Arc Raiders It takes place in a post-apocalyptic world, where humanity lives underground, in a city that we will know as “Hope.”
Mexico City, November 9 (However).- Barely a week has passed since the launch of Arc Raiders, a title that, since its announcement and reveal in 2021, kept us with high expectations and a lot of curiosity, but it was not until October 2024 that we saw the first gameplay of the game and it was quite promising, converting expectations and curiosity into desire to play, it showed itself as another promise within the genre.
From how incomplete it came out The Division 2 At the time, the smokescreen that was The Day Before or the lack of PVP in Once Human, titles whose ads, videos and gameplay promised too much but did not end up being what they showed, however, Arc Raiders It is different, and much more, not only is it exactly as they showed it, it is better.
History
There is a story, the universe of Arc Raiders takes place in a post-apocalyptic world, where humanity lives underground, in a city that we will know as “Hope”, after the fall of the surface, in an event called the “collapse” that was invaded by machines called ARC, and humanity was divided into two groups: those who managed to escape in ships to space and those who were abandoned on a planet on the brink of death.
The earth began to recover and now the survivors embark on missions on the surface in search of resources, in addition to facing enemy threats from the ARC as well as other Raiders, where only the fittest will survive.
Each game lasts exactly 30 minutes. At first you will have different extraction points to return to “Hope” and as time progresses, these points will be reduced until there is only 1 left and if you fail to escape, your character will automatically die when a missile falls.
Exploration
The map is divided into 4 points, Space Port, Buried City, Dam Battlegrounds and Blue Gate, for now. Each of these places are very different from each other and give us a large territory to explore, each time we go on these missions, we will always appear at a different point and we will always be in a game with 15 or 22 other players, games that we can do alone or as a team, the number of players we find will also depend on this.
At the exploration level the game is incredible, the different types of environments, destroyed, full of threats and a constant uncertainty of survival, you don’t know if going up some stairs you will find a player, if you will have to fight or if everything will be peaceful, for this, the game has proximity chat and you can choose if you establish a conversation with someone you see and if they respond or follow the path of violence.
There are no good guys or bad guys in the game, just players looking to survive and it’s part of the experience. There have been other games in the genre for a long time, but no one does it like Arc Raiders, from the amount of equipment we have to carry, the items we can find and the rewards we can obtain, everything can be a lot or nothing and that transforms the game.
If you die in a game or fail to escape, you will return to “Hope” with nothing, neither the equipment you brought nor the items you collected, and it can be a complicated mechanic to experience, losing everything or returning victorious, but that’s the purpose.
Skills
We have a skills tree, which is divided into three branches; mobility, survival and condition, each of them focused on a basic aspect for the gameplay, where we can improve from how much we run, how much we get tired, if we recover life faster, if we do something else when we crouch, if we can create objects in the game, if we can open certain containers, etc. Each branch has a large number of things to unlock and it will depend on the style of each player how they make their own path.
On the equipment side, there is no specific option, we have weapons and armament tier from 1 to 3 where each option is different, backpacks with more space, focused on combat or tactics, very weak or stronger weapons, as well as tables to improve all our equipment, create ammunition, bandages, equipment and much more, although of course, you can always find players who are very well equipped or not, so each round is different and can be very good or very bad.
Arc Raiders It is a different multiplayer experience, which offers a lot of exploration, a lot of PVE action and a lot of PVP action, it has a great balance between looting and combat, in addition, each game is different, not only because of where you appear but because of the path you decide to take and the actions you choose to take. It is probably the best game of its genre and a great blow of freshness to what shooting games are.