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I reached level 20 last night with 50 successful extractions. I have my gear and gunsmith bench at level 2 plus scrappy at 3. I did a fair few quests yesterday and manged to unlock some achievements including returning to Speranza when downed after I got into a firefight at the exit whilst it was opening, downed the culprit, then got downed by an ARC and we both ended up crawling hilariously to the lift! Also flying through live event earning merits plus unlocking Raider decks with the credits. There's always plenty to do and work towards. Today I will do the daily challenges plus I need to broaden my horizons and try and discover new loot required for some of the level 2 benches. I'll probably need to increase my stash to beyond 200 because it is piling up and a lot of stuff, even the basics, you may still require down the line for things like upgrading weapons or simple attachments.

Went on with @Diddums Friday night and was amazed at his patience! 😃 I'm enjoying it so far but have stuck to the Dam map mostly. Only been killed by another player once so far. As those of you who know me well I have died more than once ! 🤣 Main strategy so far has been to expand the stash as much as possible, unlock all the work benches. It's a beautiful game to play, AAA at a bargain price and reminds me of Destiny in many ways... daily quests, scavenging, equipment upgrades, etc. It'll be interesting to see how many FG players will use the wipe option. I see Shroud is playing and topping the leaderboard but also discovering some sad news..... I'll be getting on this when real life lets me. Thanks again @Diddums ... he's your man for a dog collar for your chicken!! 🤣

Hi everyone, casual gamer here. Hopefully get some games of Arc Raiders going with some of you

US beating Uruguay is quite a big deal imo, looks like getting Poch as coach is finally coming good @Sennex

Tagging @GazzaGarratt as I want to talk about how people are playing this. Lee frustrated the hell out of me last night being completely unaware of his surroundings and going for loot first which in one round led to us being shot at by other players & me getting stamped on by a leaper. I very much play this game cautiously, being fully aware of what is going on in and around where I am exploring first and then I will try to find what I jumped into a game for whatever item or quest that may be. I am almost always turning my camera looking in the sky, listening out for the machines as what can being as one machine catching you out can very quickly due to the noise of combat draw in others and result in you being quickly overrun. To me that is great as the danger is there and every encounter can quickly go South. My frustration with you Lee last night was that you were busy looting when @LordBaguette had just said a couple of times that he was being shot at by raiders, at that point for me it turns the game from a looter into a survival PvP game. That flicks a switch in my head and suddenly you should be playing the game differently and on trios you need your squad otherwise you quickly get overrun but I have a vivid image of you being quite exposed, looting a vehicle with your back to the direction the gunfire was coming from. There is no point picking up loot to be shot in the back because you won't then be extracting with it anyway! I think what it taught me last night is that even when you are part of a squad, don't expect your squad to have your back and going forwards if there are enemies I will be getting into cover or getting out of there and potentially leaving Lee with all his loot to fend for himself. 😄 And we won't get into the fact we had a bombarder right next to us at the church destroying everyone, Lee decides to ignore it and climb up the church anyway to complete his objective not really knowing what he was doing or looking for and Tom decided to attack & kill one of the raiders who were being friendly and fighting it. Only for a few minutes later for said raider to kill him whilst he was reviving Lee who had fallen from the church because he was too fekkin impatient to wait for us to deal with the bombarder first!

It's unlocked now for all players who have completed at least 24 raids

Cheers @Diddums. Last night was first full night on it and I'm finally getting it all. The playloop is great, just the UI doesn't initially help you in that fact. I'd say one of the biggest things it doesn't tell you to do but to help you on your journey is to 'Track Resources' for all bench installs and level up upgrades. Its like extra mini objectives alongside the main quests the game gives you. Helps you then focus on specific loot rather than it all because there is absolutely shed loads the game gives you and you can feel like you are full within a minute of spawning in. Its good to be in a group and share what things that people may need so we're all looking for 5-6 things on each run and we can share and help each other with whatever we all find. I love that bit about it all, way more objectives then and definitely better feeling than the 'I'm helping' meme in your head.

I was iffy at this game at first but in love with it now. Not watched an angry Joe in a while but they summed it all Well. One of the best things like they say it feels like the old days of Xbox like or pc gaming, going into chats and making friends quickly in game, people working together etc. takes you back to the old days biggest let downs are the microtransactions and character customisation

Rubbish! You're just a bloody magpie like me!! 🤣🤣🤣

Okay so I have underground building sorted out LOL I might jump over into yalls world today and start building either at Peaceful Acres or near the starting altar. and just slowly flatten and build up. I was going to focus on food production in the short term.

Ah OK, so that's what the 23/24 under it means. So I'm one raid away. Thank you for that. Still learning

Watched a movie last night called "2067" Not really sure how I feel about it other than it reminded me of all the movies I used to watch early Saturday or Sunday afternoon. It wasn't bad, but it was definitely an early afternoon movie, not a late night movie. I dont' even know if that makes sense, but it's what I was thing the whole 2nd half of the movie.

