Here's a taste of what Arc Raiders would look like in first-person, though you're too late to try it yourself

There is a strange deliciousness in experiencing a game from a perspective that it does not otherwise allow. Sure, things don’t always look right, there’s just this opportunity to rethink how you view a particular world. Recently, it appears that someone playing Arc Raiders got to do just that, by switching it into a first-person shooting mode as opposed to its usual third-person camera, all thanks to an accident.

You see, over on the game’s subreddit, user Short_Satisfaction_9 (I guess Short_Satisfaction_1-8 was already taken) shared a clip of themself playing the game in first-person using console commands. There’s some obvious jank in the clip, you can see through the player-character’s face at points which is always yucky, as well as their arms when they’re doing some shooty stuff. This, however, is not a thing you are meant to be able to do, and has already been removed by developer Embark.

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“We have just pushed a hotfix removing the ‘NewConsole’ command,” community manager Ossen shared in a message in the game’s official Discord (ta, PCGamer). “This feature was never meant to be player-facing. We’re continuing to investigate related reports and may take action where appropriate to protect fair play and the integrity of the game.”

Just because it exists in one sort of functional form doesn’t mean you should expect it at any point in the future, as the devs have already said that it’s extremely unlikely they’ll ever add one in. Still! An interesting insight into another world where it is a first-person game, but one you’ll have to find an inter-dimensional portal to travel to. Good luck?