Arc Raider's Dilemma (Premium E312)

I know nothing about the game, but I enjoyed the gameplay.

This entire episode brings me life life

I have had majority good experiences especially solos

theyre saying nicki minaj is a pink hat

The sound of Jake cackling with a voice changer on is both disturbingly alien and comforting after hearing it so many times with so many voice effects.

never change, Jake.

this is hilarious to listen to because while players of Jake's first person shooter pvp post-apo game feel meh about changes in player behavior, players of cozy dress up game Infinity Nikki have been at war for weeks now. Players in the EU server being hit particularly hard this Monday as the PVP game introduced this month reset and one team destroyed the point system so hard that pretty much ended the game a week early. Now it's been uncovered that a few of their members, predicting the evil of other players, had created a ton of alt accounts for resource farming, espionage, and targeted harassment on socials.

It’s Unc Szn

Omg I need some animations of those encounters 😂💀

This is off topic but the science in transition episodes won’t migrate to my Apple Podcasts. Does anyone know why? Am I doing something wrong? The TTD eps are all there.

Does Liv know she's talking about Ark and not Arc?

A friend of mine wants me to play this so bad but ive already played Escape from Tarkov and id rather dump every waking moment to Europa Universalis at the moment. The sound design does sound ficking incredible tho. Fun ep!

After listening to this ep I decided to give it a shot. I’m at level 9 so far. I’ve come across some d bags, Merc’d on sight or in the extraction zone. But the majority is positive. I’ve even had people that mortally wounded me offer help when I expressed upset and explained I wouldn’t retaliate.

My first experience hearing people get interviewed between video game players in game. History is being made here.

At the 35:48 mark we have an amazing ‘Yarrrrrr’

I'm not a gamer but I feel like I always HEAR about upcoming video games more or less against my will when suddenly everyone's making memes about it but Arc Raiders I don't think I have heard anything about?

Arc Raiders is scratching an itch I didn’t know I had. Great episode!

I don’t even like video games and I enjoyed this one. Something about a good Jake episode is always enjoyable.

Solidarity is the way. If you encounter a toxic player, spread their name around to be killed on sight.

I blame Tarkov players for the violence and sadistic behavior. That game is a sociopath training ground. (I have 3300 hours in tarkov)

As someone that doesn’t play this game, or any games, everyone in this episode comes off as a fucking dork that should simply get a new hobby. Put me in an “old man, get off my lawn” mood.

There are some eps that really allow one host in particular to shine. This one is yours Jake.

Im playing arc raiders and its still very friendly. I would say about 8 to 9 out of ten player encounters are friendly

As a greyballs who hasn’t played a video game since Smuggler’s Run in 2000, I was still fascinated by this entire conversation, which is weird, and prolly says more about the hosts than whatever game you’re talking about.

Missing Julian on these more recent episodes, hope he’s doing ok. Also, great episode, I always like video game time with Jake, and Moses was a great character.

Julian Feeld?

My favorite podcast talking about my favorite new game? I’m happy!!

more of whatever the hell this is please

I love this podcast so fucking much.

Lmao the guy that had to go to work was me. I fuckin love this game.

Loved this episode so much, very funny and smart at the same time

Ever since I deleted Reddit I’ve been having waaay more fun playing video games. Just saying

If you upload all of the in game recordings to cursed media I will subscribe to cursed media.

I mean it is still mostly wholesome in my experience but idk A lot of this is just extremely anecdotal and Reddit should NEVER EVER be used to judge public opinion

It should be said that I think it's a good thing to have a space to play. When kids play cops and robbers, someone has to be the robbers

Bonnie and Clyde in the prisoners' dilemma: they would never tell on each other, because they each love the other more than themselves.

Now I want a movie about an inept, socially anxious conflict journalist and his bloodthirsty security detail

Literally just played a round. Ran into one guy, he started getting shot by another, so I saved his life. Right after, a guy started shooting at me, and he saved my life. It was beautiful. We wished each other luck and went out separate ways. I got a Rusted Gear. It was good.

The decision to go interview people in the game was inspired, Jake

Damn I wish this wasn’t a premium episode so I could share it with my squad , hope to see you top side !!

jake we're proud of you, you're doing OK

Okay this is one of the funniest QAA episodes I’ve heard. I’m glad I stuck it out. Jake ruining people’s video game experiences is right in my comedy wheelhouse.

