ARC Raiders Weapon Amplification Guide

ARC Raiders Weapon Amplification Guide Quick Overview:

• Weapon Amplification is a level 5 weapon upgrade that offers powerful boosts or unique features. So far, the game allows 15 different weapons to be amplified.
• Amplification features branching perk trees, making some powerful upgrades incompatible with each other.
• Amplifying a weapon requires using a special item called an Amplification Module, which is placed in a special weapon socket.

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What are Weapon Amplifications in ARC Raiders?

Added with the Frozen Trail update, Weapon Amplification is a new system that enables players to upgrade their weapons to a fifth quality level, which offers some powerful boosts or completely new features. The devs state that the main goal here is to add more late-game personalization and variety.

Each Weapon Amplification is designed to provide a modification tree with at least two different chains to choose from. It works just about how you would expect:

• Picking a perk in a chain enables you to pick the next one in the same chain.
• Some chains are exclusive, locking you out of alternative Amplification chains.

So, with some weapons, you have to stick with what fits your playstyle best and fully commit to it. It is worth noting that the Amplification trees are currently rather small, with just two to three chains featuring one or two perks each on average.  

However, the Amplifications themselves range wildly. Some of them seem to be just reasonable upgrades of the existing weapon — say, improving the reload speed. Others are there to completely rebuild the weapon — like turning a traditional pistol into an SMG.

Finally, some options are there to repurpose the gun rather than directly upgrade it — like turning the weapon’s projectiles into tracking shots that allow you to see your enemies for a short time. Maybe you would prefer having that on certain maps, for example.

How to Amplify a Weapon

The process hasn’t been fully uncovered by the developers yet. From what we know so far, amplifying a weapon requires a fully upgraded Research Workstation in your Outpost. You will also need an Amplification Module, which is a new item that can be added to a special socket in your gun.

Weapon Amplification List

So far, ARC Raiders allows you to amplify 15 different weapons, but the team aims to add more guns to this list in the future. At the moment, Embark shared the Amplification trees for four weapons, so we’ll cover them in the article. However, when the Frozen Trail update goes live and I can gather all the information on other Amplifications, I will update the guide to include the full list.  

Burletta

Burletta shows off just how crazy the Amplifications can be. Even something like Burst Fire is going to overhaul your entire play pattern, but Full-Auto is just a nuts option that will make this weapon feel like an entirely different beast. If this is how Embark chooses to proceed with the game, we will all end up with more guns per gun, which is all I could ever ask for.

Amplification Chain	First perk	Second Perk
Top chain (Exclusive)	Burst Fire: Makes the weapon fire in a burst +2 Projectiles in Burst	Increased Burst: +2 Projectiles in Burst +3 Magazine Size
Mid Chain (Exclusive)	Full-Auto: Makes the weapon fully automatic 60% Increased Fire Rate -2 Base Damage 60% Reduced Headshot Damage Multiplier 50% Increased Vertical Recoil 50% Increased Horizontal Recoil 100% Increased Dispersion Recovery Time 50% Increased Base Dispersion 50% Increased ADS Dispersion
Bottom Chain	Sprint Shooting: Allows weapon to be comfortably fired while sprinting

Hairpin

Hairpin is a good representative of the Exclusive Amplification design, making you stick to a certain set of choices and always missing out on some other opportunities. You can use Hairpin as a cool scouting tool, or you can focus on dealing more damage through the Burn mechanic, but not both. My only hope is that one doesn’t turn out to be massively more useful than the other because I want to see some actual variety in my games.

Amplification Chain	First perk	Second Perk
Top Chain (Exclusive)	Incendiary Rounds: Sets targets on fire when hit +5/s Burn Damage +2s Burn Duration
Mid Chain	Semi-Auto: 150% Increased Fire Rate 20% Reduced Headshot Damage Multiplier 40% Increased Per-Shot Dispersion	Sprint Shooting: Allows weapon to be comfortably fired while sprinting
Bottom Chain (Exclusive)	Tracker Rounds: Replaces the bullets with tracker rounds that briefly reveal the position of targets they hit +5s Tracking Duration

 

 

Rattler

Having an option to get faster reloads is huge for Rattler, and it’s quite a cool workaround that affects its small magazine in an interesting way. You still have to deal with it, it’s just that dealing with it is not as debilitating. However, if you hate the magazine size to the point that you don’t even bother using Rattler, the devs give you a fresh new option — sacrifice half of what makes the gun efficient to increase your magazine size by 40 — which is a lot.

So far, these types of perks are my favorites, because they genuinely feel impactful and force you to adapt. If it weren’t for these, Amplifications would feel like a shallow addition that would only keep you in the game for a short while.

Amplification Chain	First perk	Second Perk
Top Chain	More Reload: +2 Bullets Loaded at a time	Drum Mag: +40 Magazine Size, 50% Increased Vertical Recoil, 50% Increased Horizontal Recoil, 30% Increased Max Shot Dispersion, 30% Increased Base Dispersion, 30% Increased ADS Dispersion, 10% Reduced ADS Speed ​
Bottom Chain	Incendiary Rounds: Sets targets on fire when hit +5/s Burn Damage +2s Burn Duration

Renegade

Renegade is an example of a different approach from the development team. There aren’t any particular choices that require you to make any sacrifices to significantly change your experience with the gun. Instead, Amplifying Renegade simply means making it a bit more useful and convenient thanks to improved reload time — which was one of its key weaknesses — and a new scope.

That said, the difference between using a scoped weapon versus shooting without it is quite noticeable from a personal perspective, even if the in-game numbers that dictate Renegade’s behavior aren’t affected by it in any way. I definitely recommend checking it out and not shelving it for the future.

Amplification Chain	Perk
Top Chain	More Reload: +1 Bullets Loaded at a time
Bottom Chain	Scoped: Adds a scope to a weapon, allowing it to be fired from a scoped view

 

 

Read our other ARC Raiders guides:

• Reward Pass
• Nomadic Envoys
• How to Upgrade Scrappy

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