Damage Bombardiers ARC Raiders – Trial Guide

The Damage Bombardiers trial awards points per damage dealt to a Bombardier: not to its Spotters, not to the scenery, not to your sanity. Each Bombardier you solo-kill nets roughly 5,874 score at a 2x event modifier. Kill enough of them, don't die, extract. That's the whole game.

The 3-star threshold is 4,000 points. You'll hit that by walking up to one Bombardier and throwing explosives at it for thirty seconds. The ceiling, however, is around 30,000–40,000 solo and 60,000–70,000 in a trio: if you move like you mean it.

Stella Montis: Zero Bombardier spawns. Completely worthless for this trial. Don't load in there and wonder why you see nothing.

Scoring Mechanics

Points scale at 1.1 per 1 damage to Bombardiers. The 2x event modifier: active during Electromagnetic Storm: effectively doubles your take. You keep only your best single-run score per trial. Die mid-raid, collect nothing. The ARC Raiders weekly trials leaderboard doesn't care about your near-miss.

Spotters give zero trial score. Killing them is tactically necessary: a tagged Bombardier shoots through cover: but don't confuse clearing Spotters with farming points. They're overhead, not income.

The best loadout for Damage Bombardiers is not subtle. You need something that deletes heavy armor fast and lets you move between spawns without a funeral.

Free Loadout? Technically possible. Practically a waste of time. You'll run dry on ammo before you've earned enough to care

The best maps for Bombardier farming are Spaceport and Buried City. Both offer multiple spawns within reasonable rotation distance, plus enough interior cover to fight without getting one-tapped by a mortar. Run with the Electromagnetic Storm 2x modifier active whenever possible.

Spawn Locations

Buried City

Buried City Bombardier locations are the most reliable in the game. Marano Park spawns one almost every run: open ground, so plan your escape before engaging. Plaza Rosa and Santa Maria Houses offer apartment buildings as cover. The Parking Garage roof is a sleeper pick: elevated position, tight angles, fast kill. Hospital exterior spawns less frequently but the building geometry makes fights manageable.

Spaceport

Five spawns total. For Spaceport Bombardier spawn locations: the clearing near Control Tower A6 (Container Storage / Vehicle Maintenance) is the safest fight on the map. Trenches and Arrival/Departure Buildings also produce spawns. The field above the Hidden Bunker is the one place with almost no cover: avoid unless you're feeling theatrical. Departure and Rocket Assembly spawns don't appear until roughly the 12-minute mark, so don't waste time checking them early.

Respawn timer: 5–7 minutes per Bombardier. Kill them early, put them on timers, then rotate. Wasting the first 15 minutes sightseeing is how you end a run at 8,000 score.

How to Actually Kill It

The Bombardier has no external armor plates, but it has three weak points worth knowing. Bombardier weak points: yellow kneecaps on all leg joints (breaking them slows movement and exposes internals), and a yellow rear cylinder (destroying it can end the fight immediately). Hit these with the Hullcracker between explosive volleys.

Practical kill sequence: get inside a building or behind hard cover, throw two Wolfpacks, follow up with Hullcracker shots on the rear cylinder or exposed legs. One Wolfpack alone often won't finish the job: some missiles split off chasing Spotters. Two Wolfpacks, or one Wolfpack plus a Trailblazer, cleans it up. Kill time target: under 30 seconds. Every second you spend standing outside is an invitation for mortar fire or a third party.

Kill the Spotters first if they've tagged your position. After a Bombardier fires its mortar volley, there's a brief downtime window: that's when you push damage. Move at least one room over between shots. Static = dead.

Matchmaking

Use Aggression-based matchmaking ARC Raiders for friendly lobbies. It produces consistently safe conditions for farming without a PvP raid turning your trial run into a eulogy.

Routes

Solo – Spaceport

Base yourself at the ground floor of the Launch Tower. Set Ziplines toward Trenches, Control Tower, Arrival Building, Departure Building, and Rocket Assembly. Spot a Bombardier, zip to it, kill it, move to the next. After the 12-minute mark, add Departure and Rocket Assembly to your rotation. Expect 30,000–40,000 score if you play tight.

The Damage Bombardiers trio strategy is straightforward: split up and don't bunch together like tourists.

Clean trio execution yields 50,000+ minimum. 60,000–70,000 is achievable with precise timing. 70,000+ is rare enough that you probably won't hit it, but you're welcome to try.

Fast 3-Star Run

If you just want the ARC Raiders Trials 3-star rewards and nothing more: load in, find the nearest Bombardier to your spawn, take cover, throw two Wolfpacks or a stack of Trailblazers at it, extract. Done in under ten minutes. Congratulations, you did the minimum. The rewards don't scale with effort.