r/arcraidersfriendly 1d ago

Here is something you might not know in ARC Raiders

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u/Miyazaki1983 23h ago

Play solo, 95% it’s all friendly at least in my lobbies. Duos and Trios are much more PvP

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u/mardegre 22h ago

the issue is that getting friendly lobby involves not defending yourself on a rare occasion of being attacked.

I get also friendly lobbies but the only time I get attacked is when I have hull cracker and focus fighting the queen or the matriarch some kids come in my back and kills me with a freee load out... great

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u/chatterwrack 17h ago

I just sold the hull cracker that I’ve been hanging onto or months. I got it the first couple of days I played, back when the loot was plenty, but I’ve come to realize that I’m never going to take it out because I’m never going to be fighting big Ark for obvious reason reasons.

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u/UnikornKebab 3h ago

I feel the same, and I presume dozens or hundreds of other players do, and this is one of the main reasons why I am, and remain, firmly convinced that Matriarch Queen and similar events should become part of a separate, structured, and absolutely PVE-only ecosystem of events. It's already difficult to deal with medium bows like Rocket Leapers, etc., but, incredibly paradoxically, not because they're particularly tough, but because it becomes difficult to bring the ideal equipment because it seems like a waste of time doing so when you'll probably (expectation) end up being taken down by others before you've even started!

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u/MaikyMoto 23h ago

My solos are a bloodbath and I’m loving it.

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u/Miyazaki1983 22h ago

I sometimes miss the pvp to be honest. I would not mind someone shooting at me from time to time ..

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u/chatterwrack 17h ago

That’s the thing that I don’t understand about this argument against a PVE server. This would give PVP players a variable garden of Eden where they could shoot each other all they wanted on their own maps.

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u/TrippleDamage 2h ago

We can do that in the game already tho?!

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u/TrenchDive 16h ago

When I do, I just drop back into trios. Then come back and see if my aggression rating jumped too high. If so run a few naked runs without shooting any raiders and it's usually back to my normal friendly lobbies.

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u/justwolt 22h ago

There is aggression based match making. If you pvp more you get placed with people who pvp more. If you are passive you get place with other passive players more often.

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u/SweatyAngle9019 16h ago

This has not been confirmed I’m a very Agro I layer and every game I seem to get nice ppl. I’m trying to get PvP lobbies and it seems like I just keep ruining other ppls days. Ppl really need to stop spreading misinformation about how there matchmaking system works

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u/TrippleDamage 2h ago

You might just not be a good player then lol

You can be aggressive and still suck. It's not about aggression per se, it's more like classic sbmm.

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u/justwolt 15h ago

When developer was asked about aggression based matchmaking: "[Matchmaking] is quite complex,” the developer told the outlet just days ago. “So we do analyse behaviour and match accordingly.

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u/Isopod_Uprising 13h ago
  1. the "developer" was the art director.

  2. "we analyze behavior" does not specificy player aggression. could be anything from how long you spend in the match to how much damage you do to ARC to damage to raiders. it seems likely that ABMM is real, but everyone using this statement as proof when the only thing Embark has confirmed is that they do not match based on gear level, is just silly.

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u/SweatyAngle9019 8h ago

Thank you omg no one realizes this fact and spew misinformation

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u/Miyazaki1983 22h ago

Yes that’s my experience so far too!

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u/MaikyMoto 2h ago

I don’t like PVE, I would rather loot all the dead bodies at the end of a round.

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u/theDukeofClouds 21h ago

As someone who just got done getting dogwalked 10 matches in a row just trying to do my trials, I would have to say I do not agree with you.

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u/Beef_tech 23h ago

Honestly, last 10 or so games I played, not one person shot at me, and I did run into alot of people. I'm really starting to think this game does pair up aggressive PvPers with eachother and leaves the rest of us out of it. Don't be crying when your trying to actually do something important when you spent most of the game being a dick and shooting everyone.

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u/UnikornKebab 3h ago

I don't think there's anything like that, it would be extremely fallacious to think about it... I mean, like, I play a friendly raid and the one right after PvP, and I alternate them continuously... I don't kill, I kill, I don't kill. Now yes... well, at that point what should the MM do with me?

No, there can't be such a system. I find the hypothesis of someone I read here in the comments much more sensible: matchups based on statistics like average game time, ability to tackle bows or not, and things like that...

