ARC Raiders is the new hotness in town and thanks to Embark Studios enabling Proton support for Easy Anti-Cheat, I've been putting hour after hour into it.
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After years in development, multiple playtests, previews, and server slams, Embark Studios’ PvPvE sci-fi extraction shooter ARC Raiders has finally gone live. Does the studio’s sophomore title live up to the wild hype that’s been building over the past year? After spending what is, frankly, an embarrassing amount of time with ARC Raiders this past weekend, I can say the answer is an emphatic yes.
For a live-service title, the launch of ARC Raiders has been remarkably smooth, with servers holding up under some hefty player counts—over 350,000 on Steam alone. If you’re unfamiliar with the game, it’s a third-person shooter that pits players not only against each other but also against armies of murderous drones. As an extraction shooter, matches unfold against a ticking clock, where raiders must scavenge loot, complete missions, and escape before time runs out.
ARC Raiders takes place in the distant future, long after a force of killer machines known as ARC has laid waste to... Read more
Ten hours into Arc Raiders, I felt betrayal's sharp sting for the first time.
The round began with generosity. I met a fellow raider who had dropped me a rare shotgun as well as a damaged heat sink to upgrade my workbench. They asked nothing in return. It was one of many friendly encounters I've had roaming the surface of Arc Raiders' hostile maps, but I also felt my heart rate rise: when you die you lose everything you're carrying, so I knew I had to reach an extraction point quickly and quietly.
On the way, I met another player. We exchanged "don't shoot" emotes followed by our actual voices on proximity chat, agreeing to cover each other until the exit. I even dropped him some bandages.
Fool.
The servers of shooter Arc Raiders had a bit of a "wobble" on Sunday, as many would-be raiders of the arc queued up to get in. Developers Embark have now decided to offer those affected by the outage some free in-game as a make good for said server swoonage.
The wobble came on November 2nd, as the game was hovering around the 300 to 330k concurrent player mark. It's left a brief, but unmistakeable dip in the SteamDB graph. Think one of those heart machines having a quick blip before regular beats resume.
