Loot, being a central part of ARC Raiders‘ gameplay, can be found everywhere. People go out to look for the best possible items wherever they can find them, but visual cues usually hint at where the best loot is located. One such visual giant are the Baron Husks, which you’d think are loot-rich treasure troves, only to find out they’re barely worth even looking at.
Baron Husks are these giant, derelict ARCs from a bygone age that appear in preset locations on basically every map in the game. They’re rusted, ruined, dormant, but only insofar as you don’t try to pry them open. To pop the hood on one of these things, you have to climb it, breach it (which takes ages), and then avoid its defensive mechanisms that’d burn you to a crisp in a blink were you not careful enough.
It’s a very risky endeavor, one you’d expect to reward you with tremendous value if you were to undertake it in broad daylight under the watchful gaze of Sentinels and, of course, other players.
But nope, the loot is mediocre at best, giving players just enough to justify the fact that it can be looted at all, with no real high-rarity drops ever spawning within. And players would love to see that changed.
“They need to buff the loot in these, the loot ain’t worth the risk, time, and effort,” said one player on Reddit, highlighting how Baron Husks can cost you your life without providing something genuinely valuable in return. “Would be nice if it even had a small chance to drop Matriarch or Queen cells, or something good,” they added.
Others were in total agreement, saying how these things look so grand and proud and valuable, only to turn out to be worthless. Actual cars will give you more out of their trunks than a Baron Husk, which was supposed to be this deadly, massive robot that laid waste to everything that came across it.
“You’d think they’d have good loot being the husk of a Matriarch- or Queen-adjacent enemy but in my opinion they’re not [even] worth opening,” one player noted. A few offered solutions: “[It should drop] Degraded Husk Cells. Collect 3 and you can make a core or something.”
“I really feel like these should be a way to get a trickle of advanced mechanical and electrical components,” suggested another player.
In fact, just about anything could work. There are tons of unique items that are hard to come by that players find in the most unseemly of places. The newly-added Exodus loot could be perfect to place within Baron Husks. They’re rare, should be hard to come by, and would be a proper reward for those willing to risk the entire match to open up a Baron Husk.
So far, their value is reflected solely in their amazing environmental storytelling. They suggest a long past to the topside world, speak of wars and battles that totaled the world, and invite us to think about who might have brought these things down in the first place. Was it other ARCs? Humans? Human technologies long since lost?
Amazing though the story is, it’s unfortunately not what we (primarily) venture out of Speranza for. So, Embark: please fix.
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