Arc Raiders Disco Easter Egg

Congratulations. You just landed on Riven Tides, the shiny new coastal map in Arc Raiders, and instead of looting the hotel like a functional human being, you want to know about the disco ball. Fine. Here it is. All of it. Try not to expect a reward at the end.

The Arc Raiders Riven Tides Easter egg is tucked inside the basement of the Hotel Panorama Azzurro: a derelict resort on the western side of the map that, pre-apocalypse, apparently had enough of a nightlife scene to install a full disco setup. The hotel still has disco posters on the walls, which tells you everything about the priorities of whoever ran this place before the ARC showed up.

HEADS UP: This Easter egg gives you no loot, no XP, no merit points, and no achievement. It gives you music and lights. If that is acceptable to you, proceed.

Where to Find It

The Hotel Panorama Azzurro is one of the major POIs on Riven Tides, the abandoned luxury resort on the western coast of the Rust Belt. You will know you are in the right place because it is large, crumbling, and absolutely crawling with Arc. Head to the hotel basement: the lowest accessible floor beneath the main lobby. The disco setup is down there, waiting for you in the dark, because of course it is.

What You Need

The Panorama Azzurro hotel secret requires two mundane items. You are not hunting rare blueprints or legendary key cards. You need garbage:

• Wires: at least 4. Loot fried motherboards, fans, and general electrical debris around the hotel. The building is falling apart; wires are everywhere.
• Battery: 1. Find it in the basement area or nearby rooms. Check shelves, containers, and whatever sad pile of junk the previous occupants left behind.

Pro tip: grab more wires than you think you need, because this map is fresh and other players will have already stripped the easy spots before you get there. That is the Arc Raiders hidden interaction experience in a nutshell.

Step-by-Step: Activating the Disco

This is the complete how to activate disco Easter egg Arc Raiders process. It is not complicated. It is simply tedious, which is different.

 

How the Interaction Actually Works

The Riven Tides hidden secret is a multi-step environmental puzzle: and using "puzzle" here is generous. You repair electrical wiring in the basement to restore power to the stage equipment. Once powered, several interactive instrument points become available around the room. Each instrument you interact with adds a layer to the music and turns on a light. The disco ball overhead spins when the system is active.

The music cuts in and out depending on whether the interaction is sustained. This is either an intentional design choice suggesting that your makeshift band lacks stamina, or a bug. Both are equally plausible.

NOTE: Multiple players can interact with different instruments simultaneously. This means you can, technically, play a band with strangers in a post-apocalyptic hotel basement while the ARC tries to kill everyone on the surface. This is the Arc Raiders band Easter egg at its finest.

Why a Disco Ball

Because Embark put one there and you cannot stop them. Pre-apocalypse, the Panorama Azzurro was an active resort: scout reports describe disco posters still on the walls, suggesting the hotel had a functioning entertainment floor before the first wave hit. The basement setup is a nod to whatever the last party looked like before everything went wrong. Charming. Bleak. Standard Rust Belt energy.

The Panorama Azzurro hotel lore goes deeper: Embark's pre-launch field observation emails described the resort as still standing but structurally questionable, which also accurately describes the disco as a gameplay feature.

The Reward

No loot. No XP. No badge. No title. No ship model. No merit points for the Last Resort event. You get music that fades out, a spinning ball, and the knowledge that you did this voluntarily.

To be clear: the Arc Raiders Riven Tides secrets on this map include actual buried treasure via Beachcombing, a brand-new floating boss enemy, and a full merit event with cosmetic rewards. You chose the disco ball. Respect.

Can You Do This With Other Players

Yes. The band setup appears designed for multiple participants, with separate instrument interaction points that can be activated by different players in the same session. Whether your random squadmates will cooperate with your impromptu basement concert instead of looting the hotel and dying to a shredder is a separate question entirely: one this guide cannot answer.