ARC Raiders is the multiplayer extraction shooter from Embark Studios that went down for the most part due to a server outage on December 25, 2025. Thus, a big part of the player community could not get access to the game. The trouble has impeded the folks on PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S, and thereby, it has turned the gaming Christmas Day that should have been full of fun into a very disappointing experience.
Current Server Status
Image Credits: Embark Studios
On December 25, the situation with ARC Raiders servers is that they have been entirely shut down or are very unstable in several locations. Thus, players from different parts of North America, Europe, and several areas of Asia have experienced and reported the same issues. Consequently, it is confirmed that the problem is a global outage rather than being caused by a specific region.
The most frequently reported first issues are:
- Not being able to log in to the game
- Loading screens that never end or long login queues
- Network timeout errors, among which are error codes like ART00004
- Getting disconnected during matchmaking without any warning
- Not being able to enter raids or connect to online services
Sites that monitor outages noticed that for a very short time, there were a lot of report submissions by users, thus indicating that thousands of players were affected at the same time.
What Caused the Outage?
Embark Studios, Inc. has recognized the issues with connection, but the developer has not yet identified the definite cause of the problem or given a clear timeline of when everything will be back to normal.
Nevertheless, the most probable causes of the situation that have been discussed are:
- A surge in traffic on account of the holiday, as Christmas Day is usually the day when a huge number of people log in simultaneously
- Backend or infrastructure strain, which might have caused the server to be down, while the players have seen other online games running normally
- Worst of all, the server-side instability. To be exact, it was not the player, side internet connection that was poor, but users with good connections complained the most about the outage.
People have been talking about the cloud infrastructure, but no one has suggested an official cloud outage to explain the problems.
ARC Raiders down
Image Credits: Embark Studios
The ARC Raiders players have been very active and loud on the forums and social media, where they shared their disappointment due to the timing of the crash. Christmas Day is normally one of the most crowded periods for multiplayer games, and, therefore, the interruption was most annoying to those who had planned to play for a long time.
What Players Can Do Right Now
If the servers have not yet been stabilized, players may take the following measures:
- Keep an eye on the official social media channels of the ARC Raiders to get the latest updates
- Visit websites that provide information about service outages to check whether there is any progress in fixing the situation
- Restart your game or the launcher; however, this will not solve the problem if it originates from the server side
- Repeated login attempts should be avoided as they can make the queue congestion even more severe.
To sum up, the answer is affirmative, on December 25, 2025, ARC Raiders is not operational or is having major server problems. The downtime is, according to the information, large, scale, continues for a long time, and is now being looked into by Embark Studios. It will take some time until the support staff sends the confirmation to the players that the service is back to normal.
