MeinMMO editor Dariusz has learned that he has been making a mistake in ARC Raiders for weeks. And you can either enjoy it or learn from it.
In ARC Raiders, you don’t have to risk your own, hard-earned gear in every raid. You can always start a round with a free loadout and complete quests or farm materials without the risk of losing your best weapons, augments, or shields.
When you play with a free loadout, you get a random weapon, a shield, a few items like bandages or shield regenerators, and a free augment. This augment has limited inventory space, a low carry weight, and no safety bag.
The mistake with the free augment
After a successful raid with a free loadout, you can of course use the random equipment you received in the next raid. However, you usually exchange the free augment for a green augment to have more inventory space and a safety bag. You essentially have an improved free loadout.
I, Dariusz, am an idiot.
Whenever I successfully extracted after a raid with a free augment, I sold it for a few coins. My thoughts were clear: I don’t need it because I’ll get a new one in the next free loadout raid anyway, it takes up storage space, and any other augment is much better.
Yep, selling is not so smart.
Through a post on Reddit, I learned a month after the release that I can simply trade the augment from the free loadout in Speranza at the vendor “Lance” in the clinic for a green augment.
How did I miss that?!?
At Lance, you even have the choice of which green augment you want: Loot, Combat, Tactical… It doesn’t matter, the price remains the same.
What if I can’t use a green augment at all? If you can’t do anything with the green augments, for example because your storage has been stuffed with pink augments for weeks, then you can still sell the green augments.
The new, undamaged augment from Lance gives you 640 coins. For the free augment, you get around 100 coins. Even if you can’t do anything with the green augment, it’s still more sensible to trade the augment at Lance and then sell it.
Yes, even players like me who have spent many hours in ARC Raiders can still learn things – even if it’s because they overlooked an obvious mechanic. So maybe take another look at our beginner tips; maybe you’ve missed something too: ARC Raiders: 8 beginner tips you should know for the release
