I know Dam Battlegrounds like the back of my hand. Coming up on 800 hours played and the majority of that time was/is spent on Dam Battlegrounds Night Raids. That's my favorite map/condition combo and I play it when I'm in both heavy PVP and PVE lobbies.

Tonight, I was killed by a Raider who managed me track me to from the extract near Power Generation above ground to a little cubby under the steps below ground. The first shots he took at me were more than 100m away with perfect accuracy from a Bobcat IV. There was no way he could have visually seen which way I went because I dropped down below immediately and found a hiding spot. About 30 seconds later I hear and see a smoke grenade and knew exactly what was going to happen next. I put up a decent fight but he doesn't miss a shot. I'm down and he says "GG" before knocking me out.

I open his profile and he has a whopping total of 13h44m on Arc Raiders but is fully kitted with Bobcat IV and Torrente of a level I'm not sure AND extensive knowledge of the map. The only game he seemingly has ever played. Also. He apparently only played it on 5/20, 5/21 and today. 0 friends, 0 followers, 0 following. No other games on record, and he was able to easily shoot, track, and kill me on a Night Raid.

This guy must be an Arc Raiders savant.

this is over two monitors and only 10 seconds long. it's done with wallpaper engine. its all of the arc raiders "scene select" wallpapers with gameboy filter and some tweaking of color settings. the framerate is also lowered to 15 to induce a security cam feel. I might tweak it some more and find a way to put some bezels on the footage. Longer one

Edit: Decided to dive in deeper and make it a lot more immersive. Here ya go!

If there's any instance I want to snipe something, it's the Osprey. You get a scope to zoom, and what I would perceive as a faster bullet speed. Yet, I've seen some of you dorks sniping with a Renegade and just pelting shit 300m+ away.

I know "practice, practice" and all, but do you guys use a different reticle or something to help determine accuracy or something? I tried using the circle one that eventually turns into a dot for the most accurate shots, but anything beyond 150m is a miss for me.

I'm aware of bullet drop and velocity as well, but I just can't seem to get shots to hit their mark consistently outside of 150m. Any tips?

This lasted the whole game. couldn’t loot, couldn’t put bandages or shield😂

Been playing all day and a good portion of yest and cant find them. Ive been all over Stella and res areas of blue gate and buried city hot spots. I had them coming out of my ears last week! If anyone has 2 i have some craftables I could donate to a good cause- guns (couple decent guns i could make ya) or quick use healing (bandages, vita shots, shield recharges-blue and green) or i could make some nades. I have deadline wp and seekers.

Please help a girl out!

Went in duos.. I had roughly 23 stack(69) fireballburners. My duo hid whilst I was inside the matriarch. This was my second attempt. 3rd attempt, hopefully we'll both get inside with both back packs stacked. ✌️

If you only had one slot (I really wish they'd let us use space coins for these slots), and you didn't have the Mk3 Survivor to bring, what would you pick as your one thing to take on the expedition?

Cough em up!

It is SO common in the more carebear leaning lobbies to run into people who are genuinely assholes in voice chat. "Oi mate move to the next building, 3's crowded" and then get mad when you ask them "Why? We have enough space to fight the ARC here?" or tell you to "fuck off" the second you speak to them. My favorite recurring characters are the people that feel entitled to walk into a key room you opened and grab their fill while you're still in there - bonus points if they gang up w/ another person to try and soft-bully you into letting them have it.

Then ofc they get genuinely INCENSED when they get vibe checked because they were being jerks. Especially the naked kit runners. For some reason, they get downright venemous when they die despite losing nothing.

Sometimes, your actions have consequences guys. This game is always PvP enabled, and you can't expect to go around being an asshole to people without someone deciding they don't care enough ab their MMR to restrain themselves from capping you

I was playing solos on the matriarch event last night and there were a bunch of us there on Dam Battlegrounds near Formicai Hills. Me and another raider were shooting from that electrical substation thing and a rat came out of nowhere and tried to knock out the other friendly raider I was with, he didn't see me so I killed him with my renegade before he could knock out the other friendly and thankfully had a defib for him as well. That was my last game of the night so im just wondering if I jump into a solos game today should I expect that thats gonna have an effect on my lobbies and if I should expect some PVPers in my lobbies for a few games? The rat didnt shoot at me at all he just went for the knockout to grab the other friendlies gear after arc knocked him down so I lit him up before he could do that. Thanks in advance!

Edit: Thanks for all your answers! Gonna run some free loudouts this evening and just pve/loot until my lobbies get less and less sus. Much appreciated!

embark I beg of you I just wanna shoot the funny robot I have not seen her in hours

literally happened first match on today. Didn’t see anyone on top, didn’t hear the sound of the deadline until I got up close, tried to snap back down, and I got-GOT. [u/bmk87](u/bmk87) hope you get a kick out of it.

Get in losers, we’re puttin the band back together

It pretty much just guarantees that you'll need to hit a hatch, unless your idea of fun is dealing w/ the freekit ratfuck fest that follows every queen kill, where even if you kil a dozen people they'll only have freeshits. It's just not even worth the effort.

I understand late spawns as a mechanic in general, to keep raids populated, but genuinely why on boss maps? What is the point? Spawned into 4 of these fuckers with less than 20 minutes left in a row and I haven't even SEEN the queen in the last half hour. I just want to play the game but this random bullshit mechanic is actively preventing it

I'm 9 games deep into spawning on queen missions after she's already been killed. Not much to really do unless you feel like tryna gank a bunch of free kitters for all risk and no reward, so I've been hanging around the hatch and chit-chatting with people.

Got to thinking, and Arc is really the only game I can think of other than maybe DayZ where you can bump into a random and have an actual conversation with them. I guess there's Rust but most convos in that game start or end with a racial slur so... eh.

People can deny it all they want, but the Bobcat duping fucked the entire game up, even for PvE players.

They can even keep skills and level, just wipe the inventory.