ARC Raiders: How to get Three Stars in ARC Raiders week 7 Trials

ARC Raiders week 7 Trials are here with a new set of challenges. Players can participate in this week-long mission and acquire stars, ranks, and bonus rewards. This weekly event that Raiders undertake involve PvE activities. This ensures that both PvP and PvE enjoyers are able to participate in this event without any worry.

This article explains the best ways to get three stars in ARC Raiders week 7 Trials.

ARC Raiders week 7 Trials guide: How to get 3 stars in every challenge

The new week 7 Trials in ARC Raiders will be live from December 8, 2025, to December 15, 2025. In these seven days, you must complete five activities and obtain points on the basis of your performance. The more points you gather, the more stars you earn at the end of the weekly reset.

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These stars will dictate how many rewards you obtain. Therefore, it is best to keep track of your progress from the map screen when you are scavenging resources or fighting ARCs on the topside maps.

Here are all the week 7 challenges:

Destroy Ticks, Fireballs, and Pops
Search Supply Drops
Damage Wasps
Damage Bastions
Damage Queens or Matriarchs

ARC Raiders week 7 Trials (Image via SK Gaming || Embark Studios)

1) Best ways to "Destroy Ticks, Fireballs, and Pops" in week 7 Trials

Ticks, Fireballs, and Pops are a few ARC robots that can be taken down easily. Unlike a Fireball, neither Ticks nor Pops feature any ARC Armor. This makes it possible for players to take them down with weapons that don't have high ARC Armor penetration.

However, it is advised that you bring at least a Ferro or Anvil to one-shot these ARC robots and boost your week 7 Trials scores. Here are a few places where you can farm these robots.

Ticks, Fireballs and Pops can be found in these POIs (Image via arcraidersmaps.app)

Buried City Points of Interest (POIs):

Hospital
Parking Garage
Space Travel
Research
Library

Spaceport Points of Interest (POIs):

Control Tower A6
Vehicle Maintenance
Container Storage
Maintenance Hangar
Rocket Assembly

2) Best ways to "search supply drops" for week 7 Trials:

In order to access supply drops, you must locate Supply stations in a map and then call for a drop using a flare. This introduces high risk of PvP encoutners so make sure you are well equipped with the tools needed to fight hostile players.

Here are a few POIs in Buried City where you can call for supply drops:

Library
Parking Garage
Research

Buried City and Spaceport POIs with Supply Stations (Image via arcraidersmaps.app)

Here are the Spaceport POIs where you can call for supply drops:

Vehicle Maintenance
Control Tower A6
Container Storage

Both the first and second challenges in week 7 Trials can be completed in the same session, making these POIs your best bet at farming Trial scores.

3) Best ways to "damage wasps" in ARC Raiders week 7 Trials

Wasps are flying ARCs that feature no shields and reply on their guns to damage Raiders. Although they like to fly in tricky patterns to mess with hostiles, they are easy to take down with most guns. You can encounter Wasps in most Points of Interest accross all topside maps.

You can also trigger Snitches to call for additional Wasp reinforcements if you intend to farm Trials scores. Make sure you target the thrusters of these flying ARCs to ensure that they go down quickly.

4) Best ways to "damage Bastions" in week 7 Trials

Bastions spawn in a few Points of Interest as a mini-boss. They are formidable ARCs and can take down groups of Raiders when caught in a bad position. Taking down this menace requires patience and knowledge of the weakspots. To ensure that you kill a Bastion without wasting bullets on its armor, take note of a yellow canister behind its body and the yellow joints in its legs.

Encountering a Bastion in Buried City (Image via SK Gaming || Embark Studios)

These are the weak spots and you can target them using Deadlines and Wolfpack Grenades. Some Raiders have also tried dropping right on top of a Bastion and deplyoing a Deadline on its head. This is another strong strategy if you want to quickly farm Trial scores in week 7.

Here are a few Bastion spawn locations in Buried City:

Market Ruins
Library
Marano Park

Here are a few Bastion spawn locations in Spaceport:

Vehicle Maintenance
Control Tower A6
Container Storage

Bastion spawn locations (Image via arcraidersmaps.app)

5) Best ways to "damage Queens and Matriarchs" for week 7 Trials

Queens and Matriarchs are two giant bosses that spawn during a couple specific map conditions. It takes a ton of resources and hefty loadouts to take them down completely. However, if you intend to farm Trials scores by damaging them, then weapons like Hullcracker or Jupiter can help you out.

Matriarch in ARC Raiders (Image via SK Gaming || Embark Studios)

You must seek a passive approach where you maintain a distance and damage the Queen or Matriarch while ensuring your safety. Be wary of all the attacks that these bosses can dish out, and pack enough healing resources to sustain yourself for atleast 15 minutes of continuous battle with the metal giants.

This concludes our coverage of ARC Raiders week 7 Trials. In order to quicky boost your points and acquire three stars, use map conditions to you advantage. This is because map variants boost your scores thanks to a 2X multiplier. When going against mini-bosses or the giant Matriarchs/Queens, make sure to prioritize your surivival as it is necessary to finalize Trial scores.

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Edited by Sankalpa Das