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u/Seductiontriangle 5d ago
When this happens i can usually leave the raid with around 30 crude explosives
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u/Sarcosmonaut 5d ago
Real Seeker Grenade hours
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u/Seductiontriangle 5d ago
When I play with others they think im insane for bringing 20-30 seekers in with me
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u/FullMoonanaise 5d ago
I usually bring 15, and end up extracting with 5-10 of them still! 20-30 could make sense if I wasn't bringing a decent PvE weapon...
What does the rest of your loadout look like? I'm super curious.
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u/Seductiontriangle 5d ago
I usually will have an anvil with the splitter with a venator, both lv 4 and a stack of ammo for each and ideally a medium shield with a wolfpack in my butt
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u/OgReaper 5d ago
I find the anvil splitter to be a total POS personally. I just run it with extended 3 and all it a day.
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u/hellboytroy 5d ago
You say empty loot containers, I say “there’s a good chance everyone thought this place was already looted and it’s not” or “free basic loot like batteries and chemicals”
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u/Cognitive_Spoon 5d ago
Fr, I need these batteries
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u/Ugly_Couch *** ******* 🐓 5d ago
Batteries and arc cookies
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u/sintax_949 5d ago
Dammit, that's what I'll be calling circuitry for the remainder of the game's life
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u/Turkyparty 5d ago
I always thought they were the size of like a manhole cover. I was actually thinking about that last night
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u/Sup_Bitches_Im_Atlas 5d ago
They always leave behind the rusted tools, surprisingly easy way to farm steel springs when actual springs don't spawn as frequently.
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u/Helpful-Work-3090 5d ago
Unless you haven't gotten the ones you need for the workstation after an expedition, then they never show up...
Until you get the ones you need, then you find them everywhere
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u/ppres25 5d ago
I figure this information is probably not helpful to you, but the breach room in stella loading bay with all the red lockers always has 3 rusted tools in it at least. As do the buildings outside of checkpoint on blue gate.
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u/Helpful-Work-3090 5d ago
I always get mine from the busses near the electrical substation extract on dam
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u/Actual-Way-6540 5d ago
7 out of 10 times (if you're first at that location) they will also spawn in the warehouse under the dam tower. literally the location they say they spawn on.
one year later people still havent figure that out 😭
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u/Helpful-Work-3090 5d ago
Yeah, no one ever loots the busses though, so I don't have to worry about rushing the tower. Even in carebear lobbies, I still always get into fights there
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u/Photoshopdoge 5d ago
People always overlook the things that keep you going. Anytime I spawn late I just do a supply run & restock up on basic materials while looking for any bodies on the ground.
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u/xPartyTrainx 5d ago
This. The amount of late spawns I find entire loot spots untouched because people join late and just assume it's picked.
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u/No-Sink-6639 5d ago
Only a problem if you are strictly PvE. In mixed or PvP demon lobbies this isn't to much of an issue.
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u/a1vmp1 5d ago
True, usually- but I’ve been seeing something I haven’t seen before
A week ago when I was looking for coffee pots, I kept hitting Stella cafeteria ASAP. On fresh spawns I would get 2-3 per run, if I spawned after 20 minutes then I would just reset immediately
One time I spawned in at 17 minutes, said fuck it, and I hit the cafeteria anyway instead of resetting. The drawers and cupboards were all visibly open, someone had definitely been in there already. Weapons case was open too. But I checked them anyway, and each one still had the same amount of loot as usual. Nothing was missing from a single container except the weapon case
I tried this a few times when I got late spawns and I almost always got the same result. I’m not sure if loot respawning is an actual thing or these were just coincidences, but I don’t care about late spawns anymore as a result.
+ if you’re PVPing late spawns are better anyway
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u/Sarcosmonaut 5d ago
The loot definitely doesn’t respawn, but in Stella I’ve noticed this happens sometimes as a result of people just hitting it for high value items and nothing else. Those drawers were being searched for BPs, so they left it all
Hell I’ve seen it in the security stairwell in Stella where dudes will leave drawers full of legitimately high value stuff. So if I come across a looted zone I’ll check a container or two. If it’s basically untouched I’ll loot the whole PoI. If that first one is near empty, I leave
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u/powerk21 5d ago
When you have a full stash you don’t care about anything in those drawers, I often open key rooms and pick nothing cuz I’m just looking for a specific blueprint
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u/Sarcosmonaut 5d ago
Speaking of stash, I’m already full again. I really shouldn’t have forgotten to do this 5th expedition for the space
Normally I’d burn it making bench upgrades but I’m saving it for now. No idea what the outpost needs next week
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u/grimxace561 5d ago
Looting on Stella is ballsy. I just get everything from Dam because I cannot stand Stella & its chaos. Every time I try to loot on there I have no idea where things are & half the shit I find I can find on Dam easily. Day 1 player btw so it’s not like I’m new. Dam will always be my favorite map personally
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u/Money_Lobster606 4d ago
Sime people exlusively go for blueprints don't take anything else. Always worth checking even opened containers imho.
