Yeah I agree that with the resetting mechanic they were too rare, but they're far too common now, needs toning down a bit imo.
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Yeah I agree that with the resetting mechanic they were too rare, but they're far too common now, needs toning down a bit imo.
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Oh my god the deadline mine is amazing. I bought one for 15k, and I already had some ARC cloaking device, so I activated that and ran up to a bombardier, dropped the mine, almost died, and it kill it straight away. Amazingly I didn't get killed by other players whilst looting as well, I got 6 bombardier drivers or whatever they're called that I needed for my refiner upgrade!
You did better than I did when I tried that.
Run up to it with the cloak, tried to switch to the mine and it pasted me, properly.
I had to make a list last time around. Always the same story.
"I need wires"
Load in.
"Oooh look what's there"
Come back with 15 tons of plastic parts, cloth, ammo, guns, keys, crafting materials, and not a single ******* wire.
Yep - I'm the Family Hoarder in real life.
It seems I'm just as bad in Arc Raiders....
I've not reset and I think I'm around level 45 ish now and I still have zero stock blueprints and only some green mag ones. Either I've been extremely unlucky or not looking in the right places. I mostly play in trios and the other guys were 75 and would feed me all they had too.
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Harvesting Candleberries does not count towards the harvesting trial. 
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It did batter me a bit, but I think I had a heavy shield on which helped, I was very close to death by the end of it though. I didn't think it was going to work as it wasn't all that close to the mine when it went off.
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i'm still only finding bp's on the very rare occasion - and that's playing on primarily modified maps (cold snap, night raid etc). i swear to god there's definitely at least 2 versions of this game out there given the hugely differing experiences some people are finding with the game. some folk are tripping over bp's while others are struggling to find any. some folk are getting battered by pvp every time they spawn into a raid while others can seemingly wander round chatting with all the lovely friendly people they encounter.
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After they patched the patch on top of an update I think its only slightly better than when we started with BPs.
They seem to miss the mark, example: streamers and nolifers who play the game like a job had the security breach for a while accumulating purples like candy. These breaches were in fixed locations and could be farmed. By the time they intervene it was abused for long enough but who really gets punished? The casual guy invests into the survival tree finally getting the perk and its nerfed, they then change it to move the breaches to randomly spawn on maps.
Paraphrasing a bit from my mates feedback but it seems balancing these games is a pain.
They seem to miss the mark, example: streamers and nolifers who play the game like a job had the security breach for a while accumulating purples like candy. These breaches were in fixed locations and could be farmed. By the time they intervene it was abused for long enough but who really gets punished? The casual guy invests into the survival tree finally getting the perk and its nerfed, they then change it to move the breaches to randomly spawn on maps.
Paraphrasing a bit from my mates feedback but it seems balancing these games is a pain.
Join the club - I've switched to the much friendlier US server, as I found EU was constantly putting me in the sights of /laughs-in-Cyrillic buttholes.
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They shifted to matchmaking in recent weeks where if you were passive you should not tend to be in silverback lobbies. I think this is correct as when I have gone a few games without engaging the sweaties are not so abundant.
You really need to pick your engagements with ARC, they can easily mob you, especially if there is little cover.
Pops seem to have evolved to target me specifically
I was also using US servers, but decided today to go EU today and it has been fine. Since the Expedition, I've had one PVP encounter, where someone rearranged my kidneys with a shotgun while I was looting a locker.
I did see a few other PVP fights, but not many.
Can't that is my downfall on this game, any player gets it I have a decent success rate as well even on free loadout. I do need to actually start playing though and gain resources! my squad hates me on this game I'm sure of it
Another stupid late night got to be up at 6 need to uninstall this!
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Stella Montis is great for getting hold of bastion cells. I was put off the map initially due to those explosive shrapnel things however there is an area where a bastion reliably spawns with lots of cover. my last 3 visits in a row have had a few people taking it out and I have gone in , taken 1 cell and said my thanks and retreated. all v civil and on top of that plenty of other high end loot there too.
I like this, if you work together the arc are at a disadvantage and I like to hope this is how we would be in reality rather than murder hobos who ultimately lose due to greed.
I like this, if you work together the arc are at a disadvantage and I like to hope this is how we would be in reality rather than murder hobos who ultimately lose due to greed.
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