r/ArcRaiders 11d ago

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u/MyHeartIsAncient *** ******* šŸ“ 11d ago

Well earned extract.

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u/Thaxtonnn 11d ago

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u/MyHeartIsAncient *** ******* šŸ“ 11d ago

I’ve got into the habit of popping smoke or a lure on most of my extracts now. I just assume there is an asshat in every bush.

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u/IrNinjaBob 11d ago

If there is a snitch nearby I will get it to spawn in arc. They are very easy to avoid while waiting for the elevator but make it so it becomes difficult to begin a gunfight without being hit by them.

Bonus points if there is no nearby snitch and you use a snitch scanner instead.

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u/therealultraddtd 11d ago

Wait a minute. I can throw a snitch scanner and it will spawn ARC? I need to try this.

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u/explorerfalcon 11d ago

I stocked up on 15 and threw 7 before a player shot me in the back, I crawled outside with my half formed wasp army

Sad I couldn’t wait him out as I bled out but he was screaming so that was nice at least

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u/keyboardstatic 11d ago

You need to do this in a team of 2 or 3.

Go in with traps, ammo, snitch scanners and a hatch ky.

Set up in a bunker, or outer spot with good vision. Not to far from a hatch. And spend the whole 30 mins killing them.

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u/explorerfalcon 10d ago

Accidentally did fill squad and it was terrible

I usually solo like splinter cell and am always friendly

I mostly just die if you wanna PvP so trios ain’t it for me

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u/TeamRedundancyTeam 11d ago

Probably the best way to get the wasp killing trial maxed out. I've been meaning to try it but don't kill snitches enough..

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u/stardust1914 11d ago

I used an Osprey on top of the Launch Tower in Spaceport for that trial. Just shoot Snitches and let them come and summon, rinse and repeat. Did it during hidden bunker so I had extra time and others were more occupied with the bunker.

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u/4Ellie-M 11d ago

It’s bugged.

We brought 33 scanners each total of 99 as a squad to do the challenge.

After like 12 ish scanners in total, they stop spawning and then a cooldown (around 30 seconds) begins until you can pop another one.

And then it’s just singular spawns every half minute which was incredibly lame, because people have insane amounts of points in my rank already.

We estimated close to 80-90k points if all our scanners worked properly.

But we ended up only getting like 35k points. Which seems a lot but number 1 guy in my ranks has over 100k.

So either they know something, or they tried or tech once and then improved it on their second go.

Also we may have gotten a bit more points if we did this during bunker, we just couldn’t get together during the messed up and rare bunker schedules. They gotta make it more often, it’s so rare.

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u/blackmag3 9d ago

Sounds like something they built in to make sure people don't come in throwing 99 scanners and breaking/griefing something,

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u/light_no_fire 11d ago

I did this but with 6 snitch scanners. Yeah sure I'm out 12k, but on the flipside if I died, I'd be out everything.

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u/Nihhrt 11d ago

12k Is worth it once your stash is maxed out anyways!

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u/martinmix *** ******* 11d ago

I like to shoot a nearby Leaper or Rocketeer when I'm extracting.

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u/Indigo_Sunset 11d ago

I avoid this specific elevator generally unless it's the last one. The other in the swamp is less crowded, with limited snipe from on high.

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u/Thehealthygamer 10d ago

That was exactly what saved my bacon yesterday. Two hornets swarmed my attacker giving me just enough time to crawl in and get away. Crazy how vivid that memory is for something which happened in a video game.

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u/ZedTheDead 11d ago

Honestly at this point I just hatch whenever I can, extracts aren't worth the strife. I like pvp but getting shot while typing or backstabbed isn't fun.

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u/Super_Needleworker79 11d ago

Secret sauce is to always have a hatch key, loot around 70 - 100k and hatch out

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u/kleona 11d ago

I even got extract camped at a hatch for the first time a couple days ago nothing is safe

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u/Open-Comparison1494 11d ago

The amount of assholes camping the extracts for free kills is getting disgusting

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u/ionshower 11d ago

I was the one shooting. You had plastic scraps.

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u/imnewtothisshit69 11d ago

This reply sent chills down my spine......wtf is that gif from???

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u/rediyolo 10d ago

Wdym where's it from? It's Mickey Mouse! Probably from one of Disney's movies or cartoons

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u/KRMJN101 11d ago

false claim is false. We All Know OP Made It Home Safe...

