Imagine or not, only 1.5% of Arc Raiders players have unlocked the Death From Above achievement by dealing 50 damage while riding a Rocketeer. The requirement is straightforward on paper but brutal in practice, get on a Rocketeer’s back, survive being bucked off long enough to deal at least 50 damage, and then land the final hit.
For comparison, only about 1.4% of players have completed A Tale for the Ages to kill a Queen and roughly 1.1% were flattened by a supply drop to earn Just Dropping In, so Death From Above sits alongside the game’s trickier, rarer accomplishments. There are tactical workarounds. Video guides recommend using a Showstopper grenade to stun the Rocketeer and force it to the ground, then mount and fire while it climbs. There’s a short YouTube guide demonstrating the approach, which can be helpful to watch before trying it yourself.
A recent report on player peaks across platforms helps put those tiny achievement percentages in context, as Arc Raiders has a large enough audience that even obscure stunts still attract a few thousand attempts. Arc Raiders’ flying enemies are reactive and, frankly, nasty opponents, taking out propulsion, landing a stun, or timing shots while clinging on are all risky moves. Pulling the trick off rewards the spectacle and a very particular kind of bragging right, which is probably why a small but stubborn slice of the playerbase pulled it off on Steam.
For readers attempting Death From Above, the basic step list from community guides is, get a grapping hook and go on top of a rocketeer, then start shooting anything in range until you hit 50 damage.
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ARC Raiders
Developed by Embark Studios
ARC Raiders is a multiplayer, extraction adventure, set in a lethal future earth, ravaged by a mysterious mechanized threat known as ARC.
- Genre: Shooter
- Platforms: Xbox Series X|S, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5
- Modes: Multiplayer, Co-operative
- Release: 2025-10-30
- Publisher: Embark Studios
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Age Rating:
ESRB T / PEGI 16 / GRAC 15+ / USK 18 / CLASS_IND 14 / ACB M
- IGDB Rating: 89.7/100
