Arc Raiders Cold Snap Update Goes Live Alongside Big 1.7.0 Patch Notes

Arc Raiders developer Embark Studios has released the Cold Snap update alongside lengthy spot notes for mentation 1.7.0 of the extraction shooter.

As announced, the header gameplay alteration present is the Cold Snap representation condition, but there’s besides the commencement of the Flickering Flames event. Players besides person the Expedition Departure Window, the caller escaped Raider Deck ‘Goalie’ coming connected December 26, and caller quests and items. We've got a afloat rundown of each the caller contented successful the Cold Snap update arsenic good arsenic the gameplay changes.

But the absorption present is connected the just-released 1.7.0 patch. Highlights see Skill Tree Reset functionality, the summation of an enactment to toggle Aim Down Sights, Raider Tool customization, the Wallet present shows your Cred brushed cap, the Aphelion blueprint driblet moved from the Matriarch to Stella Montis, and assorted festive items “to get you into the vacation spirit.” It’s besides worthy noting an improved Stella Montis spawn region to code the contented of players spawning excessively adjacent to each other.

The spot notes, below, item assorted equilibrium changes alongside explanations from Embark Studios. And determination are assorted fixes. Strap yourself successful — this is simply a agelong one.

Arc Raiders Cold Snap update 1.7.0 Patch Notes:

Balance Changes

Weapons:

Bettina

Dev note: These changes purpose to marque the Bettina a spot little reliant connected bringing a secondary weapon. The limb should present beryllium a spot much competent successful PVP, without tipping the scales excessively much. Data shows that this limb is inactive the highest performing PVE limb astatine its rarity (Not counting the Hullcracker). The durability should besides consciousness much successful enactment with our different battle rifles.

• Durability Burn Rate has been reduced from ~0.43% to ~0.17% per shot
  • In practice, it utilized to instrumentality astir 12 afloat magazines to afloat deplete durability, but present it takes 26 (also accounting for the accrued mag size).
• Base Magazine Size has been accrued from 20 to 22
• Base Reload Time has been reduced from 5 to 4.5

Rattler

Dev note: Even though the Rattler isn't intended to vie with the Stitcher oregon Kettle astatine adjacent ranges, it is receiving a insignificant buff to bring its PVP TTK astatine little levels a spot person to the Stitcher and Kettle. The limb should stay successful its intended relation arsenic a much deliberate limb wherever players are expected to dip successful and retired of cover, occurrence successful controlled bursts, and negociate their reloads.

• Base Magazine Size has been accrued from 10 to 12

ARC:

Shredder

• Reduced the magnitude of knockback applied by weapons. Increased question velocity and turning responsiveness.
• Increased wellness of the Shredder's caput to forestall cases wherever its caput could beryllium changeable off, starring to unintended behavior.
• Improved Shredder navigation to trim getting stuck connected corners, constrictive spaces, and abbreviated obstacles.
• Increased the velocity astatine which the Shredder enters combat erstwhile taking harm and erstwhile successful adjacent proximity to players.
• Increased the fig of parts connected the Shredder that tin beryllium individually destroyed.

Content and Bug Fixes

Achievements

• Achievements are present enabled successful the Epic store.

Animation

• Fixed an contented wherever picking up a Field Crate with a Trigger ’Nade attached could origin the quality to descent oregon determination without input.
• Fixed an contented wherever combining Snap Hook with ziplines oregon ladders could store momentum and propel the subordinate agelong distances.
• Fixed an contented wherever the moving animation could look incorrect aft a tiny driblet erstwhile over-encumbered.
• Fixed enactment animations: interactions present extremity correctly erstwhile performing a dodge roll; interacting portion holding items oregon deployables nary longer causes limb twisting; updated crouch repair to usage the close animation.
• Added carnal based secondary question to quality skins and equipment.

ARC

• Fixed an contented wherever deployables attached to enemies could origin them to motorboat oregon clip retired of bounds erstwhile shot.
• Missiles nary longer reverse people aft passing a people and tin correctly way targets astatine antithetic elevations.
• Sentinel
  • Fixed a bug wherever the Sentinel laser did not scope the targeted subordinate implicit greater distances.
• Surveyor
  • Disabled vaulting onto ARC Surveyors to forestall unintended launches erstwhile they are moving.
• Fixed an contented wherever Bombardier projectiles could sprout done the Matriarch shield from the outside.

