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ARC Raiders PvPvE extraction shooting. A game centered around a community of survivors fighting against machines and other humans for resources and survival of humanity.

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Solos. I got to the point where it's basically impossible to even start a match. My last mission is the one where you need to find an extremely rare item on Stella Montis, and I loathe it for the same reason I did with the previous (awfully similar) mission: everyone will shoot you in the back there, always impossible to anticipate.

So Stella is one thing.

But at this point no matter which map I choose, not even TWO minutes pass, and I get my shield blown off from behind, from a dark corner, from behind a building I couldn't even see before, and I get rushed by some troglodyte, at which point I'm fighting at a disadvantage.

This all started 2-3 days ago. Raider flares and dead bodies all over the place. What is going on? It's like everyone has suddenly gone feral. Was there some change I'm not aware of? I understand it's a PvPvE game, but up until last Friday it's been usually a mix of friendly and hostile interactions. Now it's pretty much guaranteed I would get shot from behind a corner before I could even react and then get rushed, every single game, no matter what. Bloody frustrating. I can't even just look for friendly players to team up with, because the first one I see is usually the one that camps me down. It feels like something had changed recently, but I don't remember seeing anything related.

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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Imma be real with you, and all the other players that got into this game expecting more PvE and less PvP: I didn't buy a shooting game to NOT shoot other people. If you're not my team mate, you're a target. I might not even loot you; I just wanna shoot my guns at you because that's the fucking fun part of the game. Now, I don't camp exits or anything, but I will engage others who are there when I come to one.

[–] Dicska@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

This is why I had checked with my friend before even buying the game. Back then (as I mentioned above) it was a mix of friends and foes, which I find a healthy ratio. I don't mind the occasional PVP; hell, I wouldn't even mind the constant PVP if it was fair. But everyone is just crouching in a dark corner, and every single fight starts with a sudden ZZZAP out of the blue, and then good luck winning the fight. But constant unfair fights are a separate topic - I wasn't talking about it being like that all the time. My problem is that it changed overnight, and now the game is riddled with feral players everywhere, as opposed to before. That change is my main problem. However, the initial question was if there had been any change I'm unaware of.

[–] TORFdot0@lemmy.world 1 points 4 weeks ago

I have major respect for pure PVP players who don’t rat or backstab. I really enjoy the chess match of fighting, healing, flee, reset, push.

It’s people who act friendly only to shoot me in the back while on the terminal, breaching a door, or looting that annoys me.

The people who drop slurs and insults for getting downed by another player perplexes me. Even if it’s a rat, you are just giving them the satisfaction of upsetting you.