Players aren't convinced that it's fully resolved yet.
Embark Studios has rolled out a fresh Arc Raiders update aimed squarely at some of the game’s most annoying exploits, including the long-running Stella Montis out-of-bounds issue. While the patch tackles duplication bugs and geometry abuse, the wording around the Stella Montis fix has left plenty of room for doubt among the playerbase.
At the top of the list are two duplication exploits tied to items and ammo. These were classic drop-and-retrieve tricks, allowing players to clone their gear with a bit of fiddling. Embark has confirmed both have now been shut down, which should at least stabilise the economy and slow down some of the worst abuse in raids.
The update also addresses situations where players could damage others “from behind geometry,” a problem that made certain firefights feel outright unfair. Getting tagged through walls or map objects has been a sore spot for PvP players, so this fix will be a welcome one, even if it’s taken a while to land.
The Stella Montis exploit has not been fully resolved
The most talked-about change, though, is Stella Montis. For months, players have been abusing out-of-bounds spots that allow them to stand outside the map and shoot back in with near impunity. The developer’s patch notes do say that “various”, and not necessarily all, out-of-bounds map locations had been addressed, but that hasn’t stopped fans from highlighting ongoing problems.
On the Arc Raiders Discord, some players have reported these issues. “There is still a wall glitch in Stella (somewhere in the lobby area),” one Discord user said. “Embark is incapable of fixing their game.”
“So, I guess they didn’t fix wall glitches because I just got killed by 3 people inside the seed vault extract in Stella Montis,” another added.
“This patch notes seems like it only attracted rats into walls on Stella,” another player said.
This mini update follows a run of patches that have steadily chipped away at ARC Raiders’ more “ratty” exploits. Past fixes have dealt with things like the infamous zipline that let players break free of Stella Montis, door glitches that turned sealed rooms into death traps for cheaters, and balance tweaks that made crafting cheaper while making arcs more threatening.
That said, not everything is fixed yet. Some players are still running into a crafting bug that can reset the counter mid-craft, wasting time and resources, and there’s also an achievement issue preventing certain unlocks from triggering properly. These are less game-breaking than PvP exploits, but they remain frustratingly persistent.
The update, listed as January Update 1.12.0 and released on 20 January, 2026, was deployed alongside a store rotation refresh. In its patch notes, Embark says it has fixed an item duplication exploit, and an ammo duplication exploit, along with “some cases where players were able to damage others from behind geometry,” and “various out of bounds map locations on Stella Montis.” Players are required to restart their client to download the update.
