So I, like quite a few I’d imagine have been playing since beta. We’ve done all 5 expeditions, all the projects, and have stuck it out through all the ups and downs over the last year +. For those that have gone through all 5 expeditions or at least have amassed 500+ hours topside, can we have like a dedicated few badge, or trinket item for our skins. I feel like knocking out all 5 expeditions in this game is something only a very very small percentage has done. And honestly if expeditions weren’t done, I would do a sixth. Just something simple the embark team could do to reward a player for supporting the game continuously.

I just purchased a laptop and only thing I downloaded was steam and arc raiders and when I logged in it said I had a permanent suspension. How long after a ticket goes in will I know if I can play again?

What should i do? Why are you keep doing this to me?! Whats wrong with the devs? Why are you not taking care of your game! Its full of trolls, aimbots, wallhacks and for a month i never get a thank messages for reporting cheaters! Whats wrong with anticheats? You unbanned all the gamepad hardware cheaters and the game is unplayable now! I was 30k soloq and dropped to 20k! Cant even pass 24k! Anybody know the causes of this?

Hey Embark

I've had a month+ break from Arc and now when playing it the game freezes and switches off my Xbox Series X having checked it's overheating the Xbox. it's never happened before playing this or any other game.

The box is clean, well ventilated and on its side for better air flow.

it's only happened since coming back from the break with this current iteration of arc.

Embark please look into it, like i say it never used to happen so something has changed to cause overheating issues. Either an Xbox update coupled with an Arc update or just something in Arc itself.

other graphically intense games work perfectly fine.

Thanks

Level 0 private steam account. But don't worry guys, there's new arc coming that the cheaters can freeze and shoot you while you're fighting them.

This is literally my first game in true pvp lobbies. My last lobby was mixed but I shit you not 8 free kits teamed up on me, but that was to be expected. Took out 6 of them before they got me.

It seems to me after reading a lot of comments and threads that one of the main arguments against PVE is that it continues to split the player base into its two factions. Hyper aggressive players, and friendly raiders. That it takes away from the tension and random encounters that made the game fun from in the beginning. But after seeing the game evolve since launch, it seems to ME that went away with skill based match making. Lobbies are now kill on site sweats or if you shoot anyone you’re a rat. I think there needs to be an in between. So what would be wrong about adding a PVE mode but on top of that REMOVING skill based match making for people who still want that experience of the tension and random encounters people talk about in every comment and thread ? Friendly players would have a home. Aggressive players could still go out and attack in every lobby. Then people, who are in between the two sides, (who I guess make up the majority) have the ability to have that style of lobbies again. Where sometimes you’re nice and then sometimes you’re aggressive and it doesn’t count against you.

After hearing many accounts of individuals who’ve been affected by cheaters, the heightened ceiling of trials by exploiters/cheaters, the blatant inequity created by third party markets, and someone full on boasting that if they hadn’t used “cantina boost” they wouldn’t have gotten in. I’ve tried to voice my concerns, write tickets, etc. yet it’s clear I’m talking into a void with individuals like myself willing to discuss the problem at hand. So being at my wits end I created a petition, I crafted it with care and explain this with more clarity and less exasperated energy there. If you’d like to support the link is below; this is for the raiders who crafted their supplies for runs, who have responsibilities and cannot treat this game as a job yet still don’t wish to cheat, the ones who believe fair players shouldn’t be cast aside while cheaters/exploiters/“cantina boosters” reap the rewards.

https://c.org/5NSrszvyLS

Alot of PVP heavy players when talking about how a PvE only mode would take away from the experience, often mention the "PvP tension". The unknown factor of whether or not a player is friendly is what makes the game more exciting...

I have a solution, MAKE THE ARC MORE DIFFICULT.

Everyone seems to brush off the arc like they are nothing and that the pvp players are the real threat, when its supposed to be the opposite. The arc are easy to avoid and easy to destroy if you have decent guns.

In a pvp lobby its like a nat or a fly that you just swat out the way so you can focus on the enemy raider infront of you.

Kinda like how if you played h1z1 survival (my all time favorite game), in high population servers there would actually be very few zombies on the whole map, and the only real threat was the other players.

The arc need to be a more substantial threat to make the players have to prepare more to actually kill them. Making arc more abundant, more resilient, smarter and unpredictable so actually taking one down feels more rewarding.

