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It’s been a messy week out in the Rust Belt, and if you’ve logged into ARC Raiders at all lately you’ve probably felt it the moment you hit the lobby, especially if you’ve been trying to grind out more ARC Raiders Coins while the new stuff is fresh. Embark pushed a store refresh on PC and console and the whole place just looks different. The Riposta Set is the big one everyone’s talking about – clean, tactical, not loud, the kind of outfit that makes your squad think you actually know every spawn angle in Spaceport even if you do not. On the flip side you have that ridiculous Midnight Rooster Backpack with the neon feathers and little drones popping out, which leans into Scrappy’s bird obsession in a way that is dumb and kind of brilliant at the same time. Toss in that pulsing Eye Scar cosmetic that lights up when you take damage and suddenly half the lobby looks like they just walked out of some weird sci‑fi horror flick.

Glitched Events On Pause

The bigger conversation, though, kicked off when people realised the Hidden Bunker event was just gone. No warning, no big banner, it just stopped showing up in the rotation. Once you think about how broken it had become, it makes sense. Players were phasing through walls, slipping into locked vault rooms, and scooping up high‑tier loot before legit teams even found a key. You would drop into a run, fight your way over there, and the bunker was already stripped bare by someone abusing a bug. That stuff slowly kills a loot economy, and it makes every honest raid feel pointless. So yeah, having the mode pulled for a bit stings if you liked the layout, but it’s also a pretty clear sign the devs care more about keeping runs fair than just keeping the playlist full for the sake of it.

Hotfixes You Actually Feel

What is funny is that there has not been some monster patch download, but the hotfixes they pushed in the background change how the game feels minute to minute. The quick‑swap gun exploit that messed with TTK is gone, so fights feel way less scuffed. When someone beams you now, it is because they tracked well, not because they juggled weapons faster than the game was meant to handle. The collision pass in Control Tower helps too. You are not getting snagged on random stair edges or weird rail corners every other fight, and those cheap angles where people used to glitch an advantage have mostly vanished. None of this is flashy, you do not take screenshots of cleaner hitboxes, but after a couple of sessions you catch yourself thinking, “Yeah, this runs smoother than it did last week.”

Cold Snap And The Grind

The roadmap sitting in the background gives all of this a clear target. With the Cold Snap update hitting in December, you are looking at snow maps, seasonal events, probably a shake‑up to what guns and rigs people trust in high‑risk runs. That is great if you like a shifting meta, but it also means the grind kicks up again, especially now that the easy exploits are gone and you have to win your fights the old‑fashioned way. A lot of players are already theory‑crafting builds, hoarding crafting mats, and trying to stack more cheap ARC Raiders Coins so they can jump on new skins and stay raid‑ready when the update lands.