Arc Raiders Players Want To Condemn Free Loadouters To A Life Of...
One debate that has been swirling around Arc Raiders for some time now involves Free Loadouts, whether they should exist at all, be nerfed, or sentenced to always join matches late as penance for not putting anything of worth on the line. But I really don't think any of these solutions are viable options.
Issues with free loadout players have been exacerbated by Stella Montis, the smallest and most aggressive map in Arc Raiders, as players are seeing more killer free loadouters than usual. People who use free loadouts get given a low-level gun, ammo, shield, and health, not a lot, but enough to do well, but with none of their stuff on the line, so they can be more aggressive than usual.
"I like how the game is PVP I just feel like those free loadouts are aggressive, careless and rush in with no worries," one player says. I've certainly played carelessly with nothing on the line, and there are a good chunk of players who use free loadouts as a way to grief other players with no consequences.
Just the other day, my squad encountered a couple of free loadouts who just wanted to scrap. We loaded in at the start of the game, and within a few minutes, shots were being fired at us from across the ridgeline. They were acting super aggressively and recklessly. We were surprised that a duo would so readily pick a fight with a trio. But acting recklessly isn't always a positive, as we were able to distract and take them out with little to no effort. Rummaging around their corpses revealed a free loadout with zero loot—we'd unknowingly stumbled into their own personal Fight Club.
But in my 50-plus hours in Arc Raiders, this isn't a hugely common occurrence—if anything, I find that people with better loot and guns are more up for a skirmish, if only to test out their gear.
Free loadouts also fulfil an important service of lending a helping hand to newbies or those who are still trying to find their footing in Arc Raiders. Hell, I'll use it sometimes when playing with friends who are new to the game. It means I can show them the ropes without having to worry about getting downed or putting any pressure on them to hit their shots to save my valuable loadout.
I haven't heard many Arc Raiders players saying that free loadouts should be entirely scrapped (primarily for the reason I talked about above). But there is a growing sentiment that free loadout players need to be nerfed somehow.
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Source: PC Gamer
