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I have started Arc Raiders!

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I've decided to go ahead and pick up the new(ish) Arc Raiders game for PS5. I wasn't sure about this game, as I didn't fully understand what it was when it came out, other than it was always showing up everywhere in my feeds.

One of my main concerns with the game was I obviously wrongly equated it to a FortNite clone, but without the building aspects of it. I was totally wrong on this one. It's an "Extraction Shooter" so in essence you spawn on a map that already has a session in progress and then go do things, loot stuff, kill stuff and then find an extraction point, like an elevator, to head back home with your hard-earned goods.

So here is where it gets tricky, you're not the only player out on this map looking for things. This is in reality, a PvPvE game. You can organically work with other players you come across, or be one of those and shoot to kill everyone you come across.

I personally don't like PvP and this was also a big reason I hesitated. I'd much rather right the non-player entities, which are various types of robots and drones around the map, dubbed ARC.

Now that I've been playing a few hours I've only actually come across a couple people who shot at me, and I was actually able to get away without dying. Seemingly no one hit kills here (so far). Most of the time, other players seem to just trying to get their materials and loot and head to extraction themselves. The game having an "open mic" setup makes it so I can just naturally talk and people around me can hear my "Don't shoot!" shouts, or I can quickly emote that as well. This means you can also hear when other people are around talking to their friends or opening containers as things make noise.

My first impressions are good, but we'll just have to see how the community evolves as the game goes on and if Embark studios adds more incentives for PvE gameplay. If the community turns toxic, I'll be moving on to something else.

Shoot down an ARC enemy for me.

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