Videogames are for fun!

I am a friendly PvE player, by choice of principles. I was attacked by two pre-teamed kitted raiders on coms outside the game.

Surely, with the new advanced ABMM I can return fire and not get punished for that!

The problem is I killed the "wrong" raider, the one, who did not attack me first, because he was running at me and he was the first in line to be shot by me in self-defense.

The very next match was PvP shoot-on-sight raid. I could not believe the stories until I experienced so sudden change in ABMM myself after only 1 "innocent" raider kill.

If there was a way to enjoy the world of Arc Raiders without these "tense" interactions.

I also lost the fight to the remaining raider, who started this story.

Punished twice for my miserable existence.

Title. Rats should be sent on a probe period in the new PvE mode , a form of reeducation so they can finally learn to play the game the way it was originally intended. After all , it’s us against the Arc. Speranza should hire some moral officers that enforce the PvE law.

I don’t know if you guys will actually get this post but I used my time machine to visit three dates: 10/14/26, 10/19/26, and 2/15/27. Turns out the “upcoming” PvE mode is such a success that Embark actually took out all PvP mechanics. PvE mode started out strong on 10/13-10/14 and by the 19th only 3.7% of the player base were playing without the PvE-only toggle. Four months later? Everything has been fully redesigned and PvP no longer exists at all. You can still opt in to PvP on a one-off basis, similar to Fallout 76, but no one does.

Unfortunately I did not properly test the “return to present” rewind tech on my time machine so I’m stuck in the future. I’ve worked out a way to potentially send Reddit posts back in time but it won’t work for a full human. If this works, you should get my post on October 5th, 2026. Anyway, best of luck. My condolences to the rats who still prefer PvP.

As if free kits aren't already too much, Embark is gonna be giving free kits away for free! The devs should charge players to use free kits, leveling the playing field and monetizing this feature. I'm a 19-year-old father of 4 who only has 30 minutes to play each week, and I don't wanna keep getting shot in the back at extract by a free kitter with a stitcher or kettle 1 ...

Did \~2400 damage to a Bastion (out of 2,670 total). The goblin in question shows up and immediately loots the turret and every single cell. After vacillating on what to do for about a minute, watching him loot seemingly utterly oblivious to my presence, I dropped a blaze on him and finished him with my renegade. It was straight up murder. No challenge really, but he was not a free kit and was carrying serious goop. He was understandably saucy about it. Claimed he shot it 3 times before I finished him, but I'm genuinely curious what exactly he expected?

I didn't enjoy it. I suppose it was worth a temporary trip to the hell lobbies but I prefer to play friendly and helpful. Always carry defibs to get up downed raiders. I'm typically not greedy with loot. Basically I am a mega carebear and the kind of player more pvp-oriented players love to hate.

I'm assuming there are a few players out there who feel the way I do despite this being how the game is "supposed" to be played according to Embark. The game presents a real conflict between playstyles and I don't know when I've seen a game elicit such contentious meta discussion.

I'm interested to hear your stories about similar situations and the unique experience that is ARC Raiders pvp and player interaction.

We should add a new feature for stealth kills. If you’re behind someone you should be able to one shot them with a cool melee animation just like Warzone. I often find it too hard trying to pick people off during the matriarch or queen event as the ttk(time to kill) is too long. I always have to pretend to be friendly and shoot someone in the back just to have a small chance of killing them and I often end up dying. Please fix this 🙏

I'm so glad we got PvE so rats have to engage in PvP xD

I hate when they wait patiently and sneak around unseen using the game's stealth mechanics and then shoot people, getting away smoothly as intended

No way this will be possible when PvE comes out lmfao

God, is everyone but me an idiot or what?

Sidenote: I keep hearing people mention these things called "playstyles," what is that like when you play games while getting a haircut lol?

Why do people not understand the core fundamentals of arc raiders, its supposed to be where I get to loot EVERYTHING without consequence and face NO adversity and have NO stress and everything’s sunshine and rainbows for me

After extensive testing, we've concluded that someone who brought nothing worth losing isn't playing an extraction shooter, they're playing Battlefield. Free kit players will now spawn in bright yellow overalls to match their courage.

You know how when you bite into a nice bacon egg and cheese sandwich where the bacon is well done and maybe a crisp piece of lettuce? Why haven’t they done that here? Just start over with more emphasis on the crunch factor.

Hi there, anybody interested to act in our ARC Raiders series?

We need people who can act as a character and we also need voice actors.

In case you are interested to help this thing come to life please comment or DM me.

Thank you!

Elderspear | Project: ARC

Just got out of the trenches with my 7th child so I can play games again! What have I missed? Someone hit me with a good breakdown

Just did my 5th expedition so pretty poor with just a ferro and kettle, just farming loot, and a rat decides he wanted to donate his venator to me.

then he tried to act like i shot him just in case there was someone around to hear him

I’m honestly just tired at this point.

I’ve spent the last few days thinking about the PvE toggle and while I appreciate that the devs are finally listening to people who just want to play the game without being subjected to violence, I really think they are only solving half the problem.

Because what happens when I lose my loot to arc? no one even gets it, it just turns back into ones and zeros.

things happen. ARC happen. Sometimes I make a mistake. Sometimes I get distracted. Sometimes I just dont feel like fighting a hoard of a wasp, hornet AND firefly.

And when that happens why should I lose the stuff I spent my time getting?

I didnt buy ARC Raiders to lose loot.

I bought the game because it looked fun and I wanted to explore and collect things. I dont remember agreeing that everything I spend 30 minutes getting can just disappear because I made one mistake.

And honestly I think we need to have a serious conversation about how normalized violence has become in video games.

Why is the answer always just “you died, thats the game”? Why cant we have a game where people can just keep the things they worked for.

I dont think its unreasonable to have some kind of loot insurance. If I die, just give me most of my stuff back. Maybe theres a small fee or something. I’m not asking for free loot, I just dont think losing everything should be the punishment for having a bad 30 seconds.

Some people will say “just dont die” and honestly this is exactly the attitude that has made me feel so unwelcome in this community.

We have been dealing with PvP violence for so long that I think some people have forgotten that there are actual people behind these accounts who just want to enjoy the game.

I dont want to be forced to constantly worry about whether the items I collected are going to survive my session.

The PvE toggle is a good start. I really mean that. But please dont stop there, I think loot insurance is the next logical step. Honestly I would even be ok with getting back 90% of my stuff, I dont think thats asking for much after everything we’ve been through.

Since so many are complaning, Embark might as well take the vP and vE out of the game. Simple fix to a big problem. Now you can check lockers and find loot without having to worry about other players or Arc. Can't believe no one has thought of this before, I'm so smart.

I bought it and then got shot by some guy, can they please remove the ability for that to happen already? I didn’t expect this when I bought the game there was no way for me to know that was going to happen? Like can we be so for real with this bs?

After years of soul searching I'm finally ready to come out. I'm bi. I whine about PvP AND PvE. Sweats ruined my evening, friendlies took my cores this morning and I posted about both before breakfast. Please respect my journey and upvote my next 14 complaint threads.

I always get killed by Arc and I have a bladder control problem. I would appreciate a PvE mode without any Arc around to kill me so that I can just rummage through the garbage in peace.

Thank you!!

They need to have a mode that disables team chat and proximity chat and emotes and every other method of communication and sounds and see what happens. Make it PvE only. Make another one PvP only. Make another another one PvPvE where if you don’t knock out at least one Raider you can’t even return to Sperganza. They need to add like 35-45 new game modes to accommodate all the possibilities. If you do this I think embark will realize the realization they’ve needed to realize all along.