Alternate PvE Proposal: Temporary Ceasefire map condition (see caption for details and reasoning)

[u/travhimself]

THE IDEA

Create a Temporary Ceasefire major map condition. Put it in the rotation with other major map events. Keep the loot super limited: no items beyond blue (rare) quality. Increase the arc presence. You can do your quests and hunt arc, but you can't gain a big power advantage.

THE REASONING

Why this, instead of an always-available PvE mode? Low-risk raiding should be a reprieve; a small treat. Not the standard.

If you remove most of the risk, you remove most of the reward. The danger is the whole point in a game like this.

Without danger, we lose lose the serendipity. You don't need to make friends or find out who people are and what they're up to. You don't have the little moments like accidentally shooting someone and then trying to make it up to them. Or the dilemma of deciding whether to defib a stranger who could be an adversary.

PvE also removes a lot of hard and soft gaming skills. I don't have to mind my aim in order to stay friendly. I don't have to say "Hey I'm friendly, what's up dude." There's no more flashlight friend-or-foe indicator. The sound of a powerful weapon no longer gets my hackles up. I don't need to listen for footsteps.

Lastly, open PvE could wreck the economy. You shouldn't be able to free-farm materials.

Adaptive matchmaking works. If you've earned your way deep into the friendly ranks, you can play all evening without getting shot at. This should suffice for most dads and uncles. But the risk is always there in the back of your mind.

And for those that need a boost now and then, we have a rotating Temporary Ceasefire map condition.

[u/Macro_Hard_On_Fire]

Then those people shouldn't be buying PvPvE-games: it's part of the DNA of these games.

There are enough other coop games that you can play instead, instead of whining to get this game ruined and catering to your own needs.

[u/Desperate-Grab9869 → u/Macro_Hard_On_Fire]

Ya, and now they added a PVE mode, temporarily at least.

People went to play something else. A player not playing Arc Raiders is a player who will never spend money on Arc Raiders. Embark didn't like that. So they're trying something to bring new players in and old players back.

The game was advertised as PVPVE. It still has PVPVE. Now it also has PVE. Not because redditors complained so hard it molded the game's code, but because Embark decided to. Do you want the players who joined the game now advertising a PVE mode (temporarily) to quit because they don't want to play the mode you originally bought thr game for?

[u/WallProfessional3914 → u/Macro_Hard_On_Fire]

YOU DONT HAVE TO PLAY PVE jeez you people are fucking dense

[u/based_prettyawsm → u/Macro_Hard_On_Fire]

Surely a lil bro must tell me how do I spend my money and how do I play the game. You do realise you can just stfu and play your own pvp. Its wild how many degenerates are out there apparently since the toggle was introduced 🤣