Arc Raiders

I found myself logging in last night and was just finding it a chore. added to a rocketeer catching me out in the open and taken me out. I think I need a break from it .. all good tho. I only need another 2 million and I can send my guy on an expedition and plenty of time to get that. I have a feeling it will be my 1 and only expedition to get the cosmetics and the. I will just slowly play through the 2nd time over my remaining time in the game.

maybe I won't get to take on a queen with this guy but that can come for the next one.
 
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Seen this game just fall from grace for the last 2-3 weeks over X. The cheating, the banning controversy (cheaters only getting 30 days), people being incorrectly banned. The crazy stuff attaching utilities to moveable items to create moveable shields, explosives on the end of huge sticks that clip through walls, boxes of fireworks you can place down to obscure and completely cut off ARC vision/sensors. Just loads of totally daft stuff, PvP becoming a trigger grenade hell hole because it's just not getting balanced. Absolutely no new decent cosmetics or anything close to decent. Logged in again today to check to see if anything has actually improved, went to my inventory to craft some bandages and the crafting multiplier ticked back to one after increasing it several times. I just quit out.

I can't with this right now. When they attempt to patch all the new bugs they've introduced I'll try again, but if they've failed or introduced a completely new set again, which they didn't catch because they don't test. I'll be out for this season. It's become incredibly hard to take this game seriously.

After logging in, despite not doing any trials for the week, I ended with the same rank I started with lol, daily feats are literally pointless because I have like 3.5k tokens left and the cap is 800, so until they've release >2.7k's worth of cosmetics they're literally pointless lol. Eugh.
 
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bigmike20vt said:
I found myself logging in last night and was just finding it a chore. added to a rocketeer catching me out in the open and taken me out. I think I need a break from it .. all good tho. I only need another 2 million and I can send my guy on an expedition and plenty of time to get that. I have a feeling it will be my 1 and only expedition to get the cosmetics and the. I will just slowly play through the 2nd time over my remaining time in the game.

maybe I won't get to take on a queen with this guy but that can come for the next one.
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Are you in friendly lobbies?

If you are, join a map with the queen on it and head towards her. If you're lucky you'll find a group already gathering firing at it.

Join them and start pouring your ammo into her. :)

If you don't have a heavy weapons then wait, save your ammo for weak spots that get exposed by others.

If you have fire or explosives then toss them all, you can help with dmg even if she is armoured.

You can do this with a free loadout. No need to overthink it.

If you don't find a lobby where people are fighting her, either wait a bit until you hear her making noise once an attack starts, or extract and try again until you mark it off your list!
 
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People are smashing Stella for the parts needed to complete the expedition, and the items required spawn in the same place as what you are looking for.

You need Medical / Business Centre / Assembly - if you don't spawn near them - they will be wiped out within the first 3/4 minutes
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Ok ive done over 8 hours of stella montis now and still not one of either a Flow controller or Magnetron found , its the only quest i have so literally quest progression is stopped until i find them.
Im looking in correct areas ,doing night raids etc but nothing lol.
This game has gone from really enjoying to just having enough of it now because of this one quest.
 
Cully said:
Ok ive done over 8 hours of stella montis now and still not one of either a Flow controller or Magnetron found , its the only quest i have so literally quest progression is stopped until i find them.
Im looking in correct areas ,doing night raids etc but nothing lol.
This game has gone from really enjoying to just having enough of it now because of this one quest.
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It is hard, you have to be quick as well.

Assembly and medical research. You will find one eventually.

It took me maybe 4-5 drops to find a magnetron which was the rarer of the two, at least in my experience.

You can get lucky and spawn right in those areas.
 
Distracted said:
Are you in friendly lobbies?

If you are, join a map with the queen on it and head towards her. If you're lucky you'll find a group already gathering firing at it.

Join them and start pouring your ammo into her. :)

If you don't have a heavy weapons then wait, save your ammo for weak spots that get exposed by others.

If you have fire or explosives then toss them all, you can help with dmg even if she is armoured.

You can do this with a free loadout. No need to overthink it.

If you don't find a lobby where people are fighting her, either wait a bit until you hear her making noise once an attack starts, or extract and try again until you mark it off your list!
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do you have to get the final shot for the kill a queen achievement to count or just be a part of it? thanks.
 
