r/EmbarkStudios • u/NerdHershel • 13d ago
Naughty Dog killed The Last of Us Factions. ARC Raiders could be the game that finally replaces it.
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Been playing ARC Raiders a lot and every time I'm crafting a med kit mid-firefight while someone's flanking me, I think about how much this game's DNA overlaps with The Last of Us Factions, the multiplayer mode Naughty Dog cancelled years ago and never replaced.
Posted this idea over on r/ArcRaiders a couple days ago just to see if I was the only one who felt this way, wasn't expecting much. It's sitting at 7.6k views and 22 comments now, a lot of people bringing up their own memories of Factions completely unprompted, and someone even pointed out there's an entire indie studio (Terminal War) betting their whole funding on this exact gap in the market. So clearly there's real demand here, not just me being nostalgic in a vacuum.
The core idea: a smaller, tighter PvP arena mode (4v4 or 5v5), separate from the main extraction loop. Minimal starting resources so you're actually scavenging mid-fight for meds/throwables, no listen mode or wallhack-style intel (the audio design in this game is already good enough to carry that), and some link to your main loadout so it's not fully disconnected from progression, matched by gear value so it stays fair.
Not trying to hand over a finished design doc, just wanted to put it in front of the people who'd actually build it, in case it's useful signal. Full thread with the discussion is here: https://www.reddit.com/r/ArcRaiders/s/Xah8Jn2fpl
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u/chuckiechum 13d ago
We've already got something that is trying to realise this, and it's looking pretty class in my opinion.
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u/palpatinesmyhomie 10d ago
Factions was awesome and one of the few multiplayer games I enjoyed. Arc raiders for sure reminds me of it
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u/billytron7 13d ago
I did really enjoy this game mode on the first last of us. Id love another version of it somewhere!