Most ARC Raiders “beginner problems” aren’t aim problems. They’re decision problems—what you bring, what you shoot, what you keep, when you leave, and how you protect progress items. The good news is that beginners usually repeat the same mistakes, which means you can fix them fast with a simple system.

Trials are ARC Raiders’ way of turning “good raids” into a weekly competitive ladder—without forcing you into nonstop PvP or endless grinding. Every week you get a set of tougher challenges, and your best performances place you on Speranza’s Raider leaderboards with fresh rewards and Masteries. The problem is simple: players who push Trials like it’s a deathmatch often end the week broke, tilted, and stuck—because high scores don’t matter if you don’t extract, and “one more attempt” can quietly drain your entire bank.

If ARC Raiders ever feels “hard,” there’s a good chance the real enemy isn’t topside—it’s your stash. A cluttered stash makes you deploy late, forget essentials, run out of space for quest items, and panic-sell the wrong things when you finally hit the “inventory full” wall. A disciplined stash does the opposite: you gear faster, craft smarter, carry the right utilities, and extract with purpose because you already know what you’re hunting and what you’re ignoring.

ARC Raiders isn’t “PvP with some bots.” It’s PvPvE in the truest sense: machines and Raiders constantly reshape each other’s fights. The moment you shoot a Wasp, you might pull a Snitch’s attention. The moment you chase a Raider into a building, a Tick might turn your sprint into a panic roll. And the moment you win a clean 1v1, a Bombardier’s mortar or a third team can turn your victory into a loot donation.

ARC Raiders rewards the players who think in “seasons,” not in single raids. If you treat every match like it must be your biggest score ever, you’ll burn kits, tilt faster, and stall out right when the game opens up. But if you treat ARC Raiders like a long-term journey—where your skills, routines, and account progression compound—you’ll feel yourself getting richer, safer, and more confident week after week. This page is your Roadmap Mindset guide: how to plan progress over time, how to use daily Feats and Raider Decks wisely, how to avoid economy traps like hoarding Cred, how to approach seasonal projects without burnout, and when (and why) the Expedition Project exists as a prestige-style reset that still respects your investment.

Embark’s games share one big advantage that most live-service shooters don’t: one account system that ties everything together. If you play ARC Raiders and THE FINALS, your Embark ID is the bridge that connects your cosmetics, progress, and special cross-game rewards. That’s awesome when it’s set up correctly—and confusing when it isn’t.

ARC Raiders is one of those games where “smooth” matters more than “pretty.” A single hitch while you’re ADS’ing, a micro-stutter during a flank, or a sudden FPS cliff at extraction can cost your kit and your whole run. The good news: ARC Raiders has strong PC optimization compared to many modern shooters, and with the right settings you can get higher FPS, better 1% lows (less stutter), and lower input delay without turning the world into a blurry mess. This page gives you a practical, raid-tested setup for FPS & stability first, with extra profiles for different hardware tiers and quick fixes for common stutter/crash problems.

If you play ARC Raiders on PC, you’re going to meet Easy Anti-Cheat (EAC) sooner or later—either quietly in the background (best case) or loudly via an error popup right when you’re ready to deploy (worst case). For most players, EAC is simply “the thing that lets me queue,” but it also affects what software you can run, whether certain overlays are safe, why virtual machines are blocked, and what to do when you see messages like “System Integrity Violation” or “Cheat Software Detected.”

Extraction timing is the most underrated skill in ARC Raiders. It’s the difference between “I always come home richer” and “I always die with the good stuff.” The tricky part is that the correct decision isn’t always “leave early” or “greed harder”—it depends on your bag value, your route, your map’s extraction type, the shutdown timer, what you’re carrying (keys, quest items, blueprints), and what the lobby feels like right now. This guide gives you a simple, repeatable system to decide when to leave and when to greed, plus practical playbooks for solo, duo, and trio so you stop throwing winning raids in the last 90 seconds.