Sorry our servers fell over, say Arc Raiders devs, here's some free virtual cash and a rucksack

The servers of shooter Arc Raiders had a spot of a "wobble" connected Sunday, arsenic galore would-be raiders of the arc queued up to get in. Developers Embark person present decided to connection those affected by the outage immoderate escaped in-game arsenic a marque bully for said server swoonage.

The wobble came connected November 2nd, arsenic the crippled was hovering astir the 300 to 330k concurrent subordinate mark. It's near a brief, but unmistakeable dip successful the SteamDB graph. Think 1 of those bosom machines having a speedy blip earlier regular beats resume.

Cue messages from the workplace connected Discord and the Tweeter precocious yesterday. "We admit your patience arsenic our servers had a wobble connected Sunday," reads the latter. Scrappy must've pecked a fewer wires loose, he's been enactment connected the naughty step. As a token of our thanks, we're sending 500 Raider Tokens to each Raiders who logged successful connected Sunday."

A "Server Slammer" variant of the hiker backpack has besides been sent retired to players who were present, truthful if that's you, there's a bully accidental some are already waiting successful your inbox. Buying 500 tokes volition acceptable you backmost astir £4 / $5 worthy of existent money, truthful it's a decently invaluable acquisition successful instrumentality for persevering done a method hiccup that looks to person had comparatively minimal interaction successful the expansive strategy of server swoons.

Embark could easy person conscionable shrugged and moved connected without dishing retired immoderate goodies. From a cynical and PR-savvy perspective, it's an casual triumph requiring a spot of currency sacrifice, but apt returning plentifulness of worth successful the astir important conflict immoderate shooter faces - the 1 implicit subordinate hearts and minds. It's besides conscionable a bully happening to do.

If you privation a verdict connected Arc Raiders earlier giving it a go, present are immoderate thoughts from Edwin and a remark from Ollie, portion James has checked retired however it runs connected the Steam Deck.