Arc Raiders Update Patch Notes Reveal Nerfs for PvP and PvE Players as Shrouded Sky Brings New Threats to the Rust Belt

Embark Studios has published afloat spot notes for Arc Raiders update 1.17.0, revealing a question of nerfs for PvP and PvE players hopping into Shrouded Sky.

The finer details for the caller Arc Raiders spot were published connected the extraction shooter’s authoritative website today. It comes with the committedness that players volition beryllium met with much than conscionable Hurricanes and caller Arc threats erstwhile they log successful to cheque retired the caller February contented drop.

PvP players should cognize 3 of the astir utile multiplayer weapons – the Stitcher, Kettle, and Venator – person each suffered from reductions to their basal damage. The Stitcher and Venator pistols person besides had their headshot multipliers reduced. These are targeted nerfs from Embark that volition person a noticeable interaction connected PvP lobbies, portion buffs for the Jupiter and Aphelion volition apt marque them much utile crossed the board.

PvE players volition apt admit the update’s improvements for the 2 vigor weapons, but they didn’t marque it retired of Shrouded Sky without besides facing nerfs. Let’s rip the Band-Aid off: the Deadline, Trailblazer, Wolfpack, and Showstopper volition present beryllium overmuch much hard to craft.

As each portion of instrumentality tin beryllium highly utile erstwhile taking down Arc, Embark is asking players to stitchery astatine slightest 1 much Arc assets to physique them. That’s not truthful atrocious successful the lawsuit of the Vita Spray, which lone requires an further Tick Pod. The Wolfpack and its flurry of aerial homing explosives, connected the different hand, present asks Raiders for 1 Rocketeer Driver per craft. The Rocketeer assets is rather uncommon and notoriously hard to farm, making this 1 of the much important crafting adjustments and a steep inquire for PvE fans.

We knew Shrouded Sky would beryllium 1 of Embark’s biggest updates truthful far, but the mentation 1.17.0 spot notes uncover much highlights pursuing its motorboat earlier today. For example, players tin present interact with topside pianos, adding to the increasing database of playable instruments. Raiders volition besides announcement that troublesome feats tin present beryllium rerolled 3 times per day, portion PvP feats person been removed entirely. The spot notes besides motion disconnected with a connection from the squad regarding its ongoing anti-cheat initiative, confirming it plans to proceed punishing cheaters and exploiters pursuing today’s fixes for a fewer further glitches.

The motorboat of Shrouded Sky present puts Embark halfway done its four-month roadmap for Arc Raiders successful 2026. The adjacent update, Flashpoint, is expected to bring much threats and a Scrappy changes successful precocious March, with Riven Tides acceptable to adhd a caller representation and a caller ample Arc successful April. We interviewed workplace CEO Patrick Söderlund earlier this period and learned each astir however the squad plans to support Raiders engaged passim this twelvemonth and beyond.

Finally, you tin cheque retired each of the nerfs, buffs, and different equilibrium adjustments included contiguous successful the afloat spot notes below.

Arc Raiders Update 1.17.0 Patch Notes

Attention Raiders!

Violent hurricanes are sweeping topside, forcing caller strategies for low-visibility combat, almighty gales, and hurtling debris. Scouts person spotted 2 caller ARC types successful the Rust Belt; we counsel caution portion the tempest runs its course, but those who cognize however to work the upwind volition find accidental successful the chaos.

What’s New?

• Hurricane Map Condition
• Two New ARC Enemies
• The Weather Monitoring System - Seasonal Player Project
• Free Raider Deck
• Dam Battlegrounds Map Update
• Expedition Window
• Facial Hair Customization

Read much here:

Shrouded Sky update: The hurricane strikes

February 23, 2026

Patch Highlights

• Weapon balancing for Stitcher, Kettle, Venator, Jupiter and Aphelion.
• Added a soft arsenic an interactable entity successful the world.
• Prevented enabling each NVIDIA Freestyle filters simultaneously to region an unfair ocular advantage.
• Feats tin present beryllium rerolled 3 times per time for free.
• Removed PvP Feats, updated a fewer existing Feats and added a fewer caller ones.
• Ziplines tin nary longer beryllium placed connected carryable objects.
• Mines, traps, oregon distant flares tin nary longer beryllium placed connected different deployables.

Balance Changes

Weapons

In 1.13 we shipped an update that included an optimization hole for our weapons, but arsenic galore of you noticed this had the unforeseen effect of lowering the full fire-rate of semi-automatic weapons. In 1.13.1 we reverted that fix, but thing other made it into the update that shouldn't have.

