The Maw 29th January-3rd February 2024

This week’s new videogame releases, care of our weekly newsblog

As ever, if our list seems desperately inadequate that’s because we have absolutely no taste, and you should definitely address this by leaving a comment (but not a link – beware the dread Automoderator) pointing us toward a game of note. Happy videogaming all.

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IT IS MONDAY . The beast surfaces! Put on wellies and uncork the harpoons. FEED THE MAW.

An enterprising Palworld dataminer has discovered an unused Pal, “Dark Mutant”, hidden away in the game’s code. It looks like Pokémon’s Mega Mewtwo Y with the brightness settings turned down. Ta, Eurogamer .

Insider Gaming’s Tom Henderson reports that Crash Bandicoot devs Toys for Bob and Call of Duty studio Sledgehammer Games have lost around 40% and 30% of their staff respectively, as part of Microsoft’s mass layoffs revealed last week .

Via VGC , Final Fantasy 7 Remake producer Yoshinori Kitase estimates that it would take “twice as long” to remake Final Fantasy 6 - as long as 20 years, even.

Somebody’s shared videos and details of a cancelled Call of Duty game, NX1, which was apparently in development at Neversoft, and was supposedly discarded in favour of Call of Duty: Ghosts. The leak has been rubber-stamped by former Neversoft project director Brian Bright, who has replied to the tweet below.

Fuck it, NX1. pic.twitter.com/KDPh6pwHxn — Josh H. (@mangafigurines) January 27, 2024

Just 3 months after @Microsoft ’s merger with @Activision , 1,900 workers have lost their jobs. I warned that this deal would hurt workers. These layoffs are a stark reminder that corporate mergers are bad for workers. The @FTC should keep up the fight to unwind this merger. https://t.co/Nh6vpAXeYd — Elizabeth Warren (@SenWarren) January 25, 2024

Handsome Robert Purchese of Eurogamer (hello Bertie, I love you - why aren’t you returning my calls?) has an interview with Obsidian about Avowed . Amongst other things, we learn that the game doesn’t let you romance companions, so apologies recovering Baldur’s Gate 3 players, you’ll need to get your fix elsewhere. There’s also some intriguing chat about whether players should be mindful of a developer’s budget and team size when deciding the worth of a game. Should we?

The creators of Mind Over Magic - a wizard school sim that Sin deemed pretty good - have announced their update plans for 2024. The big emphasis seems to be upping the challenge.

As passed on by PCG , Rocksteady have said they don’t want Suicide Squad “to feel like a life commitment or be a game where you have to sacrifice a lot to see all the content on offer, or feel like you’re not making good progress in the game if you can’t play hundreds of hours”. The proof will be in the pudding, but this is music to my ears.

If you’re one of the New Zealanders (or “New Zealanders”) who are among the earliest early access players of Suicide Squad, know the game has been hit by a bug whereupon players have full story completion when they log in for the first time. Rocksteady have taken the game offline while they fix this.

We’re aware that a number of players are currently experiencing an issue whereby upon logging into the game for the first time, they have full story completion. To resolve this issue, we will be performing maintenance on the game servers. During this time the game will be… — Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League (@suicidesquadRS) January 29, 2024

Some more bad news out of Embracer today, as Eidos Montreal confirm almost 100 layoffs at the studio behind Deus Ex: Human Revolution and Marvels’ Guardians of the Galaxy. A new Deus Ex game said to be two years into development is reported to be cancelled, too.

Open Roads, the mother-daughter road trip game from former Gone Home and Tacoma devs, will take a one-month detour before it arrives at a new release date in March . Annapurna say the delay is to “ensure the most polished experience for players”.

Another important discovery in the ongoing human quest to run Doom on literally everything: an MIT researcher has found a way to play Doom using gut bacteria . (The framerate is atrocious, mind you!)

Indie champions Day of the Devs are now a non-profit . Their first fundraising campaign is live, offering a bunch of game keys in return for helping cover costs for their line-up of 2024 showcases and in-person events.

IT IS TUESDAY . I saw a beautiful grey fox on the way back from the coffee shop just now. FEED THE MAW.

