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Arc Raiders received 'substantial negative PvP sentiment' during testing, causing the devs to second-guess its big pivot before realising it was really frustration with weapons and matchmaking

"Should we even have done this reset?"

"A lot of games would be canceled": Arc Raiders lead recalls cutting all but 25 people in "desperation" when Nexon "gave us one more try" to salvage the flailing shooter

"A lot of games would be canceled": Arc Raiders lead recalls cutting all but 25 people in "desperation" when Nexon "gave us one more try" to salvage the flailing shooter

"We agreed that this game deserved another try"

No one at Embark could describe Arc Raiders before its extraction shooter pivot, leading to 'playtest battles' of competing directions for the game

No one at Embark could describe Arc Raiders before its extraction shooter pivot, leading to 'playtest battles' of competing directions for the game

"A lot of games would have been cancelled at this point."

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The Arc in Arc Raiders have multiple "brains," and they all love pursuing you because Embark gives them "rewards" in real-time via machine learning: "I learned to walk on my own"

The Leaper just wants to say hello

Arc Raiders turns down electromagnetic storm lightning despite some players preferring the chaos, as Embark promises compensation for folks impacted by recent server issues

The studio's decided to make an "exception" for the loot problems

Arc Raiders is handing out loadout refunds for last week's server issues: 'This outage impacted a large number of players, so we are making an exception'

There are two new haircuts, too.

ARC Raiders vs Marathon: Which one should you play?

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How to get three stars in ARC Raiders Week 19 Trials (March 9)

How to get three stars in ARC Raiders Week 19 Trials (March 9)

Time for a new grind.

Twitch FPS legend Shroud "can't believe" Marathon is so hard — "you play ARC Raiders and it's like you're playing Hello Kitty Adventures"

Twitch FPS legend Shroud "can't believe" Marathon is so hard — "you play ARC Raiders and it's like you're playing Hello Kitty Adventures"

Marathon and ARC Raiders are both extraction shooters, but Bungie's FPS is a far harder game — so much so that the Twitch star Shroud "can't believe" it.

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Marathon's aura-farming NPCs show just how bland and lifeless Arc Raiders' AI-voiced characters really are

Marathon's aura-farming NPCs show just how bland and lifeless Arc Raiders' AI-voiced characters really are

Style and substance.

‘Please keep your greed limited:’ Marathon players slam rewards pass as worst value for money

‘Please keep your greed limited:’ Marathon players slam rewards pass as worst value for money

There are quite a few comparisons to ARC Raiders and Helldivers 2.

"2 cakes!": Arc Raiders players lay down their weapons and show support for Marathon, saying they "want this competition" and "2 beautiful games can coexist without all this hate"

"2 cakes!": Arc Raiders players lay down their weapons and show support for Marathon, saying they "want this competition" and "2 beautiful games can coexist without all this hate"

Embark's community welcomes Bungie's new FPS

Arc Raiders was accidentally recording Discord conversations into an unencrypted local game file — vulnerability in SDK could log messages and credentials in plaintext

Arc Raiders was accidentally recording Discord conversations into an unencrypted local game file — vulnerability in SDK could log messages and credentials in plaintext

A vulnerability in Discord's SDK allowed Arc Raiders to unintentionally log private DMs and user account credentials to the game's log files. Embark Studios has since hotfixed the problem.

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ARC Raiders recorded private Discord DM messages between players in "serious privacy and security violations" — Embark promises that your data is safe

ARC Raiders recorded private Discord DM messages between players in "serious privacy and security violations" — Embark promises that your data is safe

An issue with ARC Raiders' Discord integration led to the game recording private DM messages between players in "serious privacy and security violations."

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Arc Raiders was recording private Discord DMs in plain text, engineer claims in report on "serious privacy and security violations," which prompted a hasty hotfix from Embark

"Rest assured that your private and/or personal data was not sent outside your machine"

'Begun, the Mushroom Wars have': Bodies are piling up next to shelf fungi in Arc Raiders as players fight for the slim supply of mushrooms

All in the name of Scrappy.

How to get a Broken Guidance System in Arc Raiders

Locate this industrial item to prep your Expedition.

You can ride around on Arc Raiders' new Fireflies, but you probably shouldn't: "Straight to the backrooms"

"That thing put my ass in jail as its last act of vengeance."

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Bungie unveils Marathon's first season, confirming that, yes, it'll wipe all your loot and progress every three months: 'Each season of Marathon brings a clean slate for the whole community'

And no, it's not optional.

All ARC Raiders Expedition 3 project requirements and how to complete them

The next phase of the grind begins.

How to get three stars in ARC Raiders Week 18 Trials (March 2)

Let's get all three stars.

Arc Raiders Expedition 2 Project release countdown: Exact date, time, and more

Looks really worthy.

Is Marathon's time-to-kill too fast, or am I too Arc Raiders-pilled?

I'm finally embracing what Marathon is actually going for.

Embark has no hard feelings about Arc Raiders briefly being censored in Bungie's Marathon Server Slam: "No matter if you're a Runner or a Raider, loot is loot"

The rivalry . . .ends?

If you're hoping to make friends in Marathon like you can in Arc Raiders, expect a knife in the back

In my experience, shoot first.

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