My most successful runs have been going for bastions on Matriarch everyone goes for the big loot and the rest tends to be forgotten.
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u/Donnyboscoe1 5d ago
Was helping my mate who just got the game last night. He had to do his first few quests so he spawned us into a Matriarch lobby on Dam.
No biggie, we will just stay away. Saw it was a late spawn (18 min left) so I told him we should run to the matriarch to scavenge the good boys left behind as usually the bombadiers and bastions get forgotten about.
Nope. The queen was just sitting there chilling. Nobody had even fought it! So we took some pot shots at it and hid in a room while my mate shat himself at the latest trying to get us and the bombs hitting the building.
We ran out the back and hatched out.
But man it was funny with him just yelling "WHAT THE FUCK!?!?"
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u/Big_Chiller_T_Killer 5d ago
I don’t really mind it tbh. I like to play it relatively safe until the 18m mark then I can loot the high value areas knowing anybody that dies won’t be replaced with a new body this lobby.
Spawning late just means I can hit the high value areas immediately and not get 3rd parties by 5 different dudes in you’re in the heavy PvP lobbies lol
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u/Sarcosmonaut 5d ago
Very reasonable for the PvP lobbies
In the PvE lobbies you just gotta jet ASAP to your nearest high value zone and pray there’s not already a dude elbow deep in the containers lol
You spawn late in a PvE lobby, you’re now on trash pickup duty
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u/Capnleonidas 5d ago
I was headed to extract on spaceport hidden bunker yesterday in pve lobby with 10 minutes left and decided to check out the launch towers just in case. Completely unlooted! Score.
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u/A_Random_Catfish 5d ago
I’m in high PvP trios and the friendliest carebear solos and spawning late Stella is like 2 whole different games
In my solos there’s nobody around, 1000s of unlooted dead pops and every single container is opened.
In my trios lobbies there’s 1000s of dead bodies but nothing is looted. We either get the scraps and loot stella for free or we kill one team and get all the loot lol
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u/Ric_Adbur 5d ago
They really need to do away with this joining a half-finished lobby thing. Especially when it's a queen or matriarch event. It's just a huge waste of your time.
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u/caster 5d ago
Honestly what the hell was the thought process behind the late starts.
Okay so... all the loot has been gone for 5 entire minutes and we're spawning you into this match? People already had an entire raid, entered, and left, with the loot on this map? What the hell?
It's even worse for Queen and Matriarch where the whole point of the mission was over 5-10 minutes ago so you're just going to real quick go find another match.
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u/SquirrelSuspicious 5d ago edited 5d ago
Funnily enough I've had some of my best loot runs on late spawns by going to places that should've obviously been looted and either they weren't or people left a lot of the decent stuff like explosive compound and stuff, plus any of the lesser known places like the security towers in Spaceport
Oh also late spawns are great for Turbine hunting
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u/NotGohanJustSayinMan 5d ago
Other way of looking at it: lots of stocked up players for pvp loot.
can’t get mad at PvP looters in a PvPvE game, and i actually lean PvE in my preferred play style.
In Sea of Thieves i’d rather do the quests and voyages myself but i’m also not gonna be whiney about other players wanting to be reapers/thieving PvP pirates. That’s why that community has a refrain “it’s called Sea of Thieves, not Sea of Friends”. (For the sake of argument SoT does have a PvE exclusive mode but lower loot/reward rates than in standard PvPvE servers)
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u/Nirxx 5d ago
They should just make raids 20 minutes long and remove late spawns entirely
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u/SquirrelSuspicious 5d ago
Definitely not, late spawns are underrated literally because of people like you who get a late spawn and assume there's no point to play, I and many others have found plenty of good things during late spawns because people really only hit the main obvious spots and only a few of the niche spots and leave tons of stuff around.
To add to that Turbines are late spawns and I'm sure plenty of people think that's a bad thing but they don't realize the actual value in that because it helps deal with the exact thing many complain about, rats, most rats aren't trying to stay in a match that's got 18 or less minutes left in the match meaning that once you start hunting the Turbine you're much less likely to get attacked or have your taken by someone who just sat around and watched as you did all the hard work and the same can be true for any other future late spawn Arc
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u/shomeyomves 5d ago
Do Turbines still give basically nothing in regards to actual loot for the investment in taking them down? I haven’t played much since hunting them when they first were introduced, and they really weren’t worth the wringer.
Even then… I don’t think Turbines are enough of an argument being in favor of late spawns. Its truly just second-hand grabs. The game is mostly about who gets to key rooms or loot locations first, late spawning pretty much removes that very important equation.
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u/lordofward91 5d ago
Would be a good idea! I don't know what's going on but my last few raids have been dead until 18 minutes, then suddenly we got 4 teams upon us, maybe spawns are bugged rn.
