{"id":1867161,"date":"2026-04-05T18:37:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T15:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1867161"},"modified":"2026-04-05T18:37:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T15:37:00","slug":"arc-raiders-improves-crafting-says-new-streamlined-system-is-just-the-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1867161","title":{"rendered":"Arc Raiders improves crafting, says new &#8220;streamlined system&#8221; is &#8220;just the start&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<article class=\"article \" data-ads=\"true\" data-article-type=\"news\" data-article-group=\"news\" data-paywalled=\"false\" data-premium=\"false\" data-sponsored=\"false\" data-type=\"article\">\n<header class=\"article_header\" data-component=\"article-header\">\n<div class=\"breadcrumbs\">\n<nav class=\"nav_breadcrumbs\" data-component=\"nav-breadcrumbs\" aria-label=\"Breadcrumb\">\n<ul class=\"nav-links\">\n<li>\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/\" data-active=\"false\"><br \/>\n                      Home<br \/>\n                <\/a>\n            <\/li>\n<li>\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/news\" data-active=\"false\"><br \/>\n                      News<br \/>\n                <\/a>\n            <\/li>\n<li>\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/arc-raiders\" data-active=\"false\"><br \/>\n                      ARC Raiders<br \/>\n                <\/a>\n            <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/nav><\/div>\n<div class=\"headline_details\" id=\"main-content\">\n<h1 class=\"title\">Arc Raiders improves crafting, says new &#8220;streamlined system&#8221; is &#8220;just the start&#8221;<\/h1>\n<p class=\"strapline\">&#8220;We know this doesn&#8217;t fix everything.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"headline_asset\">\n<figure class=\"headline_image_wrapper\">\n<p>        <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"headline_image\" src=\"https:\/\/assetsio.gnwcdn.com\/arc-raiders-headline.jpg?width=570&amp;quality=85&amp;format=jpg&amp;dpr=3&amp;auto=webp\" alt=\"ARC Raiders screenshot showing close up of sci-fi character in full helmet\" loading=\"eager\" data-uri=\"arc-raiders-headline.jpg\" data-lightbox width=\"570\" height=\"321\"><figcaption>\n          <span class=\"attribution\">Image credit: <cite>Embark Studios<\/cite><\/span><br \/>\n        <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"metadata\">\n<div class=\"avatar\">\n<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Vikki Blake avatar\" src=\"https:\/\/assetsio.gnwcdn.com\/1533038852.jpg?width=2048&amp;height=2048&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=85&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1\" width=\"180\" height=\"179\"><\/p>\n<p>  <img alt=\"Vikki Blake avatar\" data-autosize=\"crop_lossy\" data-uri=\"1533038852.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1\" width=\"180\" height=\"179\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"text\">\n<div class=\"byline\">\n                  <span class=\"article_type\" data-slug=\"news\"><br \/>\n                    News<br \/>\n                  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"by\">by<\/span> <span class=\"author\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/authors\/vikki-blake\">Vikki Blake<\/a><\/span>                    <span class=\"job_title\"><br \/>\n                      Contributor<br \/>\n                    <\/span>\n            <\/div>\n<div class=\"published_at\">\nPublished on <time datetime=\"2026-04-05T18:37:00+00:00\">April 5, 2026<\/time>              <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"mypop-header-wrapper\">\n<p><button class=\"mypop-button button wide\" data-state=\"follow\" data-type=\"tag\" data-uuid=\"6bd46880-2f1c-43d7-b873-ed10ed59c226\" data-name=\"ARC Raiders\" data-follow-text=\"Follow ARC Raiders\" data-unfollow-text=\"Following ARC Raiders\" data-aria-follow-text=\"Follow ARC Raiders\" data-aria-unfollow-text=\"Following ARC Raiders\" data-popup=\"true\" data-force-login=\"true\" aria-label=\"Follow ARC Raiders\" title=\"Follow ARC Raiders\"><br \/>\n  Follow ARC Raiders<br \/>\n<\/button>          <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"article_body\" data-component=\"article-content\">\n<div class=\"article_body_content article-styling\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/arc-raiders\">Arc Raiders<\/a> is reworking its crafting system after acknowledging the &#8220;one piece of feedback [that] kept coming up&#8221; from players was the &#8220;pain point&#8221; of gathering missing materials.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One of the things we care most about as a development team is making sure every moment you spend in Arc Raiders feels purposeful,&#8221; developer Embark Studios wrote in a <a href=\"https:\/\/arcraiders.com\/news\/user-experience-improvements\">blog<\/a> published over the weekend. &#8220;Your time matters, and we don&#8217;t want you spending it clicking through menus when you could be out raiding.