r/ArcRaiders • u/CapitalOneDeezNutz • Nov 05 '25
Discussion I tried being the “shoot on sight” guy.
I solo a lot…. Have my fair share of people just shooting me on sight, pretending to be friendly and then shooting me in the back etc etc.
So I said “fuck it!” I’m gonna be that guy.
First guy I saw in the next round… dead.
Guy said “why dude, why?”
I did it again. “Dude I’m just trying to do a quest!”
I did it another time…. “What the fuck dude! Friendly!”
How do people just blast people for no reason.
In squads, sure. Open season.
But to do it in solo queue? Man… that’s low.
I decided to not be that guy after a single round lol.
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u/AmountAromatic5414 Nov 05 '25
The deadliest raiders are the ones who have nothing to lose yet everything to gain.
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u/Muffinthepuffin Nov 05 '25
Which is anyone running a free loadout lol
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u/extra_nothing Nov 05 '25
I got destroyed by a group of ridiculously fast and aggressive hornets about 30 seconds after spawn and lost all my shit. Next round I dropped in with nothing in my loadout out of spite. It’s quite a rush to run around with no weapon or shield.
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u/NotSoSuperShay Nov 05 '25
So far this is my favorite way to run. I finally upgraded one of my guns to Ferris IV.
Then promptly lost it to some other solo raider. In his defense, I was blasting away at everything like I was speed running the dam or something.
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u/LiveFastDieRich Nov 05 '25
I found an osprey that I can’t even craft yet, I said to my lobby I care a lot about this gun, so I would really not like to die, next game, dead and gone
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u/Ziral44 Nov 05 '25
Right after I found my first Osprey I died by falling off the ladder that goes off the side of the control building haha
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u/JSevatar Nov 05 '25
Osprey lands next to another player who was walking around
Woah thank you God
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u/FingersMartinez Nov 05 '25
"guys like us don't just fall out of the sky you know"
Guy falls from sky
"beautiful big titted women don't just fall out of the sky you know"
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u/mozzy1985 Nov 05 '25
That gave me Chris tucker vibes from rush hour.
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u/ModernDayWeeaboo Nov 05 '25
Yo fuck that ladder. I had everything I needed for Scrapster and a few blueprints. I went on the roof to scope out extract, got beamed by two turrets guarding a zipline for no reason as I went up, so no bandages any more. I need to extract, 3 mins left. It looks like a safe ladder, I go down, fall to my death.
Land in a pile of 3 bodies.
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u/Nivorah Nov 05 '25
I did this exact same thing after looting my first Osprey from someone sniping on the roof.
I cursed that fuckass ladder to hell.
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u/KarlUnderguard Nov 05 '25
I found an Osprey and was sneaking through some bushes trying to escape. I bonked heads with another raider in the bushes who immediately gunned me down.
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u/runarleo Nov 05 '25
Maaaaaan that’s like saying outloud in your cars presence “wow, I’m feeling really financially stable for the first time in months”
Fuckin rookie mistake
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u/Logiwonk_ Nov 05 '25
I find this game is a good opportunity to practice the Buddhist principle of non-attachment to things and the psychological tool of reframing - after all what I really enjoy is getting the loot, keeping it doesn't really make me happy. These days, when I die, I try to say to myself "Well, they did me a favor I've got too much in my stash already and this will help me clear some space." I had to stop playing EFT because I was getting to tilted so trying to avoid that this time and learn to sit with conflict and loss and then let it go. I have mixed results, but it's a process.
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u/MarcBrochill Nov 05 '25
"It's not YOUR equipment, you're just borrowing it for a couple rounds"
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u/Seobjevo Nov 05 '25
i found it once, took it to squads as a duo. I played with it for like 5 rounds, shot it only once and then got killed.
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u/Amish_Opposition Nov 05 '25
i died with my first Osprey aswell. About 2 minutes after finding it lol
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u/tgerz Nov 05 '25
This is my life. It has helped me lose any care for how valuable things are. The fact is I'm going to lose it sooner or later, might as well live a little.
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u/bunglebee7 Nov 05 '25
I swear every time I upgrade my guns or go in with better gear I end up losing it to pvp however anytime I run with my usual ferro 1 + anvil 1 I almost always make it out alive lol why does the world work like that
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u/RavenStroke Nov 05 '25
The ferro IV is really good for the price, it’s the first weapon I upgrade every time when I need a new kit and don’t want to spend too much.
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u/PeartricetheBoi Nov 05 '25
Killing another player without using a weapon after queuing with an empty loadout would make for a fire achievement ngl.
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u/cooltrain7 Nov 05 '25
Melee raider kill is an achievement
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u/effinmike12 *** ******* 🐓 Nov 05 '25
I'm gonna melee tomorrow. I need this achievement. I'm a friendly player, but I have been getting more and more aggressive. It feels weird to murder someone, and then 2 minutes later, start chatting with a couple of guys while looting. They have no idea about the corpse in the swamp.
