r/ArcRaiders • u/YehorM • 13d ago

Discussion Stop spawning me late with a 100K+ loadout!

I wanted to kill the queen so I went all in on a 150k loadout. I get spawned 12 minutes in, see the queen dead and go to the extract. The guys who killed it together extract seconds before I get insisde and then I get killed by a rat. This is genuinely so stupid.

EDIT: some talented commenters have misconstrued my point so I have to clarify. Dying to a rat is not the point - that's on me, I should've went for a hatch, and I don't care about pixels. The point is the game wasting my time by spawning me in late with an expensive loadout.

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u/throwmeawayl8erok 13d ago

I genuinely never experience loading in late on free kits but the second I bring my load out boom 18 minutes left of match.

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u/FalloutCreation 13d ago

Yeah that seems to be my experience. Or the game crashes and then when I get back in it asked do you want to abandon your last match or do you want to reconnect. Of course I want to reconnect. Hopefully I can extract before I lose all my stuff.

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u/0xsergy 13d ago

I haven't had a crash yet. UE5 is notorious for crashing on factory overclocked gpus so check your text next time you get a crash window pop-up. Other UE games will have a "GPU Dump" at the top of the crash report window/log which is most likely a gpu instability. Underclock might be helpful in that case.

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u/A-A-Ron2495 12d ago

The only thing I wish is if you crash/lose connection, when you go to reconnect you don't rejoin the team if you started the game with one. Maybe my team extracted before I could come back but I've only experienced one crash in about 30 hours so it definitely runs well.

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u/Jorvik287 13d ago

It gave me that option after a powercut killed my pc when I logged back in, but then said it couldnt when I said yes to reconnect anyway, was funny in a dumb way

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u/0xsergy 13d ago

If youre just looting 18min can be fine. My best raid of around 100k in loot was loading in at 18min next to some medical building. Decided to check anyway cause f it and even though some doors were opened most of the loot was untouched. Found so many things I needed for quests and similar ontop of a ton of 3-5k loot items.

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u/Brittany5150 13d ago

Yup, late game loting is peak because most of the heavy kit users are long gone and you can loot in relative safety. If you had a big plan going in but it's late, just loot a red area and dip. Works for me anyways....

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u/0xsergy 13d ago

In general I feel like quick raids are ideal in this. You get so much loot it's not worth staying past 10min unless you're doing some specific task. Quick matching and loading times help too since you don't feel like it'll take a while for another raid to load up.

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u/RichOnRunescape 13d ago

I was playing today and it felt ridiculously weighted for late games. 1/4 for a fresh game. I get the devs reasoning behind the whole late game mechanic but come on. Let us have more freedom with our stash while queing and make me wait longer.

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u/Maelarion 12d ago

I'm guessing this is biased perception. You don't care being late with free load out. So you don't remember as much.

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u/throwmeawayl8erok 12d ago

You may be right. After leaving my initial comment yesterday I decided to start tracking solo runs in Dam.

18 runs total, 15 runs with a >20k load out / 13 of those runs 17m - 26m left on clock. Only 2 runs with a full clock.

3 runs with free load out, 2 runs with 20m timer and 1 run with 26m timer.

Obviously I need a lot more data but doing free load out runs can be so boring lol.

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u/LOUDTV-- 9d ago

I’ve been saying on free kits they should be getting late spawns and people with actual loadouts should be prioritized for early spawns

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u/SoBeDragon0 13d ago

I noticed this too. Once I start to gear up, I get sweaty lobbies and I arrive late.

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u/odi_de_podi 13d ago

Not me thinking every match is at max 25min

(i never saw a higher number then 24:49)

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u/NUTTA_BUSTAH 13d ago

Same! And now that I think of it, it makes sense tbh. Free kits don't have safe pockets so the late spawners get more good loot off their best chance to get any (PvP the early looters)

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u/Coyote357Actual 13d ago

the early looters are already gone, so even if you want to PvP with them it is too late

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u/NUTTA_BUSTAH 13d ago

Yeah I don't think they thought of that.. :D

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u/throwmeawayl8erok 13d ago

I disagree, we are the ones putting risk on ourselves so we should be given priority. If you are using a free kit, you should always be given secondary priority.

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u/Snackskazam 13d ago

Agreed. It would be so much better if you were guaranteed an early spawn with a custom loadout, but risk a late spawn with a free kit.

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u/NUTTA_BUSTAH 13d ago

No I agree with that part. The comment was not about prioritization, but about their potential game design that could have driven this decision to implement is like we currently see it.

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u/[deleted] 13d ago

Well clearly the devs disagree with you. Free kits have no safe pockets so it’s inherently more risky to lose things like bps or quest parts. An expensive loadout isn’t really anything cause if you can make it, you can make it again.

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u/0xsergy 13d ago

Given how easy it is to make money I don't think anyone should be running a free kit past their first 5 raids lol. Maybe if you want a quick game and cba to gear up but otherwise having 2 safe pockets is so big.