As reported by Gamesradar , Bungie have absent-mindedly suggested that they once experimented with a Destiny-themed dating sim, or at least “stuff like that”, in the course of routine internal gamejams. Cat Manning of Firaxis has thoughts.

if you have a very popular game with beloved characters and do not release (an already made!) dating sim you are leaving money and/or goodwill on the table sincerely, someone who made a wildly successful dating sim for a very popular game with beloved characters https://t.co/30IdZj06Kp — Cat Manning (@catacalypto) January 30, 2024

The original Dragon Quest Builders, aka Dragon Quest Minecraft, is coming to PC on February 13th. Here’s the Steam page .

PSA that there are lots of Suicide Squad spoilers in the wild, now that the early access builds are in circulation. Watch out for those auto-playing videos.

As reported by PCGamer , people are getting robbed by online randos in Enshrouded. Remember to give your world a password!

Activision have published a blog about the dark art of Call of Duty match-making . Going by PvP community tendencies at large I suspect it will make everybody feel like the system is letting them down, but I’ve yet to dig in.

Former Volition developers have founded a new studio called Shapeshifter Games . The announcement post highlights the team’s “deep experience in open-world and character action games earned while working on some of the industry’s most beloved franchises”. Principal lighting artist AJ Nelson says he’s working on an Xbox Games Studios project . Ta, Techraptor .

Dicey roguelike SpellRogue goes into early access on February 12th.

The Militsioner devs have written a new devlog about the act of eluding/appeasing the massive policeman at the centre of the game’s town setting. An excerpt: “All immersive-sims have some form of combat through which its immersion is revealed. Fighting the giant is not an option, so the player will have to resort to tricks - flattering, lying, stealing, giving gifts to appease the giant.”

Hi all. Today I sent the below note to @Blizzard_Ent . As for X: I play to stay in “listen mode” here, but trust I’m tuned in! As for me: a typical day=work life+yogi life+games life. Currently on heavy rotation: D4, COD, BG3. Feeling blessed & grateful🙏🏽Onward. ✨ pic.twitter.com/Ph8XgsTcpk — Johanna Faries (@Joh_Burg) January 29, 2024

The voice of Adam Jensen isn’t surprised by news that an unannounced Deus Ex game has been cancelled .

If they had been working on a #DeusEx for two years, and they still hadn’t contacted me, there’s a good chance it wasn’t a Jensen story anyway. I’m more pissed for all the people getting laid off. This industry is fucked with this stuff. — ᴇʟɪᴀꜱ ᴛᴏᴜꜰᴇxɪꜱ 🖖 (@EliasToufexis) January 29, 2024

OMG, the Palworld Pokémon modder is back with a “legally-distinct pocket creatures” Palworld mod, after apparently being slapped down by Nintendo’s lawyers earlier in the month. Highlights of the mod include “Yellow Rat”. Thanks EG .

It features some amazing pocket sized creatures, such as Yellow Rat! pic.twitter.com/V5Saw3AIUI — Toasted (@ToastedShoes) January 30, 2024

Starfield’s “biggest ever update” is now live on all platforms.

Our largest update to date in @StarfieldGame is now available on all platforms, featuring numerous fixes and improvements. Get all the details here: https://t.co/m2qO8r1pYz This update contains everything recently added to our Steam Beta with the addition of a fix for a PC… pic.twitter.com/TVH2eYb9RS — Bethesda Game Studios (@BethesdaStudios) January 30, 2024

Spec Ops: The Line has been removed from sale on Steam , without comment from publisher 2K Games.

Meanwhile, the original Diablo and Warcraft: Orcs And Humans are now both available from Battle.net with functioning multiplayer. They had previously been confined to GOG.

As Edwin mentioned earlier, Starfield’s biggest patch yet is out now with dozens of bug fixes and some updates to lighting and shadows.

Oh, there we go. A 2K Games rep has confirmed that Spec Ops was removed from sale due to expiring licenses .

Shapeshifter Games - the new co-development studio founded by former Volition Games staff, which Edwin mentioned earlier today - are working alongside inXile on upcoming RPG Clockwork Revolution, inXile have announced .

IT IS WEDNESDAY . I have just checked the traffic stats, and goodness me, people do love reading about bacterial Doom. FEED THE MAW.