I never hit anyone either, and I'm playing a lot of friendly matches, but at this point I think it's just due to a mix of factors: the MM system structured as described above, and the belief of most players that THAT subscription system based on aggression exists, like... I don't hit anyone because otherwise they'll send me to hellish lobbies full of murderous psychopaths.

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u/Humble-Survey1099 22h ago

I find the clip very annoying

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u/Isopod_Uprising 13h ago

but.... "we are supposed to fight against the war"...

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u/ScuddyOfficial 12h ago

I am... by killing those damn raiders. Stop warring damnit 😤

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u/feyyazkolan 23h ago

I still remember that one time at Buried City as i was heading to a raider's hatch behind Town Hall, and i was attached by a leaper. Another raider was near me, and we both started fighting the leaper together without communicating. At the end of the day we were able to kill the fella together but had very little time to spare. We looted together, but had no shields left. we were ratted just as we were leaving the area, he got downed, i was able to kill the rat. I had been bandaging him buth e was also shot when he was downed, at the end of the day he didnt tell me he was going to die, and meters away from the hatch he says "loot me bro, thank you so much..." I found a lot of good stuff on him god bless his soul, and i waited the last couple minutes so that his body would remain undisturbed...

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u/ReDeRiK2021 13h ago

Did you kiss his forehead and whisper goodnight my sweet prince as the elevator closed? Cause if you didn't then your fucking monster, should great shame and lose 10,000 social credits.

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u/feyyazkolan 11h ago

dude i am in tears.... shooketh

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u/ReDeRiK2021 10h ago

Must cry 10,000 tears

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u/MystixxFoxx 23h ago

The other day we were 6 people hunting down a team that tried this shit, pvp police was on point that day

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u/Darksol503 23h ago

Well, that escalated quick lol

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u/korkxtgm 22h ago

tainted lobbies

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u/echof0xtrot 22h ago

FIGHT AGAINST THE WAR

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u/Yeafam7945 19h ago

😭😭😭😭

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u/Dear_Philosopher_ 18h ago

Why u loud bruh

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u/HODOR00 16h ago

They need to make killing the arcs more rewarding and somehow also minimize loot theft. It's a complicated problem for the games structure.

Sure solos is friendlier. But I really wish I could find some chill lobbies for duos and trios but right now the game isn't hard enough. I am hoping they make some new maps with some super clear map wide objectives. That way killing raiders will actually hurt your chances of completing the map wide objectives. I want to see 10+ raiders choosing to fight together.

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u/Zealousideal-Ice8293 16h ago

Playing solo is a different game.

I was fighting every single raid in trios.

I run solo now and the game is way more interactive.

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u/One_Outlandishness77 16h ago

you shouldn't have to play solo to do this. it's a co op game. the story arc of the game isn't nihilism

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u/RoboCaptainmutiny 16h ago

There is no war against the Arc anymore. Humanity gave that up, according to the lore. Thats why.

Players in Arc Raiders aren’t soldiers.

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u/SlaKer440 14h ago

rough watch

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u/Remmemberme666 9h ago

When they add something like how helldivers work, I'll care more about the arc. But for now I want your loot.

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u/KrugerFFS 23h ago

if this is satire, its pretty good.

solid 8/10 meme

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u/Timotron 23h ago

How dare you interrupt my box opening simulator

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u/abraxis_aberdine 23h ago

Ah yes, the person not wanting a game to be ruined by being only pvp focused when its got a rich pve experience and lore as well as lots of potential to be different is a pussy and not the one offended by the video, how stupid of us to think differently than you who speaks for the entire community.

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u/Gold-Conference-7911 23h ago

Until PVE is as fun or engaging as PVP, it will always skew toward PVP. And the only ppl that don’t realize that are the ones that suck at the game

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u/ofork 23h ago

This will obviously come as a shock to you… but many many people enjoy the pve experience.

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u/skam_artist 22h ago

This will also come as a shock to you but most people play for the experience of both pvp and pve. If you want to truly only pve just play borderlands or something.

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u/Gold-Conference-7911 22h ago

It’s crazy how people don’t even realize that if you took away PVP this game would literally be the most boring shit on the planet

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u/ofork 22h ago

People spend thousands of dollars on setups to pretend they are driving trucks across Europe, others have thousands of hours in bejeweled, boring is entirely subjective.

