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Rory Norris

Arc Raiders' latest weapon changes are a well-aimed nerf at free loadouters, and the Il Toro is thankfully next on the chopping block

A raider sporting a full beard in Arc Raiders.

If you've been to Stella Montis lately (well, ever, really), you've no doubt run into hordes of violent players using free loadouts to murder you and steal everything in your bag. After all, they've got nothing to lose, unlike you.

With Arc Raiders' latest round of patch notes in the Shrouded Sky 1.17 update, Embark is finally cracking down on this infamous strategy, acknowledging that many of us have "expressed concerns that some low-tier weapons outperform our higher-tier weapons at significantly reduced cost".

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