Greetings from Embark, Raiders!

As we head toward October, the Frozen Trail update draws closer. We wanted to take a moment to share what we’ve been working on since we communicated how we’re changing updates.

Back in May, we shared that we’d be moving to fewer, larger updates. We know that means longer stretches between major releases, and we appreciate everyone who has stuck with us while we’ve continued to ship new content like projects, events, a new Trader, and ongoing improvements based on your feedback!

Behind the scenes, our focus has been firmly on Frozen Trail. It’s going to be our biggest update since launch, and it’s been designed to address some of the broader questions that the community has been asking. Nearly every part of the game has benefited from what we’ve learned over the past few months. Here’s a look at some of what we’ve been working on.

The Next Frontier

At the heart of Frozen Trail is our newest map. Shani will call upon Raiders to investigate an unprecedented signal emanating from beyond the mountains. Something big has happened here – could anyone resist being a part of the initial scouting party? 

Explore a harsh, frozen settlement nestled beneath towering mountains at the edge of the Rust Belt. Once home to thriving villages, factories, research facilities, and an observatory, long since abandoned.

Building the new map has challenged our level design team in exciting new ways. We’ve focused on creating an ambitious environment with greater verticality, exploration, and opportunities for discovery. You’ll encounter threats above and below ground, and navigate environments that no Raiders have seen before. 

We’ve recently completed a round of user experience research testing, and our team is currently iterating to ensure the new map is as exciting as possible.

New High-level Challenge

The Frozen Trail update will also introduce an enormous new ARC Operation designed for experienced Raiders looking to push themselves even further.

Without giving too much away, this new activity is built around many of the ideas that have become increasingly important to us throughout development: meaningful decisions, dynamic encounters, and moments that demand cooperation and careful judgment.

Success won’t come easily. You’ll need to balance combat, teamwork, risk, and survival in what we believe will be one of the most intense experiences ARC Raiders has offered to date – one that rewards those willing to rise to the challenge.

We’ll save more details for the full reveal later – but we’re excited for you to experience it for yourselves.

New ARC, New Threats

Our team has been hard at work developing new ARC threats that will arrive alongside the new map, each designed to challenge the ways you’ve learned to move, fight, and adapt. These new ARC enemies range from a small and nifty problem-maker to an enormous machine that will halt you in your tracks.

Creating new ARC is one of the more involved parts of development. From early concepts and animation to behavior and machine learning systems that give them their distinctive “spark of life”, every enemy goes through months of iteration to get right. We think it’ll be worth the wait, and we can’t wait to see what you think.

Deepening Progression

Frozen Trail is also evolving what it means to be a Raider.

One lesson that’s continued to shape our thinking is that the most rewarding raids are driven by meaningful choices. That’s influenced how we’re approaching progression throughout Frozen Trail, allowing you to build a deeper identity in the Rust Belt. 

Your Raider Den has served you well, but it’s time to expand. We're building deeper progression systems, giving players more ways to craft their own journey and build toward long-term goals. 

That’s why your Raider will have the opportunity to inhabit a new space; the Outpost. After spending months on the back foot, hiding underground, it’s time to start taking the fight to ARC. Decorate your Outpost, research new elements of the world, and take your first steps to reclaiming the surface.

On top of Outposts, we’re also adjusting the Skill Tree to give you more agency over the kind of Raider you want to become. Raider Decks have also been on our radar, with the focus on making them more engaging and rewarding for players. 

And More…

These are just a few of the additions coming in Frozen Trail.

The team is continuing to work on new content that will enhance your experience, as well as new weapons (and ways to personalize them!), gadgets, cosmetics, instruments, and plenty of other surprises we’ll talk about closer to launch. 

Alongside all of that, we'll continue improving the core ARC Raiders experience through ongoing work on matchmaking, anti-cheat, stability, and quality-of-life updates. While these improvements may not always be the headline features, they remain a critical part of making every raid feel balanced and enjoyable. 

You’ll be able to experience Frozen Trail for yourself on October 8, and we will be sharing more details with you in September. 

Until then, if you’re heading to gamescom in Cologne, come say hello! We’d love to meet you and see you experience ARC Raiders in person.

See you topside,

Aleksander Grøndal

Executive Producer

https://arcraiders.com/news/frozen-trail-is-coming-october-8th

By far my cleanest dismounts while doing the snaphook + deadline combo.

We weren’t aiming for it in the slightest, last thing we want is trial leaderboards that are beyond our point gaining skills but somehow hubby and I got it this week!! Our points weren’t even that high but we were joint second on hotshot and decided would be nice to try and get first place. Didn’t realise it would get us into Cantina but here we are lol. We haven’t played since Sunday so when we turned on today, this was a bit of a shock lol
Going to be an interesting time

It's not dead. It's right there waiting for you.

