How to get three stars in ARC Raiders Week 19 Trials (March 9)

March 9 brings the Week 19 Trials in ARC Raiders. The new set of trials has five tasks to complete if you want to get the best rewards.

As always, you’ll have to find some specific items and take down certain ARCs to complete the trials. Let’s look at all the activities that are part of the current trials.

ARC Raiders Week 19 Trials walkthrough

Here are the five tasks of the Week 19 Trials.

• Open containers inside the traffic tunnels.
• Search Raider Caches.
• Damage Rocketeers, Leapers, or Bastions.
• Destroy Ticks.
• Destroy ARC enemies in the Swamp.

Open containers inside the traffic tunnels

To complete this task, you have to wait for the Locked Gate map event. This event takes place on the Blue Gate map. Here’s a complete guide about how to finish the task, but here’s a quick overview.

• Once the Locked Event is live, you’ll find four unique keys at the following spots: Reinforced Reception, Raider’s Refuge, Pilgrim’s Peak, and Ancient Fort. You have to search for the named POIs, as the exact location will be random.

• Head to the Checkpoint POI with all four keys to open the gates, and you’ll find the Traffic Tunnels. Take down the Bastion and loot as many spots as you can. Opening ample numbers of vehicles, containers, and side bays will help you get three stars on this task.

Search Raider Caches

The spot for Raider Caches has not changed at all in Season 3. They can be found on all the maps, and they’re usually located on the outskirts. The following image shows some of the key spots where you can find caches on the Spaceport map.

Incidentally, the last major update in ARC Raiders has added something called First Wave Raider Caches. Finding these caches also counts towards completing this task.

Damage Rocketeers, Leapers, or Bastions

To complete this task, you have to damage and go up against some of the biggest ARCs in the game. While you can find them randomly on the map, the better alternative is to participate in a Matriarch event. You’ll always find all three by the Matriarch, and it’s the best way to rack up the necessary hits to get all three stars.

Weapons like the Jupiter and the Equalizer are great if you’ve found the Legendaries. However, you can also use the Hullcracker to do some major damage.

Destroy Ticks

This is an extremely simple task since Ticks are the weakest of all ARCs. You can destroy them with a single hit from any weapon or by smashing them with your pickaxe. They can be found on all maps, but you can raise the chances of encountering them on the Stella Montis map.

Open the rooms on Stella Montis, and you should encounter a fair number of them pretty quickly. You should be able to destroy the required number of Ticks in a few raids at most.

Destroy ARC enemies in the Swamp

For the last task of this week, head to the Swamp locations (marked in the image above) on the Dam Battlegrounds map. These will be the Hydrophonic Dome Complex, Old Battleground, and the South Swamp Outpost.

Once you’re in the areas, wait for an encounter with ARCs. Any ARC qualifies for the task, but you need to destroy them to make your work count for the trials.

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The Command Wing is a specialized area in the Pinwheel Base on Outpost that you might need to visit in Marathon for various reasons.

For starters, you can find some amazing loot unless a runner has already searched it. You might also need to visit the area as part of certain contracts that will provide you with extra rewards. There’s plenty to gain in a nutshell, but for that, you have to unlock the area.

How to unlock the Command Wing in Marathon

When you reach the Command Wing for the first time, you’ll find that the area is locked. To unlock the area, you’ll need to find two access panels. These panels are located on the other wings of the Pinwheel Base. But before that, you’ll need to get into the Pinwheel Base to access the Command Wing.

While you can check out our guide for all the methods, I will recommend the Destroyed Wing route. You need to hit four white boxes to erase the barrier that prevents you from entering the Pinwheel Base in the first place, and you’ll find one of the required panels here (right at the entrance).

Once you enter through the base floor, hit the marked spot on the image above. You’ll find one of the two hidden access panels to your left (on the base of the floor). This is right next to the entrance, so it’s the easier one to spot (assuming you enter from the Destroyed Wing).

For the next panel, you need to head right to the end of the Drone Wing section while keeping close to the left wall (take the door that goes left from the Drone Wing entrance).

Ultimately, you’ll reach the room in the image above, and the wall extension hides the panel. Interact with the panel, and you’ll now have activated both. Return to the entrance of the Command Wing and interact with the door panel to gain access.

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