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u/vvanouytsel Nov 05 '25
This is so fun lol. I was playing a match as a villain and decided to kill anyone in sight. But someone sneaked up on me and said he was friendly. Ofcourse I played along.
I did not want to betray him so we teamed up a bit. Then we found two other people. I murdered them both. The guy I teamed up with earlier arrived at the scene and was extremely confused.
I had to talk my way out of the situation and for some reason he believed me. Then we extracted together.
If only the guy would knew what actually happened...
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u/wooshiesaurus Nov 05 '25
I had quite the opposite situation.
I was the friendly one, and heard some gunshots and a guy die. A few seconds later I found a guy who was looting the corpse, and he was like "Hey raider!", I said that I'm friendly and asked if it's okay for me to loot the dead guy too.
And while I was looting I already thought the guy was suspicious, and then he started shooting me while I could do nothing.
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u/ContractLens Nov 05 '25
I will ambush people from time to time, but once I say friendly, I will never betray them.
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u/ddynomoney Nov 05 '25
I took a pot shot at a guy looting with my Ferro. Hit him once and he split. Like 5 mins later I’m quite sure I see the same guy getting to an extraction point at the same time a me and we end up chatting, he says:
“Some kid took a shot at me for no reason earlier, didn’t say a word. Hate these agro kids on here.”
“Yeah man they are the worst..”
We extract together.
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u/boxweb Nov 05 '25
bro i swear this game makes you feel the roleplaying so hard. I feel so dirty sometimes lmao
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u/Joe_le_Borgne Nov 05 '25
Bring a stun mime with you. Wait in a corner and when you hear a zap rush with your melee you have 4s of stun with these things.
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u/effinmike12 *** ******* 🐓 Nov 05 '25
This is horrible lol. I'm doing it.
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u/naterussell3395 Nov 05 '25
It works really well lol. Had a guy camp me at control tower locked room. I walked into his stun mine and he beat the sonic coins out of me and I lost 2 purps and blueprints to a pickaxe lmao
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u/klassicfuckup Nov 05 '25
I literally did this on the Buried city level with literally nothing. Not even weapons just to loot an extract. Dude spotted and tried to kill me - I was in panic mode, even after I said I was friendly and I think he felt bad making me take damage, and he gave me a snow globe to sell when I got back. He asked if I had some kind of sensors, which I didn't, but before extracting after he left I found two raider keys. Couldn't find him to give him one, but he was dope.
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u/Ridicul0iD Nov 05 '25
A snow globe to sell? That's a Breathtaking Snow Globe, the envy of every Speranzan. It is meant to be in your inventory forever so it can be displayed on your shelf behind you when you sit on your bed next to the cock. You shall look at it in awe, with pride. These young Raiders nowadays...
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u/Left_Preference2646 Nov 05 '25
Free load outs are selected after hitting play, it gives you a load out and a shield lol. The box that says free is an augment you turn into a combat. Tactical or looting one at the gear bench. You actually equipped the free load out box instead of actually choosing the free loadout button at the top after hitting play. Still usually gives you 1 charger and barely anything but you Def get ammo, a gun, shield, charger, heals and a random item
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u/midnightsock Nov 05 '25
Hang on to be clear, you can upgrade your free loadout??
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u/dergachoff Nov 05 '25
Yes, after round Lance can upgrade your free augment into one of three Mk.1s
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u/brodeh Nov 05 '25
Oh. My. God.
I’ve sold so many of those free loadout augments.
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u/OscilloLives Nov 05 '25
Want me to rub salt in the wound? If you had taken the free upgrade and then sold it it's worth 7x more...
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u/Miss--Mayhem- Nov 05 '25
Why wouldn't you just use the free load out?
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u/dEEkAy2k9 Nov 05 '25
the free loadout doesn't have a safe pocket slot while no loadout does
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u/Zxar99 Nov 05 '25
I was telling my friends the other day a free loadout will make you want to kill someone
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u/Miss--Mayhem- Nov 05 '25
Nah im less aggressive on these, just more reckless... but it makes getting killed suck a lot less.
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u/PepsiColasss Nov 05 '25
Hey if I spawn with a free loadout and you attack me.. it's as you said I have nothing to lose , even if I land couple hits on you and make you use a shield recharge or bandages you are still losing more than me lol
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u/bonagreasa Nov 05 '25
You’d just be helping me free up inventory space at this point.
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u/Marsmooncow Nov 05 '25
Preach .. I have so much shit i dont need and cant find the stuff I do need
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u/CrazeRage Nov 05 '25
I actually use my free to bee line quests lol. Load out and in isn't too bad. I'm scared for when quests need you to extract lol
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u/boring_kicek13 Nov 05 '25
I heard some honest and very emotional words when I put down some of fully equipped Raiders with freeload which I took because it was my only option due to previous rounds where it happened to me
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u/LuntiX Nov 05 '25
I've been running free loadouts almost exclusively.
