ARC RAIDERS New Beta Gameplay Demo



Arc numbers actually going up in second day.

Marathon is DOA

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The Steam forums always make me laugh, there's someone who made a thread asking if the LGBTQ+ stripes in the logo will be removed for launch 😅
 
Killjoy-NL said:
Yeah, matchmaking is fine.

I would prefer if teams disband after extracting though. Not that it's a problem to just leave manually, but it would be a QoL improvement, imo.
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Eh maybe. If I'm playing with my friends and I happen to make it to the extraction before they can safely get out I don't want to automatically be removed from the team.

I actually like that Marathon is going to force team play as I do think that will make the game more fun. Solo is just kind of boring honestly. I'd rather play with randoms.
 
mayham2199 said:
Eh maybe. If I'm playing with my friends and I happen to make it to the extraction before they can safely get out I don't want to automatically be removed from the team.

I actually like that Marathon is going to force team play as I do think that will make the game more fun. Solo is just kind of boring honestly. I'd rather play with randoms.
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Sorry, meant to say as solo player.

I always play solo with randoms.
 
I have an extra PS5 code. Don't have time to play so here it goes - DM me.
Aaand it's gone.
 
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HeisenbergFX4 said:
There is a massive difference between PC and PS5 Pro graphics

I would love to be playing on PC and give it a go as it looks so much cleaner
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I think the Pro is only running the base PS5 profile version for the demo test.

But yeah, the PC will obviously look better regardless due to a higher ceiling.
 
clarky said:
Liking this a fair bit, just wish I had more time to play.
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Same here they could release this right now as is and I would double dip PC and PS5 today

DeepEnigma said:
I think the Pro is only running the base PS5 profile version for the demo test.

But yeah, the PC will obviously look better regardless due to a higher ceiling.
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I don't know it even looks that great for a PS5 game if I am being honest but I know its early
 
HeisenbergFX4 said:
Same here they could release this right now as is and I would double dip PC and PS5 today


I don't know it even looks that great for a PS5 game if I am being honest but I know its early
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If Helldivers 2 had cross-save progression, I would've been double-dipped on the PC already.

All games that do cross-play need cross-save progression.
 
This game rules. Marathon should be scared.

Only real issue I have is the lack of motion aiming on controller. Hopefully that gets added.
 
This game has potential to be a bigger hit than the finals for this studio.

Not quite marvel rivals level explosion but a game with a constant 20K players with spikes when new seasons drop.
 
Arsic said:
This game has potential to be a bigger hit than the finals for this studio.

Not quite marvel rivals level explosion but a game with a constant 20K players with spikes when new seasons drop.
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Shouldn't be that hard to pull off.
The Finals fell off quick.
 
HeisenbergFX4 said:
Friend invites seem to be paused atm in case anyone is trying
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Damn WTF. I guess I should have completed the 30 mins last night. I was able to quickly do 4 matches but it was only 20 mins and I wanted to get back to E33. I was going to do the rest tonight. Just checked the website though and all friend info stuff is gone.

Arsic said:
This game has potential to be a bigger hit than the finals for this studio.

Not quite marvel rivals level explosion but a game with a constant 20K players with spikes when new seasons drop.
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I honestly thought The Finals was way more creative than this game. This feels like the division with worse gunplay\guns in general. I really don't like the guns in this game.
 
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Killjoy-NL said:
Shouldn't be that hard to pull off.
The Finals fell off quick.
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Finals right now has 16k players on Steam alone.

That game is more successful than even I gave it credit for.

It bank rolled this project without issue it seems.
 
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Arsic said:
Finals right now has 16k players on Steam alone.

That game is more successful than even I gave it credit for.

It bank rolled this project without issue it seems.
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On SteamDB you can see how The Finals launched on 8 december with a peak of 242K and by march 7th it had already dropped to 21K. And outside of a few peaks around that range, it continuously remained somewhere between 13K-18K.
That's more than a 90% drop that it never recovered from.

My guess is that ARC might follow a similar path, albeit a bit better.
 
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Killjoy-NL said:
On SteamDB you can see how The Finals launched on 8 december with a peak of 242K and by march 7th it had already dropped to 21K. And outside of a few peaks around that range, it continuously remained somewhere between 13K-18K.
That's more than a 90% drop that it never recovered from.

My guess is that ARC might follow a similar path.
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I agree it likely will, but games like this only need a concurrent of about 20K to feed a smaller studio without issues.

Everyone wants CS, Fortnite, Roblox concurrent players but it doesn't NEED that to be a success.

