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An Ultimate Guide to the Treatment of the Bombardier in Arc Raiders

In Arc Raiders the Bombardier is a hulking roaming mortar platform that reads your movements like a book so you stay low hit its yellow knee joints and rear tank then burn it down fast for top tier ARC loot.

By Alam560Published about a month ago 3 min read

One of such enemies is the Bombardier in Arc Raiders that appears to be manageable until you are in a gunfight. It may appear like any other hulking machine with easy to follow weapon patterns but the fight hardly follows that closely. It is not so much the Bombardier itself but rather the ecosystem of pressure that it leaves around you, particularly when you are carrying valuable stuff that you cannot afford to lose, or when you have no spare time at all.

Its ammunition is not only range-based, but also has a blast radius and hardly any warning should you find yourself repositioning at the wrong time. Those players who make attempts of brute-forcing the fight are frequently forced into terrain, are stumbling, or attempting to heal as explosions keep chaining on them. It is the actual insight into how the machine pacing works and how it integrates with the other units, as well as when the machine is able to take a breather that is the actual key to bringing it down successfully and in a pattern.

What is not only dangerous about the Bombardier is the amount of explosives it delivers but how it manages to shape the battlefield. Each volley throws you across angles on which you would otherwise have sought refuge or launched a counter-volley. It compels movement at times when you would have preferred to stand still and in the event that you are maneuvering in a zone with line of sight choices that are not good, the explosions may crowd you into the uncovered terrain. To make this even worse it is accompanied by a Spotter drone. It is not only an irritant, but it is a fundamental element of the threat picture of the Bombardier.

When you are spotted you are no longer able to determine the distance and the machine starts to drop ordnance with an accuracy which sends chills up your spine. Others do not take the Spotter seriously and leave it floating in the background, a fact that normally leads to a fast and dramatic loss. Early elimination of it drastically reduces the effective accuracy of the Bombardier, and gives you the breathing space you require.

After stabilizing the battle field, the remainder of the fight is a matter of capitalizing on foreseeable cadences. Bombardier telegraphs its barrages by a brief change of posture, which provides you with a little, but sure, counter-time. Rather than running around in panic and firing rounds at its armor, you ought to base your attack strategy on such breaks. You can spin out of its path as soon as you command it to take a volley, you can draw a nice angle and even punish its recovery action.

The best type of work during this stage is explosives, precise marksman fire, or focused damage since the Bombardier is stationary long enough to sustain focused bursts. This rhythm, bait, rotate, punish, allows the engagement to not degenerate into chaos, but rather to be dictated by it instead of responding to it.

The scenario of terrain awareness contributes significantly to the encounter that players are not used to. The open terrain enables the Bombardier to use its full range to prolong the fight and raise the chances of being caught in the splash. On the other hand, dense cover is good, but may also leave you caught as you turn around a corner and take a blast in the teeth. The most effective thing is to fight in transitional areas where you can turn between cover and open space as may be necessary.

This then allows you to take the pressure and still be able to move sufficiently to re-position yourself when the barrages begin. Orchestrated teams can also influence the battle, dividing angles and compelling the Bombardier to turn, and not allowing him to stay focused on one target to generate a deadly effect of explosion.

It is all about discipline in defeating the Bombardier. The machine is harsh with impatience, careless angles, and inability to control its Spotter drone. However, when one makes the fight organized, the intimidation value in it is eroded within a short time. You strip out the Spotter, and determine the beat of his volleys, and you spike when the enemy is in recovery, and you exploit ground as a weapon rather than a hindrance.

When done well, the Bombardier is not a madness but a mechanical dilemma to solve that is best played in a procedural manner and uses situational intelligence. These basics are particularly essential during an encounter that is full of high-value ARC Raiders Items that you intend to steal out of it. Players who absorb this stream not just kill the Bombardier effectively, but also reinforce their strategy to survive the long term in Arc Raiders, where dominating the battlefield may make or break all that you entered in.

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