Arc Raiders players have been trying to figure out how matchmaking works. There was a theory that your aggression may play a role in who you end up sharing a lobby with, and just as one developer from Embark Studios confirmed that to be the case, another has stepped up and said well, actually, that's not entirely accurate.
Embark boss Patrick Söderlund confirmed earlier this month that yes, if you shoot first in Arc Raiders, you are more likely to be matched up with others who do the same. So, aggression-based matchmaking confirmed, right? No. Well, yes. Kind of, basically, as the extraction shooter's design lead, Virgil Watkins has stepped in to clear the air while muddying the waters at the same time.
Speaking with GamesRadar+, Watkins said calling what Arc Raiders does "aggression-based matchmaking" is a misnomer, noting that, while there's some truth to it, there's a lot more to it than that. "It's a bit of a misnomer calling it aggression-based, and it is something we're going to keep tuning, but people aren't far off in how they think it works," Watkins explained.
Watkins isn't lying, but also, he and Embark are trying to avoid...
