ARC Raiders- Trials, Explained

Getting to level 15 will bring you one of ARC Raiders' most interesting system: the Trials. These are challenges that change every week and that can give you excellent rewards and some bragging rights.

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Whether you're looking to dominate the leaderboards or simply want to add some more objectives to your raids, here are the ARC Raiders Trials, explained.

What Are Weekly Trials in ARC Raiders?

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Trials are a set of five weekly challenges which you can complete when you venture topside. Every Sunday, a new set of Trials is revealed , but the system is always the same.

You get side objectives which are available to do in every single raid. Some of them will be better to do on some maps than others, but they aren't tied to a single map. Doing those objectives will progress a Rank Points bar which will give you rewards when you reach certain thresholds.

The trials for this week are:

• Damage Hornets
• Search First Wave Husks
• Search Supply Drops
• Destroy Ticks, Fireballs, and Pops
• Damage Ground-Based ARC Enemies

All these objectives have three milestones. Upon reaching 1000 Rank Points, you will get an Uncommon reward. 2500 points gets you a rare reward, and 4000 points gets you an epic reward. You get all these rewards once per milestone in each Trial.

These rank points do no accumulate between raids, all that matters is how many you can amass in a single topside run.

The Leaderboards

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Depending on when you unlock your trials, you will be placed in a Leaderboard with 99 other players. In this leaderboard, players are ranked by their Personal Best Rank Points in each Trial, combined.

Your place in the Leaderboard serves as bragging rights, but it also serves another purpose. If you are placed in the bottom 40, you will remain at your current rank. If you've just started playing, that will be Rookie I. Staying between 60 and 31 will promote you to the next rank, which in this case would be Rookie II.

Staying in the top 30, though, will get you a 2x promotion, taking you straight to Rookie III. What do these ranks mean, though?

ARC Raiders Trials Ranks

Reaching a higher rank in these Weekly Trials will unlock a ton of cosmetics to help you brag to other players. Here are all the ranks, and their respective rewards:

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• Rookie I- No rewards.
• Rookie II- Happy Jig Emote.
• Rookie III- Back Eye Face Style.
• Tryhard I- Archeologist Backpack
• Tryhard II- Archeologist Backpack (likely a new color scheme, but we're not sure).
• Tryhard III- Briefcase Backpack Attachment.
• Wildcard I- Mastery Medal Backpack Charm.
• Wildcard II- Mastery Medal Backpack Charm (likely a different color scheme, too).
• Wildcard III- Bow And Arrow Emote.
• Daredevil I- Patrol Outfit and Headgear Outfit Variant.
• Daredevil II- Likely a new color scheme for the Patrol Outfit and Headgear.
• Daredevil III- Likely a third color scheme for the Patrol Outfit and Headgear.
• Hotshot- Likely a fourth color scheme for the Patrol Outfit and Headgear.
• Cantina Legend- Scarlet Black (Patrol Color). Limited to the top 100 players in a server.

Trial Completion Tips

If you want to get a high score, do not get so greedy that you sacrifice a run for your Trials, because failing to extract to Speranza will hurt your Trial progress. Furthermore, runs with major map conditions (at the moment the only one is Night Time Raids) will give you 2X points, so you should save your Trial runs for when there are Night Time Raids available.

As long as you are in the top 30, you're fine. Finishing in a higher position does not give you extra rewards. Just make sure you are in your desired Leaderboard position when Sunday comes.

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