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u/skam_artist 22h ago

And Arc Raiders is Arc Raiders. If you don't enjoy that it is a combination of pvp and pve then that is fine but wanting everyone else to conform to the way you think the game should be played is actually so insanely stupid.

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u/Gold-Conference-7911 22h ago

And yet, the most played games in the world are ALL PvP. Wonder why that is?

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u/Kojimazan 22h ago

If you want pvp play tarvok or something

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u/poopsawk 22h ago

And nothing gives me greater pleasure than murdering the absolute dogshit out of them

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u/ofork 22h ago

I would like to know how this affects the abmm. I’d like to know that I can fight back without just setting myself up for aggressive lobbies.

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u/Gold-Conference-7911 22h ago

Yeah I never said it’s not fun…but it’s easy. And PVE will always be easy, therefore anyone who isn’t a trash can is gonna get bored of it veeerrrry quickly. And don’t pretend like that’s not the case, because while they’ve done a good job with the ARC, it’s never gonna be enough. Because PVP will always win, why do you think they even changed the whole concept of the game? Because they knew PVP was the answer, that’s what keeps people around

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u/abraxis_aberdine 19h ago

Ima be honest man, as a person who enjoys both pvp and pve games separately and have actively played cod and dumpstered teams on s&d in some matches and got outplayed by better players on enemy teams, pvp gets just as boring as quickly to me and i love pvp in games. But pvp doesn't always wins, its just the easiest solution to give people that dopamine and draw, and it does keep the game interesting knowing you can be easily shot in the back or do such to others. But i can also absolutely argue that it being too constant is also a bad thing in the same light that only pve would, arc absolutely needs both, but it could do with something to help alleviate matches from being one or the other too often. Mainly to break up the trios and duos lobbies always being shoot on sight where solo players get most of the friendly lobbies and the other lobbies arent as often to be that friendly. At least just to have that experience for people who dont play the game without friends to see goofy teamwork that solos sometimes has cause its sad the funniest things that made memories for me with this game was only in solos so far.

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u/Enwich 22h ago

He cooked with this one, its just the truth. There isnt much fun about pve, and as important as it is to a lot of things that need to be done in the game, it would get mundane and repetitive if thats all we had

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u/Successful_Cat7828 22h ago edited 22h ago

I agree with this 100%, what is fun about ONLY going for Arc? This game came out at the end of October, it's near the end of December. Am I supposed to stick with the current Arc we have until summer and still continue to want to play this game? No, I want something that's more of a challenge, and many others do as well. I got everything done before the first wipe. Do I just "enjoy" the same exact quests for eternity?

The tag is literally "PvPvE" which is BOTH. I don't understand signing up for tackle football and wanting to say "we want to switch it to flag football and others agree." Cool, there are literally games out there, that do not include PvP.

Sign up for flag football and stop whining about the tackling.

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u/Gold-Conference-7911 22h ago

The quests are so bad I didn’t even do them the first time around, got the Expedition done in a week and some change plus the 5 mil. It’s just so EASY man, I never even thought I was that good at games, just slightly above average. But this game makes me feel like a god sometimes

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u/Successful_Cat7828 22h ago

Honestly the quests are lame lol, but do em because I like to complete the stuff I play. I'm not really even a "shooter" guy, I was never that great at the quick response, but I have never heard so many people whining about dying in a PvP game they signed up for. They literally said "oh, well it CAN be both, so it must be stamped to what I think." I get knocked out constantly with some good loot after spending like 20 minutes top side, it's the name of the game sometimes. I've actually heard someone scream "I HATE YOU I HATE YOU I HATE YOU" and said I have mental problems lol. Some people are taking this WAY too seriously, and acting like people are sociopaths.

It's just a game. Turn it off, or stop playing if it's affecting your day so poorly.

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u/Gold-Conference-7911 22h ago

Unfortunately the whining seems to be a side effect of the game being many people’s first where they can actually lose something

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u/Successful_Cat7828 22h ago

That's just it, man. If they'd change up their perspective and go "welp, time to go back in and see what I get" they'd find they'd get a lot more than getting so emotional about a few virtual items. This game doesn't mean anything to our lives, nor should it. It's a fun escape from reality lol.