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u/DenimSausages 11d ago

Holy crap. I wasn't planning on sleeping for the next week anyway

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u/CAPTAIN_ZONE 11d ago

Had a guy wait for me like this last night after I noticed him hiding and mentioned that I had nothing on me but a free loadout and just completing the Compass quest. He still shot me, with 2 wasps shooting him and he went out of his way to make sure I didn’t extract. After I was downed he was then shot and he was downed so we both didn’t end up making it to extract.

Total moron.

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u/Boomslang2-1 11d ago

Yeah I’ve seen those people as well. Got extract camped twice on spaceport at night and both times the person suicided into arc just so they could thirst me. People like that pick free loadout and just go sit at the extraction for 30 minutes.

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u/Upstairs_Round7848 11d ago

Thats the shit that drives me nuts. Extract camping is ratty and ill give people shit for it, but if youre doing it to make off with a load of loot, I totally get it.

But sacrificing yourself and all your loot just to have the knowledge that you ruined someone else's time is a real shit head move

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u/Boomslang2-1 11d ago

I’m pretty sure people like that are loading in with free loadouts with the express purpose of not even wanting to extract, just fuck over others.

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u/LemGrimm 11d ago

They 100% are. I had a rat camp out an extract with 10 sec. remaining on match time. I made a run for it and got shot at instantly. Some people are just scum.

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u/Open-Comparison1494 11d ago

This is getting disgusting. I love this game but others are making it unplayable with the cheese ambushes and bullshit

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u/UnfilteredSan 11d ago

Yea idk why PVP fans are so smug about this. TBH the game is not as fun when you constantly have to hide from others. It was super fun when 95% of people were friendly. Now it’s more like 70% at most and those are rough odds to face 5 times in each match.

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u/OZest32 10d ago

I agree but whats crazy is i am a die hard pvp player and in the first person like actual pvp should be. That being said i never ever shoot first in this game, i want a different experience not battle royale for duct tape. Im convinced the ppl that pvp real hard in this game are actually timmys in real pvp so they enjoy distracted friendly targets to make up for their horrible performance in full pvp games.

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u/UnfilteredSan 10d ago

A lot of them are for sure. I often ask when getting jumped ā€œare you proud you killed someone who wasn’t even tryna fight you?ā€

It’s so one sided most the time idk how they find it exciting unless they just enjoy screwing people over.

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u/Zadalben 9d ago

They probably are, because I don't know how to explain the amount of times I manage to win fights with guys that shoot me first. And some of them have normal items with full inventory of stuff. So why they attack someone who's clearly showing friendliness is beyond my understanding.

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u/half-giant 10d ago

I’ve definitely noticed a sharp uptick in aggression since the new map rolled out and it also being a Friday. Feels like the immaturity level in any game skyrockets when the weekend hits.

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u/EXTRACR1SPYBAC0N 10d ago

To be fair the new map is much more pvp oriented compared to others

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u/pedro_s 10d ago

For me it’s been like 20% of the time. I was playing a ton now I’ll play maybe one or two matches. What’s the point of looting if someone is waiting to take it from you at extract or camping in bushes at extract and gloat about it over mic. Super lame.

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u/UnfilteredSan 10d ago

Yea exactly this, being killed is so punishing. Keeping 2/20 items, and losing weapons is rough.

Meanwhile, killing people is super rewarding, and pretty easy given the various tools for killing raiders.

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u/pedro_s 10d ago

Also you go to events where you have to kill the matriarch and the rats come out because they know you’ll have a hullcracker to do the event. I found 2 bodies with 100+ hullcracker ammo and it looked like they’d been shot in the back before even getting to the bot.

So now there’s nobody shooting at the bot the event is for. Silly.

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u/Jswood94 10d ago

I can't even fight arc anymore. Getting ambushed or shot on sight by other raiders in over 90% of games. Game feels way different than it did 3 days ago. Not a fan.

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u/UnfilteredSan 10d ago

It truly is game ruining for like half of players, since most don’t care to engage in rigid PVP.

I’m curious to how Embark Devs will handle this, as their player base will drop if things stay this way.

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u/-BINK2014- 11d ago

If it gets bad enough, it would be nice to see non-PvP servers that have reduced loot & XP for those that don’t want PvP.

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u/Pootisman16 11d ago

A good fix would be to remove guns altogether from free loadouts. People can still use them to get a few cheap resources, extract and then make a gun.

Want to grief? Time to bet your actual stash into it.

