My Project Arc playtest played out like a horror movie. I was skulking around a hospital, my teammates were dead and my enemies were not just in power, but clearly having a really good time running me down. Project Arc is a top-down competitive shooter set in the PUBG universe, and the people I'm playing against in this early playtest are much better than I am.
It's not my fault. Krafton has decided the best way to let journalists get hold of their game for the first time was to pit them against a team of esports organisers that Krafton had paid to be there. They were more experienced with Project Arc, they knew the maps, and they were hiding in corners and vents ready to kill us the second we lost focus. Every time we entered a room blind or turned a corner looking the wrong way, we'd pay for it with blood. It felt less like a battle of equals and more like the cooling tower scene in Aliens—except the aliens had military grade weaponry and a grudge.
