FC 26 maintenance (Jan. 14): When will the servers be back

EA Sports has announced a new maintenance for FC 26 that will take place today across all platforms, and it will heavily impact online connectivity.

This is the first major maintenance in the new year, and it comes ahead of the TOTY celebrations. Thankfully, EA Sports has announced the complete schedule that will allow you to keep track of when the servers will be down.

FC 26 server maintenance details (Jan. 14)

The servers will go down before the maintenance actually begins. Today’s maintenance starts 11pm ET/1am CT/2am ET/7am UTC across all platforms. Older titles like FC 25 will also be down when the maintenance is live. Matchmaking will go down 30 minutes before the actual maintenance begins.

The maintenance is scheduled to last for five hours. Unless there are delays, the maintenance should be over by 4am ET/6am CT/7am ET/12am UTC. That said, there can always be delays during maintenance. If that happens, I will duly add the updated timings to this guide.

Once the matchmaking is disabled, all forms of online games will be out of order. Modes like Ultimate Team will also become inaccessible. You should still be able to enjoy content on the Web app and Companion app. However, logging in via your PC/console should be disabled. Even if you manage to get in, trying to start a fresh match will result in an error.

It will be interesting to find out if EA Sports will be making any live tuning upgrades during the maintenance. The last major patch, Title Update 1.4.0, came out earlier in January, and it made some heavy changes to AI-defending and movement.

Of course, this maintenance might be in preparation for the upcoming TOTY promo. We already have confirmed dates about when the promo begins and which players are going to feature on the starting lineups.

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The Flickering Flames project has ended, and winter is over in ARC Raiders, but we still keep marching on towards completing the second Expedition project.

Season 2 has seen plenty of twists and turns in how some of the old mechanics have worked since launch. The foundation still revolves around getting loot, and then keeping some and recycling the rest.

This guide will give you some quick information about what items you should keep and what should be either sold or recycled.

All items in ARC Raiders you should sell or recycle (Season 2)

The following table has a bunch of items that can be safely recycled or sold whenever you obtain them.

Item	Rarity	Value
Alarm Clock	Rare	1000
Barricade Kit	Uncommon	640
Broken Guidance System	Rare	2000
Broken Handcuffs	Uncommon	640
Broken Handheld Radio	Rare	2000
Burned ARC Circuitry	Uncommon	640
Camera Lens	Uncommon	640
Coolant	Rare	1000
Crumpled Plastic Bottle	Uncommon	270
Damaged ARC Powercell	Uncommon	293
Deflated Football	Uncommon	1000
Diving Goggles	Rare	640
Dried-Out ARC Resin	Uncommon	640
Expired Respirator	Rare	640
Flame Spray	Uncommon	2000
Headphones	Rare	1000
Household Cleaner	Uncommon	640
Industrial Charger	Rare	1000
Number Plate	Uncommon	90
Polluted Air Filter	Rare	1000
Radio	Rare	1000
Remote Control	Rare	1000
Ruined Baton	Uncommon	640
Ruined Handcuffs	Uncommon	640
Rusted Bolts	Uncommon	640
Rusty ARC Steel	Uncommon	640
Thermostat	Rare	1000
Sample Cleaner	Rare	3000
Speaker Component	Rare	500
Unstable Weapon	Rare	2000

Items to keep for Expedition Project 2 in ARC Raiders

Here’s the list of items you’ll have to keep for Expedition Project 2.

Stage 1

Item	Req. Quantity
Metal Parts	150
Plastic Parts	200
ARC Alloy	80
Steel Spring	15

Stage 2

Item	Req. Quantity
Durable Cloth	35
Wires	25
Electrical Components	20
Cooling Coils	4

Stage 3

Item	Req. Quantity
Light Bulbs	4
Battery	30
Shredder Gyro	10
Exodus Modules	1

Stage 4

Item	Req. Quantity
Frequency Mod Box	5
Advanced Electronic Components	5
Ion Sputters	3
Leaper Pulse Unit	3

Stage 5

Item	Req. Quantity
Combat Items	Sell 200,000 coins worth of items
Survival Items	Sell 100,000 coins worth of items
Provisions	Sell 150,000 coins worth of items
Materials	Sell 300,000 coins worth of items

Items to keep for workshop upgrades in ARC Raiders

If you chose to wipe your accounts after the first Expedition, you might still require some or more of the items in the following table.

Workshops to upgrade	Items you should keep
Scrappy	Dog Collar, Lemon, Apricot, Prickly Pear, Olives, Cat Bed, Mushroom, Apricot, Very Comfortable Pillow
Gunsmith	Rusted Tools, Mechanical Components, Wasp Driver, Rusted Gear, Advanced Mechanical Components, Sentinel Firing Core
Medical Lab	Cracked Bioscanner, Durable Cloth, Tick Pod, Rusted Shut Medical Kit, Antiseptic, Surveyor Vault
Explosives Station	Synethesized Fuel, Crude Explosives, Pop Trigger, Laboratory Reagents, Explosive Compound, Rocketeer Driver
Gear Bench	Power Cable, Hornet Driver, Electrical Components, Industrial Battery, Advanced Electrical Components, Bastion Cell
Refiner	Toaster, ARC Motion Core, Fireball Burner, Motor, ARC Circuitry, Bombardier Cell
Utility	Damaged Heat Sink, Electrical Components, Snitch Scanner, Fried Motherboard, Advanced Electrical Components, Leaper Pulse Unit

Best items to recycle for core components in ARC Raiders

There’s a bunch of base, core, and high-tiered components you’ll need regularly throughout Season 2.

Item you get	Item you Salvage
Rubber Parts	ARC Flex Rubber, Rubber Pad
Plastic Parts	Ruined Riot Shield, ARC Synthetic Resin
Chemicals	Cooling Coil, ARC Coolant
Fabric	Tattered ARC Lining, Ruined Parachute, Torn Blanket
Metal Parts	Ice Cream Scooper, Garlic Press, Frying Pan, Candle Holder, Bicycle Pump, ARC Performance Steel
Advanced Mechanical Components	Flow Controller, Leaper Pulse Unit, Microscope, Mini Centrifuge
Advanced Electrical Components	Spectrometer, Frequency Mod Box, Telemetry Receiver
Steel Spring	Rusted Tools, Spring Cushion, Cooling Coil, Accordion
Magnet	Exodus Modules, Microscopes, Ripped Safety Vest, Industrial Magnet
Electrical Components	Rotary Encoder, Fried Motherboard, Signal Amplifier, Hornet Driver
Mechanical Components	Rusted Gear, Shredder Gyro, Turbo Pump, Sentinel Firing Core
Battery	Broken Flashlight, Geiger Counter, Cracked Bioscanner, Broken Taser, Power Bank, Portable TV
Wires	Broken Handheld Radio, Power Cable, Projector, Portable TV

Some of the feeder items on the table above will be required for Expedition Project 2. Only use the items for recycling purposes after you have completed the stages of the second expedition project.

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