Audio

• Fixed an contented wherever Gas, Stun, and Impulse Mines did not play their trigger dependable oregon power their airy to yellowish erstwhile triggered by being shot.
• Increased the fig of simultaneous footstep sounds and accrued their priority.
• Fixed an contented wherever footsteps successful metallic stairs became precise quiescent erstwhile walking slowly.
• Improved directional dependable for ARC enemies.
• Added sounds for sending and receiving substance chat messages successful the main menu.
• Removed the unsettling "mom?" from Speranza cantina ambient sound.
• Tweaked the loudness of announcements successful assorted Main Menu screens.
• Number of tiny audio bugfixes and polish.

Maps

• Fixed an contented with spawning logic which could origin players who were reconnecting astatine the commencement of a league to spawn adjacent to different players who had conscionable joined.
• Various collision, geometry, VFX and texture fixes that code gaps successful terrain which made players autumn done the representation oregon locomotion wrong geometry, stuck spots, camera clipping done walls, see-through geometry, floating objects, texture overlaps, etc.
• Fixed an contented with the slope of the Raider Hatch that was excessively steep for downed raiders to crawl connected apical of it.
• Security Lockers are present dynamically spawned crossed each maps alternatively of being statically placed.
• Fixed Raider Caches not spawning during Prospecting Probes successful immoderate cases.
• Fixed lootable containers and Supply Drops spawning wrong terrain connected The Dam and Blue Gate, ensuring they are accessible.
• Fixed an contented wherever doors could look closed for immoderate players contempt being open.
• Electromagnetic Storm: Lightning strikes sometimes permission down a invaluable item.
• Increased the fig of imaginable Great Mullein spawn locations crossed each maps.
• Dam Battlegrounds
  • Moved the Matriarch's spawn constituent successful Dam Battlegrounds to an country that amended plays to her strengths.
• Spaceport
  • Adjusted the locked country extortion country successful Container Storage connected Spaceport to not impact players extracurricular the room.
• Blue Gate
  • Locked Gate representation information has been added.
  • Adjusted representation bounds adjacent a ledge successful Blue Gate to amended navigation and trim abrupt out-of-bounds stops.
  • Improved histrion LODs successful Blue Gate to trim overly acheronian visuals astatine distance.
  • Fixed the contented wherever loot would spawn extracurricular the Locked Room successful the Village.
  • Added props and ocular cues to the last campy successful the quest ‘A First Foothold’ to marque nonsubjective locations easier to find.
• Stella Montis
  • Increased immoderate point and blueprint spawn rates successful Stella Montis.
  • Some breachable containers connected Stella Montis nary longer driblet Rubber Ducks erstwhile utilizing the A Little Extra accomplishment (sorry).
  • Adjusted model solid clarity successful Stella Montis to amended visibility.

Miscellaneous

• General clang fixes (including AMD crashes).
• Added Skill Tree Reset functionality successful speech for Coins, 2,000 Coins per accomplishment point.
• Wallet present shows your Cred brushed headdress (800).
  • Dev note: We decided to instrumentality a headdress truthful that players won’t beryllium capable to afloat unlock caller Raider Decks by accumulating Cred and added much items to Shani’s store to acquisition utilizing Cred. We judge that the Raider Decks connection a rewarding acquisition to bask portion players prosecute with the game, and a ample Cred wallet undermines this goal. We volition not beryllium removing Cred that has been accumulated earlier the instauration of the brushed cap.
• Added Raider Tool customization.
• Fixed a bug that caused players to spawn connected servers without their cogwheel and successful default customization resulting successful losing loadout items.
• For ranks up to Daredevil I, leaderboards present person a 3x promotion portion for the apical 5 players. New objectives person been added.
• Fixed an contented wherever the tutorial doorway breach could beryllium canceled, preventing the cutscene from playing and blocking progression.
• Fixed an contented wherever players could proceed breaching doors portion downed.
• Fixed an contented wherever accepting a Discord invitation without having your relationship linked could neglect to spot you into the inviter’s party.
• Fixed an contented that sometimes caused textures and meshes to flicker betwixt higher and little prime states.
• Depth of tract magnitude is present scaled correctly depending connected your solution scale.
• Fixed an contented wherever returning to the crippled aft alt-tabbing could forestall question and quality inputs portion camera controls inactive worked.
• Improved input handling erstwhile the crippled model regains absorption to debar unexpected input mode switches.
• Skill Tree
  • Effortless Roll accomplishment present provides greater stamina outgo reduction.
  • The Calming Stroll accomplishment present applies portion moving successful ADS.

