“We’ve Only Just Begun. I Have Nothing” – A retired pro gamer is gaining popularity for mercilessly killing players like Casual Arc Raiders – but is it mourning or just truthful PvP?

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Arc Raiders is a multiplayer extraction adventure in which players search through the remains of a devastated world. The main threats are the Arc machines and, as developer Embark Studios puts it, “the unpredictable choices of other survivors.” However, one Arc Raiders player, hell-bent on killing relatively fresh players, casual players, and those with little to no loot at all, has gone viral for killing others for sport, sparking a debate about what is and isn’t acceptable behavior in PvP.

Let’s start with a brief introduction to how Arc Raiders works. You can play solo or in groups of up to three people, working as a team to progress in the game. However, other players pose a constant threat, and while Arc Raiders’ explosive launch saw plenty of solid viral clips of players coming together to support each other, some players just want to watch the world burn.

Taylor “THump” Humphries, a retired American professional H1Z1 and Apex Legends player who took it upon himself to track down teams of gamers and kill them, well, for sport. In the clip, which has been viewed 4.8 million times so far on Twitter/X, THump kills a group of gamers, one of whom pleads: “We’ve only just started. I have nothing.” THump is then called “scum” and a “piece of shit”. THump replies, “Yes, by the way, I killed every single one of you.” Then he laughs.

THump’s post reads: “I love killing grown men who have jobs and children while trying to get 5 million credits for the expedition. Killing all team members solo, live now.”

The post sparked a powerful reaction from a enormous group of players, some of whom sharply criticized THump’s actions, while others supported him. “I come from a place where PvP is not optional,” THump said. “It’s a way of life. You want optional PvP, play WoW.” Then: “I can’t imagine spending my Friday night getting mad at some random internet streamer enough to comment on his tweet because he killed people in a PvP game.”

“Another toxic streamer,” wrote one critic. “You should try helping them instead, maybe it will make you feel better about yourself.” Another said THump exhibited “psychotic behavior.”

“I think there’s something extremely anti-social about people whose only enjoyment in gaming is ruining the fun of nice and friendly people.” said X/Twitter user Mizutamari. “There has always been a difference between people who trolled guys who shouted insults or punched keyboards, and people who only trolled guys who were friendly and tried to keep a cheerful disposition.”

Within a few months of the release of Arc Raiders, a kind of PvP etiquette appeared. If you meet another player and have no intention of fighting in PvP, say you are genial. This is taken into account not chilly say genial and act genial and then shoot, but of course it happens. In Arc Raiders PvP is always enabled.

Truth be told, this painful debate has been going on for as long as competitive multiplayer games have existed, but Arc Raiders has certainly brought it back to the forefront. Who cares if you pretend to be genial and then shoot to kill? It’s a video game, right? “Your neighbor who trusts you cares,” suggested Redditor ilmk9396.

“It’s a video game. You don’t die in real life when your character dies,” countered MachinationMachine.

“On the other side is a real person who puts a lot of time and effort into the game and trusts that you won’t steal it from them when you say you’re friendly,” ilmk9396 replied. “They let their guard down and then you take advantage of it like a coward. Be a man and shoot if you want the loot.”

Then, from MachinationMachine: “it’s a PvP video game where you play as a ruthless post-apocalyptic invader. How is being honorable a good way to roleplay?”

And so on and so forth. But isn’t this exactly what Embark Studios expected from Arc Raiders? “Ultimately, only you decide what kind of Invader you are and how far you will go to win,” the official blurb reads. Here, the developer is essentially giving Arc Raiders to its community. Basically, do what you think is right. The game is designed for suspense. But is it designed for non-stop PvP?

“The game is designed so that you can work together, as there is usually enough loot in the environment for everyone to stand up and have fun together, with the occasional PvP mode,” iNteg suggested. “The second lobby is only for PvP, you lose most of the players who want to enjoy other aspects of the game and not just PvP. By going into the game with the mindset that it’s only about PvP, you completely take the charm and fun out of the game and also ruin the experience, you lose any potential magic that could have happened because oop, you see, the person has to rat and shoot it without interaction.”

This one isn’t going anywhere and neither is THump. Undeterred by any potential backlash, he doubled down on his style of play, posting a similar clip with the comment: “I love running Arc Raiders on Saturday night to show the blue-collar workers of America what a real professional gamer looks like.”

Next to another, more recent clip, he posted the following: “It’s a joy to log in with a full assortment of trigger hopes and kill anyone who wants to get robbed again after the trip.”

Wesley is the news director at IGN. Find him on Twitter at @wyp100. Wesley can be reached at wesley_yinpoole@ign.com or confidentially at wyp100@proton.me.

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