Paving the Way is one of the quests that have been added with Arc Raider's Cold Snap update. Players can grab this quest from Apollo and must make their way to any ENELICA building. This can be confusing for a lot of players, mainly because there is no such building marked as a location on any map, so exploring is vital for this quest. There are two parts of this quest, and this guide offers a walkthrough for it in Arc Raiders.
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Paving the Way Quest Guide in Arc Raiders
The first part of this quest requires you to find an ENELICA building. Dam Battlegrounds, Buried City, and Blue Gate all have these buildings, so you can choose any map you want and go over there. As "A Toxic Trail" quest requires the player to make their way to the Water Treatment building in Dam Battlegrounds, it is best to do this part of the quest for "Paving the Way" on the Dam map as well. When you reach the Water Treatment Control building, you will get another objective, which is to search for a notice board.
Go to the front of the building, where you can see "ENELICA" written, and right next to it, a notice board that you can interact with and complete this part of the quest. After this is done, you can extract at the nearby Water Treatment elevator to proceed to the next step.
For the next part of this quest, you will need to load into the Buried City map. Mark the Piazza Roma buildings on your map and make your way to the large building west of the metro station entrance on the map. There will be Fireballs and Pops here that you must watch out for while using the zipline to make your way to the very top.
On the sixth floor of this building, there is the researcher's flat on the right, where you can find the data that you need to interact with, after which the quest will be completed. Make your way back to Esperanza and turn in the quest to get the following rewards:
- Raider Hatch Key
- Seeker Grenade x3
- Advanced Electrical Components x1
Players who want to find out how to claim the free Nvidia ARC Raiders backpack can check out the guide here.
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- Top Critic Avg: 87 /100 Critics Rec: 93%
- Released
- October 30, 2025
- ESRB
- Teen / Violence, Blood
- Developer(s)
- Embark Studios
- Publisher(s)
- Embark Studios







- Genre(s)
- Extraction, Shooter, Third-Person Shooter, Survival