After its delay last year, Embark Studio’s third-person shooter, Arc Raiders, has changed direction enough to necessitate a genre change.
Prior to the delay, Arc Raiders was billed as a PvE shooter, where players could team up to survive deadly enemies in a distinct future-vision of the world. When Embark Studio made the decision to focus on The Finals, its other first-person team-based shooter that is launching soon, it decided to delay Arc Raiders while also figuring out how to fold in PvP elements.
In the latest update for the game, executive producer Aleksander Grøndal reveals that in that pursuit Embark Studios ended up changing a big part of Arc Raiders’ structure. The game is now more of a PvPvE extraction shooter, where players will compete against the numerous machines that inhabit the world while also challenging other player teams aiming to extract vital loot from the battlefield.