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Seemingly at odds with its generally slow actions and limited stamina (even with the best skills to boost your athleticism), Arc Raiders is brimming with broken movement tech. You can leap off a skyscraper, and as long as you grab a ledge or slide at the perfect time, you’re miraculously able to survive. You can […]

There are a lot of different bottled crafting materials in Arc Raiders, such as antiseptic, crude explosives, and synthesised fuel. So, when you’re sent to find three laboratory reagents to upgrade your Explosives Station from level two to three, it’s harder than it should be to know where to start and what they really look […]

Uh oh, Arc Raiders servers are down again. Reports of outages with the extraction shooter began around 10AM PST and seem to be persisting over an hour later. I just tried to log in and hit a “queue” for the first time since launch day, suggesting a lot people are trying to login at the […]

Recent updates 12:07 PM PST: Looks like we’re finally back online. After sitting in a login queue for a half hour, I was able to successfully enter a match and play normally (couldn’t find the motors I’m looking for, though). I tried logging back in just to check, and it looks like the queue has […]

I won’t lie, I haven’t really paid much attention to attachments in Arc Raiders up until now. I’d never equip them until my stash was full and I needed to free up space, and even then, I’d just slap them on whatever gun would accept them, all willy-nilly. It was a means to an end, […]

Trials in Arc Raiders is effectively a ranking system where you compete against other players for high scores on five challenges each week. When you complete a task for this week’s challenges, you’ll earn points towards that objective and earn a place on the leaderboard. The competition can get intense, to say the least. But […]

It only took about three weeks for fellow Arc Raiders players to turn against one another en masse, as two popular streamers jokingly waged war against one another. But like most things on the internet, it got out of hand and has since been brought to a close, we hope. If you have no clue […]

Picking Up the Pieces Shani Visit any area on your map with a loot category icon Loot three containers Trash into Treasure Shani Obtain six Wires Obtain one Battery Clearer Skies Shani Destroy three Arc enemies Get three Arc Alloy Off The Radar Shani Visit a Field Depot Repair the antenna on the roof of […]

I don’t know about you, but when I go down in virtually any game, I’m immediately crawling around, going on a journey. I’m on the brink of death, sure, but that’s not gonna stop me dancing and shimmying about for literally no reason other than it’s hard to sit still, like I’m a child who’s […]

Swapping weapons, reloading, healing, and climbing, most things in Arc Raiders take a hell of a lot of time to do. Nowhere is this clearer than when you’re carrying the crates required to open and loot Field Depots, which you’ll have to slowly lug across the map with no access to your guns. This annoying […]

Arc Raiders players are generally a friendly bunch, especially for an extraction shooter. It’s odd, really, that over half of the game’s population on Steam has barely engaged in PvP, and 18% have never even knocked out a raider. Just think of all the loot they could be carrying. Maybe they’ve even got one of […]

Rory Norris, Guides Writer (Image credit: Future) Last week I was: teaming up with players in Arc Raiders, and blasting the mean ones. This week I’ve been: clearing out my stash and filling it up just as quickly by engaging in more PvP. I’ve praised Arc Raiders a lot since launch, perhaps above all else […]

Dying in Arc Raiders sucks—it’s the low of extraction shooters. But what’s worse than losing all the stuff you came in and found during your run is losing it all because you did something truly stupid. I’ve been there before, crossing the creek in Dam Battlegrounds ahead of my group, I failed to look both […]

The Communication Hideout quest in Arc Raiders has a few tricky steps, one of which involves locating a missing battery cell around the Red Tower, while another involves tracking down a terminal concealed around the outside of the building. On the plus side, though, this quest doesn’t require you to extract anything, so you can […]

More quizzes! (Image credit: Larian Studios, PC Gamer) Want to keep testing your knowledge of gaming trivia? We’ve got loads more PC Gamer quizzes, on everything from healthbars to weird currencies to absurd patch notes. Having the best guns in Arc Raiders is helpful and all, but I’d say knowing your surroundings is actually more […]