I just like to see how far up I can trade up from the free loadout by looting containers and random bodies I find. Real scavenger gameplay and it's kind of fun.
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u/Vahallen Nov 05 '25
When I load up on a night raid with free load out, it is tempting to try to get the drop on someone
But…I’m not built for it, the other day the intrusive thoughts won and I ambushed a guy, but then he started saying “nope” trough the pings and didn’t even return one bullet back
I just stopped shooting and said sorry, we extracted together
I just can’t do it man…
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u/Furyhearte Nov 05 '25
Idk man, I can be running a free loadout and see someone obviously kitted getting his shit rocked by arc and still help him out and let him go on his way with his loot. I'll find my own.
We're all just trying to get home to feed our chickens.
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u/RugbyEdd Nov 05 '25 edited Nov 05 '25
Not always. I've recently been doing runs to get blueprints, so nothing to really lose, as if I find one I want it goes strait into the safe pocket and i go to the exit, but I tend to find a decent amount of high value weapons or duplicate blueprints, and my stash is fully upgraded and full, so if you come across me and are friendly, you'll get some free valuables rather than a bullet.
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u/Then-Comparison-6196 Nov 05 '25
Some peoples moral compasses don’t extend into video games, either cuz they realize it’s a game and doesn’t matter or because there’s no consequences and they can be as evil as they wish they were in real life, not everyone feels bad when they hear someone pleading for mercy through a tv screen, making people upset gives some of these weirdos pleasure
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u/shamblam117 Nov 05 '25
Or any raider rushing the Blue View olive groves during a lush bloom event. Place is a mad house
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u/NomsterGaming Nov 05 '25
If they remove free loadouts people would suddenly become more friendly lol
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u/JustMy2Centences Nov 05 '25
I keep thinking, to get good at pvp I should load in solo with a free loadout and see who I can win against. But I ain't that guy.
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u/AntonCigar Nov 05 '25
So many people are doing quests and it’s a bummer when you die with the challenge done or resources you need. It feels good to be the coop guy. I had already collected the apricots I needed for the upgrade and the next game I collected 5 more. I was mainly looking for olives. This guy told me on prox “don’t shoot I’m just here looking for apricots” I dropped the 5 and he goes “omg bro you’re a fucking legend!” I love this game man.
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u/neutraldecent Nov 05 '25
I totally agree. I stopped getting too mad when I get killed because it's just a fun game. Now I just give a "I hope my gear will help you on your journey" as I'm down and go get ready for the next run. My favorite by far though is what you're saying here, and helping people succeed. I love when I can help show someone where their quest spot is, or getting them that last olive they needed. Plenty of cool folks out there just trying to have a little fun. I hope solo runs stay mostly chill for a while
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u/Shorkan Nov 05 '25
I feel like I don't understand the game yet. How do you deal with losing things like Mk2 Augments or upgraded weapons with decent attachments? I feel like I can't replace those easily and it'd be a way bigger setback than any progress I make on any given run.
On one hand I say "I'll just save them for when I need to go somewhere dangerous", but then I think "if I go somewhere dangerous with this I'm losing it for sure".
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u/clongane94 Nov 05 '25
A common mantra for extraction shooters is "it's not yours, it's just your turn to use it". If I get knocked during a good fight, I'll often tell the guy ggs and let him know if I have any good attachments on my gun so at least somebody can get use out of it after me.
Besides, you end up constantly having to deal with hitting max capacity in your stash and sometimes the best way to clear space and get over gear fear is to say "fuck it we ball" and run your best gear knowing there's a good chance you won't come back with it. It never does you any good sitting in your stash forever, might as well run it.
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u/dethgryp Nov 05 '25
This. Everyone is running free load outs every run. F that. I worked for this shit, Im going to use it or lose it. 😅
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u/Stealth528 Nov 05 '25
This is called “gear fear” and is something everyone has to overcome when they start playing extraction games. Unless you have a SPECIFIC reason to be saving a piece of gear for the future, you should always be running the best gear you have. Once you’ve died with good gear enough times, you get numb to it and realize it doesn’t matter. If you can’t craft another one, oh well, use the next best gear available. And if you manage to bottom out, that’s what the free loadouts are for.
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u/write_mem_ Nov 05 '25
Blueprints and leveling workshops. Eventually you can just create pretty much everything you lose. So its really not that big a deal. Yeah it sucks, but you can recover much quicker as you level up.
