ARC RAIDERS / GUIDE
Frozen Trail: what to change in your raid plan
Updated equipment, flexible loot routes, quests and the October hotfixes.
Review your old assumptions
Objectives
Frozen Trail 2.0 added Pendola Pass, equipment and quests, and changed existing systems.
In practice
Our advice: inspect your saved kit and accepted quests before using an old routine.
Keep in mind
Our reference preserves dates on reference records so you can distinguish older item data from confirmed update changes.
Explore: Review your old assumptions
Treat loot routes as flexible
Pendola Pass uses Dynamic Loot Zones. Zone value can vary between raids while its underlying loot category stays the same. Our advice: choose a goal and an alternative area rather than relying on one fixed route to produce the same result every time.
Explore: Treat loot routes as flexible
Inspect progression choices
The skill tree was reworked, and the Outpost provides another progression route. Our advice: review the in-game choices before copying a pre-update build. This guide does not assign skill points or claim to calculate a complete skill build.
Explore: Inspect progression choices
Bring what the quest requires
Photography tasks now need a . The journal includes newly recorded Pendola Pass quests as well as older chains. Our advice: inspect objectives and required items before leaving Speranza, especially when returning after a long break.
Explore: Bring what the quest requires
Check the current menu
Explore: Check the current menu
Latest hotfix: 2.1.1
The 16 October hotfix closes unintended access to locked rooms and addresses item duplication. It announces no new weapon statistics, recipes or loot values. Use intended room access and puzzle interactions; an exploit route from an older video is not a dependable raid plan. Update 2.1.0 remains relevant for the Frigate hatch hazard, corrected quest progress and traversal fixes.
Embark · Steam update 2.1.0 · 13 October 2026 · Embark · Steam hotfix 2.1.1 · 16 October 2026