The Maw: what’s new in PC games this week?

Breachways, Greedfall 2 and Ara: History Untold, to start with

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This week’s Maw, quantified: one compound eye with nine hundred and two quicksilver facets. One and a half wings with the texture of freshly peeled orange. Fifty tentacles, proboscises or flagella, some slender as cheesewire, some thick as a conifer. Ten sets of amethyst dentures shared by ten thousand mouths. One utility coat of muscles. One bowler hat. And now, an accompanying inventory of this week’s most eye-catching new PC games.

On Monday 23rd September, blissful masonry toybox Tiny Glade and the early access launch of top-down SimSTALKER City 20 . On Tuesday 24th September, just… far too many games: zippy skybound FPS Echo Point Nova , mouse graffiti sim Disney Epic Mickey: Rebrushed , pixelart creature-collector Beyond Galaxyland and, in early access, squalid mech bonanza The Forever Winter , simultaneous-turn 4X Ara: History Untold and period fantasy RPG Greedfall 2 . On Wednesday 25th September, cheery roadster #Drive Rally . On Thursday 26th September, dogfighting deckbuilder Breachways and artsy retro horror Mouthwashing . And on Friday 27th September, the early access launch of Chinese Hades-a-like Realms Of Ink .

Our live coverage of this event has finished.

• 07:58 am 09/27/2024 Bring us home, Friday
• 07:56 am 09/26/2024 Give thanks for Thursday
• 07:47 am 09/25/2024 GeT YoUr TeEtH InTo WeDnEsDaY
• 07:58 am 09/24/2024 CHEWSDAY INNIT
• 09:09 am 09/23/2024 It’s Monday, so don’t.

It’s Monday, so don’t.

Just don’t okay?

Heart-poking RPG series To The Moon has launched a short new episode . It’s called Just A To The Moon Series Beach Episode and features a lot of characters who are supposed to be dead, all mysterious enjoying a holiday at a beach resort. Hmmm.

Noisy shooter Selaco is getting its noisy “Randomizer mode” earlier than planned, say developers Altered Orbit Studios . The noisy mode is going to let you enable random noisy enemy spawns, allow or disallow noisy earthquakes or noisy zombie invasions, and make noisy weapons spawn randomly, among other (possibly noisy) game modifiers. Noise.

Shirley Curry, aka the “Skyrim Grandma”, is retiring from making videos about the game, she says. “It isn’t fun anymore,” she told viewers in an emotional video . “I’m tired of it…”

Blasphemous 2 is getting a DLC named ‘mea culpa’, which I believe is latin for ‘mmmm, calpol"

CHEWSDAY INNIT

Dinoblade is a very realistic dinosaur sim.

Dinoblade: Dilophosaurus using both sickle and fanblade Animations by @Silver_Gin_Zero pic.twitter.com/LWR1qg7EOR — Jean Nguyen (@JeanAnimate) September 13, 2024

Pathfinder: The Dragon’s Demand is a just-revealed table-top RPG adaptation with a miniatures aesthetic, from former Baldur’s Gate and Neverwinter Nights developers. Roll a D20 - if you get an 18 or higher, watch the trailer.

This is not new news but I only just found out so I’m posting it. Toxic Crusaders game! Next year! Looks at bit naff but still! It’s toxie!

I am making an extremely long face at the news that Darkest Dungeon devs Red Hook have been acquired by Behaviour Interactive, who have laid off over a hundred staff this year and don’t seem to have much of a business plan beyond “make more Dead By Daylight”.

“The way is lit. The path is clear.” Today, we’re ecstatic to announce our acquisition of Red Hook Studios. Darkest Dungeon has long been a series we’ve admired, enjoyed (and maybe even lost a little sleep over) as fans, and the opportunity to welcome Red Hook as a fully… pic.twitter.com/3SeO6kEZWs — Behaviour Interactive (@Behaviour) September 24, 2024

Black metal TTRPG MÖRK BORG is getting a game…a vidyagame!