Ruh roh, Long Dark devs Hinterland are teasing some kind of unannounced survival game thingy. It’s being made in Unreal Engine 5 and appears to feature grand pianos.

Some good things happening in the Unannounced Survival Games space… #survival #unrealengine5 pic.twitter.com/CiKSfGvMOS — Raphael van Lierop | Exploring Apocalypses (@RaphLife) January 30, 2024

As reported by VGC , Rocksteady are gifting early access Suicide Squad players $20 worth of in-game BatBucks (not actual name, sadly) to apologise for the anti-superhero blockbuster’s launch technical troubles.

Microsoft have shared their fiscal financial results for the second quarter of 2024, as reported by the Verge . With Activision Blizzard now buoying up the company’s balance books, Xbox content and services revenue including Xbox Game Pass has increased by 61%. Microsoft’s gaming biz turned in $7.11 billion in revenue for the quarter, which is more than the $5.26 billion from Windows but less than the $13.47 billion generated by Office and cloud services, or the $23.95 billion generated by server products and cloud services. This is the same company that has laid off thousands of people over the past year, yes.

Destiny 2 game director Joe Blackburn is leaving Bungie for “a new adventure”.

Next month, The Final Shape will be hitting one of its most critical internal milestones: a ritual we call the End-to-End playtest. This ritual has been a key part of development since Forsaken. — Joe Blackburn (@joegoroth) January 31, 2024

Inflexion have detailed the accessibility options for Nightingale, including an arachnophobia mode that delimbs all the spiders, resulting in something that looks like a really pissed-off balloon with teeth.

Perhaps ironically, Palworld clones are multiplying. Pocketpair are warning people not to be fooled by “Palworld apps” on mobile.

[Warning] There is no Palworld application for phones. Apps using names and product images such as “パルワールド” and “Palworld” are appearing on the AppStore and Google Play, but they are not affiliated with our company in any way. We have reported this issue to Apple, which… — Palworld (@Palworld_EN) January 31, 2024

Enshrouded has been patched to address save data loss and progression bugs - I’ve read a fair few complaints about this, though I have no idea how widespread the issue really is.

It’s reported that layoffs are happening at Sega of America, though we haven’t had any official announcements yet.

What is news-gathering without music? Here’s Legion Of Dawn , from BioWare’s Anthem.

In about five hours time, Sony will host their latest State of Play showcase. Games rumoured to appear include Death Stranding 2, FF7 Rebirth, Judas (the new game from Ken Levine’s Ghost Story studio) and Bloober’s Silent Hill 2 remake. Games confirmed to appear include Team Ninja’s Rise of the Ronin and Shift Up’s Stellar Blade. The focus will be on PS5 and PSVR 2, of course, but the line-up appears to be dominated by third party projects, which stand a good chance of appearing on PC. Here’s the Youtube stream .

IT IS THURSDAY . Did you catch the State of Play stream last night? There’s a new free Silent Hill game and Norman Reedus has gone into puppetry! FEED THE MAW.

Age of Empire players, assemble! There’s a developer livestream on February 23rd to discuss plans for various Age games this year, including Age of Mythology: Retold

Palworld has a fairly big patch , which went live on Steam a few hours ago. Major fixes include various crash bugs, stopping enemies getting stuck in the scenery, and stopping other players from poaching your pals when their health falls below 30%.

cpt_freakout says: That Palworld clones phenomenon is interesting, isn’t it? Like, what fantastic abominations will emerge from a fourth-degree copy of a Pikachu (possibly made by a clueless AI)?

It is! I’m working on a piece that touches on this, as it happens.

Graham has left a note pointing us towards News Tower , a game about running your own 1930s newspaper company. It’s got a demo.

The next Battlefield game is “not in the FY25 outlook”, according to EA’s chief financial officer Stuart Canfield, which means no new Battlefield this year. Ta, Battlefield Bulletin.

