The developers of ARC Raider know that you are not satisfied with how loadouts are created – and a lead developer is not either.
What does the game lack? Virgil Watkins, design lead of ARC Raiders, spoke in an interview with GamesRadar about the loadouts in the extraction shooter and hinted that he knows that the game lacks custom loadouts.
Currently, there are only three ways to select your loadout in ARC Raiders:
- You use the equipment you still have from the last raid.
- You play with a free loadout with random equipment.
- You assemble your own loadout each time and select the parts from the various menus of your inventory.
A part of the community has been wishing for custom loadouts for a while now, so they can create a loadout with specific equipment and simply select it at the start of the round when they have the necessary parts.
No desire to assemble a loadout
What does the developer admit? During the interview, GamesRadar author Austin Wood mentioned that he sometimes plays with free loadouts because at that moment he doesn’t feel like picking the equipment for a proper loadout himself. Watkins reportedly responded:
“I’ve done that as well and thought: ‘Guys, this time I’ll just take a free loadout, let’s just get started and experience something.’ The problem is absolutely clear to us.”
Watkins then hinted that Embark is working on a way to simplify and speed up the equipment selection:
“I think it’s an absolutely valuable thing where the game is just trying its best to fulfill your loadout request. Along the lines of: ‘Well, you’re missing this and that resource, here’s what you get instead’ – those kinds of things.”
However, Watkins emphasized that he cannot speak for the UI/UX team. This means that you should not expect custom loadouts or anything similar yet. Watkins is expressing what he would like to see, not what the responsible team has decided.
Watkins shows in the interview that the developers understand that the players of ARC Raiders primarily want to experience the shooter gameplay on the various maps and do not want to sort the inventory.
Already in December, the developers of ARC Raiders proved that they have a good understanding of their community when they talked about the possible introduction of PvP leaderboards: ARC Raiders will also not promote PvP in the future and thus does without a well-known system: ‘It’s not about shooting other players’
