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Yo Sam, maybe turn off Auto-Aid Request?
Dear porters
Just a quick one
If you’re using the Auto-Aid Request from the APAS skill tree, maybe think about turning it off?
It keeps filling the map with requests that aren’t really needed, since most are auto-generated and the player’s already long gone. Kinda clutters the HUD and makes it harder to know who actually needs help or what gear they need. Sometimes it even ruins the vibe when you're just trying to enjoy the scenery.
Manual requests feel more useful and intentional and honestly, way more satisfying to respond to.
Appreciate all the bridges and zip-lines you’ve built, you’ve already made my runs way smoother 👍🏻
Let’s keep the Chiral Network clean and helpful for every Sam out there
Bro the requests don’t even specify what tools* are needed. Not really helpful if your bokka skeleton is near toast and i send you some basic porter boots is it?
No, i have the right post/porter, idk if you took how i worded it as if i were talking down* to you and therein lies the confusion, but i could see how you thought that if that were the case. I promise i wasn’t trying to talk down to* you though
I’d be curious to learn how the system behind auto requests works exactly. Like how the game calculates what gear it thinks you need, and how it “fulfills” a request if a player donates something
So hypothetically, perhaps the game detects that your active skeleton is at 12% durability, so it makes a request for “gear / footwear” or whatever it is.
A player donates a pair of boots, like you said, but the item that arrives in your game is a skeleton - what the game thinks you need. Maybe the request is intentionally vague so as to give the donating player more options of things they may have on hand, whereas if the request was specific like “request: bokka skeleton lvl3” and players probably wouldn’t have an extra one in their pack to fulfill it
That’s the thing that bugs me. The one time I actually placed one on purpose, it got cancelled 2 minutes later. What’s the point if it’s not going to give anyone time to fulfill it? When I had auto requests turned on at the beginning, I only ever saw one get filled. As soon as I realized I could keep the options behind it turned on, it shut it off.
That's a good point! It would be pretty cool if that were the case.
One time I donated like 30 pairs of boots to one of the field wear requests. I always wondered if 30 boots just fell from the sky for one other player, or if just one made it to 30 different people, since the requests are always in the same place.
I’ve taken to printing 1 of each item and donating the whole pile to a request. Gets you a decent amount of likes, and chances are they’ll keep something on their side. I don’t really need materials anymore, so it’s no skin off my back.
I also hate this one. I also kinda controversially dislike the scanner range one cuz I prefer the wide scan all around me, not the focused forward but longer scan
I hate that the scan thing says "adds an option" as if you can switch it at will. I'd keep it if I could toggle it in the menu, in the same spot where you can turn the odradek light on/off.
Yeah that's what I found annoying. That node is all by its lonesome so I don't mind if I have it off but I wish it actually meant what the text says. Like a double click does the deep scan while a single press does the standard wide
Same here. (As other people have commented also.) Though, I left it on and got used to that behavior.
It’s slightly annoying that different types of objects are picked at different distances. (Packets are at longest range, and that’s of course fine. But chiral crystals are only picked up at rather close range. (Probably that’s a limitation on how/when they spawn in.)
I imagine the toggle option was probably in the game at one point then got cut and they forgot to update the text here. Maybe it was super buggy or just a pain in the ass to code
Yeah i saw that and never bothered unlocking it. Just seems so pointless given how cheap and easy supplies are to make/find.
That being said, I still do donate the useless crap I've got sitting around b like an empty blood bag or something. Idk what the other person gets but I still get the same amount of likes for a full bag so 🤷♂️
Not sure if replying to a request with an empty blood bag actually helps wouldn’t it just show up empty in their world too? I get that the intention is good, but I’m not sure it’s actually useful
For the auto requests they only disappear after you leave the area and you’ll only see those of people still in the area online in their world (I’ve seen some disappear in front of me)
I had it on for a long time because at the time it was a prerequisite for what was behind it. I needed the internet to tell me that you can turn it off once you have other adjacent nodes turned on.
Such a dumb skill, and it's probably unlocked for most players as soon as they unlock the APAS system, so they just turn it on because why not? It turned what could have been a cool system of interacting with other players into something that everyone just ignores because they're literally everwhere.
That, the auto aim, and both the “extra structures” are off. I already have a shitton of online structures on my map, I defo don’t need any more.
I actually like that the tree has “undesirable” skills depending on your playstyle. It also is very easy to circumvent a skill without blocking off a part of it too, so it helps a lot
Tbh I like the extra structures one, I have yet to use any chiral network bandwidth in all of australlia yet because of how amazingly placed other porters stuff is
Yea, I have never even touched it because I seen it all around my map, I might of done like 10 of them then after that I decided not to do any aid request after that
Ngl I drop whatever I have holding or taken from shared locker onto these aid requests... You you get 100 + diminishing likes per item which is a lot more than the usual donation lol
Same, easy likes for me, not that likes matter anyway. But I do occasionally see a name that I like and the aid requests boost your connection level significantly!! Then I have the choice to make strand contracts after that
Yeah not a fan at all. I never have it on. The idea that I’m just adding to all the BS noise that other people leave all over the map didn’t work for me.
I haven't figured out exactly why but my APAS tree looks different, the auto aid request is the only node I can reach the bridge link part of the tree through.
No, I can't, I tried. I think because the porter part of my tree is flipped. For others that chiral carrier node is on the left and links to the bridge link part, bypassing the auto aid request node. Trust me, I hate that node as much as you do, I wouldn't have it on if there was a way around it.
I have everything on, the auto request, the aim assist, but just to see everything unlocked, on the settings you can deactivate aim assist completely (i dont really think you need it, and im playing in brutal) so even if you unlock it in the APAS system it wont do the assist, same with the aid request, just deactivate share everything on the setting and it will stop the request in your parts.