Welcome to FG mate, hope you enjoy your stay. If you still play GT7 let us know too, a few of us play that, though not for a bit....and maybe it's time we had another race night : )

It's only on PC for now but it's £19.99 until 27th November on Steam and I am now tempted 🤪

Never seen a demise like this since Sega.

uh... wheres the farm?

ARC Raiders

COD Poster-child and Activsion shill Fazz Swagg got banned on the first day. He's been banned from every COD title in recent years and has been caught cheating numerous times on several accounts whilst streaming. Also cheated during the Battlefield preview event and Activision famously paid him and his friends to provide fake trailer reactions It was also funny to see so many big streamers struggle yesterday because their Cronus software hasn't been released yet and no cheats have bypassed the secure boot yet.

So thinking of downloading this today (Friday). Fairly new to PVP type extraction games, so don't really know what to expect, but I am finding a lot of games stale and too formulaic at the moment, so need something different. Will probably be a weekend game with some week nights due to working patterns. Ps5 player, using a Steelseries headset and possibly in the future a dual sense edge (just for thr custom button profiles mainly) Edit: Played for a couple of hours this afternoon, loving it!!

Not me 🤣🤣🤣

the fist video is pong

PS5 launch trailer 🖤❤️

I love how raged you were 🤣🤣🤣🤣 I get it, and in fairness I like to play in a group together in the main. It reminds me of Destiny and these little things is where it just shows people play in different ways. I've always been a person that has objectives, but will always be happy to help others first. The way the game is made is if I have no objectives, opening a few boxes, which essentially is the playloop, shouldn't be any issue. In some ways it can be funny why i'm such a magpie over little things. That game was hilarious but also reminded me that i'm extremely new to the game and still played far less than others. I'm going where I'm told - this one was the tower you told me to go for. I pressed a button downstairs and asked a few times what to do up top but no one answered or knew. There was no interactional buttons either. By then the big Bombardier was agro'd and then somehow blows 2 massive missiles at me for no reason! 🤣 I get downed once, and then fall down again. In the meantime, Tom goes and does the real dirty on the players next to us, sends them raging, only for one left to nail his ass reviving me 🤣 I mean, I had a free loadout and no way I was gonna take down that Bombardier with no guns or stuff....unless I looted! 🤣 I love the way @Diddums plays this tbh. You want to go after everyones objectives, but sometimes random shit happens and that makes the memories and experiences to remember. Plus he's not concerned about dying and once you let go of that risk/reward part, knowing you can get straight back in to the game in 1 minute, it actually becomes more enjoyable. Plus we get to have this ridiculous car crash memory now, mainly cos Tom agro'd some nice 'Don't Shoot' guys and they rinsed us back! 🤣🤣🤣

Going to play on my solo world today, I want to figure out underground building, and I tend to do that in Freebuild modes.

Ok so I've hit level 20, been playing every night since I bought it on Saturday. This game is basically e-crack. Anyway, I've learned quite a bit, some of it isn't in any of the millions of Youtube videos and I had to figure it out myself so I'll drop those pearls of wisdom all over bones' mum the thread. Firstly, and this is imo one of the three biggest things to know about this game, is that you can drop in for any reason you want. Sometimes I'll just grab a free loadout, hoarde as much shit as I can and then extract. This is howI strongly suggest everyone start, as picking fights WILL lead to some of the most hilarious, devastating and embarrassing deaths. These robots are out to kill, and kill you they will. For your first hour or two, the free loadout will be your friend. You have nothing to lose so can go balls-to-the-wall with it, and if you die, nothing lost. Secondly is the attitude towards loot. Loot is everywhere in this game. Find a building? Full of loot. Find a car? Could have loot. Kill a robot? Full of loot. Kill a dude? Full of loot. It's everywhere, and habit says that you need to hoarde as much as you can. Whilst this is good when you're running low on resources, you can also end up collecting a load of shit which isn't useful at that point in time. You'll also suffer from "gear fear", ie. dropping in and then getting killed, losing all your shit in the process. This hurts the first few times, but once you adjust your mentatlity to realise that you can hustle up most of that stuff again in a few rounds with a free loadout and it's all gravy. Don't be too precious about loot, you're gonna lose it anyway. Thirdly is the unlocks and upgrades. Stuff like workbench upgrades, Scrappy upgrades, skills, etc are all permanent. These are your focus, the gear and loot is merely a way of getting there. Fourth is don't pick fights randomly. These robots are absolutely ruthless and WILL fuck you up if you're caught off guard or aggro then when you're not prepared. Even the tiny ones can be a pain in the ass and many will also call for backup, so make sure you're prepared before engaging. Rule no. 1 is never, ever engage out in the open, as they'll retaliate and your peace will be shattered in to a small little skirmish of death. Make sure you've got cover, make sure you've cleared out the room you're using as cover, and be aware of your surroundings. I've got shitloads more but I'll leave it at this for now. There are also tons of third party resources which help a ton, I'll link to them later. Get on this game. It's bloody good and bloody entertaining. Often hilarious.

