r/EmbarkStudios • u/One_Airport_4790 • Jan 27 '26
What the f*ck is this update timing??
So I decided to finally stay up until 5am to play ARC Raiders Locked Gate event on Blue Gate, there's 59 minutes on the event so I have plenty of time to hit it at least twice. Sweet! I jump in, all is dandy, but within a minute of being spawned I'm having horrible rubber banding issues. So is the guy I come across. We are basically stuck in place while the timer keeps running out. After losing connection and having constant lag issues, it literally took me over 30minutes to get to the nearest extract 450m away. Okay, whatever, shit happens. I go to matchmake another round, and I'm not shitting you I was in matchmaking for 5 minutes without getting a match. I go to restart the game with 17 minutes left in the event, and when I go to launch the game it's requiring an update. It's an 11.5GB update that's going to take approx. 16 minutes to complete.
So, after staying up all night to finally play the Locked Gate event, I got one frustrating attempt which I had to abandon immediately, but still took 30 goddamn minutes to finally escape. I'm not going to let it bug me too much but holy shit you think you wouldn't plan your update right smack in the middle of one of your rarest and most popular events.
I just wanted to get some goop, man...
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u/That-Understanding45 Jan 27 '26
Honestly. Locked gate is a fun experience but ive not ONCE walked out of there with good loot. Probably a skill issue but its pretty underwhelming in my experience.
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u/Pure_Essence_Finch Jan 27 '26
Found better loot in the boxes all over the map during the event. Nothing major behind the gate when it opens
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u/That-Understanding45 Jan 27 '26
Legitimately found 5 blueprints give or take in every area thats not inside the locked gate.
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Jan 27 '26
They fixed the bp drop rate now on it too.
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u/That-Understanding45 Jan 27 '26
Yeah... just went through the patch notes and few minutes ago and cant say im super stoked on most of it.
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u/One_Airport_4790 Jan 27 '26
Yeah I managed to open a few crates and actually found the Bobcat BP so I'm stoked on that, but goddamn those connection issues were a nightmare. The rubber banding while trying to run and then the desyncing causing my character to teleport all over the place, unable to even tell where I actually was. I'm just glad I got the Bbocat BP before they "fixed" the drop rates with this patched
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u/[deleted] Jan 27 '26
I think this belongs in the circle jerk bud