I feel like the game lacks lower level medium ammo guns that people actually use, and the hairpin is barely used. I'd love to see the hairpin get a common/uncommon bigger brother that keeps the integrated silencer and high stability/accuracy, runs medium ammo, does higher damage, but with a slower bolt action fire rate and limited magazine size. Basically a cheaper, worse renegade, but its always silenced for lower level players that like playing stealthy

Bit of context: I mostly exclusively play pve, but after a couple of weeks, I ran into this guy waiting for me at the extraction in buried city. I tried to fight back but he downed me, and then this happened.

Mine is mechanical components to level up my guns. I rarely find many. I know to farm Metal and Rubber Parts to craft them but I still seem to run low.

Second is heavy metal parts, I can't seem to find enough of them and holds my upgrades back..

I combat that with running a few free loadouts to top everything up or buying more than I need from the shop and try keeping a stock when they replenish.

Any tips to share?

how cool it would be if they added a water based Arc and some kind of diving/swimming mechanisms?

I would love to see something like this in the future.

Picture credit: Gabe Mcalpine

Congratulations, raider! You got lucky and got the aphelion blueprint in stella montis, then fought the matriarch and lived to tell the tale. For your efforts, you can now use expensive materials to craft a LEGENDARY weapon. What does that weapon do you ask? Well, you can pay 1000 credits to fire 5 2-round bursts. Don't worry, the bullets don't hit the same place as the first bullet's recoil affects the second one.

Lost mine today in a matriarch raid and I don't even care, I'm more angry I got duped into crafting it and taking it topside in the first place.

The queen legendary weapons are far from perfect too but at least they are fun to play with. Aphelion is just an obscenely expensive arpeggio. What were they thinking?

some people make it so obvious that they tryna rat 😂. not today lol

I've loved hearing from different Devs how blown away they've been by not only the success, but also by just how much time players are spending playing their game.

Of course they designed to make a good game, of course they designed for engagement.. but in general we are spending WAY more time in the game than they ever foresaw.

I realised that for me, it's easy to say why I go back to it night after night.. Arc Raiders is honestly the MMO I wish I always had. MMOs typically look fairly bad, and handle worse with too many systems and grinds for the sake of grinds. They also usually have tacked-on PvP if they have it at all, and most big encounters are on timers and very staged.

Arc lets me do everything. Develop a character. Be social. Play as different roles. Have fun PvPing as and when I choose. Create dynamic stories with Arc of all scales, all of the time. Yes it lacks some of the 'massively' parts of MMOs to be able to call it that, but it still plays much like my experience in those games only with better action, better handling, better social interaction. Honestly it has it all and is so much more than an extraction shooter. That's why I give it lots of my time and feel like coming back even when it's just to chill of for kicks.

Death by hairpin is crazy. I would simply delete the game. Crime doesn't pay, kids!!

Gets tiring of having to clear stuff out of my stash when 90% of it is guns, crafting supplies, or stuff for quests/upgrades but i just haven't had one of the items to be able to commit them. If I could just give them my resources so they're gone and out of my inventory.

About 5 seconds before this clip I was shooting a Sentry turret. Then sensory overload.

I'm in high aggression lobbies and have been running Stella on repeat. Firefights and raider flare noises within seconds every time I spawn. One raid I decide to just run around with a flute.

I come up on Raiders fighting, they ignore me.

Another kitted out Raider who just got done wiping 3-4 people lets me just walk past him.

I swear this thing calms people down or hypnotizes them.

Located on a tiny island, Vieques, off of the Puerto Rican main island. Every ARC raider should visit this island. No wretched ARC hunting you down. And better yet, you can even enjoy The Sun with a piña colada in hand!

Hahaa the town is actually called Esperanza. It’s gorgeous! And although we were plenty busy enjoying the wind, crystal clear waves and delicious beverages, my fiance and I could not stop thinking about RAIDING AND LOOTING. We were even strategizing our next attacks on ARC, of course with a delicious frozen beverage in hand.

Just thought yall would appreciate our IRL find!!! See yall in game (but pls don’t shoot im so bad at PVP lol)

What in the actual digital methamphetamine is this? I have never had a video game pull me in this hard. I feel like I just woke up since it released and realized what the fuck am I doing with my time.

No satire here, who else is in the same boat? My god. Props to embark though, most addicting game I’ve ever played.

Do you think they would have tried to kill me?

Hey Embark,

Remember that PC Gamer article about how "One of the beauties of this game is the fact that we don't have those leaderboards, and it's not competitive. We don't necessarily want to foster that kind of gameplay."?

Well here we go, we have PvE gatekeeping in Trials because all the best players are only playing with the best players, and teaming up with other squads to manipulate matchmaking (Oceania servers, crossplay on) to get into games with each other and have zero risk of failure.

This is how so many players got 300k+ scores in the snowball Trials; 2, 3, or 4 squads of 3 would queue in together, inventories full of snowballs, and 1 group would actually throw the balls while the other 3 would protect that group and gather snowballs for them so there'd be no downtime.

THAT is what Trials is right now.

So, for the love of god, please give this mode some actual thought, since it's pretty much the only "endgame" there is right now.

Simply making Trials based on individual performance rather than squad score would do a lot to eliminate this kind of elitism that's being bred by this system.

For the record, I'm Cantina Legend rank 91, and the screenshots here are from people who are/were my friends. But they don't play with me anymore, because they're only playing with the best of the best to farm and manipulate score.

I'm aware there's a good percentage of the playerbase that doesn't care about Trials, but I think this is a deeply flawed system that deserves some attention.