Arc Raiders received ‘substantial negative PvP sentiment’ during testing, causing the devs to second-guess its big pivot before realising it was really frustration with weapons and matchmaking
via pcgamer.com
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After Embark Studios’ “playtest battles” and slew of competing plans caused it to pivot Arc Raiders away from its PvE boss-killing roots, it decided to add PvP to spice things up. While the rest isn’t quite history (development was still far from simple), it would be a defining factor in how it became the PvPvE […]