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s why we listen closely to what you tell us. And one piece of feedback kept coming up: &#8216;I&#8217;m spending too much time crafting&#8217;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure>\n<div class=\"video_wrapper youtube\">\n<a aria-label=\"ARC Raiders - Official Flashpoint Update Trailer\" class=\"video-facade full-size\" data-platform=\"youtube\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CWgcp9WY6Q8?autoplay=1\" title=\"Click to play video from YouTube\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cover image for YouTube video\" class=\"video-facade__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/CWgcp9WY6Q8\/hqdefault.jpg\"><span class=\"video-facade__title\">ARC Raiders &#8211; Official Flashpoint Update Trailer<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/a>\n<\/div><figcaption>ARC Raiders &#8211; Official Flashpoint Update Trailer.<a class=\"video\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CWgcp9WY6Q8\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch on YouTube<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As a result, the team acknowledged that &#8220;jumping through multiple screens to [recycle something] was a pain point,&#8221; and that &#8220;friction was getting in the way of the fun&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>To combat this, Embark has introduced a new &#8220;Acquire Resources&#8221; button to streamline the way of acquiring missing materials. When you hit it, you&#8217;ll get a list of every available source where you can &#8220;get what you need, whether that&#8217;s recycling, buying from Celeste, or something else&#8221;.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Arc Raiders' new Acquire and Craft button\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/assetsio.gnwcdn.com\/815a27a0-d540-ArcRaiders_ScreenShot_Master_16x9_UICraftting-1024x576.jpg?width=2048&amp;height=2048&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=85&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1.7777777777777777\" width=\"1024\"><\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Arc Raiders' new Acquire and Craft button\" data-autosize=\"crop_lossy\" data-lightbox data-uri=\"815a27a0-d540-ArcRaiders_ScreenShot_Master_16x9_UICraftting-1024x576.jpg\" height=\"576\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1.7777777777777777\" width=\"1024\"><figcaption><span class=\"attribution\">Image credit: <cite>Embark Studios<\/cite><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;The keyword here is <em>available<\/em>: if a material is obtainable through your current options, you&#8217;ll see it, and you can act on it immediately,&#8221; the team added. &#8220;No more hunting through menus. No more abandoning crafts out of frustration.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Though the studio knows that streamlining crafting runs &#8220;deeper than one button&#8221;, the team said this is &#8220;just the start&#8221; and it will &#8220;keep chipping away at these pain points systematically&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Embark recently confirmed it had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/arc-raiders-ceo-says-studio-has-re-recorded-ai-lines-a-real-professional-actor-is-better-than-ai-thats-just-how-it-is\">re-recorded some of its AI-generated voice lines, acknowledging &#8220;there is a quality difference&#8221;<\/a> between lines recorded by human actors and those generated by AI.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We use AI as tools to assist in some content creation, but it&#8217;s always in the context of creativity, as an expression of the team,&#8221; CCO Stefan Strandberg <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/theres-no-shortcut-to-making-great-games-embark-studios-cco-responds-to-and-defends-ai-use-in-arc-raiders\">told Eurogamer back in October<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"preferred-source\" data-component=\"preferred-source\">\nLove Eurogamer.net? Make us a <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\">Preferred Source on Google<\/a> and catch more of our coverage in your feeds.  <\/div>\n<\/article>\n<div class=\"article_body\" data-component=\"article-content\">\n<div class=\"article_body_content article-styling\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/arc-raiders\">Arc Raiders<\/a> is reworking its crafting system after acknowledging the &#8220;one piece of feedback [that] kept coming up&#8221; from players was the &#8220;pain point&#8221; of gathering missing materials.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One of the things we care most about as a development team is making sure every moment you spend in Arc Raiders feels purposeful,&#8221; developer Embark Studios wrote in a <a href=\"https:\/\/arcraiders.com\/news\/user-experience-improvements\">blog<\/a> published over the weekend. &#8220;Your time matters, and we don&#8217;t want you spending it clicking through menus when you could be out raiding.