Arc Raiders players say blueprint drop rates have exploded after Cold Snap update: 'Blueprints everywhere!'

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It's raining blueprints, hallelujah. Arc Raiders players en masse are reporting that rare loot, including sought after blueprints, are raining from the sky after today's Cold Snap update.

"Yeah so they have changed blueprint droprates," posted Reddit user i_research alongside an image of a backpack nearly stuffed with nothing but blueprints. As someone who couldn't even craft defibrillators the last time I played Arc Raiders, it's a beautiful sight.

The gettings are really good right now, but apparently only on maps with the Cold Snap condition—that's the new one with snow and the mechanic that forces you to stay indoors to not freeze to death. I'm gonna join everyone else in assuming this is either a bug or a temporary, unspoken bonus to encourage players to engage in the deadlier map condition. Either way, it's almost surely temporary.

"Blueprint sellers charging $400 USD for Bobcat blueprints in shambles right now," added another Redditor who found a Bobcat schematic today.

I did manage to find one raider feeling melancholy about the reverse of fortune, and they raise a good point:

"I love finding blueprints like anyone else, but when you now find 4 per run after the patch, that special feeling is gone. What is the point of the game if nothing is rare anymore?" wrote user inner8.

Yeah so they have changed the blueprint droprate. from r/ArcRaiders

Everywhere you look, blueprints as far as the sun can reach. Meanwhile, Embark has stayed quiet about the holiday miracle. If a hotfix is coming, I estimate we have around 8-9 more hours of fun before Sweden wakes up and realizes it left the lid off the cookie jar. Go!

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