Arc Raiders Riven Tides Trailer Reveals Massive Beach-Themed Update With New Seaside Map and Turbine Enemy

Embark Studios has revealed a archetypal look astatine the caller Riven Tides map, the Arc Turbine enemy, and everything other included successful what looks similar the biggest Arc Raiders update yet.

The workplace down the fashionable sci-fi extraction shooter published details astir the caller seaside contented with a station connected its website today. It's a breakdown for the Riven Tides update aimed to amusement players that the months-long hold for the caller representation volition person been worthy it erstwhile Raiders caput topside to effort it each retired tomorrow, April 28.

The April Arc Raiders update's pièce de absorption is nary uncertainty the caller determination it pulls its sanction from: Riven Tides. As fans person guessed for months, this caller map, the 2nd post-launch determination Embark has added since its October 2025 launch, takes Raiders to sandy shores populated with shady thenar trees. The archetypal trailer for the update (below) besides highlighted the dusty h2o slides and abandoned eating spaces of the Hotel Panorama Azzurro, arsenic good arsenic its accompanying beach, tennis courts, and harbor.

While the footage besides took the clip to amusement the instrumentality of Arc enemies similar the Vaporizer, Hornet drones, and adjacent the Shredder, seasoned Arc Raiders fans volition besides announcement an unfamiliar Arc force hovering successful immoderate shots. This cone-shaped being is called the Arc Turbine and already visually marks rather a departure for Embark. Where erstwhile caller force types person often appeared arsenic small-to-medium-sized drones oregon ball-shaped guards, players volition request to ticker for this overmuch larger foe to usage antiaircraft measures from the sky.

It's unclear if the Turbine volition lone look successful Riven Tides oregon if Embark has plans to bring it to different Arc Raiders maps. What is confirmed to beryllium exclusive to the caller location, though, is the caller Beachbombing insignificant representation condition. During these windows, Raiders volition person the accidental to scavenge for loot on the seashore by utilizing thing called the Dockmaster's Detector.

The developers besides revealed that the caller Last Resort lawsuit volition let players to gain rewards by gaining XP and collecting exemplary ships from April 28 to May 25. The latest Project, meanwhile, is called the Avian Alarm Project, and comes with imaginable rewards that see 250 Raider Tokens and a Bird House backpack attachment.

As antecedently announced, the adjacent Expedition Window opens April 28 and has been reworked to inquire players to woody harm for bonus accomplishment points alternatively of earning them done stash value. It was a once-controversial alteration that was rapidly reworked, present allowing fans to motion up and enactment successful the prestige programme until a May 11 deadline.

Arc Raiders Riven Tides launches arsenic a escaped update crossed PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X | S tomorrow. As a bonus for those connected PS5 Pro, it was besides announced to travel with PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution, adding what Embark described arsenic improved visuals that marque "environments look cleaner and much stable, with amended reconstruction of good details."

For much connected Arc Raiders, you tin work our 9/10 review. You tin besides cheque retired our all-encompassing interrogation with Embark CEO Patrick Söderlund from earlier this year.

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