ARC Raiders 1.36.0 Patch Notes: The Finals Crossover

ARC Raiders Live Update 1.36.0 landed on July 7, 2026, a mid-season patch that arrived with one genuinely unusual headline: a crossover with THE FINALS, Embark's other live shooter. Around it sit a loot change players have been begging for, a matchmaking rework, the finish line for the Denuvo anti-cheat rollout, and a deep list of fixes. The full changelog is on the official arcraiders.com patch notes.

The two time-sensitive things to act on are the crossover, which closes its first phase on July 30, and the Fourth Expedition, since both hand out cosmetics you cannot earn later. Everything else is a permanent change to how the game plays.

ARC Raiders and THE FINALS are both Embark Studios games, and 1.36.0 links them with a two-way reward promotion. It runs in two phases, and the direction matters.

In plain terms: during the first phase, from July 9 to July 30, you play THE FINALS and finish its crossover Contracts, and the Azimuth outfit plus the Archeologist backpack land on your ARC Raiders account. After July 30 the promotion reverses, and ARC Raiders players earn the Azimuth bundle back in THE FINALS. Embark did not publish the exact Contract objectives on the ARC Raiders side, so treat any specific "do X kills" checklist you see elsewhere as community-sourced rather than official.

The skin went over well. The reveal thread became one of the most upvoted ARC Raiders posts in weeks, and the main gripe was the cross-game commitment rather than the reward itself.

If you want the outfit, plan for a couple of hours in THE FINALS and make sure you finish the full Contract set before the July 30 cutoff. Rewards deliver to your ARC Raiders account rather than instantly mid-match, so if it has not appeared, confirm you completed every Contract and are signed in to the same Embark account in both games.

The ARC Turbine has always been one of the hardest world targets for one of the weakest payouts, and Embark finally addressed it. The reward is bigger and the sourcing changed, so the Turbine is now the intended place to farm its parts.

• The value of loot dropped by ARC Turbines is significantly increased. Embark did not give a percentage, only that the increase is significant.
• ARC Turbine parts no longer drop from Couriers, so the Turbine is now the source for them.
• The ARC Turbine no longer disappears right after spawning.

Reaction was split, and the sticking point was not the loot but the Turbine's spawn behavior. A better reward does not help if the machine never shows up.

Whether it is worth the detour now depends on how confident you are killing one solo. Check its attack pattern and the map threats around it in our ARC machines database before you build a run around it.

ARC Raiders adjusts your lobbies based on how aggressively you play. Until now that rating was shared across squad sizes, so a hard solo grind could drag your duo and trio games into sweatier lobbies. 1.36.0 splits it.

This landed as one of the most requested fixes finally arriving, and the excitement was real even if some players want to see it hold up in practice.

The Denuvo Anti-Cheat layer we first covered in patch 1.29.0 is now fully deployed and enforced for every player, closing out the plan we tracked in the fair play update. Embark also patched item duplication exploits, kept its machine-learning detection running, and continued issuing Action Notices and loot compensation to players hit by cheaters.

The free-loadout test from update 1.33.0 stuck, too. Free Loadouts remain disabled in Night Raid and Close Scrutiny as an experiment, so the two highest-loot conditions still ask you to commit real gear. Not everyone is convinced the enforcement will move fast enough to matter.

The 1.36.0 post also spotlights the cosmetics running right now. The Fourth Expedition rewards the Zenith Outfit, and Trials Season 5 rewards the Scorta Outfit. Both started before this patch, so they are the current chase rather than brand-new 1.36.0 content, and both are worth clearing before they rotate out. Community guides describe the Fourth Expedition as scoring you on damage dealt to ARC, so the same aggressive play that farms the buffed Turbine feeds your Expedition progress.

On the store side, 1.36.0 shipped a store redesign and added the Triumph Set. Embark did not itemize the redesign or the set's contents in the patch notes, so check the in-game store for the current offer. One heads-up: the Triumph and Azimuth outfits both have a known clipping issue in this build.

• Knockback from Queen and Matriarch stomps no longer passes through walls.
• Weapons dropped on the ground now show their installed mods.
• Higher-value items now show up on the shelf in the Raider Den.
• The Marco Outfit clipping issue is fixed.
• The Bog Walker Set has its missing colour variants restored, with automatic refunds for players who paid extra for the new colours.
• Several spots on The Dam where players fell through terrain are patched, along with general stuck and clip spots across the maps.
• A quest loop that blocked selecting a new quest after claiming rewards is resolved.
• The Emote Wheel now updates availability while it is open.
• HUD visibility settings apply correctly at round start, and a controller Logbook tooltip toggle is fixed.
• German localization corrections and clearer Scrappy Nest feeding-reward messaging.