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s why we listen closely to what you tell us. And one piece of feedback kept coming up: &#8216;I&#8217;m spending too much time crafting&#8217;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure>\n<div class=\"video_wrapper youtube\">\n<a aria-label=\"ARC Raiders - Official Flashpoint Update Trailer\" class=\"video-facade full-size\" data-platform=\"youtube\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CWgcp9WY6Q8?autoplay=1\" title=\"Click to play video from YouTube\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cover image for YouTube video\" class=\"video-facade__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/CWgcp9WY6Q8\/hqdefault.jpg\"><span class=\"video-facade__title\">ARC Raiders &#8211; Official Flashpoint Update Trailer<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/a>\n<\/div><figcaption>ARC Raiders &#8211; Official Flashpoint Update Trailer.<a class=\"video\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CWgcp9WY6Q8\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch on YouTube<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As a result, the team acknowledged that &#8220;jumping through multiple screens to [recycle something] was a pain point,&#8221; and that &#8220;friction was getting in the way of the fun&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>To combat this, Embark has introduced a new &#8220;Acquire Resources&#8221; button to streamline the way of acquiring missing materials. When you hit it, you&#8217;ll get a list of every available source where you can &#8220;get what you need, whether that&#8217;s recycling, buying from Celeste, or something else&#8221;.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Arc Raiders' new Acquire and Craft button\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/assetsio.gnwcdn.com\/815a27a0-d540-ArcRaiders_ScreenShot_Master_16x9_UICraftting-1024x576.jpg?width=2048&amp;height=2048&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=85&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1.7777777777777777\" width=\"1024\"><\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Arc Raiders' new Acquire and Craft button\" data-autosize=\"crop_lossy\" data-lightbox data-uri=\"815a27a0-d540-ArcRaiders_ScreenShot_Master_16x9_UICraftting-1024x576.jpg\" height=\"576\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1.7777777777777777\" width=\"1024\"><figcaption><span class=\"attribution\">Image credit: <cite>Embark Studios<\/cite><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;The keyword here is <em>available<\/em>: if a material is obtainable through your current options, you&#8217;ll see it, and you can act on it immediately,&#8221; the team added. &#8220;No more hunting through menus. No more abandoning crafts out of frustration.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Though the studio knows that streamlining crafting runs &#8220;deeper than one button&#8221;, the team said this is &#8220;just the start&#8221; and it will &#8220;keep chipping away at these pain points systematically&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Embark recently confirmed it had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/arc-raiders-ceo-says-studio-has-re-recorded-ai-lines-a-real-professional-actor-is-better-than-ai-thats-just-how-it-is\">re-recorded some of its AI-generated voice lines, acknowledging &#8220;there is a quality difference&#8221;<\/a> between lines recorded by human actors and those generated by AI.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We use AI as tools to assist in some content creation, but it&#8217;s always in the context of creativity, as an expression of the team,&#8221; CCO Stefan Strandberg <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/theres-no-shortcut-to-making-great-games-embark-studios-cco-responds-to-and-defends-ai-use-in-arc-raiders\">told Eurogamer back in October<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Home News ARC Raiders Arc Raiders improves crafting, says new &#8220;streamlined system&#8221; is &#8220;just the start&#8221; &#8220;We know this doesn&#8217;t fix everything.&#8221; Image credit: Embark Studios News by Vikki Blake Contributor Published on April 5, 2026 Follow ARC Raiders Arc Raiders is reworking its crafting system after acknowledging the &#8220;one piece of feedback [that] kept [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[226,253],"class_list":["post-1867161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-crawlmanager","tag-eurogamer-net"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1867161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1867161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1867161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1867161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1867161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1867161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}