It seems like the following is indeed interesting, yet I’ve never ever experienced Arc Raiders myself! Have you? ^^
But often, players are just talking. A YouTube video called The Humans of Arc Raiders, inspired by the photographer who interviews strangers in New York City, includes conversations with randomly encountered players. They talk about family struggles, work lives, depression, autism and, in one case, a lung collapse. In one conversation, a heavily armed player in green armour named Poopy candidly asks another raider: "What’s it like having kids, dude?”
When I first jumped into Arc Raiders, I found a dichotomy on the topside, where birds sing and plants thrive among the carcasses of downed machines. The more I wandered around this 1970s-style retro-future setting, the more I bumped into other humans, many of whom offered help, such as medical supplies. Mostly we snuck around and battled robots together. It was tense at times, sometimes scary, but often relaxing.
In one session, I encountered another player with a British accent who was also new to the game. "Have you been killed by another person yet?” he asked me, as we explored a burst concrete dam complex. "Because every person I’ve met has been friendly,” he added. “No one kills each other.”
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So I bought arc raiders. Even though I don’t like extraction shooters.
Hopped on solo, came up on a pair of raiders getting fucked up by the arc. Saved their lives.
Crouched in a corner to look at my inventory since this was THE VERY FIRST TIME I PLAYED.
One of the two people I saved, naded me. Just chuked a sticky grenade right at me as I browse my menus.
Then said I was camping in a corner and was going to kill them. After I JUST FUCKING SAVED THEM!
the guy tried to argue with me. I deleted and refunded the game.
Fuck you too guy.
A shame. You could’ve seen the people who yell I’M FRIENDLY I’M FRIENDLY before shooting you in the head.
Why though? It’s just pixels, laugh and go again, you have unlimited free kits, and every raid is different.
These are the players that get angry when people say they don’t want to play the game. And then act clueless when the game is dead due to low player counts. The people that also don’t want to play in lobbies with other high level players and only want to Noob Stomp.
Its why I call this genre of game “Scum Sponge.” Because it attracts all of the worst people on the planet due to the game design rewarding that kind of player behavior. I am thankful for it, because it means other games have less of them.
Arc is not the game for you. That is insanely bubble wrapped behavior.