Arc Raiders exploit turned it into an FPS & it’s pure nightmare fuel

An Arc Raiders exploit briefly converted the game from a third-person shooter into a first-person shooter, and the results are downright terrifying.

Arc Raiders was built from the ground up as a third-person shooter. From the gunplay to traversal, everything has been centered around its over-the-shoulder perspective.

As such, playing from a first-person view, like it’s Call of Duty, isn’t intended. However, with a recent exploit unearthing a secret dev console, players were able to break the experience wide open. Some were able to manipulate their FOV, while others changed their view of the environment, outright removing fog, for example.

One player took things a bit further, though. They found a command that enabled a first-person view, letting them play out a full match from an entirely different perspective. The results are freaky in more ways than one.

First-person Arc Raiders is deeply unsettling

For starters, there’s the obvious. With a honed-in view, tension is heightened. You see less of the battlefield in front of you, you’re unable to peek around corners, it’s all just far more distressing in the midst of combat.

PVP is one thing, but taking on ARCs in first-person mode also looks to be a chilling experience. It gives a new sense of enormity to some of the bigger enemy types in the game. How are you possibly supposed to contend with The Queen when you’re shrunk down into the eyes of your character?

Then there’s the other unsettling element – the fact that it’s clearly not a polished experience. Arc Raiders hasn’t been built to support a first-person view, so it’s not exactly up to snuff. At times, your arms are bugging out in front of you, and in other moments, you can see inside your own body. It’s rough around the edges, to say the least.

Admitting as much, the player who showed off their first-person gameplay said Arc Raiders doesn’t ‘need” a first-person mode. But they did highlight how it was “surreal” to load into a match and witness it all a little bit differently.

“I honestly wouldn’t mind a first-person feature,” they said, “even if that means I would be in a disadvantage against third-person players.”

“I’d love to see it,” another Reddit user chimed in. “Definitely should be separate lobbies though.”

Others in the replies were far more enthusiastic, calling it “incredible,” with one even suggesting they’d “never [play] third-person again” if an FPS mode was added.

For now, there’s no way to access this first-person exploit yourself and no word on whether official support is in the works.