Does Arc Raiders need a PVE ONLY Mode?

[chaoszan]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBI0sfX6UrM

I had a discussion on the playtest for this, but since that is gone now what do you guys think. Does Arc Raiders need a pve only mode?

[Kashra Fall]

Doesn't need it, but would benefit from it as options are always a good thing. People who love PVP could do the PvP, people who don't, could buy it for other purposes etc. It harms nothing to have two options, despite people going "But the population!" If the players who play PvE were already not going to play PvP, then I fail to see how it harms anything lol.

Look at EXO-Primal, sold as a co-op PvE experience with mild PVP, has forced PvP at every match end. Why did it die? Forced PVP and monetization that made no sense. They added the PVE only mode too late after players had already moved on.

[Rex Smashington]

Nope. It will only segment the population. The entire point of PvPvE is risk/reward. If you have a PVE mode with 0 risk except AI most people will just farm in the safety of PVE and only join PVP when they have best in slot everything. Ruins the whole experience. PvPvE is supposed to be random gear sets fighting each other. That's the whole point. You can go in with a starter kit and bag a full purple kit off of someone.

The game is what it is, a PvPvE extraction shooter. If you don't like it, you don't like it. Just play a different game that you like. Everything isn't for everyone.

[Samino2]

Originally posted by Rex Smashington:

Nope. It will only segment the population. The entire point of PvPvE is risk/reward. If you have a PVE mode with 0 risk except AI most people will just farm in the safety of PVE and only join PVP when they have best in slot everything. Ruins the whole experience. PvPvE is supposed to be random gear sets fighting each other. That's the whole point. You can go in with a starter kit and bag a full purple kit off of someone.

The game is what it is, a PvPvE extraction shooter. If you don't like it, you don't like it. Just play a different game that you like. Everything isn't for everyone.

I mean, that could help mitigate the no life vs casual players since there is to ranking/player balance, Grey zone warfare is doing it and there is no problem with it, the PVE need to have more difficult AI of course. But the game don't need it, it would benefit from one.

[Grimmsch]

It is up to the devs if it is profitable and aligns with their vision.
When the game was PvE only the devs found it lacking, started
prototyping and eventually had the most fun with the PvPvE version we see now.
Fun is the best compass imho.

I also see the issue of splitting the playerbase.
If they implement it I want gear you earn in pure PvE to be unusable in PvPvE.

[Misery_Head]

I think it would help bring people in and help keep the game going over the long run. The pvp is brutal and needs some tuning. The zero skill god weapons takes the fun right out of the game. May as well be cheating. The game is still fun tho.

[Arics]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO it doesnt

[Arics]

Originally posted by Rex Smashington:

Nope. It will only segment the population. The entire point of PvPvE is risk/reward. If you have a PVE mode with 0 risk except AI most people will just farm in the safety of PVE and only join PVP when they have best in slot everything. Ruins the whole experience. PvPvE is supposed to be random gear sets fighting each other. That's the whole point. You can go in with a starter kit and bag a full purple kit off of someone.

The game is what it is, a PvPvE extraction shooter. If you don't like it, you don't like it. Just play a different game that you like. Everything isn't for everyone.

well said.

[Arics]

Originally posted by Samino2:

Originally posted by Rex Smashington:

Nope. It will only segment the population. The entire point of PvPvE is risk/reward. If you have a PVE mode with 0 risk except AI most people will just farm in the safety of PVE and only join PVP when they have best in slot everything. Ruins the whole experience. PvPvE is supposed to be random gear sets fighting each other. That's the whole point. You can go in with a starter kit and bag a full purple kit off of someone.

The game is what it is, a PvPvE extraction shooter. If you don't like it, you don't like it. Just play a different game that you like. Everything isn't for everyone.

I mean, that could help mitigate the no life vs casual players since there is to ranking/player balance, Grey zone warfare is doing it and there is no problem with it, the PVE need to have more difficult AI of course. But the game don't need it, it would benefit from one.

greyzone sucks, and is a failure check the player number

[Rvvens]

I have been watching some streams and I think that it is too late to create a PvE mode. However I do think that integrating PvE into the extraction loop would benefit the player base immensely.

The idea would be to dissiminate pieces of lore and "secret quests" in the maps so if you are lucky enough to find one you can learn something new about the world and unlock different "extract missions".

Right now I think this would be the way whereas creating a PvE mode would probably hinder the community as a whole. Nevertheless this impressions I got come from a play test with a little number of active players and that's why I think it may be too soon to jump into conclusions.

[scatter_volume]

I think the game the the dev company income would benefit a lot from PvE coop mode.

[BadKarma]

This game will attract lots of ppl, hence lots of cheaters. If there is no solid anti cheat mechanic the game will die.
I personally don´t like the changes the game made since its announcement, but we will see. I would applaud the integration of a pve mode.

[GEORGEOUS[CZ]]

yes, it does need PVE only mode and another one than extraction

[Kashra Fall]

Originally posted by Arics:

Originally posted by Samino2:

I mean, that could help mitigate the no life vs casual players since there is to ranking/player balance, Grey zone warfare is doing it and there is no problem with it, the PVE need to have more difficult AI of course. But the game don't need it, it would benefit from one.

greyzone sucks, and is a failure check the player number

Greyzone is an early access game that is brutal on most people's systems, was sold not even 30% complete, is in early access until late 2028 and is getting updated every 6 months. So yeah, the player numbers will be rough because people buy things expecting them to be finished off the get go.

[chaoszan]

Originally posted by scatter_volume:

I think the game the the dev company income would benefit a lot from PvE coop mode.

Yea alot of people want it so it would make sense.

[S3MP3RFI]

definitely yes