Skip Every Locked Door in ARC Raiders With a Single Glitch
ARC Raiders players are cracking open the game’s locked doors with a glitch that skips keys and requirements, fast-tracking straight to top-tier loot. Exploit a few engine quirks, the right items, and precise movement, and you can raid restricted rooms in minutes instead of grinding for hours.
Quick heads-up for anyone playing ARC Raiders and anyone who just likes seeing how wild game systems can get: there is a door trick floating around that lets you slip into locked or restricted rooms without a key or any of the normal requirements. It is goofy, it is effective, and yes, Embark tried to squash it already. Here is how the workaround still functions, why players are using it, and how the game itself is oddly thriving right now.
The door trick, step by step
YouTube creator Everything Glitches found a way to keep this thing alive even after Embark pushed the 1.2.0 patch. If you want to give it a whirl and scoop up high-tier loot the legit way would take hours to farm, here is the exact sequence:
- Squad up with a friend.
- Find a door that normally asks for a key.
- Plant yourself as close to that door as you can.
- Place a Barricade Kit flat against the door.
- The instant it is set, dodge roll forward (default PC: D + Left Alt).
- Nail the timing and your character pops through, letting you hop into the locked room and loot to your heart's content.
Why this still works
Patch 1.2.0 tried to close the loophole, but the interaction between the Barricade Kit placement and a well-timed forward roll still lets players clip past certain doors. The key is how tightly you line up on the door and how precise your dodge timing is. Mess it up and you faceplant the door. Hit it right and you are inside a loot room that was absolutely not meant for you yet.
What you risk by doing it
This is an exploit, not some cute intended shortcut. Embark will almost certainly stamp it out in a future update, and there is always the chance they come down on players who abuse it to farm resources.
'Use it at your own risk.'
So… how is ARC Raiders doing?
Short answer: way better than a lot of people expected. Extraction shooters have a reputation problem. Escape From Tarkov carved out an audience, sure, but most games chasing that loop struggle to hang on. When Embark said ARC Raiders was going extraction-style, plenty of folks wrote it off before launch.
Two weeks in, the numbers say otherwise. SteamDB shows it hovering around 300,000 concurrent players on average, with a peak north of 480,000. On top of that, the game has reportedly shipped 4 million copies worldwide in under two weeks, and it already snagged a nomination for Best Multiplayer Game at The Game Awards 2025. That is not a small win for a brand-new extraction title.
Bottom line
If you are chasing top-tier gear fast, the door glitch is the current shortcut. It is finicky, it could get you in trouble, and it will probably disappear once Embark pushes another fix, but for now it works. And whether you are glitching or grinding the legit way, ARC Raiders seems to have the audience to keep this whole thing lively for a while.