One of ARC Raiders' standout qualities is its sense of immersion, which it builds through a variety of elements including its visuals, atmosphere, and audio design. Throughout its development, however, Embark Studios ensured it wouldn't only be passively immersive but that players would also experience active immersion through its gameplay. One of the primary ways it achieved this was by building into ARC Raiders a physics-based system of visual feedback that would eliminate the need for a traditional UI and therefore more fully immerse players in the world.
ARC Raiders is a PvPvE experience, which means that as players explore its world, enemy (and potentially friendly) players are not the only opposition they encounter. More frequently, in fact, players will encounter various types of ARCs — machines that will stop at nothing to eliminate any humans they find traversing the surface. It is in these encounters that players can experience one of the more immersive aspects of ARC Raiders' gameplay, where clear, visual, physics-driven feedback tells them everything they need to know about where they stand in a battle.
The latest episode of The Evolution of ARC Raiders, a docuseries detailing every milestone of the game's development, just dropped...
