u/CallMeFortitudo loaded into the tutorial to finish a task and got jumped by two raiders who said they were friendly. His post shows the betrayal, a rubber ducky and bandages lost, and 3,354 upvotes agreeing this is the most ARC Raiders thing possible.

The subreddit spent the day in on the joke. "You know what, from the tutorial we were told and shown very clearly what this game is about. And yet we still complain lol," wrote u/Alive-Needleworker14 at 163 points. u/Danielscof saw hackers; the OP waited on Embark to return his items. The thread is a gentle, self-aware roast of a game where betrayal is the first lesson.

A few posts down, u/TheWreckedTitan posted a screenshot of the tutorial's atmospheric lighting. A neon pizza sign, wet streets, the character model everyone wants but can't keep. It sits at 764 points with a 99% upvote ratio. u/pierreburel said what the room was thinking: "I wish night raids would look more like that." The tutorial has the best mood, and it isn't replicated in the game maps, u/LaBombonera noted bluntly. The contrast is stark-the most cinematic space is the one you leave behind.

The expedition completion thread, from u/EverythingHaz, asks how many have done all four. 701 upvotes, 518 comments. The top reply, from u/Upstairs-Canary-4062, is a confession: without expeditions, there's nothing to do after the quick leveling. They wish for a full wipe. u/wutchamafuckit counters-after the wipe, hurricane Buried City felt intense, ARCs a menace, and they came up massive. "Holy shit I still absolutely love this game." The thread holds the expedition tension in miniature: the reset is the best part, but the gap between resets is where the air leaves the room.