ARC Raiders 'Cheat Sheet' is a Must for Future Looting

The ARC Raiders community has devised a handy guide for all your weapon-looting needs, which will doubtlessly be great news for those of us who have suffered the pain of failing to extract with a sick gun in the past.

The same reason I love ARC Raiders is also the same reason I kind of hate ARC Raiders.

Is it better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all? No, according to my time with ARC Raiders, because there is no worse feeling in the world than finding a cool new gun, only to be dispatched before you extract and permanently lose access to it.

However, if you wanted to speedrun finding the best loot in the game, and not subject yourself to the heartbreak of seeing it disappear from your inventory afterwards, the ARC Raiders community has created a relatively thorough guide to where all of the best drops in the game can be located… like, for instance, weapon crates.

Me when I find the guy who shot me before I extracted with my sick new Renegade rifle, Embark Studios

The initial source for this article was going to be a post on Twitter from the account ARC Raiders Informer, which features a bunch of images that show you where weapon crates in the game can usually be found.

After a little bit of research, though, it would appear that some of the locations featured in the images are slightly inaccurate. Thankfully, a user by the name of @GenevivePhiPhi linked a much, much better source.

As it turns out, the folks over on MetaForge have put together an interactive map for ARC Raiders that lets you track down exactly what you want to find on any map, whether that may be a weapon case, a med crate or a utility crate.

It also features specific information on all of the enemy spawns, if you want to plan out an ultra-specific route that will allow you to avoid any potential threats.

I will say, I think this is very impressive work, but I have to wonder if min-maxing the game like this might take some of the fun out of it.

If you ask me, I think it’s more fun to just figure out stuff like this as you go, because otherwise I could see myself getting bored with the game too quickly.

Then again, if you’ve been having a particularly unfortunate streak of bad luck, I can see how using a resource like this could seem more appealing. Maybe after my next failed extraction, I’ll crash out and resort to using this myself.