Oof!! (Gaming)

by cheapLEY , Monday, November 10, 2025, 15:52 (3 hours, 36 minutes ago) @ ManKitten

The ARC definitely don't mess around. I can comfortably deal with the common ARC, but they can still surprise you. One of the Trials this week is to deal damage to Wasps. I was just hanging out on a Night Raid in Buried City killing Wasps, right next to the stairs for one of the extract points. With less than a minute left a Snitch saw me, called in a Hornet and two more Wasps when I was already dealing with a group, and I got overwhelmed and downed nearly instantly.

Once you get your crafting stations leveled up and find some Blueprints for weapons, it gets much better. I go in with an Anvil and a Venator almost all the time now, and it's such a great loadout. The Anvil is basically a Destiny Hand Cannon, it uses Heavy ammo. The Anvil is a Medium Ammo pistol that makes short work of enemy raiders if you have to fight.

It gets a lot more fun when you have some excess materials and can craft a decent loadout at will without having to rely on a free loadout to go back in. It takes a lot of the pressure off.

The Raider Cache events are a good way to loot a lot of guns, ammo, healing items, and grenades/traps. I spent some time using free loadouts and just running those events over and over to load up on equipment that I could take back in for riskier runs.