Although ARC Raiders is a PvPvE game that mixes two different types of enemies on the same battlefield, you'll still need to employ different strategies, weapons, and builds to deal with them in actual combat.

It's worth noting that your skill or build choices are also related to the number of people in your party during battle. If you're playing in a party, you can focus on dealing damage/healing, but if you're fighting solo, you'll need to work on both.

Therefore, this article will introduce skill and build combinations that are more suitable for solo play, allowing you to enjoy ARC Raiders even when you can't find teammates.

What Are ARC Raiders Skills?

ARC Raiders' skill system differs from ARPGs or MMORPGs. It doesn't vary based on your class selection; everyone faces the same skill tree. The difference lies in how you unlock skill points to determine your progression path.

When you earn useful items by playing the game, you'll also gain XP, which not only helps you level up your character but also allows you to invest it into the skill tree to unlock new skill points.

The skill tree is divided into three branches: conditioning, survival, and mobility. You can decide whether to unlock skills evenly or focus on one aspect based on your character development plan.

Currently, you can only acquire a maximum of 75 XP points for skill point allocation. While the game may increase this cap in future updates, you must carefully plan your points to maximize your character's power for now.

Solo Skill Tree Selection Overview

Conventionally, you might think that skill unlocks across the three skill tree branches should be as evenly distributed as possible to ensure you can handle everything in a solo game. However, as a solo player, focusing on survival and mobility is sufficient.

Based on your current progress, you shouldn't have accumulated the maximum number of skill points yet, estimated to be around 40. If your situation matches our prediction, then allocating your skill points in half to survival and mobility is optimal.

Solo Mobility Skills

As the name suggests, this skill category allows for greater flexibility in movement and performing complex maneuvers, minimizing potential stamina consumption.

The first recommended skill to unlock is Nimble Climber, which allows for faster climbing and jumping. Once upgraded to level two, you can immediately unlock Marathon Runner, further reducing stamina consumption during movement.

While its effect may not be as immediately noticeable compared to other skills, it's crucial in ARC Raiders because frequent movement is essential to combat to evade both PvP and PvE enemies, especially when playing solo without teammates for cover.

Therefore, Marathon Runner significantly extends your survivability and endurance, allowing you to collect more loot through sustained stealth across various maps.

Next, unlock Youthful Lungs to increase your maximum stamina, followed by Slip and Slide, which allows you to slide faster and farther. Since stamina regenerates while sliding, Slip and Slide effectively provides a stamina boost as well.

After leveling up, you can choose Sturdy Ankles, which reduces fall damage from non-lethal heights. Even non-lethal fall damage is troublesome in ARC Raiders, so this skill is essential just in case.

Next, unlock Carry The Momentum, which allows you to sprint briefly after a roll without consuming stamina. This is great for moving between buildings, as it allows you to create distance from enemies quickly.

If you have enough skill points, prioritize upgrading Carry The Momentum and Sturdy Ankles from the mobility skills mentioned above. They are relatively more important.

Solo Survival Skills

After investing a few basic skill points, the first survival skill worth noting is Agile Croucher, which increases your movement speed while crouching, synergizing well with the unlocked mobility skills.

Because you'll be crouching almost the entire time in ARC Raiders, especially if you're looting alone inside buildings. This skill increases speed and reduces noise while crouching, making you more stealthy.

Next, unlock Revitalizing Squat. It accelerates your stamina regeneration while crouching. Combined with Agile Croucher, this further increases your movement speed bonus in the game.

As an easily overlooked survival skill, In-round Crafting plays an irreplaceable role. It allows you to craft ARC Raiders items on the ground during combat.

Many times, you have to end a fight not because the enemy is too difficult, but because you lack sufficient supplies to continue. This skill allows you to craft shields, bandages, and ammo at any time, surviving longer in dungeons.

