Gaming: I Finished Arc Raiders' New Shared Watch Event In A Single Evening...

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The Shared Watch event is running for the next couple of weeks in Arc Raiders, but it's just a lil' one. Unlike trying to hunt down Candleberries in a blasted snowscape, this new event focuses on killing Arc, which, well, we've all been doing since the game first launched. It's supposed to encourage teamwork and camaraderie among Raiders as we work together to take down machines—though I can't say I saw too much of that as I decimated every Arc in sight with my inventory of Seeker Grenades.

Now, I love Seeker Grenades, essentially a 'Poor man's Wolfpack', which were added to the game in December last year. You toss one into the air and it explodes into a single homing projectile, but it'll take down a Wasp in a single hit, often kill a Snitch, and sometimes will even one-shot a Hornet depending on the angle. I'd never really used them before, but I got the blueprint quite early on after my Expedition and noticed something important—crafting Seeker Grenades only takes two very easy-to-get ingredients. These are:

Obviously, you'll need the blueprint to make this (and if you don't have it: commiserations), but it may very well be one you picked up and never really gave a second thought to. The fact that both ingredients come from Arc machines makes it perfect for this event. I was chucking Seeker Grenades left, right, and centre, then scavenging alloy and parts to recycle into alloy from those dead Arc. I'd also grab Crude Explosives from

Source: PC Gamer