Holiday festivities are now underway in ARC Raiders, and the accompanying update brings a massive nerf to the coveted Security Breach skill. It was not uncommon for players to tailor their runs around Security Breach locations since they were guaranteed to consistently provide great loot, but the December update has made this strategy much less viable.
According to ARC Raiders' December Update 1.7.0 patch notes, "Security Lockers are now dynamically spawned across all maps instead of being statically placed." Previously, the Security Breach skill, which opens Security Lockers, could be used at specific places on each map in every raid, provided another player hadn't gotten there first. Security Locker spawns will now be effectively random.
The patch note wording leaves a little room for interpretation. Either all the possible spawn points for Security Lockers remain the same, and there is a reduced chance they appear, or new spawn points have been added to the pool in addition to the lower appearance chance. Regardless of how exactly Security Locker spawns work—which will likely be figured out very soon—the result is that Security Breach has been heavily nerfed.
The Survival skill tree, on which Security Breach is one of the final skills,...
