Simply a few hours in the past, Arc Raiders servers went offline after a weekend of testing. The sport hosted a three-day server slam occasion that included very restricted content material, and was primarily designed to push servers to their limits and take a look at the sport’s infrastructure.
No less than when it comes to uncooked participant numbers, the occasion has been a hit, attracting extra gamers than the extraction shooter has ever seen with any of its earlier exams.
In fact, all earlier exams had been, to various levels, closed or invite-only, which restricted the quantity of people that might entry them. The server slam, alternatively, was open to everybody throughout all platforms.
Contemplating the anticipation the sport has within the shooter house, particularly from gamers searching for an accessible, polished extraction shooter, it’s no shock that the take a look at was as widespread because it was. In keeping with SteamDB, the server slam attracted 189,668 concurrent gamers at its peak on Friday.
That is effectively past what the Might tech take a look at managed to draw, although with the apparent caveat that it was invite-only.
All that curiosity additionally helped push Arc Raiders into Steam’s world prime sellers checklist, the place the sport presently occupies the quantity three spot, simply behind Counter-Strike 2 and Battlefield 6. It’s additionally price noting that the sport’s customary version is the one charting so extremely, which, contemplating the checklist is sorted by income, is an enormous deal. In essence, reaching such a excessive spot with a $40 price ticket implies that it has offered extra copies than a $60 or $70 recreation in a comparable spot.
This all bodes very effectively for the sport’s launch, which has an opportunity to beat these figures, as we’ve not too long ago seen with Battlefield 6 beating its personal beta data at launch, regardless of one being free and the opposite paid.
Not too lengthy left now. Arc Raiders arrives October 30 on PC, PS5, and Xbox Sequence X/S.
