Bonus - 45 minutes of matches on ‘Blue Gate’ for those curious
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Same sentiment, I would have prefered it to be First Person weirdly enough.
This looks so very cool. In the video review I saw a robot like enemy, but are there more CPU controlled enemies next to potential enemy players?
Pre-ordered the deluxe edition and looking forward to jumping in tomorrow as I played ten hours in the Server Slam and really enjoyed the game. Perspective wise, im the opposite. I easily prefer third person because you get a wider field of view, a better cover system and while people complain about the “peaking”, you can do the same so it evens out.
Arc Raiders reminds me of The Division, Outriders and State of Decay in many ways so being in third person is a huge positive at least for me. Besides, with so many games like this being in first person, first person, first person, it’s great to see a game like this finally be in third person as it gives you a different feel to the game and requires you to use a different strategy and change your play style.
Great review in progress by the way Jon. Have to watch that 45 minute gameplay video for Blue Gate. All the environments look awesome.
There’s mostly flying robot enemies that can spot you and call for reinforcements against you but there’s also a few ground robot enemies as well.
Yes, you can get into fights against other players and the robots at the same time. When I played the Server Slam, 4 out of the 6 deaths I had was because I was weakened by another player OR robot and simply didn’t have enough time to heal my health and charge my shield and thus, was downed by the player OR robot depending on who weakened me first.
So say you get into a fight with a player and survive, the gunfire can attract robots to where you’re at and if you don’t heal quickly enough or find a place to hide, the robots can basically finish you off. This can also go the other way where you destroy a robot but a player comes and finishes you off.
It’s very tense and very intense at the same time.
Arc Raiders is the first ever game that I will be playing that has a PvP element to engage with. It’s the second extraction shooter that I have ever played. First being Helldivers 2 which I played for about 6 hours on PS5 at launch but playing solo, there’s just no way unless you’re just amazing at these games.
With Arc Raiders, you get queued against other solo players and while solo players can “team up” with each other, it’s not official or listed as a team so even if two players join up and one of them gets downed, the other can’t revive them because they’re not part of a “team”.
I ran across a few solo players when I played the Server Slam. I never ran into any group of players.
Watching videos from the Tech Test 2 in the summer, what drew me in was the setting being post apocalyptic, the realistic graphics, the third person perspective along with a lot of elements that’s in The Division, Outriders and State of Decay which I all loved.
So yeah, im hyped to say the least!!! lol
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The map is full of different ARC beasties and obviously, other Raiders.
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Very nice! Can definitely see myself getting this one, probably still this year or so. Looks to be an awesome experience.
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It is. And this is coming from someone who’s not interested in PvP whatsoever but the game itself and the core of it is so damn good and very appealing to me that I decided to go outside of what im used to playing and give Arc Raiders a chance. Based on the Server Slam that I played, I would say that I made a good decision even though admittedly, I do have to adapt to playing against human players and get better at the game.
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Still new to this extraction shooter PvEvP gameplay style. I’ll probably watch a bunch of gameplay and see what it’s like. I guess it’s good for this game that Bungie delayed theirs (no direct competition).
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Hey Jon, just a heads up for you. There’s a Mohawk hair style in the game but it’s part of the Raider Packs. The Raider Packs can be purchased using Cred which is the blue icon the top right of the screen which you can get after every raid. I think the hair style was on page 4.
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It’s the most intense game I played in years. Sound design is so good, it feels like I’m really there.
Also love the proximity chat, it sounds like you are ingame. You can even use filters so your voice sounds different to others.
Can’t wait to dive in again later today.
I already have it my friend. STILL NO BEARDS THOUGH!
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Sounds damn good. Like the MP that is really needed, because personally BF6 isn’t doing it for me, maybe I’m just a bit done with those shooters and this one is significantly different. And i love third person, and that setting absolutely too.
Oh damn, that was fast. lol
Haha. True. Didn’t even notice that there were no beards in the game.
Played 12+ hours yesterday. Level 12. Have only done the Dam battlefields as im trying to craft all the work benches and whatnot. Haven’t used a single skill point yet. Been doing free loadout runs as I continue to get better at the game.
The game itself is beautiful, audio is superb and if anything, you need to listen more closely than looking/watching visually, combat and gameplay is really good and should be even better once I use better weapons.
I have had some cool moments. First extraction, another Raider was downed by robots after calling the elevator and I ran in there to extract but luckily, he was able to crawl right in. Have had a few raiders be cool and say don’t shoot which I didn’t. One guy in another raid killed me at night from behind the damn bastard. lol
One raid at night saw me and three other raiders go into the extraction elevator at the same time for a nice escape. One raid saw me downed twice and revived twice by another Raider which was cool. Sadly, I didn’t get to thank that person because I had no clue how to do the emotes even though I do now.
All around, this game is so freaking great and I haven’t even gone to any of the other maps even though all of them are unlocked except for Stella Montis. The game is so tense when you’re going slow, looking and listening and then all of a sudden becomes intense when in a shootout. The atmosphere, immersion, etc. just everything is so on point.
Getting ready for another full day run after lunch. 
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Streamed this for 5 hours last night. An incredible time was had. So many cool moments, love this game a fair bit.
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Yeesh this sounds awesome.
Next game me and my bro will pick up will likely be Dying Light The Beast first, but perhaps it’s a good buy for December or so. Hopefully he is just as excited about Arc Raiders as me.
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Yeah the stories this game creates are so cool.
Got caught in a shock trap earlier which another raider sneakily put on top of a zipline I used to get on top of a building. He shot me a couple of times when I was shocked so could not react.
Then when he came over to finish me off, one of those rolling bots that explode came on the scene because of the gunfire noise. The raider managed to kill the bot, but 2 more came by right away, both exploded in his face and now he was also downed, next to me haha.
Didn’t have my headset on unfortunately, would have done a Nelson ‘Ha Ha!’ for sure.
I’m only lvl 5 still, as I can’t play more than 2 runs at a time before I need to settle down a bit.
I love how in squads it feels like a typical extraction shooter full of sweats, but in solo it’s like an awesome sci-fi survival game against cool robots with optional co-op.