ARC Raiders has shortly develop into a top-anticipated title after a number of very constructive playtests, together with final weekend’s Server Slam that had virtually 200,000 gamers on-line on Steam at its peak.
The sport’s devs at Embark Studios got here again with an replace on the Server Slam this afternoon, thanking gamers for his or her participation, but additionally bringing some very helpful info and a proof as to why these pesky flying ARCs had been so annoying.
“It seems their consciousness was a bit too excessive, permitting them to basically see by means of bushes and bushes,” Embark mentioned. “This made their imaginative and prescient unintentionally over-powered, however we’ve adjusted what they will see now, so anticipate a fairer struggle at launch.”
This makes plenty of sense to me. The flying ARCs just like the Wasp, Hornet, Snitch, or highly effective Rocketeer felt a bit over-tuned within the Server Slam, so it’s good to know that their imaginative and prescient could also be taken down a notch within the full sport. Different balancing modifications may also be made, based on the dev.
Embark additionally made observe that participant studies on stability issues helped the workforce discover “much more options main as much as launch day to make sure a clean launch expertise,” together with squashing bugs and serving to to determine sport steadiness with recommended enhancements.
One different space of observe from the dev was the Dam Tower, which the studio noticed “lots of you bravely, and maybe somewhat too simply” entry, and so will probably be fastened and tweaked for launch “to maintain the problem sharp.”
I’ve by no means been the largest fan of extraction shooters, however ARC Raiders feels fairly polished and enjoyable, and I feel that we might even see some massive numbers within the title when it launches on consoles and PC subsequent week on Oct. 30.
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