Arc Raiders developer Embark Studios is making a major change to how it updates its sci-fi extraction shooter. The studio announced Wednesday that it no longer plans to issue monthly updates to Arc Raiders, because doing so “isn’t sustainable, or compatible with the bigger ambitions we have for this game.”
Instead, Embark plans to radically alter its cadence, focusing on “major updates twice a year.” The first of those large-scale updates will arrive in October.
“When Arc Raiders launched, we planned to offer monthly updates. The intention was to keep you all engaged, to ensure the game always felt fresh, and to give you reasons to keep braving topside. But once the game was in players’ hands, we saw that the kind of long-term experience we want to create for Arc Raiders requires more transformative updates,” said executive producer Aleksander Grøndal. “Over time, we’ve found that the pressure of a monthly cycle limits how impactful these updates can be. You feel it, and we feel it too.”
The new plan will focus on twice-yearly updates that are larger in scale, more impactful, and will “genuinely change how you play the game,” Grøndal said.
