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Arc Raiders developers acknowledge criticism of AI voice lines
Arc Raiders developer Embark Studios acknowledges fair criticism of the game's use of AI voice lines.
The extraction shooter used AI to mimic the voices of actors who had signed contracts allowing it.
AI helped create dialogue for the game's ping system, which lets players mark items and features.
Audio director Bence Pajor said recording every possible line with actors was impractical because the game changed quickly.
Some players disliked how the AI lines sounded, calling them lifeless or odd.
Embark says it wants to support voice actors and give characters more depth.
The studio hopes to develop the characters further in the coming years.
Embark Studios has acknowledged that players’ criticism of AI-generated voice lines in Arc Raiders was fair.
The studio said it used AI to help produce dialogue for the game’s ping system while features were changing quickly.
Audio director Bence Pajor said recording every possible line was impractical.
Embark said actors had signed contracts allowing their voices to be used to create training data.
The controversy arose despite the studio saying it wants to support voice actors, not replace them.
- Who
- Embark Studios and players who criticized the game’s use of AI voice lines.
- What
- Embark acknowledged the criticism and explained that AI helped produce dialogue during development.
- When
- The comments were reported on November 2, 2026; the date of the original backlash is not stated.
- Where
- Arc Raiders, a game developed by Embark Studios.
- Why
- The studio said the game’s features changed quickly and recording every possible line was impractical.
Arc Raiders players critical of AI voice lines
Embark Studios
AI voice lines
Arc Raiders players critical of AI voice lines
Players criticized some lines as lifeless, lacklustre and odd.
Embark Studios
Embark said AI helped it produce dialogue more efficiently while the game was changing quickly.
Use of AI
Arc Raiders players critical of AI voice lines
Players objected to AI being used to mimic voice actors and supplement dialogue.
Embark Studios
Embark said the actors had signed contracts allowing their voices to be used for training data and said it wants to support actors.
Embark used actors’ voices to make training data for prototyping dialogue.
Embark said it wanted to support voice actors.
Embark’s developers acknowledged players’ criticism in comments reported by PC Gamer.
- Game
- Arc Raiders
- Developer
- Embark Studios
- Audio director
- Bence Pajor
- Chief creative officer
- Stefan Strandberg
- Article publication
- November 2, 2026
- AI use
- Training data for prototyping dialogue and the ping system
What people are saying
To record the training data for the ping system becomes too impractical to record every possible version of something.
I think there was some really fair criticism in there.
We are not in the industry of replacing actors, actually quite the opposite we should celebrate the performance and give them more space.