ARC Raiders updates: how to follow patches on Steam

20 August 2026 · 7 min read

GameMapa editorial · how we check facts
Checked: Claude (AI) — fact-checked against the Ukrainian original; not proofread by a native speaker

ARC Raiders updates are published in the game’s official Steam news feed – the same channel the developers write themselves, with no middleman. At the time of checking, the feed showed 8 recent entries: the newest dated 11 August 2026, and the oldest of the eight shown dated 9 July 2026.

This article doesn’t summarise patch notes. It teaches you to read the primary source yourself, so you don’t have to rely on how someone else translated, trimmed, or dressed up the original text.

What this feed actually is

The news page on the game’s Steam listing is a feed of official community announcements. The key word is “official”: the entries are posted by the game’s developers, not by gaming outlets or video creators. In other words, it’s the primary document, and everything else on the internet about it is a retelling of that document.

The difference isn’t cosmetic. A retelling always loses something: a detail about a specific platform, a caveat in brackets, a line reading “this only applies to…”. When you read the original, you see the wording exactly as the game’s own team wrote it.

Feed address: store.steampowered.com/news/app/1808500. Worth bookmarking – it’s the shortest route, shorter than a Google search every time you want to check whether something’s shipped.

What the feed showed at the time of checking

Here are the titles and dates of the recent entries. Titles and dates only – not the content:

That’s five of the eight entries the feed showed in one screenful. The rest are older, going back to the entry from 9 July 2026.

What this table honestly shows, without guesswork:

• Updates are numbered. 1.38.0, 1.39.0, 1.40.0, 1.41.0 – the sequence reads unambiguously, and the number makes it easy to spot which version you missed.
• Titles come in different types. Some entries are called “Store Update”, one is “Live Update”, and another has no version number at all and is titled “Matchmaking Survey”.
• Not every feed entry is a patch. Going by its wording, the survey entry is a survey, not a game update. The feed mixes everything together: releases and messages to players alike.

What this table does not show: what actually changed in each version. The title “Store Update 1.41.0” says nothing about the contents – nothing about balance, fixes, or content. Anyone claiming otherwise based on the title alone is making it up.

We cover the 1.41.0 entry itself on a separate page, and we keep a running list of recent entries in our guide to ARC Raiders’ latest updates.

How to open the feed and read an entry yourself

1. Open the game’s news page. Direct link above. You can also reach the announcements from the game’s Steam store page, but the direct address saves clicks.
2. Check the topmost entry and its date. The feed is sorted newest first. If the top date matches one you’ve already read, nothing new has shown up.
3. Compare the version number against what you’re running. The number in the title is your reference point: if the feed shows 1.41.0 and you last saw 1.39.0, you’ve missed the entries in between.
4. Open the entry itself and read the text. That’s the only way to find out what’s actually in it. The title is a label, not the content.
5. Scroll the feed down. It only serves a limited number of entries at a time – eight at the time of checking, with the oldest of those from 9 July 2026. Anything published earlier has to be dug up further back in the announcement archive.
6. Subscribe to updates on Steam if you don’t want to check manually. Then new announcements come to you instead of the other way round.

How to tell a primary source from a retelling

A practical filter for every “fresh patch note” you come across on social media:

A retelling isn’t necessarily bad – it’s often more convenient and in your own language. But the rule is simple: if a retelling doesn’t link back to the original entry, treat it as someone else’s version of events.

What we’re not claiming

This is the most important part of the piece, and it’s deliberately long.

• We’re not summarising the contents of any patch. We recorded the titles and dates of the entries, not their text. So this article doesn’t contain, and won’t contain, lines like “1.41.0 fixed such-and-such”.
• We’re not promising future updates or naming dates. The developers haven’t announced a release schedule. The gaps between already-published entries are history, not a timetable – they don’t tell you when the next entry will land, or whether it will at all.
• We’re not interpreting the difference between “Store Update” and “Live Update”. The wording in the titles genuinely differs. What that means technically isn’t explained within the title itself, and we’re not going to invent an explanation.
• We’re not claiming the feed always shows exactly eight entries. Eight is what we saw at the time of checking. How many entries it shows you today is something you’ll need to check yourself.
• We don’t know whether every update actually makes it into this feed. We saw what’s published there, and we haven’t seen what isn’t.

If you come across a piece of text that confidently claims any of the above, there’s one question to ask: how do they know? Without an answer, it’s a guess.

Why this is useful in practice

Following the feed pays off for two reasons.

First, you find out about changes as soon as they’re posted, in the developers’ own wording. Second, you get a personal reference point: the version number you last played on. That settles arguments like “well, it works differently for me” – often the answer is simply that people are on different versions.

One more thing: the game’s Steam page isn’t just news. It’s also where player reviews live, and those change after updates too. And if you’re still getting a feel for the game, start with the basics in what is ARC Raiders.

In short

ARC Raiders updates are published in the game’s official Steam news feed – at the time of checking it showed 8 entries, the newest being “Store Update 1.41.0” from 11 August 2026. You can see the titles and dates at a glance, but there’s only one way to find out what’s actually in a patch: open the entry and read the original.