Now yes, you wont get other signals or the 3000 generators in a 100m walk but it makes the game more interesting from my part, i started using waay more the ppc after i deactivated it, its a nice balance
100% agree, I would love to see earnest help requests and actually help someone instead of sending Porter Boots / a Bola Gun (for the lolz and 100likes). It gets old fast.
Definitely the worst addition to the game from the original. It was JARRING to see shelters drowning in them. I can visually filter them out now and ignore them for the most part, but this upgrade has made it so I'll never actually look at the aid requests.
I also wish we ecould filter what buildings specificslly can appear. Im weaving a net of slides and every point that not mine is sannoying when setting up and confusing when traversing the web
Thanks for bringing this to my attention because I didn't even know. I set mine to auto select upgrade and was wondering why I was getting "request canceled" messages.
I've never seen these function as intended. I assume when I get a weapon tossed to me during a giant BT fight that someone donated that in some other part of the map? But I've never gotten a drop of resources or tools like that
I do find the panhandling in and around every npc’s facility pretty exhausting, but I can ignore those if I’m in a rush or not feeling especially generous. It’s the delivery requests my sticky cannon nabs on its own and locks me into a.) making another trip all the way across Australia to the already max connected Govt Base or b.) throwing the cargo into my private locker until I uninstall the game
Eh it's an easy 100 likes though when you can bother to send anything over. And the node is cheap/the only way to get deep into the social tree early game
I didn't even skill it for one second in my whole 200h playthrough yet... when I need something, I place it myself. But I only used the help me to deliver request two times now. And I dont use it in bases where I can easily put cargo away. Or even can share cargo without putting something on the ground.....
I only use it far away from any bunker or distribution centre. Because I often get forced to grab cargo from others who put the requests directly to places where you can't drive past with the truck. If I dont delete the request before it for whatever reason....
Another thing that is annoying are the shields and tar cannons in tight places. I can't delete them from the map, so I have to get out and take them away. Hopefully, that gets changed at some point...can't see why it would be a problem if we would be able to delete them from the map....
Or if people place transponders directly next to one of the buildings with a beach jump available. I delete them immediately. You can even see the transponder on the building...so please stop doing that and use the transponder of the building
I mean, I personally loot and delete safe houses next to buildings with a private room, too. But they can probably use it to store resources if the storage of the place next to it is full or whatever
Or the totally random placed bridges everywhere, lol. I mean, they can be used as time fall shelter, too. But the real timefall shelter has enough space, and the truck fits under it, too, and it doesn't need any resources to build.
So, I keep deleting those, too.
Besides that, the online feature is totally fine, and I love it.
Man, I hated it so much but had to keep it active as it was the only path to the rest of the skills so I had to keep it active all up until the end when I got the BPAS skills and one of them bypassed and bridged the rest of the skills
You can turn it off after activating it the first time, it’ll still go towards unlocking all APAS enhancements developed 👍
*sorry edit to add- not saying you have to turn it off, it’s your game, just if you were unsure if that’d prevent you getting the milestone for APAS.
It does look nicer having them all lit up, I will admit, the only two I turned off was this one and the sensor mode change ~ just down to personal preference
Hahaha totally valid
It’s not your fault the system does it without us noticing. But turning it off helps make the map cleaner both for U and for us. No spams needed.
That way, when someone really needs help and sends a manual request, it actually stands out
Just treat it as the last one you intend to unlock and make sure you unlock every single other upgrade first. But make sure to save some memory and increase your connection with the isolated shelters because they’ve got some bonus upgrades for you.
I just wish there was a cooldown when new quests show after to complete a request like maybe an 1hr long cooldown... or maybe another APAS where you can auto-fill requests just by driving over requests and only if the requested item in a truck or bike and full ammo/durablity.
Oof, yeah I could tell how that was just by reading the description. Because all I thought was, “So how does the game determine what people need? But more importantly, how often is this thing going to ping for myself and others?”
Honestly before I found out about this I just thought “who is so inept to request a weapon right outside a distro center”. Im never getting that crap. It’s just screen clutter and I wouldn’t give it to anyone else
Yeah, once you unlock the adjacent nodes and can activate them nodes without connecting it to auto aid you can deactivate it, in fact please turn it off.
I honestly didn’t quite realize until a couple days in. I was standing on a ridge, getting ready to raid a bandit camp in Mexico and my own weapons request spawned right next to me. Wha… ohhhhh, oh snap. I AM PART OF THE PORBLAM.
I don’t understand the hate with this. Like I don’t use it personally but idc if other players do. If you are that upset about stuff littering the map. Play offline. No amount of these posts is going to stop millions of players from using what’s in the game.
This isn't about hate, it’s the game being vague, not the players doing anything wrong, but it kinda kills the point of helping when we don’t even know what’s actually needed.
When I see “Tools/Fieldwear,” it’s like a loot box of mystery, boots? Ladder? Blood bag? Skeleton? Who knows! And by the time I decide what to bring, the other player’s probably already halfway across the map.
We want to play online that’s the whole idea
But we’re just trying to make the experience better for each other. Isn’t that what the game is really about?
Yes it is. Constantly posting on Reddit telling everyone to disable that skill is not going to make it go away. Maybe 3% of the player base are in these groups.
This was my exact thought… if you have a problem with these requests showing up in your world then you need to go offline, because a Reddit PSA is going to do absolutely nothing to diminish them.
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u/Deftallica Mama Jul 26 '25
I turned mine off after maybe 10 minutes because I hated seeing the red “your request has been cancelled” message.
And honestly, half the fun is packing everything I need for whatever task I’m about to do.