Movement

• Fixed a traversal contented that blocked jumping/climbing successful definite areas portion crouched.
• Fixed an contented wherever climbing ladders implicit unfastened gaps could origin automatic detachment.
• A flimsy stamina outgo has been added for entering a slide.
• Acceleration has been reduced erstwhile doing a dodge rotation from a slide.

UI

• Added an enactment to toggle Aim Down Sights.
• Added a caller ‘Cinematic’ graphics mounting to heighten visuals for precocious extremity PCs.
• Fixed an contented wherever returning to the crippled aft alt-tabbing could forestall question and quality inputs portion camera controls inactive worked.
• Improved input handling erstwhile the crippled model regains absorption to debar unexpected input mode switches.
• Codex
  • Improved accuracy of tracking harm dealt successful subordinate stats.
  • Field-crafted items present decently number toward Player Stats successful the Codex.
  • Fixed missing dependable successful Codex Records.
  • Added a Codex conception to rewatch antecedently seen videos.
• Console
  • Updated PlayStation 5 controller fastener prompts with improved icons for Options and Share.
  • Fixed a clang erstwhile utilizing Show Profile from the Player Info connected Xbox.
• Customization
  • You tin present rotate your quality successful the customization screen. Also fixed an contented wherever the archetypal equip could trigger an unintended unequip.
  • Added notifications successful Character Customization to item precocious unlocked items.
  • Fixed an contented wherever instrumentality customization items bought from the Loadout surface were not equipped aft pressing Equip connected the acquisition screen.
• End of round
  • Further reduced the frequence of the extremity of circular feedback survey popular up.
  • Added an optional Round Feedback fastener connected the last end-of-round surface to unfastened a abbreviated post-match survey.
• Expedition Project
  • Added a show/hide tooltip hint to the Raider Projects screens (Expedition and Seasonal).
  • Added 'Expeditions Completed' to Player Stats.
  • Added assets tracking for Expedition stages: Raider Projects present show required amounts and progress, with the tracker updating during rounds.
  • Added reward show to Raider Projects, showing the rewards for each extremity and astatine Expedition completion.
  • Fixed an input struggle successful Raider Projects wherever tracking a assets successful Expeditions could besides unfastened the About Expeditions window; the on-screen punctual is present hidden portion adding to Load Caravan.
• Inventory
  • Fixed an contented wherever closing the right-click paper successful the inventory could reset absorption to a antithetic slot erstwhile utilizing a gamepad.
  • Fixed flickering successful the inventory tooltip.
  • Opening the inventory during a breach present cancels the enactment to forestall a little animation glitch.
  • Adjusted the inventory surface layout to forestall tooltips from appearing instantly upon opening.
  • Fixed an contented wherever the limb slot right-click paper successful the inventory would not look aft navigating from an bare attachment slot with a controller.
• In-game
  • Fixed an contented wherever the ascent punctual would not look connected a rooftop ladder successful Blue Gate.
  • Resolved an contented wherever definite enactment icons could neglect to look during gameplay.
  • Fixed "revived" events not being counted.
  • Fixed an contented wherever the zipline enactment punctual could stay connected a antecedently utilized zipline, preventing enactment with a caller one; prompts present wide erstwhile retired of range.
  • Quick equip point instrumentality present has a unchangeable layout and nary longer collapses items towards the apical erstwhile determination are bare slots successful the inventory.
  • Updated in-game substance crossed aggregate languages based connected localization reappraisal and subordinate survey feedback.
  • Added a cancel punctual erstwhile preparing to propulsion grenades and different throwable items.
  • Fixed in-game input hints to lucifer your existent cardinal bindings and amusement wide hold/toggle labels. Clarified binoculars hints erstwhile utilizing purpose toggle and updated hints for SnapHook and integrated binoculars to enactment aiming.
  • Tutorial hints present enactment connected surface concisely aft you execute the suggested enactment to amended readability and debar abrupt dismissals.
  • Fixed an contented wherever input hints could stay connected surface aft being downed.
  • HUD markers that are person to the subordinate present look connected apical for improved legibility.
  • Fixed contented wherever items sometimes displayed the incorrect icon.
  • Fixed contented wherever idiosyncratic hints were sometimes shown erstwhile spectating.
  • Strongroom racks and powerfulness stations present show a chiseled colour erstwhile afloat of carryables to bespeak that it has been completed. Example: Ancient Fort Strongroom.
  • Fixed an contented wherever reconnecting to a lucifer could permission your quality successful a breached authorities with incorrect HUD elements and a misplaced camera.
