How to use console commands in ARC Raiders

ARC Raiders, being a modern online game, has loads of settings you can tweak, but reserves the fine-tuning only for the developers, given how much impact this could have on the overall experience.

However, in one of the latest patches, players discovered a console was added, allowing players to carefully tune each and every aspect of the game, chiefly the graphics, providing new ways to optimize for performance.

So, here’s how you can enable it.

How to enable the console in ARC Raiders

Tweaking settings via the console can give you more fps and better performance, but could also be labeled as cheating. Image via Embark Studios

To get the console in ARC Raiders, you’ll have to do a few steps. This is chiefly for the Steam version of the game, as there is apparently no way to enable the console on, well, consoles at the moment.

Here’s what you should do:

• Open Steam, go to Library.
• Right click on ARC Raiders and go to Properties.
• Under General, in the Launch Options bar, type in: “-newconsole -log”
• Open the game, which should launch a console alongside it.
• Click on the arrow in the top-right to open up the text bar.
• Type in your commands.

The exact list of commands is still relatively unknown, so we won’t be including them here. Using console commands to disable certain aspects of the graphics has also been labeled as cheating by some players, and is likely to be targeted by the developers in coming patches and hotfixes. Therefore, we’ll include a list of ethical commands once Embark has cleared things up.

In the meantime, you can try to tweak the settings yourself.

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