Many Nights A Whisper review

A very good omelet recipe with a lovely game thrown in

Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Selkie Harbour

• Developer: Selkie Harbour, Deconstructeam
• Publisher: Deconstructeam
• Release: Out now
• On: Windows
• From: Itch / Steam
• Price: £2.50/€3/$3
• Reviewed on: Intel Core i5-12600K, 32GB RAM, Nvidia RTX 4060 Ti, Windows 11

Although you won’t see everything, you can finish Many Nights A Whisper in under an hour. Each day you’ll train with your fiery sling, lighting braziers and honing your aim for a looming ceremony where you’ll try to hit a distant ritual chalice with a single shot. At night, you’ll sit at a confession wall. People will tell you their wishes, and you’ll decide which ones will be granted if the ceremony is a success.

The whole game takes place on a single large balcony, overlooking the sea. Tradition forbids you from speaking back to the wishful folk that come at night, feeding their braids through a statue for you to cut in acceptance, or else ignore. The only other person you’ll actually see is your mentor, a likeable septuagenarian who’s presided over these rituals for decades. You train, eat, listen to wishes, and sleep. After a few days of this, it’s time for the ceremony. As I say, takes about an hour.

You’d be forgiven for worrying, then, that any review that talked about the game in any real detail would risk spoiling the whole thing. But Many Nights A Whisper isn’t really about revelations as much as it is contemplation; a game that encouraged me to spend as much time in my head as I spent on that balcony. Basically, I can’t spoil it for you, because I can’t play it for you.

Still, it’s the price of a coffee at Actually Very Reasonably Priced Coffee & Sons. It made me cry a bit and laugh a bit and think quite a bit in the space of that hour. So perhaps you’d like to pick it up anyway, if that sounds appealing and you don’t want to know anything else. Fair warning, because I’d like to talk about it in some detail.

So - some of these wishes are difficult, which meant I spent a lot of time contemplating how I am actually a very inconsistent human, full of contradictions and strange reasonings. That I’d probably feel more settled in myself if I had any sort of fixed, coherent system of values, even if that system proved inflexible and stifling. The world keeps doing weird new stuff and I keep learning things. Am I supposed to decide how I’m going to feel about these things before they happen? Does sound nice though. Gods. It is 11am , game. Here are some nice descriptions of your evenings in Many Nights A Whisper.

The second person to come to me with a wish wants to bring back a beautiful, extinct flower. I think about the importance of accepting impermanence, and then worry if maybe there’s a specific genus of squirrel liable to give themselves the death shits by gorging on strange new flowers unceremoniously reintroduced into the ecosystem, get a bit stressed about the lack of information (this happens more than once), then opt for cowardice and ignore the wish.

There’s a poem that each person recites after they’ve made their request, and if you want to deny their wish you just don’t cut their braid by the time they finish. In terms of gamefeel, there’s a tangible, electric current of import to the act of holding down a button to ready your blade, then releasing it to cut. Destruction as hopeful creation. They grow these braids for years, then come to you wishing you’ll sever them in seconds.

The next person to visit is losing their hair. They could barely grow a braid to offer, they tell me. They were going to ask for beautiful hair, but they’ve changed their mind. “We’ve heard too many tales about beautiful long hair. Let’s give this world a legend about a spectacular cranium”. They want artists to stop in the street to paint them. My Dorian Gray senses start tingling and I get nervous, but this is soon replaced by an uglier conviction, apparent common sense about the value of humility that starts to feel more patriarchal and sneering the more I examine it.

I’ll have similar thoughts later. When asked to make someone immune to heartbreak, I’m reminded of the received wisdom about the character-building value of suffering. It’s the kind of thinking that can get you through hell but also serves power that demands you stay gracious as you wipe spit from your eye. Don’t have the grit to reframe your exploitation as self-mythology? Sounds like a you problem. Structural inequality? No! It’s a personal growth journey . And surely living in bliss and beauty would get tiresome. Wouldn’t I be denying them that ecstatic sense of triumph that only really comes from having well and truly made it through the shit? It’s always felt a little grim to me to consider joy as desirable only because it signals a cessation of pain, but there’s something in that, still. And what about self-acceptance?

It is 11:15am , game. Can’t say no to beautiful shining dome, though. G’wan then.

Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Selkie Harbour

There is no crosshair, only crossed hairs. Ahem. Aiming your sling takes a lot of practise. No help from any sort of UI element, the drop-off is considerable, and it feels counterintuitive and actually just not right at first. But you get used to it. Then you get good at it. And it takes me a couple of days to notice (maybe I zoned out an earlier explanation) but to reach the distant braziers and eventually the ritual chalice, you’ll need to grant enough wishes to make your sling powerful. There’s no upgrade system - this happens automatically - but the idea is that the braids from the wishes you do grant get tied to your sling.

And it’s somewhere between the person who wishes to become a rockstar and the person who wants me to remove the souls from animals so they don’t have to feel guilty about eating bacon that I realise the game isn’t going to let up. The wishes are going to keep getting weirder and harder. Someone else just asked me to cure their cancer so they can get healthy enough to murder the bastard who stole their life’s work. If I don’t grant some of these wishes I feel strange about, I’m not going to have the strength to make the shot anyway. Every wish will go unanswered.

A small child wants a pink cat but the cat also has to be invisible to everyone else because her parents won’t let her have one. Again, I need information! I imagine two allergic parents sneezing themselves into an early grave. I can’t do it.

I let a child become a hero. He wants to help people wherever he goes. More good sounds good I think, cutting the braid. He promises he’ll finish school first but I’m half convinced I’ve unleashed an eight year old Don Quixote on the world.

I agree to make two parents stop arguing. I initially evoke the Robin Williams’ Genie defence. I can’t make anyone fall in love, nor back in love. But the way it’s phrased, “make them coexist in harmony, focus on the things they love about each other”, feels hard to say no to. I agree. I don’t feel entirely good about it. My mentor asks me to think about changing free will, but it’s a nudge, not a lecture. The music sounds a bit like Hateno Village from Breath Of The Wild , so that chills me out a bit.

Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Selkie Harbour

Things get a bit murky later. There is one revelation, casually dropped by your mentor about two third of the way through, about the state of the world and the people in it after the wishes are granted, that removes some tension and significance from what you’ve been doing the whole time, and I think I could have done without it. It’s a real “well, you could have told me that from the start” moment, and while it encourages you to replay the game with fresh eyes, I think it undermines some of its power. Still, only some.

Make tobacco cheap and healthy? Fuck, go on then. Although, absent its miniature act of self-destruction, smoking won’t be as cool any more. No easy answers. None at all.

There is a theme running through the game, besides the wishes, of the value of mastery. Even the tutorials take on a tense significance, knowing how important it is to make that final chalice shot with only a single chance. The day before the ceremony, I practise hitting the chalice. When I find the correct angle, I take a screenshot so I can recreate the position when needed. When the time comes, I nail the shot. I am elated, though not surprised. After all, I’d removed the guesswork. You’ll learn to listen to what your body is telling you, said my mentor. Thing is, right, I’ve got this screenshot button.

Of every choice I made in Many Nights A Whisper, I am open to learning what this says about me the least. I really wanted to nail that shot, and what kind of selfish fool ignores such an obvious advantage with so much riding on success? This isn’t about me, I reason. Of course, it’s actually been about me the whole time.

This review is based on a review key provided the publisher. Jay Castello, who freelances for RPS, worked on Many Nights A Whisper as a text editor. Brendy has also worked with developers Deconstructeam

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All 75 Arc Raiders Blueprints and where to get them

These areas have the highest chance of giving you Blueprints

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Looking for more Arc Raiders Blueprints? It’s a special day when you find a Blueprint, as they’re among the most valuable items in Arc Raiders. If you find a Blueprint that you haven’t already found, then you must make sure you hold onto it at all costs, because Blueprints are the key to one of the most important and powerful systems of meta-progression in the game.

This guide aims to be the very best guide on Blueprints you can find, starting with a primer on what exactly they are and how they work in Arc Raiders, before delving into exactly where to get Blueprints and the very best farming spots for you to take in your search.

We’ll also go over how to get Blueprints from other unlikely activities, such as destroying Surveyors and completing specific quests. And you’ll also find the full list of all 75 Blueprints in Arc Raiders on this page (including the newest Blueprints added with the Cold Snap update , such as the Deadline Blueprint and Firework Box Blueprint), giving you all the information you need to expand your own crafting repertoire.

In this guide:

• What are Blueprints in Arc Raiders?
• Full Blueprint list: All crafting recipes
• Where to find Blueprints in Arc Raiders Blueprints obtained from quests Blueprints obtained from Trials Best Blueprint farming locations

What are Blueprints in Arc Raiders?

