Simply a few hours in the past, Arc Raiders servers went offline after a weekend of testing. The sport hosted a three-day server slam occasion that included very restricted content material, and was primarily designed to push servers to their limits and check the sport’s infrastructure.
At the very least by way of uncooked participant numbers, the occasion has been successful, attracting extra gamers than the extraction shooter has ever seen with any of its earlier checks.
In fact, all earlier checks had been, to various levels, closed or invite-only, which restricted the quantity of people that may entry them. The server slam, however, was open to everybody throughout all platforms.
Contemplating the anticipation the sport has within the shooter house, particularly from gamers on the lookout for an accessible, polished extraction shooter, it’s no shock that the check was as in style because it was. In response to SteamDB, the server slam attracted 189,668 concurrent gamers at its peak on Friday.
That is effectively past what the Could tech check managed to draw, although with the plain caveat that it was invite-only.
All that curiosity additionally helped push Arc Raiders into Steam’s world prime sellers record, the place the sport presently occupies the quantity three spot, simply behind Counter-Strike 2 and Battlefield 6. It’s additionally price noting that the sport’s normal version is the one charting so extremely, which, contemplating the record is sorted by income, is a giant deal. In essence, attaining such a excessive spot with a $40 price ticket implies that it has bought extra copies than a $60 or $70 recreation in a comparable spot.
This all bodes very effectively for the sport’s launch, which has an opportunity to beat these figures, as we’ve lately seen with Battlefield 6 beating its personal beta information at launch, regardless of one being free and the opposite paid.
Not too lengthy left now. Arc Raiders arrives October 30 on PC, PS5, and Xbox Collection X/S.
