In ARC Raiders it can quickly happen that you lose all your valuable loot when you encounter other Raiders. Players therefore get creative when it comes to convincing their teammates.
Why do players get creative? In ARC Raiders, it can end badly when you encounter other Raiders. If they shoot you down, you fall to the ground and there is a phase where other players can help you up or you can crawl the last few meters to safety.
Or – they finish you off and you lose all the hard-earned loot from the round.
A thread on Reddit shows that Raiders come up with all sorts of ideas to save their skin and their loot.
“The energy of a Golden Retriever will take you far in this game.”
What do players do to save themselves? As RedundantDuplication posts in his Reddit thread, he has come across numerous sayings and approaches that players use to try to get their opponents to back off. Sometimes more, sometimes less successfully. His favorite approach is “Please, I have family in Speranza”. Of course, this refers to our favorite rooster, Scrappy.
In his narrated case, it didn’t work, but the other Raider told him, who would care about Scrappy? Through the short role play, his death wasn’t so bad and created a nice memory.
In the over 500 comments, there are many such stories – many of them have actually led to players saving their skin and securing their loot:
Miserable-Island9875 recounts how he lost a truly epic duel in Stella Montis and gave his opponent a “GG man. That was a good fight.” as he went down. His opponent stopped the decisive blow and replied with a “Yes” emote. He let the user go. Jabberclenchjaw2 adds: “The energy of a Golden Retriever will take you far in this game. Stay positive!”
Other variants were:
- guitman27 reports: “I was snitched on at the dam by a guy, and I could hear his dog over the radio. I told him that his dog wouldn’t approve – and that he damn well should revive me with a defibrillator. I heard a dog barking, a deep sigh, and a ‘Alright’.”
- doctronic writes: “Usually I tell them to wait, I have a joke! But no one has ever let me tell the joke.”
- vTarpz admits: “I like to call them stream snipers, even though I don’t stream myself.”
- Swampcardboard explains: “‘We could have been friends’, ‘I would have given you the blueprints from my safety bag if you had asked me’ to make them reconsider. I actually don’t care if people play PvP, I just find it entertaining.”
Even though their ideas aren’t always successful, they usually lead to funny or beautiful memories. And that is worth almost more to many players than any loot they could collect in the match.
Role-playing is one of the things that has led to numerous memorable stories in ARC Raiders. One player is for example one of those who let their defeated opponents walk away with their lives, but only if they follow his rules: Player from ARC Raiders rewards his defeated opponents with life – but only if they follow his code of conduct