Many of you person reported a "shadow buff" to the weapons, and aft investigating it we recovered that 1.13.1 had inadvertently impacted our limb input buffers. Where you antecedently would person to clip your inputs to the intended cadence of a limb to scope its afloat potential, you could present alternatively spam-click the button, efficaciously bypassing immoderate accomplishment request to larn the weapon's cadence. We privation to support immoderate of that accomplishment expression, but we besides admit that what we had antecedently didn't consciousness precise responsive. To code that and onshore successful immoderate benignant of mediate ground, we person since added much levers for america to power the limb input buffering model connected a gun-to-gun basis, and we've adjusted the semi-automatic weapons accordingly. The weapons should present inactive beryllium much responsive to occurrence erstwhile spam-clicking, but the players who take to gait their shots volition spot amended results.

In summation to these changes, we've besides been looking into the equilibrium betwixt our debased tier and precocious tier weapons. A batch of you person expressed concerns that immoderate debased tier weapons outperform our higher tier weapons astatine importantly reduced cost, and we're hoping to displacement that equilibrium a spot portion inactive keeping immoderate of that flexibility to punch supra your value if you are skilled enough. We're starting by reducing the wide TTK of the Stitcher and Kettle, and expanding the maneuverability of the Aphelion and Jupiter. We're besides taking a 2nd stab astatine the Venator, which inactive seems to beryllium dominating a batch of our PvP encounters.

Dev Note: The Stitcher has played its relation good arsenic a adjacent 4th limb that rewards thoughtful positioning, but we've recovered that its accelerated TTK tin sometimes pb to situations wherever you're ambushed and killed earlier you person overmuch clip to react. As galore of you person pointed out, the precocious headshot harm is simply a ample contributor to this problem. The TTK is often good erstwhile the limb is aimed astatine the halfway of mass, but erstwhile you get adjacent capable to onshore the bulk of the shots successful your target's head, we spot TTK numbers that are overmuch faster than different weapons. These changes purpose to bring that headshot TTK a spot person to the assemblage changeable TTK by some reducing the full-spray accuracy of the weapon, and reducing the headshot multiplier.

• Reduced Headshot Multiplier from 2.5 to 1.75
• Reduced Base Damage from 7 to 6.5
• Increased Per Shot Dispersion by astir 50% (Making it bloom faster)

Dev Note: The Kettle has been successful a spot of a weird place. Its precocious harm output was intended to beryllium utilized successful a much mean scope mounting astatine a much deliberate pace, but we spot galore of you bringing it up successful adjacent quarters and efficaciously turning into an SMG. We privation to separate it much from the Stitcher, but we besides spot that you bask the versatility of this weapon. So we're reducing the basal harm to bring its TTK much successful line, but we're keeping the precocious headshot multiplier to spot if we tin propulsion players to spell for much headshots.

• Reduced Base Damage from 10 to 8.5

Dev Note: Since the past nerfs to the Venator successful 1.3.0, we've kept an oculus connected our information to spot however it performs. During this clip galore of you person raised concerns that it's inactive dominating successful PVP, and our information has shown that it is 1 of the highest performing weapons successful the crippled close now. For a limb of this tier we privation it to execute well, but possibly not this well. We're looking astatine an wide nerf to its harm to bring down its TTK, and if that doesn't enactment we mightiness request to look into its ammo depletion and outgo efficiency.

• Reduced Headshot Multiplier from 2.5 to 2
• Reduced Base Damage from 9 to 8

Dev Note: In PVP, the Jupiter does the astir headshot harm successful the game, but it's rather hard to deed headshots with it astatine longer ranges. You're besides rather susceptible erstwhile you usage it successful person ranges since missing 1 changeable volition marque you a sitting people until you either reload oregon swap weapons. We're expanding however overmuch you zoom erstwhile you usage ADS to springiness you a amended presumption of the targets you're trying to hit, and we're reducing its equip and unequip clip to marque it easier to swap to a secondary limb to travel up connected your shot.

• Improved ADS Magnification from ~1.9x to ~2.2x
• Improved Equip Time from 1.2s to 1.05s
• Improved Unequip Time from 0.9s to 0.75s

Dev Note: We weren't rather blessed with the erstwhile balancing of the Aphelion. It was intended to beryllium a much PVP focused legendary weapon, but it couldn't rather support up with the pacing of galore of our different PVP weapons. We've made immoderate changes to marque it consciousness little bulky and a spot much nimble to use, to marque it much viable successful PVP.

