As an extraction shooter, a wipe is coming to the game in ARC Raiders soon. However, the shooter gives you a choice and aims to convince you with strong rewards.
What is a wipe anyway? When a new season or new content is to launch in extraction shooters, developers often resort to wipes. It is essentially a server reset that resets progress such as weapons, levels, or resources and allows all players to start again at a comparable level.
Often wipes are mandatory and a controversial topic, after all, players have to part with items they fought hard for. However, ARC Raiders is based on voluntariness and wants to convince you to participate in the wipe, which is set to start on December 22, 2025, with rewards.
A wipe that is also meant to reward you
What will the wipe look like in ARC Raiders? The most important thing is: The wipe in ARC Raiders will be voluntary. Between December 17 and December 22, 2025, you have time to decide whether to participate in the wipe or not.
With a wipe, your skill tree, level, base, workshop, crafting abilities, and blueprints will be reset. So you will start almost
anew. To make your decision easier, ARC Raiders offers you all sorts of rewards in case of a wipe.
Based on the value of your items and coins, you will receive up to 5 skill points during a wipe. 1 million coins correspond to one skill point. In addition, there are permanent and temporary items and buffs that you will receive:
- Outfit: Patchwork Raiders
- Cap: Scrappy Janitor
- Icon: Expeditions Indicator
- Plus 12 slots in your base
- Temporary: 10% buff on repairing
- Temporary: 5% boost on experience
- Temporary: 6% more materials from Scrappy, the beloved rooster of all Raiders
The developers state that the buffs will improve for the next 3 expeditions. However, if you do not participate in the current expedition, the buffs will expire. You can continue farming until December 22 to improve your coins and the value of your storage, even if you unregister beforehand. Because the value on December 22 is what counts.
Why are the developers doing a wipe? Under the post about the wipe information, the developers also explain why they are conducting it. A wipe allows for different balancing and gives avid players the opportunity to have a fresh experience. However, through the voluntary wipe, they want to avoid frustration in case players prefer to continue playing with their collected loot.
What do you think about the upcoming wipe? Will you participate or stay with your collected loot in the current expedition? Feel free to share your opinion in the comments. A player will likely have to part with his beloved collection during a wipe: A player has collected so many rubber ducks in ARC Raiders that they don’t fit in his base, calling for improvement from the developers
