Arc Raiders Shares New Tease for Upcoming Event 'Cold Snap' and It Looks Deadly

Arc Raiders has a "cold snap" connected the way, and it's acceptable to get connected December 16.

As already confirmed by developer Embark Studios, the Cold Snap December update adds a caller representation information called Snowfall, a caller lawsuit called Flickering Flames, caller quests, and a caller raider platform (Arc Raiders' equivalent of a conflict pass).

What does the Snowfall representation information mean, exactly? We're not sure, but Embark shared the image, below, showing what appears to beryllium a dormant raider successful the snow, suggesting the frigid upwind could beryllium much deadly than simply inconvenient. As 1 instrumentality quipped successful response: "I can’t hold to person each of my s**t stolen from radical camping successful basements connected extraction points covered successful snow."

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Cold Snap is the past update listed arsenic portion of Arc Raiders' 2025 contented roadmap, and Embark has yet to outline what's coming successful 2026. The erstwhile update, rolled retired astatine the extremity of November, progressive a "very blistery hole for the locked country exploits," and it turned retired they weren’t kidding aft immoderate players had been cheating their mode into locked rooms arsenic before.

Arc Raiders sold implicit 4 cardinal copies worldwide wrong 2 weeks of launch, cementing its commercialized success. Nexon besides revealed that the extraction shooter had reached a immense concurrent number of 700,000 players crossed each platforms. It's done truthful good it's crossed implicit into the satellite of South Park with a astonishment quality that was enactment unneurotic successful conscionable a fewer days.

IGN's Arc Raiders review, returned a 9/10. We said: "With polished gunplay and an irresistible grind, ARC Raiders sets a caller modular for extraction shooters."

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Vikki Blake is simply a newsman for IGN, arsenic good arsenic a critic, columnist, and advisor with 15+ years acquisition moving with immoderate of the world's biggest gaming sites and publications. She's besides a Guardian, Spartan, Silent Hillian, Legend, and perpetually High Chaos. Find her astatine BlueSky.