I have to admit I didn’t notice that the voice lines were IA :s
Which is a bit ironic given the story of the game is that AI has taken over the (surface) world.
I guess I need to prepare shooting wasp in the rotor sooner than later
Give me PvE exclusive mode and I’ll bite
I’m too old for sweaty PvP shit
I took someone else’s recommendation here and picked it up last week. As an old, solo player I’ve been killed by players twice out of 30ish games.
Most all the solo players I’ve met are friendly and offering help on voice chat.
I usually avoid PvP games and I didn’t like ARC Raiders at first, but it has grown on me.
Unless you use the starter kit, you’ll always have at least one safe pocket slot, allowing you to bring back at least one item (or a stack) even if you get knocked out. Moreover, so often my stash is full even after multiple expansions, so the game encourages using those resources to craft weapons, which again makes it less of a problem if you get knocked out.
Later quests are not easily completed, but you can focus on completing the daily tasks for battle pass progression. There will be simple tasks like having to open containers or doing damage to the ARC robots, so you can just go out with the stater kit and do those, not worrying about losing your loot. With that mentality, at least sometimes (though often in my case playing solo), you’ll extract and get a lot of loot on top of your XP and tasks progression.
It ain’t Tarkov. You should try it.
frankly i didnt even think the voices could be ai voiced, which is a bit worrying if they are.
Even more worrying that it’s not disclosed in Steam’s AI usage section on their store page:
AI Generated Content Disclosure
The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this:
During the development process, we may use procedural- and AI-based tools to assist with content creation. In all such cases, the final product reflects the creativity and expression of our own development team.
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How aggressive is the in-game monetization?
None to speak of. You can earn the in game currency all in game, and they only thing you would use the “paid for currency” is for cosmetics, but again, you gain plenty of free cosmetics and even earn the currency required to buy the other ones.
I will say getting the currency is more difficult than say getting helldivers super credits, but it’s still a fair rate and the game just came out. I expect more “packs” or ways to make the currency.
Is there even a way to get the currency? The battle pass doesn’t count, that probably gives enough currency to buy the next battle pass when it releases.
There are no battle passes. You get “Decks” which are free and give you a few pages of cosmetics, or more currency to spend on other cosmetics in the “Store”. Idk it’s hard to explain but there’s no reason at all to spend anything besides the base game. Definitely not the deluxe version if you don’t care about cosmetics
From the discord
The Raider Deck is like a battlepass, where you can spend Cred in order to unlock cosmetic rewards. There are a number of rewards to unlock per page in order to progress to the next page. The number of pages in each Raider Deck may vary. At launch, the Raider Decks will be free, but you can expect a mix of paid and free Raider Decks as new ones are added.
Raider decks are battle passes. The industry standard is that the one that comes with the game (or a paid expansion) is free while all others require money.
And there’s no reason to spend money if you don’t care about cosmetics, but most people do care and the cosmetics are way overpriced.
Cred is earned in game, not paid for.
I misunderstood the other guy. Cred is earned in game, but cred can only be used to unlock stuff in the battlepass. When it comes to the actual in game store you can only use raider tokens and raider tokens (with the exception of the ones in the battle pass) have to be purchased as they can’t be earned in game.
They also make the game “The finals” which also uses AI voices. If I recall correctly, they paid some people to offer their voices to be used for AI generated voice lines.
I wish they didn’t though because the rest of the game is really good. It’s like they took the look of mirrors edge and combined it with battlefield gameplay in a smaller map design and no vehicles.
