After having wrapped up its Server Slam playtest for ARC Raiders, developer Embark Studios has now revealed particulars about what it discovered from the occasion, and the way will probably be altering the sport up because it will get nearer to its October 30 launch on PC, PS5 and Xbox Sequence X/S. In its put up, the studio has famous 4 principal issues as a part of its takeaways from the Server Slam: Stability, the Flying ARCs, the Dam Tower, and the visible distinction.
Embark Studios praised the ARC Raiders Server Slam gamers for serving to the developer establish stability points which might shortly be resolved. As for the Flying ARCs, the studio acknowledged that that they had unintentionally over-powered imaginative and prescient, which has since been modified up for them to “provide a fairer struggle at launch.” The Dam Tower can be going to be much less accessible to gamers when the sport comes out, for the reason that location is ready to deal with useful assets. The visible settings had additionally been tuned to favour efficiency over uncooked visible constancy, and the studio has famous that it’s nonetheless attempting to strike the precise stability.
Together with these takeaways, the studio has additionally revealed some fascinating statistics concerning the Server Slam. During the last weekend, 30 million rounds of ARC Raiders had been performed. Throughout these rounds, gamers had destroyed 58 million ARCs. The deadliest ARC was apparently the Rocketeer, which managed to knock down greater than 2.3 million gamers. Nonetheless, gamers have been additionally in a position to band collectively to take out essentially the most highly effective ARC within the Server Slam – the Queen – of which 77 have been eradicated. Essentially the most favoured weapon by gamers all through the playtest was seemingly the Ferro.
As for a number of the funnier stats, 816,162 rubber geese and 96,000 recorders had been collected by gamers over the weekend. Consequently, 2,669 gamers obtained knocked down whereas they have been enjoying the recorder. Exploration was additionally fairly hazardous, with 26,676 gamers getting knocked down simply due to lightning.
The PC model of the ARC Raiders Server Slam managed to do fairly nicely, with SteamDB reporting that it was in a position to hit a peak concurrent participant rely of 189,668. The Server Slam featured a single location within the Rust Belt – the Dam Battlegrounds – the place gamers needed to scavenge for assets, struggle off ARCs, different gamers, and doubtlessly even workforce up with different crews to tackle the huge, harmful Queen.
Shortly after the server slam, design director Virgil Watkins revealed that ARC Raiders in all probability gained’t be getting a first-person mode, saying that the sport “type of falls aside” if performed in first-person. Among the many principal causes for the third-person digicam of the sport, in line with Watkins, are immersion with the world, and technical causes like some property needing to be of decrease decision.
Watkins additionally spoke about maintaining a tally of different PvPvE extraction shooters, like Bungie’s Marathon, which additionally had a playtest at across the similar time because the one ARC Raiders obtained earlier this yr. He referred to it as a “nice A/B check” for the studio by way of which options labored, and which of them didn’t.
