ShadowkillXNA
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Just curious how much time people have put into Arc Raiders so far.
I'm at 74 hours, been playing since launch day on ps5.
Never tried the tech tests/betas.
You can find your hours played in the codex under player stats.
The games been out for just over 400 hours at the time I'm posting this.
Just to explain why I'm hooked:
It's the tension, it's constant.
When you're searching containers, listening carefully for footsteps or gunfire sounds.
Never knowing at first whether someone you run past is friendly or not.
Running to an extraction point with the part you came specifically looking for on a free loadout, so no safe pocket, so you're praying you can extract without isssues.
Ever hear of the Dark Forest theory? The idea is that you never know the intentions of anyone you come across, so you're constantly calculating whether to show yourself and trust them, or destroy them before they get you.
And the Arc themselves, running across any open space gets your senses fully aware of the sky and your blood pumping, getting caught out in the open with only a few trees or large rocks as cover against wasps and hornet is thrilling and fun. They are a great enemy, the electronic screech the wasps/hornets make when they detect you and start to attack, the constant jet engine sound of a rocketeer overhead when you're hiding in a structure from it........and another raider comes through the front door yelling "friendly".
And in the back of your mind you're again calculating, "Well they SAID 'friendly'"....but they're not looting and just looking at you with their gun out....
I'm at 74 hours, been playing since launch day on ps5.
Never tried the tech tests/betas.
You can find your hours played in the codex under player stats.
The games been out for just over 400 hours at the time I'm posting this.
Just to explain why I'm hooked:
It's the tension, it's constant.
When you're searching containers, listening carefully for footsteps or gunfire sounds.
Never knowing at first whether someone you run past is friendly or not.
Running to an extraction point with the part you came specifically looking for on a free loadout, so no safe pocket, so you're praying you can extract without isssues.
Ever hear of the Dark Forest theory? The idea is that you never know the intentions of anyone you come across, so you're constantly calculating whether to show yourself and trust them, or destroy them before they get you.
And the Arc themselves, running across any open space gets your senses fully aware of the sky and your blood pumping, getting caught out in the open with only a few trees or large rocks as cover against wasps and hornet is thrilling and fun. They are a great enemy, the electronic screech the wasps/hornets make when they detect you and start to attack, the constant jet engine sound of a rocketeer overhead when you're hiding in a structure from it........and another raider comes through the front door yelling "friendly".
And in the back of your mind you're again calculating, "Well they SAID 'friendly'"....but they're not looting and just looking at you with their gun out....
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cant stop
