Don't Get Melted! The Ultimate Strategy for Farming Assessor & Vaporizers in ARC Raiders

ARC Raiders Flashpoint update is now live, bringing significant changes and many new features. Today, we'll focus on the newly added Close Scrutiny.

This guide will show you how to find Assessor and defeat Vaporizers to obtain rich loot, hoping to provide a better gaming experience.

Close Scrutiny meaning

Close Scrutiny is a brand new map condition in ARC Raiders Flashpoint update, and it's perhaps the most challenging map condition to date. A giant ARC called Assessor and a new flying ARC called Vaporizers appear on the map, ensuring that every mistake will cost you.

Assessor doesn't directly attack the player, but its appearance triggers an unprecedented density of ARC patrols throughout the area. Locked doors will become ineffective, the loot drop rate for regular chests and civilian hotspots will drop significantly, and all reward density will be concentrated around Assessor.

Vaporizers are essentially Queen and Matriarch. Therefore, it's easy to see why Vaporizers are difficult to defeat and extremely annoying.

However, if you're willing to take the challenge, you can obtain a wealth of items, including:

• 1. Dolabra blueprint (the new energy shotgun)
• 2. Arc materials
• 3. Assessor Matrix epic-quality resource (required for High-Gain Antenna project)

Assessor

Next, let's see how to find Assessor and obtain ARC Raiders Items.

Assessor is a large, three-legged landing platform that appears a few minutes after Close Scrutiny mode begins and continues to descend throughout the raid. You'll likely see them fall from the sky, emitting red beams upon landing to help you track their location.

Quickly approach Assessor; you'll find three containers. You can follow the path upwards, open them, and loot them. If platform hasn't unfolded yet, you'll need to wait for it to unfold before you can open it.

Intruding into Assessor will trigger an alarm, alerting nearby ARCs and spawning more enemies, including Vaporizers. Other players will also hear the alarm and know you're trying to collect items.

Assessor is heavily guarded, so you can choose to approach stealthily or confront it head-on. Here are some methods I recommend to help you loot:

• 1. Use Photoelectric Cloak for infiltration and extraction.
• 2. Throw smoke grenades while breaching containers to avoid being tracked by ARCs.
• 3. Bring friends and powerful gear, such as Hullcrackers and Wolfpacks, to kill Vaporizers and other spawned ARCs.

Vaporizers

Vaporizers are a bit tough, but not impossible to deal with. Below are three ways to deal with these ARCs.

First, you can choose to bring Renegade, Anvil, or Wolfpacks, because there's no easy way to defeat them. You can't expect to kill them instantly by throwing a Grenade, since they have a shield like Matriarch. After you throw a Grenade, they will immediately deploy their shield.

Vaporizers have two thrusters on each side of their front and two on each side of their back, for a total of eight thrusters. Your most important task is to focus your firepower on these thrusters.

Vaporizers not only have shields similar to Matriarch, but their attack method is also similar to her laser attack. Vaporizer's attack lasts for five or six seconds. If you are exposed to its attack range during this time, you're basically done for, as its damage is extremely high.

Renegade

It takes about four, or five bullets from Renegade to take down one thruster. There are thrusters in every corner of ARC, which you need to destroy one by one. After destroying two thrusters, it will get stuck and start making strange movements.

After destroying two thrusters on each side, it will either fall to the ground or fly up in a very strange way, likely dying after a few falls, making it easy to take down. This process takes about 20-30 bullets.

Anvil

The most important thing when dealing with Vaporizers is to have cover; you can't fight them in open areas. Shoot it with Anvil; a shield will rise around ARC. After it disappears, continue attacking with Anvil. Anvil deals slightly more damage than Renegade, although its rate of fire is slightly slower, allowing you to destroy thrusters faster with fewer bullets.

It takes about three or four shots from Anvil to take down a Thruster. As mentioned before, after taking down two, Vaporizers will start making strange movements, flying around. This is your chance to attack and eliminate them.

Wolfpacks

Next, we'll explain how to use Wolfpacks to defeat Vaporizers and obtain rewards. To effectively utilize Wolfpacks, we need to maintain a certain distance from Vaporizers, approximately 100 meters, as Wolfpacks' maximum aiming radius is 100 meters.

It's recommended that you first attack ARC with Seeker Grenades. You'll see its shield appear. Then wait about 10-15 seconds before throwing Wolfpacks. Remember, you must wait for the shield to disappear before using Wolfpacks, as the shield needs to recharge, and this is the best opportunity.

This concludes the article on ARC Raiders Close Scrutiny. If you have any better methods, please feel free to add them.