Depending on their scope and budget, then 20K should be fantastic for them unless the studio has too many employees with high salaries.
 
Arsic said:
I agree it likely will, but games like this only need a concurrent of about 20K to feed a smaller studio without issues.

Everyone wants CS, Fortnite, Roblox concurrent players but it doesn't NEED that to be a success.

Depending on their scope and budget, then 20K should be fantastic for them unless the studio has too many employees with high salaries.
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Fully agree.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with those numbers, because it means those games have a small but dedicated userbase so fans can keep playing them.
That's all these companies really need.

So in that sense, a "success" isn't necessarily based on many sales or high MAU.
 
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Played a few hours. Ok this game is fucking awesome. It has the tension of the extraction games, it already has it hooks in me. Great graphics, great performance outside of the awful UE stutter, great animations and gunplay, amazing audio design. It has skill tree, hideout features, lots of crafting, quest system, random modifiers on maps, solo play, proxy chat. They actually made fighting robots fun. They have great physics when you shoot them, weakpoints, insane audio and animation systems. Definitely gonna buy this game and i think this will be pretty big. Hopefully we dont have to wait long before release, game is polished af so its pretty much release ready imo. Also their battlepass system similar to helldivers so thats great aswell

Well done Embark. I loved the finals too. They are a talented bunch for sure
 
I had no interest in this game till checked out a few vids in this thread. I dont know if I'll get in, but I signed up for the beta now.
 
Luipadre said:
Played a few hours. Ok this game is fucking awesome. It has the tension of the extraction games, it already has it hooks in me. Great graphics, great performance outside of the awful UE stutter, great animations and gunplay, amazing audio design. It has skill tree, hideout features, lots of crafting, quest system, random modifiers on maps, solo play, proxy chat. They actually made fighting robots fun. They have great physics when you shoot them, weakpoints, insane audio and animation systems. Definitely gonna buy this game and i think this will be pretty big. Hopefully we dont have to wait long before release, game is polished af so its pretty much release ready imo. Also their battlepass system similar to helldivers so thats great aswell

Well done Embark. I loved the finals too. They are a talented bunch for sure
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Agreed.
I love I can play this solo as well.

Had a nice interaction with a random player in a building, we agreed to not attack and looted each a floor.
At some point I hear him in the staircase saying that he now leaves, so if I hear anyone else to be careful.
We wished eachother good luck and went separate ways.

It's the kind of multiplayer magic you always envision, but normally never happens.

I do wish they'd make an option to add players to your group in raid.
That would give the solo queue another dimension, I think.
 
Johnny Concrete said:
Agreed.
I love I can play this solo as well.

Had a nice interaction with a random player in a building, we agreed to not attack and looted each a floor.
At some point I hear him in the staircase saying that he now leaves, so if I hear anyone else to be careful.
We wished eachother good luck and went separate ways.

It's the kind of multiplayer magic you always envision, but normally never happens.

I do wish they'd make an option to add players to your group in raid.
That would give the solo queue another dimension, I think.
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When i looted a building i heard "dont shoot". I thought it was voip, but turned out its the emote system :D Pretty awesome. We didnt hurt eachother and went seperate ways :)
 
Lets go Arc, you deserve every bit of praise coming youre way! Look how Bungie massacred Marathon, and they were 300 people working on theire shit, but no talent and now we see the result.
 
Men_in_Boxes said:
Top 100 most played core game in the world. Besting out thousands upon thousands of competitors...is elite. Plus the game itself is phenomenal.
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Imagine thinking 15-20k is bad for a multiplayer game and thats only 1 platform. Finals is 1.5 years old and still pulling those consistent numbers. Same will gonna happen with this game
 
clarky said:
Going off that metric Fortnite is the greatest game of all time.
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Fair, but 17k peaks on Steam for F2P should automatically take the studio out of the running for best PvP developer if that is their only released game. Especially when Arc Raiders hasn't even released, and it's PvP aspects are not even very good
 
Luipadre said:
Still think its gonna be out real soon :P This is pretty much release ready imo
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Yeah the difference in this and the last test is staggering.

They could release this right now, I think they are just looking at progression and balance then release if things go well this week.
 
mayham2199 said:
Damn WTF. I guess I should have completed the 30 mins last night. I was able to quickly do 4 matches but it was only 20 mins and I wanted to get back to E33. I was going to do the rest tonight. Just checked the website though and all friend info stuff is gone.



I honestly thought The Finals was way more creative than this game. This feels like the division with worse gunplay\guns in general. I really don't like the guns in this game.
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Seems invite a friend is back up, for now anyhow
 
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