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Arc Raiders won't have CoD-style "T-Rex costumes" and "Santa Claus outfits" because Embark wants to "protect" its visual identity
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Arc Raiders' design director tells us Embark wants to give players freedom to express themselves, but not at the cost of breaking immersion.
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Embark Studios already flexed its creative muscles in The Finals, one of the most vibrant, flashy multiplayer games I've ever played. In every aspect of its aesthetic, it nailed the glitzy fanfare a cheesy gameshow should. It also features some outrageous skins - the kind that would look out of place in most shooters, but fit the zany tone of The Finals well. With Arc Raiders, Embark's at it again, managing to somehow make a post-disaster extraction shooter look… stylish? However, given that setting, it’ll surely have to constrain itself in the cosmetics department a little more - a pink bunny suit or a gundam costume may be fine in The Finals, but it wouldn’t wash with me if it ended up in Arc Raiders. We’ve seen Call of Duty and Battlefield fans get pretty vocal about wacky skins and random crossovers, so I asked Embark how it’s going to avoid similar criticisms while still delivering appealing cosmetics.
Read the full story on PCGamesN: Arc Raiders won't have CoD-style "T-Rex costumes" and "Santa Claus outfits" because Embark wants to "protect" its visual identity
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Embark Studios already flexed its creative muscles in The Finals, one of the most vibrant, flashy multiplayer games I've ever played. In every aspect of its aesthetic, it nailed the glitzy fanfare a cheesy gameshow should. It also features some outrageous skins - the kind that would look out of place in most shooters, but fit the zany tone of The Finals well. With Arc Raiders, Embark's at it again, managing to somehow make a post-disaster extraction shooter look… stylish? However, given that setting, it’ll surely have to constrain itself in the cosmetics department a little more - a pink bunny suit or a gundam costume may be fine in The Finals, but it wouldn’t wash with me if it ended up in Arc Raiders. We’ve seen Call of Duty and Battlefield fans get pretty vocal about wacky skins and random crossovers, so I asked Embark how it’s going to avoid similar criticisms while still delivering appealing cosmetics. Read the full story on PCGamesN: Arc Raiders won't have CoD-style "T-Rex costumes" and "Santa Claus outfits" because Embark wants to "protect" its visual identity
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30 October 2025, 4:39 pm
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Jamie Hore
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title: Arc Raiders won't have CoD-style "T-Rex costumes" and "Santa Claus outfits" because Embark wants to "protect" its visual identity
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Arc Raiders' design director tells us Embark wants to give players freedom to express themselves, but not at the cost of breaking immersion.
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Embark Studios already flexed its creative muscles in The Finals, one of the most vibrant, flashy multiplayer games I've ever played. In every aspect of its aesthetic, it nailed the glitzy fanfare a cheesy gameshow should. It also features some outrageous skins - the kind that would look out of place in most shooters, but fit the zany tone of The Finals well. With Arc Raiders, Embark's at it again, managing to somehow make a post-disaster extraction shooter look… stylish? However, given that setting, it’ll surely have to constrain itself in the cosmetics department a little more - a pink bunny suit or a gundam costume may be fine in The Finals, but it wouldn’t wash with me if it ended up in Arc Raiders. We’ve seen Call of Duty and Battlefield fans get pretty vocal about wacky skins and random crossovers, so I asked Embark how it’s going to avoid similar criticisms while still delivering appealing cosmetics.
Read the full story on PCGamesN: Arc Raiders won't have CoD-style "T-Rex costumes" and "Santa Claus outfits" because Embark wants to "protect" its visual identity
content_text: Embark Studios already flexed its creative muscles in The Finals, one of the most vibrant, flashy multiplayer games I've ever played. In every aspect of its aesthetic, it nailed the glitzy fanfare a cheesy gameshow should. It also features some outrageous skins - the kind that would look out of place in most shooters, but fit the zany tone of The Finals well. With Arc Raiders, Embark's at it again, managing to somehow make a post-disaster extraction shooter look… stylish? However, given that setting, it’ll surely have to constrain itself in the cosmetics department a little more - a pink bunny suit or a gundam costume may be fine in The Finals, but it wouldn’t wash with me if it ended up in Arc Raiders. We’ve seen Call of Duty and Battlefield fans get pretty vocal about wacky skins and random crossovers, so I asked Embark how it’s going to avoid similar criticisms while still delivering appealing cosmetics. Read the full story on PCGamesN: Arc Raiders won't have CoD-style "T-Rex costumes" and "Santa Claus outfits" because Embark wants to "protect" its visual identity
pub_date: 30 October 2025, 4:39 pm
guid: https://www.pcgamesn.com/arc-raiders/skins-cosmetics-interview
creator: Jamie Hore
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