ARC Raiders China Augments Guide: 6 New Mods Tested Now

Somewhere in a Tencent server room, someone decided ARC Raiders China augments deserved a stealth mod that borders on cheating. The main game doesn't have these. It might never have these. That hasn't stopped a small, deeply online contingent of raiders from finding a firing range, breaking their own shields on purpose, and timing exactly how forgiving the ARC wildlife has become. This guide covers what each augment does, how it performs against a stopwatch, and which ones deserve a slot in your loadout the moment Embark decides to be generous.

Unlocking the New Gear

None of this exists until your Gear Bench hits its ceiling. ARC Raiders workbench level 5 is the actual requirement, which is one full tier above anything the global client currently allows, so don't go digging through your own workshop menu expecting to find it. Most of the six augments below need no blueprint at all: you just need the bench level and the patience to grind toward it, which, if you've played this game for more than a week, you already have in abundance.

The Full Lineup

Breaking Down Each Augment

Stim: The Adrenaline Addict's Dream

The ARC Raiders stim augment bolts a constantly recharging adrenaline shot onto a standard Looting Mk.3 frame. It won't out-space a Survivor build, because nothing does, but the math is genuinely decent: two natural stamina cycles roughly refill one charge, meaning twenty carried adrenaline shots behave like thirty. Good for long sprints across the map. Bad if you were hoping for a reason to stop being an adrenaline shot junkie.

Solid for endurance-heavy objectives. Not worth it if you already carry a stack of shots and a functioning inventory.

Combat Mk.3 Support: The Shield That Regrets Everything

This is a straightforward ARC Raiders combat augment built around passive shield regeneration, triggered after 30 uninterrupted seconds. Thirty seconds is an eternity in any fight worth having, and by the time it activates you've usually already been pushed, looted, and forgotten. The regen itself ticks up slowly enough that you'll question why you didn't just bring more inventory space instead.

Theoretically nice. Practically a trap for anyone who still thinks fights end after one exchange.

Combat Mk.2 Supply: Ammo Hoarder's Paradise, Barely

Twenty-seven slots and heavy shield support sound impressive until you notice the weight cap sits at 55 and you only get one safe pocket. It's built for players who want to run heavy shields into a Matriarch fight and never run dry on ammo, assuming heavy shields ever become worth the trouble they currently aren't.

Useful in a hypothetical future where heavy shields matter. Right now, a nice-looking spreadsheet entry.

Tactical Mk.2 Agility: Placebo With a Speed Boost

This ARC Raiders tactical augment grants a movement speed increase the moment your shield shatters, and side-by-side testing puts the boost at roughly 10 to 20 percent for a very short window. It's real, it's just subtle enough that most players will swear it's their imagination, right up until they outrun someone who should have caught them.

Marginal but legitimate. Won't win fights alone, might win footraces.

Tactical Mk.2 Engineering: For People Who Actually Use Traps

A flat 25 percent reduction to trap deployment and retrieval time, which is one of the rare augments in this batch that actually tells you the number instead of hiding behind vague flavor text. Great for barricade resets against the Turbine or Matriarch. Irrelevant for anyone who has never once placed a trap on purpose.

Niche, but honest about what it does. Rare enough to respect that.

Stealth: The One That Should Be Illegal

The ARC Raiders stealth augment shrinks ARC detection radius so aggressively that testers walked directly underneath a wasp and a bombardier without triggering aggro, at ranges where a normal loadout gets spotted from 30 meters out. Thirty inventory slots, six quick-use slots, and near-total invisibility to ARC enemies as long as you stay out of their direct line of sight. This is the closest thing to a cheat code the augment system has produced.

Absurdly strong. If this survives to the global client untouched, expect a nerf within a week.

Where This Is Even Coming From

All six augments live exclusively in the ARC Raiders Tencent beta, a separate client with its own servers, its own dev team, and no shared progression with the version everyone else plays. It launched as a region-specific build after Steam restricted access in China, so anyone testing this content is either running a Chinese account through the proper channels or watching secondhand footage, same as this guide.

Access itself runs through the ARC Raiders China server infrastructure, gated behind real-name verification and a qualification survey, which is a lot of bureaucracy for the privilege of testing augments the rest of the world is being denied. Nothing here carries an official Western release date, and nothing here should be treated as a promise.

The same beta also introduced a dedicated ARC Raiders PvE mode called the Rebellion Incident, where every player spawns allied and PvP is switched off entirely. It has nothing to do with the augments directly, but it explains why this build is generating attention: Tencent solved a request Embark has spent over a year explaining they can't easily grant.