Over 12 million copies of ARC Raiders have been sold, and Embark Studios is celebrating this impressive milestone with gifts, new cosmetics, and highly requested balancing changes.
Update 1.11.0 is now live, bringing changes to the kettle assault rifle, and the remote-detonated explosive, the trigger 'nade, which Embark stated, "currently dominates PVP encounters, and players favour picking it over all our other grenades."
Embark Solves Kettle Macro Problem And Nerfs Trigger 'Nades
The semi-automatic assault rifle, the Kettle, became a problem when players began reporting seeing the weapon being fired at an impossibly fast rate. This was due to the fact that some raiders were abusing macros, which turn one click of a button into multiple, allowing the Kettle's fire rate to be exploited.
To fix this, Embark has rolled out an easy fix by reducing the kettle's fire rate from 600 to 450. "The previous fire rate was only realistically reachable by players using macros, which creates an unfair dynamic that favours using 3rd party software."
In addition to the kettle nerf, the trigger 'nade has received a thorough rework thanks to the persistence of the raider community. The trigger 'nade has been one of the...