The next skill to unlock is Looter's Instincts, which makes loot appear faster when you search containers. Combined with Silent Scavenger, another skill that reduces noise while looting, you can complete looting faster and more stealthily, avoiding being robbed by others.

Of the skills listed above, we recommend maxing out Revitalizing Squat and Silent Scavenger to unlock Suffer In Silence - allowing you to move with less noise when heavily injured.

This skill, combined with Carry The Momentum, allows you to more nimbly jump, dodge, and roll to create distance from enemies when your health is critically low, followed by a dash.

How To Choose Your Ultimate Skill?

The skill combination above is sufficient for most of the early game as a solo player, but if you have enough skill points to unlock the ultimate skill in one branch, you'll need to develop a different plan.

If you want to excel in the survival skill tree, continue unlocking the following skills:

• Broad Shoulders: Increases the maximum weight of items you can carry.
• Stubborn Mule: Reduces the impact of excessive weight on your stamina regeneration.
• Security Breach: Allows you to hack into secure lockers.

To excel in mobility skills, continue unlocking the following:

• Effortless Roll: Consumes less stamina when dodging and rolling.
• Crawl Before You Walk: Crawls faster when you're downed.
• Off The Wall: Allows you to perform wall jumps over greater distances.
• Heroic Leap: Allows you to dash, dodge, and roll over greater distances.

We hope this information helps you become a solid and powerful solo player in ARC Raiders, bringing back tons of loot even without help! Good luck!

With the official release of CoD: Black Ops 7, are you ready to dive into the new campaign story? But to understand all the backstory in the campaign mode and unlock additional achievements and collectibles, you'll need some key items: Campaign Intel collectibles.

Campaign Intels are collectible documents and items that players need to collect in the campaign mode to advance certain achievements and delve deeper into the major story. Currently, there are 11 Intel collectibles waiting to be discovered in Black Ops 7 campaign mode.

Unlike the intelligence gathering methods in previous versions, the Intels in BO7 aren't just documents scattered across the battlefield; instead, they are mission items that players need to find, and there's only one per mission level. They can appear anywhere within the mission area. Once you find an Intel, simply interact with it to receive a hint to unlock that item. 

Here, we'll reveal the exact locations of all 11 Campaign Intels to help you quickly collect all the items and complete the campaign. Let's begin!

1. Becoming the Monster

First, the first Campaign Intel in CoD BO7 requires completing Exposure mission. Towards the end of that mission, while completing Escape objective and leaving the area, you'll accidentally fall below the floor and enter a new village. Here, you can find Intel in Press Forward objective.

After landing, you can also unlock Kinetic Jump and use it to climb three rock platforms to reach the main combat area. Next, clear the stairs and continue upwards. You'll see a stone well between a giant machete and a hut. Intel is the ordinary-sized machete placed on the well cover.

However, there are Enforcers guarding the stone well. If you get too close, you'll be continuously attacked by the guards. But when the attacks stop, that's when you can collect Becoming the Monster Intel.

2. The Truth

To unlock the second Intel, you need to go to Avalon map and complete the first quest in that area, Inside. After accepting the quest, you need to find Karma in the cave and interact with her. You can choose your preferred route.

After finding her hiding place, look to your right. You'll see an interactive body bag. Interact with it to collect The Truth Intel. This is basically the most hard-to-miss intelligence item.

3. Family Ties

After navigating the intricate container maze of Distortion quest and surviving the final ship ambush, you'll be able to accept Rescue Woods quest.

Go to the container, but don't open it. This will trigger a boss fight, requiring you to redo the entire Distortion quest to reach this point.

Remember, you only need to run across it, reach the edge of the floating dock, and look ahead. You'll see a lone floating island. With the grappling hook, you can easily climb onto it.

Here, you'll see an open tomb. Inside, examine the wall between the two platforms; you'll find an intelligence item called Family Ties.

4. The Cost of Business

Back in Avalon, this next piece of intelligence is hidden at the end of Escalation mission.

