ARC Raiders Maps and Map Conditions: The Current Rotation
Every ARC Raiders map and map condition named on the official map-conditions page, how the hourly rotation works, and what each condition means.
Applies to: ARC Raiders maps and map conditions as listed by Embark Studios' live map-conditions page, checked on October 15, 2026
Quick answer
ARC Raiders rotates a set of map conditions across its maps on a timer, and Embark Studios publishes the live schedule on arcraiders.com/map-conditions. The maps named there include Pendola Pass, Riven Tides, Spaceport, Stella Montis, Dam Battlegrounds, Buried City and The Blue Gate, and the conditions include ARC Frigate, Beachcombing, Harvester, Night Raid, Redirection, Bird City, Matriarch, Locked Gate, Lush Blooms, Electromagnetic Storm, Prospecting Probes, Hurricane and Launch Tower Loot. Because the schedule changes hourly and by region, the exact pairing you see will differ from any snapshot — read the official page for the current state.
At a glance
ARC Raiders rotates a set of map conditions across its maps on an hourly timer, and Embark Studios publishes the live schedule on its own site. The maps and conditions below are the ones named on that page on October 15, 2026 — because the schedule changes constantly and by region, the exact pairing you see will differ from this snapshot.
The maps
These are the locations named on the official map-conditions page at the time of this check:
- Pendola Pass
- Riven Tides
- Spaceport
- Stella Montis
- Dam Battlegrounds
- Buried City
- The Blue Gate
Embark Studios launched with a set number of maps and expands them with updates; Frozen Trail added new surface space, and the studio has said more will come as the world grows. The list above is what the live page showed, not a fixed, published total.
The map conditions
Conditions are timed events that change how a map plays — different weather, enemies, objectives and loot. The ones named on the official page were:
| Condition | What it signals |
|---|---|
| ARC Frigate | A large ARC presence tied to the downed frigate |
| Beachcombing | A loot-focused coastal condition |
| Harvester | An ARC harvesting event |
| Night Raid | Low-light condition; excluded from the October PvE test |
| Redirection | A shifting condition; excluded from the October PvE test |
| Bird City | A named local event |
| Matriarch | Boss-tier ARC presence |
| Locked Gate | Access-restricted condition; excluded from the October PvE test |
| Lush Blooms | A benign, loot-friendly condition |
| Electromagnetic Storm | An environmental hazard |
| Prospecting Probes | ARC probes surveying the map |
| Hurricane | Severe-weather condition |
| Launch Tower Loot | A loot-focused condition at the launch tower |
Condition names are quoted as the official page writes them. This page does not attempt to state the exact in-game effect of each one, because Embark Studios documents the schedule rather than a public effect sheet.
How the rotation works
The official page groups conditions into "active now" and "coming up", each with a start and end time in your local clock, and each slot runs for about an hour. That means two things matter more than any static list: the current time, and your region. The site has a region selector (it showed "Europe" at the time of this check). To plan around a condition, read the live page rather than a screenshot.
What is not published
- A permanent, fixed map list. The roster is shown live and grows with updates.
- A public effect table for every condition. The official page names and schedules them; it does not publish a uniform description of what each does.
- Spawn locations for specific loot. These are not documented officially and shift with conditions.
Sources and review scope
- Embark Studios — Map Conditions — the primary source for every map and condition name on this page. Because it is a live schedule, it is quoted as a snapshot dated October 15, 2026, not as a fixed list.
- Embark Studios — ARC Raiders official site — background on the world and the Frozen Trail update that added new surface space.
Checked on October 15, 2026. The map and condition names are from the developer's own live page; the scheduling detail (hourly slots, region selector) is described from the same page. Nothing here should be read as a permanent roster.
Checked on October 15, 2026 against the Steam store listing and the Steam Web API app-details, current-players, review-summary and news endpoints for ARC Raiders, and Embark Studios' own posts on arcraiders.com. Live figures such as the concurrent-player count and the review total are timestamped snapshots that keep moving and are labelled as such. Game-internal details that Embark Studios has not published come from the community-run ARC Raiders Wiki and are labelled third-party, not official. Player-tested values are marked as such. Anything neither source states is written as unconfirmed rather than guessed.
Not independently play-tested. This is not a claim that every platform or game version was tested. Source review: Oct 15, 2026.
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