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Ark Raiders: Ark Guide for Newbies (Excluding Large Arks)
This guide introduces effective strategies for taking down various Ark monsters in Ark Raiders. It details each Ark's weaknesses, attack patterns, and effective counter-strategies to help beginners enjoy the game more easily. It emphasizes the importance of heavy ammo and basic cover usage, and provides tailored strategies for each Ark.
1. 🛡️ Basic Ark Strategy: Use Heavy Ammo and Cover
- ✅ Heavy Ammo: Effective against Ark's armor plating, so be sure to bring it. Light ammo won't penetrate the armor.
- ✅ Use Cover: Avoid fighting in open areas, and use cover to fight safely.
00:12 - 00:49
1. 🛡️ Basic Ark Strategy: Use Heavy Ammo and Cover
- ✅ Heavy Ammo: Effective against Ark's armor plating, so be sure to bring it. Light ammo won't penetrate the armor.
- ✅ Use Cover: Avoid fighting in open areas, and use cover to fight safely.
00:50 - 01:27
2. 👾 Shredder Strategy: Understand Patterns and Weaknesses
- ✅ Pattern: Approaches the user, glows red, and then fires a 4-shot shotgun blast upwards.
- ⚠️ Caution: Taking just one shotgun hit can severely damage your shield, so be careful.
- ✅ Weakness: Aim for the lower thrusters. They can be difficult to hit since it's levitating.
01:28 - 01:53
3. 🕷️ Tick Strategy: Weakest but Most Annoying
- ✅ Features: No weaknesses, easily killed with any gun.
- ✅ Pattern: Sticks to the ceiling and then jumps at the user while making a sound.
- ✅ Strategy: Listen for the sound and find it, or aim for the moment it pauses after jumping.
01:54 - 02:40
4. 💣 Pop and Fireball Strategy: Watch Out for Self-Destruction and Fire Attacks
- ✅ Pop: No weaknesses, rolls towards the user and self-destructs. Be careful as the blast radius is wide.
- ✅ Fireball: When it rolls and spews fire, the soft flesh inside the armor plating is its weakness.
- ⚠️ Caution: Fireballs leave fire around them when they die, so run away quickly after killing one.
02:41 - 03:23
5. 🐝 Wasp Strategy: Target the Wings to Break Its Balance
- ✅ Features: Equipped with two machine guns, wings are its weakness.
- ✅ Strategy 1: Destroying one wing will cause it to lose balance and stagger. Shoot the other wing at this time.
- ✅ Strategy 2: Shooting the body also works, but a weapon with a high rate of fire is more effective.
03:24 - 04:02
6. 💉 Hornet Strategy: Avoid the Tranquilizer Gun and Attack the Rear Wings
- ✅ Features: Has armored front wings and a tranquilizer gun.
- ✅ Avoid Tranquilizer Gun: Roll perpendicularly the moment the reticle glows red.
- ✅ Weakness: Target the unarmored rear wings. You can also destroy the front wings first and then shoot the rear wings.
04:03 - 04:29
7. 🚨 Snitch Strategy: Prevent Summoning or Run Away Quickly
- ✅ Features: A caller that summons other Arks.
- ✅ Pattern: Upon spotting a user, it shoots an orange beam into the sky and summons an Ark.
- ✅ Strategy: Destroying its wings will cause it to fall to the ground and explode. If it has already started summoning, it's best to run away quickly.
04:30 - 04:55
8. 📡 Ark Surveyor Strategy: Use Grenades
- ✅ Features: Runs around the map while fleeing from users.
- ✅ Strategy: The most efficient way to kill it is to sneak up and throw two grenades.
- ✅ How to Find: Follow the blue laser pointing towards the sky.
05:01 - 05:18
9. 🛡️ Turret and Sentinel Strategy: Shoot and Hide
- ✅ Turret: Shoot and hide repeatedly with any gun.
- ✅ Sentinel: Shoot and hide repeatedly with heavy ammo. Sentinel's snipes are hard to dodge.
- ✅ Items: Surveyor Bolts and Sentinel Cores can be found by cracking open Ark Carriers.
05:22 - 05:59
10. ⚔️ Large Ark Strategy Principles: Shorten Engagement Time and Watch Out for Other Players
- ✅ Use Mines: Using mines designed for large Arks makes them easy to kill.
- ⚠️ Fire Grenades: They've been nerfed, so keep that in mind.
- ✅ Important: Be wary of other players, and don't hesitate to use gadgets that shorten engagement time (especially Wolfpack).
06:02 - 06:42
11. 🚀 Rocketier Strategy: Target the Wings and Evade Missiles
- ✅ Features: Located near the extraction point, fires missiles with a wide blast radius.
- ✅ Missile Evasion: Walk when the Rocketier isn't aiming, run when it starts aiming, and dodge perpendicularly to the missile's direction at the moment of launch.
- ✅ Weakness: Focus fire on the wings to bring it down.
06:43 - 07:11
12. 💀 Reaper Strategy: Target the Thigh Flesh
- ✅ Features: Performs a jump attack from a distance, and a shockwave attack up close.
- ✅ Weakness: Focus fire on the thigh flesh.
- ✅ Strategy: Hide in buildings, or roll in the opposite direction of the jump to easily dodge.
07:12 - 08:09
13. 💣 Bastion and Bombardier Strategy: Target Leg Joints and Cylinders Behind the Head
- ✅ Bastion: Sprays machine guns.
- ✅ Bombardier: Fires mortars, and a Spotter reveals the user's location.
- ✅ Weakness: Target the leg joints and the yellow cylinders behind the head.
- ✅ Spotter: Can be killed with two shots of heavy ammo.
- ✅ Strategy: Hide in buildings with roofs and come out to attack after the bombardment ends.