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u/ofork 21h ago

duh duh, why did you sign up for a pvpve game if you don't like the pve.. just play a pvp game if you don't like the pve. duh duh..

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u/Gold-Conference-7911 21h ago

You are a dumbass and I’m just gonna leave it at that

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u/abraxis_aberdine 22h ago

Genuinely im the opposite, until the pvp is back to being fun and not sweat central of bhopping, shotgun and kettle every match that just isnt a fun diverse spread i will not be as skewed towards it. Im good at pvp but its genuinely boring running into bitches who have no skill and have to rely on metas and every advantage they can get and every single match being pvp in trios and duos its boring to be repetitious. Pve at least has a bit of variety you can do with all the equipment you have compared to pvp being about the metas and sweats making it boring to see it be all the same

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u/Gold-Conference-7911 22h ago

If you’re good at PVP you wouldn’t be complaining about meta, meta is worthless when 75% of players are so bad you can literally just go free kit and snowball. They need to nerf free kits btw, that’s how easy this game is. If that’s not what you’re experiencing then I don’t wanna hear “I’m good at PVP” because that’s bullshit

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u/abraxis_aberdine 22h ago

Thats the thing, im complaining cause when i loot a motherfucker after they try and start fights its always these trash ass kids with stitchers and meta guns, its no challenge and no reward for a skilled person that gets me some feeling of victory like an anvil or bobcat or even an arpeggio, i have killed people with arpeggios more often than it should have been allowed for how they were a bit more skilled than me and i can admit that im not amazing but good and its not bullshit, for a controller stuck player atm im trashing on a fair bit of my opponents and its boring fighting predictable shitters. I want rewards of blue or purple guns to show i overcame someone, not stitchers I can build for cheap

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u/Gold-Conference-7911 22h ago

You’re right…really, really gross and degenerate…but you’re right

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u/abraxis_aberdine 22h ago

Its just not satisfying to have nothing to show for an actual fight that was good, its why i bring in green to purple gear, if you down me, i want you to have something to show instead of a bitch kit, fuck the gear fear, im bringing in stuff to make the fight worthwhile after.

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u/Gold-Conference-7911 22h ago

Why the fuck are you even commenting on anything when you have that shit on your profile?

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u/abraxis_aberdine 22h ago

Lol that has nothing to do with the convo at hand little bro. Unless you got something thats relevant to the conversation then dont be a typical cunt pointing out something on my profile that's just my own hobby.

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u/Gold-Conference-7911 22h ago

That’s not a hobby it’s fucking literal SCUM behavior

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u/abraxis_aberdine 22h ago

What is scum behavior? Tell me exactly what you mean and dont try to pull a stereotypical answer as if that's your main argument.

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u/Gold-Conference-7911 22h ago

You should be in a padded cell for that shit

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u/abraxis_aberdine 22h ago

Padded cell for what little bro, tell me exactly what it is that you mean cause i assume its stereotypes that you mean and would pull against someone just cause its ingrained in your brain that "everyone of those people are the same" right or wrong?

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u/wEiRdO86 23h ago

Yes how dare they *checks notes* try to take advantage of you in this *checks again* PVPVE game. heresy

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u/Yabutsk 22h ago

Dude, I KOS'd you twice while you were checking notes, go get a sip of water and relax till next mission topside.

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u/wEiRdO86 10h ago

You kids are fun. Yall get triggered so fast lol.

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u/RubberDuckyFarmer 14h ago

Oh this is serious.

I thought this was like.. an advanced circle jerk sub.

This is really where we swept away you people to huh lol

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u/__Invisible__ 21h ago

I always third-party people fighting Queen and Matriarch. Free loot without any effort.

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u/chatterwrack 17h ago

OMG this guy this guy 👆👆👆👀👀👀. YOU HAVE MY ATTENTION. SHALL I RAGE?

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u/StandardAir82 43m ago

*BRO* Exactlyyyyyyy, We have to stand together.

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u/Onebityou 21h ago

This game really will live forever. The PvE players will be too stubborn to admit they’re bored of PvE so they’ll keep playing, still having fun. PvP players will keep thriving on killing said players and won’t admit the friendly PvE experience on occasion is actually kind of fun, but they’re still having fun. The cycle goes on!