The ability to create not just maps, but missions, too, was a great addition to Far Cry 4’s editor, and while we only saw a small sample of Arcade’s potential, it’s clearly interested in offering up bigger and more interesting possibilities than its predecessor. “Walk up to an arcade, begin to play, and you can actually start to build maps and make stuff on your own.” “The thing that pissed me off in the past is that we kinda had it off to the side,” Hay said, continuing, “It was a vestigial limb - now what we’ve done is we’ve brought it back into the game.” To incentivize players to step out of the main game, Arcade features a leveling system this time, which can be used to earn money and skill points in Far Cry 5’s story mode - which you transition into and out of simply by walking up to arcade cabinets scattered around Hope County.
The development team is also pushing for more players to experiment with the Arcade creator this time around.