Arc Raiders devs used a music sample 'from a piano in Chernobyl' that someone had discovered in the Forbidden Zone

Arc Raiders has a terrific soundscape, although it can sometimes be hard to hear it when you're getting hunted down by your fellow players or bloodthirsty arcs. The game is quite quiet, aside from the occasional sound of distant gunfire, the clicks and cracks from small roaming arcs, and the noise of shuffling scrap as raiders sort through abandoned buildings for valuable items. But perhaps the best noise in all of Arc Raiders comes from the few instruments raiders can find amid the rubble.

"One of the gameplay designers, really early on, made a trumpet," Pajor says. "And it was so out of place, and we were like 'why are we making it?'" The musical items in Arc Raiders serve multiple purposes. There's the social incentive to play an instrument, to bond with strangers and just show them that you're a harmless, relatively chill dude. But there's also the strategic purpose of using noises to lure arcs. …