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Arc Raiders could one day get vehicles, but Embark says no promises: 'We have prototypes from seven years ago'
By Morgan Park published
NEWS Imagine gunning it across Spaceport on a dirt bike.

Arc Raiders once had jump pads and the Snap Hook made you 'like Spider-Man' before its extraction shooter pivot: 'It was much more heroic'
By Rory Norris published
News Jump pads and unrestrained Snap Hooks didn't stick the landing, but I can't say I don't want to see them return.

Arc Raiders' devs didn't expect such a passionate PvE-only crowd
By Rory Norris published
News "It's quite challenging because we have these two, quite polar [types of] fans."

Arc Raiders' old machine designs sound so diabolical, it's no wonder they were reworked or removed after poor playtest feedback: 'At that time, they didn't fit with the game very well'
By Rory Norris published
News "There's still interesting gameplay to have with them," so never say never.

The first thing Arc Raiders' devs did during its extraction pivot was to reduce the speed of everything by 60%: 'All the craft that was in the game was kind of background noise'
By Rory Norris published
News It was a speedrunner's dream, but it didn't work.

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
By Rory Norris published
News "Should we even have done this reset?"

No one at Embark could describe Arc Raiders before its extraction shooter pivot, leading to 'playtest battles' of competing directions for the game
By Rory Norris published
News "A lot of games would have been cancelled at this point."

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'
By Rory Norris published
News There are two new haircuts, too.
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