Arc Raiders
- Thread starter Cybsled
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Xevy
Log Wizard
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Definitely looks better than Marathon so far. Third person is always a downgrade, but some games it works with and this may be one. The level design is really cool and the atmosphere is awesome. The enemies aren't pushovers either which is great when people are fighting and NPC's get involved.
It's incredibly similiar to The Cycle, but seems to work better. Not sure how.
It's incredibly similiar to The Cycle, but seems to work better. Not sure how.
Cybsled
Naxxramas 1.0 Raider
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Ya, if you use low caliber ammo some of the bots are too armored and wont die (Ticks you can still kill easy and the flying guys if you shoot the rotors). But a lot of the silenced weapons use that ammo, so it is a tradeoff. My first matches I mostly did naked rat runs just to try to get loot and get used to the game.
gauze
Molten Core Raider
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Personally, I think it has a lot to do with that PvP is second to PvE.. there is so much emphasis on a largescale/detailed map, with decent loot sprinkled throughout and engaging PvE encounters that don't feel bullet sponge-y(cough marathon cough) but also monster hunter/souls-likeish(weak points/charging attacks/identifiable move-sets/dodgeroll)... PvP feels less than half the game, but is absolutely a constant looming threat. The Cycle wanted this, they also prioritized PvE as the premiere way to play.. but their map sizes were small and people spawning in regularly; PvP was constant(esp at 20k+ active pop), people were hunting drop pods and gunshots regularly. I personally can't turn away from an extraction alarm going off, or alerted robots, but atleast I can't hunt down peoples spawns in Arc; Tarkov is bad about this too.. With The Cycle high tier areas had high tier mobs that requires medium to high tier gear for any sort of reasonable execution... but Arc has Medium/High tier loot area's with a mixture of low tier and high tier mobs.. there are always lingering Rockeeters, Snitches, Bastions, and Crawlers just moving about but you can evade them.. I want lure nades to work a little bit better because I will get that crawler to jump at a squad if its the last thing I do.
It's also worth noting, both these games didn't start out as a extraction shooter. The Cycle was a BR turned Extraction, and Arc Raider's was a co-op shooter turned extraction. A bit of iteration goes a long way. I've only been apart of Arc for the last two playtests, and they're killing it. I didn't play when it was a co-op shooter though, it stayed as a co-op shooter for the first 2-3 years after its announcement. It was announced in 2021ish, and became an extraction shooter somewhere around 2023.
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