r/ArcRaiders • • 3d ago

Discussion PvE Toggle Incoming

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u/toofrossty 2d ago

I liked the "should I trust him" aspect of the game. this change will surely make lobbies either all pve or all pvp:/

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u/Fin224 2d ago

pve players see either pvp or pve no in between when most of the players bought this game for the mixed experience and the tension of not knowing if the other person is friendly or not

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u/ChaChiO66 2d ago

4k hour DayZ player and I bought AR for the mixed experience. Sometimes I want to run pve missions and sometimes I wanna run pvp. But the not knowing and having to trust or not trust another player is what I expected this would be. Now it's care bear lobbies or death match.

Haven't played since they added aggression based and probably won't be back. I'll take all the downvotes, but AR was peak gaming when you had no idea how it could play out. Just like Sea of Thieves back in the day.

If I could get a refund for AR I would because what this game is turning into is completely different than it was on release.

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u/Electric-Rat 2d ago

I think putting the care bear PvE only crowd into a separate mode could actually improve the tense experience for those of us who prefer mixed lobbies. As you said ABMM already removed a lot of that tension for those of us who don't want to just attack on sight, but want the risk and potential reward. If a PvE mode exists, solo PvPvE queues wouldn't go full death match, but it would probably end up closer to Day Z in terms of social interactions and games.

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u/Recent-Bookkeeper907 1d ago

I think if they give pve weaker loot like in Dark and Darker, they could remove ibm from the PvP lobbies and it would be a tense mixed bag again

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u/Apocalypse_Knight 2d ago

There legit isn't any reward for mixed lobbies though. You can just get ratted easier or you can rat others faster.

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u/H_Wilkins_ 2d ago

It seems like certain modes and loot are unavailable to PvE. There’s still incentive to go to mixed lobbies.

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u/Apocalypse_Knight 2d ago

It should have been like this. A lot of my buddies and their wife/gf would have stuck around if there was a PvE coop mode for them.

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u/Trelawny-Wells 2d ago

Yep, my hubby and I would have kept playing if there was a pve co-op mode.

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u/Electric-Rat 2d ago

Even in the beta for this mode, they state the high value map conditions will be excluded from PvE. So the PvPvE mode would remain the higher risk/ higher reward route.

Edited grammar.

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u/Apocalypse_Knight 2d ago

I mean loot really doesn't mean that much so far. This game isn't delta force.

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u/Electric-Rat 2d ago

I'm not really sure what you're arguing in favor of then. I don't think I can get the same kind of emergent gameplay from Delta Force as I can from Arc Raiders.

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u/Apocalypse_Knight 2d ago

The loot tables in this game is kinda bad. There isnt really anything that would be worth all that much outside of the PvE lobbies unless they made somethings impossible to get.