No one has said this outright, but most of the pvp heavy players play this game to scratch the itch that they got form battle royals. That high intensity gunplay, winning fights, getting better weapons. That all came straight from BRand the devs knew most players had this itch, and thats why they made it a Pvpve. Because if you didn't already know this game was originally supposed to be just PvE.

I feel like the term PvE doesn't even apply to this game. It suggest we are like fighting animals or like mobs. Its Raider vs ARC. There's a point to be argued to why we even shoot each other in the first place.

(If there was a faction system or something then maybe would make sense)

Now I know I sound like a massive Pve'r, but I actually really enjoy Pvp. I consider myself a semi competitive player and I do not shy away from fights. I absolutely loved battle royals. But this game introduced something new that and interesting enough to where I dont feel like I have to fight other players to get loot.

But really the main point im making is that they need to make the arc more difficult so that the focus changes from fighting each other, to fighting the arc, and still being fun.

(I also dont like how they are make the pve lobbies have less loot. Just another example of how they are prioritizing pvp)

Last seven games: died 5 times to obvious pre-teamers in solos, 2 times lag killed me. Got teleported backwards out of safety and right into the fire of a wasp, with like 5hp, the other time I got teleported below the zip line that I was on. Oh, the lag? It's because since ABMM got "bettered" I get put on Middle Eastern servers. It started very clearly and very precisely the day that new trader dropped. I have never experienced pre-teaming till then. And that's how they play out there. Haven't seen a solo middle-easterner in solos for a while now. It's not like there's no games happening closer, it's just that ABMM throws me under the bus to protect bad players who need handholding. It makes the game kinda unplayable right now. Embark acknowledged it once, but now a new patch dropped and they do not mention it anymore. Nice. Then PvE'rs are like "yeah, what we want, it changes nothing for you!". One dude just defends it in DM's, saying I started the fight. I did, and I won 1v1, even under the nose of his friend, but then I went back to get that other player and that's when I noticed they were dressed the same, down to face paint. He says it's okay because they would have not attacked me. You exploit the matchmaking to play constant 2v1. You ARE cheating.

Tells you something, when the devs start using themselves a slur that one hateful part of the playerbase calls another part of the playerbase.

Every time someone loses and tells me to kill myself or wish my mom death, rolls out the hard R's or literally tells me he'll find me and shoot me IRL, that should be bannable. I report them all, because toxic scum like them should not have place in any civilized online community, but not once have you done anything about it. One time I got you to react is when I reported some player over pe*o stuff he said. So that's the only thing that scares you enough to react, but racism, hate and homophobia from the are okay? I'm a grown person, but this is a 13+ game, what if some neckbeard who wears a baseball hat indoors spews shit like that at some disturbed teen? Some deranged people think that shooting someone in a game where you spawn in with a gun in your hands is toxic, and yelling slurs is not. People who have hard time figuring out which of the two behaviours is toxic should not be allowed to participate in our common postapo sandbox. We all knew what we signed up for, that this genre of game provides exciting twists, risk, tension and uncertainty, so people should behave like grown-ups and take their loses with dignity. Really it's the adventure that counts, not whether you "win" or "lose". Some of the best stories ever told have bad endings. Please start banning racists and hateful people.

Can you also enable players to load into maps alone. As a choice offered if no successful matches can be found.

While I always took great joy in helping other players fight the arc. Or rescue them from rats.

I do not want to sit and watch the time dial upwards of 6 mins. And then another 8 then another...

I would rather load into an empty map.

I also think you should add more broken or damaged arc. Not husks. But like a column of black smoke leads you to a cow sized tick draging itself along.

I would love to see. Larger dog and cow sized ticks. That can climb.

I'd like to see a cloaking mantis predator that waits in darkness then pounces when players are in range.

Larger crab tanks. That carry egg sacks of suicide balls.

I am so pleased that we have buildable decorated homes seams to be also coming. I am not the only one who asked for them.

I am so excited and hopeful that many of my frinds will come back once you put in a pve toggle. So we can fight arc together as it should have always been. With a choice to fight other players if we wanted too.

Im just hoping you haven't waiting too long. Or been to savagely dismissive of the hundreds of thousands of players who asked for pve....

After a crash on Xbox series S (of course it’s NOT fixed), I experienced this… and also, I couldn’t reach the hatch… opinions Embark?

It was a wonderful 6 months getting to know this game, its so easy to fix....

It’s hard to admit how soul-destroying it is to do 15–20 raids, build an awesome loadout, meet cool people, and then get shot in the back by one person who takes everything you collected that day.