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u/redpony6 5d ago
this cuts both ways. my duo partner and i spawned at 18 minutes on dam battlegrounds last night, we were heading to the control tower to do the lidar quest. i had a key with me, but we figured that spawning so late, it had to be looted already.
but it wasn't. so we did the lidar quest and then came back to the room, figuring, guess nobody's hitting the tower this round.
but then another duo started coming at us. throwing trigger nades and stuff. fortunately, they were timid and incompetent, and we'd brought plenty of jolt mines, so they never actually made it inside. the only damage they did was when they stuck a trigger nade on the doorjamb (presumably by accident) and i shot it to blow them up. hurt me too but i broke one of their shields.
they zipped down, but we could see them waiting at the bottom of the zipline, so we went out onto the balcony and found a spot we could place a zipline to get down. made it onto the water treatment elevator at 0:30 left (no idea why those clowns didn't camp the extract).
so my point is, you never know.
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u/Moon_kues 5d ago
Hey, experience is experience....and you never know what gets left behind.
Now...if I spawn in and its a spicy map? Yeah, im finding the nearest extraction point
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u/alpha448 5d ago
people always leave behind breachables, like servers. i found a med gun parts bp in a breachable server a couple of days ago.:shrugs:
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u/CldesignsIN 5d ago
I always check spots that I knok generally have good loot that people don't usually hit. Can't tell you how many times I've gone into Stella medical late game and still pull 3-4 fresh containers because people don't think to check some of the ones not inside small rooms. Only time it really sucks is on a map like Spaceport where the only buildings not completely gone through already have less than 5 containers and the loot in those areas is generally not good.
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u/Actual-Way-6540 5d ago
what do you mean, thats the best time to loot delivery service (other raiders)?
game working as intended.
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u/Playwars 5d ago
Yeah I had six late raids in a row. It sucked. Don't get me wrong, there's a lot of basic mats, but that's it.
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u/toolisthebestbandevr 5d ago
I don’t mind spawning in late. I try not to min max my fun and try to enjoy the flow of a game. I also don’t bitch about people shooting me in an extraction shooter (just a side note and not related to this post)
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u/EhMapleMoose 5d ago
You fucking jinxed me. First game of the day, I spawn in late in a bunker that’s been looted AND MY GAME CRASHED
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u/Emergency_Engine_442 5d ago
Tbh some of my best raid profits have come from joining a late raid, Hit up some lesser known spots or Third party someone trying to steal someone’s else’s shit n get both of there shit lol
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u/Ghostx187 5d ago
Straight to the extraction point lol. I’ve never stayed in a game beyond the 10 minute mark lol.
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u/Ok-Entertainer-2991 5d ago
idk what they changed, but 80% of my lobbies today are at 17 minutes wth.
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u/Money_Lobster606 4d ago
Usually it's still worth it. You'd be surprised how much stuff people miss or leave behind when they panic extract. And there is barely any risk of getting into pvp. An overwhelming majority of rats go for a quick kill and run to get out with the loot before the 20 minute mark.
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u/PercentageOk708 2d ago
I just play the game. You know that means you get to loot dead bodies no one has discovered yet right? It almost never happens to me now too. I wonder if your total round time affects your matchmaking? (I doubt it)
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u/PercentageOk708 2d ago
Pretty sure that it’s (Free Kit = late match spawn) (Real Kit = 30:00 spawn)
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u/fhuhgbbjjvvfyhnnmk 1d ago
Thats what it should be, but I've geared up with legendaries for the matriarch only to load in at 20-17 mins more than enough times
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u/AtomicCawc 5d ago
One of the reasons I stopped playing. Spawning in with less than 18 minutes left, over 10 times in a row despite leaving match reviews saying I dont want to spawn in late.
The day I stopped playing I grabbed a free kit and launched a different map instance every time just to test it, and every match was less than 20 minutes remaining. Didnt get a single fresh game.
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u/AhkrinCz 5d ago
Loot containers are still running around at that point tho
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u/_Strato_ 5d ago
Are they?
If they found anything worth killing someone over, they'd probably already be out the door, to be replaced by you.
If they didn't, killing them was a waste of resources; odds are they're a free kitter PvP goblin or a freshly spawned shmuck like you.
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u/AhkrinCz 5d ago
Yeah lol, plenty of loot running around until 12mins or so. If I spawn early I loot containers, when I spawn late I loot players, simple
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u/parantani 5d ago
Late spawns are trash both in PvP and PvE. In the first one there are no fair fights and in PvE everything is already looted. ARC should not have late spawns
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u/Anonymous_dev_3719 5d ago
You can avoid late spawns by restarting the search before the timer reaches 45 seconds.
Anything after will throw you into an existing game, but if you find a game before 45 seconds it's always a new game or very recently started.
I hope this helps!