Embark Studios has revealed the roadmap for the first half of ARC Raiders2026 is planning, and there is a lot for players to look forward to. Shown in this roadmap for ARC Raiders is the content players can expect from now until April 2026, including new map conditions, new ARC threats, and the next expedition window. But arguably the most exciting part of this roadmap isn't scheduled to be released until April, that is ARC Raiders fans will have to wait a while for the game's juiciest content update.
With ARC Raiders' Cold Snap update now in the rearview mirror, the escalation of Escalation falls across the game and introduces new challenges to keep attackers on their toes. Having to face new ARC machines and learn their behavior is always difficult, but the roadmap for ARC Raiders also reveals that more map conditions are on the way to really force players to strategize their runs from above. The content piece ARC Raiders Most needs right now is a new map to shake up the current gameplay loop, but players will have to wait until April for the next map to be released.
ARC Raider's next new map won't arrive until April 2026
ARC Raiders currently has 5 main maps for players to explore:
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Women's Battlegrounds
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Buried city
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Spaceport
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Blue gate
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Stella Montis
Four of these maps were available at launch, and Stella Montis was added in November 2025. While the various map conditions are available in ARC Raiders adding some variety to these maps, giving players a whole new area to explore goes a long way towards keeping gameplay interesting. Now that the honeymoon period for Stella Montis is well over, it seems like the perfect time to ARC Raiders to release a new map and reignite some of the hype that comes with discovering new locations in the game.
Stella Montis was the last ARC Raiders map added in November 2025
Until next time ARC Raiders the map is released in April, it will have been 6 months since the previous new map was added. Stella Montis can be somewhat of a controversial map due to it being completely contained within a building, and it is a known hot spot for PvP in ARC Raiders. As such, a new map would likely give Stella Montis some breathing room as players flock to the latest addition, potentially alleviating some of the stress surrounding a run on Stella Montis in its current state.
2026 roadmap for ARC Raiders also includes a “map update” planned for February, but it's unclear what this means or how significant an update it will be.
The next ARC Raiders map has high expectations to live up to
Due to the controversial nature of Stella Montis, there is already a set of expectations in place for the next new one ARC Raiders map to live up to. After Stella Monti's interior design, many ARC Raiders fans are hoping for a new map that returns to the outdoor environments, balanced with a spread of enclosed buildings like others ARC Raiders maps. In addition, the design of newer ARC Raiders maps were created with PvP in mind, so the next map-shifting focus back to PvE would likely go a long way toward appealing to players who prefer not to engage in PvP.
The April 2026 update for ARC Raiders is planned to include more than just a new map, with other features being added, such as:
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New Large ARC
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New map condition
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Expedition window
This update will mark the third expedition in the ARC Raiderswith the first optional player reset coming back in December 2025, and the next scheduled for February 2026. A new major ARC, presumably as the Queen or Matriarch, along with a new map state, are solid components of the new map's recipe for success. But longer ARC Raiders goes without introducing this new map, the higher the expectations will inevitably be, and all of these factors must support the new map's playstyle to help it succeed at launch.
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30 October 2025
- ESRB
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Teen/violence, blood
