Embark Studios has changed how Arc Raiders’ third Expedition will work, stripping out the credit requirement and tying rewards to damage dealt instead. Players who want all five available skill points will have from April 28 to May 4 at midnight to finish the challenge.
The studio said the old system, which asked players to convert 3 million credits worth of stash value for the maximum bonus, made the event feel too much like a grind. Under the new setup, players will be rewarded points based on damage dealt, while those using the catch-up mechanic for earlier Expeditions will still earn skill points through stash value.
The update matters because Expeditions are not a side mode in Arc Raiders. They are a prestige feature built around starting over with bonuses tied to performance, and the last Expedition ended March 1. That left some players spending months saving millions of credits for a system that was then rewritten before the next window even opened.
Embark said it made the changes because grinding for monetary value is not the most exciting experience and because it wants Expeditions to be fun rather than an endless grind. The studio also said the revised format creates a fair and engaging challenge that keeps everyone active across the full five days.
That has not settled the criticism from players who had already banked resources for the third window. A post from EmbarkBulletin on April 17, 2026, described the change as a good idea with bad execution, and the concern now is straightforward: some players may feel they collected resources since March 1 for nothing, while others will welcome a system that asks for participation instead of pure accumulation.
The new rules answer the question raised by the original reward structure. Arc Raiders’ third Expedition will no longer be decided by how many credits a player hoarded, but by what they do during the five-day run. For Embark, that is the point.