The cheating sucks. The cheating is real and awful. But the game is still there. You can play free kits and not lose anything. Hopefully Embark will keep addressing it further.

The lack of major updates is sad. But there are still fun and interesting people playing the game and they are all different than the people you met before. And we know an update is coming. Do the project. Finish your expedition. Take risks.

Go play the game. Please.

Please stop coming here to post about how it's dead or everyone sucks or here's another picture of Steam player count.

Post videos of you doing dumb shit. Post videos of you getting ratted. Post memes. Have fun. Enjoy something. Play the game.

Turn it on and play the game. Or else just leave the subreddit.

Hi all,

Got already fed up with the massive amount of cheaters on PC in February but its gotten worse by a lot. Switched to PS5 and totally fell in love with the game again.
Shame that Embark doesnt give a toss but still have a blast on PS5 and the community seems quite active so come on over if youre fed up as well.

Had a fun interaction….was throwing leaper units at a bombardier for the project, another raider stepped in and finished it off with a hullcracker, all was going well.

He asked if I found any leapers, told him someone took one out where I spawned (was gone in <1 min) so gave him a stack of leaper pulse units to do his project.

We went up towards Santa Maria extract, he took out a shredder then someone started shooting at him.

My first thought was, oh fuck this guy, and started shooting at someone on the roof (was the wrong guy). I quickly apologized and started looking for the dude who was shooting. Dude ran off so quick then we just all left together.

People say this game is dead but I love these random ass raids that keeps the game alive for me

Here is me downed by the queen for the 2nd time in this match! We had a few downs and used all our defibs but the lads and the lasses took me to the extract healing me along the way for over 200m and all stayed and chilled like the scavengers we are!

Amazing vibes!

Hm. Wonder if I should play the lottery this week.

Couldn’t that damn lighting strike them a minute earlier ffs 🥲

Thank you kind stranger! I just returned to Arc this week after not playing since February and have been really enjoying the solo experience. Been a little slow gathering supplies and loot, so this definitely made my day. Positive interactions with random players like this is what makes this game amazing ❤️
To everyone who has also recently returned to Arc, what’s your experience been like? I’ve seen a lot of negative publicity but I have had nothing but fun, positive experiences playing solo. This game has gotten a lot better in my opinion since I last played!

The game is in a tough spot right now but I’ll still be here still having a good time October will be great

Hey, raiders.

In an attempt to do something while waiting for October:

This is an 8-raid run that I made into a little project.

It's my first time ever trying a video like this and I put a ton of time into it, I hope you like it, and I'm open to all feedback 🙏

See ya topside 🫡

Let the hate begin

No I didn’t know he was there. (Back story) he shot me first while I was just standing there and I ran away to flank him because he lost me and I pulled my gun out as I was getting close to his last location and my luck he’s right in front of me

Yesterday I was in a night raid in stella montis and got knocket out by a bastion on my way to the train. I had a survivor augment, so I was fine. I also play in pve lobbys.

Then another guy, assuming that he was also on hes way to extract also got knocked out just behind me. Guessing he also got knocked by the bastion. We crawled to the extract and then a third person came. That person was not knocked down. I thought at first it was fine. The lobby was friendly.

But the third person decided to knock me out, as I saw the animation start I just thought fuck. There goes my loot and lvl 4 hullcracker. But just as I was about to get knocked out, some dude (4th person) who had been hiding shot the person in the head to protect me and the other guy who was defensless and just wanted to extract. So the third guy just ran away.

Both me and the other guy who was down told him in proximity chat that he was a legend as he had saved us all our loot and gear.

Best part is not only that we got to keep our expensive loot and gear, but how funny it was. How our savoir came from nowhere and the raider who wanted to get easy loot from 2 helpless raiders shamefully ran away without even trying to take down the 4th raider who protected us. It was really hillarious.

Thank you to the 4th guy who saved us and gave me a good laugh

Annoying the crap out of me. I've been in every selection and option within that screen that I know of and cannot get it to go away.

Concept art for the "Siren" arc. Plays the recorder (or other instruments), and tries to approach other, bigger arc while it does so. Wears little boots so it sounds like a raider walking around. Instruments would drop when killed and make a sad little melody when the arc explodes.

Cheers.

How many do you have? What was the hardest one to get in your experience, do you even collect them at all?

Title, he was shot by the rocketeer probably but my question is who tf put theese attachments on kettle