When you reach the server building, fight the enemies inside, eliminate all hostile forces, and defeat the sniper Priya Zaveri. You'll then receive instructions to go to the server room and access the main terminal.

Upon entering the building, you'll see a marker pointing to the major terminal. In the room containing the main terminal, there are two small rooms on either side of the entrance. The target item is in the room to the right of the entrance; you can jump in through the window or simply open the door. On the table in this room is an open laptop and a USB drive; that's Campaign Intel: The Cost of Business you need to find.

5. Best Laid Plans

In Disruption mission, which aims to Infiltrate the Forge, you need to clear the enemy forces at Forge entrance and advance until you crash your yacht into the fortress.

After completing that, your next objective is to enter the restricted area. However, that's not your immediate goal. You need to take the stairs on the left and proceed to the upstairs diagnostic room. This room is quite obvious, marked with the prominent number 8 on the wall.

Here, you can find some Self-Revive Kits and other useful items. Most importantly, hidden on top of a filing cabinet in the back left corner of the room is an intelligence item called Best Laid Plans. Take it and get out of there!

6. Heavy Is the Head

The next intelligence item is in Collapse mission. You need to go to the large arena here, but note that the target item isn't there. Instead, you can find it before entering the arena.

You'll need to clear out a large number of enemies in the tent area outside the arena to successfully accept the mission objective: Locate the Tablet. If you want to deal with the nearby enemies in a less stressful environment, you can also buy CoD Black Ops 7 bot lobbies and complete this mission in a less competitive setting.

Next, head north, where there are many stone pillars and statues. Search carefully until you find a roofless building on the left side of the main passage. Climb up to find Heavy Is the Head intelligence.

7. Team Bond

Next, you need to start Fracture mission and progress until you reach an area with a large, overturned red semi-trailer truck with farm patterns painted on the cargo bed. To the right of the truck is a large roadside, and to the left is a walkway made of oil drums.

The overturned truck's cargo bed is open; you can jump in through a makeshift hatch on the roof. Turn around immediately, and you'll find an inconspicuous flag badge in the cargo: Team Bond. This is probably the smallest of all the intelligence.

8. Case

The next piece of intelligence is located inside the large hotel you need to visit in Find Dr. Faulkner mission. You can take the elevator to the top floor of the building, where you'll receive the objective Check bookcase, which requires you to investigate a suspicious bookshelf.

Walk down the corridor and turn right at the end to enter a large conference room. There's a piece of paper on the table in the conference room, and next to it, you'll find an intelligence item called Case. Take the intelligence and continue.

9. Lake Time

Next, after heading to the hunting cabin in Suppression area, you can obtain this intelligence. The objective is to Reach the Cabin. Enter the cabin, go upstairs, and turn right into the room. Inside, turn right again and look to your right; you'll see a wooden dressing table. Hidden in a small corner to the right of the dressing table is an item: a fishing rod called Lake Time.

10. Trigger Finger

Now, we're back in Avalon. In this level, you'll eventually receive a quest called Disable Cradle Shipments at the docks.

Note: Do not destroy them. Instead, stand on the bridge to the east or left of the stadium and eliminate some enemies if necessary.

Look at the target area on the bridge; you'll see a crane near the guild crates below. This is where you need to go. Jump onto the two crates next to the crane; the intelligence you're looking for is between them: Trigger Finger.

11. Face the Nightmare

This last intelligence is very tricky; it's placed in the final boss fight. Therefore, you'd better make sure you have a grappling hook, as it will make gathering intelligence much easier.

However, you don't actually need to fight Kagan's three mechs. Instead, observe Kagan's control room and look for three large floating containers. The middle container is open, allowing entry from the back. Your goal is to climb onto the adjacent container, jump inside, and find the intelligence, Face the Nightmare, behind it.

These are the locations and unlocking methods for the 11 hidden Campaign Intel collectibles in Black Ops 7. Go unlock them and complete the last piece of your campaign story puzzle!