  • Slightly delayed the archetypal loot surface opening and the modulation from opening to searching during interactions.
• Main Menu
  • Added a Live Events carousel to the main paper and enabled click/hover interactions connected the Raider Project overview.
  • Fixed an contented wherever the Weapon Upgrades tab would sometimes alteration location.
  • Resolved an contented wherever a Raider could popular successful and retired of the location surface background.
  • Installed workstations nary longer look successful the workstation instal view.
  • You tin present navigate from on-screen notifications to the applicable screens, including jumping straight to learned recipes.
  • The Upgrade Weapon Tab present accurately displays the mag size increase.
  • Fixed an contented wherever the representation surface could go unresponsive erstwhile a unrecorded lawsuit was active.
  • When inspecting items, rotating volition present fell UI lone showing the point being inspected.
  • Free Raider Deck contented present displays arsenic “Free” alternatively of “0”.
  • Added a carousel to the Main Menu featuring Quests and a Raider Deck shortcut, with improved gamepad navigation wrong the widget.
  • Fixed an contented wherever the Scrappy surface allowed navigating to the speedy navigation database erstwhile utilizing a gamepad.
• Quests
  • Made pickups connected the crushed amusement icons if they are portion of quests oregon tracked, added quest icons to quest interactions and improved quest enactment style.
  • Fixed an contented wherever the notification could stay aft accepting and claiming quests.
  • Accepting and completing quests is present shown arsenic loading portion awaiting a server response.
  • Fixed an contented wherever rapidly skipping done quest videos aft completing the archetypal Supply Depot quest could soft‑lock the UI, leaving the surface without a mode to advance.
  • Updated enactment substance for a quest nonsubjective to amended clarity.
  • Updated the names and descriptions of the Moisture Probe and EC Meter quest items successful Unexpected Initiative.
  • Improved ping accusation for quest objectives, with clearer markers for Filtration System and Magnetic Decryptor interactions.
  • Adjusted colors of quest and tracking icons successful in-game enactment hints for amended clarity.
• Settings
  • Added a caller slider that allows players to tweak question blur intensity.
  • Updated tooltips for effects and wide prime levels successful the video settings with clearer descriptions.
  • Added labels that amusement whether an input enactment is ‘Hold’ oregon ‘Toggle’, displayed successful parentheses.
  • Fixed an contented wherever the flash effect ignored the Invert Colors setting; the enactment is present available.
  • Fixed a clang successful settings erstwhile rapidly adjusting sliders.
  • Now players volition beryllium guided to Windows settings for microphone permissions if needed.
  • Fixed a clang that could hap erstwhile opening the video settings.
  • Fixed an contented wherever immoderate Options class screens continued responding to inputs aft exiting.
• Store
  • Players volition nary longer spot mistake messages erstwhile canceling purchases successful the store.
  • Newly added store products present amusement a caller denotation for improved discoverability.
• Social
  • Fixed an contented wherever Discord friends could look with an incorrect presumption aft switching to Invisible and backmost to Online; their beingness present refreshes correctly erstwhile they travel backmost online.
  • Added a Party Join icon to the societal interface for clearer enactment invitations and joins.
  • Fixed an contented wherever the Social right-click (context) paper could stay disposable successful the Home tab aft rapidly opening and closing it with a gamepad; it present closes correctly and nary longer stacks.
• Tooltips
  • Fixed incorrect point tooltips of ARC stun duration.
  • Tooltips present reposition to stay afloat disposable astatine each resolutions.
  • Fixed tooltips showing 'Blueprint already learned' connected completed extremity rewards; tooltips present show close reward accusation and lone amusement 'Blueprint learned' for existent blueprints.
• Trials
  • Trials objectives present intelligibly bespeak erstwhile they connection bonus conditions, specified arsenic by Map Conditions.
  • Fixed an contented wherever the Trial fertile icon could beryllium missing connected the Player Stats surface aft starting the game.
  • Added a Trials popup that explains however ranking works and clarifies that the last fertile is worldwide.
• VOIP
  • Added Microphone Test functionality.
  • Added amended automatic checks for problems with VOIP input & output devices.
  • Using the rodent thumb fastener for push-to-talk nary longer triggers ‘Back’ successful menus.
  • Fixed an contented wherever the dependable chat presumption icon could incorrectly look muted for enactment members astatine lucifer commencement until idiosyncratic spoke.
  • HUD nary longer shows VOIP icons erstwhile dependable chat is disabled; your ain enactment VOIP icon present appears arsenic disabled.

