ARC Raiders is out now and making waves across PC and consoles. Following a very successful launch, expect Embark Studios to drop patches and content updates fast and regularly. Here we’ll be collecting every ARC Raiders update, patch notes and dates included.
Complete patch notes and changelogs will be listed in this page with their respective release dates as they arrive, and of course, expect full rundowns of every new piece of content coming to the extraction shooter as Embark Studios shapes its seemingly bright future and makes big plans after the positive critical and player reception.
ARC Raiders Latest Patch Notes - Hotfix 1.7.2
ARC Raiders has now received a major winter-themed content update ahead of Christmas, but as usual after each big update, new fixes and tweaks need to be deployed: the 1.7.2 hotfix arrived on December 18 to deal with a number of pressing issues. You can find the full (but brief) patch notes below:
- Blueprint drop rates have been slightly lowered, but are still higher overall than before the 1.7.0 update.
- Hidden Bunker has been re-enabled.
- Fixed an issue where spamming the interact input while having a bad connection would make players unable to perform the interact action.
- Added missing volumes to make sure inside areas don’t deal cold damage during Cold Snap.
- Updated the driver warning for AMD GPUs.
- Fixed an issue that caused the ‘Unexpected Initiative’ quest to not spawn quest items making it impossible to complete.
ARC Raiders Roadmap of Updates for 2025 - 2026
Here’s the full list of updates and patches that ARC Raiders has received since its launch:
| Patch Notes | Release Date |
|---|---|
| First hotfix | 31 October, 2025 |
| Patch 1.1.0 | 6 November, 2025 |
| Update 1.2.0 | 13 November, 2025 |
| Patch 1.3.0 | 20 November, 2025 |
| Patch 1.4.0 | 27 November, 2025 |
| Patch 1.6.0 | 11 December, 2025 |
| Patch 1.7.0 | 16 December, 2025 |
| Hotfix 1.7.2 | 18 December, 2025 |
Make sure to bookmark this page if you’re looking to stay on top of every update and patch going live, and of course, don’t forget to keep two eyes on our coverage of ARC Raiders as it ushers in a new future for the online extraction shooter genre.
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