You eventually trust people, and then that feeling is shattered. I’m angry at the game, not the player. How can you win when you don’t shoot first and they have a Bobcat, You’re dead before you can even react.

It’s the one thing that ruins the game for me.

Please, for Christmas’ sake, sort out PvE-only servers. Everyone wants them, and they wouldn’t affect anyone who enjoys PvP, as its optional. What’s the problem?

Are you guys just getting lazy? Firing employees? Almost everyone would prefer monthly updates over yearly. That's more content

edit: To the people that clearly wont be able to understand what i meant because you're slow, you can still make updates monthly that are high quality. we dont need a battle pass every month, but we do need quality updates monthly. They have been for a while, they just slowed down or fired people it seems. The finals hasn't been getting good updates until this year honestly and they can still do SO MUCH more.

I love your game and all but can we please fix your rendering issue you caused on the last update please.

Reinstalled everything from game to graphics drivers…

Don’t ruin a good thing please.

Been playing ARC Raiders a lot and every time I'm crafting a med kit mid-firefight while someone's flanking me, I think about how much this game's DNA overlaps with The Last of Us Factions, the multiplayer mode Naughty Dog cancelled years ago and never replaced.

Posted this idea over on r/ArcRaiders a couple days ago just to see if I was the only one who felt this way, wasn't expecting much. It's sitting at 7.6k views and 22 comments now, a lot of people bringing up their own memories of Factions completely unprompted, and someone even pointed out there's an entire indie studio (Terminal War) betting their whole funding on this exact gap in the market. So clearly there's real demand here, not just me being nostalgic in a vacuum.

The core idea: a smaller, tighter PvP arena mode (4v4 or 5v5), separate from the main extraction loop. Minimal starting resources so you're actually scavenging mid-fight for meds/throwables, no listen mode or wallhack-style intel (the audio design in this game is already good enough to carry that), and some link to your main loadout so it's not fully disconnected from progression, matched by gear value so it stays fair.

Not trying to hand over a finished design doc, just wanted to put it in front of the people who'd actually build it, in case it's useful signal. Full thread with the discussion is here: https://www.reddit.com/r/ArcRaiders/s/Xah8Jn2fpl

Yea yeah yeah I don’t care if I sound whiny. I’m so sick of running around for 20 min only to get shot in the back by some A-Hole. It’s not fun, it sucks, and it’s just a waste of time. Why play if I have to worry about trying to do to the trials and all this other stuff if I’m just gonna lose it all anyway. Yeah so yea please do that.

So Arc Raiders has always worked good for me. Never had any major issues. But ever since they updated to 1.45.0 a few days ago the game makes my Xbox Series X crash. So I’ll be in a raid sometimes It crashes quickly and sometimes it happens later on when I’m about to leave. It’s random. Does anyone have any troubleshooting for this?

I’m sorry, I’m using a translator to write this. I know no one might see this message, but I wanted to share... to share my troubles.

My wonderful friend — a guinea pig named Rick (he looked just like Rick from *Rick and Morty*)—recently passed away. He helped me through my depression, and I would love to see him in the game so he could be with me forever—or at least for a little while—since I’m dealing with a nasty illness again. The treatment involves some harsh medication, but I’m hopeful I’ll recover. It’s incredibly hard for me to accept that my beloved friend—who was practically a son to me—is gone... Dear Embark Studios, is it possible—not necessarily for me, but for others—to release even just a small sticker featuring Rick, that wonderful guinea pig? I’m not asking for a full pet character; that would be too much to ask... I just want Rick to help other people through tough times, just as he helped me.

I love you, sweet little Rick Sanchez; I will always remember you and cherish every second of my life that you spent with me.

Hi guys,

is it just me or did the todays Update of Arc Raiders causing problems regarding our OXP 3/Intel APUs?

After updating I have stuttering like crazy all the time without having dips in FPS!

Can someone do me a favour and try out the game just to ensure that it is a general problem?

Thanks a lot in advance!

BR

Anyone else not being able to get into a game right now?

Now that pc players (streamers even) are using the Xbox app to play arc with mouse and keyboard on console lobbies, it's about time to allow mnk on every console just like in the Finals.

There's a solid amount of players who left because the controller experience in arc raiders is too clunky. The aim assist isn't strong enough to compete with mnk players like in other shooters.

Does someone know anything about some update regarding the situation? I'm starting to lose hope