If you’re planning on attempting to take down some ARC Raiders Items, make sure to keep in mind your weapon’s ARC Armor Penetration rating, which tells you how much damage your gun will do against the hull of an ARC. Obviously, to take down bigger enemies like the Bastion or Bombardier, you’ll want to have a gun with a higher rating.

Finding a gun while exploring the world is a pretty big get, but you won’t always have the room in your bag to grab every one of them, especially if you end up killing a well-equipped squad in a shootout. That said, even if you aren’t able to grab all the guns, you can dismantle them in a fallen player’s bag into their base components. This is a great, guaranteed way to get gun parts, which are a necessary crafting material needed to build and upgrade other, better guns. Plus, you’ll be able to pick up various amounts of other, less valuable components. To dismantle a weapon, you don’t even need to put it in your bag; you can simply select the gun and break it down from the selection sub-menu.

There are a lot of different things to check up on between missions in Arc Raiders, however, you’ll want to make sure that you check in with Scrappy the chicken as often as you can in the Workshop. Scrappy passively collects basic loot for you while you’re out looking for bigger, rarer supplies, so you don’t want to neglect him anytime he pops up with a yellow notification on the Workshop tab.

On top of collecting supplies from Scrappy, you can also train the little guy to get better gear by collecting specific things that he wants. Scrappy functions similarly to workbenches and the like, so you’ll want to keep your eyes peeled while topside for whatever he wants.

One of the interesting selling points for Arc Raiders is that combat between players is entirely optional. It’s up to you if you want to run headfirst into the action, guns blazing, or communicate with other players and settle things peacefully. Plenty of trust is required if you want to end an interaction peacefully, but we’ve found relatively decent success in hopping on prox chat and asking players that we aren’t looking for a fight. It feels like 60 percent of the time, they’ll let you go without any trouble.

Of course, that other 40 percent ends in bloodshed, but if you’re in a pinch and don’t have the resources to fight your way through a group of other raiders, remember that talking things out is always an option. You can also use the “Don’t Shoot” emote while walking into an area that you think might be occupied. Be cautious, but don’t lose all hope for the good of humanity everyone in buy ARC Raiders Coins is in the same boat, so it’s not uncommon to find a kind-hearted group who’s willing to cut you a break if you ask for it.