While playing Arc Raiders, Embark leads clarify they only added true "aggression-based" matchmaking fairly recently, and right on cue someone shows up pleading "Friendly"

You may have noticed some fluctuations in your rounds of Arc Raiders of late, as if players are either more aggressive than usual, or more timid. This isn't by accident, as developer Embark Studios has now confirmed it's using "aggression-based" filters to corral people together.Patrick Söderlund, the CEO of Embark, spoke about the change with GamesBeat while playing some of the extraction shooter himself. "Obviously, first it's skill-based, of course, then you have solos, duos, and trios,"