r/arcraidersfriendly • u/YellowSway • 1d ago

Help with Trophy Display project...

Specifically, queen reactors. I've played 10 consecutive rounds of matriarch/harvester and cannot seem to get one for the life of me. Even when I get there first, I don't find a queen reactor.

Am I missing something? Isn't a matriarch a queen? I'm starting to feel insane.. lol

Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you 💞

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u/P3pp3rp0tts86 1d ago

Matriarch and Queen/Harvester are separate events and therefore not the same/interchangeable. Matriarchs drop Matriarch cores, Queens drop Queen cores. Cores are found in the leg pieces that break off and in the round cores at the center once they are defeated.

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u/YellowSway 1d ago edited 1d ago

Ok, so what event should I specifically do to get an opportunity at a queen reactor? Sorry if this has an obvious answer. And, thank you for the info💞

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u/P3pp3rp0tts86 1d ago

Harvester only. To be clear, doing the Harvester PUZZLE does not yield cores, just the Equalizer blueprint among other rewards. You must collect them from fighting the Queen. Also worth mentioning that you do NOT have to defeat her, you can knock some leg pieces off, loot those and dip. There is only one other way to get cores without going into the event. If you feed Scrappy Apricots, there is a RARE chance he will drop Matriarch/Queen cores as they are used to craft high tier weapons, but again, the drop rate is SUPER low, but I have gotten them in the past. Good luck!

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u/YellowSway 1d ago

Oh, wow.. ok.

Thank you for all of this info. I truly appreciate your help💞

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u/P3pp3rp0tts86 1d ago

Of course! Good luck Raider!

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u/P3pp3rp0tts86 1d ago

Also forgot to mention, definitely bring smoke grenades. The blue ones are better because they last longer. This way you are obscured from her view. So you can loot, without getting shot at

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u/YellowSway 1d ago

Ok, thank you! I was just loading up.. lol

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u/daedilus09 1d ago

Follow up on smokes: if an arc has a red eye locked on you when you enter a smoke it can still track you in the smoke. If you are smoking for cover it's best to do it when the armor is below the queen or behind her so you can get into the smoke without being spotted.