I\u2019ve played 500 hours of Arc Raiders and I\u2019ve seen lobbies where everyone is a serial killer and lobbies where everyone\u2019s Santa Clause. It\u2019s the not knowing that makes each encounter intense, but Embark\u2019s new PvE mode removes that uncertainty. Or does it? <\/p>\n
Arc Raiders PvE lobbies are already stacked with griefers, using the relative safety of the mode, where your bullets don\u2019t affect other raiders, to put other players in dangerous spots via other means, whether that be manipulating the AI, using tools, or simply getting in the way.<\/p>\n
There are already videos circulating online of players using the Bull Rush ability to bash into people who are trying to extract. This way, they die to arc enemies and can be looted without consequence, bringing a whole new level of rat behaviour to one of the rattiest games ever released. <\/p>\n
\nThread on pve mode in @ARCRaidersGame
This is what pvp guys warned you about. https:\/\/t.co\/1doayUnDZQ<\/p>\n\u2014 WhaleCalls (@whalecalls) October 13, 2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Outside of that, people camp the locked loot rooms and wait for another player to turn up with a key. The player with the key either opens it and shares the spoils, or they have to leave and head into another match and hope for better randoms. In PvP, you’d try to kill anyone contesting the loot. In PvE, it’s a race to see who can grab it first.<\/p>\n
There are also players using lure grenades to pull enemy robots into extraction points \u2014 this is particularly devastating when it\u2019s a goddamn shredder. And there\u2019s no way to be punished for playing like this. <\/p>\n
\u201cLegit first game on and people were being just like this, vultures, and taking all loot from Arc before you could even get anything from it,\u201d said one X \/ Twitter user. \u201cTop that off they were throwing lure grenades at me and my wife the whole time while trying to fight Arc. She went down due to it, I go for the rez then get body blocked and pushed around like I\u2019m in grade school again.\u201d<\/p>\n
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