A Reddit post captured one of the cruelest extraction shooter moments: while fighting the Matriarch in Arc Raiders, a player says they lost roughly 100,000 Raider Coins worth of gear after falling from The Dam and dying to fall damage. The clip shows the player, seaskyways, fighting the Matriarch from range, getting swarmed by Hornets and Wasps, and holding on as shields absorb incoming damage. Just as their situation looks salvageable, the player dives off the dam and falls to death.
Seaskyways spelled out the loss in a Reddit post and attached a video of the moment. The original quote reads: “I lost 100k worth of stuff in the stupidest way imaginable. I will not top this death anytime soon (hopefully)“. He had high-end items and consumables that make a Matriarch attempt viable, including a Venator 4 with a blue mag and handle mod, a Hullcracker 2, two Wolfpack grenades, two ziplines, two jolt mines, three barricades, 400 medium ammo, and lots of heals and shields. That loadout represents both time and in-game currency sunk into a single run.
I lost 100k worth of stuff in the stupidest way imaginable. I will not top this death anytime soon (hopefully)
byu/seaskyways inArcRaiders
Extraction penalties are part of the tension in games like this. Players routinely accept the risk of losing gear for the reward of loot and progression, and sometimes that gamble ends in an avoidable mistake. For players who find creative ways to survive extraction while downed, there is precedent in the community, such as a run where a player crawled for 15 minutes to extraction using a Looting MK3 Survivor augment that reached extraction after a long crawl.
Arc Raiders players and data also show how often Matriarch encounters happen on the same map, with the Stella Montis map seeing millions of visits and thousands of Matriarch kills, which helps explain why runs like this keep drawing players back despite high stakes in community metrics. Comments on the Reddit thread mix sympathy with incredulity. The clip is a reminder that in extraction shooters, one tiny misstep can erase an entire run and that even confident Matriarch attempts can end in a facepalm moment.
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