ARC Raiders outage: Why are players getting ‘online connection error’ message when they are trying to logi
Arc Raiders servers reportedly went down on Wednesday impacting tens of thousands of players. At the time of writing this report, Downdetector noted that over 54,000 people were facing issues, which was still down from the 67,000 plus gamers encountering troubles sometime back. Reports are flooding into DownDetector claiming that Arc Raiders’ servers has gone down.— Tyler_Martin1 (@Tyler_Martin1)
People are flooding to social media to report the issue, claiming that there’s currently a problem with connecting to the game’s servers. It seems the game’s servers are acting up, with literally thousands of players having issues connecting to the game or matchmaking. Players worldwide and on all platforms (consoles and PC) are affected with the ARC Raiders server outage happening this November 19. Players are getting repeated connection errors such as “Online connection error” and messages stating, “An illegal mutation was rejected by the backend.
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Why Arc Raiders is down?
According to reports, there is a chance that the servers are melting due to the influx of players given the game has managed to increase its player count over the past few weekends since launch. While many have taken to social media to complain about the outage, there has been no update as to its cause yet. Nor has Arc Raiders issued any statement. This major outage has just come after the company posted that its game has been nominated for Best Multiplayer Game at The Game Awards.
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Second major outage of Arc Raiders
Arc Raiders suffered a massive outage on November 15 and it recovered from the disruption. This came after players reported difficulties accessing the Embark Studios title, citing persistent “network timeout” error messages and other login failures and more than 11,000 players reported issues with the outage.
Players from around the US, including Washington, Atlanta, Detroit, Tampa and other cities, reported issues with the game. However, the most complaints came from New York, Chicago, Seattle, San Francisco and Los Angeles.
Arc Raiders is a third-person extraction shooter released in 2025. The game takes place on a post-apocalyptic Earth where players look for resources while dealing with other players and robotic enemies called the “ARC.” The title is developed by Embark Studios and is available on PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X/S. Players need to extract with the items they collect to keep them, and the game can be played alone or in teams of two or three.
