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Hunting for achievements in extraction shooters can feel like hitting your head against a brick wall, especially when you are trying to manipulate AI behavior. In ARC Raiders, the “Hook, Line, and Sinker” achievement is one of those notorious milestones that sounds simple on paper but can easily go sideways in a live match.
The goal is straightforward: use a Lure Grenade to trick an ARC machine into opening fire on one of its own kind. If you want to cross this 1.2% rarity trophy off your list without pulling your hair out, you need a solid grasp on how to stock up on resources and where to execute the trick.
Setting Up: Scoring the Lure Grenades
You can’t manipulate the killer robot ecosystem without the right tools. If your inventory is completely dry, you have three distinct avenues to source a few Lure Grenades before dropping Topside:
The Blueprint Method: This is the most reliable path. You need to hit Level 2 at your Hideout’s Utility Station and wrap up Celeste’s “Greasing Her Palms” quest line. Once you unlock the schematic, you can craft a grenade using 1x Speaker Component and 1x Electrical Component.
The Raider Deck: Flip over to Page 2 of your Raider Deck. If you have the tokens to spare, you can claim a few ready-made grenades directly out of the ARC Hunter pack.
Topside Scavenging: If you are lucky, you can occasionally pull them straight out of industrial crates while looting, particularly on maps like Buried City (which has a reported 40% blueprint/utility drop density in high-tier zones) or Dam Battlegrounds (sitting around 30%).
If you are struggling to keep up with the overall gear grind or looking to bypass the early-game crafting bottlenecks entirely, third-party trading hubs like U4N can serve as a massive shortcut. Players frequently use these platforms to buy high tier arc raiders blueprints and rare materials, allowing them to skip the RNG drop rates and head straight into matches fully geared.
3 Foolproof Strategies to Pop the Achievement
Don’t head into a raid with just a single grenade. The effect lasts for roughly 15 seconds, meaning a missed throw or a bad line-of-sight break will ruin your attempt. Pack 3 to 4 Lure Grenades into your inventory so you have room for error.
Once you are geared up, pick one of these three battle-tested strategies:
1. The Snitch Scanner Tactic (The Safest Solo Method)
The most controlled environment for this achievement relies on using a Snitch Scanner tool. Take your scanner and find a quiet, enclosed area with plenty of hard cover—the broken concrete structures on the edge of Dam Battlegrounds work perfectly.
Drop the scanner into an open clearing to purposefully trigger an alert. This actions summons two Wasps and a Hornet drone. Hide behind your cover and wait about 60 seconds for the drones to drop their active alert status and hover passively. Creep out, line up your reticle, and stick a Lure Grenade directly onto the larger Hornet. The surrounding Wasps will instantly mistake their squadmate for a hostile target and shred it to pieces, ticking off your achievement.
2. The Buried City Rocketeer (The Lazy Method)
If you don’t want to mess around with scanners, head to the western perimeter of the Buried City map. A massive, slow-moving Rocketeer drone consistently patrols the airspace around the high-rise apartment complexes.
Because the Rocketeer is a massive, slow targets, it is incredibly easy to hit. Sneak up into one of the adjacent ruined balconies, wait for the drone to float close, and chuck your Lure Grenade directly onto its hull. The smaller, hyper-agile Wasp patrols that follow it around will immediately pull a U-turn and begin blasting the massive chassis.
3. The Queen Chaos Play (The High-Risk Method)
For players who like high-stakes raids, wait for a Harvester world event where an ARC Queen spawns. These massive behemoths are almost always flanked by a protective aerial escort, usually a Rocketeer hovering directly above.
Pop a Photoelectric Cloak to mask your approach, get directly underneath the chaos, and launch a Lure Grenade right onto the Queen’s armored frame. The overhead Rocketeer will register the lure signal and unleash a devastating missile barrage directly onto its own commander.
A Quick Note on Bugs and Glitches
If you attempted this trick during the early alpha or beta tests and walked away empty-handed, you aren’t crazy. “Hook, Line, and Sinker” was plagued by registration issues where the AI would successfully kill each other but the Steam or console notification wouldn’t trigger.
The developers have rolled out client-side hotfixes targeting broken achievement triggers. If you previously met the criteria but the game didn’t recognize it, you simply need to load into a fresh live match, execute the Wasp or Rocketeer trick one more time, and the trophy will instantly pop upon the first instance of friendly fire damage.
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