• Reduced Base Reload Time from 4.5s to 3.5s
• Reduced Time Between Shots from 0.9s to 0.7s
• Reduced Vertical Recoil by ca 50%
• Improved ADS Settle Speed by ca 35%

Item and Crafting

• Now disposable by default successful the Workbench.

Following point values and costs person been adjusted with due recycle and salvaging adjustments:

• Deadline
  • Value accrued from 5,000 to 6,000.
  • Trader terms accrued from 15,000 to 18,000.
  • Added a caller ARC portion arsenic a crafting cost.
• Trailblazer
  • Value accrued from 1,600 to 2,200.
  • Trader terms accrued from 4,800 to 6,600.
  • Added a caller ARC portion arsenic a crafting cost.
• Wolfpack
  • Value accrued from 5,000 to 6,000.
  • Added Rocketeer Driver arsenic a crafting cost.
  • Reduced Refined Explosive cost.
• Vita Spray
  • Value accrued from 3,000 to 3,400.
  • Added Tick Pod arsenic a crafting cost.
• Showstopper
  • Value decreased from 2,200 to 2,100.
  • Added Hornet Driver arsenic a crafting cost.
  • Changed crafting constituent from Advanced Electrical Components to Electrical Components.
• ARC Parts merchantability worth has been reduced to amended bespeak their crafting and progression uses.

Content and Bug Fixes

Achievements

• Fixed an contented wherever the “Blindsided” accomplishment sometimes did not trigger arsenic intended connected the archetypal attempt.

Animation

• Fixed assorted animation issues portion vaulting.
• Fixed an contented wherever immoderate weapons didn't driblet magazines during reloads.
• Fixed an contented wherever reattaching to a ladder aft jumping could distort the climbing animation.
• Polished equip animations for pistols and manus cannon to amended lucifer timing and trim ocular popping erstwhile switching from unarmed.
• Improved limb and limb positioning erstwhile swapping shoulders to forestall ocular popping during the transition.
• Fixed an contented wherever autumn harm wouldn’t get applied if the subordinate was successful a knockback animation.
• Polished low-health absorption animations for improved clarity.
• Fixed weapon-shake animation incorrectly triggering indoors during freezing weather; it present lone occurs outdoors.

ARC

• Fixed an contented wherever Surveyors and Fireballs could unfastened prematurely earlier stabilizing.
• Reduced erratic question of ARC parts erstwhile they are stuck to a looted item.
• Hornets present support their precocious armor aft being destroyed, making the lootable portion easier to separate from Wasps.
• Fixed an contented wherever the Rocketeer sometimes would not sprout contempt having a wide presumption of its target.
• Reduced cases wherever the Sentinel's shots could walk done geometry erstwhile its limb clips into walls astatine precise adjacent range.

Audio

• Limited slug dependable effects per trigger propulsion connected burst weapons to the burst size to forestall other shots from playing.
• Reduced audio stuttering connected lower-spec PCs for smoother, much accordant dependable during gameplay.
• Lowered non-radio dependable volumes: in-game dialogue.
• Fixed an contented wherever sliding connected stairs oregon debris could origin audio stutters.
• Scrappy has received your feedback astir being excessively noisy, helium volition present effort to cluck little frequently.
• Reduced wide measurement and rebalanced the paper SFX and euphony premix for a much comfy Speranza experience.
• Shortened 1 conduit deployment euphony way that lingered for excessively agelong successful session.
• Birds perched connected ziplines present screech with close positional audio erstwhile startled.
• Decreased audio occlusion / obstruction somewhat crossed the committee and particularly for players .
• Updated acoustic guitar euphony tracks.

Cosmetics

• The Volare Set
• The Surgeon Set
• The Devotee Set coming soon.
• Added a caller facial hairsbreadth customization option.
• Fixed incorrect visor solid worldly connected the Marco outfit's greenish colour variant.
• Fixed assorted instances of clipping connected definite outfits.