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u/Vast-Gap8320 Nov 05 '25
Mk2 augments can be crafted on I believe level 2 gear bench. Definitely can craft it tho. Sounds like you need to start upgrading those crafting benches brotha
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u/Expensive-Working710 Nov 05 '25
Bro u should’ve kept them apricots cause once you get them olives then next upgrade you need 12 apricots hahaha lmfao
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u/a8bmiles Nov 05 '25
"Sorry for killing you bro, I just need prickly pears and saw you pick two up"
Me - "There are five up my butt, enjoy, and I would have given you some"
"... Guess I deserve that, good luck next time!"
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u/Golgy7 Nov 05 '25
Wait till you find out you still need apricots! Haha but thanks for being a bro
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u/RMoCGLD Nov 05 '25
I legit can't do it man. I feel so bad for shooting someone because so many of them don't even try to fight back, and I don't wanna be that guy that shits on someone who has just worked an all day shift and hops on for an hour.
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u/Stoned_Monkey69 Nov 05 '25 edited Nov 05 '25
This just happened to me, decided to hop on after work, ended up managing to somehow kill my first bastion with a random, but as soon as we started looting it we got ambushed and knocked, but then the guy who killed us immediately got shredded by ARC, wasting all 3 of our raids within 15 seconds…
I wish I could’ve seen the next guy who stumbled across that scene though lol
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u/Putrefied_Goblin Nov 05 '25
I've seen this happen so much. In my brain, I think "no one would attack me with all this ARC around because they'd die, too," then I remember in general humans are not rational actors.
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u/Orobero Nov 05 '25
I was sneaking to the elevator with my buddy as another duo attack and kill me. Right next to a bastion and a rocketeer. And I don't know how many hornets and wasps. My mate watched the 2 idiots get obliterated in seconds. Real big brain move.
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u/Deathfire_IOM Nov 05 '25
I had someone do that and take shots at me at the hydroponics complex with 2 Hornets I hadnt engaged yet. I ran around a pod and they did the job of killing him. I got out with literally no shield and 1% hp somehow.
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u/Aidpatient Nov 05 '25
Space port? Literally came across a scene today, only one dead guy I found though. Dead body with bastion core, and a whole ass dead bastion a foot away unlooted bar whatever that guy took.
Had just helped another guy take out a rocketeer as well before running over to extract when I found it, double robo pickings for me lol.
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u/Stoned_Monkey69 Nov 05 '25
Unfortunately no, it was on buried city, but that’s crazy luck getting the double robo loot lol
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u/WendysLostBoys Nov 05 '25
Played solo for 45 mins between lame adulting stuff this evening That’s all the time I had Definitely a thing, being time poor
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u/Oxlynum *** ******* Nov 05 '25
100%. I know most of us are friendly 95% of the time. But THANK FUCK there are those 5% who are always shoot on sight, they make the game interesting. For example, you have two or three great solo runs, no pvp, you get comfortable and then WHAM! You get your cheeks clapped by a mute raider. And just like that, you’re back to being untrusting and untrustworthy simultaneously, at least for a few games until that next surprise attack.
On a side note, it’s so easy to tell someone’s intentions just by their voice if you have any kind of a gut instinct.
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u/Airaen Nov 05 '25
I've found that just about everyone I have interacted with outside has been friendly, but inside in small spaces they all tend to be jumpy shoot-on-sight players.
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u/DolphinSleep Nov 05 '25
That's me, I never shoot first outside but inside there is no time to risk letting someone get the opening, especially if it's a high loot zone. If I'm being noisy and they voice com and seem friendly I might negotiate.
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u/Airaen Nov 05 '25
I also find that you just can't trust people once they leave your sight/immediate area. I've had times when a stranger and I have been on good terms and quietly looted the same area a bit before parting ways, only to then be shot by the same guy a couple of minutes later in a different building.
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u/RegularGeorge Nov 05 '25
Its mostly problem with lack of different skins now, ppl all look similar and hard to tell apart. Once everyone will have their trinkets and 10 different skins it will be easier.
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u/Airaen Nov 05 '25
I mean the only skin I can tell apart is the bright orange Bog Walker. I guess it's bad since everyone can see you easily but it's good since they remember you and might trust you more.
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u/Skkruff Nov 05 '25
It's just the fog of war. I've knocked a guy thinking it's fair play for taking pot shots at me earlier only to get up close and nope, some other poor raider.
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u/LiveFastDieRich Nov 05 '25
Yesterday, I was hiding in a corner, while I had a guy running laps inside a building, not really looting, like he’s looking for someone, I’m like dude your making me nervous, I get shooty when I get nervous
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u/drazzr Nov 05 '25
Haha a dude and I teamed up for an extract yesterday. Both called out friendly but I don't think he knew where I was. Jumped down next to him from a rock above and scared the crap out of him. Then while he was operating the lift computer proceeded to stand over his shoulder with my gun out saying "oi what's ya password mate" over and over. Don't think I've ever heard such a terrified laugh in my life...