I hate griefing/trolling in games. Primarily why I stay clear of any PVP games. That being said, hearing that one guy gush about "the most chill" community and the community choosing "love over hate" turned me briefly into Pol Pot. Gamers have an uncanny ability to be insufferable about even simple concepts like co-operation. Hearing the first half hour my initial thought was "wow, I can't wait until the community perverts this concept into compulsory toxic positivity." It is just kinda funny how it actually turned out. These people need to branch out of the modern triple-A service games type. Plenty of "cozy" games have very, very wholesome communities.

I play fallout 76 and that community is really fucking cool, I myself set up my base with free food and plans for anyone to come grab. I love sharing in games

liv agar

The game was delayed for years because it initially debuted as PVE-only game, but the devs realized just fighting robots was incredibly boring, so they rebuilt it as an extraction shooter. Also this whole "controversy" is just Reddit One-Guy'ing. I've been playing almost every night with my friend and people still mostly just leave you alone, not out of altruism, but because you'll alert the bots and other players if you start shooting, so people just mind their business. That being said, don't be dumb and turn your back on a stranger with a loaded gun. I feel like most of these people are way too trusting and expect there to be ARC Raiders Queensbury Rules for Honorable Combat. The gameplay is primarily made up of incredibly unfair fights, you need to deal with that.

This is the greatest episode ever. Jake attempts to be a wartime reporter, and he should get a purple heart for his sacrifice.

“Well we just started today” I died

Civil War 2024, Director: Alex Garland

Jake's interview style reminds me of when I was a kid and my jehovah's witness parents made me door bang trying to convince people to take a watchtower.

Surprised Travis didn't clock that most of that "topside sheriff" speech ala "its a hell of a thing killing a man - you take all he's got and everything he's ever gonna have..." was taken from the "western" Unforgiven with Clint Eastwood. Thought you were a movie buff Travis.

THAT'S the end of the episode??? There's no conspiracy? Julian's gonna be so pissed.

We spotted a Duo Lingoing near an extraction site?

Is this a spin off of ark: survival or did this game radically change from beta vs release??? When people say "ark" i think of the dinosaur poop mmo Edit: how is jake STILL ass at interviews 😭😭 he was somehow more put together at qanon rallies

27:00 - I like to imagine it's the Mises institute doing an intervention

It can't be a triple A game if they dont pay for the voice over artists. Moses deserves extra pay. I hope Jake told him about the swish swish of shorts incident so he knew what he was getting into.

Now I'm an ancient 45 I can't play online shooters. The only game I ever play online is Holdfast which is basically just a Meme game

Babe, wake up, Jake is talking about video games again.

jake are you the guy running around doing a trump impression 😂

Jake why is your in-game voice so butch 🫨

Jake, shocking no one I had a similar Unc thought train today that 40 is the oldest you can be. Bc then it stops mattering bc the “worst” has happened and you be whatever

I experienced the beta and met 6-7 solo persons. We killed a big spider and then we all hammered a man to death and left. Nothing looted, just pure friendship.

Яaga Vil

ARC OF THE LOST GAMERS

release the old gaming podcast episodes!

Seems the game launched and was mostly populated by folks anticipating and looking forward to the game, so they had a sort of kinship in that regard. Once the second wave of players arrived the PvP became more common, but after some time the culture of the game corrected course.

The only way I want to experience this game is watching Pekora play it

Moses ever think about a career in media? He was very charismatic 😂

Makes for a good episode but I gotta be honest, and I'm happy to report, after the community felt out the game, explored every corner and figured out everything you can and can't do, the default is settling back to cooperation. Partly there was a heavy turn toward violence because the pvp in the game is so fun and well made.

Really weird post with everything going on. I would have scrapped this baby shit.

You either die young, or you live long enough to become Unc

Gaming online sounds terrible. I'll just play my offline games in peace.

I'd watch you and Julian play, you've got an audience now, so a few might migrate over, now. That's additional work though so I get that you'd have to pick. But it might be good for you guys sometimes, so it's not always the insane stuff!

I love you guys but a lot of us aren’t out and about because we are disabled/immunocompromised and no one bothers to mask anymore. We are still in the middle of the Covid 19 pandemic. PLEASE start wearing masks in public again. The flu is bad this year and getting covid over and over is not a good idea.

Fourth

Julian okay?

remember the days of posting a comment that just said first?

Hell yeah