ARC Raiders Riven Tides Map Guide

ARC Raiders Riven Tides Map Guide Quick Summary:

• Riven Tides is a smaller, denser ARC Raiders map focused on fast looting, frequent PvP, and heavy verticality.
• Hotel Panorama Azzurro is best for Commercial and Residential loot, making it a strong money-making spot.
• Port Authority and Stacking Yard are the most dangerous areas, with strong PvP potential and valuable loot.
• The map has unique buried sand loot, ship models, and compact POIs that can be cleared in one raid.

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ARC Raiders Riven Tides Map Explained

Riven Tides is not the biggest map of all the previously released ones, but it’s for the better. You’ll spend less time running between the POIs and more time actually looting and fighting. In a way, it’s reminiscent of Spaceport, where the central part is super condensed and filled with various areas with loot. Here are some of the key features the ARC Raiders Riven Tides has:

• Big Emphasis on Verticality: Long before the map was released, the developers were emphasizing the verticality of the map as one of the main key features.
• Puzzles: I’m yet to discover what it does, but I’ve found two buttons on the Stacking Yard, reminiscent of the buttons that were on Buried City during the Cold Snap.
• Beach Vibes: It’s springtime, and the summer is just right around the corner, so the beach map feels appropriate.
• Action-Packed: Meeting other players is inevitable, as the map’s size and the layout force you to meet other raiders.
• Unique Looting: The only map where you can use the detector to search for loot buried in the sand. Plus, it has ship models, which are the unique trinkets found only here. They are tied to the Avian Alarm project.

I love this map so far, though I managed to play only for a couple of hours. I like how this map is basically a contrast between the two sides, with the right side being a dock and the left being this fancy hotel resort. I think the big factor of its enjoyability is based on whether you like the beach maps in video games or not.

ARC Raiders Riven Tides All Map Areas Guide

There are only four colored areas in Riven Tides, but even the yellow loot zones feel much more stacked than, say, Rocket Assembly on Spaceport. It definitely feels like the developers worked on their mistakes to provide a much more concentrated gameplay experience. Even the white areas of the map, which serve as traversal points, have some sort of decent loot scattered there. I wonder if it tilts the scale once again, as it happened when Stella Montis was released, and all other maps felt redundant. Below, I’ll cover the best places to loot on ARC Raiders Riven Tides:

• Hotel Panorama Azzurro: The biggest building in the game so far. Multiple floors with many shootout possibilities and Shredders around every corner. The loot here is predominantly Commercial and Residential, so if you need to get a quick coin, this is the best place for that. It also has some Security loot behind closed doors, but its main draw is its money-making potential.
• Port Authority Building: This building makes me wonder how the technogenic, loud-as-a-truck port area has been built next to the resort. This building kinda reminds me of those smaller COD maps where it’s just pure chaos and violence. If the Hotel leaves some room for breathing, Port Authority is just PvP heaven. Or hell, if you’re among the players who don’t like it. Lots of rooms require keycards to open, and weapon containers are lying on platforms outside of the building.
• Stacking Yard: The poster area of the Riven Tides map, if that makes sense. It’s very vertical, dangerous, with lots of ARCs patrolling it. My favorite area of the map. Loot lies hidden behind the corners instead of just being inside the buildings. While clearing this area, you are wide open, cause you can be seen from almost all sides of the map. This part of the map is rich with Industrial and Exodus loot, and I gotta say, Exodus loot drops here a lot.
• Customs House: A smaller zone with multiple levels. Half of the building is above the ground, and the rest of it is underground. You can reach it through the tunnel. It also houses one of the extraction points. I didn’t loot it enough to give you anything conclusive, but I’ve found some loot that I needed for the new project, including a ship model, so perhaps it’s gonna include a little bit of everything, given the name? As soon as I have more info on this point of interest, I’ll update this part.

The rest of the points of interest can contain decent loot, but they’re there so that you don’t feel bored when going from one place to another. I highly advise trying to loot in the areas I named above. Luckily, the map is so small that you can visit all the places in one raid.

ARC Raiders Riven Tides Puzzle Solution

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ARC Raiders Riven Tides Best Loot Path

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Read our other ARC Raiders guides:

• Dam Battlegrounds Guide
• Buried City Guide
• Blue Gate Guide
• Spaceport Guide
• Stella Montis Guide

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