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ARC Raiders is a game seemingly built around being as inconvenient as possible. Everything takes too long, enemies are too powerful and when you die, you're punished too much - what possible reason could there be to design a game around such high levels of friction? And, what if I told you that ARC Raider's friction wasn't an accident, but a crucial ingredient in it's success?

Well, after scrounging around in a long-forgotten bunker, The Architect has managed to find out why this is, and how the parts of games that feel the most annoying and the least nessesary can often be the most important.

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