Guides

Five reference texts for the long game.

5/5 guides

Blueprints Worth Chasing Early

Twelve blueprint slots matter in your first twenty hours. The other sixty-two can wait. A curatorial take on what to chase, what to skip, and why.

7 minLast verified 2026-05-07

Editorial·Conditions

Map Conditions Decoder

Three condition types reshape the same six maps into roughly thirty experiences. Minor, Major, and ARC Operations — what shifts, what to play for, and how to read the rotation.

8 minLast verified 2026-05-07

Editorial·Bestiary

Reading the ARC

The ten named ARC types as terrain, not enemies. Tactical prose on Drones, Probes, Ticks, Husk, Harvester, Matriarch, Vaporizer, Shredder, Assessor, and Turbine.

10 minLast verified 2026-05-07

Editorial·Primer

The Extraction Loop

What a run actually looks like — Speranza below, the Rust Belt above, the loop that holds them together. The anchor primer for everything else.

7 minLast verified 2026-05-07

Editorial·Maps

The Six Battlegrounds

What each Arc Raiders map rewards, who it punishes, and when to play it. Six theses for six battlegrounds — strategic comparison, not walkthroughs.

9 minLast verified 2026-05-07