Gameplay

• Added a soft arsenic an interactable entity successful the world.
• Fixed an contented wherever interactions could beryllium triggered from excessively acold away, allowing players to unfastened doors, commencement hatches, oregon loot items without being nearby.
• Hold and continuous interactions present cancel erstwhile equipping different point oregon weapon.
• Fixed an contented wherever players could go incapable to determination aft being revived with a defib.
• Prevented players from lasting connected oregon being carried by thrown grenades and different non-walkable items.
• Added missing gamepad purpose assistance for Sentinels, Turrets, Shredders and Surveyors.
• Disabled queuing for Practice Range portion successful a enactment to forestall matchmaking errors.
• Fixed an contented wherever a downed raider’s assemblage could artifact hatch extraction by triggering a hunt prompt.
• Prevented enabling each NVIDIA Freestyle filters simultaneously to region an unfair ocular advantage.
• You tin present marque purchases with seeds and escaped loadout augments adjacent if your stash is overflowing.

General

• General show improvements.
• Fixed immoderate popping issues.
• Fixed a clang erstwhile launching the crippled with DirectX 11.
• Fixed a clang that could hap erstwhile traversing ziplines.

Maps

• Fixed breached interactions adjacent the apical of definite ladders.
• Fixed missing collision connected respective situation props to trim clipping and unintended traversal.
• General lighting fixes crossed antithetic maps.

• The accidental of uncovering uncommon loot successful chimneys has been lowered somewhat during Bird City representation condition.

• Fixed aggregate collision issues connected Stella Montis (Lobby, Atrium, Loading Bay, Train Station tunnels, Seed Vault) to forestall players from reaching out-of-bounds areas utilizing the ‘Unstuck’ relation and to code shots coming from the Lobby ceiling.
• Adjusted nighttime lighting connected Stella Montis to amended visibility successful darker areas.
• Improved night-time visibility astatine the Seed Vault extraction by adding section lighting.
• Fixed an contented wherever lowered Spillway bridges inactive displayed an enactment prompt, enactment is present correctly disabled erstwhile the span is down.
• Fixed an contented that allowed players to get connected apical of metro trains.

• Improved thunderstorm lighting for amended ocular clarity.
• Fixed an contented wherever players could spell retired of bounds successful the Blue Gate tunnels.

Movement

• Adjusted ladder jump-off to lucifer vault jump-off behavior, smoothing question and preventing unintended momentum from accelerated inputs.
• Fixed an contented wherever sliding could clip done stairs and escalators.

Progression

• You tin present reroll Feats 3 times per time for free.
• Removed PvP Feats, updated a fewer existing Feats and added a fewer caller ones.
• Added an Expedition catch-up strategy to gain missed Skill Points from erstwhile runs, with an updated UI to way your progress.
• Fixed an contented wherever players occasionally did not person a accomplishment constituent arsenic indicated successful the effect screen.
• Candleberries successful Blue Gate present number toward the Harvest Plants trial.

Quests

• Added clearer ping labels for quest-related satellite objects to amended readability.
• Fixed an contented wherever the adjacent nonsubjective pop-up successful multi-step quests could beryllium missing oregon amusement a completed step. It present consistently displays the close upcoming objective.
• Fixed an contented wherever a quest point could look arsenic satellite loot without the related quest being active.

Social

• When playing successful a party, representation enactment present shows each locations unlocked by the subordinate with the astir rounds played.
• Fixed an contented wherever erstwhile teammates could look successful the Social tab’s In Proximity database aft starting a caller session.
• Added clearer mistake messages erstwhile person requests neglect owed to excessively galore outgoing requests oregon complaint limiting.
• Fixed friends appearing offline erstwhile they person much than 1 level linked.
• Added the quality to fell person requests.

UI

• Item pings for items successful containers present look supra the container's enactment constituent and nary longer look astatine the incorrect determination successful definite containers.
• Added a ready-up informing erstwhile deploying with Raider Hatch keys into a representation with nary progressive hatches.
• Added icons to inventory tooltips to amusement recycle/salvage outputs.
• Fixed an contented wherever squad colors could show incorrectly aft squad changes.
• Fixed a bug wherever adding a secondary keybind would overwrite the superior keybind successful the adjacent round.
• Updated localization for unsocial loot from caller force variants to amended in-game naming and clarity.
• Improved matchmaking messaging erstwhile immoderate enactment members are inactive topside.
• Fixed an contented wherever end-of-round wellness was not correctly shown for each players.
• It is present clearer erstwhile you articulation a enactment which enactment subordinate is topside portion you're successful Speranza.
• You tin present usage the rodent scroll instrumentality to power betwixt pages successful the Raider Deck.
• Polished UI substance and updated translations crossed supported languages.
• Added further ping labels for assorted quest objects to amended clarity.
• Fixed an contented wherever rodent smoothing could stay enabled contempt being turned off, ensuring the mounting is correctly applied astatine circular start.
• Improved the reddish zipline preview erstwhile the zipline cannot beryllium placed.
• Updated login connection to intelligibly explicate erstwhile entree is restricted due to the fact that the shared relationship proprietor has been banned.
• Fixed an contented successful Expeditions wherever the timer could spell antagonistic aft the departure countdown and the Sign Up fastener stayed active; the surface present updates correctly and the fastener is disabled.
• Fix an contented wherever the repair preview wasn't displayed correctly erstwhile repairing items.
• Crafting and recycling screens present show point costs and rewards successful a accordant bid for easier reading.
• The VoIP icon successful the HUD volition present amended visually correspond if the microphone is going to transmit oregon not if you're utilizing Push To Talk oregon Toggle To Talk.

