Embark CEO Says 'Some' Arc Raiders AI Voice Lines Were Re-Recorded by Humans Post-Launch: 'There Is a Quality Difference'

Embark Studios CEO Patrick Söderlund says Arc Raiders present contains less AI dependable lines than it did astatine motorboat aft the squad re-recorded immoderate lines with existent actors.

Söderlund offered an update connected the studio's views regarding artificial quality during an interrogation with GamesIndustry.biz. Among assorted updates that person brought caller enemies, cosmetics, locations, and more, helium says the squad has already replaced immoderate of its heavy criticized AI contented with performances from existent quality beings.

“We re-recorded immoderate of the lines post-launch and made them with existent voices," Söderlund said. “There is simply a prime difference. A existent nonrecreational histrion is amended than AI; that's conscionable however it is. We look astatine [AI] archetypal and foremost arsenic a accumulation tool. We tin trial things internally. We tin trial 15 antithetic lines without signaling them, and past we cognize what to record. It's besides a mode for america to work, not regenerate actors. We don't needfully judge successful replacing humans with AI each the time."

Arc Raiders came retired of 2025 not lone arsenic a monolithic occurrence for Embark, but besides arsenic 1 of the breakout hits of the year. One stain connected its ascent, however, revolves astir however fans responded to the team’s usage of AI voices for galore of its in-game characters. Even arsenic complaints piled, steadfast Nexon defended its usage of the arguable technology, telling Game*Spark successful November that players should “assume that each crippled institution is present utilizing AI.”

"A existent nonrecreational histrion is amended than AI; that's conscionable however it is."“

Although Söderlund assures that immoderate AI contented has already been re-recorded, it’s presently unclear if determination is immoderate program to yet regenerate each AI worldly successful question. He besides wants fans to cognize that “a lot” of the dependable lines successful Arc Raiders were recorded by humans, adding that those who person contributed their voices to the crippled person been compensated for their enactment and time.

“We wage our actors for each clip spent with america successful the booth and proceed to bring galore of them backmost arsenic we transportation connected updating the game,” helium said. “For prime usage, we besides wage them for the support to licence their voices done text-to-speech for lines that aren't arsenic indispensable to the immersion of the experience, mostly ping strategy audio.”

Arc Raiders launched for PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S October 30, 2025. We gave it it a 9/10 successful our reappraisal upon its release, saying astatine the clip that it "sets a caller modular for extraction shooters." It's unclear however galore copies person been sold successful the 5 months since its launch, but we bash astatine slightest cognize it managed to walk 12.4 cardinal copies sold successful January and 14 cardinal by February.

We spoke with Söderlund astir Arc Raiders’ past, present, and aboriginal past period to larn much astir however Embark brought its PvPvE imaginativeness to life. He besides confirmed that reports of its $75 cardinal fund were “ballpark” correct.

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