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For humanity’s largest group of survivors in ARC Raiders, it’s beyond important to maintain access to necessities like food and water. Food is primarily grown underground in greenhouses, but water is partially obtained from the still-intact water facilities left topside.
Normally, they’re fine as they are. ARC isn’t concerned with these facilities unless people show up to them, the buildings are mostly intact, and things run smoothly overall. Unfortunately, someone has tried to poison the water being sent into Speranza, and such a crime can’t go unpunished. Shani needs you to investigate and find out what you can, so this doesn’t happen again.
Where To Find Evidence Of Sabotage
A Toxic Trail is a continuation of the events in The Source Of Contamination, and the first thing you’ll need to do is head to Water Treatment Control on Dam Battlegrounds. Walk around to the northern side of the building, and find the sloped section with the large gated intake near the edge of the swamp.
Apollo’s quest, Paving The Way, is unlocked at the same time and requires you to visit Dam Battlegrounds, so make sure to grab his quest as well, so you can make progress in both of them.
Go along the edge of the intake or hop into the water near the poison barrel from the previous quest, and you’ll complete the first objective.
Head west into the swamp once the next objective is active, then slightly south to find an abandoned truck with several barrels strapped to the back in the middle of a nearby pond.
Approach the barrels to get a prompt to take a photo of them, then move to the front of the truck to get the second prompt to investigate it.
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This will complete the quest, and now you can return to Speranza from the nearby Swamp Lift if it’s still active. Speak to Shani, and you’ll get a reward of some EXP, a Tactical MK. 2 Augment, three Ziplines, three Pulse Mines, and three Gas Mines.
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