GET STARTED IN ARC RAIDERS

Venture topside to battle robots and Raiders for loot.

- Sam Martin

1 FREEBIE

Arc Raiders is a generous game. Nowhere is this more true than with the 'free loadout' you can claim before each run, giving you a weapon, ammo, a shield, healing items and even some gadgets. Make sure to use these often if you're quickly completing a quest.

2 SAFE AND SOUND

The biggest disadvantage of the free loadout, though, is no safe pocket. These let you extract items even if you get downed, and augments sometimes even have multiple pockets. If you have an item you need to extract with, this will make sure it arrives home.

3 WORK IN PROGRESS

One way to get better equipment is to make it yourself in your workshop, but first you'll have to construct workbenches. You can track these resources, but early on I recommend grabbing pretty much whatever you come across.

4 SCRAPPY