Arc Raiders devs "understand your frustrations" with the Wolfpack nerf and new crafting requirements, but are changing nothing for now – in fact, they're nerfing the Il Toro too

Arc Raiders trailer screenshot of a man's face in red lighting — (Image credit: Embark Studios)

Developer Embark Studios has reviewed some of the player complaints regarding the new Arc Raiders Shrouded Sky update, and it has seemingly found them wanting. A new post from community admin Ossen outlines the thinking behind some divisive new changes, but makes it clear that nothing about them is changing right now.

Arc Raiders players were served two spoonfuls of medicine in the recent Shrouded Sky update, with the machine-deleting Wolfpack and Deadline explosives eating nerfs in the form of new crafting requirements that include rarer Arc materials – respectively, Rocketeer drives and the guts of the new Comet bot. Some folks (and, I imagine, the Arc) were in favor of the change, but fury from players used to crafting dozens of these things with relative ease came thick and fast.

I do think there's room for improvement with this change. Rocketeers are notoriously, inexplicably stingy with drives, often dropping just one or two, where less dangerous Arc reliably dish out six or more. And crafting a Wolfpack only for its tracking to go haywire and waste your resources feels extra terrible now. But as a Wolfpack fan myself, I do think they were too good and needed some kind of nerf, and I also feel that Arc Raiders is more fun when you want more resources and interact with more Arc. (Deadlines are completely fine, by the way; I've gotten tons of Comet cores without even trying so I barely notice the new crafting recipe, plus you can buy one Deadline a day from a vendor.)

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