[STEAM] ARC Raiders takes another step on its roadmap with an exotic offering, but it may not be enough to get back to old highs

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ARC Raiders' new map, Riven Tides, has been scheduled to release on April 28, with Embark Studios sharing new insights on the extraction shooter's upcoming level. It's to come alongside a content update, which will introduce new cosmetics and goodies to the game, hopefully to help offset the title's dramatic decline in recent months.

Riven Tides is ARC Raiders' upcoming map, and Embark gave us a few glimpses into what we can expect on April 28. Featuring a tropical style, we're going to take fights to various scenic locations, from hotel resorts to pools to sandy beach bars, though there won't be any shortage of the recognizable rusticity and post-apocalypse that comes in the form of warehouses, wreckage sites, and ruined shipyards. While there's no gauging how big the map will be, I have a strong feeling we're going to have a lot of environments to choose from, no matter what.

Of course, Embark Studios doesn't miss a chance to paint a bleak picture of a world ruled by robots, and so its Riven Tides-themed

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describes the map as a place where everything seems frozen in time, as if the entire populace had one day disappeared.

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"Posters still hang on the walls, smashed glasses on the countertops, beds still made. It’s like whoever lived here got up one evening and just never came back. Like everything’s on pause," the report reads. I love this side of ARC Raiders that gets so overshadowed by the game's very nature as a PVP title, and given just how successful it actually is, I would absolutely drop any amount of money on a singleplayer or PVE-oriented event that'd let us explore the world and lore in a more direct way.

On top of adding the map, the Riven Tides update will also introduce a few new skins, one of which looks like it was taken straight out of Resident Evil Village's Mother Miranda's closet. The others carry a retrofuturistic cosmic theme, which is par for the course in ARC Raiders. The middle one stands out, though.

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Depending on how big this whole patch is, ARC Raiders could finally reclaim some of its lost player base, as

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amid an abject lack of new content or events. The Shrouded Sky update didn't help much, though now there's also an Expedition on the way (

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) that could, alongside Riven Tides, help reinvigorate the title a bit.

At any rate, the game still has strong numbers, so it's not going to go anywhere any time soon, but it's better to start reclaiming those positive trends now rather than to wait for the entire player base to jump ship to something else. ARC Raiders is a fantastic title, and the addition of Riven Tides is surely going to make it better. Let's just hope that resonates with whom it should.

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