ARC Raiders Is Staying True To The Aesthetics Of The Game

ARC Raiders just launched and has started to capture the extraction shooter fans' hearts alike. More and more players continue to breach the surface of the Rust Belt in search of better loot as the new title peaked at 264,673 players on Steam in the last 48 hours. It's off to a great and successful start and worth noting that ARC Raiders is NOT a Free-To-Play title like originally planned. Starting at $57 dollars (weird starting price I know) and then up to $86 for the deluxe edition, ARC Raiders didn't join other F2P titles with the need of monetization models to generate their cash right away.

So, when are Beavis and Butt-Head going to enter the skin marketplace?

We've seen countless over-the-top characters and skins come to the world's largest games, such as Call of Duty. More recently, fans of Battlefield 6 are concerned as well, with skins pertaining to an unrealistic visual aesthetic that doesn't match the tone of the game.

I'm all for customizing your character; it's one of the things I love to do most in games, making my character "mine." However, when developers begin adding crazy-over-the-top skins and characters that veer off in wild and zany visual aesthetics, it brings a different feel and expectation to players. There aren't many games that can get away with adding in Superman, Master Chef, and Aloy like Fortnite has and have it all coincide with the game.

Which is why it was refreshing and exciting to hear that ARC Raiders design director, Virgil Watkins, believes the team will maintain the current aesthetic of the game.

"What I believe to be true is that we will maintain the current aesthetic that we have," he told PCGamesN. "It will fit within our sensibilities of how these things look and fit within the world and inside the fiction." While Embark wants to give "as much freedom as possible for players to express themselves," it has to be done within the scope of the game.

"I think because so much of our game is strong around that element, it would be really unfortunate to upset that by injecting, I don't know, a T-Rex costume running around suddenly - I don't think the novelty is worth the trade."

It sounds great, doesn't it? So many games always look to cash in with skins that tend to no longer match the feel of the world, for money. I get you need to make money and keep the lights on. However, if the game keeps to the original feel and vibe of the world and its skins, players and myself alike will gladly buy a skin that isn't bright pink with cat ears!

Let us know if you've breached the surface of ARC Raiders and joined the 200 thousand plus players in the Rust Belt.