ARC Raiders is a complex game. Players unfamiliar with the extraction shooter genre may struggle to adjust, as it combines elements from various games into a cohesive experience. Here’s a massive tips and tricks guide to help anyone get started in ARC Raiders.
41 Best Tips and Tricks for ARC Raiders
- Recyclable items are needed for the workshop upgrades. Don’t recycle them just yet.
- Recycling items may give you what you need for a quest or an upgrade, but if you want money, it is better to sell the item than to recycle it.
- Scrappy the Rooster only forages for materials when you are topside or in-game.
- Quest progress is shared within the group. Technically, you can have one player just finish the quests in the party.
- You can pull the extraction lever while downed.
- Keep Assorted Seeds. They are tradable currency with Celeste.
- Weapons are upgradable outside of rarity.
- Using free loadouts still gives you experience points to level up.
- Raider Hatches close automatically after a while even if your team hasn’t extracted yet.
- Always craft consumables, equipment, and ammo before using Credits to buy. If you are saving materials for the Expedition, you can ignore this tip depending on your current needs.
- Equip attachments when you find them. Sell them after the raid if you need the money.
- The rarity of an item doesn’t always mean they are more valuable. The best items to loot for money are usually Trinkets and epic and legendary items.
- Don’t underestimate throwables in PvP.
- Looting Mk. 2s give you an extra safe pocket.
- You can use Fabrics for healing.
- Arc Powercells are also usable for recharging shields.
- Remember to always repair your weapons and equipment.
- Free Loadout Augments can be exchanged for Mk. 1 equipment through Lance (Clinic).
- If you are progressing, always loot exclusive ARC items from enemies. Snitch – Snitch Scanner, Tick – Tick Pod, Bastion – Bastion Cells, Hornet – Hornet Drivers, Wasp – Wasp Drivers, and more. These are needed for workshop upgrades.
- Blueprints are consumables.
- Thanks, Raider, don’t shoot.
- You can find blueprints that you have already learned. You can drop them to a teammate who needs them.
- You can get free items from the Raider Deck, along with currencies. Try to finish the quests to gain Creds to progress your Raider Deck.
- Snitches call in other ARCs from the sky when they see you. These ARC reinforcement automatically chases and shoot you.
- Shooting the rotors of the Hornet drone should destabilize their movement and also mess up their aim as it explodes.
- Fireballs are perfect circles, and Pops have a weird cylinder on the side. This difference is worth noting as Pops runs to raiders to explode, while Fireballs run to raiders and attack with their flamethrower.
- I hate Rocketeers and Leapers with a passion.
- ARC Probes call nearby ARCs when you try to breach them.
- ARC Probes have three separate searchable containers with mostly ARC loot inside.
- Residential loot gives trinkets and keys, which are very valuable.
- You don’t have to commit your resources to the expedition (building the foundation) if you don’t have materials yet. You can throw materials on it if you want more space in your inventory, though.
- In-Round crafting is one of the best skills in the game. It allows in-raid crafting, granting you access to more effective healing and shielding consumables, as well as tools and gadgets.
- Always check your Refiner in the workshop. There are times when you can find craftable materials that are needed for upgrades.
- Locked rooms always hold the best loot and should be the best way to farm blueprints.
- You can kick trees to make them drop Lemons and other fruits. These are mostly needed for upgrading Scrappy the Rooster, but they are also decent for selling.
- Destroying big ARC enemies like the Bastion always drops several parts for looting.
- You can extract with random strangers at the same time.
- You can track resources, especially the upgrades needed for your workshop. The tracked resources get an eye icon in the upper-right corner of their icons.
- Keys are one-time use only.
- Try to get used to sorting your stash by “category.” It becomes way easier to set up a loadout as the equipment, tools, weapons, ammo, and consumables are always at the top.
- Always pick up the basic materials: Metal Parts, Rubber Parts, Fabric, Plastic Parts, and Chemicals. They stack up to 50 per slot, and if your inventory gets full, that’s when you get rid of some of these materials that are in low count.
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