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Arc Raiders has a hidden "magic" system: you've never noticed it because you're not supposed to, but it helps Arc do their job

Sometimes Embark lets the Arc cheat a little

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Arc Raiders update nerfs notorious Il Toro shotgun from basically every angle: pellet damage, fire rate, dispersion, reload time, and damage falloff

You're welcome

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Arc Raiders dev Embark Studios confirms co-founder is gone after allegations of misconduct with The Finals streamer: "We found the situation unsustainable and mutually agreed to part ways"

Embark says an external legal investigation "did not substantiate the allegations"

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ARC Raiders is substituting AI voices with real actors

More voice acting roles for real people in ARC Raiders.

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Embark CEO says 'a real professional actor is better than AI' after the studio re-records some Arc Raiders dialog with real humans

Embark is not ending its use of generative AI, which it sees "first and foremost as a production tool."

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Amidst high profile live service failures, Arc Raiders production director says he hopes other studios are 'given the same chance we had, because it's so hard to put a game out'

Arc Raiders got to reinvent itself. Many other games can't.

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Arc Raiders could one day get vehicles, but Embark says no promises: 'We have prototypes from seven years ago'

Imagine gunning it across Spaceport on a dirt bike.

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Arc Raiders once had jump pads and the Snap Hook made you 'like Spider-Man' before its extraction shooter pivot: 'It was much more heroic'

Jump pads and unrestrained Snap Hooks didn't stick the landing, but I can't say I don't want to see them return.

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Arc Raiders dev uses clip of FPS streamer Shroud summing up "game dev in a nutshell" to reinforce how Embark "failed" during development: "We really did - twice"

Embark went through the wringer to get Arc Raiders out

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Arc Raiders' devs didn't expect such a passionate PvE-only crowd

"It's quite challenging because we have these two, quite polar [types of] fans."

PC Gamer

The first thing Arc Raiders' devs did during its extraction pivot was to reduce the speed of everything by 60%: 'All the craft that was in the game was kind of background noise'

It was a speedrunner's dream, but it didn't work.

PC Gamer

Arc Raiders devs spent 3 years fighting "on a daily basis" over whether it was "a battle royale," "a hero looter shooter," "a co-op Soul game," or "a co-op Shadow of the Colossus game"

"Internally, we thought the game was deeper, more fun, better than we actually had in our hands"

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Arc Raiders received 'substantial negative PvP sentiment' during testing, causing the devs to second-guess its big pivot before realising it was really frustration with weapons and matchmaking

"Should we even have done this reset?"

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"A lot of games would be canceled": Arc Raiders lead recalls cutting all but 25 people in "desperation" when Nexon "gave us one more try" to salvage the flailing shooter

"We agreed that this game deserved another try"

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No one at Embark could describe Arc Raiders before its extraction shooter pivot, leading to 'playtest battles' of competing directions for the game

"A lot of games would have been cancelled at this point."

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The Arc in Arc Raiders have multiple "brains," and they all love pursuing you because Embark gives them "rewards" in real-time via machine learning: "I learned to walk on my own"

The Leaper just wants to say hello

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Arc Raiders turns down electromagnetic storm lightning despite some players preferring the chaos, as Embark promises compensation for folks impacted by recent server issues

The studio's decided to make an "exception" for the loot problems

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Arc Raiders is handing out loadout refunds for last week's server issues: 'This outage impacted a large number of players, so we are making an exception'

There are two new haircuts, too.

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ARC Raiders vs Marathon: Which one should you play?

Learn about differences in progression, wipes, PvP, and more.

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How to get three stars in ARC Raiders Week 19 Trials (March 9)

Time for a new grind.

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Twitch FPS legend Shroud "can't believe" Marathon is so hard — "you play ARC Raiders and it's like you're playing Hello Kitty Adventures"

Marathon and ARC Raiders are both extraction shooters, but Bungie's FPS is a far harder game — so much so that the Twitch star Shroud "can't believe" it.

PC Gamer

Marathon's aura-farming NPCs show just how bland and lifeless Arc Raiders' AI-voiced characters really are

Style and substance.

Dot Esports

‘Please keep your greed limited:’ Marathon players slam rewards pass as worst value for money

There are quite a few comparisons to ARC Raiders and Helldivers 2.

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"2 cakes!": Arc Raiders players lay down their weapons and show support for Marathon, saying they "want this competition" and "2 beautiful games can coexist without all this hate"

Embark's community welcomes Bungie's new FPS

Tom’s Hardware

Arc Raiders was accidentally recording Discord conversations into an unencrypted local game file — vulnerability in SDK could log messages and credentials in plaintext

A vulnerability in Discord's SDK allowed Arc Raiders to unintentionally log private DMs and user account credentials to the game's log files. Embark Studios has since hotfixed the problem.

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