162 articlesThe Flashpoint update added two new weapons to ARC Raiders: the Dolabra energy shotgun and the Canto SMG.
To get either of these weapons, you’ll need to find their blueprints, which have specific spawn locations. If you don’t know where to look, though, this can be a huge pain…
Conveniently, I’m about to tell you where to get these blueprints! Read on for all the details.
How to Get the Canto Blueprint
To get the Canto Blueprint, you’ll need to play on any map that has the Hurricane condition. It can happen on all exterior maps, leaving only Stella Montis out.
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While the Hurricane condition is active, you can find First Wave Caches all over the map. These caches spawn randomly, so there are no guaranteed spawns at all. This also means you’ll find them in different spots each match.
The bad news here is just that this is extremely reliant on pure luck. You need to be lucky to find the First Wave Caches before other players, and then you need to be lucky to find the Canto Blueprint inside them.
However, as of this writing, there is no other known spawn for the Canto Blueprint. So, this is your only option currently.
How to Get the Dolabra Blueprint
For the Dolabra, you’ll need to find ARC Assessors. For that, you’ll need to play any map that has the Close Scrutiny condition active. It can happen on every exterior map… which basically means everything but Stella Montis.
Now, before you go on an expedition for this, I highly recommend prepping! You want Smoke Grenades and a Photoelectric Cloak at minimum. These will help you stealth around the ARC Assessors.
Once you start a match in a Close Scrutiny map, your first goal should be to try to get to a vantage point. You want to have a nice view of the surrounding area.
As you’re looking out from your vantage point, look for falling dark-gray rhombus-shaped contraptions. These are the ARC Assessors, and they look like the one in the screenshot above.
Additionally, ARC Assessors emit red beams of light into the sky once they’ve landed. This makes them easy to spot after the fact.
Once you manage to spot one of those ARC Assessors making a landing, go to where it landed. You’ll see that it planted itself into the ground, allowing you to breach and loot it.
Now, do be warned, looting the ARC Assessors is dangerous! They will summon other ARCs to defend them, and other players will likely fight you for the loot, too. So, this is where you want to use the Photoelectric Cloak and Smoke Grenades.
Nonetheless, that’s the gist of what you need to do. You have a chance of finding the Dolabra Blueprint whenever you loot ARC Assessors’ pods. The drop chance is yet unknown, but it’s estimated to be around 10%.
In Summary
So, as I said previously, you’ll need to find the location for the blueprints of the Dolabra and Canto if you want to get these new weapons in ARC Raiders.
For the Canto, loot First Wave Caches during Hurricane map conditions. For the Dolabra, loot the ARC Assessors during Close Scrutiny map conditions. I wish you the best of luck getting them!
Now that you know how to get these new weapons, do you also need help with the new quests in the Flashpoint update? Check out our guide for “Outstanding Balance.”
