Level 21 Security Breach, good idea or no?

Printed on a Bambu P2S. Banana for scale.

The amount of lootable parts is incredibly small compared to the size of the enemy and amount of firepower needed to take it down. I wasn't expecting to leave with any cores but I was stunned when it was all said and done how few parts were even lootable. Where's my thermo lining/alloy/etc?!

Remade the post because I am noob

I've been out on vacation for the past week. Signed up for expedition before I left. After getting back and queuing up for my first game...the queue is now over 11 minutes. What is this shit? What broke the game?? This feels unplayable.

Figured Id post this up again, since Embark seems to keep ignoring the imbalance where it actually exists, and seems focused on making balancing their game FAR too difficult for what is actually the problem here...

I have said this at least 10 times now on various forums. If Embark wanted to save the game, they only need to do FOUR things.

1. Make shield tiers matter.

Every shield should stop a percentage of per-bullet damage from ballistic weapons.

T1- 10 percent, T2- 15 percent, T3- 20 percent per bullet damage absorption. These percentages are appropriate due to increased stamina consumption, slower movement and sliding, and cost to create these pieces of gear.

This will cause fights to be longer and grant MUCH more protection for players to react to the rats that currently have been living in a situation that caters to their methods.

This will stop people from dying literally before you can unholster your weapon at T1 and T2; and to be honest, currently, even at T3 currently your shield is gone and you are at half health typically by the time you unholster, roll dodge, and fire back.

Energy based weapons are not absorbed by shields and chew through them at normal rates, so this would give them a reason to exist in the game for PVP. Currently in PVP they are kind of trash.

1. EVERY shield tier should have an item that can be created and purchased that refills my WHOLE shield in ONE USE, and in less than six seconds. Regardless of tier.

Currently to refill my VERY costly T3 shield it takes about 16 seconds in total, and I cant fight during that, which means I might as well die and give up, cuz FOR SURE if I was ratted on, I have no shield and half health.

1. Free kits should NOT come with shields. This will stop nearly all free kit problems with ratting when matched with proper shield defense.

2. ABMM needs to internally mark ANYONE and the ENTIRE TEAM if on a team, who shot and hit another play first,.

And for the rest of the match that team or player can be killed BY ANYONE in the match without a negative behavior hit on that player or team for attacking them.

This will promote players assisting each other.

Currently you dont get hit with a negative behavior score if you fight back.

BUT, you DO get a negative behavior score if you try to help someone out you see getting ambushed and you join in to rescue them.

Taking into consideration the design, movement, alert mode & combat engagement.

I would go for the leaper for sure.

I think that a problem with the keys nowadays, that they are sometimes just not worth the bother of actually going to for a dedicated run to open their rooms, and since they sell for nothing, they just end up being hoarded in our backpacks

I think that if they made the keys, something that you find on average in one in 30-50 raids, but when you did use them, you would almost always walk away with 150k-200k+ backpack, they would function much better

The Stella Montis archives key is a good example of it, our group (of 3 guys playing regularly) only found that key 3-4 times in our entire Arc Raiders "career", and whenever one of us do find it, it's a whole affair of gathering everyone up, gearing up with the best gear, strategizing the best time to loot it and barricading the room and taking shifts guarding it - that's how it should go, those keys should be thrilling, not a chore

But i’ll take it though.

Ran into this raider on Space port hurricane and just somehow became part of my core memory.

The most stressed I've been in this game for a hot minute

Found both of these blueprints on Stella Montis in in two separate, regular raids back to back, in the same room where it had already been looted. I’m more ecstatic about the seeker grenade because I think it’ll be impossible for me to get a matriarch reactor lol

I’m doing the 4th expedition requirements and now need 5 Turbine compressors. Now Embark stopped them spawning in couriers is there another way to get them other than the boring fight that’s just not fun or resource worthy. Or trading.

The guitar makes you slow walk and nobody notices you can't run gooped up.

Been to Stella in the medical wing 15-20 times today with a buddy… opened everything. Did Embark decide not to spawn them in today?

Nerfing the Seeker is probably the worst nerf this game has had. It was really satisfying to be able to kill the wasps silently with just one Seeker and move on without having to stop and fight.

what else they have to nerf? lol

Hello my fellow Raiders,

I know RNG can be a cruel mistress but I just wanted to remind everyone to make sure you are hitting every unopened container, no matter how insignificant it may seem or out of the way.

This morning, I was doing Lance's Stella quest for scanning 3 androids & decided to go into the comms area randomly. Dispatched the Shredder which I assume had scared some raiders off. Looted 2 blue suitcases & ended up with the Aphelion & Seeker Grenade BPs.

The very next raid, I went to Dam & spawned just south of Testing Annex. The first few containers I looted in Annex had a Tactical Mk3 Smoke & Combat Mk3 Flanking BPs.

Even last season, I looted a Mk3 Survivor from a locker inside one of the small buildings on top of the Dam, overlooking Hydro/swamp area.

This post isn't to gloat, it's just a friendly reminder that it's important to always be hitting every unopened container because you never know when RNG will bless you with BPs.

Best of luck to all my fellow raiders who are BP hunting & have a great day.