Embark Studios has just dropped a brand-new patch for its extremely popular extraction shooter, Arc Raiders. Rolling out right now, the Arc Raiders 1.18.0 patch notes detail a number of essential changes to the game as the ongoing Shrouded Sky event continues to tease new enemies and locations.
In the latest patch, announced via Embark’s official blog, the team has fixed an exploit that allowed anyone to stash weapons in their safe pocket without the proper augment. Additionally, the game will no longer crash when a player accesses the game’s Player Proximity menu.
The biggest fix by far in the Arc Raiders 1.18.0 patch notes is the reduction in blueprint drop rates. Embark is constantly adjusting the drop rate of blueprints within the extraction shooter, but the team has now made it so that First Wave Caches on active hurricane maps are no longer handing out loads of high-tier loot.
Check out the full patch notes below.
Arc Raiders 1.18.0 patch notes and fixes
- Fixed an exploit that allowed players to put weapons in a safe pocket without the Safekeeper Augment.
- Fixed an issue that allowed players to put the Snaphook into a safe pocket while in use.
- Lowered the drop rate of rare blueprints slightly and raised the drop rate for high tier materials in First Wave Caches on the Hurricane map condition.
- Dev note: The main reason for this change is that the First Wave Caches have been handing out a lot of blueprints, especially given how good players have been at tracking them down and looting them. To help balance that out, we’re bumping up the drop rates for higher-tier materials inside the caches. So while you might see a few fewer blueprints overall, you’ll be getting better materials in return. Caches will still be a solid way to find blueprints, just not to the point where you can reliably walk away from every session with 3–5 of them.
- Added a very hot fix for the Dam Controlled Access Zone.
- Fixed an issue where some ARC would occasionally cause performance drops.
- Fixed an issue where the final stage of the quest “Worth Your Salt” could not be completed if someone else had already done it in the same raid.
- Fixed a rare issue where players would crash when navigating to the Player Proximity menu.
With all of that said, Embark Studios is constantly working on new additions and fixes to Arc Raiders. As the studio works on multiple new maps for the rest of the year, alongside new weapons and enemies, we should expect even more exploits to be fixed as players keep finding new ways to gain an edge.
For more coverage of Embark’s record-breaking shooter, check out the best weapons tier list to figure out what guns you should be taking into the Rust Belt with you, or what you should be trying to hunt down before you return to Speranza.
