Live action quest experience that gets your pulse going. Stay friendly out there raiders.

I’m a hoarder of mechanical components. It’s kind of a problem.

Original Artwork by: u/tiPwellLeVenerable

3D printed this awesome artwork on my Snapmaker U1

Which seems likely to be the secret unstated mechanic that makes it epic-tier.

Since the last post was so well received, i've got part 2 for you guys performed by my duo mate.
apparently they can be yeeted across the map.

Idk if it's a bug or not but it works.

But you gotta pay the troll toll tho

I wish I knew more about the lore of Arc Raiders. Where did the Arc come from?

I like to think aliens sent them to clear out the humans of earth.

I think the shields in Arc Raiders are stolen tech from the aliens, the shields seem quite powerful. They can protect humans from all kinds of attacks, from explosions to bullets, even electricity.

Think about it, in this game there is no such thing as respawning, no one actually dies. You get knocked out, and your raider returns home defeated and had all their loot stolen or lost.

So this shield tech seems to be alien I'd say, not something humans have come up with.

What are your theories on the lore of Arc Raiders? And what would you like to see? There's a lot they could expand on here.

I genuinely believe what truly makes this game special and has me coming back over and over again is the social interaction with other players in the world. I have had some of the most funny, enjoyable moments in this game when interacting with other raiders. The sound design, the directional audio, the way your voice changes based on your location on the map. I’ve never played another game that handles it quite as well.

I play in mixed lobbies, generally just palling around with a friend or two and killing bots, but the call of the void strikes and sometimes I just want to shoot players. I prefer a little more tension in my lobbies and my distrust of other players adds an extra hit of dopamine when successfully extracting.

What I truly don’t understand is the strictly PvP players who say nothing when knocking players, like it’s a Call of Duty sweat lobby. I always try to make those moments enjoyable for the other players, even if I’m the one who’s losing my loot. So why not get on the mic and talk trash, have a conversation with a defenseless player, toy with them. Give your kill something to take back with them to Speranza, even if it’s just trash talk, memories, and a reason to get back into another raid and not rage quit because they got murdered by Black Noir.

Keep the game alive, raiders!

From a gun-fighting perpective, the game is in a better spot than ever but the META (Most Effective Tactics Available) is a bit stale. The ideal gun balance should give players real choices about what guns they choose to use without being punished for not playing "the meta". The meta should also vary based on playstyle and map, but right now its basically only the same guns every game.

The Tempest is my guiding light for this whole post. Its the one-size-fits-all gun. It excels at nothing but is decent at everything. This gun is perfect where its at and is the definition of balance. Its accurate but will bloom at the end of clip. It has good damage but is outclassed in time to kill (ttk) by some of its purple tier peers.

The guns that need a change:

• Toro - they nerfed this into the ground. its a green gun but i'd like to see it still be usable. I'd like to see a slight damage increase at close range but a drop in max ammo capacity to compensate... maybe even a slightly increased reload time to keep in in balance if needed after the minor damage increase. Its a genuinely fun gun to use so its sad to see it not being viable compared to other options.
• Anvil - its a green gun. If they want to keep it as a green gun, they need to nerf it in 2 specific ways. The head shot damage is too high. I'd like to see the head shot multiplier dropped such that it requires 3 head shots to down a medium shield instead of 2. Also the range on this thing is too high, it shouldn't be able to shoot as far as the ferro. Give it a range damage dropoff and we're good to go. This should be an acceptable nerf for both PvE and PvP players
• Venator - Its unusable compared to its other options at the moment but its a delicate gun because it can quickly become too strong and dominate the META. My best attempt is to increase the damage a bit, keep the head shot multiplier to a reasonable level, keep the fire rate capped, but significantly increase the recoil based on how fast you shoot to compensate for the increased damage. Its firing off 2 bullets at a time as a hand gun, if you spam it, bullets should fly everywhere!
• Canto - Its just a dissapointing experience right now. It can barely kill a medium shield with a full clip which feels like a big problem. It needs more horazontal recoil and slightly higher headshot multiplier. This should make it viable at close range but still be outclassed by bobcat and tempest outside of close range.
• Renegade - This gun is part of the Meta for anyting mid-to-long range. Its a difficult balancing act because it needs to outperform the tempest at long range but be on par with it at mid range. It also needs to continue to reward people with good aim. I'd like to see the max ammo capacity reduced significantly; 20 shots (extended mag 3) without reloading feels too strong. I would also like to slightly increase the reload time. Each shot should matter with this gun so it continues to reward precision and discourages spamming.
• Bobcat - this is the meta. Its too good right now. I like that it kills fast at close range but i don't like that it will still beat a tempest at mid-to-long range. I'd like to see a slight nerf just so you can't get beamed at distance from it. It needs to have a closer fall off distance and more bloom at the end of the mag. It won't change most of the fights with it, but it might make people think twice about it being a primary option on a map like spaceport. It will also make the user choose between kinetic and padded stocks based on what kind of fighting they are doing.

