Arc Raiders

PrincessFrosty said:
Truth is I dont think anyone knows quite how they matchmake but it could just be the value of your inventory total, stitcher is common and cheap, but like a rank 4 epic gun is worth a lot more. This has reliably been my experience, I always start every day off with a free kit until my brain has woken up before I take something good. By the time I'm taking fully kitted rares or epics everyone is out for blood, and they tend to be carrying way better inventories. You can tell when you loot what you're up against because of the types of augments you find on the bodies, you know if you're in a "free kit lobby" because maybe 80% give or take, all run free kits.

My feel since launch is that about 50% of the free kit lobbies are people questing, no one wants to waste good kit when you're distracted with a MSQ.
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Could well be, I always run a rank 4 Stitcher because its the best pvp gun for me, with a big mag on it , I've absolutely destroyed people with it even after letting them have the first few shots, so it fits my playstyle, although as I say, I hardly have any pvp fights, only 1 fight in the last 4 days (over 20 hours of play), all the rest of the encounters have been friendly. :)
 
Tombstone said:
Could well be, I always run a rank 4 Stitcher because its the best pvp gun for me, with a big mag on it , I've absolutely destroyed people with it even after letting them have the first few shots, so it fits my playstyle, although as I say, I hardly have any pvp fights, only 1 fight in the last 4 days (over 20 hours of play), all the rest of the encounters have been friendly. :)
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Mate I dunno where you are playing but my first few games withteh basic free loot and everyone is shooting me I died loads of times to real players.
 
BUDFORCE said:
So what is the basic idea of this game?

I've run about 5-6 "raids?" and died all times except two where I just scavanged some stuff and went straight to the evelator and escaped.

Is it just to loot stuff to buy better weapons/gear etc?

How do you play as a team or do you need to invite your steam friends?

Is it normal that I absolutely suck and seem to die to the most basic of flying drones? Even that heavy weapon (wahtever it is single shot starter weapon) it seems to you need to hit them 3 times?
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The basic idea of the game, as with all online shooters, is to have fun. :)

Essentially, go into the map, use proximity voice chat to talk, run about the map ..being careful about what you are doing, ie. Dont just run for the loot hotspots on the map, which is where you will run into the most players, try to keep out of sight of drones. Gather up loot, head to an extraction point, extract. Do the quests, upgrade your workstations and gear. Repeat.

To play as a team you can matchmake with randoms (make sure fill squad isnt disabled), this is usually about as enjoyable as grouping with randoms in most games (ie. Its not), or invite friends or folks from on here, theres lots of people on here who play and are happy to group up. Check the thread for usernames.

Yes its normal to struggle at first with drones, unlike many pvpve games, the e in this can be quite the threat.
 
BUDFORCE said:
Mate I dunno where you are playing but my first few games withteh basic free loot and everyone is shooting me I died loads of times to real players.
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Yup, its a theme in this thread, some people are getting shot a lot, I've almost 100 hours played now and I go days with only friendly encounters. I dont know why it is, I have no explanation, I am either the luckiest person alive or I am in some way fundamentally playing the game in a different way to other people but no idea how, I'm just playing normally imo.
 
Just bought this for pc instead of the ps5 pro, enjoying it so far. I feel like the looting really lends itself to m&kb over controller.
 
thewanted said:
Has anyone managed to get their mic to work in-game when using GeForce Now?

I can hear my team mates but they can’t hear me.
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Might need to look in windows sound settings and see what its trying to use as your microphone.

Otherwise if you are playing with mates id probably just jump on a discord channel.
 
BUDFORCE said:
Might need to look in windows sound settings and see what its trying to use as your microphone.

Otherwise if you are playing with mates id probably just jump on a discord channel.
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I neglected to say that I’m using macOS, but all of the OS settings are correct.

Was just wondering if it’s a limitation of GFN or if I’ve missed a setting somewhere.
 
Lol, 3 runs so far this morning, 2 runs with just friendly encounters and then 1 run with a doofus who tried to ambush me at the extraction point and despite jumping me from the bushes got promptly facemelted by my stitcher. Silly man :)
 
I only installed this due to the 5070 Ti bundle, started yesterday, now on level 12.. yeh it's pretty good :)

Matchmaking works 95% of the time, I haven't seen any bug so far, only minor map glitches, very impression.

Playing solo until mates get the game one day, haven't killed anyone, died 30+ times coz I don't shoot first :) and I usually get shot in the back of the head when calling for lift/train or quest thing. But we'll see who shoots who in the front/back/side of the head once I have uber shield muhahah- I died again.

Based on this video, in my mind I'm sheriff/unicorn, if I live long enough ;)

 
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BS Dave said:
Anvil and stitcher for the win?
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Depends what I'm doing but mostly Venator and Toro at the moment for me. If we're more focused on killing big arcs then I'll swap the Toro for an Anvil but most of our squad games descend into 300 raiders having a fight over the same patch.
 
Tombstone said:
21 people on a map in 30min rounds but new players can enter as current players extract, upto a certain time point, so a map in total is probably closer to 30 different players. The major difference between this and Helldivers is that Helldivers is a co-op pve shooter where you dont lose your gear on death and (theoretically) other players cant kill you, whereas this is a PvPvE extraction shooter where you do lose your gear on death and other players can and will kill you
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Great stuff thanks
 
Tombstone said:
..I've almost 100 hours played now and I go days with only friendly encounters. I dont know why it is, I have no explanation, I am either the luckiest person alive or I am in some way fundamentally playing the game in a different way to other people but no idea how, I'm just playing normally imo.
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Stream or record the raid. Select buried city, go in with two randoms. Make sure its a popular time of day (not like 3am widweek). Give it two maybe three attempts, lets see if you still have your stitcher and anvil... :p
 
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