Arc Raiders Dev Outlines Expedition Changes After Players Criticized Steep Reward Requirements

Embark Studios has opened up astir however it volition marque the 2nd Expedition successful Arc Raiders much enticing aft the archetypal near its assemblage wanting more.

The developer down the fashionable sci-fi extraction shooter updated fans with a blog station connected its website. Included are a February 25 sign-up day and a March 1 departure day for the relationship reset event, arsenic players are told to look guardant to much worthwhile rewards earlier sending their beloved Raiders into the chartless and starting from scratch.

Arc Raiders Expedition Breakdown. Image courtesy of Embark Studios.

Stash worth requirements were the archetypal happening Embark addressed, telling fans that they’ll present request conscionable 3 cardinal coins to scope the maximum bonus of 5 accomplishment points. That means you’ll request lone 600,000 per point, a importantly much achievable task than the erstwhile Expedition’s inquire of 1 cardinal per accomplishment point.

What’s more, Raiders who participated the archetypal clip astir but didn’t amass capable coins tin payment from a caller catch-up feature. Missed points tin beryllium claimed for 300,000 each, with coins archetypal going toward Expedition 2 earlier being utilized for the constitution points for Expedition 1. In different words, you’ll request the 3 cardinal for the 5 caller accomplishment points and an further 300,000 per accomplishment constituent missed. As Raiders leap into Expeditions for the archetypal time, they’ll request to commencement by unlocking rewards from Expedition 1, leaving the catch-up diagnostic lone for returning players.

Other caller imperishable rewards for the 2nd reset see a caller Scrappy outfit, an evolved Patchwork outfit with much toggles and colors, and, thankfully, 12 much stash abstraction slots. Returning expeditioners summation 5% much XP (10% total), a 6% boost to Scrappy materials (12% total), and a 10% summation to repair worth (70% total).

All of the upcoming changes to Expeditions get aft Embark noted a somewhat disappointing reception to its archetypal ace astatine the relationship hitch feature. Design manager Virgil Watkins told PCGamesN past period that "a small implicit a cardinal players" successfully cleared their accounts and suggested the workplace would support its receptor to the crushed going forward.

"We wholly admit that it isn't the astir engaging happening to conscionable spell for money," helium said astatine the time, "[and it has] the imaginable result of disincentivizing utilizing your gear, which is benignant of what radical look guardant to towards the extremity of a reset cycle. So yeah, we're looking astatine revisions connected that."

Arc Raiders launched for PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X | S October 30, 2025. Its Escalation roadmap laid retired Embark’s aboriginal 2026 plans precocious past month, with Expedition windows planned for February and April. Headwinds kicked things disconnected with a solo vs. squads queue enactment and the Bird City representation information erstwhile it arrived January 27.

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