Arc Raiders

I reckon they accidentally reset everyone's matchmaking stuff. Probs take a week or so to catch up again. Thanks for the heads up tho, could be a good time for some shenanigans.
 
i watched a YouTube video and the algorithm is based on you not killing another player for 8 full games (and or surrendering for 8 games)
 
Just played 2 games trying to do quests and both times got killed by other players. I never had chance to shoot back but running free loadouts and nothing of value so do not care
 
sativa said:
i watched a YouTube video and the algorithm is based on you not killing another player for 8 full games (and or surrendering for 8 games)
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hard to know how deep they go with it though.

i regularly take out aggressive raiders who have downed others so guess that hurts my "karma" but on the flip side, i then revive those that have been downed by said aggressor.

who knows, my lobbies are probably around 80% friendly though which is a nice balance for me as the odd gun fight is part of the fun.
 
sativa said:
i watched a YouTube video and the algorithm is based on you not killing another player for 8 full games (and or surrendering for 8 games)
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Is surrendering new? I often surrender on maps (with a free loadout) if I spawn in at 20 mins or if I’m doing blueprint runs and it didn’t have the blueprint I wanted.
 
Does posting a negative feedback on the prompt post round not help shift you into friendlier lobbies? If not, you'd have to ask what the point of it is.
 
Vandle said:
Does posting a negative feedback on the prompt post round not help shift you into friendlier lobbies? If not, you'd have to ask what the point of it is.
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If I get a round with PvP and I'm aiming for mainly pve lobbies then I always give negative feedback for the PvP and matchmaking (and camping if applicable).

Whether it works or not I can't definitely say, but I haven't had any trouble getting back to PvE focussed lobbies.
Of course, I'm actively avoiding PvP as well while doing this.
 
delta0 said:
Is surrendering new? I often surrender on maps (with a free loadout) if I spawn in at 20 mins or if I’m doing blueprint runs and it didn’t have the blueprint I wanted.
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It isn't new, but it isn't something people really talked about until the idea of using it to game the matchmaking system to get into the mainly pve lobbies was floated. Then the idea of spawning and surrendering popped up on YouTube and Reddit to name a couple of places.


I've done the same as you when on a quest I know will take me all over the map but I get a late spawn (looking at you Spaceport).
Or if I spawned in miles away from the trench but I wanted mushrooms on Spaceport (again) for instance.
It's a nice feature to have, but if people do abuse it I can see it being changed (for example making it so surrendered rounds don't affect matchmaking).
 
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gr1mey said:
hard to know how deep they go with it though.

i regularly take out aggressive raiders who have downed others so guess that hurts my "karma" but on the flip side, i then revive those that have been downed by said aggressor.

who knows, my lobbies are probably around 80% friendly though which is a nice balance for me as the odd gun fight is part of the fun.
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I'm convinced (based purely on my own gameplay) that defibbing randoms does have a large impact on the lobbies you find yourself in.

I've also targeted an aggressor who never shot at me personally and deleted them before defibbing others, and still found myself in largely friendly rounds.
I can't say the same for other rounds where I've downed an aggressor but not used a defib on a random.

Purely anecdotal speculation of course, but I've got over 500hrs in the game now so I'm working with a lot of playtime.
 
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Has anyone had issues with the servers?

Playing Stella mantis and its terrible, loading in to the map is slow and getting lag when it does or a bad connection..

I guess its everyone trying to get the items or doing the new quests that have appeared.

Not tried any other maps atm.
 
ED209 said:
Has anyone had issues with the servers?

Playing Stella mantis and its terrible, loading in to the map is slow and getting lag when it does or a bad connection..

I guess its everyone trying to get the items or doing the new quests that have appeared.

Not tried any other maps atm.
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It was awful yesterday I did post in here a few posts back.

I reckon their servers are just getting hammered more than they expected.
 
BUDFORCE said:
It was awful yesterday I did post in here a few posts back.

I reckon their servers are just getting hammered more than they expected.
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Yeah, I had no issues yesterday evening when doing the quests but then I was not playing Stella Mantis as I hate that map!
 
I had one massive lag spike on blue gate, but I assumed it was the crappy AMD drivers windows auto installed. (Not saying all AMD drivers are bad btw)
 
Distracted said:
It isn't new, but it isn't something people really talked about until the idea of using it to game the matchmaking system to get into the mainly pve lobbies was floated. Then the idea of spawning and surrendering popped up on YouTube and Reddit to name a couple of places.


I've done the same as you when on a quest I know will take me all over the map but I get a late spawn (looking at you Spaceport).
Or if I spawned in miles away from the trench but I wanted mushrooms on Spaceport (again) for instance.
It's a nice feature to have, but if people do abuse it I can see it being changed (for example making it so surrendered rounds don't affect matchmaking).
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I’m wondering does surrendering have a negative or neutral effect. I have not noticed being moved to aggressive lobbies after doing it. I surrendered a lot of times over the last couple of days and did some Stella Montis runs yesterday and was in a very friendly lobby for all of them.
 
Had no issues yesterday to be honest and did some of my trials damaging the rocketers , leapers etc etc. PVP wise it is pretty much the same old same old really. Feels like they have buffed the renegade as I was ripping through players and arc. Oh I got the football quest done.
 
ED209 said:
Has anyone had issues with the servers?

Playing Stella mantis and its terrible, loading in to the map is slow and getting lag when it does or a bad connection..

I guess its everyone trying to get the items or doing the new quests that have appeared.

Not tried any other maps atm.
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Same here, Stella was terrible. Connection kept lagging. Had to close game a couple of times.
 
Livewire88 said:
Same here, Stella was terrible. Connection kept lagging. Had to close game a couple of times.
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Yeah, I had to force close the game 2 times as it was just stuck loading.

was just using free loadouts as I was just doing the quests and not wanting to loose anything decent with the matchmaking being reset
 
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