You’ll need to find and kill Arc Turbines if you want to loot Turbine Compressors in Arc Raiders. They can be particularly formidable foes however, especially when they’re unleashing powerful lightning attacks and spreading mines you can walk into. It's a lot easier once you know their patterns though, and where the weak spot is. So here's all you need to know about where to find Arc Turbines, what their weaknesses are, and some tips on what gear to bring to the fight.
Where to find Arc Turbines in Arc Raiders
Your best bet to find Arc Turbines is to load into Riven Tides, as they’ll spawn regularly there, although they appear on other maps too. From my experience they nearly always show up on Riven Tides but are bit more of a gamble elsewhere. The annoying part is that they don’t actually show up after anywhere between 13 and 20 minutes have passed in a match, screaming down from space in the closing part of a game.
So your best bet overall is to drop into Riven Tides and play it safe, waiting until there's ten minutes left, and then extracting if you don’t see them spawn in. You can’t really miss them, as they’ll suddenly cascade down into the atmosphere noisily and start to fly around the map.
Arc Turbine weaknesses and strategies
The key to defeating an Arc Turbine is to wait until they land, because they’ll open their side paneling, exposing yellow-tipped barrels. This is the weak spot. Given how much health Arc Turbines have, you’ll ideally need multiple players attacking the enemy at the same time.
Arc Turbines attack in a consistent pattern that’s easy to learn once you know what you’re looking for. First, they deploy mines to the ground, then they land, which is your opportunity to attack. They’ll then periodically release waves of lighting projectiles that hit extremely hard. Get 3 or 4 hullcracker shots in, then duck behind cover until the lightning attacks stop. Repeat this until the enemy starts flying again.
Once an Arc Turbine is back in the air, do not fire at it, as this will prevent it from landing again. Just wait for it to come back down, co-ordinate with your team, line up your shots, and pummel the core. The key to the fight is patience. Hit your shots, duck away to good cover, and never attack it while it’s in the air, or you’ll massively prolong the fight, and trigger even more lightning rockets.
In terms of what to weapon to use the Hullcracker is your best bet to down a Turbine. You will need a couple of stacks of launcher ammo, but eventually, the Arc Turbine will fall. The hardest part about this fight is that generally, you only have anywhere between 10 and 17 minutes left on the clock when the enemy spawns in. This is why co-ordinating with others is your best bet. I’ve found that randoms tend to just take shots at the fully armoured flying phase, which prevents it from landing and exposing the weak spot.
Once you’ve killed an Arc Turbine, loot its remains for Turbine Compressors, which are required to craft the Arc Raiders Powered Descender.
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