BUDFORCE said:
It is hard, you have to be quick as well.

Assembly and medical research. You will find one eventually.

It took me maybe 4-5 drops to find a magnetron which was the rarer of the two, at least in my experience.

You can get lucky and spawn right in those areas.
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Tried again this afternoon for 90 minutes, thats almost 10 hours.
I leave if i matchmade to a late raid as there is no point, ive spawned in correct areas many times, looted the correct areas many times with 2 minutes of spawning in and nothing.
Im out i cant be arsed with that nonsense, what a way to come to a grinding halt on an otherwise super fun game.
 
I have now done most things, quests are pointless to me now, the trials are good fun but you soon get overtaken by the trios achieving mega points, expedition 2 all sorted with 5mil. my main activity now is sustaining a disposable amount of good gear/weapons to go PVP in trio mode, still loving it though but they need to start dropping good content just like the last major update!

If the PVE is still interesting to you but are finding it too easy then I suggest putting yourself into the sweaty servers where looting becomes a lot more challenging and interesting imo.
 
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If you spec your skills to the field crafting one does that also mean you can upgrade free loadout guns once you've found the parts?
 
Cully said:
Ok ive done over 8 hours of stella montis now and still not one of either a Flow controller or Magnetron found , its the only quest i have so literally quest progression is stopped until i find them.
Im looking in correct areas ,doing night raids etc but nothing lol.
This game has gone from really enjoying to just having enough of it now because of this one quest.
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The flow controller is in the medical research area (red area)

I spent 2 hours farming for it on the assembly area as its an Exodus item but after looking in to it further I tried the medical research area and found it on the second item I looted!
 
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Honestly reading some of the posts here makes me wonder what we did 20 years ago when things like streamers and X were less prevalent. Who cares if there's controversy? If you're enjoying the game and not actively getting smacked on by cheaters every game, I don't see what the big deal is. In 180 hours I've encountered maybe 2 cheaters.
 
Seb.F said:
Honestly reading some of the posts here makes me wonder what we did 20 years ago when things like streamers and X were less prevalent. Who cares if there's controversy? If you're enjoying the game and not actively getting smacked on by cheaters every game, I don't see what the big deal is. In 180 hours I've encountered maybe 2 cheaters.
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It is easier to complain and find fault, than actively support something.. I find it stranger that people have to declare, as a result, that they are now quitting the game or something similar: thanks for letting us know :rolleyes:
 
sativa said:
It is easier to complain and find fault, than actively support something.. I find it stranger that people have to declare, as a result, that they are now quitting the game or something similar: thanks for letting us know :rolleyes:
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it's a forum, discussing the game. you're going to get people posting positives and negatives about the game. if that's something you can't comfortably deal with then perhaps an open forum, discussing the game isn't for you. i've always found it much more strange when folk get seemingly all bent out of shape because someone says something negative about a game they enjoy playing. i'm enjoying the game, but it has flaws, and some serious ones at that. despite those, i still really like the game for the most part.
i'm not going to get the hump just because someone comes on here and points out those flaws or has a moan about them.
 
sativa said:
It is easier to complain and find fault, than actively support something.. I find it stranger that people have to declare, as a result, that they are now quitting the game or something similar: thanks for letting us know :rolleyes:
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Huh ? It's a product that you pay for. Users are entitled to complain about things that aren't functioning properly. I find it strange that people want to bury their heads in the sand and pretend there aren't issues.
 
SpudMaster said:
Personally think the aggression based matchmaking is a bad idea. Takes out half the fun of not knowing what to expect with interactions with other raiders. Play nice for a while and you generally know everyone is going to be nice and the games turns into a walk in the park. But then it sets you up for the people who abuse the system. Play nice for a bit, get into friendly lobbies and murder everyone with their guard down.
Also those who are in friendly lobbies must level up quicker as there's less chance of dying.
Surely just skill based matchmaking would be enough?
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I agree, there could be a better system it removes a lot of the "oh **** are they going to be ok or not" element. Which i had at the start, now I just run about gun away. Plus a good fight to save your loot is fun, I've had zero pvp now because I dont want to be warring 24/7 and you basically just walk about picking up loot. Turning into a walk/loot simulator.

There has to be a better way.
 
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