Just two days ago, ARC Raiders significantly nerfed the Security Breach skill with its December update, and now a second, similar alteration has come down in a hotfix. The 1.7.0 update on December 16 increased the drop rate for blueprints, which were notoriously difficult to find, and now, on December 18, said drop rates have been nerfed.
Update 1.7.2 was announced on ARC Raiders' official Discord server, with community manager Dusty providing an overview of the changes. "Blueprint rates have been slightly lowered, but are still higher overall than before the 1.7.0 update," the announcement reads. Exact numbers regarding blueprint rarity have never been provided, so it's impossible to know exactly how the drop rates have changed, though the buff was plain to see.
Following the December update, many felt blueprint spawns might be broken. Social media posts about ARC Raiders showed numerous players finding multiple blueprints per raid. I experienced the uptick myself; I found three new blueprints (and one I already had) in just a couple of hours on the night of December 16. In the dozens of hours I'd played prior, I had only accumulated 17, some of which were rewards from quests and weekly Trials.
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