Blueprints in Arc Raiders are special items which, if you manage to extract with them, you can expend to permanently unlock a new crafting recipe in your Workshop. If you manage to extract from a raid with an Anvil Blueprint, for example, you can unlock the ability to craft your very own Anvil Pistol, as many times as you like (as long as you have the crafting materials).

To use a Blueprint, simply open your Inventory while in the lobby, then right-click on the Blueprint and click “Learn And Consume” . This will permanently unlock the recipe for that item in your Workshop. As of the Stella Montis update, there are allegedly 75 different Blueprints to unlock - although only 68 are confirmed to be in the game so far. You can see all the Blueprints you’ve found and unlocked by going to the Workshop menu, and hitting “R” to bring up the Blueprint screen.

It’s possible to find duplicates of past Blueprints you’ve already unlocked. If you find these, then you can either sell them, or - if you like to play with friends - you can take it into a match and gift it to your friend so they can unlock that recipe for themselves. Another option is to keep hold of them until the time comes to donate them to the Expedition.

Full Blueprint list: All crafting recipes

Below is the full list of all the Blueprints that are currently available to find in Arc Raiders, and the crafting recipe required for each item:

Note: The missing Blueprints in this list likely have not actually been added to the game at the time of writing, because none of the playerbase has managed to find any of them. As they are added to the game, I will update this page with the most relevant information so you know exactly how to get all 75 Arc Raiders Blueprints.

Where to find Blueprints in Arc Raiders

Below is a list of all containers, modifiers, and events which maximise your chances of finding Blueprints:

• Certain quests reward you with specific Blueprints .
• Completing Trials has a high chance of offering Blueprints as rewards.
• Surveyors have a decent chance of dropping Blueprints on death.
• High loot value areas tend to have a greater chance of spawning Blueprints.
• Night Raids and Storms may increase rare Blueprint spawn chances in containers.
• Containers with higher numbers of items may have a higher tendency to spawn Blueprints. As a result, Blue Gate (which has many “large” containers containing multiple items) may give you a higher chance of spawning Blueprints.
• Raider containers (Raider Caches, Weapon Boxes, Medical Bags, Grenade Tubes) have increased Blueprint drop rates. As a result, the Uncovered Caches event gives you a high chance of finding Blueprints.
• Security Lockers have a higher than average chance of containing Blueprints.
• Certain Blueprints only seem to spawn under specific circumstances: Tempest Blueprint only spawns during Night Raid events. Vulcano Blueprint only spawns during Hidden Bunker events. Jupiter and Equaliser Blueprints only spawn during Harvester events.

Raider Caches, Weapon Boxes, and other raider-oriented container types have a good chance of offering Blueprints. |Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Embark Studios

Blueprints have a very low chance of spawning in any container in Arc Raiders, around 1-2% on average. However, there is a higher chance of finding Blueprints in particular container types. Specifically, you can find more Blueprints in Raider containers and security lockers.

Beyond this, if you’re looking for Blueprints you should focus on regions of the map which are marked as having particularly high-value loot. Areas such as the Control Tower in Dam Battlegrounds, the Arrival and Departure Buildings in Spaceport, and Pilgrim’s Peak in Blue Gate all have a better-than-average chance of spawning Blueprints somewhere amongst all their containers. Night Raids and Electromagnetic Storm events also increase the drop chances of certain Blueprints .

In addition to these containers, you can often loot Blueprints from destroyed Surveyors - the largest of the rolling ball ARC. Surveyors are more commonly found on the later maps - Spaceport and Blue Gate - and if one spawns in your match, you’ll likely see it by the blue laser beam that it casts into the sky while “surveying”.

Surveyors are quite well-armoured and will very speedily run away from you once it notices you, but if you can take one down then make sure you loot all its parts for a chance of obtaining certain unusual Blueprints.

Blueprints obtained from quests

One way in which you can get Blueprints is by completing certain quests for the vendors in Speranza. Some quests will reward you with a specific item Blueprint upon completion, so as long as you work through all the quests in Arc Raiders, you are guaranteed those Blueprints.

Here is the full list of all Blueprints you can get from quest rewards:

• Trigger Nade Blueprint: Rewarded after completing “Sparks Fly”.
• Lure Grenade Blueprint: Rewarded after completing “Greasing Her Palms”.
• Burletta Blueprint: Rewarded after completing “Industrial Espionage”.
• Hullcracker Blueprint (and Launcher Ammo Blueprint): Rewarded after completing “The Major’s Footlocker”.

