The Dolabra, Canto, and Rascal arrived a few weeks ago. Today the subreddit handed down the verdict in a 160-comment thread that climbed to 252 points: they're all bad. Not just one of them - all three.

The top comment, from u/LurkingNobody, was blunt: "Rascal should be a green weapon no doubt." The trial last week, where the Rascal was the mandatory weapon, seems to have sealed its fate. u/PlayboiFarti55 called it the worst gun in the game, and u/benethopper said the trial "opened my eyes to how worthless it is." The Canto, debatable as it is, still loses to the Stitcher in most comparisons. The Dolabra, a blue shotgun, can't outpace the Renegade at range or the Toro up close - even after the Toro's recent nerfs. u/wvtarheel summed up the mood: "They do all suck. And I don't need them to be overtuned, but at least make them worth taking for their niche role at their cost." The thread has no defenders. A few suggestions float up - u/PretentiousPanda proposed that the Canto should have been a heavy-ammo SMG, the Dolabra as good as pre-nerf Toro, and the Rascal a double-barrel. But these are afterthoughts. The consensus is that Embark released three guns and none of them have a reason to exist.

While the front page debated DPS tiers, a quieter thread was forming underneath. u/lucid_567 asked if anyone was finding the game more friendly at the minute. The post sits at 37 points, but 38 comments - a real conversation. Raiders in lower-stakes queues are running into cooperative squads, clearing ARC together, even in maps like Stella Montis where PvP is expected. One raider described it as a return to the early days, when the balance between PvP and PvE felt natural. The expedition reset emptied vaults, but it might have also reset some of the hostility. The friendlier atmosphere might be temporary - bandage behavior during a lull - but for now, it's a welcome shift.

Up top, the news is different. u/ryanhobes found someone live-streaming hacks on TikTok, a brazen display that drew 99 comments and 261 points. The top comment thread cycles through the script: submit a ticket, Embark does nothing. u/WILLLSMITHH's response is typical: "And embark, as always, doesn’t do shit about it. Embarrassing." It's a flare-up the subreddit has seen before, and this time it didn't take over the day. The mood is too warm for a full-blown crusade.

The top post, yet again, is a meme. The master key for Buried City residential gets memed as the solution to bad spawns - bring two keys, force the map to change. It sits at over 1,200 points with a 99% upvote rate. u/FBI_Tugboat's comment at the top: "Genius. For some reason, I thought it was just me having bad luck." It's the kind of inside joke that keeps the subreddit alive between updates. Nearby, u/carmidian's confusion about an expedition symbol on a player with 20 hours got a quick, accurate answer: it's a bug, always shows the same symbol as your own. The thread is a glimpse of the subreddit at its most efficient - question asked, myth busted in the top comment.

And in the background, the grind continues. u/TheNicom posted a screenshot of a crafting table fully cleared and signed up for the next expedition, with 58 days to go. u/BoomGTDynamite responded: "Finished yesterday, working on vault spots." The expedition might have been the easiest yet - some even call it a mistake - but plenty of raiders are already done and waiting.

The subreddit is in a lull. The guns need work, the cheaters are still there, but for a moment, the raids feel a little less like a knife fight and a little more like a team effort. The reset did something.