Arc Raiders’ upcoming Flashpoint replace launches on March 31, lower than every week from now. For this Embark has promised gamers a brand new map situation, arc risk, participant challenge, and a Scrappy replace. Regardless of being simply days away we’ve not heard an excessive amount of concerning the free replace, with the most recent element drop teasing the migration of Shredders from Stella Montis.
“Somebody forgot to shut the Stella Montis doorways on their approach out,” Embark Studios says in an official social media publish. “Verify your corners, the Flashpoint replace drops subsequent week.” It wasn’t me guys, I promise.
Somebody forgot to shut the Stella Montis doorways on their approach out…Verify your corners, the Flashpoint Replace drops subsequent week! 😱 pic.twitter.com/eDxZGVPudgMarch 23, 2026
So that is it. Shredders have lastly made their approach out of the confines of Stella Montis, and can doubtless be heading to Blue Gates’ cramped corridors. It is not an surprising transfer; Embark has been speaking about this for a while, with the design lead Virgil Watkins lately revealing that as a way to escalate the PvE risk they’d be shifting the Shredder: “They will work out get out of there ultimately” (through GamesRadar).
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Even before this, players had realised that it was only a matter of time before we’d encounter Shredders on different maps. A few months ago an image of a Shredder seemingly outside made its way into the weekly trials. So, yeah, this development comes as a surprise to no one.
In fact, many players aren’t that happy about this update. It’s not because they can be annoying as all hell to deal with, being finicky bastards that turn the hallways of Stella Montis into a Saw trap. Instead players are worried that this will count towards the promise of a new arc in the Flashpoint update.
“Shredders are the new Arc aren’t they,” one player says. While others repeat this disappointment, as many admit that so far, the update isn’t living up to Embark’s hype: “If adding the shredder to another map is their way of doing an update then I will happily play marathon for now until they actually bring new stuff.”
I’d say that Embark has had a good history of providing content. Shrouded Sky brought us hurricanes and beards, Headwinds changed matchmaking, and there’s been new projects, decks, and plenty of balance patches between all of that, like nerfing the Il Toro and buffing Rocketeers.
It’s not perfect, sure. There’s still a substantial cheating problem despite all the work Embark has done to combat this. But as someone who now only drops into Arc Raiders for a couple of matches here and there, mostly to just catch up with friends, it’s more than enough for me. The lack of new content is only a real issue for those players who still play it more often than not, I can see how simply moving Shredders from one map to another could seem like a bit of a slap in the face.
But we’ve still got a few more days until the update releases, so who knows there could be a whole new arc waiting in the wings for then. If that’s not the case then, I guess we’ll just have to wait for the Riven Tides update next month which will add a new map, large arc, and map condition.