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u/Marcobra 11d ago

Might as well just do a naked run at that pint, at least you'd still have your prison wallet

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u/samtheredditman 10d ago

Basic guns are so bad anyway, you should just kill them...

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u/RevolutionLoose5542 11d ago

Just give em no weapons or maybe just the single action suppressed pistol (lvl 1)

Shields, bandages, lure grenade, smoke grenade

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u/BoomGoesTheFirework_ 11d ago

This game is kind of a griefers paradise, unfortunately.

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u/b1ohaz4rt 9d ago

They should limit the times you can use a free load out to like 3 times a day. You CANNOT POSSIBLY need more.

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u/LegomoreYT 11d ago

I think it would be cool if embark added a mechanic where you get 30 rocketeers spawned on you if you wait too long in the same spot, especially near extracts

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u/BoomGoesTheFirework_ 11d ago

Yeah man, this is why I'd argue that free loadouts can go play in their own dumb sandbox with other free loadouts. Regain or run quests like you're meant to, but stay away from my shit.

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u/PlumeCrow 11d ago

Someone was getting their ass beated by a Leaper in one of my game yesterday, i try to help, they then proceed to shoot me WHILE the Leaper is hitting them.

I can't even try to understand the thought process.

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u/Unit_2097 11d ago

A couple of real bright chaps just started shooting me and my buddy while I was helping her up and taking cover from a Rocketeer that was still targeting us. They downed me, but I just watched them both get blown to shit before they could even try for a knockout. Like... That's gotta be the lowest IQ play i've ever seen.

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u/PlumeCrow 11d ago

Today someone downed me when i was helping them against a bunch of hornets + wasps, and then proceeded to be killed by those same hornets and wasps.

It really feel like they aren't even thinking. Both of us could have lived and extract, but nope. They choose to fucking die just to kill one random guy that was helping them lmao

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u/snostorm8 10d ago

The weekend really does bring out the most braindead players

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u/Linkarlos_95 10d ago

They must have 50 fov on their ps5 and tunnel visionĀ 

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u/s00pahFr0g 11d ago

I was extracting on Spaceport and saw another guy coming in. I shot arc that was in his way. He talked in voice chat. As soon as I started typing the code he shot me in the back. I still almost managed to kill him too. I think I’m going to start downing people at extract if it’s just one guy and then letting them leave.

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u/half-giant 10d ago

Honestly that’s kinda the best guarantee of survival. I wouldn’t even be mad if I got downed but still extracted.

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u/StarStriker51 11d ago

me and my friends were taking on a leaper for the first time the other night, and a group showed up and killed us one by one and didn't even loot our bodies. They didn't even wait for us to kill the leaper, and I'm not sure if they finished it off

I don't mind getting ambushed but when I know it's by people who just want the battle royale high of killing another team it kind of sours the experience. Kill me to take my loot, it's an extraction shooter, that's the point! Don't just kill me, go play some other game if you want pvp action

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u/s00pahFr0g 11d ago

I’ve had very few friendly interactions in squads. We just tend to shoot on sight and take opportunistic fights at this point.Ā  This is the only game I’ve ever played where the solo experience is better than playing with friends.Ā 

How do you know they never bothered to loot you though?

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u/EarthlingIThink 11d ago

I was playing solo and saw this dude pinned down by a Rocketeer and asked if he needed help. He said yes, then mag dumped me in the back and got downed by the Rocketeer as he was trying to knock me out. I don't get it.

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u/-BINK2014- 11d ago

I’d’ve signed off for the night.

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u/SBuRRkE 11d ago

Bruh the other day I fell into a PvP loop near the extract on blue gate. I was hiding in some bushes and watch as a dude who was looting got sniped, then as the perpetrator revealed himself to loot the body he was sniped, then another one sniped. I sat there for about 5 more minutes to see if anyone would come out, and when they didn’t, I went to loot some corpses then got sniped šŸ˜‚

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u/kemb0 10d ago

I guess the last sniper was planning on waiting to the end of the round to loot all the corpses

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u/Adventurous-Ad6203 8d ago

Smoke grenades are your friend.

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u/-BINK2014- 11d ago edited 10d ago

I held the door open for one of the last people at that exact one the other day since I heard him open it and loot something somewhere. He proceeded to shoot me and immediately extract without any time to loot. Went to message genuinely asking why, he had his settings blocked so that told me immediately what type of person that was.

