ARC Raiders will obtain a number of “greater” updates earlier than the tip of 2025, Embark Studios stated. The promise was supplied as a part of a broader teaser of the developer’s “formidable” post-launch plans for the sport, which is able to quickly be formalized within the type of a correct ARC Raiders content material roadmap.
An extraction shooter for PC and current-gen consoles, ARC Raiders locked down an October 30 release date in mid-2025. With solely days remaining earlier than launch, writer Nexon—additionally the guardian firm of Embark Studios—intensified its advertising efforts. As a part of that push, Embark Govt Producer Aleksander Grondal appeared on the 81st episode of the Pals Per Second podcast, which aired this Saturday, October 25.
Embark Teases ‘Bold’ Submit-Launch Plans for ARC Raiders
About two hours and 4 minutes into the episode, Grondal mirrored on Embark’s post-launch plans for the sport, which he described as “formidable.” The present agenda contains updates with new maps, ARCs, and quests, on high of the everyday balancing tweaks. Whereas Embark is aiming to have these content material drops roll out usually, ARC Raiders will not be adopting the everyday seasonal release model commonly used in live-service games. As an alternative, the Swedish developer is planning to have a extra versatile schedule, delivering significant updates when they’re prepared.
Stella Montis Content material Presumably Coming Round Christmas
Grondal talked about that Stella Montis, particularly, could obtain “one thing earlier than Christmas.” Stella Montis is without doubt one of the 5 maps that shall be obtainable within the recreation at launch, alongside Dam Battlegrounds, Buried Metropolis, The Spaceport, and Blue Gate. It was not obtainable to play in the course of the recently concluded ARC Raiders “server slam” test. Its revision is one amongst a number of “greater updates” that the extraction shooter is deliberate to obtain earlier than the tip of 2025, Grondal stated.
ARC Raiders 2026 Content material Roadmap Coming Quickly
The upcoming arrival of ARC Raiders gained’t have an effect on The Finals, Embark’s free-to-play shooter launched in December 2023. Though the 2 video games are developed by separate inner groups, they help one another and have contributed to each initiatives, in accordance with Grondal. Whereas ARC Raiders will not undertake The Finals‘ seasons and seasonal passes, its content material cadence should still discover some rhythm ultimately, after Embark identifies what works greatest. Grondal added that the primary full-fledged content material roadmap for ARC Raiders, specializing in 2026, shall be finalized within the coming weeks.
ARC Raiders will start at $39.99, with its Deluxe Version priced at $59.99. The sport will implement totally platform-agnostic crossplay, which means PC gamers may usually discover themselves dealing with console customers and vice versa.
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October 30, 2025
- ESRB
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Teen / Violence, Blood
