Arc Raiders at release date was something magical. Me and my buddy were addicted and would play it a few hours each night doing the quests and teaming up with lobbies to kill big ARC. Once people were comfortable though it was just getting shot in the back of the head while engaging ARC.
Wish there was a similar game that was PVE oriented. We haven’t played since we got tired of the constant PVP. (Yes I know the game is PvPvE.. that’s why we stopped).
So many PvP games are so fun at the start, but a couple months in when people know maps, best camping spots, best exploits, best strats etc etc it just gets boring. I enjoy the chaos/random bullshit at the start, and then get bored once metas become the norm
So true. Same story here, would play it every night with my girlfriend. But it didn't take long for people to figure out that the safest play was extraction camping — not that I blame them — and for us, that killed the fun... That, and the community can be insufferable at times. SEA servers are also just downright mysogynistic and later on it just seemed like the devs were giving up on the game. We later started getting wacky, goofy call-of-duty-esque outfits that was just out of place (the kind of oddities they'd promised earlier to never add), uncalled-for balancing patches, and it felt like the dev team really lost grip of what made the game magical at launch.
Me and my buddy always brought a hatch key, cause we didn’t trust anyone. They were cheap and easy to get so we would just take turns bringing one each round. The few times we forgot one we were very careful with approaching an extract. Still ran into a few campers though.
We both quit playing shortly after the first expedition reset. The novelty had already worn thin and our last straw was a group bringing the cloaks to avoid ARC aggro and killing me and my friend while we were killing a Bastion. Never booted up again after that. The cosmetics always seemed to miss more often than not from what we saw while we were still active. I bought one outfit and never had any desire to pick anything else they put out.
Not a shooter but there’s an extraction medieval fantasy game I’m enjoying at the moment called expedition into darkness. It’s just a demo on steam at the moment but it’s got great atmosphere and no PvP.
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u/Lor- Aug 19 '26
Arc Raiders at release date was something magical. Me and my buddy were addicted and would play it a few hours each night doing the quests and teaming up with lobbies to kill big ARC. Once people were comfortable though it was just getting shot in the back of the head while engaging ARC.
Wish there was a similar game that was PVE oriented. We haven’t played since we got tired of the constant PVP. (Yes I know the game is PvPvE.. that’s why we stopped).