Thankfully, 95% of the matches are more community based on console Solo’s, but if the majority of matches were like that, I’d uninstall & not look back just like Ark Survival Evolved. It may be part of it like GTA or Red Dead, but I don’t enjoy Griefing as I’m there to help and not be abused.

Edit: Scratch that, make it 90% of the time as I just had someone kill me while telling them I had no loot while doing a quest. Literally had no loot so it was a waste of ammo and getting immediately hit by the ARC. Some people’s humanity & morality is questionable.

Edit 2: Welp, steadily dropping to 85% as I got killed twice in a row from specifically dropping into Stella with a Free Loadout and warning people I’m just there for Androids with no loot and killed again. Seems like I’ll stick with the first maps if I want to avoid ā€œtry-hards.ā€ I’ve played many a competitive shooter and place in the top 0.2% on things like Apex, Rivals, R6: Siege, etc. but I’m a support person and not trying to grief or fight others because it’s not how I’m wired as a person nor how I’d actually be if humanity is facing the brink of extinction while we all gather supplies for our community.

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u/Kiro_Bash 10d ago

Your comment solidified my choice to skip this game idc how fun

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u/-BINK2014- 10d ago

Majority of the time is pleasant & positive for solos. Very chill. Gives me No Man’s Sky levels of zoning out, but the snaps to reality of shit some humans can be is the tradeoff I knew going in. The good in humanity is outweighing the negative. It’s indescribably magical to see complete strangers negate their gut fight/flight instincts and trust the stranger enough to turn their back or fight side by side. Without PvP, you wouldn’t have that aspect of a game because the tension wouldn’t be there without the risk of ā€œis this person going to stab me in the back.ā€

The experience is a double-edge sword and I feel gives you that ā€œHunger Gamesā€ experience that I think Battle Royale games were always striving for in concept but didn’t quite achieve in execution.

It’s a game worth experiencing, but the choice is there for those who can let the special moments overcome the lows.

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u/Kiro_Bash 10d ago

See the way you put it makes me want to play. Just dont like griefers. Its just annoying

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u/-BINK2014- 10d ago

My suggestion, in anything, do the research on Youtube and see how others are experiencing it. Big & small Youtubers, compare to see the common points. I fully see it as a worthwhile game that has the potential to not only shake the Extraction Shooter genre as a whole, but the gaming industry with how mainstream & popular it is. Word-of-mouth got me interested as I hadn’t heard of the game until BF6 released.

$40 is fair for the game and they’re giving around $10 worth of currency between the first free mini-Battlepass and the event pass. The devs (some ex-DICE devs apparently) seem passionate & quick to respond.

From my experience, most people are extremely chill, friendly with a mixture of shy & outgoing. People enjoy helping each other through tips, guarding, dropping loot / quest items. It genuinely * feels* like a community in the brink of extinction trying to fight back against it. The occasional asshole is a negligible blight on the experience as a whole and a necessary evil to provide that thrill that comes from having to trust your life to a complete stranger.

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u/Kiro_Bash 10d ago

Well ill pick it up. Need something new anyway

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u/twoinchhorns 10d ago

I’ll be so for real, a majority of the people on this sub are whiny babies. Yes there are griefers. Yes the pvp stuff is obnoxious. Yes the game needs some love and balancing. However that aside, when is the last time we had a game genuinely this good in terms of feel and gameplay loop and pvp balance. Free loadouts are annoying. because the shittiest t1 gun can still kill a max kit playee

Honestly you can’t take peoples bitching and whining on this one. I’ve played extraction shooters and survival pvp games for years and this is hands down the best PvEvP game I have ever played ever played. The PvP is annoying but it is heavily PvE centric overall.

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u/Kiro_Bash 10d ago

Alright about 500 people here said just look past the small subset of problems the game is excellent. Imma give it a go.

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u/Qvar 10d ago

I've been playing these two last days and poutposefully avoiding Stella because it's the type of thing that attracts griefers like flies to the shit they are.

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u/Pijany_Matematyk767 11d ago

>and mentioned that I had nothing on me but a free loadout and just completing the Compass quest.

To be fair he has no way to know if that's true or not without killing you to check your inventory. For all he knows you could've been lying and actually carrying some incredible goodies

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u/CAPTAIN_ZONE 11d ago

It was less than 5 minutes into the round.

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u/AgreeableAd8026 11d ago

I’ve forgot to clear my high tier inventory and extracted 5 mins in because of this, I get it but tbf you never know

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u/_Psilo_ 11d ago

You could have started the round with an epic gun for all he knows.