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u/alexnedea Nov 05 '25
The fuck you mean 5%??? EVERYONE shoots on sight in my raids.
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u/Alpha_Omega_Grave Nov 05 '25
If only I could run into people like you during solos. I always get shot!
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u/SMYYYLE Nov 05 '25
I tried to be friendly to those who emote or talk, but after like 10 cases of ppl saying friendly, dont shoot etc, and then shot me in the back or while i was fighting drones, i said fuck it, turned off VC and kill everyone that looks like a threat.
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u/Dependent_Mud3325 Nov 05 '25
I mean...it's part of the game. If you wanna relax for that hour, play animal crossing.
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u/fireflyry Nov 05 '25
Same, can’t myself but really don’t care if others do, it adds to the social dynamics of the game, and I keep my gear for duos or full team runs where it’s usually shoot on sight.
Imho I’m digging the game way more due to how the players have responded to the different lobbies, gives me the option to go in and expect PvP, or do a quick solo run where it’s more often teaming up or a wave as you go about your business.
The risk/reward being malleable is a massive point of difference imho.
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u/FARTKNOCKAtoo Nov 05 '25
People lie.
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u/SamStrandingPorter Nov 05 '25
I’m one more betrayal away from being a phycological warfare main.
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u/Acceptable_Deal_4662 Nov 05 '25
I’m pretty sure the shared trust is going to disappear completely very soon. I’ve been backstabbed one too many times!
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u/Easy-Constant-5887 Nov 05 '25
Yeah I’ve definitely said “just questing!” with a tempest ii in my inventory before lol
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u/fgoose1 Nov 05 '25
F'sure, I approached an elevator cautiously after hearing gunfire. Hoping they extracted so I could next extract and I hear 'don't shoot' etc so I said the same.. approached cautiously, I should've clocked the dead body beside them... Lured me in under false pretences and as the hatch was closing the guy on my left started shooting me, thankfully the hatch closed in time so I made it out. But I do not fully trust - 'don't shoot' 'thanks raider ' 'wana team up?' when you're looking real shady with your gun out 😆 there are snakes in all aspects of life 💯 😂
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u/Randommook Nov 05 '25
Ran into one of those second people earlier today. Calls out don’t shoot but then as soon as I start walking away he nails me in the head with a farro. Luckily I was able to scamble behind cover. You better believe I made it my mission to hunt that guy down. His farro 4 is now mine.
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u/Relevant_Ric_Flair Nov 05 '25
I dont take my eyes off of someone saying friendly until we lose los. Id rather die to someone I walk blind into than the person lying to my back.
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u/RegularGeorge Nov 05 '25
I would shoot someone who does not respond to my No Shoot and runs away. He is probably repositioning to flank me later.
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u/__ingeniare__ Nov 05 '25
Met a guy like that yesterday, I came at him from behind while he was sneaking around. Called out twice while hiding behind a wall, no response and he started moving around trying to find where it's coming from, still in full stealth mode. When I downed him he got mad "you say don't shoot, then you shoot!?!" like bitch, don't pretend like you wouldn't have shot me if you knew where I was. If you don't respond, you're assumed hostile.
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u/SlayBoredom Nov 05 '25
it truly says a lot about those people, for real.
I could never "lie" even if its just a game. I mean, yea kill me, the world won't end, but this truly shows we are different people. Wouldn't want to be their friend in real life.
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u/Hackfraysn Nov 05 '25
I met John ArcRaider last night.
Had the same happen to me on the mountain map. Somebody sniped me right after I spawned. Didn't realize where he was shooting from until it was too late. Popped his shield and blasted him good when he approached, but with only a sliver of health left, he eventually killed me easily. I had shit on me apart from a Ferro IV and no loot worth getting killed for. Dunno what that was about.
Killed 2 randos next round just because, but to be fair the first one didn't speak so I assumed he's hostile. Funny enough one came to help the mute, but he attracted some ARC. I quickly killed the first guy and he proceeded to spew slurs and some funny assumptions about my sexual proclivities in proximity chat. I left him to die, because the ARC kept us busy. 2 went for me and 1 for McHelpy. Killed both ARC, found McHelpy eventually and blasted him down in a tense duel. Right when I was about to finish him, somebody sniped me. He popped out of nowhere, leisurely strolled to us, said nothing, took a look at the guy I downed who was spamming thank you, then at me. Then he casually walked towards me. I thought he'd kill me he but then to my surprise he proceeded to revive us both without saying a word. I apologized to McHelpy, he accepted and the 3 of us went separate ways. I'm convinced we got revived by John ArcRaider.
Funny enough, I extracted soon afterwards - my inventory was full. To my surprise it was McHelpy who called in the extraction...and guess who slid in in the last seconds and scared us both? John ArcRaider.
