Arc Raiders players are already getting creative in the playtest, and one bizarre barricade trick is quickly becoming a community favorite.
Players have found a creative exploit in Arc Raiders involving barricades and ziplines, and it honestly looks ridiculous in action. What you can do isn’t what the devs intended, but it has become something the community is playing around with just for some fun and laughter.
Players Turn Building Tools Into A Moving Castle
So here’s the thing that everyone is doing. In Arc Raiders, you can place deployable barricades and ziplines as part of normal base building and defensive play. But players figured out that if you place a bunch of ziplines connected to a depot battery and then stick barricades on those ziplines, you end up with a giant makeshift shield system that you can drag along a corridor.
Streamers have posted clips where teammates are literally surrounded by four barricades mounted on ziplines, basically forming a moving castle they can push forward. Other setups use a barricade, a zipline, and a jolt mine to kind of glide the whole thing down a hallway and try to block or deflect incoming fire.
ARC Raiders players are discovering new bugs or glitches every day at this point.
— ARC Raiders Alerts (@ArcRaiderAlerts) January 10, 2026
Now you can create an omnidirectional riot shield in the game. pic.twitter.com/dyC5nRd9cu
Funny Tech Or Game Breaking Exploit?
Unlike serious exploits that crash games or let you cheat kills, this one is more like a weird mechanic that isn’t broken in a bad way but is definitely funny. Some streamers, like TheBurntPeanut, tested it live, and their teammates ended up wrapped in shields, laughing about it more than anything. From the clips, it looks like more players are just experimenting with it for fun rather than using it to try and gain an unfair advantage. At least for now, the vibe is less “this ruins the game” and more “what is this crazy tech we found?”
Early Testing Is There For A Reason
Since Arc Raiders is still in early testing, exploits like this are basically expected. Developers will likely tweak how deployables and ziplines interact before launch. Whether this barricade trick gets patched or just discouraged remains to be seen. For now, players are having fun experimenting with just how weird things can get when the system is getting pushed to its limits.
Have you seen the mobile barricade setups in Arc Raiders yet, or have you tried building one yourself? Let us know what wild tech you have run into in the comments.