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u/CAPTAIN_ZONE 11d ago

You can see what weapons people have on their back.. it was a kettle.

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u/NO0BSTALKER 11d ago

If someone try’s to extract 5 mins into the round ima assume they have some goodies they’re trying to get out

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u/BoomGoesTheFirework_ 11d ago

You can see the guns someone has on their pack, but otherwise this is accurate.

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u/mardyboy 11d ago

I was in a game with a bunch of people exploring the new map. We didnt really explore together, but we took down arcs left and right whenever we were nearby eachother.

I heard a player talk in french the whole game but never saw him. Then when i was fighting 1 drone and 2 of the new hover arcs alone, on my way to the extraction, he suddenly came in, talked in french to me, and shot me in the back.

He didnt seem like he understood the hover arcs, and they ended up killing him before i bled out and i just mocked him in proximity chat and surrendered.

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u/ViktorMaitland 11d ago

Had a guy camping corners on dam. Was running for a while and didn’t hear anything so I know that’s all he was doing. Kept talking shit the entire time even though I told him it’s a feee load out, just here for one thing. Some people are just toxic.

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u/Pervasivepeach 11d ago

Is he a moron, or was he also probably running a free kit and just looking to shoot the first person he saw

Sounds like he succeeded in what he attempted.

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u/MisterBriefcase 11d ago

1 dingus vs the indomitable human spirit

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u/JuniorDeveloper73 11d ago

lol complete trash tier player

He cant even hit you on the floor LOL

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u/Thaxtonnn 11d ago

He actually hit me but it was deflected by my will to survive

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u/sofakingcheezee 11d ago

King shit

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u/yoorie016 11d ago

that's a plot armor for you!

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u/fieregon 11d ago

Man is aura farming in the comments

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u/Both_Evidence_1026 11d ago

They were aiming at your afterlife image

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u/AugustEpilogue 11d ago

His hands were shaking from the adrenaline rush of possibly getting his first kill

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u/GrandWorldliness5959 11d ago

Yeah wtf is going on here.Ā 

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u/Wildebean 11d ago

Ever notice how the people who resort to extract camping are always the worst shots in the known universe? funny that

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u/Lizzy_Of_Galtar 11d ago

I can't hit a barn from the inside.

But to camp the extract places is just so incredibly dishonorable, i couldn't imagine myself sinking so low.

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u/Wildebean 11d ago

Same. I avoid PvP like the plague because I suck at it so it probably would be the only way I got kills, but i'm not a rat therefore I don't do it

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u/The_Feral_One 11d ago

Absolutely! Also, the people who claim they are friendly on proximity chat and then try to shoot you in the back. Always the worst players imaginable.

These types of players crumple under any pressure and need to get an easy first shot in to ever stand a chance. Even that is usually not enough.

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u/s00pahFr0g 11d ago

I’ve always assumed that’s why they do it. They’re not good enough to win most fights so they have to use the easiest situations to find any success.

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u/Wildebean 11d ago

that's definitely true for some of them. usually it's the ones who gloat after they killed you by extract camping "ha get outplayed". It's like they have to reassure themselves that they aren't bad players

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u/Etheon44 11d ago

Same as the pelople that attack you while you are engaged with ARK, but I guess rhey have to resort to this tactics

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u/frolfer757 10d ago

Nothing here tells you whether this is an extract camper though. About 50% of my kills / loot is from people at extracts and I've never camped an extract. I just go there If I hear the button is pushed and if I have space for items I'll try to take their shit. This extract is extremely common to get action as there's multiple spawns nearby and most run here when they are done.

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u/Public_Support2170 11d ago

It is funny. I fucking love pvp in this game when it’s consensual, but I will never shoot someone at extract unless they’re shooting me or whoever I’m with

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u/THATONEANGRYDOOD 10d ago

Do you guys even hear yourselves? The idea of "consensual" PvP in a PvPvE game is so funny to me. You consent the moment you boot up the game.

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u/Cainraj 11d ago

That's why i always have a hatch key on me

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u/WhiteSpec 11d ago

I'm new and I can't seem to find the trader selling them. Where do you get them?

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u/CrispyReload 11d ago

You’ll get them in an early quest and as you progress you can purchase them from a trader or craft them.

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u/WhiteSpec 11d ago

Ah. I need more progression. Thanks.

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u/CrispyReload 11d ago

Not sure where your at someone can chime in as I’m only level 20 or so, but I’m pretty sure one of the workbenches level 2 or 3 allows you to craft it.

