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Two-panel comic. Top, captioned 'PvE week:', a scavenger with a backpack overflowing with cables and scrap waves happily across sunset ruins and says 'Morning, neighbor! Lovely ruins today.' Bottom, captioned 'PvP is back:', the same man hides behind a rock, hugging his bag, while a dark figure stands on a ridge behind him; he says 'We have never met. I have no loot. I am a rock.'

Memes/ARC Raiders

The first raid after PvE week

ARC Raiders spent a week without PvP. Some of us got a little too friendly.

The news behind it

ARC Raiders tested PvE-only matchmaking from Oct. 13 to Oct. 20. Embark says more than 30 million PvE rounds were played and expects to say more in November. Embark Studios

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