Overview
- Embark concluded a limited, week‑long PvE matchmaking toggle for ARC Raiders and is now performing a deep dive into the collected data before making a decision.
- The test generated over 30 million PvE rounds and coincided with a SteamDB spike in concurrent users, giving Embark strong quantitative signals to review.
- Developers reported the community was sharply divided about a PvE‑only mode, with some players wanting a calmer way to explore and others warning it could weaken the extraction‑shooter tension.
- If PvE returns permanently, Embark must decide whether to make it a chill side mode, a harder AI challenge, or a full PvE track and how to balance rewards so it does not undercut PvPvE play.
- Embark expects to report back in November and is weighing the operational cost of supporting two modes alongside the game's live‑service content pipeline and core design goals.