Theo Marsh
ARC Raiders Specialist & Guide Writer
Riven Tides holds some of the richest locked-loot rooms in ARC Raiders. Ten keycards live here — spread across the Hotel Panorama Azzurro, the Stacking Yard, an...
Theo Marsh
ARC Raiders Specialist & Guide Writer
Frozen Trail is the next major ARC Raiders update, and Embark Studios is calling it their biggest yet — the largest update they will have released since launch....
Theo Marsh
ARC Raiders Specialist & Guide Writer
TL;DR — Store Update 1.38.0 (July 21, 2026) started a live test of ARC Raiders' matchmaking algorithm, and Embark warned up front that matches "may tak...
Theo Marsh
ARC Raiders Specialist & Guide Writer
The ARC Raiders skill tree is the backbone of your Raider's out-of-raid progression: 76 leveling-derived Skill Points, plus Expedition bonuses, split across...
Theo Marsh
ARC Raiders Specialist & Guide Writer
The Fourth Expedition departed on July 21, 2026, and with it gone the Fifth Expedition caravan is now live — the fifth and, for most players, the last reset you...
Theo Marsh
ARC Raiders Specialist & Guide Writer
You've seen the padlocked door on the big civic building in the middle of Buried City and walked away. That building is the Town Hall, and the only thing st...
Theo Marsh
ARC Raiders Specialist & Guide Writer
The Anvil is the gun half of r/ArcRaiders swears by and the other half can't seem to unlock. Load into any lobby and someone is running one; open the crafti...
Theo Marsh
ARC Raiders Specialist & Guide Writer
The Survivor augment — properly called Looting Mk. 3 (Survivor) — is the augment most Raiders reach for. It carries the highest weight limit in the game (80), p...
Theo Marsh
ARC Raiders Specialist & Guide Writer
When a Hurricane rolls across Topside in ARC Raiders, the smart Raiders stop fighting and start farming. The storm's 2× loot modifier and its exclusive Firs...
Theo Marsh
ARC Raiders Specialist & Guide Writer
Riven Tides is the sixth (and newest) playable map in ARC Raiders, unlocked after you complete 20 raids, and it sits near the top of the difficulty curve at Dif...
Theo Marsh
ARC Raiders Specialist & Guide Writer
If you've killed the Queen, watched her collapse in a heap of scrap, and then walked away with nothing while three rats looted the corpse in front of you — ...
Theo Marsh
ARC Raiders Specialist & Guide Writer
Embark just did something rare in the extraction-shooter world: it's giving away a genuinely great-looking cosmetic set, and all you have to do is play anot...
Theo Marsh
ARC Raiders Specialist & Guide Writer
Update 1.36.0 just made the single most dangerous target on Riven Tides worth chasing again. Embark has significantly increased the loot dropped by the ARC Turb...
Theo Marsh
ARC Raiders Specialist & Guide Writer
TL;DR — Update 1.36.0 changed ARC Raiders matchmaking so your Solo, Duo, and Trio playstyles are now tracked separately. In plain terms: if you quest quietly wh...
Theo Marsh
ARC Raiders Specialist & Guide Writer
Coins are the engine of everything in ARC Raiders — better guns, augments, stash space, and the gear you need to survive Stella Montis. But most of the "ma...
Theo Marsh
ARC Raiders Specialist & Guide Writer
ARC Coolant is a Rare crafting material you salvage from destroyed ARC machines in ARC Raiders. It sells for around 1,000 Raider Coins, recycles into a stack of...
Theo Marsh
ARC Raiders Specialist & Guide Writer
ARC Raiders Update 1.36.0 goes live on July 7, 2026, and it flips two of the game's biggest progression tracks over at once: Trials Season 5 "Prove You...
Theo Marsh
ARC Raiders Specialist & Guide Writer
Season 5 Trials go live July 7, 2026 at 12:00 UTC and run until September 30, 2026 (per the official Season 5 announcement) — and Week 1 is the single best time...
Theo Marsh
ARC Raiders Specialist & Guide Writer
Rusted Gears are one of the most searched-for and most frustrating items in ARC Raiders — a Rare recyclable that gatekeeps your Gunsmith workshop upgrade, yet b...
Theo Marsh
ARC Raiders Specialist & Guide Writer
If you just unlocked the Nomadic Envoys and saw the wall of ARC materials Ermal wants, you already hit the question the whole community is asking: buy Stash Exp...
Theo Marsh
ARC Raiders Specialist & Guide Writer
Trials Season 4 ends July 7, 2026, and Season 5 goes live the same day. If you want the full Blindspot Set from Season 4 and a head start on the new Scorta rewa...
Theo Marsh
ARC Raiders Specialist & Guide Writer
Ermal, the Nomadic Envoy, is a Level 25 barter trader in Speranza who swaps rotating weekly rewards for big-ticket ARC parts — and the Turbine Compressor and Va...
Theo Marsh
ARC Raiders Specialist & Guide Writer
The Medium Gun Parts Blueprint is one of the most-searched, least-understood unlocks in ARC Raiders — and for good reason. Medium Gun Parts are the crafting mat...
Theo Marsh
ARC Raiders Specialist & Guide Writer
The Kinetic Converter is a Legendary stock mod that moderately raises your gun's fire rate in exchange for more recoil — and it's everywhere right now b...