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Marty's out of town this week in Japan, so Nick and KC will be hosting and chatting about a bunch of different topics this week!We're going to take a look at the massive launch of Arc Raiders from Embark Studios, potential Rockstar union busting, Square Enix's pivot to ai... and ensuing layoffs, and the long-awaited turn-based mode for Pillars of Eternity is finally here.Plus of course the games we've been playing recently.Send in your thoughts, questions, or topics you'd be interested in us discussing! We won't have time to read and discuss everything, and please keep posts topical, safe for work and not huge walls of text.Submissions close at 6 PM CT on Thursday, November 6th.

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Arc Raiders Has Had a Surprisingly Incredible Launch | Firelink Podcast

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Inverse Skies

The real question now is has marathon missed the boat on cornering the mainstream extraction shooter market given arc raiders has been successful?

Far Too Many Frogs

help I've been stuck on megabonk. I can't take it, I'm getting bonked left and right, and I can only bonk back! Also sad because I cannot yell at Marty with cyber sleuth posting this week. I'll start an Engdub run of Time Stranger, then finish the game.

Klisstoriss

Been playing Ball X Pit lately, have had a blast of it. Also started that Duckov game, I feel it's more my speed extraction-wise: offline and goofy. In this genre, did any of the SW team give Sulfur a try? Roguelite FPS with a kind of extraction-y vibe.

Fas

As a non extract fan I’ve been really enjoying how easygoing Arc Raiders is

Aeropointer

Arc Raiders has been really scratching the itch. Not as hard core as Tarkov, with the PVE tone as Helldivers when the bots come after you and hunt you down.

Matthew McGuire

So looking forward to your comments on the GTA VI delay. Honestly, it's probably a good thing so that they wrap it up fully. The past few years have been very rough for the software development space entirely so the breathing room may upset the fans but it will probably protect the developers somewhat. Good code takes time!