The ARC Raiders expedition reset hit and the first thing raiders checked was not their inventory. It was the skill point tracker. The counter sits at zero for thousands of accounts that logged damage requirements and walked out empty-handed. The subreddit shifted immediately from post-expedition inventory management to damage control. The season clock is running, but the progression ledger is missing pages.

Where are my points? is the top question at 1.5k upvotes. The pattern repeats across dozens of threads. Players hit the milestones, extract, and the progress evaporates before the lobby closes. A PSA post tried to stem the duplicate reports, noting the bug is already acknowledged, but the volume keeps rising. The fix is in progress, which does little to soothe raiders watching their grind window tick down. The frustration is not just about the bug. It is about where the acknowledgment lives.

Embark posted the update on Discord, and the front page is already annoyed by it. u/artistdadrawer caught the mood in a top reply. "Why the FUCK are they announcing it on discord? At least use internet webside publicly and not using goddamn discord." The official website exists for a reason. Important patch status should not require a server invite to read. Developers can patch a tracker in an hour, but rebuilding trust in communication channels takes longer.

While the bug eats the progression track, the Riven Tides survey is trying to diagnose retention. It sits at 2k with a 0.76 ratio, which tells you the room is already arguing with the form. The questionnaire offers "influenced by content creators" as a reason for quitting, and raiders are laughing at the framing. u/Free_Jelly614 pointed out the likely intent behind the option. "to be fair they could have added this to disprove the notion that people leave the game because of content creators." The logic holds, but the subreddit is more interested in the missing options. Lack of endgame progression, persistent bugs, and the stamina tax on high-tier runs are doing the heavy lifting. A survey cannot fix a broken extract counter, but it can measure how much patience is left before the next reset.

The mood has not collapsed because the game still delivers sharp moments between the backend stutters. Ticks dancing to a flute pulled a 0.99 ratio and 1.7k upvotes. It is a quick joke, but it lands because the alternative is staring at an empty skill tree. The Patchwork skins also drew praise for fitting the Rust Belt aesthetic instead of ignoring it. Raiders are still finding reasons to enjoy the surface. They are just waiting for the game to stop eating their progress in between runs.

The containers are already empty. The mule accounts are moving loot through Dam Battlegrounds. The expedition is technically over, but the real season clock only starts once the missing points reappear. The pre-expedition panic memes about Riven Tides are already archived. Raiders are doing math instead of dropping. That math only works when the tracker tells the truth.