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ARC Raiders Vanguard Set Launch Delayed; Drops Later Today

ARC Raiders fans were left wanting yesterday when the regularly scheduled update was delayed by Embark Studios, hampering the arrival of the highly anticipated Vanguard Set. The new cosmetics pack has been on fans’ minds ever since the drop was teased in recent promotional materials, and it was supposed to land yesterday, April 7.

The Vanguard Set is coming with update 1.23.0, a relatively minor update that features the awaited store item and several bug fixes.

Where is the Vanguard Set in ARC Raiders?

If you logged into ARC Raiders yesterday expecting to see the Vanguard Set sitting before you in the store, it’s understandable if you were rendered confused. ARC Raiders updates always happen on a Tuesday, but Embark Studios delayed this week’s 1.23.0 update by 24 hours, per a message on the game’s official Discord server:

Raiders!

Patch 1.23.0 is moved until tomorrow at the usual time. It comes with the highly anticipated Vanguard Set and a number of fixes.

If there’s one thing Embark Studios has been doing right with ARC Raiders, it’s the drip-fed cosmetics bundles, almost all of which are entirely on theme and authentic to the game’s universe. The team promised a long time ago that they wouldn’t lean into unwanted collaborations and bizarre skin packs, and the Vanguard Set is a testament to that fact.

It features a heavily-armored individual with a ballistic helmet and face shield, the kind of outfit you’d see in another popular extraction shooter, Escape from Tarkov.

It’s a beefy outfit that’s admittedly a world away from some of the more perplexing packs, like the Wasp Hunter bundle that was released around the launch of the recent Flashpoint update. That outfit, which boasts a higher-than-average price point, comes with one of the strangest pieces of headgear we’ve seen since the game dropped in October 2025.

Here are the launch times for the ARC Raiders 1.23.0 update:

  • PT: 3 AM
  • ET: 6 AM
  • BST: 11 AM
  • CST: 12 PM
  • JST: 7 PM

Are you going to secure the ARC Raiders Vanguard Set? Let us know what you’re looking forward to about this game on the Insider Gaming Discord server.


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Grant Taylor-Hill
Senior Editor and Esports Lead

Grant has been gaming for 30+ years and in the industry for 10+. You'll probably find him playing a post-apocalyptic game or an extraction shooter somewhere.

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