Arc Raiders is transforming its crafting system after acknowledging the “one piece of suggestions [that] stored developing” from gamers was the “ache level” of gathering lacking supplies.
“One of many issues we care most about as a growth workforce is ensuring each second you spend in Arc Raiders feels purposeful,” developer Embark Studios wrote in a weblog revealed over the weekend. “Your time issues, and we do not need you spending it clicking via menus when you can be out raiding.
“That is why we hear carefully to what you inform us. And one piece of suggestions stored developing: ‘I am spending an excessive amount of time crafting’.”
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In consequence, the workforce acknowledged that “leaping via a number of screens to [recycle something] was a ache level,” and that “friction was getting in the best way of the enjoyable”.
To fight this, Embark has launched a brand new “Purchase Assets” button to streamline the best way of buying lacking supplies. Whenever you hit it, you will get a listing of each obtainable supply the place you possibly can “get what you want, whether or not that is recycling, shopping for from Celeste, or one thing else”.
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“The key phrase right here is accessible: if a cloth is obtainable via your present choices, you will see it, and you’ll act on it instantly,” the workforce added. “No extra looking via menus. No extra abandoning crafts out of frustration.”
Although the studio is aware of that streamlining crafting runs “deeper than one button”, the workforce stated that is “simply the beginning” and it’ll “preserve chipping away at these ache factors systematically”.
Embark not too long ago confirmed it had re-recorded a few of its AI-generated voice strains, acknowledging “there’s a high quality distinction” between strains recorded by human actors and people generated by AI.
“We use AI as instruments to help in some content material creation, nevertheless it’s at all times within the context of creativity, as an expression of the workforce,” CCO Stefan Strandberg advised Eurogamer again in October.
