Holy fucking shit, ARC Raiders refuses to die like every other half-assed live service shooter out there – it's holding a rock-solid 121K concurrent players on Steam right now, with Embarks teasing the Riven Tides update that's gonna flood the servers with new chaos.

This beast of an update packs a brand-new coastal map drowning in rivers and open waters for those long sightlines and vertical dick-measuring contests, plus a fresh event, the kickoff of Expedition Four with high-stakes rewards, a massive ARC boss lurking on the horizon like a goddamn apocalypse, and shiny new materials, blueprints, and quests to grind your ass off for.

Community's going nuclear on X, fan accounts dropping leaked images of what looks like the biggest map yet – think destroyed seawalls, hotel ruins, and water bodies that’ll make your boat builds OP as fuck – all speculating a drop on April 28th, following Embark's last-Tuesday-of-the-month pattern after Flashpoint's March 31 dump.

To all you cope-posting journos and haters calling this DOA: eat shit and raid – ARC Raiders is thriving, delivering actual content updates instead of battle pass reskins, and Riven Tides is primed to break player records all over again. Get your loadouts ready, motherfuckers.