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Embark Studios' game Arc Raiders benefited from a coincidental playtest overlap with Bungie's Marathon, providing valuable insights into player preferences and game design differences, with Arc Raiders experiencing a highly successful server slam and Marathon facing challenges.
Arrowhead Game Studios, the developer of Helldivers 2, has apologized for the frustrating issues players are facing in the game and stated that it is crucial for their team to get some sleep before addressing further issues. The issues, including server capacity, logins, and progression and rewards, have not been fully resolved despite three rapid-fixes. The studio detailed the causes of these issues and pledged to fix them, as the game continues to face criticism for various technical and optimization issues. Despite this, Helldivers 2 has proven to be popular, with over 150,000 players on PC alone, making it PlayStation's biggest Steam launch.
Starfield, Bethesda's highly anticipated new IP, has received lower ratings from Steam players compared to previous Bethesda games, including Fallout 76. Despite its successful launch in terms of player count and sales, Steam reviews highlight complaints about stiff NPC animations, limited romance options, excessive procedural generation, lack of lore resources, absence of ground-side transportation, and disappointing interstellar dogfights. While Bethesda has a history of improving games through updates and DLC, Starfield's fate will depend on the developer's actions. Currently, the game trails behind Cyberpunk 2077 on Steam and has faced launch issues on Xbox.