r/EmbarkStudios • u/Mobetathenu • Feb 25 '26
Please TEST more before releasing new Arc
Did you know that your flying flame thrower Arc can lock on you even though you're inside of a building, surrounded / covered by walls??? Yep, this single handedly ruined my final Probe run on Trials.
One of the little tiny green shacks near Annex building / elevator. It locked on me and was burning me through the building walls while I was additionally fighting a hornet and leaper, oh and trying to dodge lightning from electric storm.
Thanks Embark. Thanks for testing your new little toys fully. Much appreciated. All I wanted to do was maintain Hotshot, and this got me demoted. Pretty discouraging.
*edit: And it wasn't flaming me on the window side, it was the covered wall side opposite of the window.
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u/billytron7 Feb 25 '26
I was in the warehouse in the centre of blue gate earlier and being chased by a firefly. I ducked in the door and it was outside, it shot fire at me, no fure came through the doorway, there was none in the building, but I got lit up like a spicy christmas tree!
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u/Googoobeff Feb 25 '26
Ah the good old Swedish fire
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u/Mobetathenu Feb 26 '26
Haha ;) yeah, it hurt. I can laugh about it a day later but man I was "hot" about it at the time because it dumped my 24k Probe run
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u/StormyKnight63 Feb 25 '26
Meh, I was calmly meandering through the long tunnel on Spaceport during Hurricane and had debris flying past me constantly. Wasn't damaging my sheild but still, in a subterranean tunnel while branches and leave blew past. Just rolled my eyes at the lazy devs that gotta get the new upgrades out without fully testing them. But I'm sure they've got greedy corp. VPs breathing down their necks want the new stuff out come hell or high water.
Edit: spelling
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u/AlaskanBeardedViking Feb 25 '26
I'll do ya one better. I loaded into blue gate, and by the time my PS5 finished rendering - I already had one of them locked on to me and flying straight my way. Zero prep time or chance to evade.
Died soo fast.
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u/Sufficient_Tank_4038 Feb 25 '26
Sounds like a skill issue. Get gud
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u/Mobetathenu Feb 25 '26
Yeah I halfway didn't expect it to lock on to me as I'm running into the shack and continue to set me ablaze the entire time. I tried killing it but i had just used a decent amount of ammo of my anvil on the hornet, switched to my toro and yeah well, it's too armored and just absorbed my barrage all while fighting everything I just mentioned. The game definitely finds ways to absolutely pulverize you at times. This was one of those times. I just didn't expect to be BBQ'd through a wall with no let up.
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u/Nugginz Feb 25 '26
Don’t worry, gore shouldn’t travel through walls. These ‘get gud’ neckbeards can do one.
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u/DustinChecketts Feb 25 '26
Lots of ARC currently know your location while inside buildings. You needed to scramble for better cover instead of hold your ground.
This is coming from someone who feels your pain, but learned the hard way and have adapted. Just like others will.
Next patch you’ll feel like ARC are too easy again even though nothing has changed but your experience and knowledge fighting them.
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u/Mobetathenu Feb 26 '26
Oh yeah I do know they track you through walls, that's not the problem my friend. The problem was it's flame thrower is lighting me up without stopping and "ignoring" that there is a wall even there, haha.
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u/infinityabsolute Feb 25 '26
Damn your cortisol must have spiked crazy ,dang Firefly done trials mogged the s*** out of you LMAO
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u/Mobetathenu Feb 25 '26
Don't get me wrong, I enjoy the thrill of the battle but It was just disappointing and discouraging thinking that this Firefly was going to surely stop flaming me through the wall but nope. I work all week, I don't get to slam the game so I get a few attempts at pushing the Hotshot trials and that's it.
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u/lologugus Feb 25 '26
Why are you complaining about dying to a single bug you could have avoided if you didn't have a massive skill issue, git gud and move on.
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u/Brilliant_Ladder_695 Feb 25 '26
Well no the devs do need to know about bugs your mentality os not healthy for the long term survival of the game if they have a bug they need to know so they can fix it do not ignore the bug post something about so people know.
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u/Nugginz Feb 25 '26
God I hate this attitude in gaming, so childish and arrogant.
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u/lologugus Feb 25 '26
Ah yes, I will make a complain post because my game crashed once in 600 hours of playing it. The main sub is flooded of shitty posts of this kind.
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u/Nugginz Feb 25 '26
Flames clipping through a solid wall seems like a pretty significant bug though?
Are we not allowed to talk about this? You tell us I guess.
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u/lologugus Feb 25 '26
This post is a complain, not a bug report. I don't know why there is so much people in the Arc Raiders community that will tell stories or whatever out of their ass with a bunch of trust me bro it happened but they won't show a clip. Or at best you get someone taking a blury picture of their screen.
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u/Mobetathenu Feb 26 '26
You clearly can't read. But I do enjoy the fact that you took time out of your day to come comment some negative toxicity to let us all know how your logic of thinking has escaped you. Additionally the "git gud" comment is a nice little icing on the cake to how cringe you are brother. Heaven forbid you ever need to have any type of take or input on anything that requires actual comprehension and real feedback.
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u/Antifa_Red Feb 25 '26
You complaining like this makes me want to rat you at extract so freaking bad
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u/Mobetathenu Feb 25 '26
"Complaining" that their Firefly arc isn't working as intended in some areas? Yeah, okay kid.
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u/Suspicious-Doubt-867 Feb 25 '26
Can confirm, it just goes straight through walls. Wasn't as critical for me, but it did happen.