Arc Raiders Ends 'Server Slam' Playtest With Big Steam Concurrents, Suggesting Strong Launch Ahead

Arc Raiders has ended its 'Server Slam' playtest with a large highest concurrent subordinate fig connected Steam, suggesting a beardown motorboat is ahead.

The unfastened Server Slam ran implicit the play connected PC via Steam and Epic Games Store, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X and S. It offered the last accidental to play Embark Studios' extraction shooter up of its October 30 merchandise date.

On Steam, Arc Raiders deed a highest concurrent subordinate number of 189,668, making it 1 of the most-played games connected Valve’s level implicit the weekend. That's capable to marque Arc Raiders the biggest extraction shooter ever connected Steam. Escape from Tarkov mightiness person thing to accidental astir that erstwhile it yet launches connected Steam successful November, however.

Arc Raiders' existent highest concurrent subordinate fig crossed each platforms volition beryllium higher than the Steam figure, but neither Epic, Sony, nor Microsoft marque their numbers public.

Still, 190,000 connected Steam for an unfastened beta is precise strong. Not Battlefield 6 beardown — its unfastened beta peaked with much than fractional a cardinal players successful August — but surely beardown capable to suggest Arc Raiders has a decent accidental of making an content connected the gaming scenery astatine the extremity of the month.

The Server Slam fto players trial the Dam Battlegrounds representation for a hands-on acquisition with elements of the game’s progression, crafting, and quest systems. It was designed to assistance Embark "challenge and fortify the game’s servers earlier launch," which hopefully means everything volition enactment arsenic it should connected merchandise day. All participants earned an exclusive 'Server Slammer' backpack cosmetic reward, unlocked erstwhile the afloat crippled launches. Progress from the Server Slam does not transportation over, however.

Embark Studios' erstwhile game, free-to-download competitory shooter The Finals, is inactive going, though its concurrent subordinate numbers connected Steam are a acold outcry from those during its explosive motorboat backmost successful December 2023.

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