In ARC Raiders, your play style has a significant impact on which lobbies you join. Many myths have arisen in the community about this. Now the developers are bringing clarity.
Changes to matchmaking in ARC Raiders: With today’s patch, Embark has made two adjustments to the matchmaking:
- Defending yourself is no longer valued the same as starting a fight. Previously, the system did not differentiate between whether you initiated a PvP encounter or merely reacted to an attack.
- Additionally, rounds with less activity will weigh less. Until now, it had repercussions on future matches if you started a round and then immediately quit.
Apart from these changes, Embark addresses the most common myths of the community in the blog post on the official website.
Matchmaking does not have two categories, but a scale
About the myths: Art Director Robert Sammelin explained that a complex system evaluates player behavior to match them accordingly. The extraction shooter assesses how aggressively you play and assigns you to appropriate lobbies.
While the matchmaking is meant to maintain a certain unpredictability, the developers are now clearing up some misconceptions: You will not end up in PvP-focused lobbies immediately after your first shot at another Raider.
Looting other Raiders, your loadout, or activated crossplay have no influence. Patches do not reset matchmaking, and there are not just two lobby types (friendly and aggressive), but rather a scale:
How lobbies are formed in ARC Raiders? In the blog post, the developers explain that the game-based matchmaking in ARC Raiders is based on two fundamental rules:
- Similarity: There is a higher chance of ending up in a lobby with Raiders who have a similar play style to yours.
- Behavior: Your gameplay in the matches influences your future lobbies. If you change your behavior, the type of Raiders you encounter will also change.
However, there is never a guarantee that as a peaceful player, you will only encounter like-minded Raiders. Embark emphasizes that the surface can occasionally throw a wrench in your plans. There is always danger, and you will also come across Raiders who surprise you.
The community of ARC Raiders has longed for the introduction of PvE servers or a matchmaking option completely without PvP. But while players continue to wait in vain for such a mode, the unpopular child of Bungie is even being given two modes for PvE fans.
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