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Arc Raiders has only been out a day, but it has already surpassed a Steam concurrent peak player count of 264,673, making it one of the biggest extraction shooters ever on Valve's platform.

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[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 77 points 4 days ago (5 children)

Uses Kernel Level Anti-Cheat

Aaaand I'm out. Soooo many shitty new games.

[–] Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 98 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (4 children)

Kernel Level Anti-Cheat For Windows Only. Embark specifically publishes a build for Proton Users validated by Codeweavers. We don't have to worry about it :)

This is the same story for The Finals by the way.

[–] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 25 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] Laser@feddit.org 10 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Not as common as one would like

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[–] CosmoNova@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago

Yep. Honestly if someone still uses Windows but complains about kernel level anti-cheat they’re hypocrites and only have themselves to blame. If you want sovereignty as a PC user you have to put in the minimum effort and not just sit on your ass and wait until big corp is spoon feeding it to you. That day won‘t come.

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 5 points 4 days ago (2 children)
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[–] scutiger@lemmy.world 27 points 4 days ago (2 children)

ProtonDB reports say that it runs great under Linux, including multiplayer, so I'm not sure if kernel level anti-cheat can really be in use. Maybe it's just under Windows?

I'm gonna give it a shot, and if it doesn't work I'll refund I guess.

[–] wizblizz@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I'm on an Arch distro, worked just fine for me on the free weekend.

[–] Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 4 days ago

I ran it on my steamdeck! :)

[–] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I played in during the free weekend earlier in October, only fiddling I had to do was change to Proton Experimental, after that it ran perfect.

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[–] warm@kbin.earth 26 points 4 days ago (35 children)

Out of what? Like 5 extraction shooters? I don't get the popularity, it's pretty damn bland and shoves MTX in your face like crazy, but I have been pretty out of touch with the mainstream market for a while now.

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[–] fuzzywombat@lemmy.world 22 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

IGN put out a first preview video of Arc Raiders couple months ago and it was borderline hit piece. The quality of the video was unbelievably bad. They made the game look muddy, dated, and choppy. This wasn't IGN trying to showcase the game on some realistic typical gaming hardware. In reality the game is well optimized and visually really good on moderate level hardware. I hear the game looks fantastic on consoles. Maybe they'll do a full review now that the game is finally released but I question the journalistic integrity of IGN.

[–] Goodeye8@piefed.social 16 points 3 days ago

Maybe someone else on the IGN payroll will do a proper review because a big reason the review was ass is because the reviewer was also ass. He was literally pressing the "ESC" button at the bottom left with a mouse. IMO the biggest crime of this IGN review is that the reviewer still works at IGN.

[–] Katana314@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago

IGN: “Traditional gamer journalism is dying. Please support honest journalists.”
Also IGN: “Good work, 47. Now publish the article and locate an exit.”

[–] DrCake@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago (4 children)

They’ve done this with a few other games. I remember the EU5 review being really choppy and it turned out they were running it on like 6-7 year old hardware. It might just be a cost cutting measure to not buy the latest stuff for all their reviewers but I basically ignore most of what they say now.

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[–] Alcyonaria@piefed.world 20 points 3 days ago

Not a hard bar for the extraction games published on steam tbh. Glad the genre has a game thats decent after so many years

[–] Bosht@lemmy.world 18 points 3 days ago (9 children)

'One of the biggest' You mean 'one of the only'? Extraction shooters aren't common that I'm aware of unless I'm out of the loop. The only big one before this I was aware of was Tarkov.

[–] Whitebrow@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago

And tarkov isn’t even on steam… yet?

[–] Jax@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (5 children)

Hunt Showdown, The Cycle, Helldivers

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[–] gusgalarnyk@lemmy.world 16 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Arc Raiders is a fuckin blast. Having just as much fun with my group on this as we did in like helldivers and hunt showdown, but Arc Raiders has real depth that I think will keep us coming back. This game feels special and I hope it's can go the distance for my group and I because it's one of the best group games we've played in a while.

Solo is fun too, it's just a completely different game. It's more tense, more stealthy, and you're 100x more likely to find friendly players which is really cool.

[–] Overspark@piefed.social 13 points 4 days ago (3 children)

It's hilarious how different people respond to playing it solo. Some people say it's the tensest thing ever but I've also seen a video from an elderly cozy gamer who thought it was the most relaxing thing she'd seen in a while. I'm more in the latter camp, been playing solo since launch and it's been pretty chill.

[–] Goodeye8@piefed.social 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I think it's the difference between having gear fear and not having gear fear. As someone who comes from Tarkov ARC raiders solo is kind of a walk in the park because gearing up is much easier. Meeting other players is about 50/50, either they start shooting without asking questions or they're cool after you say "don't shoot". I hope this vibe doesn't die off when the player count drops. Yesterday I had a raid where I met another raider, we agreed to not shoot each other and then impromptu teamed up and took down another team of raiders. We then found a third raider and the three of us extracted together. It's pretty rare to team in up Tarkov because most people shoot first and ask questions later.

But I can see how it's absolutely stressful for some people because gear fear makes you think the stakes are much higher than they really are.

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[–] CosmoNova@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I think both sides make sense here. If you shoot at everything that moves and refuse to cooperate it can be a hell of a ride. But if you focus on looting and are willing to socialize it can be almost a cozy experience. It reminds me of Team Fortress 2 where players would sometimes just make up their own rules mid game and turn everything on it‘s head.

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[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 12 points 3 days ago (7 children)

whats an extraction shooter?

[–] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 18 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Take on missions, collect loot, leave the area. If you die, you lose everything on you. At least as far as I know, I don't play any but have seen some escape from tarkov videos.

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[–] CaptainBlinky@lemmy.myserv.one 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I just picked it up to play with a couple buds, and it's GOOD. $39.99 good? No, just good. The vibe is great, the gunplay feels good, the extraction is forgiving. Definitely worth the price in my opinion.

[–] CosmoNova@lemmy.world 17 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Wait, you say it‘s not $39.99 good but still worth the price? That‘s as much of a direct contradiction as possible.

Fair, but what I'm saying is that it's not only worth the price but I'd pay more having played it. 60 bucks? Probably not because I know I'm not that into extraction shooters, but it doesn't feel like a discount game. Also, I was in my cups when I typed that.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 10 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Come on everybody, we need to make a...

~~Platform game~~

~~Doom clone~~

~~Command and Conquer clone~~

~~MMO~~

~~Open world game~~

~~MOBA~~

~~PUBG clone~~

Extraction Shooter

Coming soon: Fortnite Extractimum. Eleventy billion players in two days.

[–] athairmor@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, what we really need is more:

Rogue-like deck builders

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[–] RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 8 points 3 days ago

You can play the flute on top of downed people. Goty honestly.

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