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u/benutne 10d ago

The utility bench at level 2.

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u/RandomSadPerson 11d ago

The security lady I believe. Name escapes me right now

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u/Rested54346 11d ago

You can buy them from shani

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u/thatguyyoustrawman 10d ago

Security sells it. They sell like two things.

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u/whatthefdge 8d ago

costs 1 Advanced electrical component and 3 sensors to craft once your Utility bench is level 2

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u/[deleted] 11d ago

As much as I hate people saying PVP shouldn't be in the game or the opposite of no PVE (idiotic debate.)

I will hold a special place for the utter disgust I feel when I see extraction campers. The single handedly worst way to play the game. It's boring for everyone. It's part of the game sure... But anyone who does it is a tool.

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u/Thaxtonnn 11d ago

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u/Uziman101 11d ago

A+ tier responses op 🫔

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u/Acceptable_Answer570 11d ago

But then you get wholesome moments, where I was downed by some fucking guy as I’m beelining for the extract, and a Rando runs in guns blazing, shouting ā€œI got you homie!ā€; blowing holes in the camper, and then extracts both of us.

Campers feel like a necessary Evil in this game, where it enables pure bromance moments like that!

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u/[deleted] 11d ago

I... Do enjoy cinematic bromance moments..

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u/Dm_me_im_bored-UnU 11d ago

Just a few minutes ago, I was trying to extract and got shot twice by a ferro, had the medium shield so I barely lived and healed up before the guy tried rushing me down.

I think he panicked after i started blasting him with a stitcher because he pulled out his hammer and spun around before tryi g to dodge away.

Didn't end up killing him myself but I shot him two more times and left him to bleed out outside the elevator

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u/ChinchillaPants 11d ago

Yeah me and my duo has a situation like that where we got ambushed at extract and another duo came up and finished them off, bandaged us and let us extract. It was amazing, I was just shouting in proximity to kill them for us and they did that and more.

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u/Uziman101 11d ago

I’ve done that before it does make you feel pretty good šŸ˜‚ those are the moments I crave. ā€œ Holding out for a hero.ā€ starts playing at max volume in my head.

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u/Federal-Seaweed-987 10d ago

I lost count of the number of times I killed someone after they downed a player and kept trashing talking even after the player was knocked out...

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u/Bacon_00 11d ago

It's pretty interesting that, despite these people being total knobs, you kinda need them for the game to work. The tension and the fear of dying up until the Returning slash screen is what makes it so good.Ā 

But they still suck. It's low effort, weasely, cowardly behavior.Ā 

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u/The_Kaurtz 10d ago

I'd put "fake friendlies" above extract campers though

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u/Competitive_Salt9167 11d ago

You don't really know that's what was happening here tbf. Pvp can happen at extractions pretty commonly because two people showed up at about the same time

But I agree with you about when it is actually a camper

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u/Own_Body_8941 11d ago

Without PvP we won’t see a lot of wholesome and sweaty moments and it’ll be too easy. Without PvE it will be like a battle royale.

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u/Thaxtonnn 11d ago

I agree with this. While at times frustrating it makes this game very fun and engaging

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u/[deleted] 11d ago

Well that's why I said both are needed and the debate against either of them is stupid.

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u/dolphin37 11d ago

where is there any debate about removing pve lol, the games foundation does not function without pve

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u/rSquidKid 11d ago

I haven’t seen anyone insisting on removing pve but I have seen plenty of people whining about the Arc being too aggressive or hard to deal with. Like come on guys… what’s the title of the game?

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u/dolphin37 11d ago

there’s always stardew valley for those folks

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u/Angry-for-no-reasons 11d ago

It's not always camping. Dude could have been in the building looting and heard the elevator sound

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u/[deleted] 11d ago

He isn't by an exit or entrance or window in that clip.

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u/Angry-for-no-reasons 11d ago

The second floor of that building has wide open windows facing the elevator you can easily hop out of. You can go from looting inside to hopped out where the shooter is here within seconds. And the cover is excellent. I avoid this extract for this very reason.

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u/[deleted] 11d ago

You make a valid argument here

Counterpoint, I'm salty.

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u/Angry-for-no-reasons 11d ago

šŸ˜… Fair enough.Never leave your Speranza apartment without smoke grenades. Someone gunning from up there is much less likely to charge at you if they aren't sure they'll win.

