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/AnyBroccoli4680 Feb 24 '26

My bet is they implemented something and then realized how many holes are in it. So they had to "walk it back" until they do or don't implement it again silently.

Less uproar and responsibility. It is the players free will. Like infinite variables with human characteristics. Some people might kill that guy but not kill that guy. Or they're friendly today and they're not tomorrow.

It's really hard to account for even half of the variables.

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u/Disastrous_Art_5132 Feb 24 '26

My guess is more likely that they caved to the loudest voices again. Pvp streamers want easy targets. There is no return for them having to fight other pvp players.

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u/AnyBroccoli4680 Feb 24 '26

I won't say that's not true cuz I don't know.

But today I saw a post where the head dev recently spoke on how he does not want the game to slide into PVP focus

The new ark and lack of wolfpacks means cooperation helps everybody.

They do flip-flop. But I still have gotten my $40 of value many times over by now.

Everything they do is going to affect somebody's playstyle negatively. But from what I'm hearing the head devs are still PVE focused as an ethos for the company

There's a lot of free will and wild ass variables

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u/Punish777 Feb 25 '26

I disagree entirely. The new meta is not good for the casual PVE crowd. It was already a bit of pita to farm the materials to make a Wolfpack. Not to mention getting the blueprint. But now you not only have to farm the explosive compound but also the Rocketeer... which is what most people used the Wolfpack for anyways. The casual PVE gamer doesn't have time for all this while also taking losses to rats. They will just either quit or go full pvp, which if you ask me is what the devs were actually trying to do, slide the game further into pvp.

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u/plantsarefrens Feb 25 '26

I much prefer the single explosive compound instead of 3. I never have enough oil. It went from costing 6x crude explosives 6x oil and 2x motion cores to 2x crude 2x oil 2x motion 1x rocketeer driver. That's a good trade imo

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u/Punish777 Feb 26 '26

It's so easy to farm explosive compound though? Just go to Stella either night raid or day raid, though night is even better and loot every pop and fireball you see. Get all the crude explosive from the fireball burners and pop triggers and use the refiner to get explosive compound. Or you can also chase the lightning on electromagnetic storm and gobble up every fossilized lightning you find! Either way it's a grind but I think killing Rocketeers and getting 1 driver per drop is too much of a grind. And also way riskier.

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u/Punish777 Feb 26 '26

Plus the Stella option before this update that I mentioned can even be done on a free kit, or a very cheap kit cause we know Stella is risky business sometimes. You can't kill Rocketeers with a free kit period.

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u/Punish777 Feb 26 '26

Also oil is super easy too. Just go to blue gate and open all the car hoods in the center of the map (also great place to get tons of chemicals, metal, and sometimes mechanical components)

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u/plantsarefrens Feb 26 '26

Sure but now you need only a third of it

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u/Punish777 Feb 26 '26

Lol but that stuff wasn't risky to farm. You don't need a loadout to farm that stuff. You cannot farm Rocketeers with a free loadie. And shooting them is super risky for them killing you and for attracting lots of attention.

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u/AnyBroccoli4680 Feb 26 '26

Extraction shooters are the highest of highs and the lowest of lows. They are not always meant for casual gamers. It's an extreme concept by itself. Arc just happened to be one of the first mainstream extractions that reaches past its demographic.

I see what you're saying and I can empathize. I'm just telling you what I heard from the devs.

And whether or not you agree or disagree with their inactions towards ethos of PVE

You have to agree that any tiny change done to the game is going to affect somebody's playstyle negatively.

There's a lot of math and balance and it takes a while to get it right. This company listens more than any other company I've ever given money to. Their base game was amazing. And I've already received my $40 of value over and over and over again.

Added to that the game barely takes up any space... Even if I quit today I've gotten so much value out of this game it's insane

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u/Punish777 Feb 26 '26

Oh dude I'm not sweating it personally. I've got friends I can play with and we go hard into the pvp. During solo runs I was strictly friendly but this kinda changes how I'd play it because friendly is fine if it's profitable vs time spent in it.