Rogue Trader’s Void Shadows DLC is out now .

Also out now: Remnant 2’s Dark Horizon DLC , together with a free update.

GeT YoUr TeEtH InTo WeDnEsDaY

Witness ye the first trailer for Alan Wake 2’s The Lake House DLC. It’s coming “this fall”. “Enter the Lake House, where monsters wear many faces, and survival is just the beginning,” explains the blurb.

Well-aged dragons ahoy.

I’m moderately enthused for Hell Is Us, a blend of swordfighting and auxiliary drone combat in a world that’s sort of Days Gone with a lovely view of Returnal. “If war is the closest we get to hell on earth, it’s because Earth harbors the worst of demons: humankind,” frets the trailer narration. The game does include some actual demons, though, because you can’t combo a metaphor.

Visegunne is a very posh-looking 2D scrolling shoot ’em up with “soul-powered” mechs.

Here’s the Steam page for All Will Rise, “a narrative deck-builder about taking the powerful to court for destroying the planet”, from devs Speculative Agency with narrative design from Thirsty Suitors and 80 Days scribe Meghna Jayanth.

Give thanks for Thursday

Here are the first 10 minutes of The Axis Unseen, a heavy metal horror hunter from a former Bethesda dev.

Slay The Princess’s Pristine Cut - which adds three new chapters and other content - releases on the 24th October.

The Metal Gear Solid Master Collection has a new patch, adding some visual bits you can find details of here .

Tenet Of The Spark is a moody 3D beat ’em up set in what looks like modern-day New York, oh wait, now you’re a Viking with a hammer, oh wait, now you’re an Aztec warrior with a boomerang-type throwing weapon. It seems that dimension-shifting is a thing. It’s all a bit Spider-Versey.

Via Polygon’s Nicole Carpenter , Spectre Divide devs Mountaintop Studios have laid off 13 developers to “make sure we’re set up to support Spectre and its community for the long term.”

The Convergence Games Showcase took place this evening, with trailers on a couple dozen indie games you probably don’t know about yet.

The Finals’ season four, which I wrote about earlier this week , is live now. The full details of what it contains are over on Steam .

Space Marine 2 patch 3.0 is out, which adds support for ultrawide monitors, private lobbies in Operations mode, and makes a lot of other changes .

Bring us home, Friday

Kakehashi Games and Bandai Namco Studios Singapore have announced origami-inspired 3D action platformer Hirogami, which “invites players to a world where everything has been crafted to convey the physical, often fragile, nature of paper, amidst the backdrop of an invasion by a powerful digital force known as the Blight.” Isn’t this basically what video game magazines have been trying to do since 2001?

And here’s a new trailer for ITER, in which you burrow up through stacks of rock to gather materials for your mobile base, with the format evolving into 3D when you venture above ground. The mining/base-defence premise has been done but this does look stylish.

Some morning music - Alt J’s Tessellate .

The Tetris Company has announed a new Tetris game will be coming out in partnership with Japanese publisher Arika, report Gematsu . It is described as “Tetris that makes you better at Tetris.” So… Tetris?

Valve have patched multiplayer shooter Deadlock to give players the chance to turn cheaters into frogs, as can be seen here . That’s according to a Valve developer who posts the changes to the game in a tucked-away forum .

This year’s LSDjam is underway. Prepare to trip balls.

LSDJAM is back for 2024! Create an interactive experience based on dreams in 4 months to celebrate the release of cult-classic PS1 game LSD: Dream Emulator. In 2023 we had over 200 amazing entries, would love to see even more this year :) Sign up now, link below ⬇️ pic.twitter.com/x4PDuZCKTv — Figglewatts (@Figglewatts) September 26, 2024

A tactics RPG about a clown rebellion from the Keylocker devs, inspired by Disgaea? Yes, I would play that.

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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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