Jump into ARC Raiders this week and you'll feel it straight away: fights don't play like they did a month ago. Patch 1.17.0 (Feb 23, 2026) rolled in with Shrouded Sky and basically told the bargain-loadout era to pack it up. For ages, people were running cheap kits, taking silly angles, and still deleting stacked squads like it was nothing. Now you actually have to think about what you're...