Since Arc Raiders launched in late October 2025, there's been a growing belief the eponymous drones are actively learning about how players work. Anecdotes have been bandied around of them seemingly becoming smarter about their targeting and movement. Well, sorry to break this to you, but that's just how they've been designed.
Virgil Watkins, design director on Arc Raiders, explains this to PC Gamer in a new interview. "That's just us in the way we author them," he says. "The machine learning is literally only for teaching them to walk and navigate the environment. It doesn't do any of their behaviors or their attacks or anything like that."