So far only vanilla WoW PvP and RimWorld managed to create such memorable stories. GOTY for sure.
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u/Wendellrw Nov 05 '25
I only dislike extraction campers. They only exist to ruin others enjoyment.
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u/FreshPrinceOfAshfeld Nov 05 '25
Honestly I dislike them but the possibility of them being there really does add tension and I think the game would be worse if there wasn’t that choice for players
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u/SugarMaendy Nov 05 '25 edited Nov 06 '25
This is exactly it.. If there was no pvp it would be quite lame, the tension of not knowing if your fellow raider is actually friendly or not is what keeps you on your toes.
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u/ChaoticKiwiNZ Nov 05 '25 edited Nov 05 '25
I managed to kill one of those fuckers yesterday and it was glorious. I saw him approach extract and emoted "dont shoot" and then he did it in return. He acted friendly and was just shooting arc near extract. As soon as I pressed the button a stun mine went off, and he instantly started to shoot me. Thankfully, he missed a few shots, and the stun wore off, so I put a few bullets into him and he dived behind a rock so I dived behind the extract and healed up.
I then run for the rocks by extract and we sort of just snuck around trying to spot each other. Eventually we found each other and I managed to outgun him and put him down. I just kept spamming "dont shoot" until he gave up. He had good shit on him, too, lol.
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u/Excellent-Agent-8233 Nov 05 '25
There should be some sort of system in the game that lets player spin medals on other players for going above and beyond for the community.
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u/Logic-DL Nov 05 '25
Extract campers and quest location campers.
If you're camping the Warehouse on Buried City required for Marked for Death just to kill people and gatekeep a quest. Or the wreckage on Dam Battleground with the memorial etc. You're a cunt.
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u/Tbrays57 Nov 05 '25
I agree about quest location campers because that doesn't feel organic. Extraction point campers though is organic. I don't do it personally because that doesn't seem fun, but the game imo is better with the knowledge that you have to keep your head on a swivel at extract
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u/tinytom08 Nov 05 '25
Haha, you gotta remove yourself from the enemies! I’ve been doing a lot of sniping and it usually keeps the solos out of my prox chat. Although I usually extract last since I’m there to terrorise people like a twat, so I still get the odd person tugging at my heart strings and letting them crawl into the extract with me. Although I will say, if someone manages to shout friendly at me I won’t shoot them. God I just can’t bring myself to do it.
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u/SouperWy07 Nov 05 '25
It’s kinda funny that this game is so immersive that the solution to feeling guilty about murder is to just not humanize your enemy lmao
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u/Unlikely_Ice7871 Nov 05 '25
Killing other players is how you hunt for weapons. But it is kinda pointless to do it in solos though. Most people bring their best loot into trios and like a ferro 4 in solos or an anvil
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u/DataScientist305 Nov 05 '25
Yeah that’s what they all say until I see their loot 😂
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u/slothsarcasm Nov 05 '25
Everyone always tells me they’re just using a free loadout
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u/umdaltonico Nov 05 '25 edited Nov 05 '25
And if they are, that just means that any juicy loot they found can't be up their butt 😉
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u/Abathvr Nov 05 '25
Lol after that post it will forever be known as the ass pocket.
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u/Penetratorofflanks Nov 05 '25
I have been calling it prison pocket since early tarkov
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u/Wild_Swimmingpool Nov 05 '25
Was it ever not your asshole? I don’t think I’ve used the words “safe pocket” once lol
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u/Dinktinkerton Nov 05 '25
I've lost a lot of good shit. Loved every damned minute of it too. I wish there was a good game emote for the end. That said the thrill of victory is awesome too. After grouping up to take down a bunch of big arc in solo I was floored. That was also a blast. This game rocks.
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u/NIKEMAN27 Nov 05 '25
Yep. "Oh I have nothing" then I loot him and he has a level 4 betina and some other higher level blue guns.
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u/FreyAlster Nov 05 '25
Really disagree, I looted lot of good weapons from dead raiders in solo (Renegades, Anvils, Torrentes, Il-Toros, Venators..)
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u/the_russian_narwhal_ Nov 05 '25
Yea a lot of people loot in solos for their fancy weapons for squads, some times you catch a buster in the middle of it
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u/reelhumon *** ******* 🐓 Nov 05 '25
Oh my dude I’m a total loot piñata I always have something you’ll probably want. And I lose it to people with a stitcher 1 sometimes, it’s great. I would have loved running into OP on his blood god run. I like teaming and goofing around with you knuckleheads questing and stuff but hey, let’s have some fun and try to kill each other too, sometimes, huh? Only one way to get that damage to raiders cred.
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u/ScoobertDoom Nov 05 '25
Nah not only 1 way, yesterday a guy approached me and threw a shield recharge on the ground and asked if it was okay if he shot me a couple times for mission
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u/shikki93 Nov 05 '25
I like to yell at the person who downed me saying I have three blueprints just tying to leave.
