Arc Raiders is a live-service shooter, and you know what that means—skin discourse, hooray! In all seriousness, since everything became Fortnite, it's been a real consideration. As PCG's own Morgan Park put it in 2023, "Cosmetic Uglification is a viral affliction infecting the best shooters of our time", and he's not been proven wrong since.
You can rest easy, though. At least, if you take the words of design director Virgil Watkins at face value in a recent interview with PCGamesN: "What I believe to be true is that we will maintain the current aesthetic that we have," Watkins says. "It will fit within our sensibilities of how these things look and fit within the world and inside the fiction.