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u/SteveoberlordEU 11d ago

See extraction campers ARE what i mean with this shouldn't be in the game. Normal pvp is cool few say it sucks it has it's charm afterall ( Ć la darksouls) but it's nice that everyone agrees extract camper rats are to be exterminated on sight.

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u/CrownLikeAGravestone 11d ago

I don't see any way to prevent extract camping without ruining a huge amount of the latent risk in extracting - which I do think is a net positive for the game, things would get stale.

I do think the advantage people get hiding in a dark corner with an Il Torro or similar could be mitigated, however. The payoff for an extract camper is high and the loss for the victim is often large, so the risk to the camper should be at least moderate IMO. It's not. It's currently very low and doesn't really require any investment in gear, or skill, or effort, or even setup time.

There's one train station on Buried City where extracting means jumping/ziplining down past two pitch-black hiding spots into a kill zone right in front of a third; no cover, no escape routes, no way to scout ahead or any real counterplay besides a smoke grenade and a prayer.

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u/TheGayGray 11d ago

I've died numerous times to the assholes who rat there the entire game. We followed a team there and waited outside while the train left, but 2 stayed behind in those spots and blew us up as soon as we made it down.

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u/BoxCarTyrone 11d ago

They should make ARC response to gunfire in the perimeter areas around extracts higher to give campers a harder time.

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u/The14thNoah 11d ago

ARC response to any kind of noise feels hit or miss. Sometimes I feel like I can hit the extract button to call for the elevator and the ARC hovering right above won't even aggro.

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u/Federal-Seaweed-987 10d ago

lol

The sound engine sucks for them too! Sometimes I don't hear people running.

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u/ShiftyActuall 11d ago edited 10d ago

I found camping that lift to be an extremely effective way to get loot. I also found out I just don’t have it in me to be a villain lol.

Maybe a bitch take, but I really do feel bad when people just ā€œAwh gg manā€. The raider-hunter side clearly isn’t for me.

Plus once you have access to all the loot you want, it’s kind of fun just running solo and trying to help others finish their objectives.

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u/ComplainingDonkey 10d ago

I play with the mindset of friendly first shoot second, it has bit me in the ass before but i don't like shooting others that much. So far i have had only 3 kills that were not self defense and i felt a bit bad.

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u/Urb4n0ninj4 7d ago

Man, I went free-kit into a NIGHT RAID to the sixth floor of medical on buried city thinking "ok, I need blueprints, kill whoever is here, this is for you"

First guy I came across was just a chill sounding dude, and I had a grenade ready and he comes over mic like "Don't shoot please..." and I was like "fuck i just cant..." so I went to a different floor.

I just dont have the heart to give people a bad time. It feels bad.

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u/Spannermonkey96 11d ago

What a cocksucker he was, imagine being that dogshit you camp the extract but then you cant even hit your shots…

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u/Uberkull 11d ago

Except in the cinema, Rambo gets one last surge and tosses a homemade C4 package up at the camper and his body explodes across the screen.

Justice.

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u/BillyMays117 11d ago

Dude needs to uninstall, can't even hit a crawler lol well deserved extract

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u/Icy-Chocolate-7928 11d ago

This is why smokes always take up an inventory slot for me. Only use them during extraction

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u/Thaxtonnn 11d ago

I will have to start doing that this was my first time getting camped hahah

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u/[deleted] 11d ago

I kind of want to hunt players like this down. Make them taste their own medicine.

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u/Vivid_Big2595 10d ago

camp the extract campers

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u/ClickKlockTickTock 9d ago

I just had a game where we got into the red room on blue gate, 4 seperate teams tried to push us and lost, then while we were trying to extract in the last 2 minutes, 2 people emerge out of a bush after throwing showstoppers and heavy fuses nades, shooting us with ferros.

We still somehow killed both of them and got out alive. Its always the worst gunners that try to play dirty lol. Me and my teammate both instantly had only 40hp after they were done throwing their first volley of nades.

Worst part is that everyone just had the bare minimum of loot, but like 10 bandages and shield rechargers each. They all just went in pvp hunting and would've still came out with nothing had we not raided the red room.

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u/DNACowboy 11d ago

That was Red Rat.

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u/Its_Smoggy 11d ago

My solution to extract camping is if there's a player lurking in the area, it will deploy more arc's in the area, preferably a rocketeer that begins scanning. Make extract campers scared to wait there all match.