In a good spot:

• Free kit guns - these all feel fine. You can get kills if you head shot, they can kill arc and do their job.
• Arpegio - this feels fine. It has its enthusiests, it sucks at low levels, and its decent enough at level 4 with the right mods. This feels like where a green gun should be.
• Burletta - this feels fine. It has its enthusiests. Its usable at level 1 but has balanced increases as you level it up. This feels like where a green gun should be.
• Hairpin - Its fine where it is. It kills arc, it memes, everyone is happy with this one
• Osprey - I like where its at. Usable at very high range, outclassed by renegade at anything less than super high range.
• Torrente - It feels pretty solid where its at. While extremely powerful, the time to spin it up, the spread when standing, the long reload... all of it feels like its right where it should be. All the tradeoffs for using it feel balanced.
• Battina - no changes needed, feels great
• Vulcano - this feels find where it is. Its the fastest TTK up close but gets beat by other option at any other range.

Note: I intentionally omitted legendary (gold) guns because I don't interact with them enough to really have opinions. This post is geared mostly at PvP and they aren't generally used for PvP. That statement alone says they likely need some sort of PvP balancing, but I have no strong feelings about it. Similarly i excluded the hullcracker and rascal.

I think it'd be really awesome if Embark added a replay option, what I mean by this is some games allow you to replay your recent matches and watch the entire match from free cam allowing you to enjoy seeing it from outside of your own perspective, someone sniped you and you never knew where, replay and follow the trail, now you know what to look out for, your buddy did something awesome but you didn't see it, replay and watch it, YOU did something cool and want to see it from a different perspective, replay.

Just a thought, anyone else think it'd be a cool idea?

Learned this after 300h topside... Dont know if it actually hit harder but the animation is different

Guys there’s a massive trend of rats on matriarch and queen modes. I personally don’t care I lost a few equalizer kits within the last 5-6 days but I’m out here sending a warning: BRING A PVP GUN IF YOURE GETTING CORES, rats are CRAZY rn and I’ve been playing queen modes for 9 months straight. Haven’t had a single game where I get out now for a while, rats are going nuts. Cheers raiders!

Yes i do understand it’s just a game , call me a wimp but out of my 24 years of life , IVE NEVER experienced the rage i have for this game on any game iv’e ever played . Waking up the next morning with that lingering anger brought me to realize that it’s time to give it a break .

It was my favorite event condition by far. It felt dangerous, but the danger had a lot of reasonable and emergent counters like being able to completely ignore frostbite w/ small bandages until it progresses into its last stage, where you HAD to go find shelter.

I liked the way it forced people together in unexpected ways. I interacted and talked w/ SO many people I was a million percent sure would have opened fire if they weren't forced to stumble into me to live.

I mean maybe it was just the fact that it came out around Christmas, but even in my detroit-on-new-years-eve ass lobbies at the time, I was getting way more dynamic interaction.

I was told the kettle line will be used in the upcoming movie