ARC Raiders is shit wrapped in gold foil.
It's too bad since the game looks highly polished minus a connection error here and there. The cosmetics system isn't as good as The Finals which is the best in the industry.
The big picture is that unless you team up with mates and communicate enough to deal with oncoming enemies the game isn't fun and no sound design, quirky elevator door system or intricate AI system for the drones is gonna change that cursed gameplay loop of spawning weirdly into a specific spot of the map, going to a location, looting the place up, going to another spot, looting some more, getting ambushed or ambushing some randos.
Also, the game was announced as a looter shooter in 2021 but since then they morphed into an extraction shooter only, with 5 maps and 1 game mode that's barebones launch territory. Despite all its iteration, they still left the body type A/B; I'm sure there is still some wokery left in the dialogue and store NPCs. Guess they didn't get the memo.
At 40€ in a post Helldivers 2/CO33 with a packed fall release schedule and a huge boring barrier of entry the game is a no buy.
Bingo right on the money.