ARC Raiders Down on January 27, as Servers Experiencing Issues (Update)
Before the night is done, it seems raiders are having issues connecting or finding matches in ARC Raiders. The hit extraction game is down for players on all platforms, and this affects not only matchmaking but also logging in to the game’s world too.
Read on for more info on what’s happening to the ARC Raiders servers below.
ARC Raiders Servers Experiencing Issues on January 27 (Jan. 28 for Outside the US)
Update (January 28 at 2 am ET): While the servers issues were sorted out initially, it seems things are acting up again based on the community reaction.
Embark has acknowledged that the servers are once again instability issues, and are looking into it now. We’ll update the article with more info once we know more.
Reports have surfaced on Downdetector as well as the game’s community that ARC Raiders servers are having issues. From our understanding, this is affecting all platforms and is a worldwide issue.
Embark has acknowledged the outage and posted the following message, “Hi Raiders! As of January 28, 2026 10:20 AM we’ve received reports of server instability and lags. The team is currently looking into them so we recommend not logging in until further notice to avoid losing your items or progressions.”
This is very bad timing, given that the game’s latest major update, Headwinds, was just released earlier today. Check out the info breakdown and patch notes to see what got added.
Once we know more about the server situation, we’ll update the article. In the meantime, go check out the game’s Q1 roadmap to see what’s in store for raiders up to April.
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Servers have been hitching for the last few hours. A minute or two of normal gameplay, then rubberbanding like crazy for a few minutes. Rinse, repeat.