Overview

• The open stress test peaked at 189,668 concurrent Steam players and pushed the game into Steam’s top-played charts and top sellers, per SteamDB reporting.
• The weekend test offered one Dam Battleground map with limited progression, crafting, and quests to validate server capacity before release.
• Players are divided over AI lethality, with many urging the studio not to nerf Arc robots and others calling for reduced damage and health.
• Embark’s community lead acknowledged perceived visual downgrades during the test as an optimization choice for lower-spec hardware and said the team will review feedback.
• Design director Virgil Watkins said Marathon’s contemporaneous tests served as a useful A/B comparison, as Arc Raiders heads to PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S as a premium title.