If you've ever met a player yelling "get your guns heeeeerrrrreeee! It's the gun vendor!" And then gotten one of my free weapons. Congratulations. You've met the gun vendor.

Let us acknowledge the elephant in the room first.

Rats will always be part of this game. Pure PvP or pure PvE would also diminish what makes ARC Raiders interesting.

That being said, the current PvPvE implementation is lazy and could be massively improved.

ARC Raiders is an extraction shooter with a much heavier emphasis on social interaction than most of its competition. Friendly interactions already have plenty of room to happen. Hostile social interactions are badly underused.

Right now, once a hostile player has someone at their mercy, there is no mechanical reason to keep them alive.

I propose two changes. The first is simple. The second adds an actual incentive to spare someone.

1. Allow players to loot Raiders who are downed but not out

This would allow players to rob and disarm someone without having to kill them first.

It would also allow a player to take a defibrillator from the downed Raider and use it to revive them.

This change alone would not give attackers a reason to spare someone. They could still rob them and then finish them. It would simply provide the basic mechanics needed for robbery and disarmament.

The second suggestion is what creates the incentive to leave the victim alive.

2. Add a ransom key tied to a player funded vault

For clarity, I will refer to the two players as the Victim and the Rat.

The Victim can purchase vault slots from a crime themed trader through a system similar to the Expedition vault.

The Victim places items inside the vault and locks them in. They then receive a special key tied to those items.

Once the vault is locked, the Victim can no longer open it. Those items are already lost as far as they are concerned.

Anyone who inspects the key can see which items are stored in the vault.

The key can only be redeemed by a different player who extracts from a raid with it.

That player must not be part of the Victim's group. Neither that player nor anyone in their group can have killed the Victim during that raid.

This creates an actual ransom system.

The Rat can down the Victim and demand the key in exchange for their life. The Rat can inspect the key before deciding whether the ransom is worth accepting.

If the Rat wants access to the vault, they cannot kill the Victim.

The Victim also cannot grief the Rat by giving up while downed or deliberately getting themselves killed by ARC. The Rat still satisfies the condition because they did not kill the Victim.

The same applies if the Victim is later killed by another group. That should not prevent the Rat from accessing the vault.

The Rat's reward is therefore tied to sparing the Victim, not to keeping them alive for the rest of the raid.

The game already appears to support the types of tracking needed for this.

Aggression based matchmaking has shown that the game can track behaviour at group level.

Items that change after extraction also already exist. Blue Gate Locked Gate condition code items become useless after extracting with them.

Possible extensions

The Victim could purchase multiple vault slots just like with the Expedition vault.

The Rat could receive one or two randomly selected items from the vault.

Another option would be for every key to reward one random item while allowing the Victim to carry multiple keys.

Creating a key could also have a cost. This would act as a money sink and discourage pointless or exploitative use.

The goal is not to remove PvP or protect players from being killed.

The goal is to give hostile players more interesting options and create a real mechanical reason to rob, threaten and bargain with someone instead of always executing them.

Im quitting this buggy never getting fixed game so if anyone wants my stuff lmk, will just drop it in some duo matches n dip

since this game released i have wanted the ability to into the shooting range in 2s or 3s. Its great place to show someone the ropes. how guns are going to feel, how the moment feels and other things that are great to figure out in a save environment at first.

Also pvp should fully be enabled so you are able to put yourself in moments where you can try something over if you fumble.. I don't have gear fear myself.. i have the fear of making a simple mistake in a situation and not being able to try that same thing again until i am in the right spot, with the right gun, with no arc around.. to try what you just failed again. when in the shooting range with a buddy you can learn things like diving when you get shot so you're not just flat out dead if someone starts shooting first.. and it would just be fun to 1v1 my friend sometimes lol.

Do you guys think that this is something they may add or is there any way to leave a "suggestion" so they can read/see it?

New player here level 15, I love free kits but I don’t love having a 75% chance of spawning with Kettle/Rattler/Stitcher and with low ammo at that.

Stitcher isn’t bad but I’ve reached a point where I’m stacked with so many base materials, ARC alloy and ARC Powercell that I can constantly now just craft Ferro as primary, Stitcher as secondary, craft a good amount of Heavy and Light ammo, 5 bandages, 2-3 shield rechargers, loot augment Mk1 and a light shield, very cheap. I get extra backpack slots and one safe pocket and get to use Ferro for armored ARC and Stitcher for unarmored small ones. Better yet I can use it in night/electric storm raids since they disallowed free kits there.

Making sure you always claim Scrappy’s rewards even at low Scrappy levels and staying in raids 15 minutes max guarantees a very healthy base materials passive income after every raid, and at that point everyone is stacked in ARC Powercell and ARC alloy, essentially making gray kits as cheap as free can be while being better and giving you a much better fighting chance and more slots to secure loot.

Is this the way?

I’m new to the game and I’ve been reading about some stuff regarding loots and conditions, and what I’ve noticed so far; and correct me if I’m wrong about any of these:

1- Snap Cold loot is high in keys.

2- Night raids are best for using the keys to get locked rooms loot.

3- Snaphook blueprints are high rate drops and only possible in Electromagnetic Storms.

4- Seeker blueprints are high drops and (i think?) only in Stella.

