MYSTERIOUS: 7 | Mind Blowing Facts

Embark CEO says 'a real professional actor is better than AI' after the studio re-records some Arc Raiders dialog with real humans

Embark is not ending its use of generative AI, which it sees "first and foremost as a production tool."

PC Gamer · Mar 14

Amidst high profile live service failures, Arc Raiders production director says he hopes other studios are 'given the same chance we had, because it's so hard to put a game out'

Arc Raiders got to reinvent itself. Many other games can't.

PC Gamer · Mar 13

Arc Raiders could one day get vehicles, but Embark says no promises: 'We have prototypes from seven years ago'

Imagine gunning it across Spaceport on a dirt bike.

PC Gamer · Mar 13

Arc Raiders devs spent 3 years fighting "on a daily basis" over whether it was "a battle royale," "a hero looter shooter," "a co-op Soul game," or "a co-op Shadow of the Colossus game"

"Internally, we thought the game was deeper, more fun, better than we actually had in our hands"

GamesRadar · Mar 12

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?"

PC Gamer · Mar 12

"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"

GamesRadar · Mar 12

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."

PC Gamer · Mar 12

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

GamesRadar · Mar 12

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

GamesRadar · Mar 10

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.

PC Gamer · Mar 10