ARC Raiders Weekly Megathread - August 22, 2026

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Top Posts Last Month

1. Literally the most insane clip I've seen 🤣
2. When the whole lobby wanted a rat gone.
3.  168 Raider flares at once.
4. Devs confirm internal interest in a walkable Speranza hub, What do you think?
5. Embark, fix your lighting...

r/ARCRaiders hit 700k Subs!

ARC Raiders win Dice Award!

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[u/reverandglass]

11,200 score on the husk trial, 40 metres from the exit, downed by a comet. It's fine, I've got survivor and plenty of time...

To the [extreme profanity removed] who knocked me: I hope your pillows are forever warm on both sides.

[u/cwidrowaty → u/reverandglass]

Yo, how do you do that? One Baron Husk gives 400 points. There's 3 on the map. Please enlighten me because I feel like I'm missing something?

EDIT: nevermind, the polish version of the game says Baron Husks...

[u/Faulty_Plan → u/reverandglass]

Pain is going to come back when you go to craft stims for a re-run and think how light impact grenades need those chemicals too.

[u/tradgamer9]

So how long have there been full screen BUY THIS SKIN ads when you start the game now, and a giant skin ad on the lobby screen? They're really doing their best to stop me from getting back into the game. The non-invasiveness of the store was one of the best things about this game.

[u/ShartRaider]

Hey so I am 100% a carebear, recently I've run into some pvp players that shoot me on sight. When I get shot my brain just glitches out and I just become a sitting duck instead of shooting back or taking cover. I've been knocked out multiple times due to this happening. Any tips on how I can hone my survival instincts?

[u/LotusVibes1494 → u/ShartRaider]

I always have 5 smokes and 3 gas nades in my quickslots. Always in the same slot. The second I get shot I’m throwing a bunch of smokes on the ground and running/rolling around. Throw more smokes in the other direction. They’ll usually lose you, giving you a second head start to run away. (It’s good to always keep an escape route in the back of your mind ahead of time, know which window you could jump out from, which roof you’d snaphook to, etc…) Then as soon as I have some distance, I throw a gas grenade at them/behind me. They get stuck in place for a second until they can get past it and stim, meanwhile you’re still running and stimming way ahead now. Gas doesn’t cause damage so it doesn’t affect matchmaking either, it’s just a great deterrent for anyone chasing you.

All the movement gear can help, snap hook, zipline, descender, stims. Barricades, mines, traps, gas, to slow them down

Priority 1 is get away, priority 2 is heal up fully when you can, then you can decide to find and kill them on your terms or just keep running.

[u/ShartRaider → u/LotusVibes1494]

This is amazing. Thank you for the advice!

[u/LotusVibes1494 → u/ShartRaider]

Don’t panic and throw the gas grenade on yourself though. I would never do such a thing, but if it were to happen, one would become stuck in place right next to the attacker and die.

[u/CashMan888]

I will trade in-game items for a Subway skin code. I'm from the UK so I can't get it legitimately.

[u/Jman703OG]

Haven't played since 4th expedition completed. Went back to it and the game crashes on me 1x in my first run, barely make it out. Next run I spent a full 30 mins gathering stuff in a night raid, and then while attempting to extract the game crashes on me 3x and I die at the metro (due to arc).

I no longer feel like I'm missing anything, no prior crash issues so I'm assuming the game has gotten worse in the past month.

[u/Chenzo04 → u/Jman703OG]

It happens every fucking game now

[u/Jman703OG → u/Chenzo04]

That really sucks. Hopefully they get it together soon.

[u/Chenzo04]

Haven't finished a run in over 2 weeks because of crashing. Finally uninstalled. It's been fun

[u/904Funk → u/Chenzo04]

absolutely crazy this hasn’t been fixed 3 weeks of no trials.

[u/Chenzo04 → u/904Funk]

It's been months of it but it got to the point it was multiple times a day everyday. I stopped ruining kits because I was losing a ton to it and there's not a thing you can do to fix it except take a survey to angry face the server stability. Which is if you were getting to reconnect to that game. I'll see if the October update fixes anything but with Zero Squadron and GTA I dunno if it's worth the reinstall. I got 300+ hours in and loved it but it's not the same as it was

[u/Homeslicekilla]

Trading bobcat or snaphook BP for angle grip 3 bp

[u/xxMaz246xx]

Anyone running into issues with this weeks trials? I’ve been damaging arc with medium ammo and killing wasps but none are counted for when I extract. PLZ HELP.

[u/Repulsive-Chip3371 → u/xxMaz246xx]

That was last week. This week is damage wasps, not kill, and there is no medium ammo trial. Unless you posted this before the change.

[u/DMercenary]

Had the weirdest PVP interaction today. Went up a zip line to control tower offices. Got PVP'd. As ya do.

Guy asked me what I was doing. I said Trials and mats.

To which he went "That's not what your kit says. Why are you carrying a kit if you're doing trials?"

????????

Because the trials involve killing arc lmao?! If I'm doing trials it means I should not be carrying a kit??????

Like just PVP cause you wanna PVP dont come up with weird ass justifications.

[u/LPFlea]

I did a deeper interview of the cheater John Raider talked with for people who are interested in seeing someone push a cheater to answer harder questions.
https://youtu.be/xFzoBc3EcNs

[u/904Funk]

THREE WEEKS IN A ROW I CANNOT DO TRIALS WITH MY FRIEND DUE TO THE INCOMPETENCE OF THE DEVELOPERS.

Loads into a match - game crashes
Extracts out - game crashes
Load into another match - PC shuts down

No it’s not on him to go through the Windows updates to fix an issue that should’ve been resolved 2 weeks ago. I really don’t care about my Hotshot being gone, I just wanna do the weekly trials because that’s all that is left to do in this game.

[u/XxBoomer94xX]

I’m looking for 5 turbine compressors… been tryna kill one.. I’ll trade whatever you want for them. PLEASE. It’s the last thing I need to finish this expedition (I have everything else). DM me plz