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ARC Raiders by former EA exec Patrick Söderlund

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Embark Studios, the new Stockholm-based outfit set up by former EA exec Patrick Söderlund, has announced the name of its new project.

Titled as Arc Raiders, the mysterious sci-fi game will get a proper unveiling later this week as part of The Game Awards.

A brief teaser video popped up on Twitter last night, with some grainy footage and the tagline: "enlist, resist".

game debuts tomorrow at the game awards, looks to be a 3rd person shooter

https://twitter.com/ARCRaidersGame
https://www.ign.com/articles/arc-raisers-former-dice-devs-game-awards

ARC Raiders® is a free-to-play cooperative third-person shooter where you and your squad of Raiders unite to resist the onslaught of ARC – a ruthless mechanized threat descending from space.
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Battlefront meets Earth Defense Force meets the gas station scene in Terminator Salvation.

I guess this slipped past everyone but looks impressive, at least visually. Big fan of the retro-future 80s art style, and graphically impressive on par with the photorealism of the Unreal Engine 5 demos.

Being current-gen-only PS5/SeriesX/PC is also in its favor. It's apparent that BF3/BF4/BF1 and Battlefront talent that left EA/DICE are working on this game.

The elephant in the room is that it's F2P, and looking like a co-op wave/horde shooter with loot grinding-scavenging. Which could be fun, but they have to monetize it which presumably will mean letting you pay to reduce grind time.

Alas, I watched the trailer a few times, and want to suspend doubts and give it a shot anyway.
 
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This was a cool read- that to reduce the traditionally long and expensive development time of scripted animations, they employed AI/physics/ machine learning (I hate all those buzzwords) for the robots to dynamically walk and react to terrain, obstacles and getting hit by objects spontaneously, which theoretically means no two rounds will play the same.

Interesting stuff.




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3rd person shooter = fail. Unless it is an action adventure single player game, in which case it would still be better if it was 1st person. And this is headed by the guy who sank Battlefield. That is a pass from me. He can go play Fornite with his daughter or whatever.
 
Flogger23m said:
3rd person shooter = fail. Unless it is an action adventure single player game, in which case it would still be better if it was 1st person. And this is headed by the guy who sank Battlefield. That is a pass from me. He can go play Fornite with his daughter or whatever.
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F2P trash from the EA exec who oversaw Anthem and who justified design decisions based on his daughter being offended, what could go wrong?
 
DPI said:
Dammit, JUST ANNOUNCED this game has been delayed until 2023. This just came over the wire. Yet another game god doesn't want me to have.

Is videogame development in Stockholm just easy-come, easy-go, like "maybe I'll go into the office today and actually work on this fucking game, maybe I'll just stay home and eat oreos all day and masturbate, who knows?"

Must be nice.

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releasing it at the end of this year is probably bad move since warzone 2 is coming out in nov.
 
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They are taking their time.
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Which means ballooning production costs. Surprised it's not cancelled yet, it has little hope of being a financial success. Yet another generic multiplayer shooter. I mean it's literally anthem. Only a former EA exec goes and looks at anthem and then says, yeah that's a great recipe. At this point in time you stand out by making a story driven SP game, not with one of a dozen looter shooter* running around social hub, microtransaction ridden monstrosity.

The fake ass narration under the gameplay somehow makes it seem even more boring and uninspired.

*looter shooter or extraction shooter, same slop to me.
 
M76 said:
Which means ballooning production costs. Surprised it's not cancelled yet, it has little hope of being a financial success. Yet another generic multiplayer shooter. I mean it's literally anthem. Only a former EA exec goes and looks at anthem and then says, yeah that's a great recipe. At this point in time you stand out by making a story driven SP game, not with one of a dozen looter shooter* running around social hub, microtransaction ridden monstrosity.

The fake ass narration under the gameplay somehow makes it seem even more boring and uninspired.

*looter shooter or extraction shooter, same slop to me.
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Money is in multiplayer, the problem is unless you're the top 4-5, almost everything else flops. And once you flop, it is almost impossible to recover. At least with a single player game you might see a spike in sales during deep sale discounts.
 
Flogger23m said:
Money is in multiplayer, the problem is unless you're the top 4-5, almost everything else flops. And once you flop, it is almost impossible to recover. At least with a single player game you might see a spike in sales during deep sale discounts.
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There is no more money in multiplayer, it's just distributed much more unevenly. A few get all of it, the rest get nothing. You've got better chances on achieving a ROI by buying lottery tickets than investing into a live service multiplayer game.

Even games that are initially well received can turn around on a dime. Just look at first descendant: recent reviews mostly negative. Live service games are made out of greed, not to be fun.
 
M76 said:
There is no more money in multiplayer, it's just distributed much more unevenly. A few get all of it, the rest get nothing. You've got better chances on achieving a ROI by buying lottery tickets than investing into a live service multiplayer game.

Even games that are initially well received can turn around on a dime. Just look at first descendant: recent reviews mostly negative. Live service games are made out of greed, not to be fun.
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Ironically, the greed is what caused player siloing in live service games in the first place People don't want to change games after sinking so much time and money into a different one already.
 
