ARC Raiders: A Flawed Masterpiece That Still Misses the Mark 🎮

ARC Raiders does almost everything people complain extraction shooters don’t do — and it still won’t convert people who don’t like emergent/RNG runs with real-time consequences. Let’s dig into why.

ARC Raiders landed in a weirdly healthy spot: the embargo wave was positive, people liked the tone — bright hub, hopeful framing, not the usual doom-bunker extraction vibe — and the progression is set up so a bad extract doesn’t feel like throwing a whole evening away. That’s exactly what a lot of reviewers were praising: it manufactures those “that shouldn’t have worked but it did” PvPvE moments without demanding Tarkov-level pain.

And yeah, we talk about the live-service side too, because it’s actually decent. Utility gear on the free track, cosmetics that aren’t gross, and two named drops already on the calendar.

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00:00 - TLDR
02:10 - Core Gameplay Loop
06:36 - Art, Audio, World, Vibes
09:51 - Friction Points
12:03 - PC Performance and Settings
15:33 - Value, Burrito Index, and Verdict
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