ARC Raiders is the most recent sport from Embark Studios, the developer of the hit multiplayer sport The Finals. That is an extraction sport that has gained a big viewers, with gamers praising it for its addictive gameplay loop and beginner-friendly nature. In my view, that is nearly good. I’ve already put 50 hours into it and I do not plan on stopping anytime quickly.
Nevertheless, ARC Raiders is not good and there are some adjustments we would prefer to see in future updates. As Embark Studios has already confirmed of their content material and replace roadmap, the builders are working exhausting to make the sport nearly as good as attainable. Nonetheless, some updates are nonetheless unconfirmed and undiscussed, however are being addressed by the ARC Raiders neighborhood.
This checklist covers future updates for ARC Raiders that you’re going to need to take a look at quickly. These updates concentrate on enhancing QoL and embrace adjustments that may profit the sport in the long run for everybody taking part in.
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Duo-only queue
only for you and your folks
The wonderful thing about ARC Raiders is that gamers can enter matches solo and be matched with different solo gamers. Nevertheless, for some motive, this sport does not permit duos to play in opposition to different two-man groups, as a substitute they’ll play in opposition to three-man groups. Regardless of how expert you and your associate are on the sport, 2 vs. 3 is a large mismatch and might deliver you down mid-fight.
I want Embark Studios would add duo-specific quests to the sport, permitting co-op buddies to play collectively with out being at an enormous drawback in opposition to bigger groups. Sure, you may randomly add a 3rd particular person to your workforce, however you by no means know what sort of participant you may get. When taking part in with my brother, a variety of third teammates would are available and find yourself being a nuisance and ruining the enjoyable. If the builders can do solo quests, why not add duos?
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gear fast craft
Cut back the tedium of manufacturing
One of the crucial irritating points of ARC Raiders is dying throughout a match, shedding all of your gear, and having to run by means of tons of menus simply to rebuild your earlier loadout. ARC raiders ought to add the choice to simply create saved loadouts so they do not must spend a lot time creating all the pieces individually after a match. This makes crafting really feel much less tedious and fewer irritating once you die.
Even when you do not have sufficient supplies to craft your whole saved loadouts, this fast crafting choice lets you craft something you might have the supplies for. For instance, in case your saved loadout has a defend, zipline, bandage, barricade equipment, and rattler, however you solely have the defend and bandages, this fast craft loadout button will immediately add the defend and bandages to your new loadout.
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Craft from logbook
Make your logbook extra handy
ARC Raiders has an amazing characteristic the place you may observe the supplies you need, making it simple to maintain observe of what you are making an attempt to create. The logbook will present you all the pieces you are monitoring, and when you’ve got sufficient supplies, you may see an enormous yellow bar on the backside that claims “Craft.” Nevertheless, for some motive you may’t click on on the yellow crafting bar and you must go to the proper workbench to craft the merchandise.
Actually, gamers ought to have the ability to craft straight from the logbook as a substitute of going to a very separate menu. This takes a number of the tedium out of making and reduces the period of time spent between matches. I imply, the yellow crafting bar that seems when you might have all of your substances seems like a button, however I spent about 5 minutes making an attempt to determine the right way to press the button, solely to seek out out that I can not press it. A reasonably bizarre sport design alternative for my part.
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PvE solely mode
For individuals who do not like PvP
It will piss off a variety of PvP fans, and I can see why. The wonderful thing about ARC Raiders is that you simply’re at all times nervous that enemy raiders would possibly sneak up on you and take you away. A few of my finest moments in ARC Raiders have been PvP encounters. Nevertheless, I believe a PvE-only mode can be helpful to the sport, particularly for many who simply need to benefit from the loot gathering side.
The nice factor is that ARC Raiders has sufficient gamers to assist PvP and PvE modes and that neither foyer feels empty, with greater than 400,000 gamers at its peak on Steam lately. You could possibly even argue that extra gamers would flock to this nice sport if a PvE-only mode was an choice for these searching for this type of expertise. I’ve talked to a couple individuals who have been trying to decide up this sport however determined in opposition to it when it mentioned it was centered on PvP.
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Repair the out-of-sync
irritating drawback
For individuals who aren’t accustomed to async, it is principally the switch of knowledge from the server to what’s occurring on the display. In different phrases, if you happen to run into an out-of-sync drawback in a multiplayer sport, you would possibly see one thing occurring on the participant’s display earlier than something seems on the participant’s display. Within the case of ARC Raiders, there’s an out-of-sync subject that causes gamers to get shot by means of partitions and take harm when clearly behind cowl.
It is a large drawback in multiplayer video games, particularly in video games like ARC Raiders the place the stakes are so excessive that it will probably spoil the expertise. It feels horrible to get killed by somebody whereas hiding within the shadows and lose all of your loot. The worst half is when it isn’t your fault and also you’re really taking part in very well when an out-of-sync drawback kills you. Yeah, this has occurred to me greater than I might prefer to admit.
To achieve ARC Raiders, you’ll want to maintain your eyes peeled and hear fastidiously to close by enemies and gamers. In case you do not, you are extra prone to be stalked and killed, shedding all of your loot within the course of. The sound design in ARC Raiders is very nice, nevertheless it actually wants an replace to extend the footstep sounds and make the sport extra honest total. At this level, it’s totally tough to listen to footsteps until you are very shut.
You don’t need your footsteps to be so loud that you may hear the enemy raiders three flooring up, however a slight enhance in noise will hit the candy spot. Not solely does this make the sport fairer for all gamers, nevertheless it additionally makes the sport really feel extra tactical, as gamers must crouch and sneak extra typically when exploring buildings to keep away from alerting different gamers.
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Make Speranza your social hub
Speranza does not really feel alive.
This replace might take a while, nevertheless it’s undoubtedly one thing we would prefer to see in ARC Raiders. Relatively than having to navigate by means of a collection of menus, Speranza needs to be a social hub the place gamers can stroll round and work together with different raiders. Not solely does this make Speranza really feel like a dwelling world, nevertheless it can be a variety of enjoyable between matches, as you may work together along with your fellow teammates earlier than reaching the highest aspect.
This hub world could possibly be just like the one seen within the Monster Hunter video games. How cool would it not be if you happen to needed to really go to a store and purchase objects as a substitute of simply urgent R1? Or discover workshops and rooms, every of which turns into extra fulfilling as you progress and accumulate the suitable supplies. This replace will most likely by no means see the sunshine of day, however I really imagine it should make ARC Raiders top-of-the-line multiplayer video games on the market.
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Different maps
Different locations to discover
Embark Studios has already introduced {that a} new map known as “Stella Montis” will probably be obtainable in November. That is nice, however the playerbase has spent a lot time on the primary 4 maps that it will get stale fairly shortly when only one new map is launched. We hope Embark Studios provides extra maps as quickly as attainable. So you might have much more choices to maintain your expertise distinctive from run to run.
I’ve performed all of the obtainable maps so many instances that I do know them just like the again of my hand. Due to this, after some time I am frightened that ARC Raiders will begin to really feel “samey” not solely to me, but in addition to different gamers, and the variety of concurrent gamers will drop considerably. Including extra maps would forestall this from occurring, so I hope Embark Studios will work exhausting on this.