There’s an observable phenomena in Arc Raiders that dictates the somewhat rare material that you used to easily find all the time will suddenly disappear from all maps once you actually need it. For me, that’s Arc Raiders’ rusted gears, a mid-level crafting material needed to upgrade the gunsmith bench. The search has been going […]

Generally speaking, it’s the players you can’t see that pose the most danger to you in Arc Raiders. Chances are, players who stroll on up to you and make their presence known just want to be your friend, or they’ll openly betray you later on but you’ll often see that coming, to be honest. Either […]

Completing The Major’s Footlocker in Arc Raiders is one of the easier quests you can expect to encounter. All you really have to do is find a footlocker in an apartment building for Tian Wen. The only problem? There are multiple apartment areas on Dam Battlegrounds, each with their own separate buildings. Sure, you’ll find […]

With its uniquely terrifying robots and opportunities to both team up and betray fellow players, Arc Raiders is a remarkably cinematic and theatrical experience. I’ve had plenty of great encounters already, like making friends with someone after I killed and looted their buddy, or persuading a bloodthirsty player not to kill me and to protect […]

Since the Stella Montis update added the Aphelion, we’ve had access to three legendary weapons in Arc Raiders. Well, that was the idea, at least, but the Aphelion blueprint seemingly wasn’t dropping for anyone. Thanks to the new 1.3 update patch notes, the drop rate has been increased, and it’s officially out in the wild—for […]

Until now, most Arc Raiders patch notes have been little more than bug fixes and a few crafting balance changes. Welcome tweaks, of course, but no real swings at specific weapons and items. And that’s not completely unwarranted, as I’d say most guns are pretty well-balanced right now. But while everyone’s been singing the praises […]

Finding Celeste’s Journals in Arc Raiders is one of the later quests you’ll get given by Speranza’s leader. She asks you to head to Dam Battlegrounds and track down two of her old diaries from the original Arc War days that she lost at various Raider outposts. The first one is easy enough, but the […]

MORGAN PARK, STAFF WRITER (Image credit: Future) Last week: Beat Halo: CE, Halo 2, and almost Halo 3. November is Halo month. OK, I’ll admit it: Arc Raiders can get a little boring when you’re a pacifist. Casually waving hello to solo raiders as they loot the locker you were hoping to have to yourself […]

The best guns in Arc Raiders are a surprisingly subjective thing. As objectively powerful as the Anvil is, and I do love it, I won’t hide the fact that I think I actually prefer using the common Ferro instead. My favourite weapon so far, though, has to be the Stitcher; it’s a breeze to use […]

It’s been just under a week since Arc Raiders players were let loose in the claustrophobic corridors of Stella Montis, and what a week it’s been. To celebrate the successful update, Embark Studios gave us a little look into how the action has played out. “Congrats to every Raider who staked their claim on Stella […]

Most people would agree that the Hairpin, a suppressed single-action pistol, is far from being one of the best guns in Arc Raiders. In fact, it’s the worst at basically anything other than being remarkably cheap and pretty quiet. I’d bet that most players have either never used it or just once and never again. […]

The Back on Top quest in Arc Raiders is yet another of those tasks, like Greasing Her Palms, that sees you heading to multiple regions, in this case to find and mark some potential Raider outpost sites. There are four buildings you have to mark across Dam Battlegrounds, Buried City, Spaceport, and The Blue Gate, […]

The Unexpected Initiative quest in Arc Raiders is the jankiest one I’ve played so far, partly because it asks you to acquire items you can also get in other locations, but still gives you specific location-based objectives you have to complete. For example, if you’ve got a water pump and fertiliser in your stash already, […]

The new Arc Raiders map, Stella Montis, is already a death maze. Cramped corridors swarming with Arc and greedy raiders, chances are you’ll get caught up in at least a few fights as you scramble to find your bearings and get to the extract before time runs out. It’s tricky, but one raider is hellbent […]