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Arc Raiders' big Flashpoint update is bad news for raiders as vaporizer drones arrive and shredders escape into the Rust Belt, but 3 high-powered weapons should help even the odds

Crafting is also getting some much-needed improvements

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ARC Raiders gets 2 new weapons, a new enemy type, and more in its most substantial update yet

Is it time to go back Topside?

Destructoid

Arc Raiders' Flashpoint update finally streamlines crafting—oh, and you can also supercharge Scrappy using food because that just makes sense

A new enemy, a map event, and two guns arrive in the Flashpoint update tomorrow.

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ARC Raiders dev says creating new endgame content is a top priority: ‘I want them to have more to do’

Topside will remain populated for the foreseeable future.

Destructoid

AFL concedes Crows dudded by umpires again

Geelong's Tom Atkins convinced umpires a free-kick was his in a decision the AFL has since clarified should have gone Adelaide's way in a tight contest.

AAP

Our full chat with Embark: How Arc Raiders was saved mid-development, the balancing process, and the possibility of vehicles

Production designer Caio Braga talks balancing, high-profile game failures, and the passion for PvE in Arc raiders.

PC Gamer

Arc Raiders players aren't happy with the Flashpoint update's direction as Embark drops a teaser showing the Shredder escape from Stella Montis: 'Shredders are the new Arc aren’t they'

Will the Shredder be the new arc threat, or just an added bonus?

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Arc Raiders once had an Arc called The Cylinder of Pain, so I asked Embark about The Cylinder of Pain, and it turns out The Cylinder of Pain was a proto-Bastion with a big cylinder – of pain

"And without spoiling anything, I hope, in the future, we will revisit many of those"

GamesRadar

Embark knows Arc Raiders fans are questioning "the size of our weekly patches," but they're not meant to be any bigger: "These updates are focused on smaller quality-of-life improvements"

Don't expect massive content updates in Arc Raiders' weekly patches

GamesRadar

Arc Raiders guns totally changed after one "guerilla" dev at Embark said hold my beer, "I think I can do better," and remade the entire reload system "himself"

Another Arc Raiders dev cooked up the Kettle because the game needed a "pressure gun"

GamesRadar

Arc Raiders devs tortured each other during playtests, at one point juicing Arc into unstoppable Elden Ring bosses: "All of a sudden you're playing a Souls game"

That's not very nice

GamesRadar

Arc Raiders devs wanted to make it an adventure game more than a shooter: 'We saw more potential in allowing players to explore rather than just shoot'

It's about the friends (or enemies) you made along the way.

PC Gamer

'Arc Raiders' Update 1.20.0 Nerfs Il Toro Shotgun and Energy Clips, Adds Rawhide Outfit

"Arc Raiders" 1.20.0 brings Il Toro nerfs, slashes Energy Clip profits, adds the Rawhide outfit and new haircuts, and fixes key PvP and map glitches.

Player One

Arc Raiders has a hidden "magic" system: you've never noticed it because you're not supposed to, but it helps Arc do their job

Sometimes Embark lets the Arc cheat a little

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Arc Raiders' devs didn't expect such a passionate PvE-only crowd

"It's quite challenging because we have these two, quite polar [types of] fans."

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Arc Raiders' old machine designs sound so diabolical, it's no wonder they were reworked or removed after poor playtest feedback: 'At that time, they didn't fit with the game very well'

"There's still interesting gameplay to have with them," so never say never.

GamesRadar

Arc Raiders devs spent 3 years fighting "on a daily basis" over whether it was "a battle royale," "a hero looter shooter," "a co-op Soul game," or "a co-op Shadow of the Colossus game"

"Internally, we thought the game was deeper, more fun, better than we actually had in our hands"

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No one at Embark could describe Arc Raiders before its extraction shooter pivot, leading to 'playtest battles' of competing directions for the game

"A lot of games would have been cancelled at this point."

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The Arc in Arc Raiders have multiple "brains," and they all love pursuing you because Embark gives them "rewards" in real-time via machine learning: "I learned to walk on my own"

The Leaper just wants to say hello

Dot Esports

ARC Raiders vs Marathon: Which one should you play?

Learn about differences in progression, wipes, PvP, and more.

GamesRadar

"2 cakes!": Arc Raiders players lay down their weapons and show support for Marathon, saying they "want this competition" and "2 beautiful games can coexist without all this hate"

Embark's community welcomes Bungie's new FPS

PC Gamer

'Begun, the Mushroom Wars have': Bodies are piling up next to shelf fungi in Arc Raiders as players fight for the slim supply of mushrooms

All in the name of Scrappy.

AAP

'Additional safeguard': AFL makes concussion changes

Independent doctors at AFL and AFLW games will have greater powers regarding concussed players under a new protocol change.

The Conversation

Far-right ‘gangster morality’ and the search for meaning: why you should read Camus

Author and philosopher Albert Camus died in a car crash in 1960, aged just 46. But the existential, moral and political issues Camus’ writings address still trouble us today.

The Guardian - UK

Lord Allen to become latest casualty of horse racing’s intractable politics

It was possible to spin his 2025 arrival as a clean slate but the former businessman soon lost the confidence of key players

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