So, a year after release they've finally got A Life working as intended. I will have to find time for it, it was already a very enjoyable game but now its proper Stalker, if still a little buggy in parts...😍 Goes live on PS5 in three days

I play mainly during the weekday. My work laptop is right next to my home pc. I might roll a new character. The game has changed enough in the last year that it almost feels worth it, just to learn the new things.

I had not watched a film for a while but sat down and watched the greatest showman with my wife yesterday, I kind of enjoyed it more than I thought I would to be honest.

Are you guys still active on this one, and if so, do you care where I setup? I am level 28 on my character, and can upgrade the Flame if you want me to, or if you prefer not, I totally get it. Edit: its super weird not having my waypoints out there, I need to wander around everything again.

Totally agree Lee 👍

I am digging yalls build so far.

Tetris Effect is an amazing game. The visuals and soundtrack are just awesome. That game made me research LED backlights for my TV, because I wanted to enhance the ambiance more. I don't know anything about Luna though, or any of those other games.

No, you're wrong there, it's because the servers are fucked and hardly anyone can get on 🙃 It's fucking annoying as I've been trying to get in since 11am when it was supposed to go live 😭 Not entirely unexpected tbh and I can't even get on their website lol

I think that's what will happen to Microsoft - they'll become an overnight publisher for Activision, Bethesda, Halo Studios and all the other dying brands they own. They may dabble in cloud gaming to try and maintain an Xbox presence but that will ultimately flop I reckon as a non-viable concept. Sega died because of the prowess of the Playstation but Microsoft killed Xbox spectacularly and they've also destroyed so many developers too. The sooner they vacate this space, the better.

Looks like a good start for this game. Needs more time for me to see how close they can get to WRC where that now is quite fleshed out as an experience for rallying. Does look gorgeous though and something about rallying from Colin McRae days that its so unique that it makes it a great game to get into.

Hi Paul! Welcome to FG, Lee here! 😄 I think Arc Raiders is gathering some great momentum so hopefully we can get in some games online with you soon! Always been a PS guy? Most of us are now these days. Well that and PC anyway. Hope you enjoy your stay, nice to see you're already having a look and getting involved everywhere! ❤️🖤

New map is really weird - seems to be exclusively indoors. I also ran into a lot of players along the way but thankfully everything was nice and peaceful. I think this place will encourage more PvP action so other areas will hopefully be less combative. I've had 12/12 extractions today and only go into one combat encounter.

Yea the CGI was top notch in those movies. If it wasn't for the MMC (LeBouf/ Wahlberg), those movies would have been absolutely amazing

Watched Transformers again as its been a while with my lad. Can honestly say that the early films that added some CGI like this have not aged at all. In fact they are miles better than recently used CGI films, by a long way. Started watching Dark of the Moon after it (3rd film) as I know the second was a little bit of a letdown. The detail on Sentinel Primes face and also how they made Megatron's head show he's still very much wounded is a nice little touch.

I'm sorry baldy 🤣 A very stupid way to get arrested and what a waste of resources but it cracks me up every time I see it.

I wish I knew enough about yalls leagues, teams, etc... to have an opinion here, I base my opinion purely off who has the best 3 letter name.

Fine.... Once things calm down over here, I will grab this... we need more farm games with guns.

yea, thats where I am at as well. Especially once the Steam console/ pc comes out. Shit I might even sell all of my 40k stuff to get that thing sooner. I could put it in the living room and then the wife and I can game again

I checked and my Gamepass subscription for December increased to £22.99. I have now cancelled the subscription and I doubt I'll ever own another Microsoft console ever again. Xbox 360 was a great console and experience, and they have completely fumbled the ball since then.

Patch notes for the update today ARC Raiders - NORTH LINE - November Update 1.2.0 Patch Notes - Steam News STORE.STEAMPOWERED.COM The North Line Train has arrived, prepare for extraction.

Game looks and runs great! I think I paid £27 for this which is a total bargain. In contrast, Fallout 4 Anniversary is £52.99 and the upgrade alone for existing users is £35. This is stupidly good value.

PS3? £32.99 is not a bad price for a decent game and the videos look good - I'll have to give this serious consideration

I have played a few solo runs and quite enjoying it, the PvP will nark me I think but we will see. For now though I have just been pottering about doing my missions and picking up anything not nailed down! It looks great and the maps are good. Every moment you come across a player can be tense, almost mexican standoff esque until someone does something as you have no idea who you can trust and who you can't.

People are genuinely angry about this delay and I find it quite amusing. It's just a game. They're acting like it's the end of the world 🤣