The highly anticipated Arc Raiders launched on October 30th. This multiplayer extraction game has received high praise from players for is excellent production and rich gameplay. Have you tried it yet?
If you're still exploring and feeling lost, I'll provide some practical tips to help you collect items and improve your strength in Arc Raiders.
Pre-Battle Preparation
Before starting the game, let's do some necessary preparations to make the actual game more comfortable.
The Clever Use Of Dodge
For a more realistic experience, Arc Raiders allows you to take damage from jump mistakes and falls, which can negatively impact your gameplay. For example, if you're dodging an enemy or being chased by Arc Raiders and take fall damage due to a mistake, it can easily lead to defeat.
Now, there's a trick to help you avoid fall damage in some situations: using the dodge button. The specific operation involves pressing the dodge button just before your feet touch the ground. This triggers a roll, preventing damage from the fall.
This maneuver might require some timing, but it will become much easier once you unlock dodge-related skills in the Mobility tree. Until then, practice to familiarize yourself with the dodge.
However, it's important to note that this maneuver only helps avoid fall damage from small heights in actual combat. If you absolutely must jump from a high tower, this maneuver won't save you.
Also, a special reminder for keyboard users: you can change the roll and dodge keys. The default key bindings may not be suitable for you. In actual combat, these two keys will be used frequently for evacuation, so it's recommended to change them to more convenient key bindings.
On a standard keyboard, you can bind the roll key to the Shift key and the sprint key to the lock-on key. This allows you to maintain stable control with the WASD keys while rolling, improving comfort during extended gameplay sessions.
Use Practice Range Frequently
Arc Raiders provides maps for players to practice. These maps feature realistic terrain for practicing parkour and allow you to change weapon attachments at any time, letting you experiment with different options.
We recommend making good use of the practice range. Not only should new players use it, but you should also try out each new weapon and attachment you acquire.
While weapons and attachments have descriptions, I believe you need to actually try them out to truly understand their capabilities. Jumping into actual combat with weapons you haven't tried before is clearly not a wise choice.
Plan Your Route In Advance
While spontaneous travel sounds cool, it's not really suitable for this game; it can leave you feeling lost and disoriented. To gather more supplies and successfully extract, it's best to plan your route in advance.
After landing on the map, take some time to check your equipment, identify your mission objectives, and then choose a suitable route to create a simple extraction plan. This will help you avoid encountering high-risk targets when your equipment is insufficient.
Arc Raiders' AI enemies are highly random and unpredictable, so you should take this into account when planning your route.
Of course, this route planning doesn't have to be rigid. If you acquire a resource point key during the game, you can change your route and extraction plan immediately. It's just recommended that you plan ahead rather than relying on spur-of-the-moment decisions.
In-Game Tips
After completing your pre-battle preparations, you can officially enter the game. Here are some in-game tips to help you cleverly utilize in-game items to achieve victory.
Beware Of Dam Battlegrounds
This is the first map you unlock in Arc Raiders. As a map popular with new players, it's more active and prone to conflict than other maps.
Unlike later unlocked maps where players have their own objectives and come prepared, many players here may still be exploring the gameplay, making the map situation more chaotic. Therefore, you should be vigilant in dealing with sudden disturbances.
Pay Attention To Interactive Sound Effects
Arc Raiders creates a very realistic game environment. The sounds of footsteps, rummaging through items, and interacting with doors and windows are all very lifelike, and you've likely experienced this while playing.
However, this is a double-edged sword, as these sounds can sometimes reveal your location, especially alarms in buildings and the flapping wings of startled birds in the forest. While you can learn skills to reduce noise, you still need to be mindful.
However, you can also use these sound effects to determine the hiding places of enemy players and then take action. In other words, let nature become your trap.
Utilize Items Wisely
Arc Raiders' buildings contain many items, originally designed to enhance the game's realism, but you can use them to your advantage.
You can use Items that cause damage, such as Jolt Mine, to create a trap, then hide near it and wait for an unlucky Raider to fall into it.
Perhaps because Arc Raiders is relatively new, this technique isn't widely used in actual gameplay yet. Now you can try it out and take advantage of this information gap.
Utilizing Snitches
Snitches are indeed troublesome; they release Arcs that damage us. In-game, we usually need to carefully observe their positions to avoid being spotted and hindering our resource gathering or evacuation progress.
However, we can also make use of their attacks, especially when our solo combat strength isn't enough to escape enemy pursuit. We can create noise to attract the Snitches' attention, using their Arcs to distract the enemy. With luck, we might even be able to eliminate the enemy.
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Item Collection And Recycling Techniques
Resource collection is a crucial aspect of Arc Raiders, and this also requires skill to maximize your gains.
Pay Attention To Backpack Capacity
A game of Arc Raiders typically lasts around half an hour. During this time, you need to explore and extract. The exploration time is relatively short, and your backpack capacity is also quite limited. I believe that item collection in this game should adhere to two principles: targeted acquisition and knowing when to stop.
- Targeted Acquisition: You should first think about which items you need to collect in this game, and then prioritize putting those items into your backpack. Frankly, this game isn't particularly suitable for players who like to hoard items, because backpack capacity is really small, and you must choose to give up some resources that aren't currently very important.
- Knowing When to Stop: Always keep an eye on your backpack inventory. When it's almost empty, it's time to prepare for extraction. Don't be too greedy. If you're defeated by the enemy at this point, you'll lose all your loot, which is a huge loss.
Emphasis On Rubber Parts
Rubber Parts are particularly important Arc Raiders Items. They are needed for crafting, upgrading, and repairing weapons and their parts. They are arguably an indispensable material for every Raider.
I suggest that you reserve some backpack capacity for them in each game in the early stages. There are many ways to collect Rubber Parts, including recycling them and obtaining them from loot in the game's machinery and industrial areas. You can also include Rubber Parts production sites in your route planning.
Careful Recycling
I think this is an area Arc Raiders needs improvement. You can choose to recycle or reuse unwanted items in-game or out-of-game. Recycling yields slightly more rewards than recycling.
However, the descriptions of how to handle some items are incomplete. For example, the recommended method for the toaster is to recycle it on the spot. But when you go to the workshop, you'll find it's still necessary for upgrading the refiner, which is frustrating.
So how do we solve this? My suggestion is to mark items in advance. Keep track of the items needed for workshop upgrades and then track them to avoid accidentally recycling them.
Prioritize Free Loadout Augments
I summarize this technique as zero-cost, high-return. It's very suitable for new players. You can choose to use free Loadout Augments, which contain enough weapons, ammunition, and other items to get you through the early game.
Since they're all free, you won't lose anything even if your mission fails. However, if you succeed and take them out of the match, they truly become your items, which you can then dismantle to upgrade your own.
Most importantly, they can be exchanged for Looting Augments, which is what I meant by high returns. You should definitely try this foolproof trick.
These are some practical Arc Raiders tips that I think are very useful. I hope they help you have a pleasant adventure.
