ARC Raiders Optional Wipes Kicks Off December 17 and Here Are the Permanent Expedition Rewards
After a delay, Embark Studios has announced that those who are thinking of doing a wipe in the extraction shooter, you’ll be able to do so starting December 17. Note that this is completely optional, but there are rewards for intiating this.
Players who choose to embark (heh) out of Speranza for good will receive incentives through what the studio calls the Expedition Project. Permanent unlocks, temporary buffs are some of the stuff players can expect if they do decide to perma-wipe their ARC Raiders character.
ARC Raiders Permanent Wipe Rewards Revealed
According to Embark, when the Expedition departs, all items in your character’s stash will be contribute toward it. Your next Raider will be able to earn up to five skill points based on the total value of your Stash and Coins at the time of departure.
Conversion works as one million Coins worth of value equals one extra skill point for your new Raider.
Take note that if you do decide to restart/wipe, everything tied to your progress will be reset. This means your Skill Tree, Level, Stash, Workshop, Crafting Abilities, and Blueprints will all be permanently wiped. If you do decide to do this, the initial onboarding from your first deployment in Speranza will be skipped, which means all maps and potential workshop upgrades will be available as soon as you reset.
By perma-wiping, players will unlock the following advantages:
Permanent Unlocks:
- The Patchwork Raider outfit
- Scrappy Janitor Cap
- Expeditions Indicator icon
- Skill points (depending on Stash value)
- +12 Stash space
Temporary Buffs:
- 10% repair buff
- 5% xp boost
- 6% more materials from Scrappy
While skill points, extra stash space and cosmetics are permanent unlocks, the account buffs will expire if the player chooses not to depart with the subsequent expedition. Also of note, buffs will increase in power for your next three expeditions (but only one departure allowed per expedition window).
The expedition window will kick off on December 17 and last until December 22. Players interested must sign up during this period, and everyone will automatically depart at the same time on the end date (Dec. 22).
If you choose not to depart, your progress toward bulding a Caravan will be preserved, so players can keep working on it until the next window opens in a couple of months.
Embark explains why they are going this route as well.
Why are we doing it like this?
Progression wipes are a notoriously difficult thing to balance in online multiplayer games – we get that. Mandatory global wipes have some obvious benefits: heavily invested players get to re-experience the initial grind once again and, for a time, the playing field is levelled.
The optional Expedition Project is our solution to some of the problems that inevitably arise with mandatory wipes – specifically, by respecting your time investment in the game. We want to offer you the choice:
Not completed as much as you’d like? Keep on raiding, building, and growing. Ready for a new challenge and to grind once again? Depart on the Expedition, and receive buffs, rewards, and bragging rights.
Given the number of Raiders enjoying the game, I expect a ton of people will be joining the expedition later this month. Regardless of your choice,
Aside from permanent wiping, players have the Cold Snap update to look forward to on December 17 as well, and this adds a new event, new quests and more.
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