A player simply wanted to save his loot and extract peacefully in ARC Raiders. But the game had other plans for him.
What happened to the player? A player named “elaniu5” reports on Reddit about a match he experienced in ARC Raiders, briefly becoming the talk of the community.
“elaniu5” shares that his game crashed when he joined a match. When he restarted the shooter, it asked whether he wanted to rejoin the abandoned raid – which “elaniu5” naturally did, in order not to lose his gear.
Yet his belongings were far from saved, as the drama was just beginning, as a clip from the player on Reddit shows.
Full Sprint through Robot Hell
Here’s how bad the player’s raid went: When “elaniu5” arrived in the abandoned round at “Buried City”, he realized he had no time to loot or level up: He spawned with 1:10 minutes remaining and had little time before the last extraction point closed.
He took a quick look at the map to know where to go, and then “elaniu5” hit the ground running. He sprinted as fast as he could towards the last open exit, an underground platform nearly 180 meters away. Only 61 seconds left until shutdown.
The platform was swarming with ARCs. A multitude of fire-breathing fireballs and explosive pops awaited incoming raiders.
“elaniu5” saw the robot hell ahead of him, but he had only a few seconds left on the clock and no time to take out the sneaky enemies. He sprinted past the ARCs, but a pop exploded next to him. The blast destroyed his shield and halved the raider’s health bar at the same moment – but he survived.
With one second remaining, “elaniu5” called the metro to take him back to Speranza, but shortly after, another explosion sent him to the ground. The destroyed fireballs additionally caused a deadly sea of flames to engulf “elaniu5”. But luckily, the flames did not reach him.
Seconds later, the train arrived. Bleeding out, “elaniu5” crawled into the train and heaved himself to the console to successfully return to the raider hideout.
Here you can watch the clip on Reddit:
The Community Jokes, Embark Pursued a Vendetta
This is how the community reacted: Within a day, the Reddit post from “elaniu5” garnered almost 6,000 upvotes and was commented on over 240 times. The community expresses fascination with the bad luck the player had during his raid and jokes: He must have upset the developers.
One user writes: “The game REALLY didn’t want you to make it out alive, lol.” Another user asks: “Damn, what did you do to piss off the developers?”
However, one player notes that one thing was missing from the situation: a hostile raider camping at the exit, knocking out “elaniu5” just as the train is arriving.
ARC Raiders thrives on special experiences shared by the community on social networks. Time and again, clips like the one from “elaniu5” surface, which hundreds of players then discuss.
In January, for example, a raider was the big topic of discussion in the community after he destroyed a rocket artilleryman with a mine while demonstrating extraordinarily skillful use of the grappling hook. The community then dubbed him the “ARC Knight”. You can read the whole story here: Someone experienced a real action movie in ARC Raiders, and fans wonder if they are playing the same game
