It isn’t typically {that a} quest in Arc Raiders sends you topside with an express aim of downing one of many sport’s greatest foes, however you’d finest be ready when it does. In the case of Settled in Full, you may be going up in opposition to a harmful Bastion as a way to take a Bastion Cell for its corpse.
In the event you’re heading into battle in opposition to a Bastion with the aim of acquiring a Bastion Cell, we extremely suggest you deliver an increase with a secure pocket. It would be a disgrace to waste your time and sources getting the cell solely to lose it in a nasty flip of occasions.
If you’re able to take down a Bastion for Settled in Full, examine the guidelines beneath.
The place to seek out Bastions
Bastions could be discovered on each map, however there are two spots that we discover to be the very best areas for taking out these harmful foes: Loading Bay on Stella Montis and Marano Park on Buried Metropolis.
Each of those spots comprise enough cowl and are situated in central zones the place different gamers generally tend to supply assist. In the case of the Loading Bay, particularly, you may practically at all times discover that different gamers take part on the enjoyable.
Methods to kill Bastions
The way you kill a Bastion will largely rely upon what sort of gear you’ve got obtainable in your stash. You probably have quite a lot of high-end supplies, grenades, or weapons, you’ll be able to most likely take these dangerous boys down fairly simply. In any other case, you are going to must be a little bit safer about issues.
The quickest (however most costly) method
The most secure strategy to kill a Bastion is to usher in Wolfpack grenades (4 or so are normally sufficient). Get behind some cowl, then toss the Wolfpacks into the air above the Bastion to observe it rain down explosions. Straightforward peasy.
You can too use different high-power grenades like Blaze Grenades, although it’s going to be a slower course of as a result of hearth inflicting harm over time, that means extra time spent evading the Bastion’s lethal machine-gun hearth.
In the event you’re out of grenades, a Hullcracker with quite a lot of ammo can be utilized to chip away on the enemy. Inserting some photographs on the yellow canister on its bottom can pace the method up, however it’s robust to goal a Hullcracker there generally.
The old school (however cheaper) method
In the event you’re missing quite a lot of firepower, you’ll be able to nonetheless take down a Bastion with loads of therapeutic objects and a Ferro or Anvil. Simply be sure you have fairly just a few stacks of heavy ammo.
Make the most of cowl and shoot the yellow canister on the Bastion’s bottom. To make this simpler, you’ll be able to first goal the yellow spots on its knees, which is able to finally drop it to the bottom and stun it for a bit.
As at all times, any grenades (together with lower-power choices) might help pace issues alongside, although your heavy ammo photographs are more likely to be doing a lot of the work in a state of affairs like this.
The Arc Raiders grasp method
In the event you’re up for the chance and really feel assured in your skills, you’ll be able to take down a Bastion with a Lure Grenade and a Deadline. Use the Lure Grenade to distract this massive ARC, then go behind it and place a Deadline on it. In the event you’re profitable, this will find yourself being a one-hit kill.
You possibly can at all times use an Electromagnetic Cloak to get shut and place a Deadline, too, however that is an excellent riskier selection. If the Bastion does discover you for even a second, its rapid-fire machine gun can ship you again to Speranza in a physique bag earlier than you’ll be able to say “pleasant!”
With a Bastion down for the depend and a Bastion Cell obtained, you may be all set. For extra on Arc Raiders, you’ll be able to check out our full quest checklist.