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9 Mar 2026
Quest Guide: With a Trace
Blue Gate walkthrough for With a Trace with objectives, prep, route order, and extract notes.
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With a Trace is a quest run in ARC Raiders. This version is written as a practical raid plan: what to bring, the order to run the steps in, and what usually kills the run once the quest is technically done.
Quest#83
Map laneBlue Gate
Objective count4
Same raid?Usually no
Objective list
- Reach the Barren Clearing
- Find signs of who brought down the ARC machines
- Inspect the Adorned Wreckage
- Inspect the communications device
What to bring
- A reliable mid-range primary and a sidearm or close-range backup; most quest deaths happen while rotating, not while looting.
- Stamina-friendly utility like smoke or a distraction item, because recon steps usually force you into exposed rooftops, offices, or dead-end rooms.
How to run it
Plan the raid around the first named objective and your nearest safe extract, not around the fattest loot route. If the quest item drops into your inventory, the raid is now an escort mission and everything else is optional.
- Step 1: Reach the Barren Clearing
Make this your opening waypoint. Move quickly, clear only what blocks the path, and do not burn utility before you reach the named area.
- Step 2: Find signs of who brought down the ARC machines
Once you are at the point of interest, clear the nearest angle first, then interact. Most misses on this step happen because players sprint past the actual prompt or loot through the room too early.
- Step 3: Inspect the Adorned Wreckage
Once you are at the point of interest, clear the nearest angle first, then interact. Most misses on this step happen because players sprint past the actual prompt or loot through the room too early.
- Step 4: Inspect the communications device
Once you are at the point of interest, clear the nearest angle first, then interact. Most misses on this step happen because players sprint past the actual prompt or loot through the room too early.
Where players usually throw this quest
- Running past the actual interaction prompt. Slow down for five seconds, clear the room, and let the tracker update before leaving.
- Taking a fight on the way out just because you hear it. Quest raids are won by discipline, not by K/D.
Miswired note
Use the named area as your anchor, then plan your extract before you touch the objective. That matters more than another backpack worth of salvage on Blue Gate.