ARC Raiders

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Did anyone get to play it? What did you guys think? I got a voucher to play but only had time to play around 2 hours but that was enough, I'm hooked. Wow so much effort has been put into this game. The sound, the world, the mechanics and just the details in the actual game play. Definitely buying this game on launch.

 
There's an Open Beta weekend:

arcraiders.com

ARC Raiders

ARC Raiders is a multiplayer extraction adventure, set in a lethal future earth, ravaged by a mysterious mechanized threat known as ARC.
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From October 17th-19th, we’re running a three-day Server Slam Open Test. It’s one final opportunity to get your hands on ARC Raiders before launch. Get your Squad together and mark your calendars. The Rust Belt is calling!
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We’ve decided to give you another scuffle on the surface and a chance to hop in and experience the game one more time before launch! Scavenge for loot, take a chance on an encounter with another Raider, and try to thin the ARC numbers a little.

This event will bring you to the Dam Battlegrounds where you’ll experience elements of progression and crafting while completing a set of quests to provide you with a little taste of the ARC Raiders experience, while saving some surprises for the full launch. We’ll be stress-testing the servers during the event to get everything running smoothly before it all kicks off on October 30, so please invite your friends and give those servers a challenge!

No codes this time. Everyone’s welcome. The Server Slam will be live on all platforms (Steam, Epic Games, PS5, Xbox X|S) and access will roll out slowly on day one. Progress made during the Slam will not carry over to the launch version of the game. Participating Raiders will, however, get a Server Slam Exclusive backpack to always signify that they were part of this historic moment, delivered to you after purchasing the full game at launch.

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Seems the game is being bundled with Nvidia 50 Series cards, 5070 and above.

www.nvidia.com

ARC Raiders GeForce RTX 50 Series Bundle Available Now

For a limited time, buy a participating GeForce RTX 50 Series graphics card, desktop PC or laptop and you’ll receive a digital copy of ARC Raiders, enhanced with DLSS 4 Multi Frame Generation, NVIDIA Reflex, and ray tracing.
www.nvidia.com
Starting today, as part of our ARC Raiders GeForce RTX 50 Series Bundle, you’ll receive a Deluxe Edition copy of the game, plus pre-order bonus cosmetics, with the purchase of qualifying GeForce RTX 5090, 5080, 5070 Ti, or 5070 desktops or graphics card, or laptops with a GeForce RTX 5090, 5080, 5070 Ti, or 5070 Laptop GPUs at participating retailers and etailers*.
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Keen on this. Gonna give it a try over the server slam weekend.
Hope I can queue install before leaving for work tomorrow morning

It's been showing up all over youtube
 
Kaapie said:
Keen on this. Gonna give it a try over the server slam weekend.
Hope I can queue install before leaving for work tomorrow morning

It's been showing up all over youtube
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A friend told me, "so the External Test Server for ARC Raiders had a download size of 6.47gb apparently, with an install size of 16.86gb."

"ARC Beta starts 2pm Fri and end 5pm Sun."


No preload it seems.

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From their Discord channel,

"Starting at around 10:30:00 AM, we’ll open up the servers, and you’ll be able to start downloading as soon as your platform of choice opens up."

That time is Sweden time, same time zone as ZA.
 
Gonna give this a go on ps5, a video showed up on my YouTube yesterday and it looks interesting
 
Ps5 was 14gb .... dunno if I like it, seems clunky and slow but it's gorgeous and huge. Also not a fan of having x time instead of just unlimited
 
On Epic, I'm not seeing it on Steam yet but apparently it's being rolled out.

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Edit: it's downloading really slowly on Epic for me, I have only a 30 Mbps line but it's not running at full line speed, it's very erratic. Going to take me twenty hours at the current rate.
 
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RogueTr00per said:
On Epic, I'm not seeing it on Steam yet but apparently it's being rolled out.

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Edit: it's downloading really slowly on Epic for me, I have only a 30 Mbps line but it's not running at full line speed, it's very erratic. Going to take me twenty hours at the current rate.
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Epic games has fastly in the mix for their CDN. It's super trash. Pause the download wait a bit and resume. They use Akamai also so when it lands on Akamai you get full line speed.
 
cavedog said:
Epic games has fastly in the mix for their CDN. It's super trash. Pause the download wait a bit and resume. They use Akamai also so when it lands on Akamai you get full line speed.
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Thanks, it's available on Steam now so I canceled/paused my Epic download and I'm installing via Steam instead.
 
Jesus it's unforgiving as hell! The tiny bit of pve there is is set to like hardcore difficulty and the majority pvp has people in double digit levels that just one shot you and bye bye all your stuff. I'll buy it if it comes out with a pve only mode because it is so damn beautiful but as is pvp only/mainly, nah.
 
I can't find server slam install on XB.

EDIT: Log in to XBL on pc. Search Ark Raiders. Claim the server slam access. Install on XB.


Don't know if its an age thing, but lately seeing many 'content' creators jump in on a game actually turns me off a title.

Prob just super casual issue, ...still :(
 
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Jesus it's unforgiving as hell! The tiny bit of pve there is is set to like hardcore difficulty and the majority pvp has people in double digit levels that just one shot you and bye bye all your stuff. I'll buy it if it comes out with a pve only mode because it is so damn beautiful but as is pvp only/mainly, nah.
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Were you playing solo? I tried solo a bit now and it was pretty rough against the bots and other players.

When we played as a team then the bots are manageable as you can outgun them usually.

But when it came to pvp then other teams seemed much more organized and equipped and they would take us out. Or if we were playing as a duo then other teams would be trios it seemed.
 
Bit of both solo and squad. Concur with your experience actually, pvp aspect was wildly unbalanced. With every encounter they just seemed to be OP .... one shot highly geared which should not have been possible, just ruined it.
 
played a bit.

Wow. Game is fantastic. The audio is next level. Hype justified.
 
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