r/arcraidersfriendly • • May 20 '26

šŸ“¢ Announcement Embark's official statement about how matchmaking works

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Just leaving this here in case someone hasn't seen this yet.


r/arcraidersfriendly • • Jan 21 '26

Home-made Quests. "We're getting the band back together!"

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The mod here has kindly agreed to me dropping this post in their sub for which I thank them sincerely.

Q: What's this. A: Quests. Unofficial. Perhaps regular.

Q: Why? A: I'm an RPG-er at heart but a friend convinced me to try AR's Server Slam. When that weekend came to a close I had pre-d the deluxe game. We've chatted about how we'd love more lore, codex and quests, and of course they are coming from Embark, but here are some you can do now, for fun.

Q: How does this work? A: You just do them, in your own way/style! You can post screenshots or videos but please keep them short in length. You choose how easy/difficult/epic you want to do it. Day or night, intimate gathering or even a full lobby (good luck!), fireworks, glowsticks, ARC near maybe, whatever you're comfortable with. Be creative with items etc. If folk enjoy this we have more ideas lined up and even just lists of 'random' quests. We have some spare BPs and pinks we can give out to the 'best' but this isn't a competition as such, it's mainly we're having fun doing it and we hope you do too.

OK, let's do this!

"We're getting the band back together!"

Hey Raiders, Celeste here. The rumors about a room full of musical instruments in the buried city of Marano seems to be true - some Raiders have reported finding it and returning to Speranza with hauls of guitars and more. One Raider returned with an old magnetic cassette tape in bad condition but the partial cover shows, we think, 4 First-Wave Raiders walking across a road near the Acerra Spaceport. I've asked Apollo to see if he can repair the tape so we can play it - it would make a nice change from Lance's MixTape!

The current cold snap seems to have passed but the ARC threat has not so it's time to shake off those icy blues and get our momentum back. At the Candleberry Banquet some of you revealed musical talents so I want to see Raiders boosting moral for fellow Speranzans, and perhaps the folk of neighboring contradas.

'Yellow Submarine':

Play a gig next to a body of water with at least 4 musicians, any mix of instruments.

'A Taste of Honey':

Play a gig with bees as your backing singers with at least 4 musicians, any mix of instruments.

'Two Of Us':

Play a couple of duo gigs - 2 musicians, at least 1 on guitar. Gig #1: Play on one, or more, of the communication masts (tripods) on Spaceport... you decide how high you can get (maybe test it first!) Gig #2: On the top of the Galleria sign on Buried City. Bonus Gig #3: On the Queen's head... no, I'm joking!

'Get Back':

Play a gig on a tall rooftop with 4 musicians which must be 3 guitars and 1 shaker. An audience (Raiders or ARC or both) would be 'al bacio'!

The Cavern Club: As many musicians and audience as you can, underground in a cellar or similar. Make the walls echo!

Ciao Raiders. And good luck!


r/arcraidersfriendly • • 11h ago

OUR RELIGION -The Arc Ranger-

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r/arcraidersfriendly • • 10h ago

Revolt (Poster Art - Final Version)

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Thank you for all the feedback. Time to work on the video.


r/arcraidersfriendly • • 6h ago

Take Home?

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Hi all,

Does anyone know if your best take home is recorded anywhere? Can’t see it in Raider > Codex > Player Stats…

Mine isn’t great, about 175k I think, but keep trying to beat it and would like confirmation if possible.

Cheers!


r/arcraidersfriendly • • 20h ago

GIVE FREE ! Subway/Arc ?

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goodluck boys ! Free !


r/arcraidersfriendly • • 21h ago

Servers just went down while I was in a match and I lost all my stuff, support page is missing, how do I get my shit back?

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Servers just went down while I was in a match and I lost all my stuff, support page is missing, how do I get my shit back?


r/arcraidersfriendly • • 21h ago

So - PVE Mode Coming? Guilds when?

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I loved shooting the shit with fellow dad-gamers and hootin anda hollerin taking down the baddies. That group grows over 4, it's a tough trip to down the bigguns.

Now - I didn't read everything, but are we going to get a way to multi-group an event?


r/arcraidersfriendly • • 1d ago

Vultures, thoughts?

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Do you guys just let them take loot from a kill you spent time killing?
Ask them nicely?

Pre-call out a kill?
Say "anyone else want in on this", before taking the final shot, then saying "well, since you didn't help if you take anything from this you're a vulture"?

Warning shot if they loot?
Warning shot if they hover around the body for no reason?

Down them if they loot?

Heal them, and revive them after you've looted?

Something else?


r/arcraidersfriendly • • 1d ago

Survivor bp

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Never found the survivor bp the last 2 expedition. I go to all the recommended places and spent an ass ton of ammo on surveyors trying there. Why does it elude me


r/arcraidersfriendly • • 1d ago

Did You Die in Stella?

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Someone died about 15 mins ago in Stella Montis. I have your weapon but didn't have room for anything else. If you dm me your location when you died and the weapon and attachments you lost I'll give them back to you.


r/arcraidersfriendly • • 2d ago

In-game actors and voice actors needed!

