Month: October 2025

Arc Raiders is a PvPvE third-person extraction shooter where you play the role of a scavenger in an apocalyptic future. In this game, you’re tasked with collecting valuable resources and gear from dangerous locations, and you must safely extract from the map to keep all your loot. Arc Raiders puts you up against robotic and human threats, so extracting with your gear can be difficult, but Raider hatch keys can provide you with a safer route. Our guide explains how you can get Raider hatch keys in Arc Raiders and when to use them.

Each map in Arc Raiders features several extraction points, but every extraction comes with a bit of risk. You’re often battling other players for a safe exit, and you’re also fighting time, as extraction points will start closing as the match time dwindles down. This means there will be times you might want to consider using a Raider hatch key.

How Raider hatch keys work in Arc Raiders

Raider hatch keys are items in Arc Raiders that you can obtain to allow for a safer extraction from your match. These keys can be used on one of several emergency escape hatches located across each map. These Raider hatches offer a quieter escape than normal elevators, as they don’t sound an alarm and there’s no long wait for the door. Raider hatches are marked on your map as an icon that looks like a downward arrow and a half circle, as shown in the image above.

How to get Raider hatch keys in Arc Raiders

There are currently three ways to get these hatch keys in Arc Raiders. You can loot some, purchase them, or craft your own.

You can loot them at random or scavenge them from downed players, but these keys are pretty rare.

They can be purchased from Shani, the Security Trader in Speranza, but this will be a costly option. Buying Raider hatch keys from her costs 9,000 coins, and you need to be at least level 12 to unlock this option. It’s also important to know that there is a cooldown, and you’re only able to buy one hatch key in a 24-hour period.

You can also craft Raider hatch keys. Before you can do this, you must upgrade your workshop by building a utility station. A utility station upgrade costs 50 plastic parts and six ARC alloy to make. Then, crafting keys at the station will cost one Advanced Electrical Component and three Sensor parts.

Best way to use and store your Raider hatch keys

Raider hatch keys are costly, and these are probably best saved for important quests, where you need to better ensure you make it out of the match with your loot. It’s also a good idea to store the key in your safe pocket, so you won’t lose it if you die during your match.

One key will let you and your entire squad extract from the map, but these hatches don’t stay open long, so make sure you stick close together and communicate when you’re using the keys.

For more, make sure to check out our best tips for surviving and looting in Arc Raiders.

Netflix’s Stranger Things became a megahit through its mix of goofy ‘80s nostalgia and supernatural mystery. The interdimensional kidnappings, brutal ritual murder, and rampaging monsters were blended with trips to the mall, Halloween dress up, and games of Dungeons & Dragons that gave the show a strong emotional core, punctuating the horror with laughs.

But all the fun stuff is missing in the trailer for the show’s fifth and final season. It’s a deadly serious look at how the people of Hawkins, Indiana are trapped in their town by the military, which is trying to contain the horror that Vecna (Jamie Campbell Bower) unleashed at the end of season 4.

Group Dungeon Master and leader Mike (Finn Wolfhard) is looking for a way to find and fight Vecna while Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) is showing off her psychic powers. But the trailer is mostly a dour look at the characters bloodied, battered, crying, and terrified as they face waves of Demogorgons and rifts opening in the ground.

Max (Sadie Sink) is rescued from the hospital by Lucas (Caleb McLaughlin), who is chased by a demodog. Poor Will (Noah Schnapp), who came back from the Upside Down with a connection to the Mind Flayer, finds himself at the mercy of Vecna, who is going to make Will help him “one last time.”

Co-creator Ross Duffer confirmed in a post on Tudum that the mundane silliness isn’t just absent in the trailer.

“I think what’s unique about this season is that it starts a little bit in chaos because our heroes ultimately lost at the end of season 4,” he said. “We usually set up their normal life and how they’re going about school, and then we introduce the supernatural element. But in this case, this season is sprinting from the start.”

The first four episodes of Stranger Things season 5 will premiere on Netflix on Nov. 26, with three more episodes dropping on Christmas and the finale airing on New Year’s Eve.

For as video gamey a series as The Matrix is, it is a touch surprising there have only been a handful of actual games. Obviously the one that makes most sense is The Matrix Online, what other genre but an MMO could The Matrix could be? Well, there’s also Enter The Matrix, which is basically Max Payne, but you still have to wonder what else could have been. Especially because The Wachowskis literally pitched the idea of Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima making a Matrix game directly to Konami.

Christopher Bergstresser, the former vice president of licensing at Konami Digital Entertainment, recently spoke with Time Extension about this apparent pitch, explaining that “The Wachowskis were big fans of Kojima.” He explained, “So Kazumi Kitaue, Kojima, Aki Saito (who still works with Kojima), and I were at the Konami HQ, and we got a call from the Wachowskis, who wanted to come in and meet with Kojima. So they did!”

The pair of directors attended the meeting with their visual effects lead, asking if Konami and Kojima would make a Matrix game, to which Kitaue (who went on to become CEO of Konami) apparently plainly said “‘No.’ We did still get to enjoy the Matrix Japanese premiere and afterparty, though.” Except, apparently, according to Kojima himself, he wasn’t even aware of such a pitch.

After word of Time Extension’s report went around, Kojima took to his personal English Twitter account to say that he was “surprised to see on social media that the Wachowski sisters had ‘offered me a Matrix game project!’ back in 1999. In all these 26 years, no one ever told me such a conversation had taken place.”

The Death Stranding director went on to explain that he does recall having met the Wachowskis three times, and that they had attended Konami’s headquarters, but Kojima only showed up after the meeting with Kitaue had taken place. He also remembers attending the Japanese premiere and party, but “even then, there was no mention of an offer.”

It’s this bit that will leave you with thoughts of what could have been: “At that time, I was already extremely busy with MGS2 and probably couldn’t have accepted the offer right away. But if someone had told me, maybe there could’ve been a way to make it work.” Alas, now we’ll never know! Which makes me a touch sad, because I would love to live in a world where his hypothetical Matrix game reads your browser history to judge you or something, you know, one of those classic oddball Kojima features.