Utility

• Pop Triggers and Spotter Relays tin present beryllium utilized successful speedy slots.
  • The Spotter Relay tin present beryllium deployed arsenic a trap that lures adjacent ARC.
  • The Pop Trigger tin present beryllium deployed to rotation guardant concisely earlier exploding.
• Added a caller Field trade item: Shaker instrument.
• Adjusted Vita Spray truthful healing applies continuously portion successful usage to forestall exploit cases.
• Fixed an unintended behaviour with the Snaphook causing it to propulsion players aft it had been cancelled.
• Ziplines tin nary longer beryllium placed connected carryable objects.
• Fixed Zipline placement connected ARC remnants that could devour the point oregon permission it partially placed.
• Mines, traps, and distant flares tin nary longer beryllium placed connected ziplines, oregon connected different tiny deployables.
• The T3 Tactical (Healing) Augment present correctly states that healing is applied instantly.

VFX

• Fixed an contented wherever Jupiter’s windup ocular could look sideways, making the beam look misaligned.
• Fixed an contented wherever Trailblazer’s state effect could persist indefinitely if interrupted by the Matriarch’s shield.

Known Issues

• ‘Purchase Raider Tokens’ leafage whitethorn look successful beforehand of the inbox and illustration leafage erstwhile switching betwixt them.
• Player animations whitethorn look breached erstwhile interrupting a hunt of the Baron Husk.
• Certain containers whitethorn beryllium unavailable to beryllium interacted with.
• Ziplines placed onto destroyed ARC parts volition not look correctly.
• Scrappy ‘Batting Helmet’ and the ‘Slugger’ outfit mightiness not look correctly successful the lawsuit preview.
• ‘Comparative Study’ accomplishment sometimes does not advancement correctly aft damaging the hanging drone dummies.
• The 'Unyielding' achievement/trophy fails to advancement connected console erstwhile knocking retired raiders utilizing the associated prompt.
• Some unintended VFX tin look occasionally.
• One of the caller ARC enemies has an unusable enactment occasionally erstwhile destroyed.
• Flying ARC whitethorn sometimes look stuck successful idle.
• Sometimes the Embark ID Discriminator fails to show.
• Pressing LMB extracurricular of the point prime country closes the point prime model successful the Expeditions menu.

Anti-Cheat

When we shared our past update astir tackling unfair play, we didn’t afloat convey the complexity and standard of what goes into cheat detection. Our defenses run connected aggregate levels: immoderate checks are elemental and definitive, portion others are behavioral and data-driven and germinate implicit time. We besides leverage wide gameplay telemetry and instrumentality learning techniques to spot patterns that aren’t evident astatine archetypal glance. These methods instrumentality longer to develop, indispensable accommodate arsenic crippled systems change, and don’t ever connection instant certainty the mode blunt bundle detections can.

We’ve precocious taken enactment against antithetic exploits and we are further tightening our rules and stepping up enforcement. Serious infractions present transportation stricter consequences. Strong detections volition person imperishable bans close disconnected the bat, portion others volition person a impermanent suspension and a azygous accidental to close the behavior. Recent updates to Family Sharing person strengthened our quality to curb misconduct and streamlined the removal of atrocious actors from the game. We are preparing to motorboat a systematic manual reappraisal of prohibition appeals. The crippled is young and the measurement of telemetry is enormous, but this process ensures each lawsuit is handled with attraction arsenic we proceed to larn rapidly and put heavy successful the precision of our enforcement tools.

Our dedicated anti-cheat squad works tirelessly to support the crippled fair. It’s an ongoing fight, and we’re committed to it.

//Ossen
And the ARC Raiders Team

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