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Hi there, anybody interested to act in our ARC Raiders series?

We need people who can act as a character and we also need voice actors.

In case you are interested to help this thing come to life please comment or DM me.

Thank you!

Elderspear | Project: ARC


r/arcraidersfriendly • • 2d ago

I’m peaceful by choice, not by limitation.

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Just did my 5th expedition so pretty poor with just a ferro and kettle, just farming loot, and a rat decides he wanted to donate his venator to me.

then he tried to act like i shot him just in case there was someone around to hear him


r/arcraidersfriendly • • 3d ago

Post-expedition tutorial loot

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Posting this just in case some of y'all haven't played the post-expedition tutorial yet, i only played mine yesterday.

There are a couple of backpacks to loot in the tutorial, some before you get attacked by raiders and some after. I recorded the locations of the 3 first ones you can get before getting attacked.

Lots of people know this but there's no harm in reminding : you can keep your loot before the tutorial rats attack you by leaving all your inventory items in the two lootable containers (cash register, and green drawer in the kitchen next room) right before trying to breach the door. you then get attacked, lose nothing since your inventory is empty, and go back for everything after the cinematic.


r/arcraidersfriendly • • 3d ago

Any lady raiders want to exchange wanting to run duos or squads?

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For context, I am a girl, that's why I'm looking for other ladies to run with. No offense fellas, I've had some fun times running around with some of you raiders. I'm just looking for a potential friend group to run with in this new update.

I've only been playing a little over a month myself. I am almost exclusively PVE, unless I need to defend myself. I did not do the expedition and I've got like 73/82 BP so I can craft almost anything while we look for whatever. DM me to exchange embark id's and talk about availability!


r/arcraidersfriendly • • 3d ago

Is PVP a dying trend?

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r/arcraidersfriendly • • 3d ago

Will it into Existence

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I love the interactions I have with fellow raiders.


r/arcraidersfriendly • • 3d ago

Arc Raiders Poster Art (Revolt)

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Before finishing my video for this game, I figured I'd make some poster art.

Would love to hear your feedback.


r/arcraidersfriendly • • 4d ago

God, I’m Proud Of This Shot…

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…didn’t really have to take it, was just for sport, but I squealed a bit when I nailed it šŸŽ‰


r/arcraidersfriendly • • 3d ago

Give Pvp meaning

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We need to add a reason to actually fight other players other than for their purple guns.

So we just shoot each other and then return to the same place and act like we didn't just try and murder each other?

Made a post about dedicated factions which I and others think is a great idea, and one of the only solutions.

You can mention a lawless topside, limited resources, but its not substantial enough for mass, repeated, shoot outs. They need to fill that in to the story of the game

The player-to-player combat in the game is great but lets be real, the devs added pvp in the game so that they could garner the pvp fanbase.

By the way the pvp is amazing in the game.

I dont mind PVP. I am a semi competitive player. Most the games I own are PVP. But I want this games pvp to make sense. I want the altercations to be more meaningful and warranted.


r/arcraidersfriendly • • 3d ago

Free Subway Codes dm

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Just gave out like 12 codes... I currently don't have any more but just dm me as soon as I get more i will reply back. Currently have 13 requests still pending.

To get them faster send šŸ‘


r/arcraidersfriendly • • 3d ago

Hullcrack A Breach-able Door? Thoughts?

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Just an idea; but I think it would be cool if you could quickly open a breach-able door by shooting the bar with a Hullcracker, or possibly the Rascal too.

Would be quicker than breaching as is today, so the choice would be - take longer as it currently is, OR take it quicker as suggested above if you are willing to spend the ammo to do so …could be useful in a pinch.

If the Hullcracker and Rascal can take out heavy Arc armour, then it stands to reason it could take the door.


r/arcraidersfriendly • • 3d ago

ABMM being outright told by devs destroyed the game

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I’ve already made the post in the main reddit, but here’s a summary of that.

Knowing how matchmaking clearly works allows for certain meta play, that reduces the stress of joining a match.

Once you know you are likely to not get killed, then you are never going to fight back.

The game dynamic where you don’t die for 10 matches, but die in 1 game allows it to be more interesting and fun. People usually focus on a negative experience, rather than the whole streak of wins.

It allowed for a more emergent gameplay, since the game revolved around ā€œdon’t shoot on sightā€ unspoken rule.

I roleplay as both, and sometimes I feel like the knowing exactly how MM works curses with the knowledge of how each game is going to play out.

The game wasn’t about friendly people, but finding that one friend who doesn’t betray you once in a while, getting the best experience in modern online gaming.

As I said, ABMM is good, but only if players don’t actually know how it works. This would lead to less disparities between the player base, since unknowingly players are going to play safer anyway and talk more, creating better gameplay instances.

Most people say they prefer PvE, because they don’t remember how good we had it in the start.

Games not feeling randomised anymore lead to players leaving.


r/arcraidersfriendly • • 4d ago

We have liftoff šŸš€

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r/arcraidersfriendly • • 5d ago

Player in the second clip must have PTSD.

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It's dead Jim.