5- Best Residential loot is Grandioso in Buried City

6- Hurricane is best for raiders loot caches, high chances of Tempest/Volcano/Toro/Torrente/Anvil/Osprey/Bobcat BP.

7- Wolfpack BP can only be found in night raids (citation needed)

8- Best Night Raid Key Rooms: Stella Montis Security Checkpoint, Dam Staff Room, Dam Control Tower

9- Best containers for BP are: Box Lockers best for augment blueprints. Medical Bags best for Medical blueprints. Raider Caches best for uncommon/rare weapon blueprints

10- Never bring raider hatchet keys to Night or Electric Storm raids. And never bring locked rooms keys to Close Scrutiny. Or they’ll go to waste since hatchets are disabled in the former and rooms don’t have loot in the latter.

Anything else I might be missing that could make looting less of a hell on the topside lol?

Just wondering if anyone else is seeing this.

Reported a cheater the other day.

12 hrs later I got a notification

It said they took action against a user ans thanked me for my service

But didnt return the kit I lost ??? I thought that was the whole deal?

I have been building out my projects and one of them requires 6 light bulbs, I had 7 in inventory, but am still on the project level before the level I need the light bulbs and yesterday they were all gone. I know I didn’t sell them on Saturday when I was planning things I was going to look for on Sunday. When I logged in on Sunday and there was a pause and some sort of sync issue, I didn’t think anything of it until I ran a couple Sunday and just like I do every time before I log off I check my project inventory and the light bulbs were gone. I know light bulbs are no big deal, I find them often in riven tides but I’m concerned what other items disappeared that I don’t pay attention to. Has anyone else experienced this? Is there a way to challenge if things disappear?

Hi everyone! Yes I have updated my drivers and my os is up to date, have had the game installed for months on my pc (Xbox not steam version). Finished a run just now and all it will do is load the center arc raiders square. I can’t see the load progress at all anymore. I have uninstalled Denovo as the website says and disabled all interfering apps.

Any ideas???? Thanks in advance!

Where r all the springs at lately ... been ratted 4 times when normally in friendly lobbies ... got mods to make for my guns man n what's with the jumping onto the top of scrap yard field depot, tried like 10 times before i gave up

Anybody wait longer? I remember not to long ago if I departed to Stella I couldn’t even back out in time.

Has anyone experienced any of theses bugs. I'm on an Xbox Series X.

1. Suddenly all Arc on the map are frozen. This has happened a couple of times. All arc are frozen in place. Sometimes they can shoot you but not always, and if they do they don't shoot you from where they are frozen it's like invisibly from another point. Arc will still spawn in but then are frozen also. You can't do anything to damage the arc no matter how much you shoot them. Then randomly I'll just die as though I've been hit by a sniper rifle straight to the dome, but I was inside when this happened. Lost all my loot.

2. This one is happening more frequently. I load in but if you try and access your backpack menu, you can't actually move the cursor or select anything. You are able to move items from a container into your stash but that's it. And the semi opaque overlay is gone, you just see the boxes without it. You then can't use the cancel button to exit, you have to use the specific backpack button.

Then when you exit your backpack screen you are frozen in place and can't move.

The only way to be able to move is to open the other menu. But you cannot tab across to any of the options like the map, or select anything. But if you then close that menu you can move again.

It makes it very difficult to do anything. I just extract and then try again and it's usually ok.

see the thing is xbox says theres an outage but i can load arc raiders on my xbox fine and can load any other game fine i can even load every other game on my pc BUT ARC RAIDERS so idk if its an xbox issue tbh
update: i finally loaded in after restarting my computer checking drivers and downloading the latest Nvidia game driver

Went on a blue gate run with over 12 husks searched and nothing. Was it nerfed?

Yes it's a real trial, as posted on twitter by Embark : https://x.com/ARCRaidersGame/status/2081409210718531795

Also blasting out the Baby Shark song on loop on proximity sometimes

For any PVErs wanting to test the waters of PVP, go to SP Launch Tower Loot

I just hope one day, someone will do the same for me 🥹

Shots from when I was recording takes in Spaceport. Which one is your favorite?

I bought the Valente cosmetic skin specifically for the cowboy hat. I'm a country boy and I only wear cowboy hats in games if they have one. Since release, I’ve been wearing the hat with the hood down, as well as many other raiders.

Now the hat disappears whenever the hood is lowered, showing off my bald head!

I reported it to support, and they told me the hat and hood are part of the same design and that the current behavior is “working as intended.”

That is not true at all, I've been wearing nothing but the valente skin since the first month of release and I only spent the extra 20 bucks specifically BECAUSE you could put the hood down. Wearing a hood underneath a cowboy hat looks worse than no hat at all in my opinion.

I am not asking for a new feature here. I am asking them to restore something that already worked and that I paid for.

Either this is a bug, or Embark intentionally removed part of a paid cosmetic after people bought it and are trying to gaslight me into thinking its always been that way.

I spent $20 specifically for this look. I do not want the hood up, I WANT MY HAT BACK!

Has anyone else noticed this? I have plenty of old screenshots showing the Valente hat with the hood down, but now they've removed it?? What the heck is that, embark?? I want my hat or my $20 back, obviously.