ARC Raiders: A Path Not Yours Quest Objectives and Rewards

In ARC Raiders, A Path Not Yours takes you along an old Nomad route across Blue Gate’s southern reaches. Begin at the stone marker below Highway Collapse, find the buried cache beneath a shattered bridge, then bring the quest item to Speranza. You must complete everything in one raid; progress cannot be saved for a later trip.

Quick answer: At Blue Gate, examine the luminous stone beneath Highway Collapse, retrieve the Broken Compass from the collapsed bridge, and extract with it secured in a Safe Pocket. Deliver it to the Nomadic Envoy for your rewards.

Before you deploy to Blue Gate

The quest comes from the Nomadic Envoy and opens up after you finish Taking Stock. When you accept it, the Envoy hands you two Ziplines. The main objectives do not need them, but one Zipline is what gets you into the optional stash later, so keep at least one on you if you want everything.

Because you return from this run with a quest item, bring an augment that provides a Safe Pocket. Blue Gate is rated difficulty 4 of 5, making it one of the more dangerous maps; pack a dependable weapon, extra ammo, and healing. If you die in a fight, you could lose the Broken Compass while it remains in your regular inventory.

Loadout Preparation — Check your loadout before you queue up and confirm you have a Safe Pocket augment equipped. Shown at 00:05 in the source video. Image: Embark Studios

Walkthrough: Highway Collapse to extraction

Begin a Blue Gate raid and travel to Highway Collapse in the region’s southwest. The overpass is broken into distinct sections here, and this location marks the beginning of the trail.

Locating Highway Collapse — Set a waypoint on Highway Collapse on the Blue Gate map and make your way to the collapsed overpass. Shown at 00:15 in the source video. Image: Embark Studios

Beneath the concrete pillars, locate the glowing yellow stone cairn near the map’s “o” in “Collapse”. It marks the beginning of the Nomad trail.

Finding the Trail Marker — The glowing yellow rock under the overpass is the trail marker you need to inspect. Shown at 00:41 in the source video. Image: Embark Studios

Keep the interact button held while you examine the marker, until the first objective changes. The inspection lasts several seconds and leaves your character vulnerable.

Inspecting Trail Marker — Hold E to inspect the cairn; the objective clears once the animation finishes. Shown at 00:43 in the source video. Image: Embark Studios

Since the inspection animation takes a while, deploy a Smoke Grenade beforehand. Its cover blocks ARC machines and opposing Raiders from seeing you during the animation.

Follow the bridge west to its completely severed end. Reaching the broken western section immediately advances the hideout objective, so you can skip following each barely visible trail marker.

Following Trail to Hideout — Follow the hillside west under the bridge pillars toward the Nomad hideout. Shown at 00:59 in the source video. Image: Embark Studios

Once at the broken bridge, search around the pillar’s foot for a diggable mound. Dig into the buried cache to obtain the Broken Compass, then put it in your Safe Pocket immediately.

Locating Buried Delve Cache — Dig up the glowing cache at the pillar base to recover the Broken Compass. Shown at 01:24 in the source video. Image: Embark Studios

If you die while the Broken Compass remains in your regular inventory, you lose it. Secure it in your Safe Pocket as soon as it appears rather than waiting until after a fight.

Leave the map with the compass and return to Speranza. If available, take the nearby Forest Airshaft to extract. Completion requires you to exit the map while carrying the item.

Optional: Bilguun’s secret stash

Once you have the Broken Compass, look above you: a gap in the bridge’s broken span leads to Bilguun’s hideout, identifiable by its stop sign and painted eye. Use one of the Ziplines supplied by the Envoy to reach the opening, ride up, and unlock the Secret Stash crate.

The crate triggers a Deadline mine when opened. Here it causes no damage, producing only a firecracker effect, so you can stay where you are when it detonates. You can skip this step entirely if you are after only the main rewards.

A Path Not Yours rewards

Reward	Quantity
Tellurion	1
Magnet	2
Battery	2
Power Cable	2
XP	2,500

You can sell the epic trinket Tellurion to add to your stash. Save the Magnets, Batteries, and Power Cables for crafting. The two Ziplines provided at the beginning are not part of these rewards; you can use them during the raid.

Gadgets worth carrying for this run

A handful of Quick Use gadgets line up directly with what this quest asks of you. Here are the ones that matter, with their shipped values.

Gadget	Rarity	Weight	Key stat
Zipline	Rare	0.4	Range 60m
Smoke Grenade	Rare	0.2	Duration 20s, Radius 7.5m
Deadline	Epic	1	Timed mine
Grappling Hook	Uncommon	5	Anchors to surfaces
Snap Hook	Legendary	5	Range 20m

The Zipline is what you fire up into the broken span to reach the optional stash. You can craft it or buy it from Apollo for 3,000 Coins if you want a spare beyond the pair the Envoy gives you.

The Smoke Grenade covers the long inspect at the trail marker. It also sells for 1,000 Coins and can be bought from Apollo for 3,000 Coins.

The Deadline is the mine that fires inside the stash crate during the optional step, which is why the pop is harmless there. The Grappling Hook and Snap Hook are alternatives for scaling the bridge span if you have one of them on hand instead of a Zipline.

Delivering the Broken Compass

Back in Speranza, take the Broken Compass to the Nomadic Envoy through the Quests menu. Claim the hand-in to finish the quest right away and receive 2,500 XP, plus the Tellurion, Magnets, Batteries, and Power Cables in your inventory.

If the delivery option is greyed out, the compass never left the map with you. Run the extraction again with it secured in your Safe Pocket, then return to the Envoy to finish A Path Not Yours.