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Weapons will break faster in Arc Raiders as the devs push PvP in a huge update that aims to fix the 'chronic state…

PC Gamer·Elie Gould·6 months ago
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Arc Raiders' latest big update, Riven Tides , is finally upon us and it doesn't just bring beach holidays and ice cream cone arcs —there's also a bunch of updates in the patch notes , but the biggest change is coming for your guns.

Weapon durability is getting dropped and high-level spawns are being moved closer to the epicentre of the map. This is both to try to combat gun stockpiling and to turn up the heat: "We're reducing weapon spawn around the outskirts of the maps to increase value and tension of high tier areas and locked rooms."

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"The weapon economy has increasingly started looking more and more unbalanced," the patch notes read. "Where players engaging in heavy PvP have to make a lot of difficult decisions around their weapons, the most friendly players have ended up in a chronic state of weapon accumulation.…

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