Time to slam some servers and raid those lost ARCs 🫡

ARC Raiders is the first game since PUBG that makes me feel how I felt about PUBG. It's *great*, even in this limited playtest. The pace is much quicker, but the extraction mechanics, questing, and skill tree provide that hook that could make me play hundreds of hours of this.

[You know, if PUBG had a mode with all these elements, and not just shrinking circle gameplay, I would probably put hundreds of hours more into that, too]

Love the environments and the world-building in ARC Raiders. There's a lot of lore in this; loot is environmentally contextual, questgivers are voiced, have cinematics, and drive an overarching story narrative. The one map provided in this weekend's playtest is enormous. You may encounter one, maybe two other players in a session (though will hear many others via distant gunfire). When a player goes down, a flare goes up — alerting everybody from miles around — which is a really neat mechanic

I also like how readable the ARC Raiders UI is at a glance, which is something I can't say about Marathon

(Though maybe Bungie will steal a better design language by the time it ships 😛)

The average ARC Raiders play experience. Bit of diplomacy, bit of combat, a lot of escaping from robots.

(No voiceover)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nqNj8GreOk

ARC Raiders — Server Slam #1 (No Voice)

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I love the flare-on-downed mechanic in this game. It's such a great indicator of combat resolution, especially for more-distant firefights going on around you, or when you see a swarm of robots chasing a player and are curious who wins. It both means 'free loot', and 'danger close'
@stroughtonsmith what game and platform is this?
@chrisatzinger ARC Raiders, PC