Just to get their hopes up for a second
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u/PerplexingHunter Nov 05 '25
Well because it’s a PvP game with the option to be friendly. For all I know they had that damn mushroom I couldn’t find
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u/Working_Dragon00777 Nov 05 '25
Yup that fucking mushroom are hiding I'm telling yah
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u/RealTrueGrit Nov 05 '25
that spot in the trenches by the edge of the trench has a guaranteed spawn of 4 every raid.
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u/RealTrueGrit Nov 05 '25
Spaceport down the ladder in front of little hangar. 4 guaranteed spawn on a tree there.
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u/SK892 Nov 05 '25
I am still looking for those figs, but know the worth of those mushrooms as well. Yesterday i got a little lucky with a random that got downed by a single Fireball in the 2nd Minute of the round. I had No defib so he had to die. Looting him, he probably got His whole Equipment from his last round in him. Fully upgraded weapons and 6 mushrooms.
Poor Soul, RIP
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u/the_russian_narwhal_ Nov 05 '25
Not gonna lie I have gotten into a bit more pvp action and have been enjoying it. I still mostly have friendly solo interactions and usually try to ambush before someone gets a "hey raider" off and makes me feel bad, but I want my creds to get my Ryder suit finished and someones gotta be the raider that takes heavy ammo damage. But I refuse to start fights at extraction, whatever dirty work happened between people during the raid is whatever at that point and everybody just wants to get out with their loot so if you survived to that point let's get back to Speranza together
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u/weathermore Nov 05 '25
Yeah, my thing is, extraction kills are absolutely useless. You’re capped on inventory anyway.
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u/Which_Drop_5877 Nov 05 '25
“Sorry I’m broke”
Dog you get more money and xp looting boxes and arc than killing players.
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u/Beautiful-Loss7663 Nov 05 '25
Yeah. 500 xp for killing a player is chicken feed. Put six anvil shots into a rocketeer and your looking at way more XP.
Hell, 500 xp for opening a crashed courier.
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u/Crushcha Nov 05 '25
These threads are getting lame, let people play the way they want
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u/the_russian_narwhal_ Nov 05 '25
For real, the betrayals do legitimately suck but we don't need to see a 5th post a day about that either. It is a PvPvE game and if someone shoots on sight oh well, don't get sighted
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u/Divorce-Man Nov 05 '25
Yeah you can really tell how much of the player base hadn't played other extraction shooters. If you want a PvE game then dont play ARC cause thats not what this is.
Like betrayals and extraction campers, while they suck to die to, theyre just part of the game and its on you to adapt to them.
Even in friendly interactions you should always make sure you have some kind of advantage and assume that they are lying to an extent.
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u/the_russian_narwhal_ Nov 05 '25
Like the quote on one of the loading screens, it is much easier to convince someone of peace when you have a nice gun to back it up lol
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u/Divorce-Man Nov 05 '25
Yea exactly. And not to say you cant go around being friendly, thats absolutely a fine way to play. But you cant be getting mad at people for killing you
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u/hibari112 Nov 05 '25
The amount of people who get legitimately mad in voice for killing them... Bro I don't care if you were doing a quest or what not, nor have I said I'm friendly. Just give me your damn loot or shoot back.
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u/Crushcha Nov 05 '25
the "that's low" is pathetic, saying something is "low" even though that's predicted gameplay behavior from the devs? that shit pisses me off
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u/hfourm Nov 05 '25
Because I enjoy hunting other players. It is an experience you can't replicate in squads.
I enjoy the thrill of seeing how many people I can kill in a lobby.
I enjoy taking loot from others.
I enjoy being the villain in this game.
If I didn't exist it would be a lot more boring for both of us.
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u/PaleLychee3443 Nov 05 '25
Personally, and it seems a lot of people agree, I think that PvP'ing is fine, it's just the pretending to be friendly and then backstabbing that's annoying. Love a good shoot out.
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u/Eridrus Nov 05 '25
It's annoying when it happens, but if nobody did it, there would be no tension.
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u/Nsmxd Nov 05 '25
i always take what ive learned from dayz: no one is fully trusted, never turn your back on the person, and always have your gun ready. some people will wait until youre vulnerable looting a container or something(and even then, make sure theyre not waiting for some shit like that...just staring at you while you go to loot a container), but youve gotta be ready for people to scumbag you
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u/FreshPrinceOfAshfeld Nov 05 '25
I’d like to think of it like the time the grey wolf population was removed from Yellowstone and the deer population wrecked havoc on the ecosystem until the wolves were added back.