Alas, that’s only 4 Blueprints out of a total of 75 to unlock, so for the vast majority you will need to find them yourself during a raid. If you’re intent on farming Blueprints, then it’s best to equip yourself with cheap gear in case you lose it, but don’t use a free loadout because then you won’t get a safe pocket to stash any new Blueprint you find. No pain in Arc Raiders is sharper than failing to extract with a new Blueprint you’ve been after for a dozen hours already.

One of the best ways to get Blueprints is by hitting three stars on all five Trials every week. |Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Embark Studios

Blueprints obtained from Trials

One of the very best ways to get Blueprints is as rewards for completing Trials in Arc Raiders. Trials are unlocked from Level 15 onwards, and allow you to earn rewards by focusing on certain tasks over the course of several raids. For example, one Trial might task you with dealing damage to Hornets, while another might challenge you to loot Supply Drops.

Trials refresh on a weekly basis, with a new week bringing five new Trials. Each Trial can offer up to three rewards after passing certain score milestones, and it’s possible to receive very high level loot from these reward crates - including Blueprints. So if you want to unlock as many Blueprints as possible, you should make a point of completing as many Trials as possible each week.

Best Blueprint farming locations

The very best way to get Blueprints is to frequent specific areas of the maps which combine high-tier loot pools with the right types of containers to search. Here are my recommendations for where to find Blueprints on every map, so you can always keep the search going for new crafting recipes to unlock.

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Dam Battlegrounds

The best places to farm Blueprints on Dam Battlegrounds are the Control Tower, Power Generation Complex, Ruby Residence, and Pale Apartments . The first two regions, despite only being marked on the map as mid-tier loot, contain a phenomenal number of containers to loot. The Control Tower can also contain a couple of high-tier Security Lockers - though of course, you’ll need to have unlocked the Security Breach skill at the end of the Survival tree.

There’s also a lot of reporting amongst the playerbase that the Residential areas in the top-left of the map - Pale Apartments and Ruby Residence - give you a comparatively strong chance of finding Blueprints. Considering their size, there’s a high density of containers to loot in both locations, and they also have the benefit of being fairly out of the way. So you’re more likely to have all the containers to yourself.

Buried City

The best Blueprint farming locations on Buried City are the Santa Maria Houses, Grandioso Apartments, Town Hall, and the various buildings of the New District . Grandioso Apartments has a lower number of containers than the rest, but a high chance of spawning weapon cases - which have good Blueprint drop rates. The others are high-tier loot areas, with plenty of lootable containers - including Security Lockers.

Spaceport

The best places to find Blueprints on Spaceport are the Arrival and Departure Buildings, as well as Control Tower A6 and the Launch Towers . All these areas are labelled as high-value loot regions, and many of them are also very handily connected to one another by the Spaceport wall, which you can use to quickly run from one area to the next. At the tops of most of these buildings you’ll find at least one Security Locker, so this is an excellent farming route for players looking to find Blueprints.

The downside to looting Blueprints on Spaceport is that all these areas are hotly contested, particularly in Duos and Squads. You’ll need to be very focused and fast in order to complete the full farming route.

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Blue Gate

Blue Gate tends to have a good chance of dropping Blueprints, potentially because it generally has a high number of containers which can hold lots of items; so there’s a higher chance of a Blueprint spawning in each container. In my experience, the best Blueprint farming spots on Blue Gate are Pilgrim’s Peak, Raider’s Refuge, the Ancient Fort, and the Underground Complex beneath the Warehouse .

All of these areas contain a wealth of containers to loot. Raider’s Refuge has less to loot, but the majority of the containers in and around the Refuge are raider containers, which have a high chance of containing Blueprints - particularly during major events.

Stella Montis

On the whole, Stella Montis seems to have a very low drop rate for Blueprints (though a high chance of dropping other high-tier loot). If you do want to try farming Blueprints on this map, the best places to find Blueprints in Stella Montis are Medical Research, Assembly Workshop, and the Business Center . These areas have the highest density of containers to loot on the map.

In addition to this, the Western Tunnel has a few different Security Lockers to loot, so while there’s very little to loot elsewhere in this area of the map, it’s worth hitting those Security Lockers if you spawn there at the start of a match.

That wraps up this primer on how to get all the Blueprints in Arc Raiders as quickly as possible. With the Expedition system constantly resetting a large number of players’ Blueprints, it’s more important than ever to have the most up-to-date information on where to find all these Blueprints.

While you’re here, be sure to check out our Arc Raiders best guns tier list , as well as our primers on the best skills to unlock and all the different Field Depot locations on every map.

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