BREAKING: EA says they’re looking for “iconic new releases” like #Battlefield and other in-development titles beyond FY25, so don’t expect a new game before April 2025 at the EARLIEST 🙂 Stuart Canfield, EA Q3 2024. pic.twitter.com/EqCOZTSMzw — Battlefield Bulletin (@BFBulletin) January 30, 2024

Alan Wake 2 has a new update that introduces chapter select, and lets you “tune down” the game’s “horror flashes”, which I’m guessing refers to those split-second close-ups of Something Ghastly.

The just-announced Sixty Four is a factory sim from Oleg Danilov with an almost Inception-esque air of cosmic grandeur. Here’s the trailer.

New Inkle game klaxon. It’s free to play in a browser, too.

…. There once was a labyrinth at the end of time …. 🚨 ANNOUNCING 🚨 THE FOREVER LABYRINTH An inkle game In collaboration with @googlearts Free to play right now, in browser or the GAC app 🖼️ https://t.co/EXIv0Y5au8 pic.twitter.com/DeQFwvG0go — inkle (@inkleStudios) February 1, 2024

PolygonClassicist says: More layoffs, this time from the studio that developed Showgunners

It never ends .

Daniel Linssen, whose Game Boy-style creations I’ve always loved, has released what is basically a Frogger FPS.

presenting PEDESTRIAN SIMULATOR 2024, a first-person road incident avoidance experience https://t.co/wbBhfxONg3 pic.twitter.com/FCNjjSg0tg — Daniel Linssen 🦊 (@managore) January 31, 2024

“There’s around a year left of development” for Citizen Sleeper 2, according to the latest Jump Over The Age substack .

This, admittedly, is not particularly Maw-like in theme or tone, but I’m still very pumped about Cobalt Core being this month’s Game Club pick , so here’s some music for the day to get us ready for the weekend.

The sequel to action RPG Earthlock has been “re-revealed” this week, with a new cinematic trailer:

Good news for Ichiban and co. Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth has become the fastest-selling game in the series, Sega have announced. It’s sold over 1 million copies in its first week of release, and to celebrate, Sega will be giving players a free in-game T-shirt set, which will be released via an update at a later date.

🎉Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth 1 Million Units Shipped Globally Celebration🎉 To show our appreciation and commemorate this occasion we’re preparing a free in-game Celebratory T-Shirt Set! We’ll share timing and other details as soon as we can🤙 Thank you! pic.twitter.com/gMyyVFXUmi — SEGA (@SEGA) February 2, 2024

Need another medieval citybuilder in your life? The Steam Next Fest demo for Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown has gone live early on Steam , letting you get to grips with its real-time combat and co-op/competitive multiplayer ahead of Next Fest’s proper start date next Monday.

After five years in early access, Satisfactory will finally launch into 1.0 later this year - with no more updates or patches before the full release as developers Coffee Stain go heads-down to get it feature-complete.

There won’t be a Persona 5 Royal-style expanded edition for Persona 3 Reload , Atlus promise, calling “a complete experience” (despite missing parts of FES and Portable).

Roll into the weekend with some chill vibes courtesy of upcoming indie Tranquil Isle , a mixture of Townscaper and Islanders that’s part cozy city-builder, part resource-management roguelite (but only if you want the challenge). It looks lovely .

Puzzle masterpiece Threes! is back to eat every moment of your spare time, this time on Steam Deck . Next Tuesday’s arrival on Steam will also bring cloud saves, controller support and new music for its night mode. But mostly: it’s Threes! It’s great!

Palworld’s servers have cost nearly half a million dollars to run so far according to its developer’s CEO. That’s a lot of ongoing expense for a game that has no live service monetisation.

Starfield is getting AMD FSR 3 support in a Steam beta update next week , with a full release to come later in the month. It launched with FSR 2 support, with Nvidia’s similar DLSS 3 being added in a patch last November. FSR 3 helps increase framerate without any performance cost.

Final Factory looks like Factorio, but you build your mining operation in space, then construct spaceships, then go exploring space and battling aliens. There’s a demo available right now .

News Tower lets you manage a newspaper in 1930s New York, perhaps the last time working in media might have been considered a secure career. There’s a demo and it’ll launch into Early Access later this month.

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All 75 Arc Raiders Blueprints and where to get them

These areas have the highest chance of giving you Blueprints

Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Embark Studios

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.

Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Embark Studios

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.

Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Embark Studios

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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