ARC Raiders Echoes of Victory Ridge: Major Aiva's Patch Location

Bring Dam Battlegrounds access and an augment with a safe pocket. You do not need expensive gear for the objective itself, so a light or free loadout works well as long as you can protect Major Aiva's Patch once it drops.

Victory Ridge sits along the northern edge of Dam Battlegrounds around West Broken Bridge. Zoom the map fully out if the Victory Ridge label is not obvious, then route to the broken highway rather than the other damaged road section.

Straight Record uses the same general area, so the two objectives can be stacked in one deployment.

The hideout is beneath the West Broken Bridge highway section, near broken cars, rusted barrels and a blue tarp.

1. Travel to West Broken Bridge in Victory Ridge.
2. Identify the highway section with broken-down cars and large slabs of roadway.
3. Find the rusted barrels and blue tarp forming a small shelter beneath the concrete.
4. Walk slightly north of the shelter and turn around.
5. Look south to expose the crawl-in opening, then move underneath the highway.

There are two broken highway areas nearby, so use West Broken Bridge and the tarp landmark to avoid searching the wrong one.

The battle plans objective and Major Aiva's Patch refer to the same pickup sequence.

1. Crawl into the hideout beneath the broken highway.
2. Find the small metal box on the ground with the yellow quest interaction prompt.
3. Open the box to make Major Aiva's Patch drop.
4. Pick up the Patch separately; opening the box alone is not enough.
5. Move the Patch into your safe pocket immediately.

If you reach the hideout and the box is already open or the Patch is missing, redeploy into a fresh lobby and check the location again. Treat the hideout object as potentially shared during a raid rather than spending the rest of the match waiting beside an empty container.

Once the Patch is protected, leave by the cleanest nearby exit instead of crossing the map for a preferred one.

• Use the swamp hatch when it is available and you have the required key.
• Use the Generator Hall lifts if that route is quieter.
• Use the North Complex Elevator to the east as another fallback.

Rocketeers can patrol these routes. If the Patch is in your safe pocket, dying does not force you to recover the item again.

Complete the quest and check the turn-in screen for the current reward bundle. The important progression reward is the quest completion itself, which closes the Victory Ridge objective and advances Celeste's chain.

Finishing the quest advances the Major Aiva storyline and opens the next stage of trader progression. Check Tian Wen and Celeste after turn-in for newly available quests.

Straight Record takes place in the same Victory Ridge area. Collect Major Aiva's Patch first, then move to the EMP trap and its three switches so you can clear both objectives in one Dam Battlegrounds deployment.