Before a raid, prepare gear in your Workshop. Topside, ARC machines and other Raiders make every trip risky, so scavenge what you can, alone or with up to two teammates. Back in Speranza, you can sell what you carried out for coin or craft it into gear for the next raid. Trader quests award gear, crafting materials, and XP, and that XP adds to your Raider level and skill points.
At each Skill Tree branch's middle node, choose one of two skills; after investing enough points, choose up to two of three skills across its two end nodes. Finishing a project unlocks the Outpost, which gives you access to the Research Bench. There are 100 furniture designs to learn and use: 73 are found Topside, 22 unlock through Outpost upgrades, four are Frozen Trail Pass exclusives, and one is a DLC exclusive. Standard PvPvE matchmaking tracks how you play in Solo, Duo, and Trio separately, so it is more likely to match you with players who play like you, but it is not guaranteed.
- Developer
- Embark Studios
- Publisher
- Embark Studios
- Release
- Steam: October 30, 2025
- Platforms
- Steam, Epic Games Store, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, GeForce NOW
ARC Raiders gameplay tips
- Hard Feats add the most weekly milestone progress: 3 each, compared with 2 for Medium and 1 for Easy, toward the 4, 8, and 12 thresholds.
- Every Feat pays Reward Points, which apply automatically to your active Reward Pass: 15 for Easy, 25 for Medium, and 50 for Hard. Each weekly milestone pays 250 Reward Points.
- Once all three weekly milestones are done, you can still complete Feats, but the major milestone rewards wait for the weekly timer to reset.