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There’s a war in Arc Raiders, but it isn’t an official event dropped by the devs. No, this is something that’s popped up from the community, and if you’re not careful, you might get mistaken for a soldier in one of the armies.
As reported by Insider Gaming, a bunch of streamers have formed two different factions in the Arc Raiders war, with each side wearing their own uniforms and skins to tell each other apart. Now, the fight is primarily between the streamers themselves, including Ninja and Shroud on one side, and Nicmercs and Symfuhny on the other, but players are still getting involved… by starting a gang war.
If You Wear One Of These Outfits, You Might Get Gunned Down By One Of The Gangs In The Arc Raiders War
The streamers are split into two teams: Team Burnt Peanut (also known as The Bungulators) and Team HutchMF. The battle lines are split as follows.
Team Burnt Peanut
Now, maybe you don’t care about any of these people and want to stay out of it altogether. If so, you’d better learn which outfits to avoid. As per Insider Gaming, these are the costumes you need to be careful about.
We’ve heard of people getting taken out for accidentally wearing either of these outfits, so be careful out there. People take these allegiances very seriously, apparently. Of course, even if you don’t care about the streamers, you could just dress up and take part anyway, solely for the roleplaying element of it. That’s more interesting here than anything else, really.
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We’ve seen this pop up in plenty of other multiplayer games before. For instance, Helldivers 2’s community formed an army of players who were solely dedicated to holding Malevelon Creek, a planet known for its high difficulty. They would do this regardless of where the game was telling them to target, essentially adding to Helldivers 2’s narrative without the devs’ prompting. Ultimately, it’s things like this that keep an online community going, so hopefully we’ll see more of this with Arc Raiders as well.
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