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Arc Raiders will soon be getting a new roadmap outlining content that's on the way in more depth than ever before, Embark Studios CEO Patrick Söderlund confirms.
Embark Studios's latest multiplayer hit has now been out for almost seven months, but in that time, the devs have completed everything they laid out in the Arc Raiders 2026 roadmap. After all, it only went up to April's big Riven Tides update, but it sounds like we'll be getting a new one soon.
Speaking on a new episode of The Fourth Curtain (below), Söderlund says Embark feels it owes it to players to give them "a lot more" content. "Because of the success of Arc Raiders, we have put ourselves in a position where I feel like we owe it to ourselves and to the people out there playing the game to make a lot more, you know, to just make sure that people have more to do," he begins.
Söderlund admits he recently "had to apologize" to the Arc Raiders leadership team because he "wasn't happy with the speed that we were building things and kind of feeding the community with," even though he acknowledges that "that's unfair towards the developers" who are "really working hard." He points to the work Embark has been putting into its anti-cheat measures, saying that "we've really gone hard after that problem" and are "trying everything we can to fix" it. Söderlund adds: "I think we've mitigated a lot of it. Maybe not all of it, but we're not going to give up until we feel like we're ahead of that curve."
He continues, saying it's the "same thing with bigger updates that [are] coming, new maps and things." He explains: "We're going to be publishing very shortly kind of [an] official roadmap of content to come so people know what they are waiting for, with more details than we've done in the past."
While Söderlund doesn't elaborate on what exactly he or the devs have in mind, he teases that "there's so much we can do with both the game itself, but also the lore, the fiction, new types of enemy. Like, there's so much you can do with that game." The devs at Embark have "a thousand ideas," he says.
Hopefully, then, we'll soon find out what Embark's plans are. What we do already know is that we won't be getting any more major updates until October, when we'll see the launch of Frozen Trail, the biggest Arc Raiders update yet. In general, major updates are now set to arrive twice a year, though "regular live updates" with balance changes and bug fixes will still come in between.
Based on when The Fourth Curtain's interview with Söderlund was published, it looks like there's a good chance it took place before the announcement of the new bi-annual update cadence took place, as Söderlund doesn't refer to the Frozen Trail update. I'm curious what a roadmap could actually look like for the game given that announcement – it certainly sounds like it'd be a more forward-looking thing, but it'd be nice to have more details about the October update and what comes after that.