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There is no more money in multiplayer, it's just distributed much more unevenly. A few get all of it, the rest get nothing.
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That was my point. Multiplayer games tend to make a lot of money, if you're one of the 4-5 lucky ones. Its extremely hard to knock off well established giants as well.
 
So, I played about 10 hours or so in Tech Test 2 and was blown away. They've got something really special here and I'm excited to see how it looks on full release.
 
I really think they need to add scopes and sights. majority of gun fights are aiming at pixels. I don't see why they decided to go 3rd person.
 
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So those macro transactions are more visible to you on your character, of course.
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Most likely. That looks like absolute shit to play online. 3rd person shooters are lame as is, but for multiplayer? Hard no. Just look at 8:10. That camera shift, yikes. Your character flat out disappears. Good luck aiming with that BS as the game takes control out of your hands.
 
I have withdrawal syndrome. I had so much damn fun in the short playtest and whats better is I had no idea the game existed before I got the access. I'm not usually one for high stakes extraction style games but after the first time I went in solo, befriended a random, had some crazy 15 minute adventure and extracted successfully I was hooked.

Its crazy to me that people will have a problem with it being 3rd person. It just works so well in this game.
 
criccio said:
I have withdrawal syndrome. I had so much damn fun in the short playtest and whats better is I had no idea the game existed before I got the access. I'm not usually one for high stakes extraction style games but after the first time I went in solo, befriended a random, had some crazy 15 minute adventure and extracted successfully I was hooked.

Its crazy to me that people will have a problem with it being 3rd person. It just works so well in this game.
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To me it would be about screen real estate, I want to be able to see everything, not have my own character covering part of the screen...if someone is up close and to my left, my own character can block my actual view of them..
 
MrGuvernment said:
To me it would be about screen real estate, I want to be able to see everything, not have my own character covering part of the screen...if someone is up close and to my left, my own character can block my actual view of them..
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The reality is that's not an actual problem with the wider FoV and ability to move the camera. If anything you have far better situational awareness. With this game and drones/bots everywhere, you really benefit from it.

Its rare these days to get a game that nearly everywhere the positivity of a game is so high. Kinda would have had to just experience it yourself.

Jack hit on the points far better than I ever could hope to.


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criccio said:
The reality is that's not an actual problem with the wider FoV and ability to move the camera. If anything you have far better situational awareness. With this game and drones/bots everywhere, you really benefit from it.

Its rare these days to get a game that nearly everywhere the positivity of a game is so high. Kinda would have had to just experience it yourself.

Jack hit on the points far better than I ever could hope to.


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Ya, watching that video, I have been looking for something new to try, but, being on Linux, if it works with ProtonDB properly is another story, but in general looks like it may be fine..
https://www.protondb.com/app/1808500/

Once it is retail will see how it holds up under ProtonDB.
 
I watched Shroud and some other streamers play this all last weekend.. it looks pretty damn good... 3rd person and all... the environments and audio seem pretty incredible... the level of detail on the interior space seems very well done, so much to explore... wonderful large outdoor areas too... the proximity coms are fun too...
 
Nice... So pre-order and you will get access to the "server slam" Oct 17 ~ 19.
 
Interesting on the BF6 date timing... also the hype for this game was so big back in May when they had that beta test... The hype was huge. It'll be interesting to see how much of that carries over.
 
I haven’t kept up since or went PvPvE since I gave up sweaty PvP stuff ages ago. Now if it has some full PvE coop only modes I could be convinced but looks like a pass for me at this time.
 
Not a fan of extraction shooters, honestly its a bit weird to me seeing these companies jump on the trend at such a slow pace. Battle royales were being crapped out at breakneck speeds, but extraction shooters already feel like old news to me. I'm pretty salty Dust 514 was shut down, just for the new spiritual successor to be cancelled and then revived as an extraction shooter.

I don't mind the third person perspective, I'm surprised so many people here take issue with it. I think Helldivers 2 has the best implementation of the view and gunplay for third person. My only issue with third person is in PvP games like this, it encourages camping since you get a full view of the area without needing to expose yourself.

I do love the idea of PvPvE games. Titanfall was ahead of the game in this area, where the default gamemode had AI bots you had to kill for points. Not a fan of battle royales though, nor do I think I'll like extraction shooters. Embark makes some great games though, The Finals is pure fun, so I'll give it a shot and maybe I'll change my mind about extraction shooters
 
got this in my email today: ARC Raiders Playtest is now available in your library! (steam)

The thing about this game I that really got me was the incredible environments and visuals... the exploring looks pretty amazing.. but if folks are going form death squads (like shroud and his buddies did a bit during the test) just trying to wipe everyone they come into contact with it might get pretty frustrating... I did see them get completely wiped also.. it looks most fun when peeps met up with others in game they worked together to take out the robots in the environment, less PvP and more PvE stuff.. the proximity mics were pretty cool for that too.. and the audio in general was a topic of conversation for the streamers during the last test, saying it's very well done... I am a sucker for a beautiful world to explore with great audio. At least I'll get a chance to try before I buy. We will see.
 
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