By Arc Raiders finally got a safe-haven PvE mode where your bullets can’t hurt other raiders — and the griefers immediately turned it into a playground for cruelty. Embark’s extraction shooter already had a reputation as one of the rattiest games ever released, but players in the new PvE lobbies are finding inventive new ways to ruin strangers’ runs without firing a single shot.
Arc Raiders (Credits: IGN)
The core problem: in PvE, your bullets don’t affect other players — so bad actors are using every other tool in the sandbox instead. Videos are circulating of players using the Bull Rush ability to bash into teammates trying to extract, knocking them into the path of ARC enemies. The victims die to the AI, the griefer loots the corpse, and there’s no consequence because technically no PvP happened.
Camping Loot Rooms and Weaponizing the AI
The griefing goes far beyond extraction denial. Players are camping locked loot rooms, waiting for someone to show up with a key. The keyholder faces an awful choice: open the room and share the spoils with strangers who did nothing, or back out and roll the dice in another match.
Others are throwing lure grenades to drag enemy robots — including shredders — straight into extraction points, turning a supposedly safe exit into an ambush. And since the mode is PvE, there is no way to fight back or punish the behavior.
Players Are Furious
The community reaction has been swift and miserable. One player described their first match as being swarmed by “vultures” who stole every scrap of ARC loot, then peppered them with lure grenades while their partner went down trying to rez them. “Getting body blocked and pushed around like I’m in grade school again,” they said.
Arc Raiders’ whole identity is built on unpredictability — IGN’s own writer, with 500 hours in the game, noted that the PvE mode was supposed to remove the uncertainty of lobbies full of serial killers. Instead, it just changed the weapons griefers use. Until Embark adds real punishment tools for PvE bad behavior, the safe mode isn’t quite safe at all.
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Source: IGN — read the full story there.
