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ARC Raiders

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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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A few dozen solo sessions this weekend. Overwhelmingly friendly; sharing tips, trading BPs, taking down larger ARCs and splitting the loot. I bought the game for my kids and was excited to have them experience what I did.

Sadly, 6 team matches, every single one with a toxic group not even trying to chat - straight to KOS and more often that not, deciding to make some asshole comment pre-knockout.

Play the game how you want, I get it, but if humanity was in this situation, wouldn't we want all humans working together against ARC?

Anyway, that's my rant and why I'll be slowly letting this game get dusty in my Steam library. Thanks for coming to my TED talk.

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[–] jet@hackertalks.com 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

This is my experience, if your friendly you get into friendly lobbies. Including teams!

However if your not friendly it doesn't take much to be cast into pvp lobbies! Go on a raid with a trigger happy friend....

It takes something like 10 non-pvp rounds to get into the friendly lobbies

And even one kos round will put you into pvp land.

So matchmaking is quick to put pvp people together, and slow to pull PvE people out of pvp.

But even the ideal PvE lobby isn't 100% friendlies. It's 85-95% friendlies, with one or two antisocial people for flavor.

When I spawn in I watch for raider flares and if I see more then I few I knows it's a pvp lobby and just exit asap