Arc Raiders Snitches Trial Guide: 3-Star Fast (S5)

Somewhere in Speranza a marketing intern renamed Snitches into "Snitchers" and nobody stopped them. Fine. This Arc Raiders Snitches trial rewards you for shooting flying scanner drones out of the sky before they rat you out to every Hornet and Wasp in the zone. Simple premise, mildly tedious execution, guaranteed cosmetics if you don't die like an idiot.

What a Snitch Actually Is

A Snitch is a floating camera with a grudge. It sweeps a blue searchlight across the ground, and if that light touches you, it screams for backup and spawns a Hornet plus two Wasps to ruin your afternoon. It has no weapons of its own. Its entire personality is snitching, hence the name, hence this trial existing.

Scoring: The Grind Math

Points per Snitch kill fluctuate by week, historically ranging from 300 to 600+ per hit depending on which patch you're suffering through. For a Damage Snitches three star clear you're typically looking at somewhere between 7 and 14 destroyed or heavily damaged units, so bring more patience than ammo. Aim center mass, not the white flaps — shooting the flaps wastes shots and does not count toward the kill.

Consider this a best map for Snitches ranking, not a religion. Rooftops win because Snitches fly, and you, a ground-based primate, need altitude to compete. A proper Snitch farming spot gives you sightlines in three directions and cover in the fourth, because someone else read this same guide.

Die before you extract and every point you scraped together vanishes. The game does not care about your effort. Only your corpse's location matters, and it needs to be nowhere near the raid when the timer ends.

• Long-range sniper or heavy-ammo rifle — Snitches float far and punish anyone who brought a shotgun to a sky fight

• A couple of Barricade Kits if you're claiming a rooftop long-term

• Free/cheap loadout recommended — dying to a stray Rocketeer shouldn't also cost you your good gear

Extra Padding While You Wait

Between Snitch spawns, murder any nearby Wasps or Hornets. Thinning ARC numbers on the map speeds up the next Snitch spawn, because the game only allows so many ARC units to exist at once and it will refill the quota. Idle time is wasted time; corpses are progress.

Rank Payoff

Grinding this alongside the other four weekly objectives is how you climb toward Speranza Hotshot rank and the cosmetics attached to it. Nobody outside this game will ever know what you did to get there. That's fine. Suffering privately is the Arc Raiders way.

Final and only truly important step: once your score satisfies you, or your patience runs out, walk — don't sprint into three Hornets — to the nearest Airshaft. Solid Arc Raiders extraction tips boil down to one sentence: leave before you're clever about it. That's the whole strategy for Arc Raiders Season 5 trials, and also for most of life.