Arc Raiders hotfix turns locked-door exploit into an instant deathtrap

Embark Studios has pushed a small but savage hotfix to Arc Raiders after weeks of players abusing a locked-door clipping exploit to skip encounters and nab loot. Instead of quietly closing the hole, the studio opted for a blunt-force solution… if you try to clip through a locked door, the game now teleports you straight into the room and sets it on fire.

The exploit allowed players to slip through sealed areas by angling against a frame just right, turning certain locked doors into speedrun shortcuts or easy loot grabs. It had been a persistent community joke since launch, a glitch that survived multiple updates and kept showing up in clips and streams. Embark’s fix doesn’t try to stop the clipping itself. Instead, it punishes attempts. Players who trigger the exploit are teleported into the sealed room and then instantly engulfed in flames, killing them within seconds. The change is live across maps and locked rooms.

Embark wasn’t kidding around when they wrote “a very hot fix for the locked room exploits” 😭 https://t.co/n3jT5A2O4l pic.twitter.com/A2Bv3ugn4g

— ARC Radar (@ARCRaidersNews) November 27, 2025

The line above comes straight from the patch notes, and the reaction across Arc Raiders’ channels has been somewhere between laughter and incredulity. For readers who want background on how Embark built Arc Raiders and why the team keeps iterating on systems like rooms and encounters, Console PC Gaming previously ran an interview detailing the studio’s development process and scrapped ideas that shaped the final game: Arc Raiders devs say scrapped ideas and repeated failures helped shape the 2025 hit.

Whether this approach will stop players from hunting for more clipping tricks remains to be seen. For now the exploit still exists as a behavior players can trigger, but the immediate, fiery consequence makes attempting it a lot less appealing. Have thoughts or a clip of someone testing the hotfix? Join the conversation and drop comments at X, Bluesky, or our YouTube.