I Just Finished My Expedition Project In Arc Raiders And, Honestly,...

Embark really needs to tweak its Expedition rewards before departure time.

Last week I was: sifting through yet another apartment in search of the last Humidifer I needed.

This week I've been: pondering whether this Expedition project is actually worth it right now.

I finally finished my Expedition project in Arc Raiders, "Now I can actually play the game" as I saw one Reddit-user aptly state. It was a pretty long process, considering I started it immediately at level 20 and now I'm level 33. It saw me desperately rummaging through apartments in Dam Battlegrounds praying for a Humidifier drop, farming Leapers with Wolfpack grenades, and searching high and low for Cooling Fans.

The surprise fifth and final stage practically emptied my 256 item vault to fulfil its conditions, dumping crafting mats, weapons, gadgets, and trinkets en masse into my Expedition pod to reach its value capacities. Disregarding the four previous stages, you need a grand total of $830,000 worth of various loot items, and that's a whole heap of stuff. And it doesn't even count towards the loot value at the end of the season that determines how many of the five bonus skill points you get on your next character.

For those that don't know, Expeditions are Arc Raiders' prestige system, letting you send your Raider into the wild green yonder past the Dust Belt and gain a variety of rewards on your subsequent character in return.

So, having done it, does the Expedition project seem worth it to me? Not really if I'm honest. Currently, the bonuses stated in the project you stand to gain are:

First off, people are really over-exaggerating the importance of getting a respec right now. Like many, I put loads of points into mobility not realising that the skills don't work how they seem to and offer diminishing returns. Having actually played the game a bit now, I wish I'd specced into the Survival tree and got the Security Breach skill that opens those extra valuable loot crates you'll often find. But there's no reason you can't do both.

Arc Raiders has a level 75 skill cap, easily enough to unlock the top abilities in two separate trees, plus a few extra skills. There are also outfit unlocks all the way up to 75, meaning that if you reset before you hit that, you'll be retreading the same ground to get back there again. I've played 60 hours since launch and I'm level 33, so there's definitely plenty more time and XP to get the skills you want without needing a respec.

As for bonus XP g

Source: PC Gamer