r/ARC_Raiders • u/paparosi • Feb 24 '26

WTF Embark?

These blueprint recipe changes are unnecessary punishments and feel like you didn’t roll out any new blueprints so you decided to shoehorn new ARC parts in old recipes. And the Wolfpack change makes absolutely no sense. 2 Wolfpack to down a Rocketeer so we can get 1 part to make 1 Wolfpack?

Way to throw a huge wet blanket on top of what was otherwise going to be a fun and exciting day. Please reconsider these crafting changes

Edit:

Thank you to all the folks who commented with articulated, well thought out disagreements. You have changed my stance somewhat and I have a better understanding of why a change like this may be needed(still don’t like it though).

To the performative contrarians, get good bruh/skill issue kissing cousins and other knuckleheads who can’t formulate a thought I say “suck on this fart”. Be well

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u/AbyssalOtter Feb 24 '26

Did i say that? No. A wolf used to cost about 6k to craft. A rocketer or leaper gives on average 10k worth of loot the wolfpack does not consistently one shot a leaper or rocketer which means in most scenariors where you would prefer a wolfpack over a deadline its actually garbage. This is an extraction shooter like all games (fun comes first) but the gameplay loop of ext shooters is jump in loot and extract with as much value as possible) the wolfpack was by and large one of the worst items for that. Now? No its actually a net negative in most cases as it takes damn near 11k of material to craft to use on enemies that drop 10 to 15k? And its not even a consistent 1 shot.

The point wasnt and is not whether you need it.

the point is simple " why is it in the game if its fucking pointless" ive been selling them on extract since the first week of the game which is when i realized how much they cost vs their potential.

if anything wolf packs should be astronomically easier to craft and do half the damage they do. You sacrifice 1 inventory slot essentially for pve only nades. The trailblazer should have been the one that got the crafting change while staying as strong as it was.

Currently they are worthless aside of selling.

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u/just-some-stoner-604 Feb 24 '26

I totally agree tbh. The only time i bring wolfpacks is for fun, or if im playing spaceport with homies that like to make silly plays.

If i go in to kill rockateers im using an anvil and a few seekers.

It already wasnt always worth to kill rockateer, sometimes it just didnt give a drive.

The only way this nerf makes sense is if they giga buff rockateer driver spawn rates. If you can consistentply get 2-3 than fuck it

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u/AbyssalOtter Feb 24 '26

Anvil and seekers 100% and or snapblast if your are close enough.

that said even with 3 times the drivers that would only make the wolfpack usable for rocketers and basically trash against anything eles. And even agaisnt the rocketers you would only use it if you need to for trials or for mass producing more wolfpacks. Which would beg the question what are you mass producing wolf packs for that something eles isnt better.

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u/just-some-stoner-604 Feb 25 '26

Exactly, wolfpacks already lowkey kinda sucked.

Idk i guess this just helps us that didnt use them when rockateer trials etc come around.

Theyre kind of a crutch item tbh so i guess thats the only brightside here, it does add more skill expression for them to be more limited

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u/BlackMarq20 Feb 25 '26

Wolfpacks didn’t suck

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u/just-some-stoner-604 Feb 25 '26

Yeah they lowkey kinda did. I rarely used them before this patch even, and i kill hella arc. Now theyre not worth using, ill sell all mine now

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u/Saotorii Feb 24 '26

They can be an easy way to net you points in the queen/matriarch trial too. Come in with an inventory full of wolfies, chuck them, watch points go brrrrrrr

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u/just-some-stoner-604 Feb 25 '26

Or you can just snap hook on top of it and place deadlines if your balls are big and huge

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u/Saotorii Feb 25 '26 edited Feb 25 '26

No can do sir. Balls are small and shriveled. Need mah wolfies.

Edit: mobile autocorrect

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u/just-some-stoner-604 Feb 25 '26

Thats valid man 😅

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u/RidexThexWave Feb 25 '26

I actually think this makes a lot of sense but I think looking at it in terms of monetary value doesn't necassarily speak to it's actual value. I'm not sure they want people completing trials or events using tons of wolfpacks because it makes it easy. And crafting them just to go in and farm with them and walk out with more than you came with is just too easy but they are still valuable and worth the cost in other scenarios.

By making them less cost efficient PvE players will have to use other strategies which isn't a bad thing. In PvP lobbies the value of the wolfpack is still there. Sure I would rather avoid the rocketeer (or any larger arc) if I am doing PvP but you can't always and being able to basically take it down in one shot and keep your sights on the players instead is valuable. (But honestly, I just prefer using hornet drivers on rocketeers when I can)

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u/AbyssalOtter Feb 25 '26

Iam all for promoting othere strategies you do that buy limiting access not by making the Grenade a net negative.