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Complete the Wires Crossed quest in ARC Raiders by attaching ARC components to antennas across three maps. All locations covered.
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The Wires Crossed quest in ARC Raiders is one of those quests that sounds straightforward until you realize it sends you to three different maps carrying components you first have to hunt down from ARC enemies. The quest is gated behind Exploring Pendola Pass, so make sure that one is done before you load in. Once you're ready, here's exactly what to do across The Blue Gate, Spaceport, and Buried City.
Celeste sends you out with a three-part task, each objective on a different map:
You don't have to complete all three in the same raid, which helps a lot given how different the farming conditions are for each component. The trickiest part is not the navigation, it's showing up with the right item already in your inventory.
ARC Raiders Guide: How to Complete Wires Crossed Quest
Before worrying about the antenna locations, you need the components. Each one drops from a specific ARC enemy type.
Snitches are the large scanning drones that patrol most maps. Destroy one before it calls for backup and you'll loot a Snitch Scanner from the wreckage. On The Blue Gate specifically, Snitches spawn in four areas:
Since Pilgrim's Peak itself has a Snitch spawn, you can farm and deliver in a single loop.
Surveyors give themselves away with blue lasers shooting skyward. Use heavy ammo or explosives to bring one down, then loot the Surveyor Vault. On Spaceport, look in these areas:
As an alternative, ARC Couriers can also carry Surveyor Vaults, so if you find one en route, it's worth checking.
Sentinels are the most demanding farm of the three. They only spawn reliably in night raids or during Hurricane weather conditions on Buried City. Night is the better choice since Hurricane visibility is genuinely awful. Target the yellow canister on the Sentinel's swivel arm to deal efficient damage, and dodge-roll to avoid getting shredded. Sentinel spawns in Buried City include:
ARC Raiders Guide: How to Complete Wires Crossed Quest
Pilgrim's Peak sits at the northeasternmost point of The Blue Gate map. Head inside the building and navigate to the eastern side to find a zipline. Ride it up to reach the antenna platform overlooking the Prefab Hatch extract point. Interact with the antenna to attach the Snitch Scanner and you're done here.
ARC Raiders Guide: How to Complete Wires Crossed Quest
The Launch Towers are at the center of the Spaceport map. Take the northwestern tower zipline all the way to the top, then locate the antenna and interact with it to place the Surveyor Vault.
One thing worth knowing: if the Launch Tower Loot event is active when you load in, all ziplines on the tower are locked and the roof becomes inaccessible. The event requires Fuel Cells to unlock the ziplines. If you don't have those or don't want to deal with the event, back out and try a different instance. Waiting for a clean lobby is faster than scrambling for Fuel Cells mid-raid.
ARC Raiders Guide: How to Complete Wires Crossed Quest
Grandioso Apartments is on the eastern side of Buried City, between the Abandoned Highway Camp and Maintenance Depot. Head to the shorter building on the south side of the POI. Take the zipline up, then walk up the stairs to the roof. The antenna is at the northeastern corner of the rooftop. Interact with it to place the Sentinel Firing Core.
Once that's done, return to Speranza to collect your rewards.
Finishing all three objectives nets you the following:
The Renegade I is the headline reward here. The Ziplines and Crash Mats are solid utility items for future raids, and the Electrical Components feed into crafting.
The most efficient approach is to treat each map as its own dedicated run rather than trying to chain all three in sequence. The Sentinel farm in particular demands specific conditions (night raid), so plan that one separately.
If you're working through other Celeste quests at the same time, consider pairing the Buried City objective with quests like the Line in the Sand quest that also send you into that zone, stacking progress across multiple objectives per raid.
For a full breakdown of everything available in this extraction shooter, including quest chains and zone-specific strategies, the ARC Raiders guides hub has you covered.
