ARC Raiders Update 1.2.0 marks a major content expansion with the arrival of the Stella Montis map, the Matriarch and Shredder ARC units, and new quests tied to a Community Unlock Event. The update strengthens core gameplay by addressing issues affecting quest progression, movement latency, impact feedback, and world collision. Item values, crafting recipes, and XP rewards have also received extensive tuning to ensure a more consistent and rewarding progression curve.
Beyond these additions, the update resolves a wide range of bugs across achievements, maps, animations, audio, utilities, and weapon behavior. Numerous fixes improve enemy AI, terrain stability, hatch interaction, user interface clarity, and overall combat reliability. With smoother vaulting, better crafting flow, and cleaner social and reporting tools, Update 1.2.0 delivers a more stable and responsive extraction experience across all supported platforms.
Full Patch Notes
- Map
- Added Stella Montis
- Introduced new ARC types Matriarch and Shredder
- Added Community Unlock Event
- Added new gameplay items
- Added new quests
- Patch Highlights
- Reduced character movement latency to improve desync behind cover
- Fixed quest progression issues involving multiple objectives or item collection
- Fixed various achievement issues requiring partial or full redo
- Reduced delay between firing at ARC and seeing hit effects
- Fixed multiple terrain fall through locations
- Balance Changes
- Wolfpack
- Value increased from 3000 to 5000 Coins
- Crafting updated from 2 Refined Explosives and 2 Sensors to 3 Refined Explosives and 2 ARC Motion Cores
- ARC Motion Core and ARC Circuitry
- Unlock requirement lowered from Refiner Level 3 to Refiner Level 2
- Crafting increased from 6 ARC Alloy to 8 ARC Alloy
- Launcher Ammo
- Value increased from 100 to 200 Coins
- Crafting updated to 4 Metal Parts and 1 Refined Explosives
- Spotter Relay
- Value reduced from 5000 to 2000 Coins
- XP Adjustments
- Reduced XP per Damage from 3 to 2 for Bastion, Bombardier, Rocketeer, Leaper
- Reduced XP for looting ARC parts for Bastion and Bombardier
- Increased XP for Rocketeer thruster and Leaper leg
- Wolfpack
- Content and Bug Fixes
- Achievements
- Fixed issues requiring redo of certain objectives
- Animation
- Fixed weapons auto slinging on grenade throws
- Fixed weapons disappearing when deploying items
- Improved jump camera clipping
- ARC
- Fireball units no longer get stuck on security gates
- Surveyors no longer flee out of bounds
- Fixed fire damage values
- Audio
- Added System Default option for voice chat devices
- Adjusted breathing audio balance
- Added helmet specific effects to Scrappy
- Cosmetics
- Fixed initial party appearance reverting to base look
- Maps
- The Dam Battlegrounds fall through and collision fixes
- Buried City clipping, terrain holes, and subway fixes
- Spaceport
- Sealed room requiring breaching with adjusted loot
- Fixed interior doors not breaching from inside
- Blue Gate
- Fixed trap location in Control Room
- Hatches
- Corrected immunity behavior on entry
- Increased interaction distance
- Miscellaneous
- Reduced movement latency
- Reduced ARC hit feedback delay
- Adjusted blueprint drop rates
- Interactions with Probes, Husks, and Raider Caches counted toward container objectives
- Fixed action lockout after DBNO revival while holding objects
- Fixed issues with looting DBNO players on slopes
- Field crafting now remains on last selected item
- Movement
- Improved vaulting smoothness
- UI
- Added item stack splitting
- Removed Thumb Mouse Button from Escape action
- Added confirmation for player reports
- Prevented unwanted quick slot assignment for salvage items
- Blocked Discord users now hidden in social screen
- Updated UI input hint styling
- Utility
- Fixed Blaze Grenade Trap overdamage
- Reduced Anti Tick Field passive attachment time
- Fixed stuck prompt during Tick fight
- Standardized smoke cloud visibility distance
- Fixed Trigger Nade invulnerability bypass on DBNO
- Fixed Snap Hook out of bounds exploit
- Weapons
- Fixed bullet trajectory bending near walls
- Quests
- Fixed multi objective quest completion issues
- Expanded thruster counts for Greasing Her Palm in Spaceport
- Achievements
ARC Raiders is a third-person PvPvE extraction shooter by Embark Studios, set on a ruined Earth where Raiders fight ARC machines and rival players to recover loot and extract from the surface. The game emphasizes strategic looting, squad-based combat, and high-stakes encounters where gear is lost on death unless safely extracted to Speranza. Released on October 30, 2025, the game is available on PC via Steam, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X and S with full cross-platform support.
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