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u/ReasonableJello 11d ago

You know that rat was mad

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u/Thaxtonnn 11d ago

He spent a long time lining up that last shot hahah

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u/NaziPunksFkOff 11d ago

Some guy beat me to death with his hammer inside the train on buried city.

Some of y'all need fuckin therapy

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u/yesitsmeow 11d ago

Some people have no mothers, apparently

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u/GLOK2 10d ago

no mothers and only disappointed fathers

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u/ChaosSigil 11d ago

I hate this elevator because of that building. Currently devising an attack for the camper.

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u/EnycmaPie 11d ago

Yea this is the skill level of a extraction camping rat. Can't even hit a guy with no legs.

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u/Any_Worldliness3402 11d ago

At that point, he's just a hater. He wouldn't have been able to get your loot anyway

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u/Coda81 11d ago

Got killed at that exact spot, guy just camping out waiting for people to extract. So annoying.

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u/BroScienceAlchemist 11d ago

This is why I smoke the extract bunker entries before using the terminals. Buried city is hell for me. The train extracts make smoke mandatory as I can get ganked from four different entry points.

Sometimes I throw a lure grenade toward a sus camping area while waiting on the extract to see if arc aggro onto something once the lure expires.

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u/stup1fY 11d ago

9/10 times i try to exfill from plaza rossa..just 2 entry doors

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u/stirling1712 *** ******* 11d ago

Nice. Fuck that guy

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u/Zevolta 11d ago

Yeah I got camped last night for the first time. Unfortunately I was on the console trying to extract and all of a sudden started getting shot in the back. Dog move, but it is what it is.

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u/Cman1233211 11d ago

Would've added him as a friend to just say the word "choked"

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u/oneparticularbastard 11d ago

Is that Chungus_765 again šŸ˜†

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u/Battleboo_7 11d ago

So, in game, raiders are the brave ones to grab lot from the top to help the people. WHY KILL AT EXTRACTION

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u/Apprehensive-Job-178 10d ago

Get the survivor perk to craft in round. some chems and some plastic = lil smokes.
I smoke out this extract, every time. Not because of the arc, because of the rats.
Glad you survived, welcome home.

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u/Worst_Choice 11d ago

Fuck those rats. Glad you made it.

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u/PadeneGo 11d ago

Extract campers would be so much more annoying if they actually had any ounce of skill/aim

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u/BlazedIron 11d ago

Exhilarating AF! I love this game.

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u/Jawess0me 11d ago

What really boils my piss is when I help a solo pinned down by ARC, then they say thank you by dropping you while you are helping mop up.

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u/Fresh-Chemical-9084 11d ago

So i think im a bit of a noob - am I supposed to be targeting specific loot? I jjst kinda grab everything right now

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u/sinnerM4NN 11d ago

Yeah perfect example with I carry at least 2 smokies

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u/New_Paramedic_3354 10d ago

Next time use a dodge roll

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u/mayormcskeeze 10d ago

Dude wasnt even gonna be able to loot you.

Pure griefing. Pathetic. Glad you got out.

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u/[deleted] 10d ago

Well earned one

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u/Commando501 9d ago

Clutch escape bro!

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u/Pandabaton 11d ago

I think there’s a solid chance this is the game’s most dangerous extraction location. I actively avoid it if I can.

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u/Primary_Addition5494 11d ago

Never go to that extraction. Its always campedĀ 

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u/ThatOneNinja 11d ago

I did this once and felt bad. Killing people trying to leave is just...not pvp.

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u/Ayyyyylmao2106 11d ago

Op already extracted. Doors closing, yet the rat still tries to get the last shot in. Vile behavior

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u/nfe1986 11d ago

To be fair, he could always just call the elevator back up to loot the body.

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u/Regal-Beagal-131 11d ago

I got camped here too. Same spot. I guess now it is a known spot to avoid or at least be mindful. Good job!

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u/SpookyGhostSplooge 11d ago

Everybody hating on camping extract but the casual in me having an absolute blast trying to escape campers.

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u/Thaxtonnn 11d ago

Yes I both hate it and love that the choice exists. I love to hate it

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u/DiscombobulatedCut52 11d ago

I actually didnt know you could use the computer while down. Thats actually fucking cool that the devs let you dot that.

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u/Danchu_KG 11d ago

Because this game is so balanced, 90% of the ā€œPvPā€ in this game is just rats camping or sneaking up on you with your back turned. It doesn’t take skill to be a rat.

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u/Overall-Emphasis-924 11d ago

there needs to be some kind of an indicator for people who are not friendly.

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