Arkbreaks are getting to be the weirdzone in the game.

Showed up a little late for a major, the outside is clear and the keys deployed.
I end up inside, the top is clear. According to the results screen I was one of 11 people there.

I saw 4 people shooting, and the floor was littered with crawlers.

All the while I was down in the arena (4 minutes + left when I got in) there were between 4 and 6 people crawling around.

I swear that at least 4 of them were there on the floor for the majority of the fight and the other 2 there for much of it. I don't mean 'repeatedly'... I mean 'CONTINUOUSLY'.

Wouldn't you think that spending a minute crawling around would be a hint not to spend the rest of the time crawling around? Is this maybe the new mode of griefing? I dunno....

I'm thinking that I'm just going to stick with doing Minors for a while. Sunday night I did 5 of them, 4 were with one other person. At least there are fewer people to pity if there are just 2 of us and the other guy is a crawler.

Man, the cost of batteries to get into one, and the help that shows up, you can't tell if they're working for you or against you.

I'm sure it's a new form of griefing. I was in a major arkbreak last night and had the same occurrence: two people on the deck crawling around, evidently not taking a hint to just rez themselves.

Someone else pointed out in a post that some players who have never actually extracted at a Major Arkbreaker Arkfall might be under the impression that they'll extract to their latest extraction point outside the instance. It's a very odd assumption to make but it's the only reason I can think of as to why a player would display such bizzare behavior.

Whenever I see someone crawl to my feet and then lie there while I'm busy shooting all I have at the WM, I know that there's someone behind their screen yelling: "Come on you idiot, why don't you res me? I know you can see me! Such a bad team player...".

I actually died reviving someone(against my will - somehow while reloading for a millisecond tap of the button I stayed for seconds yelling at my situation ) wtf? Earlier today someone tried to revive me in the thick of battle and I actually extract instantly so I'm yelling in clan chat as usual since area chat is not available to " stop reviving people and fkn shoot". Similar to my usual " get the f up and shoot" damn crawlers mess us up and revivers r not much better

I think it's a form
Of griefing in some cases but most is just a player screaming at us for ignoring them...

I think its mainly that they don't know where they will respawn or that it may count as a fail.
Truth be told i wasn't sure either when these first started, it was only due crawling around and then watching a monkey salvo annihilate 10 players that i thought there was no point waiting. Then merely confirmed it when i looked at these forums.

I can understand why some people would fear where they respawn. As i often use fast travel now, there has been a few times where i have done an event of some kind and being sent to the last binding point which is often closer to where i fast traveled from and not my location before dying (even if i drove 1 or so km to get to said event).

Why players aren't allowed to spawn at closest 'spawn' point is beyond me, i have had to actually stand at one for 20secs before it actually registered, and that day i had relatively no lag.

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Originally Posted by Tekrunner

Whenever I see someone crawl to my feet and then lie there while I'm busy shooting all I have at the WM, I know that there's someone behind their screen yelling: "Come on you idiot, why don't you res me? I know you can see me! Such a bad team player...".

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...and they would be right. Revive system exists for a reason, use it. Group damage lost while reviving is less than the damage lost in time it takes for 1 player to extact, run and jump back down the hole.

I wouldn't mind if it was just someone learning, but what about the repeat crawlers? :(

Yeah this is the biggest problem in the WM. Every time I go into a WM arkfall I see a bunch of people crawling and people reviving. I extract even if someone started reviving me so they stop doing. I even say it in zone chat before we start and after everyday and still people continue to revive inside and wait to be revived. This is worst than shooting the skitterlings pre patch because you waste ark batteries.