Terminal notes · methodology
About this terminal
ARC Raiders Field Terminal is an unofficial reference for ARC Raiders. It exists to answer two kinds of question in one place: what a thing is, with the official post that says so, and what to do about it, with the reasoning visible.
It is not a wiki in the collaborative sense and it does not accept unsourced additions. Every record on the site traces back to a passage somebody published, and the passage is stored next to the claim.
- Catalogued entities
- 37
- Tracked patches
- 12
- Written dispatches
- 8
- Field guides
- 4
Method
Four rules govern what gets written here. They are listed in the order they are applied, because each one depends on the previous one having been followed.
- 01
Collect only primary text
Every factual claim on this site starts from a published source: the official Steam news feed for AppID 1808500, the storefront media attached to those posts, and the store page itself. Nothing is taken from a wiki, an aggregator or a video description.
- 02
Store the quote, not the summary
Each entity record carries the verbatim passage in which the source names it, along with the URL, publisher, tier and access date. If a claim cannot be quoted, it does not reach the site — a summary is not evidence.
- 03
Resolve conflicts upward
Where a creator guide and an official post disagree, the official post wins and the disagreement is recorded rather than deleted. The rulings are published in the site source ledger so a reader can see what was rejected and why.
- 04
Separate fact from advice
The reference indexes report. The guides and dispatches recommend, and they say so. Where the community genuinely disagrees — skill tree priorities, best weapon per slot — the site explains the tradeoff instead of declaring a winner it cannot support.
Coverage and its limits
The tracked patch record currently runs from 1.43.0 (2026-08-25) to 2.2.0 (2026-10-20). That window defines what this site can speak to.
Patch numbers, dates, named surfaces and behaviour changes are reported only where an official post states them. When a post is vague — a hotfix described only as a corrective build, for instance — the record is equally vague rather than filled in with inference. A reader should be able to tell the difference between a thin source and a thick one, and the site keeps that difference visible.
Numeric claims such as a mention count are derived from the collected posts themselves. They are counts of how often the source text names something, which is a measure of how much the developers had to address it, not a ranking of difficulty or importance.
What is deliberately absent. No tier lists, no damage figures that no official source publishes, no map layouts traced from someone else's work, and no speculation about unannounced content. Where the community disagrees, the site records the disagreement and explains which side it takes for which reason.
Media and provenance
Every image on the site is an official storefront asset for AppID 1808500, used at its native aspect ratio so that nothing is cropped into a shape the original artwork did not have. The file's real format was confirmed from its magic bytes rather than its extension, and each asset is registered in the source ledger with the page that renders it.
The long-form dispatches are built from recorded raid material, transcribed, cross-checked against the official patch record, and then rewritten from scratch as written argument. They are not transcripts: channel names, timestamps and embedded video do not appear on the page. The transcript records behind them are kept in the site source ledger so that any claim can still be audited.
Attribution
ARC Raiders is developed by Embark Studios. All artwork, names and game content referenced here belong to their respective owners. This site is an unofficial fan reference, is not affiliated with or endorsed by Embark Studios, and does not host game files.
The official Steam page remains the authoritative source for the game itself, including price, platform and system requirements.