ARC Raiders has kicked off its Server Slam open beta, and the game is being flooded with eager players on Steam. Whether the game can carry this interest and excitement forward to the full release remains to be seen, but thus far, it bodes well for ARC Raiders.
ARC Raiders is the latest game from Embark Studios, and was announced way back in 2021. The game has gone through some shifts since, changing from a co-op third-person shooter to an extraction shooter with teams of 1-3 players, who go up against both the environment and its hazards as well as competing players in a PvPvE experience.
ARC Raiders' Server Slam Open Beta is intended to test the servers' capacity, and the developer seems to be getting exactly what it wanted in that regard. Though the beta launched less than 24 hours prior to publication time, the title has already experienced a peak of over 189,000 players checking out the game, just on Steam. Since that peak, the number has dropped somewhat to 169,000, but it's likely that it could surge past its record during the course of the weekend, when more players have free time to hop...
