"Let's jump straight into the most consequential change Embark is looking to make for launch: The flying Arc drones are too damn perceptive. While many people, including myself, felt that dealing with our robot overlords above Speranza was appropriately challenging, those damn drones were quick to find and harass enemy players. Embark is changing that. In the post the studio said:"
"It turns out their awareness was a bit too high, allowing them to essentially see through trees and bushes. This made their vision unintentionally over-powered, but we've adjusted what they can see now, so expect a fairer fight at launch. As a multiplayer game, I've no doubt this isn't the end of difficulty tweaks for Arc Raiders. But preserving the tension and difficulty of the game is important."
A recent Server Slam test produced player feedback prompting specific balance changes and map adjustments. Flying Arc drones displayed excessively high awareness, often seeing through vegetation and quickly locating players, so their visual detection has been reduced to create fairer encounters. Access to the Dam Control Tower on the Dam Battlegrounds map will be made more difficult after many players reached it too easily during testing. Additional difficulty and fairness tweaks are anticipated as multiplayer testing continues, with the goal of preserving tension and challenge while addressing exploitative or overly punishing mechanics uncovered by the test data.
Read at Kotaku
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