Despite the game's overwhelming success, Arc Raiders's Expeditions has always been a contentious gameplay mechanic. The challenge offers players a window to complete a challenge and reset their Raider in exchange for permanent player upgrades, like more skill points, additional loot storage, cosmetics, and buffs, but, according to a new post by Embark Studios, Expeditions will be paused after The 5th Expedition, which starts on August 21.

The 5th Expedition window will open on September 8 and close on September 29, and even with this Expedition, Embark has introduced changes to the challenge structure in order to make the character reset less tedious for players who have run more than one Expedition in the past. The studio behind Arc Raiders explains that some of the issues highlighted by player feedback "need more than incremental fixes," and call for bigger changes, which it aims to implement after an Expedition pause, which will last until "early 2027."