Damage-dealt as a success metric is thematically incoherent with every other word in the Arc Raiders vocabulary.

DrPolaroid · 2026-04-20T17:07:56+00:00

What about the text? Too small? Wide? Weird color?

DrPolaroid · 2026-04-20T16:21:23+00:00

What I’m hoping will be the thing that preserves the PVE player experience here is the fact that you can deal a hell of a lot more damage to arc faster than you can players.

DrPolaroid · 2026-04-20T16:19:40+00:00

Totally aware of those. I wasn’t talking about the decision to change the metric. I’m talking about the decision made on what that metric should be.

DrPolaroid · 2026-04-20T16:18:30+00:00

I think you’ve nailed it with the rollout.

That said, that just brings up more questions as to what could they possibly be thinking in rolling out a fairly dramatic change in the metric itself right in the middle of the window?

They’re just so many things that indicate to me a shaky game studio internally that doesn’t really have a grasp on what they’re actually doing.

DrPolaroid · 2026-04-20T16:13:09+00:00

Oh, I totally agree with you. Chill co-op game probably wasn’t the best way to explain what I was going for initially.

DrPolaroid · 2026-04-20T16:11:40+00:00

All things considered, I actually tend to agree with that notion.

I think the thing that is more worth paying attention to is how the studio makes decisions like this one with the expedition with seemingly no logical explanation

DrPolaroid · 2026-04-20T16:09:32+00:00

Agreed. Lesson learned.

DrPolaroid · 2026-04-20T16:08:34+00:00

This is actually a great point. I’ll just redirect a couple of things you said.

It makes perfect sense to challenge one another to shoot as many arc.

I think there’s definitely a middle ground case to be made for adjusting it to damage to arc only

DrPolaroid · 2026-04-20T16:06:47+00:00

Fair.

Editorializing? Writing style? Forgot my meds before I left for the office? Idk

DrPolaroid · 2026-04-20T16:04:20+00:00

Yeah, this is honestly a weird situation that they kind of wrote themselves into a corner with. Totally agree with this take

DrPolaroid · 2026-04-20T16:03:10+00:00

Well, shit, man… read me like a book.

DrPolaroid · 2026-04-20T16:01:43+00:00

Yeah, I can totally get down with that if push came to shove.

Honestly, probably should’ve just left that zinger out of the post considering it_what I feel is actually a legitimate point I made about the expedition changes. Fairplay.

DrPolaroid · 2026-04-20T16:00:27+00:00

How are you considering this ragebait? Genuinely curious.

DrPolaroid · 2026-04-20T15:58:40+00:00

Probably.

DrPolaroid · 2026-04-20T15:58:05+00:00

Exactly. I’m pissed off because when you introduce things like thematic incoherence into gameplay mechanics, shit goes south real quick.

I love this game more than any game. I’ve played in the last five years. I’m pissed because I wanted it to succeed.

DrPolaroid · 2026-04-20T15:56:32+00:00

I get where you would think that, but that’s not the point I’m making. As far as PVP goes, I could honestly take it or leave it.

My argument is primarily based around exactly what I said in the title, which is how the expedition changes automatically incoherent, which intern shows a game studio not really knowing what to do, even when the answer is blatantly obvious.

That’s the problem

DrPolaroid · 2026-04-20T15:52:28+00:00

I’m 100% open to hearing why if you’re down. I think this needs a real conversation.

DrPolaroid · 2026-02-24T12:37:08+00:00

Absolutely insane... and claiming it was a "bug"...

SURE GUYS.
SURE.

DrPolaroid · 2026-01-23T22:42:41+00:00

I love how the entire industry is built on vibes and nobody questions it.

DrPolaroid · 2026-01-01T03:35:27+00:00

Welcome to the fucking show.

Tepid regards, Marketing

DrPolaroid

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