ARC Raiders Reduced to Rubble: Quest Guide and All Locations

Complete A First Foothold and have access to The Blue Gate. The quest grants Binoculars when you accept it, but the photo objective can be triggered without actively using them.

A free loadout is enough because this is a traversal quest and progress persists if you die. Saving expensive gear for combat-focused raids makes more sense.

The photo prompt is at Highway Collapse in the southwest of The Blue Gate, just north of the POI marker where the broken highway reaches ground level.

1. Reach Highway Collapse from the southern or southwestern side of the map.
2. Move to the ground-level break and look between a tree and a rock for the yellow quest prompt.
3. Use the prompt to register the photograph; you do not need to aim the Binoculars manually.

Only one successful photo interaction is needed before you continue east toward Broken Earth.

Broken Earth is east of Highway Collapse, past Olive Grove, and the destruction trail continues northeast through the canyon toward a large scrap-metal ring.

1. Leave Highway Collapse heading east and pass the Olive Grove side of the route.
2. Enter the Broken Earth canyon to register the area objective.
3. Continue northeast instead of doubling back out of the canyon.
4. Use the large scrap-metal ring as your confirmation landmark and follow the destruction path beyond it toward the downed machine.

Treat these two quest steps as one continuous route because they occupy the same stretch of terrain.

The final target is a large downed ARC machine husk, identified as a Deforester, at the end of the Broken Earth trail.

1. Follow the destruction route past the scrap-metal ring until the large machine husk comes into view.
2. Move toward the core or lower section rather than circling the outside.
3. Use the yellow Investigate prompt to finish the quest.

The quest completes at this interaction. You do not need to repeat the earlier objectives if you die before extracting.

Overlook Airshaft to the north, near the Maintenance Bunker, is the practical extraction option after the final machine interaction.

Expect Wasp and Hornet patrols around the airshaft. Use the small building beside the extraction area as cover while the gates open if the patrol is active. If you die before extracting, your quest progress still counts, but the reward remains unavailable until a later successful extract.

Reduced to Rubble grants quest rewards after you complete the machine interaction and then successfully extract, but the individual reward items are not specified.

With a Trace unlocks after Reduced to Rubble. It keeps you on The Blue Gate and focuses on Barren Clearing, Adorned Wreckage and the objects tied to the downed ARC machines there.