Arc Raiders looks great: My pals at PC Gamer think it’s the most exciting thing to happen to the extraction genre in a long time, and the huge numbers the server slam playtest is putting up at this very moment prove that they’re not alone in thinking so. For me, though, there’s just one problem: It’s a third-person shooter, and I don’t like third-person shooters.
That leads me to a second problem: The odds of Arc Raiders ever getting a first-person mode are basically zero.
That little spot of disappointment comes from Arc Raiders design director Virgil Watkins, who told PC Gamer’s Tyler Wilde in a recent interview that the game was built around the third-person perspective, and that shifting to a first-person view doesn’t “give us a benefit of any sort.”
