Guides
8 ARC Raiders pages in Guides.
Beginner Guides
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Beginner's GuideIn your first hours of ARC Raiders, take free loadouts onto Dam Battlegrounds, avoid ARC instead of fighting it, keep what you find in your Safe Pocket, extract early, and spend your first Coins on stash space. Most of what you carry is lost when you die, so learn the maps before you risk good gear. -
How a Raid WorksIn ARC Raiders you choose a loadout in Speranza, deploy Topside on a timer of about 30 minutes, loot, and leave by elevator, Raider Hatch or Ballistic Gondola. If you are knocked out you lose everything except your Safe Pocket; a Free Loadout risks nothing but has no Safe Pocket.
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PvP GuideTo win PvP fights in ARC Raiders, shoot in bursts and keep moving, break line of sight when hurt, and save your dodge for grenades. To stay friendly, use proximity chat and watch whether a Raider holsters, because the Don't Shoot emote is also used as bait. Matchmaking leans toward Raiders who play as you do. -
Solo GuideYou can play ARC Raiders solo by setting Fill Squad to Off and pressing Play. Embark tracks your solo playstyle separately since update 1.36.0, and it tries to match equal squad sizes, but solo gets no built-in compensation and squads can still appear.
Setup Guides
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Controls and SettingsARC Raiders' default PC keys are WASD to move, Left Shift to sprint, Left Alt to dodge, E to interact, Tab for inventory and M for the map. Most gamepad buttons can be rebound since update 1.13.0, and update 2.0 changed the default gamepad mapping without publishing the new layout in its Steam highlights.
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Troubleshooting and Error CodesMost ARC Raiders connection errors, such as ARAU0297, are server-side, so check Embark's news, X and Discord before changing anything. Embark has no official status page that we could find. Known crash causes include Windows Update KB5121003, Xbox Series S memory and AMD ray tracing, each with its patch below.