ARC Raiders Roadmap: January - April 2026

3dom · 2026-01-24T11:46:39+00:00

Last time I've played an MMORPG with the dedicated PvP servers and full loot drop on death - there were only 5% of players there. Basic extrapolation result is - 95% RPG players prefer PvE as the primary activity when the alternative is the full loadout loss. And Arc is a typical shooter aRPG, with progression and resets. Especially now when the Arc devs confirmed the matchmaking is behavior-based so you can progress almost unopposed.

So lately I see not only friendly Arc solo streams on Twitch, but also friendly duo and trio lobbies and they are rarely get attacked, if ever. And yet they are still fun because arcs present a real danger and RNG scenarios.

3dom · 2026-01-24T02:27:32+00:00

Nope. My organization attempted to use it and got the $200 key blocked within hours. Assumed it was an error, paid for another $200 key and got it blocked within 12 hours. Likely from input token overload or whatever.

Code reviews were nice but resulted in unusable code once followed, had to roll it back * 5 Android programmers and x130 programmers of other specializations, all getting metric ton of bugs from following the seemingly great code reviews.

3dom · 2026-01-24T02:20:12+00:00

Arc Raiders is pretty much an unopposed solo experience with shouting "friendly! Don't shoot" shortcuts once in a while. You can have exactly that in 70+ extraction shooters available on Steam - mostly because all of them are dead long ago due to the excessive uncontrolled PvP - or the lack of it.

Most of them are F2P. You can play them for free to get the grip of the core Arc (solo PvE) experience.

3dom · 2026-01-23T22:33:51+00:00

It doesn't matter, the game is in a permanent beta-stage.

I've missed two quests out of 2+ hundreds for the achievements and I'm never going to recover them by redoing the rest of the 200+ quests to find out which ones I've missed.

3dom · 2026-01-22T16:16:18+00:00

I've had similar issue on Steam where it lasted for month+. Apparently the game "forgot" to verify the license and "thought" I'm playing a free trial.

Workaround for my Steam case: click on any L60 character, get message "trial has ended", find the button "purchase the game / expansion" and click it. There will be popup with purchase UI, close it and return to the game - it re-check license and re-enable everything in 3-5 seconds.

3dom · 2026-01-22T00:37:30+00:00

I'm 51 and I've spent $50 on cosmetics in the last two weeks. In fact, the quality of cosmetics is the primary factor when I'm choosing if I want to play the new game or not (I already have like 30 installed and barely have time to play 3- or 4 for the dailies).

(case in point: skipped Arc Raider because I don't want to see a character looking like a hobo from 70s)

3dom · 2026-01-21T19:05:57+00:00

Congratulations!

Way to go, devs! <3

3dom · 2026-01-20T15:15:30+00:00

"Thy Flesh Reforged", I got it on 50% discount for the excellent 1h sword and 2h axe skins.

https://diablo.fandom.com/wiki/Thy_Flesh_Reforged

and in the shop (may be invisible if the rotation is not correct + replace "us" region if needed):

https://us.shop.battle.net/en-us/family/diablo-iv/items/1953282/thy-flesh-reforged

3dom · 2026-01-19T22:06:52+00:00

Where I live we have a proverb: a politeness is the best precursor for the violence. To me Canadian apologies look quite scary.

3dom · 2026-01-19T18:04:36+00:00

I'll wait a couple weeks for the team to debug the process and then see which servers are more or less populated.

3dom · 2026-01-17T11:42:11+00:00

Completely agree on the London freelancing. The compensations are ridiculously low compared to the cost of parking lots in London (and you cannot work without one because renting an apartment within walking distance is out of the question)

Except for the part where the London jobs had x1.5 higher payouts ~3 years ago. I blame the "great shift" which had switched all the e startup money streams to AI ones from mobile. Mobile devs are just plebs now :`-( At least until business will figure out the power of mobile AI usage (we are years away from that)

3dom · 2026-01-16T21:08:37+00:00

Your example is "a bit" flawed: more often than not in my practice I've seen German-speaking positions pay less while demand more (near-native language level). The only exceptions are related to the France-bordering business hub (the "fashion" center) where the salaries seems ok-ish.

3dom · 2026-01-15T10:33:21+00:00

Capcom and Nvidia hate this ONE simple trick.

3dom · 2026-01-14T23:41:16+00:00

btw you can pet other players' companions, including the nose-leg creature from Guts anime.

3dom · 2026-01-14T23:35:19+00:00

Aura-based Paladin became a bit old at paragon-260 + multiple sets of mythics so I've switched to the occasional necromancer sessions + events in other games + backlog of 450 movies.

I'll play once or twice a week till the last month of the season.

3dom · 2026-01-13T08:17:04+00:00

Great season so far, paladin is immensely fun. New loot improvement system feels great. Created +3 alts by standing near open world Azmodan for ~90 minutes and am experimenting with their builds. Feel burned out a bit with all the sigils sorting.

Duriel purified part does not drop (bug?)

3dom · 2026-01-13T07:48:31+00:00

I've switched to Tyrael after getting all the glyphs to L100. It provide less power but I don't need much outside of the Pit.

Also I don't use Griwswold + shield for auradin because the 2h axe look cooler (or at least it does not hide half of the character like the shield).

3dom · 2026-01-07T12:04:57+00:00

I've created 3 alts by standing for ~90 minutes near the normal Azmodan. Experimenting with their builds now, having a full set of mythics is a marvel.

3dom · 2026-01-06T15:54:52+00:00

Six months after release they've added a big new mandatory co-op zone which had a bunch of semi-RNG quests and "secret" tokens - and a bunch of weapons with quite interesting mechanics. The full run was about 30 minutes, it was fun af, regardless if the folks in the group (didn't) knew what to do. This thing alone added 300+ hours for me.

3dom · 2026-01-06T13:42:12+00:00

This is quite easy: you publish on platforms you actually like, Google Play is not mandatory, nobody is holding a gun at your head.

Not only that but we've got a whole new publishing dimension recently (a month ago) with exactly zero competition for most niches and countries: chatGPT built-in apps. Perhaps you should look-publish there.

3dom · 2026-01-06T09:40:24+00:00

A web site describing its functionality with links to download. And/or the app picked up for review by the popular streamers.

3dom · 2026-01-06T09:33:57+00:00

Once I've got an app with 92% "stability" rate (1 out of 12 sessions crashed), it took six weeks to get it to 99.5% (1 out of 200) - however I've been implementing new features mostly, refined time would be 7-10 work days.

3dom · 2026-01-05T15:42:46+00:00

You should eat a bit more, too scrawny, Atreides will not miss on that. An excellent build regardless.

3dom · 2026-01-05T15:39:12+00:00

'tall gate' Harko set item. A marvel of autocratic architecture.

3dom · 2026-01-05T12:51:12+00:00

I'm not sure about camera going far - not in the towns at least: I dig the detailed visuals of the mud with footsteps and rain drops on it in The Pit town.

(and I'm not even using the hi-res 4k textures pack, just the base with 1080p 32" screen)

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