ARC Raiders Season 6 Week 5 Trials Guide: How to Earn 3 Stars

In ARC Raiders, rewards for Weekly Trials are quite generous. This week's challenges offer the chance to earn Uncommon, Rare, and Epic items or blueprints. To secure top-tier rewards, you must achieve a 3-star rating. In this guide, I will provide an overview of Weekly Trials and show you how to easily complete the objectives for Week 5.

Weekly Trials: The Basics

Before diving into the challenges, it's helpful to understand how they work—this will make your efforts much more efficient.

Mission Updates

ARC Raiders' Weekly Trials refresh every Monday. The objectives typically involve eliminating specific enemies or interacting with objects within the game world. There are also scavenging tasks that require you to collect certain supplies. While the specific objectives reset each week, the core mission types remain consistent.

Extraction Is the Top Priority

The golden rule of these challenges is that you must successfully extract. No matter how many points you've accumulated during a run, if you fail to extract, all your hard work will be for nothing. Only by successfully extracting can you make progress toward your mission goals.

Special Bonuses

Certain objectives can yield higher ratings under the right conditions. Events like Night Raid, Electromagnetic Storm, or discovering a Hidden Bunker can provide opportunities to earn more points and achieve a higher star rating.

Before you begin, take a moment to review the specific tasks for the week. Rank them from easiest to hardest and tackle them one by one. Always prioritize your safety, but keep an eye out for environmental bonuses that you can leverage to maximize your score.

Step-by-Step Walkthrough

In this guide, I will use this week's objectives as an example to show you exactly how to complete them successfully. Mastering the process for this week will provide you with valuable experience for future Weekly Trials.

Searching for Husks

If your Weekly Trials include a search objective, prioritize these tasks. They require minimal planning and are relatively easy to complete.

The items you need to find are scattered throughout ARC Raiders map; feel free to search wherever you are most familiar with the terrain. If you aren't particularly comfortable navigating the map, I recommend heading to Spaceport. Arc Husks are relatively densely concentrated there. Every Arc Husk—regardless of its specific type—grants 400 points; finding about eight of them is usually enough to secure a three-star rating.

If you still struggle to find enough items at Spaceport, check the map for areas affected by an Electromagnetic Storm. You can find items that yield even more points within these zones—hopefully, this helps with your search.

Searching for ARC Couriers at Pendola Pass

Since this objective specifies a location, it's actually even easier to handle. While you won't find these Couriers elsewhere, the search area is significantly narrowed down.

One important note: avoid searching while Redirection condition is active. Many players—myself included—have reported that no Couriers appear under these specific conditions.

Once you reach the designated area, you'll easily spot Couriers spawning on the ground; simply interact with them to loot their contents. Based on player feedback, each Courier provides approximately 500 points, meaning you'll need to find six of them to achieve the highest rating.

It's also worth noting that even if another player has already looted a Courier, you can still interact with it. While there won't be any actual loot inside, you will still receive the points toward your objective—so don't skip them just because they appear empty!

Damaging Queens or Matriarchs

Earning a high score for this objective isn't difficult—you could, for instance, surround the target with Deadlines (explosive traps), though this will consume a significant amount of resources.

Are there other methods in ARC Raiders that are more accessible to the average player? Absolutely. Bring along your Hullcracker and Jupiter—these two ARC Raiders items are the best choices for attacking mission objectives.

Simply find a suitable piece of cover on the battlefield and keep firing from behind it; on average, each hit on an enemy earns you 100 points. Generally speaking, once you've emptied a few magazines, you'll secure a 3-star rating.

Damage Comets

This task is quite straightforward—choosing right weapon makes it easy to handle. I wouldn't recommend using Anvil, as it's too easily detected by Comets. Once they spot you, they'll lock onto your position and charge toward you to self-destruct. Your goal is to destroy them before they detonate; if they explode on their own, you won't earn any points.

Aside from Anvil, feel free to use any other ARC Raiders ranged weapon that you're comfortable with. I personally recommend Renegade or Bettina—both are excellent tools for dealing with Comets. Destroying one earns you 600 points; you'll need to take down about five of them to reach a 3-star rating.

Damage Turbines

For the final task, we turn to Turbines. Much like with Queens or Matriarchs mentioned earlier, you can use Deadlines (consumable items) to speed up your progress toward the objective.

If you want to wrap up the fight quickly, I recommend using the Jupiter while maintaining a distance of 100 to 250 meters. This provides enough space to dodge incoming threats while keeping a clear line of sight. The reason I specifically recommend this weapon is that the targets here have very heavy armor—only Jupiter can effectively penetrate it, making it the most suitable tool for this particular task.

Based on testing, a single magazine will net you around 800 points; emptying three to four magazines should be enough to earn the highest rating.

In short, this guide covers all the objectives for the Week 5 Weekly Trials in ARC Raiders. Use these tips to plan your route and find the approach that works best for you. Most importantly, make sure you don't fail your extraction while completing these missions! Based on the information in this article, you should be able to successfully complete Weekly Trials and earn the highest rating.