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Arc Raiders Is Already One of the Biggest Extraction Shooters Ever on Steam (www.ign.com)
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Arc Raiders has only been out a day, but it has already surpassed a Steam concurrent peak player count of 264,673, making it one of the biggest extraction shooters ever on Valve's platform.

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[–] 20 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Arc Raiders is a fuckin blast. Having just as much fun with my group on this as we did in like helldivers and hunt showdown, but Arc Raiders has real depth that I think will keep us coming back. This game feels special and I hope it's can go the distance for my group and I because it's one of the best group games we've played in a while.

Solo is fun too, it's just a completely different game. It's more tense, more stealthy, and you're 100x more likely to find friendly players which is really cool.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    It's hilarious how different people respond to playing it solo. Some people say it's the tensest thing ever but I've also seen a video from an elderly cozy gamer who thought it was the most relaxing thing she'd seen in a while. I'm more in the latter camp, been playing solo since launch and it's been pretty chill.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I think both sides make sense here. If you shoot at everything that moves and refuse to cooperate it can be a hell of a ride. But if you focus on looting and are willing to socialize it can be almost a cozy experience. It reminds me of Team Fortress 2 where players would sometimes just make up their own rules mid game and turn everything on it‘s head.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    See that's interesting because it's more cozy for me when I shoot on sight and more tense for me when I socialize. I've lost loot when I've tried talking it out and maybe that stings more because assuming I lose some of those engagements I must have saved more loot than lost when talking.

    Idk, it's the social pressure like in a fictional apocalypse of like "will these humans be friendy or not", they're unpredictable. Also I think the map has an effect on friendliness as well. Like Dam had a lot of friendly people but blue gate was like 50/50 at best.

    It's just so cool that the game can change so much from playing solo vs squads.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Yep. I played solo for the first few hours before friends picked it up. I had a 100% extraction rate over like 10 runs because it seems like 100% of people are not there to fight. They're just trying to loot and get out. It isn't worth the risk of dying, especially near the end of a run when you can't carry anything else anyway.

    Playing as a group, it's probably a 95% chance people won't talk and just fight. Everyone is in a Discord chat and not using in-game voice and are just anti-social. Occasionally you can extract with other people, but during the raid I don't think I've ever had people be friendly. We even had a team down to one person before and told them they could leave and they still decided to try to kill our three man.

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