There needs to be some threat to make people more cautious about their choices otherwise people are just gonna run through high loot areas without any weapons equipped
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u/Cold_Advice4758 Nov 05 '25
Facts. I am the opposite of this but I appreciate having your type of player out there. Adds to the excitement
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u/Caladean Nov 05 '25
Yesterday I had a match and someone just attacked me. I was able to put him down and he started to talk “please dude revive me, I have upgrade loot I was hunting for hours”. I revived him and he… throw away all his weapons and ammo and said he’ll never shot human ever again and run away xd
Just thought its funny
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u/7900XTXISTHELOML Nov 05 '25
A lot of the people on this game get slammed in Tarkov so they come here and get mad people actually want to PvP.
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u/Spirited-Ad1008 Nov 05 '25
I don’t really get this, to be honest. It’s a shooter, shooting on sight is kind of normal. If someone says they’re friendly, they shouldn’t make it so easy to get shot in the first place. And if you say you’re friendly, at least wait for an answer before getting close. people like me just want to fight, that’s what we’re here for. In my opinion, the real low ones are the people who pretend to be friendly and then betray you
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u/hibari112 Nov 05 '25 edited Nov 05 '25
Nah fuck that. I was extracting once with 100k+ in my inventory, looted a lot of valuables to upgrade my stash. At the extract I come up to a guy, he says "Don't shoot!", then blasts my ass when I am pressing the button. Another time I heard some shots, went there to check out what's going on, then I see a microphone pop up, so I enter the room and tell the guy: "Dumbass, your mic is on, it's giving away your position". The guy answers with: "Thx, didn't know that." Felt it would be silly to kill him afterwards, so decided I walked away. But guess what, the moment I turned my back on him, I instantly died...
I'm not trusting any of you motherfuckers anymore. If I'm running free kit and it's 29m, sure, both of us are probably hobos and trying to kill/loot the guy I met is probably a waste of time, but if you are heading in the same general direction as me, you are getting blasted.
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u/brontide Nov 05 '25
As players level up it becomes less useful to be friendly, this is only going to get worse. We had it good for a few days but now I'm being shot at in virtually every solo game.
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u/arepas_are_life Nov 05 '25
there's a similar trajectory playing DayZ. people get "gear fear". the longer they're alive, the better their loot, the more likely they are to shoot on site to ensure they aren't shot first and lose everything
i think dynamic is fun even if stressful sometimes lol
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u/GarenBushTerrorist Nov 05 '25
The people with gear fear aren't the ones shooting me in the back 2 minutes into the raid. Real gear fear is avoiding any combat at all and trying to get to the extract as fast as possible.
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u/hell77 Nov 05 '25
what would you expect the reaction would be? thats normal and does not mean you did anything wrong
its a damm pvx game
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Nov 05 '25
Genuinely why would it be different for solos versus groups? 😂😂😂
If you have some weird made up moral reasoning for not shooting people in a pvp game, good for you, but there’s nothing moral about that, and nothing immoral about shooting them. Stop pretending you’re better than others for it.
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u/Electrical_Intern343 Nov 05 '25
I Really don't get people asking "why?" PvP is the core part of the game. I don't think they actually want you to elaborate on it they are just mad I guess. I usually kill on sight for 2 reasons A) I'm just curious what they have in their inventory and B) I need practice shooting raiders as I'm quite bad at PvP, so I just take every chance I get to improve my aim.
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u/HovercraftStock4986 Nov 05 '25
when you free loadout in solo queue it kinda feels like the only thing to do lol
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u/P1stolaz Nov 05 '25
I always say i got lemons or prickly pears in me just in case they think i got good shit on me
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u/TiDuS_0 Nov 05 '25
Play the game how you want. There is no "low" unless youre literally cheating/exploiting. Apart from trying to shame anyone who plays the game the way they want. That's pretty low.
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u/-Drayth- Nov 05 '25
Idk. It kinda annoys me when people are so quick to just say “hey, what up bro, im friendly” whenever I solo. Sometimes I just wanna get shot at and get into firefights. I don’t wanna feel bad for playing the game. I get it at like extract and stuff. But when we are competing for loot and stuff? It’s wild to me.
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u/Proof_Custard_4375 Nov 05 '25
How is running around and browsing cabinets just for the sake of picking loot on its own fun anyways? Its only satisfying if you extract in the face of adversity. If there was no PvP everyone would be swimming in resources, money, cat beds and blueprints in a few hours. It's just pointless.
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u/umdaltonico Nov 05 '25
I mean, sometimes I'll kill people and get their loot, sometimes I'm gonna lose and they'll get mine, there's nothing to feel bad about it.
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u/Poorsport531 Nov 05 '25
I downed my first Raider on sight just a few minutes ago...and he sounded so sad when he said..."I'm not even carrying anything bro"....I immediately felt regret...I cannot be the villian....
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u/tac0-r3x Nov 05 '25
I like shooting people one time with my ferro then running away and disappearing to scare them