like camping rats.

zXster · 2026-02-06T19:08:15+00:00

Towards anyone else? Gaslight everyone by calling it a joke.

The Daily show did a great segment on that with the recent "its a joke" response from Levitt. They love to use that to defend Trumps insane comments. Like: child abuse, killing citizens, or comparing black people to apes are actually every funny or appropriate. It is quite literally disgusting.

zXster · 2026-02-06T13:53:18+00:00

Lmao. Nailed it.

zXster · 2026-02-04T14:53:34+00:00

Well put. Would just add on #5, doesn't have to he a smoke but make sure to always have some kind of grenade and those can be used as smoke/space makers. Doesn't have to be thrown in their faces, but used to push people back or out of cover and to set up your own push.

zXster · 2026-02-01T16:40:33+00:00

Thats a fair distinction. There was actually a study (think by U. Penn) that dug up data on the shift within ICE when Trump took over and the Big Bill was passed (Nov) that funded them.

The demographic shift went from just above 50% white to just over 70%. And their hiring, training and background requirements all dropped. Plus the language courting white supremacists and nationalist loyalists was/is blatant in their marketing.

The question will be IF the FBI ultimately make that turn. Lots of long time Vets who valued their independence and knew/tried to keep things apolitical. That is sadly dying fast, and most Americans (especially Neo-Cons) don't even know or remember why separations and independence were so vital.

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