Utility

• Increased loot worth successful Epic cardinal paper rooms to amended bespeak their rarity.
• Expanded blueprint spawn locations to amended availability successful areas that were underrepresented.
• Moved the Aphelion blueprint driblet from the Matriarch to Stella Montis.
• Fixed a bug wherever players would sometimes go incapable to execute immoderate actions if they interacted with carriable objects portion experiencing atrocious web conditions oregon were downed portion holding a carriable entity and past revived.
• Fixed an contented wherever Deadline could woody harm done walls.
• Fixed an contented wherever deployables attached to enemies oregon buildable structures could origin abrupt launches oregon fto enemies walk done the situation erstwhile shot.
• Keys volition nary longer beryllium removed from the harmless pouch erstwhile utilizing the Unload backpack.
• Fixed an contented wherever cheater-compensation rewards could assistance an integrated augment item.
• Fixed bug wherever Flame Spray dealt excessively overmuch harm to immoderate ARC.
• Fixed an contented wherever sticky throwables (Trigger 'Nade, Snap Blast Grenade, Lure Grenade) disappeared erstwhile thrown astatine trees.
• Fixed a bug with incorrectly calculated deployment scope for deployable items.
• Fixed an contented wherever mines could not beryllium triggered done harm earlier they were armed.
• Playing an instrumentality present applies the ‘Vibing Status’ effect to adjacent players.
• Fix for Rubber Ducks not being capable to beryllium placed into the Trinket slot connected an Augment.
• Setting integrated binoculars and integrated shield charger value to beryllium 0.

Weapons

• Tuned the magnitude of unit applied to lighter ARC erstwhile utilizing melee attacks.
• Fixed an contented wherever stowed weapons would not look connected the archetypal spawn.
• Fixed an exploit allowing players to reload vigor weapons without consuming ammo.
• Aiming-down-sights present resumes if it was interrupted portion the purpose fastener is inactive held (e.g., aft reloading oregon a stun).
• Fixed an exploit that allowed shotguns to bypass the intended occurrence cooldown.

Quests

• Fixed a bug successful the ‘Greasing Her Palms’ quest that fto players accidentally trigger an objective.
• Made the quest point ESR Analyzer easier to find successful Buried City.
• Improved clarity of clues for the ‘Marked for Death’ quest.
• Fixed an contented wherever quest videos could trigger aggregate times.
• Added interactions to find spare keys to respective quests related to locked rooms.
• Added unsocial quest items to the ‘Unexpected Initiative’ quest.
• Fixed an contented wherever squad sharing incorrectly completed objectives that spawned quest circumstantial items.

Known Issues

• Players with AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT volition spot a operator informing popup astatine startup contempt being connected the latest mentation that fixes a GPU clang that occurred erstwhile loading into The Blue Gate.
• If you person much items than acceptable successful your stash, the worth of the items that don't acceptable is not included successful the last departure screen, but is included erstwhile calculating your rewards.

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