That chill in the air is the Arc Raiders Cold Snap event, now in full swing. Besides unleashing a blizzard on most of the maps and kickstarting two gameplay events, it's accompanied by a full update of tweaks, rebalances, and fixes to help improve your playing experience.
Immediate changes worth highlighting from the patch notes are the addition of a skill tree reset, the power to toggle aiming down your sights, Raider Tool customization, and spawn points on Stella Montis being moved to stop players being too close to each other. Of these, the ability to redo your skill tree in isolation is the biggest, as prior to now, you had to reset your Raider through an expedition.
Now, for the low price of 2,000 coins per skill point, you can take back the way you've built your character and re-calculate their progression. It's a handy system, but there's contention as the Expedition is still expensive comparatively - five million coins per go - and players who were saving up purely because they wanted to start afresh and their abilities feel a big shortchanged.
"Oh wtf now they add skill tree reset? That was my main reasoning for doing the expedition and I've already sold all my shit," says one Redditor, who confirms they're happy to see it, they're just "salty."
This addition, on top of a harder reset on your character, is raising eyebrows within the community. "The skill tree reset was the main incentive for the expedition," reads another comment on Reddit. "You absolutely need to reduce the cost at this point. What a bizarre set of decisions. Fix your endgame Embark, the expedition as is just kills it."
But generally, people are in favor of having such an option, and cheaply. "Skill tree reset is a W," astutely remarks another commenter.
In terms of weapons and enemies, the Bettina and Rattler received minor buffs, as did the Shredder, who also now has more individual parts you can target. If all these modifications don't help warm up the gameplay any, Cold Snap might be a long, dark time indeed.
