Theo Marsh
ARC Raiders Specialist & Guide Writer
Map conditions are scheduled, time-limited modifiers that change a sector's weather, hazards, enemies and loot for a set window — and each of ARC Raiders...
Theo Marsh
ARC Raiders Specialist & Guide Writer
The Fourth Expedition is the biggest shake-up to ARC Raiders' seasonal loop yet: Embark is scrapping Skill Points for a brand-new Mystery Rewards system, an...
Theo Marsh
ARC Raiders Specialist & Guide Writer
There is no single "best" loadout in ARC Raiders — there is a best loadout for what you're doing. A PvP fight, an ARC boss farm, and a budget scra...
Theo Marsh
ARC Raiders Specialist & Guide Writer
The best items to sell in ARC Raiders are lightweight trinkets and valuables (the diamond-symbol "Misc" items), because they exist only to be sold and...
Theo Marsh
ARC Raiders Specialist & Guide Writer
The Canto is the Rare submachine gun half of r/ArcRaiders is suddenly chasing — a cheap-to-craft, easy-to-use SMG that PC Gamer flatly calls "a new rare-qu...
Theo Marsh
ARC Raiders Specialist & Guide Writer
Cantina Legend is the single highest rank in ARC Raiders' Trials system — reserved for the top 100 players in the world each season. It sits one step above ...
Theo Marsh
ARC Raiders Specialist & Guide Writer
The robots are the whole point of ARC Raiders — and knowing which one you're looking at, and exactly where to shoot it, is the difference between a clean ex...
Theo Marsh
ARC Raiders Specialist & Guide Writer
The Expedition is the most misunderstood system in ARC Raiders — half the playerbase thinks it's a raid you queue into, the other half is terrified it'l...
Theo Marsh
ARC Raiders Specialist & Guide Writer
If you main ARC Raiders, you have seen the argument a hundred times: "ABMM is real," "ABMM is a lie," "I never shoot anyone and still g...
Theo Marsh
ARC Raiders Specialist & Guide Writer
Scrappy is the easiest free loot generator in ARC Raiders — and most Raiders are running him at half power because they never fill his food queue. Feed him the ...
Theo Marsh
ARC Raiders Specialist & Guide Writer
Stella Montis is ARC Raiders' endgame map — the smallest, the deadliest, and the one with the highest-value loot in the game. The Medical Storage Key opens ...
Theo Marsh
ARC Raiders Specialist & Guide Writer
The Silver Teaspoon Set is one of the best coin-per-kilo loot items in ARC Raiders — a tiny 0.3 kg trinket that sells for a flat 3,000 Coins with zero crafting ...
Theo Marsh
ARC Raiders Specialist & Guide Writer
The Tempest is the assault rifle everyone in r/ArcRaiders is chasing — and its blueprint is widely called one of, if not the, rarest drop in the game. If you...
Theo Marsh
ARC Raiders Specialist & Guide Writer
The Spaceport Trench Tower Key is one of the best value keys in ARC Raiders — and most players sleep on it because it's only Uncommon. Don't. This cheap...
Theo Marsh
ARC Raiders Specialist & Guide Writer
The Blue Gate Confiscation Room Key is one of the more confusing keys in ARC Raiders — not because the room is hard to clear, but because finding the door means...
Theo Marsh
ARC Raiders Specialist & Guide Writer
The Nomadic Envoys are ARC Raiders' newest trader — a wandering surface tribe whose envoy, Ermal, sets up a makeshift stall in Speranza and refreshes his go...
Theo Marsh
ARC Raiders Specialist & Guide Writer
If you've fought the Queen or the Matriarch lately, you already know the real fight isn't the boss — it's the scramble for cores the moment her legs...
Theo Marsh
ARC Raiders Specialist & Guide Writer
Most locked rooms in ARC Raiders want a keycard. The Power Rod room on Dam Battlegrounds is the odd one out — it's sealed behind a door that doesn't tak...
Theo Marsh
ARC Raiders Specialist & Guide Writer
The Dam Control Tower Key has a reputation, and it's earned. It opens a room at the very top of the most contested structure on Dam Battlegrounds — a tower ...
Theo Marsh
ARC Raiders Specialist & Guide Writer
A Vaporizer is the flying laser drone that turns a quiet ARC Operation into a panic sprint for cover. It has a nasty energy shield, a laser that paints the grou...
Theo Marsh
ARC Raiders Specialist & Guide Writer
The Damage Turbines Trial is one of the most punishing weekly objectives in ARC Raiders right now, and the r/ArcRaiders front page proves it — Raiders are eatin...
Theo Marsh
ARC Raiders Specialist & Guide Writer
The Converging Paths Project is the season-long objective chain that headlines ARC Raiders Live Update 1.33.0, and unlike the Forgotten Relics event running bes...
Theo Marsh
ARC Raiders Specialist & Guide Writer
Stella Montis is ARC Raiders' endgame map — the smallest, the deadliest, and the one with the highest-value loot in the game. The Assembly Admin Key opens a...
Theo Marsh
ARC Raiders Specialist & Guide Writer
Most ARC Raiders keys open a single locked room. The Dam Testing Annex Key is one of the few that points you at a building with two locked rooms — a pair of con...