ARC Raiders is making waves across PC and consoles since its arrival. Following a very successful launch, expect Embark Studios to release patches and content-themed updates regularly and quickly. Here we’ll be collecting every ARC Raiders update, patch note, and release date.
Complete patch notes and changelogs will be listed on 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 - Patch 1.18.0
Following the sizable Shrouded Sky update, a smaller patch has arrived to clean things up. You can find the full patch notes for March 3’s smaller 1.18.0 update below:
- Fixed an exploit that allowed players to put weapons in a safe pocket without the Safekeeper Augment.
- Fixed an issue that allowed players to put the Snaphook into a safe pocket while in use.
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Lowered the drop rate of rare blueprints slightly and raised the drop rate for high tier materials in First Wave Caches on the Hurricane map condition. Dev note: The main reason for this change is that the First Wave Caches have been handing out a lot of blueprints, especially given how good players have been at tracking them down and looting them. To help balance that out, we’re bumping up the drop rates for higher-tier materials inside the caches. So while you might see a few fewer blueprints overall, you’ll be getting better materials in return. Caches will still be a solid way to find blueprints, just not to the point where you can reliably walk away from every session with 3–5 of them.
- Added a very hot fix for the Dam Controlled Access Zone.
- Fixed an issue where some ARC would occasionally cause performance drops.
- Fixed an issue where the final stage of the quest “Worth Your Salt” could not be completed if someone else had already done it in the same raid.
- Fixed a rare issue where players would crash when navigating to the Player Proximity menu.
ARC Raiders Roadmap of Updates for 2025 - 2026
The roadmap above applies to the first four months of 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 |
| Update 1.11.0 | 13 January, 2026 |
| Patch 1.12.0 | 20 January, 2026 |
| Patch 1.13.0 | 27 January, 2026 |
| Hotfix 1.13.1 | 28 January, 2026 |
| Update 1.15.0 | 10 February, 2026 |
| Update 1.17.0 | 24 February, 2026 |
| Patch 1.18.0 | 3 March, 2026 |
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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