Arc Raiders studio contacted by crime scientist "intrigued by how players are interacting," dev says only 30% of players focus on PvP: "It kind of blew the whole extraction shooter open"
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By Austin Wood
Published on April 15, 2026.
Arc Raiders developer, Embark Studios, has been contacted by a social scientist, a criminologist, who was impressed with the number of friendly players in the game. This follows a similar conversation with Embark CEO and now Nexon creative boss Patrick Söderlund. The game's executive producer, Aleksander Grøndal, revealed that only 30% of players actively focus on PvP, another 30% on PvE, and the remaining 40% are somewhere in the middle. He also revealed that over 95% of Arc Raiders players use proximity chat to communicate, while around 20% have never knocked out a single raider, while nearly 50% have fewer than 10 KOs. The achievement for knocking out a raider has only been claimed by 51.5% of Steam players.
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